Evening star., 1933-02-02
LIEUT.. VAN W|NKLE
HONORED AT RITES
Memorial Mass Meeting Held
at Luther Place Church
Last Night.

The work of Lieut.. Nina Van Winkle,
former head of the Women's Bureau of
the Police Department, who died re-
Gently, was extolled by associates in
many endeavors at a memorial mass
meeting last night at the Luther Place
Memorial Church, which she had at
tended. Others. unable to be present,
sent messages.
The memorial was arranged by the
Soroptimist Club, of which Lieut.. Van
Wrinkle had once been president.
Among those who gathered to pay
her tribute was Representative Mary
T. Norton of New Jersey, chairman Of
the House District Committee.
Her monument is the Washington
Women's Police Bureau" Chairman
Norton said. 1T stands today as she
would desire it to stand, brilliant
beacon flashing rays of light to human
ships tossing about helplessly in the
darkness of despair and uncertainty;
showing the way home to derelicts, and
writing across the dismal horizon OF
encouragement message Of hope and
of cheer"
Recalls Long Service.
Mrs. Norton recalled Lieut.. Van
Wrinkles long public service, dating back
to New Jersey, when, as resident OF
Newark. she aided, as member of the
Consumers League, in the enforcement
of compulsory education and child labor
laws.
Mrs. Norton emphasized the need of
woman police officers to deal with wom-
an law breakers, adding that this had
been particularly recognized by Mrs.
Van Wrinkle.
Mrs. Van Wrinkle dedicated her life
here in Washington to the girls who
had strayed down the wrong road" the
speaker continued. 1T mattered not
how far or in what manner Her hand
was the hand that guided them back
that revived their confidence in them
selves; that showed the way to the
bright sunlight of decent living"
Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis
trict Committee sent a message to be
read at the meeting
Maj. Ernest w. Brown, superintend-
ent of police. praised Mrs. Van Wrinkles
work in the Police Department.
Louis Brownlow, who was Dis
trict Commissioner when the Women's
Bureau was established, said it was
through Mrs. Van Wrinkles efforts that
the bureau had been widely recognized
Other Speakers.
Other speakers we're Miss M. Pearl
Mccall, assistant United States attor-
ney and president of the Women's Bar
Association: Leifur Magnusson, presi-
dent of the Monday Evening Club, OF
which Lieut.. Van Wrinkle was past
president; Mrs Virginia White Speel
past president of the General Fedora
tion of Womens Clubs; Mrs. Henry
Grattan Doyle, National League OF
Women Voters; Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley
president District Federation of Wom-
ems Clubs; Mrs. Ruth Shipley, State
Department; Miss Grace Abbott, chief
Children's Bureau, Department of La
Dor; Mrs. Bessie Parker Brueggeman
chairman, Employees Compensation
Commission; Thomas P. Littlepage
president, Chamber Of Commerce. DR.
william A. White, president, Social Hy-
giene Association; Mrs. j. M. Saunders
president, District Congress of Parent
Teacher Association; Ray H. Everett
of New York, representing the American
Social Hygiene Association; Mrs. Louis
Ottenburg, vice president, Voteless
League of Women Voters, and Lieut.
Rhoda Milliken, Lieut.. Van Wrinkles
successor as head of the Women's Bu-
reau.
1QCluQeQ Ill CIlOSc WllO ScIlI ulcSSdScs
were Henrietta Addition, deputy police
commissioner of New York City; Judge
Mary O'Toole, Miss Annabel Matthews
of the Board of Tax Appeals, DR.. George
C. Havenner, Mrs Ellen Spencer Mus
sey and Mercy Ellen Crehan Of Van
couver, British Columbia, president OF
the American Federation Of Sorop-
timiSts' Clubs.
Resolutions drawn by the club were
read by Mrs Helena D. Reed, also a
past president of the Soroptimists. Nora
B. Huffman, the president. presided.
The meeting was arranged by COM
mittee headed by Mrs. Ruby Lee Minar
and including Mrs. Caroline Stephen
Mrs. Laura Waters, Miss Catherine
Pike, Miss Grace Goodpasture, Mrs
Harriet Hawley Locher, Mrs. Nell Hy-
song, Miss Reed and Miss Mccall.