Michigan Senate got 3 bills from House allowing indeterminate sentences (one day to life) for sex offenders without first determining they are sex delinquents. Detroit's Prophet Jones booked recently on morals charge of vice squad plant 14 of flock also held. Prophet, famed for fancy dress, lavish parties and piano with built-in bed, lately plagued by debts, as fabulous gifts turn out to be unpaid for. Loyal flock followed him to jail howling, 'All is well.'. . . Saginaw girl calls cops: her purse with 35¢ swiped at policeman' s ball. . . . Dearborn cops soon to cruise in cars of 'pretty reds, pinks, blues, etc' black is so drab.

Colorado: Montrose Dist. Judge Hughes ordered convicted sex offender castrated, assuming operation would halt sex desires. State medical officials delayed operation temporarily dissent on legality. Victim, given choice of castration or life in prison, chose former. . . . Englewood Maistrate Wm Young filed heavy libel suit against Denver Post which attacked him for bouncing charges against man said to have propositioned youth. Englewood City Council (5-3) ousts Young as magistrate.

Manchester, Ky.: Twin brothers, 21, on trial in death of grocer who stopped their fight with his grandson who'd refused to dance with brothers. . . .Milwaukee alderman candidate Roderick Peter Lanser asks name change to Rod 'full name sounded too effemiate'. . . . Union City, N. J. cops raid bookie spot, find among pat rons deputy chief's father and brother, city detective, police lieut. and mayor's aide. . Watertown N. Y. city officials vote on ordinance forbidding dogs to bite dogs. . . .D. A. office tells L. A. grand jury: violation of citizen's rights no felony. Jurors drop actions against 2 cops who illegally handcuffed young wife while searching her apartment 'for

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gun,' then found marijuana. Pennsylvania: In recent recap of 1939 gangland murder, Phil. News described victim and a friend as much alike. gentlemanly, softspoken "This John Doe was a handsome fellow. He was tall, slim, blond and blue-eyed. He never cursed and he never drank. Such a good-looking devil that he posed as a girl when he was on the lam.

Same day, Phil. Inquirer ran features on 'Corridors of Crime' the subway concourses. "Their labyrinthine turns, blind spots and side alleys furnish uncounted lurking spots for the pervert, the mugger, and for juvenile gangs bent on what mischief they can find.' Subway Co. doesn't patrol 11⁄2 miles of tunnels and cops on job usually 'congregate around cashier's booths' ($142,000 on city books annually for police patrol). In 1954 at one spot in Broad St. Concourse: 50 women reported attacked in 7 months. . 'Sex deviates use the Broad St. Subway as an 'underground railway,' congregating wherever the Morals Squad is not, making its rest rooms convenient places of assignation, and getting away easily on passing trains when police are called.' Police Comr. Thomas Gibbons says proper job would cost another yearly million.

Pittsburgh art dean Vincent Nesbert, representing the classic conception of art,' decries male students in tight jeans. 'Why it's it's positively indecent.' Nude models are another thing. He dismissed one girl who wanted at least to keep her sandals on. Massachusetts: Nov: Reading man freed by Superior Judge Forte after 7 days in Bridgewater hosp. on commitment by Stoughton Judge Grover. Driving thru Stoughton, man stopped at Postoffice, was charged with improper act when stooping for dropped stamps. Judge Forte said arrest by local police illegal on federal property.