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5/30 Sunday To Mothers after lunch, Lillian and Susan there Harry having gone fishing. The kids played hide and seek. Att'y Gen'l Clark named 32 more "subversive" organizations.

5/31 In the morning took the kids to the parade. After lunch, Frieda K over. Sylvia was talkative and showed off all day. Czech elections saw the gov't parties get heavy majorities. Wallace testified strongly against the Mundt Bill. Others included A O Kahn, Fraenkel, T. I. Emerson, D. Scribner, Marcantonio, Hines, Kenny, Kent. The Gallins' returned and reclaimed the turtle and plant we have been taking care of for them.

6/1 Sylvia palled around with her friend Norma in the yard. Eugene takes his green medicine for his cough very well when he gets soda with it. A great flood in Oregon has caused $75,000,000 damage and countless lives. Imbrie, Guinier, Rogge, Kehoe and Robeson testified against the Mundt Bill. The latter two refused to tell their political affiliation.

6/2 Eugene stayed out of school with a slight fever. He said his head hurt him. His temp. dropped to normal after some aspirin ... but he stayed in bed. Free Greece charged the Royalist police killed Polk. Stachel was arrested for deportation. Jews and Arabs accepted a UN truce plan.

6/3 Eugene was ready to go to school ... He had 100.5 so back into bed he went. Dr. Holzman prescribed rhubarb and soda by phone. At night he had 99.8. Sylvia got a pair of sandals $5. (red) Beat Levy. Thousands picketed the White House against the Mundt Bill. Count Bernadotte mediator in the Palestine war announced Arabs and Jews had accepted truce terms. Prio Socarras was elected President of Cuba with 778,994 votes. C.P. candidate Marinello got 129,488. Seven Nazi doctors were hanged for medical atrocities. The C.I.O. is issuing NAM propaganda and a C.I.O. shipbuilding local has affiliated with a Chamber of Commerce unit.

6/4 Lost to Pikulin. Eugene seemed all right and walked around but had over 100° temp. He played school with Sylvia and Norma teaching them some spelling. Lillian took Eugene down in the afternoon as the weather turned nice. Upon returning he complained of nausea ... His temperature reached 102 and he had a chill. The Paraguayan army deposed dictator Morinigo. C.P. leader Mensh was fined $100 for distributing leaflets in Ala. The British banned Jewish immigration into Israel during the truce. Lillian read East Side, West Side M. Davenport.

6/5 Dr. Holzman came this morning. Although Eugene had no temp. he said he had caught a cold on top of his allergy. Eugene has a watery post-nasal drip which is very suggestive of an allergy. Eugene is to stay in bed, gargle with Lavoris, have a mustard plaster twice a day, get benzoin inhalations, a physic today and sulfa in liquid form. He gets his regular diet except meat. Sylvia gave her version of a courtship. If she meets a nice man she'll say "You look like a darling, let's get married. The morning after a marriage, the wife feels something in her belly, then the doctor helps the baby come out". Lillian got Sylvia a sand strainer. Eugene seemed a little jealous so I got him a miniature pin ball game. I drew for Eugene "Yankee Thunder" by Irwin Shapiro, the story of Davy Crockett. "Heidi" by J. Spyri "Pigeon Post" by A. Ransome and for Sylvia "The Park Book" by C. Zolotow. Ohio barred the third party from the ballot as a "subversive organization". Truman opposed the Mundt Bill in a speech asking for social legislation to wipe out Communism. The C.I.O. Dep't Store Union expelled three oppositionists as disrupters. Woodruff Randolph won re-election as the I.T.U President by 9000 votes.