Evening star., 1926-03-26
CURB IS DEMANDED
ON PO[|CEWOMEN
Travellers Aid Delegate and
Others at Hearing Want
Powers Specified.

Mrs. William y. Chamberlain. rep
resenting the Travellers Aid Society,
former president of the Women'S City.
Club: Mrs. r.. +. kalmhach. former
chairman of the Juvenile Court COM
mittee of the Congress of Parent
Teacher Clubs. and Mrs. James w.
Bayler. the present chairman. testified
in opposition to the PoliceWOmen'S
Rurea,: bill today before the suhcom-
mittee on police and firemen of the
House District committee.
All said they favored measure to
give legal permanent status to the
Policewomen's Bureau. hut opposed
the provision defining the powers of
the policewomen. and especially their
having jurisdiction over children.
Mrs. Nina Van Wrinkle. head of the
PoliCewomen's Bureau as now estab-
lished without substantive law in the
Police Department. WAS allowed to put
in the record her reply to charges
made al an earlier hearing by Judge
Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court.
The hearing is to he continued TO-
night AT 40 o'clock in the caucus
room of the House Office Building.
Mrs. chamberlain said she felt there
was much good work to be done bE
both the Travellers Aid and the I'U-
licewomen'S Bureau. but that the work
overlapped. She expressed fear that
the bureau would absorb the work Of
the Travellers Aid. since the bureau
would have legal authority, while the
Travellers Aid Is ii volunteer agent.
She also advocated that the power OF
policeWomen should be specified ana
limited in the police manual.
Separate Houses Urged.
The suggestion was made by Rep
reSentatiNe Hammer, Democrat, OF
North Carolina, that the entire sub
ject should be referred to the legiSla-
tive council of the Senate, with in
structions to eliminate any overlap
ping with the proposed welfare board.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle said this had been
done hut Mr. Hammer thought she
must he nlisinformed. AS. he said, the
bill under consideration clearly shows
to any lawyer that this has not been
done.
Mrs. kalmbach testified that al
though Congress appropriated for a
teacher at the house of detention, for
considerable time there was no
teacher there until she herself had in
Quired into the matter. She urged a
separate house of detention for chill
dren under II years of age within the
jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court.
Representative Blanton. Democrat.
of Texas. said he wished Congress
would give Mrs. Van Wrinkle suffi-
cient room in a house of detention
SO she could provide separate quar-
terS for white and colored boys and
girls and could. keep children segre-
gated from adults.
Mrs. kalmbach promised to supply
Mr. Blanton with a lisl of children
Improperly treated at the house of
detention She declared it is against
every principle of child welfare for the
PoliceW omen's Bureau, to have charge
of the house of detention for chill
dren." Mrs. kalmbach and Mr. Ham
mer agreed that the house of deten-
tion is a Jail
Mrs. Van Wrinkle Asks Probe.
Mrs Van Wrinkle of the House of
Detention invited Congress to make
any investigation il might desire.
hut that-it should he separate from
consid era ton of the Policewoman'
Bureau bill
Mrs. Byler confirmed the state
ments Of Mrs. kalmbach. with whom