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woaqan Ol SARA Ye EL my r. the! “following -articlé ‘appeared ” rancisco Examiner” newspaper, captioned Comic’: ¥ ' ‘genté of:a long series. wt of: legal ba ver. His ‘alteged obsenc night: club: ‘acts. yesterday: celebrated his SAAEO UE was. 4Oth- birthday : DY. . getting himself: declared... oo #a.pauper and asking... -he’ Federal court her =, _ te keep. him out of. jail. in. New York: are =: alk: t + ae 8 i . Ded ome etn “his self-composed: ‘suit, he also: asked | | the .U.S.. Digtrict Court‘ to protect him. Sma *€rom:"“harassment’ by police’in New York, *. 1S > Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco... o— 3 “sHe claimed that because of persecutions. ~. 3 eee and) prosecutions‘in these cities he can no- om “longer get. bookings: for. his: acto. a <"Tn ‘additions. “he. wants the court to- deter- . wine how much: money he | _as- lost. since is. 1964.:obscenity. conviction in.New York City. _and ‘to order te police ‘department — there: mae fo. ‘pay “Him, damages: in that. amount ata his “financial ‘statement, Bruce said ‘that since his first arrest. for obscenity ; Too ite aint vey in San -Francisco in.1961, his gross earn-* ns Sree <; ings. have ‘plummeted :from $108, 000 a year * - : ‘to.$10,963 in the first six. months. ‘6f this -cyears He said: his; liabilities exceed his sgets: by. “$E4 HONS iad wivucescn wit Beach:. hotel» was’ acquitted of ::the - first<;, ges .in.19 2. by. a. San; ert ¥. of the. FBI i" L not ‘to ay “Epona tay a