6/20-6/26/48

6/20 Sunday Pop and I both got shirts and ties this Fathers' Day. After lunch we went to Coney Island. We had pop corn, pizza, hot corn, frankfurters, custard, grape drinks, french fried, jelly apples. In the Hebrew National, Lillian had a corned beef sandwich and tea I had pastrami sandwich and beer, Eugene a hot dog on roll and soda Sylvia fried egg sandwich and soda. We tried several games in the penny arcade.The kids went on auto, whip and merry go round rides. We all went on the scooter. Then the kids went on one themselves. We all went in Fellman's [?] miniature locomotive. The kids went fishing for two fishes. I threw baseballs at dolls getting them all off on the second try to win some candy chews. Eugene failed at this but won a lei for Sylvia. Sylvia went home with a cat balloon and Eugene with a slight stomach ache.

A Fathers' Day card that Sylvia and I obviously made was pasted in over this entry and is scanned in below. 

6/21 ... During the truce UN guards will police Jewish convoys and internment camps. Jackie Kramer won the National Professional championship over Bobby Riggs 14-12,6-2,3-6,6-3. Kovacs and Budge were semi-finalists.

6/22 Lillian noticed a rash on Sylvia about 4 o'clock yesterday. She took her up and put her to bed. She had 100.8. Her temp went to normal so she took her to Dr. Holzman at noon today. Dr. Holzman said it was German measles. Sylvia is to stay in bed till Sunday. The Republican convention opened in Phila. with speakers naming the 1948 issue as Republicanism vs. Communism! Chief presidential aspirants are Dewey, Stassen, Taft. Lesser lights are Martin and Vandenberg. The Supreme Court dismissed an indictment against Murray for urging the election of a congressional candidate in a C.I.O. newspaper. This had been termed a violation of the Taft Hartley law. The Russians barred the new Allied currency in their zone in Germany. The UAW rejected Ford's 11¢ raise offer. The Amalgamated left the City C.I.O. Council. Hukbalahops received unconditional amnesty in the Philippines under new President Quirino. Read "Wuthering Heights".

6/23 Sylvia is fine but in bed. Her rash is disappearing. She has to gargle with salt water doing fairly well at it. Eugene has to sleep with me. He always complains when he has to leave his bed. Played first game of chess with him in weeks, and he won. Civil war started between Haganah and Irgun. The Greek gov't offensive against the guerrillas in the mountains has been beaten back. The City Council recommended ousting of Anti-Semitic Prof. Knickerbocker of C.C.N.Y. The TWU left the City C.I.O. "P.M." changed its name to the N.Y. Star.

6/24 Sylvia was terrified of a fly in her room at lunch time and her meal was almost disrupted. Eugene's "allergy" seems all gone except an occasional stomach complaint. A writ under the T.H. law banned a sea strike for 80 days. Eastern European diplomats are holding an important meeting on plans for Eastern Germany. Two Israel cabinet ministers resigned due to the civil war.

6/25 Eugene wore short pants in the sudden heat. ... Dewey won the Republican nomination unanimously on the 3rd after being 33 votes short on the second. Taft had been second, Stassen third. Tom Buchanan, fired from the Washington Evening Star for being a C.P. member failed to get support from the Washington Guild in a referendum 251-163. A NLRB examiner barred the hiring hall for seamen in the Great Lakes section as illegal under the T.H. law. Right wingers are trying to install a rump council here to replace the left wing City C.I.O. The Board of Ed. banned "The Nation" unanimously for an "Anti-Catholic" article. Prof. Lyman Bradley of the J.A.F.R.C. about to go to jail for fighting Franco was fired from N.Y.U.

6/26 Eugene drew "Paul Bunyan Marches On" by I.V. Turney, "Hungarian Fairy Book" by Pogany "When I Grow Up I'll Be A Farmer" and for Sylvia "Down Huckleberry Hill" by L. Weisgard. Sylvia played and walked around a bit. Eugene got a book "Fiesta Colt" by Martha Farwell for "excellent character" in Sunday School. Calif Gov. Earl Warren was named Dewey's running mate. The Eastern European parley asked for a united Germany. Heavyweight champ Joe Louis retained his title by knocking out Joe Walcott in the 11th round before 45000 in the Yankee Stadium. He kept his record of having Ko'd every man he was fought a second time.