Repeal Wins Public Support TRENTON — The Tax Exemption’Repeal Committee today addraaaed a statement to the citizen! of New Jersey which cited “oTdrwhelnrinj” public support for enactment of Assembly Bill 189 to repeal the law permitting exemption of additional millions of dollars of property of social and other clnbe along with that of fraternal organizations. Mayor Charles R. Erdman, Jr, of . Princeton, chairman of the Tax Exemption Repeal Committee, in releasing the statement, asserted that the repeal bill, which has been introduced by Assemblyman Howard Stepp, of Mercer County, and is now before the House of Assembly's Taxation Committee, should b« enacted regardless of the outcome of present litigation involving the tax exemption sta-

tute.

“This bill," said the statement,

“should be passed:

“Because the amount of tax exempt property has been increasing at the rate of twenty-three and one-half millions of. dollars per year for the past seven years; Le„ from $995,200,000 or 14% of all property in the state in 1985 to $1,159,151,263. or 18%

of all property in 1942;

“Because this continual increase in the amount of tax exempt property is creating an additional tax burden for every taxpayer in New Jersey at a time when he is least able to bear it; “Because the Essex Club of Newark, the Short Hills Club, the exclusive eating clubs of Princeton University, and dozens more with no just claim to tax exemption have applied for this privilege under this statute; “Because this flood of tax exemption will result in an additional loss of more than $20,000,OQO V in property now paying

taxes;

"Because tax exemption can be justified only in the case of an organization performing a service essential to the public which the state would otherwise have to

perform;

“Because this repeal will not affect tax exemption hitherto granted to educational charitable and religious institutions; such M schools, hospitals, churches and other organizations which perform beneficial service to the

community;

“Because the Legislature never intended to extend this privilege to the groups now claiming examption by virtue of judicial deCape May's City commission several months ago added its official voice to the growing protest of the old statute which permitted 'Inch organizations to ob-

tain tax exemption.

OAR Officers At State Conference Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens, state

registrar, Mrs. Palmer M. Way, regent of Cape May Patriots Chapter, Mrs. John Hilton, treasurer, Mrs. Horns Leedom, librarian, and Mrs. T. Powell Hughes will attend the two-day session of the Spring Conference of the State Society, D.A.R., to be held in Trenton today and tomorrow as delegates and alternates from the Chapter. Mrs. Hughes is acting as vice chairman of pages for

the conference.

Governor Charles Edison will

address the conference at the opening session in the Assembly Chamber of .the State House and Mrs. Raymond C. Goodfellow, of South Orange, state regent, will

. preside at the meetings. Other speakers at the confer-

ence will be Mrs. Joseph G. Forney, first vice president general; Mrs. Stanley T. Manlove, state regent of New York: Mrs. William K_ Herrin, Jr. of New York, former corresponding secretary general, Mrs. William S. Tompkins, state regent of Pennsylvania; Mrs. William A. Becker, honorary president general and Mrs. C. Edward Murray, curator gen-

eral.

quate if people stop this t

The annual reception of the- -first' hysterical buying—there v- 1 •n J , - .V

evening in the Stacy Trent Hotel Mrs. Goodfellow, members of th state board and national officers will receive. Following the reception the state dinner will be held.

Bennett Practicing At Princeton High TRENTON — Lewis Bennett, Jr..\of 916 Queen street. Cape May.'<£ student at Rider' Coll ; has been accepted 'i High School aa a prac- . ter. according to Dr, T. Howard Winters, head of the School of Education at Rider. Student! tnajoring in education at Rider complete their training _ with 12 weeks of practice teaching at onW of the various high schools nsdr Trenton.

- the Forum CAub s of the Independents' Chib.

NSW MEMBERS TO JOIN METHODIST CHURCH

Exemption Social £vant& 0$ Jhc Mask,

HAVE FAREWELL PARTY Robert Sayre, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Sayre, of 916 Queen street, was guest of honor at a farewell party Saturday night at the home of Bruce Hand. Young Sayre recently enlisted in the Navy and left this week for preliminary training. Those attending the party were the Misses Betty Sayre, Constance and Sonia Dougheity, Tracy Morrow, Paulette Snyder, Betty Jean and Marcia Sibble, Nancy Sharp, Patricia Lawson, Helen Porch, Betty Denny and Frances Krula and Robert Sayre, Frank Engroan, Robert Holiingsead, Robert Lemunyon, Brannin Douglass, Jonathan Trout, Ralph Stevens, Jr., Donald Lear, Darid Hart, William Matthews, George Reeves, Jack McPherson, Joe Murmy, Jr. and Bruce Hand. LADIES’ AID MEETS Mrs. Ivar Axelsson was hostess to the members of the Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian Church at her Lafayette street home on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. J. Woodruff Eldredge, president of the Aid, presided over the regular business meeting which was followed by a social afternoon of games and singing. Attending were The Rev. and Mrs. Albert W. Lenz and their small daughter Ruthie, Mrs. Harry W. Bell, Mrs. Louis J. Sayre, Mrs. Lida Van Winkle, Miss Louisa O. Miller, Mrs. Louette Miller, Mrs. C. N. South. Mrs. Gilbert C. Hughes, Mrs. Ralph T. Stevens. Mrs. Edward Pickard, Mrs. Sig Bortne, Mrs. Mae Smith, Mrs. Edwin Miller, Miss Abbey YaroelL Mrs. Sidney R. Goff, Miss Jane Smith and Mrs. Frank Prillwitx. W. C. T. U. IN SESSION A regular meeting of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was held at the home of Mrs. C. C. Sayre in West Cape May last Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Frances Carley, president, in the chajr. In the absence of the secretary, Mrs. William Shaw acted pro

tern.

It was decided that in the future rhen W. C. T. U. members die, the unit will hold a white ribbon ceremony if it agreeable to members of the family. It «ras announced that two educational films will be shown at an assembly in Cape May High School on April 16 at which time visitors will be welcome. The next meeting will be held on Anril 7 at the home of Mrs. Stil-

weB.

CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS An interesting social affair of the week was the dinner party given by Cantain and Mrs. Walter Russel, of State Road as a birthday celebration for Mrs. Max Weicht, of Cape May, and Miss Eardie Kauffman, of Philadelphia. Both honor guests received lovely gifts and large bouquets of flowers. The guests included: Sergeant and Mrs. John L. Kauffman, Mr. and

Mrs: Clarence Heil, Mr. and Mrs. John Rose, George Stewart, Miss Mary Albus and Mrs. Margaret Burke, Mr. and Mrs. - Theodore Bichelmier, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hahn and Jesse, mil of Philadelphia, Mr. and Mrs. Wilham Bennett, of Cambridge, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hosted, of Clemen ton, Leonard and Abraham Bush, of Paterson, Mrs. Katherine Marks, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Camp and Mrs. Christine Mossop. all of Bridgeton, Mr. and Mrs. Max Weicht, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chew and Mrs. Richard Conlan, all of Cape May. Mrs. Conlan is making he home here while her husband is in Casablanca. Mr. and Mrs. Russel also entertained a group of friends on Wednesday’ evening to celebrate the birthfiay of Mr. Thomas Chevr who was born on St Patrick's Day. CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Captain and Mrs. H. H. Palmer were guests of honor .at an anniversary celebration in observance of their 49th wedding anniversary Friday evening. The party was given at their home, 656 Washing-

ton street.

Those present were Mrs. Ida Markley, who arranged the party; Commander and Mrs. G. W. Hitchtfas and their daughter, Betty, of Dape May; Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Palmer, of Cape May Court House; Chief Engineer John Wilson, of Erma; Mrs. Marjorie Repp and her daughters, Ruth and Dorothy, of Erma; the Rev. Samuel Blair, of Cape May, Electrician Lester Miller, of Edgemoor, Del.; and Mrs> and Mrs. Raymond W. Adams and their two children. CLASS IN SESSION Members of the Friendly Class of the First Methodist Sunday School were entertained Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Samuel Perry ’ with Mrs. Herman Pederson as assisting hostess. Attending the meeting were Mrs. Frank Rollins, Mrs. Kennard Ramshaw. Miss Mary Evans, Miss Ella G. Bennett, Mrs. Elva Benckert, Mrs. Ella Kadel, Mrs. Earl L. Hollingsead, Mrs. Curtis Harris, Mrs. Allan Robson, Mrs. Charles Foulke and Mrs. Anna Kehr. MARKS BIRTHDAY Mrs. Julian R. Cadwallader celebrated her eighty>*«|ind birthday at a dinner party at the Batten Cottage on Sunday, March 14th, and had as her guests Lieutenant and Mrs. James Pancoast, Miss Florence Farrell, Mrs. Gertrude Moyer, Mrs. Ethel O. Brown, Misi Estelle.-Black and Miss Cora Cad-

wallader.

ENTERTAINS BRIDGE CLUB

day evening bridge club this week at her Corgie street home and had as her guests Mrs. Kenneth Miller, Mrs. Frank Underkoffler, Mrs. Stewart Sibble, Mrs. Stanley Schellenger. Miss Marion Fix and Miss Mildred Holliday.

Clothes Rationing Rumors Scored CAMDEN — “NO" is T. Harold Dempsey's emphatic answer to the rumor that clothing will be rationed this weekend. Dempsey is director of the Camden OPA distMct v which includes Cape May, Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester and Salem Counties. “Rumors have been* flying around, fixing dates for the rationing of clothing. They spring up like clock-work all over the country every ^weekend, and between times too. These vicious rumors cause costly buying runs on retail stores. They deplete stocks. They create confusion and make hysterical hoarders of people who are otherwise patriotic Americans. If you listen to these rumors, you are doing just what Hitler wants, because creating confusion among civilians is a standard weapon in tUe Axis propaganda arsenal. “OPA has NOT been directed to ration clothing—that tall tale about the ‘clothing book' is just as false as the weekly ration ru-

mor itself.

Supplies of clothing are adelate if people stop this 'me- * * ' i is

Weddings. .. MOUSLEY—STIEFEL A quiet wedding was solemnied Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock at the Baptist parsonage when Miss Hilda May Stiefel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stiefel, of West Cape May, and —'am Mousley, son of Mrs. ElFoster, of Tdxte avenue, thjp city, were united \in marriage. The Rev. F. Paul Langhorne performed the ceremony. After a brief honeymoon the couple will return to make their home in Cape May. • Present at the ceremony were Mrs. Elma Foster, Mrs. Charles A. Swain, Jr., Miss Frances Richardson, Mrs. Ella Elliott, Joseph Sergent, Mrs. Fred Stiefel, Mrs. Raymond Tomlin and Mr. and Malcolm McDuell.

ever before, and WPB has just doubled the civilian allocation. 'Whether clothes rationing ever becomes necessary depends to a large extent on whether American civilians can learn to think of the war first and cooperate with each other and with their government in buying only for present needs. Buying more than you need always plays right into the hands

of the Axis."

Insurance Finn Shift Laws Are Signed

TRENTON on Monday signed into law a series of legislative bills removing the last technical obstacles to mutualization of the Prudential Insurance Company of America, whose home

office is in Newark.

The four measures introduced by Assemblyman C. Milford Orben, Essex County Republican, gave the 20,000,000 policy-holders of the Prudential Company a voice in elections, of members of the company’s board of directors; allowed amendment of the company's charter by two-thirds vote of the directors and approval by a majority of the policy-holders, continued in office three directors named by the State Chancellor, and ed the mutualization law form to the new plan for electing

Legisi Re Change In Salute A change in the iong-establish-ed flag salute used by schools and organizations was recommended to Cape May school authorities this week by officers of the Harry Snyder Post, 198, American Legion, in conformity with a change recently approved by Congress. The recommendation will b« qpbmitted to the Board of Education at its next meeting, Dr. E. E. Pickard, city school superintendent, said yesterday. Both Pickard and Daniel J. Ricker, county school superintendent, said that local schools would have no authority to change the prescribed form of the’ salute .until instructions were received from the State Department of Education. The Legion’s recommendations were made following passage of a joint resolution 1>y the 77th Congress to codify and emphasize existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States. Principal change in the salute would be elimination of the extended arm, which local Legion officials contend, is similar to the salute of the Nazis and Fascists. Under-the recommended change, persons saluting the flag would keep their right hand over their hearts instead of extending it, palm upward, during the greater part of the pledge. More than a year ago the national Americanism commission of the American Legion studied the question and .was of the opinion that such a long-established American custom as extending the right arm and hand toward the flag at the words “to the flag" in the pledge, and holding it there until the end, should not be changed. The similarity between that and the Fascist salute is not even close andjeertainly an American custom such _ as this would live long after Hitler and Mussolini have been defeated, the commission pointed out.

HICKMAN—SPRINGER COURT HOUSE — Miss Mary Isabel Springer, daughter of Mrs. Charles H. Springer, of Cape May Court House, became the bride of Kennedy A. Hickman, of Cape May, son of Mrs. Kennedy Hickman, of Millville, at a ceremony ■in the Cape May Court House Methodist Church on March 6. The Rev. Albert S. Layton performed the ceremony. Mrs. Walter Harris, of Bellmawr, was matron of honor, and Julliane Daniels, of Court House, was flower giri. The bride was given in marriage by her cousin,

Everett Springer.

Mr. FVanklin B. Porch, of Cape May. was best man for his hrother-in-law. Ushers were Char- 1 les Hickman, of Millville, and

George Rea. of Cape May.

The bride's gown was white marquisette and she wore a finger tip veil and a tiara of seed' pearls! She carried a bouquet of white snap dragons and white carnations. The matron of honor wore gold taffeta and a gold net bonnet. She carried a bouquet of yellow snap dragons. The flower girl wore blue taffeta and a blue net bonnet and carried a boa-

qbet of pink rose bads.

The bride’s mother wore a powder blue dress and hat and a corsage of pink rosebuds. The mother of the groom wore a Copen bine hat and gown and a corsage of

oink snao dragons

Tne bride was graduated from Middle Township High School in

Business College in Philadelphia. She has been employed by the Cape May County Title and Trust Co. The bridegroom was ated from Cape May High in 1939 and is now in the U. S.

Victory Book Drive Nets 1,400 Volunes Cape May's Victory Book Campaign ended on Friday with a total of 1,400 books collected for distribution to service men, Mrs. James C. Hand, chairman of the drive, reported at the conclusion of the book round-up which started in January. Of the total number contributed by residents of Cape May, 400 were selected for distribution to men in the armed forces serving in this area. Through Miss Sarah A. Thomas, county librarian, the books were taken to the dispensary at the Cape May Naval Base and to soldiers stationed in Wildwood. The others books, which were not deemed suitable for service men, were donated to the Salvation Army for distribution to its various homes. Cape May school children were responsible for collecting more than half the books gathered locally, with the high school reporting collection of 250 and the grammar school collecting 481. At the close of the drive, the committee expressed its appreciation to Adjutant Theodore F. Thompson, director of the local USO Club, for use of the club as a collection center. Mrs. Hand thanked members of the Victory Book Committee who aided her with the campaign’s direction. The committee was composed of Mrs., Walter Phillips and Miss Edith Edmunds. o Farm Board Stressing War-Time Problems COURT HOUSE — With 204 paid 1943 memberships and more expected, the Cape May County Board of Agriculture has the moral and financial backing to carry out a strong program this

year.

President Theodore Young and members of the executive committee place the war effort first and are throwing the influence of the organization behind the government financed projects headed by the conservation program and the county war board. At the last meeting of the board's executive committee, approval was given to the War Board's efforts to encourage classification in 2C and 8C by essential farmers. The committee also discussed student labor. “It is desirable,” the board said, “not to have fanners think that it believes that student labor can solve the labor problem here, but it favors extension of the time that students are released in the spring term | to assist farmers who are so situated that they can make effect- ' e use of students. “Many farmers," Qie board continued, “cannot use boys who are not farm born and bred, but in sticking onion seta, picking berries and similar jobs, inexperienced youths can be effective. “Release of students doesn't work in the fan,” the board added. “Schools should open later b September and remain in session Uter^in June if necessary for best aid to farmers, with released students willing to go to farms in the dosing weeks of the spring term bat rtwilling to miss the opening sessions in fsIL" p Sergent was appointed nor of Mississippi Terri-

Congratulations

Corporal and Mrs. William J. Coyne, of Cape May Point, are

receiving congratulations upon the . birth o! a son, who was bare Jfff*

Wednesday, March 10, at Mace's In the Cape May

Hospital, Wildwood. Mrs. Coyne was formerly Miss Elisabeth Balm, daughter of Harry E. Balm, of Cape May. Corporal Coyne is stationed in Cape May Point with the coast artillery battery.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Vogt, Jr, announce the birth of a daughter, Janet Gail Vogt, bora on Wednesday, March 10th. Mrs. Vogt was the former Miss Janet MacAdams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. MacAdams, of Drexel Hill, Pa., and jm daughter of lbs. Daniel Fot Private and Mrs. William M. Cassedy, Jr., of Petersburg, are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a son in the Millville Hospital on March 7. The baby who weighed six pounds and ten ounces at birth, has been named William Morris Cassedy, 8d. Mrs. Cassedy is the former Miss Ida Belle Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amasa Young. Private CaSsedy, who ia stationed at Teaneck, is the son of the late William M. Cassedy, a former mayor of Cape May, and Mrs. Martha Wales, of New York. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith, of 258 Sixth avenue, West Cape May, are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a son, Edward Donald, born at the Margaret Mace Hospital, North Wildwood, on Friday, March 12th. Mrs. Smith was formerly Miss Bernadine Ewing, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Ewing.

The United States during the quarter ended Sept. 30, 1940, imported 36,740 tons of flaxseed. The cassock worn now by English clergymen and choristers was derived from an outer garment formerly worn by soldiers.

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At Cape USO i

attended an interesting lecture, “The Romance of the 6ea" which was given at the Cape May USO Club on Monday night by George H. Streaker, of PhfladelpUa. The lecture was illustrated with lan-

tern slides.

The Cape May High School Band, with its members in their new uniforms, played a number of selections prior to the lecture. Highlight of the week at the dub was the formal dance last evening in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. The dance was arranged by the USO Junior Hostess Group, and music was furnished by the Blue Jackets Orchestra. Attractive programs and decorations were prepared for the

occasion.

This evening will be movie night at the dub at which time "The General Dies at Dawn” trill be the feature attraction. Gary Cooper and Madeline Carroll are

starred,

Alaska has a longer coastline than that of the United States itself. Giant steel “sky chambers" now make it possible to study the effects on men and materials of altitudes as high as eight miles. *

for rationing of butter, b

“Such defacement by retail and other persons should be discouraged at once. Inasmuch as rationing books and stamps government property and tbs practice of the defacement of it will cause confusion In trad* channels, and banks will not accept mutiliated stamps for credit to ration banking accounts. “This does not mean," Dempsey continued, “that the OPA wants to discourage voluntary rationing of scarce commodities which are not yet rationed by the government, but merely wants to discourage the practice of defacing government property and causing confusion." The American robin was called the “migratory thrush” in Colonial days.

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