Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1949 — Page 11

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“Well " You see, everybody knows about Jascha Heifetz

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ins de Indianapolis

“By Ed sovola

BUMPING INTO Jascha Heifetz and ‘his vioa concert is quite an ex ae I ShIVne, Radiat or_non-fiddler, ng e r group, I su 4 did a ‘bétter job of bumping the world Wppose violinist “who has been them in the aisles. with “Bravo” on their lips since he was 5 years old. In case you're interésted, “life began for him - several years ago and thay ‘makes him a’ little over 40, With the last of ~the thunderous - applause (something which is hard to evoke from Indian--apolis audiences) dying in the Murat Theater, Mr. Heifetz made 4 -beeline for his dressing room. It just happened that I was on the same line and thinking that he gets a good workout by answering curtain calls, ng curt was the maestro’s first ‘word. My first was “HL” Conversation lagged a little . until Mr, Heifetz lighted a cigaret and took a. good, deep, unhealthy drag on the cigaret. (Boy, wouldn't the manufacturer of the cigaret Mr, Hei fetz smokes Jump up and down if I mentioned the brand?) of :

Speaks Perfect English

“WHAT CAN 1 do for vou?” he asked in much better English than I've ever heard Fabien Sevitsky use. In fact, Mr, Heifetz’ English was perfect, and that's a long Russian mile away- from the conglomeration Mr, Sevitzky gets by on. rr me about your violin,” was my answer, @ everything you can about your violin.

but few know about hig violin.” “Sit down,” my host said in almost a whisper. Then, wiping his brow, he continued “To tell you

++ . Jascha Heifetz explains Guarnarius to a fiddler-faddler.

-Strain on Stitches

v "Now this is . .

WASHINGTON, Mar. 1-1 will not bore you with the grisly ‘play-by-play on my operation— save to say that there were enough spare parts left over to build two political pundits and an

"economic planner—but it sure was nice to be laid

up in a hospital here last week. Things "were so noisy outside—President TruHist hollering cusswords -at Drew Pearson, Axis’ y giving you the stark. lowdown on ‘her love fre. "with the professor; General Motors cutting prices—a man felt real snug and safe among the clatter of bedpans and the. wails of the wounded. As soon as I recovered sufficiently to start pinching Ps nurses again, I began to brood, though. I began to breod about ‘the President and his contribution to deathless diatribe. Time, I thought, will know me as the only typewriter jockey in the United States who had nothing-to say about Harry's famous S. O. B. ultimatum. Journalistic history is being written, said I, and here you lay, you slob, with a snootful of luminal, in one of them dinky little bed gowns that button up the back with no pants onto it.

Exempt From Criticism, Maybe

IT WASN'T the S. O. B. part that fretted me so much as the fact that Mr. Truman seems to

_ have legislated us professional scolds right out of

business. As I read the President's tender message, all Truman appointees are now specially

exempt from criticism, whether or not they are «

potentially worthy of it. This seems to be an infringement of the free dom of the press, and a stricture on it& function of watchdog of the commonweal. What is the

use of hollering and beating your breast if it only |

builds more character for.the target? It is well known that hollering and beating the breast constitutes an active segment of the “business of know how ‘us five-day firebrands love to keep the world honest. By removing his proteges from the firing line

of press and radio ¢riticism, TI think Mr. Truman -

has violated some portions of the FEPC, trampled a broad swath in the civil-liberties program which

the world honest, and you

Tor ‘and ‘nights. I'm sorry, I don't have that much

+ time—please, do not touch my. violin.” Sorry.

It was difficult for me to. whistle. when I was told that in the double Wolin case "before me were two violing™ Which were . worth somewhere cldse to or more than 150 grand, depending, of| course, on how much you wanted such violins.. = “I just finished plaxing the Guarnarius” ex: plained Mr, Helfetz, ‘picking up the instrument. with great care. “My other violin is a Stradi varius.” A I Facts began to come at me quick and fast. Mr. Heifetz' father bought the Guarnarius in Germany 26 years ago and gave it-to his famous son. The elder Heifetz was also a violinist and knew good merchandise when he saw it.

“This violin is the only one of its kind and cannot oe duplicated,” went on Mr. Heifetz “The Guarnarius violins were made by a Joseph \Guarnarius in Cremonia, Italy. The master was in 1690 and died in 1730." I shouldn't have said, “Man, that makes that thing almost -as old as the hills.” It. seems we

don't make fiddles like they used to 0_malke. ‘them. |- 3 bet we make more and faster. ~

“Look closely at this violin,” sugested Mr, Heltetz, “and notice the perfection: No, I'll hold the violin, you just look.” - With dll due respect to Mr Heifetz and Mr, Guarnarius of Cremonid, it looked" exactly like a violin which wasn't the right thing to say. There are violins and: then there are Strads and Guarnariuses. The grain on the belly of the violin was small and the color was light red In spots bright gold in others and glistening and rich yellow in others. What appeared as scratches to me, Mr. Heifetz corrected, were markings in the grain. There were no scratches on the fiddle.

The back of the instrument was made of two|§ :

pieces of wood (he wasn’t sure whether it was gpruce or birch) and the grain- was Jarger and ent crosswise.

Two Not in Tune ro]

THE SCROLL and pegs reminded me “of a light chocolate perfume bottle, Mr. Heifetz couldn't] see the resemblance- right off. Thé scroll and the| hand-carved pegs weren't the- only things we| didn’t ‘see eye-to-eye on. The tail piece and finger board, he said, were ebony. I held out for celluloid. The violin was put away in the super-duper | carrying case. It was swathed in pure silk and then placed in a silk bag. Over the top went a velveteen pad. The whole business’ was tied on the inside with suede strings. On one point Mr. Heifetz corrected himself.

From the amount of knowledge I had about the

violin, he explained, it wouldn't take him two days and two nights to fully-explain about the instruments. It would take weeks. The subject of Cremonia varnish, which has never been dupuicated, would take two days. Imagine a fiddle requiring that much time. A little ol’ fiddle over 207 years old. I wish he would have let me plink it a couple times. “

By Robert C. Ruark

helped elect him, and has possibly overridden the Constitution. Is the man going to deny us the right to make a liylig, by nullifying our righteous howls when we fitid one of his buddies with ‘his claws in the cookie crock? Z ; Have his political friends been insulated against all error, merely by Harry's pronouncement of their ‘immunity to criticism? Is the freedom to peg brickbats at the sinner to perish from the. earth? . I guess so. This new intravenous anesthetic is

- awful heady stuff, They tell me I tried to strangle

four orderlies coming out from under it. Mr. Truman is only a man, and a man who has made mistakes before in his cholee of assigiants—such as his stubborn backing of big Ed Pauley over the shrill yips of practically everybody, back in '46. He figures to make other mistakes' over the next four years, but-finder his present inflexible defense of all buddies, no mistake is vulnerable to repair. pl

He Ain't No Emperor

THIS ATTITUDE hds been growing in Uncle Harry, ever since he“whipped both the Republican and Democratic-parties in the recent elections, and it doesw’f fit him as well as his doublebreasted suit. The little man from Missouri is a good ge€me boy, but he ain't no emperor. He is not. en the biggest President we ever had. ‘In my present weakemed condition I hate to think of what might happen if one of Mr. Truman’s boon companions gets caught doing something real bad by somebody outside the White House. He cannot be fired, since criticism binds him perpetually to his job, and Harry prizes personal loyalty abéve rubies... I suppose he would just have to sit there, for the duration, and keep on doing whatever he was doing that was bad. - This has been cited as the truest example of |

“STICON D SFOTION.

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Murder on the Streefs—No. 3 = |

“TUESDAY, MARCH. 1 Lo x

Public and Police Contribute

Light jum

Slaughter

er . . . this blur is a motorcycle ad diva. who

couldn't a or the light to change green before cutting for a

Except for certain branches of

no intergst in enforcing them, Some citizens blame the police

| sharp left turn. Violation after violation goes unnoticed. People die.

Yellow runner. . . . Speeding

Poor Observance, Poor Enforcement "Of Laws Dips Safety Record in Blood|

By VICTOR PETERSON

ment, the police either do not know the traffic laws or they have,

os across the intersection on the traffic change ‘signal is an invitation to arrest or death. THs) car had ample time fo stop.’

On City ne or

"Broken arms . . , Another typical misdemeanor is failure to signal in traffic. Neither of these drivers bothered to use arm or turn signals. These are pett crimes, but figures show such crimes are invdived § in the growing number of accidents which are reflected in “murder on the streets."

The result. . . . Too often tra tly and only

Death comes sw

ragedy foliowe } in the wake of some minor infraction. he people | in Wis car wre Jichy, they lived.

the Indianapolis Police Depart-

for poor enforcement. Some po-

lice blame the courts Yor poor and inconsistent judgments. The policy of traffic law enforcement within the department is inconsistent. Many men on the force claim morale is at the lowest ebb in history. Whatever the factors, Indianapolis “enjoys” one of the most miserable traffic records in the nation. All the factors contribute their share to bloody the streets with “murder.” Of 32 cities In the genefal population range of Indianapolis,

Hoosierland’s capital city is the

| brought

How many times have you, as a driver, knowingly violated a minor traffic law? How many times have you shrugged your shoulders with - the “so | what” attitude? How many times have you looked quickly to see if there was a policeman around before breaking a traffic law? Any one of these petty infractions could. have “murder on the streets.” They are the misdemeanors which Tring death, as is shown in this article of the series. =

H." 0,

{System, will be honor

Mr. Schuyler will return from the Cleveland tional Foundation for Education, Drexel

offices to succeed Mr. Schuyler.

Mostly About People

Dr. Franklin L. Burdette, for-| tendent of passenger transporta-/ merly of Indianapolis and now

Motorists of Indianapolis either do ndt know the laws , under tion in the New York Central professor of of ‘government and poli- | which-they drive, or they do not care. erst

SCHUYLER, superin- }

Dr. Burdette

Pvt. Mildred L.

a dinner tics at the Universi

'% tory of the

Holdup Victims View 3 Suspects

McNew ‘Linked’ To 1946 Case

Detectives led a string of reAmerican Politi-! | cent holdup victims into the line cal Science As- up room today to view three sussociation pu b-| pected gunmen, who already are

Hehed yee AY: linked to two recent market stick

was: a member Ups. of the faculty of Representatives of two marButler | Univer- kets rd 1 i sity from 1940 to) +. yesterday identified Victor 1046, was secre-1McNew, 23, city, as the gunman tary of the Na-/Who held up Gilliam's Market,

Gardens, Feb. 15, and

y of a land, is the edi-| tor of a bio-| graphical bari

| and also was secretary of the In-| | Kemp's Market, 1401 8. Meridian __A_ native of Union City, Mr.) diana Society, Sons of the Ameri-/ | St. Saturday night." Schuyler joined the Big Four can Revolution: * when he was 18. He was an op-| ® 8 erator in Gretna, O. He then held |

William E. Bettner, 27, of 1510

Rodgers, daugh-|

social security to date, but it works an “awlul[31st worst in the number of fa

hardship on the reformers.

thinking irritates my stitches,

Wotta Mess

By Frederick c. Othman.

\apolis in virtually every respect, [cent of all accidents:

“WASHINGTON, Mar. 1—A big wind whirled” up from the South’.and, the way I figure Tt blew all the ‘pages off thé Senate calendar. That's why it is Feb. 21 today in this august body; why it'll be Feb. 21 tomorrow, and why “it probably will 'bé Feb. 21 next June. Wotta mess. The oratorical gales began to howl precisely at 12:33 p. m. on Monday (by my calendar) when the well-tailored Sen, Scott Lucas of Illinois moved that the Senate proceed to the consideration of a scheme to shut off filibusters. Twenty-two Southern Senators had vowed to talk this idea to death. If it killed ’'em. The filibuster was their only hope of forestalling President Truman's civil rights program. So they began immediately (the first glass of water was brought in at 12:54 p.m) to

filibuster against the Fefoluion “that would

limit “filibusters. Before this is through, a lot of water, milk, cough drops, and orange juice is going to flow down the senatorial gullets. All other business is stopped and if the statesmen don’t make a deal soon and get around to passing some, laws and appropriating some there may even be some payless paydays for the government's clerks.

An Elegant Battle, Indeed THE lo didn’t seem to be worrying about this. They were embroiled in much too elegant a battle over parliamentary procedure to think abdut anything else. . On the theory that you're paying their wages and deserve to know something about how they're earning their §15000 per year per each, I'll try to explain what the shooting was . about. Vice President Alben W. Barkley, sitting in the big leather chair, said that for this filibuster (he didn’t use the word) he intended to en‘force the Tules to the létter. He sald the mara-

The Quiz Master

When was co! aral of St. John the Divine in New York City?

construction started” on the Cathe~

in 1891 ‘and the Gornerstone was laid a year later. The crypt was

opened and the first service took Mack oi Jam. 8 -

thon speechmakers this time ‘couldn't toss the gong around. In “the past one Sitbuster with tired - feet and swollen tonsils yielded to another, who took: up. the long-distance speechifying, white the weary one took to his bed, No more of ‘thfb, said Barkley. A Senator making a speech for. a day, a week, or a month cannot yield to a pal, except for a question. Some of the boys envisioned questions that might take an -eight-hour day to ask, but Barkley said he would decide what was a question and what. wasn't Sen. Richard B. Russell of, Georgia, saving his voice chords for the grind to come, asked softly whether that was fair,

And It's Still Feb. 21 BARKLEY sald this would be pT when the timé came. And another thing, = minded thr “attlers that it still was a legislative aking. He said it would — tinue to L eb, 21 indefinitely because, under the rulés, a Senator can make only two speeches on the same ‘legislative day on any one subject. This caused the sfatisticians to’ get out their pencils. Any one of the 22. embattled Senators can spedk for two days and a night without even loosening his collar; everyone is an expert at conserving his energy, taking on nourishment en route, and resting his feet whilé he stands on 'em. But say each one makes two speeches of only one day each. That's 44 days. And the Senate works .a five-day week. The boys'll be yammering on that basis until the first of May and that sn't even include the long-winded questions, F the answers thereto. There's one chance that the filibuster may be ended the-latte¢r part of this week, but the explanation of it is complicated and the odds seem to be against it. I can only suggest that we: batten down our ears for the big blow,

2??? Test Your Skill ???

a cadet on entering West Point agree to

sisi

serve h definite length of time?

sootier discharged by

* |impossible to: determine.

Each - cadet when: admitted to the Academy nisi dg boil Si Rb competent au-

There is nothing soltalities. Not since 1932 has In-/meanors, account for 32 per cent. pathetic as a writing man with a crawful of |dianapolis been honored with an lof all accidents. crusade and mo-piace to peddle it. - Mr.- -Prumaniaward by the National Safety, has betrayed us all, and anyhow, nurse says heavy Council. In that year an honor- are speeding, disregarding an au-

|able mention was received. it he s =a | MEANWHILE, Kansas Mo., a

was so successful with thelr frat | The driver who pas bety drink | plowed into a sound stage at Uni-| {fic problem that ‘he rules had to/ing is a great problem 8 versal-International studio.

[various positions In Muncie, Bere: [ter of Mr. and Mis. David C:[20, of 5i8 2 3. Tilinols SL, Were ar (Carmel, Ti. Danville, TL. aiid on In Rodgers, 2933 Moore Ave. has rested Sunday night after Bur. Other common violat, Lions napoiis. 2 | graduated from the clerk typist {dine told police that McNew and ” course. of the Women's Army Bettner “spiit-ieot” in-his-apasi--

omatic signal and running a

{preferential street. Together with) City, failure to yield to-right-of way, 24, was recovering toddy in Holly-/ Va., and .has been assigned to,

from knee injuries Valley Forge General-Hospital,-[suffered when his runaway car; Phoenixville, Pa.

{be changed to gave other cities ficult to determine whether the

la chance. , In one year of. intelligent. en.

forcement of. traffic regulations cent of land educational campaigns, Kan- has been drinking.

sas City cut the death toll in|

(half. That was in 1939. In 1946 for 15 per cent of all ‘the fatali {the city slackened its campaign. ties.

|The deaths almost doubled. Cor-|

[rective measures were taken Im |the law Knowingly of ver St CARNIVAL

ingly, only a small portion of the| The same should be done here. police department 4s busy makLast year alone 64 people died |ing traffic WEreets.

mediately.

local traffic “murder

in the | Theré were 3491 injured.

wave.

In the past few years-thenu

constant. ‘This is fortunate, for|

has risen from 2577 In 6096 crashes, » » ”

WHAT THE future holds is There | are about 8000 more automobiles) on Indianapolis streets today | than a year ago. Unless rigid | measures are taken, it is obvious) the accident picture will be even worse. In the trafic division at police| headquarters, Sgt. Raymond Gish| and Patrolman: John Ferguson | pour over lengthy record sheets, | Every .accident is checked and| cross-cheécked to ‘syphon as much | information as possible from the detadls. A study of these reports .pinjoints what is causing these tragedies. Immediately, the reports show that 90 per ‘cent of all accidents lare caused when some traffic law has “een violated. There are 25.0f the most common laws listed on the. report. The most common fault of Indianapolis drivers is the refusal to give right of wdy to another au-|vehicle—usually at an tion. Thess viola on fi

{to man..

accident was the result of use of | an intoxicant. However, in 10 per] | downhill yesterday after the actor Training company which com-|

all accidents the driver {had parked it and got out.

ment but refused to ‘take him

Screen Star Roddy McDowell, Corps Training Center, Camp Lee, along on “jobs.”

city comparable to Indian-| they are’ responsible for 70 per wood, Cal,

{Rodgers was_a’

Enlisting on Oct. 4, 1948, Pvt.

Serve Capias Meanwhile, the grand jury today served a 3-year-old-capias

and auto banditry and placing member of the him under $15,000 bond. The other

The automobile started rolling. first WAC Regular Army Basic two men are held oh $3000 bonds

He pleted training. Dec. 10, and was | caught up with it and was reach-| promoted to private on Feb. 14,

on. vagrancy charges and both

parole violators. Police said McNew has been

These same accidents ou | Ing for the brake when it crashed 1049. She is a graduate of Howe “wantéd” since 1946 in. the hold-

{and knocked him unconscious.

{High School.

{ {up of an. Indianapolis doctor and

By D

two women at Belmont and Mich-

ick Turner gan Sts.

LAST YEAR there were 43

This happened in 8622 accidents. {382 arrests for moving violam- tions, The traffic division; foun

[ber of dead -has.cemained fairly, prising but 118. ey. aT

[the department, made the Yuk

since 1945 the number of injured of the apprehensions.

District cars, leisurly cruising! ithe city 24 hours a. day, made | [but 7949, or a pitiful 18 per cent. On the basis of an eight- -hour | day per district car and the total number of district cars| for each 24 hours, it took the| |average car about three working | |days to see and pick up just ONE [ violator. ii The life and death of citizens is-the responsibility of every per{son in Indianapolis. The driver of every car must tbe ever vigilant. The moment he slips back of the steering wheel,|

he has in his hands one of the| ;

{most powerful weapons known * |

. TOMORROW: Traftic Traps.

Parley to Hear Fell

Col, ‘Harold B. Fell, executive vice president of the Independent ‘|Petroleum Association of America, will speak Mar. 10 at the spring convention of the In-

Indianapolis

diana Independent Petroleum Association, ua

10-11 in the Sev). Okay,

oy both take a fittla papt:

if you! re sure athe imedlock on your wal safe i is set for 7:30,

Education Bills

£ ¢ | | Reach Senate

‘1! “School days” are proving no “golden rule days” for Indiana's | legislature. Two major education bills have {perplexed Hoosier lawmakers |since the opening of thé session. | Both will see action on the Senate | floor today. | Most controversial is a proposal { which would prohibit the segrega~ {tion .of races in Indiana schools, {The other sets up consolidated | schools in the form of county or | metropolitan school corporations. Sen. Walter A. Baran (D. East Chicago), sponsor of the antisegregation bill In the Senate, |said he would relinquish, his sponsorship role today to Sen. Wililam Butcher (R. South Bend), a for mer county school superjntendent. One amendment was affixed to the anti-segregation bill yesterday afternoon as ‘it advanced one

“ow McNew and two companions, .

charging McNew with robbery

McNew and Bettery are heid-as