8/19 The kids play garbage truck. The wagon is hitched on to the kiddy-car. Eugene drives the car and Sylvia looks for dirt which she puts into the wagon. Sylvia likes to make all sorts of things with the blocks and lock-blocks. Eugene is passing the block stage. This morning the kids went up to Gloria's house. This was unthinkable a few weeks ago on Sylvia's part. Jewish refugees have tried to explode and sink the ship carrying them to Cyprus. Chinese Communist Armies are sweeping forward in Central China. In Calcutta three days rioting between Muslims and Hindus have caused 1000 deaths and 4000 injured.
8/20 Eugene did this puzzle Sunday [see scanned-in page]. Susan is very sensitive. She cries piteously when someone is hitting her daddy or scolding her. Chinese Communists are preparing for a war to the finish. We are feuding with Yugoslavia where two of our planes have been forced down by shots. A Mississippi lynch mob has trapped several Negro families after an altercation. 30000 attended a benefit rally for Negro Isaac Woodard blinded by an N.C. cop. The Great Lakes strike has tied up 120 ships. Fielding Yost is dead at 75.
8/21 Longshoremen are out again against Ryans betrayal in the contract on grievance committees and vacations. The Price Control Board consisting of Chairman Roy L Thompson banker and Daniel W Bell banker and George H Mead manufacturer has decontrolled dairy products and restored price ceilings on livestock and meat.
I was checking the names of those on the board, and noted that it was actually the "Price Decontrol Board"!
8/22 Sylvia wanted to know whether she would continue growing after she got as high as the ceiling. The U.S. has given Yugoslavia 48 hours to hand over any survivors from two shot down planes or face "UN" action. We also rejected Russia's request to control defense of the Dardanelles jointly with Turkey. Laborites met with general failure trying to win major party primaries. The "Pirates" rejected the Amer. Baseball Guild 15-3 in an election. NMU pickets were sent to the hospital by police tear gas and clubs. Coffee up 10¢ per pound.
8/23 Yugoslavia has protested 172 unauthorized flights over her territory but received no answer from us. Occupants of one plane shot down have been released but whereabouts of occupants of another are unknown. It is possible they are dead. Tito has ordered no more shooting at US planes. We went to the Zoo today. Eugene wanted to see the "repitillies" (reptiles). Stopped off at Bertha Kooman's and saw her pretty ten [?] month old daughter Henrietta. Lillian "sat" tonight. Latest Indian riot figures - 4000 dead, 11000 injured. Jewish swimmers blew a hole in the hull of the British "refugee" ship Empire Rival preventing its sailing to Cyprus.
Don't know who the Kooman's were, and the age of her daughter is somewhat smudged.
8/24 Sylvia wet herself last night for the first time in perhaps a year. Yesterday she said we went to the "dezoo" on my "becation". She wants to go to the circus to see the "farmers" (performers). Today we went to Woodlawn. We picked a lot of berries of which Lillian made jam. Split with Alex --------. We have been holding Czech Yugo and Greek ships docked on the Danube in order to force the opening of the Danube to navigation. The Dutch are still battling and killing Indonesians. The NMU has signed two Great Lakes pacts winning concessions. The Ukranian C.P. is being drastically overhauled. Litvinoff has been replaced by two others as Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs. The judge in "Columbia Negro" trial has seized a sick defendant's bail of $5000 and ordered him brought to court on a stretcher.
Apparently he did not know Alex's last name.
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