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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 43, 3 May 1935, Page 12

qT several American districts, notabl'y in Kansas, Detroit, LoS Angeles, White Plains, etc., there is a movement to organise amateur broadcasters into "emergency communications" to cocperate with the police by sending out descriptions of missing or unidentified persons, giving Bertillon’ measurements and fingerprints, etc, Mr, ¥, E. Handy, communications manager of the American Radio Relay League, has found it difficult to convince mény police commissioners that this wofild be desirable; they say they don’t help from and: that, ‘because the amateur setvice is ‘ftee; it can’t be worth anything,’ To‘ which it is xeplied that.even, in post-war times, amateurs" weré lélping’ the ~ ‘police "and maintaining listening-posts.