Brownsville Weekly News

SATURDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1941

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of. KEEP COOL

Above all, keep cool. Don~t lose yout head.

sont not crowd the streets, avoid chaos, prevent disorder and
vot.

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. 7

Until an alarm, go about your usual business and recreation in
the ordinary way.

Think twice 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 2minutes. 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.

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FLINT BROWNSVILLE NEWS, FLINT, WICHIGAN

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2. STAY HOME
The safest place in an air raid is athome. _

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 burn for about 15 minutes if left alone, only about 2 minutes under a fine water
spray. A jet splash, stream or bucket of water will make
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Under raid conditions, keepa 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 home. - -

Choose one~member.of the family to be~ the home air-raid

warden~who will remember_all the rilles and what to do
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Whether or not black-out is ordered, don~t shew racr
than is necessary.
lights at once~don~t wait for the black-out order. Pre i at
that can~t be seen will never guide a Jap. Remembc dle

light may be seen for miles from the air.

If you have portieres, overdrapes, or*curtcins, acrcuge a

double thickness over your windows: Blankets willdo. Tyou
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
strongest part of your house, for a refuge room. Put food and
drinking water in it. Put a sturdy table in it.
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.
If you have a portable radio, take that too.

If planes come over, put/out o:.cov-r all -

calm, ~ Stay at home.

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If bombs start to fil! 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.

_, Amattress 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 gefuge room.

Most 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 ~~all clear~. Official news
of these will come to you from your Air Raid Warden. Don~t
believerumors: Watch this paper for air raid alarm description.
Ask the warden when he comes. lengua ee

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
they tell you to.

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~Just keeping cool hurts the enemy more than anything else
you-can do. Keep calm. Stay at home. Put out lights.
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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.: | a

At night, there is danger of being caught fh blast from explosives. 3

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, away from windows. That is the
safest place... Go there at the first alarm; stay there until the
~all clear~. ae:::

Above all, keep calm. Stay home. Put out lights. Lie
down. Stay away from windows. Do not say we are repeating; we would rather repeat until we bore you than have
you forget. ee;:

You can do all those things without any special equipment
other than what you have now in your home. A;

You can help lick the Japs, with your bare hands, if wou will
do just those few, simple things. ~: | At

Be a good fellow and follow instructions and keep well. Do
not be a wise guy and get hurt. |

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G6 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 immediate 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 dnd Girl Scouts over 15
can help as messengers. Both men and women are needed.

~Here~s how to get started: * ee ee ae fhe

If there~s a Civilian Defense Volunteer Office~in~ your community, call there and ask where to report. [If not, call your
local Defense Council or Committee, or the Chamber of Commerce. Phone and ask where to report, rather than going-in

' There are people needed for~.

Air Raid Wardens (men and women). Road Repair Units (strong, husky men).

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Auxiliary Firemen (men). Demolition and Clearance Squads (strong,
Auxiliary Police (men and women). husky men). ae
Fire Watchers (men and women). Electrical Repair units (trained elecurses~ Aidea (trained women). tricians). Sie
mergency Medical Forces (men and Decontamination Squads (strong men
| women with Re+ Cross First Aid Cer- | wom
| tificates). * B Housing Unite
Rescue Squads (mea). (women who can cook and serve). He
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