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Show THE Thursday, April 8, 1937 TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. PAGE THREE UNCOMMON AMERICANS Adventurers' Club By Elmo ScOtt WatSOll MM i "Late Broadcast" By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Ileadline Hunter got to hold a mass initiation today, boys and for our latest addition to the club roster is not one fellow, nor two. It's Richard Ilimber and his orchestra. WE'VE Dick Himbcr himself who Is telling this yarn. After all, he's And it was along the leader of the band, so it's up to him to speak up for In the late fall of 1934 that it began to look as if somebody bad it in for that bunch of boys of his. At that time Dick's band was playing at the 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 oft the air. Those broadcasts are made for the California listeners whose time is four hours different from ours. Dick Himber's broadcast was on Monday night, and on that night yon It's it Ritz-Carlt- were liable to see the members of bis orchestra entering and leaving the N. B. C. Studios at a pretty late hour. First Joey Nash Was Held Up. Morey Thought He Was a Detective. Morey Samel is Dick's trombone player, and he Is a big two-fistguy. 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-eight- h 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 tromstuff to J. Edgar Hoover. bone playing and leave all that The fourth Monday, Morey finished the broadcast and started for hotel, and he was walking across town home. He lived at a mid-towstreet between Seventh and Eighth avenues, when all on Forty-eightof a sudden he felt Fomething hard jammed into his back and a gruff voice was growling, "STICK 'EM UP1" The skin on the back or Morey's neca oegan 10 ungie. lie "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 entrance. And as he did, Morey got a good look at him. He was g white a huge colored man, and with him was a thin, youth! The pair he had been looking for. Probably the same two who had robbed Joey Nash and 'Art Shaw. ed n h timid-lookin- 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 at 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 bad 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 bis hand when a policeman came running up. man wasn't enough adventuring And as if battling with a stick-u- p 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 dollars la his ragged clothes. And since then Dick Himber and his boys haven't lost any more money, or jewelry or pants. four-hundre- d WNU Service. Pain, obviously, is an extreme quality or quantity of the same reaction that gives pleasure in its milder intensities. The amount of pain or pleasure that is derived from a reaction varies with the individual. 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 producing cause is the same in both cases, according to a writer in the New York Herald-TribunThe erroneous assumption that we all experience the same pain from the same cause Is responsible for the belief that some persons are better able to stand pain than others. Some persons get almost no sensation reaction whatever to causes that produce excruciating pain- in ' others. . . . Almost all the pain we feel is carried to the centers of consciousness in the brain over the sensory nervous system.. The motor nerves take no part in conduction of the sensa tion of pain. Parts of the autonomic nervous system, which automatically controls our internal affairs without aid from the consciousness, functions at times to block or inhibit inpain. In hypnotism a blocking or hibiting action takes place which makes it possible for painful stimuli 1 1 pain-produci- McClellan, Popular Soldier George B. McClellan, who at the outbreak of the Civil war was commissioned a major general by the governor of Ohio, was a popular man among his soldiers despite the Lincoln, after some fric- tion between the two, relieved him of command of the army of the Potomac. In the sanvs year that his command was taken, 1364, he was nominated for president on a platform that denounced war as a failure. Thus the same army of whose command he hod been relieved was called upon to decide between Lincoln and McClellan. The vote: Lincoln, 230; McClellnn, 226. e Western Union Christmas Flower XTHEN you buy one of those ' icarlet-petaleflowers called the "poinsettia to f dd lo the festive appearance of your home at Christmas time, you are helping perpetuAn Open-A- ir Cafe In Peiping--. ate the fame of an American who Its width at the base is 60 feet little realized that his name would Prepared by Natumal Cenrraphtc Society, Washiuiftun. U. C WNU Service. to about 50 feet at the become associated with one of the the roads in farther Asia narrowing or the width of three war symbols of the Yuletide. For Joel to Peking, and its top, chariots driven abreast, and it is R. Poinsett had so many other throughout the East is more than 40 feet high. claims to distinction that it teems rich as Troy's. You may apcurious he is best remembered beinout Bastions thrust at regular proach it along the imperial higha flower bears his name! and the is top crenelated, cause way, from the southwest over flag- tervals, in South Carolina in 1779, he Born once to shelter bowmen. affording stones rutted by the cart wheels of studied both medicine and military Wide to lead the nine up ramps end The other a thousand years. science abroad but his father inof that road is in Istanbul; it was gates: three on the south, and two him to abandon his intention duced of the for other faces. Above each visitthe route Marco Polo followed, of the army and to bea stands entering every tower, gate guard ing the Grand Khan in the courts of with of law. Poor health come a student for the and quarters garrison, the sunrise. forced him to give that up and he You may come down to the city, formerly these were covered by asked President Madison tor a comnow called Peiping, from the north, curtain walls enclosing a space where travelers were examined and mission in the army. and in Wall the through Kalgan gate Instead be was sent on a dipduty assessed and collected on Nankow pass, as the Tatar lomatic mission to South America came, trotting on shaggy goods coming in. standPeiping is no longer the capital. where he mixec in the politics un-of ponies behind their yak-tai- l ards. Or you may enter by the rail- From 1912 to 1928 the republic sat Chile, and fomented revolution became known as "the road, from the sea, as travelers ar- in the dismantled pavilions that had til be of the American continent" boused scourge the Then the gov ' emperors. rive these latter days. In any case, nothing warns you ernment moved to Nanking. By and was recalled. Next he was sent of this city; nothing that you have edict the name of the ancient city to Mexico. Always interested in botany, he brought back from that heard prepares you. You proceed was abandoned; Peking, "Northcountry the flower which was given d In ern Capital," became officially over a flat country, scientific name of "Poinsettia the of the Northern sumin Peiping, "City winter, variegated green Pulcherina." or So "Northern evPeace." In Plains," same mer, which looks the Just as he had been a stormy ery direction. It is not that the said the People's party, the postal view is without incident; every yard authorities, and the petrel in international politics,in so the of land is cultivated, and people in But to the residents and to the for- he was a disturbing element blue coolie cloth, with their small eigners who love It the city re- politics of Us native land. During controversy in industrious beasts, move like ants mains Peking. From the heights the Nullification within the walls one may survey South Carolina he organized and led across it Roads and footpaths conthe Unionist forces. By doing nect group after group of huddled the city. Climb Coal hilL It is an artificial that he won the esteem of the nationmud buildings, each unit behind its wall. eminence, rising 210 feet above the al government and President Van fields are mounds the town, lying east and west its con- Buren made him secretary of war. Punctuating tours small from in size Poinsett improved and enlarged very ranging following the conventional art hillocks form of the breaking wave. A cen- the army, organized a fceneral staff, humps to impressive framed in striking architectural tral pavilion crowns it flanked by built up the artillery, directed the conceptions. These are graves, for four smaller pavilions to left and Seminole war and managed the rethe dead are not segregated in right as the slopes descend. Cedars moval of some 40,000 Indians to InChina. Trees stand in thinnish and white pines and sparse grass dian Territory. In the midst of this and lines, clothe it sketchily. straggling clumps activity his scientific interests were trimmed thriftily of all superfluous There is a legend that some not neglected. He experimented branches, and there are dark clus- thrifty emperor created it by piling with scientific agriculture, sent out terings of evergreens, planted in up a reserve supply of coal against the Wilkes expedition into the Ant formal groves, to shield important a seige, covering the fuel with dirt arctic and was largely instrumental ghosts from the rude north winds. by way of camouflage but there is in founding the National Institute Among the grave mounds and the no coal here and never was. His for the Promotion of Science and villages you see tablets of remem- businesslike people would have sold the Useful Arts which later was brance, upright plinths of carved it at a reasonable profit long cen- merged with the Smithsonian Instimarble set upon immemorial tor- turies ago. More likely it was made tution. His busy career came to an toises, facing south; and shrines to of the dirt excavated from the line end in 1851 while he was living in gods and princes, long forgotten, of artificial lakes which the poetic retirement as a plantation owner in standing starkly in the furrows. inhabitants call the "Three Seas," his native state. But each incident of landscape lying in the old Imperial City. repeats itself to monotony, and View of City From Coal Hill. Brooklyn Bridge Jumper there is a confusion, rather than a The pavilion on the crest houses BACK in the eighties the Brooklyn South of and landmarks. dearth, was one of the wonders a tall Buddha, once richly gilded, east the great sky borders the hol- now scoured to drabness by the sun of the modern world. Its dedication west and north the and low land, and which broods eternally on May 24, 1883 was an event of hills circle, their contours lifting over wind, interest but three years the city. Standing between his nation-wid- e sharp and brittle through the clear knees, you are on the medial line later it was even more in the news air, remote and inconsequent as of Peiping, and a little north of its because of a man with whose name painted scenery on a screen. that great span has been linked in exact center. Many Smells and Many Walls. y popular memory ever since. In general, the view is of a He was Steve Brodie, bootblack, Ahead, the horizon takes on regtown, with geometrical patularity. A long gray wall, spaced terns of low roofs and walled court- street car conductor, sailor and by unusual towers, rises suddenly yards denned in blocks by the in- worker around the docks who beas thunder. Your road enters a tersections of the great streets. came a professional walker as a malodorous suburb, and crosses a From this level rise the temples means of earning some easy money. canal of yellow, viscous water, bor- and pavilions, and the gate towers, But he was never better than a seconand none of his walking dered by willow trees and washer- the bright tiles of their roofs in- d-rater women and populous with squad dicating official status. Yellow tile matches ever benefited him greatrons of clamant snow-whit- e ducks. was wholly imperial; green tile and ly. In the summer of 1886 he was Complicated and violent smells as blue, the latter rare, meant the in- nearly "broke." sail the nostrils. Before you opens terest of the government or the ImOne day in July he heard some the dark cavern of a gate, where perial family. of his friends talking about the latbored soldiers in gray uniforms, and There are, among the varicolored est casualty among the men who police in dingy black, armed with roofs, surprisingly numerous lines had tried for fame and fortune by rifles watch a press of man traffic and clumps of trees. In the spring diving from the Brooklyn bridge to and animal traffic that flows withand summer Peiping gives the im- the river, 135 feet below. Seven of out ceasing, to the accompaniment pression of being extensively wood- then- - had tried it and all of them of unimaginable noise. You en- ed; and in the winter, when the had been killed. ter Peiping, and at the end of every leaves are off, you see that every "Huh, I bet you I could do it and vista stands a wall. temple inclosure and pleasure gar- not be killed," boasted Brodie. "Bet den is set with noble evergreens, There has been a city hereabouts you $100 you can't!" replied a white pines and cedars, so that the friend. "You're on!" was Brodie's for three thousand years. Historians locate a town of the Yin dynasprospect is never barren. answer. But he was evidently none You see the three cities, one withtoo confident that he could make ty, called Chi, cn a site near the in another, like a Cantonese puzzle good on his boast for he took out a northwest corner of the'present Tatar city in the Twelfth century B. C. box, and the fourth, the Chinese life insurance policy for $1,000 as a The Manchu emperor, Chien Lung, City, away to the south, beyond protection for his wife, just in case marked the place where one of its Chien Men and Hata Men. The gates stood with a tablet, which you foursquare line of the Tatar Wall On July 23, 1886 Brodie jumped may see to this day, on the ram- lays out the Tatar City, which was, oii the bridge and came up without the divided Manchus, among a scratch. Officials of the life inpart called the Mongol Wall, a short und?r distance north of Peiping, beside the Eight Banners, each having its surance company were furious be- -' own district in the several quadthe road to the Bell Temple. cause he had risked $1,000 of their However, the mutations of Peip-ing- 's rants. money to win $100. They returned Then pinkishthe eye your up picks been have many times history and cancelled his poliwall of the Imperial City, hi' premium told; volumes have been taken in -red cy which was foolish, for he lived now the streets by great pierced the telling. to a ripe old age! The Ming, which is to say, the that run east and west It was origHis successful jump was widely narrow rectangle, a Bright, dynasty, built Peiping on a inally fromlong, It won him an engagepublicized. on to south north the lying grand scale. Yung Lo, third em- axis of called ment in a melodrama enclosed It the Peiping. peror of the line, moved his court "Three in which he had to "Blackmail" sillakes the Seas," shining up from Nanking in the early dive off a great height into a net and created a cap- ver in the sun down its western a feat which, he declared, was even were located and the in it palhalf; his .of greatness. ital worthy of the court officials and im- more dangerous than his Jump from aces Tho Bell Tower, which was in the the bridge and his performance in stretches from center of Khanbaligh, visited by perial princes.anItChien to the Ti the An this (at $100 a week) made "BroChang Tung Marco Polo in the reign of Kublai Men Ta Chieh, north of Coal hill, die, the Brooklyn Bridge-Jumper- " Khan, stands now in the upper third which are the two east and west famous all over the country. His of Peiping; and the Observatory is boulevards. acnievement encouraged imitators north of the present southeast The republic smeared black paint and during the next few years no angle. You can ride the line of and democratic blue over its im- less than 11 others tackled the namost spectacular high dive. Kublai's walls to the north, and perial red; but it is pleasant to ob- tion's Although the first seven had perthey are formidable earthen ramblack blue serve and have the that parts; but goats graze upon weed-grow- n flaked away, and the ancient ruddy ished in their attempts, Brodie to have broken the jinx, mounds that were the guard water pigment persists to delight seemed one of the II survived. towers on the gates. for every no a is distincthe eye. It longer the novelty of such a time that By Big Wall or Yung Lo. tive quarter; the houses of the somewhat worn off. But Yung Lo's wall, called the Tatar dukes and princes are nearly all feat had Brodie's fame as the first to make Wall for no good reason, is imfor rent a successful jump was secure. mense. Its circuit is some 14 miles, Moreover, he contributed another Tortoise Leg Bones Valued and its outline is almost square, On the west African coast the pirturesque phrase to the Amerirounded slightly at the northwest enters a stream where the bones from the legs of tortoises are ca.! language, for "doing a Brodie" angle, for a spectacular city. It has a core of earth and much valued as anklets, m order to is rtillora synonym plunge from a height iiunp rubble, faced with heavy masnnrv. give their wearers endurance. ALL -- rs khaki-colore- office-holder- s. one-stor- , 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 stimulus acting on the peripheral 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 thern be no pain cause, the pain being 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. fact that 4 coun-quero- 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 thtn, nervous whit 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 street and there he took roof of a building on West Forty-eight- h 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 skittish. 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 How Pain and Pleasure Vary With Individual From Perfectly Cut Patterns I m IlA . I m not on the serv-- 1 ing committee this week," muses Mrs. Smith of Walnut street, as she takes stock of herself in the mirror preparatory to leaving for the church supper. "I look entirely too swell for me I alwhy, I'm almost excited 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 concerned; so many of us have outgrown the tailored streamlined styles. Now, Mrs. White for in M GLAD 1 stance -- KU Size 38 requires 5Vi yards of inch material. Pattern 1996 is for sizes 6 to 14 years. Size 8 requires ls,4 yards of 39 inch material for the jumper and IVt yards for the blouse. Armscye and neck edges of jump er require 2Vi yards of IVi inch bias facing. Pattern 1226 is for sizes 14 to 20 (32 to 42 bust). Size 16 requires 3 yards of 35 inch material. 52. 39 New Pattern Book. Send for the Barbara Bell and Summer Pattern Spring Book. Make yourself attractive, practical and becoming clothes, selecting designs from the Barbara Bell patterns. Interesting and exclusive fashions for little children and the difficult junior age; t slenderizing, patterns for the mature figure; afternoon dresses for the most particular young women and matrons and other patterns for special occasions are all to be found in the Barbara Bell Pattern Book. Send 15 cents (in coins) today for your well-plann- Enter an Admirer. "Why Mother, you look 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 going 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 afternoons to make yours including two blouses?" Enter "The Duchess." "Sis, you're pretty young to be talking about clothes so intelligently. When you get a figure that clothes really count on ahem, like Yours Truly's for instance; 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 I wish 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 fashionably late for the affair. Bye, bye be good girls and see that Daddy gets something to eat." ' Pattern 1268 is for sizes 36 to ly shirt-waiste- easy-to-ma- ke well-cu- copy. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Patterns 15 cents (in coins) each. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. Sheep in Wolfs Clothing R. C, department store manager in an Idaho town, scanning the aisles for shoplifters, spotted a "suspicious-looking- " woman. He trailed her to another store, informed the manager, and left, thinking himself quite a sleuth. A few minutes later the Chief of Police phoned. "That woman you've been watching for the past two hours is one of the detectives you hired to stop shoplifting." r. Early Americans and Pioneers Used Poultices for Colds So do modern kouf wir today. Poultices mad the modern war with Denrer Mud quick relief to stubborn cue ol congestion, bronchial irritation or cheat colds. 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