assumes that to be the only sort of love of which the homosexual is capable. The homosexual by definition is unlikely to be aroused to deep love by a member of the opposite sex. And most homosexuals will raise a light-hearted eyebrow at the assumption that homosexuals are never burdened with guilt. Yet Mr. Margoshes may have gotten hold of an interesting and original concept here, though he obviously fails to understand it himself ...

Dr. Alvarez, in his syndicated column, recently made another plea for understanding of those persons whose sex was confused at birth"boys" convinced that their real nature is feminine. He cited Dr. K. L. Moore's study, published in the London LANCET, in which skin cells of 5 babies out of 3,715 were found to indicate the sex opposite to their apparent sexual organs: all girls who appeared to be boys.

THE SNIPPING SCISSORS

The magazine CANDIDA, nee SEX AND CENSORSHIP, seems to have expired after its third issuethe first under the new name. Too bad...

Oregon postal snoop Nolan Brown said pen pal clubs are being infiltrated by pushers of "obscene materials" and waved the threat of federal prosecution at such distributors...

And New York court ruled that the US Postmaster General possesses no special competence to rule on such matters as the alleged obscenity (and therefore, unmailability) of a work like Lady Chatterly's Lover.

HUNTERS AND TRAPPERS

Detroit vicecop John Gartner, awhile back knifed in arm and face by a man he tried to nab on a morals charge. Conflicting account,

as usual, as to who said what to whom and when, but Billings, 32, already had record of 24 morals arrests and 3 convictions. After Billings allegedly made indecent proposal, Gartner drew his pistol, dropped it when slashed in arm, and rolled under his car when Billings grabbed the pistol-which detectives said they found later in Billings' apartment

Donald Lower, 28, formerly of Kansas City, arrested in Pittsburgh for extortion and impersonating officer, after threatening to arrest a man he accosted in a theatre restroom, then offering to forget it all for $200, which they got from the victim's bank. Later (after a parting drink together) the victim realized his stupidity and went to police. Lower found back in theatre-no trace of money. Lower denied charge, admitted serving term in Florida prison for grand larceny, and jumping bail in Los Angeles on extortion charge . . .

Big pervert-hunt in South Roxana, Illinois, when 11-yr-old boy disappears from home...

Angry lynch mob of over 100 men, led by police, combed woods of western Penna's Robinson Township recently, after brutal molestation of 7-yr-old boy. After several similar earlier attacks, authorities. thought it was all over when Judge Sara Soffel a few days earlier had sentenced Edward Anthony Canale, 32, of Cuddy, Pa., to ten-to-twenty years at Western Pen.

The boy was not seriously hurt, but badly upset. An unidentified 17-yr-old described a man he saw in the vicinity, and several men more or less fitting the description were held for questioning . . .

Month before, Pittsburgh POSTGAZETTE Associate Editor Frank Hawkins did a lengthy, sensible analysis of the 1951 Barr-Walker Sex Offender Act, passed in wake

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