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BROILER CAFE-ROOMING HOUSE IN LOWER MIAMIKEYSTONE HOTEL IN DOWNTOWN MIAMIShall not be occupied or used foi one ycifrA reputation in the rommunity . . . as a house of lewdness'Miami area vice houses lockedact in a house of prostitution, Bcelar eon linued, it is the most demoralizing thing that can happen to that youth.He added that the recent investigation disclosed positively that two local boys have vOsilod one of the establishments named in the complaints.Beelar said the slate attorney general's off ice cooperated in the investigation and will help furnish evidence for the court hearing Superior Judge Robert McGhee issued injunctions against the Broiler and Keystone immediately after Beelar filed the complaints.In seeking the injunctions. Beelar said he used a special Arizona statute that allows for abating a situation existing which forms a public nuisance.The complaints asked that:1 The Superior Court “shall by order di reel . . . the Sheriff . . . summarily to abatesaid public and common nuisanccts) now existing . . . and take possession of said premises and to cluae . . . and lake possession of ... all furniture, fixtures and musical instruments and other property now Used ... in Connection with the alleged violation;2. The court issue a temporary wiiL of injunction (ordering that both establishments) be closed until the conclusion of -the trial . . . and restraining all defendants and all others from removing or interfering (with the premises or any property thereon); and.1 The court upon final determination of this cause . . . shall enter a decreedirecting that said premises shall not be occupied or Used for one year after the date of said decree; and that furniture, fixtures and musical instruments and other property ... be sold. . . .County Attorney Harold Beelar filed i complaint Tuesday calling for a Superior Court injunction to close two area businesses for prostitution.The complaints were filed against the Broiler Restaurant at 4 Main St. in Lower Miami, and the Keystone Hotel at 907 Sikes Ave., Miami. .The complaint alleges that these two establishments constitute a public nuisance by operating as illicit vice houses.Beelar's complaints list Violet Wilson and Helen Smalley as owners and proprietresses of the Keystone, and Howard W. Johnson as owner of the Broiler, with Johnson and Martin Knowles as itsproprietors.The action climaxed about four orfive months of thorough investigation, the county attorney said.The complaint list* one specific date against the Keystone and three certain dates against the Broiler as tunes when prostitutes alleged ly “then and there solicited acts of sexual in tercoum.Beelar's complaint calls for immediate padlocking of both establishments under a temporary injunction. Next Thursday at 9 30 a m owners of the Broiler and Keystone must ap pear in Superior Court to answer charges and show cause why the injunction should not be made permanent.If the Superior Court issues a permanent civil injunction, H would remain in elfect one year.The civil injunction would not bar owners of the Broiler and Keystone from opening new establishments elsewhere in the area.But Beelar explained that “in the past, when we've closed prostitution houses by civil injunction, they haven’t tried to re-open elsewhere.”The county attorney said local officers plan similar action against anyone who might later try to open a vice house.One of the worst aspects of prostitution. Beelar said, is its affect on youngsters.It was reported to us that juveniles have frequented houses of prostitution and there were taught to practice unnatural sex acts, the county attorney said.“When a boy experiences an unnatural sex
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Miami Arizona Record
Miami, Arizona, US
Thu, Dec 24, 1959
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