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Loveland Is Sworn In As County Judge COURT HOUSE — French B. Loveland, prosecutor of Cape May County for the last eight years, was sworn in Tuesday afternoon as Common Pleas Judge of this county. The induction ceremony was held in the court room at two o'clock before a large group of friends and fellow county emP County Clerk Stirling W. Cole administered the oath of office as Judge Loveland began the five year term to which he was appointed by Governor Charles Edison several months ago. Confirmation of Loveland's appointment to the judgeship came las*, week when the State Senate in a year-end session moved do confirm three appointmehte which had been standing for some time after having been made by the Governor. Judge Loveland will preside at his first court session today (Wednesday) when the weekly session of Common Pleas and Special Sessions Court is held

here.

The new judge tendered his resignation as prosecutor at a conference in Trenton on Monday at which time he conferred at length with Governor Edison. He received his commission as Common Pleas Judge at the conference and was inducted into office the following day. For years he has been one of the Democratic leaders of Cape May County, having -served as chairman of the Democratic county committee for one year. Pending the appointment and confirmation of a successor to Loyeland in the prosecutor's office, the office will be under the ' jurisdiction of Attorney General David T. Wilcntz, who is empowered to appoint either a Cape May County attorney or one of his own staff to act as prosecutor. Today will be the first court ■essior. in nearly two years that Cape May County has had its own Common Pleas judge on the bench. Since the expiration of the term of Judge Palmer M. Way in April, 1941, the bench has been filled by judges from Atlantic County serving on a per diem

New Navy Nurse

! 4 County Towns Act On Curfew; Others Pending Ordinances providing for curfew hours in several Cape May County municipalities have been adopted during the last week, while other communities either considered the possibility of a curfew or flatly rejected the proposal. North Wildwood and Wildwood Crest last week adopted ordinances fixing a curfew hour in an effort to curb juvenile delinquen-

cy.

The Wildwood city commission on Tuesday adopted a similar

measure.

The uniform action followed a recent conference of officials from the three municipalities, which _ was prompted by Prosecutor I French B. Loveland, who urged I ' all county communities to take

such steps.

The hour fixed in the measure

is 9:30 p-m. Children under 16

Tony Masella, of Cape May, wno . earg of roay not ^ on the began duty as a Naval Reserve ; street after that time unless they nurse at the Great Lakes Tram-1 arc accoln p an jed by a parent,

guardian or adult member of the

child’s immediate family. Woodbine borough council late

last week became the first inland community in Cape May County

to act on a curfew ordinance. Council voted to have a meas-

ure prepared for adoption at the

rxt meeting.

Mayor Joseph Levenson said the ordinance will restrict children under 16 years of age to their

homes after 9:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, Cape May officials are still considering the possibility of enacting a curfew ordinice similar to those of other

> nty CO’ :mtnities.

Ocean City, however, has

nounccd .that it has dropped plans

tiie adoption of a curfew law.

MARGE MASELLA

ing Station, Great Lakes, 111. Friday. A graduate of Cape May High School and of St. Francis Hospital Nursing School, Wilmington, Del., Miss Masella was recently commissioned in the Naval Reserve Nurses' Corps. Her brother, Thomas, also a Cape May High School graduate, is in the Army and is stationed at

Fort Hancock.

Judge Burling Gets Cuunty Assignment Judge Albert E. Burling, former State Seftaior representing Camden County, who was appointed to the New Jersey Cir.uit Court bench more than a month ago, last week was assigned to an In the Cape May and Atlantic circuits. The assignment was made by Chief Justice Thomas J. Brogan, of the State Superior Court. Judge Burling, in taking over the circuits, succeeds Judge Wilfred H. Jayne, of Lakewood, who w«s named vice chancellor. Judge Burling will be at Cape May 6 >utt House today (Wednesday) to confer with* members of the Cape May County bar about, the winter court term. In a telephone conversation with County Clerk Stirling W. Cole bn Friday, the new judge indicated that if the attorneys agreed and if there were sufficient cases to be tried, he would /itsignate Monday, January 4 as ' the opening day of the new court term and would instruct Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens to summon Ike jurors for that date.

Scrap Round-Up Nets 20 More Tons Here Cape May householders dug deeply into their discarded possessions last week and produced an estimated 20 tons of scrap metal and rubber to add to the 65 tons collected in the first major scrap collection drive several

months ago.

In the one-day scrap round-up Saturday, under the joint sponsorship of the local salvage < omnittee and the Cape May Kiwanis Club, a large pile of scrap, representing a wiue range oi household articles, tools and other discarded items, was collected and deposited at the salvage depot opposite city hall at the corner if Washington and Franklin

itrects.

■Chairman Charles A. Swain, head q>f the local salvage committee. .eKi mated that Saturday’s drive' netted approximately 40.000 ,iounds, although final figures A-ill not be available until the junk is moved for shipment to nd.i'strial centers. With a large corps of Kiwan•ans and salvage committee memers working throughout the day, ive trucks were kept busy all lay hauling the scrap donated by .)ape May citizens.

Rev. Hogg Named To Head Association The Rev. Wilbur E. Hogg, rector in charge of tfb Church of the Advent, was elected president of the Cape May, Ministerial Association at the organization's monthly meeting here Monday. Mr. Hogg succeeds the Rev. Robert D. Carrin, former pastor of the Cape Island Baptist Church, who became an Army chaplain shortly »fter organization of tht I local ministers and their ttended the meeting in house, and enjoyed n at the Batten Cottage ig a routine business meetwhich time plans for fu■tivities of the association were uiscuased by the members. The association welcomed the Rev. and Mrs. F. Paul Langhome to Cape May. Mr. Langhome is pastor of the Cape Island Baptist Church, at present.

RED CROSS WORKROOMS CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS The Red Cross offices and workrooms at 323 Decatur street will be closed Thursday and Friday. December 24 and 25, and December 31 and January 1. “ the convenience of those i those days, for the gs on Toes-

OUT Agent To Assist Owners Of Trucks. . Truck owners in this locality desiring assistance in preparing ODT applications for “T" gasoline rations may obtain aid on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 23, 29 and 30 when Mr. Scanlon, a representative of the Office of Defense Transportation, will be at the second floor of the Jackson Building, Wildwood, to answer questions about mileage rationing. Scanlon will be at the Jackin Building Office from 9 a. to 4 p. m. and from 6 to 8 n. to assist truck owners in filling out application forms and providinf information for vehicle <

SHIFT RENT OFFICE DURING HOLIDAYS With the parochial school closed for the Christmas holidays and heat shut off to conserve fuel, the Cape May rent registration office will be closed between December 23 and January 1, William D. Fairbanks, chief registrar, announced this week. During that period, persons desiring to register their rente under the compulsory registration of landlords may do so at Fairbanks' home, 218 North street, between 10 a.m. and 5 pjn, daily.

Motorists Rush To Beat Ban; Change Values WA6HJNGT0N — Effective at 12:01 a.m. Monday, the ban on gasoline sales in the east, ordered suddenly Friday morning by President Roosevelt, was lifted, and the value of “B” and “C” gasoline coupons was changed from lour to three gallons. Price Administrator^ Leon Henderson announced here Monday. The value of “A” gasoline coppons remains unchanged at three gal-

lons.

Retention of the present value of “A” coupons came as a surprise, for it was freely predicted that they might be cancelled completely or cut to one or two

gallons.

The Presidential order banning all gasoline sales from 12:01 p.m. Friday brought a last-minute buying rush to all local service

stations.

From the time the announcement was first made in Washington broadcasts early Friday morning, local motorists jammed service stations to fill up their tanks before the ban became ef-

fective.

Sales continued briskly at all local stations until mid-aftemoon when local and state police, acting at the request ot rationing authorities, served notice on all station operators that sales must cease except in cases of emergency and to holders of “T"

coupons.

The reduction in the value of 1" and “C" coupons was ordered, Administrator Henderson said, because of the “acute existing petroleum supply situation” and because of a contemplated further cut in eastern consumption to 331,000 barrels a day

Cape May Native Dies

At Brigantine

ATLANTIC CITY — William Frank Shaw. 82. of Brigantine, a pioneer resort hotelman, real estate operator and ‘banker, cumbed on Friday, December 18, > a heart attack suffered two •ecks atro at his home at 25th

street and Ocean avenue. native of Cape May,

Shaw came to Atlantic City 1895 and launched his hotel career by leasing the old . Mountain House. He successively built, owned or operated many of this resort’s better-known hostelries, including the razed Grand Atlantic, the Esplanade, and the Iroquois, later named the Ludy. In the early 720’s he entered the real estate business in Briirantine. He also served as vice president of the Chelsea Bank. He was also president of the Chelsea Title Co. which he originated. He leaves his wife, Elmira, and two daughters. Mrs. Yale Belcher and Mrs. Wendell North, both of this area. Mr. Shaw was well known Cape May, having spent his early

boyhood in the resort.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Hollingscad Funeral Home with the Rev. Albert W, Lenz, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, ficiating. Interment was mad

Cold Spring Cemetery.

Draft Board Office To Close Few Days Due to lack of heating facilities in Selective Service headquarters from December 24 to January 3 inclusive, the office will be entirely 'dosed from December 24 to Deceniber inclusive, officials of Local Board No. 2 announced Tuesday. The office will be open for registration and other business between 11 a. m. and. 1 p. m. daily on December 28, 29, 30 and 31. Regular hours will be resumed January 4, 1943, the board an-

Several hundred children of Cape May and ita surrounding communities will be guests of the Cape May Kiwanis Club this afternoon (Wednesday) at the annual club Christmas party at Hunt’s Liberty Theatre. 'Rio party will start at 1:30 o’clock. An attendance of approximately 700 children, arout the s-—«» as that of last year, is expected

at the party.

Santa Claus will be at the theatre to distribute gifts of apples and oranges to children attending the event. Candy shortages, resulting from shortages of chocolate and sugar, have eliminated the usual gifts of small boxes

of candy to each child.

All members ' of the Kiwanis Club are expected to be at the theatre to assist in handling the

crowd of children.'

Club officers in issuing the

vitation to all children

xplaining that it was felt there L)h January, as compared with ufficient juvenile dr 1 ' 365,000 barrels a day at present.

Holders of “B" and “C” cards who find their rations insufficient for essential driving under the reduced coupon value may appeal to local boards for adjustment, Henderson said, but be indicated additional rations would come

hard.

Christinas Party At USD Club Tonight A large number of service men stationed invthis area are expected to take part in the annual Christmas party at the Cape May USO Club tonight (Wednesday). The evening’s program will include distribution of presents to each service man by Santa Claus, dancing "and other entertainment. Tuesday evening was highlighted by the trimming of the club's Christmas tree. The singing of Christmas carols is a nightly feature at the club. Many visitors are expected to visit the club rooms on Christmas

day.

An innovation of the USO this year is the distribution of coffee, sandwiches, cookies and doughnuts to men on patrol each night. Adjutant Theodore F. Thompson, dub director, delivers the food every night between 11 o’clock and midnight.

Small Quota Of Farm Machinery For Cape COURT HOUSE — Allotments of farm machinery to Cape May County to satisfy the requirements of all county farmers for the' 1943 season were announced here this-, week by Henry \ H. White, county agricultural agent. The machinery quota irvludes seyen garden tractors, three each ot tracter.-irawn and walking onehorse cultivators, farm wagons, disc harrows and spike harro^'i

Kiwanis Christmas Party For Children This Afternoon

including 12 years of age will be admitted to the party as guests of the dub. The dub Christmas party has become one of the most elaborate events of the Christmas season in this locality. Each year several hundred youngsters fill the theatre for the afternoon af-

fair.

v The Christmas party this year will be combined with a scrap matinee similar to that held several months ago by Hunt’s Thea-

tres.

Each child attending the party is requested to bring a donation of some kind of scrap if possible, and the scrap collected will be added to Cape May’s scrap pile to be sent to war industries. Plans for the Christmas party were completed at a meeting of the Kiwanis Board of Directors and Christmas party committee

vicinity said that all up to and members last week.

County Banks Help U. S. Victory Fund The “campaign within a campaign" held December 16 - 18 in connection with the Victory Fund Drive resulted in bank subscriptions of $61,815,000 in the Third Federal Reserve District, it was disclosed Monday. The subscription brought to $390,845,000 the amount subscribed by banks in the Philadelphia Reserve area since the opening of the campaign November “1. Cape May County produced $463,000 of the total amount, according to a tabulation issued this week.

Three County Men In Army; One Ex-Sheriff ATLANTIC CITY — Edward ... Hunter, of Lower Township, and Forrest M. Rich, of 232 E. .Maple avenue, Wildwood, have enlisted in the U. S. Army, it war announced this week by Corporal Harold L. Wertheimer, local

recruiting officer.

Both Hunter and Rich have previously served in .the Army. Rich is a former sheriff oi Cape May County and at on< time was manager of the Commercial _Gas Company at Cape May. He is a veteran of World War I, having served in 19171918 as a sergeant in the 820th Aero Squadron, U. S. Army Air Service. Rich has a son presently in the service. Hunter was formerly a member of an infantry regiment machine

gun company.

William H. Donahue, of 927 Wesley avenae, Ocean City, also

Cold Spring Selectee Listed As Suicide Scheduled to be Inducted into the Army at Fort Dix last Thursday, Maurice Stanley Haloruner, 23, of Shunpike Road, Cold Spring, committed suicide shortly before the departure of the draftees’ train. His body found in his automobile on Pittsburgh avenue shortly after the train bearing other local selectees had left for the Army camp. Police said that Halbruner had taken his life by attaching a garden hose to the exhaust pipe of his car and running it through a window to fill the car with the deadly monoxide fumes. The body was found at 7:45 a. . by his brother, William Halbruner, and Thomas White, a friend, who were searching for the youth after he had failed to return to his home Wednesday night. The car was parked near Pennsylvania avenue; Dr. Charles A. Furey, of Cape May, acting county physician, issued a certificate of death by

suicide.

Young Halbruner had been employed for several years in a local laundry. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Halbruner, of Cold

Spring.

Funeral services were held Monday 'afternoon at the home of his parents, with the Rev. S. F. Sliker, of the Erma Tabernacle Church, officiating.

Hickman At Badio School In Ohio OXFORD, OHIO — Bluejacket Thomas Hickman, Jr., 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hickman, 1200 Lafayette street. Cape May, having demonstrated special skills in a series of aptitude tests while in recruit training, been assigned to advanced struction at the Navy’s new training school- for radiomen at Miami University here. After completing the intensive 16-week course ‘in the transmission and reception of radio code messages, he will be on his wa toward receiving a petty officer'

rating.

Hickman enlisted in the Navy sic,

two each of fertilizer drills and. last September and received his four children.

of boot” training at the U. S. Nav-

TthtfUiif Ctuii&imaA. Let’s all pull together with, complete unity for the good of the community in 1943. T. MILLET HAND L GRANT SCOTT GEORGE P. WENTZELL1

dump rakes and one ea< h com planters, milking ma«hines, feed grinders, garden planters, spring harrows, hay loaders, tractor plows, one-horse plows, two-horse plows, tractor mowers, horse mowers, side-delivery lakes

and rotary hoes.

The rationing committee has announced that any farmer who needs one of the pieces of new equipment and believes that the use to Vhich he would put the machine is important to the war effort is invited to ask the county agent for an application blank. Applicants must fill in and return the blanks before January 20 when the committee will make the decisions as to wh<pn to give the coveted purchase certificates.

al Training Station, Great Lakes,

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The new naval school for radiomen is one of many similar training units which have been established recently on the campuses of universities throughout country.

YULE PARTY FOR WEST CAPE MAY CHILDREN WEST CAPE MAY — The annual Christmas party for children of this community will be held Friday morning, December 25, at 10:30 o’clock in Wilbraham Park under the auspices of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the West Cape Mky Fire Cocyjany. Santa Claus will be present to distribute gifts to several hundred ch-'ldren who are expected to attend the-event.

Coast Guards Take Control Of Pilot Unit The U. S. Coast Guard this week was ordered to take over jurisdiction of the Pilots Association for the Delaware River and Bay for the duration, it was disclosed Monday. So expert are the pilots at jobs vitally important to the war effort that the Secretary of the Navy issued the order to the commandant of the Coast Guard to take over their jurisdiction. This is the first time in the association’s 220-year history that the government has taken such

a step.

Members of the association have been given , commissions ranging from lieutenant junior grade to lieutenant commander in the temporary reserve, depending upon their age, duties and responsibility. Excepting that its men will wear regulation uniforma, the association will function as it has in the past. Salaries still depend upon pilotage fees, which vary according to the amount of water a vessel draws. The money is then put into a pool. After total operating expenses are paid, the balance is divided among the pilots in proportion to the licenses they hold. Several members of the association are residents of Cape May, and the bulk of the present members of the association stem from Cape May or Lewes, Del. families.

Wildwood Fisherman Drowns Near inlet WILDWOOD — Oscar Hokanson, 59/ of 138 W. Taylor avenue, lost his life on Friday when he Sipped on the icy deck of the cwpmcrcial fishing boat “Northsea’’, fell into the water and drowned. The accident occurred at the mouth of Cape May Harbor, near the entrance to the ocean, and just after Coast Guards from the Cape May station had left the vessel after inspection of its pa-

pers.

Notified that the man was in the water, the Coast Guards used grappling hooks, lifted Hokanson to the deck and rushed him to the Naval Base dispensary, where a pulmotor was used in a vain

effort to resuscitate him.

A fisherman all his life, Hokanson had been out fishing along the Virginia coast for the last several months and had spent a few days at his Wildwood home before the accident. He had been a resident of Wildwood for 23 years and was a member of the

local Masonic lodge. .

He is survived by his wife, El-

teacher in Wildwood, and

AT OFFICER SCHOOL

Sergeant Kari V. Kokes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl V. Kokes, of Cape May, has begun officer's training at Fort Monroe, Va. Sergeant Kokes, who has been in the Coast Artillery for two years,

formerly served in Bermuda.

NOTICE Effective February 1, the yearly subscription price of /The Cape May Star and Wave and al! other Cape May County newspapers will be increased to $2.00 from the present price of $1.60. The increase has been made necessary bf constantly rising production costs. , All subscriptions paid prior to February 1. will be paid at the present rate of $1.50 per year. Subscriptions paid after February 1, 1943, regardless of the date of billing, will be at the rate of $2.00 per year. The regular price of five cents per copy, if bought without a subscription, will continue.

ORA Leases City Hall For Bation Board A formal lease for quarters on the first floor of Cape May's K resent city hall was executed tst week by the Office of Price Administration for use by the local war price and rationing board. Under terms of the lease, received by the city commission on Friday, the OPA agreed to pay $70 a month as rent for the first floor offices. Since the outset of rationing, the local board has had headquarters in the second floor of the building, the space being donated by the city. Commissioner I. Grant Scott, head of the department of public safety, reported receipt of a skid-pump and 50 additional steel helmets f>r local civilian defense volunteere from the state Office of Civjlian Defense. The skid-pump will be mounted on thi* hose truck of the fire department for emergency use. The commissioners received the resignation of Dr. R. Walter Starr, whose term on the Board of Education expires January 1. No successor was named.

Begistration Of Cape Youths Moves Slowly Only 16 Cape May County' youths whose birth dates are between. July 1 and August 31, 1924, have registered under the sixth Selective Service registration, officials of Local Boanl No. 2 disclosed this week. The first period of registration closed on December 18. Until that time, four youths had registered in Cape May, tVo in Court House, and 10 in \^Hdwood. In the aetfond registration period, for,-Souths born between September 1 and October 31, 1924, only nine had registered until press time this week. The registration period continues until December 24 in Cape May and Court House. Wildwood's registration center was open only Friday and

Saturday.

The next group to register are those bom between November 1 and December 31, 1924. They must register between December 26 and December 31 at either the Cape May or Court House centers. In Wildwood, the registration center will be open only on December 26 and December 31. In Cape May, the draft board headquarters is the registration site; at Court House, the county nurse’s office is the registration center; and in Wildwood, registration is handled at the Third Ward fire house, Pacific and Montgomery avenues.

Legion Yule Party For Children Fri. The annual Christmas party for local children, sponsored by the Harry Snyder Post, 193, American Legion, will be held on the lawn of Cape May High School on Christmas morning, Friday, December 25, starting at 10 o'clock. Approximately 400 children are expected to attend the event, at which Santa Claus will distribute gifts of apples and oranges to those attending. Percy d'Romtra, service officer of the local Legion post, said that arrangements have been made to present gifts to at least 400 local youngsters. A