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the parties, some of which included sex (with the boys only), home brew, dancing, and on one casion, marijuana, allegedly. "Not all of the juveniles are cooperative," said juvenile division Capt. Robert Mariels. "Some are reticent in giving police information because of fear of reprisal, loyalty to the adults and in some cases, affection, and a fear of embarrassing their families and incriminating themselves."

It pays to have friends. Prior to his arrest for embezzling over $7,000 of veterans'-home-loan funds "to play pinball machines with," Harry Ohlmann, Jr., was a Seaside, Oregon municipal judge. Without posting bail, Ohlmann was allowed to return to his office and home to clear up business matters, to play with his children, etc., and neighbors took up a collection to help him out. His lawyer said the case would be thrown on the mercy of the court. "Blessed are those who are merciful, for they shall obtain mercy." I wonder how forgivin' a judge ex-judge Ohlmann was?

WASHINGTON: Air Force announced that a major, normally assigned to 81st Fighter Bomber Wing in England, was arrested in Dallas, Texas, on a morals charge. Described by Dallas papers as a nuclear physicist, the major says he has a wife and children in England. Held in custody at Hensley Air Force Base in Texas . . .

PASADENA, CALIF.: Christopher Mowry, an apartment owner of 600 Orange Grove Circle, complained to press that police and school authorities had conspired to suppress information concerning a school teacher whom Mowry says is unfit to teach. Officials denied charge, which they'd investigated some

time ago, when Mowry accused the teacher and another man of stealing valuable plants from his apartments. Police said Mowry failed to keep an appointment with them to sign a complaint. Mowry further charged the teacher was an ex-con and his "accomplice" in the alleged plant-theft a registered homosexual. School officials said. they'd investigated the teacher's past, and tho the charges were true in part, they'd found insufficient reason for dismissal. . .

Sacramento

anti-homosexual drive still boiling. More later.

U. S. Supreme Court recently ruled that Army can't use a soldier's pre-induction activities to decide what type of discharge to give, thus nixing the services' practice of discharging men on an "undesirable" because someone who knew them before they got into the service happened to let an address book get into the hands of the police . . .

COPS AND ROBBERS

You can tell the cops by the fact that they wear uniforms. But sometimes it gets confused. Not only do some shakedown artists pose as cops, as Miami Chief Headley said in the new CONFIDENTIAL, but some cops occassionally go in for shakedown and things. L. A. has a large police force, and on the whole, I think, a good one. Yet scandal after scandal has plagued Chief Parker's department, as his boys are found in robberies, shakedowns, cover-ups, and endless unnecessary shootings. Parker keeps throwing up a smokescreen by attacking the Courts for limiting police powers. Mr. Parker seems to feel that since his force stands almost unaided on the side of law