5/5 Sunday This afternoon, Lil's cousins Lee and Min with their children Bernard, Dorothy and Nina came over. The kids entertained themselves pretty well. Sylvia played lottos with the big girls. Eugene and 5 year old Bernard romped. Played some chess with Eugene later. Sylvia takes nose drops now as well as Eugene does. She still has a little lisp. In the evening Sarah R. stayed while we went to see "Three Strangers" with Sidney Greenstreet, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Peter Lorre and a Tarzan picture. The Alcatraz revolt ended with the three leaders dead. With the slain Ferguson brothers exonerated by the Army and one cited by the President, Gov. Dewey is still evading delegations which ask for justice for the surviving families. The trial of Jack Turk 14 year old "model boy" who as a sitter for 3 yr. old Sybil Gurfein, slew the child after an alleged sexual act is going on under a 1st degree murder charge.
These cousins are not in the family tree; the parents' names are vaguely familiar. "Sarah R." is Sarah Rosenberg, mother of my friend and neighbor Bobby Rosenberg.
5/6 310,000 Kuomintang troops have surrounded 60,000 Communist troops and threaten their annihilation. The French people have defeated the new constitution. Dr. Simon Flexner is dead.
5/7 Horace Demarest, Queens M.V.C. has been removed for being an original incorporator of the K.K.K. The D.W. exposed him and urged his ouster. Hillman at the A.C.W. convention called war a 'terrible possibility'. Five U.S. correspondents detained by the Chinese Communists for about two weeks have been released.
Not sure if that's actually "D.W."
5/8 The Foreign Ministers parley has decided to return Transylvania to Romania from Hungary who got it from Hitler. The coal strike is at last being felt with Congress and the Government stepping in. Fight impresario J J Johnston is dead. 14 yr old Jack Turk has been acquitted in the murder of 3 year old Sybil Gurfein. 16 yr Nick Trinchillo is guilty of murder in the 2nd degree in the slaying of an elderly shopkeeper. M. O. Perez, Conservative won the Colombian Presidency. Ernie Koslan over and a changed person. He has gotten a big lift by getting some jobs teaching tennis this summer.
5/9 Sylvia makes tumble sets. Beat Levy. At the "Council" no information was available on the Red Army's evacuation of Iran, the case remaining on the agenda. Gromyko again walked out. Two I.R.A. members are on hunger strikes, one in Eire, one in Northern Ireland.
5/10 Beat Koslan. Brownouts and blackouts are the vogue due to the coal strike. The "House" finally voted housing subsidies of $400,000,000 by a close vote. Westinghouse has settled the 115 day strike giving 18¢ per hr. plus one cent into a wage fund against inequities. Seven maritime unions have voted to form a nationwide federation.
5/11 Scientist Dr. A. N. May's 10 year sentence for disclosing atomic energy secrets to Russia has been criticized by fellow scientists. Foreign Ministers parley has decided Italy will administer her African colonies under a UN trusteeship, Soviet Union will get $100,000,000 reparations from Italy. Lewis and the coal operators have agreed to reopen the mines under a two week truce. The chief issue of the strike has been the welfare fund to be set up under Lewis' direction. The Senate has passed the British loan. Maximillian[sic] Moss has replaced Miss Dillon whose term expired on the Board of Ed.
My father started a "diary" in 1945 (more accurately, a journal, covering both family and current events), and I'm going to see if this is a decent way to publish it. Since I'm doing it as a blog, to get to the beginning of the journal, you have to go to the beginning of the blog.
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