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89 YEAR, No. 20

Cape May Wave, Established IS! Stab of the Cape, Established 1868 Cape May Stab 6 Wave, Consolidated 1807

County Million Dollars. Above War Bond Quota PHILADELPHIA — Cape May County resident* and commercial banka purchased $2,329,000 in government securities during the three-week Second War Loan Drive which y.as conducted during April, Alfred H. Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, and chairman of the drive in this district, reported this week. With a quota of $1,319,000, Cape May County nearly doubled its share in the campaign. Individuals, organisations .and other non-bank sources purchased a total of $779,000 in bonds, an amount equal to 112 per cent of

their quota.

Commercial banks 'of the coun-

ty purchased 248 per cent of their quota, investing $1^30,000

in government securities.

_ Final tabulation of the subscriptions and allotments of securities in the campaign shows

public, business and banks

England Renamed

FRED W. ENGLAND

Floor manager of Cape May's Convention Hall for the last five seasons, was re-appointed for the

, 1943 summer season by the City-

invested $982,OOO.OOO" or ~l29 ^ 1 Commission on Friday.

cent of the total quota for the | Hiird Federal Reserve District.

This includes $91,060,000 in new dUmmCr APPOIMIIlCntS located by counties. Bau ,ot i M at j e By Commission

There were an estimated 1,800,000 subscriptions to war securities during the Second War Loan in this district, which contains a population of nearly 8000,000. Nearly 1,700,000 of the subscriptions were for the Series E War Saving Bonds and included the continuing purchases through the Payroll Savings Plan operating in industries and businesses throughout the dis-

trict.

City Honoring Local People In War Service Honor certificates, giving official recognition to their service in the nation’s armed forces, are being sent to the homes of all Cape May men and women now in military service, the City Commission announced ' Monday. The certificate, attractively designed and lithographed in patriotic colors, contain an American eagle above two American flags, a city seal, and are signed by the three commissioners ■

of Cape May.

Form of the certificate follows:

"This is to certify that has entered the Military Service of the United States in defense of American ideals and principles. His friends and neighbors in Cape May unite in

expressing their gratitude ]

■nd good will.”

CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1943

Push Plans For Army-Navy Ball Here On May 29

Gasoline For Party Boats Is Assured

vwen nas WASHINGTON—Assurance that local rationing boards

become a pre-sdason entertain ! ^ a “ thori ? ed ‘“ue the necessary gasoline certificates to ment highlight in Cape May, were operators of party fishing boats where it is definitely shown advanced this week by the com- that owners are engaged in an occupational capacity, Conmittee which is fcumulating ar- gressman Elmer H. Wene announced Tuesday following con"jSSIfW? Sd hdf’popu]*, I . _ ferences with high OPA oB.

orchestra will provide music for the ball, which promises to attract large crowd* of holiday visitors, service men and "their \ ladies and Cape May residents. ‘

The ball will be held at Cqnven- j Cape May’s annual memorial tion Hall on Saturday, May 29. (church service will be held Sun-

Featured as soloist with Filer's day, May 23, at the First Meth-

orchestra Peggy Morgan, who | odist Church. The service will

sings in the Morgan manner . | start at 10*30 am The ball is under the joint Members of the American Le-

sponsorship of the Cape May City | K ion. the Legion Auxiliary and

Veterans Plan Memorial Rites

Recreation Commission and .... Community War Service Committee, organizations headed by I semble

Steven J. Steger and Donald W j or8 ' Monument on Columbia

Two hundred and twenty-six of , Lear, who are co-chairmen of | nu< , a t 10:15 and will march to the certificates are being mailed | the ball committee. the church, accompanied by the this week to the homes of local I Tickets for the ball went on Cape May High School Band service men They will be ad- sale yesterday Hostesses of the! The Rev. Samuel Blair, pastor dressed to the men and women in Cape May USO Club are con- 0 { t h e host church, will deliver the armed services, but will be ducting an mtennfe ticket-sell- ; a special Memorial Day sermon sent to their home addresses to j mg drive which will continue un- an d a special service has been

be retained by their families til the date of the ball. i arranged

until their return from duty. ; Basing their predictions on the On Sunday. May 30, the annual

. . . . , .... , Announcing the city's plan to success of the Jirst two Memorial Memorial Day observance will Appointments to .ill a number g j ve official recognition to its Day weekend events, members of' be held at which time natrintir of key city positions for the ap- military personnel, the Commis- ' the committee this week said services' will be held at all inral

preaching summer vacation sea- sjonerv said that families of per- , they anticipate an even larger cemeteries.

were made by the City Com- j sons in the armed forces who , crowd than attended either of the j ^11 veteran and patriotic or-

receive certificates before preceding Army and Navy balls, ganizations and families of deshould contact City Hall. The affair win be arranged 1 ceased veterans have beer, invited the full name, branch of i much the same as that of' last , to join Legion members in visit-

1 other information year, with a number of chaper- j B g t b e cemeteries.

ervice man or wo- ones, hostesses and patrons and j The group will’ meet at the

patronesses, committee members ,Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument

regular

ting I d,>

mission

on Friday.

Fred W. England, for five

years floor manager of Convention Hall, was re-appointed for about thei

the 1943. season. Under pre:

plans. Convention Hall will open Start July 3 for the season, and the | tribute

Banks in all 60 counties of the I municipally-sponsored entortaindistrict ^oversubscribed to the ' ment program will continue night-

culn

Second War Loan campaign.

if the project to pay local military personnates several months' the part of city officials

1 at 9 «

, . — - —and will proceed U

With Memorial Day weekend Cold Spring Cemetery where

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Kelly Appointed To Township Committee

VILLAS — A. W. Kelly, of Villaa, long active in Republican C litics, was appointed as a memr of the Lower Township Committee last week to succeed George Ftintaine, also of this

place.

Kelly was named to the board

after the Committee had declared | 0

was unable to attend meetings. Boswell Takes Oath

The former committeeman is now! ■> r% mployed in war work out of FOT Utility PflSt

itil September 11. and the local Selective Cervi, Miss Elizabeth Bellangy was ! Board in compiling names ar re-appointed as clerk in the in- addresses of those in the varioi formation bureau at the city so- | branches of service from th

larium for the season, and Mrs.) r-ommunity.

The solarium and the comfort | stations will be opened for the j Memorial Day weekend and will ] be opened permanently for the I season when the entertainment ' program at Convention Hall be

gins, city officials said.

Junior Employment Service Continues

Selectees Leave To Begin Military Duty ! A small group of selectees I from the southern section of Cape May County left to begin active duty in the Army, Navy

the

will be held at 9:30.

From there, the group will go to the Tabernacle Cemetery, Erma, at 10 o'clock, the old Colored Cemetery, Erma, at 10:15, the Catholic Cemetery, Cold Spring, at 10:45 and the new Colored

Cemetery at 11 o'clock.

- Graves of veterans will be decorated on Memorial Day.

Woman Named Mayor

By Avalon Rulers

Kelly is a past president of the OCEAN CITY — John E. Bos^ Lower Township Republican Club well, who last week resigned as and has served for several years Cape May County's Assembly-

the executive ...

To assist Cape May businesses men were induetad

to overcome the acute shortage | day after they had passed their

of labor. Cape May's Board of | final physical examinations.

Education Monday night approved The group which left yester- *v* mv x*;.. e-jul r plans to carry on the junior j day includes: « n ~ ? l w"' ■mploym.ni ..rvic. which ... CAPE MAY, C.urthttd John-! b *''' naupurwwd by th, schools last son and Clarence Leroy Whit, , \ 'JJ an ma yor

th. Plan, the! WEST CAPE MAl’ Robert

clearing house Charles Hawkins, Ralph Charles she WBg chosen * ?

< induct-

i by * ■r.Lrwal— last l .,in art/! I'1 a —ars — a 1 -/..W... VL-Vl.r. 1 the Olll.

Under

for students seel

as well as employers seeking s

sonal workers. iivan Augustus stieiei. p,. ;~ . , Instituted with considerable] 'WILDWOOD: Leslie Glickman. I The JTlaL /. ~ Monday noon success last summer, the junior COURT HOUSE: Albert Am- f ... “p . T of the SUte Board employment service will be car- brose, Stanley Roy Chessman. K^nan foLer m.^r =n/!^v ried on with the same purposes: John Rodger Gandy, Alfred Haun | * m * y0r and 0nly

Paul David Greenland, i Augustus Stiefel.

mission, which selected Ralph

member

committee. _ _ __

Other members of the board. 1 of Public i'tility ~Commiasionei - ;, „„ , 1L;i wlt . MUlv u U ruu,e« ,

both Republicans, are Randal! Common Pleas Judge French and with an expanded scope. Wil- Scull. | incumbent commissioner _ .....

Loveland, of Ocean City, ad- lard B Mathews, city school su- SWAINTON: Elmer Edward ! !T.? ,eCt “ n ’ , ? m . lled ,n *»• re*W*-

( mistered the oath of office. , perintendent. announced following | McCray.

0 j The resort attorney's resigna- the board meeting. j Glickman, Lewis, McCray and m ■■ fv 4 « . tion as a member of the- State “We hope the program will j Scull were inducted into the Navy, | 0 rBllO bets bontract *** emb, y became effective Satur- serve some of the employment Gandy and Hawkins entered the ; |»» a n bb » ■ '!*>'• G 1 ® vacancy ^ on the | needs of the community during Coast Guard, and the others werejtlBSI U aP £ Fu 3 Y LcBOS

cials here.

Li the interests of the large number of owners of party boats in South Jersey, Congressman Wene has had conferences during the last week with officials of the Office of Price Administration in an effort to obtain some assurance that restrictions would be removed to permit the required allocation of gasoline. Wene said he was advised that I while no authentic interpretation

For Bay Ferry OOt'RT HOUSE — Ifc funds for the establishment Cape May-Lewes, DeL ferry will be sought by the Cape May County Ferry Commission, it was disclosed yesterday in a letter from the commission to the Board of Freeholders. Citing the potential value of 8 ferry line across the bay from the standpoint of all miUtaxr" forces stationed in this section of the Atlantic coast, the Ferry Commission announced that it would seek federal funds to finance establishment of such s

line.

“We believe that this is an opportune time to institute such a project,” the commission «*. C 'ned, “inasmuch between Ca Lewes, Del. would branches of the armed forces tioned in southern New Jersey and Delaware.”

nuch as a ferry

matter, he had been that local ration boards are authorized to make basic allotments to owners whose boats are op-

erated commercially.

“In other words,” Wene said,

“the use of boats to maintain

a livelihood is acceptable.

Nine War Price and Rationing | result in the saving of well Boards of Ocean County have j 100 miles in the motoring

been advised by Frank. P. Kelly,; _ acting OPA director, that they 1

may issue coupons for a maxi- ' o -

mum of 450 gallons of gasoline j

was announced Tuesday. The School Calendar la issue would be for the three- I AHnntorf Du Dnaril months summer period. (HIIDpLuO Dj DOaiO Kelly, in letters to the board .„v.„„i •„ chairmen, suggested that the school* will open gasoline be issued in cases where ’L-.f 0 !. fi 1 * 1 ®* 8 * 44

the fi„, „u f ht by pleuur.

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> augment the food sup-

Preliminary Draft Tests Tomorrow

preliminary screening examination for 1-A Selective Service registrants in the southern section of Cape May County will be held at Mace's Hospital, North Wildwood, tomorrow evening to provide a reservoir of men for

the June draft call.

Those passing the screening test will go to Camden on June 12 for final physical examinations prior to induction and assignment

one of the armed forces.

While figures for the June,

draft call were not divulged, it 1 0 — — estimated that next month's U!* D.. A group of selectees will be approx- UllllU fill Df uST. imately twice as large as the —- . 1

group which was examined last

Wednesday.

. following adop-

tion of next year’s school t^lendar approved Monday night by

the Board of Education. Schools will be closed October

12 for Columbus Day, November 11 for Armistice Day, November 25 and 26 for Thanksgiving, December 22 to January 8 - for Christmas vacation, February 22 for Washington’s Birthday, April 7 for Good Friday, April 10 for Easter Monday, May 30 for Memorial Day and will close for

the year on June 9, 1944. At Monday night’s meeting, the

board accepted with regret the resignation of Mrs. Walter'Bennett as a member of the faculty, and granted a year's leave-of-ab-senee to Mrs. W. Harry Reeves. No successors to fill the vacancies

have been named.

organization meeting.

not attend

For Street Gravel Contract for the furnishing of 2,500 tons of gravel to the City of Cape May for use on various streets was awarded to John Pelto, of Ocean City, on Friday when bids were received by the City

Commission.

Pelto's bid of $2,475 for the contract was the lowest of three bids submitted. Others were Monihan Contracting Co., Ocean City,

$4,500; Arthur Powell, $2,575. m . , The City Commission on Friday | WCOdlll^ AlHlIVCrSdry

utility board occurred Monday ja season when the shortage of j inducted into the Army. Mr. Boswell was appointed by | labor in all lines of work will The group was one of the Governor Charles Edison, a Dem- probably be acute,” Mr. Mathews ; smallest to leave here for service ocrat, for a six-year term in the said. since the conscription of men was

$12.000-a-year job. succeeding! Businessmen seeking workers | «tArted. Republican, ^ through the employment service 0

1 may apply at the superintendent’s as • , — ,, th, oi p.»i s Colored Sailor Gets

Thomas L. Hal

of Ford*.

The new commissioner his first hearings today

ark.

Ewings Mark Golden

h°W office

1 * ew " Ensminger. high school principal i . aA card file of studenU desiring ! Jj||| SPfltPfirP employment will be kept by| g<,l, wCniCnCC

school officials as well as one

for employment openings.

There will be no charge for the Air Station here, was sentenced service. I to six months in the county jail

ifter his conviction on charges

Clyde James Terrill, attendant at the Naval

debris from lota when owners of the properties fail to cause its removaL^Coste of the work will be same manner as other municipal

charges

At FViday’s meeting, the officials denied an application for a liquor license transfer from Romeo Macciocchi to Mortimer Schiff. of Atlantic City, for premises at 601 Lafayette street.

director! COLD SPRING—Mr. and Mrs.

■ removal Alex Ewing, of Cold Spring, will LEE RENAMED TO CAPE

1 other celebrate thi

In Can Salvage

COURT HOUSE — The follow ing report of tin can collections in April was submitted to th» county salvage committee thii week by C. W. Turbyville, manager of the Coca-Cola branch al Wildwood, who is the representative of the soft-drink industry aiding in collections in this area. West Cape May, 1.200 pounds;

ildwood. 1,100; Wildwood,

.000; Wildwood Crest, 1,000; lape May, 1.000; Middle Town-

hip. 700; Stone Harbor,

Voter Registration Bills Becoae Law TBSNTQN — Announcing had allowed- two election bills _ become law without his signature. Governor Charles Edison said ^Tuesday that (the bills “represent / a step backward in the program Vj# election reform". One of thfc new laws, which, wwe given approval by the Legia-■*®’*'-on / May 10, permits tl permanent registration of vote an primary and- general electii days this year • Hie other bill postpones from July 1 to January 1 the beginaing of the signature comparison method of guarding against fraud at the polls under

TO* first hill allows two regis1 —““ days beyond the July 1 that only

■ 50th wedding i

BRIDGE COMMISSION

ersary at their home here

Monday. May 24, at which time COURT HOUSE — Benjamin tEeVwill have an “open house” j F Lee. of Wildwood, district for friends and relatives during I manager nf the Atlantic City the afternoon and evening. Electric Co., was re-appointed to Mr. and Mrs. Ewing were mar- the Cape May County Bridge ried on May 24, 1893 by the Rev. J Commission for another threeFrank Parker in the Erma par- year term by the Board of Free-

ra_ Ewing before her j holders yesterday.

■*' Bertha Holm- Lee':

sonage. Mr. marriage wi

es, of Dias Creek. Mr. and Mrs. Ewing have four living children, Mrs. Anna belle Swain and Gilbert Ewing. of Cold Spring, Alex Ewing, of Kirkwood, and Mrs. Linda Ashton, of Sayleaville, R. I.

May 1. 1946.

of disorderly conduct, resisting .' ,T! ,or ... . Terrill" ws> l„.t Thur,. ] '«*. «”>.■ >«• d.y night .fur „„ .lurc.tien ! . C ‘ ,! ', “L ^ With Officer Howard Brown. ,f L. ' h “'‘' ,,ot . b -*i n . sported,

the local police force. Taken to police beadquaters. he was held for a hearing before Police Justice Edward P N'ittinger on Fri-

day

Their cans are hauled in CocaCola trucks to Pleasantville instead of to Wildwood. Reports from Ocean City, however, are that more than 2.000 pounds per

„ ...... , , i week are now being collected Police said the Negro had a there * _ rge open knife concealed on his ' <l y 7 xson when he »ss arrested. ^

Churches Unite For Masonic Service

Jsqhm duxiUwuf Will S&ll (popfLuu Saiwudajy; Sssk Clid

Mackerel SeasonEnds After Hectic Time

America's dead of two wars

will be honored Saturday. May 22, . wh.» million, of a™™™ wU

disabled of both '

wear red poppies as a symbol of

remembrance and tribute.

. .., . s ^ rT ‘ l if for Masons will j Here, as in other cities throughbe held in the Fuat Presbyterian out the country, women of the Church here Sunday evening. May American Legion Auxiliary will 23, at 7:46 ° dock. The Cape Is- be on the streets at an early land Baptist, Cold Spring Pres- hour with baskets of poppies. A

large corps of volunteers has been organized by Mrs. James West, poppy chairman, to dis-

tribute poppies to everyone

city.

While distributing the memorial flowers, the Auxiliary women will receive contributions for the Auxiliary rehabilita-

tar* funds.

I oi the money contributed

go into

byte nan and First Methodist Churches will for the service. with the ministers assisting

the order of worship.

The Cape Island Lodge No. 30, and A.. If., will be special tests at the service, and will

in a body. All Masons, of

invited to at-

tion and welfare f

One of the most hectic and unpredictable mackerel seasons in the memory of local commercial fishermen came to an end late

disabled veter- i w <‘fk as the early spring if the dead and ! f ' 5h passed by this section of the rars. coast on their northward migra-

More than 13,000,000 poppies . t,0 c'n „ .. . , , . distributed by th, »( r » h ’ but year .„d the number wm, I l ” fl " , GlmhUA Saturday i, ejected to be mb- S"'.™ ta* made C.p. May

stantiaily Urger. Th. Au*- V..,

iliarv unit is nrenanwt tr> oinnlv sailed to New lork where it re-

mained only a few days before

proceeding to New Bed: another season of fishing.

Officials of the Cold Spring Fish and Supply Co. said this week that the 1943 season was equally as good a* that of 1942 with approximately 4,000 barrels of fish shipped from Cape May during the few weeks the boats

operated from this port. Southern draggero an ing to the local v

Plant Gardens Now, Chairman Urges

gardeners have had their crops justice

in for sevdtal weeks. Some, he! dent of u.c a/o»ci said, have already begun to pick , Board, of Education,

some of the early vegetables. Silcox was held un.ter bail as Reporting on the progress of | a material witness. He was the local campaign, Dellas said i arraigned again on a charge of approximately 60 gardens had manslaughter by automobile,

been obtained for prospective ! state police said,

gardeners through his efforts be- | The accident occurred early sides the large number which i Thursday afternoon on Bayshore •

are planted on gardeners' own j Road in Villas.

I,nd j _ Funeral services will be held

Friday in Philadelphia with interment in Holy Cross Cemetery, under the direction of Earl L. Hol-

lingsead. mortician.

Ocean City Mayor Dies As Term Ends

Mayor George Township Plea Is

Rejected By Court

p3>p“te tL’S? 1 ’’ j onlr * .?**' .J*;

what becomes of the corns they! contribute when they take a poppy from an Auxiliary worker," said M9s. West. “I wish everyone could know the need' for those contributions, especially this year when the war is increasing that

say that every

penny of the money paid for American Legion aad Auxiliary, - Continued On Pam Four -

OCEAN CITY— !

Richards, a prominent resort attorney and a veteran of World War I, died in the Philadelphia ,

si Hospital Monday night on -Sustaining decisions by the eve of the expiration of hi* Cape May County Common Pleas term of office. He was 49. ] Court and the New Jersey SuMayor Richards' term expired preme Court, the Court of ErTuesday at noon. He had origin- rors and Appeals has denied an ally announced his intention of I appeal filed by Lower Township seeking re-election, but on April -Peking the appointment of a 1 . issued a statement that his i commission to fix the boundary physician had forbidden him to I *' n . e between the township and take part in a campaign. Wildwood. A legal battle over the Services will be held Friday at dispul< ‘ d boundary' has raged for 2 p.m. in the First Presbyterian i more than lwo ?«■"■*• Church, Ocean City. Interment ! Ruling- that appointment of a will be in Pleasantville Cemetery, commission to fix the boundary —o j would not be legal inasmuch aa

I the original boundary line waa

Board Rejects Draft ! which^U subject f to B MOuraiiii*«i ' ".’■SSS

the two previous rulings, from which appeals had been taken. The township earned its battle to the high court on the contention that while the eastern h»wlr of Beach Creek had been - designated as the boundary when

bjr

in tfca

Appeal Of Shipworker ; of the Court of Errora,

A draft appeal fOeid by a shipyard worker, seeking occupational

was rejected by

Fred Bailing Eddy-stone, Pa, fc

Layton, 23, of

oyed as i r the Sun «k Co. at

'a, lormerly of Green appellant. He is em-

'ship&uilding**

been filled in, aUmmaHn. creek and obscuring the or!

Dies Of Injuries

VILLAS —Four-year-old Claire Baum, daughter of Mr and Mrs. William Baum, of Villas, died in the Atlantic City Hospital Monday morning of injuries sus- | tainc-d last Thursday when she

Wonting pmometh, Vieturj-' "S. b / Gardeners te .veid further delai | t _r“,, ch 1 . d ,5‘' d ■>'

in plantini, their crops. Peter Del- ' 0 J Monda,-. las. city ch.im,„ of th. Victory i ,d , i J ,e 5?.''t"* f '™ d , “ “E ... Garden Committee, today ur E ed ? ,s v ,ro ” M ‘“ * .11 Cape May residenta » ho plan ' Wtl d *«od, .her. (tardens thl, year to begin im- ‘if. . h J d >>“» ^ten immedrately

mediately. af £ r the accld ent.

w. n j ... . . State police who investigated Mr- Bellas said that the plant- . the accident said the child had

T 8t 7°. P l haS ar - ; run in of a car driven by

nved. and explained that many | Haro' G. Silcox, of Villas, a

the peace and presiLower Township

y. f Sh^ be At-

tbe