10/6 Sunday Went to mother's for dinner with Lilly and Harry also. Susan speaks a little. She is soft spoken - says Nonny for Susan, says many words well. Later Lilly and Harry took us to the Zoo in their car. We enjoyed the gibbons shrieking and swinging. Archbishop Stepinac's trial has been going on in Yugoslavia with witnesses to his friendliness to the Ustache. Taft sympathized with the doomed Nazis. Restaurants have won a 15% price rise. The American-Soviet Trade Union Comm. is meeting here.
10/7 Jewish butchers and delicatessens are closed indefinitely due to the absence of meat. Iran is undergoing Civil war. The Kuomintang Army is gaining in the vital battle for communist held Kalgan. Beat Evers. Dr. Moscicki is dead.
10/8 Beat Levy. Green asked for the end of wage and price control at the AFL convention. An American transatlantic liner crashed in Newfoundland on Thursday killing all 39 on board. Sadie and the kids came over for Sylvia's birthday bringing an aluminum set for her. Fredi raised Cain. Arlene is very cute.
10/9 Sylvia's birthday. Lillian made her doll a complete outfit. Eugene gave her a paint set. I gave her a peg set. Frieda's check came as usual. We had a little party with Mom, Lilly and Susan and Molly. Lillian ordered a birthday cake. Lillian got Eugene a South American jig saw puzzle. Sister Lillian brought two pairs of pyjamas and a book for Eugene. Molly got Sylvia - pyjamas. Sarah R. brought up a blouse. The B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat flew over the North Magnetic Pole in an historic flight. Per Albin Hansson, Swedish premier is dead. Schacht has been arrested by the German police. Lillian went to the P.T.A. meeting tonight hearing how the new rapid advance system works. Stayed home from work today. Lillian came home deliriously happy this morning with some meat.
10/10 30,000 unemployed Italians stormed the seat of the government. Yugoslavia paid $150,000 indemnity for the five dead airmen. 100,000 Ford workers were laid off on a pretext of shortage of steel.
10/11 The kids went down with kiddy car and bike and alternated rides on each. Eugene is telling us of the elephant who didn't like nuts. Soviet scientists have developed a serum effective against throat, cervix, uterus and breast cancer. Kudish [?] is out of the Grocery Clerks union due to financial irregularities. The "Times" retracted an anti-union article by Hanson Baldwin against maritime workers after picketing by thousands of seamen. A military uprising in Portugal was reported put down in short order. A&P's and Safeways have been closed for weeks refusing to sign with truckmen.
10/12 Archbishop Stepinac has received 16 years in prison as a collaborator. General Stillwell is dead at 68. [...]
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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