Evening star., 1941-12-10
Suburban Areas
Formulating
Air Raid Plans
Meetings Set Today;
Virginia Localities
Speed Registration


fire departments in Montgomery
County, Md, will be co-ordinated
at two meetings today while the
Arlington County Va) air raid SyS-
, tenn was being organized with more
than 300 volunteers reporting at the
newly opened headquarters in the
county courthouse. Both Arlington
and Alexandria pushed civilian de-
fense registrations.
Albert E. Brault, chairman of the
Montgomery County Civilian De-
fense Council. said dismissal of
school children will be co-ordinated
with the air raid alarm signals in
each community in order to avoid
confusion and to get the promptest
action possible.
During the general air raid warn
ing that spread along the Atlantic
seaboard yesterday several schools
notified directly through the Bethes-
da control center were dismissed
about 1:30 pm. The same order
was being transmitted to other
schools through the school board in
Rockville, but was countermanded
before the pupils went home
Chevy Chase Fire Chiefs to Meet.
At a meeting of all fire chiefs
tonight in the Chevy Chase Fire De-
partment arrangements for central
control setup for the three areas
into which the county has been di-
vided will be worked out. All fire
departments in each area. the
eastern and western suburban dis
tricts and the upper part of the
county. will be provided with direct
connections to the control center
of that area so that signals can
be given without delay as soon as
received from the filter center in
Baltimore
The district air raid Wardens are
Joseph B. Simpson. jr. for the
eastern suburban district; James
C. Christopher, for the western
suburban district. and Donald A.
De Lashmutt, for the Rockville dis
trict. Arch Macdonald is chief air
raid warden for the county.
The, county commissioners have
provided $1,000 donation for
council expenses and issued an
appeal for private donations, naming
Joseph A Cantrel treasurer of the
Defense Fund Committee. Mr.. Can
trel said contributions should be
sent to him or to council head
quarters in the National Guard
Armory in Silver Spring.
Dentists Offices to Be Used.
Arrangements have been made to
Use dentists Offices in the county for
flrst-aid stations and drug stores
for emergency dressing stations, Mr..
Brault said. About 1900 qualified
Red Gross first-aid grad
uates will be catalogued according
to residence and others wishing to
qualify will be assigned to a class at
once, Mr.. Brault said.
Alfred D. Noyes. regional direc-
tor of the State Defense Council,
will meet today with Wilton T. Allen,
deputy air raid warden for the
county; Edwin w. Broome, county
school superintendent, and Police
Chief Andrew M Newman to COM
plete details for safety of school
children during AFRAID warnings.
According to present plans an air
raid warden will be named for each
school to arrange for dismissal of
classes when the alert signal is
sounded by the fire department
siren.
The county Board of Education
yesterday authorized the Montgom-
cry County Teachers Association to
cooperate with Defense Council Of
ficials through its Committee on De-
fense. and the Federated Parent
Teacher Association of the county
set up an Emergency Defense Com
mittee to be headed by George Ses-
senden of Woodside.
F.. Freeland Chew, deputy air-raid
warden for Arlington County, issued
an order to all county wardens to at
tend a meeting at 7:30 pm. tomor-
row at Washington-Lee High School
Mr.. Chew appointed two assistant
deputy wardens in Arlington today.
They are R. G.. ThomaSSet, 724 North
Ivy street, and George Damn, 34l4
North Pershing drive.
Arlington Guard Being Formed.
Plans were progressing for the
organization of an Arlington COM
pany of the Virginia Protective
Force. for which a $1,000 appropria-
lNt-t tJon TnIl11ty- Pho r6
Monday. Charles Harrison Mann,
member of the V. P F. company in
Alexandria, said about two dozen
men have called his home asking
to enlist in the State defense unit.
Registration of volunteers for all
types of civilian defense work in
Arlington County was begun late
yesterday at 3159 Wilson boulevard,
under supervision of Mrs. Beulah
Shipley Goss.
Mrs. Goss announced the Office
would be open from 9 am. to 9 pm.
on week days in resumption of the
registration begun last summer.
She explained that the office
would accept registrations from
volunteers for all kinds of work and
then refer them to the specific units
desiring their services.
Robert T. Atkinson, chief deputy
aid raid warden of Alexandria. an
nounced the names of two assistants
and four group wardens.
The assistant deputy wardens are
Mai. J. A. Maigret, 306 Hume ave-
nue., and Robert S. Lyle, 515 Duke
street. The group wardens are John
C. Scott, 1912 Stonewall road; G
Anderton Burt, 421 South Lee street;
Howard w. Smith, jr., 609 Queen
street, and Walter ]. Dunlap, 34O7
Cameron Mill road.
Four registration posts will be
open tomorrow and Friday for all
persons in the Alexandria district
who failed to register for civilian
defense on the first call for volun-
teers last summer, Mrs. William E.
Warne, chairman of registration, an
nounced.
Location of the registration posts
will be the Columbia Fire House on
the 100 block of South ST. Asaph
street, the lobby of the Reed Theater
at the head of King street, the o..
S. o. headquarters in the Armory