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88th YEAR, No. 46

Cam May Wav*, established 1854. Stab of the Cafe. Established 1888. Cafe May Stas a Wave. Consolidated 1907.

Cape Officials At Conference In New York Municipal officials of CajK: May and other county communities are attending the annual conference of the New Jertjy League of Municipalities at the Hotel Pennsylvaniaw New York City, today and

tomorrow.

The general session opened at

10 o’clock this morning under the chairmanship of Walter B. Woolley, president of the league. MV. Woolley is collector and treasur-

er of Woodbury. * Municipalities' parts in the war

effort will be the keynote of the conference. Principal speakers at the opening session are Maury Maverick, chief of the Bureau of Governmental Requirements, War Production Board, who is speaking on “What Local Officials Can Do to Help Win the War’’; and Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Osborne, of the Inspection Session, Civilian Protection Branch, Office of Civilian Defense, Washington, who is speaking on "Municipal Responsi-

bility for Civilian Defense". Other speakers this morning

are Carl H. Chatters, executive director of the Municipal Finance Officers’ Association of the United States and Canada, and Frank Bane, executive director of the

Council of State Governments. This afternoon there will be

group meetings for building inspectors, assessors, planning boards, municipal engineers, municipal c|erks, receivers and tax collectors, finance officers, overseers of the poor, and municipal

attorneys.

Tomorrow’s sessions will also consider important municipal problems, and a number of outstanding speakers arc scheduled to address the officials at the

CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,-1942

DELIVERED BY MAIL IN THE U.S.A. POSTAGE PREPAID—S1.SO A YEAR

FIVE CENTS

Ten-shun! Motor Corps On Review

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Shown above is part of the Motor Corps of the Cape May Red Cross Branch, one of the first uniformed corps in the county. The new corps station wagon is shown in the background. From left to right, corps members are Mrs. Amelia Ferill, Mrs. Julia McNuIta, Mrs. Midge Steger, Mrs. H. B. Mecleary, county chairman of Red Cross Volunteer Special Services, Mrs. Gleneita Hand, Mrs. Helyne Walter, Miss Ruth

Hines and MA. Virginia Harrison.

Motor Corps Active In Local War Work, Members Training

Discussion leaders at tomorrow’ C ?ral session will be Frank e, executive director, .Council of State Governments; Mr. Chatters; Walter R. Darby, commissioner of the State Department of Local Government; Charles R. Erdman. mayor of Princeton and State Director of the New Jersey Municipal Aid Administration: Ambrose Fuller, legal consultant of the American Municipal Association; John C. Haicn. deputy director of the State Office of Civilian Defense; and Charles S. Rhyne, executive director of the

Municipal Law Officers.

League officers will be elected for the ensuing year at the conclusion of the general session.

port which i 'Totor Corps

ible, officers of the corps today issued a statement outlining the unit’s activities and purposes. “The Motor Corps members of the Cape May Branch of the American Red Cross wish to thank all who so willingly assisted in putting our station wagon on the road,” said Lieutenant Midge Steger and Adjutant Ruth Hines in the statement issued in behalf of the corps members. ‘“The members have worked hard to make this corps a success. Until the wagon was in use a majority of the volunteers used their own cars and provided their own gasoline and oil. “The station wagon is the property of the Cape May Branch of the American Red Cross and is under the supervision of #Mrs. William C. Mecray, branch chairman of Volunteer Special Services, to be used for Red Cross

quarters. They continue having monthly meetings given to a review of standard and advanced first aid, also advanced emergency training, under the superrision of Miss Elizabeth Moran, R.N.,’’ the officers continued, the wagon can he converted t ambulance with stretcher and other equipment, we are having advanced work in the preparation and moving of stretcher patients. “The members have already made use of the new county ambulance with patients to and from hospitals. Due to the scarcity of doctors and nurses it has been necessary for members in all cases to move patients to and from hospital rooms without as-

sistance.

Circuit Judge Confirmed. By State Senate TRENTON — Legislative ac-

tion on two judicial nominations.

g Cape May County was

taken on Monday by the New ’ Jersey Senate after both nominations had been pending for sev-

eral months.

Former State Senator Albert E. Buriing, of Camden County, was confinned to a Circuit Court judgeship for which he was nom-

inated last September.

Judge Burling will succeed Wilfred H. Jayne, of Lakewood, who served as Circuit Court judge for several years before resigning to accept an apppointment as a vice

chancellor. •

Burling was named

judgeship for a seven-year term at an annual salary of $16,000. Whether or not Judge Burli will be assigned to the Soi Jersey Circuit, composed of Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland Counties, which was served by Judge Jayne, could not be learned. It is possible that one of the other New Jersey Circuit Court judges might be shifted to this

district

It was felt likely that Burling would not be sworn in for a week or two, giving him an opportunity to complete his personal af-

fairs.

The nomination of Prosecutor “As French D° v eland, of Ocean

to art. M C° mmo n Pleas judge of

and Gap? May County, was reported out of committee *n Monday, but the nomination was not con-

firmed.

Several newspapers in the state erroneously reported that Loveland's appointment, made several months ago by Governor Edison, had been confirmed by the Senate, but the report was untrue. The committee’s favorable report is of no significance until Senator Scott confirms the appointment.

WILLIAM B. GILBERT

Veteran chief of the Cape May Volunteer Fire Company, who died Sunday night after a six weeks’ illness, will be buried at

1:30 this afternoon.

“The wagon is providing transportation for the dependents of onlisted men to and from the base dispensanr and is also meeting

work alone and driven only by . trains, offering transportation and qualified Motor Corps Volunteers, information to the armed forces; “The Corps members have giv- j giving motor service for J’roduc- ) their time to take the re- lion Corps work and transporting quired courses necessary to fur- home service workers,” Mrs. Stegnish themselves with the essen- er and Miss Hines concluded..

Questionnaires Sent To 18-19-Year-Olds Questionnaires were mailed yesterday to mo Selective Service registrants 18 and 19 years of Ege in the southern section of Cape May County as a preliminary step preparatory to inducting them into the Army under the new reduced age legislation. Returnable by November 28, the questionnaires will be classified by Local Board No. 2, in efinrtee of Selective Service administration in this area, on November 30, and, according to presefit plans, the young registrants will be available for induction

early in January.

While declining to make a statement concerning the use of 18 and 19-year-old registrants to fill the January draft call, officisds of the local board indicated

that the youths will be used to r* T s* e* nil u,, u, fa,. Fix Township-Crest Btfie the date of culling married ' m • » •

w Boundary Lines

available, many of the youths in- TRENTON —- The New Jersey

registration Senate on Monday passed a bill \arious introduced by Senator George H. forces, Stknger, of Cumberland County,

for Senate President I. Grant

Scott, of

Warns Farmers To Aid Draft Boards COURT HOUSE — Cape May-

County dairy, livestock, and poultry formers and farm workers were urged to file with local Selective Service boards pertinent information about their occupa-

tional status.

Citing a recent War Manpower Commission directive that dairy, livestock and' poultry farm work--rs who arc deferred on grounds of dependency should be classified in Group 3B, Henry H. White, county farm agent, said it is important for such workers to inform their local boards of their reasons for occupational defer-

menL

Workers on farms large enough to qualify and who consider themselves eligible for 3-B classification should submit the information to local boards, which do not •# in - their files information to the occupational status of registrants deferred for-depend-

ency.

eluded ... ... .. have already enlisted

branches of the armed „, and a large parrentage of others

e planning to enlist before they

e drafted, it was said. ~r—: Volunteers Fight Woodland Blaze

COURT HOUSE — One hun- , dred volunteer fire fighters battled a forest fire near here Sunday as the blaze raged through woodlands for six hours. Four hundred acres were burned over and a number of homes were

threatened.

Scene of the blaze was on the Court House-South Dennis Road. Firemen frqm here and Ocean View aided the volunteers. The fire apparatus stood by many homes which were in the path of the conflagration. Fanned by a brisk wind, the flames spread to the woodland areas toward Goshen. Allison Ludlam, of Swainton, section fire Warden in this area, ■aid. the fire was the worst in Cape May County in five years. Many of the homeowners, whose properties were threatened, removed part pf their belongings.

. Cape May, fixing the

boundary line of WildWood Crest and Lower Township in accordance with an agreement reached

by the municipalities.

\ The action was taken to avoid th>~^ossibility of future conflict between the two municipalities over the boundary lines. The agreement between Lower Township and Wildwood Crest was an outgrowth of a boundary line disput which has been in litigation more than a year between the township and the chy of Wild-

wood.

Senator Slangor also introducJ ‘ resolution, adopted in both

Municipalities Urge Repeal Of Tax Law TRENTON -— Municipalities i virtually every section of the state" have gone on' record as favoring repeal of a 1936 tax law which has been interpreted to exempt social, golf and other clubs from taxation, the State Taxpayers’ Asosciation reported on Thurs-

day.

Cape May was.among the first New Jersey municipalities to express its opposition to the wider range of exemptions. The association, joining in eal movement initiated by the lew Jersey, Tax Exemption Repeal Committee, announced declarations contained in resolutions of municipal governing bodies, advocating repeal. Local governing bodies have declared that exemptions permitted under the statute “will result inevitably in an Increase in local, county and school taxes." The association has received protests from municipalities in Cape "May, Gloucester, Mercer, Hunterdon, Monmouth, Morris, Somerset, Hudson, Bergen, Union, Essex and Warren Counties. The Boards oT Freeholders ip Camden, Mercer and Middlesex Counties have also acted on the question.

Local Selectees Given Send-Off

Selectees from Cape May and this immediate vicinity were given a rousing send-off early yesterday morning when they departed by train for - Fort Dix where they immediately began

five sen-ice in the Army.

The Cape May High School band, city firemen and a large group of friends and relatives were at the railroad station to bid farewell to the departing men. Men who lett-from Cape May included Edward J. C. Bruhn, John Edward Burns, Frank Chew. Frank Entrikin. Robert Leonard Green, Kennedy Milton McKclvey, Warren O’Neill and Robert Boyer Woodson, all of Cape May: Edward Leslie Morton. Russell Leroy Stanford, of West Cape May; William Cassels Bell, Cape May Point; George Raymond Jackson, Erma; and John Lewis Brennan and William Joseph

Monaghan, Villas..

Men from other southern Cape May County communities bbardod the train at stations nearer

thejr homes.

The group went directly to Camden, transferred to buses and were taken to Fort Dix where they were immediately processed at the reception center.

U)ST — New Stetson Hat, bearlag initials CAJ on inside. Friday evening on Beach Art. Reward if returned to owner 1015 Beach Are, Cape May. 11-18-tf-caj

Major Layer Back

From England

CAPE MAY POINT — Major Wplrer F. Layer, of the U. S. Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Ml's. Frank L. Layer, of Pearl and Brainard avenues, Cape May Point, has just returned from England and has been spending a mart time here with his parents. Layer, who spent many summers at the Point, is a graduate of Pennsylvania Military College, where he received his commission. He is now spending some time with his wife and son Bobby at their home in Ridlcv Park, Pa.

County on iU 250th anniversary, mg the trip in 23 hours.

Veteran Fire Chief Succumbs At 75 William B. Gilbert, chief of the

Cape May Volunteer FSre Company for 28 years and a member of the organization for 53 years, died Sunday night at his home, 417 Washington street, six weeks after he had been stricken with

a heart attack. He was 75. One of the oldest New Jersey

firemen in point of service, Chief Gilbert was vice president of the New Jersey Firemen's Association,- representing. Cape May County, vice president of the Cape May County Firemen's Association, and had been president of the Cape May Townsend Club for

n number of years.

Survivintr are his widow, Mrs Laura H. Gilbert, and a son, Ashton, a Cape May policeman. Funeral services will be, held this afternoon at 1:30 at the Hollingsead Funeral Home. The Rev. Samuel Blair, pastor of the First Methodist Church, will officiate. Masonic services were held last evening before the viewing. Chi^f Gilbert was a member of the Cape Island Lodge. F. and A. M., and had been active in civic and fraternal work in Cape May

for many years.

Born in Philadelphia. Mr. Gilbert was brought to Cape May in his infancy, and had made his home here continuously. He was

a painter.

He had been a member of Company H, 6th Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, for a number of years while that organization was active in Cape May. He served as a corporal in the National Guard unit.

Defense Council To Inaugurate Revised System In an effort to iron out one of the outstanding difficulties encountered in getting the emergency workers to their posts dure air Alerts, the CivilUn Uelense Council has been considering an alert signal to be sounded on the receipt of the initial warning that an air raid c blackout is about to take place. Orders have been issued by Chairman Spencer, of the Local Defense Council, that on the re~eipt of the initial yellow signal one long blast followed by one short blast of the fire whistle, and repeated three times, is to be given. This will be the signal for all members of emergency units such as the police reserve, fire auxiliary, air raid wardens, first .aid workers and all others to report at once to their stations to be on the job when the

air raid signal sounds.

It is figured that this initial alert signal will do away with the overloading of telephone lines and the calling of separate workers in the defense set-up as has been attemped in the past, thus giving the emergency operators in the control room at city hall more ime to concentrate on the more

vital calls. j

Dim-Out Rules Tightened For Coastal Areas NEW YORK — The Army ordered stricter dim-out regulations Sunday for coastal areas of New Jersey, New York and Delaware in a broadening of the quasiblackout in this heavily industrialized region to provide better protection against air attack. Major General Thomas A. Terry, commanding the Second Service Command, issued- new directives effective Friday replacing dim-out orders published by file Army June 1 and indicated the curtailed area might be extended

farther inland.

The original regulations were issued to screen the night glare which made silhouetted ships at “a easy targets for enemy sub-

arines.

A major addition to the regula- . fions was one directing permanent extinction of any lights visible from out-of-doors which could nrt be put out or blacked out within five minutes of a blackout

signal.

Railroad, elevated, street car,

ferr y lights were ordered

shielded to the extent that no light shows above the horizontal and dimmed so that the light does not exceed two foot candles at any point three feet from the

This feature, if successful, will I outside of the carriers. d ° ^e necessity The new regulations also di- - 0 , f . em * r ^ ncy 8rronps rected Permanent shielding of all

‘ ‘ ‘ exterior lights used

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Cape Man Graduates From Navy School JACKSONVILLE, FLA — Richard Thomas Rainey, son of Mrs. Virginia B. Ridgway, of Cape May, recently graduated from the Aviation Machinist’s Mate School and was promoted to Aviation Machinist’s Mate, 3d class rating. Rainey enlisted in the Navy February 11, 1942, and was sent to Newport. R. I. for indoctrination training before being transferred to the Jacksonville

station.

Having completed an intensive course in airplane engines, Rainey is now a qualified aircraft mechanic and will probably be assigned to a Naval air unit for further duty.

Saturday Final Day

For Registration

Motorists in this vicinity will nave their final opportunity. to register for mileage rationing on Saturday, November 21, between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., it was announced this week. Registration will take place at Cape May High School and at schools

throughout the county.

travelling in the blackout to get

to their stations.

On some evening between Sunday, November 22, and November 28 an alert signal will be sounded and this will be followed shortly Continued On Page Four

Mail Early, Avoid Rush, Miller Urges Repeating his request that residents of this area mail their Christmas packages early, Postmaster Lemuel E. Miller, Jr., of Cape May, this week said the local postoffice is typical of many throughout the nation which are unable to obtain sufficient experienced help to handle the peak-

season loads.

“With normal business considerably ahead of that for a comparable period of last year and with many experienced postal ployees unavailable because the war or defense industry demands, it is imperative that the public cooperate by mailing their Christmas gifts earlier than ever this year," the Postmaster said. “Locally, with the increase resulting from the influx of service

avoided and the ehtire flow of mail can be benefited if the public will heed the appeals to mail their Christmas packages and cards before the peak of the holiday rush," Mr. Miller continued.

• r. — open' areas, parking lots, filling Nations, playgrounds and amusement areas so that no light world be visible at an angle less than 45 degrees below the horizontcl. General Terry said that the dim-out regulations “not only are here to stay for the duration, Lut also both the Navy and Army authonties are attaching increasing importance to their enforce-

ment."

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Coffee Registration Set For Nov. 23-25 NEWARK — Institutional u« ers of coffee, such as restaurants, luncheonettes and boarding hous-

During the three-day registra- j f* '? i]l , raster at rationing on last week, approximately 700 boar r^ * or coffee rationing on No-

tion last week, approximately you i , „„ v:~ ~ automobile owners registered fori mbcr 24 and ^ Thls was mileage rationing at the local 4 ?. nnounced >" csterda >" b >’ James school. Kerney, Jr., state director of the

m -c .l • j Office of Price Administration.

traniT ^ -°^ Ojc rcgjs- Kemey emphasized that insfituc , . , I wholesalers will not be required Bchool teachers and members of to do so. Consumers will simply tne Ked Cross staff assistance : use stamp number 27 in their ^ mt , handled the registration last ! sugar ration books to purchase a

•gistrars pound of roasted coffee betw

week and will act :

i Saturday.

^ November 29 and January 3.

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NOTICE

ALL BILLS AGAINST THE CITY OF CAPE MAY MUST BE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK BY DECEMBER 15, 1942. BILLS RECEIVED AFTER THAT TIME CANNOT BE PAID.

Miss Sjoquist Will Become WAVE Soon

Moderate Christmas Lighting To Be Permitted, OCD Says

Orders regulating Christmas lighting were received this week by the local Defense Council,, Chairman John J. Spencer, Jr. an- i

fice 6f Civilian Defense.

The Christmas lighting orders

follow:

"Christmas lighting is permissible, providing it is not done ostentatiously and providing it conforms to the regular lighting regulations. ■'Artificial Christmas lighting any exterior decorations on streets or highways is ‘permissible only if there is no increase in wattage and no concentration of

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“Artificial lighting on any exterior decorations on commercial or industrid establishments or their premises is only permissible

, , .i>*there is no increase in wattage Sjoquist is the second and no concentration of light, southern Cape May County girl “Artificial lighting may be in zh* WAVES. The: used on Christmas trees or other first is Miss Zelda Carof, of Wdd-[decorations in windows, doorwood, who began her training last ways or exteriors of residences

- m «-—provided:

hite, clear, inside frosted daylight blue lamps are used.

y®, orders t.mc rf.°’ 1 o5°"i', n u t, “ out of the Second Corps Area of| spa< . e 2 o by 20 feet.

& ^""f.lSroui* _th, ra te of- -It, other words, .tor, li s htiu S

for Christmas must conform to

FISHING CREEK — Miss Vera Sjoquist. who has joined WAVES,- is spending six weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arvid Sjoquist at Wildwood. She will leave on December 12 for Iowa where she will receive

L 'b training.

iss Sjoquist was graduated from Cape May High School in "9. She is well known here and Lower Township, where her family resided for some time, before moving to Wildwood. Her father is a retired Navy

man.

week in Massachusetts.

Kiwanis Club Elects Officers For Year John J. Spencer, Jr., Cape May police chief and chairman of the local defense council, was elected president of the Cape May Kiwanis Club at the organization’s weekly meeting last night. Spencer succeeds Clarence D. Fisher as bead of the club. Other officers named at last night’s meeting are Herbert C. Hams, vice president and Guy E.

RiVy, treasurer.

Charles B. Shields and Albert l. Little were elected to the board of directors for three year terms. Mrs. Herbert F. Campbell of Cape May Court House, was guest of honor at last night’s meeting when she introduced the new song, written by Mrs. Campbell and arranged by Mrs. Grace L. Stevens, “Down on the Jersey

Shore’!..

A club attendance contest will start on November 25 and will continue for six weeks, it was decided at a meeting of the Membership and Classification and Attendance Committees Monday

night.

A drive to increase club membership will be started soon. Gas Rations Cut To 3 Gallons By ORA WASHINGTON — Motorists throughout 16 eastern gas-ration-ed states will have their gasoline reduced effective November 22 while in Congress a drive has developed to postpone nationwide rationing of gasoline scheduled to start on December 1. The Office of Price Adpiinistraon announced Tuesday that lieginning November 22 the value of gasoline ration coupons in A books will lie reduced from four three gallons. Rationing is now effective in 17 eastern states, but one of those —West Virginia— was excepted from Tuesday’s order for the

present.

An official announcerfient said that other measures to curtail fuel oil consumption in non-war industries and for heating of certain types of buildings are now being drafted and will be an-

nounced soon.

Leon Henderson, OPA administrator, said the cut had been ordered because of the shortage on the east coast, intensified by mili-

the Army's recent .orders as to the amount of wattage to the square foot of window space. Out-

side lighting, whether on store I tary requirements,

fronts or in front of private homes, must be such as will not

contribute materially to a sky| NOTICE

permissible; small bulbs may be used on trees, in front of door- 1 ways and small lights may be

used in windows.

“Conforming with Civilian Defense regulations, all such lights and all other lights must be extinguished when the last person I leaves the store or home during the hours from sunset to sunrise. Severe penalties have been provided for violation of these regulations and from now on will be placed in effect,” the regulations *

concluded.

Next week’s edition of The Star and Wave will be

published on Tuesday, No-

vember 24. in place of the regular Thursday edition, due to the conflict between the regular publication day Mid Thanksgiving Day. All news and advertising

copy for publication next week must be in The Star and Wave > office not later

than noon on Monday, No-

vember 23.