6/8-6/14/52

June 8 Sunday Mom and pop took us out to Mary and Hy in Bayside today. There we saw their kids Linda and Stewart. Also Pauline and her daughter Shirley with her husband Marty and son George. Also Pauline's son Melvin, six years old and quite wild and runs rampant with his three year old nephew George. Mac, Anne, Blume and Abe and Lil & Harry also came. Stewart and Eugene played ball. The big girls Linda, Sylvia and Barbara had a grand time, playing school, going out to buy souvenirs, etc. Susan found them later. There was a card game to end the evening.

June 9 $100,000 worth of jewels stolen from a Brooklyn shrine were returned by Spec. Del mail today.

June 10 Eugene went out on a boat ride with the school but came home early when a serious accident was narrowly averted. As it was, two people including a teacher were seriously hurt and a couple of schoolboys slightly hurt. Eugene and his friend Larry were not hurt. A G.I. and 24 PWs were killled and many wounded in the attempt to cut up the large compound into several small units.

The boat ride incident was a Circle Line boat trying to travel by land instead of water. We were seated on the side of the boat, looking out at the water with the trip around Manhattan about to start, when we noticed that the boat seemed to be heading toward shore, instead of away from it. All of a sudden, we were no longer seated, but were on the deck. As Dad says, we were not hurt, but I later saw this in an article listed as one of the two worst accidents in the history of the Circle Line. The two kids quoted in the story scanned in below were classmates at Creston JrHS, but I don't remember knowing they were in the NYT, and I wasn't a close friend of either. 

June 11 Katherine Brush is dead at 49 and Adolph Busch at 60.

June 12 A G.I. who criticized Gen Clark for his handling of the Koje Island situation was ordered court-martialed. Rev. Eliot White [?] was refused treatment by his surgeon when he discovered he was a Communist. Former cop Stanley LaBensky, who murdered two Negros in front of a Yonkers saloon was acquitted by a jury.

June 13 Voice of America broadcasts were banned by Rhee in Korea. Cardinal Faulhaber is dead at 83.

June 14 We celebrated Fathers Day today at mothers house. Lil Harry Rachel Mayer & David also were there. We gave pop a bottle of whiskey. Eugene had left early this morning for his annual over night camping trip at Alpine with 15 boys. The two girls spent most of the time downstairs.