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By WILLIAM EWALD
Uniled Press Correspondent
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Attack on Boy Starts One-Man
Delinquency Crusade in Ohio
Columbus, Ohio OP) A one
man crusade against juvenile
delinquency has stirred up a
hornet's nest here.
Walter Franc, retired pres
ident of a furniture concern,
launched his attack after his 16-year-old
stepson, John Larcher,
was badly beaten by a gang.
"It was one of the most hor
rible shocks of my life," said
Franc. "I thought heinous crimes
like this happened only in slum
areas or in the" biggest cities,
not in neighborhoods such as
ours."
Franc hired attorneys who
contacted a private detective to
investigate the operation of the
gang in the wealthiest part of
Columbus. The detective found
that the eight-member gang had
, consistently high quality. i showcases offbeat features in-
Over at NBC radio, there is j eluding "Biographies in Sound."
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tional television week, a dandy j draws bushels of listeners. NBC's Groucho Marx, "The Telephone
occasion for looking at radio, inightirae show, "Nightline," Hour" and "Grand OT Opry."
Or even listening to it.
Right now, radio, aw. come on,
you remember radio that's tele
vision without old movies is
outselling TV as a gadget by
about two to one. CBS Radio,
an outfit with an interest in such
things reports that in the first
31 weeks of this year 7,740.000
radios were bought as against
3,119,000 TV sets.
As an attention getter, of
course, radio has been upstaged
by TV. According to Nielsen Re
search, the average evening
sponsored network show reached
five and one-half million fam
ilies in 1949, but now reaches
less than one million.
The average daytime network
show has dropped off, too from
three million homes in 1949 to
less than a million and a half.
Still Has Audienca
Still, radio has not lost its
ability to pull in a mass audi
ence. Some 89 out of every 100
radio homes tune in to the magic
box sometime during the week.
In fact, recent Nelson figures
show that in the course of a
week, more than 40 million fam
ilies bend an ear toward the
radios in their homes.
, There's no doubt that another
huge hunk of time is spent lis
tening to radio in places un
measurable in cars, at the
beach, picnics, and so forth.
There are, for example, more
than 38 million radios in auto
mobiles alone a figure more
than the total number of homes
with radios only 10 years ago.
There are also about 10 million
portables floating around.
As far as programs go, radio
still beams out plenty of goodies.
The Mutual Network has a "Ho
ratio Hornblower" series with
Michael Redgrave and a "Lives
of Harry Lime" thriller with Or
son Welles. Mutual also features
"Bob and Ray" in five 25-minute
shows each week which is al
most as much comedy as TV now
offers in a month.
CBS radio is really perking
It recently completed a multi
million dollar deal with one mo
tor company that'll bring Bing
Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and
Arthur Godfrey to radio fans.
CBS radio also offers a Stan
Freberg comedy show each Sun
day that hits a pretty high aver
age in funniness. The CBS stable
also houses such money-winners
as "Gunsmoke," "The Mitch Mil
ler Show," "The Robert Q. Lewis
Show," and CBS Radio Work
shop." The latter effort is of
One of radio's prize quality ef
forts is in the ABC stable the
Metropolitan Opera broadcasts
now 27 years old. "The Break
fast Club" is still going, too, at
, ABC, a favoritp sino io-ji
So, this TV week you might
"y giving raciio an extra whirl.
There is still plenty of life left
m the old gadget.
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Search Starts For Lead
In 'Diary of Anne Frank1
By VERNON SCOTT
United Press Hollywood Writer
Hollywood (IP) Master movie
maker George Stevens launch
ed a worldwide search today for
a girl to play the title role in
"The Diary of Anne Frank
He is looking for the "living
counterpart" of the martyred
teen-age heroine who wrote the
touching story of her life hiding
from the Nazis.
"I'm not trying to build a
star," says Stevens. . "I'm not
looking for an actress, either.
We hope to find a girl between
,the ages of 13 and 18 with the
basic qualities of Anne Frank.
"She must be wistful, thought
ful and precocious. Her person
ality should be at once appeal
ing, sympathetic, gay and opti
mistic." Director Seeks Help
The director asks everyone
who knows a youngster who fits
the qualifications to write him in
care of 20th Century-Fox Stu
dios, Hollywood. Studio repre
sentatives will attempt to check
out every lead.
"Our search is especially in
tensive in Amsterdam where
Anne wrote her diary, New
York and Tel Aviv," he added.
"But we are not limiting the
search. A speech accent is all
right, but the girl must speak
fluent English."
Stevens went on to say that
he will distribute photographs
of Anne to give people an idea
of the type of girl he wants. He
admits, however, that physical
resemblance to the original Anne
Frank is secondary.
Unexperienced Girl Sought
"We considered stars for the
role in the beginning," he said,
"but decided against it. Susan
Strasberg who played the role
on Broadway and Natalie Wood
were among them. Now we defi
nitely want a girl who has had
no acting experience at all.
"Every intelligent human
being is capable of playing one
role to perfection. Just as it is
said that everyone has one great
story to write."
Stevens traveled to Amster
dam earlier this summer to talk
to Anne's father, Otto Frank.
Both men agreed that casting
the lead role was the single most
important element of the film.
"We won't turn a camera until
we find the right girl," Stevens
concluded.
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broken into a vacant house and
turned it into a headquarters for
card games, beating .up boys,
planning auto thefts and destroy
ing property.
Good Families
All the gang members were
from well-to-do families. One of
the two who severly lacerated
Larcher's face had been a din
ner guest at the Franc home a
few nights earlier.
The report of the gang and its
operations shoe ked the com
munity. Police officials, juvenile
court authorities, county com
missioners and social workers
took up the case.
Local police said the juvenile
court was too lenient. Juvenile
court representatives said they
were not a law enforcement
agency. There was no place to
send the boys, they said, except
to an already overcrowded in
dustrial school.
Pros and Cons
Franc himself was f 1 o oded
with mail and telephone calls.
Some cheered him, saying it was
about time the authorities were
made to crack down on de
linquents. Other callers were
outraged that Franc would call
the boys criminals.
Franc replied that he, person
ally, had no ready-made solu
tion to the juvenile delinquency
problem, He said he was con
cerned about the "extreme lax
ity" on the part of juvenile auth
orities. His main interest in the mat
ter, he said, was in bringing to
justice the two boys who at
tacked his son. His second in
terest, he added, was to bring
about a change in the attitude
of juvenile authorities.
"They seem to have a turn-the-back
attitude," said Franc.
He added, "I only wanted to
live peacefully and leave other
people alone. Then, out of the
clear sky, this thing conies
along."
Unique Collection
Of Farm Machinery
Thrills Visitors
Fulton, Mo. m A collec
tion of antique farm machinery,
powered by steam engines, snort
ed to life not long ago, in an old
fashioned threashing bee.
, The outmoded steam engines
belong to Ed M. Peacock, who
has scoured the countryside for
10 years looking for relics for
his collection.
Old-timers and youngs ters
alike flocked to see his collec
tion of 12 engines, many still
in top-notch operating condi
tion, and to watch engineers put
the machines through their
paces.
For two days, the machines
clattered over Peacock's farm
near here. In one demonstration,
the engineers had to steer their
machines onto . a teeter-totter
constructed of weoden beams,
the object being to test the
ability of the drivers to balance
the engines.
Always Searching
Another contest required the
engineers to drive the machines
over a small pyramid of wood
en blocks. In still another test,
horsepower was measured by
connecting a belt between the
engine and a Prony break.
Largest of Peacock's engines
is a Reeves compound steam
engine. Built in the 1890's, it's
one of two such in the nation
still in operating condition.
Other museum-type pieces on
display were an old-time five-
bottom plow, a corn-cutter and
seeding machines.
Peacock spends much of his
time now rummaging tnrougn
barn lots in search of discarded
machines and repairing broken j
parts to put them m working
condition.
The real satisfaction comes, he
said, when the indicator on the
steam pressure gauge begins , to
move and the smoke starts to
billow out of the once-rusty en
eine.
PER31ANENT military force
in UN to preserve peace is
requested by Dag Hammar
skjold, secretary general, in
press conference in New
York. (International)
Columbia Commission
May Draff Compact
Reno, Nev. (IP) A special
action committee of the Colum
bia Interstate Compact Commis
sion Saturday recommended the
agency begin work immediately
on a further .study and draft of
a new compact.
The recommendation was the
final order of business for the
two-day commission meeting.
Earlier, members had voted to
hold their next session Oct. 14-15
in Spokane, Wash.
The action committee recom
mended a study of several mat
ters aimed at giving the commis
sion more authority under the
proposed new compact. It said
preliminary drafts should be
drawn to the standing commit
tees and then submitted to the
commission for approval.
A new compact would require
final approval of the legislatures
of Washington, Oregon, Idaho,
Montana, Utah, Nevada and
Wyoming. These are the seven
states which comprise the Co
lumbia Interstate Compact Com
mission membership.
Gibraltar (IP) Two more
Russian warships passed through
the Straits of Gibralter to join
the growing number of Soviet
vessels in the Mediterranean
Saturday.
AROUND THE WORLD IN . . .
Dover, England (IP) Three
men and a dog left here Sunday
in a 12-ton yawl on a voyage
they hope will take them around
the world in the next four years.
Bernard Yendall, 27, said he and
his two crew members aboard
the 29-year-old "Maryann" have
only enough supplies to last a
few weeks. They plan to take
jobs at ports of call to make
their "way.
FIREMEN'S HOMEWORK
Union, S. C. (W Firemen
Bud Keisler and Robert Bla
lock should have stayed home.
The two alarms received during
the day came from their homes.
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Chicago HP) An estimated
1,746.000 dustmops were shaken
in Chicago last week, and
housewives should' cut it out.
The place is dusty enough.
So says Bernard Cozette,
technical director of Service
master, a national organization
devoted to digging up dirt.
In addition to the dust mops,
Cozetfe said, about 630,450
householders burn trash in their
back yards at least once a week,
besmirching the atmosphere
even more.
All this dust and dirt stirred
up by housewives mingles with
the dust and dirt provided by
nature and industry. ,
Some Areas Worse
The result: A staggering 124
tons of "particulate matter" for
every cubic mile of atmosphere
over this fair city. And some
places are even worse.
Detroit for instance is plagued
with 152 tons of particles
per cubic mile. Los Angeles has
118 tons and New York 108
tons.
The cleanest sizeable city lis
ted in the study was Minneapolis
with 53 tons. Houston had 57
tons, Washington 58, Atlanta 61,
Portland 64. Kansas City 65,
Cincinnati 78 and Philadelphia
83.
What goes up '' must come
I down, Cozette said, and all this
dust eventually falls to the
j ground. A goodly amount drifts
into your domicile.
Suggestions Offered
It may even cause your hay
fever or asthma, Cozette said.
He offered these suggestions
to householders:
Keep your furnace in good
order.
Wash your dust mop fre
quently and empty your vacuum
cleaner into a paper sack, not 1
onto the ground.
Don't burn rubbish if the
city has a pickup service.
Edmund Kosciucha, combust-1
ion engineer, said a backyard in
cinerator can raise more dirt 1
than a: blast furnace, per ton of
material burned.
Even Mother Nature helps to
make it a dirty old world, Coz
ette said.
From April through Septem
ber she fills the air with untold
tons of pollen and dust.
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