| Show adventurers 4 club 41 late broadcast by FLOYD GIBBONS famous headline hunter WEVE ifor VVE got goi kohold to hold a mass initiation today boys and girls for our latest addition to the club roster is not one fellow nor two its richard hamb himber C r and his orchestra its dick himber himself who is telling this yarn after all hes the leader of the band so its 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 dicks 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 off the air those broadcasts are made for the california listeners whose time is four hours different from ours dick hambers nim Him bers 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 nasli 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 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 arts cash and jewelry but arts pants too by that time dick says his boys were beginning to get a little skittish what the heck was this anyway those two thugs like their music or was some rival band getting jealous and pl putting utting up a game on them dicks 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 morek samel morey thought he was a detective morey samel is dicks trombone player and he is a big two fisted guy morey had always had a hunch bunch that hed 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 arcoui around nd 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 such a hot cop after all maybe hed better stick to his trombone playing and leave all that G man stuff to J edgar hoover the fourth monday morey finished the broadcast and started tor for biome home he lived at a mid town hotel and nd he was walking across town on forty eighth street between seventh and eighth avenues when all of a sudden he felt something hard bard jammed into his back and a gruff voice was growling STICK EM UPI the skin on the he back of moneys 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 entrance 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 be had been looking for probably the same two who had bad 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 moneys pockets and all the time morey was getting madder and madder for three weeks he had been looking for these birds and they show up and tonight just because he looking for them and thinking of them they had to come along and catch him unawares the big thug had one hand in moneys pocket and was just about to annex moneys roll when suddenly the little fellows head appeared at the top of the steps he looked scared and he was scared he said 1 I cant stand this im going to scram AND THEN THE FIREWORKS STARTED As the little fellow spoke the big fellow turned his head to look at him and that was just 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 get up again he was out cold the lookout had 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 thugs revolver in his hand when a poU policeman cemal came running up and as if battling with a stick up man enough adventuring for one night he had to have one more thrill when the cop saw the gun in moneys 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 in his ragged clothes and since then dick himber and his boys lost any more money or jewelry or pants 0 e service |
