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CAPE MAY, NgW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1942

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Admiral Hotel Is Taken Over For Officers The Admiral Hotel, largest and most pretentious along this re* sort’s beachfront, has been taken over by the Navy and will be used to house Naval officers and their families, it was disclosed Friday. Owned by the City of Cape May, the hotel has been leased for ten years by the Ocean Hotel Corp. which operates a chain of hotels in the east and south. The Navy is sub-leasing the building from the corporation. Present plans contemplate expenditure estimated at $100,000 for improvements to the building. Among tiie improvements planned are installation of a _ new heating system, new kitchen equipment and other equipment and facilities in the 350 room building. ‘•CITY WONT LOSE”

nounced officially Friday by the city commission at its regular weekly session. Commenting on the change, Mayor T. Millet Hand said: "The city will lose no revenue through Ufe new set-up, but or the contrary, will have its revenue guaranteed. "The hotel will be operated as a hotel under the Navy plans and it will provide living accommodations for a large number of Naval officers expected with the expansion of the base. The city will, of course, greatly benefit by the improvements to be made, which will revert to us.” High Navy officers have been here this week, making plans for acquisition of the building, and an inventory of all goods and chattels in the hotel was begun late last week.

Will House Naval Officers

Chemical Warfare Class Ends Study The chemical warfare class, under the auspices of the Cape May County League of Municipalities, will come to a successful conclusion tonight, when the final session will be held at Cape May Court House. Conducted under the direction of Assistant Fire Chief Smith, of Ocean City, a graduate of the government chemical warfare course at Edgewood Arsenal, group of 30 picked men representing all county municipalities and townships has been in training for several weeks. With their graduation tonight, these men are expected to pass on this training to their Local Defense Council units. “The officers of the League of Municipalities feel that its contribution to the safety of Cape May County should be markfed by brief exercises at the final session of the school, and accordingly addresses will be made by Mayor Joseph Levenson, of Woodbine, president of the league, and Mayor George D. Richards, of Ocean City, immediate past president," John G. Bucher, of Stone Harbor, league secretary, said this week. The members of the League executive committee, consisting of Francis Douglass, of Cape May Court House, Stanley Schellenger, Cape May, Joseph F. Clark, Wildwood, and Mr. Bucher, will also be present at tonight's class session.

Skilling Renamed To Head Hospital Fund Joseph K. Skilling, of Cape May, was re-elected president of the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Foundation at a meeting at Capo May Court House Monday afternoon. Walter S. Griffith, North Wild wood, and Joseph Millman, Del Haven, were elected vice presidents. Burton J. Smith, Court House, was named secretary, Raymond Errickson, Court House, treasurer, and Prosecutor French B. Loveland, Ocean City, solicitor. All officers were named for one year. Monday’s session was the first of the corporation since the certificate of incorporation, as approved by Commissioner of Institutions William J. Ellis, was filed with the Secretary of State. Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, Griffith, Loveland and Skilling were appointed to the by-laws committee. Errickson, Millman and Stevens were named to the finance committee.

BENNETT PROMOTED

WnUam Bennett, of Cape May, has been promoted to the rank of sergeant in the V. 8. Army, it was an noun red here this week. Bennett, who is well known here, is stationed at Pine Camp, Watertown, N. Y„ headquarters of the Foarth Armored Division.

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The Admiral, largest hotel on Cape May’s beachfront, which has been taken over by the Navy Department as quarters for officers and their families.

Army And Navy Ball Will Be Held Here On Memorial Day

An Army and Navy ball at Cape May's Convention Hall on the evening of May 30 will highlight the Memorial Day weekend at this resort, it was announced Friday, as plans for the event were approved by the city commission after they had been submitted by Donald W. Lear, representing the Recreation Commission and the Defense Service Council, co-sponsors of the event. Unofficially ushering in the 1942 vacation season in Cape May, the ball is expected to attract a large throng of visitors as well as many local residents and service men, representing all branches of the nation’s armed forces, who are stationed in this locality. A feature of pre-season activity in Cape May, the ball will also give city officials an opportunity to experiment with the effectiveness of blue lights for both the interior and exterior of Convention Hall. Cooperating fully with the Army command of this area which has ordered a dim-out along the entire Atlantic coast to prevent

silhouetting passing ships against the glare of shore lights, Cape May officials are considering the possibility of using blue lights at Convention Hall as well as along the entire beachfront to reduce to a minimum the glare of lights and at the same time to carry out an entirely new color scheme which promises to transform the beachfront area into a veritable fairyland. Under the sponsorship of the two local committees, tne Army and Navy ball will be a benefit event, with the proceeds going to Cape May’s contribution to the nationwide USO fund raising campaign which is now under

way.

This year’s Memorial Day ball will be the second such affair held in Cape May in recent years. Naval ball held last year was outstanding success, and funds raised then were U8?d to help finance establishment of a USO Club in this community for service men stationed in the Capt May area.

State Issues Instructions On Gas Rationing With gasoline rationing scheduled to begin tomorrow the State Rationing Administration today warned motorists that no passenger car operators, except in certain special cases, would be able to purchase gasoline without a ration card. Car owners who have not applied for ration cards were urged to do so today, the last day of gasoline rationing registration. They were advised to take their motor vehicle registration certificate when registering as ration cards would be issued only to holders of motor vehicle registration certificates. PROCEDURE EXPLAINED For the guidance of motorists and retail gasoline dealers, the following set of instructions were issued by rationing headquarters describing proper procedure under gasoline rationing during the first ration period from May 16 to June 30: The government has set three gallons of gasoline as the v. of each ration unit on your tion card. This means that Card A holders may purchase 21 gallons of gasoline between May 15 and June 30; Card Bl permits the purchase of 33 gallons; Card B2 is good for 45 gallons, and Card B3 for 67 gallons. You may buy more than ration unit at one time. For example, you may purchase six gallons of gasoline and have two ration units on your card cancelled, or you may buy as many as your tank will hold, providing (Continued on Page Four)

Officers Of Woman's Club Are Installed Officers of o the Cope May Woman's Community Club were installed for the year at the club’s last meeting of the season held last Thursday afternoon. New officers are Mrs. James C. Hand, president; Mrs. Allen F. Willson, first vice president; Mrs. Harry H. Needles, second vice president; Mrs. William C. Mecray treasurer; Mrs. F. Mulford Stevens, recording secretary; Mrs. 1. Grant Scott, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Bessie Hazlett, federation secretary. Mrs. Frank R. Hughes, Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens and Mrs. William Stevens were named trustees for three years. The annual convention of the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs will be held at the Haddon Hall Hotel, Atlantic City, from May 19 to 22.

6 Honored For Long Perfect Attendance

Miss Alberta Snyder and Melbourne Schellenger, of Erma, were presented with pins for 18 and 17 years’ perfect Sufiday School attendance when / the awards were made Sundayj by Bertram Snydex, superintendent of the Tabomaflk Sunday School. Others who received awards were Edna Garrison, eight years: James Dickinson^ seven years Alberta 'Rose Simplfcns, six years Norma J Dempsey, / four Ruth McPherson,ijlnvo years; and Louis Bailey,_ojwr'year. I

16 County Men To Be Inducted On Monday Sixteen men from the southern section of Cape May County will leave for induction into the Army on Monday, Local Board No. 2, charge of Selective Service c< scription in the southern section of this county, announced Mon-

day.

No men from Cape May are included in the draft call. Those who will leave are Andrew Blair and Howard Cowan, Cold Spring; William Walter and Frederick Bundschue, Wildwood Crest; Robert D. Davis, Morris. Pecherow, Paul Herfert, Charts Johnson, Thomas Roberts, 'Edward Culver, Anthony Fusco and John Rennie, all ©f'-'Wildwood; Norman Rappert'and Lewis Nidorf, North Wildwood, and Chester Dickinson and Elton Crandall, of Gpshen. Davis and Pecherow are volunUSers. Crandall was to have been inducted at an ekrlicv - date, but was given a temporary deferment There will be no farewell ceremony here Monday as the men will board the trajn as it reaches their home community.

TWO APPOINTED TO CAPE RECREATION COMMISSION Two new members were a pointed to the Cape May Recreation Commission last week by Mayor T. Millet Hand. They are Allan R. Robson and John J. Cunningham.

Explains New Regulations On Dim-Out Along Coastline

Municipal police and traffic officers throughout New Jersey received orders this week to enforce strictly a State Defense Council order prohibiting the use of bright lights on automobiles at all times during the war emergency. The order promulgated by the council as part of -he shoreline dim-out demanded by the Army urged all motorists to use their dim lights at all times for the duration. Clarifying the dim-out order revision recently issued by Major General Irving J. Phillipeon, commandant of the Second Corps Army Area, Leonard Dreyfusa, chairman of the State Defense Council, this week notified all mayors and local defense council heads of changes in the order. “Boardwalk lights that are shaded may remain lighted. If there is any doubt as to their shading, they should be turned out,” Dreyfusa said.

Pilot Director

HOWARD R. SOUDER Cape May Delaware Bay and River pilot who was elected as a director of the Pilot’s Association for the Bay and River Delaware on Saturday. Other directors named are William D. Collins, William Teal, Jr. and Howard F. MacIntyre, all of Lewes, Del. Captain George T. Coulter, of Philadelphia, was re-elected president of the association, and Raymond C. Foster was re-elected secretary-treasurer.

First Aid Workers Will Be Assigned Graduates of Red Cross first aid courses in this community will probably receive their emergency station designations within the next week, John J. Spencer, Jr., chairman of the Local Defense Council, announced today. Those qualified for first aid work are expected to be assigned to the various emergency stations located in all sections of the city under the direction of the medical committee of the local council. Several members of Cape May's defense councils and of similar local units throughout the county will attend a meeting in Atlantic City this evening to witness a demonstration of the functioning of a model control center under simulated air raid conditions. The demonstration will be held the ball room of Atlantic City’s Convention Hall. The second two-hour first aid class was held for police reserves and air raid wardens at Cape ^lay-High-School Monday evening with Dr. A. C. Moon as instructor. Next Monday’s class will he instructed by Dr. Samuel Segal, Jr., Lieutenant Commander, U.

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Seaside Home Buys Concord Inn For Summer Retreat Purchase of the Concord Inn by the Presbyterian Seaside Home, a Philadelphia organization which for years has maintained a retreat for children and mothers at Cape May Point, was announced this week. The Philadelphia organization will operate the hotel, located ' Grant and North streets, as summer retreat, where children and their mothers can spend brief summer vacations. The Concord Inn was owned and formerly operated by ! Martha Wagner, of Philadelphia and Cape May. Negotiations for the "sale have been carried on for some time through Mrs. Hilda Collins, local real estate agent. Purchase price was not disclosed. Officers of the Presbyterian Seaside Home started negotia4 for the Cape May property shortly after the building formerly occupied by the home at Cape May Point had been destroyed during a storm early March. Beach erosion at the foot of Alexander avenue. Cape May Point, resulted in half of the building there toppling into the sea on March 3, after attempts to overcome the effects of eroding currents had failed.

"Exterior signs, such as neon signs, unless they can be shaded completely to prevent their direct rays from shining at an angle above the horizonUI, should be turned out. Lighted billboards that have the reflector type of lighting which does not throw the direct rays above the horizontal, are permissible, provided they are not on top of a building more than three stories in height. “All neon signs and illnminated advertising signs attached to the show window or hanging within the show window of any build--ing, tavern or mercantile establishment must be extinguished for the duration of the war from sunset to sunrise unless the light from such sign is shaded so that the direct rays do not shine above the horizontal. An awning or canopy may possibly provide a practical shade for snch interior

'Show windows may be lighted (Cootfarasd on Pag* Fobt)

Red Cross Seeking Good Used Clothes An appeal for good second-hand clothing was sounded this week by officers of the Cape May branch of the American Red Cross in a statement made public today. “Cape May Branch, American Red Cross needs at once good, sec-ond-hand clothing for men in order to replenish its emergency closet which has been depleted by calls upon it to outfit survi of Axis torpedoing. “Please go through your closets and storerooms and see if you have suits, extra trousers, shirts, sweaters, underwear, socks and shoes in good condition which you will donate. "If you have, call the Red Cross office and a member of the Motor Corps will call for your contributions. Fridays will be mending days at the Red Cross rooms, when any necessary repairing will be done. Come and help," branch officers urged.

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City Agrees To Have Art Show Here Again Cape May’s city commission on Friday agreed to sponsor an art show under the direction of the Cape May County Art League as part of the season's municipal activity. Commissioner Scott reported he had been asked by officers of the league if the city would again sponsor such a show as those hold here during the last three years, and the commission agreed to participate with the league on the enterprise. This year’s show, for which dates have not yet been set, will probably be a combination of oil and water colors, done by some of the leading artists of South Jersey and the Philadelphia met-

City To Demolish 2 Old Buildings Having acquired title to the Hotel Wyoming on South Lafayette street, the City of Cape May on Friday set into motion preliminary plans for its demolition. The city commission, following i inspection of the building decided that it is beyond repair, and recommended that it be demolished and the lot added to the list of city-owned properties on sale for building purposes. At the same time, the commission began plans for the demolition of the Miller cottage on Perry street, also owned by the city. That lot will also be offered for sale. The commission also received a complaint from neighbors of the dilapidated condition of a barn behind a property on North street. Commissioner Wentzell said the demolition of the two buildings would be contingent on the availability of labor before the summer season begins.

Many Officers Attend County Crime Parley Law enforcement ind crime control during war-tii£“ were the subjects of the eighth annuel Cape May County crime conference held yesterday at Cape May Court House. Law enforcement officers and municipal officials from all county communities and from many' sections of Atlantic and Cumberland Counties attended the meeting. The session was a joint crime conference and meeting called by Prosecutor French B. Loveland, of‘this county, and E. E. Conroy, special agent in charge of New Jersey’s FBI district, to discuss common problems and to map plans for the effective control of crime in southern New Jersey. All phases of the enforcement problem were discussed at the meeting, with particular stress laid upon problems arising from the establishment of large Army and Navy camps and stations in certain localities and upon the combatting subversive activities during the national emergency. AGENCIES REPRESENTED Agencies represented at yesterday’s conference by speakers who addressed the group were the Department of Motor Vehicles, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the New Jersey State Police, New Jersey Rationing Administration, the U. S. Navy, the judiciary and other enforcement

units.

Combination of the county crime conference and the FBI meeting took the place of the quarterly session called by the FBI for police of Cape May, Atlantic and Cnmberland Counties to discuss current problems.

Discuss Plans For U. S. Aid To City School Cape May’s application for federal funds with which to construct a new school building or to aid in financing operation of local schools to offset added expensea incurred by the influx of children of service men stationed here is being considered by the U. S. Department of Education in Washington. Local officials conferred last Thursday with Dr. Donald P. Davis, a representative of the department, Seymour Williams, an inspector representing the New Jersey Department of Education, Henry W. Huston, of the state department, and other government representatives relative

Men 35-45 To Be In June Draft Call Men in the 35-45 age group will fill 60 per cent of the June 27 draft call in this section of Cape May County, Local Board No. 2, in charge of Selective Service here, announced this week. Acting on instructions from state Selective Service headquarters, board officials said that 40 per cent of the men in the draft call will be drawn from the first two registrations, those between the ages of 21 and 35 on October 16, 1940, and those 21 on July 1,

1941.

The balance of the call, total number of which has not been disclosed, will be drawn from the third registration group which registered February 16. Men in the 35-45 age group are being, classified by the local board, and it is probable that the first group of 1-A registrants will be examined by board physicians next week. All occupational and Selective Service questionnaires have been mailed to men in the third registration, the last being issued yes. terday.

ASK FEDERAL FUNDS Cape May is attempting to ob-' tain a share of the $150,000,000 fund recently appropriated by Congress td improve educational facilities in districts where large numbers of service men’s families or defense workers have been centered as a result ef the nation’s war effort. Pointing to the necessity for a new school building and to the conditions caused by overcrowded classrooms, local city and school officials presented Cape May’s problem to Dr. Davis, who, in turn, will submit his findings to the U. S. Commissioner of Education, with recommendations. The position of the city has been summarized at City Hall as

follows:

CITY NEEDS HELP “In addition to the necessity of having a new school building constructed in Cape May to alleviate the crowded conditions, we (Continued on Page Five)

Borough Warning Signal Changed A change of fire warning signal in West Cape May was announced today' by representatives of the Fire Company and the Civilian Defense Council. Effective immediately, the fire signal will be one long blast the siren. The air raid alarm will be a series of short blasts for two minutes (warbling or fluctuating). The all-clear signal will be a long blast for a period not longer than two minutes. The change was made to ci form with the emergency c used by all other communities the state under Civilian Defense Council orders to assure uniformity of emergency signals.

Rare Whooping Crane Sighted In Lower Township This Week

A whooping crane, one of the largest and rarest birds of the North American continent, is making his temporary headquarters insouthern Cape May County this week, providing endless pleasure for amateur ornithologists in this section. The crane, nearly five feet tail and with a wingspread of seven and one-half feet, was first seen on a farm on Higbee’s Beach Road, Cold Spring, last Friday. Later in the day it moved to a duck pond at the farm of Michael McPherson, a short distance away, where it remained until Saturday afternoon. Since that time, it has been sighted by a large number of Lower Township residents and bird lovers in this area who have searched the meadows and countryside for it. The crane is a member of a bird family doomed to extinction, and is extremely ran. The last time

one was reported in this

in 1857 when one was sighted at Bccsley’s Point by an ornithologist who made a record of the bird. Apparently a young bird, tl crane in this vicinity now is gray color with a carmine head and black primaries. It is member of the rail family, and its present habitat is the prairies of the south and west and the extreme northern section of Canada.

Mature birds of the species

a brilliant white, with black legs

and with the carmine head.

The cranes are notoriously wary, but the one in this area has allowed observers to approach within 26 feet of it without taking flight. According to bird lovers in this vicinity, the bird is the rarest specimen seen here for many yean. There are only two families of cranes in North America,

Additional $10,000 Given By Tomlin The fact that Burdette Tomlin, prominent Ocean City resident, gave an additional gift of $10,000 to the Cape May County Hospital fund, shortly before his death on May 3, was disclosed late last week by Raymond Errickson, sec-retary-treasurer of the fund. He said Mr. Tomlin summoned him to his Ocean City home a month ago and handed him a check for the $10,000, with explicit instructions that no mention be made of it “as long as *'m around.” All told, Mr. Tomlin gave at least $36,600 to the hospital dream, which is now imposible of fruition due to the war. He first contributed $26,000 which started the campaign among county citizens to at least equal it. Then, last summer, he contributed another $1,600 toward expenses of the fund raising drive. This also was not generally known. The Hospital Foundation treasury now has about $71,000, Errickson said. Mr. Tomlin, who died at 65 after an illness of 10 months, waa buried last Wednesday afternoon in the Baptist cemetery at Cape May Court House.

Red Cross Chairmen Are Appointed Chairmen of Red Cross subcommittees were appointed Monday night at a meeting of the Cape May County Chapter at Cape May Court House. J. K. Skilling, of Cape May, chairman of disaster relief, appointed the following: • Dr. A. C. Crowe, medical aid; O. M. Corsor survey; Rolland A. Sharp, rescue; Mrs. Virginia Countryman, Cape May, food; F. Mulford Stevens, shelter; S. H. Endicott, clothings Bercy d’Romtra, Cape May, and William Farrell, transportation and communication; Mrs. Edith Hunt, reconstruction and information; Daniel J. Ricker, Cape May, fund raising and public information; Harold R. Collins, central purchases and supplies; Harold Ross, food and clothing; 'Russell Wcatherby, maintenance; C. O. Letzkus, buildings and repair; Mrs.. Luella Willets, household; Henry BL White and Meyer Semoff, farm and supplies; Lee W. Coarter, vocational training. dltorntra was named first vice chairman of disaster relief.

RATION BOARD TO MEET . EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT

West Cape May’s Local Rationing Board this week established regular sessions during whkh the board members will handle applications and other ration business. The Rationing -Hoard win meet every Friday evening from 7 to 9 o’clock at borough hall to handla rationing of automobiles.

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