Warning

Air raid wardens from Maine to Miami woke up. Inactive for many months, they now had the word of burly Admiral Jonas H. Ingram, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet, that robomb attacks on the East Coast were not only "possible but probable" within the next month or two. Said Jonas Ingram:

"The next alert you get is likely to be the McCoy. ... It might knock out a high building or two. It might create a fire hazard. It would certainly cause casualties ... It could not seriously affect the progress of the war. But think what it would mean to Dr. Goebbels. . . ."

Where could the robombs come from? Admiral Ingram replied: from submarine, long-range plane or surface ship.

Many a thoughtful resident of Washington and New York City, designated by Admiral Ingram as the most likely targets, was inclined to take him seriously. So was the London Daily Express, which advised that the Germans would do it for "malice and vanity," as well as to help the Japanese. But an anonymous spokesman for the Navy Department in Washington countered with this equivocal statement:

"There is no more reason now to believe that Germany will attack with robot bombs than there was on Nov. 7, 1944" (when the Army & Navy announced that such attacks were merely "possible").

Ingram was not impressed. Few days later he repeated his warning over the Blue Network on the MARCH OF TIME program. He sounded like a man who thought he knew what he was talking about.

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