Parma Clerk's Party Guests Face Lecture With Parents

The dozen Parma teen-agers | who attended riotous parties in the swank apartment of Charles

W. Custer will be called into Parma Municipal Court on Saturday at 10 a. m. for a severe lecture on the dangers of such associations.

Municipal Judge George P. Allen will administer the dressing down in closed session to the youths, who will be accompanied by their parents, Parma police authorities said last night.

Custer has admitted embezzling Parma city funds while serving on the Parma police force, authorities said, and he also confessed to perverted acts. He will be charged with embezzlement and a morals count this morning, police said.

Questioning of Custer's two roommates was extended into the late evening hours yesterday.

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CHARLES W. CUSTER

Before his promotion to the clerkship, which he resigned Saturday, Custer served as Chief Roeper's secretary.

Roeper said .Custer embezzled $630 of Parma city funds, collecting traffic fines but not turn-

One of them was said to have admitted perverted acts and also will be charged by Parma policeing and Solicitor Harold J. Bejeck.

Custer, 32, has held down the $5,000-a-year job ́as clerk of Municipal Court since 1951, Police Chief Lester A. Roeper said.

It was Bejcek who decreed that Custer should be held without charge until investigation of the two roommates was completed, Roeper added.

Custer admitted two homosexual acts in his confession, the chief said, with a 17-year-old youth in 1951 just at the time Custer was named clerk of courts and the other recently with one of the roommates, a man of 23.

over the money to the municipal treasury. The old tickets were found in a garage. Custer said he intended to pay back the money some day.

Police questioned eight teenagers who attended the parties in Custer's $135-a-month apartment. Quantities of liquor and pornographic literature were found there. Custer's place also contained expensive recording equipment and modernistic furniture.

Sergt. Francis Szabo and Patrolman Andrew Preska arrested Custer after neighbors com|plained.