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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1941
Page
5
Reino R Grondahl former local resident and Harvard Andover alum receives Army training assignment. Noted as a versatile athlete from St Johns and the Middlebury area with basketball skills and wide local friendships.
Deposit book number appears lost. Payment details reference Massachusetts details including Lav J. W. Ballou as Assistant Treasurer. Entries dated October 29 November 5 and 12, 1941.
Bank Book No. 12662 is cited with an application for a duplicate bank book. The notice references Sidney B. McCleary, treasurer, Mass., dated 29, 1941, indicating an official action regarding the duplicate book submission.
A fragment notes a deposit book loss tied to the Payment files at the Institution for Law. W Ballou, Assistant Mass JH, 1941. The record references the missing deposit book and the associated administrative context.
Maynard high girls hockey tied Weston 3-3 at Crowe Park as Bolton scored twice and Enholm added a final tally for Maynard. Weston countered with a first half burst to lead 3-0 before Maynard and the Ideal Seconds each rallied to a 3-0 second half mirror, producing a split in the twin games.
Bank notice states Deposit Book No. 37482 has been lost. Payment stopped. Middlesex Institution for Savings by J W Ballou Assistant Treasurer Concord Massachusetts October 24 1941.
A weekly analysis by Edward c Wayne reports a string of plane crashes affecting Army Navy and commercial airlines. The piece notes the sinking of the Reuben James and references a formal response to FDR s speech drawing reactions from Hitler Jepiter s 7 tee i. The item is released by Western Newspaper Union and compiles military aviation disasters and political rhetoric of the period.
The first American naval loss in the war, the 1000 ton destroyer Reuben James, aged 20, sank west of Iceland with 44 sailors saved and about 120 officers and men aboard. Letters from sailors described submarine encounters while Berlin denied Nazi responsibility, signaling a potential break with the United States.
A sequence of aviation disasters follows crashes in the United States and abroad. Northwest Airlines, 14 dead. American Airlines, 20 aboard, killed near St Thomas. an Army bomber and five air corpsmen perished in Ohio. a large naval bomber lost at sea with 12 lives. An American of German descent, 22, arrested in Baltimore, confessed to sabotaging planes, affecting over a hundred aircraft. The article also notes wartime Berlin denial, Soviet fronts, and Senate debates over arming merchant vessels and Neutrality Act changes amid war fears.
In a second wave of officer changes in weeks, Marshal Boris N. Shaposhnikov is appointed chief of the Soviet general staff, replacing Georgy Zhukov who weeks earlier became commander of Red armies on the central front. Shaposhnikov is a close ally of Joseph Stalin.
The article notes Washington fearing Pacific peace breakdown after Germany claims U S attack. It cites Japanese submarine activity near Hawaii and ships skirt ing U S territorial waters as tension rises. It also reports a price control bill moving through Congress with wage exemptions and rent provisions, plus a new price administrator to enforce the act with senate confirmation planned.
Washington reports the navy will launch its sixth battleship the Alabama on February 16. Senator Barkley in an address urged timely restoration of a program, while Michigan Governor Dickinson age 82 reflected on life and health messages urging self care and tissue care amid public notices.
Misa Edith Buckingham of the Center exhibited her famous Old English Sheepdogs on November 2 at the Worcester County Kennel Club. Sudbury real estate transfers list several pairs, including William E Davison to Z G Mayer and Evelyn S Raymond to J E Breslin. A dinner honoring Marian Emerson, pen named Nancy Buncoat, was hosted by the Worcester Branch of the National League of PEN Women at Hotel Bancroft Worcester.
An unoccupied house on Great Road in Acton burned Saturday afternoon, totaling about $6,000 in damage. Fire Chief H Stuart MacGrgor led a response hampered by no hydrants and water access from the old North Acton quarry. Fire officials suspect arson, and the house owned by Concord Bank was a total loss.
tree farm experts say dry summer slowed shrubs but won’t curb a colorful spring display. Bridal Wreath Spirea Deutzia Forsythia and Butterfly bushes are highlighted as likely to bloom nicely next year at Little Tree Farms 110 acre site on Centre Maiting bulbs like tulips crocuses narcissi lilies and lilies of the valley should be planted now before the ground freezes to avoid delays in next season’s growth experts offer gardening advice and note daily hours until dark
Miss Anne Litchard of West Acton, a Gould Academy sophomore in Bethel Maine, is noted as a private piano pupil at Gquia. Headmaster E F Treland confirms Gould Academy, organized in 1934, functions as a local high school for nearby students thanks to generous endowments from William Bingham 2nd.
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