Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-14
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home until after the drill.
The Commissioners group was
at Eleventh and G streets when
the alarm sounded. In less than
a minute the area was emptied
as hundreds of persons crowded
into buildings and doorways.
Halfway through the alert the
only persons seen on the corner
were two women and a child.
Pedestrians Cooperate.
Police and defense wardens had
been instructed to ask every one
to take cover, but under no cir
cumstanceS to make arrests.
Most pedestrians were willing
to cooperate. At Twelfth and
G streets NV, one argumenta-
tive woman seemed to object,
and was. still talking rapidly as
a policeman directed her to a
shelter.
Inspector Henry H. Hef1in,
touring the first and second
precincts, found Pennsylvania
and Constitution avenues COM
pletely clear of traffic. Even
police cars not on emergency
call were told to pull over. In
spector Heflin said he was i'm
pressed by the orderliness of
it all.
When the all-clear, white
alert came, pedestrians and
traffic began moving again as
though by magic.
Five Maryland counties Joined
in the District drill. Baltimore
and the rest of Maryland were to
have a test at 8 pm. Arlington
and Fairfax Counties, and Alex
andria and Falls Church also
participated this morning.
Reports of cooperation were
uniformly good from the county
urban areas and the highways.
HearSe Adds to Eeriness.
At Silver Spring. traffic was
halted within seconds. At Geor-
gia avenue and -Colesville road. a
hearse added to the eeriness of
the scene. Police stationed at
intersections collared the few
motorists who continued to
move. Safety Director Arthur
E. Miller called Montgomery
County's participation salts
factory.
Trains continued to move, but
at the Potomac Yard about rs
employees of the main Office went
to a shelter area and tunnel.
Police at Rockville and Be-
thesda called cooperation excel
lent. In Fairfax County. So regu-
lar policemen and rs auxiliaries
saw that all traffic stopped.
Arlington Defense Co-ordina-
tor L. j. Stocker said that, for a
first test, it was highly success
full" Police viewing the county
from a helicopter saw no vehicles
moving.
On Capitol Hill, legislators
went about their business as
usual. The House has not set up
it's civil defense operations. and
the Senate, which has, decided it
would be better to work on
routine matters. However, Capt.
toll Police assisted in hating
traffic in the area.
Siren Fails to Work.
One of the sirens on the
Senate Office Building failed to
work, and some tourists who
were not aware of the alert were
led to shelter.
Everything went off as sched-
uled at the U. S. District Court
for the District of Columbia.
People in the building all went
down one floor to shelter areas,
as plans specified.
Civilian participation here pre-
coded the long-planned Opera
ton Alert" being carried out on
a continental basis for "a hours
from 10 am. today.
It assumes that 20 per cent Of
an attacking force of 425 air.
craft, many carrying atomic
weapons, managed to elude outer
defenSeS and roared toward vital
cities split up in several groups.
AS the planes were sighted in
the north, yellow" warning sig
nails went out to the cities. It
was presumed that Al cities in
the United States, 8 In Canada
and one each in Hawaii and
Puerto Rico and the Virgin
Islands would be virtually de-
stroyed by atomic attacks. An
other IS would be blasted by
non-atomic weapons.
Alaska Cities 'TeveIed."
Anchorage and Juneau, Alas,
ka. would be wiped out by high
explosive and incendiary bombs.