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Show Extol Bathtub as Safe Shelter in Air Raids LONDON. Want a nice, safe spot in an air raid? Try the bath tub. This suggestion comes from London Lon-don householders who have been reinvestigating re-investigating the safe spots in their homes. They say the best natural "shelter" is the bath. So they are making their baths as bed-like as possible. They point out that the bath is practically the only spot in a house that is almost always out of the direct di-rect line of the windows. It also acts as a dugout against "side attacks" at-tacks" and stray pieces of flying glass. Some advocates of bath "shelters" have even made wooden roofs for their tubs as further protection. pro-tection. The Londoners' opinions are backed up by an ARP expert, who says: "A stout lid to the bath would be useful to keep pieces of the ceiling from falling on the occupant. It has been proved that although a house has been demolished, the bath is often of-ten intact. Being of stout metal, it does not 'concertina' when ceilings ceil-ings tumble on top of it." |