Evening star., 1924-07-14
.ENR|GHT TOD|RECT
!. / POLICE BY RADIO
New York Commissioner
Hopes to Handle $4,000
From Municipal Station.
STRIKE AT NEWSPAPERS
Officials Will Correct Misstate-
ments" and Furnish Varied
|. Entertainment.
STRIKE AT NEWSPAPERS
By Consolidated Press.

By Consolidated Press
NEW YORK, July 14.--An army Of
$4,000 policemen, every one within
instant call of headquarters bv radio
that Is a dream of Police Commission
er Enright which started on its way
to fruition this week with the open-
ing of WNYC, the big new municipal
broadcasting station atop the twenty
five-story Municipal building
The plan eventually is to equip
every cop on the force with a port
able set, so. that headquarters can
communicate instantly with the en-
tire $4,000 in any emergency that may
require their services. Bandits and
other criminals, the commissioner
feels, will find it much harder to get
away once it becomes possible to
fash alarms instantly all over the
city.
Equipping of each Individual cop
with a receiving set. of course, is Il
matter of time. Further development
of small sets which would not burden
a plodding bluecoat will be necessary
first. But in the meantime immediate
steps toward partial broadcasting OF
police orders are under way. Every
station house in the city Is being
equipped with a receiving set, and 1t
is expected that IN a few weeks the
will mount sets by which they can be
thrown into bandit chases at a mo-
ment's notice. Police boats in the
harbor will be similarly equipped.
Strike at Newspapers.
incidentally, Commissioner Enright.
| who isn't any too fond of the New
York newspapers because of their
| critical attitude, plans to give the
metropolitan newspapers a lesson.
He is going into the news broad
casting business. Christopher Bohn-
sack, director of the municipal radio.
said today that three daily periods.
| probably $50 am. $50 pm. and 7:30
| pm, would be set aside for the
t broadcasting of the important police
news of the day. The big local
| stories-murders, kidnapings. SUI,
i cides, fires and other .disasters-Wli
! be covered" by the police the way
| the commissioner thinks they should
be covered. Being on the inside, the
commissioner will pull off an oc-
| casional scoop" that will take the
sting out OF the editorial paintings
| to which he and his force are sub
| jected periodically.
Practical use of wNYC also is to
be made by the fire department All
the fire stations and all the hoating
| fire eQuipment will have receiving
sets on which Commissioner Dren
nan can direct his men. The lnnoVa
ton is expected to be especially
VALUABLE in the case Of the fire boats
| which now are incapable of close
control from land.
Entertainment Features.
wNYC. of course, will go on the
air nightly with a program or en-
| tertainment and instruction. High
grade entertainers are volunteering
| in shoals, Mr.. Bohnsack said, and he
is ready to stack his entertainment
features up against those of wEAF,
WIZ, WOR OF any of the ether big
eastern stations. Park ban concerts
and recitals on the big Wanamaker
store pipe organ will be broadcast, as
we'll as the work of artists in the
Municipal building studio.
| Mayor Hylan emphatlcally denleo
today that he plans to make the pow
erfuI WNYC station a political IN
| strument Not even candidates for
the presidency will be permitted TO
use it in the coming campaign, he
said But the mayor-who doesn't
think any more of most Of the New
| York newspapers than does Police
/ Commissioner ight-planS to use
| WNYC to "set the public right" or
some details of the city government
which he thinks these newspaper
have misrepresented: This will b.
done by means of educational talks"
by officials of various city depart
ments-the health department. -.
| department of education, the fire e
police departments and all the T.,
of them.