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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
BY WALTER SPIEWAK
CoryrIsht I9ie. by InternatlonsI New, Service

NEW YORK. July 90 know how diff
ficult it must be for Americans to realize
fully what is happening inside Poland today.
While the underground organization manages
TO get some facts out over their secret short-wave
radio transmitters this is necessarily fragmentaly
and frequently subject to atmospheric interference
as well as limited by the necessity of keeping one
Jump ahead of the Gestapo which is trying desper-
ately to stamp out all such clandestine stations.
There is of course, a general "blackout of all news
that might get out Of Poland through regular channels
Poland has been surrounded by wall of silence Since
the summer of 1941 there has not been single impartial
fore in the country
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

Battle them with Lavoptik. Prompt
ly soothes. Also relieves inflamed,
sore, tired, burning, itching or sticky
eyes. Soothes, cools, refreshes or
money refunded. % years success.
Praised by thousands. Get Lavoptik
today. At all druggists.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
Goddard, Chaplin Pals
Even After Divorce

HOLLYWOOD. July 20 (UP).-I
Paulette Goddard and Charles
Chaplin, divorced a few weeks ago
in Jaurez, Mexico, apparently were
the best of friends again today.
The film couple appeared, arm
in arm, at the Mocambo night club
and danced together several times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
SAWDUST BREAD

A pound of bread. as | have
pointed out. costs 20 zlotys ($4),
while the average Polish worker
receives only four TO five zlotys a
day. This means he must work at
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
POIand's LiUing Hell
BeSfiaI (rUeItieS
Stun Imagination
Nazis Drown Children, Send Girls
TO BrotheIs, Seal Jews in Homes

INC article ot series about PoandS tNlng
he under the NaA of terror observed hTShand oy
SpCwsk chemist OF QuakcrtoWn Pa VINO
this country from Poland
SpeWak wife released by the Naz IN The recent
nationals arrived YORK
30 trip Of the Swedish diplomatic exchange
liner DrottninGhon.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

TomorroU: What the Polish
"undersround is doing TO com
bat the Mani conquerors and
prepare for the day OF PoIond's
liberation
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

least four days 10 earn enough 10
buy a pound OF bread for his
family.
But do not imagine when / refer
10 bread" in the present Polish
sense of the word that IL is any
thing like what We know as bread
in America. The only bread which
the NaziS permit the Poles to buy
is foul, sour substance that is
composed Of 33 per cent sawdust
and 81 per cent a conglomeration
of other substitutes.
NAILS FAVORED
That explains why one sees
strange advertisements in the new
Warsaw Courier, a paper published
by the Nazis in which bakeries
offer 10 buy several tons OF saw
dust at a time.
The German residents in Poland
are given quite different ration
cards which entitle them TO buy
mot only white bread of fairly
good consistency, but also other
foodstuffs rigidly prohibited for
the Polish population. They get
one pound of meat week, butter,
sugar. flour. even eggs. fruit, milk,
fish, sausages, cigaretS and four
quarts of vodka a month.
All the finer grocery shops in
Poland are restricted TO German
trade only and have large signs on
their doors: only Germans Ad-
United. "
NO COAL FOR POLES
Last Autumn. every Polish
/ family received an allotment for
the winter of 10 pounds of po-
tatoeS. But because of the lack of
other foodstuffS, and the shortage
Of meat, the average family Of five
consumed the 10 pounds in three
weeks instead of the allotted six
months. The Germans were al
loted 500 pounds per person for
the same period
German cellars are filled with
coal. while the Poles are denied
all access to coal and are forbid
tden TO use electric ovens, stoves.
ietC.
I In Warsaw, ration cards for
IShoeS, clothes, underclotheS. etc,
are issued to the Poles. but they
are only cards-not goods.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

unrest. Their radio said Polish
guerrillas were sabotaging Ger
man trains bound for the Russian
front. Three Poles were executed
for having been members of bands
that derailed trains near Warsaw
Seven Polish railroad men were
shot for derailing a German train
near Lublin and another near
Cracow.
FRENCH PATRIOTS ACTIVE
The dquarters of Gen
Charles de Gaulle, leader of the
fighting French. reported the
French guerrillas had ambushed
a German column in Normandy
dynamited German military
canteen in Brest. blown up a rail-
way line and derailed a train near
lie Havre and wrecked an electri-
cal transformer near Lorient.
Besides killing Axis forces in
open battle, neral Mihailo-
vitchS men were reported TO be
attacking German barges on the
Danube, carrying oil to the Reich.
The British Broadcasting Com
pany reported from Madrid that
the chief of the Spanish air force
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
LIVING CEMETERIES

Several days before my arrest,
following Americas declaration of
war last December, / was awak-
ened by a neighbor whose wife
was Jewish. Her father had
stolen through 10 her from the
the Ghetto-thanks TO a zoo
zloty bride (about $40) paid 10 a
Gestapo agent.
In a broken voice, he told how
the Germans were turning the
tenement buildings in the ghetto
into cemeteries. Every day. he
said. the Nazi police closed, sealed
and placed a Gordon around sew
eral buildings in the ghetto. Or
ders were issued that no one could
enter or leave these premises on
penalty of being shot on sight.
As a pretext, the Nazi Gestapo
pasted up huge signs announcing
that the buildings had been quar-
antined" TO combat typhus. No
food could be carried through the
Gordon. The quarantine" lasted
q days at the end of which time
many corpses were found in each
of the buildings. Only few
cases OF typhus actually had de-
Iveloped but these were used as a
DreteXt
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

II is difficult 10 visualize such
brutalities as are now being eXpe-
rienced day in and day out by the
Polish people unless they touch
you in some personal way.
Last November a young womau
came 10 our house. She was dis
heveled and in rags. We thought
At first that she was a beggar--
until my wife suddenly recognized
the girl as her 19-year-old cousin,
Jadziusia.
! Jadziusia had been brilliant
student and had passed her junior
college examinations just before
the war broke out. The last we
had heard of her she had spent
the summer with some relatives.
SHIPPED TO BROTHEL
What we did not learn-until II
was too late--was that she had
been kidnapped by the Nazis after
the fall of Poland and shipped, like
many another. young Polish girl, TO
a brothel for soldiers where she
had been kept like prisoner Tor
seven months.
We tried to comfort her and to
get her some food and clothing,
but what we did not realize was
that she had merely come to say
goodby. That same night she COM
mitted suicide by jumping into the
Vistula River.
A few weeks before the Pearl
Harbor attack / was in the theater
SQUARE in WarsaW.wSuddenly the
Gestapo slirroundcd the entire
square and began 70 arrest all
males over 10 and load them onto
trucks.
DEAD sTREw SQUARE
The procedure was punctuated
with shots. BY the time / was
loaded into one of the trucks. some
20 dead and wounded were strewn
about.
Those of us who got into the
trucks were taken 10 the NaZiI
barracks at Aleje Ujazdowskie.
One by one, were were called TO
a table around which the Gestapo
officials were seated.
Just before my turn came the
Cestapo beat a boy mercilessly.I
They were apparently trying to
make him say something he had
refused TO say.
1 furnished proof of my Ameri-
can citizenship and was released
at once. The others were sent TO
Germany for forced labor"
AS / crossed the riding school
grounds nearby on my way home,
the horribly battered corpse OF the
boy who had preceded me TO the
Gestapo table was lying there sur
rounded by Gestapo guards.
CHILDREN DROWNED
Shortly before leaving Warsaw
this summer, my wife saw an IN
forgettable incident in Praga, a
suburb of Warsaw:
Because Of the starvation ra-
tons allotted TO the Poles, little
children gather vegetable Feelings
wherever they can find them and
sell them for the equivalent OF 10
cents pound. The Germans re-
gard this as plague Of beggary
and use severe measures TO combat
II.
On this particular occasion. four
Gestapo agents caught group OF
II sue youngsters. dragged them
TO the drainage canal on the Wis
tula River and threw them into
the filthy water. Only a few Of
them who could swim came out
alive. A crowd had gathered eager
10 rescue the children but the
-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

tune by sneaking into the Ghetto
az night with taboo products which
they sell al a high premium 10
the few who can pay the price.
Military lorries are frequently
used 10 cart these wares through
police lines.
DAYS FOOD FOR WEEK
Al the time of my wife's de-
parture 10 Join me at Lisbon and
board the liner Drottninghom for
America. the food situation IN
Poland was as follows:
Food rationS granted 10 the
Poles once a week are so skinny
that they are usually consumed
after day and half. Officially
the weekly ration for one adult is
two pounds of bread and not quite
four ounces each of meat. sugar
flour. macaroni and Jam. FoI
children these rations are cut in
half and no meat is allowed at all
But, actually, nobody in War
saw is able TO obtain even half OF
the bread ration permitted on the
cards and of the meat ration OF
four ounces per person at least
three ounces are bones. and if one
gets such an allowance twice q
month one is extremely lucky.
Similarly, although there is a
weekly allotment on the ration
cards for sugar. jam, etc, actual
distributions of such items are few
and far between.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
81 FOR BREAD

Even beyond the starvation
rations" imposed on the rank and
file of the Polish people. the Nazis
have devised special rules regard
ing the distribution of foodStuffs
in the Ghetto districts.
To begin with, the food rationS
permitted Jews is lower than that
of the rest of the population.
Added to that is an arbitrary in
crease in prices charged in the
Jewish quarter by order of the
Gestapo.
For example a pound of bread
for which 20 zlotys tS4) is the or
binary price. costs the Jewish
population in the Ghetto 35 zlotys
$50, and so on down the list OF
available foodstuffs.
But the Gestapo collects both
ways on these inhuman measures.
A smuggling racket has sprung
up in the Ghetto and the chief
smugglerS are the GeStapo and
petty German military police
themselves who are reaping for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

GeStapo men drew their guns and
threatened 10 fire if anyone tried
IN save thppo
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

ADVERTIsEMENT
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20
From a statement by
Joseph B. Eastman, Director,
Office OF Defense Transportation

Vacations are desirable from the
standpoint OF public health, efficiency
and morale, and vacation business has
furnished means OF livelihood to many
people in various parts OF the country.
Business organizations and other
employers should stagger the vacations
OF employees throughout the year 30 far
as practicable and, to reduce weekend
traffic congestion, encourage their en-
ployes to leave and return from vaca-
lions during the middle OF the week.
VT may be that in certain parts OF the
country there will be less congestion OF
passenger travel than in others. There
fore, those planning vacations should
consult agents in advance as to the
prospects TOR travel over the lines which
they contemplate using
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-07-20

.DVERTIsEMENT
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
WARNING!

May we take this method to warn
our presidents and members to get
down to business in the local lodge.
We must pay more Death Claims
than we have been paying and if it
takes thinning out these local presi-
dents and lodges by fines and sus-
pensions in order to pay more Death
Claims, we are ready to do it.
These applications being made to
these local lodges are to be examined
by the Committee of the local lodge
and if one black ball appears against
the applicant he cannot become a
member.
Applications are not to be voted,
or yea or nay. The law says that the
local lodge MUST ballot on applica-
tions. We want members; we need
members, however, we are not TO
violate the Constitution to get them
Yes, we are going to pay more Death
Claims ere long, and we are going to
nnnish law violators when 1t Is
found that lodge has violated the
laws. 49,
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17

"This summer I'm going to DO
things differently" That's what you
say 80. and you mean It'll In fact,
there are so many interests d.
books you want to read. friends and
places you want 10 see, sports YOU
want to take part in-not to mem
ton a general over-hauling job to do
on your appearance. You plan ever
so much and then all Of a sudden
the Thermometer gets out Of
hand and you decide you have only
enough energy to drag yourself to
q shady spot to sit and quietly melt.
There's really no excuse for your
assuming the role Of a willing flower
You can ride that heat wave
through the summer and not only
survive but enjoy It'll We claim that
cooiness is a state Of mind-and
knowing what to do about the heat.
If you're a stay-at-home this sum
mer, plan to do eight housekeep-
ing not a thing more than you
have tol Clear your house of all
unnecessary furniture and knick-
knacks, cover your oEerStdUeI
pieces with light pastel or white
sllpcoyers, and keep the shades
drawn tightly from the beating
sun. This should give yo1 as ea
and quiet an atmosphere as ..1Na
nnd anywhere.
After a hard days work
walk -. . don't run. home
SET a tall frosty drink aa
n7ht meal, dunk your WEE
INFO a tub full Of cool water
ever so lightly with You"
cologne and relax. Af
bath, slip into freshly
h9usecoat turn the
some soft soothing music
good book or magazine
forget about the hurryin
side. You'll not only
calm down and
you'll be relaxed and
ready to do your Va.
and efficiency.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
HB A. MOVES UP NOTCH IN
CLAIMS
PRESIDENTS HAVE BEEN
ACTIVE IN SENDING IN RE-
NEWALS; SOME ADVANCE
MADE

The local presidents and members
of the II. B. A. have been very active
in sending in renewals from the
Boards. At the close of the Boards we
paid $125.OO to each claimant. This
ahount has been stepped up from
$125.0O to $4,000.
Checks will be mailed out in the
next few days to the beneficiaries
who were paid off in the June Boards.
We wish to congratulate all concern
ed in the big effort that has been
made to increase our payments.
BE CAREFUL
We are urging the presidents and
members of each lodge to be careful
in taking in new members and renew
ing old members. We have on hand
now applications that seem bit SUI
spicious. AS you all know, two pres
idents, together with their entire
membership, were fined and suspend
ed in the June Boards.
Let's be careful not to make mis-
takes knowingly. If an error has
been made, let it show conclusively
that the president and entire mem
bership did their best according to
law to protect the order. If we use
precaution we can pay $4,000 easier
than we are paying from $125,O0 to
$4,000.
If it is known by the president ond
members Of one lodge that the presi-
dent and members Of another lodge
are taking in members in violation to
the Constitution and that president
and his members failed to make report
Of same to the office, the 4ssocia-
ton has as much right to suspend
that president and lodge as it does
the one who Is actually guilty Of the
crime.
Let's protect the office; let's pro-
! tect our members; let know nothing
bat right.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17

According to information received,
the lodge attempted to renew a per-
son who was far beyond the age
limit as provided by the Constitution.
We regret very much that our
presidents and members are not as
careful as they should be in observ-
ing the law of this Association. 1t is
pitiful to fine and suspend presidents
and lodges, however, it is more pitt
full for US to be forced to pay unjust
claims. n
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
Convention programme.
TENTATIVE REi IsION OF
CONSTITUTION
JULY

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of which he il member NJ rerso
will be psrnit4-d to nav Death Claim.
and 07sr+errv DYes rp, Gail. 81 nan
his monthly dYas IN lii I,c.I ,,4..
No Q A~r 1o.oI rr.-tl,..
collects +ba Orsr+s-rv assessment and
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
TT p A. TAKES OUT DEFENSE
BOND
Fl. B. p. Lodge No. 80, StonewalL
Mis- Takes out Defense Bond

Miss. Takes out Defense Bond
President John Scott of Lodge No
so, Stonewall, Miss, has Influenced
his members to purchase a war De-
Tense Bond.
We wish to congratulate Brother
Scott and his good members for this
forward move. We must win this
war; we must do our part. The war
cannot be won without the Negro.
The war cannot be won without the
white man. It is going to take all Of
lis to fight this battle. 1t is going to
be a long and hard fight There will
be many, many mothers and fathers
and wives, sisters and brothers with
broken hearts because Of the loss Of
loved ones. All of us may as well
unite our forces for victory.
Prejudice. malice, hatred. discrini-
nation on the part of American citi-
zens mean a great delay n winning
the war And who knows what the
end may be if we do not remember
the commandment, "DO UNTO
OTHERS AS YOU WOULD THAT
THEY SHOULD DO UNTO YOU"
We want to urge presidents and
members everywhere to take out De-
tense Bonds. If you cannot buy
bonds, buy stamps. AMERICA MUST
WIN!
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
II. B. A. LODGE FINED AND
SUSPENDED
President Albert Campbell of
Waynesboro and His Lodge Fined

And Suspended
AS General Secretary Of the II. B.
A., we are authorized by the General
President to announce the suspension
of President Albert Campbell and the
members Of lodge No. 378, Waynes-
boro, Mississippi.
According to reliable information
obtained from several sources and
individuals, the president and mem
bers of lodge No, 378 have violated
laws of the Constitution In that they
have made an application for the re-
newal of a delinquent member of the
H. B. A. who has been out OF the AS
ISOLATION for approximately six or
seven years.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
HOME. SWEET HOME

eyes subj" said Brother Dickey,
"My race what wants to live in Hi
nois kin go dar, how an wen dey
likes, but ez fer me, I'll stay whar l
is 'mongst de folks I raised and
BON wild, an eff I is lynched, please
God, I'll be lynched by my fren'sl"
Bishop R. A. G.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
H. B. A. CONVENTION TO MEET

The H. B. A. Convention meets
Wednesday and Thursday July 29th
and 30th in the Fl. B. A. Auditorium.
All presidents are requested to col
lect Use Death Claims and Convention
assessment We have several deaths
left over from the last Board and we
are doing our best to make a good
showing in the Convention.
We hope that this will be the best
Convention in the history Of the AS
ISOLATION Big things are on our pro-
gram. We viii have our big banquet
as usual. Our program calls for
singing and oratoricaI ccnJasts among
our members.
Watch the Weekly Echo for our
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
GOING TO LISMAN, ALABAMA

Bus leaves the Mt. Hermon Baptist
Church Sunday Morning, July 10, at
O'Clock; will stop at the Union De-
pot at $3.50; at Bonita at 900. All in
tending to go, Small admission.
Sponsored by the Mt. Hermon
Usher Board.
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17
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Defeuse'
BONDS

nlted States Savings Bond.
reverend R. l.. Young, pastor Of
ewell Chapel C, M. E. Church, Cen
al Secretary of the Holbrook Bene-
Association and editor of The rolent
-ekly Echo says;
VOW is the IT, to come to the de-
nse of our country. Do not wait,
not delay Any persons interested
helping defend our country can do
N many ways. Persons who de-
to buy Government S wings
mps are asked to call Reverend
ag at his office, telephone 1877 or
is residence, 1928, or write him at
l043. Meridian, Mississippi.
rverend Young is in position to
lsh Government Stamps from 10c
Get . Government Defense Al
from Reverend Young and after
filled 1t can be exchanged for 9
u purchase the bond for $1875
n ten years it will bring you
II for anv reason you are
u corr nue. your savings be-
Hs o Job, etc, the full
ave paid in will be
= interest
Is appealing to
ID to the members
The echo. (Meridian, Miss.) 1942-1960, 1942-07-17

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Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-20
BAPTISTS INCREASINGLY
CONCERNED ABOUT LIQUOR

A recent issue Of the biblical Re
corder", organ of the North Carolina
Baptist State Convention, declares
that the Recorder office has received
copies of the increasing number Of
resolutions and letters Of protest ad-
dressed to various officials in Wash
jngton regarding the liquor question.
The Woman's Bible class Of the
First Baptist church Of Wilmington
has sent a letter TO President RooSc-
welt endorsing the resolution OF
Carolina Methodist WomcN "seeking
to protect our soldiers and scamcn
from the curse Of alcoholic beverages
The women declare that they have
observed with regret the eVcr-in-
creasing seriousness of this evil upon
the social conditions IF Wilmington
and implorc the President to use his
%influNecc "tO remove from our peo-
pie the evil of Intoxicating drink.
The pastors conference of the ChO-
wan Baptist Association opposed the
~rationing cf sugar "While al the same
time vast quantities are available
to the breWerieS to enrich their
treasures to the everlasting detrl-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-20
Two Destroyers
10 BE Launched
At Charleston

Charlsstnn, S. G., June l9.-TWo
sleek ncW dcStrUyerS for the fighting
fronts of the United States fleets
iar-llunG battle lines will slide down
the ways at the Charleston Navy
Yard, Wednesday, June "a, following
dual launching ceremonies.
The ships are the Z. S. S. Bell and
the u. S. S. Stevens, which take the
namcs of two d~cstroycts strapped
by this country under the terms Of
the London naval treaty following
the first World war. The new, mod
III grcyhoundS of the fighting force
at sea where constructed in accord
ancc with the spccd-up program of
production to which Charleston Navy
Yard employees have gcared them
selves SO that the men who fight
may have more and more and even
better equipment.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-06-20
No More Loafing
For Siler CITY

Silcr City, June 20.-'Therc will
be no more loaling IN our streets"
was the cdict handed down this week
by Mayor O. b, ReitZel in a vigorous
indictment Of men who, though I'M
employed, refused proffercd work.
Mayor Reitzel has received COM
plants about a number of colored
men who ~congregate on the streets
and refuse jobs.
'Therc's no excuse for any man
being without a job" said the mayor,
"larmcrs in this section are crying
for help and can't find it. 1t has even
gotten so bad that a local hometown
er can't find help to NOV a lawn
1t was pointed out by officials
here that loaferS would be cited to
court for NagranCy and upon being
unable to furnish definite proof Of
their ability to support themselves
would be warned to keep out Of Siler
City.