POLITICAL NOTES: Moral Mayor

Last week, Mayor Ralph S. Bauer of Lynn joined the list of clowning mayors, perhaps endeared himself to suspicious housewives, but undoubtedly made some male enemies, by announcing:

1) That all women should report to him the license number "of any motorist who attempts to flirt with them."

2) That the Lynn police were instructed to take the license numbers of all autoists parking with girls on the shore boulevard at night.

Said Moral Mayor Bauer: "I'll publish them [the motorists' names] in the newspapers. I'll let wives know what their husbands are doing."

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