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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1942

DELIVERED ST MAIL IN THE U.SJL POSTAGE PREPAID—*1JX) A

FIVE CENTS

Godwin Elected President Of Cottagers’ Unit Harold E. Godwin, of 15 North street, Cape May, and Philadelphia, was elected president of the Summer Cottagers’ Association of Cape May at the fourth annual meeting of the organisation Sunday afternoon at the Cape Theatre. Mr. Godwin succeeds Thomas Hart, of Philadelphia, who served aa association president for three years. Other members of the association named at the meeting are A. Giraud Foote, vice president; Mrs. Godwin. secretary; and George C. Clarke, of Cape May and Washington, D. C., treasurer. The new officers were unanimously elected after their names had been submitted b$ George W. Edwards, chairman of the nominating committee. DIRECTORS NAMED Mr. Hart was elected chairman of the Board of Directors, and ot£er directors elected for the year are Mr. Edwards,'Miss Marguerite Djmond, Mrs. A. Giraud Foote, S. ’ Milton Griscom, Mrs. Charles F. Mitchell, George B. Moore, Thomas Harris, Jr., Joseph Swain and J. Harold Watson. The association adopted recommendations for a three-point improvement program and will submit the recommendations to the city commission. SEEK IMPROVEMENTS Motiops' adopted by the association at Sunday's meeting re-’ commended adequate police protection for vacant cottages during the winter to prevent vandalism. Association members cited several -instances in which cottages have (Continued on Page Four)

Eldredge Receives C. G. Commission Laurence II. Eldredge, a native of Cape May and now a resident • of Bryn Mawr, Pa., has received a commission as a lieutenant in the Coast Guard 'Reserve, it was learned this week. Mr. Eldredge and his family who have spent the month of August at Congress Hall. are leaving this week to return to their home. During the week Mr. and Mrs. Eldredge entertained their two daughters at this resort. In his n.ew position. Lieutenant Eldredge will be administrative assistant to the commandant of the Coast Guard, and will aid in establishing a new system for the protection of the Port of Philadelphia.

Woman Crushed By Bus At Wildwood WILDWOOD — A woman pedestrian was killed here Monday when a Public Service Bus, backing out of a terminal, struck her a£ she was about to enter the approach to the boardwalk., ' Mrs. Molly Galo, 63, of 413 West Wildwood avenue, who formerly lived at 2012 Orthodox Street, Philadelphia, was pronounced dead at Mace's Hospital. Death was attributed to a skull

, fracture.

The accident occurred on Wildwood avenue near the boardwalk at the efid of the bus terminal. George Tomlin. So. of Blackwg»d. driver of,pie bus. was held ^tonder $2,500 bail for further hearing on,a charge of death by

automobile.

Tomlin had just arrived at the terminal with a bus load of pas- , , aengers en'route to Philadelphia. As the bus backed up, the woman was struck and crushed. The bus had to be jacked up in order to extricate the victim. Mrs. Galo is survived by a son, Samuel, of Ventnor.

New Club Agent

WILLARD G. PATTON Who began his duties -as district 4-H Club agent in Cape May and Cumberland Counties on Tuesday. He replaces Spurgeon K. Benjamin, who recently signed to accept a commission the Naval Reserve.

Victory Fund Drive Over Million Mark OCEAN CITY — George Groff, chairman of the Victory Fund Committee for Cape May County, reported this week that the activities of the county committee resulted in sales of U.. S. Government' bonds totalling $582,000 for August. Sales in July were $425,000, so the total for the two months since the committee has functioned total more than $1,000,000. Sales in August were composed of the following issues: Treasury bills, $380,000 ; 7/8% Certificates of Indebtedness, $108,000 ; 2H% Bonds of 1967-62, $77,000; Defense Bonds, Series G, $17,000. The report does not include sales of Series E War Bonds, ■hich are the function of other committees, and which are having wide distribution throughout the county. Mr. Groff reported growing sales of the Series G bonds, which mature in 12 years and on which the interest is paid by check six months.

Admiral Draemel New

District Chief

PHILADELPHIA — Rear-Ad-miral Milo Frederick -Draemel, who was at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck, * succeeded Rear Admiral Adolphus Eugene Watson as commandant of the Fourth Naval District on Mon-

day.

The new commanding officer of all personnel in this area accepted his new appointment in the presence of 33 heads of departments at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Admiral Draogacl. who for i months has been chief of staff Admiral Chester W. Nimitr. was born in Fremont, Neb.. 58 years ago. Since his graduation from the Naval Academy in 1906 he has advanced through all the grades until he became a rear admiral in 1938. i Admiral Watson 7 has reached the Navy's compulsory retirement age of 64. The Fourth] Naval District is composed of Penns ytvania, Delaware and southern New Jersey.

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Army Ceremony And Exhibit On Sunday formal guard mount ceremony and military band concert will be held on the lawn of Con■ss Hall on Sunday evening, ntember 6, by Company H, 113th Infantry, and the regiment-

al band.

The guard mounting ceremony will begin at 6:45 p.m. and the band concert will follow immediately. The troops, which are stationed at Cane May Point, will be transported to the hotel in Army trucks. They will wear summer uniforms and carry rifles, bayonets and light equipment. Following the guard mount, the lit's heavy weapons, 81 mm. mortars. .50 caliber and -30 calibre machine guns, automatic rifles. Garand rifles and assorted ammunition will be displayed for public inspection. Also on exhibition will be half-ton and quartern “jeeps". - Warrant Officer Garroll M. Mynard, of the 113th Infantry-, vill be in charge of- - the band

:oncert.

Captain Robert R. Clark will be officer of the day; Lieutenant Robert L. Titus, Jr., adjutant: and Lieutenant Walter J., Considine, commander of the guard. Company H wili hold a dance Monday night at Cape May Point, with music'provided by the regimental band.

County Schools Will Start New Term Thursday COURT HOUSE—Public schools in Cape May County will reopen on Wednesday, September 9, with the exception of Sea Isle City, Ocean City and Wildwood, where they will not open until Septem-, ber 11, County School Superintendent Daniel J. Ricker, of Cape May, announced today. Miss Laura E. -Croasdale w-ill serve as helping teacher for the rural schools in place of Miss Dorothea M. Wein, who resigned last spring to accept a similar position in Middlesex County. Miss Wein will return to Cape May County and work with Miss Croasdale during September. In Upper Township, as an economy move, Seaville School will not reopen. Pupils who formerly attended the school will be absorbed in other schools of the

district.

TRANSFER PUPILS At Petersubrg, one room will ? closed and the upper grade pupils transported to Tuckahoe At a meeting of the Middle Township board of education last Thursday, Ricker recommended that the Swainton school be closed this year. Closing of the school would effect a saving of $1,400 a.year, he said. The average enrollment in recent years in the one-room, eightgrade school has been five. Ricker said that since these pupils Would be conveniently transported to the Cape May Court House school, where each pupil could properly graded, he saw no valid excuse for maintaining the Swainton school. (Continued on Page Four)

Swain Appointed To Fill Clerk Vacancy WEST CAPE MAY — Robert A. .Swain, Sr., well known West Cape May merchant, was appoint’d borough clerk by the borough rommission Tuesday night to fill the vacancy caused by the recent death of Theodore W, Reeves, who held the post for 41 years. Mr. Swain was inducted immediately after the appointment was made. The oath of office was adlistered by Borough Attorney Millet Hand at borough hall, k former member of the borough council. Mr. Swain has served as chairman of the West Cape May Defense Council for several months. He is also active the West Cape May Fire Company and in numerous other civic

' -ities In the borough,

r. Swain's term of office expires December 31. Salary for the position was set at $300 a year. During the last year, in Mr. Reeves’ illness, the position has been filled by Everett V. Edsall, collector and treasurer, and more recently by Reuben B. Reeves,

serving as acting clerk.

1-A Men Will Be Pooled By Draft Boards TRENTON—New. Jersey draft boards this week are preparing pool all 1-A Selective Service registrants to mqet the next calls for men in order to make certain that all 1-A men are inducted before he induction of married men begins. The new system is designed to eliminate some of the present consistencies by which some boards must draft married—men while others have reserves of single men as yet uncalled for the Army. National headquarters late last week disclosed that such a plan had been worked out, and that recommendations.^ to establish statewide pools of all remaining 1-A men had been sent to state directors. State headquarters have been advised to vary their military induction quotas in accordance with the number of single men the boards have classified. The Cape May board, covering the southern section of the counone of those which is nearing the end of 1-A men. The board at Ocean City was reported this week to have a similar situThe pooling arrangement was described as temporary, pending ssuance of a new general direc:ive order to govern orders of

call.

State headquarters in the past has been issuing quotas to each local board for large numbers of without regard fot their proportionate supplies of single It also was indicated in Washj ington that Congress will give J approval this fall to the drafting of 18 and 19-year-old youths for ! Secretary of War Stimson said ! this group, containing nearly '2.000.060 men. is “the finest I fighting materia) available."

Houses Are Being Moved From Route Of Cross-County Canal

Skilling Re-elected Hospital Board Head COURT HOUSE — Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, of Cape May, elected secretary of the Cape May County Burdette Tomlin Memorial HospitaT Foundation at the annual meeting of the Board of Governors in the old court-house building Tuesday night, succeeding Burton J. Smith, Of Court House, who resigned. -Joseph Kennard Skilling. Cape May, was re-elected president; Waiver S. Griffith. North Wild1, first vice president; Joseph Millman, Del Haven, second vice president, and Raymond Errickin. Court House, treasurer. The ‘following life members ere named: Mr. and Mrs. Harry (Continued on Page Five)

Woman Wounded By Coast Guardsman A woman.^shot when a Coast Guardsman's service pistol was accidentally discharged last Thursday, is recovering from the wound in the Atlantic City Hos-

pital.

Mrs. Ann McLaughlin, 42. of 1434 Englewood street, Wilkes Barre. Pa., a summer visitor here, was shot through the left thigh when the 45 calibre service automatic of Coast Guardsman Owen Stockdale, seaman 2c, discharged accidentally while he was on shore duty near the Madison avenue pavilion early Thursday af-

ternoon.

The bullet pierced the partition of the pavilion and went through

Mrs. McLaughlin's leg.

She was rushed to the office of Dr. A. C. Moon in the Cape May Beach Patrol ambulance, where she was given emergency treatment and an anti-tetanus injection, and was then removed to the Atlantic City Hospital in the

American Legion ambulance.

Stockdale w-as taken in custody by his commading officer pending fhe outcome of the woman's in-

juries. j City police who investigated the ' themselv.

COLD SPRING — Removal of a number of houses from the path of the Cape May County canal has been started, and in several instances where only a short distance was required to get buildings out of the canal route the moving has been completed. Several other buildings are scheduled to be moved within the next fqw days, as the clearing of the canal route progresses. Construction of the canal from Delaware Bay to Cape May Har-

being pushed. The hug/ ‘ ‘ ‘ ' ” which

pipeline dredge “Baltimore'

is assigned to the project, is continuing its operations in the area

west of the Bayshore Road. During the last week, a large

turn-basin has been dredged along the canal to provide space fOT passage of ships in the waterway.

Resuming its cross-county trek,

the dredge is expected to reach the Bayshore Road within the

next few days.

Preliminary work on construc-

tion of the three bridges which will span the canal is being rushed, and clearing of woodland along the canal route is progressing rapidly, with hundreds of cords of wood having been removed already. ^ s. . Large crews of workmen are employed on various parts of the

raiUion-dollar project.

Agents of the real estate division of the Army Engineer Corps are speeding negotiations for acquisition of properties along the canal route, and it is expected that that phase of the project will be completed within the next

two-months.

Vast quantities of mud '•nd sand have been removed from thi :anal route already and have jeen deposited over a wide spoil irea, filling in much of the lowland along the bayshore, and eliminating a number of small oonds and marshes.

Highway Department Speeds Work Here For emergency war construction,' the relocation of Route for the new Cape May County canal has been started by State Highway Department at urgent demand of the federal government. Maintenance Department workers and heavy machinery have been assigned to the project by State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller, Jr., to provide allout cooperation of the state and to prevent unnecessary delay. 5 give highway traffic continued use of the present Route 4, north of Cape May, until it i*-- cut through for the canal, the Highway Department is placing approach fill for a bridge which the War Department build immediately adjacent to present road. The structure-will have an der-clearance of 20 feet- to permit a large percentage of boats to pass underneath. will also be equipped with draws pan machinery to clear the channel for 1 high mast vessels. The new roadway will accommodate two lines of vehicles and will have a sidewalk for pedes-

trians.

Permanent Voter Registry Sept. 15 COURT HOUSE — September

15—primary election day—will be the first of three registration days to be held in Cape May County during 1942 for the permanent registration of voters, it was announced this week by the Cape May County Board of Elec-

tions.

Voters will have an opportunity register under the new permanent registration law which becomes effective July 1, 1943, at each polling place in the county between the hours of 10 a.m. and 12 noon, and from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m., the board announced. Only such voters will be permanently registered as present

- . themselves personally," the board shooting said that Stockdale had | ex pi ained . "Naturalized citizens apparently had his pistol out of | must produce their citizenship pa-

its holster for some reason, when ! p erg

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the time she was shot she was residing at 5 Perry street. Stockdale is stationed at the Cepe May Point Coast Guard station and was assigned to shore patrol along the beachfront.

Cape May Boy Joins Local VFW Post

the morning

on the date specified in order to avoid the evening congestion.” Two other permanent registration days will be held in the county before December 31 in accordance with the law. At North Cape May registrars will lie on duty only from . 8 a.m. until noon, and at South Cape May only between .4 p.m. and

Fuel Worries Over... If You Burn Peat The fuel oil and coal shortages threatened for the Coming winter might not be such a hardship in this section. At least a native Hibernian would not worry about lack of coal or oil, for large quantities of peat; have been discovered at the site of the Cape May County canal. Tons of peat have been dug out by workmen engaged in construction of the canal since they, came upon the peat field approximately three-quarters of a mile from the Delaware Bay. The peat is being removed in large blocks. Irving Cameron, of Atlantic City, one of the chief advocates of the canal for many years, reported this week that in some places approximately 75' tons of peat are piled along the canal

Young Soprano Will Sing At Concert Miss Geraldine Guerra, outstanding young Philadelphia soprano, will be soloist at the final Sunday evening concert at Con•ention Hall on September 6.- She , .ppeared at the Cape May con-

certs in July.

A pupil of Mary Hill Adler, -ell known Philadelphia vocal teacher. Miss Guerra has sung some .of the leading, orchesAt Sunday’s concert, she will sing “Morning’', "Carmena”, “The Song Is You”, “Yours Is My Heart Alont", "Sleepy Lagoon” id “Kiss In The Dark". Miss Guerra is a member of tnusical family. Her father for many years has been a promin-

ent clarinetist.

The concert will be directed by Anthony Candelori.

Prominent Author Will Address Club Joseph Hergersheimer, noted author and humorist, will address the Cape May Kiwanis Club next Wednesday evening its regular meeting,, club officers announced this week. Hergersheimer, a summer resident of Stone Harbor, has addressed a number of service clubs county eommunjtic-s recently. A large attendance is expected the meeting to hear his ad-

dress.

The Rev. W. Paul Reumann, of

;dale. Pa., was pri •aker at last night's club

; at Batten's. Mr. Reumann is regular summer resident , of‘ Cape May, and each year ad-

dresses the club during his

I at this resort.

OPA May Name Rent Director For Cape Area An area rent director to administer rent ceflings in the Cape May area will be appointed, it necessary, by the Office of Price Administration, it was Aiwlryed last week in a letter to Mayor T. Millet Hand from Paul A. Porter, deputy OPA administrator, replying to the Mayor's quay about ceiling rents. No date for the appointment of the area rent director has beea set, although Porter indicated that the appointment would be made as soon as it is administratively feasible, if found to be necessary. OFFICIAL EXPLAINS Under the rent ceiling plan, el rents in the Cape May area will be frozen at levels of March, 1942, and landlords charging rents higher than the approved level will be subject to prosecution. “When the Cape May area was designated on June 3, 1942, recommendations were made for the local control of rents for housing accommodations,’’ Porter wrote. "The Emergency Price Control Act provides that after 60 days, if in the Administrator’s judgment his recommendations have not been effectuated, federal control of rents may be established by the issuance of a maximum rent regulation or order. PLAN INVESTIGATION “The period for local action has expired, and as rapidly as administratively feasible we are having an investigation made in the Cape May Defense-Rental Area. “If this survey indicates that local control of rent has not been effective a maximum rent regulation may be issued and an area rent director appointed,” Porter continued. “You will be informed as soon as action is taken by this office in your area. Your interest in this matter is genuinely appreciated and we shall be glad to receive any further information you may care to send us regarding' conditions in the Cape May Area,’’ he concluded. The Mayor recently pointed out that city officials had no jurisdiction over rents and had no authority to fix rent ceilings and indicated that the matter of-admin-istration would be left entirely to OPA officials.

3 Beaches To BeOpei After Labor Day All but three Cape May bathing beaches will be officially "closed” immediately after Labor Day, Captain Sol Needles, of the Beach Patrol, announced this week. Only Shields, Stockton and Howard street benches will remain open after Labor'DffyTNeedIhs said. A skeleton force of lifegiWds will rerrtqin on duty for ai)-indefinite period to protect the three beache$. urged bathers to co■operate withifie Beach Patrol by bathing-only on protected beaches, and urged all bathers to observe all safety rules. A large percentage of the lifeguards on duty this summer are planning to leave Cape May immediately after Labor Day to return to schools, colleges or winter positions, and a number of them are expected to enter the armed services of the country after their departure from Cape

May.

Seeking Permit For Pipe Across Canal

. considering aa .-plication of the Jersey Central Power & Light Co. for a permit to place a fourijnch steel sub-

pipe across the ]

Salvage Material Plentiful n Homes, Chairman Says

Jury Panels Drawn For Fall Court Term; Start Tuesday

House . furnishings and other equipment owned by the average American housewife contain a total of nearly. 1.000 pounds of. iron and steel, part of which may have outlived its usefulness in its present form, according to a statement issued yesterday by Charles A. Swain, chairman of the lo^al Scrap Salvage CommitThisuotal does not include furnaces. J plumbing and heating •nt and other iron and used in building the home

itself.

We cite these figures,” Mr. Swain said, “to show that a large supply of worn-out metal equipment may' be in your kitchen, attic, cellar or closets. 'Qne old metal bed in the at-' tic will account for 40 pounds of steel scrap. A steel spring mattress will add 20 pounds of scrap —enough for several helmets used by soldiers. An old kitchen stow stored in your cellar will

vide as much as 250 pounds . of iron and steel, enough to make several bombs to be dropped on

the enemy.

“Smaller items which may be ready te be scrapped are scissori,, one-third pound each; electric iron, six pounds; umbrella, onehhlf pound; springs from an old upholstered chair, five pounds; wastebasket, two pounds. "We urge housewives to make a survey of their equipment to see what part of it is suitable for being scrapped. Every pound thus obtained will help increase the output of steel needed for winning the war," he added. Cape May’s salvage campaign will be ‘held between September 19 and 26. Several conveniently located collection centers will be established ..where local citizens may deposit their scrap materials. Also needed are rubber, rags, manila rope, burlap and waste

Cooking fats.

Joseph Edward Anthony, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph ^nthon'y, of 1136 Lafayette street, was inducted a§~ a member of the Petersonl.ittle Post. Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a meeting here Thurs-

day night.

Anthony, who is 19 and a grad-

uate of Cape May High School ^ coim - tern) hjch will ' open is a memlx-r of the l S. Coast nex , Tuesday , were drawn yesterGuard service. He became eligible day b> . shoriff F Mulford Stevfor admission to the \ FVi by t , ns aRd j urv Commissioner Frank virtue of having served during L Hollingsoad. in the presence of the war outside of the Lluted j Jud(fe Robcrt L Warke jn ^

.. _ . t court building here.

, The loci yoath i. th, fir« The erand jury p.n.1 folio,-.-Cape May boy to have been inr | i) av j d - A -

ducted into a veterans’ organization. and is one of the youngest members of such an organization. He was graduated from Cape

May High School

has since been in the Coast Quard where he has had foreign service.

J ; posed Cape May County Canal om j the westerly side of the Old Seathore Road, Lower Township, it was disclosed today by Colonel H. B. Vaughan, Jr., district engineet Plans of the installation provide for the gas pipe to have * vertical clearance of 20 feet below

mean low water for a distance

| of 150 feet across the channeL

Orle W. Lafferty, West Cape May. The canal is to be 100 feet Fred J. Whiteman. North Cape ! wide and 12 feet deep at mean

May, E. O. Howell. Jr.. Swain- j low water.

ton, A del be rt Halbruner, Cape The company's application wfli May, Burton J. Smith, Cape May be considered for action by the Coyrt House, Robert C. Bright, engineers next Thursday, Colonel

Wildwood. Joseph Tierno, Ocean i Vaughan said.

City, S. Marie Huppert, Wild- 1

wood, _ J. Pierce Guyer, Ocean |

HOME FROM HOSPITAL City Commissioner George P.

Wentxeil, director of public works, returned to his home from the Atlantic City Hospital on Monday, after having beer, a patient

there for more than a week.

• Mr. Wentzell received treatments at the hospital and is on the road to recovery at this time.

Mabel R. Hew:

Brooks Blizzard, , ter Garron. Tuckahoe, Irene Pharo, Ca I* May. Alexander Cr Lyle,

19)1. ."dlcf; Miy, How.rd W.rreu,

Ocean City, Dorothy ScheUengcr, Cape May. - Walter E. Hosier, Ocean City, Joseph DownSm, Ocean View, Mathilda Townsend, Ocean City, Joseph F. Clark, Wildwood, Paul M. Scull, Cape May Court House, Joseph E. 'Olwell, Wildwood, William M. Jones. Cold Spring, . John J. Curran,

Wildwood.

James A. L. Harris, Wildwood. Louise T. Holmes, Sea Isle City, M. Townsend Godfrey, Tuckahoe,

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sr%ls£ 8S : Sayre Will Receive

tBwkulu*. Wildwood. 1 Rjymond , E||g|g|| COIDIDISSIOn

iidwood,

Lewis, South Dennis. Joseph A. Cianciarulo, Wildwood Crest, Fred J. Tushingham, Jr., Wildwood, William C. Heilman, Wildwood,

Augustus H. Swain, Erma. The petit jury panel follows: Richard W. Lovely, Ocean City,

Frances Jean Gassed y. Green Creek, Charles P. Mazzotta, Wildwood, William L. Henderson, Ocean View, Joseph Hall, Cape May Court House, Reba Bennett, West Cape May, Gertrude A.

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It ha» been announced by the U. S. Maritime Service that Louis E. Sayre, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Sayre, has been offered a position Ss instructor with the U. S. Maritime" Commission aa soon as he is commissioned as an

ensign in that service.

He will teach electricity, marine water tube boilers, marine steam turbines and auxiliary machinery. He will graduate from Officers' Training School on September IS

at Fort Trumbull, New '

Conn.