The southern news., 1942-01-03

| for the bomb The bomb will burn
for about is minutes if left alone,
only about two 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 buskets full of water
for the use of the fire department
in case water mains are broken.
If you have a oda-and-acid ex-
tinguisher (the kind you turn up
side DOWN. use it with your fin
ger over the nozzle to make a
spray. Don't use the chemical
kind (small cylinders of liquid)
on bombs. 1t is all right for or
dinary fires.
Should gas be used go at once
to the most INSIDE" room in your
| house (fewest doors and windows).
| Paste paper over glass. Stuff rags
in window cracks and under doors.
But above all, keep cool, stay
| home. Choose one member of the
family to be the home air ward
en-who will remember all the
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makes the best.
3. PUT OUT LIGHTS
Whether or not blackout is or
dered, don't show more light than
is necessary. If planes come over.
put out all lights at once-don't
wait for the blackout order The
lighat that's out will never guide
n 20 no nanHln liUhf
may be seen for miles from the
air.
If you have portiers. overdrar les,
or curtains, arrange double
thickness over your wind w
Blankets will do. If you have
heavy black paper, paste in on
your windows. Don't crowd or
stampede stores to get it, how
ever. You pribably have every
thing you need at home. Be in
genious-improvise.
Should you get an air-raid
warning, remember to shut off
gas stoves, gas furnaces, and gas
pilot lights on both. Bomb ex-
plosions may blow them out from
blast effect. Gas that collects may
be explosive later.
Prepare one room, the one with
the least window-gl in the
strongest part of your house. for
refuge room. Put food and
drinking water in it. Put mat
tresses and chairs in it. Take a
magazine or two, and deck of
cards, into it. Take toilet facili-
ties, paper, screen. If you
have a portable radio, take that
too Above all, keep calm. Stay
at home. Put out lights.
A. LIE DOWN
If bombs start to fall near you,
lie down. You will feel that blast
least that way, escape fragments
and splinters,
The safest place is under
| good stout table-the stronger the
legs the better.
A mattress under a table COM
bines comfort and safety.
The enemy may use explosive
bombs or incendiary bombs, or
both. If incendiaries are used, it's
more important to deal with them
than to be safe from blast. So
defeat the incendiary with a spray
(never a splash or stream) OF
water, then go back to safety un-
der a table in a refuge room.
Unless gas Is used raids will
likely be over In your Immediate
neighborhood in a short time
However stay under cover till
the "all clear" is sounded.
Know your raid alarms. Know
the "ali clear" Official news of
these will come to you from your
Air Raid Warden. Don't believe
rumirs. Watch this paper for Ali
Raid alarm description. Ask the
warden when he comes.
Should your house be hit, keer
cool. Answer tappings from res
cue crews If you are trapped
(You most likely won't be either
hit or trapped but if you are
you can depend on rescue squads
to go after you.) Again-keer
. cool, and wait. Don't yell after
you hear them coming to youn
unless they tell you to. Keep cool!
Just keeping cool hurts the en-
emy more than anything else you
can do. Keep calm. Stay at home.
Put out the lights. Lie down.
5. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS
Glass skaters easily, so stay
away from windows.
Don't go to windows and look
out, in an air raid. 1t is a dan
gerous thing. and helps the en-
emy. 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 ex-
plosives.
Anti-aircraft fire means falling
shrapnel. You are safe from II
indoors, away from windows. It's
more important to shell a plane
than II Is to see 1t from a window
Stay in your refuge room, away
from windows That Is the safest
place. Go there at the first alarm
: stay there until the all-clear.
Above all, keep calm. Stay
home. Put out lights. Lie down
Stay away from windows. Do not
say-we are repeating; we would