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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1944
Page
1
The article describes Allied and U S British forces coordinating to speed demobilization and return troops home. It notes a point system and clerical forms being printed overseas to ease processing and freeing trained servicemen. Officers and soldiers celebrate, while plans include education and brief tours in Europe before occupation duties, with Marshall urging speed.
Concord notes report visitors and births including a newborn Ralph born September at Emerson Hospital. Local clubs like Lions and Elks host meetings while residents assist blood drives and church activities. Concord High School football prep and Needham game loom as St Bernard’s Library announces hours this week.
Mrs Eleanor Blake widow of George Hollis Blake died at her son's home in Wynnewood Pa. Funeral services were held at Trinity Episcopal Church Concord with Rev Charles Russell Peck officiating. Burial followed at Mount Auburn Cemetery Cambridge. She lived in Concord over 40 years and sang at First Parish Unitarian Church. She was active in the Concord Players and connected to MacDowell Club of Boston and Saturday Morning Club. She leaves her son Lieut Morison Blake U S Navy Reserve.
A high mass of requiem was held Tuesday at 9 o'clock in St Bernard's Church Concord for Gaetano Soffriti 68 of 22 Thoreau who died Saturday. Survivors include his wife Esther Soffriti two sons Albert of Concord and Arrigo in the U S Army and one granddaughter. Arrigo is recovering from wounds with Allied forces in his father's native country.
Concord residents joined regional leaders at the Dutch Treat dinner hosted by the Metropolitan Division of the United War Fund. Nicholas W. Danforth of Weston presided as division chairman with Mrs Danforth as hostess. At the head table were Henry A Laughlin of Concord general chair and Charles Francis Adams of Fairhaven, former Navy secretary, among other town chairmen.
Morning worship led by Rev. John Elmo Wallace with music by Miss Marguerite L Barnes. Service time moved from 10 45 to 1 00. Last Sunday evening Pilgrim Fellowship met at the parish house to start fall and winter meetings.
The article notes Egbert Newbury Cah Jr of Wood Street is named head of the Concord organization within the Greater Boston United War Fund drive. Henry Lai of Cohesion chairs the overall effort. Cah appeals to citizens to volunteer time and money to support the Community Fund and War Funds during demobilization. He has held multiple roles in local and city fund groups and is linked to Boston Legal Aid. He works with the law firm Goodwin Proctor and Hoar in Boston.
Concord funeral services for Rodney Upton of Bedford were well attended at MacRae funeral home. The former shoe and hosiery executive, member of Joseph Abbott Lodge AP AM Boston, was buried in the range. He leaves a wife and a Bedford sister.
Concord Gladstone Flaherty of New York city announces the engagement of his daughter Anne Barberie Flaherty to Corporal Donald Judson MacRae U S Army son of Mr and Mrs Austin D MacRae of Concord Beavers College Jenkintown Pa class of 1944 Babson School of Business Boton No date set for the wedding
Local churches in Concord and West Concord join efforts to gather old clothing for liberation aid in European nations. Community volunteers sort, box, and ship garments to assist those in need amid postwar relief efforts.
West Concord Lt John W Gallagher, son of Mr and Mrs J Gallagher of 10 Upland Ave, returns from the European theater on a rotation furlough. He is aboard a Flying Fortress and is a veteran of the war’s air operations, awarded the air medal for valor in heavy combat missions over Germany.
Eitan The Americal Infantry sergeant Jacy Latke of West Mass has been awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service under heavy Japanese artillery during the campaign in the South Pacific. Sgt. Locke and Pfc Kenneth J. Hiltz kept battalion lines open under fire near the regimental reserve line and a battalion switchboard. Locke, a West soldier with 32 overseas months, served in a jangling fighting division, the first army unit to launch offensive operations against Japan. He attended Concord High School and the Waltham Trade School. his parents Mr and Mrs Horene Locke live at 413 Main Street.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Andette of 613 Main Street, West Concord, observed their silver anniversary with a reception at the Holiday Inn in Ham a Beach. Out of town guests attended and presented gifts of silver along with many congratulatory messages. House decorations featured gladioli and asters. War bonds and stamps were noted.
Concord mourns Prof Paul Capron 69 longtime mathematics professor at the U S Naval Academy who died recently in a local rest home. Funeral Sunday at West Newbury Ephiphany Church with burial in South Byfield. Capron born Worcester 1875 educated Harvard 1896 taught at Governor Dummer Academy Williams College and Annapolis before retirement. Survived by son Capt Paul Us and John Capron. services in Lexington.
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