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Many To Attend Army And Navy Ball Saturday With s large advance sale of tickets reported this week, Cape May’s Army and Navy Ball, which will be held at Convention Hall Saturday evening, May 30, is expected to be one of the most successful and colorful events of its kind ever held in this resort. The sale of tickets to date is considerably larger than that of last year, Donald W. Lear, who is in charge of arrangements for the ball, announced today. Fiftyone hostesses of the local USO Club are cavassing the city with tickets, and the heavy advance sale is indicative of a large attendance. Anyone not contacted by a canvasser should call the USO Club and a hostess with tickets will be assigned imme-

diately.

OFFICERS TO ATTEND

Many large groups of officers of the Cape May Naval base are planning to attend the ball Saturday evening, following a series of Army and Navy ball parties which are being planned for the weekend. The balcony at Convention Hall will be reserved for officers and their wives who do not care to dance. i The balcony and doorways of the ballroom will be decorated with American flags, and th« stage will be banked with flowers. Newly installed blue flourescent lights are expected to add to the beauty of the spacious ballroom. The blue lights will be tried as an experiment to comply with the Army’s order for a shore dim-out to protect coastal shipping from the glare of land

lights.

TO CROWN BALL QUEEN Queen of the Ball is bcin_ lected by the committee in charge from among the USO Club hostesses who are helping with arrangements. The Queen will be escorted to the front of the ballroom by enlisted men representing the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, one of which will crown her as Queen of the Ball, after which she will (Continued on Page Four)

Ball Maestro

War Bond Drive Off To Good Start Here

purchases and with local chants coperating wholeheartedly in the sale of war stamps, bers of the local war bond mittee reported Tuesday afternoon at a committee meeting at city hall. Mrs. Luther C. Ogden, chairman of the second ward district, reported that she had received pledges for the purchase of $1,037.50 worth of bonds, and other committee members reported that they were organizing their staffs in the various districts, into which the city has been divided. Mrs. Walter Bennett, Jr., who is contacting local merchants and requesting that they push the sale of war stamps in their stores and businesses, reported that those contacted to date had been willing to cooperate in the campaign. Under the campaign which was launched late last week, members of the local committee and their aides will make a house-to-house canvass of the city, urging Cape May citizens to pledge themselves to the purchase of a certain amount of bonds during a specified period. Cape May’s campaign is part of a county and state campaign which is attempting tq Increase the amount of bond, purchases to provide additiomf money for the government's- war effort and to give purchasers a sound invest- - Merit

Savage Promoted Walter B. Savage, local real estate and insurance broker, was promoted last week to the rank ot Captain in the Quartermaster Corps, U. S. Army. He had previously held the rank of first lieu-

tenant.

Captain Savage has been promoted twice in his 20 months of service in the Army. He is now in the Rents and Claims Section, Fort Dix, which office handles real estate matters for the Army. Pier Theatre Opens Hunt’s City Pier Theatre, at Convention Hall pier, will open for the Memorial Day weekend tomorrow with a showing of "In This Our Life’’, featuring Bette Davis. The theatre will remain open through Sunday, and will reopen for the following weekend, before opening for the season.

The bowling alleys at Hunt’s t

pier will open for the season this tion lacking, and it is necessary wwkaad. I that (he questionnaire be re-rout-

JIMMIE FILER Well known South Jersey bandsan whose orchestra will provide music for the Army and Navy Ball at Convention Hall Saturday evening. Featured as vocalist will be Peggy Moran. Filer’s band was introduced to Cape May audiences last fall when he played for the Hallowe’en dance at Convention

Hall.

100 Attend Dinner Meeting Of 1.0.0.F. One hundred members of the Mayflower Lodge No. 258, I. O. O. F. and Holly Beach Lodge, No. 120 and the Rebekah Lodge attended the dinner meeting which marked the opening of the Odd Fellows’ lodge building on Friday

evening.

Forrest C. Marter, grand master of the Odd Fellows Lodge in New Jersey, and Harry S. Pine, grand secretary, attended the session as guests of honor ami spoke briefly following the dinner, commending the local lodge on its activity. The group gathered at the lodge building and proceeded to Keenan’s restaurant where dinner was served, after which a session was held in the lodge rooms, at 33 Perry street. The local lodge, which recently acquired the building from the. City of Cape May, has made a great number of improvements. The local organization was lauded for the rapid progress it has made during the last two years in building up its membership. Total membership in the lodge has "risen sharply, and officers and members of the lodge are planning a scries of activities to keep interest increasing in lodge work.

Prominent Visitor Buried On Tuesday Mrs. Ulysses Mercur, a well known Philadelphian and Cape May summer resident, died at her home, 2225 Delancey street, Philadelphia, Saturday evening. She was 65. Mrs. Mercur. who was the former Esther Dougherty, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Dougherty, is survived by her husband and a sister, Mrs. Carroll S. Graves, of Washington, D. C. Mass was held at St. Patrick’s Church. 20th and Locust streets, Philadelphia, Tuesday morning, and interment .was made in New Cathedral Cemetery. Since early childhood, Mrs. Mercur had been a summer resident of Cape May, occupying "Carey Hall”, the Dougherty estate at Washington and Jefferson streets.

Local Groups Will Observe Memorial Day Graves of all deceased war veterans in this area will be decorated with flags and flowers on Memorial Day by veterans’ patriotic organizations and brief services will be held at the various cemeteries in this vicinity, according to plans announced this

week.

The Harry Snyder Post, 193, American Legion, will make its annual tour of the nearby cemeteries to hold memorial services. Legionnaires will be accompanied by a delegation of veterans representing the Veterans of Foreign Wars and by a U. S. Marine Corps firing squad from the Naval Air Station. Memorial services will start at a.m. Saturday at the Soldiers .. id Sailors Monument, Cape May; and the caravan will proceed to the Cold Spring Cemetery, where services will be held at 9:30. The rest of the schedule follows: Tabernacle Cemetery, Erma, 10 a.m.; old Colored Cemetery, Cold Spring, 10:15 a.m.; Catholic Cemetery, Cold Spring, 10:45 a.m.; new Colored Cemetery, Cold Spring, 11 a.m. MANY ATTEND SERVICE Veterans’ and patriotic organizations joined forces on Sunday and a large delegation attended the annual Memorial'Day services at the Cape Island Baptist Church. The group marching from the railroad station to the church was accompanied by the high

school band.

The annual Memorial Day program of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War was held Tuesday evening at the regular meeting of the organization. Invited guests were the Betsy Ross Tent No. 2, of Wildwood, together with the Department

Officials Will Discuss Resort Area Problems Declaring there was "no reason for a definite blackont” or for weekend invasion alerts along New Jersey’s seashore, Frank D. Holmes, Jr., secretary at the New Jersey Council, announced Monday that a meeting would be held next Monday to discuss ways for resorts to cooperate In the civil protection effort without killing a huge recreation business. limes said legislators from six seashore counties would meet in the Assembly chamber with Governor Charles Edison’s War Cabinet, mayors and municipal defense chiefs to try to settle the

problem.

The advertising council spokesman, who is also director of the State Board of Commerce and Navigation, said state defense officials had requested the Army to stage Sunday’s air alert and invasion maneuvers along North Jersey shore. CITES CONFLICT Noting that the state’s advertising council had been impor1 by the Legislature to campaign to offset damage to shore business caused by false reports (Continued on Page Four)

Local Volunteer Groups To Get Blackout Instructions

‘03’ Gas Cards Lead

All In This County

A total of .1,089 “X” gasoline ration cards were issued in Cape May County during the recent tion registry of motorists, it • disclosed Friday when a complete report was issued by the office of Robert K. Bell, quota authority

for Cape May County.

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Assistant Department Inspector Mrs. Beatrice Sharp, of

Wildwood.

HAVE MEMORIAL PROGRAM Mrs. Vesta S. Olsen read Lincoln's Gettysburg Address; Mrs. Holmes read Grant’s Letter; Mrs. Sharp read Gene'al Logan': dcr No. 11; and Mrs. Laura S. Eldredge gave a memorial praye On Memorial Day, Mrs. Eh redge will place a wreath given by the Daughters of Union Veterans at the monument on Colum-

bia avenue.

A Memorial Day program will > held this afternoon a. West Cape May borough hall by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary unit. The meeting open to the public and will be held at 2:30.

Invitations Sent For Annual Art Show Invitations were issued this eek to a large number of artists the Philadelphia metropolitan area and South Jersey, asking them to exhibit water colors in the fourth annual art show which will be held here under the joint auspices of the City of Cape May and the Cape May County Art League. The art show will be held in the city-owned Casino, Bench and Madison avenues, from August 16 to August 30. Frederic Nunn, chairman of the art committee of the Art League, will be in charge of the exhibit again. A picture purchase prize will • _ awarded, and the winning painting will become the property of the city and will be hung permanently in one of the public buildings. This year’s show will be for water colors, whereas former exhibits have been for oil paintings. Attendance at last summer’s exhibition was nearly 3,000.

Use Care In Answering Draft Questionnaires, Men Warned

half million registrants in the first and second draft who are receiving occupational questionnaires Xf5re today urged to properly and fully answer all

questions.

The appeal was made after Russell J - . Eldridge, Director of the United States Employment Service for New Jersey, conferred with Lieutenant-Colonel Edgar N. Bloomer, State Selective Service Director, and Judge William L. Dill, Regional Director of the Social Security Board. It was emphasized that in many instances local draft boards, after receiving questionnaires returned for those registered in the third draft, found it necessary to return the questionnaires of the registrants, for further infor-

mation.

Frequently, the United States Employment Service, where the questionnaire is finally sent for analysis, discovers vital infonna-

ei! to the registrant. Judge Dill emphasized thpt the intent of the occupational registration is to provide the government with a complete occupational inventory of its manpower. The specific purpose of the occupational registration is: To speed up war production by promoting the transfer of workers from nonessential to essential

work.

To avoid the induction into the armed forces of men who are more urgently needed in war production. It was pointed out that local Advisory Boards for Registrants, employers, local unions and veterans organizations are available to assist registrants, and in cases where technical assistance is required in replying to the questionnaire, registrants may call upon the local offices of the United States Employment Service for

registrars, 2,976 were

••B3" cards, 523 were “B2”,

were "Bl” and 2,675 were

cards.

Cape May motorists received 799 ration cards, of which 372 were "A”, 53 were “Bl”, 69 were “B2”, 214 were “B3” and 91 were “X” cards. Figures for other nearby communities follow: West Cape May, 49

‘Bl”, 16 “B2”, 67 ‘

, 48 "X”

Lower Township, 95 ' “Bl”, 50 "B2”, 235 “X"; Cape May Point, “Bl”, 16 “B2”, 29 "B3\

In a memorandum sent today from OPA state headquarters, local rationing boards are requested to notify gasoline dealers that a commercial license plate in itself does not entitle a vehicle to purchase gasoline without a ration

card.

This interpretation gasoline rationing regulations, state rationing headquarters explained, was given by the legal staff of the Fuel Rationing Division of the OPA in Washington. The new interpretation, officials pointed out, leaves the determination of eligibility up to the dealer in cases where passenger vehicles with commercial plates are not easily identifiable by their physical appearance i truck, bus, jitney or taxicab.

Air Raid Wardens To Complete Classes The fourth weekly meeting of air raid wardens and volunteer defense unit .personnel was held at Cape May High School Monday evening, at which time those present were given their fourth two-hour lesson in first aid. Lieutenant Diswald, U.S.N. Medical Corps, Cape May Naval Air Station, was instructor. In addition to the first aid struction, Captain Sol Needles, of the Cape May Beach Patrol, demonstrated the use of an inhalator and Chief Warden Steven J. Steger and Police Chief John J. Spencer, chairman of the defense council, instructed the group in transportation problems. The final meeting of the series will be held next Monday evening, at which' time the class is expected- to complete its 10-hour first aid course.

Drumfish Season On Along Bayshore Drum fish have been caught in fail numbers along the Delaware Bayshore during the last week, following the first few straggling catches made previously. Large numbers of anglers are expected to make the Bayshore their fishing headquarters during the holiday weekend, at which time it is expected that the large early-season fish will he plenti-

ful.

Most drumfish caught during

the last week have averaged be-

‘~reen 60 and 65 pounds. Fishermen from all sections of

the'county are flocking to the southern section of the county's

twYshore for the annual spring present time, and pointed' out ,fishing season, that the recently fixed price cefl-

Pre paring for the all-state blackout test which will be held sometime during the week of May 81-June 6, volunteer workers of the Cape May Civilian Defense Council will hold two meetings here tonight to receive final instructions and to be assigned to their various posts, Police Chief John J. Spencer, Jr., chairman of the local defense council, today. A meeting of all air raid wardens, sector and zone wardens will be held at the council chamber, city hall, at 7:30 o’clock this evening. All first aid graduates will meet at the high school auditorium at 8 o’clock to hear final details about their stations and their duties during the blackout test and in the event of emergency. Arm bands and identification cards for all volunteer defense unit workers are enroute to Cape May and are expected to be distributed to all members of the volunteer corps before the end of the week, Spencer said.

The services of several Red Cross volunteer groups have been offered to and accepted by the local Defense CounciL Those who will work under the council’s direction will be the Staff Assistance group, Motor Corps, Canteen

and Home Service units.

A list of all business houses in the community having night lights has been compiled and letters have been sent to their proprietors informing them of recent rulings by the Second Corps Area Army command, requiring that all lights must be extinguished When the last person leaves, the place at night, or in the alternative, that an outside switch be installed so that air raid wardens or police may extinguish the

lights in case of a blackout.

Defense council groups are meeting this week and are being designated to their various posts. Final instructions are being issued. to all air raid wardens, fire and police auxiliary members, and

all first aid graduates.

Asks Larger Fund For Naval Base Road Job To facilitate war emergency operations. State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller, Jr. oh Saturday requested the federal government to increase from $10,000 to $14,600 its grant for survey and construction inspection on roads for the U. S. Naval Air Station at Cape May. The relief thoroughfares for access to the reservation and

also within the station.

Commissioner Miller in his communication is acting only as the agent for the U. S. Public Road Administration as the survey and inspection have been delegated to the engineering forces of

Cape May County.

The actual construction of the routes is being done by WPA forces and is being financed by the federal government.

Service Men To Be Honored By Church A special service in honor of men and boys of the. Cape Island Baptist Church now serving in the nation’s armed forces will be held at the church Sunday evening, under the auspices of Mrs. Allen F. Willson's girls’ Sunday School Class. Chaplain Cyril E. Bentley, of the Naval Air .Station, will conduct the service. A service flag will be presented by Mrs. Willson's class, and an interesting program has been arranged. All parents and relatives of men in service have been especially invited to attend the serThey are: Army: William HoopStevcns, Richard Tees, Albert Naramore, Edmund S. Learning, Allen F. Willson, Jr., William G. Bennett, and Joseph M. Sweeten; Navy: Norman Brown, ClomHand, Franklin L. Halbruner, T. Powell Hughes; Coast Guard: Edward Anthony, Frank Walton and Arthur L. W. Coh^n, Jr.; and Marine Corps: Harry M. Brown and Lester G. Coover.

Officers Elected New officers of the Rio Grande Parent-Teachers’ Association were elected Tuesday evening at a regular meeting of the organization. They are: Mrs. Dorothy Heathcote, president; Mrs. Lillian Stebbins, first vice president; Mrs. Mabel Colwell, second vice president; Mrs. Trclla Hansen, secretary; and Mrs. Gudrun Hansen, treasurer.

Seek Bus Service For Bayshore Petitions are being circulated ii Cape May County communities asking for year-around bus service between Philadelphia and Bayshore Road communities. Fifty residents of Dias Creek and Reed's Beach have signed the petitions, which arc being circulated in Green Creek and other districts along the proposed route. Addressed to the Public Service Corporation, the petitions ask service from Cape May to Sunset Boulevard, up the Bayshore Road to Delsea Drive and thence to Camden and Philadelphia.

Annual Camp Meeting

Plans Cancelled

The board of directors of the Seaville Camp Meeting Association has cancelled the annual camp meeting and young people’ institute for this year, it wa

announced this week.

The 79th annual camp meeting program was to have started next month with the eighth annual stitute, but since the camp grounds are within the restricted war zone, officials felt the sessions should be given up. The war zone, it was explained, covers the rationing of gasoline and rubber. However on Sundays, July 26 and August 2, meetings will be held in the auditorium. They will be conducted by the ministers of the camping associa-

Fisherman’s Train Tu Resume Service Soon The fishermen’s train, which annually brings thousands of anglers to this resort, will resume service, Sunday, June 7, and will make daily trips to Cape May during the summer, officials of the Pennsylvania-Reading S e a - shore Lines announced today. The Sunday Fishermen’s Special which began operating early this season was withdrawn from service several weeks ago when the federal government’s ban on excursion trains became effective. Under the new schedule, the fishermen’s train will not be an excursion, but will be a regularly scheduled train, making daily trips. Special trains will leave Cape May at 7:55 Saturday and Sunday evenings for the benefit of holiday visitors, and will arrive at Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, at 10:05.

County Residents Urged To Aid In Scrap Salvage Drive

A representative group of Cape May County citizens and officials j j were urged to cooperate fully • with the nationwide campaign for the salvaging of scrap materials with special 'emphasis laid upon metals at a meeting in Cape, May Court House Friday evening. Representatives of the War Production Board, the U. S. Navy, the International Harvester Co. and the Cape May County War Board appealed to those at the meeting to salvage all possible scrap metal to aid the nation in

its war effort.

Friday’s meeting was called to stimulate interest in the salvage campaign in Cape May County, which has produced only a small percentage of the scrap material available for conversion into im-

plements of war.

Speakers at the meeting estimated that only 26 per cent of the county’s scrap materials have been salvaged to date. They cited the need for the material at the

i scrap materials eliminates me possibility of higher prices being paid for the materials at a later date. They warned that if the general salvage campaign throughout the country was not more productive it was likely that the price ceiling would *

lowered.

In their pleas for cooperation, speakers explained that modern battleships are 25 per cent scrap material reclaimea and made

usable.

Necessity for having local salvage campaigns and local scrap pools was stressed by representatives of the various agencies which conducted the meeting. A. Scott Walker, of Erma, chairman of the county war board,

presided at the session.

Speakers at the meeting included G. D. McCarthy, assistant manager of the International Harvester Company’s Philadelphia office, Commander William Law McDonald, of the Cape May Naval base, and Joaeph Young, «f the International Harvester Co.

Plan Program For Friends’ Meeting Here Prominent educators and auth- 1 orities on labor, religion and in- . temational affairs will address the Friends’ General Conference in Cape May during the week of July 6 to 13, according to a tentative program issued by the committee in charge of the conference this week. The bi-annual gathering will be centered about the theme “Toward a Free and Generous World”, and, as usual, the conference will consist of morning and evening general sessions at Cape May’s Convention Hall, with round tables to be held at the various hotels, and a Junior Conference to be held at the Casino. STARTS JULY 6 Patrick Murphy Malin, assistant professor of economics, Swarthmore College, will be the first conference speaker. His theme will he "Our Home Within the Wilderness”. Mr. Malin will speak at the opening session oh the evening of July 6. Bliss Forbush, secretary of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting, will speak on "One Household in the Family of God” at the July 7 morning session, and Carl J. Hambro, chairman of the supervisory committee, League of Nations, Princeton, will speak on "Individual Responsibility in Internationa) Life” at the evening session. y Fred Eastman, professor of biography, literautre and drama, of the Chicago Theological Seminary, will speak on “Literature, the Arts and the Inner Light” at the July 8 evening meeting. OTHERS LISTED Other speakers and their topics scheduled to be included in the conference program are: Clinton S. Golden, director of Northeastern Region, Steel Workers Organizing Committee, "Labor’s Contribution to the Future Well-Being of Society”; Harlan LTnneus McCracken, professor of economics, Louisiana State University, "Economic Bases for a Just and Enduring Peace”; John W. Nason, president of Swarthmore College, "Education for Living"; Thomas E. Jones, president of Fisk University, "Creative Pioneers”; and Clarence E. Pickett, secretary of the American Friends .Service Committee, "Toward a Significant Religious Society". The conference will bring a large number of Friends from all sections of the country to Capo

May.

Six Students Helping With Berry Harvest Six Cape May High School students have been released from classes to assist with' the strawberry harvest on nearby farms. Dr. Edward E. Pickard, city school superintendent, announced today. The six boys left school Tuesday, following approval of their applications and of applications of farmers who need additional labor to carry on the strawberry harvest at present. Boys released are Richard Kokes, Russell Wing, Richard O'Farrell, Paul Parrinello, George Reeves and Jack McPherson. • Ail complied with the rules of the Cape May County Student Labor Commission and the state commission which are operating under recently passed legislation to make high school students available for ' farm labor where necessary. A requirement is that students must be above the age of 14 and must have at least an average or above-average scholastic recordi During their period of employment which must be less than 15 days, they will be excused from assignments, but must keep up with their classes and must return to school for their final examinations.

Local Theatre-Gears Give $118 To Fund A total of $118A4 was collected for the Army and Navy Relief Fund at Hunt’s Liberty Theatre here during the period from May 14 through May 20, Halsey Love, manager of the local theatre, announced today. The fund was collected durir - shows at the theatre by uniformed members of various Red Cross volunteer special services who had been asked to assist with the drive by Mr. Love. Money contributed by local theatre-goers has been added to the coffers of the Army and Navy Relief Fund which benefited from a nationwide collection drive carried on by all theatres in the country. Uniformed Red Cross workers representing the Administration, Canteen, Staff Assistance, Motor Corps and Production acted as Mr. Love’s aides during the week of the campaign.