Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 183, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1928 — Page 2

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OFFICIALS RAP IDEA OF POLICE ARMYINSTATE Niblack’s Bill Is Expected to Be Smothered in Legislature. Indiana doesn’t want to billet a $500,000 army, to be called the state police, in the opinion of both Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield and Chief Robert T. Humes of the state police. | Both asserted that is what passage of the state police measure proposed by State Senator John L. Niblack would mean. Niblack has the bill prepared for introduction at the coming legislative session. It would provide for a mounted constabulary, drilled and living hi barracks, with officers and enlisted men ranked in the army manner. Taking a leaf from Kipling, Humes points out that “single men in barracks don’t turn into plaster saints.” Social Standpoint Cited He criticises the measure from a social standpoint, on the ground that unmarried men living in barracks do not have the community interest that men of home responsibilities do. Appropriations for expansion of the present state police force and giving them power to arrest all law violators is to be asked of the legislature by Fifield and the chief. This expansion, however, will be along present lines, Humes said. It will mean that the men employed will be largely men with homes in community which they patrol. “A mounted police force, such as Senator Niblack proposes, would be a costly experiment and, in my opinion, without merit,” Fifield declared. Niblack’s plan is modeled on the Royal Northwest mounted police of Canada and the New York and Pennsylvania state police laws. Need More Police “Our greatest task now is to solve crime problems in the rural communities,” said Fifield. “This can not be done without an adequate state police force, with unrestricted power of arrest. “I feel that expansion of the present force and an educational campaign among the law abiding in the small communities, so that their co-operation will be enlisted, is the proper solution. Surely it is less costly than supporting an army in barracks.” Humes predicted that the Niblack bill never will get further than committee. “There is no chance for such bill in Indiana,” he predicted. LIFE TERM FOR SLAYER . Vincennes Man Convicted of Killing Housekeeper by Shooting. Bn Vnitec Press WASHINGTON, Ind., Dec. 21. Felix Brown, 45, Vincennes, today faces a life sentence in the Indiana state prison for the slaying of his ' housekeepe . Mrs. Laura McMahan. A jury which deliberated five hours convicted Dairess circuit court here. Brown was charged with shooting the woman to death in his home in Vincennes last June after an alleged altercation over another man, believed to have lived in Indianapolis. Attorneys for Brown based their case on the contention that Brown was attacked while asleep. He was found in bed after the slaying with several wounds, apparently inflicted with a razor.

WOUND AFGHAN REBEL! Price Paid on Head of Leader of Revolt by King. Bn United Press BERLIN, Dec. 21.—A telegram to the foreign office from the German legation in Kabul, Afghanistan, said today that the leader of the Afghanistan Rebels had been wounded. His name was reported to be Batcha Saqua. \ A United Press dispatch from Allahabad, India, yesterday said that King Amanullah of Afghanistan recently had placed a price of 20,000 rupees on the head of Bacha Saqua, rebel leader, and that the latter had retaliated by placing a larger price on the head of the king. TOKIO CONSUL TO TALK Charles De Vault Speaks at C. of C. Luncheon Today. Charles L. De Vault, United States consul at Tokio, Japan, was to be the principal speaker at the Chamber of Commerce open forum luncheon today. De Vault, in a talk before the Indiana Cuoncil on International Relations at the library Thursday night, declared relations between United States and Japan are much more cordial than two years ago. Japan still resents American immigration laws, he said. The United States buys 38 per cent of Japan’s exports, while Japan buy 42 per cent of the United States’ products, he added. CELEBRATES TONIGHT Riverside Civic Association to Give Christmas Party. Santa Claus will be on hand this evening at the Municipal Gardens to help the Riverside Civic Association celebrate the annual Christmas party. Candy and cakes will be distributed to members and toys to children in the district. Jobless Nurse Kills Self Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 21. Miss Josephine Davis, 37, a nurse, is dead here, a suicide by poison ing, After swallowing poison, she left a note addressed to M C. Whitney, an acquaintance at Louisville Ky., saying she had failed to obtain work after spending three weeks here, and was killing herself as “the only way out.”

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