Today in History December 6 highlights and events
Key events on this date include F D Roosevelt’s peace appeal to Hirohito before Pearl Harbor, Lincoln’s House seat in 1847, and 1917 Halifax munitions disaster. It notes Prohibition repeal, Eisenhower invasion plans, AFL-CIO split, Rhodesia sanctions call, and fog crisis in London. Birthdays Agnes Moorehead and Lou Little listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hirohito
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Abraham Lincoln
House of Representatives
Congress
Illinois
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
Britain
U.N
Rhodesia
London
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
South Korea
Chung Hee Park
Agnes Moorhead
Lou Little
Philip Massinger
British Troops Kill Sniper In Belfast Amid Violent unrest
British troops killed a sniper in Belfast early Tuesday as bomb blasts hit Cookstown with no casualties. The death toll in Northern Ireland violence rose to 651. Three snipers opened fire on an armored car in Andersonstown, wounding one assailant who escaped. Four blasts damaged stores, the electric company office, and the post office. Police in the Republic prepared to roundup IRA members under a new anti guerrilla law, with border port surveillance intensified.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Cookstown
Northern Ireland
Andersonstown
Irish Republican Army
Bernadette Devlin
Electric Company
Irish Republic
IRA
British
Republic
Britain
Wet Fall Delays Midwest Harvests Hit by Wet Weather
An unusually wet autumn across the Midwest slows harvests and risks millions in losses. Fields remain too soggy for harvest and heavy equipment, with grain and soybean farmers in Indiana's Wabash Valley among the hardest hit as a year’s supply gets delayed and uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute, Ind
Midwest
Wabash Valley
Indiana
Warren Langdon
Wabash
Ind
Orchard Beach
Duplicate Bridge Charity
Lawn Avenue Playhouse
William Haase
Clifford Dow
Crop harvest forecasts and charity game lineup noted
The report cites the Department of Agriculture forecasts for November corn at 5.4 billion bushels and soybeans at 1.35 billion. It lists standings with players Leo Ross, Alice Fecteau, Avis Briggs, Estella Aranovitch, Irving Schlinger, and others and mentions a charity game in memory of Paul Chabourne tonight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Agriculture
Leo Ross
Alice Fecteau
Avis Briggs
Estella Aranovitch
Irving Schlinger
James Mullen
Oscar Paradis
Robert Whelan
James Warren
Robert Toulouse
Ruth Anderson
James Moutsatsos
Ralph Dumaine
Karen Tunis
Leotta Kelley
Novella Briggs
Paul Chadbourne
Whist Winners at Le Foyer Weekly Party Biddeford
The Le Foyer whist party at the corner of Pool and Foss streets Biddeford saw Therese Tedeschi top the high scores with grand slams by Therese Tedeschi and Reina LaGrange. Other winners included Alderic Soucy Jo seph Chouinard Clara Gauthier Rose Daigle Therese Fizzette Carl Tapley Leona Boisclair Bruno Nolette Ar mand Lapointe Rachel Nolette Rose Fournier Barney LaGrange Carrie Tapley Joseph Plourde and Yvonne Binette. A follow up whist party is planned next weekend and a public bean supper will be served Saturday 4 to 7 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Therese Tedeschi
Reina LaGrange
le Foyer
Pool
Foss
Biddeford
Alderic Soucy
Joseph Chouinard
Clara Gauthier
Rose Daigle
Therese Fizzette
Carl Tapley
Leona Boisclair
Bruno Nolette
Armand Lapointe
Rachel Nolette
Rose Fournier
Barney LaGrange
Carrie Tapley
Joseph Plourde
Yvonne Binette
LeFoyer
Maine Freshmen Arraigned In Heist
Two University of Maine at Farmington freshmen, Gilbert Michaud and Sherman Cram, were arraigned in District Court on armed robbery charges. Bail set at 5000 dollars each. case continued to December 29. Police say a 60 dollar hold up at Troy Corner Store occurred Saturday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor
University of Maine At
Farmington
Gilbert Michaud
Eagle Lake
Sherman Cram
Liberty
Waldo County
Troy
Michaud
Cram
Dixmontond
Officers Induction Planned At Our Lady of Victory Circle Meeting
Plans for installation ceremonies of officers of Our Lady of Victory Circle were announced at a Sunday meeting at the Fremont Club Biddeford. The Christmas party on December 17 at 12 noon at Wonder Bar Restaurant will host the inductions. New member Amanda Prejean was initiated and donations were voted to March of Dimes and the tuberculosis foundation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Our Lady of Victory Circle
Fremont Club
Alfred Street
Biddeford
Wonder Bar
Aurore Pinard
Eva Couture
Alden Racine
Diana Moulin
Ris
Adelina Plante
Cora LeProhon
Irene Bellefeuille
Beatrice P. Grenier
Mabel Paul
Amanda Prejean
Juliette Quinn
March of Dimes Foundation
Tuberculosis Foundation
Lilian Jacoby
Anna Fercier
Quinn
Ernestine Barabe
Bellefeuille
Frisilda Roy
Emma Mercier
Celina
Also Mentioned on This Page
THE
Associated Press
North
Ireland
Radie
Perry Como
Arthur Fiedler
Harry Belafonte
Chet Atkins
Jack Jones
John Gary
Henry Mancini
Ed Ames
Grants
Santa
Snowman
Angel
Santa Electric
Santa’s Stockings
Maine
Adah
Order of the Eastern Star of
Annette
OES of
Saco
Masonic Hall
Main Street
Saint Francis
Franz Nowotny
Saint Francis College
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