Evening star., 1943-01-24
Bones Moves 10 End
Disputes Involving
0CD Activity Here
Director Schedules
Session Wednesday
In Effort for Unity
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

tdklIS Hanu III tne cOntroVer-
sizes threatening to disrupt civilian
defense here, Col. Lemuel Bolles,
executive director of local OCD. last
night moved to settle differences
between the warden service and
civilian defense area chairmen and
to determine if civilian mobiliza-
ton committees are duplicating the
work of any other agencies.
He took the following steps:
l, Arranged to bring together the
Civilian Defense Councils EXecu-
tive Committee and Chief Afraid
Warden William J. Rs.eham and his
| principal assistants for the first
time to thresh out their differences.
The meeting which will be held be-
hind closed doors was called for
Wednesday night at the Chamber of
Commerce auditorium.
2. Set in motion an inquiry into
Implications of effort, if any, in
civilian mobilization, by requesting
John j. Hasley, his assistant on
civilian mobilization matters. to
meet with key personnel in civilian
mobilization this week with a view
to eliminating any duplication that
might exist.
To Re-Draft Instructions.
3. Selected an advisory group to
re-examine the instructions outlin-
ing the duties of civilian defense
committees, issued last February,
and to re-draft the instructions in
the light of years experience. The
draft will be submitted to the Civil
ian Defense Council for it's recon-
mendations and then presented to
Defense Co-ordinator John Russell
Young.
4. Suggested to Mr.. Mileham that
| three restrictions on the activities
OF afraid wardens be removed
These restrictions bar wardens from
| collecting funds for civilian defense,
prevent them from serving on civil
ian defense committees and pro-
hibit them from doing any civilian
defense jobs outside the warden
service.
All these measures have been rec
commended at one time or another.
either formally or Informally, by
groups in civilian defense. A reso-
luton, proposed Thursday night at
the Civilian Defense Council meet
ing, brought to head previous re-
quests for a clarifcation of the role
of the Civilian Defense Committees,
particularly in their relationship to
the warden service The resolution,
which was referred to the Resolu-
tons Committee, asked for a clear
definition of the position of Civilian
Defense Committees under a threat
to dissolve the committees and the
Civilian Defense Council.
Col. Bolles said he wasn't aware
OF any duplication of effort in civ
ilian mobilization, but that if such
existed, both he and the co-ordi-
nator were anxious to eliminate it.
Seeks to Get Job Done.
"The idea is to get the jobs done
with the maximum of efficiency by
those qualified to do it." he said.
II the job is being done sa tisfac-
torily by an existing agency, why
interfere with 1t? These agencies
may need little revision or spread
ing out to do this job, but If there
Is already an organization, it should
be used"
He emphasized that the same pol
icy applied to the area civilian mob
lllzation subcommittee If groups
IN the area, such as citizens asso-
citation committees already were set
up, he said, area civilian mobiliza-
tlon chairmen should assign to them
the requests that come from nation
al to local civilian mobilization, in
stead of setting up duplicating COM
mittees.
Civilian defense chairmen in some
areas have complained of the short
age OF volunteers and pointed out
that there weren't enough of them
10 serve on civilian mobilization
subcommittees.
The shortage of personnel in some
areas, Col. Bolles said, also made it
difficult to get the block leaders nee
essary to sell" the various war pro-
grams. Civilian mobilization has
approximately $500 of the more
than 10000 needed to cover the CITY
on basis of one block leader to
every 20 families.
Defense Corps Duties First.
The order restricting the activities
OF Wardens to the warden service
came at time when they had not
been completely trained and when
the tendency was to shift every
thing to the backs of the wardens.
Recently the National Office of
Civilian Defense ruled that members
OF the Citizens Defence Corps could
become members of the Citizens
Service Corps as long as there was
no conflict in duties, with specific
instructions that defense corps du-
ties came first. Co-ordinator Young
adopted the policy but the ban was
lifted by Chief Mileham only on
emergency feeding and housing
workers.
Col. Bolles emphasized that if the
ban is lifted generally, wardens will
not be assigned additional duties
but will only be allowed to parti-
cipate, If they wish, in other civilian
defense activities because of the