to boy on grounds no crime had occured.

San Jose and Modesto, Calif. hit by small wave of serious court cases, mostly child molesting.

Legal technicalities ensnarling licenses of TOMMY's PLACE in Frisco and L.A.'s 326 CLUB. Usual pious statements by officials. April 55 MEN features article by Frisco's vice squad chief DON'T CALL US "QUEER CITY" detailing recent police actions there (and picturing May '54 issue of ONE.)

California prison system still upset by charges by ex San Quentin psychologist about homosexuality and brutality at SQ. California Assemblyman H. Allen Smith pushing for big changes in "sex offender" laws, providing that person committed as sex psychopath would get no further hearings till he asked them, that sex psychopaths could be held indefinitely on misdemeanor, and that Dept of Education could class any teacher thus and suspend credentials.

OTHER LANDS England's homohunt has quieted but random scandals still get strong play in press: a parson's murder with apparent homosexual implications; cashiering of a Lt.-Col. for "indecency" with 2 German men.

In Bangkok's general housecleaning preparatory to SEATO affair, TIME reported that "to avoid embarrassing incidents, city's numberless perverts had been rounded up. And as a further concession to the dignity of the visitors, Bangkok's mothers were ordered not to let their children run naked through the streets while the conference lasted."

Buenos Aires police jailed some 300 homosexuals in one night, permitting government to complain of sex deviate increase and recommend return to legalized prostitution which was reason for raids in first place.

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ODD BITS

If Christ comes to Connecticut when he returns earthward, he'll have it rough. Anti-blasphemy law forbids person to claim to be deity, as a Polish refugee discovered when he claimed to be the Crucified . . . An L.A. writer, recently nixed for unemployment money when he admitted refusing offer to write for smutmagazine, testily asked interviewer if she'd accept job in brothel. He still didn't get checks... Big furore over article in a Penna. Catholic bulletin disparagingly referring to Boy Scouts as "about 20% girl". . . BARE and KEYHOLE thrive on lurid rape accounts. Didn't see a mention when a 16-year-old San Diego girl accused their publisher.. ... SONG OF THE MONTH: "I Was Looking Back To See"

Monaco's citizens worried their girl-shy Prince Ranier may end up childless, which would revert the tiny principality to France . . . Herta Wind, one time A.B. seaman confined by Nazis for abnormality, wrote book on her man-to-woman change, completed in 1931 by operation. Book in German courts at motion of former wife, Frau Gickeleiter . . . Paul Coates, L.A. columnist seldom praised here, recently went to bat for sex offender and won his release from jail. Offender was 7-year-old boy accused of indecently touching girl. Thanks to Mr. Coats for spotlighting one case of fantastic official stupidity . . .

CENSORS & SECURITY Note George Kennan's recent blast at those who in name of national security "sublimate their own sex urge in the peculiarly nasty and sadistic practice of snooping on others and exploiting failures and embarrassments of others in this most excruciating and difficult of problems." He also criticized those Christians guilty of "intolerance and lack of charity."

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