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anybody else who wants to drop
down to the Municipal Center at
o'clock tonight will witness an in
cendiary bomb demonstration. The
demonstration will be at the west
end of the building. Also present
will be Col. Lemuel Bolles. eXecu-
tive director of civilian defense for
the metropolitan area.
Officers and enlisted men of the
United States and her Allies will be
admitted free to concerts of the
National Symphony Orchestra, Dr.
Hans Kinder, its conductor. an
nounced today. The first concert
to which they are invited Is to be
presented tonight at Constitution
Hall.
The Soviet Ambassador, Maxim
Litvinoff, is expected to attend this
evenings performance, in honor OF
the inclusion on the program of the
musical fairy tale, Peter and the
Wolf" by the Soviet's most noted
composer, Prokofieff.
A mass meeting to make civilian
defense plans for the Friendship
Heights area will be held tonight at
o'clock at the Woodrow Wilson
High School, under the direction of
Leonard Tucker, chairman of the
Civilian Defense Committee in the
area. Pvt. R. A. Williams of No. 8
precinct will speak on air raid work.
The call for 900 additional volun-
teer firemen was repeated yesterday
by the District Defense Council.
Volunteers have been promised in
struction in daytime classes If they
cannot attend evening classes, and
Fire Chief Stephen Porter said that
any group Of from Is to Is men could
obtain instruction as a unit II 1t Is
desired Volunteers may register at
any of the city's fire engine stations.
1t. Comdr. Samuel Singer, liaison
officer between the Navy and the
Office Of Civilian Defense, outlined
duties of afraid wardens at meet
ing of Georgetown wardens at West
ern High School last night. He told
the group that go Army officers were
now in training at the Edgewood Ar
senal preparatory to being sent. on
completion Of their courses. to diff
ferent cities to instruct citizens In
AFRAID defense measures.
The Nations libraries have been
urged by Mrs. Franklin d. Roosevelt,
as assistant director of Civilian De-
fense. to form special collections Of
literature on all phases of the war
Although the library program is in
its initial stages. 1t Is hoped that
librarians will make an immediate
start toward collecting and correlat-
ing defense data from official and
other sources.
Mrs. Roosevelt has assigned Mary
Louise Alexander, library expert and
special assistant Of the o. c. D., to
the task OF placing the program
before the librarians of the Nation.
A library of information of defense
and related subjects already is being
organized in Washington, at O.C.D.
headquarters.
First-aid classes. sponsored by the
Red Cross. are to be organized at |
Taft Junior High School, Quincy
street and South Dakota avenue
NE. at 8 pm. tomorrow. DR.. A.
Fife Heath will direct instruction of
which are to be based on
the standard ffrst-aid course.
Deputy Fire Chief Clement MUIR
ply, afraid warden for the Metro
politan Area of Washington, ad-
dressed more than 300 persons last
night at the Eastern Star Home
on afraid precaution. Presiding
over the meeting was Chairman
Michael Finan, Of the Chillum |,
Heights Defense Committee.
Jack Kotz and A. E. Hack have
been named wardens for sector sos.
of Zone s, Dupont Circle defense
area. More than $50 persons at
tended a sector meeting at 1914
Seventeenth street NV, Monday
night. The Harrowgate Apartments,
1888 New Hampshire avenue NV,
was organized at a meeting attended
by more than 400 persons.
An "open-house afternoon" will be
sponsored at the Washington He
brew Congregation Sunday by the