Evening star., 1942-07-22
BIuckout
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The tracks and roundhouses were
aglare.
Wardens Applaud Outburst.
IF you were a bombardier, you
could easily have found any point
in the city by locating Union Station.
They didn't black out because they
were exempted. Who the hell ex-
empted them?"
This remark brought an outburst
of applause from the wardens, who
have been demanding stricter en-
forcement of the blackouts.
Informed of the criticism, Ber-
nard r. Tolson, manager of Union
Station, declined to discuss measures
taken to darken the building and
its yards, adding that the question
was too technical, too confidential,
too military"
He said he was in personal direc-
ton of the blackout at the station
and that the same procedure was
followed during the surprise test as in
previous raids, but with even better
results"
Dean Lands opened his speech
with the statement that Washington
had gone long way in its AFRAID
precautions, "but not far enough"
II was over the city of Washington
at about 1000 feet last night and it
wasn't too nice a sight. 1t took II
minutes to get the street lights out.
spot after spot was slow in eff
fecting observation. Massachusetts
avenue near Union Station took a
long time to get the lights out. Ana
costa was blaze of lights. ! didn t
feel too happy.
THE last blackout here, when
plenty of notice was given, was
pretty good. This one didn't come
anywhere near. But these are con-
ditions which you wardens can
correct. There are things here that
worry me more. 1t takes consent of
between IL and IA authorities here
to get action"
Cites Boulevard Lights.
The Federal OCD director then
cited Union Station as horrible
example and continued:
There were the lights on the
Mount Vernon boulevard. They
were on during the last blackout
I wrote letter to the Interior De-
partment and I got reply from the
fourth assistant secretary. He said
he had taken the matter up with the
park police and they said the lights
were off.
Il checked with the military OBJ
servers and they said the lights
were not Off. I wrote the fourth
assistant secretary again and told
him. Last night, the lights on the
Mount Vernon boulevard were
That is just cited t61 Snow the
conditions you have to put up with
in Washington.
Monday night the airplane warn
ing lights on the radio towers around
the airports were blazing Maybe
they could put them out if enemy
bombers were overhead. 1t is q
very difficult thing. We don't know
whether they can do it. They don't
know either"
At the Office of National Capita
Parks an official admitted that ap-
proximately five miles of Noun
Vernon boulevard were lighted dur.
| ing nearly all Of the blackout.
Not Enough Police.
He said these lights were con.
trolled by two of seven contro
switches along the highway Al
agreement had been made that thu
Army unit stationed at Fort Hunt
Va, should turn off the switch 10
Gated there, he declared, and an al
raid warden at wellington Will;
should attend to the other. Boil
arrangements failed, he said. Th
lights were shutoff by park polio,
about 40 minutes after the yellow
signal flashed.
Not enough park police are avail
able to tend the switches, the offlcia
said, adding that he believed presen
arrangements will work next time.
Dean Lands told the wardens tha
no city in the country has a goo
fire watcher organization and sal
that such a group was essential
because of the improvement in tn
use of incendiary bombs.
Cascade" Alert Fails.
Afraid Warden Chief William }
Mileham told the deputies that tn