88th YEAR, No. 23 Speeding Work At Bayshore Chemical Plant With construction of tanks and buildings preceding rapidly at the site of the million dollar chemical extraction plant being erected along the snores of Delaware Bay in l^wer Township, the huge project is scheduled to be completed within the next three months. Huge pipelines which will draw seawater from the bay are to be started late this week or during the ehrly part of next week. The sub-contractor who will install the pipelines has arrived and is completing preparatory work. Two 24-inch pipelines will be laid along the bottom of the bay to distances of 763 and 212 feet from the mean high water line to draw seawater into the extraction plant and to return the unused water to the bay. MAJOR PART OF JOB Installation of the pipelines is expected to be one of the major parts of the construction project. Structural steel work for the framework of the various buildings which will make up the chemical plant is nearing completion, and tank construction is progressing swiftly. All but three of the huge concrete tanks are -completed, and the remaining ones — one large tank and two smaller ones—will be built soon. 226 MEN EMPLOYED At present an average of 226 men are employed on the construction project, one of the largest industrial operations in this section of the state. When it is completed, the plant will produce from seawater a ■product known an sintered magnesite, which is extensively used in the making of steel. The chemical plant is expected to go into ’ operation early in August, according to present schedules. Tomes Elected Head Of County Tax Board Benjamin A. Tomes, of Wildwood, was elected president of the Cape May County Board of ' Taxation on Tuesday as the board ci-ganized at Cape May Court House. Other members of the board are Luther C. Ogden, of Cape May, and Rollen B. Mason, of Belleplain. Mason succeeds Howard Townsend, of Eldora. Mason is a new member of the board, having been appointed to fill the unexpired term .of Town-

send.

Ogden and Tomes were recently re-appointed by Governor Edison, their terms having expired May 1, 1942 and May 1, 4941 respectively. Both members and Townsend had served without appointment' until their successors were appointed. State Police Have Two-Way Radio Set A two-way radio transmitter and receiver was installed at the Cape May Court House state police barracks on Friday as part of the statewide system of com•’munkatidns to facilitate state police work. All members of the staff of the Cape May County barracks have qualified as operators of the radio telephone transmitter, and the new apparatus provides a means of constant contact between the barracks, police cars and other stations in New Jersey. Installation of the radio sending and receiving equipment was started several months ago at the county barracks, but delays in obtaining vital parts of the apparatus postponed completion of the project until late last week.

Suggests Parleys With Licensees 'Municipal governing bodies throughout Cape May County this week were requested to call conferences with liquor licensees in their respective communities to stress the necessity for strict compliance with state Alcoholic Beverage Comfnisaion regulations. Prosecutor French B. Loveland issued letters to all governing bodies this week, suggesting that such conferences be called prior to the beginning of the vacation season. Loveland commended Cap? May's city commission which called a similar conference several weeks ago. Particular stress will be laid upon serving members of the armed forces wljo are under the age of 21 ahd^Mlowing drinking until customers are intoxicated, Loveland said. Loveland's letters urged municipal officials to cooperate to prevent violations of the state liquor

laws.

Two Boys Burned As Gas Ignites Two West. Cape May boys, were badly burned Friday evening when gasoline with which they were filling the motors of their model airplanes ignited. The injured youths are Floyd Brown, 14,. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brown, of 245 Fifth avenue, and Charles Keeler, 16, son of Mrs. Alice Keeler, of Broadway and Central avenue. The youths were in a shop at the rear of the Brown home when the gasoline ignited. Attempting to avert a fire in the shop, they tried to carry the gasoline container outside and in doing so both were severely burned^. Both boys suffered second and third degree burns. ( Brown was burned on\the face neck, hair, back, one leg and arms, and Keeler wasV burned about the face, neck, arms and hands. Both were treated\by local physician and are confii to their beds, where they recovering from their injuries

present.

West Cape May's volunteer fire company was called to the scene to extinguish the blaze, which occurred at 7 o’clock Friday

•ening.

Salvage Brive To Be Subject Of Meeting Chairmen of all local salvage committees in Cape May County will meet with Clinton M. White, executive secretary for New Jersey of the War Production Board, at Cape May Court House tonight, it was announced this week. Members of the U. S. Department of Agriculture War Board for Cape Bay County and members of the Agriculture Extension Service will also attend the meet-

ing.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 8:30 o’clock.

Scouts To Make Drive Cape May Boy Scouts will make a house-to-house canvass cf the community on Saturday to collect wire suit and coat hangers donated by local householders. The hangers collected by the Scouts will be purchased by Harry E. Settle, proprietor of the Columbia Laundry, and money realized through the sale will be added to the Scout's summer camp fiind to help finance this summer’s camping trip for local

Scouts.

Two Appointed To Highway Posts Two temporary appointments were made yesterday afternoon by the Cape May County Board _of Freeholders to fill vacancies "bn the staff of the county highway department. Elmer B. 'Reed, of Sea Isle City, was appointed as temporary road foreman at a salary of $125 per month, and Harold Eldrup, of Avalon, was appointed, temporary truck driver at a salary of $100 per month. The annual county audit was submitted to the board by the county auditors and was ordered published according to law.

Attends Conclave Freeholder Ralph T. Stevens, of Cape May, left here Wednesday afternoon for Chicago where he will attend the annual meeting of the National Industrial Sand Association, of which he is treas-

on go on Friday and Saturday.

Blackout Test Successful In Coastal Areas Cape May and other county communities were plunged into total darkness for 35 minutes Monday night as New Jersev had its first statewide surprise blackout, which lasted from 10:10 until

10:45.

All branches of the Civilian Defense Council’s emergency siU up swung quickly into action and remained on duty throughout the black-out which was termed highly successful in this locality. The blackout, tentatively scheduled for “sometime between May 81 and June 6” came as a surprise to most residents of this area who anticipated that iL would be held toward the end of the week. FEW VIOLATIONS With a few exceptions where lights were left burning, the blackout in this area was successful, according to Police Chief John J. Spencer, Jr., chairinan of the local council. Citing a new law which became effective June 1, Spencer today issued a warning that violators of blackout and dim-out regulations are now subject to fines -up to $176 and imprisonment for one year or both. He warned that smoking is prohibited during blackouts as the glow of cigarettes, cigars and pipes is plainly visible. NIGHT LIGHTS OUT statement made public today, Spencer said: 'Bv orders of the Commanding General, Eastern Defense Command and First Army Headquarters, Governors Island, N. Y., certain restrictions have been •formulated regarding lighting along the New Jersev coast, and of those is as follows: ‘’i-ht lights in stores, gas stations, office buildings, outside illumination for signs, etc. must be extinguished when the last (Continued on Page Four) 20 Will Graduate Wednesday Hight Twenty eighth grade pupils ■ Lower Township's Consolidati School will receive diplomas at the school’s annual commencement exercises next Wednesday evening, June 10. Members of the graduating class are Anna Nichols, Anna Ruth Fox, Doris Taylor, Emily Sheppard, Enora Hamre, Freda Yearicks, Helen Oliver,. Helen Yonker, Lillian Wilson, Mae Bevis, Marian Garretson, Margaret Calverly, Mary Jane Yearicks, Rietta Mathews, Ruth McPherson. James Dickinson, John Turnier, Jonathon Munson, LeRoy Bailey and Thomas Childs. A play entitled “Our Five Sons" will be presented by the graduates as the highlight of the commencement program. The program will open with an invocation by the Rev. William Munson, will include several selections by the school chorus; presentation of the gift by Thomas Childs, class vice president; an address on “Why We Didn't Go To New York” by Freda Yearicks, class president; presentation of pins by Mrs. R*ndall Elliott, past president or the PTA; presentation of diplomas by Harry G. Silcox, president of the Board of Education. Mrs. W. R. Wright will piano accompanist. .The flute and drum corps composed of students of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades will also accompany the chorus. The commencement program will begin at 8:15.

Youths 18-20 Will Register For Selective Service Soon

Cape May County’s two Selective Service boards are preparing for the fifth registration of men which will 'be held June 80 under a Presidential proclamation ordering young men 18 and 19 to register on that date and for the registration of aril men who reached 20 years of age after December 31, 1941, and on or before June 30 who have not heretofore

tary service.

Young men 18 and 19 who will register between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on June 30, will not be subject to the military draft until

they are 20.

This will complete for the aresent the registration' of the nation’s manpower for both fighting and non-combatant war duty, and will be the fifth registration under existing law. • As in the third and fourth registrations, men in the age brackets in this section of the county may register at headquarters of Local Board No. 2 in Cape

May High School, at Wildwood High School or at the old court building, Cape May Court House, where volunteer registrars will be on duty, according to present tentative plans. No estimate jf ihe number of men expected to register was available this week, although board clerks said 300 to 400 might be expected. To date the Local Board has received merely a brief announcement setting the date and the hours of registration. Additional details are expected during the next two weeks from state headquarters at Trenton: President Roosevelt issued the executive order calling for fifth registration on May 22. Since the first registration on October 16, 1941, well over 4,000 men have registered for Selective Service in the southern section of Cape May County which is,under the jurisdiction of Local Board

No. 2.

Pastor Gets Degree From Seminary At last week’s commencement of the Hartford Seminary Foundation, the Hartford Theological Seminary conferred the degree of Master of Sacred Theology upon the Rev. Albert W. Lenz, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,

Cape May.

Mr. Lenz completed the residence requirements of the Seminary in the Department of Church History a few years ago. He qualified as a candidate for the advanced degree in the acceptance by the faculty of his "graduate thesis, “Jonathan Edwards in the Light of Galvanism

and Revivalism."

BaccalaureateService To Be Held Sunday The annual baccalaureate i icc for the graduating class of Cape May High School will be held in the First Methodist Church i Sunday evening at 7:30. There will be an academic procession from the high school to the church, where a section will be reserved in the body of the main sanctuary for the class, the Board of Education and members of the faculty. Participating in the service be the Rev. Wilbur E. Hogg, rector of the Church of the Advent, who will lead in the responsive reading; the Rev. William Bullock, of Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, who will read the Scripture lesson; and the Rev. Albert W. Lenz, of the First Presbyterian Church, who will offer the evening prayer. The Rev. Samuel Blair, pastor of the church, will deliver baccalaureate address, taking his subject; “Did Yon Reach

Rome?”

There will be special music. The public is invited. The service, as in the past, is a union service, all churches of the community cooperating.

Tax Rates Confirmed By County Board Official tax rates of all Cape May County municipalities were struck on Tuesday by the County Board of Taxation at Cape May Court House, confirming the figures announced May 6 before the Legislature had enacted new legislation to delay the date for striking official rates. Changes in railroad values in this county were so slight, Rice said, that tax rates were not af-

fected.

Rates struck by the board this week follow Avalon, $6.08; Ca May, $5.74; Cape May Point, $6.< Dennis Township, $3.68; Lower Township, $4.30; Middle Township, $4.82; North Cape May, $13.08; North Wildwood, $6.96; Ocean City, $7.20; Sea Isle City, $6.04; South Cape May, $8.00; Stone Harbor, $4.65; Upper Township, $2.90; West Cape May, $6.40; West Wildwood, $9.50; Wildwood, $5.00; Wildwood Crest, $5.26; Woodbine,

$4.66.

activities would interfero aa little as possible with business. Army authorities would not line to refrain from Sunday

sembly chamber at Trenton, _ tended by seashore business men and officials there was critteism of the recent Sunday “invasion’’ test which involved Army units and local defense groups along the Monmouth and Ocean County coasts and immobilized all traffic within a large area of the north Jersey coast. Pleasurebound motorists outside the area were not permitted to enter. DREYFUSS AGREES Leonard Dreyfuss, state director of civil defense, said he would refrain from calling for defense training along the coast unless ordered to do so by the ArmyMajor B. W. Beers, representing the command of the Second Corps Area at the conference, declared there would be Army cooperation as far as possible, but' could not promise there would be no Sunday maneuvers. Eight seamen who had survived torpedoings appeared before the meeting and told the group that “business as usual” should not be allowed to hamper the war effort.

Civilian Morale Building Is Theme Of School Exhibit

Centering on the theme of 'Civilian Morale Building”, the annual Cape May public school exhibit will be held Monday, June 8, and will consist of a series of exhibits which will demonstrate the methoefa and efforts employed in developing morale and guidance in the war effort for the student body. The exhibit will cover the entire school system, from the lower grades through high school. All exhibits and events will be confined to the high school building and the gymnasium. The -display will include the following: Art exhibit, Mrs. Stanley Schellenger; airplanes, William H. Stevens, assisted by John Stinner; LafMette Street School, Mrs. Clarif^Dohm, principal; Franklin Street School, Mrs. F. H. Owens; presentation of school flags, Raymond Adams; high school subjects, Paul S. Ensminger; physical fitness, Steven J. Steger; fashion show, Mrs. Emily Cresse. The show will be held in

The general exhibits will be opened to the public at 7 o’clock. Models in the fashion show will be Jule Halloway, Virginia Collins, Betsy Fite, Betty Ann Mathews, Louise Pitts, Hope Fox, Betsy Conway, -Winnie Moore, Rodney Schellenger, Sallie Swanson, Helen Harris, Eleanor Johnson, Helene McDuell, Frances Kelly, Nancy Smith, Angela Doran, V. Bell, Gloria Konowitch, Kay Vain, Jean Shirley Hoover, Shirley Ann Lemmon, Elsie Howard, Eileen Foulke, Nancy Hickman, Betty Anthony, Paulette Snyder, Connie Dougherty; Virginia Shaw, Estelle Yonker, Dorothy Repp, Ruth Repp, Helen Porch, Paula Schellenger, Nancy Sharp, Gloria Mariani, Marlyn Kaskey, Dorothy Doran, Mary Alice Feitz, Joyce Ewing, Cora Garretson, Mary Doran, Pauline Thomas, Jean Schramm. Lorrain Hamperian, Dorothy Sandgran, . Frances Krula, Wilmira Cresse, Lillian Hoover, Helen Pearce, Ruth Wolfendale, Betty (Oontfaroed on Page Four)

Man Arrested After Stealing Watch, Pen Wayman Cooper, 49, colored, of West Cape May, was arrested and committed to the county jail to await court action on Wednesday following his arrest on a charge of larceny. — Cooper is charged with having stolen a Waltham watch and a fountain pen from Robert Coyle, of 82-4 Kearney avenue, where the accused had worked for some Cooper was arrested by Officrs Hand and Major after an investigation conducted -by Police Chief Spencer. Police said Cooper had pawned the watch for 30 cents. The West Cape May man has served three terms in state’s prison on charges of forgery.

Capacity Crowd At Army-Navy Ball Convention Hall was filled to capacity Saturday evening with more than a thousand dancers and spectators who attended the Army and Navy ball, which highlighted the Memorial Day weekend activity here as a benefit for the USO fund raising campaign. Although final receipts have not yet been tabulated, pending collection of some outstanding ticket money, it is estimated that the ball cleared a net of $400, which reduces Cape May’s USO quota to $800, to be raised by a city-wide collection driv Miss Alice Wilkie was crowned queen of the ball and was escortec. to the front of the ballroom by a soldier and a sailor, as the orchestra played “As the Caissons Go Rolling Along”, was presented with 24 American Beauty roses, and escorted to the rear of the hall to the tune of “An-

chors Aweigh”.

iss Wilkie sold 118 tickets to the ball, the largest number sold by any of the USO Club hostesswho conducted the campaign. Private Paul Ingencri, of the local Army unit, sang “Stout Hearted Men" and “White Cliffs of Dover” as part of the program. It was learned this week that Irving Berlin has requested Army authorities to grant Private Ingeneri a leave of absence to permit him to appear in Berlin’s new Broadway show, the Army Way" which will

produced soon.

MacDonald Workers Give $100 To USO Two donations totalling $100 have been made to the Cape May USO fund campaign in recent weeks by employees of the MacDonald Engineering Company which is carrying on much of the construction work at the milliondollar chemical plant in Lower Township which is being built for the Northwest Magnesite Company. One contribution of $75 was made by the employees, amd a second of $25 was added. The contributions were presented to the local committee by R. N. Surds tram, paymaster of the company. The donations are the largest made by an individual contributor to date.

Nine Graduates In Borough Class Nind eighth grade students __ expected to receive diplomas at the annual commencement exercises of West Cape May’s public school next Thursday, June 11, at 7 p.m. The exercises will be held at the \yest Cape May Chapel. Pending completion of final examinations this- week, names of the students who will graduate from the eighth grade have not been released. Several prizes will be awarded at the exercises, the major prizes being in the form of defense

stamps.

A musical program has been arranged by faculty members. Awards of one dollar each in defense stamps will be presented to each graduate, to the boy with the highest average, to the girl with the highest average, and to the most helpful student. Other awards will also be given to students who have done more than the usual amount of work during the year. All members of the faculty will retipn next year. They are John Orlick, supervising principal, Mrs. Leah Hughes, Miss Jennie Hughes, Miss Annetta Booker and William J. Moore.

of gasoline and tiraa and. c war-time conditions. The of the holiday 1

during the « , T Capa May and other county Nr aorta ware wall fiUad with visit- • holiday period, day buainoas as gowP'w^’shihtly better than that of Mlisnilul Day, 1941. 1 A casual survey of holiday business conditions in Cape May disclosed that the' majority of local institutions had business equally as good as that of last Memorial Day, and several reported increases, ranging as*'high as .26 per cent for the weekend. BANK DEPOSITS UP Deposits at the Merchants National Bank were double that of last year for the weekend, although part of the increase was due to the fact that payment was made on a large government contract and the fact that the Camden Trust Co. branch is closed. Reports of successful business were made by business men along the beachfront and on Washington street and in other sections of the resort. While automobile traffic was less than that of Memorial Day weekend last year, bus and train travel was considerably heavier, offsetting to a large degree the loss caused by curtailment of motoring. OFFICIAL PLEASED In a statement issued Monday, Mayor T. Millet Hand said the success of the holiday weekend is a good criterion of the vacation season. “The large number of visitors Cape May . for the holiday proves conclusively, that people are still vacation-minded and still desire to come to the seashore for their vacations, in spite of the problems presented by tire, gasoline and automobile rationing and the fact that industrial working schedules have been advanced to keep pace with the war effort,” he said.

Cox Now In Command

Of County Station

Effective June 1, Harry Cox, of Tuckahoe, for several years a New Jersey state police detective assigned to the Cape May County barracks, was promoted to the ^ank of corporal and was placed Mn command of the station at

Cape May Court House.

Cox, who has been active in patriotic and civic organizations ; ~ this.county for several years, s. ceeds Corporal Neiland, commanding officer of the barracks for several months, who has been

Trooper D. T. Dooney has been transferred from Pleasantville to the Cape May County sub-station to complete the complement of the station.

More Stringent Dim-Out Is Ordered By Army Command

More stringent dim-out orders affecting coastal areas of New York, New Jersey and Delaware were issued Monday by Major General Thomas A. Terry, com-. nUAding the Second Corps Area, a: his answer to the metropolitan area's failure to voluntarily tone down shore glow making silhouetted ships at sea easy targets for enemy submarines. Under the new order, every window and skylight must be screened and every outdoor advertising sign extinguished for

the duration.

The order affects Cape May, Cumberland, Atlantic, Ocean, Monmouth, Middlesex, Union, Essex, Hudson and part of Bergen Counties in New Jersey, the entire metropolitan area of New York, and Kent and Essex Counties in Delaware. General * Terry dispatched by military couriers copies of the drastic rules to governors of the three states and charged state end local authorities with their enforcement, except in the case

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of milita^g . establishments war pldpts under control of Army or Navy officers. Taking no - chances on understandings, Terry even prescribed the exact wattage of lighting permitted in places of business or amusement, setting one-quarter watt per square foot for display windows or open lob-

bies.

Even in private homes in wide area along the seaboard, windows must be shaded screened to prevent escape through them of direct rays of light, the only alternative being to shade the interior lights such royms individually. It was the Army’s first ac directive banning all outdoor lighted advertising signs and was far more strict than the first set of regulations issued April 27, when screening of windows against direct rays of interior lights was ordered only for windows abo^g, the 16th floor.

Second Objector Assigned To Camp Southern Cape May County's second conscientious objector will leave for a federal objector’s work camp next Wednesday, officials of Local Selective Service Board No. 2 announced here to-

day.

Benjamin Franklin Hottel, 32, of Baia-Cynwyd, Pa., formerly of 210 E. Rosemary road, Wildwood Crest, has been assigned to work “of national importance” at Camp Kane, McKean County, Pa., board officials said. Hottel, an accountant, declared his conscientious objections to combatant and non-combatant military service. He is a member of the Church of the Brethren, and based his objections on relgious principles. ‘American Way’Theme Of Commencement “The American Way” will be the theme of addresses to be delivered by honor- students of the 1942 graduating class of j^Cape May High School at the annual commencement exercises at Convention Hall next Thursday evening, June 11. The commencement program will begin at 8:30. Student speakers will be Marlyn Kaskey, James Corson, Willmira Cresse and Charles GoodMiss Kaskey will speak on “Education for a Strong America.” Corson will take “Improving Economic Well Being” for his topic, Miss Cresse will speak on “Strengthening National Morale”, and Goodacre will speak on the subject of “Seeking World Or-

der”.

Forty-three members of the senior class will be graduated at the commencement exercises.

Red Cross Chapter To Get Ambulance The Cape May County Red Cross Chapter will soon have its own ambulance. National headquarters of the Red Cross has notified Preston Fisher, chapter chairman, that an ambulance has been ordered for this county and will be presented by Masonic friends. The ambulance will be an International Metro with a one-half to three-quarters ton chassis and will have space for four stretcher cases as well as side seats. The delivery date has not been announced.