Show adventurers 7 CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES hyc 1 OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF YOURs gic 1 a P pay lay fiddle Y play by FLOYD GIB GIBBONS aoliS famous headline hunter at ELLO everybody strike the hman HELLO up band bana T man F rank frank zell of chicago bere dere COZ COB you know they say that nero fiddled chii while 0 frank zell went him one better frank kept kent rome ma as a I 1 going while outwait a minute lets not spoil a whole mhd d this yarn takes us back to the boom story was throwing parties at that time prank Pran kwas year ot 1929 i i sity of illinois and he had organized a dance was a student 1 I from the university the army illinois loot football ball band wa champaign that year and a prom prominent anent ci citizen t zen of garne citations to a flock of his friends to attend a a ball gaii aau the tow h 4 his home after the game which was frank was engaged to furnish the mu music sic for the t served after the game arid and a rece reception eption followed a get started until around half p past S ten en A abt t a 50 60 been set up for the orchestra in the big ballroom stage 36 the boys played for about half an ho hour ur n on the t tt first they thought it was a joke and then all of a sudden there jmj came e on the lower floors of it I 1 the crackle of gunfire in the midst of a party but still few of the was stranger guests paid any attend attention starl was a aman man known for a certain flair for doing doine it the 6 le un me zest to his parties it if this were just another stunt to give the assemble fri well wanted to be fooled no one by it the orchestra orches lr the dance went on it went on for two or three minutes then suddenly four masked men carrying B pistols isi a burst into the ballroom one of the thugs shouted put em up this is a W hoa there was a momentary confusion in the room stopped playing still no one seemed to be able to dec de caf was a joke or not but as the bandits began pushing the guests arod arojo them up against a wall it became apparent that this amik but grim reality up on the platform in full view of the gangsters gang sten asi ai k frank began to get that uneasy feeling he felt like a clay 1 shot out of the trap he had in his pocket and he I 1 2 d just as nero fiddled when rome borne burned R managed to ditch it behind one of the wings that ed then the confusion of the moment over frank led his nisi series of dance tunes that would take about fifteen minutest minutes and the band just played 0 on led I 1 I 1 so just as nero fiddled while rome burned frank fraia chestra into a flock of lively music while all around wa of his employer were being robbed but he do it 0 nero did As a matter of fact frank was feeling W do ta chafant cha lant but it gave him and his boys something around and feel helpless and on top of that frank maw hal had an the idea was that a holdup of that sort ago go sw somewhere in the big house with many telephones tP ana sa through to tollette toll me tte full servants some one must have put a call figured that if his band played those crooks might lose lose P and be delayed a bit so the band played as meanwhile the boys in m the orchestra V take 1 I 1 he was those crooks mi might ht not like the in music isic to start shooting th h that frank looked at the piano player noticed me only one hand and asked hir him n why caa cant t use piano player shot back its paralyzed d his but the thugs seem to mind music of i off his ting more confident the saxo saxophone phoi e player P aleci 50 sa s1 and dropped it into his instrument where it was ca L i that he had to pay the next day to have we 1 the they played through the whole number fone 11 one d ott oem objecting seemed to like it when them they sto aped PP ammu u us wac and uttered one word u rd of a gun at the platform inaz e the says the nose of that shotgun looked like me ll 11 I 1 can assure you that we played about to I 1 the bandits lulled by the music were good fa going mood and 0 seemed to be in a ac 0 starts start 61 Z a leisurely fashion they and shot during the affair they finished their work wo ak shoot irIg IN the police gle then came 2 5 ta they the bet i 8 As they were going down the stairs thought it was coming up the cop like the guests first firs t anos lets have your phout I 1 I 1 t he said AU all right boys the shows over re volver wa to 4 the first bandit dumfounded dum founded handed over nis his burst io 0 but at that moment a whole squad of bip diff d fired tot N door A second bandit whipped up a awn 1010 a k 1 a captain in the thumb at almost ailes tt the e ollnie do 0 t tain let go with a 43 45 and the bandit ww conle guests gaies he landed at the bottom at the aby feet of bloode C 0 of his own ov ba tao arrived in pool bov and there he lay a see his looked him over to i 3 M face while the cops feve he died the next day at mercy hospital in calv 8 dij I 1 k were two of the thugs escaped but they the hold holda asb t i w 0 after it when the cops had gone that night told y ces and handed him 20 burnstan W came over to frank birc 0 to lead his band under such harro harrowing harrower g c could have do y frank 1 I blushed when I 1 took it ii if she one pg look could have hake played all ni night after aate taking that shot gon gan C |