Boys detained in juvenile hall. Awhile back, Perez once charged Wall paid him to fire home (insured for $19,000) of film-wild-boy Sabu. Wall then was Sabu's pal and press agent. Wall and Perez formerly involved on bad-check charges, had been arrested in Detroit living together as brothers named Courtland. As editor of an Albany union paper, Wall in 1949 attacked union for "bigotry" when it called FREEDOMS FOUNDATION a "front for American reactionaries." Same year he dangled rumors of his supposed romance with Margaret Truman, who said she'd never heard of him. His style of ministry in Religious Science Church described as showy, pompous. Perez, once involved in Hollywood boy-charge, told police he was "bisexual," ordered to leave state... Quite a history. . . Miami sheriff again harrassing gay bars Indianapolis papers report Miami man, posing as detective, with two confederates, attempt to extort $1000 from truck driver on bogus morals charge... Columnist Irving Leibowitz in INDIANAPOLIS TIMES: "Memo to Police Chief Frank Mueller: Tell one of your gendarmes (Ptl. J.M.) he'll get in trouble messing around with the gay boys in University Park, especially if he insists on shaking them down and having them send money to an apartment in the 200 block of E. North St." ... An Indianapolis judge recently, rejecting defendent's request jurymen be examined by psychiatrist, said, "There's no statutory requirement that a juror be sane"

Two Texas men and woman tried for sex extortion of Negro rancher allegedly kidnapped, forced into bed with white woman, photographed and threatened with rape charges unless he paid off . . . Complete code revision under way in Arizona ... NYC vice detective cleared of "shakedown" charges in arrest of prominent Calif. educator and lay churchman who had been acquitted (but lost job). . .

New Providence, R. I., vice squad playing rough, with little respect for rights of victims . . . British Council of Magistrates Assn. suggested press omit names of persons under 30 mentioned in homo court cases, to prevent them being later approached by older homosexuals; British Press Council sez thumbs down . . . Melbourne and Sydney papers down under report police and judges alarmed by rise of homosexual offenses. Sydney police official denounces hotel operators letting homosexuals congregate "because they are such good spenders." Supreme Court Justice Sholl spoke of homo offender as "a person of grossly perverted instincts" and Judge Hudson said, "It would be a very wrong thing for the community to get the idea that this sort of offense can go without punishment."

Mr. Gunther, it seems, found a few pages worthy of homosexuality INSIDE AFRICA . . .

RECOMMENDED READING... THE RIGHT TO READ, Paul Blanchard, Beacon, 339 pp. $3.50, critical survey of censorship in America. NIKKI, Kevin Macrea, Pageant Press, $2.75, 1955, brief lesbian novel. FABRIZIO LUPO, Carlo Coccioli, excellent philosophical novel on homosexuality, available only in French or Spanish. Compania General de Ediciones, Mexico, $3.25, 417 pp. CARDS OF IDENTITY, Nigel Dennis, Vanguard, $3.75, 370 pp, hilarious fantasy by TIME editor, of time when difference between sexes becomes hazy.

MUST YOU CONFORM, Robert Lindner's excellent 1954 Hacker lectures, revised, Rinehart, 1956, 210 pp, $3, including a long chapter on homosexuality that should stir debate. Thinks the "new attitude" toward homosexuality as a disease is same old prejudice in disguise.

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