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Show wu BOSTON POLICE FORCE IS WEAK Boston, Mass, May 3. Declaring that even' man who has held tho office of-fice of police commissioner here has been a failure, a committee of Boston Bos-ton women have petitioned Governor Foss to appoint a female commissioner commis-sioner The committee, headed by Mrs. Charlotte Smith, president of the Women's Homestead association, claims to represent 50,000 women. If the appointment of a woman police po-lice commissioner is impossible, the committee wants women police Inspectors, In-spectors, and if this, too, Is Impossible, Impos-sible, they want the present police force increased, reformed and regulated. regul-ated. Should this also be Impossible, the v. omen declare that the chief executive ex-ecutive of the state should at once take steps to call out the mllltla to "suppress wickedness In Boston." |