Evening star., 1943-07-28
Civilian Defense
Veterans 10 GeV
Awards FRIDAY
Presentations to Be
Made After Parade
To Recruit Volunteers

Washington civilian defense pa
rade Friday evening, the beginning
Of q two week recruiting campaign
for 10000 more volunteers, will be
made the occasion of honoring vet
eran volunteers In the service.
While final plans were being COM
pleted today for the which
will include representatives OF the
forces, patriotic organizations
and civilian defense workers the
Commissioners ou n ce d new
awards would be presented to VOL
unteerS who have served 5000 hours
or more.
These will be presented as high
light of ceremonies to be staged in
front of the District Building be-
tween 7:45 and BIAS pm Friday, aft
er the parade. which will be dis
banded at Fifteenth street N. w.
One With 5000 Hours
George E. Cox, assistant deputy
warden for the Dupont Circle area.
the only volunteer with 5000 hours
service, tops the list. for the special
awards.
Those to receive awards for 1000
hours service include: Chief Air
Raid Warden William J. Mileham.
Haywood Saunders, assistant chief
warden; j. Sanders of the Evacua-
ton Authority: Frances w. Lucas,
an assistant deputy air-raid warden:
J. A. Brown of the transportation
unit, and George L. Strong Daniel c.
Long, Walter c. Lockhard and H. @.
Long of the Rescue Squad.
Awards for 5000 hours service will
be presented to Hartman R. Keefer,
Martha M Nash, Thomas w. San
doz, S. c. Tupman, Rowland Speer,
William C. Mcconnell, Joseph B.
Levy, Paul M. Yohe, S. Alfred Nash
and Bertha C. Stroberg. all in the
warden service; Mrs. Harry S. Bern
ton, Mrs. H. L. Rust, ir., Mrs. j. K.
jr., of the Volunteer Office: and
Eveas F. McCartley, Frank w. Dyer.
Robert G. Mcclure. Charles Hender-
son and Norman J. Moll of the Aux
iliary Police
Lands to Speak.
Principal speaker at the District
Building ceremonies is to be James
M Lands, national civilian defense
director Capt H. C. Whitehurst,
director of the District Civilian De-
fense Department, will speak and
James E. Colliflower will read Presi-
dent Roosevelts letter on the re-
cruiting campaign. Fred A. Smith,
general chairman for the campaign,
will preside.
The Commissioners have pro-
claimed Sunday as civilian defense
Sunday and have asked clergymen
of all faiths to encourage their con-
gregations to volunteer in some
branch of the local protective serv-
ices. The city heads issued the fol-
lowing statement:
Three years ago. the first Of
large group of patriotic citizens en-
rolled as volunteers for civilian de-
fense work, and the now fine units
of air-raid Wardens. auxiliary fire.
men. auxiliary police. rescue squads.
communications groups, emergency
medical transportation service.
public works and utility organiza-
tions were formed
Volunteer Stats Depleted.
Thousands have been trained
and made ready for emergency.
However, the demand Of the armed
forces for personnel. war production
facilities and essential Government
tai work has somewhat depleted this
fine army of civilian volunteers.
ITO bring this great service back
to the numerical strength which it.
once enjoyed. it is necessary that
recruits be obtained and trained.
1T is not for us to evaluate the
enemies prowess less than do the
leaders of our fighting forces. With
an enemy made desperate by loss
of men and materials and on his
launches from the force of our
fighting men, he will take all
chances to strike at the heart of the
greatest arsenal in the world-the
United States-and the nerve center
of the arsenal. the Nations Capital.
Let us throw off our smugness which
bears the imprint of thoughts that
we cannot be bombed: let us realize
that we can and may be bombed
and prepare accordingly.
Every person IL wears OF age or
over should share in the responsible
ity of preparing to meet the attack
if and when it comes. Members of
civilian defense not only must pro-
tect themselves but it is their per-
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