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June 22 Sunday The kids played monopoly on a rainy day. They spend hours playing this game. I played Eugene a chess game and checkers game.

June 23 J.W. Wadsworth is dead at 74.

June 24 In a drive against fire traps the Fire Dept. closed the 59 year old Montague Hotel in Brooklyn. The UN opened a "get tough" policy with a raid on the Yalu River power installations, an offensive on the Western front and resumption of screening of POWs.

June 25 The UN again bombed the Yalu power installations as British Labor MPs objected. "Impy" named six close associates to investigate slum fires. The Cicero cops who permitted the riot against Negro Henry Clark and his family received fines but no prison sentences.

June 26 It was the hottest June 25 ever - 96.5. Truman vetoed the McCarran immigration bill which would bring racism into our immigration policy, calling it infamous. Anti-American riots swept Japan on the Anniversary of the Korean war. Ray Robinson after licking L.H. champ Joe Maxim for 13 rounds was unable to answer the bell for the 14th round. He could have been the third man in ring history to have held titles in three divisions. The terrific heat was responsible for the outcome. Referee Ray Miller had to replace Ruby Goldstein in the 10th. 

June 27 The heat broke another record - the hottest June 26 ever 96.8. Sylvia had trouble sleeping and moaned thru part of the night morning. All of our kids have now been moved near the windows. The "House" voted to kill price and rent controls but keep wage controls. It also over-rode Trumans veto of the McCarran immigration bill. Mass arrests marked the opening of the nation-wide passive resistance campaign against South African segregation laws. We both read "The Doctors Jacobi" by Rhoda Truax. Lillian read "Knock on any Door" - Mottley [sic]. 

June 28 I lost to Mencher at St James as the kids played nok-hockey in the play ground. The Senate also over-rode the President's veto making the McCarran bill a law. Lillian and the kids went to the Grand to see "The Marrying Kind" with Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday - trials and tribulations of a young couple which they all liked and "Boots Malone". Elmo Lincoln is dead at 63.