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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY JUNE 24, 1943

DELIVERED BY MAIL IN THE U-SJL POSTAGE PREPAID—82-00 A YEAR

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Ensign Killed As Plane Dives Into Woodland RIO GRANDE—Ensign Carl Lament Lavorsen, 28, of 4991 Naylor Lane, Murray, Utah, was killed in an airplane crash near Core Hall .Friday afternoon. Ensign Laroraen was attached to the Rio Grande Naval Air Station and was on a routine training flight when the crash occurred. The crash occurred in a wooded section of the mainland several miles from the air station. It was reported to naval authorities by the wife of a civilian worker at the Cape May Naval Base, who heard the crash from his home. Augustus Yearicks, of Fishing Creek, injured last week in an accident while at work, was bedfast at his home near where the plaQe dived into the wooded area. He said be heard the plane crash, and Mrs. Yearicks rode five miles on a gravel truck to report the accident Yearicks said he heard the plane flying low over his home at Fishing Creek. Attracted because it made a “funny noise,” Yearicks looked out of the window and saw the plane soar over the house. Minutes later he heard a crash as the plane piling-, ed into the woods. \ Yearicks said the plane had fallen about a mile from the Highland Beach Road in a section known as Core Hall. Tracton, manned by Navv personnel, made their way through the woods to return with the flyer's body. The identity of the plane's pilot was withheld for some time until his next of kin could be notified by Navy authorities. Lavorsen recently completed advanced training at the Miami, Fla., Naval Air Base, and had been stationed at the Rio Grande Navsil Air Station for four days, Naval authorities said.

Cafe Closed For Week For Violating. Law

selling al coholic beverages minors, Howard S. Kelly, proprietor of Kelly's Boat Bar on Jackson street, was ordered to close his cafe for a period of one week as a penalty for .the violation. The closing order became effective at 7 a. m. Saturday, June 19, and continues to 7 a. m. Saturday, June 26. At a hearing before the city commission last Thursday after-

Beverage Several weeks ago Mrs. Helen N. Albert, a waitress employsd at the cafe, was fined $400 after pleading guilty to serving drinks te minors. Kelly's hearing and ere an aftermath of

WAAC Recruiter

LT. MABEL E. COMEGYS WAAC recruiting officer for the South Jersey district, who will be in Cape May every Saturday for an indefinite period to recruit local women for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps.

WAAC Recruits Sought Here WAAC recruiting, carried on here for several months by a Woman’s Community Club committee, will be intensified during the summer with the assignment of WAAC recruiting officers to this resort one day a Week for an indefinite period Lieutenant Mabel R. Comegys. recently assigned to the South Jersey area as recruiting officer, and an assistant will be in Cape May every Saturday, suiting June 26, to recruit local women for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps. Lieutenant Comegys and her aide will be at the Cape May post office every Saturday from 10 a. m. too 1 p. m., at the solarium from 2 to 4 p. m., and at the two motion picture theatres from 8 to 10 p. m. Between 1 their visits to Cape May, the local WAAC recruiting committee, headed by Mrs. Steven J. Steger, will continue to function, giving information about the WAAC to women who are interested in enrolling and arranging interviews with Lieutenant Comegys. The WAAC recruiting officer is making her South Jersey headquarters at the Cumberland Hotel; Bridgeton. She and her assisUnt are planning to be at various cities throughout the district one or more days each eek. Their territory includes Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties.

Plan Parley On Steamer Route To Cape May Efforts to have steamship service between Philadelphia and Cape May established to offset curbs on pleasure travel will be advanced this week when Senator I. Grant Scott, Cape May’s commissioner of public affairs, will confer with L. C. Campbell, vice president and general manager of the Wilson Lines, which operate steamers to various Delaware River Points. Following a communication to Campbell, in which Senator Scott, acting for the jtity commission, proposed establishment of such service, Campbell informed city officials that his firm is interested in the plan. In his letter to the commission, Campbell explained that equipment of his company limited at present because several of the steamers have been put into government service. .Snator Scoott said he plans to confer this week with the steamship company official in an attempt to work out some plan whereby equipment now used on shorter river runs might be used for one or two round trips weekly to Cape May. In his reply to Senator Scott’ original letter, Mr. Campbell indicated that his company was completely receptive to the city’s proposal, and indicated that regardless of the outcome of the plan this summer, the firm would keep the plan in mind with a view toward instituting such service as soon as possible if rangements could be made. Cape May officials proposed the city-to-shore stqamer route to provide transportation to this resort for thousands of city residents who are not permitted to use their automobiles for pit ure or vacation travel. Widespread publicity was (. rn to the proposal and city officials have been flooded with queries about the plan from city residents who received the idea enthusiastically. A number of metropolitan newspapers have commented favorably on the proposal in editorials, and indications point to widespread acceptance of plan.

9 A. M. Deadline For Boarddralk Cyclists A police drive t<5 enforce strictly ordinances and statutes banning 4>icycle« from the boardwalk after 9 a. m. and requiring bicycles to have lights after dark was launched this week by the Cape May police department. Warning cyclists that they are subject to penalties for violations of rules governing bicycling, Police ' Chief John J. Spencer. Jr., said Tuesday that the laws will be strictly enforced in the inter-

•st of public safely.

Posters bearing notice of the rilling which bans bicycling on. the boardwalk after 9 a. m. have been placed along the 'walk this week, and city police have been instructed to apprehend violators.

West Cape May Wipes Oat Current Debts WEST CAPE MAY—The bor-

1943 state. \Vibrary taxes „ is full of all fund, due the West Cape May

mty library . and $6,183.03 to the Board dtecation as the borough's t of local achooi financing.

COWAN GRADUATES ' KINGMAN. AR1Z.—A recent graduate of the Army Air Forces Flexible Gunnery School here was OUrisa E. Cowan. 29-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Cowan, of R. F. D. L Cape May. Sdrgeont Cowan entered the Arioy at Poet Dlx on September He attended Cope May

Board Asks Data Of All Registrants ^ Selective Service registrants with children bom before September 15, 1942, should make certain their local draft board has a complete record of their family status and the number of their dependents, officers of Cape May County’s number two draft board

said today

“Complete information on the | dependency status of each regis- j trant is essential if proper classi- I fications are to be given,*’ board officers said. “There have been numerous cades recently where men entitled to a 3-A claasifiation because of dependency have been improperly classed as 1-A because they fai!ed-to give us full information about\their status.” Board officials stressed the importance of registrants notifying board headquarters immediately of any .change of status so that their files may be kept current.

Carrin Promoted To Rank Of Captain Lieutenant Robert D. Carrin, chaplain at the U. S. Army post at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., has been promoted to the rank of captain, it was learned here ll last week. Captain Carrin, bef< receiving his Army commission, was pastor of the Cape Island 'Baptist Church here for several

years.

News of his promotion came to Cape May in a letter to Mrs. John T. Hewitt, one of his former parishioners. Captain Carrin, who has been in the Army since last fall, is in charge of the chaplain corps at the Mississippi post. The promotion became effective early in

June.

Five Cape Students Win Scholarships Five Cape May County gradu-

ates are among the 210 recipients of state scholarships at Rutgers

University.

The awards are made on the County students who have won scholarships are Norma O. Taylor, Cape May; Elixabeth N. Harrison, Wildwood; John J. McCall, Jr., and Graham L. MacMurray, Sea Isle City, and Joseph Dimperio, Ocean City.

Hope Is Held For Easing Of Ban On Vacation Motoring

Hope that the ban on vacation motoring may be eaaed in the ■tear future was expressed this week by resort interests in several parti of Cape May County following indications to that effect from the nation’s capital. Dispatches from Washington

winter residences, he would recommend permitting them to drive to their summer places.

summer homes. The agency only two weeks ago ruled that gasoline could not be used to drive to

An official of rationing in this ares, who preferred to remain anocymosa, said late last week he ako had been given the impression that a ruling mm would

be issued to allow motorists one round trip to and from their sum-, mer homes. The Office of Defense Transportation last Wednesday, listing vinous types of non-essential travel, included vacation travel, but said it is less undesirable than travel for some other purnoses. It said that traveling to one

cation is ended might be permissible Sot emphasized that this commuting to them

trips or side excursions during

It defined vacation travel strictly as a single round trip to and from the place of vacation. It also urged vacations in the fall or winter and suggested that they begin and end in mid-i It ahould be spent as near as possible, and only in one the ODT declared

Open Campaign To Finance Scout Program Fund - raising campaigns to launch a Boy Scout program in Cape May County are being inaugurated in many county communities this week. According to members of the county committee which is attempting to formulate a countywide Scout movement, local committees will conduct fund-raising activities and canvasses in each community during the drive. The total amount necessary to establish the Boy Scout program is $3,500. “It is the policy of the Boy Scouts of America,” said County Chaiftnan Jesse D. Lndlam, that the program be financed by ■public subscription from the people of the area in which the program is to be made effective. Only once each year is the opportunity of this investment in the boys of a community given to the citizens of that community. “Since there is no other source of income it is necessary to secure sufficient money in the annual campaign for funds to make possible and to maintain the administration of the council for the year. — Continued On Pace Five —

Club Marks Two Big Occasions Ladies' Night and All-Kiwanis Week were jointly observed by the Cape, May Kiwania Club at its weekly session last night when club members entertained their ladies at the Colonial Hotel. A large attendance was present. Carrying out the Ladies’ Night theme, the club had as its guest speaker Lieutenant Mabel R. Comegys, of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, recruiting officer in the South Jersey district. Lieutenant Comegys spoke ~ the purpose and activities the WAAC and described in detail the opportunities the service holds for women. Observing All-Kiwanis Week at last night's session, the Cape May Club joined other local units of Kiwanis International throughout the North American contin-

“ All-Kiwanis Week is triply significant this year,” said John J. Spencer, Jr., president of the local club.. Our Kiwanis International Convention with ifs indicated attendance of 5,000 always held during this week, has been cancelled to give transportation of troops and war equipment the right of way. “Of the 115,000 member* of Kiwanis International, 10,000 are in military service. This includes six members of our own dub.”

St. John’s Church To Open Sunday The opening of St John's

Church, Washington and Franklin streets, will take place at the late morning service at 10:30 Sunday, June 27, with morning prayer and a sermon by the Rev.

W.

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charge of the Episcopal parish

here for the summer.

The usual early service will be at 8 a. m. at the Church of the Advent, a celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Evening prayer and address will be at St. John's

Church at 8 p. m.

During the coming week there will be celebrations of the Holy Eucharist at the Church of the Advent at 7:30 a‘. m. Tuesday, which is St. Peter's Day, and on

Thursday and Friday.

The Right Rev. Wallace John Gardner, D. D- Bishop of New Jersey, plans to be in Cape May on Sunday and Monday of this week. Hs will arrive Sunday evening, meet with the members of the vestry of the Church of the Advent, and return to his home in Burlington on Monday. Father Fittenger, who has been giving lectures at the Vermont Diocesan Conference, will return to Cape May tomorrow after an

absence of two days.

Erma 4-H Club On Radio Program ERMA—The Erma 4-H Club was chosen as the first Cape May County boys’ dub to present a radio program during the “4-H Marches On” series over Station WBAB, Atlantic City. The dub broadcast on SBturday, - The program, which goes on the air at 10:30 every Saturday morning, will be devoted to^Capc May County dubs every first and third Saturday. .The Rio Grande Club will be in charge on

July 17.

Participants last Saturday were ubert Douglass, David McPherson, Earl Long, Jonsi son and.Harry Corson.

Gets Appointment

EDWARD P. GRIFFIN Well known Cape Iday business man who was appointed on Friday to serve as floor manager of Convention Hall this season. He succeeds Fred W. England, who is unable to accept his recent reappointment.

Griffin Named Pier Manager Edward P. Griffin, local real estate broker, was appointed on Frid^t-byithe city commission to serve as floor manager oof Convention Ha^l for the approaching summer season. Griffin Will succeed Fred W. England,-^manager of Convention Hall for the last five seasons. England, who was re-appointed several weeks ago, informed the commissioners that he will be unable to accept the appointment because he is frozen in a war plant job in Florida, a position he took last fall after leaving Cape May. Efforts to obtain a release from his present employer have been unsuccessful, England informed dty officials, and as a result he will be unable to. leave his present employment.

Church Will Mark 92d Anniversary The First Presbyterian Church of Cape May will observe the 92d anniversary of its founding on Sunday, June 27. In the records of the Presbytery of West Jersey, the formal establishment 1 of the church was effected on June 25, 1851. “Church Loyalty” will be the general theme of all serviced Sunday. The Church School is seeking as full an attendance as possible at its session at 10 a. m. A service of reconsecration will he held at 11 a. m. with the Rev. Albert W. Lenz, pastor, speal on ‘“Our Spiritual Heritage.” A fellowship service is being arranged for the evening worship at«8 o’clock. Mr. Lenz will speak on “The Communion of Saints."

Youth Arrested On Theft Charge Charged with the. theft of large electrical fixture from the new Konowitch Market, Richard Joseph Chamberlain, 17, of Phili delphia, was arrested by Police Chief Spencer Thursday as * was about to leave town on afternoon train. After a hearing in police court, Chamberlain was committed to the county jail at Cape May Court House to await an investigation of his past record. Spencer said the youth i charged with having taken large fluorescent lighting fixture from the market. .

City Protests Rail Schedule

Utility Board Heai Cape May’s City Commission this week went on with protests against the proposed summer railroad achet

announced two weeks ago by the Pennsylvania-Reading Sea- 1

shore Lines. The protest was filed with Public Utility Commissioner John E. Boswell, of Ocean City, prior to a hearing

before the PUC in Trenton on Tuesday.

In a formal protest to Boswell. Mayor T. Millet Hand said Cape May desired to file no-objection to the elimination

of weekend bridge trains, but

Last Honor Roll Dance Saturday The final dance in a series of three benefit affairs to raise funds for Cape May s Community Honor Roll will be held at Convention Hall Saturday evening. Music for the dance will be furnished by Jimmie Filer’s orchestra. A large attendance is anticipated at Saturday’s dance. Approximately 300 persons attended the first two dances, sponsored jointly' by the Honor Roll Committee and the Cape May Recreation Com-

mission.

Committee members this week urged Cape May residents to attend the event and give their support to the community project. At the first two dances, Mirks men and their ladies and resort visitors were in the majority. As the Honor Roll fund continues to grow as a result oi profits from the dances and contributions from persons interested in.the success of the venture, the Honor Roll committee is advancing plans for the erection of the Honor Roll board in a central location and the compilation of a list of names which will be placed on the roll. Various sub-committees are gaged in completing plans for the project Committee members reiterated their request that families of men and women in the armed services submit their names and addresses, along with the branch of service, to the group to be used as a double-check against information obtained through official

channels.

xiinted out that the scheduule for both morning and evening trains was inconvenient to * majority of local passengers.

"I am instructed by the board

of commissioners to file a protest with respect to this scheduls, but our protest is limited to the

following,” Mayor Hand wrote. "We object to the scheduled

train leaving Cape May at 6:00 a. m. Eastern War Time and ar- - riving at Broad Street Station,

Philadelphia, at 8:22 a. m. - “Our citizens and visitors in

large, numbers have, and we think quite justifiably, objected to thia train on the ground of course thst it is unreasonably early and arrives in Philadelphia considerably in advance of the proper hour. We feel very strongly that this train does not serve the public’s convenience. It may serrethe -convenience of the railroad company, with regard to their traffic problems, but it assuredly does not serve the convenience <k~ the traveling public of this com-

munity,” the mayor continued. “We likewise object to the-

scheduling of the principal afternoon tram leaving Philadelphia at 5:00 p. m. and not arriving in Cape May until 7:08 p. m. It may be that there would be some difference of opinion on thia question, but we feel that by far the larger number of travelers would — Continued On Pao* Foun —

Push Fight For Gas For Party Boats Efforts to obtain gasoline n tions for party boats are being pushed by repeeentatives of New Jersey coastal areas in frequent contacts with the Office of Price Administration, Senator I. Grant Scott, of Cape May, one of the chief advocates of party boat fishg as a food source, declared this

eek.

Describing the attempts he and other officials are making to have the OPA grant gasoline for the operation of party boats to provide unrationed food fish for thousands, Scott said the champions of the party boat operators are stressing the food production value of the large fleets of boats ~rhich operate along the coast. “We know there is gasoline available,” said the Senator. “Recently when there was no fuel for commercial fishing boats in the Cape May area, one of them notified a large fish-buying concern in New York, and in a short time local storage tanks were filled and they have been kept filled to supply the commercial boats. “If this can be done for commercial craft—and it should b« for they provide large amounts of valuable food fisb-rJt should also be done for party boats, whkh likewise produce vast amounts of unrationed food fish the course of a season,” Sen-

■*' declared.

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County Men On Committee To Study Waterway Problems

TRENTON—Two Cape May County men were appointed by Governor paries Edison on Friday to serve as members of 34-member committee to study the controversial problem of extension of an inland waterway to ;complete a ’route from Delaware

Bay to New York Harbor.

John E. Boswell, of Ocean City, former Cape May County Assemblyman and now a Public Utility Commissioner, and Freeholder Director Percy H. Jackson, of Wildwood, were appointed to the com-

mittee by the Governor.

One proposal which has met strong opposition in this state before Congfcas and provides the dredging of a ship canal, from the JJelaware River at Borden town to Raritan Bay near Sayreville. Others would develop the coastal bay and river facilities between Manasquan and /me Shrewsbury River at Sandy Hook. Mid-Jersey county officials have organised to fight the cross-state

water supplies and destroying valuable farm lands. The Governor, in creating the new committee^ sought recommendation* for necessary legislation to be enacted promptly in providing a solution to the problem. The committee is headed by Ernest J. Howe, a member of the State Water Policy Commisaion. Other members include State Senator H. Rivington Pyne, of Somerset, vice chairman, Charles A. Eaton, Jr., vice president -of .the State Chamber of Commerce, as secretary.

BROTHERS PROMOTED

William C Freaa, attached to tiie Cape May Naval Base, recently was promoted to the rating of machinist mate (1c). Hi* brother, Joseph Ware Freasr was made a second class yeoman recently. He is attached to a sub-

July Draft Call To Take Married Men A large number of 1 southern Cape May County men will go to Camden on July 12 for their final physical examinations before induction into the natfon’s armed services, officials of Selective Service Board 1 No. 2 announced today. The men underwent their physical examinations at the Mace Hospital, North Wildwood, Friday evening. Those who passed will report in Camden for the final tests. The July draft call includes 25 to 35 per cent married men, board aides said. The only- fathers included in the call, they added, are those whose children were born after September 16, 1942. No estimate as to the number of married men or fathers was given. Those accepted for service after the final examinations will be immediately inducted into the various services and will be given two weeks' furlough in order to allow them to arrange their personal affairs Before beginning active duty.

Parallel Parking At Night Along 'Walk Motorists who park along the boardwalk after 6 p. m. must par!: their cars parallel with the 'wnlk. city police warned today aa thi; 1 began a drive to enforce the new regulation.' Angle parking, along the board--walk after 6 p. m. has been eliminated by the city commission ia accordance with dimout regulations promulgated some time ago by the Army’s Second Service Command. During the day, angle parking along the boardwalk will continns as in the past, police said. Parallel parking was ordered by the city commisaion to eliminate the possibility of lights shining seaward when cars park or leave ther parking places along the ’walk.

New Type Shield For Lights Is Tested.

type of street light

dimout shade is being tested in Cape May by the Atlantic City Electric Co. Five of the 'experimental shades have been installed on street lights along Beach avenue and Washington street. Civilian defense officials said the new type heavy fiber, shades permit s greater concentration of light on -the ground, and reduce

sky glow to a minimum.

If the shields, which have been

by Army autbori- ~ " ' ry in the lo-

cal test, officials of the electric

aible.