Show X I Drive on n Filth Now Paying P Payi gOff Off Postmaster Jack Green wild raid yesterday yes yes- esterday es that the Post Office Departments Department's De Do- DoI I drive to stamp out the activities of merchants merchants In filth fUth 1 who solicit minor children for the order mail sale sale- of obscene materials Ina- Ina is making substantial headway Postmaster General Arthur Artnur E. E Summerfield he says Is taking increasingly effective action in infighting fighting t this growing lu nationwide nation llon wide racket Summerfield has has notified the i Park City postmaster that that during during the fiscal year which ended June 30 1952 the Post Office Depart ment meat conducted more than a separate investigations of traffic in mall mail order obscenity of which approximately wen based HyMO hn Pd on complaints from parent parenti Who wh were aroused by the menace Actual arrests during durin the year I totaled 0 a significant Increase over er the previous year and al almost almost almost al- al most double the number of arrests arrests ar- ar ar an- rests during 1957 when the Department Department De Dp was still hampered by Inadequate enforcement legislation legisla legisla- tion New legislation is 18 beginning t tp 19 bear fruit The first case prosecuted prosecuted prose prose- under unde a ne new law which has s I teeth th was of a man and his wife on the West Coast who were mailing malUng obscene literature to youngsters in Boise Idaho Thanks to the new law Jaw these two were convicted In and and sen sentenced enc d to 10 years behind bars bura plus a heavy fine I The e Postmaster General attributes attributes attrib attrib- utes this thia progress to to the broad a support for for the campaign being given by the nations nation's newspapers and radio and television commentators commentators public spirited civic organIzations organisations organ oran battens members of Congress an more and more individual |