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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1943

DEUVERED BY MAIL IN THE U.SJL POSTAGE PREPAID—*2-00 A YEAR

County Scrap Drive Under Way This Week A spring’ housecleaning scrap drive is being held in all parts of I Cape May County from May 24 to June 5, the County Salvage Committee announced this week. In Cape May where a spring campaign was conducted during April, no special effort is being made during the county drive. The dates were fixed at the recommendation of local salvage chairmen. Inland chairmen said maximum results were not obtained in the Farm Scrap Harvest last month because the weather was unfav-

orable.

Chairmen at the resorts felt that the May 24-June 5 period would find summer homes being prepared for occupancy and that owners or agents would have an opportunity to put into the war effort scrap materials which in most resorts were missed last fall because the dates of the drive were not timely for seashore

areas.

The current campaign will be devoted to the collection of scrap iron and steel, copper and brass, robber tires, tubes and heels, rags and burlap bags, rope and ^Stressing, the continuing need for iron and steel, Paul C. Cabot, director of the Salvage Division, War Production Board, said: “I realize that 60 days ago a few isolated steel mills showed some unwillingness to buy highcost remote scrap although they were anxious to buy prepared

Army'Navy Ball To Highlight Holiday

leader whose orchestra will provide music for the Army and Navy ball which will be held at Cape May’s Convention Hall Saturday . evening.

situation has changed

completely, and these few mills are today clamoring for allocations and are accepting such allocations from the most remote

areas in the country.

“The need of heavy scrap is particularly great,” he said. “Unless we continue our collection efforts with the utmost determination we are in danger of again seeing mills closed for the lack of this essential material."

Lieuteosnt Booty Killed In Crash

The Army and Navy Ball Cape May's first subscription dance—will be held at Convention Hall on Saturday evening with an attendance that promises to break all records for the preseason event which has become a Cape May institution since its establishment three years ago. With the advance subscriptions being received in large numbers by members of the committee and their aides, the ball is expected to be the most successful Memorial / Day weekend event of its kind / Cape May has ever

known.

Large numbers of Army, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard officers and enlisted personnel and their ladia? are expected to attend the ball, and indications sire that large group of Cape May re dents and visitors will be in i tendance. Music for the ball will be provided by Jimmie Filer’s orchestra, which has played several successful engagemenU in Cape May. Pogpy Morgan will be featured vocalist with the band. Convention Hall will be artis-

tically decorated for the event, and a novel arrangement of signal flags has been planned. Preparations for the/badl were completed early this week by members of the committee which is arranging the affair. The ball will be under the joint sponsorship of the Cape May Recreation Commission and the Community War Service Council. Steven J. Steger, recreation chairman, and Donald W. Lear, chairman of the service council, are co-chairmen of the ball. Their committee includes Mrs. James Hand, Mrs. Leslie Cresse, Mrs. Frank Pardee, Mrs. M. R. Brownell, Miss Alice Wilkie, Lieutenant Commander C. E. Warburton and Everett V. Edsall. Assisting the committee are Miss Gertrude Seltzer, of the U90 Club, Mrs. William Whitehead, Mrs. Guy Hunt, Mrs. Brown, of Cape May Court House, and AdjuUnt Theodore F. Thompson, of the local USO Club. - Continued On Page Four -

Ease Dimout Rules For Summer Months

TRENTON — Clarification of dimout rules to permit coastal residents to open windows and doors for ventilation were issued today by Leonard Dreyfuss, state civilian defense director. Dreyfuss said that along the Atlantic coast where lights are directly visible from the sea, no change in the present rules arc permitted and lights visible seaward must be blacked out or put out as directed by Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum's proclam-

ation.

When lights are not visible from the sea windows may be open from the bottom provided shades are pulled down to cover the closed part of the window. The source of light must not

be visible from outside.

Portable lamps must be moved to a point in the room where

Lieutenant J. B. Booty, former- they cannot be seen from outly stationed at the Cape May *ide. Otherwise they must be

Nava] Base, was killed in an shielded.

automobile accident near San Porch lights will be permitted - 1 :J — 1 *•-- of hg

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Diego, Cal., where he had been ! provided the source oC light stationed for some time. ! not visible outside the porch. Funeral services were held at Doors of stores may be 1

the J. B. Bookhara funeral home | open provided the source of light

In San Diego. **—♦

Lieutenant Booty is survived by his wife, two children, Edmund. 9, and Charles, 6. Mrs. Booty left Philadelphia on Sunday for San Diego. She and her children will remain in Los Angeles indefinitely with her

parents.

Lieutenant Booty was killed in•tantly when the car in which he and a friend were riding was struck by a truck. He was well known in Cape May where he had been stationed for some Lime. While here he resided on Pittsburgh avenue.

shielded so that it cannot be from outside, and providing the existing rules controlling the amount of light are observed.

Mrs. Matthews Heads Tewnship PTA Unit COLD SPRING — Mrs. James M. Matthews^ was elected president of the Lower Township Par-ent-Teachers Association at the annual election in the schoolhouse on Tuesday evening. Other officers named for the year are Mrs. Joseph R. Elliott, first vice president; Mrs. Walter Bates, second vice president; Michael McPherson. treasurer; and Mrs. Everett Jackson, secretary. Tuesday's meeting was the last for the current year. Sessions will be resumed next fall.

|«ld Beating Firm Revives Work Here Haatikn Gold Leaf Company, of Philadelphia, which for many years had a branch in West Cape May and eriuloyed many borough residents, this week revived the work at this'.resort by sending -svork to many) oL its former era/ployees to be ! done at home. V_Mrs. Theodore W. Reeves, widow of the former factory suMrintendentyds in charge of the local cifficj/conducting the work from her home. For many years the Hastings Co. operated a gold-beating factory on Reeves Lane. West Cape

May.

BACCALAUREATE SERVICE AT CHURCH OK JUNE 6 The Baccalaureate service < Cape May High School nrill t held in the First Presbyterian Church on Sunday, June 6. at 7r46 p-m. The churches of the eoamanity will unite for the service, with the ministers participaUng m the order of worship.

Robbins Cited For Saving Trainman WEST CAPE MAY — Lieutenant Ethan C. Robbins, of the Army’s Transportation Corps, stationed at Fort Benning, Ga., has received commendations from superiors for extricating an injured engineman from a wrecked engine in a Seaboard Air Line Railway train last year. LieutenRobbins' parents are summer residents at 122 Emerald aveand he is well known in Cape May. letters of commendation were forwarded to him by Major General C. P. Gross, chief of transportation, Colonel S. B. Massey, director of the supply and service division, and Lieutenant Colonel J. D. Boscnberger, Jr., adju-

tant.

.General Gross' letter follows: “T»f action displayed by you on the evening of October 15, 1942 in extricating an injured engineman from a wrecked engine jn a Seaboard Air Line Railway train has been brought to my attention. “This letter will serve as an official recognition of this incident as well as a commendation for your prompt and unselfish action in going to the aid of the injured engineman in the steamfilled engine cab regardless of personal injuries already sustained by you and of the dangerous conditions existent in the cab.”

Another group of southern Cape May County Selective Service registrants were given preliminary physical examinations at Mace's Hospital, North Wildwood. Friday night, preparatory to their being called for final physical examinations and induction into

the armed services.

Local board officials said this week that it is possible some married men will be called with the June group, although they ould’ not be certain until the deadline for filing appeals and obtaining deferments had passed. Those who passed the screening tests Friday will go to Camden on June 12 for their final examinations. Men accepted after the final tests will be immediately inducted into some branch of the military service and will be given a two weeks’ furlough in order to arrange their personal affairs | before leaving for active duty. Extension of the post-induction furlough was announced this week by local Selective Service officials. I The change was made in a direcj live issued from national head- | quarters, and according to reports I from Washington was designed to allow more time for married men to prepare for duty than had ! been allowed when jingle men composed the bulk of electees. A further extension is anticipated during the summer so that ! by fall, when Selective Serviceofficials believe fathers will called, the furlough period will

be three weeks.

Two Appeals Turned Down By Officials Draft appeals filed by two, southern Cape May County men. both seeking deferment on grounds of dependency, were rejected recently by the South Jersey Appeal Board, officers of Cape May County’s Selective Service Local Board No. 2 announc-

ed Monday.

The appeals were filed by Stewart F. Weiaberger, a Wildwood housepainter, and Howard R. Holmes, of Court House, who is now employed by the Sun Shipbuilding am*. Drydock Co. in Chester, Pa. Both were seeking deferment on the ground that they support collateral dependRuling that the two appelants had been properly classified as 1-A registrants by the local board, the appeal board denied their pleas and ordered that they remain in Class 1-A, subject to immediate induction.

New School Song To Be Introduced . A new musical selection, recently composed by Frank Rollins, a janitor in the Cape May public school system, will be introduced tomorrow afternoon when it is played in public for the first time by the Cape May High*

School hand.

Entitled .“Cape May High An«n”, the number will be introduced at the weekly high school assembly at 1:05 as part of the Memorial Bay program. Mr Rollins, who is well known locally for his poetic efforts, wrote words and music for the

Memorial Service At Chapel On Sunday WEST CAPE MAY — An ini spiring and impressive Memorial Day service will be held next Sunday at the West Cape May Union Chapel. Included in the program will be the presentation of the colors, with a soldier, a former scholar at the Sunday School, acting color bearer, and a contingent of Marines from the Naval Air Station serving , as color guard. There will also be field music. The Christian flag will feature in the ceremony along with the national emblem. Patriotic numbers will be rendered by the Triangle Class Chorus, and by a class of boys and girls, both under the direction of Mrs. R. Clifton Ware, pianist of the chapel. The reading and study of the Sunday School lesson will take place as usual, under the guidance of a corps of teachers. The program will conclude with the singing of “God Bless America". followed by the benediction. There will be a minute of silent prtyer, and the group will be dismissed with, the blowing tape”. The committee in charge of the service is contemplating plans for the program, and a large attendance is expected. The service will start promptly at 2:30

Local Youths Meet In West Coast Club Two Cape May boys, both graduates of Cape May High School, class of 1940, met in a USO Club in Tacoma. Wash, recently. They are Sergeant Warren O’Neill, who is stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash, and Maurice Halbnmer. son of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Halbruner, of- Cold Spring, who is stationed

Mrs. Van Lennep Dies; Was Well Known Cottager PHILADELPHIA — Mrs. Florence Leas Van Lennep, wife of Dr. Gustave A. Van Lennep, widely known surgeon and former professor and head of the department of surgery at Hahnemann Medical College, died suddenly Saturday night at Hahnemann Hospital. She was 58'. Mrs. Van Lennep was admitted to the hospital on May 16. She was visiting in Cape May when stricken ill and was brought to Philadelphia. Her condition, physicians said, was not considered critical at the time of her admission to the hospital. Dr. and Mrs. Van Lennep lived at "Malin Hall”, Conestoga and Swedesford Roads, Malvern. They owned a cottage in Cape May, where they were frequent visitors and summer residents fo:

many years.

Dr. Van Lennep resigned from the Hahnemann post ii May, 1942, and was unanimously elected professor emeritus of surgery by the board of trustees. The Van Lennep children art William B., of Boston; Gustave A., Jr., of St. Michael’s, Md.; Frederick L., of Newton Square; Alice,' wife of Frank E. Curran, of Greensburg, N. C.; Nathilde, wife of William Bedford, of Elizabeth, N. J., and Florence L., wife of Donald Maxwell Smith, _qf- New York City. Two brothers, Leroy P. Leas, of Philadelphia, and Donald S. Leas, of Haverford, and a sister, Mis* Mabel A. Leas, of Bryn Mawr, also survive. Funeral services were held Wednesday at noon at 1820 Chestnut street.

Reclassification Of Men Pushed Reclassification of Selective Service registrants in the southern section of Cape May County is progressing rapidly, officials of Local Board No. 2 announced this week. With an average of 200 to 250 registrants’ files being considered weekly and approximately 50 men being reclassified each week; the local board expects to complete reclassification within the next month. Boards throughout the nation are reclassifying men in accordance with a directive issued from national headquarters in Washington several weeks ago, in which national draft officials ordered that all men classed as 3-A be reconsidered and placed in categories applicable at the present time in conformity with revised classification requirements.

Memorial Day Rites At Church Sunday The First Presbyterian Church of Cape May will observe Memorial Day on Sunday at both morning and evening services. The Rev. Albert W. Lenz, pasir, will bring the message at the morning sendee. His topic will be “Lest We Forget”. • Chaplain Syver Olvin Sorlien, USN. of the Naval Air Station, Cape May. will be the guest speaker at the evening sendee. Special recognition will be given to those of the church who are now in the service branches of the nation. Their families to represent them by their tendance. i welcome has been extended „ the officers and enlisted personnel of the Army, Navy, Marines and Coast Guards now residing in Cape May and vicinity and their families.

Church Will Dedicate Service Flag Sunday A service flag will be dedicated during the morning service at the First Methodist Church here Sunday. May 30, at 10 o’clock. Parents of the men from the church who are serving in the armed forces are especially invited to attend the special ceremonies. Each one of the following will be represented on the service

flag by a blue star:

William Baldwin, Lewis Bennett, Donald Curtis, John Chambers, Phillip Chambers, William Crawford, William Claghorn, Harold Hickman, Carnick Hamper4an, Craig Hess, Albert Johnson, Carl Krula, Christian Krula, Boyd Lafferty, Carl Landis, Tommy Lemmon, Hamilton Lemmon, Ralph Letts, John Moremen, Ronald Phillips. Herman Pedersen, Ernest Pharo. Harry Reeves, Raymond Rollins, Howard -Riley, Edward Sandgran, Leonard Sandgran, Edward Smarkol, Clifford Saby, Alden Tees, Richard Tees, Raymond Vanaman, Alfred Vanaman, Gordon Whitehead, and in the WAAC service Auxiliary

Elizabeth Harris.

Sailors Nabbed After Crashes A truck and an automobile wen stolen and both were wrecked during the last weekend in accidents at Fishing Creek and Erma. Two sailors, charged with stealing the vehicles, plead guilty in court yesterday, were given suspended sentences and turned over to Navy authorities for punish-

ment.

The first accident occurred FYiday after a truck owned by Leroy Compton, of Dias Creek, was stolen from in front of a store in Villas. The truck struck a pole and overturned at Fishing Creek. Arrested on a charge of larceny of the truck and careless driving, Arthur J. Schmitz, 25, of Wheaton, 111., a sailor stationed at the Rio Grande Naval Air Station, was held under bail and committed to the county jail. His companion was Raymond Gallagher, of Joliet, 111., who is also attached to the Rio Grande air station. The second accident occurred early Monday morning when a car owned by Thomas Keenan, of Cape May, struck a fence and overturned near the Ernest Corson farm at Erma. The car had been taken from Wilson Drive where it had been parked. State Police said. / Francis Spiller, 18, a seaman stationed at the Cape May Naval Base, was arrested by Sheriff F. Mulford Stevens, who was one of the first at the scene of the crash. He was committed to jail in default of bail to await court

action.

The accident occurred near the Erma observation post tower, just as Sheriff Stevens was coming off watch. He and the Rev. Samuel Blair, of Cape May, who succeeded him as a spotter, were

the first at the scene.

State police said all three sailors had been drinking. No one was hurt in the accidents. In court yesterday, Judge French B. Loveland warned that liquor-selling establishmeifts will be more closely scrutinized to

avert such conditions.

New law Eases Registration Requirements COURT HOUSE —Eligible voters who have not been permanently registered in accordance with New Jersey’s permanent registration law may be registered in a house-to-house canvass on September 7 or on primary or general election days, County Clerk Stirling W. Cole announced yesterday. “Although registrars appointed] by the County Board of Elections sat in each election district on three days in 1941 and three days in 1942 for voters to qualify under the permanent registration law, its approaching effective date, July 1, finds that less than half of the eligible persons in the county have availed themselves of the opportunity," Col* |

said.

“Under that law voters not yet permanently registered would have to go personally to their j municipal clerk’s office before August 24 in order to vote at the primary, as no registration is permitted within 40 days of any elec-

tion.

“An act just passed by the Legislature, however, eases the requirement for this year only," J Cole explained. ‘‘It requires district boards of elections to make one more house-to-house canvass on September 7. Then on both primary and general election days voters appearingat the polls will be checked and ‘ not already on the permanent t will be so registered and then permitted to vote on the same day,” he added. “For this purpose registrar* | appointed by the county board j will be stationed in each polling place on both days,” Mr. Cole announced.

Stamps 15 And 16 For Canning Sugar CAMDEN — OP A announced this week that Stamps 15 and 16 in War Ration Book One are valid for five pounds of sugar eath for home canning purposes. They will extend through Octo-

ber 31.

Leo J. O’Donnell, Camden district OPA food rationing representative, said today that consumers may obtain the sugar upon presentation of the stamps to their retailers. “The change in the program for obtaining sugar for home canning is made to relieve local boards of a heavy load of work, since under the new arrangements only the relatively few families who require more than 10 pounds of sugar per person for home canninig will make application to . the local boards. Dr. Furey Elected Dr. Charles A. Furey, of Cape May. dls elected as stole board member at the anntffl spring meeting of the War Health Committee of the Nevu Jersey Osteopathic Society last week. . Officers of .the organization elected last week are Dr. Francis. A.. Finnerty, Montclair, presi- * _ j "

Cleric Wins Award For Injuries Here COURT HOUSE — The Rev. William J. Hayes, pastor of the Falls of Schuylkill Baptist Church,

Philadelphia, received $2,200 dam-j . , _ ages this week for injuries sus-1 Special Memorial Day sen-ices Lained in an automobile accident , w 'iH be held at the Cape Island last August. Baptist Church on Sunday at Action was brought against! both morning and evening serDaniel Miller, of West Cape May, vices. At the morning sen-ice. at a circuit court trial here be- I there will be a special sermon, fore Judge Albert Burling. a ? d , a remembrance of all boys Miller was the driver of the ! of the church who are sen .ng car which Mr. Hayes said strucK | m the armed forces. There wiH him while he was walking along ho a short period of silent pray-

Broadway, Cape May. where he

-acationing.

Patriotic Service At Baptist Church

Second Tug Launched By Cape Shipbuilders The second harbor tug to bo launched at the yard of Cape May Shipbuilders, Inc., along Cape laland Creek, slid down the waya Monday morning after it had been christened by Miss Marian May, daughter of an official of the shipbuilding firm. Miss May, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred May, of Strathmere, is a high school sophomore. Her father is vice president of Capo May Shipbuilders, the local firm which is constructing an undisclosed number of harbor tugs for the Navy. First of the tugs was launched May 2 after it had been christened by Mrs. William Whittaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mogck, of Cape May. Her father is president of the company. The local firm has been engaged in cons trading the harbor tugs for several months under a contract with the Navy Department. Senator 1. Grant Scott, of Cape' May, is secretary of the firm.

jury had been drawn and part of the testimony was taken when counsel for both parties in-

-olved in the suit agreed on 'hv4> ne ' ... . settlement. Mr. Hayes sustain^ Weekly prayer meeting will be frartured right ankle. held in the chapel on Wednesday

• - • evening, Mr. Langhorne

nounced.

There will be a food sale Saturday, May 29, in the vacant store opposite the railroad station cm Washington street. The sale will be for the benefit of the church, and will begin at 10:30 m.m.

Lou S. Gooriey,

president: Trenton, i

Fanners Using Pupils To Help With Crops COURT HOUSE — Cape May County farmers are making good use of student labor to meet needs for emergency jobs, Henry H. , White.'county agricultural agent, | said today. Twenty-five farmers ! had been authorized by the Student Commission as approved employers

as of last Thursday.

With strawberries turning ripe, it in expected that the number of releases for labor will rise and that further applications will be received from prospective employer*. Although the method of securing student labor is easy, farmers have been slow to file the brief forms which make them eligible. Of the 25 forms received, about half were secured at the farms through the efforts of Howard Shields, of the U. S. Employment

Service, Wildwood.

Farmers have been furnished with the Masks by mail and have only to fill] them in and mail to

County Agent White.

for their safe return.

At the evening service there will be a patriotic sermon by the Rev. F. Paul Langhorne, pastor. Special patriotic music is plan-

for the services.

New Flag Salute Used In Cape May School The recently changed flag salute, authorized by Public Law 623, was put into effect in Cape May High School during the last week in accordance with a revision of the form of salute. The new form eliminates extending the arm during most of the pledge of allegiance. Instead, the right hand is kept over the heart during the entire pledge. A nationwide movement Instituted some time ago resulted in adoption of the new form of salute by Congress. The' movement was instigstod by statements that the extended arm salute was similar to the salutes

of Nazis and Fascists.

$75,000 Allotment For Roads Granted TRENTON — Approval was given yesterday by Spencer Miller, Jr., state highway commissioner, to the application for $25,000 state aid by the Cape May County Freeholders for township and borough road main- - tenance and $50,000 for unimproved dirt roads. I The $25,000 grant represents 90 per cent in a total program of $27,777 and will be appropriated from the automobilists’ license fees and gasoline taxes. It will be applied to thoroughI fares constructed under the Herrick Act which requires municipalities to contribute 10 per cent to the state allotment for general maintenance and repairs on 57 miles of roads, including those in Cape May City, Cape May Point. Dennis Township, Lower and Middle Townships, North Wildwood. Sea Isle City, Stone Harbor,’ West Wildwood, Wildwood, Wildwood Crest and Wood-

bine.

The $50,000 “dirt road” funds are for maintenance and repair of unimproved thoroughfares. The state grant equals 90 per cent in a total program for $55,555 on 160 miles of roads.

Defense Councils To Name Historians TRENTON—Plans were announced late last week for preserving for posterity the history of civilian participation in this war and the part played by civilian defense councils in New Jersey. Leonard Dreyfus*, state civilian defense director, and James Downes, state librarian, announced the plan. They also announced that Mrs. Gordon Buchanan, of East Orange, prominent in women’s activities in the state, had been appointed state historian to