88th YEAR, No. 32

Cape May Wave. Established 1854. Star or the Cate. Established 1888. Care May Star 8 Wave. Consolidated 1807-

CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942

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Missions Work [Bible Conference Speakers Theme Of Cape May Conference

missions, the second week Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference will open Sunday at the Cape Island Baptist Church with a number of outstanding speakers scheduled to address the daily sessions. Principal speakers during the second week of conference sessions will be Dr. Jesse R. Wilson, home secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, New York; and Dr. Leo W. Spring, for 33 years •’ rnio - aionary to Burma. Dr. Wilson will speak at the evening worship service at the Baptist Church Sunday evening at 7:45 and will give inspirational addresses each evening throughout the week at 9 o’clock. Dr. Spring will give Bible expositions daily at 10 a.m. during the second week of sessions. Conferences on Christian Ser-

at 11 a.m. from Monday througl Friday with Dr. Wilson as leader. Vyuting missionaries representing India, Burma, China, Japan and Congo will participate in the conferences.

A special conference for women in charge of the Woman’s Amer-

ican Baptist Foreign Mission Society will be held Wednesday afternoon. August 12, with Mrs. Howard Wayne Smith presiding. Dr. Wilson is well known to the Baptist denomination. He was a missionary in Japan in 1921-1926; General Secretary of the Student Volunteer Movement from 19271936 and was a delegate to the Jerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council in 1928 and to the Madras Meeting in 1933. In 1986 he was appointed an associate secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society with responsibility for promotional work on the Pacific coast. Following his attendance at the International Missionary Confer-

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Plans Started For Cottagers’ Dinner

Plans were started .-this week for the annual dinner-meeting of the Cape May Summer Cottagers’ Association. The event, highlight of the organization's summer activities, will be held at Congress Hall on Friday evening, August

21.

Preliminary plans were made at a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. Giraud Foote, 823 Beach avenue, Monday evening. Mrs. Foote is chairman of the dinner committee; Mrs. Thomas Hart will be in charge of tickets and subscriptions. Other members of the dinner committee are Mrs. Charles F. Mitchel, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Godwin and Mr. and Mrs. J. Harold Watson. . An interesting program is being planned for the dinner meet-

ing.

At a meeting of the association's board of directors last Thursday evening, the group recommended that the city ordinance banning bicycling on the boardwalk except between the hours of 5 and 9 a.m. be enforced. The directors cited several instances where serious accidents had been narrowly averted on the ’walk ami pointed out that unregulated bicycle traffic on the boardwalk created a safety haz-

ard.

War Bond Drive Gets Another Doost

Cape May’s total of war bond sales for 19-12 was boosted an additional $16,000 during the last week, according to a report made public Tuesday by Stuart R. Trottman, chairman of the local bond drive committee. Mr. Trottman announced that the total as of Tuesday afternoon amounted to $138,887.50. The last report issued by ,the local committee set the total figure at $122,887.50. The bulk of the additional bond purchases was made by contractors and their employees in this ahea on defense projects. Chairman Trottman explained. He again urged local citizens to increase their bond purchases as much as possible to keep this community's total above the quota set by state headquarters.

HOSPITAL FOUNDATION

BUYS WAR BONDS

COURT HOUSE — Purchase of $50,000 in U. S. war savings bonds, series F, authorized by the Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Foundation last month, was announced at the organization's monthly meeting here on Monday by Raymond Errickson, treasurerTlte foundation also bought $5000 worth at government boada several months ago.

DR. LEO W. SPRING

DR. JESSE R. WILSON

Principal speakers during the second week of the Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference which will begin Sunday, August 9, at the Cape Island Baptist Church. Dr. Spring was a Baptist missionary in Burma for 33 years. Dr. Wilson is home secretary of the American Baptist Mission Society.

Large Group Of Selectees Are Named For Test

Salvage Drive In Cape May Planned For Sept. 19-26

To meet the nation’s war needs for scrap iron and steel and other salvage materials, a new intensive drive will be launched on September 19 in Cape May to obtain as much scrap materials as are available, it was announced today by Charles A. Swain, Jr., chairman of the local Salvage

Committee. The local drive

part of the nationwide drive announced by Donald M. Nelson, WPB chairman. “As the war becomes more intensive on the various foreign fronts,” Mr. Swain said, “the need for scrap materials has steadily increased.” He declared that while collections of various types of salvage have already been made here from time to time, the expanding requirements of the war program have made it necessary to obtain much larger amounts of materials. "The American steel industry this year hopes to produce a rec-ord-breaking 85.000,000 tons of steel — as much as all foreign countries put together can make. Our country alone this . going to produce three tons of steel for every two tons 11 " Axis can turn out. “To bring steel production up to the industry's full capacity of 90,000,000 tons in 1942, however, our steel industry needs an extra 6,000.000 tons of scrap stee! for its furnaces. Every ton of scrap we can send them will swell our national production of tanks, ships, planes and guns.” Members of the local committee. Mr. Swain said, are planning the local campaign which will con- ' lue through September 26. In addition to scrap iron and steel, the materials to be collected are brass and- other nonferrous metals, rubber, rope and

fats.

A collection center where scrap on and other salvage may be left will soon be established in some centrally located site. Mr. Swain said that many loll civic organizations would l>e called upon to assist in the drive. “An increasing number of boys from this, city are already seeing active service,” he said. “We on the home front must see to it that industry shall not lack the materials needed for adequately arming and equipping them. “Every housewife can play an\ important part in this drive. She should carefully inspect, nil of her house furnishings to find out what equipment she has that has outlived its usefulness. “Waste kitchen pots and rubber are also needed badly and should he turned in,” Mr. Swain continued.

West Cape May Pays County Tax In Full

WEST CAPE MAY—The borough commission on Tuesday authorized payment in full of the 1942 county tax due from West Cape May. Borough Treasurer E. V. Edsail was instructed to draw checks in the amount of $3^2.53 for the county tax and $161 for the county library tax and to forward them to County Treasurer Winfield S. Hitchner in full payment of the borough’s county obligations fbr the current yeaft Edsail reported to the commission that tax collections in the borough during the month of July were equal to the amount collected during the first six months of the current year. He announced also that a tax sale for 1941 and prior years will be advertised beginning August 13, and urged all property owners whose taxes are delinquent to pay them immediately to avoid inclusion in the advertisement of sale and to avoid costs involved in the preparation of the sale.

City Tax Sale To De Held In September

A municipal tax sale for all unpaid taxes of 1940 and prior years will be held in September, it was announced this week by Tax Collector Gilbert C. Hughes. Cape May’s city commission on Friday agreed to plans for a oner tax sale, but decided against ail-inclusive tax sale which would have taken in delinquencies for both 1940 and 1941, bringing this community up to date in its tax collection efforts. The list of properties on which them are unpaid taxes for the year 1940 and prior years will be advertised for sale beginning Allgust 24, Collector Hughes warned property owners whose taxes ■are unnald, in a circular letter

seilt-this week.

Opposing the plan for a two■ar. all-inclusive tax sale, the Commissioners said that with •-time conditions curtailing resort business this season, it would be inadvisable to attempt an allinclusive sale at this time.

Cold Spring Church To Mark 228th Anniversary August 16

The Cold Spring Presbyterian Church, known to many as "the Old Brick Church”,, will observe the 228th anniversary of its founding on Sunday, August 16, at which time .the annual rally day will be held, the Rev. William Bullock, pastor, announced this

week.

The Rev. Thomas Clinton Pears, Jr.| L.H.D., manager of the detriment of history of the Pres■yterian General Assembly, Philadelphia, will be the principal speaker at the anniversary ser-

Vocalists will be Mrs. Harry ... Needles and Mrs. Madelyn Love England, both of Cape May. A service flag dedication service will be held at the church on the .evening of Augst 16, at which time a service flag with 18 stars, representing Cold Spring men in the service, will be dedicated. Chaplain Cyril E. Bentley, of the Cape May Naval Base, will be the evening speaker. The church was founded in 1714 by the Rev. John Bradner. Among

its early ministers were the Rev. Samuel Finley, who later became president of Princeton -College,, the Rev. Daniel Lawrence and the Rev. Moses Williamson. The annual rally day service marks the homecoming for members as well as for descendants of many of Cape May’ County's earliest settlers. Because a number of the chief executives of the nation at one time worshipped in the - Cold Spring church, it has often been referred to as "the Church of the Presidents”. Dr. Leo W. Spring, for 33 years a missionary to Burma, will preach at the Cold Spring church next Sunday^ August 9. Dr. Spring is one of the principal speakers at the Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference in session here. On August 23, the congregation of the Old Brick Church will join that of the Tabernacle Methodist Church at Erma for the annual rally day of the latter church.

One of the largest contingents of southern Cape May County men to be called for Army physical examinations will leave here on Wednesday, August 12, for the 157th Field Artillery Armory, Camden, where they will undergo final physical tests by Army doctors, prior to their rejection or acceptance for military service. The selectees will leave by train fqr the examination center. Those accepted by Army physicians will be immediately inducted in the enlisted reserve and will be given two weeks’ furlough to permit them to settle their affairs in civil life before entering the Army for active duty. Those rejected will return to 4beir homes and be re-classified by the local draft board in accordance with Army doctors’ recommendations. As officials of Cape May County’s Local Board Number 2, with headquarters at Cape May High School, announced the list of prospective selectees on Monday, an order was received fpqm state Selective Service headquarters calling for additional men to be examined on September 14. No indication as to the size of the call was given. Those called are: CAPE MAY: Max Bear, John Lewis Bose. Douglass Coleman, Edwin Lewis Davis, Harry Shepherd Johnson, Laurence Edgar Kersey, Harold Raymond Markley, Warren O’Neill, William Henry Peterson, Edward Morrice Powell, Robert Leslie Powell, John Dobson Schofield, Jerome Thomas Wallace, Antonio J. Puentes, Edward FSientes, James Thomas Whitfield.

An amending ordinance changing the closing hours for all Cape May liquor-seling establishments from 3 a.in. to 1 a.m. became effective today upon final publication of the ordinance, after its passage by the city commission‘last Friday. The ordinance was adopted by the commission with a 2 to 1 vote, as Mayor T. Millet Hand, who announced his opposition to the measure when it was introduced, voted in the negative. Commissioners Scott and Wentzell voted affirmatively. The amendment requires all liquor-selling establishments in Cape May to close at 1 a.m. Terms of the amending ordinance provide that no intoxicating beverage shall be sold in Cape May between the hours of 1 aan. and 7 a.m. on weekdays, and 1 a.m. and 12 o’clock noon on Sundays. No objections or comments were made regarding the amendment when the measure was taken up for public hearing at Friday’s session of the’ commission.

WEST CAPE MAY: Samuel Horace Bakley, Robert Melvin Hand, Harry Elmer Hunter, Raymond Newell. Elwood Allan Roseman, Arthur Henry Turner, Edward Philip Washington, Robert Walter Williams.

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Petitions Filed, By Both Parties

COURT HOUSE — Petitions of Republican and Democratic aspirants for nomination in the September primaries were filed this week at the office of County Clerk Stirling W. Cole. Republican candidates are the incumbents, who are seeking reelection. They are Senate President I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, for state senator; Assembly Speaker John E. Boswell, of Ocean City, for Assembly; Freeholders Percy H. Jackson, of Wildwood, and Ralph T. Stevens, of Cape May, for re-election; Surrogate Irving Fitch, of ,Sea Isle City for surrogate; and Herbert R. Hansman, Villas, for cor-

The Republican petitions were

filed on Monday.

Democratic aspirants whose petitions were filed yesterday afternoon are Edmund B. Godfrey, Ocean City, -for Senate; Joseph F. Hughes, Wildwood, for As‘sembly; Edward P. Griffin, Cape May, for surrogate; Benjamin D. Trout, Eldora, for freeholder; and 1 Oliver Elwell, Cape May, for

coroner.

Democratic leaders were unable to find another candidate for freeholder, Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, county chairman, said, hence only one freeholder candidate will appear on their ticket.

Change Of Bar Closing Time Now In Effect

Party I

Boats Hard

Hit By Rulings

Fleets of fishing party boats in Cape May and other Cape May County ports suffered markedly during the last weekend from the effects of the latest Coast Guard regulation, requiring all anglers to carry Coast Guard identification cards to sea with them. Only three party boats out of a fleet of a dozen sailing from Schellengers Landing wharves went to sea Sunday. Only one left Bucks Landing, and the number out of Scotty’s Wharf was just fraction of the normal Sunday

group. • fc

With tire crowd of fishermen from the metropolitan area cut sharply by the Coast Guard ruling requiring identiination cards for all party boat passengers, the few boats, which did operate during the weekend carried only a ” ir number of passengers. Most of the larger boats, whose operation costs and overhead are high, found it impossible to carry the small number of passengers profitably and their captains referred their customers to other boatmen who were making the

i to •

than 50 prospective ang-

lers from the Philadelphia area

port Sunday because

they did not have proper credentials, Most of them carried Navy Yard passes and other forms of identification instead of the regular Coast Guard identification cards, which became necessary for all party boat passengers Aug. 1. The skeletqn fleet which operated over the weekend was confined to an area inside the onemile limit by other Coast Guard regulations effective August 1.

WOMAN DIES AFTER LEAP FROM AUTO

More Funds Sought For Cape Airport

Ruth Wills. 25, of Millville, died Sunday morning in Shore Memormi Hospital, Somers Point, four j hours, after she leaped from a speeding automobile, near WoodCharged with, manslaughter, Russel Hatcher, also of Millville, driver of the car from which the woman jumped, was placed in the county jail. Bail was set at‘$1,000 yesterday by Judge Robert L.

Warke.

Hatcher told state police he and the woman had been drinking in Woodbine and that she jumped from the car after refusing to return home.

WASHINGTON—An additional allocation of funds for increased work at the CAA airport under construction in Lower, Township and for a similar airport in Atlantic City was requested this week by Congressman Elmer H. Wene, of this dictrict. Wenc said this week that, he has conferred with the officials of the Civil Aeronautics Administration and urged that in the next CAA construction program, for which Congress recently appropriated $199,730,000, an additional allotment be made to proride for a third runway at the Cape May County and Atlantic City airports. He also urged the development of the airports into Class Four F'elds so that they will accommodate all types of airplanes. Class Four fields have runways at least 5,000 feet in length. It* was explained that before the allocation can be made it will be necessary to obtain the approval of the Airport Approval Board, composed of the Secretarof War, Navy and Commerce.

ANNOUNCE SIGNAL TESTS

Plans for a Saturday noon test of the Cape May Point air raid warning signal were announced

low lie warning signal every Saturday at noon, it wa% announced.

Start Condemnation For Canal Today; Dredging Is Speeded

Condemnation proceedings to acquire rights of way through Lower •Township for the Cape May County, canal now under construction will be started at Trenton today. A large number of property owners whose lands are affected by the project were served with notices last Saturday $o appear in the U. S. District Court at Trenton today either

in person or through counsel

Ask Higher Bridges, Road Link For Canal

COURT HOUSE—Protests that the temporary bridges spanning the Cape May County canal, now under construction, will be .too low to permit passage of small craft without Opening the draw 1 - bridges, and requests for the Army engineers to construct connecting links between the township and county roads which'will be cut off by the canal will be sent to Colonel H. B. Vaughan, Jr., district Army engineer, by the Cape May County Board at Freeholders. Freeholder Ralph T. Stevens, of Cape May, yesterday moved to file the board’s objection with the engineers with a request that the height of the temporary bridges be increased sufficiently to permit small boats to pass under the bridges without the necessity of opening the spans each time. The board also urged that the Army engineers connect the township and county roads affected by the waterway. Stevens said the county freeholders had never been consulted about /the canal project by Army engineers.

General Foulois Is Chosen By GOP

Republican party leaders Cape May, Cumberland and Atlantic Counties on Tuesday selected Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, U.S.A., retired, as the party’s choice for Congress from the Second Congressional District in the September primaries. The selection was made at a meeting of Republican leaders of. the three counties in Atlantic City. General Foulois, a resident of Ventnor, was selected as the party's choice after a discussion of several names considered as likely Congressional timber. General Foulois began Army service as a private when he was 18 years of age and rose through the ranks. His early interest in flying brought promotion in that field and in 1918 he became brigadier general in charge flying forces in France. In 1917 he became assistant chief of the Army Air Corps, and in 1931 he succeeded Major General James E. Fechet as chief of the flying arm, retiring four years later. • The Atlantic County man will be opposed by former State Sen-

May, who has announced that will be a candidate for the Republican nomination in September. General Foulois is civilian defense director for South Jersey with headquarters in Atlantic City. Former Judge Palmer M. Way, of Wildwood, prominently tioned as a possible candidate for Congress, this week withdrew of General Foulois in 1 interests of party harmony, announced that he is satisfied with the selection of the group and said he would support General Foulois' candidacy

Coronation Of Queen Maysea Will Be Held On August 21

Plans for the coronation Queen Maysea XV, juvenile ruler of Cape May, are being rushed to completion as the date of the vent approaches. The new queen •ill be crowned at ceremonies in Cape May's Convention Hall on Friday evening, August 21, at

8:30 o’clock.

The 1942-43 queen will be Betty Carey Dunning, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fitzgerald Dunning, of 107 Chuchwarden’s Road, Baltimore, Md. She will succeed Patsy Ann Gaw, of Pittsburgh, who has reigned as honorary afcecn since last August. / The attendants of Queen Maysea XV will be Mary Frances and Virginia Gilligan, of Abington, Pa-: Judy Ann Killeen, Anne Wake and Mimi Endicott, of Cape May, will be flower girls; and Irwin Renneisen, of North Philadelphia, will be page boy. New Jersey Senate President I. Grant Scott, Cape May commissioner of public affairs, will officiate at the coronation, bestowing the crown upon the new

An elaborate juvenile ahow, un-

der the direction of Madelyn Love England, will be the feature of the coronation program. Entitled "School Days”, the show will include songs, dances, jokes and specialty numbers by a large group of juvenile performers. Fifty children will participate in the show. The cast includes' Jerry Love, school teachers Betty Carey Dunning, Patsy Ann Gaw, Stephanie Steger, Boostie Renneisen, Judy Anne Killeen, Peggy Wright, Jean Mathews, Anne Nichols, Charlotte Warner, Patsy Ewan, Mary Frances Gilligan, Virginia Gilligan, Dorothy Tribbett, Alonda Rae Fagan, Patsy Haggerty, Fay and Dory Goodwin, Margaret McClure, Alma McGruddy, Cecilia Sawyer, Kathryn Flannigan, Paul Porreca, Marcia Pepper, Billy Mulholland, Joan Stevens, Barbara Stevens, Mimi Endicott and Dolores Harvey, pupils. With the entire court of Queen Maysea elaborately costumed and with the coronation accompanied by much pomp and ceremony, the event is one of the most colorful resort activities along the South Jersey coast.

receive full details of the govern-

ment’s requirements.

The condemnation proceedings will be instituted before Judge

Phillip Forman in the U. S. District Court at Trenton at 11:80 o’clock this morning, according to notices served on the property owners.

It is understood that a large groqp of Lower Township property owners is planning to attend the court session. Other groups will be represented by counsel at

the proceedings.

OWNERS INDIGNANT

Indignation is running high some quarters in Lower Toy

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ship concerning the canal project, with some property owners vote-

some property owners voicing objections to the project on the ground that it will cut through their lands and others objecting because the canal will bisect the township leaving the two sections connected only by

bridges.

Meanwhile work on the waterway is progressing with comparative rapidity as the huge dredge “Baltimore” pushes its way through the meadow midway between North Cape May and Cape May Point on its course to Cape May Harbor. Preliminary dredging in the bay completed late last week, the dredge cut through the shoreline on Sunday, and at press time last night was a considerable distance inside the shoreline.

WORKMEN RUSHING Crews of workmen are laboring night and day to speed the project, and vast quantities of mud have been removed from the canal route and deposited in spoil areas on the side of the canal. Other workmen are building mud and sand barriers around the spoil areas to hold the material dredged .from the canal route and still others are clearing the path of the capal of trees, underbrush and other obstacles so that the dredge may proceed uninterrupted when it has cut through the meadow and reaches high land. Considerable difficulty is being experienced in obtaining labor for various parts of the operation, it understood.

As work on the canal progress- , hundreds of residents and visitors of this vicinity make frequent trips to 'the bayshore to witness the operations, which began early last week.

Offers Land For Bayshore Plant

COURT HOUSE — An offer of free lease for five acres of land along the Delaware bayshore to any manufacturing firm desiring to build and operate a factory there was made this week by Harry W. Errickson, of Reed’s Beach. Errickson made the offer in a letter to Freeholder P. H. Jackdirector of the board. Vs an inducement for some manufacturing company to start here at Reed’s Beach, the owners will lease to a .reputable company up to five acres of land for a factory, said company to build factory and employ as far as possible our local people,’’ Errickson said. “The above lease is to be free of charge as long as the factory is kept running and our people are employed.”

Four Injured As Cars Collide

COURT HOUSE — ! our perms were injured Sunday afternoon when two cars collided at the intersection of Route 4 and the North Wildwood Boulevard, Burleigh. The cars were driven by Benjamin Lyle, 19 Randall avenue, Boothwyn, Pa., and Edmund Bansow, 7642 Fayette street, Philadelphia. Police said the Bassow car, travelling south on Routo 4, failed to stop at a red traffic light and crashed into the other ehicle, overturning it. Injured were Elsie Lyle, who suffered concussion, scalp lacerations, back injury and leg contusions; Larry Lyle, 6, forehead abrasion, scalp puncture, concussion and knee abrasion; Benjamin Lyle, Sr., concussion, contusion of left shoulder; and Ann Lyle, 25, shock. All were treated-by Dr. Brooks, of Court House, and Lyle, Elsie Lyle and Larry Lyle were taken to Chester, Pa. hospitaL