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88th YEAR, No. 37

CAM Mat Wave. Established 1834. Star or the Cape. Established 1868. \ Cape May Star 8 Wave. Con«oi.idated 1907.

CAPE MAX. NEW JERSEY, THURSPAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1942

DEUVCRED BY MAH. IN THE U.S.A. POSTAGE PREPAID—*1.30 A YEAR

FIVE CENTS

Expect Primary Voting To Be Light Tuesday With no local political scraps in Cape May County and a general state-wide spirit of apathy concerning the September 15 primary elections, Tuesday’s balloting is expected to be unusually light in this county. Only contest of the election so far as Cape May Couhty is concerned is the six-way fight for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator, which is being waged in state-wide campaigns by GDI Robb Wilson, state aviation director, Albert W. Hawkes, Joseph A. Bower, George Biehl, George O. Pullen and Franklin

W. Kielb.

POLITICS AT EBB With politics at a new ebb in this county and only five more days before the primary election, little general interest is expected

to he evoked.

Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, of Ventnor, is unopposed as Republican candidate for Congressman from this district. On the Republican ballot, with the exception of the Senate nomination contest, all other aspir-

ants are unopposed.

Senate President I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, heads the county Republican slate. Others seeking re-election are Speaker of the House John E. Boswell, of Ocean City; Surrogate Irving Fitch, Sea Isle City; and Freeholders Percy H. Jackson and Ralph T. Stevens, rof Cape May. Herbert R. Hansman, of Villas, is seeking the Republican nomination as coroner.

NO DEMOCRAT SCRAP

Plans Advanced For Junk Rally Sept. 19-26 Plans for the Cape May junk rally which will be held from September 19 to September 2G were advanced late last week at a meeting 'of the local Salvage Committee which is in charge of arrangements for the campaign. The committee discussed plans of operation at a meeting in the high school building Thursday night. Under the plans, the city will be divided into various zones or sectors for collection purposes, and a volunteer worker will be assigned to each zone to take charge of the collection of junk and scrap material in that area. TO MAKE CANVASS Cape May residents were urged this week to take their junk and scrap to the central collection point, or, if the material is too heavy to be moved individually, to await the city trucks which will make a city-wide canvass during the drive.

Th. p.mo n «ic ticket <■ he^-tej n k t . h .1..“r P &I.“ ld ^

ed by U. S. Senator William H.

Smathers and Congressman Elmer H. Wane, both seeking re-election, and includes Edmund B. Godfrey, of Ocean City, for state senator; Joseph F. Hughes, Wildwood, for Assembly; Edward .P. Griffin, Cape May, for surrogate; Benja.min D. Trout, Dennis Township, for freeholder; and J. Oliver Elwell, Cape May, for coroner. There is no Democratic con-

test.

For the first time in years there will be no municipal contests in the primary election. TOWNSHIPS QUIET In Lower Township, Frank Dickinson, Republican incumbent, is the only candidate for the Township Committee post to be filled. There is no Democratic candidate. In Middle Township, Francis Douglass, Republican chairman of the Township Committee, is seeking re-election. Harry Lovett, of Court House, is the Democratic choice. Luther T. Garretson, of Court House, is a candidate on the Democratic ticket for re-election as justice of the peace.

Faculty Institute Held Here Tuesday

. Members of the faculty of Cape May’s public schools met for their

annual institute on Tuesday. The institute opened with a

general meeting of all school employees in the morning. Principals' meetings were held following the general meeting, and luncheon was f served in the high school cafeteria, at which time Daniel J." Ricker, county school supetUrtendent, addresesd the

"* "Current School Prob-

se:'

Following the luncheon a general assembly was held in the auditorium, at which time Mrs. Myra A. Blakeslee, executive director of the State - of New Jersey GoodWill Commission, addressed the

group.

A preliminary scrap collection will be made in the East Cape May cotUge area Saturday to collect salvage material from summer cottagers, many of whom will have left when the regular Cape May drive gets under way.

Those desiring to donate junk and unable to take it to the collection center are requested to pile it in their front yards until the collectors make the rounds

mat) Charles A. Swain. SEEK VOLUNTEERS

The committee this week appealed to all truck owners in the community to volunteer the use of their vehicles and a driver for at least a short time during the drive to augment the trucks and drivers arranged for by the committee with the cooperation of

the city commission.

Anyone desiring to volunteer a truck or as a driver should contaPf'Charles B. Shields, who is in charge of the transportation section of the committee. Members of the Salvage Committee are Charles A. Swain, chairman; Earl L. Hollingsead, Charles B. Shields, Clarence D. Fisher, Harry- Kunz, Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens, Mrs: James C. Hand and Mrs. Walter Phillips. The committee stressed the fact that only iron, steel, non-ferrous metals, manila rope, rubber and rags are urgently needed in the

present collection drive.

Conferences To Be Held By Baptists Special conferences will be held in the Cape Island Baptist Church every evening between September 20 and September 25 as part of “Christian Training Week”, a period designated by the Baptist Church to "solve our problems with Christian strategy”, the Rev. Robert D. Carrin, pastor, an-

nounced this week.

The evening conferences will begin at 7:45 o’clock and will be held in the Mary A. Knerr Chapel. “We are urging all members to plan to attend each of these conferences,” Mr. Carrin said. “Which way do you want to see your church go? BP you want it to go backwards?' Then absent yourself from these meetings. If you really and truly want to see it go forward attend each

of the sessions.”

Sunday, September 20, is an inspirational night; Monday the discussion will be centered around the pastor and his work; Tuesday

Grand Jury Urges Greater Caution In Dim-Out Area COURT HOUSE — A presentment calling on Cape May County municipalities to exercise the utmost vigilance to prevent automobile accidents during the coastal dim-out was returned Tuesday by the new September grand jury. The presentment, along with three indictments, was released yesterday morning in The grand jury’s action followI a warning issued by Supreme Court Justice Frederic R. Colie in his charge to the jury that increased caution must be used to avert motor vehicle accidents during the dim-out. One of the cases considered by the new jury was a death-by-automobile case growing out of accident last Wednesday night, in which Leslie Holland, of Cape May, was killed when he was struck by an Army truck proceeding on dimmed-out Route 4 near here. The presentment also urged bicyclists and pedestrians to use increased care while .on highways after dark in the dim-out area, and urged the military stationed in this district to control the speed of vehicles except when on urgent military duty. Findings of the jury in the fatal accident case were impound-

Set Dates For Tax Appeal Hearings

More Selectees Leave Monday For Examination Another large group of southern Cape May County Selective Service registrants will go to Cgmden on Monday for final physical examinations, and those who are accepted will be immediately inducted in the Army enlisted reserve corps, subject to bee*called to active duty within two weeks. Those from this section of ih«‘ county who will leave on Monday CAPE MAY: Elmer Patterson Church, Edward Michael Conway, Charles Edward Cowan, James LeRoy Eldredge, George Dewey Harris, Henry Messer Howard, Richard Brannau LeNoir, Willie Clifford Martin, Robert Lee Gearhart McDuell, Cornelius- Moore, John Thomas Nash, Joseph Sabin, Leon Shaw, Charles Clifford

Young.

WEST CAPE MAY: William Edward Collins, Louis Edward Harmon, Harold Charles Hawley, Luther Albert Palmer, Russell s Plunkett, William Elimore

Tranks.

FISHING CREEK: James Lester Rhoades. WILDWOOD CREST: Russell Cooper Batten, Samuel Dixon

Coombs.

RIO GRANDE: William Joseph Hoffman. WILDWOOD: William Arthur Bilger, Nick Calogero, Herbert Walter Craner, Sanford August Culver, Willie Maurice Edwards, Salvatore Franco, John Joseph Gleason, Robert Jules Haws, (Continued on Page Five)

11 Cases Listed For September CourtTerm

COURT HOUSE — Dates of hearings on tax appeals were set late last week by the Cape May County Board of Taxation, Edward L. Rice, secretary of the j

board announced Friday. According to the schedule

leased by Rice, the board will COURT HOUSE — Eleven cassit at Ocean City's city hall on cs are listed for trial in the SepSaturday, September 9. at 10 a. I tember court term, which opened m.; at Avalon borough hall on Tuesday, according to a list of Saturday. September 26, at 101 causes issued by County Clerk

a.m.; at Wildwood city hall on! Stirling W. Cole.

Saturday. October 3, at 10 a.m.; Only one Supreme Court issue at board headquarters in Court i is listed for the term. It is the House on Tuesday, October 6, at; case of A. Gregory Ogden vs.

' Cape May city Frances L. Gormley, et ah

Saturday, October 10, i

Appellants of Avalon, Stone Harbor and Sea Isle City, will ppear at the Avalon hearing; those from North Wildwood, Wildwood. Wildwood Crest and West Wildwood will appear at the Wildwood hearing; those from Middle and Upper Townships will be at the Court House hearing; and those from Cape May Point, Cape May and North Cape May will appear at the Cape May hearing. A total of 136 tax appeals have been filed with the county board. The appellants, whose properties currently assessed at $377,293, reductions of assessments amounting to $124,608.

Veteran H. J. Health

Officer Retires

MAYS LANDING — David C. Bowen, who served as state district health officer in Cape May and Atlantic Counties from 1932 o 1940, retired from active ser•ice with the State Department

of Health on September 1. Bowen was a health of-

ficial in Asbury Park and with he State Department Tor 51 . ears and was director of health for the state from 1927 to 1931, after which he opened the district office in this section with headquarters first at Plcasantville and later in the court house at

City Pays All '42 County Taxes Cape May's city commission on Friday authorized City Treasurer Gilbert C. Hughes to pay the fourth quarterly instalment of1942 county taxes. Hughes was instructed to draw a check in the amount of $11,195.76 to cover the final payment of county taxes owed by the City of Cape May, and to make the payment to County Treasurer Winfield S. Hitchner at Cape May

Court House:

County Schools Open

All schools in Cape May County except those of Wildwood, Sea Isle City and Ocean City, opened yesterday for 'the>1942-43 school

term. ” •-

Schools in th* three resort cities will open#Friday, County School Superintendent Daniel J. Ricker, of Cape May, announced. Until press tiihe yesterday, no estimate of the current year’s enrollment in individual school districts could be made, with some t registered the first

about the deacons and their work; , * and,n P-

Wednesday about the teachers I ■ r.arly in 1941 he was transfefand their work; Thursday, about | red to the district office at Freechurch school and its work; and hold, -where he had ,bccn carrying Friday. Baptist Youth Fellowship on 45 a health official until his

Work.” retirement.

COURT HOUSE — Tax machinery _ in all Cape May County municipalities is being geared to make added assessments and collect taxes on properties completed after October 1, 1941 under a new law which became effective last

year/'

Bujldings completed since Oc-

_ - - toben 1, 1941 or major additions For N6W Term OT / improvements, sufficiently

County Tax Machinery Geared To Assess New Buildings

v large to changp the assessed val-

uation of properties, completed since that date will be assessed under the new statute and prorata tax bills will be issued in addition to normal tax bills for the current year prior to Novem-

ber 1.

Before the new law was enacted buildings or improvements completed after October 1 of any year were not assessed or taxed until the following -year. October 1 was the date for making all

Two Circuit Court issues arc listed for the term. They are the cases of Mary Hartford vs. Aldine Estates, a corporation of New Jersey; and Jerry Church vs. Naum S. Kahn. One Common Pleas Court issue is scheduled for the fall term. It is the case of David L. Kirk vs. John Bartleson; and the only Common Pleas appeal is in the case of Everett Brown vs. Atlantic Refining Company. There are six relisted cases, carried oyer by order of the court. They include the cases of J. Franklin Moore and William Troutt vs. Evans G. Slaughter, et als, t/a Wildwood Press, Inc. and Evans G. Slaughter, et als., individually, jointly and severally; Commercial Garage, Inc., a corporation of New Jersey, vs. Cape May Transfer, Inc., a corporation of New Jersey, and Allen Robson; Francis W. Dundrea vs. Robert R. Saddington; C. Joseph Moyer vs. Millard Fillmon Ross and Alice Van M. Ross; Royal Insurance Co., Ltd., and Gibraltar Fire & Marine Insurance Co. vs. Benjamin Levinson; and Lester Meyers vs. William Kline, Theodore Patrone and Coco-Cola Bottling Company, Atlantic City, a corporation, jointly, severally and in the alternative. Constables for the September court term are Charles Camp, Sea Isle Cty; William A. Schcllcnger, Cape May; and Abe Moore, North

Wildwood.

Bennett Receives Army Commission FORT SILL — William J. Ben-

nett. 1001 Sewell avenue, Cape May. was graduated this week from Officer Candidate School and commissioned a -Second Lieutenant of the Field Artillery of the

Anpy of the United States. Lieutenant Bennett, son of Mr

and Mrs. W. L. Bennett, of Cape May, reported to Ft. Sill from Pine Camp, N. Y. and has been assigned. to Camp Hood. Texas. Before entering active service he

ployed as night manager

Election Board Changes Made For Districts A total of 14 change*—-eight Republican and six Democratic— were made in the personnel of district election boards of Cape May County, it was disclosed late last week. Replacement of board members became necessary for a ' variety of reasons, some having entered the armed forces, others having moved from their original districts and others having become engaged in war work in various parts of the country. Republican changes follow: Cape May, first ward, David Pierson for Charles Jones. Lower Township, second district, Michael McPherson for Charles Sapdgran. North Wildwood, first ward. Hairy L. Callahan for Beatrice Braidwood. Ocean City, first ward, third district, Emma Griffith for Carrie Adams; second ward, second district, William H. Williams for Henry Silling. a Isle City, second ward, Stella VanSant for Dorothy Hud-

m.

Upper Township, first district. Florence Camp for Isaac Butler; Albert Hand for Ralph Elia. Democratic changes follow: Cape May, first ward, Dorothy :hellenger for Carrie B. Keefe. Cape May Point, Leah Hughes for Thomas Woolson. Dennis Township, third district, William W. Mason for Randolph Mason. . Middle Township, fifth district, Ralph Schellinger for Aldan Erricson. Ocean City, first ward, third district, Dorothy Stretch for Ruth Nickerson. Wildwood, second ward, first district, Kathryn Nickerson for Hattie Blum.

New War-Time Rules Issued By General; No Drastic Changes 'Exploding fantastic tales of drastic war-time restrictions for Cape May andhother resort areas of the Atlantic coast. Public Proclamation No. 2, issued by Lieutenant General Hogh A. Drum, commanding the First Army and commanding general of the Eastern Defense Command, today was made public^ disclosing only ipinor additional

- xegtrictions for this area.

Unconfirmed reports for some time have indicated that the Atlantic seaboard would be virtually “shnt down” for the duration. In the new regulations issued by General Drum, the most stringent new restrictions for this area are that persons in the Cape May zone must identify themselves or explain iheir presence or activity in the zone whenever questioned by any enforcement officer, that no person shall operate a camera, binocular, field glass or any signal device within the area, and that ~ there shall be no parking or

Red Cross Appeals For More Workers

Wilson Speaks To County Leaders Republican leaders from all parts of Cape May County were addressed by Gill Robb Wilson, state aviation director and one of the aspirants for the Republican nomination for U. S. Senator in the coming primary election, at a luncheon meeting at the Wildwood Golf Club on Tuesday. Mr. Wilson, one of the nation's outstanding speakers, gave an illuminating address, outlining his principles and urging support of county Republicans in the primary election on Tuesday. The luncheon- meeting was the only pre-primary gathering of county political leaders in the present campaign.

Mrs. Stevens Given Ration Board Post Appointment of Mrs. Hedwig Stevens, of Cape May, as executive secretary of the local War Price and Rationing Board was announced Tuesday by Dr. Lindell C. Ashbum, board chairman. In a statement, issued Tuesday night, Dr. Ashbum said; “I wish to announce that Mrs. Hedwig Stevens has been nominated and elected by the board as executive secretary. Mrs. Stevens is empowered to administer oaths and affirmations in connection with any applications, petitions, statements, reports or other documents which are required to be sworn to by the provisions of any order or regulations pertaining to price control or rationing requirements or authorized to be filed by local boards or any of-

fice of the OPA.”

To acquaint the public with the

Women are urgently needed at the Red Cross rooms, 823 Decatur street, between the" hours of 10 and 4 o’clock on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, to help with the making of surgical dressings. “A large quota has been assigned to the Branch and larger quotas are on the way, and it is necessary that more women volunteer their services if we are to complete the work which the War Department has asked us to undertake,” Branch officers said. “If you cannot give a whole day, even a few hours will help along. Won’t you assume this responsibility as yours and lend

hand?”

There will be another class for instructors next Wednesday, September 16, from 9:46 until 4

’dock.

“If anyone is interested in taking the course, please communicate with Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens at Star Villa or phone the Red Cross office and leave your name with the staff assistant there. “Instructors must pledge themselves to give one day a week at the Red Cross rooms. We are planning to have the rooms open for work one evening a week so that those who are busy during the day may do their bit for the country,” they continued.

loitering in restricted areas

which are posted.

The proclamation provides for a general tightening of defense and military regulations throughout the Eastern Military Area which consists of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Caro-

“All persons entering or remaining in any zone or any part of the Eastern Military Area are enjoined to refrain from acts of hostility, from giving information, aid, or comfort to the enemies of the United States; from interfering, by word or deed, with the military effort of the United States, or the processes thereof; and to comply strictly with tha restrictions and orders which are herein or may hereafter be issued by the Commanding General, Eastern Defense Command and First Army,” the proclamation explained. “By Proclamation of the Presi(Continued on Page Four)

Committee Studies Sites For Hospital COURT HOUSE — The site committee of the Cape May County Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hpspital yesterday afternoon made a tour of this community inspecting a number of proposed sites for the hospital. While no definite decision was reached until press time yesterday afternoon, it is believed the committee will have decided upon location for the copotehospital a short time. Funds for the hospital hav been collected during the last two years by public subscription, since the hospital drive was launched by a gift of $25,000 made by the late Burdette Tomlin, of Ocean City, with the provision that the citizens of Cape May County match that amount 'by November

• 1941.

Passing the goal by approximately SI0,000, the citizens’ committee collected more than $35,000 in its first annua] campaign, and Mr. Tomlin subsequently contributed another S10.000 to the fund

before his death.

ConsUHiction of the hospital

give local, county and staty? governments the benefit of the addi-

tional taxation which might, be

derived by the added assessments j for Philadelphia Screen Manufacon new properties’ Edward L. luring Co., Philadelphia. Rice, secretary of the county 1 p 1_

board of taxation, explained this |

Rice estimated that the number Oliver Named To May County this year would C Fill Vacancy

comparatively small due to feder- \

personnel of ‘he local board, Dr. ! has been )>ostponed until after Ashburn outlined the set-up of j the present emergency when the organization. building operations may be

"Mr. Harry Hess, our local sumed.

hank cashier, was nominated, by ■—p

the chairman of the board, and voted on unanimously by the board as secretary to the board,” Dr. Aahbum continued. “Mrs. John J. Spencer was recently appointed clerk of the board."

Members of the board are John j. Stewart, West Cape May; Clarence Beltz, Villas, Robert Homan, Cape May Point, Harry Hess, Cape May, and Dr. L. C. Ashburn,

Cape May.

al restrictions on building during

‘he war emergency.

There are, however, a substantial number of properties in the county, particularly in the resorts, which have been completed since last October 1, and on which the additional tax must be paid. Assessors are required to file added assessment, lists with the county board of taxation on October 1, after which the board will examine, revise and correct

WEST CAPE MAY — Marvin B. Oliver was appointed to the West Cape May Board of Education Thursday evening to fill a vacancy in the board membership caused by the recent death of Theodore W. Reeves. C. H. Newkirk, a veteran member of the board, was chosen clerk of the board to replace Mr.

Reeves.

Mr. Reeves had been a member of the West Cape May Board of Education for 44 years. He had

City Relief Cost In August.Only S7 Cape May’s municipal relief expenditures for the ntonth of August totalled seven dollars, according to a report submitted to the city commission on Friday by Lewis S’. Bennett, local welfare director. Relief costs have hit an all-time low in Cape May this summer, based on figures for each year since municipal relief funds were established. There was no expenditure for relief in Cape May during July,

Draft Board Upheld By Appeal Board The government overruled the government in a draft appeal case this week and as a result a Cape May County registrant faces Army service instead of a position with the War Depart-

ment.

Norman K. Grosseck, now of Woodbury and formerly of 214 E. Spicer avenue, Wildwood, an employee of the War Department Ordnance Depot at Pedricktown, has been ruled a 1-A registrant by the South Jersey appeal board, following an appeal made by the War Department in his behalf. Grosseck was originally classified as 2-B because of his occupation. When the 2-B class was eliminated by a federal directive, he was classed as a 1-A tentative, and then as 1-A after he had passed his local physical examination. The appeal board ruled that his case had been properly handlocal ^board, and sus-

D.A. R. Chapter To Resume Meetings The first fall meeting of Cape May Patriots Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, will be held in the Chapter room at Court House on Saturday, September 12. There will be a meeting of the Executive Board at 12 o’clock followed by a pot luck luncheon at 1 p.m. A short business meeting will be held at 2:30 followed by a program. The guest soloist will be Miss Lucille Scott and the speaker will be Richard H. Pough, warden of the Witmer Stone Wildlife Sanctuary, who will illustrate his talk with colored slides. Members are urged to share their cars and come out for this meeting, officers said.

Dr. Robbins Closing Office Here Today Dr. Warren D. Robbins, for 14 years a Cape May physician, will close his office today, preparatory to leaving next week for Army duty. Dr. Robbins^ who was recently commissioned a captain in the Army Medical Corps, has been assigned to Camp Tickett, Va. Although the date of his departure is not definite, it. is expected that he will leave in slightly more than a week. Dr. Robbins recently resigned from the County Sinking Fnnd Commission, and was granted a leave of absence from his position : county physician for the. durion of his Army service. Daniel J. Ricker, of Cape May,, as appointed to replace him on the sinking fund commission, and Dr. Charles A. Furey, of Wildwood. was named acting county physician to serve in his absence..

Woodbine Wcman Is Cape’s First WAAO WOODBINE — This community claims the honor of l aving sent the first Cape May Ccunty woman to the WAAC’s. Miss Mary Krnck, of Woodbine, last week enlisted in the Woman's Army Adkiliary Corps. She qualified for a rating as worker-spec-ialist, first class. Miss Kruck went to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, last week where she will undergo six weeks’ intensive training, following which she will be assigned to duty at — Army post either in this itry or abroad. She plana to for assignment to foreign ser-