I'm sure it's a private perforation even though there's no note in Scott. Scott does note private perfs on the 1918-20 issues of newspaper stamps, and I have some of those although I've never seen any for the 1937 issue that you have. For some reason, there appears to be a tradition of private perfs for newspaper stamps from this area. You'll also find them on newspaper stamps of the Austrian Empire, which encompassed what is now the Czech Republic.
Did a google search on private perfs of Austrian stamps and stumbled across this thread from 2015:
https://goscf.com/t/43624