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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1941
Page
2
Official guidance urges calm behavior and orderly conduct during wartime alerts. Citizens are told to stay put when planes approach, avoid crowding streets, verify information, and follow air raid wardens. Learn the warning signals and await official updates before action.
The text instructs civilians on how to respond to air raids with emphasis on staying under sturdy furniture or a shelter room, using water sprays to defeat incendiaries, and remaining calm. It advises staying at home, turning off lights, avoiding crowds, and waiting for the all clear from the air raid warden. It also covers handling trapped victims, using garden hoses, and designating a home air raid warden, preferably a mother.
This wartime caution urges civilians to stay indoors away from windows during air raids. Seek refuge in a designated room at first alarm, keep lights out, lie low, and remain calm. Emphasizes indoor safety over watching enemy aircraft and urges obedience to air raid wardens.
Advice stresses minimal lighting during air raids and improvising blackout methods. It urges shutting gas on warning, creating a refuge room with essentials, and calmly staying home with lights out to deny guidance to enemy aircraft.
Strong capable calm people needed to man volunteer services. Immediate work for first aid certified individuals and veterans or former volunteers. Women and men sought for rescue squads road repair units demolition and clearance, drivers corps, messengers, nurses aides and more. Stay calm stay home follow safety orders and report to the Civilian Defense Volunteer Office or local council.
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