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CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1943

Restrictions On Caneras Made More Stringent NEW YORK—Additional reitrictions on the use of cameras at ocean beach resorts and elsewhere in the Eastern Military Area are included in the terms of Public Proclamation No. 5, issued Monday by Lieutenant General Bush A. Drum, commander of the Eastern Defense Command and First Army, who stated that these measures were dictated by military necessity. Additional restricted and prohibited - aones are announced in the new proclamation and boundaries of some restricted and prohibited sones previously announced are changed to keep pace With industrial expansion, new construction and for other reasons. The new proclamation, effective August 9, in the 16 Atlantic seaboard states from Maine to Florida and in the District of Columbia, augments four other public proclamations issued by General Drum by direction of the War Department and under authority of the President’s Executive Order No. 9066, dated Febuary 19, 1942. Th< . . proclamation “No person not in the armed forces of the United States engaged in the official performance of his official duties shall, without authorization by competent military authority, use or operate any camera while engaged in any flight in any aircraft. “No person not in the armed forces of the United States engaged in the performance of his official duties shall, without authorization by competent military authority, make any photograph, — Continued On Page Four —

To Speak Here

Selectees Examined Prior To Induction

quota of Selective Service registrants underwent final physical examinations at the Camden induction center yesterday, and those who were accepted were immediately inducted into various branches of the nation’s military

Information concerning the outcome of the examinations was not available for publication at press time last night. While no figures were released by officials of Cape May County’s Selective Service Board No. 2, which has its headquarters here, it was indicated that the August quota was even larger that that of July, which was the largest call for many months. With the exception of a few single men who have been reclassified recently and youths who have attained the age of 18 during the last month, bulk of the August quota is- composed of married men, board clerks said. Men inducted into the Army yesterday will have a three weeks' furlough in which to arrange their personal affairs before beginning active duty. Those inducted into the Navy will have a week before beginning service.

Pleasure Driving Ban To Be Lifted Soon Removal of 'the. OPA ban on pleasure driving in the 16 eastern states within the next few days was predicted in several quarters this week by usually informed sources, all, of whom declined to be quoted at present. Consensus of the various sources was that the' Office of Price Administration would make a formal announcement very shortly lifting the ban on pleasure driving and probably increasing the unit value of gasoline coupons in this area. Prentiss M. Brown, director of OPA, recently announced'that the pleasure driving ban would be removed in the near future under a plan to equalize gasoline allotments between the east, midwest and west, the latter two areas not having been included in the pleasure driving ban.

New Pupils Will Be Registered Sept. 9 Preparing for the opening of Mhool on September 13. Cape May school authorities today announced that registration of new will take place at the !»' offices of the various on Thureday and Friday,

There will be a general teachers’ meeting an September 10 at ipplies and ins truegiven to faculty * to prepare them for the. start at school. New pupils must have been vaccinated before they will be admitted, Willard B. Matthews. Hty school superintendent, said fai sbaHhj the announcement.

DR. FREDERICK B. HARRIS Chaplain of the U. S. Senate and pastor of Foundry Methodist Church,* Washington, D. C., -who will be guest speaker at tne an-nivei-aiy service at tho First Methodist Church here •'•n Sunday.

Senate Chaplain Will Speak At Church Sunday Continuing its series of special anniversary services to commemorate the 100th anniversary of its dedicarion, the First Methodist Church of Cape May will have special sen ices on Sunday, with Uie Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of th« Foundry Methodist Church, Washington, D. C., and recently elected chaplain of the U. S. Senate, guest speaker. Dr. Harris, who spent hi* early childhood near the tip of th< Jersey cape, is well known in Capi May, having been a frequent vis itor to this resort.

the national shrine Washington. Among recent worshipers in the church have been Winston Churchhill. Lord Beaverbrook, Madame Chiang Kai-shek and otherc of international fame. President Roosevelt is a frequent worshiper there. Marking the 100th anniversary of the church's dedication, the special series of anniversary serces, arranged by the Rev. SamContinued On Page Five —

Stevens Addresses Kiwanis Club Former Senator Lewis T. Stevens, a charter member and past president of the Cape May Kiwanis Club, was principal speaker at last night's club meeting, taking for his topic "Historical Places Around Cape May City.” A historian by avocation, Mr. tevens is the author of a history book on Cape May County end is an authority on historical information about southern New Jersey. The Board of Directors of the club this week granted permission to the. Cape May Cottagers' Association to use the club house on Beach drive for its annual dinner meeting on August 21. The building is in process of renovation and improvement to prepare it for permanent use as a meeting place of the club. Many improvements have been made in recent

Big Catches Of Fish Brought To Port

One of the largest commercial fishing boat catcr to port Tuesday ■ i

Bible Parley Sessions To Open Sunday Prominent church officials and workers will address the sessions of the second annual Cape May Bible and Missionary Ccnference which will open at the Cape Island Baptist Church here Sunday. The conference sessions will continue, for a Week with morning and evening services. Dr. Harold K. Husted, pastor cf the First Baptist Church of East Orange, editor of a number of important church publications rnd a member of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, will present Bible expositions. at the morning sessions and will preach at the eve-. niiiR services daily during the week.. Miss Alice W. S. Brimson, executive secretary of the Woman’s American Baptist Home Missionary Society, will address the conference sessions on Wednesday and Thursday mornings. Mrs. M. R. Hoener, director of the speakers’ bureau of the Woman's Home Mission Society, will speak at the morning services on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Following the success of tho first Cspe May Bible and Missionaiy Conference last August, large attendances are expected at all sessions of this year’s gather-

ing.

Invitations to attend the conference have been sent to clergymen throughout New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware. and lay leaders from other churches are expected to attend the sessions. The conference a being held under the sponsorship of the Northern Baptist Convention. - Continued On Page Four -

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ABINGTON GIRL WILL BE CROWNED AS HONORARY QUEEN OF CAPE MAY AT CEREMONY AUGUST 20

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day evening, August 20, will be one of the features of Cape May's summer entertainment program. The new baby queen, Virginia Gilligan, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Gilligan, of Abington, Pa., will receive the crown and sceptre of authority from Senator I. Grant Scott, commissioner of public affairs.

With

splendor _ , ceremony which surrounds the crowning of the baby queen is expected to be even more elaborate this year than it has been in

the past.

The coronation program and the juvenile revue whieo will

i will follow

it are -under the direction of Miss Jerry Love, talented daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halsey Love, of Cape May, who has been conducting the kiddies' revues and dancing dassesT'at Convention ffid! this season. Queen Maysea XVI will succeed Betty Carey Dunning, of Baltimore, who has held the honorary title since her coronation last August. The new queen will reign for a year. The queen and her court will be elaborately costumed in keeping with the custom of former yearsAmong the members of the new queen’s court will be Stephanie Steger, Cape May, princess; Bet-

ty Lou Hughes, Cape May, hostess princess; Nancy Lee Miller, Betty Hawkins, Alice Kadel, of Cape May, Jan is Ed sal I and Judy Ann Killeen, West Cape May, and Gail Love Rcniessen, of Philadelphia, flower girls; Charlotte Warner, Cape May, maid of honor; and Mary Frances Gilligan, Abington, and Nancy Taylor, Cape May, attendants. Preparations for the coronation are being rounded out this week as rehearsals and plans for the event progress. There will be no kiddies' revue tomorrow night as the juvenile performers prepare for the coronation and all-star show next

week.

Cottagers Plan Supper Meeting The fourth annual suppernu eting of the Cape May Summer Cottagers’ Association will be held Saturday, August 21. at 7:30 p. m., at the Kiwanis club house on Beach drive, above Madison avenue, it was announced Tuesday as plans for the event progressed. Guests of honor at the supper, which will -be an informal departure from its predecessors, will include Mayor T Millet Hand, Mrs. Albert R. Hand, Senator *and Mrs. 1. Grant Scott, Commissioner and Mrs. George Wentzell, and Mr. and Mrs. John J. .Spencer. Jr. Mr. Spencer is president of the Cape May Kiwanis Club. Members of the supper committee are George C. Clarke, Mrs. A. Giraud Foote, Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Godwin, Mrs. Charles F. Mitchell and J. Harold Watson. Thomas Hart, three-time president of the association, will serve as toastmaster at the supper meeting. Acceptances will be received by Mrs. Hart, secretary of the association. Music and community singing ill be in charge of Mrs. Jesse Rutherford and R. Clifton Ware. The supper will be served by Baptiste, a well known Philadelphia caterer. A large attendance of members and friends of the Cottagers' Association is expected to attend the supper meeting, which has become one of the highlights of the organization's annual program. While there will be no formal addresses, guests of honor will bring greetings to the association and officers of the association will peak briefly.

Plans for the dedication of the Community Honor Roll, which will be a tribute to men and women of Cape May, West Cape May, Lower Township and Cape May Point who are now in the nation's armed forces, are nearing completion as the sub-committee in charge of the dedication program

completing arrangements for

ie event which will take place i Sunday, August 22, at 12:30 The honor roll, now under conIruction beside the First Methodist Church, will contain a list of approximately 500 names of men and women in the various branches of the armed services

during the present war.

A brief dedication program, featuring short addresses by a number of prominent officials and other speakers, is being arranged by a committee headed by Steven

Steger and Donald W. Lear.

\ large attendance, composed of residents and visitors of all communities in this locality, is ixpectqd to be present at the ded-

SPEED PLANS FOR DEDICATION OF HONOR ROLLON AUGUST 22

ication ceremony. The event will follow a patriotic theme. The honor roll will be one of the most attractive in this section. members of the committee said this week. The preliminary sketches, adopted by the committee as the design for the board indicate that it will be appropriately decorated and will be one of the most beautiful boards of its kind in New Jersey. Contributions from residents and visitors who wish to aid in the financing and maintenance of the honor roll are being received by the committee. A list of names which will appear on the honor roll is published on page seven of this issue of The Star and Wave. Any additions. alterations or corrections should be forwarded immediately to Clarence D. Fisher, chairman of the honor roll committee, at the Atlantic City Electric Company Office, 210 Ocean street, Cape May.

Scout Leader To Be Chosen By Group Organized Boy Scout programs will be launched in all Cape May County communities shortly after September 15, it was disclosed today with an announcement that a field scout executive for Cape May and Cumberland Counties will be selected by that time. Russell C. Lauver, present Scout executive of the Cumberland County Council, with which Cape May County became affiliated last week, will assume the duties of Scout executive for the ?w council. The committee named to select the new field scout executive consists of R. N. Chubb, C. E. Nash, Max Schrank, all of Cumberland , County, and Jesse D. Ludlain, John J. Kay, and Charles A. Swain, of Cape May County. Consolidation of Scout activies in the two counties was brought about to provide a better program for scouting for more boys of both Cumberland and Cape May Counties.

itches was brought ly afternoon when boats brought in 90,000 pounds of fish. Mayor George A. Rhdding, president of the Cold Spring Fish and

under Captain Knnte Aspenberg, unloaded 60,000'pounds of weakfish, while the “A*pen,” under 'Captain Hildiag Peterson, brought in 3ISOOO pounds. Th* Catch were made five

Bean Season Off COURT HOUSE—Cape May

County factory bean growers face the lightest harvest since the crop was introduced here, Henry -H. White, county agricultural

agent, reported this week. “Most of the fields harvested

tc dat; have barely met costs,”

White said. “Growers fear even _ __ _ lighter yields on the later plant- ployed in Spokane, Wash.,

Chicago Coiiple Win Waltz Contest Here Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Barich, of Chicago, 111., who are vacationing in Cape May, won the waltz contest at Convention Hall Monday evening. Runners-up were Mr. and Miss Logan, of Turtle Creek, Pa., a brother-and-sister dancing team. A committee of judges for the waltz contest finals which will be held at the end of the season is being arranged by Edward P. Griffin, floor manager of Convention Hall. Mr. Griffin has invited a number of outstanding dance instructors to serve as judges for the event.

WILLSON QUALIFIES FOR ADVANCED TRAINING

SUIT Sergeant Allen F. Willson’, Jr., who recently entered a training school at Moscow, Idaho, qualified with a high average wnong several hundred students in a competitive examination for the advanced mechanical engineering course under, the Army student training unit at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arix. Sergeant Willson will be joined shortly by his wife, who is em-

Firemen To Have Fund

Raising Campaign

WEST CAPE MAY—A house-i-house canvass in West Cape May and the southern section of Lower Township will be conducted by the West Cape May Volunteer Fire Company on.August 16 and 17 and August 23 and 24 to eollect donations to assist in financing the company's operation. Unable to have a firemen's carnival to raise funds as in the past, due to dimout regulations, the borough firemen plan to conduct a fund-raising campaign similar to the one carried out

successfully last August.

Officers of the company this week appealed to the public of West Cape May and the lower section of the township to support the work of the company through donations during the

week of the campaign.

Envelopes wil be distributed to all residents of the area on August 16 and 17 and will be col-

lected the following week.

Purple Heart Given To Reinhart’s Family A purple heart medal has been posthumously awarded to Robert B. Reinhart, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Reinhart, of 915 Sewell avenue, Cape May, and Heath road, Marion Station, Philadelphia. his parents were informed last week. Reinhart was killed March 25 in the crash of a bomber during a patrol flight. _ He was a corporal in the Army Air Corps and was a radar operator on the' bomber at the time of his death. He was last based at Boca Chica Air Field. In a letter to his father, Robert P. Patterson, acting secretary of war, wrote: “You will shortly receive the Purple Heart medal, which has been posthumously awarded by direction of the President to your son. Corporal Robert B. Reinhart, Jr., Air Corps. It is sent as a tangible expression of the country’s gratitude for his gallantry and devotion. “It is sent to you, as well, with my deepest personal sympathy for your bereavement. The loss of a loved one is beyond man's repairing, and the medal is of slight value; not so, however, the message it carries. Wc are all comrades in arms in this battle for our country and those who have gone are not, and never will be, forgotten by those of us who remain. I hope you will accept the medal in evidence of such remembrance." Acting Secretary Patterson wrote.

I . No Relief Costs For the third consecutive month. Cape May had no relief expenditures during July, it was reported Friday at the commission meeting by Senator I. Grant Scott, who heads the city’s wel-

fare department. ”

Fish Boat Captain Injured At Sea WILDWOOD — A commercial fishing boat raced back to port Sunday when its captain received a severe injury when a large hook became imbedded in the sole

of his left foot

Olaf Johnson, 62, of 206 East Young avenue, captain of a boat operated for the Union Fish Company, met with the accident 25 ■miles at sea as the boat was returning home with a Urge catch

of fish. . i Suffering from intense pain, he Norwegian Relief; Upi ted Czech gave orders for the boat to speed oslovak Fund; Belgian War ReLo shore. He wai treated at the lief Society; and Refugee Relief

Mace Hospital Trustees.

At Conference

MRS. M. R. HOENER Who will speak at sessions of the second annual Cape May Bible and Missionary Conference which will open at the Cape Island Baptist Church on Sunday and continue for a week.

Preliminary Tests For Draft Friday large number of southern Cape May County men will be given their preliminary physical examinations by Selective Service examiners at the Mace Hospital, North Wildwood, Friday evening, clerks of the local Selective Scree Board announced today. While the number of men called for examination was not disclosed, compliance with war-time censorship rules, board officials indicated that the group will be approximately the same size as that examined several weeks ago. Most of the registrants to be examined tomorrow are married men. with the only single men being those who have recently been reclassified or who have just ttained the age of 18, board aides said. Those who pass the preliminary tests will go to the Camden induction center for final examinations in mid-September.

War Fund Campaign To Open At County Meeting Tonight

COURT HOUSE—Cape May County's War Fund Campaign will be launched tonight at a meeting of the war fund committee here. The meeting has been called by Judge French B. Loveland, who will head the - county campaign that will raise funds for a group of war-time organi-

zations.

The national war fund will be distributed among the United Service Organizations, the British War Relief Society; United China Relief; Queen Mfilhelmina Fund; Greek War Relief Association; Polish War Relief; United Yugoslav Relief Fund; U. S. Committee for Care of European Children; French Relief Fund;

Plans for the intensive county drive to raise Cape May County's share of the national fund will be formulated at ^night's meeting. Representatives of virtually all county communities will attend the session at the court room here to discuss the campaign and prepare to launch it in their own communities. The county-drive will coincide with a nationwide campaign to raise funds for the various war relief organizations. Leaders in - all county communities have received preliminary plans for the campaign enthusiastically, pointing out that the present plan to centralize the fund raising activities for all wartime purposes will eliminate confusion and annoyance both to drive workers and the public.

City Will Await Orders On Ante Parking Lights Cape May’s city commission on Friday moved to await a order from the Army’s Service Command before i cancellation of local'enfo of traffic regulations requiring parking lights on all vehicles parked on city streets after dart The commissioners were informed on Friday, in a letter from H. E. d'Andrade, lighting engineer of the Office of Civilian Defense in New Jersey, that a ruling by Governor Charles Edi-, son, effective August 1, superseded the parking light regulation 1 and made its enforcement a violation of the dimout rules.. Several months ago d'Andrade discussed the parking light attuation with city officials, who, at that time, said they would not take the responsibility for countermanding enforcement of tha state law. They pointed out that under dimout conditions, parking without lights created an acci-

dent hazard.

Renewing his request that the city drop its enforcement of the parking light law, d’Andrade cited the Governor’s recent ruling, under war emergency powers, superseding the long-standing parking light regulations. “We do not wish to quibble about this matter, but at the same time we do not wish to take the responsibility for creating a definite accident hazard unless we receive specific orders to abandon attempts to enforce the park- _ light regulations in the interests of public safety,” Mayor T. Millet Hand explained after d'Andrade's request had been read. “If the Army or the Office of Civilian Defense will issue orders telling us to discontinue enforcement of the law, we will naturally comply, although we will do ao with grave misgivings, because we know that unlighted parked cars caused a number of accidents in Cape May before we began strict orcement of the law. Since that time, that type of accident has been eliminated.” Commenting on d’Andrade’s report that Cape May lights were visible at sea on a recent Inspection trip. Mayor Hand said: "I agree with Mr. d’Andrade’s suggestions that while the dimout is generally well enforced in Cape May, there has been some relaxation in some instances locally. I call upon all occupants of beachfront houses and hotels to observe the dimout regulations scrupu-

Lightning Damages Two Cape Homes One of the most violent electrical storms to strike this area in reecnt years camaged at least two houses in Cape May Tuesday evening. Part of a chimney was knocked from a house at 115 Reading avenue at the height of the storm shortly before 9 o'clck when a bolt of lightning struck it. The bouse is occupied by the Parker MacPhersons. of Maryland. No me was injured. In the next block, lightning jumped an electrical switch box in the home of J. W. Brown, at the corner of Reading and Maryland avenues, starting a fire. Cape May firemen quickly extinguished the blaze before serious damage was done. Lightning struck the flagpole at the Franklin Street School, shattering it and scattering piecee of wreckage over a wide area. Tuesday’s storm, credited with being one of the most violent in several years here, brought the first real rain this area has had for nearly a month. Farmers, whose crops have suffered badly from drought, said Tuesday's rain came too late to be of much assistance.

— Two Cape May WACs Given Promotions " Auxiliaries (1c) Elizabeth E. Harris and Elizabeth F. Jones, Cape May's first WACs, who enlisted in the Woman's Army Corps several months ago, have been promoted to the rating of corporal technician fifth grade, it was learned this ibeek by their families. Both WACs are stationed nfi air fields in California. CorpoAl Harris is stationed at Lamore Air Field, and Corporal Jones is stationed nearby at Minterfield Army Air Base, Bakers Field, Cal. The two Cape May girls enlisted together and went through their bask training together ; '

CHURCH PROMOTED Private Elmer Church, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Church, of 1012 Lafayette street, who has been stationed at Brookly Field, Ala., has been advanced to the . rating of corporal, his parents, learned this week.