The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-12
GAME WARDEN
OFFICE SAVED
BY RAPPAPORT
New Report Drafted to
Keep Department Out of
State Safety Body.
EVANS CHARGES DENIED
Lieber to Answer Article in
SportSman's Magazine
Directed at Him.

Although Attorney Leo M. Rap
paport, state crime commission
member and head of the Indian
apolis Family Welfare Association,
was unable to arouse any interest
in an investigation of prohibition
by the crime commissioners, he was
successful in rescuing the fish and
game wardens from the proposed
department of safety and saving
them to the conservation depart
ment, it was learned today.
A new, tentative report of the
commission has been drafted and
will be presented to Governor Harry
G. Leslie and discussed at the COM
mission meeting at the statehouse
Monday.
Leading changes from the first
tentative report, submitted at the
last meeting, are the dropping OF
the game wardens from the pro-
posed safety department. and recon-
mending a policy of extension OF
the intermediate sentence law,
rather than it's curtailment, as re-
f1ected in 1929 legislation.
Rappaport Voices Objection
DR.. Amos w. Butler, secretary of
the crime commission, told The
Times today that the game ward
ems were omitted in this new set-up
because some of the crime commits
sioners objected to their being in
Guided in the department of safety"
He did not know their reasons for
these objections, he said.
Rappaport voiced his objection to
including the game wardens when
the first report was read. He is a
brother-in-law of Director Richard
Lieber of the state conservation de-
partment, under whom game ward
ems now function. He also is at
torney for the department.
Functioning of wards and the fish
and game division of the state con-
Servation department are under fire
from Representative H. H. Evans,
Republican, Newcastle, president of
the Southern Indiana Fox Hunters
and the Indiana Fish, Game and
Forest League.
Charges Are Denied
IN the October issue of Outdoor
Life, a Sportsman's magazine, Evans
has an article entitled "ConServa-
ton in Indiana Political Racket"
in which he charges Lieber collects
Republican campaign contributions
from the game wardens. Facsimile
copies of checks, alleged to have
been contributed by a former game
warden to the campaign kitty"
are reproduced.
Lieber declared the article is fan
tastic, libelous and distorted to
carry Evans point and he is pre-
pairing an answer to be published
by the magazine.
Friends of Lieber charge Evans
with political aspirations and allege
his assaults are for publicity pur-
poses.
To Remain With Lieber
The department of safety plan of
the crime commission calls for a
bipartisan safety board of four
members appointed by the Gov
ernor which will be charged with
administration of the state police,
criminal identification bureau, Oil
inspection and arson investigation.
1t would license all police and sheriff
activities.
While the game wardens have po-
lice powers and we're included in
the original draft, they will remain
with Lieber under the new tenta-
tive report.
State Senator C. Oliver Holmes,
Rep0 Gary, is one of the crime
commissioners who supported
Rappaport in securing this change.
The secretary of states Office may
object to losing the state police and
Identification bureau, the health de-
partment's oil inspectors, and the
fire marshall's arson investigators, if
this plan is to be followed, it was
pointed out.