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Newspaper
Cambridge Tribune
Location
Cambridge, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1941
Page
1
The piece argues that strikes threaten democracy as unions push for power, urging action beyond the White House. It cites Bethlehem Steel and calls for Congress to pass remedial measures while defending labor's overall patriotism. It notes Roosevelt’s need for diplomacy and suggests lawmakers bear responsibility for limiting strikes.
At a Cambridge Country Club meeting last Thursday the new board outlined a season plan and revised membership rules. Dues set at 20 per year for couples, 18 for women, 20 for men, with junior at 12. indoor and outdoor memberships available plus guest provisions. Green fees for golf revised to 50 cents weekdays and 1 for Sundays. instructors to be added May 1 and ping pong tournaments start the week of May 1.
Directors of the Eastern Shore League met at Salisbury and approved a 112 game schedule for 1941. An all star game will be held at Cambridge on July 7 with the leading club after July 4 facing a team selected by the Eastern Shore Sports Writers Association from the other five clubs.
Fishermen and legislators from Caroline, Talbot and Dorchester counties urged Governor O Connor to reopen a Choptank shad hatchery. They offered ponds at no cost and support for an experimental 1,000,000 fry with aim to reach 10,000,000 eggs for production, citing past declines from 1,000,000 fry in 1935 to 250,000 in 1938.
The 4H club met on Maryland Day with vice-president Dave Corder presiding. Members debated starting time, noting parents advised 7:30 pm. the issue will be raised again at the next meeting.
Representatives from eight shore counties met for the Eastern Shore County Commissioners Association to press for defense industry capacity surveys. Senator Wimner Fell Davis warned of misallocated gas tax funds, urging unity of purpose to shift funds toward highway construction and maintenance. William S. Marvel was elected association president at the luncheon.
Senator Radcliffe of Maryland reports favorably a House bill to amend the Merchant Marine Act of 1986 to fit current conditions from the European war. The subcommittee's amendments give the commission more latitude in awarding ship construction contracts and labor payments.
Wheat growers contact the County Agent to learn about marketing quotas tied to AAA programs. Two groups fear penalties or seek free marketing, with referendums run by local AAA committees. Quotas aim to protect prices amid wartime shortages and large crops, with loans and surpluses shaping farmer choices and potential shifts to dairy and poultry farming.
The WPA Division of Recreation sponsors a city wide Marcie Tournament with rules from Mrs Reynolds and Miss Waxler. Tubman Marble Trophy on display donated by Granville Tubman Jr. The supervisor Mrs Logan Wynn outlines winter and spring activities including preschooles, play centers, and recreational therapy at Cambridge hospital. Cambridge plans greetings to Cambridge England coordinated by Namesake Towns Inc with BBC involvement. Mayor Irving B Jackson will speak and Newbold Morris to MC. Junior Woman's Club to hold silver tea for Cambridge children.
The Woman's Eastern Shore Society will honor Caroline County at a luncheon April 14 at the Women's City Club in Baltimore. Principal speaker is Senator Wilmer Davis, former minority floor leader. Mrs. Richard Hemsley will preside. Mrs. Donald Thorne chairs Caroline chapter. Mrs. C Milton Willis is historian.
As spring and summer crop seasons near, Kent and Queen Anne's counties report the most serious farm labor shortage in years. Nell C. Wescott of the State Employment Service notes cannery and field help scarce, with many workers leaving farms for defense-industry jobs at higher wages.
Despite rising costs the March home-building program was the largest since the downturn began in the low mood era.
The CamSbridge Elks Lodge held a regular meeting Friday night April 4 to install officers for the ensuing lodge year. Installing officer was Ed win Henry P E R. Officers installed include Exalted Ruler Benjamin B Brittingham Esteemed Leading Knight Woodrow Wilson Esteemed Loyal Knight Ivy R Todd Jr Esteemed Lecturing Knight Clarence Stephenson Esquire Alvin Creighton Chaplain Thomas Tler Interguard Lake Slocum Tiler Carter Hughlett Sr Trustee for 3 year term John Matthews Jr.
The annual County 4 H Club Banquet will be held Saturday evening April 19 at Zion Methodist Church Cambridge. Miss Hattie E Brooks says all 4 H members both boys and girls are invited. Ellis Eskridge will be Toastmaster. Program includes music talks and dramatics with spring decor and favors. Tickets forty cents from club presidents and leaders. purchase by Wednesday April 16.
The B V D Corporation plant in Cambridge reopened last Monday after a four week shutdown due to labor difficulties in Baltimore. The Cambridge facility employs about 75 workers who had been laid off while the Baltimore plant was closed. An effort to organize workers under the CIO was reported, with no available details on its outcome.
Over 300 club women of the Eastern Shore Federation of Women’s Clubs will attend the spring district meeting at Bethesda Methodist Church in Salisbury on April 17. H. T. OConor of the Baltimore FBI office will speak in the afternoon, with Mrs Sipple and Mrs Kriel on the morning program. A luncheon is planned at noon. The Treble Cleft Club will perform a recital and rehearse the Maryland episode for the General Federation Convention in Atlantic City May 1924, featuring Mrs. James W. Hughes of Elkton.
Lower Shore farmers plan a new produce market auction block in Salisbury. Construction is expected to begin soon, announced by Gordon Fooks, president of the Wicomico Cooperative.
Maryland State Police investigated at the Hebron plant after Nettie Mehaffey a 39 year old union organizer from New York was found locked in her car following a disturbance. The car had four tires deflated wires pulled from the distributor cap and was towed to Salisbury for repair with minor adjustments noted before the organizer left town.
The Perfection Stove Company sponsored a dinner at Hotel Cambridge for Nathan's Furniture Stores staff. About fifty employees from six Nathan stores in Salisbury Sea ford Chestertown Crisfield Onancock and Talbot County attended along with several managers and guests. The event continues a long standing tradition associated with Perfection product distribution.
White Ribboners gather at Calvary Methodist Church in Dorchester and Caroline counties for an Institute on Friday April 25 with sessions at 1 30 and 7 30. Grace Leigh Scott National WCTU Field Secretary will speak evening. Bertha M Tyson Maryland WCTU will introduce. Supper offered to visitors.
Adjusters inspect insured acreages as farmers report complete or near complete losses in wheat fields under the 1911 program. If total loss is declared, indemnity follows after FCIC approval. partial losses may be appraised for possible other use, with final adjustment at harvest.
Col. Henry Stanwood of Maryland Selective Service urges small manufacturers to learn deferment procedures for key defense employees. He notes many small feeder firms delay until induction papers arrive, burdening draft boards. Major Paul Klaesius reports surveys on skilled labor needs to justify deferrals.
The Labor Department reports a three percent rise in living costs over the past year driven by higher meats eggs and dairy prices. From March 1940 to March this year New England cities show under two percent gains while other cities see up to eight percent. Norfolk tops with about eight two percent, San Francisco near six and a half percent. Between February 18 and March 1 national retail food costs rose half a percent and April 1 reports from 18 cities suggest further price advances.
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