5/18-5/24/47

5/18 Sunday We went out for a walk Eugene as usual complaining he wa tired. In the house Sylvia played with Arlene D. Played chess with Eugene he pulling a mate after falling behind. The kids played tiddledy-winks and Eugene built a hoist with his set.

5/19 Left Sylvia in school and left. When I came back I found she had been crying all the time. Said it was because I hadn't told her I was leaving. Dictator Trujillo was re-elected in the Dominican Republic. Hal Chase is dead at 64. Lillian read O'Brien best of '48.

It looks like "'48", don't understand what it refers to. 

5/20 Sylvia can almost sense our "loving houses" and rushes to join them immediately. Eugene complained his whole class was going to be "kept in" on account of one boy. Eugene drew Baldwin's "Fairy Stories and Fables" "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins" by Dr. Seuss "True Monkey Stories" by F.M. Fox and "The Jolly Tailor" by Borski & Miller (Polish Fairy Tales). Three were freed in the lynch trial and seven had murder charges dropped. LaGuardia's sabotage squad had 28 cops working in the C.P. it is claimed. This was in '39. Togliatti is challenging charges of getting gold from Moscow and turning Socialists over to the fascists. Visited Hy & Milly N. spending a pleasant evening. Lost a chess game there after leading all the way. A report was released showing a potential germ warfare far worse than the atom bomb! 38 diseases can be disseminated by air.

5/21 Sylvia has been busy cutting paper dolls and dressing them since Lilly got her a book yesterday. Gloria S. came in to ask Lillian to do her hair since her mother was not home. Eugene told me he didn't want to walk back to school with her because she didn't like him. However she asked him to do so. Director of Airports Haslett and Deputy Comm. Brody have been suspended or ousted in illegal activities. Two were killed as 6000 Chinese students demonstrated for an end to the Civil war. Germans are starving but huge black market hoards are being uncovered. Prosecutor Watt made an impassioned plea for death penalties for 28 white men on trial for lynching a Negro.

5/22 Sylvia propounded the question - If there are two babies and all the people die who will take care of the babies? Several families on relief have been sheltered in hotels due to the lack of living quarters at a high cost it is disclosed. The "House" voted 350 million for foreign relief. All 28 lynchers were acquitted in a case which was great progress in the South. However Jim-Crow was observed in the court-room and many racial and provocative statements were made by the defense. Lillian went to Bklyn to get some sewing machine attachments and came home with several small things she had picked up.

5/23 Eugene and Sylvia together again. When Sylvia went to the zoo with Molly, she complained Molly ate more pop-corn than she did. Chinese Communists are surrounding the Manchurian capital of Changchun.

5/24 When Sylvia insisted on keeping a glass of water all during a meal she was sent out of the room. Soon she came running back saying "What do I need your water, I got a drink in the bathroom". Eugene was supposed to bring 12¢ to school but has failed to turn it in several days. He says Mrs Dwyer told him to put his hand down when he raised it. A N. Car. mob has kidnapped a Negro from jail. The UN Balkan Comm. supported Greece as against Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania in the Balkan dispute 9-2. Russia and Poland were in the minority. Read Shirley Graham's "There Once was a Slave". Stirring biography of Frederick Douglas in novelized form.