Carbon County news., 1936-12-18
OBJ SCENE LETTERS
ATTACKED BY FEDS.

Encouraged by the 15-year Fed
eral penitentiary sentence meted
out to Gayle R. Cleveland Of Pen
sacola, Florida, alias Miss Georgia
Clayton and Miss Gayle Cleveland,
on charges of sending obscene mat
ter through the mails the Postal
Inspection Service has launched a
nationwide drive on obscene cor
respondenee clubs conducte d
through the mails, it was announc-
ed at the Post Office Department
last night.
Cleveland was the operator of
'The Letter Club Different, one
of numerous obscene correspond
ing clubs, which have for their
purpose the mutual exchange of
obscene literature, photographs and
drawings, and which have been un-
covered by postal inspectors in
various sections of the country.
The Pensacola "Letter Club Diff
ferent" of Cleveland, was conduct
ed in the same manner as are the
other obscene correspondence clubs
which are now the subject of a far
flung roundup by the Postal Inspec-
! tion Service.
AS operator of the "club", Cleve-
land would insert advertisements
in the cheaper magazines offering
for a small fee, usually ten cents,
to put interested persons in touch
with others of either sex who inter
ested in the exchange of literature
and photographs of an obscene ma
ture. U pom remitting the original
fee of ten cents the persons an
swering to advertisement of "The
Letter Club Different" were then
forwarded an Identification and
description blank, which, when pro-
perly filled out and returned to
"The Letter Club Different" gave
a minute description as to the send
er's age, weight, features and phy-
sical measurements in addition to
stating the type and sex of the per-
son with whom they wished to cor
respond on obscene, lewd and las
civious subjects.
Following receipt of this inform |
alton "The Letter Club Different"
then assigned a file number to the |
individual, who then was required
to forward two dollars for years |
membership in the "club". Upon
payment of the annual dues, the
member was then supplied with |
lengthy lists of both men and wo-
men, with brief descriptions of |
each, who We're identified by num-
bers rather than names. When the
"club" member found a person,
either male or female, answering
the description of his desires, he
then started corresponding by ad-
dressing "The Letter Club Differ
ent" enclosing his sealed envelope
with it's obscene contents, marking
the enclosure for No.. "The Let
ter Club Different" then forward
ed to the number so designated the
inner letter and contents. In many
instances, rather than continue to
clear their obscene exchanges
through the headquarters of "The
Letter Club Different" the persons
involved signed their own names
and followed receipt of the first :
letters they carried on direct cor
with the person or ]
persons they were placed in con-
tact with originally through the !
Letter Club Different.
Thousands of obscene CORES
pondence club members have al
ready been rounded up by postal
in every section of the i
country and prosecutions are to
follow as rapidly as the individual
cases can be worked up for pre-
sentation to Federal grand juries.
The Federal statutes provide a five
year Jail sentence or a five thou
sand dollar fine, or both for any (