The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-17
VOAVV W VIII
Officials From Every County
Here for Convention.
Three Hundred Are Registered
at C. of C. Today.
AUTOMOBILES ARE PROVIDED
Peace Officers Ask Much From
Legislature.
They Urge Places for Girls and
Women.

counties of the state had registered at
2 o'clock this afternoon, when the reg
istration committees left their work at
the Chamber of Commerce and ad-
journed to the meeting places of the
individual associations.
Before the registration started at 0
o'clock this morning. the rooms of the
Chamber of Commerce were filled
with visiting officials who had come
to be assigned to rooms. Automobiles
provided by the reception committee
met the officials at the railway sta
tions, took them first to the Chamber
of Commerce and then to the rooms
which were assigned to their use.
Many Ladies Visit Topeka.
! There are large number of women
among the visiting officials The
greater number of the registers of
/ deeds are women, and they also rank
we'll up in numbers among the clerks
of the district courts of the state.
/ Mrs. Cora Fraker. deputy county.
engineer from Wilson county, was the
only woman registering with the En-
gineers' association.
! At o'clock this afternoon the first
/ sessions of most of the individual aSso-
Citations, started and the registration
committees were transferred to their
meeting places.
| The sheriffs and other peace Off
GERS of the state of Kansas want sew
eral things from the next session of
the state legislature. A few of them
were enumerated at the opening ses-
sion of the Kansas Peace Officers as
sociation which was held in Memorial
Hall this morning.
Need More Institutions.
'It's c shame that the state of Kan
sas doesn't provide a place other than
the industrial school at Beloit or the
prison farm at Lansing, for girls and
women who make slips" said W. I.
Clark, president of the association, in
the meeting this morning. Mr.. Clark
asked the association to go on record
as favoring the esta blishment of a
state institution for a wayward women,
which will not have the taint of the
penitentiary at Lansing connected
with it.
The association took a whack at the
Nonpartisan league and the I. w. w,
calling the names of those organiza-
tions right out in meeting, when they
passed a resolution this morning ex-
: pressing regret at the defeat In Ford
county of John Madden, candidate for
rec election as sheriff of the county.
The resolution expressed the opinion
of the officers that the defeat of the
Ford county sheriff was due to the ac-
tivities of the Nonpartisan league and
the I. w. W.. in prosecution of whom
Sheriff Madden has been very active
I during MS term OIL Office
To Draft Several Bills.
Committees have been appointed to
draft several bills and present them to
1.-THE state legislature, in the interest of
, law enforcement in the state.
| Zone of the chief things to be de-
sired in the legislative and executive
faculties of the state, the peace Of
A fieers believe, is less of this parole
| stuff"
They believe that paroles are en-
tirely too easy to secure at the pres
ent time, and a committee has been
: iappOinted to draft bill which Will
make it illegal for any convicted GRIM
inai to be paroled until the minimum
time of his sentence has been served,
and illegal for him to be paroled. at
any time during the pendency of his
r sentence, unless the parole has the
l approval of two out of the following
three persons: the prosecuting officer:
l the arresting officer, and the trial
1 judge.
!. The committee in charge OF drafting
/ the bill is composed of ]. A Connolly
county attorney of Sedgwick county,
s John Linkenfelter sheriff of Sumner
S county, and Carl Moore, sheriff-elect
4 of Cloud county.
Better Burglar Law.
, |, A more stringent law against the
! burglaries of business houses is to be
9 recommended in a bill which viii
g
: glaries of this sort, which constitute
/ second degree burglary, a twenty-yeal
= sentence in the pentitentiary.
: The association voted to make, or
= ithe membership an assessment of moi
, more than SO each, to be used in the
. relief of peace officers wounded il
= performance of their duties. or fol-
their families IN case the officers are
killed.
The association voted to offer a re-
/
Viction of the murdererS of Charles +
l. Artz. of Wichita, special agent for tbs
Rock Island. and of William H. Bal
lard. q member of the detective 1oTc'
: Eof the city of Wichita. The two ofn
II cres were killed last summer. and re
n wards of 500 will be paid by the peac'
= officers for the arrest and conviction
--iof the murderer or murderers of eithe
: man.
Committee on Resolutions.
= A committee on resolutions was ap
l. pointed this morning to consist of Car
: Miller. county attorney of Ford coun
n ty: Milton Gould, sheriff of Crawfor'
Al county, and Hugh Larimer, sheriff o
2, Shawnee county.
n Neither Mayor Corwine nor Cover
e nor Allen were able to attend tn
n meeting this morning and make tn
le speeches which they were schedules
l. to make before the association.
t Charles Mitchell addressed the peac
g officers. welcoming them to Topeka
n, as representative of Mayor Corwine
wv. T Clark. sheriff of Reno county
= president of the association. made
, response to the address of welcome.
Exhibit Photographs.
is feature of the meeting of the as
" ssociation is the exhibition of CALLER
lie of photographs of crooks, comprisin
IF two classes-I. W. w. agitators an
rs auto bandits. the classes which are ar
it to be most interesting TO the sheriff.