Show o THE OGDEN OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- 7A R UTAH SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 1959 1 ' SMUT IN THE MAILS Post Office Lftedis on Bui1 Runs Info Strong Opposition i WASHINGTON ZAP) — An Iriso-ctri-lock- envelop addressed to in your family the the morning mail ' The envelope it opened A letter 'end two photos fall out Ha’i-nudgirls beckon from the a photo For a few dollar the let ter premises you can get mere ar better pbetoe —perhaps showing less clothing and mere action Shock and Inzer grip you ! “Can’t something be dona to keep such mad away from the American home?” you demand “Must cur teen-ager- s be exposed to this? You investigate and find Lhat the Post Office Department led per tonally and loudly by Postmaster General Arthur Summerfieid has embarked cn a campaign to nd mails cf pornography But there is a hitch: You also discover that b acme quarters the Post Office attempt to clean up the mails has provekee bitterness and anger Critics like the American Civ liberties Union and bock publishers say the Post Office tramples cn freedom d apeech and d the prtss and in its real too often mistakes a classic for a French pos teen-ase- CilDE tlLAt’CEG a’:-irt- r V V e it ji i — — 1 n 1 d til Jli‘ O ) 0)lH Street at Harrison l t -- card Through the years they say the while attacking por has tried to ban a host o biography classics A few are ticket literary off: Leo Tolstoy’s “Kreutzer Sonata Ernest James Joyce's “Ulysses Bel the Whom “For Hemingway's Tons’ Boccaccio’ “Decameron Arisiephane’s “Lysistrata” a n c now D H Lawrence ’a “Lady Chat Tost Office terley's Lover” JT x Strained All Varieties “But dear tha company won’t get here for two more dajr and I’m tired of paanut butterl" T Many defendants ask the federal courts to overrule the department Often the courts agree WENT TO COURT That’s what happened in the case of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” After the department seized 164 copies of the book and conducted hearings d Postmaster General Summerfieid declared that “the book taken as other printed matter pending a a whole is an obscene and filthy been passed since Law Comstock a first Post Office hearing If the hearing work” and ordered It banned from Under the who knowingly sends or re- examiner finds the material ob- the mails Grove Press the publisher appealed to the courts ceives any “obscene lewd lascivi- scene it cannot be mailed In New York US District Judge ous indecent filthy or vile article (2) Impounding first class mail matter thing device or substance" addressed to a person who may be Frederick van Pelt Bryan upset in the mails may be punished by a using the mails to sell obscene mat-jo- t the ban He said Summerfieid as It the Post Office after a postmaster general had no speS5CC0 fine five years in Jail or both Although the law does not rearing decides that the person cial qualifications' to determine obspecifically direct the Post Office does run a mail order business in scenity to remove obscene matter the de- obscene matter the letters conBryan Implied doubt about the reare business with nected the Inferred has that Congress constitutionality of procedures that partment off to turned senders to the that a government administrator do allow it intended cutting just to decide for himself whether to The postal argument is simple: he business remittances (3) Denying second class mailing ban a book through the mails But tf someone sent a bomb through the mails you would not expect the rights to a magazine that in the the judge refrained from ruling on postmaster to leave it there while opinion d the Post Office contin- this specifically he didn’t have to ually prints obscenity Magazines he said because the book wasn’t running after the offender Critics however contend the often need the lower second class obscene anyway The Supreme Court has defined Post Office has no right to decide rates to survive obscenity In these terms: Whether to the average person applying contemporary community standards the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest” It was this definition that Bryan applied when he ruled that “Lady Chatterley’s Lover" wss not obscene It was this definition that CLEVELAND Ohio (LTD— More fund commls Cuyahoga County who is not a lawyer Summerfieid than four years have passed since sioner Henry Speeth and Joseph misunderstood when seems to have Dr Samuel Sheppard began serving Gorman newsmen If they asked he recently a life sentence for the murder of Speeth and Gorman wbo signed would read the book to their chilbis pregnant wife but the last legal a contract as private citizens with not consider a skirmish Is yet to be fought in his the Sheppard family to serve as dren courts do “the child average person” trustees claimed that they alone sensational case NEED PROGRAM For one thing the Cleveland Po- were to decide who gets the relice Department is still trying to ward not a court Besides they What can be done then to keep collect a 310000 regard offered by said the police can’t collect the pornography from slipping into the the Sheppard family “for the arrest money since they were only doin home through the mail box? and conviction of the murderers of their duty Summerfieid estimates that porMeanwhile Sam Sheppard now nography has become a 500 million Marilyn Sheppard" on July 4 1954 For another a habeas corpus pe- 35 years old goes about the drab dollar a year business a lucrative tition Is pending before the Ohio business of being an inmate at the magnet to mobsters Supreme Court seeking Sam Shep- Ohio State Penitentiary in Colum- will send letters to one million chilfor dren this year says the Post Office pard’s release on the grounds that bus He will not be eligible he was denied a fair chance to parole until he has spent 10 years which receives 50000 complaints anestablish his innocence before dur- behind the bars That w iU be July nually trial one of 20 1965 ing and after his y the government needs But Dr Sam’s talents are not a Obviously Lie longest in US judicial history will satisfy the dethat program being wasted He serves with the fenders of both the Constitution Sheppard has insisted he did net medical-surgicand crew of the pris- the home kill his wife who was murdered In their rambling 331500 Bay Vil- on hospipal administering anaesGroupes like the American Civil lage home when she was four thetics for operations and doing Liberties Union would support the months pregnant Marilyn had been routine hospital chores Post Office in its war on beaten over the head 27 times with Outwardly he has changed little raphy if it relied more pornogon the His dark hair is thinning and turna dull Instrument courts He had maintained that the slay ing gray but he remains trim with Post Office General Counsel Hereight-liftin- g exand er was a “bushy haired intruder’ B Warburton sensitive to this bert Dr Sam claims the Intruder ercises three days a week criticism says the department is Among his fellow inmates he has knocked him unconscious when the an overhaul of its proconsidering young osteopath tried to ca pure him acquired a reputation as a “good gram to meet the objections of He trains and coaches the as be fled the house groups and book pub- baseball and basketball prison NOT A PENNY teams- - Occasionally his brothers lishers Such a program probably would his and their wives come to visit Shepard’s family-inclu- ding receive swift approval from Conbrothers Stephen and Richard who Shepard seeks to avoid publicity are also doctors—has spent more but word of his activities sometimes gress And most important it would unite the Post Office and its than 3100000 fighting his case But leaks out not to In are determined give September 1356 he was cred- critics in the battle against poron-graph- ic they mail Cleveland police a penny of the re- ited with saving the life of a fellow ward money who choked after an operaprisoner So far they have been successful tion The prison surgeon had left A suit for the reward filed Jan 10 Dr Sam on duty as a nurse re1953 on behalf of the Police Pension moved the obstruction from the Fund was dismissed by Judge prisoner’s throat and messaged his Charles F Carr who ruled that chest until his heart started beatthe money was meant to be paid ing again to an individual cot an organiza The following February Sheppard Lon was transferred to the prison printOn July 9 1953 the city filed ing shop Later he returned to the another suit this one on behalf of hospital He also has worked as an the 27 detectives who worked on Instructor in auto mechanics and as the case A challenge was 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