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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
4
International correspondent Charan Kanoa reports on a cellar stash of 4000 residents remaining in Ai s after American occupation. Few evacuees, including the Haroans family, traveled by bus while others stayed, exposing a once luxurious colonial town tied to sugar interests.
An ad promotes MU COL and ME-COL foot baths for tired feet with a cooling bath to ease burning discomfort. It claims doctors and nurses endorse the hygienic powders for use at home and in hospital settings and notes availability at local drugstores.
A wartime field report describes a Japanese town scarred by bombardment. War-damaged clubhouses feature billiard tables, china and silver, a large kitchen, and scattered ruins including a sugar refinery and railroad yard. Civilians and animals like cattle chickens and rabbits endure the aftermath.
A roundup of visits and homecomings across Round Lake Schaghticoke and Malta includes Burr D Vailars vacationing at Lake St Catherine and Charles B Tyche purchasing a cottage on Wesley Avenue. The Baker family reunion drew Mrs Ray Baker of White Plains, and discussions note Mrs Ruggles purchasing the late Howard Ave Jam s home after a prior fire loss. An Malta Grange picnic is planned with a 6 30 p m supper and self service.
Center Cambridge Mrs Katherine Wright receives treatment at Albany Hospital. Miss Lillian Campbell returns from Johnsonville on a two week vacation. Miss Powers of New York visits her parents Mr and Mrs Leon Powers. Mr and Mrs J J Berry of New York spend weekend with Mr and Mrs Ambrose Kelly. Charles Shaffter of Akron guest of Mr and Mrs Howard F Dodds and Belva. Mrs Henry L Joyce of New York visits cousins Miss Nellie Guidon and John and Eugene Guidon. Mrs George Brenenstun and daughter Irene visit from Johnsonville. Mrs Ernest Nelson and children of Salem spend Sunday with Mr and Mrs Darwin Townsend. Elizabeth Conway spends last week with uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Daniel Delury at Pittstown. Veronica Jean Austin returns after visiting uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Walter Francisco at Snyders Corners. Mr and Mrs Albert Burgess and son Albert Jr of Schenectady were weekend guests of Dr and Mrs Charles B Clark and son Charles Jr. Mr and Mrs Robert Hamilton attend golden wedding anniversary of Mr Hamiltons grandparents Mr and Mrs Velgon Royal at Granville Sunday. Joseph Rhinefort of the War Department?
Johnsonville residents Ernest Harris and his wife return to Brooklyn after visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor and family. Geraldine Barton of Brooklyn State Hospital takes a two month vacation with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Barton. Oprah Herrington hosts Elmer Guile and Floyd Shorter of Stillwater as guests. Mrs. George Scat, former Woods Hole visitor, stops with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Welling before heading back to Oberlin O. Mrs. Scott arrives with sister Mrs. Donald Daver from Brooklyn.
President Roosevelt told Congress lend-lease aid to Allies totaled 21.5 billion by July 1 and should continue until Japan and Germany surrender. He cited the program as essential to rapid victory, noting costs remain a small share of U.S. war spending and listing top recipients including Great Britain and the USSR.
The president reiterates that lend-lease is not the sole strategy as Allied support reaches about 3 billion dollars in reverse aid. He notes more must be done to aid occupied lands and suffering peoples amid reports that U S lend-lease totals for the three months ending June 30 reached 4.0 billion, slightly under the prior quarter’s 4.73 billion since the program’s start.
An incomplete 1941 budget fragment notes costs around four dollars per unit and event charges near twenty one dollars, with mentions of percentages related to food and services. The text is garbled and lacks clear entities or context.
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