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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1942

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125 Volunteers Donate Blood To Red Cross Hailed «f an outstandingly successful mass contribution of blood for the Red Cross blood bank. Cape May’s one-day blood donor campaign ended Monday night with a total of 15 gallons of blood donations. One Hundred and twenty-five residents of the southern section of the county donated a pint of blood each to make up this city’s blood bank quota. Doctors and nurses attached^ to the Red Cross mobile blood donor unit, operating out of Philadelphia, declared that the Cape May campaign was one of the most successful they had ever con-

ducted.

Unmarred by delays, the five hour collection of blood, which will provide plasma for emergency use in the treatment of wounded fighting men and victims of catastrophes, ran smoothly. The corps of doctors and nurses took blood donations quickly and efficently, averaging seven donors every 16 minutes. The social hall of the Cape Island Baptist Church, headquarters of the - blood donor unit, was transformed into a ward room with several cots lining the wall. A steady procession of volunteer blood donors filed into the building, registered, underwent tests to make certain they were in condition to give blood, entered the ward room, and filed out after they had donated their pint of

blood.

The procession continued almost without interruption from 1 to 4 o’clock and from 5 to 7, the hours during which the blood donor unit worked. Only a comparatively small percentage of volunteers were rejected during the preliminary examination. Most of the rejections were caused by the volunteer having had a cold recently, or having eaten fatty foods within four hours of the time he was called to give blood. — Continued On Page Four —

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NATHANIEL C. SMITH Chairman of the Cape May County Republican Committee who this week urged support of all | Republican candidates in the general election on November 3, citing their long records of achieve-

ment.

Highway Chief Views County Road Needs COURT HOUSE — State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller, Jr. was guest of the Cape May County Board of Freeholders yesterday on an inspection tour and at a luncheon here. Making his first official visit to this county, Miller" viewed defense projects in operation in the southern section of the county, and discussed with the freeholders plans for possible improvement of the highway system in this area. Another matter discussed at yesterday’s conference was the construction of a new bridge on the Wildwood boulevard, to replace the present obsolete span.. The freeholders and their guest had luncheon at a Court House restaurant after the -inspection

tour.

$213,860 Alloted To Cape For Roads TRENTON — Subject to ratification by next year’s Legislature, State Highway Commissioner Spencer Miller, Jr., today notified the Freeholder Boards of the anticipated county share of $6,735,000 Qf_-state aid for the

year

A/Scnedule is prepared how to givfc adequate time for the preparWion of the county budgets as required by statute. The appropriations are made from the automobilists' license fees and gasoline taxes under the formula established by the Legislature for the apportionment of $6,000,000 based upon the percentage of each county’s area, population and road mileage. An outright grant of $35,000 is also given to each county regardless of size. The tentative sums set aside are as follows: Cape May, $213,860; Atlantic County, $350,180; Bergen, $443,720; Burlington, $430,580; Camden, $307,460; Cumberland, $411,500; Essex, $529,880; Gloucester, $275,240; Hudson, $395,420; Hunterdon, $222,320; Mercer. $239,360; Middlesex, $314,540;. Monmouth, $349,880; Morris, $299,420; Ocean, $408,800; Passaic, $306,380; Salem, $259,280; Somerset, $210,260; Sussex, $273,380; Union, $264,860; Warren, $228,680.

Long Records Of Candidates Are Stressed “Recognition of the splendid ( records of the Cape May County officials now in office cannot go unnoticed,” declared Nathaniel Smith, chairman of the Cape May County Republican Committee, who today urged votei? to return them for additional terms. Asserting that the most important business of the moment is the winning of the war, Smith said that the citizens of the county are fortunate in having people in office today who have the knowledge and background of coping With present day problems. The county ticket is headed by Senator I. Grant Scott who hae been in the Legislature ince 1985. His running mates are Assemblyman John E. Boswell, first elected in 1937, Surrogate Irving Fitch, in office since 1922, and Freeholders Percy H. Jackson and Ralph T. Stevens, both elected in 1932. Herbert Hansman is the

coroner nominee.

“The background of these officials,” Smith Said, “reflects extensive business and social training and experience. All their public actions have been predicated upon their desire to benefit the citizens of Cape May County. “I feel certain the voters of our county will again cast ballots for all the Republican nominees, because they know all ‘ these men are well qualified to continue to fill the same offices they have or cupied the. past several years. — Continued On Page Four

Girl Struck By Car Monday Morning COLD SPRING—A nine-year-old school girl was painfully injured early Monday morning when she was struck by an automobile while waiting for a school bus at the corner of Shun Pike and New England Road. Martha Williams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Williams, of Cold Spring, was the victim. She sustained body bruises and-, contusions. The child was taken to Atlantic City Hospital in the Cape May American Legion ambulance after emergency treatment by Dr. A. C. Moon, of Cape May. 'Allen H. Kenr, of West Cape May, who is employed on the canal projdct. was driving the * car that struck the child. Arraigned before..Justice of the Peace Brown at Grcen^Crcek, he was fined one dollar artS' a half on each of two charges—failure to stop at n stop-street and : use of dealers’ license tags.

Army Boys Seek Gifts Of Used Furniture CAPE MAY POINT — Donations of used furniture and living room furnishings for use in equipping an Army post club room for men of Battery • C, Cape May Point, were asked this week in a statement issued by men of the Army unit. Parlor chairs. tables, card tables, smoking stands and other similar furnishings are desired, if they are available. The group also desires to obtain a used piano. Men from the Army post will call for any donationa of furniture, and will renovate any gifts that need repair in order to furnish the club room for recreation purposes. Anyone having such furniture to donate should contact Battery

Selectees Leave For Camp On Wednesday Southern Cape May County’s October draft quota was filled when a group of selectees recently inducted after physical examinations, left to begin Army duty yesterday morning. '"hose who left yesterday, with .... impressive ceremony at the Cape May railroad terminal mediately before their departure, are: Richard I. Carrir, Charles C. Carr, Edward R. Carty, Jonathan F. Sayre, John T. Dollinger, Raymond J. Beck, Horace J. Davies. Jr., Louis Gittle, Jr., Godfred Delli Paoli, Walter 51. Homan, Jri, Harold J. Allen, William T. Mahoney, Winfield S. Harrison. Edward Nickless, John M. Stiles, Freeman Yerricks, Charles T. Minell, Harry F. Jenner, William Wolfson, Joseph V. Walsh, Norman S. Wenzel, Frank L. .Schellenger, Charles R. Taylor, William R. Fcarnly, Harry Warner, ■Walter P. Hughes and Sayre C. A number of men from Wildwood and other communities Boarded the train at their home cities to eliminate difficulty in obtaining transportation to Cap May at the early hour.

Township Red Cross Seeks Volunteers COLD SPRING — The Lower Township Red Cross branch workroom in the Consolidated School will be reopened soon, and the branch has issued an appeal for volunters to sew and knit. The branch has a great deal of wool to be knit into sweaters. The workroom will be open each Wednesday from 10 to 4 o’clock. Workers are requested to bring their lunches. At the last business meeting of the township Red Cross brandh. •w officers were elected. They Mrs. Albert Poulson, chairman; Mrs. John B. Kaighn, vice chair- ; Mrs. Latrona Hunt, treas- ; Mrs. Walter Bates, secre--

tary.

There will be a business meeting the first Wednesday of each month. “Anyone interested in taking first aid lessons should communicate with Mrs. Frances Jackson immediately, as the class is now organizing and will start very i,” Mrs. Bates said.

Announce Plans For Surprise Blackout TRENTON — A realistic surprise air raid drill with Army Ground and Air Forces joining with civilian staffs in defense of the homeland against a simulated enemy air attack probably will take place in New Jersey on a secret date, Leonard Dreyfuss, state civilian defense director, anounced Tuesday. The first warning to civilian? would be the wailing of air raid sirens and horns. THat would be the signal to black out immediately, Dreyfuss said, adding that tentative plans called for drill to approximate as nearly possible the conditions of actual enemy attack. Dreyfuss said high ranking officers of the Eastern Defense Command of the Army had under consideration a plan to stage a simulated enemy night air attack, with the Army Ground and Air Forces going into action and Civilian Defense forces carrying ont their missions.

Scrap Harvest

Swings Into Final Stages

COURT HOUSE—The fight is i! The salvage cry jt ringing out!! Enthusiastic response is being made throughout Cape May County to the call for scrap materials to provide tools of war for United States fighting men. In the inland parts of the county, a mammoth Junk Rally will be conducted on Saturday, October 24. All residents of Lower Dennis,- Middle and Upper townships and Woodbine are asked to assemble their scrap and take it to tHe Salvage Depot nearest

their home on that day.

The drive for scrap metal and rubber here is part of a nationwide Scrap Harvest being conducted principally in the farming sections but extending also into most non-metropolitan areas. Salvage committees in the county resorts 'still are on the job and will welcome contributiona of

scrap during the harvest.

In some places, school pupils will call for the scrap, tomorrow. “If no one calls and’ you can’t, take your own scrap to a Salvage Depot,” Burton J. Smith, county chairman of the Harvest, said yesterday, “get it ready tomorrow anyway so that you can have it out in front of your property on Tues^ morning, bright and early. Road trucks have been enlisted in the scrap campaign and will make the rounds on Tuesday. The drivers and their helpers will try not to miss anything, but be sure to put your scrap in a conspicuous place so they will see it. If you have material which is too heavy for you to move, contact your local Salvage Committee chairman and he will make . arrangements for a truck to be sent to your home as early as possible next week.” Members of the Volunteer Corps of the Cape May County Exten- — Continue^ On Page Five

Without the usual fanfare and celebration because of the war emergency, Navy Day will be celebrated on Tuesday, October 27, throughout the nation, to mark the anniversary of the founding of the U. S. Navy. In Cape May, the Navy itself will mark the occasion with no special activities or celebrations. October 27 has been celebrated as Navy Day since 1922, when it was so designated by President Harding in a letter to then Assistant , Secretary of the Navy Denby. The Navy League was instrumental in having a day set aside and has sponsored the national celebration of Navy Day

-er since.

For the Navy, October 27 has two- significances. The first is that it was on this day in 1775 that a special committee of the Continental Congress submitted to the Congress, in Philadelphia, a bill providing for the acquisition of several ships. These ships became first of the American Navy.

Needlework Guild Seeking Support Hope that the 1942 Needlework Guild In-gathering will exceed those of former years was expressed today- in a statement issued by Guild officers who are preparing for the annual event, to be held Wednesday, November 4 at 3 p:m. in the Episcopal Parish House on Franklin street. Guild officers issued a special appeal to wives of Naval officers now residing in Cape May, urging them to share in the work of the

Guild. .

Contributions of, two new garments., of the same kind and size, for infants, boys, girls, men or

Clubwomen To Hear Lecture On Birds The Cape May Woman’s Community Club will have its November meeting at the Hotel Macomber on Thursday afternoon, November 5, Mrs. James C. Hand, club president, announced today. A luncheon will start at 1 o’clock, after which the principal address of the meeting will !>e delivered by Richard H. Pough, warden at the Witmer Stone Wildlife Sanctuary, Cape Point. Mr. Pough will describe the various species of birds which frequent the sanctuary, and will illustrate his address with colored pictures. Reservations must be made by November 2 with Mrs. William H. Stevens or Mrs. Hand. A business meeting will follow the lecture.

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Will Mark Navy Day Quietly On Tuesday

They were merchant vessels, converted to ships of war. It was aboard one of these little ships, the “Alfred", that Captain John Paul Jones raised the American flag and gave to himself the distinction of being the first (Officer to raise the first American flag over one of the first American vessels of war: The second significance of October 27, to the. Navy, is that it is the birth anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt, once Assistant Secretary of the Navy and later President of the United States. A life-long friend of and believer in the Navy, Theodore Roosevelt’s writings are replete with passages reflecting his deep interest. Prior to the official sponsorship of Navy Day* by. the Navy League, and its official designation by the White House and the Navy Department, Mrs. William Hamilton, of New York, and a commit- — Continued On Page f'ouR

Will Form Alumni Group Saturday Reorganization of the C*T« 5Iay High School Alumni I ,sociation will take place at a meeting in the high school on Saturday eveaing, October 24, at 8 "’clock. Following a business meeting during which the reorganization will be effected, alumnae of the local high school will be guests of the Senior Class at a reception and dance. Approximately 150 persons,^including members of the Senior Class, are urged to attend Saturday’s meeting, Acting Chairman Charles A. Swain said today. Everyone eligible to become a member '<$ the Alumni Association is urged to attend the meeting. Each Cape May High School graduate is invited to bring his 'or her wife or husband or friend, Mr. Swain said.

Red Cross Branch To Meet Friday Night The annual meeting of the Cape May Branch, of the American Red Cross will be held in the high school auditorium tomorrow* evening at 8 o’clock. All members of the branch are urged"

to attend.

Officers of the branch will make reports of unit activities, and new officers will be elected for the ensuing year. Mrs. H. B. Mecleary, county chairman of Volunteer Special Services, will be the principal

speaker.

Miss Askew Dies; Well Known Here TRENTON — Miss Sarah Byrd Askew, secretary and librarian of the New Jersey Public Library Commission, which she organized 37 years ago, died Tuesday a! Mercer Hospital. Miss Askew was born in Dayton, Ala.,. attended school in Atlanta, Ga. and was graduated from the Pratt Institute School of Library Science in 1904. The following year she was appointed organizer of’ the New Jersey Public Library Commission, a state agency created to administer the traveling libraries of the state, to give professional aid to existing libraries and to assist in development of libraries in d‘ tricts without library service. Miss Askew was'well known Cape May and Cape May -County. During the World War, she organized an excellent library at the Army hospital in the Admiral Hotel, and was responsible for the founding of the Cape May Git” pftd Cape May County " braries.

Plans Pushed For Hallowe’en Parade And Dance October 31

Plans were advanced this week by the ccmmitteeR^-ijH'chnrge of the Hallowe’en para^ft and dance which will be he Iff here Saturday, Octoiler 31, during afternoon and evening. Starting at 3 p.m., the parade will form at the Golf Course on Lafayette street, and will march on Jefferson street to Washington, to Perry, to the Beach, to Howard street, to Columbia avenue, to Franklin street, where it will disband. The line of march will be-head-ed by the high school band, and will include high school Students, Lafayette Street School pupils. Franklin Street School pupils. West Cape May string band, West Cape May pupils, Catholic School students. Lower Township school children, the Wildwood band. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, individuals not connected with any organization, American Legion, V.F.W., Red Cross, USO, Woman's ‘Community Club and Kiwanis Club. Tne reviewing stand will be .at Convention Hall, .-where judges will make their selections. School groups will parade by classes under the direction of classroom teachers. Proceeds from the sale of parade nroBrams will be divided be-

tween the senior class and the high school band, and other revenue will go to the band for the purchase of uniforms. Parade committee members are 1 Raymond Adams. Allan R. Robson, Dr. E. E. Pickard, Alex. C. Lyle and John Utz. Climaxing the day of Hallowe’en festivities, a Hallowe’en dance will be held at Convention Hall from 8:30 to midnight on Saturday ‘evening, October 31. Music for the dance will be provided by the Bluejackets, a dance orchestra organized recently at th Cape May Naval Base. Refreshments will be sold at the dance by the Band Mothers Association, and proceeds of thedanoc and refreshment conces-.; sion will go toward th- purchase of band uniforms. Dance committee members are Adams, Robson, Dr. Pickard, Steven J. Steger, ' Albert B. Little, Mrs. Charles Hoffman and Lyle. Donations of sandwiches or cakes will be welcomed by the Band Mothers’ Association. Anyone desiring to make such a donation should' contact Mrs. Charles Swain at the Ben Franklin Store.

Republicans To Have Dinner-Meeting Mon.

Republican dinner-meeting

for party leaders, workers and friends will be held at the Hotel Macomber on Monday • evening, October 26, at 7 o'clock, it was announced this weefcy The meeting will be the principal Republican rally locally prior to the Novem-

ber 3 general election.

Speaker of the evening will be former Senator James K. Allardice, of Ocean County, present Civil Service Commissioner, i well kfiown after-dinner speaker. All Republican candidates wilt ! present, according to present plans, and will speak briefly at

the meeting.

The dinner-meeting is expected to be attended by' a large number of Republicans from the southern mainland section of Cape May

County.

Candidates who are expected to he present are Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, of Ventnor, candidate for Congress; Senate President I. Gr^nt Scott, of Cape May. who is seeking re-election; Speaker of the House of Assembly John E. Boswell, of Ocean City, another candidate for re-election; Surrogate Irving Fitch, of Sea Isle City; Freeholders Ralph T. Stevens, of Cape May, and Percy H. Jackson, of Wildwood, who are seeking re-election; and Coronercandidate Herbert R. Hansman, of Villas. Tickets for the dinner-meeting may be purchased from any Republican committeeman or party worker for 75 cents.

See Small For Improved Rail Service

provement i: Cape May

held by city officials following a conference with J. > Warren Lawson, general freight and passenger agent of the Penn- ■ sylvania-Reading Seashore Line*. . ■ Conferring with Mayor T. Mfl- 1 let Hand, of Cape -May, on Mon- • day, Lawson could not promise • improved service or revised schedules. At the session, the railroad representative contended that while rail traffic between Cape May and Philadelphia has shown very substantial increases in recent months it is, insufficient to

warrant additional trains.

Lawson indicated, however, that should the traffic increase continue, it might be possible to add more trains to the Cape May schedule if rolling stock is avail-

able.

TRAFFIC RISING Traffic figures for the Cape May branch of the PennsylvaniaReading Seashore Lines show marked increases, making the current year the best from the railroad’s standpoint for the last two decades. Both passenger and freight traffic has soared as a result of war-time activities in the Cape May area. At Monday’s conference, Mayor Hand followed up his recent demand for improved fail service

uie to provide more convenient’ times of /departure and arrival for local travelers. » CONSIDER REVISION Lawson indicated that there i» but slight hope for revision of the winter schedule, contending that the present early daparture time—6:39 a. m.—is for the convenience of a sizeable group of regular .commuters, who must be in Philadelphia before 9 o’clock. The Mayor pointed out that the number of commuters is proportionately small. Mr. Lawson said, however, that the revision of the schedule would be considered by rail company officials. Only bright spot of the conference was an indication that company officials are considering some improvement for the Cape May railroad station. While building restrictions make a new building impossible at present, he said that cordpany officials have plans for general improvement of the building under advisement.

Tizard Taken To Hospital Monday Painfully injured when he was struck by an automobile on Washington street last Tuesday night. Richard Tizard, 80, of 822 Washington street, was removed to the Atlantic City Hospital in the American Legion ambulance Monday. Mr. Tizard was struck after alighting fiJBm the car of George Batten, a neighbor, with whom he had been riding. He was struck by a car owned by William F. Hickey, of Wildwood, and driveft by Andrew Melchiorre, of North Wildwood. The accident occurred at 9:45. Police said the Hickey car was traveling with parking lights lit and that visibility was ' poor at the scene of the accident. Police took no action pending the outcome of-. Mr. Tizard’s in-

juries.

Worker Injured On Project Near Here^ .' Severely injured when struck by a guide hammer, Edward Jordon, 24, of Delaware City, Del., is in a critical condition at the Shore Memorial Hospital, Somers Point. Jordon, who reported for work week ago on a nearby project, stained the injury Monday ternoon while at work. -He

FourTax Appeals Here Granted By Board COURT HOUSE — Only four Cape May tax appeals have been granted by the Cape May County Board of Taxation, Edward L. Rice, board secretary, revealed today. Total reductions allowed amounted to $8,100. Reductions were allowed • on building assessments appealed by Lorena C. Claghorn, Dr. Thomas Kelly, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Anna E. Kehr. Mrs. Claghorn was allowed s reduction from $3,900 to $3,700; Dr. Kelly from $2,900 to $2,500, the FDIC from $25,000 to $18,000 on the Odmden Trust Company building, and Mrs. Kehr from $4,500 to $4,000. Appellants whose appeals were rejected are Benjamin F. Janney. Home Owners Loan Corp., R. Ethel Bennett, Alexander B. Arthur, Ulysses D. Mercur, Salome V. Halloway,. Charlotte Briant, four FDIC properties, Lillian Frances Jones, George E. Lengert. Mrs. Elise C. Newbold, and Theresa R. Ashman.

Local Men Inducted As VFW Members

Three Cape May men, in varus branches of -the military scree, became 'members of the Peterson-Little Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a meeting of the post here last Thursday night. _ The three men. have seen foreign service the present war

emergency.

• They are Howard Joseph Riley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Riley, of 1199- Lafayette street; Lieutenant H. Virden Backman, of Jefferson street and Wenonah aveand William Baldwin, Jr.,

of 3*0 Decatur street.

Riley, who served on convoy dutv" in foreign waters, is now at-

v - —. _ . . . . tending yeoman school at New sustained the injury Monday af- London. Conn. Lieutenant Backternoon while at work. -He re- man. who served in Cristobal, ccived a possible skull fracture. Canal Zone, for some time, is After being treated by a local no-.- ‘-‘"tinned in Cape Mr.y; and physician, he was removed to the Rdf* ' who was stationed hospital in the American Legion nb Minesweeper, is now in

ambulance. M-

Republican Rally This Afternoon COURT HOUSE — Cape May County voters '(or the first time during the current campaign will meet the Republican, nominees at a rally this afternoon at the Wildwood Golf Club. With several hundriid citizens in attendance a pleasant afternoon will be spent. The meeting will be strictly informal, with candidates discussing conditions and problems generally with con- ' stituents attending the gathering. District leaders reported that surveys made his week indicated that; large majorities will be given all Republican candidates at the November 3 election. . U. S. Appeal Board Denies Draft Plea Local Board No. 2, in charge of administration of the Selective Service Act in the southern half of Cape May County, was again upheld this week Ahen the Presidential draft, appeal board sustained an original classification of a registrant. An appeal filed by John Wilson, of 413 W. Burk avenue, Wildwood, claiming deferment on grounds of dependency, was upheld by the district appeal board, which ruled that Wilson should be classified as a 3-A registrant. Carried to the Presidential appeal board in Washington bv the State Director of Selective Service, the appeal was denied, iind Wilson was qrdered classified as 1-A subject to immediate induction.

Schools Mark Flqg Allegiance Day Special opening exercises in ail Cape May High School home rooms were held yesterday tp mark the golden anniversary of the Pledge to the Flag. All high school students assembled in the school yard yesterday afternoon for special exercises: Yesterday was designated os "Pledge Allegiance to the Flag Day” in a proclamation issued recently by Governor Charles Edison, of New Jersey. The Governor asked that schools,* churches md civic organizationff arrange appropriate ceremonies for the occasion.