who'd been convicted of violating child molester act; one dismissed from school on morals charge and third discharged from army for 'suspected' homosexuality. Teachers will be allowed to appeal but complete dossiers will be available anyhow to all and sundry...

Miami: Mayor Robert King High charged that numbers racketeers are paying $10,000 weekly for police protection, and called for grand jury investigation of Chief Headley and other top officials. Walter Headley, who by generally sane performance has outlasted several unfriendly mayors, replied with a seemingly pointless blast at NAACP...

New York City: Liquor license of the Lodge, a bar at Third Ave near 54th, revoked by State Liquor Authority "for assertedly permitting homosexuals and degenerates to loiter"... Readers report such closings are becoming epidemic in NYC. Attorneys better brush up on constitutional arguments used in Vallerga case (covered fully in next issue of HOMOPHILE STUDIES) . . . Robert Sylvester reports in Daily NEWS that an uptown YMCA became upset when gay set 'began' making it a hangout. Authorities. called in police, who assigned 2 plainclothesmen to case the place -and they promptly proceeded to try to arrest one another . . . and there was the Brooklyn vicecop who got shot-accidentally-by a shapely belly dancer named Princess Yasmine Ezersky. Seems 4 vice squadders had been drinking with the Princess at a bar owned by Rosenblum's brother-then Rosenblum, went up to the girls apartment, and while they were undressing, the gun went off accidentally...

Albany, N. Y.: Commissioner Robert Doyle of State Liquor Authority, heard testimony in case of Clancy's Grill on Broadway: Seems

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this investigator had seen male customers walking on their toes and swinging their hips, and heard one say that a that a man for whom he'd baked a cake wouldn't eat any, since he was going steady with Queenie and Rene." Owner Louis Vita had said he didn't ask his customers if they were homosexual"I'd get my head bashed in"-and that he couldn't tell if a man was a deviate or not, even though he'd served some time as an Albany policeman. Three girls who had been underaged at the time testified they had been served beer in the bartwo had presented fake ID's. The SLA cancelled the bar's license a month later, knocking out the Times. Square grill at same time...

ETCETERA

1959 was a busy year for lawmakers, as 49 state legislatures weighed almost 100,000 separate proposals, and passed a befuddling pile of them-such as new Calif law that wheelchair drivers must have drivers' licenses; Vermont statute refusing license to transport baby chicks to anyone who can't prove his good character (mustn't contribute to the delinquency of chickens); Connecticut enactment making it a crime not to return pregnant lobsters immediately to water; and Hawaii law against shooting turtles. But that's nothing compared to some laws that didn't quite pass. Though for sheer stupidity, few enactments have surpassed some of the censorship and sex laws that legislators looked at last year, and sometimes approved...

Felix Pollack has the following to say in THE INTERNATIONAL GUIDE, a directory of "little magazines" edited by Mary Carol Bird (Bx. 1068, Hollywood 28, $1):

... the shift from the political to the socio-psychological orien-