Defense Boards To Coordinate

All Activity

Plans to coordinate all Cape May County defense activities were launched Friday night at the January meeting of the Cape May County League of Municipalities

at Cape May Court House.

Nearly 160 members of local defense councils in all sections of the county joined with municipal officials from virtually every community to discuss the defense problem on a countywide basis

and to exchange experiences attack common problems.

Board Preparing To Register 1,200 Men

Red Cross And Legion Assist Wreck Victims

Anticipating a total registration of approximately 1 2<K> men betweSi the ages of 20 and 46 on February 14,16 an^lO, members of Local Board No. 2, which is m charge of tion of men under the Selective Service law m the southern section of Cape May County, this week are preparing to

handle the task of registration.

Committee Reports

A high point in the session was a report made by Mayor George W. Krogman, of Wildwood, Mayor George T>. Richards, of Ocean City, Sherman Thompson, chairman of the Middle Township Committee, and Francis Douglas*, a member of the Middle Township Committee, on a meeting held January 14 at Cape May Court House under the auspices of tne

state defense council.

Prosecutor French B. Loveland, •f Ocean City, and a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will address the next meeting of the county leaS e, to be neld at Cape May

urt House on February 27. To Discuss Legal Aspect

Loveland will discuss the legal aspect of the defense program, while the representative of the FBI, who has not yet been designated, will discuss ways and means to combat sabotage and

fifth column work during

Selective Service officials in this area again sounded an appeal for citirens to volunteer their services for clerical work during the three-day registration period to avoid delays and confusion in

registering men.

By Presidential proclamation, February 16 was officially designated as the third national registration day, but Selective Service officials in most states, who are charged with carrying out the registration, have designated the two preceeding days in order to eliminate a concentration of reg-

istrants.

Includes Men 20 * 45 All males who had attained the age of 20 on or before December 31, 1941 and who will not ‘ e attained the age of r 45 on before February 16 are required to register in mid-Febru-ary except those previously regia;

Start Surveys For Airport

Members of all county defense councils, law enforcement agencies and municipal officiala will be invited to attend the February meeting, aaid Councilman John G. Bucher, of Stone Harbor, secretary of the league. Following the committee report -Friday evening, the session was devoted to informal discussions of the defense program during which each defense council represented outlined its plans and exchanged ideas with representatives of other councils.

Board Approves Cape Teachers’ Pay Rise Plan

Asks Help For Co. Fishermen

Congressman Elmer H. Wene of this district yesterday sought Naval protection for the fishing vessels required to put out to sea in this area to supply demand

for seafood.

Sinking of the tanker Varanger. 85 miles off Sea Isle City Sunday threw the problem into sharp relief, Wene said. His requests for protection for fishing boats has been sent to Navy Secretary Frank Knox, pointing out the production of fish is a vital part of the country’s source of food supply. Protection for the vessels, he said, will mean continuation of a livlihood for many who are dependent upon the fishing industry. Wene also proposed establishment of an office in charge of a naval officer at some nearly resort to whom fishermen can go for permits to put to sea without the necessity of going to Philadelphia or Atlantic City as they are required to do under present

regulations.

Citing the fact that enemy submarines are admittedly operating off the Atlantic coast. Wene said: “I understand that patrols may have been previously authorized for certain types of protection emergency cases, and 1 am wi dering if some arrangement of this kind might be worke^-out in the case of these fishermen/] In a telegram todav Wene said he had conferred with Secretary Knox who had assured him that every adequate precaution will be taken against submarine attacks along the Atlantic coast.

those specifically exempt registration. With a total of 27,000 men registered in New Jersey last July 1 when men who had attained the age of 21 since the preceding October 16 were i ' tered, it is anticipated that proximately 330,000 men will be registered in the third registration next month. Expect 1,200 Here The anticipated registration u the area covered by Cape May County’s Local Board No. 2 is estimated at between 1,000 and

1,200.

In Cape May and Cape May Court House, where two of this section's three registration places will be established, 16 volunteers to aid with the work have offered their services. In Wildwood, only eight have volunteered to data. Locally, the Selective Service headquarters in Cape May High School will he the registration center. In Wildwood the lobby of Wildwood High School will be used, and in Cape May Court House, the old court building will

be used.

List Registration hours Registration places will be open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, February 14 and 15, .and from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. on February 16 to handle the registration work. The Local Board this week said it could not impress too strongly the urgent necessity of procuring an ample number of registrars and reserve registrars to handle the clerical work on the three registration days.

A survey of the proposed half-million-dollar airport to be used by the Army is now under way in Lower Township, Director Percy H. Jackson, of the Board of Freeholders, announced today. The staff of County Engineer Holland A. Sharp iShaking the necessary surveys, Jackson said, as he disclosed official correspondence from August R. Butz, district airport engineer, Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration, of New The project will have two 4,000 foot runways. The location of the airport covers an area of approximately 500 acres. . , , . Last week the county included $10,000 in its 1942 budget to be used to further the airport under-

taking.

“It now appears that the »iiport is a certainty,” Jackson said. ‘We are following out the orders of the CAA and the county as well as Lower Township is cooperating to the fullest extant so that the project may soon be

completed."

Funds in the amount of $451,883 been allotted for the project. ... a letter to Jackson this week, Butz said that the coupty may proceed immediately with the acquisition of the necessary property- ... “This should be concluded early as possible so that contracts T>ay be awarded for the prosecution of the proposed work,” Butz

said.

Cape May responded promptly Sunday to an appeal for warm clothing for survivors of the torpedoed Norwegian tanker Varanger, who had been rescued by fishing boats and landed at the Coast Guard station at Townlid’s Inlet. . The Coast Guard men and their commanding officer, Mr. York, took charge of the rescued seamen as soon as they were landed at 9:30 a.m. and did everything possible to make the men comfortable by supplying them with hot baths, hot coffee and food. First word of the maritime disaster reached Cape May at 1:45 p.m., when Mrs. S. W. Aungst, secretary of the Sea Isle City Red Cross, telephoned Mrs. H. B. Mecleary, chairman of Volunteer Special Sendees, that warm

clothing was needed. Skilling Calls Legion

Mrs. Mecleary called Joseph Kennard Skilling, disaster chairfor Cape May. Mr. Skilling was ill and unable to go to Sea Isle, but he contacted the American Legion, which was in a meeting, and members of the Legion, under the direction of County Commander Percy D. d’Romtra, immediately began collecting the necessary garmenta. Mrs. Mecleary reached Sea Isle City at 2:30 p.m. and found that

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War Fund Drive Suffers Slump

Let Contract For Lumber

(Continued <

Scouts Collect Waste Papers

Contract for the furnishing of lumber with which to make “

pairs to Cape May’s

boardwalk

•arded to George Ogden

and Son Co.. Cape May lumber dealer, on Friday by the city commission. The local firm submitted the lowest bid for the

contract.

Ogden s bid was $2,721.02 and delivery time was estimated at 45

to 60 days.

Other bids submitted were those of J. P. Collins Lumber Co., of Seaville, $2,776.11; and W. J. Tyler and Son Co., Cape May

Court House, $2,801.33.

Seaville, $2,776.11, delivery in 45 to GO days; and W. J. Tyler and Son Co., Cape May Court House, $2,801.33, delivery in 30 days. Three bids were received by the commissioners Friday fdr a one and one-half ton truck with an eight-foot dump body and hy-

draulic hoist.

Bids were presented by James Mecray. representing the Edward G. Kurtz Co., of Ocean City, who submitted a bid of $1,339.60 for a Ford truck meeting the city’s specifications; Commercial Gar-

Charles A. Swain, Jr. disclosed j i nc „ 0 f Cape May, which this week. % i bid $1,675 for an International Cape May and West Cape May truck, and the Kabalan Motor

After a brief spurt during the last few weeks. Cape May's Red Cross war relief fund drive is again slowing down, according Ao Dr. E. E. Pickard, local campaign

chairman.

To date, total contributions to the special war relief fund amount to $1,179. Cape May’s quota assigned by national Red Cross headquarters at the outset of the current drive, is $1,600. A meeting was held in Cape May High School yesterday by officers of the Red Cross branch leaders of the war relief fund drive and canvassers to consider ways and means of raising the $421 needed the complete the

quota.

As a result of the conference, it is planned to go over the lists of those who have not had an opportunity to contribute to the fund, so that they can be assigned to district workers who will contact them within the next few days in an attempt to wind up Cape May's drive successfully. Cape May County's total quota under the campaign amounts to $17,000.

Cape May’s Board of Education at its last regular meeting approved a new pay schedule suggested by members of the Cape May public school faculty to equalize, over a period of years, the salaries of teachers in relation to their education and Ex-

perience.

Under Hie pay schedule submitted, maximum salaries of $1,700 a year for teachers without degrees, $1,900 for teachers with Bachelor’s degrees, and $2,300 for those with Master’s

degrees are provided. Seek Annual Increases

The plan submitted by a committee of faculty members consists of annual increments of $60 to teachers - below their correct place on the pay schedule until their salaries have been raised to normal, and additional increments to teachers doing distinctively superior work for two consecutive years, those who sponsor an outstanding contribution to the school activity, those who broaden themselves for their particular field by travel, those who make worthy contributions to educational or professional magazines, those who do extensive study in particular fields or those who assist student teachers o give summer school instruction.

Over 5 Year Period

Under the plan mapped by the committee, the salary rises would be made over a five year period until those receiving below-aver-age salaries have been brought

to the level they merit.

The committee pointed out that there are now teachers receiving as little as $1,100, that the average salary is $1,400. and that sonrt'teaehers have had no salary

increases in 11 years.

Members of the faculty committee are William H. Stevens, Harold Shill, Mrs. Cordelia Bounds and Miss Marguerite Hut-

chinson.

Cape May Canal Will Start March 1; Scott Wins Six-Year Fight

Work on the construction of the Cape May County canal to connect Cape May Harbor and the Delaware Bay will begrin about March 1, Senator I. Grant Scott announced today. The project has been certified as a number one defense priority by the Navy Department and accepted by the President With work scheduled to begin about March 1, Colonel H. B. Vaughan, chief of the Army Engineers in Philadelphia, told Scott at a Trenton conference this week that it would take approximately three and one-half months to complete

the canal.

Annouricement that the canal would be constructed this year brings to an end the six-year fight Senator Scott has waged in behalf of the project, a consistent endeavor that necessitated numerous trips to Washington to confer with

Army and Navy authorities.

Local Men To Take Army Examination

Nineteen men from Cape May, West Cape May and part of Lower Township will be sent to Army headquarters for pre-induction physical examination tomorrow, according to the local draft

board.

Men who will report for examination from this area are William Cox, Walter Richardson, Norman Dellas, Arthur Wing, Edgar Garretson, Jr., Frank McBride, George Mason, John Price, Jesse Johnson, Jr., Raymond Rollins, Clarence Bishop, Woodrow Smith, Frank Frandaconi, Arthur Sheets, Emlen Fisher, Albert N'aramore, Edward Locke, Leonard Sandgran, Jr. and Frank

Beck.

It began in 1936 when as a new member of the New Jersey Assembly, Scott introduced a measure, his first bill, proffering to the federal government control of the New Jersey inland waterways

main stem.

To Collect Old Clothes Here

2 Contests In School Votes

In little more than three weeks nee they began collecting waste paper as part of the national campaign to conserve for re-use much of the nation’s waste paper as possible. Cape May Boy Scouts have gathered approximately 3,000 pounds, and another

half-ton is expected to be collected on Saturday, Scoutmaster S pocificaUons;

Municipal Vehicles Exempt From Tax

Adjustment Board Named By City

A new Board of Adjustment was appointed by the city commission on Friday to serve for the current year. Tliose appointed by the commissioners are A. Gregory Ogden, Edward P. Griffin, Logan B. Taylor, Peter Dellas snd Edward

M. Miller.

Ogden, Griffin, Tsylor snd Dallas served on the city’s first Board of Adjustment, crested last summer under Cape May's zoning ordinance. Miller was named to replace George B. Moore, whose

have been divided

the Scouts, and one uoy is assigned to each zone. He is responsible for gathering old newspapers, used wrapping paper, cardboard, paper board boxes and other waste paper in that particu-

lar area.

Cape May Kiwanians, sponsors of the Boy Scout movement here, have worked out a collection; schedule, under which one club member with a truck spends one j hour every Saturday gathering | the collection of waste paper from the key points in each zone. Proceeds obtained from the sale of the waste paper will be used to help finance the annual Boy Scout camping trip next summer, Swain said. The 60 troop members are industriously pursuing their collection duties in all sections of the community. Anyone who has not been eon-

Service, of Cape May, which submitted a price of $1,366.87 on a

Dodge truck.

will not permit him to

continue his service.

The board is charged with the a of hearing objections to the t ordinance and arbitrating disputes arising from the meas-

Howard Brown, a special police officer during the last few summer seasons and recently a substitute officer on the regular force, was appointed as a permanent officer by the commisaion.

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Municipally-owned motor

hides are exempt from provisions of the federal law requiring purchase of federal use tax stamps for all motor vehides by February 1, it was disclosed Friday by Harry L. Maloney, collected of internal revenue for this dis-

trict.

Maloney explained the situauoji in a reply to City Clerk Floyd C. Hughes, of Cape May. who

questioned the necessity of city obtaining the use t '' for city-owned vehides.

Members of the Harry Snyder Post, 193, American Legion, will collect old, discarded dothing soon in a city-wide drive to build up a reserve of dothing available in the event of emergencySpurred by Sunday’s experience at Sea Isle City, Commander Edward Dollinger, of the local post, announced this week that Legionnaires will collect discarded clothing, particularly men’s dothing. In- an appeal to the public, Commander Dollinger asked all Cape May citizens to go through their closets and attics and gather dothing which they no longer use and have it ready when the Legionnaires make a house-to-house canvass. Date of the collection

will be announced shortly.

Principal needs are men’s suits, shirts, trousers.’underwear, heavy socks, hats and all types of clothing. Necessary mending will be

done by the ’Red Cross.

There will be contests in school board elections in two nearby districts on February 10 when voters go to the polls to elect members of their Boards of Education. In Lower Township, there are four candidates for election, with three vacancies to be filled. Candidates for the school board posts

Michael B. McPherson,

Continues Fight He continued the fight .to have the government take over juristiction and last year it was accepted and the canal connecting link included in the Federal Rivers and Harbors Bill, but the canal project was deleted as non-es-sential in 1941 by the PresU

dent

With the United States at war and submarines in action along the Atlantic coast, the President this year has accepted the Navy recommendation that Senator Scott’s arguments in favor of the canal were valid.

Navy Department Approves Project

, Sid-

Possibility that a large-scale Navy building program will be authorized for the Cape May Naval base was revealed this week with the disclosure that the j the Navy Department has approv-

stamps ed an application for a project

city-owneu vemucs. under which considerable build“Under the act. the term motor ing would be done here, vehicle means all motor ve- It is hoppd. according ta h gh hides of the kind chiefly used ranking^ Naval officers at the for highway transportation,” Ma- base, that the project will be loney said. •nthnrtTed to nrovide for the

ney Ellis, Cold Spi Bates, of Villas, and Ernest Corn, of Erma, all new candidates. Randall Elliott and /George Walter, incumbent board members whose terms expire this year, are not seeking re-election. In Cape May Point, two candidates seek election to fill one board vacancy. Mayor Frank S. Rutherford and Commissioner Milton H. Bair have filed petitions of candidacy for the election. Mayor Rutherford is an incumbent. In West Cape May, two candidates have filed petitions, and there is no contest. Theodore W. Reeves and Everett V. Edsall, both incumbents, are seeking reelection. Leonard Sandgran, whose term expires this year, is not seeking re-election. The vacancy caused by the expiration of Sandgran’s term will not be filled as the board is in the process of reducing its membership from

to five.

To Start Soon

Complete surveys already have been made and work will begin as scheduled with technical difficulties arising from condemnations to be settled later," Scott said. The canal will reach from Cape May Harbor to New England Creek, calling for (Continued on Page Four)

Polio Drive Near Climax

‘As to municipally-owned cars, the act states: ‘The tax imposed by this section shall not apply to use of motor vehicles or boats by the United States, a state, territory,, the District of Columbia, or a political subdivision of any of the foregoing,’ " Maloney

said.

authorized to provide

construction of a new dispensary and a recreation building with full recreational facilities for men

stationed here.

29 Women Complete First Aid Course

INCOME TAX REPORTS PREPARED

Have your Income Tax prepared early, and avoid the last minute worry. Also Social Security Forms and Unemployment Forms prepared. PAUL SNYDER, 281 WINDSOR AVENUE Key. Phone 900 - Residence Phone 681 - Bell Phone 90

Twenty-nine members have successfully completed the Amer-

Choose New Pastor

..t a congregational meeting last night, members of the First Presbyterian Church selected 1 the Rev. Albert Lenz, of Mansfield, Pa., to succeed the Rev. Dr. Floris L. Ferwcrda, who resigned the local pastorate some time ago. Mr. Lenz will begin his duties at the local church sometime in April, according to church

officials.

An all-out effort during the last week of the Infantile Paralysis campaign, on the part of workers, points to gratifying results, according to Mra. Patience R. Ludlam, director of the women’s division of the Cape May

County campaign.

The countywide goal is a mile of dimes which equals $9,051.40. Volunteers are distributing dia-mond-shaped cards marked, “Fill this with 60 Dimes”. Nationwide activities will be climaxed January 30. the 60th birthday anniversary of President. Roosevelt. Mrs. Irene Pharo and Miss Katherine Hyneman, chairmen of Cape May and West Cape May committees, are in charge of a card party to be held at St. Mary’s Hall on February 4 for the benefit of the campaign. Throughout the county other activities are being held to raiss

funds for the drive.

A dance under the co-chairman-ship of Mrs. Mary A. Brown and Mrs. Robert Mills, will’ be held tomorrow evening at Middle Township High School. The ^Vild-

Schooli <£aumh Qoop&haiivsL (Plan Jo (ph&fwMt Studsmliu

Cape May High School has inaugurated a cooperative educational work plan in order to provide students with slight actual business experience prior to graduation. Dr. Edward E. Pickard,

lean Red 'Cross r firat aid course I city school superintendent, given under the instruction of nounced this week. u:._ FK-aVw.tV T Xfnmn 1 Under the ol&n.

cooperating business men will observe their work, check on their individual qualifications and make a report to the Commercial Department at the end of the per-

iod.

Miss Elizabeth T. Moran. I Under the plan, which was put Those who have completed the | into operation two weeks ago, the course are Mrs. Horace Church, Commercial Department tn the Mrs. J. C. Clemens, Miss Emily (senior year plans to give each Cookman, Mrs. Cleo Cross, Mrs. | major secretarial student an opArnethe Drinkhouse, Mr*. Stephen portunity of obtaining two weeks Doherty, Mrs. Ray Fite, Mrs.' 0 f actual business experience hePercy Fox, Mrs. Marguerite Fol-ifore graduation. The plan is Dowell, Mrs. Robert Hand, Mrs. ing worked out through the coJames C. Hafcd, Miss Rosalie operation of local business housHanes. Mrs. C. C. Hawk, Mrs. e s. t „ v * v Donald Lear. Mrs. Margaret Loe-I To date the Merchants National gal, Mrs. Alex Moon, Mrs. Ann Rank is the only local institution Norris, Mrs. Adelc Pickard. Mrs. which is cooperating in the plan, L Grant Scott, Mrs. Charles although others are invited to Shields, Mrs. Eleanor Smith, Mrs. join. Dr. Pickard said. Any local Mulford Stevens, Miss Kathryn business desiring to cooperate Stevens. Miss Louisa Sender, Mrs. should contact Dr. Pickard at the

Grace Thompson, Mrs. Walter high school.

Trout, Mrs. Mary Van Buakirk, While students are obtaining

Mrs. Olive EL Wallace and Mra. then- actual business

School faculty members will alj keep a close check on the working students, Dr. Pickard

food committee will hold & din-ner-dance in the American Legioi Hall on Saturday, January 81. Success marked the efforts of ..jc Avalon - Cape May Courl House - Stone Harbor committee! at the card party held last Sat urday at the Court House Mai

sonic HalL

Bar Enlistments To Men In Draft Call

.. _ hoped that the same plan can be worked out for bookkeeping students and others ti' - ing the general clerical course. Consent of parents is required before a student is assigned to work experience. During the period, the students are relieved of their other school duties, but are required to maintain regular office hours of the institution where they are em-

ployed.

Dr. Pickard said the plan was to provide the students with a sample of actual working conditions so that upon graduation the transition from classroom to of-

Men registered under the Selec tive Service law are not allowed to enlist in the armed forces o the United States after they Mv received orders to report for pre induction physical examinationi officials of Local Board No: 2, ii charge of conscription of men ii this section of Cape May Countj said yesterday. • A new ruling was received her this week from state headquarter informing the Local Board n< to release men for enlistjne* after notices to report for « amination have been issued. Board officials pointed out thi large-scale enlistments of regi trants had previously disrupt quotas of men scheduled to 1

Allen Willson.

during the two-weak period, the I fice will not be so mmrked.

sent for pre-induction examfa

tions, leaving the Local short of its prescribed qaota.