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WHAT TO DO IN AN AIR RAID • * ' r knar tofoo nf ‘i rU>u Official-by the U. S. Office of Civilian Defense "f ! ir; q , Hh ** C-j « , k' -•' ni * i'« Ts■ :l ...» t1 d *«* I* ’■ 1 * _ Above all, keep cool. Don’t lose your head. Do not crowd the streets, avoid chaos, prevent disorder and havoc. You can fool the enemy. It is easy. If planes come over, B tay where you are. Don’t phone unnecessarily. The chance you will be hit is small. It is part of the risk we must take to trio this war. Until an alarm, go about your usual business and recreation in the ordinary way. Think twice before you do anything. Don’t believe rumors— ■prying false rumors is part of the enemy’s technique. Don’t let hfaa take you in. Know your air-raid warning. In general, it is short blasts or rising and falling pitch, on whistles or horns. The “all clear” is r a steady ft™* for 2 minutes. Watch this paper for description i Os the local signal. (This is subject to change.) I Await official information before taking any action. When I the Air Raid Warden comes to your home, do what he tells you. 1 ffe is for your protection. He is your friend. will help you do your part to whip the enemy. We can do it. We will do it, if we stay calm and cool and ue down ■ If bombs start to fall near you, lie down. You will feel the least that way, escape fragments or splinters. Hi The safest place is under a good stout table —the stronger the Wp, lAlmattress under a table combines comfort with safety. W i The enemy may use explosive bombs or incendiary bombs, or Be both. If incendiaries are used, it’s more important to deal with j them than to be safe from blast. So defeat the incendiary with a aprUy (never a splash or stream) of water, then go back to safety most raids will likely be over in your immediate neigh bojrhooi in a short time. However, stay under cover till the iS§jVWyour raid alarms. Know the “all clear”. Official news come to you from your Air Raid Warden. Don’t rumors. Watch this paper for air raid alarm description. house be hit, keep cool. Answer tappings from jHfeiscfue '.Crews'if you are trapped. (You most likely won’t be StWor trapped, but if you are, you can depend on rescue : igwuljh to go after you). Again—keep cool, and wait. Don’t ;-jfeer you hear them coming to you, unless they tell you to. 1 cool hurts the enemy more than anything else do. Keep calm. Stay at home. Put out lights. mU This Page Is Contributed By The Chowan Herald In the Interest of National Defense Save and Become Familiar With Instructions THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. N. C.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1942 2. STAY HOME The safest place in an air raid is at home. If you are away from home, get under cover in the nearest shelter. Avoid crowded places. Stay off the streets. The enemy wants you to run out into the streets, create a mob, start a panic. Don’t do it! If incendiary bombs fall, play a spray from a garden hose (never a splash or stream) of water on the bomb. Switch to a stream to put out any fire started by the bomb. Switch back to a spray for the bomb. The bomb will bum for about 15 min utes if left alone, only about 2 minutes under a fine water spray. A jet splash, stream or bucket of water will make it explode. Under raid conditions, keep a bathtub and buckets full. of water for the use of the fire department in case water mains are broken. If you have a soda-and-acid extinguisher (the kind you turn upside down), use it with your finger over the nozzle to make a spray. Don’t use the chemical kind (small cylinders of liquid) on bombs. It is all right for ordinary fires. But above all, keep cool, stay horned yahoos* one member of the family to be the home, air-raid warden —who will remember all the rules and what to do. Motto makes the best, S. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS , Glass shatters dasily, so stay away from windows. Don’t go to windows and look out, in an air raid. It is a dangerous thing, and helps the enemy. The Air Raid Warden is out there watching for you. Again we say, get off the streets if planes come over. At night, there is danger of being caught in blast from explo sives. Antiaircraft fire means falling shrapnel. You are safe from it indoors, away from windows. It’s more important to shell a plane than it is to see it from a window. Stay in your refuge room, ay from windows. That is the safest place. Go there at the first alarm; stay there until the “all clear”. * v Above all, keep calm. Stay home. Put out lights. Lie down. Stay away from windows. Do not say we are re peating; we would rather repeat until we bore you than have . you forget. . You can do all those things without any special equipment other than what you have now in your home. You can help lick the Japs, with your bare hands, if you will do just those few, simple things. Be a good fellow and follow instructions and keep well. Do not be a wise guy and get hurt. ! 9. PUT OVT LIGHTS \ I Whether or not blr dc-out is ordered, don’t show more light than is necessary. If planes come over, put out or cover all 1 .gilts at once —don’t wait for the black-out order. The light that can’t be seen will never guide a Jap. Remember a candle light may be seen for miles from the air. If you have portieres, overdrapes, or curtains, arrange a double thickness over your windows. Blankets will do. If you have heavy black paper, paste it on your windows. Don’t crowd or stampede stores to get it, however. You probably have everything you need at home. Be ingenious—improvise. Should you get an air-raid warning, remember to shut off gas stoves, gas furnaces, and gas pilot lights on both. Bomb explosions may blow them out from blast effect. Gas that collects may be explosive later. Prepare one room, the one with the least window glass, in the part of your house, for a refuge room. Put food and c-inking water in it. Put a sturdy table in it. Put mattresses and chairs in it. Take a magazine or two and a deck of cards i. -o it. Take things like eyeglasses and dentures with you when you go into it. Take toilet facilities, paper, a screen. I ' you have a portable ~ndio, take that too. Above all, keep Ccu.m. Stay at Pi . * is. Lvv m .. \ T q (j i '4 \ * - . nl' Vc-c > r a 4. YO'lj' < '-PIJ HELP Strong, capable, calm ycc-le r . j needed to man the volunteer s: vices. If you want to help, th.. e are lets of opportunities. If you know first aid, and have a certificate, there is an imme diate job for you. If you are a veteran, or a former volunteer or regular fireman, or policeman, there is work for you. If you have no special skills but are strong and husky, there is a job for j ou in rescue squads, road-repair units, or demolition and clearance squads. If you have and can drive a car, you may be r eeded for drivers’ corps. Older Boy and Girl Scouts over 15 c_m help as messengers. Both men and women are needed. Here’s how to get started: If there’s a Civilian Defense Volunteer Office in your com munity, call there and ask where to report. If not, call your local Defense Council or Comm' Ice, or the Chamber of Com merce. Phone and ask where to report, rather than going in person. There are people needed for— A A Air Raid Wardens (men and wo. Auxiliary Firemen (men). Auxiliary Police (men and womei Fire Watchers (men and women). 1\ arses’ Aides (trained women). Emergency Medical Forces (men a women with Red Cross First Aid Ce. tificates). Rescue Squads (men). Above all, keep coo 1 . home. Put out lights. Lie down. Stay u.vay i±om windows. You can help! PAGE THREE Road Repair Units (strong, husky men). Demolition and Clearance Squads (strc-ig, husky men). Electrical Repair units (trained elec tricians). Decontamination Squads (strong men and women). Emergency Food and Housing Units (women who can cook and serve).
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