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...Los Angeles, the City Council rejected an ordinance proposed by Councilman G. Vernon Bennett making it a misdemeanor for "two or more men or boys 14 years of age or over to ogle women in public places." City Attorney Ray Cheseboro promptly denounced the measure, pointed out its discriminatory illegality in protecting women from men, leaving men unprotected from women. Furthermore, said he, the anti-ogling ordinance "could not be enforced, due to the virtual impossibility of getting a jury of men who have not themselves ogled at one time or another...
...group, as anounced by Henry P. Fletcher, chairman of the National Committee, includes Charles J. Bullock, professor of economics. Thomas Nixon Carver, professor emeritus of political economy, and now at the University of California at Los Angeles, and Saxon, who also took his law work here and is at present in the department of economy at Yale...
...enemy of Hoover for years and since last autumn an ardent booster for Governor Landon, Mr. Hearst was interested in how much sympathy there was for Landon in this uninstructed delegation. George Gilray Young, general manager of Hearst's Los Angeles Examiner, quietly mailed a questionnaire, "Who is your favorite choice for Presidential candidate?" to the 44 members of the uninstructed slate and the 21 members of the steering committee. Mistaking the questionnaire for a general straw vote, all but one of the 65 replied. The score: Hoover, 47; Landon...
Seeking Divorce. Actress Sylvia Sidney Cerf, 25; from Bennett A. ("Beans") Cerf, 37, Manhattan publisher (Random House, Inc.); in Los Angeles. Charge: cruelty...
...Diego, Calif., Florence (''Tanya") Cubitt, 20, lissome, blonde employe of the California Pacific International Exposition's Midway nudist colony, won national notoriety by the simple device of telling newshawks, before she got on a plane in Los Angeles, that when she got out at Chicago she would be naked "to advance the cause of nudism." Chicago cameramen mobbed the plane, were chagrined when Miss Cubitt emerged fully dressed. She hastened to explain that the plane's pilots and stewardess had forced her to keep her clothes on. However, she promised to be naked when she landed...