SECRETS REVEALED
PRESIDENT’S RAILWAY CAR LATEST IN RADIO-TELEPHONE EQUIPMENT (Rec. 11.5 a.m.) WASHINGTON, October 21. The world’s most secret railway car —in which President Roosevelt ran a large part of the United States share of the war through its equipment—gave up its secrets when reporters inspected car No. 1410, now used by President Truman.
The President from this carriage, while in motion, can first, telephone any house or radio telephone-equipped vehicle in the United States; secondly, carry on a radio teletype conversation in a virtually unbreakable code throughout the world at 100 words a minute; thirdly, send and receive messages from ships at sea; fourthly, send and receive telegraph code messages. The newest communications device is the radio teletype operator. It punches out a message on an ordinary keyboard similar to a typewriter. The message progresses through a transmitter into a scrambler, which puts it into code difficult to translate because it lacks uniformity. The resulting jargon enters a descrambler at the point of receipt, passes into the receiver, and appears readably on the teletype receiver.
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Evening Star, Issue 25620, 22 October 1945, Page 5
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