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8/3 Sunday We watched the St. James Tournament matches all day while the kids played in the playground. Eugene played checkers with the kids there most of the day while Sylvia went on the sliding pond and swings. At night I beat Eugene a tough chess game and an easy one.

8/4 In the morning to get balls, the kids seeing four trains and three ferry boats. They were also delighted with some stubs for the Windsor and silver pennies. Another Negro charged with rape has been killed lynched  in Miss. Dutch authorities complied with UN orders by ordering 'cease fire' in Indonesia. Anti-Semitic mobs in Liverpool stimulated by the Palestine issue fought police in rioting. Ike Williams won the worlds lightweight title KO'ing Bob Montgomery in 6.

8/5 Beat Weckworth while Eugene played chess in the playground and Sylvia got tar over herself on the sliding ponds and see-saws. Bought a set of jacks for Sylvia. Lillian and kids went to Orchard Beach with Len and Helen Davis in their car. Elliot Roosevelt testifying in the war aviation investigation against How charged an attempted smear against F.D.R. Howard Hughes, plane manufacturer and millionaire is under attack by Republicans. Bookies are under attack in a police drive to clean up the city.

Don't remember the Davises. 

8/6 Eugene drew "Paul Bunyan" by E. Shephard, "How Old Stormalong Captured Mocha Dick" by Irwin Shapiro, "The Chisel-Tooth Tribe" by W. S. Bronson and Sylvia chose "Trucks at Work" by Mary Elting. In the afternoon with Sam & Molly to Woodlawn where we picked berries. I beat Eugene a rapid transit game. We also had supper there. At night with Sam and Molly to see "Deep Are The Roots" at the Windsor. "The Negro in the South" with optimism expressed at the end. Prime Minister Attlee asked wartime powers to check the growing crisis in England. A North Car. jury refused to indict seven white men charging [sic] with attempting to lynch a rape suspect but also failed to indict Godwin Bush charged with the crime. License Comm. Fielding resigned as an officer of the A.L.P. but remained as a member after censure for supporting an 8¢ fare. Marcantonio's bill to allow alien seamen to ship out was signed by Truman. Some Negroes voted in the Miss. primary although they had to swear to oppose anti-lynch, polltax and F.E.P.C. legislation.

8/7 Eugene played chess all morning then I lost a game to him. Sylvia built a house of blocks. Lillian went to the "Oval" pool to meet Sadie and the kids. Evictions are growing.

8/8 Beat Mencher. Eugene's favorite is shooting with a 'gun' finger or anything at all. Sylvia's stubbornness cannot be broken down by anything short of violence. A general strike has started in Palestine protesting arrest of Jewish mayors.

8/9 A delight for the kids is to have a penny each to put in a nut machine. After Walton this morning Eugene grabbed his comic books and Sylvia the toy typewriter which was out of order however. Lillian and the kids went to Orchard Beach again with the Davises. High C.P. leaders testified in the Eisler trial. They denied there is an "affiliation" to the C.P. One is or is not a member.