Evening star., 1941-08-15
House Passes
Bill D. T..
100 Extra Police
Measure Is Sped
To Senate for
Action Today

The deficiency bill providing
among other things for the addition
of 100 metropolitan policemen for
the District was passed by the House
shortly after noon today and plans
were started Immediately to pass
the measure on to the Senate for
action before the afternoon was
over.
The bill was put aside after House
consideration to await the arrival
of the conference report on the sup
Elemental appropriations bill, which
includes the $35, 900 900 item for a
new War Department building.
Leaders plan. it is understood, to
attach the deficiency measure to
this bill before sending it to the
Senate.
Reorganization Needed.
Meanwhile, Representative Coch-
ran, Democrat, of Missouri, author
of the bill providing for the addi-
tional policemen, announced that he
had reached agreement with Senator
Adams. Democrat, of Colorado, and
Senator Glass. Democrat. of Vir-
ginia. to have the Senate Com
mittee polled 50 that there would be
no delay in the measures passage
today.
Representative Woodrum, Demo-
erat, of Virginia, in charge OF the
deficiency bill. told the House that,
under the new legislation, Wash
ington will have the largest police
force per capita in any large city
in the Nation, but he warned that
the crime situation here cannot be
corrected alone by more policemen,
that there must be reorganization
of the entire Police Department.
This point was reiterated by Rep
resentative Cochran. who added
that, in passing the bill, Congress
is relieving itself of criticism and
cenSure
Representative Schultz. Democrat,
of Indiana, chairman of the sub
committee that recently inVeSti-
gated the police situation in Wash
ington, reported on some of the
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Supt. of Police Edward Kelly. who
he said. has promised a thorough
toning up" of the department TO
make Washington a most unde-
sirable place for criminals"
Half of Attacks Unreported.
Representative Woodrum. speak
Ing further, said at least twice as
many attacks on women had oc-
Cured in the Capital as had been
reported to police
Representative Walter, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania questioned how
many of the new policemen would
be found standing around watching
parked automobiles and wasting
their time, and was assured that,
under the new regime, such a situ-
alton no longer would continue.
Representative Rankin. Democrat,
of Indiana offered an amendment to
increase the number of additional
policemen from 100 to $50 He said
that, besides the 10 recorded attacks
on women in the city this year.
there had been IS which also had
been reported and more than 100
unreported. To correct the situa-
ton, he suggested the police be CIV
en- couple of companies of marines
as assistants
Later, however after Representa-
tive Taber had suggested that Act
ing Supt. Kelly should be given
time to see what he could do and
Representative Woodrum had en-
phasized that you can't cure the
situation by hiring lot of men and
putting uniforms on them" Mr..
Rankin withdrew his amendment,
but threatened if the situation is
not soon cleared up, Ito force my
colleagues to come back from their
recesses and give Washington ade-
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