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88th YEAR, No. 35

Cak May Wavk. Establishko 1884. Stab or the Cape. Established 1868. Cape May Stab a Wave. Consolidated 1807.

CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, AUGUST *27, 1942

DELIVERED BY MAIL IN THE U.SJL POSTAGE PREPAID—*1.50 A YEAR

Dredge Through Meadow; Start House Removal COLD SPRING — Having cut through more than a mile of bayshore meadowland in its trek across the tip of Cape May County, the large dredge “Baltimore”, which is engaged in construction of the cross-county canal, this week entered the strip of woodland which separates the meadow from the old Bayshore Road. . As the dredge approaches the populated section of this community, property owners whose lands and buildings are right-of-way for the waterway improvement are preparing to move their homes and buildings to make way for the canal. RUSH FOR MOVERS With preliminary work started on the removal of a large number of the affected buildings, actual moving of the structures is expected to be started this week. Chief difficulty encountered by many property owners, who face an absolute deadline for moving of September 5, is securing moving contractors, who are being beseiged with orders as a -result

of the project.

A number of houses, barns, garages and other buildings have been jacked up, preparatory to removal, and the task of getting them out of the canal right-of-way is expected to begin soon.

SPEED NEGOTIATIONS

Meanwhile, agents of the real estate department of the War Department this week arc continuing negotiations with property owners in the line of the canal. Appraisal of properties affected is continuing, and options are being prepared for property owners whose homes and buildings are affected.. Under the Army’s procedure, property owners who accept the government’s offers are given first options on re-pur-chase of the buildings which must

be removed immediately.

Department agents indicated . that the property transfers and. proceedings will be finished with-

in 60 days.

PUSH PRELIMINARIES As the dredge eats its way ' through the highlands, various other parts of the project are being speeded, with crews of workmen clearing timber from the route, doing preliminary construction work at sites for the three bridges which will span the al, and peparing the rodte for the arrival of the dredge. More than 1,000,000 cubic yards of materia! have been removed from the canal to date,

said.

Buried Monday

THEODORE W. REEVES Widely known West Cape May borough clerk, who died Friday morning after an illness of more than a year.

Dollinger Renamed Legion Commander Edward Dollinger was re-elect-ed commander of the Harry Snyder Post. 193, American Legion at the Cape May unit's annual election of officers last Wednesday evening. Other officers named for the ensuing year are Percy G. Fox, senior vice commander; Edward Hallman, sergeant-at-arms; A. Spencer Nelson, chaplain; 'and Percy d'Romtra, service officer. The post adjutapt will be named at a later date. The newly elected officers will not be formally installed in office until after the state Legion convention at Asbury Park on September 12 and 13. William Whitehead, d’Romtra, Fox, Walter M. Trout and Paul Snyder were elected to the board of directors for terms-of one year. d'Romtra was elected _ delegate to the county committee for a three year term.

Trooper Is Chief Of County Legion Unit

Baltimore Girl Is Crowned Queen

Nine-year-old Betty Carey Dunning, of Baltimore, Md., became Queen Maysea XV Friday evening at the 16th annual coronation ceremony sponsored by the City of Cape May as part of its summer entertainment program. The Baltimore girl, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Fitzgerald Dunning, was crowned by New Jersey .Senate President I. Grant Scgtt in the elaborate ceremony. She succeeded Patsy Ann Gaw, of Pittsburgh, Pa., who held the honorary title of Queen Maysea

since -last August.

A large audience filled Convention Hall to witness the traditionally colorful coronation ceremony, which was carried out with the pomp and formality of an actual

royal crowning.

Following the ceremony

which the new queen received her crown, royal robes and sceptre of authority, a large cast of juvenile performers, under the direction of ^Madelyn Love England, presented a kiddies’ show entitled "School Days’- 1 , following an en-

tirely new theme, and including a

large number of special perform-

ances consisting of song and

dance numbers as well a» acro-

batic exhibitions.

The feature performances of the juvenile artists were well received by the audience which at-

tended the event;

The. new queen yrho will be crowned in 1943 was selected following the coronation ceremony. Next year’s queen will be Virginia Gilligqn, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gilligan, of

Abington, Pa.

Reeves, Veteran Official, Dies; Rites Monday WEST CAPE MAY—Theodore W. Reeves, veteran borough official and one of this community’s most outstanding citizens, died at 7 a.m. Friday, August 21, at his home after an illness of a year.

He wes 70.

k Mr. Reeves had served continuously as borough clerk for 41 years, and had been a member of the West Cape May Board of Education for 44 years, sei ' as district clerk since 1910. was superintendent of the \ West Cape May Union Chapel for! more than 25 years and bad tx 1 elder of the First Presbi Church of Cape May since 1902. The son of the late George H. Reeves and Georgianna Bancroft, Mr. Reeves was hern in Camden, May J, 1872, and came to West Cape May in his early childhood, where he worked from 1888 at the Hastings £ Co. gold leaf factory under his father, who was superintendent of the factory. At the death of his father, in 1913, he became superintendent of the factory," which closed

eral years ago.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at his late residence, 216 Broadway, with the Rev. Albert W. Lenz, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of

Cape May, officiating.

Interment, under the direction of Earl L. Hollingscad, mortician, was made in Cold Spring Ceme-

tery.

Mr. Reeves is survived by his wife. Mrs. Mary Hughes Reeves, a son, Orion Reeves, principal of Wolf Junior High School at Easton, Pa., a brother, Reuben B. Reeves, of West Cape May, and a granddaughter. Miss Dorothy Reeves, of Easton. Mr. Reeves had been confined ; to hn home by illness since last September after having been a patient in Graduate Hospital, Philadelphia, for a month

Cottagers Have Annual Dinner; Cleric Speaker The. third annual dinner of the Cape May Summer Cottagers’ Association was held at Congress Hall Friday evening with an attendance of more than 120. The dinner meeting was considered one of the most succeSfcful Cottagers' gatherings since the organization was formed several years ago. Dr. H. E. Dana, president of the Union Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Mo., here for the Cape Itfay Bible and Missionary Conference, was principal speaker at the dinner. He "was introduced by the Rev. Robert D. Carrin, pastor of the Cape Island Baptist Church. “Lights and Shadows on the Canvas of- Life” was • the theme of Dr. Dana’s address. He is one of "'the most outstanding theologians in this country. BACK SALVAGE DRIVE Thomas Hart, president of the association, who acted as toastmaster, announced that the association endorses the Cape May salvage campaign which is under way, and urged association members to contribute any scrap materials they might have to the local" drive. George W. Edwards, a director Of the association and a long-time Cape May visitor, offered 1,000 pounds of scrap iron from his Yacht avenue boathouse -to the local salvage collectors to start the junk donations by cottagers. Mayor T. Millet Hand announced that anyone desiring to coi (Continued on Page Four)

MARGARET KEISER Well known Philadelphia lyric soprano who will be featured as the ^uest artist at Sunday evening’s concert at Convention Hall. Miss Keiser has won wide acclaim for her rendition of operatic roles and "her concert work.

Dr. Robbins Given Army Commission Dr. ’Warren D. Robbins, of Cape May. has been commissioned as a captain in the Army Medical- Corps, it was learned late last week, after he was sworn in at Fort DCx. Dr. Robbins said he has not yet received his orders telling him when and where to report for active duty, but said he expects to receive them within the next

two wee he.

The C6po May physician, who is been county physician for two years as well as local police surgeon for a number of years, has practiced here for 14 years, coming to Cape May from Philadel-

phia.

He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he received his A. B. degree, and Cornell Medical College, where he took his

M.D.

Upon graduation, he served his ntemeship for two years at the Philadelphia General Hospital, and was resident physician for one year at St. Christopher's Hos-

pital, Philadelphia.

Borough Firemen End Fund Raising Drive WEST CAPE MAY — Completjing a house-to-house canvass of West Cape May and part of Lower Township, the West Cape May Volunteer Fire Company this week expressed its appreciation to friends of the organization who have 'contributed. Approximately {250 was lected in the drive conducted by members of the company. Unable to have a firemen’ carnival to raise funds as in th past, due to dim-out regulations, the borough firemen appealed for donations to help finance operation of the co/npany during -the ensuing year through the canvass. “The generous support of the public in making contributions to this worthy cause is deeply appreciated by all mefnbers of the fire company," officers of the organization said in a statement

issued today.

Insurance Slayer Seeking Parole

TRENTON — Dominick Rodio, I, a Philadelphian serving a life sentence for participation in Philadelphia’s murder - for - insurance ring, was one of 80 prisoners incarcerated as murderers who have

applied for parole, the New Jer-: U0tt3f 6TS brOUD sey Court on Pardons disclosed | v .. 0 . #***• ~ s, X i ‘ , , „ To Name Officers

Rodio was sentenced in Cape

May County on October 13, 1939, j Officers of the Summer Cotafter he and another man had tagers’ Association of Caac-hlay drowned Joseph Arena, al*. of wil! ^ elected for the ensuing Philadelphia, by pushing him ; year Sunday afternoon at the orovcrb0ard_from a rowboat in the j ganization’s annual meeting,

which will be held at the Cape

sounds off Sea Isle City.

The Rodio case attracted widespread attention to this county, haring been linked with the mur-der-for-insurance ring which was

broken ip Philadelphia.

Subsequently other ring members were found guilty and sentenced for -various similar crimes.

Theatre at 4:30 o’clock.

President Thomas Hart, of the ! 1*7 the“coi^inusriImers"

City Turns Down Licensees’ Plea

Cape May’s city commission turned thumbs down on a request for. an hour extension of the limit for the closing of bars for the final three Saturday nights of the current season, after Har-

Redding, representing a

number of local licensees, had

made the request -Friday.

The commissioners ruled that no extension would be possible without amending the city’s ordinance governing the operation of licensed liquor selling establishments, and pointed out that such an amendment would require at least three weeks before it

could become effective.

The request Tor an extension submitted only two weeks af-

Red Cross Starts On Dressings Monday The surgical dressing program of the Cape May County Red Cross Chapter will get under way on Monday, August 31, at 9:45 a.m., it was announced today 'by branch officers after they had received materials and instructions. Issuing an urgent appeal to volunteers to help with the mak•"ff of surgical dressings, Mrs. H.

200 Men In 3-A Group Already Re-classified

Service registrant* into categories based on dependency. Local Board No. 2, in charge of Selective Service administration in this locality, has re-classified 200 men to date, it was learned Tuesday. While no information was immediately available on the new classifications, it is understood that some former 3-A men are now classed as 1-A potentials and others are in other categories. A total of 1,700 men w__ originally in the 8-A group of the local draft board. MARRIED MEN SOON While no speciQc orders have been received as yet by the local board, despatches from Washington indicate that men formerly classed as 3-A will be called into active service shortly. Capital reports indicate that the induction of married men without children will be started sometime this fall and certainly before December, and that the induction of married men with children will start soon thereafter. Pay allotment provisions came effective this week for men who have been in service

by federal allotments to wives

and dependent children. EXPLAIN ALLOTMENTS

Allotments to dependents do not begin until after the selectee has been in service fqr a full

month.

Questionnaires have been sent to all 20-year-old men registered

B w . “ . v 7 . . ~ -u-jcoi-viu in in regisiereo . Mecleary, county chairman of with the local board, and the revolunteer services, said that vol- plies are being classified by the

unteer workers are asked to re- board this week

port at branch headquarters 323 It is expected ‘that those classed Decatur street, at 9:45 o clock as I-A registrants will be placed

Monday morning to begin the in the October draft call. work. |

“The chapter is far behind this program due to delay in ceiving materials and instructions,” Mrs. Mecleary explained. “As a result of the delay, it is imperative that we have the sistance of as many workers possible in order to meet the large quote which has ben assign-

ed to us.”

Instructors received their training yesterday at branch headquarters, and are now ready to swing into action Monday morning "when the project begins. Surgical dressing makers will work from 10 to 4 every Monday, Thursday and Friday at the branch headquarters. Mrs. Mecleary urged that women desiring to help with the work call the branch office as soon- as possible informing branch officers of the hours tney will have available each week for the

program.

“W'e urge all women to help with the completion of' this very important and very large project,” Mrs. Mecleary said.

. ; * — —' |mi iviiniMaaiuiitris nuu, at thei.i tociation. this week announced | request of local licensees, chang- 1 , th ? re

the appointment of George W- e d. the closing hour from 3 ajn. i ta,nnwn * 1

Ldwards, a director, as chairman | u> 1 a m

of a nominating committee to pro- : Redding pointed out that much | sent names of candidates for elec- j Saturday night bar trade went to ;

| Wildwood, Lower Township and | 1 other nearby communities with 3 | a.m. closing limits . since Cape } May s earlier closing hour became !

effective.

! The difference in business as a The wom,,n o{ Ca Pc May result of the shorter hours on i h ' 1 ? substantially to back | other nights of the week is neg- 1 their sons and husbands in ligible, Redding told the corarais- !*, rnl< V! forces by cooperating

■ sioners.

Baptist Church Plans

Special Services Starting Sunday evening, Aug-

it 30, the Cape Island Baptist Church will institute a series of special Sunday evening services for men in the armed forces which will continue indefinitely, the Rev. Robert D. Carrin, pas-

tor, announced this week. The Sunday evening services

will be arranged with special emphasis placed on service men’s interests, and a fellowship hour will follow the regular evening

servicas.

At the post-service gatherings ere will be fellowship, entertainment and refreshments for service i^en. Mr. Carrin said.

Seven Changes In School Faculty -Seven changes in the faculty of Cape May public schools were announced this week by Dr. Edward E. Pickard, city school superintendent. Five of the changes will take place in the high school .faculty at the beginning of the new school tenn on September 9. John Utz will replace Miss Kathryn Konowitch as a teacher in the commercial department; Miss Clara Fidler will replace Miss Dorothy Randolph in the commercial department; Miss Catherine Stanton takes the place of John Stinner as science teacher; Mrs. Mary Lawson replaces Miss Marion Witmer in the English department; and Mrs. Ruth E. Moon will replace Mrs. Emilie Cressc in the home economics de-

partment.

Miss Fidler is a cousin of Miss Sarah Fidler, a teacher in the elementary school. Mr. Stinner, who formerly taught science here,

now in the Army.

Mrs. Lawson, the former Miss Mary Handy, taught here in 1926. Mrs. Cressc has been granted a year’s leave of absence and Mrs. Caroline Underkoffler i s transferring from the fourth to seven grade to replace Miss Catherine Shields, who recently re-

tired.

Mrs. Bernice Dreher, of Cape May, former principal of the Avalon school, will replace Mrs. Hughes as fifth grade teacher.

Compromise Oi Land Sufc May Re-open Other A condemnation suit now pending in U. S. District Court will be settled without litigation if Navy authorities approve a compromise preferred last week fay the City of Cape May. Following a conference with Navy officials at Washington last week, Mayor T. Millet Hand, di-. rector of finance, recommended that the commission settle out of court negotiations for the purchase of 11.6 acres of land taken some time ago by the Navy for the housing project near the U. S. Naval base here. The Mayor reported that he and a representative of the Navy Department had discussed a compromise under which the city would receive $4,200 for the iaixL The Navy had -previously appraised the property and had deposited in escrow $3,900 pending completion of condemnation proceedings which had been contested by the city. Mayor Hand also reported that the Navy would probably re-ap-praise an 88 acre tract adjoining the present reservation which has been taken for expansion purposes. The government has offered $17,160 for the land, a price which the city will not accept. Compromise on the offer for the housing project land would in no -vay prejudice the city’s claim for dditional compensation in the other matter, the Mayor said.

Minister Injured In Dim-Out Crash Dr. William J. Hayes, a minister residing at 270 Grant street, was injured Friday evening when he was struck by an automobile while walking on Broadway, a short distance from Beach Drive. Dr. Hayes sustained a fractured right ankle in the accident After having been treated by Dr. A. C. Moon and Dr. Warren D. Robbins, the injured man was removed to Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point, in the American Legion ambulance. He was struck by a car driven by Daniel Miller, of 828 Broadway, West Cape May. Police said the Miller car had, turned from Beach Drive into Broadway just before the accident. They said that Dr. Hayes was walking on the concrete surface of Broadway when he was struck, and attributed the accident to Miller's inability to see him while driving with parking lights in accordance with dim-out regulations.

COURT HOUSE — Corporal Hurry Cox, of the New Jersey State Police, a resident of Tucfcahoe, was elected Cape May Cdun"-". ty American Legion commander i at the annual election of county Legion officers here Thursday

night.

Cox succeeds Percy d'Romtra. of Cape "May. who has served

since last year.

Other officers elected at Thursday’s meeting are Russell Weatherby. Court Jlouse, seriior vice

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ATLANTIC CITY - With the month of September designated as "Payroll Savings Month” by the U. S. Treasury Department, local committees in the eight South Jersey counties plan an intensive campaign to step up purchase of War Bonds through pay-

toll allotment.

.. - . , ^ohn E. Manning, state admincommander; Viggo Neilsen.JTuck- istfator for the War Savings

ahoe. sergeant-at-arms; Waller M. Trout. .Cape May, chaplain; and Harry W. Henning, Wild-

wood, service officer.

No junior vice commander was .elected, pending submission of a nomination by the Ocean City delegation which war absent from

Thursday's session.

Appointive’ offices will be filled following the installation of officers on September 17 at the annual dinner meeting of the

county Legion.

It-it hoped that William Kirby, of Bridgeton, who is expected to be the South Jersey vie* commander next year, will officiate at

the installation.

Staff, has urged aU county chairmen to augment industrial committee organizations in order to make a complete canvass of all firms which have not yet been in-

vited to install the plan.

The eight South Jersey county chairmen are cooperating with Marshall Bainbridge, Jr., deputy administrator, in an effort to get

complete participation.

Activities designed to boost the payroll savings .plan are being arranged by county chairmen. Senator -I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, is chairman of the drive in

this county.

"Seventy-nine firms with more

the eight Sooth Jersey counties ing

IN HOSPITAL

Commissioner George P. Went-

zell is recovering from in the Atlantic City

where he was taken last Satur-

3 Draft Appeals Are Rejected Three draft appeals filed by registrants in this area were rejected by the South Jersey appeal board this ^week, officials of the local Selective' Service board announced Tuesday. Appeals filed by Sayre C. Brown, of Wildwood, and John Claypool, of West Cape May, both asking deferment in order to complete college courses, were rejected. Both youths were placed in class 1-A. A third appeal by Golfred Delli Paoli, of Wildwood, claiming deferment because of dependency, was also rejected by the appeal board, which sustained the local board’s decision in all three cases.

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have not embraced the payroll allotment plan,” Bainbridge said today, “and each of these firms is receiving a personal letter from Secretary. of the Treasury Morgenthau, asking them to install

the system.

“The Treasury Department has found that the payroll allotment plan officers the most consistent method for. building Up the sale of IA ar Bonds." he continued, “and in addition to helping finance the war effort, those participating are helping in the fight against inflation by drawing off surplus earnings and also building up a personal financial backlog against the day when work will be 'harder to fin’d as the factories now engaged in war work are changing back to peace-

time pursuits.”

Bainbridge explained that firms in which 90 per cent of workers are enrolled on the plan are entitled to a Treasury Department citation and the privilege of fly-

the Minute Man Flag.

. the limit with the local Scrap ! Salvage Committee, Mrs. James j C. Hand, president of the Cape ; May Women’s Community Club, said today urging every woman

| in the community to make

i mediate search through her home ; for scrap metal that can be tum-

COURT HOUSE — A new ed into guns, tanks and other chairman of the Republican Exec- 1 needed war equipment. Rubber, ■'* i Cape May! rope and burlap are needed, too,

■' ihc pointed out.

GOP Committee Will Name New Chairman

utive Committee of County will be chosen after the September 15 primary election, it

was disclosed this week. .

"'Egbert J. Wood, of Wildwood Crest, chairman of the committee for the last seven years, has resigned the position after having been named junior administrative aide for rationing boards in this area. Under the Hatch Act, Wood cannot hold a political office while serving in a government position.

Members of the executive com-

mittee will be elected at the primary election, and will choose new officers a week later when

the committee is organized. Mrs. Theresa Bergh, of Tuck-

ahoe, is vice

Those of us on the home front have an urgent responsibility to do all. that we can to speed the war to a swift and successful conclusion,” Mrs. Hand said. “One of the ways to accomplish this objective is to see that no home in this community hai in it Ay old metal that is lying

idle.

“Old lamps in the attic, broken garden tools in the garage, an old stovepipe In the cellar, all these can be used to good advantage by American industry in these crucial days. “Every pound of scran we can get to Ameijcan steel plants will

increase their production—already half of the world total—by just that much more. In that way we can all help make more weapons

to crush the Axis."

Mrs. Hand urged the women of Cape May to immediate action. “We cannot all serve in the auxiliaries of the armed forces, nor yet work in war factories. But those of us whose job is to keep our homes going can render an important- service by turning in our scrap materials. “The procedure is simple. Get your scrap together and turn it over to our local Scrap Salvage Committee. If you do not know the exact procedure for turning in your scrap, this information can be Imd quickly by telephoning the chairman of the Scrap Sal-

vage Committee at Keystone

phone 190.

“If the old metal and other rap material in our homes and i our farms will help back up the men in the service, then let us see that it is turned in during the salvage collection campaign from September 19-26,” Mr*. Hand concluded.

COURT HOUSE — The followj ing names will be submitted by j the nominating committee for | election to the Board of Governor* j of the Cape May County Bur- | dette Tomlin Memorial Hospital Foundation at the annual meeting of the foundation in the old court building Tuesday might. Fort three years, Joseph Kennard Skilling, Raymond Errickson, Walter S. Griffiths, William C. Hunt, French B. Loveland, Joseph Millman, Burton J. Smith and F. Mulford Stevens. For two years. Harry E. Arader, George C. Clarke, Osman M. Corson, George W. Krogman, Jesse D. Ludlam, R. B. Mason, William B. Powell, Rev. Charles A.

Sutton.

For one year, Benjamin M. Cohen, Rev. C. W. Dannenhauer, T. Millet Hand, Allen E. Grace, J. J. Hill, Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, Ralph T. Stevens, Mrs. Burdette Tomlin, C. Philip Wood. Life members of the foundation will also be elected. AH those who contributed five dollars or more in the county hospital drive last yesr are invited to attend the annual meeting. HENDRICKSONS HERE State Treasurer Robert C. Hendrickson and his family, of Woodbury, are vacationing in Cape May this week.