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Policewomen. The U. S. has about 1,000 policewomen. Practically all are muscular women, married and graduated from social work. Mrs. Lola J. Baldwin of Portland, Ore., thinks she was the first U. S. policewoman. Mrs. Alice S. Wells of Los Angeles, first (1915) president of the International Association of Policewomen, thinks she was the first. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle of Washington, president since 1919, ignores the kudos of such priority. Last week she insisted that more communities employ women to deal with arrested women and children below eleven. She would have policewomen take over the work and duties...
...unmarried as well as married women, so far as the New York law indicates. Unsatisfied with freedom alone, the Stone group insisted upon knowing who instigated their arrest. They suspected Roman Catholics and said so. Police Commissioner Grover Aloysius Whalen avoided a direct answer. But he demoted the policewoman who had led the raid against the birth-controllers...
...women into the patrol wagon. The wagon smelled horribly. The women sat down on its benches. Policemen posted themselves on guard. The wagons growled away, angrily jeered by the women on the sidewalk. Thus was the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau (TIME, March 18) raided last week. A policewoman, one Josephine McNamara, mother of two grown children, had reported that the clinic was giving out demoralizing information and advice...
...Money, 58, onetime Parliamentary Secretary to.David Lloyd George. In dismissing the case the judge severely rebuked the constables concerned and fined them jointly ?10 ($48). The astounding and scandalous aftermath came a fortnight later when Miss Savage was called upon at her place of work by Inspector Clark and Policewoman Wilde who imperatively insisted that she accompany them to New Scotland Yard for further questioning with regard to the charge of which she had been acquitted...
...period of Miss Savage's examination was 5½ hours. No policewoman was present. She was alone with Inspector Collins and a male shorthand stenographer. She was told that "there's a lot more we want to know about this case," and that the constables who were fined for falsely arresting her "are respectable men with good police records and besides their wives have got to be considered." Inspector