The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-07
PEARL HARBoR. ONE YEAR AETER;.
 All Hawaii Is Now Organized To Repel Another Jap Attack
n2 RETTY MACDONALD

 house 0 town. People were walking toward . little white church wherI bells were tolliae for 6 eNelocs Mass Boys were playing toss ball m the street The only Quickened pAllSe beat on that lazy Sunday morning began Co surge from uay cor radio
 Inc announcer kept repeating, The island Is under attack"
 There was tho usual queue Al the corner elralgSsore. Cars titled with fishing gear, throw nets and singing HNwalians, passed on theiS to the beach for a Sunday outing
 The radio announcer was Insist. ant ~rake cover This Is the real Mccoy"
 Suddenly, just a block ahead of me. I heard an explosion, A parked car became sudden mass of flames, A plate glass window across the street Splattered into Q million fragments. A man stand- ing at the street cortrsf fell down, holding his stomach.
 Ambulanees screamed in to the emergency hospital with first ei- william casualties some of them friends of mine who had been working in their yards. There was the charred body of a little girl In the morgue, with the burnt Stumps of a jump rope Still clutched in her hands, And from Pearl Aarbor came the constant rumble of explosions, Bremen, n,,urned with clo hes burned off their backs told of havoc at the air field, where soldiers bodseS and arms and legs lay scattered la the hot, dusty grass.
 1t happened Q year ago, and Honolulu is no longer anybody'S home town. It's on an all-out war hasas.
 All year, the civilian community has lived under military law. The territorial office of Civilian Defense started six months before the at. tack with 5000 men and women, is now a well-organised unit of moro than 3o,co0 persons.
 h the past twelve months, tho OCD has provided the residents CT the territory with 200 splinter lroof bomb shelters and barri- cadeS. Early in the war, family heacS were instructed by th1 military to provide their depend- ents with shelters, and today the grass grows green over these humps of land in eu:ryone's back yard,
 GAS MASKS FOR ALL
 Ia addition, gas masks have been distributed to the more than le6,- nOO caucasians. Japanese Chinese Fiiiplnos and Hawaiians that make up the islands polyglot population Tn Honolulu alone, 25 decontamina ton stations have been erected Tor use during or after gas attacks.
 The red tape of government was cleanly cut with the establish ment of military law, and Hawai- today is a community where or. ders are carried out quickly an0 efficiently. In the months thai followed Pearl Harbor, the entire population was iingerprinted, blood typed, registered and immunized Every woman in the territory has been registered for work, to take her place beside the men in a com munity where Idle hands are not welcomed. inc lights that once garlanded the city at night are never turned on. Automobile headlights arc hooded. Night life died on that gay Saturday, December 6, year ago
 Waterfront areas are under cons.a ant guard. Entire residential areas have been evacuated and householecrs have moved their homes to the hills for safety Evacuation camps have been es- tablished in the deep valleys be- hind the town. Even the cur rncy has been stamped Hawai- in red letters across each bill so an invading force never can make use of money which would be immediately invalidaied by the government in case Hawaii fell tc the Japs.
 Gasoline, food and liquor ra- tioning are part of daily living and the once sparkling tourist town of Honolulu is a weird oe- sign in camouflage.
 The population has been in- creased by armies of defense work- CTS from the mainland, and de- creased by the evacuation of wom- en and children who have set up temporary homes in the United States.
 That is what happened to the American community of Hawai- The Army evisions an even more drastic change.
 Because Hawaii is on the Pa" c,fic front lire, the military gov ernor of Hawaii, General Delos Q. Emmons, is constantly on the alert for another Jap attack. Realistically, the Army would like to see Hawaii purely as a fortress, with no civilians to ham, per activities.
 Ths. work of making the isalnd real fortress has progressed. Anyone who walks down the street can see the changes. There are Uun emplao.ments, restricted areas, froous everywhere, and unheraided convoys bring more and more sup plies 10 this Pacific Gibraltar.
 Reinforcements which poured in to Hawaii after the war found at first only hastily erected quarters or none at all. Now these mar are living in permanent quarters New defense positions taken up at the outbreak of hostilities are also permanent and relatively c. lfort- able. Recreation centers have been established, department newspa- per has been iaunche .dand USO troopes make the regular ca.i.p cir- cult with ntersairment.
 During the past year. Honolu- lans have watched the Army train- ing in maneuvers that covered every phase of defence and counter-at- tack. Tanks have rambled down back alleys. highways have been theoretically bombed, planes have laid smoke screens over a city Snp oOtfnF