Oct 24 1950 Korean regular resistance ended as the Northerners fled to the Manchurian border. 120,000 prisoners have been taken. The F.B.I. rounded up thirty top alien Communists. Australia raided C.P. headquarters. Truman appointed the five members of the "Subversive Activities Control Board". A big "bookie" was arrested and $127,000 found in his safe. Henry Stimson is dead at 80 and Al Jolson at 64.
Oct 25 A large NoKorean force was reported coming towards onrushing SoKorean troops. Allied planes drew Chinese Anti-aircraft fire from across the Yalu. An A.L.P. rally at the Garden mustered 15,000 people. Among the speakers were Dr. DuBois, Robeson, Marcantonio, Paul Ross, McManus. Lil got a rug for the childrens room at Imporia, $20.
Oct 26 Stayed home from work today. Lil went downtown and bought a hat for herself at Gimbels. She also got some vitamins at Foods Plus and saw the Olson rugs. The U.S. announced it will veto anyone but Lie for Sec'y Gen'l of the UN. 222 "hoodlums" have been rounded up on orders of Acting Mayor Impelliteri in a pre-election maneuver. No prominent names in the underworld have been detained.
Oct 27 India made a stirring appeal at the UN for a cut in arms with the money to be used to feed the hungry. Austin called signers of the Stockholm Peace Appeal traitors to their country. 24 more "hoodlums" were nabbed at the Jamaica racetrack. Two Mayo clinic doctors, Kendall and Hench and a Swiss professor Dr Reichstein won Nobel prizes in Medicine for their work in hormones for arthritis victims. Justice Koch overrode the Police Dept and ordered a permit for a free speech rally in Union Square. Phil Rizzuto won the American League Most Valuable player award.
Oct 28 The kids had a Halloween party here this afternoon. There were present Arline D., Norma G., Cookie, Betty-Ann, Kathie, Derry, Bobby, Danny. Eugene and Bobby thought they were too big for the party and acted rather wild. They ended up playing the baseball game. Lillian ended the party by playing the piano while all sang. Eugene made Sylvia a ring and necklace of beads spending a good deal of time at it. She gave him a kiss which delighted him. NoKorean resistance stiffened but the Allies continued to gain. A movement got under way in the U.N. for recognition of Franco. This was led by the Latin and Arab countries. Milk rose for the fifth time since June.
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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