89 YEAR, No. 28

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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, JULY 15; 1943

DELIVERED BY MAIL IN THE U.SJL POSTAGE PREPAIO-SZ^XJ A YEAR

City Surveying Sentiment On Train Schedule Seeking an expression of opinion on existing rail service between Cape May and Philadelphia from this resort’s train traveling public, the city commission this week is having questionnaires distributed to all incoming passengers and to hotel guests throughout the city. Replies to the questionnaire e£rds will be tabulated and used as 'the basis for the city's efforts to obtain modification of existing schedules if findings of the survey prove that present hours of arrival and departure are not in accord with the public's desires. City officials recently protested to railroad officers and to the State Public Utility Commission, charging that present early morning hours of departure are inconvenient to most passengers. Principal complaint was that trains leaving Cape May at 6 a. m. from Mondays through Fridays for Broad Street Station, and those leaving at 6:39 a. m. every day for Market Street Wharf, are too early for the convenience of most passengers and are an unnecessary duplication of service. Th< ation to replace one of the earlier schedules. It also protested the late hour of departure of the evening train from Philadelphia. With the railroad contending that its schedules are designed to meet the needs and convenience of the majority of its passengers, city commissioners late last week moved to distribute questionnaires among Cape May train passengers to determine their real preference before continuing the fight for revision of schedules. Questionnaires are being distributed by city police to incoming passengers and are available at most large hotels. After they are filled in, they should be mailed immediately to city hall.

Planned By Church Owing to the war, a curtailed meeting of the Summer Bible Conference will be held in the Cape Island Baptist Church in the form of a preaching mission. The meetings will be open to the public and will begin Sunday, August 16. The speaker. Dr. Harold R. Busted, of the First Baptist Church of East Orange, is one of the most prominent and most outstanding preachers of the present. Dr. Hus ted has been pastor of several of the leading churches 1n the east. He is a member of the editorial staff of the devotional booklet, “The Secret Place," also among other important offices he is a member of the executive committee of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America The meetings will continue each evening of the week’ through Sunday, August 22, at 7:45 o’clock.

Cottagers’ Group To Meet On July 25 Plans for season activities of the Cape May Summer Cottagers' Asaociation were formulated by the Board of Directors of the Organisation Sunday evening v)d will be submitted for associstion action, at the first general meetingof the group on July 25. The board of directors met at . the call of H. E. Godwin, association president, at the home at Mr. and Mrs. A. Giraud Foote, 828 Beach avenue, Sunday to discuss tentative plans for association activity. Plans and policies decided upon by tK# directors will be presented to the association at its first r iral meeting on Sunday, July at the Casino, at which time the association's summer program will get under way.

Backed By GOP

COUNTY REPUBLICANS ENDORSE SLATE FOR COMING ELECTION COURT HOUSE—Soundfng a keynote otparty harmony. Republican organization leaders representing virtually every community in the county fired the opening gun of the 1943 election campaign by endorsing five aspirants for party nomination in the September'

primary election.

Walter . E. Edge, of* Ventnor, leading contender for the Republican party's nomination as candidate for Governor, was enthusiastically endorsed by the coun-

ty organization.

Nathaniel C. Smith, of Ocean City, chairman of the Cape May County Republican Committee for several years, was endorsed as a candidate for the Assembly. The county's seat in the lower house of the Legislature was left vacant several months ago by the resignation of John E. Boswell, of Ocean City, who accepted an appointment as a member of the Public Utility Commission after haVIhg served in the Assembly

five years.

Norman Taylor, of Cold Spring, an independent Republican candidate for sheriff three years ago, was given endorsement by the organization for that position, and Freeholder Lawrence M. Lear, of Ocean City, who will be a candidate for re-election, was endorsed at last week’s party caucus. Mayor T. Millet Hand, of Cape May, and Mrs. Louise Roorbach, of Cape May Court House, were endorsed as candidates for reelection to the Republican State

Committee.

With party leaders in accord on major issues and with little pos-

sibility of intra-party dissension, I ganizai

speakers at the caucus predicted sweeping Republican victories in Cape May County and throughout New Jersey in the 1943 election.

WALTER E. EDGE

Leading contender for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in the September primary election, former Governor Edge was endorsed last week by the Cape May County Republican or-

Draft Test Friday For August Call Preparing for the August draft call, another local preliminary physical examination will be held for southern Cape May County Selective Service registrants at the Mace Hospital,, North Wildwood. on Friday evening, officials of the local board announced today. Larger than the July call, the August contingent of selectees is composed principally of married men, with only a few single men included. s Those passing the preliminary screening test tomorrow evening will go to Camden on August 11 for their final examinations. Draft board aides said the single men included in the August call were those who have been released from war work or other formerly deferred classifications. With the exception of those and youths who attain the age of 18, the local board's supply of single registrants is virtually exhausted, board officials said.

Minor Thefts Draw

Police Warning

Investigating a number of minor thefts reported early this week, local police on Tuesday issued s warning to all residents and visitors of Cape May. urging them to refrain from leaving bathing suits and other articles of value

on clothes lines all night.

Police Chief John J. Spencer, Jr., said his department had received several complaints about bathing suits and other articles being stolen from clothes lines

during the night.

“While we are doing everything possible to prevent such thefts, the best way to avoid such occurrences is to remove the temptation before something happens. If householders will refrain from leaving articles on clothes lines at night, a great deal of the trouble will be solved," he said.

Local Gas Station Penalized By OPA CAMDEN—Frederick VonColln, | of Cape. May, was one of three South Jersey gasoline station operators penalized by the Camden headquarters of the Office of Price Administration for various Jleged violations this week. OPA Commissioner Allen Carulhers ordered the owners of the three stations to close down for 30 days beginning August 1 for

various infractions.

■ The charge against von Colin arose from a technicality in the OPA regulations. It was alleged that he was 900 gallons short when a check-up was made. He contended that the shortage was due to evaporation in his tanks, spilling of gas when filling tanks and an accumulation of minor causes for which the OPA makes allowance, and said that he had not applied for an allowance to

offset such losses.

Resort Gets Radio Publicity Boost Cape May was given widespread publicity on Monday m a radio BfoMkast over Station WABC, Nuw York, when Milton Bacon, MBSibentator, devoted his program to this resort. Bacon's radio address gave listeners a word picture of Cape May and augmented the widespread publicity campaign which has been conducted in leading

■agutines of oral months.

MeNElL IN HOSPITAL AFT** AFRICA DUTY ERMA—Private Albert McNeil, who has been in Africa since ry. notified his Sister, Miss IcNcm, that be is m the Ashford Hospital in Weot Vir-

Senate May Act On Cape Prosecutor Possibility that the State Senate will act an the pending appointment of a Cape May County prosecutor next week was seen Tuesday as Governor Charles Edison announced that he would call a special session of the Senate at 2 p. m. next Thursday. Among the nominations pendg is that of Herbert F. Campbell, of Cape May Court House, as prosecutor of the pleas of Cape May County. Campbell has served as assistant prosecutor for nine years during the terms o? French B. Loveland, of Ocean City, who several months ago was named as common pleas judge, and since that time under Acting Prosecutor Harry Walsh, who was assigned to this county by the

attorney general.

HUGHEJTRETURNS HOME Gilbert C. Hughes, of 801 Columbia avenue, city tax collector and treasurer, who has been a patient in the Graduate Hospital. Philadelphia, for the past nine weeks, returned to ffis home on Tuesday evening, where he is

convalescing.

County Towbs To Get Own (Hulas In Bond Drives Cape May County's quota in future War Loan Drives will be broken down by municipalttiea. George S. Groff, of Ocean City, chairman for Cape May County of the War Finance Committee of New Jersey, made that announcement this week. Heretofore the county has been given a blanket quota, without definite amounts being specified for individual municipalities. Nether county nor municipal quotas have been announced as yet for the Third War Loan Drive in September. /The national quota will be 18 billion dollars, compared with 13 billion in April and nine billion last December. The April drive exceeded the quota by six billion, bringing the total raised to 19 billion. Mr. Groff said that a Fourth War Loan Drive in December will follow the September campaign. John E. Manning, of Newark, state administrator of the War Finance Committee, New Jersey State Division, and Carlos D. Kelly, also of Newark, vice chairman of the War Finance Committee, were in Ocean City recently conferring with Mr. Groff on plans for the county drive. Mr. Groff, who was co-chairman with State Senator I. Grant Scott in the April drive, is now county chairman and will have complete charge of the September campaign in Cape May County. Senator Scott, who directed the sales of more than $1,000,000 Series E war bonds in the county during the past year, resigned because of pressure of other official duties, but will continue to serve as honorary chairman of the committee. Mr. Groff was so active during the Second War Loan Drive in April that the Treasury Department awarded him a special elution for his outstanding work. He is now striving to maintain continuous sales of Series E bonds, while preparing for the Third War Loan Drive.

Large Group Of Cape Selectees Inducted Mon. One of the largest draft calls of southern Gape May County men underwent final Army physical examinations at Camden on Monday. Those who passed were immediately inducted into various branches of the nation’s armed forces and were given furloughs ranging from one to three weeks to arrange their personal affairs before beginning active duty. Army inductees will leave for imp on August 2, draft board officials said, while those taken into the Navy and Marine Corps will leave for duty next week. Those accepted after examinaCAPE*MAY: Woodrow Banks, Amsbry Mitchell Brooks, Jr., Silas Church, Leslie Morgan Cole, James Morgan Griffin, Albert Alexander Keeler, William Elliott Mousley. Frank Pardee, Jr., Charles William Sandman, Jr., Donald Fithian Smith, Richard I. Tipton and Robert Edward WilWEST CAPE MAY: Earl Adair Dickinson, David Edward Knight. COLD SPRING: Richard Joseph O'Neill, Jr. ERMA: George John Fischer, Patrick Forsyth, Jr., Melbourne Daniel Schellenger. COURT HOUSE: Albert Royeston Brady, James Callaway, Winfield Worthington Grace, John Joseph Grula, rYancis Victor Kline. Livingston Lennon, Morrell Earl Rose. Continued On Pace Four —

18 Naturalized In County On Monday COURT HOUSE — Eighteen Cape May County residents were naturalized in Cape May County’s Common Pleas Court on Monday when the semi-annual session of naturalization court was held before Judge French B. Loveland. Those obtaining naturalization papers are Rose Kelly, Annie Spurdle, both of Ocean City, Bella Langbord, Woodbine, Dobra Croitor, Dennisville, Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Pittaluga, Anna Cianciaglini, Ugo Corchiani, of Wildwood, Giulio Marini, Sea Isle City, Meta Fricsenborg, Wildwood Crest, Caterina Fulginiti, Felice Isilda Silvidio, Wildwood, Laura DeSantis, Woodbine, Sara Wolfson, Wildwood, Emma Olonkin, South Dennis, Patrick McCusker, Ocean City, Otto Ritter Samuelson, Cape May, Katie Rosenfeld, Woodbine, and Amy Tafe Tomlinson. Wildwood. John A. Coughlin, naturalization examiner, represented the government.

Naval Officer Is Kiwanis Speaker Lieutenant Arnold Osterlund, USN. who.is in charge of aerial photography at the Wildwood Naval Air Station, gave an illustrated address about that branch of the service at last night’s meeting of the Cape May Kiwanis Club. Lieutenant Osterlund explained the importance of photography in checking attack damage and result* and in preparing for large scale offensives such as last week's invasion of Sicily.

Vacation Trip Concession Causes Confusion In OPA; Policy To Be Left To Local Boards

Miss Elliott To Be Concert Singer Mias Barbara Jane Elliott, prominent young Philadelphia pianist, will be guest artist at Cape May’s third Sunday evening concert at Convention Hall this week, Charlie Kerr, whose orchestra provides music for the concerts and evening dances, announced this week. Miss Elliott, who appeared here last season, was soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the season’s first youth concert last winter. She has been graduated from the Curtis institute of Music and was guest soloist at the 50th anniversary of the Fortnightly Club at the Academy of Music and several seasons ago was soloist with the Civic Symphony OrchesAnthony Candelori will play “Meditation" by MasserreO and “Minuet in G” by Beetho'

violin solos.

Survey Group Favors Improvement Of N.J. Inland Water Routes Recommendations urging acquisition of the New Jersey inland waterway by the federal government and straightening and deepening the channel from Cape May to Manasquan will be made by U. S. Army engineers and representatives of the New Jersey Board of Commerce and Navigation, it was disclosed late last week as the group visited Cape May on its tour of the New Jersey

Police Push Drive On Parking Light Law

Repeating their warnings to motorists that parking lights must be lighted oa all cars parked on city streets after dark, city police this week continued their campaign to enforce the state motor vehicle law requiring lights on all cars after nightfall. Bicyclists were also warned that they must carry lights when riding after dark to avoid the possibility of accidents in the coastal dimout area. Reporting the issuance of summonses to additional violators of the parking light law, Police Chief John J. Spencer, Jr., said today that the local drive would continue without relaxation. Automobiles parking along the boardwalk after dark must park parallel, the chief continued. Before 6 p. m. angle parking is in force in that area. The only district exempted from the parking light order is the section of Washington street from Ocean to Penyl^ streets where cars may be parked without lights until one a. ui. After that time they, tool ' must have parking lights.

4 County Men Named To Fisheries Board WASHINGTON — Four Cape May County men were named last week by Interior Secretary Harold L. lekes as consultants to work with his office “tir seeking solutions to wartime problems for fishermen in southern New England and the Middle Atlantic

States.

The county men are Jesse N. Laudeman, of the Cold .Spring Fish and Supply Co., Cape May, Carl G. Ekstrom, Sven Marthin and J6hn Hilton, of Wildwood. Joseph N. Fowler, of Port Norris, the only other South Jersey among the 20 consultants | named by Secretary lekes.

Charges Filed Against Local Cafe Operator; Hearing Set Charged with concealing pertinent information in applications for renewal of his liquor license, Howard S. Kelly, trading as Kelly’s Boat Bar, 107-09 Jackson street. Cape May, last week was notified to Appear for a hearing before

the State Department of AiRed Cross Seeks More Workers To Fill Quota

waterway route. High ranking officers of th« Army Engineer Corps,. including the chief of Army engineers, the district engineer and other high officials expressed satisfaction with the Cape May Canal and indicated that they would recommend federalization for the rest of the inland waterway, with subsequent improvements, to open new opportuEities for small boat

owners. The in .

with Senator 1 t _ Cape May, one of the leading proponents for waterway improvements in South Jersey, Mayor T. Millet Hand and other city and county officials while it was in this area. After leaving Cape May, the group continued its inspection of the waterway route. Representatives of the inspection party indicated that they favored the general waterway improvement program contemplated in the Congressional bill which several years ago sought to authorize construction of the Cape May Canal. With the war emergency requiring extraordinary action, the Navy Department financed the canal construction with a department grant under its emergency powers, leaving the pending Congressional measure that included the rest of the improvement program to die in the House, - Continued On Page Four —

coholic Beverage Control on

August 4.

The hearing will be held at department headquarters in Newark at which time Kelly has been ordered to show cause why his plenary retail consumption license should not be suspended or ra-

nked.

In the notice to appear for hearing, Alfred E. Driscoll, state alcoholic beverage commissioner, •barged that Kelly had unlawfully concealed the interest of Leolin Tice in the business. Kelly’ was also charged with lowingly aiding and abetting Tice to exercise the rights and privileges of the license since about 1937. The department charges that Tice has a half-interest in the business although in renewal applications.Kelly has reported that the sole owner of the licensed business.

WASH I NGTON-\The recently announced relaxation.of the OPA’s vacation driving has causloil in the ranlfs of Washtngu>: v officialdom, it was disclosed this wrak by D. C. Speaker, mythical District of Columbia spokesman for authentic Sources who may not be quote^X Rationing officials are hot under the collar at Prentiss M. Brown's easing of the northeast pleasure driving ban to permit vacation motor trips. Speaker said. Brown made the decision against the advice of his rationing aides in the Office of Price Administration, said Speaker. Further, Secretary of the’Interior

lekes, as petn'

had turned down e gasoline to

Request for permit the

Speaker Many O

card rations may be used it would encourage unessential motoring by those who decide to “take their

vacations at home.”

Brown requested lekes, only a day or- two before the vacation plan was announced, for an additional civilian allocation of 15,000 barrels of gasoline a day for vacation use, but lekes said no. And if in bowing to the Congressional group headed by Representative Fred M. Hartley, New Jersey Republican,- who sponsored the one-vacation-trip-a-year plan. Brown had any thought of gaining Congressional support for the administration's subsidy-rollback

program, it didn’t work.

Hartley was granted the privilege of announcing the vacation plan on Tuesday, but on Thursday he broadcast a speech entitled

. OPA staff men felt that “Let s Liquidate OPA even though only accumulated A cused Brown’s agency of

He

The vacation plan was reported also to have confused local ration boards, which are uncertain how to judge which drivers are eli-

gible.

Hartley’s announcement said any accumulated A rations could be used for one round trip to a resort, or summer borne. OPA'* subsequent statement said this was true only if “adequate alternative means of transportation were not available." Angered, Hartley checked OPA and soon came back with the report that he had been given assurance that the phrase was a “regular consideration" in ration regulations, that anybody who had the neesaaary A coupons could get a vacation certificate, Pam Eight —

Juvenile Stars To Perform In Revue The second in the series of weekly Kiddies’ Revues will be held Friday evening at 8:30 at Convention Hall, Miss Jerry Love, who is directing the children's shows this season, announced to-

day.

The program will include Stephanie Steger singing and dancing to •'Yankee Doodle Dandy,” Miss Nancy Taylor presenting a tap routine, Bootsie Renneisen singing, Kenneth and Nancy Lee Miller dancing loathe tune of “One Dozen Roses.” A snappy cane dance will be presented by Ann Walton, ^Charlotte Warner, Martha Jane Phillips, Nkncjr, Taylor and Jeanne Mathews, ana Mary Frances and Virginia Gilligan will present a specialty number and Charlotte Warner will dose the show with a drum dance before the finale.

An appeal for surgical dressing workers to help with the making of dressings for the local Red Cross branch was sounded today by branch officers. A new shipment of material for surgical dressings has been received at the local Red Cross workrooms, 323 Decatur street, and workers are needed to complete the quota. Hours are from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. Mondays. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

State Board Denies Well Jurisdiction Taking the position that it ha* no jurisdiction over private wells even though they might create a threat to existing water supplies, the State Water Policy Commission late last week informed city officials that it had not been consulted about two new well* recently sunk at the Cape May Naval Base. “I fail to see how two wells with a combined capacity of 400,000 gallons of water daily could be classed as ‘privatg wells,’ ” declared Mayor T. Millet Hand after the state agency’s letter had been read. The city commission expressed the view that the Water Policy Commission should be in a position to determine the effect that the new Navy wells might have on Cape May’s municipal water supply. The commission on FYiday moved to authorize proper city officers to execute a renewal contract between the city water department and the Navy for the furnishing of 90,000,000 gallons of water per year with a minimum charge of $1,000 a year as a "ready to serve” charge.

Kearns Elected To Head N. Y. Legion Stephen H. Kearns, a former resident of Cape May, now living in New York, was elected commander of the New York County American Legion at its recent annual convention. Kearns had served as first vice commander of the county organization since last The former Cape May man, who is well known here, has long been active in American Legion ac-tivities--in New York. In the election for commander, Kearns defeated Police Captain Matthew Skea and Stanley Bogart, a prominent attorney and judge advocate of the New York County American Legion. There were 700 delegates presit at the convention and it required 351 votes to elect.

$230,000 More For Wildwood Air Base WASHINGTON—Navy Secretary Frank Knox has given approval to additional projects at the Wildwood Naval Air Station, it was disclosed late last week by Congressman Elmer H. Wene, of the Second New Jersey Congressional District. The projects will have svn estimated cost of $230,000/ The supplemental building program will include the construction of additional buildings for officers’ quarters, ship's service store. Army radio building and miscellaneous service. Two additional projects costing $125,000 were also approved by the Secretary for the new naval air station near Atlantic City, Wene said:

WENZEL PROMOTED Corporal Technician Norman Wenzel, of Cape May, ha* been promoted to the rating of Serif cart Technician. Sergeant Wenzel is with the engineer amphibian command at a camp Massac! “

$38,375 Sale Cliaax Of Base Bond Drive Climaxing an intensive campaign to sell war bonds among the officer and enlisted personnel at the Cape May Naval Base, a total of $38,375 in bonds was' sold on July 4 at the various holiday activities sponsored by naval units.

base over the holiday weeken . stated that Cape May is the first base of the Fourth Naval District which has enrolled over 90 per cent of its personnel in war bond . allotments.