POCKET 'PHONES
To ensure that reports of crimes may be transmitted instantly over the whole city, tho chief of Chicago_ police lias decided to equip every policeman on duty with a miniature wireless telephono receiving sot. Tho apparatus will be carried in tho policeman's pocket, and tho antennae will bo concealed in tho lining of his coat. Tho constable's attention will be attracted by a buzzer, which forms part of the instrument. As a further aid to com bating motor bandits light cars carrying a dozen armed policemen have also born ordered. Those carry more powerful wireless telephones, which can both send and receive.
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Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 2
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104POCKET 'PHONES Evening Star, Issue 17923, 20 March 1922, Page 2
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