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Chemical Plant Operation Will Start Shortly In the final stages of construction, the million-dollar chemical extraction plant being built on the shores of Delaware Bay by the Northwest Magnesite Company is expected to begin production within the next two months, according to representatives of the company. Preliminary tests of several units of the huge chemical plant have been made during the last two weeks, and it is expected that the entire plant will be ready for tests within the next month or aix weeks. • After tests have shown where adjustments or changes are necessary, production will be started, company representatives said, pointing out that the construction work, which is nearing completion is on schedule. Work is progressing rapidly on various parts of the project, and builaings and tanks are virtually

completed.

Large crews of workmen are still employed on the project adding finishing touches to their various jobs, and connecting the different units which will operate in the extraction process. The chemical plant, covering a large acreage along the bayshore, near the foot of Sunset Boulevard. will be the largest industrial enterprise in Cape May County. Under -a comparatively ne process, the plant will extract magnesite from the sea water, and the product will be used in the manufacture of steel. The Northwest Magnesite Company is a subsidiary of the Har-beson-Walker Steel Company, a large Pittsburgh steel firm. A plant similar to the one located along Delaware Bay has been in operation for some time on Pacific coast.

Blood Donors Sought For October 19 Drive

400 Attend First Weekly Dance With an estimated crowd of 400 in attendance, the first of the series of Saturday evening dances at Convention Hall under the sponsorship of the management committee of the local USO Club and the city recreation commission. vmbs heralded as a successful beginning of the new venture. The 'dances will continue until weather becomes too cold to the large ballroom at Convention Hall, those in charge of the dances explained. Music for the initial dance was furnished by the Blue Jackets, a dance orchestra composed of men stationed at the Cape May Naval Base. The Blue Jackets will again play this Saturday evening. It is planned to have bands and orchestras representing various other units of the armed forces stationed in and near this area to provide music for subsequent Many local people joined service men and USO Club hostesses in enjoying the dance. Eight members of the Avalon Coast Guard station were brought to the dance by USO Council members from that community.

Ration Boards Will Review Allotments NEWARK — A review of all service and preferred mileage gasoline applications will be made oy War Prjce and Rationing Boards. This was announced by state headquarters of the Office of Price Administration today. The review of all such applications in the files of the rationing boards, it was explained, is being made for the purpose of diminating “inflated rations", which are defined as including the ration which allows the holder a number of coupons in excess of his legitimate needs, and cases in which the wrong type of ration book has been issued. Rationing boards have the authority to recall applicants who have been issued such rations and to adjust their ration books.

Wildwood Youth In Jap Prison Camp WILDWOOD—Writing from a prison camp for the first time, Jack Learning, 22. of Wildwood, last week advised his mother that . he is well, and urged her not to worry-. Young Learning, a radioman, second class, in the Navy, is interned at Zentiuji Prisoners’ Camp by the Japanese. He vras graduated from Wildwood High .School in 1937, and enlisted in the Navy shortly afterward. He was last home on Thanksgiving Day 1939. He was first reported missing in March and two months later was learned to be a prisoner of the Japanese. The letter received late last ~ by his Another, Mrs. Ida

Preparations for mass blood donations were launched, this week by the local committee, following a reorganization meeting of the group. A Red Cross mobile blood plasma unit will be in Cape May on Monday, October 19, to take blood donations. Registration of blood donors in Cape May and its surrounding communities was started Tuesday by the local committee, which was reorganized and expanded at a meeting Monday night. Headed by Clarence D. Fisher, local manager of the Atlantic City Electric Co., the committee originally consisted of Charles B. Shields, Earl L. Hollingsead, Steven J. Steger and E. A. Cresse. At Monday’s meeting, Mrs. Mark C. Frymire and Mrs. John H. Magruder were added to the committee. The mobile^ blood plasma unit will operate in Cape May during the afternoon and early evening of October 19. Its headquarters will be the social rooms of the Cape Island Baptist Church. The afternoon hours will be from 1 to 4 o'clock, and evening hours will be from 5 to 7. At least 150 voulntcer registrants are required before the mobile unit will be sent- to Cape

Connecting Road To Fuel Oil Rationing

Be Built Along Canal TRENTON — Judge Phillip T. Forman in the U. S. -District Court here ruled on Tuesday that the federal government must construct a road on the south side of the Cape May County canal in Lower Township to connect the Higbee Beach Road with the Old

Shore Road.

The district court ruling followed a petition by Lower Township, urging that such a connecting link be constructed in lieu of bridge across the canal on t Bayshore Road. Tuesday’s hearing in Trenton is held on the matter of taking over the Back Road and the road from the New England Road tc Higbee's Beach Road by the gov-

ernment.

The court ordered the government to use its right of waj parallelling the canal to a width of 40 feet to build the connecting

link.

Representatives of the township dd yesterday that construction of such a link would overcome inconvenience that the lack Bayshore Road bridge would cause. The connecting road is to be 40 feet wide and 1700 feet length.

Coal Hoarding Banned By Federal Order An order prohibiting householda from stocking up with a full winter’s coal was received in Cape May on Tuesday by Ralph T. Stevens, head of the Cape May Coal and Ice Co., in a letter from the Office of Solid Fuels Coordinator for War, of the United States Department of the Interior. “We must have equitable distribution of available supply from this date forward," explained Bruce P. Disque, assistant direc- ‘ r in charge of anthracite. “We therefore request the cooperation of your organization in withholding further deliveries to those who now have ample domestic anthracite to meet their early winter requirements; and ^o curtail deliveries to others to a basis of oqly that quantity necessary to meet their early winter requirements. When the demand becomes less urgent we shall modify withdraw this request. There should be an ample supply of anthracite to take care of consumers’ needs this winter, but it must be spread so that all will have a share. Anthracite must not be hoarded against requirements of the succeeding winter. “Unless the problem • can be solved by cooperative effort, the Coordinator will be compelled to resort to such measures as will accomplish the desired result,” Disque declared.

USO Seeks Donations Of Furniture An appeal for donations of furniture to equip a day room for men stationed at Cape May Point was issued this week by Adjutant Theodore F. Thompson, director of the Cape May USO Club, this week. “The local club is trying to furnish a day room for the men stationed at the Point and we would like to have some comfortable chairs, a radio, a piano and * few desks if it is possible,’’ Adjutant Thompson said. “If anyone has such pieces of furniture to give away to try to make some of our boys happy, please contact the office at the lofal 'USO Club,” the Adjutant

CAPE MAY. NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1942

Major Partkf~ Reorganize At Meets Tuesday COURT HOUSE — Both major political parties reorganized their county committees at meetings here Tuesday night, following initial sessions of state party conventions at Trenton earlier in the

day.

Nathaniel Smith, of Ocean City, former secretary of the Republican County Committee, was elected chairman to replace Egbert J. Wood, of Wildwood Crest, who recently resigned to accept a position as OPA aide for Cape May

County.

Other officers elected by the county committee are Mrs. Theresa Bergh, of Tuckahoe, renamed as vice chairman; Isaac A. Powell, of Middle Township, renamed as treasurer; and Rex A. Garrison, of Wildwood, elected to replace Smith as secretary of the

committee.

Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, of Cape May, was re-elected chairman of the Democratic County Committee. Other officers of the committee elected Tuesday night arc Mrs. Marie V. Walters, WUdwood, first vice chairman; Joseph F. Hughes, Wildwood, second vice , chairman, to replace Mrs. Emma

nues, Yacht avenue, Claghom: Fisher, of Ocean City; Benjamin Place and Railroad avenue. A. Tomes, Wildwood, treasurer; The city’s application requested ■ end Smith Erricson, Villas, sec-

funds from the $25,000 fund to! retary.

finance maintenance work on ap- Both county committee meetproximately 33,300 feet of exist-! ings, held simultaneously in the

ing streets in Cape May; including parts of Guerney street, Stockton Place, Howard, Jeffer-

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May. Chairman Fisher said today he is confident the local committee can obtain that number of

volunteers.

All persons desiring to volunteer blood donations must register before October 1. Registration., may be made with Mr. Fisher at the Atlantic City Electric Co. office on Ocean street or at Red Crdss headquarters at 823 Deca-

tur street.

Dr. A. C. Moon, of Cape May, medical adviser for the local committee, and Miss Edith Coop-

is secretary.

The mobile blood plasma unit will bring with it a doctor, six nurses, a driver and an assistant, secretary, and a motor corps station wagon in which the blood donations will be transported, under refrigeration, to Philadelphia, immediately after the collection operations have been completed here. Immediately upon its arrival at the laboratories, it will be processed and reduced to the plasma which is used in reviving wounded sendee men on the field of battle or during emergencies. Urging all Cape May citizens (Continued on Page Four)

Starts October 1 Fuel oil rationing will become effective October 1 for 30 eastern and midwest states, it has been announced by Leon Henderson, OPA rationing administrator. Rationing will permit consumers to obtain approximately 75 per cent of the fuel oil they used last winter through the use of ration

coupon books.

According to Administrator Henderson. householders and dwelling units embracing less than four families, can now purchase up to 275 gallons of fuel oil, until October 1, without the use of couAftcr that date, they can get additional .supplies from dealers by giving written guarantee to turn over an equivalent number of ration coupons after they receive

their books.

Ration books will be “tailored” to meet individual heating needs.

City Applies For '43 Road Program Fund Applications for Cape May’s

allotment of state highway funds for maintenance and repair work on city streets during 1943 were executed Friday by the city commission and were ordered forwarded to County Engineer Holland K. Sharp, of Tuckahoe, for inclusion in the county’s 1943 pro-

gram.

With asphalt and bituminousconcrete paving impossible for the duration because of shortages of petroleum products, it is expected that the 1943 street and road programs in Cape May County. will be confined to application of gravel surfaces for maintenance and patching of existing streets. The city commission applied for an allotment under the socalled $50,000 highway fund for sufficient money to finance approximately 8,100 feet of gravel

surfacing.

Present plans contemplate using the gravel on parts of Idaho, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, Brooklyn, Michigan avenues, East and West streets, Massachusetts avenue, St. John street, Bank street. First and Second ave-

Junk Rally Collects Tons Of Scrap, Will Reach Peak Saturday Joining the nationwide movement to "get in the scrap to beat the Jap”, Cape May collectively rolled up its sleeves and scouted through back yards, basements, attics and closets for scrap materials—principally metals and rubber—with which to supply the nation’s war industries. In the collection drive which started last Saturday, a pile of scrap, estimated to contain anywhere from 20 to 35 tons, has been accumulated to date, and the size of the scrap heap opposite

city hall is expected to be

Queen, Franklin streets, first and Second avenues, Grant street, Windsor avenue, Congress and Broad streets, Columbia, Sewell, Wenonah, McCullum, Benton, Kearney, Stockton, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Reading and Trenton aveWork contemplated under the $25,000 fund appropriation includes maintenance of gravel shoulders of streets already pav-

county seat, were sparsely attend-

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Edison Sets 35 Miles As Top Speed In N.J. TRENTON — Governor Charles Edison late last week issued an official proclamation setting 35 miles per hour as the maximum speed to be allowed in New Jersey for the duration of the war. The proclamation follows in Whereas, the rubber supply situation in the United States is daily becoming more critical so that it is necessary to take every possible step immediately for the conservation of this commodity so

vital to the war effort.

“Now, therefore, I, Charles Edison, Governor of the State of New Jersey, do hereby order and direct that: I “Until the end of the present I

ar emergency, or until further Shull Rutherford was elected order by me, the maximum speed president of the senior class of limit for any and all motor ve- J Cape May High School when the hides operating upon any public class organized this week, highway, road or street in the Other officers named by the State of New Jersey, shall be 35-class are Charles Weckman, vice miles per hour; provided, that | president; Marie Engman, secrenothing herein contained shall af- | tary; and Barbara Hand, treasfect any zone where lesser maxi- urvr. mum speed limits are now, or ; Other classes will organize this may hereafter, l>o in force,’’ the! week and will elect officers to proclamation continued. i serve for the ensuing year.

No One Injured In School Bus Crash Lower Township school bus damaged Monday afternoon a it was struck while unload- .. students a short distance from the Schellengers Landing bridge on Route 4. No‘ one

injured in the crash.

The bus was struck in the rear by a truck driven by Daniel Wooten, of Cape May Court House, according to state police ho investigated the accident The school bus was driven by Raymond Bailey, of Villas. Police said the bus was proceeding south Route 4 stopping at intervals

to discharge pupils.

The truck was also proceeding south and struck the bus while it was stopped to discharge pas-

sengers, police said.

Wooton was fined $11.50 on a charge of driving in a careless manner when arraigned before Justice of the Peace Everett R.

Brown at Green Creek.

Senior Class Names Officers For Year

October 13 Set As Second Day For Permanent Registration

Cape May County voters

have their second opportunity this ~ .. , to register foV perm.oeot | ^ H.!

Name Delegates For Kiwanis Conclave Three delegates and three alternates to the district Kiwanis Convention which will be held Trenton on October 12 wi named by the local Kiwanis Club this week. The delegates are Clarence D. Fisher, club president; Wallace Douglass and Charles A. Swain. Alternates are Lewis T. Stevens, Charles B. Shields and E. A.

Cresse.

Swain is to be a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the Delsea Division. In a report this week by the war bond committee of the club, it was disclosed that a total of $6,012.85 worth of war bonds and stamps had been purchased by club members during the spring and early summer campaign carried on by th? club. The campaign which was suspended July 29 will be resumed by club members. Herbert C. Harris, Harry Lehman and J. O. Rutherford are members of the club's October program committee.

Enrollment Down In Cape Public Schools Enrollment in Cape May’s pub lie schools has shown a slight decrease this year, according tc figures released by school offic-

ials this week.

In the high school, this year's enrollment totals 247, compared with 264 at the start of school last year, it was announced by Principal Paul S. Ensminger. There are a total of 53 seniors, 56 juniors, 62 sophomores and 76

freshmen this year.

In the Lafayette Street School, this year's total is 258 compared with 228 at the opening of school

last year.

In the Franklin Street School, the enrollment totals 67 this year compared with 74 last year. Club Women Will Hear Officials

Named Chaplain

REV. ROBERT D. CARRIN

Pastor of the Cape Island Baptist Church for four years, was notified yesterday- by telegraph that he has been appointed a first lieutenant in the U. S. Army Chaplain Corps. The telegram, from the Adjutant General in Washington, ordered Mr. Carrin to report for duty at the Servant Staging Area, Indiantown Gap, Pa., on Wednesday, October 7.

Selectees Leave Monday For Dix A large group of selectees from the southern section of Cape May County will leave to begin active duty at Fort Dix on Monday, officials of Local Board No. 2, in charge of Selective Service administration in this part of the ■county, announced yesterday. The selectees will leave Cape May at 6:39- a.m. aboard a- Penn-sylvania-Reading Seashore Lines train which will take them to Camden, where they will transfer to Public Service buses and proceed directly to Fort Dix. They are scheduled to arrive there

10 a.m.

Men from Wildwood and other communities having railroad nections will be permitted board the train in their home towns to eliminate the necessity of finding transportation to Cape May at that time of day. Elmer Church, of Cape May, has been designated as acting corporal. He will be in charge of the group until the men arrive at Fort Dix. The group has been in the listed reserve corps since passing physical examinations at Camden 10 days ago.

Urges Public To Give Soldiers Send-Off Cape May citizens today were urged to turn out cn masse to bid farewell to local selectees who will leave for Fort Dix on Monday to answer this section’s Sep-

tember draft call.

Allan R. Robson, well known local civic leader, who has arranged send-offs for trainees for several months, today appealed for public support of the custom. “The Cape May High School Band, fire engines and friends

A large attendance is expected at the first fall meeting of the Cape May Woman's Community

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year to register for permanent ! registrars will be on Thursday, October 1, at the Hotel |j nd r <’ 1 »tives of the boys leaving ^gfstrationon Tuesday!*'ortober ?“‘ y as fo,ows / N ' orth Cape May ! Macomber. The meeting will begin | ^ !, when registrars w-ill sit atlL ro ™ x °, nc four P m -: 6outh w,th a luncheon, starting at 1 i ” t „ 6 ' 3 ^ hen boys leave the

each polling place in the county Cap ^ May ’ f,ve to nmc P ®- jo clock.

from one to nine p.m. for the According to the permanent Senate President I. Grant Scott purpose of regisiering voters, the regTstration law, three registra- i and ^Mayor_ T. Millet Hand, both

Cape May County Board of Elec-

tions announced this week. According to the board's announcement, only such voters will be permanently registered as present themselves personally. Naturalized citizens. must produce their citizenship papers. New Jersey’s new permanent registration law becomes effective July V. 1943.' Persons not regifc.—j -■ *•- t time will

vote until

they have done so. “Voters are urged to appear for registering at their respective polling places as early as possible on the date specified in order to avoid congestion,” the board said

its statement.

'One other permanent registration day will be held in the county during 1942, due notice of which will be given,” the board

At North Cape May and South

days were required for 1941 of Cape May, will be principal and 1942 to prepare for the start | “t the meeting which

of permanent voter registration. The first 1942 registration day

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| will follow the luncheon, club of-

ficers announced.

held September 157' coincid-J , Re ^ er 7® tl0ns . for i , th , c , luncheon with Drimarv elect irm ! ^ ho V| d ^ made with Mrs. James

C. Hand, club president, or Mrs.

tern will give election officials permanent record of each registered voter in the state, and will eliminate the customary house-to-house canvass which is required annually under the present sys-

tem.

To make room for the voluminous records and to provide space for the clerical personnel which will be in charge of the registratior, records, the Cape May County Board of Freeholders last week allotted office space now being used by the extension service to the county election board. The extension service office will be moved to reconditioned offices in the old court building.

William H. Stevens before Sep-

tember 27.

Nfewly-clected club officers will be installed at Thursday's session and will begin their new terms.

Purchases Property Howard H. Willets, of Wildwood, has purchased the property at 825-27 Washington street from Mrs. Henry H. Eldredge through Mrs. Hilda M. Collins, local real

estate agent.

The property contains seven apartments, which have been entirely refurnished by Mr. Willets, And are at present fully occupied.

Cape May railroad station for Fort Dix,” Robson said, “but a large group of Cape May citizens at the station to join in the farewell would show the boys that their home own is back of them

100 per cent.

“Wc hope to make this the largest send-off the selectees bpve ever been given in Cape May,” he continued. “Come out and do your

part.”

_ Gifts of cigarets, candy, maga:ines and other small items will >e distributed to the departing selectees, who upon their arrival at Fort Dix will immediately begin their Army careers. Robson urged that all civic — ganirations be represented at the send-off.

doubled after the wind-up drive on Saturday. Charles A, Swain, local chairman of the Salvage Committee, estimated yesterday that approximately 30 tons of scrap metals and rubber had been coHected in the drive until that time. He expresesd the hope that more and larger contributions would be made before the drive ends Saturday night in order to double or possibly triple the present scrap pile's size. SATURDAY CANVASS GOOD Volunteer workers launched a city-wide canvass last Saturday as the opening gun in the junk rally, and numerous truckloads of all kinds of scrap material were collected. The canvass will be repeated this Saturday, and it is hoped that a larger group of vplunteera and trucks will be available to make the collection. Tons of scrap materials, ranging from door keys to a half-ton safe and several junked automobiles, have helped swell the city's scrap pile. BIG PIECES PLEDGED Numerous large pieces of junk —including the 1,500 pound iron anchor that was brought ashore several years ago by a fishing boat which found it on the ocean floor, and which has been on display at Berger Helgesen’s Viking Cabins—have been pledged to the Salvage Committee and will -be collected on Saturday. Finding a general spirit of wholehearted cooperation among the citizens of Cape May, the committee members and volunteers who carried out last Saturday's collections were hampered only by lack of sufficient manpower and trucks to transport the mass of junk which was un-

earthed.

In a statement yesterday, (Continued on Page Five) 65 Volunteers Given Red Cross Diplomas Sixty-five Red Cross volunteers who have completed training in volunteer special services were graduated Friday evening at the first Cape May County Red Cross graduation exercise. The ceremony was held in Cape May’s Convention Hall. Attendance at the ceremony as small due to the inclement weather Friday evening. Miss Sadie L. James, general field representative of the Red Cross, delivered an interesting address as part of the graduation

ceremony.

Officers of the Cape May Branch and Cape May County Chapter of the American Red Cross also spoke at the ceremony. Volunteers in first aid and home nursing who had completed training courses and had previously received their certificates were given recognition at Friday’s graduation.

Masonic Lodge Gets Service Flag service flag with 35 stars representing members of the Cape Island Lodge, No. 30, F. and A. M., was displayed for the , first time Tuesday night at a meeting of the lodge. The service flag will hang permanently in the lodge room in honor of lodge members serving in various units of the nation’s military services.

TO RETURN FROM HOSPITAL Dr. J. R. Moon, well known proprietor of the Mecray Pharmacy, will return to his home today from the Atlantic City Hospital, where he has been under observation of specialists for the

Ocean City Paper To Revert To Weekly OCEAN CITY — The SentinelLedger, Ocean City’s newspaper for 63 years, .announced this week that effective Friday, October 2, it would suspend publication of its daily edition, and would revert to a weekly edition to be published each F’riday. The Daily Sentinel-Ledger has been published for seven years. In a statement by the publishers, it was explained that shortage of adequate labor and other factors caused by the war make the winter daily no longer possible. The first edition of the weekly Sentinel-Ledger will be published on Friday, October 9.