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CAPE MAY. NSW JERSEY, THURSDAY, APRIL J. 1942'

Chemical Plant CanstructioR Is Progressing Cape May Ccrauty's newest indnatry, the miDioD-dollar chemieai attraction plan); 'Tender eon* strnetkm Ln Lower Township, is rapidly taking form m constrnetion of the huge storage tasks

To date, six of the smaller tanks, ranging In diameter from SO to 46 feet, have been construe-, sd, and It b planned to pour concrete for others within the next

week or 10 days.

With axoww of 160 workmen, eompoeed of approximately 100 laborers, 30- carpenters and 30 ateef workers, the construction feat* is working steadily to complete construction of the 20 large concrete tanks, four steel tanks and three large buildings which will compose the chemical plant BUILDING FOUNDATIONS Grading and other preliminary work is well under way, and concrete foundations for the various

construction.

According to present plans and the progress schedule completed this week, it is expected that the plant will be in operation some time in August. Lack of inclement., weather during the past winter «fajd the approach of warm weather gave rise to predictions this Sweek that tile production schedule will be followed closely. TO INSTALL PIPES Huge intake and outfall pipes which will draw sea water from Delaware Bay into the extraction chambers and return the unused water to the bay will be installed during May or June, according to present plans of the sub-contract-or who will be in charge of the pipe installation. The chemical plant, being constructed by the Northwest Mag,-/ neaite Company, a subsidiary of a large Pittsburgh stehl firm, will extract magnesite from sea water. The product is used in the manufacture of steel. There will also be a by-product which will be important to the agricultural interests of Cape May County, it

was said.

Spring Court Tern Jury Panels Drawn Grand and petit jury panels for the spring court term were drawn yesterday at Cape May Court House by Sheriff F. Mulferd Stevens and Jury Commissioner Frank L. Hollingsead. before Common Pleas Court. Judge Thomas G.

Siddatl.

The ’grand jury panel follows: Olive Halbnmer, Cold Spring; Margaret Coombs, Wildwood Crest; Albert S. Bailie, Wildwood Crest; Walter A. Dittrich, Ocean City; Samuel Coombs, Wildwood; Mark Frymixe, Cape May; Raymond Westcott, South SravQle; Edna Beeotte, Ocean City;

Ask FBI Probe

About

Shore Resorts An FBI 'investigation to determine whether or not enemy agents are respormbtfe for false rumors concerning the effect of the war on New Jersey’s seashore resorts was suggested Tuesday by Thomas S. Dignan, staff director of the State Defense Council. Dignan said enemy agentsmight be responsible for “malicious, exaggerated reports” that i the Jersey coast would be virtually dosed this summer for recreational purposes. CITES RUMORS He listed among “unfounded rumors", that the ocean was cov-

Churches Mark Easter Season With Special Services Climaxing a sferies of special Holy Week service*, May churches are planning extensive services on Sun>‘ mark the religious significance of Raster Sunday. annual three-hour Good Friday church service wiD be in the First Methodist Church tomorrow from 12 to S p. rau, it was announced this week — — L --

by the Kev. Samuel Blair,

ROBERT C. HENDRICKSON State Senator from Gloucester County and one of the Republican leaden of New Jersey who on Monday was unanimously elected. by the Legislature to succeed the late Wilflam H Albright as New Jersey .gSat^treasurer. Hendrickson, uHgttjpksfu! candidate for govern^}?'ipMWO, is well known in Capo Stay County. He plans to remain in the Legislature for 60 days to complete action on numerous pending biHs and to finish committee work on a study of the need for a, constitutional convention in this state. The vote for HendrickajjA was 69-0, as a re«ultj?L-the withdrawal of Senator 1. Grant Scott, who threw his support to his friend and colleague in the interest of party

harmony.

'beaches^were entirely restricted,

House^RuaseUCrane. 2E 1 Sr^Sv^t G^n ret Citv: Estella Kairim. Cold Snrinu: for lhe erlenIy - th . at GeI ™ T1

Permit Farmers To Exceed Allotments

Many Attend Club Session

The annual Reciprocity Day of the Cape May Woman's Community Club was held here'Tuesday with many guests from all parts

of the county attending.

Mrs. James C. 1 Hand, club president, presided at the . session. Mrs. Wilson Y. Christian, Second District vice president, greeted the dub members. She was followed by. Mrs. Patrick Henry Adams, general federation chair-

man - of Consumer Problems.

Mrs. Adams, pas^ president of the state Federation of Women's Clubs, discussed rationing prob-

Potato growers who do not ex- lenm in relation to consumers and eeed their U. S. Department of' stressed the need for careful buy-

1 ■ - . •’ ■ ing.

Mrs. Howard B. Hancock, Second District . chairman of American Home, spoke briefly on

home interests. •

Private Paul Enginneri, of the U. S. Army, sang three selections. He was accompanied by Mrs. Wallace Douglass at the

piano.

Luncheon was served by the Women’s Society for Christian Service of the First Methodist Church, - after which a fashion show was presented in the Acme Building by a Philadelphia de-

partment store.

Daytime and evening clothes were modeled by a number of

Cape May residents.

Agriculture allotments more than 10 per cent will not be penalized for dbing so, recent orders from the War Department, announced. This allows Cape May County fanners to plant to the full allotment without being penalized If the fields prove on measurement to be slightly larger than

eatimatedl

A. S. Walker, chairman of the Cape May County Agricultural Conservation Association, this week advised farmers not to exceed their potato allotments more than five to eight per cent', if they desire payments. He particularly advised allotment farmers in the program not to raise more than three

acres.

They are free to raise tip to three acres without allotments. For each tenth-acre over three acres, the penalty runs approxi- . mately $3-2.1). that asm being, deducted from any conservation payment

Red Men To Rally At PEeasantvilic Section Number 4 of the New Jersey Improved Order of Red Men. ccnaisting of, tribes in Atlantic, Cape May and Ocean Countiee, will hold a sectional meeting in wigwam of - Cfcynga Trtte No. 46, I.O.OF. -Hall, First street and Washington avenue, •JMcisraitrate:' this evening --Great Incohonee Edward W-Deox, of Dayton, Ohio, and Groat Sachem Robert Shrage will be the speaker's of the sleep. TheH will be adoption of- 50 palefaces, vaudeville and refreshments. The entire board of Great Chiefs of the .Great Council of New Jersey will be in attendance. The meeting .will be conducted by P. S. William Thielkhig, president of the Orphans Board. Seek Mere Air Raid Wardoes For City \\ An, appwl for additional volun'tojff air raid wardens was sound«8 today by John J. Spencer, Jr., (chairman of the Cape May Local ttefenae Council. ) Approxinsetoly 70 wardens are now receiving instruction, but a trial of 9S m required to cover the community thoroughly, Spender explained. Men or women •••era urged to volunteer for warden duty , Thews desiring to join .*he waweB eon* wmi aoakato witfa apeooer.

City; Estella Kaighn, Cold Spring; Wiliam L. Coe,' South Seaville. Howard Everingham, Wildwood; Abraham Levy, Woodbine;

Rasmussen, Wildwood;

George W. Southwick, Wildwood; Edward P. Griffin, Cape. May; Zalman Gabis, Woodbine; Theodore G. Dillon, Rio Grande; John J. Friel, Ocean City; Raymond Dixon, Denniaville; Esther Hamburg, Wildwood Crest; Lida I. Koeneke, Wildwood; Joseph Gibson, North Wildwood; Joseph F. Clark, Wildwood; Robert A. Swain, Sr., West Cape May; Marie Huppert, Wildwood; William C. Heilman, Wildwood; John Kinkade, Wildwood; Luther A. Struthers. Sea Isle City; Adalbert Halbruner, Cape May; Joseph E.

Olwell, Wildwood.

The petit jury panel follows: David A. Wainwright, Oce^n City; Clayton Hickman, South Dennis; Harold S. Simpson, Sea Isle City; Etta Mackie, Eldora; Bernard Abramson, Woodbine; (Continued on Pago Five)

Award Contracts For

Pre-Season Prograi

Preparing for the approaching summer vacation season, Cape May s city commission on Friday awarded two season-work contracts and discussed plans for

other pre-season projects.

Contract for the furnishing of 100 tons of gravel to be used

maintenance work on city

streets was awarded to John Pelto, of Ocean City, on Ws low bid

of 91,880.

Other bids submitted for the gravel Were: Monihan Contracting Co.. Ocean City, $11960; Olin S. Woolson, Wildwood, $2,200. Contract for the city’s 1942 adertising program was awarded to the Resort Advertising Agency, of Wildwood, on its bid of

$2,280.41. j

Other bid* submitted were: Joseph CR. Jacoby, Wildwood, $2,511.15; Dorland Advertising Agency, City, $2,947 with j

campaign at $2,455.

Work on the oiling of. unpaved sections of New York avenue, Gueraey street and Stockton avenue will start early this month, Commissioner George P. • WeuttdlJ director of public works, an-

as under the direction of *Mrs. ^ meette ^ Charles B. Shields. program *“■<** to finance the oiling chairman. Approximately 100 1 ® ark *>« token from the clubwomen attended the motibw *».*» state-aid road .maiutenseasion and 200 attended the af- ! an« fund, Wentzell said,

ternoon faahson : show.

Fasbiosi show models were Mrs. Otarie* Shields, Mrs. Ofaf C. Olsen, Mr*. Elizabeth Laker, Mrs. Charles Swain, Mrs. ' Keoneth

marines were only a half • mile off shore; and that all lighting

had to be extinguished.

“All these report*," Dignan said, “are the figment of the imagination of a person or persons trith a perverted sense of humor' and are circulated for no good'purpose, apparently aimed at Injuring business and morale.

URGES FBI ACTION

“These false rumors have been sufficiently serious in -the past few days to warrant investigktion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine if they were put in circulation by enemy

agents."

The’dimout of beachfront lighting, he added, is working effectively, with only isolated cases of failure to shade lights on the ocean side to protect shipping. Hotel owners and sign operators, hp added, are cooperating whole-

heartedly/

The Defense Council, he reiterated. had not ordered an absolute blackout, and reports of such a move were false and possibly designed to affect morale of shore ’ ’isitors, resort home owners and

msiness people.

Cape May's city officials, have led nil Atlantic coast resorts in recent efforts to overcome false rumors about the seashore.

Lodge Buys Building Mayflower . Lodge, I&8, Inde-

Miller, Mr*. Byron. S'. Jeffers, j pendent Order of: Odd Feltows.

Mrs- John Mo reman, Mrs. John McNaita. Mrs. John Mitchell- and the Miase* Elizabeth BeUangy, Dorothy Reeves, Rosalie Haines

and Stephanie Doherty.

Sunrise Service In Park On Easter For the fifth consecutive year, ah Easter sunrise, service will be held at West Cape May’s Wilbraham Park under the auspices of the West Cape May Union Chapel on Easter morning. The' service is scheduled to start at 7 a-m. Worshippers from all sections of Cape May County are expected to attend the service, which has been extremely well attended in previous years. Mrs. Theodore F. Thompson, co-director of the Cape May USO Club, a representative of the Salvation Army, . will deliver the Easter sermon. Adjutant Thompson will also take part in the service.

LIST CONFERENCE A conference of all city officials, publicity directors and county newsynen will be held at Cape May Court House at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Freeholder Director Percy H. Jackson announced yesterday. The subject of the meeting wiD be plans for resort puMfclty campaigns for the coming «smoS.

purchased the eTtv-owned property at S3- Perry street, it. was annoumcesi by lodge officers

this 1 week.

The lodge plans to open the hew lodge building on April T. Previously tine lodge had quarters on. the second floor of the Acme feuOdrng.

Motorists Urged To Give Old Licenses With 1941 New Jersey automobile license plates 'now invalid, the campaign to collect the old tegs for scrap metal was given added impetus this week. Vernon R: Farrow, supervisor of the Cape May County Motor Vehicle Department inspection station at Mayyille, issued a statement in which he urged all county motorists to turn in their 1941 licenses at the station. “Motor Vehicle Department inspection stations throughout the state have been designated as centers to receive .discarded tags and to send them to a central

collectio Farrow

- “Cape May County motorists are requested . to bring their old -license plates to the station as soon as possible or when they come to have their cars inspected. “Alrdeay we have nearly three tons of old plates, some dating bsAk 20 years or more: and' some from New Mexico, Colorado and

pastor of the host church. Bpeakere Tor the service in the order in which they will speak are Mr. Blair, the Rev. Robert D. Can-in, the Rev. Charles Frazier, the Rev. William, Bullock, the Rev. Albert W.-'Lens, the Rev. William McClelland and Chaplairff Cyril R. Bentley, of the

Naval Air ^Station-

Miss Helen Louise Porter will preside af'the console throughout he entire service- There will be vend vocal and choral numbers. Good Friday services will also be held at the Church of the Advent and at the Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea from 12 to 3 Friday afternoon. There will also be a 10 rirtBck Good Friday service at the Church of the Advent. • , METHODIST CHURCH Eaater will be celebrated in the First Methodist Church more elaborately than it has been for

a number of years.

Immediately above the alter, whjffiNwilD be draped in white vrijfh^suitable inscription in pur-

j ( Continued on 1

28 Men Leave For Gamii Frh Twenty-eight men from th southern section of Cape May County will leave Cape May at 6:55 tomorrow morning for Fort Dix where they will be inducted into the Army following their conscription under - the . Selective

Service law.

Capo May's high school band will be at'th* station to serenade the latest group of selectees to, i leave for camp. jf ; Those who will-leave and thejs -

'isniT aoatilaifiloii exMMm for tfaeSlmH-nSliM, dolteriederal airport which vrfllK whostructed at Fishing Oeok shortly. The increase would bring tils »antr’s_totel MB* to $28,06$’

is subject to

missioner Walter R. D&xfeyriMsdl of the New Jersey Local Govarbr

ment board.

ens, of Cape May, explained 'the

additional funds were to purchase lands to h

the airport fo®

Men 45-65 Will Be Registered April 27 All men between the ages of 45 and 65 will be required to register during the fourth national registration under the Selective Service law on April 27, state draft headquarters announced this week. Tentative plans provide three registration centers in the southepn section of the county, similar to the arrangements during the third registration February. It is planned to register at local board headquarters Cape May High School, at V wood High School and in the court building at Cape May Court House on the date of the fourth registration. Volunteer registrants will be used to supplement Local Board personnel.

A representative group of nicipal officials from all sections of Cape May County heard' an address on national defense delivered by i John J. Spencer, Jr., Cape May's -civilian defense council chairman, at a meeting of the County League of Municipalities

last Friday.

- Spencer spoke at length on the part municipal officials must play in the defense program, and outlined in detail the formation and organization of local civilian de-

fense councils.

At the conclusion of' his address, Spencer was urged to discuss the details of\ combatting various types of incendiary bombs gpjl other preventive and protec-

airtuaUjr all states of the union‘tive methods used En modern war-

as well as Canada, Canal Zone, Hftwkit and 'other foreign eoun-

trieS,T Farrow eontiisaed-

Tflne discarded plates wilt . melted and) used in the amraifae-

tune i of' tear- materials.

G-O-E, WOMEN TO MEET

Grant Scott

will be the speaker at the' -meeting of th* Cape May County Women's Republican Club wh&cV willbe held: next Wednesday, April 8, at 2:15 p.m. in the old court building, Cape May Court House.

Skiuu^A, fioSke, ScouiA Jo dOdp Sin SutfOA Aaiioninq

Assistance of New Jersey sher-

iffs, state police and Boy Scout organizations waa sought this week to aid in the distribution of war ration hooka, application forma and other documents to school sites in preparation for -the romipg civilian registration and'

sugar rationing program. Appointment of three ' public

school principals as site administrators waa announced by Dr. E.i E. Pickard, - city school -superintendent, today. They are. Paul S. Ensminger, Mrs. Clara Bdhm and Mr®. Fannie D. Owens, who will be in charge of the high school, Lafayette street school and Franklin street school respectively for

the sugar rationing.

Trade rationing win take place on April 28 and 29' for eotnmerda! sugar users including hotels,

register. Those failing to register in the time set aside for registration must wait two weeks before they (will be able to register for sugar rationing stamps with their local rationing bea^d. Registrants mu|it , give an accurate aHOuntingl of the amount * —raon hahff at the time of ition. A total of two per person is permitted, ty amount in excess of that require removal of sugar raiing stamps from the ration

>ks,,

it is expected that 2,600 peris will register in Cape May and that each registration will

ipproximately 12 minutes, the plan for distribution

of registration forms and ration books, to school sites in preparn-

j 'fare.

His address he stressed the need for cooperation between defense. councils and local governing bodies and between, neighboring aranicipalities ire order to attain maximum effectiveness th® local defense program. . Foitowiag. Friday's meeting, wbkb wak held at the comity seat, John I G. Bucher, 'of Stone Harbor, secretary of the league, and. h Erase If a prominent pahEie speaker and world traveler, paid tribute to Spencer and lauded him for presenting what he termed the “most comprehensive picture of civilian defense yet presented to the league by any of . the nu-

merous speakers who dressed us bn {he

Two Draft Appeal decided By dorr i

restaurants and boarding houses tion for civilian registration ... — teen as manufacturers using, May. the Boy Scouts will be ask-

home communities, follow: CAPE MAY: Thomas a Rav-

ery, William Harry Reeves, Edmund S. Learning, Nicholas NMson, Howard Matthews and Vir-

gil Snyder.

WILDWOOD: Eddie J. Cochrane, Guy B. Hunt, Elvin Mitchell, Raymond Ward, Harry Keating, Jr.. Gustav P. Bowman, Anthony Fulginitj, Jr., Nicholas J. Ricco, Sylvester A. Grande, Frank Franco, Dominic Versaggi, Marshall E. Behr, Edteard S. Dunlap, (Richard B. Fitzpatrick and Walter F. Isberg. NORTH WILDWOOD: Loois J. Mattera and William G. Bright. COURT HOUSE: Willard C.

Hand.

GOSHEN: Elton T. Crandal. WILDWOOD CREST: Carl W.

Walter.

The men recently passed preinduction physical examination at Camden and were ordered to report for induction into the Army at Fort Dix tomorrow.

Complete Advanced First Aid Training Fifteen Cap® May men completed an a/ivapeed course in Red Cross first aid training at city hall Sunday afternoon, as they rounded out the last of the 30hour course of instruction. Twenty-two local men completed the prescribed 20-hour first aid course five weeks ago, and 15 of the group immediately enrolled for advanced {raining under J. G. Farrell, of, Wildwood, instructor. Those who have completed the advanced training course are Walter M. Trout, Paul S. Snyder, Percy d’Romtra, William Whitehead, Robert Glaubit, J. D. Smeitzer, Harry Hess, John J. Spencer, Jr., William West, Sol Needles, J. Thompson Hughes, Carl Taylor, Edward Hallman and Albert B. Little.

Cape May Soldier In Honolulu Promoted Private Arthur V. Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Rose, of -Jackson street. Cape May, who stationed at the Army post at Fort Shafter, Honolulu, T. H.„ has been promoted to the rank of corporal, he informed bis parents in a letter received here this week. Corporal Rose was stationed at Port Shafter i at the time the Japanese began hostages by bomibing Peart Harbor, and Army posts in the vicinity.of Honolulu. He escaped injury in ’ attack. Letters, between Corporal Rose and his family here are in transit approximately she days, Mrs. Rose said.

Sebools Start Easter Vacation Today

Cape May public schools will start’their anniiSI Easter vacation

close/of classes this af-

ternoon~a*ul-^rilJ not resume sessions until Monday, April 13, Dr. Edward E. Pickard, school super-

indent, announced today. ■t a special high school ibly this afternoon, the Rev. ert W. lenz, pastor/of

irst Presbyterian Chtfrch, will liver a special Eaater message

county were decided thia week by , , . the Appeal Board in Camden, Lo-1 to the student*,

cal Board officials announced to- , ^ Spencer, Jr,, chairman day. I of • the local defense council andA test case on the case of* C*Pe May-police chief,,will award Robert Eynon Kay, 25, of Wild- A silver medal to Miss Norma wood, filed’ recently by Robert Taylor,. Cape May -school repreBright, North WRdwood, appeal «>ntetive in the recent American agent for this district,- resulted oratorical contest. Spenin a change of classification from yhll make the presentation in Class 3 to 1-A. Kay is married . behalf of the Harry Snyder Le-

ahd his wife is not employed, I ff* on P 081 -

board officials said.

In v

‘ m,m “HMI.N1TT SING

York Shii

employs him (Srltbn Hildreth 1 A large group of Cape May Hand, 24, of Rio Grande, was, service men participated • in a to , r*. * registrant. community sing at the U.S.O. ■Hie ^shipbuilding firm asked Club Tuesday n(ght at which time

classification be songs by Stephen Foster

that Hand’s

the airport following a chxage plans of the Ovil Aeronautic* ' Administration which recently decided the airport should cover a tract of 900 acres rather th*n 500 acres as originally planned.

BEDS ARE RECEIVED

Bids for construction of the airport, which will be used by the Army, were taken Saturday morning in Philadelphia by the

U. S. Army engineers.

Low bid was that of Foundations, Inc., of Moorestown, whose

bid was $397,000.

Other bids were submitted by Union Building and Constructiop Co., T. C. Burkett and Standard

Bicholithic.

Work is expected to be started immediately .upon formal award of the contract QUESTIONS AGREEMENT Freehold^. Stevens ihoved yesterday to in struct the county solicitor and county engineer to investigate the agreement between the county and the CAA on the - grounds that the agreement pro- i - vided that runways wduld be made of concrete. The specifications on which bids were submitted Saturday called for bituminous concrete surfacing, he said. Stevens said he felt the sub? stitute material would not justify the county’s agreeing to-maintain the airport for a period of -3(1 years after completion because, he said, the bituminous concrete material did not have a normal usefulness for a period that long. Sterner Approves County Projects Three state aid projects in Cape May County, to be financed through automobilists’ license fees and gasoline taxes, were approved Friday by State Highway Commissioner E. Donald Sterner. The projects are estimated to provide 207 man-weeks of em-

ployment.

The improvomcriU will provide bituminous concrete paring' oo the existing gravel based of the streets involved in' the program. In Cape May tin*--work will be done on New Jersey, Philadelphia, Reading *nd Trfcntcm avenues for a total distance of ninotenths of a mile. The paving will vary from 20 to 28 feet and the grading will vary from 29 to

54 feet.

The state grant will be limited to a width of 20 feet on the paving and 30 feet cm the grading. In Sea IiBe City, the wbri^-w planned for three-tenths 'of » mile on Central! avenue At * width of - 20 feet- Th*/gradedV. width 1z 26 feet. _/ Ocean City will improve First; Eleventh, Thirteenth and Eighteenth streets and Simpson aveeoc at a width of ■ 20 feet and a graded width varying from 28 to 39 feet.

Change Air Raid Warning Signal Complying with orders of the State Defense Council, Cape May’s local defense council thi* week announced a change in air rail! 1 warning signals. The new warning signal wiD be /PqriM of short blasts on the fire triffstle lasting for a period of kwo minutes. The sign*! originally announced was erte long blastA The new all-clear signal wiD be m long blast, instead of four blasts on the whistle. Signal try-outs wilt continue to be held every Saturday at noon.

iL v . M to count, sort and wrap the:changed, claiming be is a skilled sung. Miss Edith Bacfcronh was ^pe May rcsidentr may choose material, and see that it & ad-I worker. The appeal board ena-1 in charge of the muaks nixht nrotfee school at which they wish toidreewd to the proper achooL mined the local toard'a ruling, 'gbam. * P

HOME FRONT "The Home Front”, another new feature, bringing Cape May residents up to the minute on news of general interest relative to their part in the war, starts today in The i Star and Wave. . •. The feature is compiled by . the Division of Information, Office of Emergency Management, and deal* particularly with war-effect problem* in New Jersey. (