supposedly funny, in Boston's sensational MID-TOWN JOURNAL, two real brave cops risked life and limb to swoop down on four men in mid-town Boston. Broke in on two men in compromising position in an elegant apartment, caught two parading downtown in loud sportshirts "with the carelessness of strumpets," and caught two others in a "subterranean passageway." Which allegedly adds up to four, unless the reference to parading strumpets meant the overzealous cops, which might be inferred from the sentence structure in the Journal's bit.

Texas Rangers and Galveston Ministerial Assn. up in arms over new Galveston Mayor's plan to open town wide again, with regulated gambling and prostitution.

Washington, D. C. vice squad involved in complex of brutality charges.

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Colorado Gov. Johnson vetoed "tough law for control of sex offenders" saying it went too far and made possible convictions without sufficient evidence. This grew out of furore over case of magistrate who refused to file charge against man who'd allegedly propositioned youth-on grounds no offense had occurred. Magistrate referred to boy's parents and to other officials as "vindictive." Opposition also to Criminal Psychopath Act of 1953 when Pueblo Judge sentenced "pervert" to Psychopathic Hospital, indefinite period. Hospital authorities complained man not psychotic, nor amenable to treatment.

Much disputed new sex-deviate law thru North Carolina legislature, dealing specifically with "offenses against children under 16 by persons over 16." First offense becomes misdemeanor and subsequent offenses felonies. This follows year-long series of cases involving adults with consenting high school boys, chiefly in Graham and Charlotte. Usual press campaigns. Interviewed by CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, bevy of civic leaders say about same thing: "These sex offenders are sick and need psychiatric treatment. Changes must be made in methods of handling them."

A Miami Judge recently under fire for acting as defense council in morals case. Miami Sheriff Kelly (we have occasion to mention him often) recently ordered his men to get rid of foul smelling stogies, stop smoking while driving or talking to people, and get haircuts. Can't have longhairs in Dade County Sheriff's Office. Dr. Bruce Alspach in Miami U lecture on "The Sex Offender" called for more common sense on subject, noting need for research and special state facilities. Pointed to innocuousness of most sex offenses, traced history of homosexuality, noted that Freud called homosexuality a variation of de-

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In British furor when non-Christian lecturer spoke on BBC, the DAILY TELEGRAPH howled that atheistic views are as unwelcome on air as defense of polygamy, homosexuality or communism. At least some English Christians didn't seem afraid. the faith would dry up and blow away the first time a contrary voice was heard in public.

Flurry of recent prosecutions of British clergymen for offenses with boys.

TIME's more than usually Pharisaical tirade, SIN & SWEDEN, 4-25-55, raised quite a fuss. Seems TIME discovered that some Swedes take a more sane view of sex than does the Luce outfit, and TIME thought Sweden was simply nasty. Been good for Swedish tourist trade, though.

Argentina's Peronistas using their vicious roundup of homos as ammunition in government attack on Church, hinting that Church schools breed homos.

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Two Colorado brothers recently got Court permission to change to male names. Parents, after 8 older sons, named and raised boys as girls. They wear male attire to work, female clothes at home, but as Judge said, were not sex deviates ...

British doctors working on erstwhile Mrs. Joy Clark to abet her change into man which began after birth of her second child. She now shaves, smokes pipe, has deep voice and calls herself Daryll Marsh.

In Ohio, a Rhode Island Red hen that had over 100 eggs to her credit, pulled a reverse Christine, turning into rooster, bona-fidely male in form, personality and morals.

Missed seeing Mlle. Torberg Ottodotter's article in AMERICAN WEEKLY 12-26-54 claiming model for DaVinci's Mona Lisa was young man. Da Vinci often sketched male heads with female bodies, and reverse.

SOUTH PACIFIC (slightly warped) a big hit in Spain. Full supply of busty females on stage scattered among lonesome sailors, since censors felt too many men alone on stage "smacked of homosexualism." Just the thing the plot needed for clarity.

Monogamy can be fatal: Female screw worm (a cow-killing pest) mates only once in lifetime, the males are more prolific. Entomologist Knipling sterilized groups of males, turning them loose among unwary females in some of worst infested areas. They've since been laying only sterile eggs, promising early disappearance of screw worms from the earth.

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