The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1941, Page 6

PAGL SIX A O OO AR AT AN AIR RAID THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1941 WHAT 10 Official-hy the U. S. Dffice of Civilian Defense i. KEEP COOL 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, stay 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 win this war. Until an alarm, go about your usual business and recreation in the ordinary way. Think ¢wice before you do anything. Don’t believe rumors— spreading false rumors is part of the enemy’s technique. Don’t let him 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 asteady tone for 2 minutes. Watch this paper for description of the local signal. (This is subject to change.) Await official information before taking any action. When the Air Raid Warden comes to your home, do what he tells you. He is for your protection. He is your friend. He 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 strong and alert. e 2 <5 A I AT - - SR 52 STa “B' 4. LIE DOWN If bombs stprt to fall near you, lie down. You will feel the blast least that way, escape fragments or splinters. The safest place is under a good stout table—the stronger the legs the better. A mattress under a table combines comfort with 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 under a table in a refuge room. Most raids will likely be over in your immediate neigh- borhood in a short time. However, stay under cover till the ““all clear” is sounded. Know your raid alarms. Know the ““all clear”. Official news of these will come to you from your Air Raid Warden. Don't beli¢ve rumors. Watch this paper for air raid alarm description. Ask the warden when he comes. Should your house be hit, keep cool. Answer tappings from rescue 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—keep cool, and wait.. Don’t yell after you hear them coming to you, unless they tell you to. Keep cool! Just keeping cool hurts the enemy more than anything else you can do. Keep calm. Stay at home. Put out lights. wie down. DS )l 2. STAY FIOME 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 *g pi:* out any fire started by the bomb. Switch back to a spray for the bomb. The bomb will burn for about 15 min- utes if left alone, only about 2 minutes under a fine water snray. 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 bonibs. It is all right for ordinary fires. But above all, keep cool, stay home. Choose one member of the family to be the home air-raid warden—who will remember all the rules and what to do. Mother makes the best. 5. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS Glass shatters easily, 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 ta see it 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. Putout lights. Lie down. Stay away from windows. Do not say we are re- peating; we would rather repeat untff we bore you than have you forget. i 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. = 3. PUT OUT LIGHTS Whether or not black-out is ordered, don’t show, more light than is necessery. If planes come over, put out or cover all lights 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 thickaess over your windows. Blankets wilido. 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 oft 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. g Prepare one room, the one with the least window glass, in the strongest part of your house, for a refuge room. Put food and drinking 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 into it. Take things like eyeglasses and dentures with you when you go into it. Take toilet facilities, paper, a screen. f —cu have a pertable radio, take that too.® Abave all, keep tay at Lome. - Put out lights, =z 6. YOU CAN HELP Strong, capable, calm people are needed to man the volunteer services. If you want to help, there are lots 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 you in rescue squads, road-repair units, or demolition and clearance squads. If you have and can drive a car, you may be needed for drivers’ corps. Older Boy and Girl Scouts over 15 can help as messengers, Both men and women are needed. Here’s how to get started: { If there’s a Civilian Defense ~“olunteer Office in your com- munity, call there and ask where to report. If not, call your local Defense Council or Committce, or the Chamber of Com- merce. Phone and csk viire to rcport, rather than going in person. There are people needed for— Air Raid Wardens (men and wom Road Tlepair Units (strong, husky men). § Auxiliary Firemen (mcn). Demolition and Clearance Squads (strong; Augxiliary Police (men and women). husky men). Fire Watchers (men and womc.). Electrical Recpair units (trained elec- Nurses’ Aides (trained women). h tricians). Emergency Medical Forces (men ana Decontamination Squads (strong men and women with Red Cross Ficst Aid Cer- women). tificates). " Emergency Food and Housing Units Rescue Squads (men). (women who can cook and serve). Above all, keep cool. Stay home. Put out lights. Lie down. Stay away from windows. i You can help! U. S. OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE, Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Director. Washington, D. C. mmuumumummuulg RO A i ST i |||mIluIHIIIMHIIIIHIINIIIIIIIII|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|I|IIIilllIHIIIIIIIIII|I!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!IIIIHIlMIliIIIIIIiIIIIlllllIHIINIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIlIIIlflllllmmllIIIIIli‘nIIIIIIIIIIllllIINIHImlflmmmllllmflfllllHI!IIHHIIIIIIIII"HMHIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII|III|IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII"H!M RS TR PR TTRIR IS, Vo