police official, b. Milwaukee. After attending business college in Milwaukee, Laubenheimer worked as a clerk and bookkeeper until his appointment to the police force in 1893. He rose through the ranks and was appointed chief of police in 1921. During his term in office (1921-1936), he inaugurated the country's first police training school, a traffic bureau, bureau of identification, and a medical bureau for instruction in first aid. In 1930 he instituted the police radio bureau to direct the work of radio squad cars. The Wickersham Commission at that time stated that Milwaukee had the most efficient and cleanest police department in the country. D. W. Hoan, City Government (New York, 1936); B. Still, Milwaukee (Madison, 1948); Milwaukee Journal, Aug. 24, 1936; Who's Who in Government (3 vols., New York, 1930); W. G. Bruce, ed., Hist. of Milwaukee (3 vols., Chicago, 1922).

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