Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1928, Page 42

THE . SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, DECEMBER 9, 1928—PART 1. ° DETROIT POLICE RADIO RECEIVING | PETROLT POLICE SET SALES RISE 15 §pecds “Cruicers” $23,000,000 Increase Over| 1927 Indicates 1928 Total of $383,000,000. | o | \\'ri(flnAExrhl:weLgm!orp"T,?; i;flrnnrl:rl North | Spurting above the record business of | i Sharey | 1927 by some $23,000,000, sales of radio | DETROIT, Mich., December 8.—8na- | receiving apparatus in the United States | ing criminals in a radio netwops woven for 1928 will total around $383,000,000. | by tie police broadeasting stalions and This vast increase reflects the stability | SW:f> radio-equipped polic> cruisers has | of the new industry in this country. it | become a matter of seconds with the | shows that public demand is increasing | Detroit police departmenr, one of the | the development of the art. first to enlist radio in the never-eniing | st available information shows that | battle against crime and the criminal. 6, radio dealers sold $20,508,666| Seconds are precious to the criminal. | worth of receiving sets. loud speakers, | The time elapsing between the ~rim2 tubes, batteries, power units and other | and the arrival of the police may spell receiving accessories during the third | either capture or escape for hm. The quarter of this year. This number of | Wider the margin of time, the better dealers, out of the total of 31,573 in the | his chances. The Detroit police, by the | country, responded to the questionnaire | use of radio, are paring this margin to | Eont out by the Commerce Department. | the minimum. Accepting the business of these deal- | Burglars, car thieves, bandits, hi-and- ers as the average for the entire trade, | run drivers and racketeers have come it is estimated that the total business to fear this new police ‘weapon —a for 1928 will amount ‘to $383,000,000. It | weapon that has caused more than 400 | is figured that the average per capita |arrests in an average time of 77 seconds * business of the 31,573 dealers will be each im the past eight months. approximately $12,200. The margin of | Burglars have been caugh' while they increased business can be gleaned from | still were piling up their loot in Detroit | the estimates for 1927, placing the ag- homes. Bewildered automobile thieves gregate sales at $360,000,000 by 30,761 have gaped as a police cruiser v dealers, who averaged about $11,700 | alongside them just after eaci stolen a car. That the batt set is being replaced Radioed to Cruisers. By the clectric “plug in” receiver and | . : : Speeding hit-and-run drivers have | that the dynamic speaker is making inroads on the magnetic type is clearly | been captured and returned to the spot | shown in the replies of the 6,766 deal- | Where they ran down and left some | ers for the months of July, August and | helpless victim. Bandits have been September. They report that only 23,- | traced, surrounded and captured. Rack: 599 battery sets were sold during this | eteers and bad-check passers have bren period, as against approximately 100,000 | caught as the result of swift orders “A-C" receivers, and that 32,224 bat- | radioed to the cruisers. a | tery sets and 58,262 “A-C” sets were on | Not that the Detroit police are om- hand on October 1, as against the 28,311 niscient or omnipotent. Not that crim- | and 24,566, respectively, in the posses- inals do not slip through their fingers. | sion of the 6,737 dealers who reported |But the Detroit police have lengthened in Constant Touch With Broad- casting Station. | on |is the part th> staton played in the USE RADIO IMINALS ON JOB Patrol Streets While| Sergt. George Pettingill and his men, was proceeding quictly along the dark- encd streets. Suddenly, out of the night, came a voice, tense, crisp and clear. “No. 7 Cruiser,” said the voice, “Fel- low trying to get into a house at 3645 Piquette avenue. A neighbor called in. Said the fellow was on top of the front porch trying to cut through the screen. No. 10's_already made one arrest to- nght. Do your stuff.” Th> cruiser rounded thé corner into Piquette avenue. A spotlight stabbed the darkness. It found the house num- ber, 3645. The light enveloped a figure the roof. The figure, a man, jumped. Stunned by the leap, he was handeufTed before he recovered. Sixty seconds after Station W8FS had shot the warning through the air, the prowl- | er_was m custody. This_instance is taken from the log of Station W8FS. Still more dramatic recent round-up of the green sedan Land Green Sedan Gang. Shortly after 1 a.m., October 10 four men in a green sedan held up two women and robbed them. The green sedan boys were at it again. At 8:30 am four men forced their way into a home in Longfellow avenue and stole $140 and $5,000 worth of jewelry and ol e n e [ =} RESHMA | scene, within a few seconds, but again | ordered “the works.” wearing apparel. The police attributed this hold-up to the green sedan gang. Station W8FS broadcast the warning and cruisers sped to the scene. They were & few seconds late. Twenty min- utes later three bandits robbed a dry goods store on Tireman avenue. A fourth man awaited them in a green se'gan. The thugs took $65 from the store. Once more the cruisers were at the | they were late. Shortly after 11 a.m. another warning was flashed through the air. A coal company office had been held up. Through the loud speaker came the message: “It’'s the same gang. Four men in a green sedan.” Some one had seen two men get out of the sedan and enter a coupe. They had noticed the license number and gave it to the police. Station WBSF broadcast the number. It was about 1:45 p.m. when a citizen called the police to report that a coupe bear- ing that number was parked in front of a barber shop at Dix and Central avenues Station W8FS notified the cruisers immediately. No. 4 cruiser was near- est. It stopped near the parked car. The crew got out, guns drawn, and stationed itself at points of vantage. Caught in Barber Shop. Inside the shop two young men had Out they came, | freshly shaven and massaged. The | police closed in. the pair offered no resistance. They were taken to the police station and readily confessed their part in a series of hold-ups. But they refused to name their fellows. The following day they were ar- raigned. As they were being led from | the courtroom a spectator made a sig- nal to them. Detectives in the court- room pounced on the spectator. He was the third member of the gang. Information gleaned from the ques- tioning of the three men led to infor- mation where the fourth member of the gang was hiding. Station W8FS | spoke. Completely surprised, & broadcast the information. Two min- utc: later the fourth man was under arrest. All four pleaded guilty and now are in the State prison. A hit-run driver fled the scene of an accident in Fordson, a suburb of De- troit, not long ago. Thirty seconds after the report had been broadcast, No. 6 cruiser had spotted and stopped the car sought. Several weeks ago a citizen recog- nized a thug who had held him up. He called the police and again the radio Sixty seconds later No. 6 cruis- er's crew had arrested the suspect. Grabbed With Loot. Ninety seconds after No. 9 cruiser had been told that two suspicious men had been seen to enter a house on Theo- dore street, the sergeant and his men surprised the men as they were piling up their loot. Five minutes after the number of a stolen car had been broadcast, on Oc- tober 2, a cruiser sergeant reported the car recovered, and the two thieves ar- rested. A clothing racketeer worked for some time in Detroit's East Side. He would stop at a home, say the man of the thouse had asiked him to call for a suit or overcoat to be cleaned, get the cloth- ing and disappear. The newspapers published a warning. The racketeer tried it again. A suspicious housewife called the police. The radio spoke. The racketeer was arrested a few doors way. . A bad-check passer was operating ‘along Van Dyke avenue. A merchant became suspicious, refused to cash a check and called the police. Three minutes later the man was arrested in another store. These are only a few of the entries from the log of Station WBFS. In addition to the cruisers, there are 58 scout cars which are being equipped with receivers and loud speakers as rap- Are You Going to Buy a Radio? Let one who needs and will appreciate your order demonstrate in your_home any make you are interested in, as I represent large. “well known firm carrying different makes. "Your calling does not obligate you o buy. Decatur 4770, Mr. Any time. day or night. please leave your address. Williams It I am not in idly as possible. One police boat has been equipped with radio, and two others soon will be. ‘The use of radio by the Detroit po- lice is not new. The department had a station in operation in 1922, It was operated with varying results up to the Summer of 1927, when the station was closed. There was some talk of selling the equipment, but William P. Rut- ledge, police commissioner, who had been one of the first to advocate radio, demurred. “Some one will come along who can make a go of it,” he predicted. That somebody proved to be Patrol- man Kenneth Cox, a radio enthusiast, who walked into the commissioner’s of- fice and asked a chance at operating the station. He got the chance. The results of the past few months speak for themselves. Cox i= looking ahead to the time when all the.police departments in the larger cities of the United States will be linked iogether by a chain of radio stations. Instantaneous nation-wide fallce communication is his vision. And elevision will right along with it. he believes. Other cities are interested in what WB8FS is accomplishing. Commissioner Rutledge also is en- thusiastic. He sees the time when it will be possible to have instant radio communication with every individual patrolman in the city. Meanwhile, the Detroit lice are trying to develop to the height of its efficiency this new crime-fighting meas- ure science hes given them. (Copyright. 1928. by North American News- paper Alliance.) SERVICE on all kinds of RADIO RECEIVERS Intelligent Experienced Men Await Your Call. 18th & Col. Rd. 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Equipped With Sets Fifteen fast police automobiles, termed “cruisers,” because the cars and their crews are kept constantly cruis- ing about the city, have been equipped with receiving sets and loud spenkers‘i All sets are interchangeable, portable, | There were no reports on the volume | of loud-speaker sales, but the compara- | tive figures on the number on hand tell | the story. These dealers had in their | POssl n on October 1 a total of 53,180 leud speakers of the magnetic type and | 14,886 of the dynargic type, com- | pared with 39,675 and 2,483, respective- lv. in the hands of dealers reporting July 1. The number of tubes of the| A-C type in dealers’ hands October 1| was 295448, or more than double the | 122, n hand July 1. Separated into the nine geographical ropes the volume of business by the reporting dealers for July. 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