3550 Died in Kharkov Under German Rule
Soviet agency Tass said 8500 people died in Kharkov between March and June under German occupation. At least 2000 were children and typhus and dysentery epidemics filled the morgues with 20 to 25 bodies daily. Germans destroyed bath houses and medical supplies were taken away, leaving medicine inaccessible.
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New York
Tass
Kharkov
I City
Moscow
U.S
Foreign Broadcast Inteligence Service
War losses hit Cohoes area as two soldiers die or hurt
Lieut H Donald Hudson of Watervliet dies in Dayton Ohio from injuries after a Saturday plane crash near Wright Field. Private Harry W Bettinger of Cohoes killed in action in the South Pacific on August 3. Wounded are Pfc Kenneth G Quantock of Lansingburg and Staff Sgt Russell Sutton Jr of Coxsackie. Hudson married Dorothea Hughes. Bettinger, 20, was son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bettinger of Cohoes.
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Lieut
Hudson
Cohoes
H. Donald Hudson
Henry J. Hudson
Twelfth Avenue
Waterview
Dayton
War Department
Henry Bettinger
Remsen Street
Cohees
Harry W. Bettinger
Miami Valley
Wright Field
Fie
South Pacific
Buna
Rettinger
South Pacific War Zone
Kenneth G. Quantock
Lansingburg
George Quantock
Hoansick Falls
Sergi
Russell Sutton, Jr
Marietta Peters
Stop 37
Troy- Schenectady Road
Dorothea Hughes
Henry J. Hughes
Third Avenue, Watervliet
Rs. Hughes
Watervliet
Sacred Heart School
Catholic Central High School
Union College
Troy
Australian
New Guinea
Hughes
Australia
Pearl Harbor
St. Patrick's Church
Kvata Bettinger
St. Bernard's Church
SK Keaveny Memorial Academy
Iiveters
Wiliam Wnforth Cohnoes
John Jeram
Newtonville
Theresa Gleason
Mary
Eleanor Rettini
Cohnes
Matthew
Delyn Rettinger
Y Cohoes
Ger
Quantock
Lansing
Heburg High
Co Tech
Ray Quantock
Sergeant Sutton
England
Russell Sutton
Coxsackie
Work Begins Drafting County Budget
Rensselaer County departments have started preparing their budgets for the next fiscal year after a request for department estimates by September 7. The budget committee will meet with department heads through September, chaired by LeRoy Nible with John Finch Eugene Lyons Avery Hail and H. Kenneth Henderson. The budget must be presented to the Board of Supervisors by October 1, followed by a public hearing on ten days notice, and must be acted on ten days before November 1.
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Rensselaer County
LeRoy Nible
Board of Supervisors
John &. Finch
Eugene H. Lyons
Avery G Hail
H. Kenneth Henderson
Engagement of Elizabeth Delorme to Stephen Philipps
Mrs. Arthur Delorme announces the engagement of Elizabeth Delorme to Stephen Philipps of Poultney. Also noted, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoffman and sons Jackie and Bobby returned from Boston after spending a week with relatives. Pfc Edward Lloyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Llewelyn Lloyd, transferred to Army Air Corps at Fort Lewis, previously a Delaware & Hudson trainman. Pvt Leo Mulholland recovering from malaria in North Africa after prior service in England. Pvt Francis Lewis of the Ordnance Training Detachment Aberdeen Proving Grounds returned from a seven day furlough and learned of a transfer to a California post.
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Arthur Delorme
Elizabeth
Stephen Philipps
Poultney
Arthur Hoffman
Jackie
Bobby
Boston
Pfc
Edward Lloyd
Llewelyn Lloyd
Army Air Corps
Fort Lewis
Washington, D. C
Delaware & Hudson
John Mulholland
Leo Mulholland
North Africa
England
Pvt
Francis Lewis
Ordnance Training Detachment
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
California
War parallels farm life in Bonham sergeant’s letter
Bonham Texas sergeant Floyd Whisenhunt explains to his mother that wartime combat feels like a big rat hunt on the farm because the rats shoot back, illustrating the rough comparison in a brief UP dispatch from Bonham.
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Bonham, Tex
Sergt
Floyd Whisenhunt
Defreestville Church News and Local Notices
Communion service in the Defreestville church at 11 a m Sunday. Henry Dings stationed at Camp Dix N J after enlisting in the Air Corp. Dings family entertains friends in camp at Burden Lake. Henry Hendricks discharged from Army. El Nemory of South Carolina visiting Mr and Mrs Fred Sager and Miss Plath. Prayer service at Hackle home at 8 p m. Junior picnic at church grounds tomorrow 3 30 p m. Marriage of Phyllis Bowen and Kurt Temple set for Saturday at 3 p m in Slooming Grove Church. Mrs John Mourey of Best Road died in Albany Hospital buried in Providence R I. Mr and Mrs Morehouse returned from Romney. services resumed at Blooming Grove Church Sunday. Ladies Aid meets Today at 2 30 p m with Mrs Marion Gardner hostess. dollar trees to be handed in. Women invited to Rensselaer Federation of Protestant Women meeting at Blooming Grove Church Friday 2 30 p m. Rev Wilbur T Clements to speak on The Migrants.
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Henry Dings
Air Corp
Camp Dix
N. J
Robert
Joan
Metba Dings
Burden Lake
Henry Hendricks
el Nemory
South Carolina
Fred Sager
Miss Plath
Hackle
Phyllis Bowen
Samuel Bowen
Couse
Kurt Temple
Slooming Grove
John Mourey
Best Road
Albany
Providence
R. I
Rensselaer Federation of Protestant Women
Blooming Grove
Wilbur T. Clements
Boyd confined after leg injury near Wynantskill
David F. Boyd will remain in bed for several weeks due to a leg injury from horseback riding near his Wynantskill home on Thursday evening.
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David F. Boyd
Orseback
Drum Corps Contests Set At Chatham Fair
The Chatham Fair headlines a Sunday program with juvenile drum corps and band contests. Four drum corps and two bands have filed entries, with expectations for many more before closing. Roeliff Jansen and Roesslerville Central Schools will send bands. Drum corps include Blanchard Post American Legion, at Delmar Capital City Drum Corps Albany.
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Chatham Fair
Robert A. Leslie
Roeliff Jansen
Roesslerville Central
Blanchard Post
American Legion
Delmar
Capital City
Albany
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Peterman
Bkc
S. Peterman
Lieutenant Hudson
Lieut. H. Donald Hudson
Harry W. Rettinger
Regular
Sunkist
Fifth Avenue
Second Street
Vfhitehall
Dymitri Mitropoulos
Minneapolis Symphony
RED Cross
By Paul Ford
Speer
Wendell Willkie
Nou
Wynantskill
Stroock
Victory
Albany Lancers
Chatham
Zem
Coats
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