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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1942

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New Orders On Shore Dim-Out Put In Effect New and specific dim-out instructions were issued on Friday by Leonard Dreyfuss, chairman of the New Jersey State Defense Council, to all local council chairmen and municipal officials of this state’s seashore communities, calling for strict adherence to Army and Navy demands concerning reduction of glare as a protection to coastal shipping. “The Army is making urgent demands upon us to take such measures as will lessen the daily catastrophies to American shipping,’' Dreyfuss explained in a telegram to defense officials. "We want you to know that we have made urgent requests' that freighters travel by day and tis up at night. The Army and Navy state that this would be impossible as it would have the same effect as a 60_ per cent loss of our vital shipping. This shipping must be protected. “The following is a list of the specific measures the Army and Navy demand that we carry out along our Atlantic coast. "Extinguish - permanently or obscure from observation from seaward all lights on boardwalks and highways extending along the shoreline. "Extinguish permanently a 11 lighted display advertising signs. “Regulate the lighting of all shop windows, amusement places, etc. so that no direct lighting is visible from seaward and that an excessive degree of indirect illumination is avoided. “Require that all windows visible from seaward be so darkened as to be invisible at a distance of one mile. «* "Reduce the amount of overhead glare by ’reducing the intensity of lighting along all interior streets and highways except those necessary to permit (Continued on Page Four)

Safety Drive Urged By Prosecutor Calling for additional precautions to avoid accidents during dim-outs, Prosecutor French B. Loveland yesterday contacted all Cape May County police chiefs and law enforcement officers urging them to tighten enforcement of all traffic laws. “More stringent steps to guard against motor vehicle accidents are needed At this time because of the dim-out restrictions recently invoked,” Loveland explained. "We cannot stress too strongly the need for increased caution in driving and walking along streets and highways and for observing strictly all traffic regulations designed to enhance the public safety.” Loveland urged law enforcement officers to stress strict compliance with traffic laws requiring moderate speed and obser- ' vance of stop street signs at all Intersections. Pedestrians, too, Loveland said, must be more careful because of the added hazards.

Order Numbers Being Arranged By Local Board Official order numbers of men who registered in the third national draft •registration recently will not be available until the end of next weeMwjfficials of Local Board Number Two, in charge of Selective Service in this area, announced today. A master list of order numbers was received by the Local Board Tuesday afternoon after it had been transmitted to this city from state draft headquarters at Trenton. Before the order numbers are official they must be tabulated, matched with serial numbers previously assigned and officially listed by the board, a process which board officials said would consume probably a week to 10 days of clerical work. Since the national lottery last Tuesday headquarters of the board has been beseiged with telephone calls from men who have registered inquiring as to their order numbers. ^Jt will be impossible to have any official order numbers ready before April 4,” said Miss Margaret McCullough, clerk of the board. As work started on the tabulation of order numbers, board officials this week began preparations for the mailing of occupational questionnaires to all men registered in the third registration in accordance with a new draft set-up. Questionnaires will be mailed at the rate of 160 a day to new registrants, seeking information about their skills and ability in order to classify them for possible types of service. Similar questionnaires will be issued later to men who regTstered in the first two registrations. No definite information concerning the fourth registration of men has been received by the Local Board as yet, although President Roosevelt recently set April 27 as the date for registering all men between the ages of 45 and 65.

Draft Board Upheld In Appeal Case Local Board Number Two in charge of administration of the Selective Service Jaw in the southern section of Cape May County was sustained this week in a ruling on another appeal filed cently by a registrant seeking a change of classification. The Appeals Board in session at Camden this week ruled that Charles Zaberer, 25, of 214 East Glen wood avenue, Wildwood, had been properly classified as a 1-A registrant by the local board. Zaberer recently ftfid" an appeal, claiming Jhat he should be given a-^gfen-Ja - rating because - — yf n'Vufmber of dependents whom he said he was supporting. Zaberer, a sign painter, is at present, in Miami, Florida. Express Sorrow At Death Of Albright Cap© May's city commission on Friday adopted a resolution of condolence and dispatched it to the widow and other surviving relatives of the l»te William H. Albright, New Jersey state treasurer, who died suddenly last Monday night. Other Cape May County municipal governing bodies have adopted similar resolutions of — pect and the Cape my Coi Board of Freeholders adopted a resolution of that nature last Mr. Albright was well known in Cape May County where he and his family had been summer residenta for many years. He was recognised as the Republican leader of South Jersey and was well known in official and political circles in this county.

Jury Lists To Be Drawn Wednesday Lists of grand ,and petit jurors for the spring court term in Cape May County will be drawn on Wednesday at Cape May Court House by Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens and Frank Hollingsead, jury commissioner, it was announced today. Cape May County's new termof court will open Tuesday,“April 14, with the swearing in of a new grand jury. Prosecutor French B. Loveland said today. The present grand jury - panel probably will be recalled in the next week or tw(T for the purpose of cleaning up all pending cases which need consideration. This will start the new jury with a clean slate.

Submit Reports On Kiwanis Activity Reports covering the first quarter of the current year were presented last night by committee chairmen at the regular weekly meeting of the Cape May Kiwania Club. “The Ninth Inning”, an official baseball picture sponsored by the American League, will be shown at next week’s club meeting. The picture is dedicated to the memory of the late Lou Gehrig, one of baseball’s greatest stars. Arrangements for the picture were made by Steven J. Steger, a Kiwanian and athletic director of Cape May High School.

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JOHN J. SPENCER, JR. Chairman of Cape May’s Civilian Defense Council who will be principal speaker at the regular meeting of the Cape May County League of Municipalities at Cape May Court House tomorrow evening. Spencer will speak on defense problems affecting Cape May County communities. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m the Freeholders Room.

Will Examine Registrants " An undisclosed number of Selective Service registrants will be sent to Fort Dix for induction into the U. S. Army on April 23, it was learned here today, following announcement by the Lo< cal Draft Board that a group of 1-A registrants will be called for physical examination by board phvsicians tomorrow evening. Declining to reveal the number of men required in the call issued recently by the Army, local draft officials said the group would consist of less than 20 Those to be inducted April 23 will be the first Cape May Countv registrants to be inducted under the new system established recently by State Selective Service headquarters. The men who pass the physical examination tomorrow will be sent directly to Fort Dix for duction. Previously registrants who passed the examination locally went to Camden for a second examination by Army doctors and then returned to their homes for approximately four weeks before being called for induction. Thirty men from the southern section of the county will be ducted on April 3, draft board officials said.

Super Highway Along Coast Is Urged Proposals for construction of "Garden State Parkway”, a super highway from the New York State line down the Jersey coast to Cape May, are receiving widespread approval. The proposed highway has received the support of the New Jersey Roadside Council, of Princeton, the Regional Plan Association, Inc., of New York, and the State Federation of Women's Clubs. The proposal calls for a series of parkway and freeway parks, forming a continuous route, running from the New York State line down the Palisades to George Washington Bridge, via the Pleasant Valley Parkway to the south shore of New Jersey, intersecting trunk routes to the New York metropolitan areas, and tying in with the CamdenPhiladelphia area by means of the John Davidson Rockefeller Memorial Highway

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Cape May High School’s re-cently-organized school band will make its first public appearance tomorrow evening when it will give a concert in the auditorium of the high school. The concert is scheduled to start at 8:30. An impressive program of band music and martial airs has been arranged by Raymond W. Adams, director of the band, and the new musical organization has been practising intensively for its debut The public is invited to attend. Members of the band are Ted Thompson, Mary Baldwin, Stuart Cresse, Frank Engman, John Holloway, John Harris, Betty Weldon, Bruce Hand, Charles Hoffman, Donald Willson, Kennard Brown, Donald Plowman, Louis Corson. Donald Greenland, John Beach, David Collins, Joseph Murray, Charlotte Young, Eileen Foulk, Florence Fox, Eleanor Hiliman, Helen Bradley, Harvey Hawn, Eddie Miller, Julia Foxx, Mary Bradley, 'Bettv Walton, Martha Wise, Walter Trout, Peggy Otter, David Hart, Flor-

ence Wright and Isabel'Hand. There will be no admission charge for the band concert but a silver offering will be taken to help finance purchase of instruments, on which there is a balance of f 180 due. The Cape May Kiwanis Club has offered to help raise funds to purchase instruments for the band. To date the band has purchased five comets, two trombones, two altos, four clarinets, one drum, 12 music stands, and band music, bringing^ the total expenditure to (438. Instruments donated to the band are two comets, two altos, one baritone, two bass, one clarinet, one bass drum and one snare drum. Other instruments in the band are owned individually by members of the band. Uniforms for the 35 band members are being made by the Home Economics class at the high school, and materials are (Continued on Page Eight)

City Officials In Quandary On Pest Project Cape May officials this week were in a -quandary concerning the proposed (50,000 mosquito elimination project which was to have been put into operation in this vicinity this spring, following receipt of communications from the U. S. Public Health Bureau. A letter from bureau officials indicated that the federal health agency was withdrawing from all mosquito projects designed to eliminate the pests and would in the future confine its activities to reducing the threat of malarial mosquitoes in the southern states. The letter indicated that no U. S. Public Health Bureau financed projects would be carried on north of the state of Virginia. Possibility that the new. decision of the bureau might no^ eliminate its participation in the project scheduled for this area, however, was seen in a paragraph of the letter which pointed out that the decision might not affect projects under county or Mosquito Extermination Commission sponsorship, which have already been started. The project which was to have been placed in operation in this locality was to have been sponsored by the County Mosquito Commission. Plans for the project provided for a (50,000 program of drainage and mosquito elimination as a defense project to aid in reducing the mosquito annoyance in the area of the Cape May Naval base and nearby Army posts. The project was to have been centered in a seven-mile radius around Cape May and was believed to be one of the most comprehensive mosquito-elimina-tion projects eveq attempted • in this section.

Memorial For Navy Victims A memorial service for officers and 'men who lost their lives in the sinkings of the USS Jacob Jones and the USS Truxton were held on Sunday aboard the USF Constitution at the Navy Yard, Boston. The service, held at .10 a.m., was limited because of lack of space aboard the Constitution to members of the immediate families of the men honored, survivors of the sinkings, representatives of destroyers, Atlantic Fleet, and other Naval personnel. The services were conducted by Captain Herbert Dumatrey, ChC, U.S.N., chaplain of the First Naval District, and for the benefit of those unable t6 be present the ceremony was broadcast over station WAAB and the Colonial Network. The Jacob Jones, an old World War destroyer, was sunk by an enemy submarine off Cape May just before dawn of February 28. The Truxton, also a destroyer of World War I vintage, ran aground in foul weather off the coast of Newfoundland and was lost with heavy loss of life on February 23.

Sunrise Service At Avalon On Easter An interesting program is being arranged for-the annual Easter sunrise service to be held at Avalon under the auspices of the Young. People's Council of the Cape May County Council of Religious Education. ^ The service' will start at 6:34 war time Easter Sunday morning at 11th street and the boardwalk. The Rev. C. W. Dannenhauer, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Cape May Court House, will be the speaker. The music will include numbers by a cornetist and a chorus of 50 voices. Miss Mary Lee Tatum, of Seavillc, heads the committee in charge of the program.

Attention, Women Of Cape May A large rush order for pajamas and surgical dressings for the Naval Base has been received by the Production Department of the Red Cross Branch. All women who can give the time to it are wanted to help_ .complete this. There towels to be hemmed pajamas to be made those who wish to sew. If you can’t sew, come sfed roll bandages on the new roller bandage machines or make other dressings. If you have a white drees or hoover apron, wear it If you have no white dress, wear a clean wash dress. Don’t let the lack of a uniform keep you away. Charlotte K. Stevens Production Chairman.

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Community Club Reciprocity Day Here Next Week The annual 'Reciprocity Day of the Cape May Women’s Community Club will be held on Tuesday, March 31, with members of all clubs in the county attending both morning and afternoon sions. The morning session, in the First Methodist Church, will begin at 10:30 and luncheon will be served at 12:30 by the Women’s Society of Christian Service of that church. Luncheon reservation may be made with Mrs. William Stevens, telephone Keystone 4871. Mrs. Charles B. Shields, program chairman, has announced an interesting program for the morning session, at which Mrs. James C. Hand, president of the dub, will preside. Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens, Mrs. Allan Willson and Mrs. Wallace Douglass are among those participating in the program. Mrs. Wilson Y. Christian, Second District Vice President, will extend greetings to the dubs. Mrs. Patrick Henry Adams, past president of the New Jersey Federation, will speak on “The Consumer in Defense", and Mrs. Howard B. Hancock, Second District Chairman of the American Home Department, will spdhk on “Home—Our Heritage”. Through the courtesy of a Philadelphia department store, a fashion show will be presented at 1:30 in the Acme Store building. The show will be open to the public and no admission will be charged.

May 4-7 Dates For Registration In Sugar Ration Set-Up The civilian registration required in connection with the sugar rationing program is how scheduled to take place from May 4 to May 7, inclusive. Full instructions on the part the public school teachers of the state will play in the program have been sent to county and city school supervisors by Mrs. Irma Nowell, deputy state rationing administrator. ' I The Office of Price Administra-

Churches Unite For Holy Week

Institute In County Today Women from all sections of Cape May County are attending the annual Homemakers’ Spring Institute which opened this morning at Cape May Court House for an all-day session. The institute is sponsored by the Cape May County Home Economics Extension Service. Opening at 10:15 this morning with registration, the institute program consisted of the showing of the film “The Y ^ en ant ^ t ! ,e V Women”, produced by the Westinghouse Electric Co. and shown by a representative of the Cape May County publicity department. The picture presented current nutritional information in an interesting, practical and understandable way. Following the showing of the film, Miss Lucile Brewer, of the G.L.F. Co., Ithaca, N. Y., showed the ease in working with yeast products during a demonstration in which she used whole wheat and enriched flour. Since 1937 Miss Brewer been in charge of G.L.F.’a test kitchen at Terrace Hill House, Ithaca. She was formerly one of the leading workers in the New York State College of Home Economics and the director of (Continued on Page Four)

Barbour Fighting Tax On Bonds Cape May’s recent protest against a Congressional proposal to make municipal bonds taxable by the federal government was answered late last week with an expression of vigorous opposition to the measure by U. S. Senator W. Warren Barbour. In a telegram to the city commission, Barbour said: “I am opposing the proposed tax on municipal bonds as a dangerous, unjustified invasion of the rights of states and their subdirisions.” In protesting passage of the Congressional bill which would remove municipal bonds from the tax exempt category, the commissioners pointed out that such a change would increase the difficulty of disposing of municipal bonds in the future and would break faith with holders of bonds previously issued.

Cape May churches will again observe the holy period which brings to a consummation the Lenten season. Union services will be held on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of next week at 7:30 pan. in the First Methodist Church. “This year,” said the Rev. Samuel Blair, pastor of the host church, “with our eyes gazing eagerly and pitifully across the sea in both directions, where pillaged towns and wrecked homes cover the land, and where the roads are filled with heart-sick, homeless, hungry seekers after peace and a place to rest their weary heads, we should be moved to pause at the shrine of worship during the holiest week of the Christian year to thank the Redeemer for the supreme sacrifice of Calvary, to reflect upon our own lives and how we may render richer service to God and humanity and to offer gratitude for the fact that we. are alive amid all the destruction and annihilation that prevails around us.” Mr. Blair related^ having received a church bulletin from a parishioner sojourning in Florida for the winter. In the letter, the friend stated: “Wish you northern ministers could see the mass of people who stand outside the church that I attend each Sunday morning waiting to get in to the second service. Unless we get in to the first service we are roped out, (Continued on Page Five)

last Saturday that no sugar will be available between April 28 and May 6, date the sugar rationing program becomes effective. John E. Hamm, assistant price administrator, announced that all sugar stocks would be “frozen" as of April 28. No sales will be permitted to anyone after that date without a ration book. And no individual consumer will be able to use his ration book until after May 6, meaning one week without sugar sales in a nation that used 7,900,000 tons last year. Prior to the announcement of the freezing date, Frank Bane, national OPA field director, set April 28 and 29 as the dates for commercial concerns to register for sugar coupons and May 4 to 7 for the registration of individ-

ual consumers.

Bane characterized it as “the biggest registration job ever attempted in this country.” He explained that, it would exceed the selective service registrations in number of persons affected and the national census in the amount of information required on every resident in the country. After individual consumers get their ration books from school teachers, who will conduct the registration in their classrooms^ each person will be allowed either one pound of sugar every two weeks or three-quarters of a

pound each week.

The exact amount has not been set definitely because the supply (Continued on Page Four)

Good Season Is Predicted Here Predicting a good season for Cape May County summer resorts, J. O- Hackenberg, general manager of the PennsylvaniaRcading Seashore Lines, late last week said he felt the war would have little harmful effect on vacation season. Most prospective vacationists are not changing their plans for the summer season in the Philadelphia area, Hackenberg said. He declared there are more rumors and war consciousness ir seashore resorts than in Philadelphia and other large cities. “The average prospective visitor seems conscious of the fact that the seashore is not a military objective,” he said, pointing out that he meets a large crosssection of the traveling public. “These persons to whom I have spoken are not changing their normal plans of a summer destination this season. In fact, 1 believe that but one war factor will control vacation travel and that is a desire to keep closer to home cities instead of making extensive tours as some vacationists have done heretofore.”

Dreher Promoted Norman A. Dreher, of Cape May, who was stationed at the Cape May Coast Guard base for several years and later served aboard the cutter Mohawk here, has received a commission as an ensign, it was learned yesterday. Ensign Dreher is now on duty with the North Atlantic patrol and his home port at present is Newfoundland. Mrs. Dreher is making her home in Cape May.

PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Good Friday, occurring on April 3, 1942, will be universally celebrated throughout the Christian world; and WHEREAS, All of the Churches of the City have special services; and WHEREAS, it seems to me fitting and proper that business activities in the City should be suspended for the purpose of marking the great significance of this day; NOW THEREFORE, I, T. Millet Hand, Mayor of the City of Cape May, do hereby proclaim Good Friday, April 3, a holiday, and request that business activities cease between the hours of 12:00 and 8:00, so that all citizens may have the opportunity appropriately to observe the occasion.

Withdraws Name For Harmony Senator I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, president of the upper house of the New Jersey Legislature, this week withdrew as a contender for appointment to the position of New Jersey state treasurer. Scott was prominently mentioned early in the week as a possible Republican choice for the position. Senator 'Robert C. Hendrickson, of Gloucester County, former Senate president and e-time candidate for the governorship, was also mentioned. In a statement Tuesday, Scott said he was withdrawing in favor of Senator Hendrickson, who will probably be appointed to the post by a joint session of the Legislature early next week. The position was left vacant last week by the sudden death of William H. Albright, of Woodbury, long-time Republican leader of South Jersey. Senator Scott said his withdrawal was made in the interests of Republican party harmony. With both Scott and Hendrickson in the field for the appointment, Republican leaders of the state were divided on their choice, and some state house observers predicted an open split in party ranks should Scott insist on the appointment.

Two Groups Finish Red Cross Classes Groups of Cape May and West Cape May women have completed home hygiene and home nursing classes conducted by Miss Katheryn Hyneman, of West Cape May, under the auspices of the American Red Cross) during recent weeks, it was announced today. The Cape May group consists of Mrs. Laura W. Hand, Mrs. Mary P. VanBuskirk, Mrs. Elsie P. Arnold, Mrs. Margaret Hough, Mrs. Lillian P. Macpherson, Mrs. Edith. Miller, Mrs. Emily Engman, Mrs. Edith Hahn, Mrs. Marguerite Lundholm, Mrs. Jean Smith, Mrs. Algebra Pharo, Mrs. Shirley Moremen, Mrs. May Brown, Sister Agatha Dolores and Sister Regina Marie. The West Cape May group consists of Mrs. Reba Bennett, Mrs. Mildred Bush, Mrs. Lida Daebler, Mrs. Helen Franz, Mrs. Helen Hawley, Mrs. Blanche Fox, Mrs. Justina Hughes, Mrs. Hulda Lemunyon, Mrs. Ada Lafferty, Mrs. Anne McPherson, Mrs. Elizabeth Reed, Mrs. Helen McCullough, Mrs. Mildred Moss, Mrs. Lottie Springer, Mrs. Marguerite Williams, Mrs. Alberta Hand and Mrs. Elsie Hall.

Basketball game and dance SatnHav evening, March 28, High Re*-rw»l gymnasium 7:80 P.M. Army Big Guns vs. the Nary.—Adv.