Evening star., 1941-11-15
DC. Air Raid Wardens
Get First Test Today
In Simulated Attack
Demonstration of
Fire Bombs to Be Held
At Monument Grounds

Washington's volunteer air raid
Wardens will get their first test to-
day as the city and the Nation
observes Civilian Protection Day"
as part of Civilian Defense Week
proclaimed by President Roosevelt.
A test of the wardens' communi-
cation systems, the demonstration
will be climaXed tonight at 7:30
o'clock on the Monument Grounds
with p simulated air raid attack
and incendiary bomb display To
give the affair realistic touch, an
Army plane will fly over the area
and drop flares.
At noon today Capt. Herbert A.
Friede, superintendent of the Dis
trict fire alarm system, was TO issue
orders to each of the city's deputy
WardenS to assemble volunteers in
the Districts SO defense areas. BY
whatever means available the dep
uties were to reach their assistants
and by 5 pm. they were to report
to Capt, Friede on their success in
op foiStAiSNSio'
Leaders Take Oaths.
Written reports of the deputies
will have to be in the hands of Col.
Lemuel Bolles, executive director of
the District Defense Council, by the
start of tonight's demonstration.
Six of the seven leaders of pro-
tective services established under
the defense council here were sworn
in yesterday afternoon in the Office
OF Commissioner John Russell
Young, who told them they had
undertaken tough jobs" The group
was sworn in by Geoffrey NJ. Thorn
ett. secretary to the Board of Com
miSSiOners.
The seven "cniefS" are: Fire Chief
Stephen T. Porter. who is chief Of
the fire-fghting service; Maj. Ed
ward J. Kelly, superintendent OF
police, head of the civilian defense
police service: Battahan Chief
Clement Murphy. chief of the air
raid warden service: DR.. John A
Reed, chief of the medical emer-
eency service: P. Y. K. HoWat. chief
of public works: C Melvin Sharpe
chief of utilities service. and Capt
Friede. Dr.. Reed will be sworn in
later.
More than a thousand persons
viewed an incendiary bomb demon
Str3tiOn in Woodrow Wilson High
School Stadium last night. follow
ing a rally in the school auditorium
A similar demonstration and mass
meeting were staged earlier in the
evening at Dunbar High School.
Mock Raid Is Staged.
Under the direction of Chief Mur-
ply. the demonstrations gave real
istic touch to the theme of speakers
at the rallies-the preparation OF
Washington civilians for any emer-
gency. including that OF air raids.
Erected on the Wilson field was a
typical street of a city. complete
with a row Of homes and watchful
wardens. At the sound of an air
raid siren, the stadium was dark
ened and citizens, represented by
Wilson students. we're ordered off
the street"
With the approach of imaginary
planes, anti aircraft fire in the form
of shotguns began. A small shack
in the street was set on fire and
auxiliary fremen quickly extin-
guished it. A l0-pound thermite
incendiary bomb was then ignited
and in short time it had burned
through steel plate dropped into a
bucket Of water below and continued
TO burn until the chemicals were
exhausted
FirSt-Aid Demonstration.
There then followed a display Of
the effect of tWo-pound magnesium
bombs which were only extinguished
by fine spray of water played over
them.
The demonstration concluded with
a volunteer first aid corps bearing
a wounded" warden from the scene
to a hospital Capt Harold F. Hard
ing of the Fire Department Training
School announced the various stages
of a raid. Volunteers in the depart
ment served as wardenS. plane spot
terS and first aid men.
Earlier Col. Bolles and three other