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There were casualties-but not from bombs. Three citizens had been killed in auto crashes. An air-raid warden had died of a heart attack. Windows had been smashed and several skygazers struck by falling shell fragments. Someone threw a garbage pail through a jewelry-store window to black-out a neon sign. One woman was yanked out of bed by police, and hauled off to jail for failing to black-out her house. She sobbed: "One of the officers slapped my face. I'm going to tell that to the judge." Stalled for almost five hours, traffic choked...
...precinct police stations, television receivers were installed in classrooms. Private set owners, including International Business Machines' Thomas J. ("Think") Watson, had opened their houses to other classes. Policemen who got their own instruction in London helped NBC to put on the first of six weekly shows: 1) the warden's duties; 2) bomb and fire fighting; 3) blackouts; 4) gas warfare; 5) review; 6) examination...
Carpentered by NBC scripters from the official warden's handbook, last week's program was produced with elaborate stage sets in NBC's glare-lit, gadget-hedged television studios. It took a typical warden in & out of brownstones and apartment houses, into a blacked-out street ("Get off the streets, Miss. ... If you can get home in five minutes, do so.") It was repeated six times a day for three days. From the number of pupils in attendance, police figured that in six weeks 54,000 wardens should know their stuff...
There are several things that can be done to shape this vague, indefinite assembly of individuals and small groups into a smooth-running organization. It could be placed in direct connection with Air Raid Wardens, the Fire-Fighters and the spotters, all responsible to the Precinct Warden. The First Aid groups in the Houses should be coordinated, and should meet as soon as possible with Dr. Bok or some representative of the medical department. The various units should receive equipment and definite, uniform instructions...
...raid drill last week in which every warden at college was away is an example of what could happen. Unless every man knows his job and unless all duties are coordinated, Harvard is going to find itself helpless when the attack comes. Such conditions made for Pearl Harbor and the bungling of production under the O.P.M...