BREATH OF SCANDAL

Rumors Serge Rubenstein's death may be linked with homo assignation.

Man in suburb of Pittsburg slaughtered family, two friends, wounded another and killed self. Wounded man indicates homo angle.

48-year-old Louisiana bachelor recently killed his 72-year-old mother with crowbar because "she was a bossy old woman and wouldn't let me go out with girls."

ODD BITS

Syndicate columnist Holmes Alexander, attacking those who "profane our Constitution" by appealing to its provisions for freedom of press, etc., denies that Post Office has ever tried to hold back any lewd or un-American material. As example, he says "Post Office is, unofficially, but I think very admirably, tolerating 'ONE'."

In another installment, he says most modern American troubles were imported from Europe; refers to "sexual profligacy and sexual perversion" as foreign imports. Doubt if all Mr. Alexander's ancestors were American Indians, but if not, then he's a foreign import too, maybe a few generations removed. As for what he calls "sexual profligacy and perversion" that was here before Columbus, though the men who came with and after Columbus were doubtless already familiar with it. A BOSTON HERALD editorial criticized the bigotry in Mr. Alexander's column, and the same paper ran a letter from lawman Zachariah Chaffee, Jr., mentioning that this particular import was recorded in Governor Bradford's History of Plymouth Plantation.

Item: Maryland boy left school after being ordered not to wear tight-fitting dungarees.

Damon Runyon told of a war correspondent instructed by editor to get human interest stories on soldiers, "to eat with them and sleep with them and tell us how they live, etc." The reporter found certain difficulties holding his own eating with them, but... "When I ask one of them if I can sleep with him, he gives me a strange look, and afterward I have a feeling that I am a subject of gossip among these gees.

1984

LA Police shocked by Cal Supreme Court ruling banning wiretap and bugged homes evidence. LA Chief Parker wants to know what rights the police do have. Glendale Chief Eggers commends the ruling which called halt to illegal police practices. ACLU officials emphasize 4th Amendment guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure. Congressional investigators had demonstration of new wiretap and bugging gadgets, straight out of 1984, such as tiny listening device which can beam to pickup conversation more than 100 yards away. Dist. Atty. Roll urged adoption of Uniform Arrest Law (adopted in several states) defining specifically police rights in questioning, search, arrest, etc. He'd opposed wiretap and bugging but felt Court's ruling apparently also bans "routine" search, roadblocks, raids without warrants, etc.

Four men recently lynched in two mob outbreaks in town near Juarez, Mexicowave of witchcraft hysteria. Men suspected of kidnapping children and selling their blood.

All this talk about Dior sabotaging the American female bazoom is nonsense and misses point that he merely relieved most women from trying to display what they don't actually possess....