Evening star., 1941-12-30
S600,00o Ordered
Spent Immediately
For D. {. Defense
Commissioners Declare
Much More Will Be
Needed for Capital
By DON 5. WARREN.


Immediate expenditure of about
100000 for extra personnel and
emergency equipment needed for
Washington's civilian defense ma
chinery was ordered today by the
Commissioners, but the city heads
emphasized this is just start" and
much more money would be needed.
The bill will be paid out of the
81 ,000, 900 appropriated for such pur-
poses in the measure recently signed
by the President authorizing the
Commissioners to stage blackoutS,
evacuate Washington citizens If
necessary and otherwise safeguard
life and property here.
The items in the $600,000 budget
do not include any capital improve
mentS, and the city heads said they
still had hopes the Budget Bureau
would approve use of nearly $1,000
900 of the Presidents emergency
funds for provision of emergency
reservoirs, emergency fire-fighting
equipment and for other capital
investments
The budget ordered today is most
ly for hiring extra help. provision OF
essential equipment for afraid
wardens, auxiliary police and fire.
men, establishment OF casualty and
firSt-air stations, equipment for
training volunteer workers, gas
masks to be used for training pur-
poses and for provision OF 80 more
radio scout cars.
In discussing need for large ad-
ditional sums, Commissioner Young,
civilian defense co-ordinator, said
the Commissioners propose to leave
nothing half done"
Aside from the 18 emergency res
ervoirs. mobile fire-flghting tanks
and other emergency fire-hghting
equipment, it was revealed the Com
missionerS have as yet been unable
to budget projects for water protec-
ton estimated TO cost between 5000
900 and 100000.
Another new item that came up
today from the Interior Department
was a request for $50 900 for black
out and electrical devices for struc-
lures in the Federal park areas here.
The budget approved today under
the blackout act fund called for the
following:
Communication service. Sis 804,
emergency medical service. $65, 1875.
Police Department. s70,330; burlap
bags, for making sand bags. S75 900;
AFRAID shelter survey, $4,000; air.
raid wardens. equipment and sup
plies, S109,634; WorkhouSe and re-
formatory, $7.111; utilities, $40, 100;
and other smaller items.
Three More ID. c. Building Guards.
Among some of the detailed pro-
visions are to be:
Three extra guards and an extra
elevator operator for the District
Building. two more clerks and more
equipment for the purchasing office;
added protective measures, includ-
Ing tear gas grenades and censor
ship black lights for the workhouse
and reformatory; lighting control,
postage and pamphlets for the utili-
tites, secretarial help and a "con-
troll" telephone for the emergency
feeding service: two extra tele-
phone operators for the public
schools. and the following for emer-
gency medical services: Equipment
for first aid posts and casualty sta
tions. S25.0O0; 4S0 stretchers, 2.44o
cots, 4,600 blankets, 1000 steel
helmets and 1000 visibility belts.
For the Police Department the
following equipment is to be pur-
chased: Steel helmets. visibility
belts, badges, traffic whistles, rain
coats, boats. batons. keys, gas masks.
30 more radio scout cars. blackout
lenses for police cars, spotlights,
portable derrick trucks. chain hoists
for bomb-removing machinery, extra
radios and transmitters and a gaso-
/ line auxiliary power plant.
Funds also were approved for ex-
ira help and supplies for the Office
of Civilian Defense Director Lemuel
Bolles.
| For the air-Warden service, aside
from Office supplies. the budget calls
for provision of 10000 visibility belts.
flashlights. helmets and whistles and
variety of equipment for the train
ing OF defense workers in handling
gas and bombing emergencies.