88th YEAR, No. 11

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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1942

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Assign Numbers To Registrants In Third Draft ScHaI numbers were assigned Monday to 959 draft registrants who registered during the third Selective Service * Kegistration period last month in the southern section of Cape May County, officials of Local Board No. 2, in charge of conscription of men in this section, announced this week. The numbers were assigned according to provisions of the Selective Service law. The Local Board met at its headquarters in Cape May High School Monday afternoon to shuffle registration cards and assign serial numbers. Order numbers, which will determine the sequence in which the registrants will be called for service, will be assigned after March 17, date of the third national draft lottery, which will be held in Washington.,^ To Issue Queries ' Following the assignment of order numbers, questionnaires will be issued to all who registered February 14, 16 and 16, and their ^classifications will be determined from information received in the questionnaires. Miss Margaret McCullough and Mias Miriam Lyle, clerks of the local board, are this week tabulating the . names, ages and addresses of the registrants, in preparation for the draft lottery. Physicians in Cape May County and throughout New Jersey have been contacted relative to rehabilitation of draft registrants who previously were deferred because of minor remediable physical defects. To Rehabilitate Men A nationwide rehabilitation program, to be carried out in the regtatWnts' home towns, will Boon yet under way in order to make previously rejected men eligible for reclassification and possible induction into the armed forces.

D. A. R. Pilgrim

- WILLMIRA CRESSE Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cresse, of Cold Spring, who was recently selected as the Cape May High School girl best qualified to be this year's local D. A. R. Good Citizenahip Pilgrim.

Open House At USD Club Sun.

628 Washington street will be thrown open ,to the general public on Sunday, March 15, as part of a nationwide USO open house. More than 500 USO operations throughout the nation and in overseas bases will participate in the event. Adjutant and Mrs. Theodore Thompson, directors of the local club, this week invited sll residents of Cape May‘and surrounding communities to visit the club and see the facilities and activities provided for members of the military forces. The club wilP. be open to the K blic from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. durr the open house, with all facilities on display. A program will be presented during the afternoon. Soldiers and sailors from nearby bases who regularly use the club during their off-duty hours will serve as guidas for visitors. The local club opened November 7 and has since been visited by an average of MOO men weekly, according to the Director. Facilities provided at the club Include showers, reading and writing materials, games, music, checkrooms, personal and spiritual service, dancing, movies and comfortable chairs and sofas for relaxation. Highlighting the afternoon program will be addresses by high ranking Army and Navy officers. Negotiations are being made for a broadcast from the local club and a national broadcast from New York and Washington over a coast-to-coast hook-up. Plans for the open house are being arranged by the local USO committee.

$64,854 Project To Fioith Housing Job An appropriation of $64,854 for a WPA project to complete facilities and utilities at the U. S. Naval housing project here and finance landacaping of the tract where the 50 housing units are located has been approved by President Roosevelt, Congressman Elmer H. Wene anounced Monday in a telegram to The Star and Wive. Funds for the work were requested in an application for a WPA project, of which the Commandant of the Fourth Naval District is sponsoring agent. Constructino of the 41 units of the bousing project is being speeded, with the exterior work virtually finished and the interior work progressing rapidly. The bouses are being built for enlisted personnel of' the U. S. Naval base here.

PLAN SPECIAL SERVICE The annual Masonic service

will be held at the Cape Island Baptist Church here at 7:45 o'clock Sunday evening. A-special

program of mask and a —on have . been arranged.

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D.A.R. To Fete County Girls Miss Willmira Cresse, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cresse, of Cold Spring, with two other Cape May County high school girls, will go to Trenton next Thursday where they will be presented to the State Conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution as D.A.R. Good Citizenship Pilgrims representing this county. The girls will be entertained at luncheon and will be taken on' aatour of historic places in Trenton. They will be given Good Citizenship certificates and pins at ceremonies at the state capital. D.A.R. Good Citizenship Pilcrims are chosen for four qualities each year, prior to the state conference. Qualifications are dependability. including truthfulness. loyalty and punctuality: service, cooperation. courtesy, consideration of others; leadership. personality, self control and ability to assume responsibility: and patriotism, unselfish interest in family, school, community and nation. The annual selections are made in the following manner. Seniors elect three girls and the faculty picks one to become the Good Citizen of her school. Other girls sponsored, by the Cape May Patriots Chapter, D. A. 11. this year are Veau Holmes. Wildwood, and Flora Sutton, of Eldnra.' a student at Middle Township High School. , (Continued on Page Five)

Defense Board Pushes Plans With the fire and police reserve units of the Local Defense Council, completing their instruction and the Emergency Medical Service unit ready to swing into action. steps were takert this week to get the A ir Raid Wardens organized and instructed. A meeting of nearly 100 volunteers will be held at the high school auditorium tonight at 8 o'clock. The transportation unit of the Defense Council has been organized and the communication section has recruited men and hoys with bicycles to augment 'he telephone communications and to act as messengers. The air raid warning system has been revised through the State Defense Council and several weak points have been strengthened and difficulties overSpecific instructions on what to do in an air raid or blackout will be distributed to each Cape May home within the next few days. Orders issued by the Local Defense Council must be obeyed and the orders of air raid wardens, police, police and fire reserves must be obeyed. Several units already trained by the American Red Cross have been offered in their entirety to the Defense Council and these will be under the supervision of John T. Hewitt, chairman of the local branch. (Contimued on Paga Eight)

Pastor Arrives To Fill Local Pulpit Vacancy The Rev. Albert W. Lenz, recently selected pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Cape May, arrived here yesterday and took up residence at the Presbyterian manse on Hughes street. He will preach his first sermon in the church on Sunday, .March 15. Mr. Lenz, who came to Cape May from Mansfield, Pa., succeeds the Rev. Dr. Floris L. Ferwerda, who filled the local pastorate for more than a year until he resigned to work with the Rev. Howard Moody Morgan in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Lenz and their New Jersey Native daughter arrived Wednesday. The new pastor was born in Newark, N. J. August 15, 1909. Prior to his ordination, he was a member of Christ Presbyterian Church, Newark. He was ordained May 2, 1932 by the Presbytery of Newark. Mr. Lenz is a graduate of Newark’s Central High School, class of 1925; Bloomfield College where he took an A.B. degree in 1929; Princeton Theological Seminary where he took a Th.B. degree in 1932; Berlin and Marburg Universities, Germany, where he was a Fellow in Church History of Princeton Seminary; and Hartford Theological Seminary where he wjw a graduate student in history from 1933-35. Mrs. Lenz is a graduate of Lake Erie College and Hartford Theological Seminary and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church. Norristown, Pa.

Clubwomen Hear Defense Speech The Mafch meeting of the Cape May Women’s Community Club, held in the Episcopal parish house Thursday afternoon, was attended by a large number of clubwomen and guests, and an interesting program was presented. Police Chief John J. Spencer, Jr., chairman of the Civilian Defense Council of Cape May, gave a comprehensive and instructive outline of work being done by the council and workers. Introducing the speaker, Mrs. James C. Hand, club president, pointed out that other speakers during past months had addressed the club on the National Red Cross Volunteer Services, Nutrition for Defense, and a third had explained the need of the United Service Organization for the purpose of entertaining Army and Navy men. Following Spencer's address, members of the Cape May Court House Women's Community Club, guests of the local club, presented several numbers. Mrs. William Fitzpatrick, president, offered greetings from her club and the program consisted of a monologue by Mrs. Caroll Wilder, soprano solos by Mrs. Miller H. Gravenstine, accompanied by Mrs. Henry Vance, and a one-act play by Mrs. James Molnar and Mrs. Belin Powell. During the business session donations were .voted by the members for tHe Research Department for the Vineland Training School and the Penny Art Fund of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs. (Continued on Page Four)

Building And Loan Merger Approved The proposed merger of the Cape May Building arid Loan Association and the Wildwood Savings and Loan Association was approved by stockholders of -the Cape_ Mav organization at a meeting Monday night and by stockholders of the Wildwood association Tuesday, officers of the organizations announced this week. The merger has been submitted to the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance for approval and will not ht finally completed until the state agency has approved the plans. Approximately 50 stockholders attended the Cape May association meeting at city hall Monday evening and the vote for the merger was unanimous.

INCOME TAX REPORTS PREPARED 3 MORE.. DAYS Call Keystone Phone 900—Bell 90 Dally 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. FOR APPOINTMENT Evenings Keystone 681 Honrs Saturdays 9 A.M. to 4 PJK. Honrs Sundays 49 A.M. to 2 P.M. PAUL SNYDER, SI Perry Street, Cape May. N. J.

Curb On Fishing Boats Eased By Navy Officials The restrictions on sports fishing, announced recently by the U. S. Coast Guard, have been eased along the New Jersey and Delaware coasts, it was disclosed in Philadelphia late last week. The Fourth Naval District "has lifted some of the restrictions and announced new regulations to govern party and charter boat fishing. The regulations will become effective April 1, and copies of the new regulations have been issued by Captain E. A. Coffin, captain of the Coast Guard offices in Philadelphia. From now on every boat operator, captain or member of the crew will have a Coast Guard identification card. These cards will contain photographs and fin-ger-prints of the persons to qrhom they are issued. The cards will be issued at Captain Coffin’s offices in Philadelphia or at his assistant’s office in the Coast Guard staj^n at Atlantic City' or other stations in the district. Application blanks for these cards will be available at each of the offices. Passengers or guests on party charter boats will not be required to carry identification cards, but the captain or owner of the boat will be held responsible for his list. All boats passed for “duty*’ will be given licenses. The license will state definitely whether the boat is allowed outside or whether it must remain on inland waters. All boats will be subject to complete inspection as to their condition for ‘ offshore activity. Boats that are not up to rejuirements will be allowed only in the inland waters. The general regulations issued this week state: "No vessel owned wholly or in part by an enemy alien, or operated by an enemy alien, will be permitted to operate in the ter(Continued on Page Four)

Fund Increases For War Relief Cape May’s Red Cross War Relief drive is rapidly approaching its *$1,600 goal set by the National Committee at Washington. The total collected to date amounts to $1,398.54, leaving the im of $201.46 yet to be raised. Miscellaneous contributions will probably reduce this balance somewhat, said Dr. Edward E. Pickard, chairman of the local drive, but the local committee is depending in a large measure on the benefit card party which will be held in St. Mary’s Hall on March 25, to whittle away a substantial portion of the deficit. The card party will be sponsored by John Hunter, proprietor of Jac Key’s Beauty Salon, who promises a wide choice of prizand refreshments. Admission will be 35 cents, including tax, and play will begin at 8:30 p.m. "In the event the amount raised by the proposed card party insufficient to meet the presdeficit, the Army and Navy teams have agreed to put on a return basketball match. Those who saw the first game were treated to a thriller and to the contestants and the audience goes the thanks of the Red Cross for the substantial contributions to the War Relief drive,” Dr. Pickard said. Individual contributions of $10 each were also received recently from Mrs. Albert R. Granger, Mrs. Mattie S. Sweeney and Rose Nalley, of Moylan, Pa.

New Picture Service Added For Readers Adding to its coverage of local and Cape May County news, The Star and Wave this week starts publication of a number of carefully selected, up-to-the-minute photographs of world news pictures. With modern war and other events spanning continents and our previous confines generally extended to take in the whole of civilzation, it is felt that these s pictures will help to broaden our coverage, adding world news in its most acceptable form —photographs—to our complete coverage of local events. This added feature is for YOU. Tell us if you like it

Plan Dinner-Meet • The annual dinner meeting of the Cape May County Association of District Boards of Education will be held at Cape May Court House on April 23, Everett J. Jerrell, of Cape May, veteran president of the association, announced today. Arrangements for the program are being made at present, Mr. Jerrell said.

Dummy Periscope

A submarine torpedoman Is shown here with a dummy ‘‘periscope,” found floating near Pearl Harbor. Designed to lure army and navy patrols into wa. 'X bombs, the device resembles II Xual gear of a full-scale submarine. It Is held upright la the water by means of coral weights and tin cans. This "sub" fooled nobody but the Japs.

Ration Boards Meet Friday Members of Cape May County's 16 rationing boards will meet at Cape May Court House tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. to hear state rationing officials explain the new regulations on sugar and to clarify other problems which confront them, it was announced late last week. Similar meetings will be held every county in the state. William J. Walters, executive assistant to the state rationing administrator, and George M. Hillman, director in charge of the state’s car rationing, will be present and will speak. It is also hoped that Miss Irma Nowell, state sugar rationing director, may be able to attend. Rationing of sugar is expected ' be started in this area within the next few weeks. Supplies of ration books for sugar and other commodities which may soon be addetbvto the list of rationed materials have been sent to County Clerk Stirling W. Cole at Cape May Court House where they will 1 be kept until the rationing program gets under way.

County Firemen At Cape May Meeting More than 100 members of the Cape May Courtly Firemen’s Association gathered in St. Mary's Hall, Cape May, last night for their regular monthly mectinig. Volunteer fire companies in virtually all Cape May County communities were represented at the meeting. Fire Chief Charles L. Nickerson, of Wildwood, president of the association, presided at the session. Cape May's Fire Chief William B. Gilbert, vice president of the county association, reported on a meeting of the state executive board at Newark which he attended recently, at which time the board discussed a proposal to grant service continuity to membei*s who have been or will be called into service with some branch of the United States armed forces.

Friends Coning Here In July For Conference The Executive Committee of the Friends’ General Conference met Friday in Philadelphia and agreed to continue with plans for the conference to be held in Cape May during the approaching summer. The decision was made following a survey of conditions in Cape May and a canvass of the Conference membership, accord,ing to a letter received by the city commission Monday from J. Barnard Walton, secretary of the Conference. Mr. Walton wrote: “We will idapt our program to the present situation. We desire to have ,a Junior Conference, High School Section. Young Friends’ group, round tables and genera] sessions as in previous years. Each group will adapt its program to the needs of the present," Mr. Walton said the usual forms will be sent to Cape May hotels about April 1 to secure the rates they expect to give Conference delegates this summer. Under plans started last fall, the Conference will be held in Cape May July 6 to July 13 inclusive.

Cole Speaks At PTA Meeting County Clerk Stirling W. Cole, of Ocean City, a well known authority on Indian lore in South Jersey, addressed the monthly meeting of the Lower Township Parent-Teachers Association which was held at Consolidated School last Tuesday. Mrs. Anna Elliott, president of the association, presided. Lower Township teachers will take charge of the April meeting, it was announced. Mrs. John B. Kaighn, chairman of the Cape May County Council of Parent-Teachers Associations, announced that April 9 has been set as the date of the next county council meeting. The session will be held in West Cape May. April 22 is the date of the southern conference meeting at Bridgeton. Mrs. Mildred Halbruner, chairman of the county agriculture supper, and Mrs. James Matthews, chairman of the Board of Education Dinner, were honored by the association for their work.

Held After Stabbing Sister Karl A. Lindholm, 19, of Rio Grande, was sent to Annandale reformatory yesterday for classification and examination, after his arrest on a charge of atrocious assault and battery following the stabbing of his 11-year-old sister, Ruth. The child was stabbed in the forehead with a knife weilded, police said, by her brother, a former star athlete of Middle Township High School. The youth told the court he was overcome by an uncontrollable .desire to injure his sister. The stabbing occurred Saturday. Leon Storer Stiles, colored, of Cape May, was sentenced to Rahway reformatory after he had plead guilty to breaking and entering a local home.

ASK WOMEN TO SEW Women are needed at the Red Cross sewing rooms on Decatur street to make pajamas and towels for use at the Cape May Naval base, officers of the local branch announced this week. The sewing rooms are open every day.

WLouy&i (pAnAAeA Mtsmpl (DcfcwM (fo&a StaiuA di&toL Efforts to have Cape May de- i

dared a defense area were continued late last week by Msyor .T. Millet Hand, of Cape May. who communicated with Captain H. B. Mecleary, Commander of the Navy Inshore Patrol here, and Lieutenant Commander Paul C. Warner, new commandant at the Naval Air Station here, asking their support in the attempt. In a letter to the Navy officers, _.ie Mayor pointed out that housing facilities for Naval personnel during the summer season were likely to be extremely scarce due to the normal influx of summer visitors to this resort. T have been much concerned reports concerning housing shortages for military personnel now stationed in Cape May,” the Mayor wrote. “A casual inspection will reveal numbers of vacant houses - so that a housing shortage is not apparent on superficial inspection. However, the empty houses, for the most part, are houses built for and available only as summer cottages, and in many cases are not available for rent at all Adequately

built, comfortably heated houses are now in acute demand, and I am informed that the demand considerably exceeds the present

supply.

“The development of new houses undertaken by Mr. Walter Heroquist, of Maryland and Idaho avenues, have erected in the last few months 42 completed houses, some few of which are still in the course of construction. “Every one of these have been sold and 70 per cent of the completed houses are occupied by government employees. In at least 12 cases the occupants have leases which will require them to vacate at the beginning of the summer season. Where those people will go or how you comfortably house sdditional office personnel, is becoming, in my judgment, a problem. "For some time I have been In correspondence with the Defense Housing Coordinator in an attempt to have Cape May declared a defense area so that srioritiea (Continued on Paga Eight)

Senate Basses

Bill For

Cape

Canal Property A bill appropriating $100,600 for the purchase of rights-of-way for the proposed Cape May County canal was passed by the New Jersey Senate Monday and was sent to the Assembly for final

action.

The measure, sponsored by Senate President I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, is designed to provide money with which the state may purchase canal rights of way and make settlements with those whose properties will be affected by the canal project Passage of the measure by the Assembly is expected to complete New Jersey’s legislative program preparatory to start of work on the project Expect Action Soon Early Congressional action is expected go measures which include federal authorization of the project Congress is scheduled to act shortly on the Rivers and Harbors bill which was introduced some time ago. An alternative, streamlined waterway bill was introduced last week for Congressional consideration. The new bill eliminates many of the controversial projects contained in the original Rivers and Harbors measure. The alternative bill includes authorization for the Cape May County canal, federalization of the New Jersey inland waterway and a $71,000 appropriation for dredging of Cape May inlet. Congressional leaders said the streamlined measure contains only projects generally agreed to be vital to the nation's defense interests. Construction of the cross-coun-ty canal, from Cape May Harbor to Delaware Bay, is expected to start immediately after federal authorization of the project has been given. Replying to a petition recently filed with him concerning plans for the canal, Lieutenant Colonel H. B. Vaughan, Jr., district Army engineer, this week said that a bridge will be constructed over the proposed canal at Old Seashore Road.

Spotters Have First Rally The first rally of the volunteer workers of Lower Township’s airplane observation post was held in Consolidated School, Cold Spring, Thursday night Randall Elliott, chairman of the Civilian Defense Council, introduced Mrs. Marion Corson, chief of the Erma post, and the following program was given under her leadership: Singing and flag salute led by Miss Alberta Simpkins and followed by a stirring address by Edward Nestor, a past commander of the Wildwood American Legion post "We are in the front line trenches as much as those in actual combat,” Mr. Nestor said. "To this we cannot dose our eyes and we as civilians have a job to do as well as they if our land is to be protected.” Visiting chief observers were introduced and spoke briefly. They included Mr. Ev-ns, Swainon; Arthur Perreten, South Sea•ille; Mr. Spaulding, Mayville, and others. Major Bassett, of Wildwood, stressed the fact that cooperation must be given by all who work at the observation posts.

Seek Federal Funds - For Defense Here An attempt to obtain for Cape May part of a proposed $100,000,000 federal fund for Civilian Defense was launched this week by the City Commission. In a letter to Congressman Elmer H. Wene, the Mayor requested a copy of a Congressional bill which would set up such a fund to finance the defense program. “I note particularly a portion of the second paragraph of your letter reading ’It definitely appears that the two prime factors to be taken into account in the matter of allocations will be proximity of cities and towns to the coast and the amount of defense work in the different localities.’ 'From this it would certainly appear that Cape May is entitled to an allocation which might be out of all proportion to any peace time standard,’’’ the Mayor observed.

Receives Token John S. Burch, of Paulaboro, was presented with a Fifty Year Token at Tuesday night’s meeting of the Cape Island Lodge, No. 80, F. and A. M. Accompanying Mr. Burch to Cape May for the presentation were Samuel Duncan, Frank Pole, " ry Everingham and Albert S. all of r * *