88th YEAR, No. 48

Cam May Wavc. Established 181 Stab or the Cape. Established 18«8. Cape May Stab ft Wave. Consolidated 1007

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

Dim-Out Rules Explained By Defense Chief ATLANTIC CITY -^"To clarify widespread misunderstanding resulting from the recent additions to dim-out regulations in force r New Jersey’s coastal area, Rex McCrosson, area administrator of the Office of Civilian Defense, on Tuesday issued terpretation of the new

tions..

At the same time, McCrosson called upon local defense councils to appoint a chairman in charge of artificial lighting to be :- charge of the lighting situation each community. McCrosson’s interpretation follows in part: “All lights or reflections there from with the exception of temal vehicular headlights lamps shall be shielded or uu■cured so that they will not be visible from the sea. If they cannot be shielded or obscured they shall be extinguished.

December 15 has been set as the deadline for strict compliance with the new stringent dim-out regulations issued recently by Army authorities. After that date, violators in the Cape May area will be prosecuted by local officials. That was the decision made by the local defense council at a meeting Tuesday evening in city hall. The new regulations became ^^ffocUve^^ember 20. "Oh streets, highways or wifhin areas where vehicular headlights are visible from the sea, vehicles shall operate with no more than two parking lights, each' "iiarkinp- light shall not exceed a maximum of . 250 -beam

candlepower.

“Parking lights generally provide less than this maximum of 250 beam candlepower. Normal rear lights, license plate lights and clearance lights are permitted. "Automobiles equipped with the older type headlights with builtin parking lamps, shall have the upper one-half of the lens obscured by opaque paint or other opaque material. Headlights not visible from sen must be dimmed out as provided in. Section 3. "All lights or reflections therefrom in stores, places of amusement, private and public buildtegs, residences, apartment housed hotels, industrial plants and .— Continued On Page Five -

18-Year-Olds To Register

For Draft

Youths bom between July 1, 1924 and January 1, 1925 will be registered for Selective Service between December 11 and December 31, officials of Local Board No. 2, in charge of conscription in this area, announced today. The registration will be diveded into four phases to facilitate the work. Registration centers will 1 open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Youths bom between July 1, 1921- and August 31, 1924 must, register between Friday, Decern-. I ber 11, and Thursday, December 17. ! Those born between September J, 1924 and October 31, 1924 must register between December ,0

and December 24.

Those bom between November j, 1924 and December 31, 1924 must register between December

26 and December 31.

Those bom on or after January 1, 1924 must register on the day they reach their 18th year. If the date occurs on Sunday or a holiday, they must register the

following day.

Board officials this week appealed for volunteer registrars to assist with the registration. _ Persons desiring to volunteer their services should contact the local board at its headquarters Cape May High School. Eighteen, nineteen and twenty-year-old registrants will make up ♦*’" bulk of the January call for local board. Board officals said call for next month is one ~ t he smallest it has had to fill for some time. In Cape May, youths will register at board headouarters in the high school building. In Wildwood, the registration center will be at the third ward fire house Pacific and Montgomery avenues; aT ?„ -- Court House, the center will be at the county nurse’s office m the new court building.

Jurors Drawn For December Term Of Court J COURT HOUSE — Panels of 1 grand and petit jurors were drawn .here last-Wednesday for the De-

0 f court, which opens

County Turns Sown Request For Funds COURT HOUSE — A request for the County" of Gape May to obtain easements preparatory to the removal of obstructions near runways at the Cape May County airport was rejected yesterday by the Board of Freeholders because of lack of funds. The request was submitted by the Civil Aeronautics Administra-

tion.

Freeholder Ralph T. Steverifc, of Cape May, director of revenue and finance, introduced a motion to inform the CAA that the county is unable to comply with the request because of lack of funds. He estimated that the easements would involve approximately 100 acres of land and would require an expenditure of

about 510,000.

"I feel that the county

Sailor Held After Attempted Attack Complaint made to citv police

shortly after 11 o’clock Saturday Right sent searchers looking for Toni Jons, a sailor attached to the local Naval Air Station. Jons

wanted for attempted rape,

robbery from the person and as-

sault and battery.

The chargesNmade verbally to police by a young married ’ woman, wife of another enlisted man, have not so far been backed up with a signed criminal complaint and unlil sucli action is stiB lht P ° lice art ‘ at a stan dThe sailor concerned in the charges was picked up by members of. the Naval Shore Patrol shortly thereafter and was immediately taken to the base and placed in the brig out of juris-

diction of local authorities.

Examination showed that the young woman was severely beaten and was suffering from Severe bruises. She will await the outcome of the Naval investigation

before signing charges.

IRVING FITCH

Veteran Cape May County surrogate will start his fifth fiveyear term on Monday, December 7; Mr. Fitch’s term expires on December 6 but because the date occurs on Sunday, his teduction will be postponed until the following day. Tfce oath will be administered by Judge Thomas G. Siddall at Cape May Court House.

Loveland Renamed To Head Polio Drive Prosecutor French B. Loveland, of Ocean City, has again been named chairman of Cape MayCounty for the 1943 drive against infantile paralysis, it was announced this week by Joseph F. Fitzgerald, state chairman of the ommittee for the Celebration of the President’s Birthday of the National Foundation for Infantile /analysis. This is the second drive under vir-time conditions. FitzGerald said that the county chapters have been geared to cooperate completely-- with military and production leaders. The theme of this year's campaign. the fifth, will keynote the importance of health to final

tory.

Icember te*— ^ ^ on December 8 at the county seat. The jury panels were drawn by Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, of Cape May, and Jury Commissioner Frank L. Hollingsead in the presence .of Acting Common j Pleas Judge Thomas G. -Siddall. The panel of grand jurors fol-

lows:

Harry Dibb, Marmora; William Godfrey, Palermo; Clayton Harris, Wildwood; Henry H. White, Cape May Court House; Esther Hamburg, Wildwood Crest; George Bush, Sea Isle City; George Chavanne, Clermont; J. William Morrison, Ocean City; George H. Kilmer, Wildwood; John Kinkade, Wildwood; William E. Camp, Cape May; Fred Wetzler, Stone Harbor; Elmer L. Cunard, Ocean City; William C. Heilman, Wildwood; Milton J. Grajek, Wildwood; Grace Mecray, Cape May; Dorothy Namyeth, Woodbine; Janet Vance, Cape May Court House. F. Mervyn Kent, Cape May; Elvin Komdoefer, Wildwood; Ralph B. Evans, Swainton; Margaret Hixon, Cape May Court House; Francis Meerwald, South Dennis; Theodore Bishop, Wildwood Crest; Clyde Brunnell, Wildwood; Katherine M. Brown, Cape May; Harold Barber, Wildwood Crest; C. Joseph Moyer. Ocean City; Leah R. Henry, Wildwood; Clifford L. Rubicam, Cape May Raymond Lewis, South Dennis, Viney H. Wilder, Cape May Court Houser John S. Laughlin, Stone Harbor; George Soeder, Sea Isle .City; Nelson Chester, Eldora. The panel of petit jurors fol-

lows-

City Plans To Buy Building For City Hall Plans to purchase the large building formerly occupied by the

Camden Trust Company at the 'comer of Washington and Ocean

streets for use ■ as a city hall r - * »• .

were disclosed Friday by the city !? of *>11 dwelling properties in Cape May and Cumbercommission with the passage of land Counties started this week in connection with the new rent ceiling an emergency resolution providing recently announced by the Office of Price Admini^H^ j * , f SSr h 10 ■‘""I'*' a™ Ron?D™ >•. Following several weeks of ne- L_„ ” the ” e y "dilation, which went into effect December 1 in the gotiations between city officials ^ f ^ aU dwellin ff ^ts are frozen at the March 1, 1942 figure

~ r ” an d landlords who charge mnr» tliow c .

Rent Ceiling Office Opens Here; Owners To Register Prices

Sailors’ Show At Base Successful

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been more then generous in this airport imject so far, but it is impossible to accede to this lat-

est request,” Stevens said.

Outdoor Christmas Lighting Banned

TRENTON — Outdoor Christ-, mas lighting is “out’’ for the

duration.

This edict, canceling a previous -ruling made several weeks ago that outside lighting of homes would be permitted on a modified scale, was issued Tuesday by Leonard Dreyfuss. state -director

of Civilian Defense.

In Memorandum 39. Dreyfuss set forth that the ruling.’ has been promulgated to conform to the m-W’ dim-out regulations issued by the Second Army Corps Command a _ few days ago. “Under these new regulations, it is virtually impossible to have outdoor Christmas lighting n'nd still comply with the Army’s or-

ders.

“We of the State Defense Council were hoping there would be no dimming of the Christmas spmt this year, but through General Terry’s order, the Army in-

Willson Graduates From Army School

Allen F. Willson, Jr., of Cape May, has been graduated from the Army Air Force technical school at Denver, Colo., it was

learned here this week.

Upon graduation. Private Will--on was transferred to Rapid City Army Air Base in South Dakota, where he is assigned to the

SSth Bombardment Group.

Willson was graduated from Cape May High School several years ago, and prior to his enlistment in the Army he attended Drexel Institute in Philadelphia.

Ralph Clayton, Marmora; Joseph Coates, West Wildwood; William H. Cannon, Jr., Marmora Carolyn Taylor, Cold Spring; Janette' Miller, DennisvQle; HarWhilden, Wildwood; William i. Fox, Stone Harbor; Josephine Mace, North Wildwood; Elizabeth J. Hirl, Wildwood; Mae Humber, Wildwood; Richard W. French, Ocean City; William Snyder, Ocean City; Helen Booth, Ocean City; Grace May, Cape May Court House; Laura Gilbert, Cape May; Herbert Wilks, Ocean City; Monroe Bowen, Mayville; Henry Hassiepen, Goshen; Myrtle L.’Olson, Wildwood; Marie Gerow, Cape May Point; Oliver C. Bright, Wildwood; Ethel West, Ocean City; Adella Mae Douglass, Cape

Canal Project Not To Halt Route 4 Traffic

Assurance that traffic to and from Cape May on the main Seashore Road will not be interrupted by the Cape May County canal project was received late last i ' veek b y- Senator I. Grant Scott I from engineers in charge of the

canal project.

metedy 8P Ano in renidri 1 * 0f tUncf i l11 meetin < f Frid^thaAeTad’ meiCMiy -inn rolhckipg comedy i assured that the dredge would Naral S ^ ft «-J UeS th ?y n ' K . ht at lh ''i n , 0t cut through Routed until Sd rte,. r en tht ‘ n ‘‘ wly oV,ran - ,he drawbridge which will carry Z ,^ T » , :. G . r0 ? P "The ! traffic ovr the waterway has in! 1 o«5 Sh °" ! M “ for ‘' 8 <> 0 . applaud- ; been completed sufficiently to B . nd the!r ffuests - ! carr - v automobiles. V t0 re™e of f^ he fi r t, L mC a s , Ui "" The City commission reccnUy K 1 bridge was finished

Former Local Boy In Crew Of Boise Here To Visit Parents

Richard Hunnewell, 21, a ship’s I cook (third class) USN, aboard! the l. S. S. Boise, battered vie- I tor of one of the war's outstand-

Continued On Page Four SI2,376 In Yule Savings Released Falling slightly behind last

year’s total, Christmas Club savings in Cape May this year amount to 512,376, it was announced this week by officers of the Merchants National . Bank

Last year’s total was 514,000. Checks for the Christmas sav-

ings were distributed Monday and Tuesday to the local depositors who - had been members of the Cape May bank’s Christmas sav-

ing fund.

A total of 5145,000 was distributed during the last week to approximately 2.000 Christmas Club members throughout Cape May County. Last year’s county total amounted to 5139,000, a peajc figure since pre-depression days. A tabulation of totals in var)us countv banks follows: Ocean City National Bank, 530,200; Marine National Bank, Wildwood, S24.P09; Union Bank, Wildwood. 515,0.00; Wildwood Trust Company. 510,000; First National Bank of Cape Ma\ Court House, 510,000; Merchants National. Cape May, 512,376; .Woodbine National Bank. 57,000. Release 1 of the savings at the ..atse.t of the greatest shopping season of the year is giving added impetus to purchases in local businesses throughout the county.

inrinrcii Cliy oniClSlS

and representatives of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the federal agency which owns the building, the commission announced that’ its bid for the structure had been accepted, but the formal contracts had not been

signed. ,

Under present plans, the city hall offices will be moved into the building during the early part of

January.

Offices of the local rationing board, now located on the second fioor of the city hall, may be moved to the first floor and leased from the city by tfee Office of Price Administration, it was ex-

plained.

The shift will provide more adequate quarters for both municipal offices and the rationing board, officials pointed out The building has been vacant for nearly a year since the discontinuance of the- Cape May branch of the Camden Trust Com-

pany.

City officials withheld further comment on the purchase pending completion of the agreements, ex-' cept to say that the deal would be of immense benefit to the city, and represented a “very good bargain for the community’’.

‘vi.La are irozen at the March 1, 1942 figure

p™ “it: li * b1 ' ^

Offices were opened Tuesday in Millville and Cape May and smaller registration offices will be opened later in various cities and towns throughout the two coun-

ties.

The Cape May office is in the assembly room of the Star of the Sea Church, Washington and Ocean streets. The Millville office is on the second floor of 27 North High street, over the Bond grocery. Entrance to the local offices is from Lafayette street. Two different registration forms are being used, one for houses and apartments, where the maximum rent will be that charged March 1, and the other for hotels, rooming houses, boarding houses, trailer camps and other units catering to transient trade, whtre the celling rent is the highest

13 Cases Listed For Winter Court Term COURT HOUSE — Thirteen cases are listed for the December court term in Cape May County which is scheduled to open on Tuesday. Nine of the cases

are relisted.

Relisted cases follow: J. Frankhn Moore and William Troutt vs. Evans G. Slaughter, et als., t/a Wildwood Press, Inc. and Evans G. Slaughter, et als., individually,

jointly and severslle-

Seven Named As Tire Inspectors For Areg Tire inspection stations to handle the periodic inspections which are mandatory under mileage rationing have been designated by the local ration board covering the southern mainland sec-

tion of Cape May County.

Harry Ix-hman, of 213 Decatur street, has "been named chief in-

spector \for ''the district.

Other official inspection stations -re Hickey’s Garage, Robert Beare at Commercial Garage, Caesar Kabalan, all in Cape May, Augustus Swain in Erma, E. H. Troxel and Harry Murray in

Villas.

Each inspector will have approximately 360 automobiles under his jurisdiction. Motorists are required to have their tires inspected periodically and receive I certifications from the official

inspectors.

ei ais., individually,

jointly and severally; Commercial Garage, Inc. vs. Cape May Transfer, Inc.; 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; Lester Meyers vs. William Kline, Theodore Pattrone and Coca-Cola Bottling Co., Atlantic City, jointly, severally and in the alternative; A. Gregory Ogden vs. Frances L. Gormley, et als.; Mary Hartford ■vs. Aldine Estates, a corporation of New Jersey; Jerry Church

Naum S. Kahn.

Supreme Court issues include Mark Gordon, et al. vs. Grace Oil Co. anil Mabel Anderson vs. George E. LeStourgeon t/a Le-

Stourgeon s Bakery.

The only Common Pleas ’Court issue is the case of David L. Kirk vs. John Bartleson, and the only Common Pleas appeal is that of Everett Drown vs. Atlantic

Refining Company.

— i cij l is me .„ rpnt received during the 30-perio

| prior to M '

— -o March 1.

The Cape May office will 1m

nUi t-* ■

volunteer registrar

Officials urged all registrants i file their individual reports :

quickly as possible.

Registration for the two ty,. of units will he held simult; .

Gruenberg announced, i

There is only one type of si juation where a landlord may no charge more than the March rent,’ Gruenberg stated. “Thi I8 i . w ” ere tbe landlord has con pleted a major capital improvi ment between March 1 and D«

cember 1.

In_ such a case the maximur rent is the first rent charged fil ter completion of the improve ment, or if he could not rais the rent then because of a lease the first charged after the ex

piration of the lease.

“A mejor capital improvemenl - defined by OPA. means a per manent improvement which ha definitely increased the renta Continued On Page Four -

Three County Girls At 4-H Congress NEW BRUNSWICK — Three

Cape May County girls were among 15 New Jersey 4-H Club hoys and girls who are attending thi National 4-H Club Congress which opened in Chicago on Sunday. The congress, which closes today, was devoted to a discussion of ways in which youth of the nation can make a greater

contribution to the war effort.

_ Myrtle . A fflcbach, of Cape Mav Court House, with a strong record in food preparation, and Annie Costande and Barbara Springer both of Court House, who compose New Jersey’s dairy foods demonstration team, are attending

the congress.

Miss Costande arid Miss Springy Placed second in the dairy food demonstration competition at the Co ingress . this week." They competed against 26 other teams from all sections of the country. Each of the county girls will .-■reive a 5100 scholarship given by \he Kraft Cheese Co.

On the Boise for nearly three | — wwaaa www -- | Starte( | At Sch00 |

Refresher Courses

Lieutenant Needles At Oklahoma Field

y "“ rli uuistana-' •; j —-p **—••cv>cii was us-

ing Naval engagements, visited i SItrn , t0 the shi P shortly after

Cape May this week while on a com P ,e,ln ff bis boot training. 48-hour leave from his.ship which ; During the historic battle

is at Philadelphia for repairs. i the south Pacific, Hunnewell was 5b* ’ j Wh ,°Jj f Ved - Il ? re dur -i a Ml ,s battlp station, transferring’ ing 1936 and 193<, visited his shells to the huge guns. The onlv parents. Mr and Mrs. Charles |'njury he sustained in the battle HunneweH, of 1251 Lafayette w ?s a bruised thumbnail and street. He expecte to return to i minor scratches incurred when a

Cape May on December .10 for a shell pinched his hand Reticent about his experiences ! tober Tl, the^youthful^sailor said nav V'?«r ter in if ction ^s so^t teat he and

ahich the Boise sank six Japanese his fellcrew member W bb

. thrill™ 27-miniit* tim, to b. * d “

ell on Tnesnnv tnld T-Lb t>«: . .

c-iiiji.-, in a m „ _.

battle, Hunnewell on Tuesday told a Ster and Wave reporter ‘

y. • = “iui-1, -.lie -nrmy in- -

dicates that it has good reason i. ‘" lar .. * ;—- --i-— — for asking us to comply with its jdLwLh 100 .^ usy 40 be seared”

"Wt to contoiorf in the nei

dim-but rules,” Dre\-fuss ex-,- Heof seeing a number of

2^1 to,. JrSSSB r- - -

“e uigubenea.

The Boise was at Manila at the outbreak of the war, and was on convoy duty in the Pacific for pearly six months before its put-

slanding engagement.

“Thi best thing about being

door (

Refresher courses to give Cape ■May High School • juniors and seniors an opportunity to review work done in lower grades before graduation have oeen inaugurated. Dr E. E. Pickard, city school superintendent, disclosed • •

week.

A refresher course in mathematics has been introduced as a required subject for seniors. The mathematics class is taught during the heme room guidance per-

iod one .hqur weekly.

For juniors, required refresher coursra in spelling and fundamentals of English are being given. Dr. Pickard said the courses were introduced ’following a criticism from Army and Navy authorities that many high school graduates have apparently forgotten the fundamentals of mathematics, English and spelling by the time

WILL ROGERS FIELD, OKLA —Second Lieutenant James W. Needles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Needles, Cape May, reported to this Army air force bombardment base November 12, the - War Department has an-

nounced. -

He received his commission at - J e Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. on June 30. Lieutenant Needles graduated -from Cape May High School in 1938 ai.d received his B. S. degree in chemical engineering in 1942. “

Ocean City Chief To

Head War Police OCEAN CITY — Robert J.

Lackey, Ocean City police chief, on Saturday was designated by Colonel Charles H. Schoeffel, superintendent of State Police, to be Cape May County coordinator . Governor Edison's police war , .plan, designed to deal with any

" 1t ype of war emergency.

Lackey will head a county organization including, not only municipal police heads but also railroad and industrial police, war veterans, firemen, auxiliary, police and firemen and others who might be called upon in handling mass evacuation, sabotage or other incidents. Plans were outlined last week at a conference in Cape May Court House called by Prose-

cutor French B. Loveland.

Contractor Killed In

Fail From House

Charles. S. Newell, 64, of 140 Pearl avenue, West Cape May, was killed Tuesday afternoon when he fell from a building which he and a crew of workmen

were-demolishing. 1 ■ *. ' . ~I~ *** Thr accidrat occurred while Mr. mtOrOSt lU ROSdS Newell was working on the Essen uvatio

property at the corner of Jefferson street anil Kerncy avenue, - city owned building, which he w«*., razing under a contract recently

rarded.

He was pronounced dead upon arrival at the office of Dr. A. C. Moon where he was rushed for emergency treatment. Funeral services were held Friday and interment, under the direction of Earl L. Hollinvsead, mortician, was maije in Tabernacle\Cemetery, Erma. Mr. 'Newell is survived by his wjfe. Mrs. Bessie Alexander Newell, and a daughter, Mrs. Rosa Floyd, of Camden.

Signal Broken, City Delays Alert Test The strictly local blackout test scheduled for last week, was post poned by the local defense cound after failure of the dty fire sigj’ is U8ed to signal alerti

and blackouts.

Planned to test the efficiency — a new system of calling volunteers to their posts, the Cape Mai blackout, which was to have beer held between November 22 and November 28. was postponed by Police-Chief John J. Spencer, Jr_ chairmen of the defense counciL The city fire signal went out of commission Tuesday afternoon. i-u 8 j or ^ crs ior re Pair parts were filled this week to put the fire

whistle m commission.

The test alert will be held bereen today and December 10. County To Relinquish

COURT HOUSE —- The Boar, of Freeholders yesterday move to vacate its rights in count’ roads within the right-of-way fo: the Cape May County canal in ac corrlance with a request froir

Army engineers.

The board by resolution movec to vacate its interests in section! of the Bayshore Road, Shunpike New England Road and Old Seashore Road, which are bisectee

by the canal,

A public hearing on the vacation proceedings will be held by the board on December 30 at 2 p.m. at which time any interested

persons may be heard.

The land affected is all within ..ie canal right-of-way, board

members said.

High School Show To Be Presented Here

“Dying to Live”, an amusing ~ ", comedy, will be presented in the Tn QlflVPI* auditorium of Cape May High 1 ** 013)101

School on Thursday and Fridav, December 10 and 11, as a benefit for the. school activities fund.

Court Grants Parole

USD CLUB OBSERVES FIRST ANNIVERSARY

t , Ca J? e M a >'’? USO Club marked Love; 'Mina^Royston.^Ludi

the first anniversary of its exist- k '—• ence last nieht at an elaborate ceremony which was" highlighted by an outstanding entertainment

program.

.4 lar 5 e nnmber of service men, jack Koseman; Montrose Lamrof the < d.!h*^;« f ^ d fa and ^ eStS|d °, n ’ Jark Ka, >bn; Saroldi Yuof the club attended the event. taka, Mitchell Brooks.

The play will start

The cast of characters follows: Samson Winlock, Charies Week-

man; Olivia Winlock, Eleanor

Conway: Silvia WinThipk, Jerry Mina Royston, Lucille Hu- -- • Melva Jones, Betty Lou Hughes; Estelle Gay, Joan Stanzell; Mrs.. Dillon Dilworth. Marjorie Oliver; Mrs. Naomi Estelle, Loiraine Hamperian; Chick Breen Jack Roseman; Montrose Lang

TRENTON — A former Tucks hoe CCC worker who five year ago was sentenced to serve 1. to 20 years in state prison fo murder, was granted a parole las week by the State Court of Par

aonrf.

John Handy, colored, was sen tenced on July 14. 1937, after 1m had fatally stabbed another col enroUee at the Tuckahw CCC camp. He was transferred t< Rahway on December 30, 1937. The court at its September tern considered 466 applications foi parole, 34 for full pardons, anc 20 for restoration of citizenship.