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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
HURRICANE HAS
 MISSED MIAMI
Daylight Ends Suspense for City; Minor Damage
 Only Is Reported

Miami, Fla, Oct. 6-- (U.P) = A hurricane which hit the Miami area at dawn climaxing night of sus- pense for 260,000 residents swept toward the Everglades today, ap. parentiy causing only minor damage chiefly to lighting systems, com munication lines and homes.
 No loss of life was reported im- mediately.
 The federal hurricane warning system reported that the center of the hurricane crossed the coastline at 5:45 Q. m. between Miami and the homestead area, 26 miles south southwest of here.
 Meteorologist Ernest Carson of the warning system said the storm "has a very small center of hurricane winds"
 The highest wind reported, the warning system said, was 80 miles an hour at Carysfort Reef, 90 miles south of Miami.
 The hurricane had come out of the Atlantic, rusing toward Florida from the Bahamas where 1t tore through Nassau early last night at 100 miles per hour.
 Lights had failed in many com- nnunities up and down the coast and communications were going out as the murky dawn began and the wind screamed its furious song. Little hu- man dramas were being enacted in this foreboding fury. By dawn six babies had been delivered by candle light and the light of hand torches two at University hospital and two at Jackson Memorial hospital here, and two at Dade County hospital at Kendall. St Francis hospital at Miami Beach was without light or power.
 Authorities, having been warned well in advance by the Federal Hur- ricane Warning Service, had taken every precaution and 1t was believed that few if any, lives would be lost anywhere in the hurricanes path. This section is hurricane wise. On September IS, 1928, hurricane kill ed 373 persons in the Miami area. In September, 1885,, a hurricane killed 450 persons in the Florida Keys.
 All through the night, refugees played cards and amused themselves otherwise in the Dade County court house, a steel and stone building, safe in any wind. Hundreds of others were in hotels and business buildings, having boarded up the windows of their homes. There were hurricane" parties in bars and ho- tel rooms throughout the night and in hotel lobbies, groups sat around, calmly listening to radio broadcasts. At Homestead. 25 miles south of here, were several hundred persons from the Keys, scene of the last devastating Florida hurricane. Other Key residents had taken refuge la concrete storm shelters erected by the federal government since the last ''bIg blow"
 Miami Beach. which bore the brunt of the 1928 storm. was virtual iy deserted, it's residents having made their homes as secure as pos- sible and then taken refuge here. Miami Is on the landward side of Biscayne Bay and therefore more protected.
 The weather bureau reported the Ima@i-AaszA slaHtainad wiad valanitg
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ly obtained military information, 1t was alleged.
 The dispatch said Elias admitted he had had knowledge of this &C., tivity and had received Information of German troop movements ond the construction of strategic high ways.
 A former Socialist deputy named Richter was quoted as testifying that he had taken part in a secret military organization, "a kind oi new rnafia," of which Elily was un. derstood to be the head.
 Helped Czechs Escape
 The dispatch quoted testimony that as one of the activities of this organization, one general 1nger di- rected the escape of Czechs abroad and that General Neumann headed a terrorist group "aimed at liquiG- ating German sympathizers.
 It was said that Elias pleaded partly" guilty to charges but de- nied that he had taken part in the teTroriSt-eScape organization.
 Mayor Klapka was said to have testified that he had created from public monies" a big secret fund to support the families of Czech patri- ots who escaped abroad.
 Klapka was quoted that he had attempted to work Loyalty with the Germans but had been induced by Elias to take part in Illegal" ac- tivities. It was alleged that Klapka said Elias had assured him that German rule In Czechoslovakia was only temporary and independence would be restored soon.
 "Duep at Trial
 According to the Nazi dispatches. Elias denied this and then he and Klapka engaged in dramatic duel on the witness stand, confronting each other, glaring with hatred as deadly enemies"
 Tt was only thanks to the calm and objective direction of the court president that still livelier scene did not result" the Naz dispatch said.
 was held at the Petchek Palace at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
RUSSIAN AID
 FACING TEST
Catholic Voice to Insist on Religious Freedom in
 Soviet
BY LYLE c. WILSON

DIX A1AE Ns WAL0ON
 (United Press Stan COrrespOndent)
 Washington, October 6-(UP) - AS the House headed toward a test vote on assisting the Soviet Union, a powerful Catholic voice was rais- ed today to demand that President Roosevelt insist upon religious free dom in Russia as part of any lend lease aid.
 This explosive phase of the cur rent controversy almost coincided with the return from Rome of Myron c. Taylor, who is MT. RooSe- velt's special emissary to the Vati- ean, and with some remarks on the subject by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt.
 Taylor is expected to report tomorrow to MT. Roosevelt on prospects of better relations with Moscow as they are viewed in Rome. ". Averell Hartman. lend- lease conference representative of the United States in Moscow, still is to be heard from regarding the presidents instructions to him to take up the question of religious liberty with Premier Josef Stalin.
 AzKs. Roosevelt's reference to the dispute came during the Sunday radio broadcast which is sponsored hy coffee interests. She said there never had been any question in Russia Of preventing people from getting together to form a church hut thai the difhculty arose fin connection with education, espe- elnEy education of young men for lise priesthood. She remarked. also, zhat there is no real difference in fne form If the Soviet Union gov- e1nment today and "the other dicta- <1r1hip governments"
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to shoot. More anti-aircraft de- fense is needed, particularly for airfields.
 That's where we are, sixteen months after Frances fall shock ed the country into building an Army unparalleled in peacetime.
 Today that Army shows almost identically the same strengths and weaknesses it showed g years ago in October, 1918. Then 1t was able to turn the tide of the great est battle Americans ever fought, the Meuse- -Argonne, ending World War I. The First Army, A. E. F, did 1t, with as Chief of Staff, the same Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum who today commands the First Army, U s. A., that enters the climax of our greatest sham bat tie"
 Its chosen battlefield in the Carolinas affords advantages Lou
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(ConLlnueo rom Page D vanced by A. o. McInnis, operator of a South St. Paul, Minn., flying service. He was enroute here in a ski-equipped plane and said that if all other attempts fail, he would try to set his ship down on the peak. Such a stunt, flyers agreed, would be even riskier than Hop- kins' jump was.
 Hopkins jumped by parachute from a plane to the 100 by 300 foot tower top last Wednesday as a pulp licity stunt for 6 forthcoming at- tempt to break the world consecu- tive jump record.
 He apparently was quite comfort able in his prison. Planes have dropped him plentiful supplies oi food and fuel. He was living in tent.
 His messages to the ground-cut oil since last night by high winds were cheery, much more So thal were the comments of forest ran. gers and Hopkins friends who ad. mitted concern.
 Friday Ernest K. Field and War rel Gorrell. the United States Park Services best climbers, tried to scale the peak. They were still trying when snow halted their efforts yes. terday.
 They were joined today hy Jaci Durrance. 2o. former Dartmouth university Alpinist. who climbed thu Tower in 1888, and who with Mer Till McClain and Henry Coulte, also of Dartmouth. flew here iron New York to aid. Also present wal Chapel Cramners Denver climber Field and Gorreil said their assist. ance may turn the trick, 6 the weather improves.
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as 63 miles an hour, reaching 75 miles an hour and more in gusts.
 The barometer reached it's lowest point-29. .30-here at 8. m. when the wind velocity was at its highest. The barometer then began to rise and the velocity to diminish.
 The weather bureau reported that the center of the storm had crossed the coast between Miami and Home- stead. At 6:45 a. m., officials of the Chandler Packing Company at Goulds, midway between Miami and Homestead, reported a dead calm there-indicating that at that mo- ment Goulds was in the very center of the storm. A hurricane is a cy- clonic storm and at its center there is always Q dead calm.
 Police and fire departments in all municipalities in the storms path were organized for any emergency A fleet of 20 patrol cars. equipped with two-way radio, waited at police headquarters here for orders that would dispatch them to the area of greatest need. The American Legion and other veterans organizations prepared to go to work immediately after the hurricane had passed.
 The storm reached l02 miles An hour at Nassau, Bahamas. at [ o'clock (EST) last night. No casual ties were reported from the Baha- milan capital which did not receive the direct center.
 Bay street, Nassau's main thor oughfare, was under foot and q half of water at one time. A schooner four sloops and a dozen emalleF carft wess washed up into the street by huge waves which lifted them over the seawall.
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isiana lacked: On its rolling, dry terrain troops and tanks can get of roads and fight in open country, Through It's calmer air planes can fly more freely. With these aids, plus experience thus far, the Army can learn how near 1t has come to per- fecting an American style of Blitz- krieg-and so can the country.
 The First Army has troops from all New England and the Middle states plus District of Co., lumbia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennesse, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana including eight com- bat divisions of our thirty three.
 The Germans have 300 divisions their Allies half as many more, Almost all are war-experienced, which means they are tougher and cleverer than any maneuyer. experienced troops.
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the Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, vice president of Georgetown University In l922-23 he was the Vatican's representative in Moscow during ne- gotiations seeking a Soviet Union environment for religion satisfac- tory to the Catholic church. Father Walsh issued a statement demand ing an end to shadow boxing" on the question of religious freedom and calling on MT. Roosevelt indi- rectly to compel Stalin to make good on constitutional guarantees.
 He denounced a weekend state ment by s. A. LoSovsky, official spokesman for the Soviet Union in Moscow, as "tantamount to scotching Presi dent Roosevelt's hopes that true freedom of reli- zion might be recognized in Rus sia." Then without directly men, tioning the president Walsh said:
 There is only one voice to be heard from now. There is much po- tential dynamite in the present sit- uation but there is still much con- fidence, too. that moral courage, strength and honesty will rise to meet the Soviet's unreasonable ar- rogance. The commissars must be told, not in words alone. but by deeds, that freedom in Soviet Rus sia is as important to civilization as 1t is in England. Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Holland, Luxembourg or any other Democ- racy recently assaulted by the Nazi conquerors.
 The Catholic laymen's commit tee for peace made public through its national secretary. William T.. Leonard. the text of a telegram it has sent to President Roosevelt. It called up him to combine in your crusade against Nazism the equally worthy object. the elimination Of Communism"
 Administratlon Congressional inaAa.A enA sanAtAsn4 ~ uaAAsa end
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
Springfield Corps
 Observe Anniversary
Waterbury Represented at Weekend Celebration
 Special Program Arranged for Next Sunday

Colonel Norman s. Marshall, new ly-appointed Chief Secretary of the Eastern Territory of The Salvation Army, spoke at special Councils for Army workers in Springfield Satur- day afternoon on He that findeth his life shall lose 1t and he that loseth his life for My sake shall find it."
 Colonel Marshall said selfishness is the cause of more unhappiness than everything else. and that 1t is only by spending our lives in Gods service that Salvationists will find true satisfaction. He spoke of his own Sunday School teacher who by her interest and tactfulness had won her class of boys and thus made a deep impression on them for all of life. In conclusson he quoted Rousseau, one of the leaders of the French Revolution. '"The dead take to their graves in their clutched fingers only that which they have given away"
 Colonel Marshall and other Sal- vation Army leaders were in Spring. field over the weekend in connec- ton with the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the corps there. In the afternoon. special sessions were held for Senior and Young Peoples Local officers, Banomasters, and other Band locals, as well as for the Corps Cadets of the Division.
 Adjutant Hugo Wiberg, Bandmas- ter Paul Duren, and Willard Hart shorn, all of Waterbury participat- ed in the Council for Bandsmen. Assisting in these Councils were a
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Senate majorities on the lend-lease appropriation but some of them and many of the general member ship believe the president made a tactical error in discussing the question of religious freedom last week. MT. Roosevelt merely said that the Soviet Union and United States constitutional guarantees on that subject were similar.
 One of the most powerful mem- bers of the Senate foreign relations committee remarked that few here would have confidence in Com munist guarantee of that kind and expressed fear that MT. Roosevelt'S $ remarks would antagonize religious groups in the United States.
 Some others, however, believed he must have had reason to believe the Soviet Union would make at least a gesture toward modifying religious organizations, notably the Catholic Church. Taylor and Harri- mans reports still are to be made, and it may be that the president will be able to announce progress after he hears from them. But Father Walshs rejoiner to Losov- sky,s statement generally was ac- cepted as warning that Moscow would have to make some subStan- tial concessions or expect aid efforts here to be under heavy although not necessarily destructive fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
MOST DIFFICULT LANGUAGE

Abkhasian. a language spoken in the Caucasus mountains Of Russia, Is prehaps the most difficult In the world. The language has no al- phabet and no apparent relation ~l.AsA ka aEAS aAaAAR eenaatA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06

Peru proclaimed a Fishermans' week when fishermen held a con- vention and fish fair at Agua Dulce beach. Chorrillos, at which Presl- dent Prado of Peru delivered an ad- LiaAAA
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take this gentleman outside and ls.lk to him."
 Prevents Fight
 Coskey averted a scene by de- clartng the conference adjourned and that the NEG would be asked to suspend Wright until new con- tract is drawn"
 The commissioner indicated his request for a suspension would be immediately forwarded to NEG president Abe Greene at Patterson. N. J.
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Swltzerland's two meatless days . week have caused such demand for eggs that the Woe Food Ofhcc has appealed to the public not to make
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06

number of officers playing with the Territorial Staff Band of New York who gave a Musical Festival in the Technical High School of Spring field Saturday evening when Mayor Roger L. Putnam presided, and Col onel Marshall acted as chairman Adjutant Wreford Devote, who at one time was Assistant at the Wa terbury Corps participated in this concert with monologue entitled General William Booth Enters Heaven" General and Mrs. Edward J. Higgins. former leaders of the world wide Salvation Army, were the guest speakers at services iil churches and at the Springfield Ci- tadel all day yesterday.
 Lieutenant Thomas A. Lawrence spoke last in the eight o'clock serv- cie from the one hundredth Psalm and stressed especially part of the third verse, Know ye that the Lord, He is God" Announcements were made throughout the day of the visit next Sunday of a Brigade of Men Cadets from the Salvation Army's Training College In New York City. Lieutenant Kenneth Hand of the Training College Staff will be in charge of the Brigade, the personnel of which is as follows: Norman MarshaIi, Orderly, Edward Shell, Lawrence Garell, George Me- Clements, Lambert Kliphouse, Fred erick Clarke, Raymond Southwood, Harry Carlsen, George Harvey. These young men all play some ir1- strument.
 A full program has been arranged for them for next Sunday com- mencing with the morning worship at the Chapel on Cherry street at 10 a. m. and finishing up with the Salvation meeting in the upstairs auditorium at 8 p. m., including the service for the inmates of the Brookside Home at p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-06
NEAR FIGHT OF
 BOXING MCRS.

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ICE STORM HOLDS
 UP RESCUE EFFORT

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Evening star., 1941-10-04

did permit colonists already there
to hold the land they lived on.
Once in possession of Penn
sylvania, Penn invited the oppressed
of the world to come and live with
him. To English and Welsh Quak-
ers, to French Huguenots, Swiss
Mennonites, Poles. Swedes. Aus
trians, Irish, Scotch and German
Palatinates he offered safe haven
-. and LAND.
He Gave Ornate Deeds.
With the land he gave deeds
proving ownership. The psyche
logical influence of this act is little
appreciated by the antiquarian
historians of today. Penn gave
deeds which were things of beauty,
elaborately inscribed and engrossed.
Little wonder it is that these deeds
were regarded with veneration and
became the pattern for the art
polulaire of the colony the
prototype of other paper mem
orials" of weddings, births, baptisms
and combinations.
Much has been written about the
fractur- -shriften or vorshriften of
the Pennsylvania Germans. Few if
any researchers have gone beyond
the mere assumption that they are
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people the poor people . of
PENNSYLVANIA. And. In its finer forms
it was the pastime of the upper
classes.
About 80 years ago certain COL
lectors "discovered' fractur. Some
Of them made much of it gave
it peculiar religious significance.
Gave it, in fact, something fractur
never had.
Other collectors, seeking the
quaint and enjoying it for just what
it is, without recourse to manufac-
turing romance, took up fractur as
a hobby. And today fractur is en-
joying what might be termed top
price" popularity. 1t is just folk-art
-. and even "folk-art" is a mis-
nomer. 1t doesn't spring from the
folk D.. but from the top. 1t is a
blurred copy of something classic
and 1t isn't art. 1t is pleasant
crudity.
Collectors Want II.
But collectors want it and
there you are. If you have any of
1t, you have something of value. II
you want some of it you must pay
a pretty penny for it, Certainly 1t
is history" without a capital n. >
1t is true but nonetheless his
tory and no PENNSYLVANIA in
terror, save the most classic from
Philadelphia to Lancaster, is COM
plete without it.
1t is pity that the one book on
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this subject is Itself a rare item.
Few people will have the oppor-
tunity to study "fractur" as it
should be studied. unless they de-
vote a month or more to 1t and do
their work in well-equipped libraries.
Fractur is growing scarcer every
day. 1t is even being faxed. More
and more early pieces done in Eng
lish =. not German =. are coming
to light. And every scrap Of it has
value. Don't fritter it away if you
are lucky enough to have some
among your old things. It's as good
as money. 1t is money.
The examples here shown from
the collection of Arthur Sussel of
Philadelphia would buy a swell va
cation for two . almost anywhere
you cared to go. Or it would buy q
couple of Defense bonds.
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When William Penn accepted a
huge grant of land from the English
crown in exchange for moneys owed
his father, Admiral Penn, he re-
solved to establish a Quaker colony.
That the land was already peopled
by Swedes and Dutch made no diff
ference to the crown. This was a
deal. Penn turned it into another
holy" experiment. He came TO
America and bought" the land
all over again from the Indians.
He neglected to buy it also from
the SWedeS and the Dutch. But he
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of German parentage. They are not.
Before l700 the Swedes had wall
paintings on their churches and
homes.
. The Dutch in Pennsylvania had
the original Martyrs Mirror"
printed in Dutch :. long before
the Ephrata community translated
it into German.
Pen-writing was practiced by a
group Of Scriveners from England
long before a single German immi-
grant landed at Dock Street Wharf
Penn'S deeds circulated. Penn's
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Catholics in Germany
Hear Leaders in Homes

A new form of Catholic Action
home gatherings for religious in
struction addressed by former lead
ers now debarred from public meet
ines-is growing widely among
Catholics in Germany and the oc-
cupied countries. according to re-
ports to the Centre of Information
Pro Dec in Lisbon, says the Re-
hgious News Service.
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deeds magnificent examples of
pen writing passed into the
hands of the immigrants and
they copied.
Practice Spreads.
Fractur artists, when they began
TO practice, piled their trade with
pens D.. quills . and brushes. BY
1920 there were deeds" given for
every conceivable thing . from
having baby to being a good boy
or girl at school. Fractur was the
art of the people :. the common
Evening star., 1941-10-04
Illinois Group Plans Fete

Former residents of Hancock
County, Illinois, will hold their fall
picnic at the home of Mrs. Flora
Dever. 1926 South Lynn street
Arlington, Va, at l pm. tomorrow
All former residents of the county
now living in or near Washington
have been invited.