Evening star., 1941-12-11

ton Management, that the District
possesses about six tons Of alumni
mum available for national defense.
The aluminium, which was used
for construction of traffic light sig
mails, is in sheets or strips of from
51a feet to 7 feet inches long by 85s
inches wide. About three tons of the
metal Is scrap.
The Commissioners said they
would be very glad to donate the
material for national defense use
if Mr.. Knudsen could get it into
production.
White House attaches went shop
ping today for materials to make
blackout curtains. The windows of
the Executive Mansion have been
measured and preparations COM
pleted to blackout the building i'm
mediately in case of an AFRAID
warning
Maj. Edward J. Kelly, superin-
tendent of police, today called on all
Washingtonians with knowledge OF
boats or boating to register with
the harbor police for possible duty
as auxiliary harbor policemen.
John A. Rees, president, WASH
ington Branch, No. 7, Society of the
Third Division, has sent letter to
the President offering the services
of the veterans group.
1--WE tender our services both as
| individuals and as unit" he wrote.
Harry c. Grove. president Of the
| Connecticut Avenue Citizens AS
! sociation and chairman of its Civil
ian Defense Committee, announced
that a meeting of his association
| tonight will be devoted to the or
ganization of zone and sector air
raid wardens. The meeting will take
place at pm In parish hall of All
Souls Memorial Episcopal Church,
Cathedral avenue and Woodley place
NV.
| Perry L. Jacobs was named deputy
warden for the Kingman Park area
at a recent meeting of the King
man Park Civic Association. A.
Auten, E. G. Fraction and Lawrence
Crop were made assistant deputy
wardens of the civilian defense unit. !
The following were named to the |
Defense Committee: Mrs. Willie B.
Payne, chairman: Mrs. Martha c.
Simpson, Mrs. Julia Marsh. William !
Johnson and Maurice Weeks,
A permanent Advisory Committee,
including C. j. Quander, chairman; |
Mrs. Phoebe Nelson, secretary, and
John H. Carter, also was designated. |
The Civilian Defense Committee |
Of Chevy Chase will hold meeting |
for all Chevy Chase women at IL |
IN. tomorrow at the E V. Brown |
School, Connecticut avenue and
Mckinley street, NV.
The women will be given oppor-
tunity to enroll in Red Cross courses
in first aid, nutrition. nurses aid |
and home nursing. The meeting |
has been called and will be directed |
by the two women on the Defense
Committee. Miss Margaret Pepper !
principal of the Brown School, and
Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle.
The Central Northeast Civic As
sociation will hold mass meeting
for defense at Smothers School,
Forty fourth and Clay streets NE,
at 8 o'clock tonight.
Western High School had its own
"air-raid alarm" yesterday. AS an ex-
pertinent. school authorities sounded
a prearranged alarm and the build
ing was cleared of students in six |
minutes. Cadet officers went to |
assigned posts in the surrounding |
streets to direct the students and |
traffic In case of an actual raid, |
the students would be ordered to go |
to their homes.
The coldest night of the season |
found soldiers guarding Potomac
bridges and other key points shiver-
ing last night and this morning. But |
Red Cross workers helped by serving |
hot coffee and doughnuts at in
tervals A mobile canteen carried the
Two Chinese newspaper corre-
spondents, Joseph Chang and David
Liu. embarrassed and harassed by |
being mistaken constantly for
japanese subjects by guards at Gov
ernment buildings, have asked the |
State Department to provide them |
with arm bands designating their
friendly nationality. The State De-
partment indicated the request
would be granted quickly.
The Washington chapter of the
American Red Cross reports deluge
of volunteers for war service. All
inactive members of the Red Cross
staff corps living in or near the |
District have been asked to report |
for duty to Mrs. C. B. Mickelwait,
corps chairman, at the chapter |
house, 1870 E street NV.
Visitors to the public galleries Of
the Senate will be closely scrutinized
from now on as wartime precau-
ton. In addition to requiring the
SooOSulidly SdIdS lSSuCu Uy OcIldOIS,
added check probably will be made
by having the waiting line form on
the floor below and visitors escorted
UP to the gallery floor in small
groups.
Men and women of the British
military and naval services and
their auxiliaries began wearing uni
forms today. The decision to take
them out of multi was made after
consultation with United States au-
thorities, who pointed out, the Brit
ish Press Service said, that this was I
customary "in the case of co-bel-
ligerency against common enemy"
1t was done during the last war. In
addition to numerous members of
the British Navy, Army and Royal
Air Force stationed here, there are
about 76 women who belong to the
Women's Auxiliary Air Force. the
Women's Royal Naval Service and |
the Auxiliary Territorial Service.