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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday, July 30, 1963
Vice Trial in Old Bailey Cuts Call Girl Business
(Editor's note: One of the UPI reporters covering the morals trial of Dr. Stephen Ward made the rounds of Soho—London's "Square Mile of Sin"—to find out what effect the trial disclosures have had on the district.)
By Harry J. Stathos
LONDON—(UPI)—The sordid vice trial of Dr. Stephen Ward has forced many London prostitutes—from the high-priced call-girl to the painted streetwalker—to join the ranks of the unemployed.
The glaring publicity surrounding the trial of Ward, charged with procuring and living off the immoral earnings of prostitutes, has given London's gay West End—including Soho—the jitters.
The Ward trial has the city's "shady ladies" worried because most of their best customers have either gone underground or have gone to the continent until things cool off.
"THE HEAT is on." one expensive prostitute complained. "The Ward trial has been very bad publicity for us and many of our clients are afraid they might be implicated in some way."
The girl, Dorothy M., a sleek 22-year-old brunette, said many of her "play-for-pay" friends had either gone to the Riviera or to the United States for a vacation until Ward's trial is concluded.
Janet G., who works in a London nightclub as a "hostess," said many of her best customers—members of high society—were staying away from the club because of the publicity the Ward trial has received.
"EVERYONE'S afraid that his name might be brought up in the Ward case," she said. "So they're behaving themselves until the trial is over."
Although soliciting by streetwalkers is prohibited under Britain's "Street Offenses Act," prostitutes have managed to carry on business in London by operating in coffee bars and clubs, standing in doorways or even advertising as models, masseuses and so on.
But even in notorious Soho, London's seamy sin strip packed with strip-clubs and prostitutes, and some of the city's best restaurants, the streetwalkers were noticeably missing this past weekend.
MANY APPARENTLY had retreated to their "rooms at the top." Soho is sprinkled with rooms over restaurants where the girls work. They are permitted to put their names on their doorbells downstairs, such as: "Pretty French model—third floor;" "Suzanne—basement;" "blonde photographer's model—second floor."
One enterprising girl has a six-foot-long neon sign outside her apartment which says, "French lessons inside."
The going rate for the ordinary prostate is two pounds ($5.60), but the price can go as high as 50 pounds ($140) for their classier sisters.
Some girls advertise in a "models' directory" and others just slap their names on bulletin boards throughout their working area with
their vital statistics and their specialties.
They appear worried just now, but not discouraged. One girl even brightly suggested that "in the long run, it's been pretty good advertisement of how much fun there is in London, hasn't it?"
London. "Ward trial, or no Ward trial, let's face it," she said. "Sex is here to stay."
Canadians Honor Ormand Beach
Ormand Beach, a former great Kansas fullback, has been voted into the Canadian professional football Hall of Fame, Jayhawkers Athletic Director Dutch Lonborg was informed today.
Beach, regarded as one of the finest linebackers in KU history, earned all-league honors in the old Big Six as a sophomore in 1930.
HE JOINED the Sarnia Imperials in 1934 and for four consecutive season was voted to the All-Canadian professional club. He garnished his final selection by winning the most valuable player trophy, soon after which he was killed in an oil field accident.
Beach, a 220-pounder from Pow-huska, Okla., was a unanimous choice of the selection committee for induction into the Canadian hall. He became only the 21st Canadian footballer so honored. The hall will be opened officially in September by the Premier of Canada at Hamilton, Ontario.
Beach's widow donated a trophy in 1949 which annually is awarded the Kansas football player considered most outstanding by a vote of his teammates.
TV Specials Under Fire
BY TOMMY RAPHAEL WASHINGTON — (UPI) — A Republican Congressman pointed to several television "specials" recently as examples of what he called broadcast network editorializing.
By Daniel Rapoport
Rep. Durward G. Hall, Mo., said there was no harm in letting local radio and television stations editorialize. What bothers him, Hall told Congressional investigators, is network editorializing "done under the guise of public affairs" programming.
HE SAID A CBS program last year on the new U.S. trade policy was, "in essence, a massive endorsement of the administration's tariff and trade proposals."
An NBC special on the Newburgh, N.Y., welfare situation contained "the best arguments of those opposing the city's handling of welfare . . . alongside distorted excerpts from the other side," Hall contended.
Hall also criticized an ABC program several months ago in which Howard K. Smith included an interview with convicted perjurer Alger Hiss as part of a study of Richard M. Nixon's political career.
HALL AND OTHER Congressmen were the first witnesses at "fact finding" hearings on broadcast editorializing.
A House Commerce subcommittee headed by Rep. Walter Rogers, D-Tex., is trying to determine if any broadcasters are violating federal regulations. Specifically, the subcommittee wants to know if the "general fairness" and "equal time" doctrines are being ignored.
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