Radio Digest (Oct 1923-July 1924)

k 10 RADIO DIGEST — Illustrated May 10, 1924 AIRWAVES OUTSPEED ESCAPING FUGITIVES POLICE TURN TO RADIO TO PUT DOWN CRIME New Orleans Chief Sees Need of National System of Lightning Communication (Br B. A. Sullivan) NEW ORLEANS. LA. — The next logical and practical step for Radio is a national system of police communication for the apprehension of criminals, according to Colonel Guy R. Molony, superintendent of the New Orleans police department. This step, in the belief of experts in crime detection, will be but a move toward keeping a jump ahead of criminals who .idy employ the swiftest of automobiles, the most accurate of firearms and a that challenges the best brains that police departments the country over can :ce in the ceaseless game of hideand-seek between sleuths and crooks. Swift as the speediest of automobiles ng thieves away from the scene of . ime, they are making but a snail's beside the terrific pace that Radio communication can set. Bum Smugglers Use Radio The police superintendent believes the time has come when each police headquarters in every city of size will have its broadcasting station, and that smaller towns also will be so provided. Already Radio is being used by rum pirates in the Gulf of Mexico. During a recent daring raid, a vast store of liquors that had been brought ashore in small boats from a rum vessel, was found near a Radio transmitter and receiver. Police declare the outfit was used by members of the rum-smuggling band ashore to communicate with their accomplices at sea— an incident in the use of Radio which was reported in Radio Digest at the time the seizure was made. Although no similar seizures have been made since, police believe no time should be lost in perfecting a system of Radio communication. Colonel Molony proposes to take this important matter up at the next convention of the Police Executives of America. Wish Crooks Were in One Band It is believed a need exists for quick work on the proposal. Criminals, trained to keep abreast of their foes, the police, may be at this moment perfecting their own systems of air communication, with perhaps even an elaborate secret code. Given but a small lead, men who hold their lives in their own hands are considered likely to build swifter and perhaps, at least for a while, more effectively than their organized enemies. That warning, experts say, should not be taken in the sense that there are two warring factions — a group of police on the one side and a single organization of crooks on the other. There is, in truth, the single group of police. They are, each in their own cities, essaying to protect the lives and property of citizens. The criminals, instead of being one solid organization under one leader, are pictured as being members of hundreds of small groups, and in many instances, merely individuals, or in small bodies of twos and threes. The police are united in the belief the problem of crime prevention would be simplified if all the crooks were, indeed, in one single organization, and with one leader. But, scattered as they are, from one end of the country to the other, the subject takes on many difficult phases, and in attempting to solve their problem, the police are turning to Radio for help. Asks Science Jury to Hear New Radio Lingo Discoverer of Language Seeks Chance to Demonstrate WASHINGTON. — Secretary of Commerce Hoover has been asked by Howison E. Hoover of this city to appoint a jury of representative experts, scientists, philologists, engineers and other savants to hear his exposition of a new Radio language. The writer says that he has discovered, not invented, this universal tongue, which he claims is as old as time and space. He pointed out that it needs no dictionary nor encyclopedia, the words being built up on a logical basis as they are needed. They are readily deciphered by the same process by the one who receives them visually, audibly or electrically, he explains. There are only three basic verbs, and yet it has none of the narrow limitations of any of the national languages. "It is not an artificial language as Vol apuk, Idom, Neutral, Esperanto, Ido or r attempts to solve the question," he ad'l.s. The suggested scheme is based upon an underlying principle of nature; "the nds of nature are a perfect cosmo Lric hieroglyph," and as such are a ect container of all phenomena. CATCH CRIMINALS WITH RADIO Owing to the increase in crime, the Philadelphia police department has installed Radio receiving and transmitting equipment in their patrol wagons for the purpose of aiding police in their constant pursuit of criminals. New Orleans considers installing a similar system. Photo shows Lieutenant Harry Edwards sending headquarters a message. P. & A. Photo PROHIBIT ORCHESTRAS BROADCASTING MUSIC Jerome Kern's Attitude Stirs Band Leader Paul Specht NEW YORK. — Talking of composer Jerome Kern's attitude that orchestras be banned from playing his music, Paul Specht, renowned band leader and Radio broadcaster, went further to insist that orchestras should be paid by composers for rendering such melodies. "I receive hundreds of requests for the names of certain songs that I play, and the inquirers make note of the titles in order to purchase the music in some form or other. "If Mr. Kern holds the band director in such low esteem, why doesn't the American Society insist that the orchestra pay the license fee instead of the cafe, theater or Radio owner? "Another thing, I wonder if Mr. Kern realizes that there are more than a few leaders of orchestras that can write songs that compare more than favorably with those of some so-called composers?" asked Mr. Specht. 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