6/30-7/6/46

6/30 Sunday Mom and Pop over for first time since the chicken pox. Pop played Eugene two chess games for first time and won both. I beat Pop one. We all had supper together. In the morning the kids had decided it was Lil's birthday and made a party using baskets and clay for the eats. Thousands of Hamburg Germans have demonstrated twice against requisitioning of apartments by the British. The President vetoed the OPA bill with the "House" sustaining the veto 173-142 but failing to extend the present bill temporarily. Thousands of Jews are being rounded up in Palestine. The W.F.T.U. meeting in Moscow called for a break with Franco. 600 delegates in N.Y. started a N.Y. Comm. to Win the Peace affiliated to the Nat'l Win the Peace movement.

I remember playing chess with my grandfather at our house when I was sick; I don't know if this was that time, since I am apparently recovered. 

7/1 Sylvia is 3 ft. 4 1/2 in. Weighs 42 lbs. Eugene 4 ft. 1 in. Weighs 61 lbs. Beat Mencher. Played chess with Eugene. A special N.Y. State law has frozen rents with all national controls off. A six months Phelps Dodge strike in Queens has been settled with 18 1/2¢, half of it retroactive to Sept. 1. Other plants are still out. "Secret" data sought by Soviet officer Redin was known to the whole world according to defense council [sic] at Redin's espionage trial. The great Bikini Atoll atom bomb tests saw the 4th atom bomb in history exploded with a flash ten times brighter than the sun over a 73 ship "guinea pig" target. One destroyer was capsized and five set afire. Trieste riots saw Americans hurt by a hand grenade in the bitter rivalry between Yugoslav and Italian supporters. Silvia can set up the chess board and knows the names of the pieces. Lillian went to the movies seeing "Ziegfield Follies" with Judy Garland Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly and "Strange Impersonation".

7/2 The "House" passed a temporary OPA bill but O'Daniel stymied a Senate counterpart. Prices on some goods and Rents soared in scattered districts throughout the country. Final results of the atom bomb test had half the 73 ship target fleet sunk or destroyed. Some goats aboard the Pennsylvania survived as did minnow in the surrounding waters. American zone elections in Germany gave the Christian Democratic Union 2,579,403. S.D. 2,855,545. C.P. 400,000. Railway Express workers are back with discharged workers to be rehired where needed and grievances rectified. President Morris Muster has resigned his U.F.W. post in a swirl of red baiting and disruption. Trieste is to be internationalized. Polish elections were held with results later.

7/3 Beat J. Wasserman. Buyers strikes are being organized. Clint Golden and Hal Ruttenberg have resigned from the Steel Workers Union. Golden is ill and Ruttenberg enters industry. Miss. Negroes defied threats to vote in the primary but their ballots may not be counted. The Columbia Tenn trial has shifted to a different race-hate county. 20,000 rallied against the British "Labor" gov'ts terror in Palestine in Madison Sq. Park under Amer. Zionist Emerg. Council auspices. Nagler and Cellar were among the speakers. Many more of our marigold buds have blossomed at last. The other plant after many weeks is beginning to bud.

7/4 We went to Woodlawn where I beat Mencher twice. Also there the Rosenbergs and Sam and Molly. Pravda has attacked the atom bomb test, charging minimization of the damage. The Philippines officially received their independence although they are under our military and industrial control. Internationalized Trieste will be ruled by the Security Council. Truman has signed the Hobbs Bill.

7/5 Gen Clay has freed 1 million young Nazis in the American zone. Sam Snead has won the British Open golf tournament with 290. The "Big 4" has called a 21 nation peace parley for July 29. A new pogrom in Poland has caused about 50 deaths. Evictions are prevalent throughout the country. Eugene drew "The Field First Reader", "Where the Winds Never Blew" by Padraic Colum and "The Little Geography of the U.S." by Mable Pyne. Lillian read Clarence Darrow's biography by Irving Stone. I read "The Age of Jackson" by A M Schlesinger Jr. The battle was the same in those days. Steiglitz [sic] is dead.

Another strange thing; Stieglitz actually died on 7/13. It's the last item in the paragraph, and is written slightly above the lines. It is likely that he added it later, and went back one page too many.

7/6 Eugene was cranky today so that Lillian took his temp. which was 100°. His eyes seemed to bother him. We went over to Mom's. Sylvia told the story of "Henny Penny" again ending up with "The king knew the sky was falling down. He was out in the street." We saw Susan in the street waddling along here and there. At night I took a shower with Eugene and he got some argyrol in his eyes. At Grandma's Eugene played casino for the first time and liked it. Sylvia lost interest quickly. A state investigation has at last been forced of the Ferguson shootings in Freeport. Yvon Petra, France defeated Geoffrey Brown Australia in a five set match for the Wimbledon title. Bought pressure cooker $12.50.