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9/29 Sunday Today we had the surprise party for the 40th Anniversary of mom and pop's marriage. Present also were Lil Harry and Susan, Mrs. Thaw and Tauby, Ida and Max, Sandra and Adeen, Rochel & Mayer, Blume and Abe, Anne Mac and Barbara, Izzy Goode and Rose, Harry and Molly & Lilly, and Sam Molly and Milton. Lillian made Chow Mein, a salad, salmon salad. We had tomato juice and jello, tea and the anniversary cake we ordered. Rochel made her cheeseless cheese cake. Milton took pictures. Lillian read my poem, when we presented the set of dishes for mom and opened the other presents. Eugene won his first chess game, beating pop. A Conference of Progressives opened in Chicago sponsored by the NCPAC, ICCASP, and the CIOPAC to Elect a FDR Congress. Russia again asked a joint Dardanelles defense. The Compromise "French" line border between Italy and Yugoslavia was adopted in Paris.

I can place almost all the people at the party in the family tree. The spelling of "Adeen" surprised me, as I had "Edeen" in the tree, now corrected. but "Izzy Goode and Rose, Harry and Molly & Lilly" are not really known. My grandfather had sisters Molly and Rose, but Izzy Goode and Harry and Lilly don't seem to fit.

9/30 Sylvia and Barbara got along beautifully at the party as they are both quiet and unaggressive. The Soviet chess team again beat the American team 12 1/2-7 1/2 in Moscow. The Cards and Dodgers wound up in an exact tie for the first time in Major League baseball when they both lost on the final day of the season. Each has 96-58. There is a popular clamor for nationalization of the meat industry.

10/1 When the kids are ready for their milk at meal-time, they say "petty por py pilk". Sylvia loves to drag her doll carriage up the stairs like a real carriage even though she works so hard at it. "The Conference of Progressives" just closed in Chicago is considered epoch-making. Among the participants were Ickes, Morgenthau, Murray, Patton, White, Pepper, Kroll [?] and Benson. Chicago AFL head Fitzpatrick is dead. Buddy Kerr, Giant shortstop broke two Major League records finishing the season with an unbroken string of 52 successive errorless games and 274 chances. F.B.I. chief Hoover called for deprivation of civil liberties for Communists.

10/2 Eugene and Gloria are always quarreling and making up. Lillian has to scold Sylvia for stuffing her carriage full of things. She says her baby needs toys to play with. Sylvia won't work when she grows up because her husband will work. She won't work before she's married either because who will take care of her children. The Nuernberg tribunal sentenced Goering, Von Ribbentrop, Streicher, Von Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Sauckel, Jodl, Seyss-Inquart, and Bormann (in absentia) to die by hanging. Hess, Raeder, and Funk get life sentences. Von Schirach and Speer got 20 years, Von Neurath - 15 years and Doenitz - 10 years. Schacht, Von Papen and Fritsche were acquitted. The Soviet judge dissented from the acquittals and leniency for Hess. The Hitler cabinet, General staff and High Command were also exonerated of criminal guilt. Milk, freed of controls had gone up another cent. C.I.O. Marine engineers and West Coast longshoremen and AFL Captains and Mates struck in united action. The C.P. is fighting an effort to remove it from the N.Y. State ballot.

10/3 Split with Mencher. The Army has asked 5,000,000 men and a year of military training. President McGrath is out of the CIO shoe union after redbaiting the other leaders.

10/4 Movie set makers are again on a jurisdictional strike involving the usual Hollywood violence. Two AFL unions are involved. Yesterday Lillian took the kids over to mom's bringing home the nice new doll carriage Ma got for Sylvia's birthday. Sylvia clings to it like a leech. She took her two babies Helen and Eleanor out in the carriage today. Beat Mencher. We had a session with Eugene tonight about his breaking into tears at the slightest pretext. Baruch and Wallace are quarreling about the former's atomic energy plan. Reconversion director Steelman warned of a depression resulting from rising prices. Millions of pounds of meat are being discovered in caches as virtually no meat is available in stores in the drive to do away with the O.P.A. Teachers are demonstrating for a $1000 raise. The Cards defeated the Dodgers two straight in a playoff for the N.L. pennant. Stan Musial led the N.L. batters with .365 Mickey Vernon led the A.L. .353. At the Tenn. trial Vincent Sheean of the H.T. was cursed and threatened by highway police chief Bomar with the condonement of Judge Ingram.Lillian sat tonight. Eugene drew "A Week With Andy" by Pitman and Dearborn, "Hoot-Owl" by M.G. LaRue and "Davy and the Goblin" by C.E. Carryl.


10/5 Went to Molly's for dinner today. The kids behaved well, Eugene reading and Sylvia playing around. 23 Negroes in the Tenn. trial are free but two face prison sentences of 21 years which will be appealed. Truman again asked for Jewish immigration to Palestine. Block who led the redbaiting drive against the U.E. leadership lost his own district presidency. At night we saw "A Stolen Life" with Bette Davis, Glenn Ford & Dane Clark and "Sunrise Pass".  Sir James Jeans, Barney Oldfield and Gifford Pinchot are dead.

Interestingly, I can't find a movie called "Sunrise Pass", but there's a 1946 movie called "Sunset Pass"! Looks like an error, and the movie probably didn't impress Dad much (he didn't even list the stars, as he usually did).