Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-15
CONFERENCE CALLS
On MAYOR A|NSL|E
TO DANISH VICE
Business Men Want Drastic
Steps Taken to Restore
City's Good Name.
RESOLUTIONS WILL GO
TO MAYOR THIS MORNING
Question Of Detention Camp for
Those Who Spread Disease
Is Discussed.
MAYOR GIVES OUT STATEMENT
Quotes Court Decisions as to Right
to Search Baggage With
out Warrant.
MAYOR GIVES OUT STATEMENT
quotes Court Decisions as to Right
to Search Baggage With
out Warrant.

Resolutions calling upon Mayor
George Ainslic TO take active steps
toward rectifying the vice conditions
existing In Richmond were adopted
yesterday afternoon at spccia! call
cd meeting OF committees representing
tho Chamber of Commerce. the Minis
terial Union and the Retail Merchant
Association Heads OF Richmond news
papers were also admitted 10 the meet
ing. at the conclusion of which com
mittee OF five members was appointed
TO present the resolutions to Mayor
Ainslic this morning
The meeting was held in the board
OF directors room of the Chamber Of
Commerce. and lasted for more than
Two hours. Every phase of the si,u.
alton confronting Richmond is under
stood to have been thoroughly gone
into and discussed at length News
representatives Of the press were bar
red from the deliberations and only
information that the conference had
adopted resolutions calling on the
Mayor to wipe out alleged vice condi-
tions in Richmond was given out for
publication. The text OF the rc.olu-
tions 10 be presented to the Mayor was
not made public
QUESTION OF DETENTION CAMP
DISCUSSED AT LENGTH
The establishment of a detention
camp for diseased women 10 check the
spread OF venereal diseases among sol
dicrs was taken up. but nothing def
mite Of what was decided upon was
announced. The desire OF the body was
TO have its plans take definite shape
and gain some Roadway before being
given publicity None Of the members
tt.r - lra
details OF what passed during the con-
ference for fear OF III results from
premature announcement.
Practically the whole trend Of the
conference related TO the physicist vel
fare OF soldiers. who have contracted
diseases in Richmond on visits from
Camp Lee. and to formulate plans to
make the city safe by 5eErcEatinE dis
cased womc.i in suitable camp for
medical treatment 1t was pointed out
that II was of the most vital interest
10 the successful prosecution of the war
that the conditions in Richmond be
cleaned up as early as possible
GRAND JURY PUSHES FORWARD
ITS POLICE: INVESTIGATION
While claims and counterclaims we're
being made yesterday in regard to the
Federal raid which took Richmond by
surprise last Tuesday night. the special
grand jury OF the Hastings Court was
husily pushing it's investigation 10
an end. Although the evidence has not
yet been completed. the jury adjourned
yesterday afternoon at 80 o'clock TO
meet again next Monday morning at
10 o'clock.
All agencies OF the law are now
busily co-ordnating their work in an
Tnr r,,,t
gambling and bootlcgging. Mayor
Ainslie yesterday issued another state
ment repeating that Captain DeCamp.
provost marshal OF Camp Lee, had
raided Richmond only after he had re-
queated General G.. S. Farnsworth TO
send soldiers admitting that the Rich
mond Police Department had been posi-
lively unable to cope with the COM
pick and intricate situation, and that
ii had gone far beyond its power
CALL FOR APPOINTMENT OF
WOMEN on POLICE FORCE
Resolutions calling upon the Mayor
TO take steps at once for the appoint.
ment OF six women protective officers
FOR the proper maintenance of law,
order and social purity in this COM
munity, and for the greater health and
efficiency Of the men at Camp Lee"
were adopted yesterday at the meeting
of the Social Service Federation. The
resolutions recite that conditions are
confcssedly beyond the control of city
officials: that the welfare OF soldiers
and the girls of Richmond are in the
hands of the city and Federal authori-
ties, and that vice conditions in and
around Richmond have been of late
notoriously bad. TIE federation's re-
l. taI tI,a
To-day.
No Red Cross nurses were in the
house at the time it was raided, and
none have ever been there. declared
Mrs Trayser Smith. whose house
the Petersburg Turnpike. near Stop Il,
was raided by the military police Tues
day afternoon. She said last night That
she was In the house whom the first raid
IT'S made, and that no nurses were
I'm there at that time. She was not
there when the second visit was made.
when a man and woman were found
i'm the house. but she knew the woman
was not nurse.
RAID WAS DESIGNED
TO AWAKE RICHMOND
Tn official quarters it is now broadly
hinted that the Federal raid was the
first and last of it's kind In Richmond.
The understanding is that the raid
was made, not for the purpose OF clean
ing out tho city of its underworld. but
10 bring the city officials to realiza-
tIon Of the gravity of the condition in
Eichmond, which had gone from bad
to worse. 1t was the psychological,
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