! Adventurers
“Late Broadcast”
By FLOYD GIBBONS
Famous Headline Hunter
□ E’VE got to hold a mass initiation today, boys and
girls, for our latest addition to the club roster is not
one iellow, nor two. It’s Richard Himber and his orchestra.
It’s Dick Himber himself who is telling this yarn. After all, he’s
the leader of the band, so it's up to him to speak up for it. And It was along
in the late fall of 1934 that it began to look as if somebody had it in for that
bunch of boys of his. At that time Dick’s band was playing at the Ritz
Carlton hotel. New York, and also making a series of broadcasts from
the N. B. C. Studios.
Now, you know, there are a lot of special radio broadcasts
made in the early morning hours when all the stations in the
East are olT the air. Those broadcasts are made for the Califor
nia listeners whose time is four hours different from ours. Dick
Himber’s broadcast was on Monday night, and on that night you
were liable to see the members of his orchestra entering and
leaving the N. B. C. Studios at a pretty late hour.
First Joey Nash Was Held Up.
The trouble started with Joey Nash, who sang with the orchestra.
He and a bunch of friends were on their way to the studio one night when
two thugs stepped out of a doorway. One of them, a tall colored man,
produced a gun and—well—Joey and his friends began producing their
valuables. While this was going on, the other thug, a thin, nervous white
man, was keeping a sharp lookout down the deserted street.
Well, those things will happen. The boys kidded Joey a bit and
then they all forgot all about it. On the following Monday, everyone in
the band arrived at the studio on schedule and went home the same
way. But the week after that. Art Shaw, the first saxophonist, on his
way home after that late broadcast, met up with two individuals who
answered the descriptions of the men who had held up Joey Nash. This
time the big colored man held a gun on Art, forced him to walk up to the
roof of a building on West Forty-eighth street, and there he took
not only Art's cash and jewelry, but Art’s pants, too.
By that time, Dick says, the boys were beginning to get a little skit
tish. What the heck,was this anyway? Didn’t those two thugs like their
music? Or was some rival band getting jealous and putting up a game
on them? Dick's boys took to going home in bunches, and walking out
In the middle of the street and watching every passerby like a hawk.
That is, they all did but Morey Samel.
Morey Thought He Was a Detective.
Morey Samel is Dick's trombone player, and he is a big
two-fisted guy. Morey had always had a hunch that he'd make
just as good a cop as he was a trombone player, and he took
It upon himself to do a little detective work.
For three weeks he made it a practice to sort of hang around in
Forty-eighth street after the late broadcast on Monday. For three weeks
he loitered in the same neighborhood where Joey and Art had been
held up—and nothing happened. Morey was discouraged. Maybe he
wasn’t such a hot cop after all. Maybe he’d better stick to his trom
bone playing and leave all that G-Man stuff to J. Edgar Hoover.
The fourth Monday, Morey finished the broadcast and started for
home. He lived at a mid-town hotel, and he was walking across town
on Forty-eighth street between Seventh and Eighth avenues, when all
of a sudden he felt '•omething hard jammed into his back and a gruff
voice was growling, "STICK ’EM UP!”
The skin on the back of Morey’s neck began to tingle. He
"stuck ’em up.” The man with the gun marched him down a flight
of steps and backed him up against the door of a basement en
trance. And as he did, Morey got a good look at him. He was
a huge colored man, and with him was a thin, timid-looking white
youth! The pair he had been looking for. Probably the same
two who had robbed Joey Nash and Art Shaw.
The Little Robber Got Scared.
The little white fellow stayed up on the sidewalk, taking his usual
role of lookout. The big colored boy began going through Morey’s
pockets. And all the time Morey was getting madder and madder. For
three weeks he had been looking for these birds, and they didn’t show
up. And tonight, just because he wasn’t looking for them and wasn’t
thinking of them, they had to come along and catch him unawares.
The big thug had one hand in Morey's pocket, and was just about
to annex Morey’s roll, when suddenly the little fellow's head appeared
•t the top of the steps. He looked scared, and he was scared. He said:
“I can’t stand this—I'm going to scram.” AND THEN THE FIRE
WORKS STARTED.
As the little fellow spoke, the big fellow turned his head to look at
him. And that was the moment Morey was waiting for. He
swung a long, looping right and let the big thug have it. It was a clean hit,
right on the jaw. The big fellow dropped. His gun went off as he fell,
and the bullet chipped a piece out of the door against which Morey
was standing. The colored boy didn’t get up again. He was out cold.
The lookout had fled at the first sound of the scuffle. Morey
grabbed the colored fellow by the collar and dragged him up to
the sidewalk. He was still standing there, holding the thug's
revolver in his hand when a policeman came running up.
And as if battling with a stick-up man wasn’t enough adventuring
for one night, he had to have one more thrill. When the cop saw the
gun in Morey's hand he thought HE was the thug, and Morey had to
do some fast talking before the cop could see things his way. In the end
though, they took the thug to the station house where Morey lodged a
complaint against him, and where the cops found that he had more than
four-hundred dollars hi his ragged clothes.
And since then Dick Himber and his boys haven’t lost any more
money, or jewelry—or pants.
C—WNTJ Service.
How Pain and Pleasure
Vary With Individual
Pain, obviously, is an extreme
quality or quantity of the same re
action that gives pleasure in its !
milder intensities. The amount of
pain or pleasure that is derived
from a reaction varies with the in- i
dividual. One person can be thrown
into ecstasies by the same stimulus
that leaves another person unmoved.
All persons do not experience pain
to the same extent when the produc
ing cause is the same in both cases,
according to a writer in the New
York Herald-Tribune.
The erroneous assumption that we
all experience the same pain from
the same cause is responsible for
the belief that some persons are bet
ter able to stand pain than others.
Some persons get almost no sensa
tion reaction whatever to causes
that produce excruciating pain in
others.
Almost all the pain we feel is car
ried to the centers of consciousness
in the brain over the sensory' nerv
ous system. The motor nerves take
no part in conduction of tne sensa
tion of pain. Parts of the autonomic
nervous system, which automatical
ly controls our internal affairs with
out aid from the consciousness, func
tions at times to block or inhibit
pain. In hypnotism a blocking or in
hibiting action takes place which
makes it possible for painful stimuli
to be applied to the body without
the sensory centers in the brain
becoming conscious of pain.
There is another situation which is
the converse of this. A person can
feel pain when there is no pain
producing stimulus acting on the pe
ripheral nerves Sir James Paget
has pointed out that, if a person
expects pain and looks forward to
experiencing pain, that person will
experience the pain even though
ther»- be no pain cause, the pain be
ing produced entirely in the sensory
centers of the brain, and the effect is
just as keen and real as if caused
by stimuli that came over the
nerves. This is known as subjective
pain.
McClellan. Popular Soldier
George B. McClellan, who at the
outbreak of the Civil war was com
missioned a major general by the
governor of Ohio, was a popular
man among his soldiers despite the
fact that Lincoln, after some fric
tion between the two, relieved him
of command of the army of the
Potomac. In the same year that
his command was taken, 1864. he
was nominated for president on a
platform that denounced war as a
failure. Thus the same army of
whose command he had been re
lieved was called upon to decide
between Lincoln and McClellan. The
vote: Lincoln, 250; McClellan, 226.
New Suits Stress Contrast Wools
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
ALMOST any suit is trumps in
spring fashions. The great va
riety of wool fabric has been an in
spiration to the designers, who have
outdone themselves in creating ir
resistible suits ranging in type
from the most casual sports mod
el to the most formal dressmaker
suits.
The outstanding appeal of suits
this spring is their ingenious play
of contrast—the most fascinating
contrasts in weaves and in pattern
ings, some plaided some striped,
others such as bright tweeds with
multi-colored nubbings and other
amazing novelty woolens, these
contrasted with plain mos> fetch
ingly.
The old story of mannish tailored
suits is given several brand new
twists this season, greatly due to
revived fashion interest in fabrics
that were your grandmother’s fav
orites when she was a girl.
The old-fashioned, now new-fash
ioned twills which are showing such
strong revival are as adaptable
to dressmaker suits, which are fem
ininity itself, with their quaint
peplums and soft stitched lapels as
they are to strictly classic tailleurs.
Gray, beige, postman blue and navy
are favorites in twills.
Sheer wools and wool crepes in
solid or novelty patterned labrics
answer to the call for bolero and
eton jacket suits. Often the bolero,
or some such jacket type, is of the
novelty wool topping a suit or tai
lored dress of monotone weave.
These feminine devices in refresh
ingly versatile moods will be flour
ishing the entire season through and
we’ve seen them with linings and
blouses in bright or pastel taffeta
with either swing or full-pleated
skirts.
For planning a spring wardrobe,
the three-piece suit is a logical be
ginning. By three-piece we mean
any type suit or tailored wool dress
you may choose plus a weather
resisting topcoat or a debonair cape
(capes are so very smart) in a gor
geous woolen that accents color
glory and weave to an exciting de
gree.
Your suit choice may be delight
somely frivolous and youthful,
stressing a perk jigger coat, (the
young set adores this new type) es
pecially if it is of gay tapestry plaid
woolen in colors of saddle-tan
and brown as centered in the group
pictured. Note the small pointed
collar and diagonal slash pockets.
The skirt in saddle-tan shetland
type tweed has three stitched gores
in front, and the matching border
stitched tuxedo of the coat buttons
down on either side of the collar.
Perhaps you prefer to top a lus
trous fleece wool in saddle-tan with
a flnger-tip swagger coat that fas
tens high at the neck with an un
usual leather clasp, as illustrated
to the left. The suit itself has five
leather buttons down the front of its
jacket, because leather trimmings
are quite the rage this season.
In the model to the right the color
contrast theory is worked out stun
ningly in that the collarless cutaway
jacket worn with this smart flnger
tip jacket-suit of men’s wear flan
nel, is of gray and red check woolen
with a red belt and ascot for ac
cents. Topped with its jaunty swag
ger coat in a gray herringbone wool
the idea of using three contrasting
wool weaves is demonstrated to a
nicety. And so in conclusion, what
ever system you use, in a swank
suit, you’ll lead in fashion-rightness
—and with finesse.
© Western Newspaper Union.
TAFFETA WITH NET
n.T CHKRIK NICHOLAS
Net enters into many phases of
the mode this season, not the least
important of which is its use for
daytime dresses and for tailored
themes, in contrast to its sprightly
bouffancy for full-skirted party
frocks. The very good-looking tail
ored afternoon dress here shown is
of black net of bemberg yarn band
ed with black taffeta. You'll find
this gown a friend indeed all spring
and all summer. Just now it is ideal
to w^ar under your coat. Top with
a gay little chapeau and you will
be ready to go anywhere social ap
pointments may call.
ACCESSORY NOTES
ON SPRING STYLES
Some of the trimmed sports
frocks this spring are made of
men’s shirting. Chambrays in dusty
roses, blues and olive greens,
brown cottons splashed with small
white figures and gray and white
striped silks make both dresses and
play suits combining skirt, blouse
and shorts (longer than last year).
Tucked bosoms and vests and pock
et acctnts whose 3tripes run con
trary to those in the blouse are
among the mannish accents which
have been borrowed for thes fem
inine frocks.
Accessories hold a bright spot in
the spiing style spotlight. Several
Ififth avenue shops display entire ac
cessory ensembles in patent leather.
Big patent leather bags, patent
leather daisy boutonnieres and
black suede shoes tipped with the
same shining leather are designed
to wear with suits.
Other accessory notes are twin
boutonnieres to be worn on each
lapel of a suit jacket. Sometimes
they are rich carnations of -the
same color, again feather butter
flies with bright spQts on their wings
and again gay feather fancies like
those worn in Tyrolian hats.
Romantic Motif Marks N«*w
Gowns for Evening Wear
Embodying the glamour of the
era when Vienna danced to the
rhythms of Johann Strauss’ immort
al melodies, the new evening gowns
recapture the flowerlike grace of a
romantic century.
Starched nets and chiffons, white
and pastel colored organzas and
stiffened laces are the most impor
tant fabrics and pastel colorings
are stressed.
Bodices for the most part are
simple, many being adorned with
big clusters of chiffon flowers in
contrasting shades. Girdles are nar
row and emphasize slender waisl
lines.
Departed Spirits.
SANTA MONICA, CALIF.
—Continued failure of me
diums to claim the reward
offered by the late Harry
Houdin, who provided a test
for proof of communication
with the spirit world, makes
me think of a thing that hap
pened at the first seance ever
held down in my neck of the
woods.
The operator was summoning the
spirits of departed dear ones to
order. A lanky youth
out of the bottoms
desired to speak
with his father.
Presently, a shad
owy figure appeared
between the cabi
net’s dark curtains
and a voice uttered
muffled sounds.
“Is that you,
Paw?” inquired the
seeker.
“Yes, son,” an
swered the voice.
Irvin S. Cobb
vraw, air you in neavenr
Seemingly startled, the ghostly ap
parition hesitated a moment be
fore giving what might be taken
for an affirmative sound.
“Paw, air you an angel?” de
manded the son.
Again an embarrassing delay,
then a diffident mumble.
“A regular angel with wings and
everything?”
Once more a low grunt.
“Say, Paw,” cried the youth, perk
ing up, “whut do you measure from
tip to tip?”
• • •
Matrimonial Adventures.
HERETOFORE some of the au
thorities have held that the first
two years were the hardest in matri
monial adventures, but the peak of
the danger period for married coup
les is now set at the sixth year by
Los Angeles’ city attorney. On the
side he runs a bureau for handling
the funds assessed for family sup
port against separated or delinquent
parents. So he ought to know about
it, if anybody does.
Well, personally, I always did
have the theory that no woman
could stand any man for more than
five years unless she got numb.
After that it’s just a long-distance
endurance test on her side—and per
haps sometimes on both sides.
Senatorial Shifts
NAMING no names, a little bird
just in from Washington whis
pers that one senator, under the in
fluence of alternating psychic waves
or something, already has shifted
three times on the plan to make
the Supreme court over. First he
was against it, then for it, then
against it again, and is now threat
ening to change once more. They’ll
be taking bets on him at Lloyd’s
next.
Once in a while we get a states
man who reminds you of a hunk
of country butter in an icebox—
takes the flavor of everything near
by, but not improved by any one of
'em.
• • •
Maine’s Statesmen.
THERE is but one answer to the
attitude assumed by both of
Maine’s senators, who show a pro
nounced inclination to balk at what
ever the New Deal calls for in con
gress and especially at the plan to
mold the Supreme court somewhat
closer to the boy scout model.
If these here foreigners don’t like
this country, why don’t they go back
where they came from?
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The Game of Poker.
CALIFORNIA’S attorney general
decides that draw poker, unless
played as a percentage game, is not
gambling.
Had he gone deeper into the sub
ject, he might have ruled that draw
poker, as generally played nowa
days, is not even a game. What vet
eran would call it anything except a
sacrilege against an ancient and
once honorable sport when folks are
free to introduce at will such abom
inations as deuces wild or one-eyed
jacks or barber’s itch or spit in
the ocean?
To draw honest cards; to try to
play the other fellow’s chances as
well as your own; to try to figure
when to raise and when to call and
when to quit; to try to pick the right
moment for bluffing, since the bluff
is the real soul of the thing—that's
poker, my masters, an American
born pastime, hallowed with age,
ennobled by usage, beloved of the
fathers.
IRVIN ■&. COBB.
©—WNU Service.
Trees Prove History Repeats
Tree rings, which tell the story
of wet and dry seasons, do not in
dicate there is any general trend
toward either drier or wetter cli
mate. In the Pacific Northwest,
where the United States Department
of Agriculture made studies of 1.240
ponderosa pines centuries old, show
that the period from 1917 to 1935
was critically subnormal because of
the lack of precipitation and lower
water tables. The average ring
growth from 1900 to 1919 was identi
cal with the general average during
the past 600 years, bearing out the
generally accepted theory that cli
matic history repeats itself through
the ages.
««I ’M GLAD I’m not on the serv
* ing committee this week,”
muses Mrs. Smith of Walnut
street, as she takes stock of her
self in the mirror preparatory to
leaving for the church supper. “I
look entirely too swell for me—
why, I’m almost excited! I al
ways knew surplice waists were
becoming, but how becoming I
never knew till now. That little
deceptiveness is just what I need,
and these sleeves are the most
comfortable things! If about half
our circle wore dresses like this
it would be better for all con
cerned; so many of us have out
grown the tailored streamlined
styles. Now, Mrs. White for in
stance—”
Enter an Admirer.
‘‘Why Mother, you look de-love
ly in that shade of blue! And you
look real stylish, too—you ought
to be going to a Coronation.”
‘‘Oh, I’d much prefer the church
supper, dear.- I’ll be a somebody
there in my new dress but at a
Coronation I would be little po
tatoes. By the way, what did they
say about your new jumper at
school?”
‘‘Mother, I meant to tell you.
Mary Jane and Betty are both go
ing to coax their mothers to make
one just like it. I said maybe you
would loan them the pattern,
would you?”
‘‘Why of course. Did you tell
them it took me only two after
noons to make yours including
two blouses?”
Enter ‘‘The Duchess.”
‘‘Sis, you’re pretty young to be
talking about clothes so intelli
gently. When you get a figure
that clothes really count on—
ahem, like Yours Truly’s for in
stance; then it might be different
—oh Mother, how nice! I’m crazy
about it. Gee, such smart lines!
Remember, you promised to help
me with a new party frock next
week if I did well with this shirt
waister. I wi^h all dresses were
as easy to sew and as swell to
wear as it is.”
‘‘Perfectly cut patterns spell
success for any frock, Kay; your
party dress is as good, as made
right now. But I must be on my
way or I’ll be more than fashion
ably late for the affair. Bye, bye
—be good girls and see that Dad
dy gets something to eat.”
The Patterns.
Pattern 1268 is for sizes 36 to
52. Size 38 requires 514 yards of
39 inch material.
Pattern 1996 is for sizes 6 to 14
years. Size 8 requires 1% yards
of 39 inch material for the jumper
and 114 yards for the blouse.
Armscye and neck edges of jump
er require 214 yards of 114 inch
bias facing.
Pattern 1226 is for sizes 14 to
20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 re
"Quotations"
-V
One of the most valuable of all
kinds of self-mastery is the power of
switching off thoughts at the bidding
of the will.—Dean Inge.
The man who is a law unto him
self is not a social or, strictly speak
ing, a moral creature. — Wickham
Steed.
Surely there’s no actor who’s ever
satisfied with his work, who doesn’t
i see all kinds of mistakes he’d like
to correct.—Sir Cedric llarduicke.
The will to live is often more
powerful than any drug. When the
will gives in the body surrenders.—
Bruce Barton.
quires 3% yards of 35 inch ma
terial.
Send for the Barbara Bell
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bara Bell well-planned easy-to
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Send your order to The Sewing
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© Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
Stomach Gas
So Bad Seems
To Hurt Heart
“The gas on my stomach was so bad
I could not eat or sleep. Even my
heart seemed to hurt. A friend sug
gested Adlerika. The first dose I took
brought me relief. Now I eat as I
wish, sleep fine and never felt better.”
—Mrs. Jas. Filler.
Adlerika acts on BOTH upper and
lower bowels while ordinary laxatives
act on the lower bowel only. Adlerika
gives your system a thorough cleans
ing, bringing out old, poisonous matter
that you would not believe was in your
system and that has been causing gas
pains, sour stomach, nervousness and
headaches for months.
Dr. B. Shoub* New York* reporter
**ln addition to intettinal eleanting* Adlerika
greatly roducoa bacteria and colon bacilli.**
Give your bowels a REAL cleansing
with Adlerika and see how good you
feel. Just one spoonful relieves GAS
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Persistence Wins
Stubborn labor conquers every
thing.—Vergil.
A FAMOUS DOCTOR
AS a young man tha
late Dr. R. V. Fierce
practiced medicine in Pa.
After moving to Buffalo,
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