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...even more cooperation have been made and carried to completion. Fire and plane spotters, for example, will be stationed atop Memorial Hall, Widener, and the Houses, for these are some of tallest buildings in the area. If blazes are set elsewhere and there are none at Harvard, undergraduate firemen from the University will be sent to aid in handling them. The streets around the College will be patrolled and watched by students a decision which in itself relieves the City of an enormous burden. In case of an actual raid there will be intimate shoulder-rubbing between students and townspeople...
Only emergency to occur during the drill happened when fire broke out in the Boston Elevated yards at Memorial Drive and Boylston Street. Defense workers and fire fighters sped to the blaze and were able to extinguish it auxiliary fireman turned in the alarm, auxiliary firemen turned in the alarm, and those fire engines who were detailed to take care of the "incident" used specially made "blackout lights" while going to and from the yards...
...nocked to hear the Polish pianist Volovsky "play 400 notes in one measure"; to watch jullien, famed French-English conductor of the 18505, lift a pair of kid gloves from a gold platter and carefully draw them on his fingers before conducting Beethoven; to hear & see 100 red-shirted firemen at the Boston Peace Jubilee of 1869 clanking 100 anvils to Verdi's Anvil Chorus...
...Defense Corps includes air-raid wardens, decontamination squads, auxiliary police and firemen, many another defense category. Instructors, mostly city policemen and firemen, now get their training at the Chemical Warfare School, Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. So far, out of 5,000 needed, 508 have been trained. Under the new plan, training centers will be expanded to seven. Legionnaires will be selected to attend and establish State schools until each State has at least one. It will be up to the Legion to finance the State schools, add other training centers at all of the Legion's 11,780 posts...
...male felt real danger, he was doing a real job. One of the bright spots on the defense front last week was Seattle, where 35,000 of the 45,000 defense workers were men. Another was San Francisco, where 3,000 Legionnaires were being trained by policemen and firemen to serve as auxiliaries. In Georgia, Legionnaires made up 90% of the State Guard officers, and were acquitting themselves so well that, two days after the declaration of war, its men were able to relieve regular Army troops in the task of guarding bridges, airports...