June 11 Sunday Lil got Eugene sneakers and shoes yesterday. Also Sylvia shoes and herself play shoes. Today we went out to Woodlawn with Jimmy Roseman [?] in his car. There I lost to him and Walter Waldman. We went to the spring where the kids drank from my hands - Eleanor Lebost [?] included. Lil & Sylvia Cooke were also with us. Eugene and I played softball. We batted to each other, the fielder had to make 10 perfect fielding plays before he made 10 errors in order to get up. Eugene was able get up regularly after the first few times.
June 12 Einstein, Bromfield and fourteen other distinguished men accused the UN of hypocrisy in its armament stand. The Japanese purge continued as it reached the Universities. The Nat'l Conference of Christians and Jews sponsored a new world group to fight for brotherhood and against intolerance. While socialist countries were barred, groups within those countries were eligible.
June 13 Sylvia asked for a nickel for candy as the girls are all buying candy and exchanging. Eugene wrote a composition on Sylvia on which he got a high B+ enabling him to enter the city wide fire prevention contest. The Amerasia magazine case was reopened with hearings before a grand jury after weeks of provocations by the World Telegram. The Senate voted to extend rent control to Jan. 1, 1951. In the Amerasia case, former editor Philip Jaffe refused to answer questions on grounds he might incriminate himself. The USSR Supreme Soviet met with peace the keynote. Japanese police raided more C.P. centers. British labor turned down a plan for a super gov't to manage a pool of Europe's coal and steel.
June 14 Acheson charged Russia is using its armed might and Communist plotting to intimidate other countries but that war is not inevitable. The "House" voted rent control until Jan. 31, 1951. Sylvia goes to the table with dirty hands inevitably. She must be sent to wash them twice.
June 15 Tante Rose died yesterday and we went to the funeral today. It was at Schwarz's parlor on 2 ND and 9th st. The burial was at Mt. Zion Cemetery. Then we went to Faith's apartment where I met Carla, Joyce and Sonny. Hymie flew in on time from the West. The doctor did not attend. Harry Goode came to the chapel. Uncle Abe & Tante Blume were here but the Kasens are in Poughkeepsie for the Bar Mitzvah. They are not well and were not notified. Uncle Abe is in the W.C. Sanatorium in Liberty. The Mexican head of UNESCO J.T. Bodet resigned with a blast at its failure to fight for peace. The U.S. filed a brief signed by the leading gov't lawmakers slamming authority to jail Communists without need to prove "clear and present danger".
June 16 The F.B.I. arrested A.D. Slack a 44 year old chemist on espionage charges as an accomplice of Harry Gold. The Peruvian revolt was put down by troops with 40 dead. Sabotage was sought in the two French air wrecks which killed 85. A grand jury cleared all gov't agencies that handled the Amerasia case several years ago but called for a renewed "Red hunt". The C.I.O. voted to expel the left wing fur and Communications unions. Chiang ousted his brothers-in-law T.V. Soong,TL Soong and Dr HH Kung from the board of directors of the Central Bank of China.
June 17 Lillian read "Prelude to Night" - Dayton Stoddart "The Harder They Fall - Budd Schulberg and Gallico's "Confessions of a Short Story Writer". Eugene drew "Told Under the Green Umbrella", "Told Under the Magic Umbrella", both short stories selected by special committees. "Heart of Danger" - H. Pease and "The Davenports & Cherry Pie", Alice Dalgliesh. Sylvia drew "Enjoying Our Land" M.G. Bush, "In Storm & Sunshine" - Buckley, White, Adams & Silvernale and "13 Danish Tales" M.C. Hatch. Lillian had a bad backache yesterday and all night. Apparently it was muscular. She used sloans liniment and several aspirins. She got up early in the morning in agony and went to sleep on the sofa. She felt better in the morning. We went over to Mom's bringing a tie clasp for Pop for father's day. Also some roses for Mom. Rachel Mayer & David were also there. We had a nice supper of gefilte fish, kugel, etc. Dave Greenglass a 28 year old vet was arrested on a charge of conspiring to pass atomic secrets to Russia. Averill Harriman was named chief foreign adviser to Truman. A Federal Court deprived Bridges of his citizenship following his perjury conviction. The special Westchester grand jury investigating the Peekskill riots whitewashed the storm troopers after eight months of probing. The riot was called a proving ground for the C.P.'s strong arm force. "Hoodlum elements" and misguided patriots were incited by the provocations of the concertgoers. Two indictments were handed, one from each side.
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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