October 9, 2025 • 26 mins
Nick Carter, Master Detective was a radio crime drama based on tales of the fictional private detective Nick Carter, first seen in 1886, from Street & Smith's dime novels and pulp magazines. Lon Clark played Nick Carter and Charlotte Manson played his assistant, Patsy Bowen. Nick Carter ran from 1943 to 1955.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time, two
great names are joined as Old Dutch Cleanser bring to
one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all
(00:29):
detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This is the silliest business I ever heard of, Nick,
ordering a dish of macaroni just so somebody else won't
get it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yes, Betsy, but it's this particular dish that holds the fortune.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But what if you don't get it before Greenhat does?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
And I failed and what I promised to do?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But what happens after you get the dish of macaroni?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We search it for what it contains, and after that
anything can happen. Now the case of the Wandering Macaroni.
Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by All
Dutch Cleanser.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's been a busy day.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
For Nick Carter, who's been cleaning up the routine business
that has piled up on his desk. Now it is
late afternoon and Nick is still dictating letters to his
recording machine while his secretary Patsy, sits at her desk
and capts her foot impatiently. Dear mister Gaylord, I received
your letter dated January seventeenth, semi colon. However, it is
(01:34):
not my policy to accept cases of this nature period.
I find the activities of the sort you suggest they're
incompatible with a general standing. I have attempted to Patsy.
He turned off the machine.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's right, it's five thirty. I won't transcribe those letters
till tomorrow anyway. And besides, it's my birthday. I only
Tony Carter. You promise me six months ago that we
go out to dinner to celebrate my birthday, and I'm
going to drag you away from the office.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I have to use a black jack.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
All right, all right, Patsy, I didn't forget. I'll close
up the office right now and go out and celebrate.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, that's better. Which do you think would be nice?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And nick?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Penguin Room or the Moonlight Root.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Your choice, Patsy, you're the birthday child.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think the Penguin Room. They've got that big name
band and order.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The door.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh no, not another case. Let's keep very quiet.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Maybe he'll go away.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I'd like you, but it might be important.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
About the dinner, Patsy.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I'll see to it that you've missed.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Come in.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You're Nick Carter, the detective.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That's right, this is my secretary, Miss Thorne.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
How do you do?
Speaker 7 (02:40):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I want you to get me a dish of macaroni.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I beg your pardoner. I thought you said macaroni.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I did what.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Perhaps i'd better explain, I should think so. My name
is Griswold, Ben Grizswold. Years ago, I used to work
as a contact man for your father, Tim Carter, when
he needed an inside track and unusual circles.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Say wait a minute, Ben Griswold, I remember you.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I hoped you would How you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Used to come to the house when I was a
boy and help me with arithmetic.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
It's right, Nick, but I need your help now. I
can't go to the police. I can't afford publicity of
any sort.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
It would ruin me.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm glad of you. What any thing I can, Ben,
w I.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Pay any fee you ask.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I don't worry about that. For an old friend of
my father's. That's on the house.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But you said you wanted a dish of macaroni.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Yes, now, here's the whole setup. At seven o three tonight,
a man wearing a green hat will go into the
cafeteria at forty seventh Street and Avenue M. Yes, exactly
one minute later, he'll drop a glass.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
On the floor and break it.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
But why that's an identification signal? Then at seven oh
five he'll go to the steam table. There'll be three
dishes on top of the counter. The middle one will
be macaroni, Nick, and I want you to get that
dish before the man in the green hat dies.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh what, senate? Why is it so important?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
In that macaroni dish, you'll find a metal container. I
can't tell you what's in it, but i'll meet you
here tomorrow, and before you hand it over to me,
i'll give you legal proof that it's really mine.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I can't go myself, NICKI. They know me by sight.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I see.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Let's say now, green hat comes in at seven oh three,
at four, after he breaks a glass, and I'm to
beat him to the macaroni at five.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
After that's right, and be careful, Nick, it'll be dangerous.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Then you've got yourself a detective. I'll get that macaroni
for you. May even bring back some salt and pepper
for season.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He said, Nick, your promise to take me to the
Penguin Room for dinner. It's my birthday.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
That's right. Well, never let it be said that a
carter broke a promise.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We're off to dinner at the Penguin Room. No Patsy
at the cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Hmmm, bake beans for a birthday dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We'll make it up later. Patsy, you're taking the Penguin Room.
Man the moonlight route. Oh there he is, greennat where
behind you? I by the water cooler.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I see he's looking at his wristwatch. He's awfully big.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Mick looks as.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Though he could walk upstairs with a piano. Want to
reach arm. I don't like that bulge in his poach either.
That's a shoulder.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Folster.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Here goes to the broken glass. Right on schedule?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Have you got enough change the whole pocket? Proll?
Speaker 9 (05:19):
Come on right?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You keep away from green hat.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Patsy, you see me, start for the door, Get going
fast and beat me outside?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Nick, wait a minute, I help you bud coffee black
and plenty hot.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Oh you want coffee for now?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Might come in handy.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
There you are five cents nice.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Now down to the steam table.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
He comes green hat fast.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
We'll beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner. I'll
drop a quarter and grab it.
Speaker 11 (05:46):
Hey, you'll give me the macrophoney?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (05:50):
Hand it over?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Look up?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
What that coffee is for? Come on, Patsy, beat it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Walk as fast as you can. Unoffee spilt on green hattle?
Getting busy?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Boor file?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Did you get the metal container out of the dish?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I had a fish the macaroni for it, but I
found it to see when grizze it comes for tomorrow?
Round this corner quick, yeah, oh okay, wine sky up
with the hands green hat there.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
This must be my lucky day. I come up with
this coffee for.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Now I've come here, handy.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
There you are.
Speaker 11 (06:22):
Five cents nice?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Now down to it becomes green hat fast, wheeled the
steam table. Beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner.
I'll drop a quarter and grab it.
Speaker 11 (06:32):
Hey you give me that macaroni?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Hand it over?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Look up? What that coffee is? Come up, Patsy, better.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Walk as fast as you can. Uncoffee I spilt on
green hattlem getting busy, boor file Did you.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Get the nettal container out of the dish?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I had a fish and the macaroni for it, but
I found it to see when Grizzel comes for tomorrow
round this corner?
Speaker 11 (06:55):
Quick?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Ye?
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Oh okay, wine sky up with the hands green hat there,
this must be my lucky day.
Speaker 11 (07:02):
I come up the.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Saftee for now.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Me I come in, Handy, there you are five.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Cents becomes green had fast well nice, Now down to
the steam table.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner. I'll drop
a quarter and grab it.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
Hey, you give me a look up with the macaroni?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Hand it all that coffee is come up?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
That's beat.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Walk as fast as you can, un coffee spilt on
green hattlet getting busy for a while.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Did you get the fish in the macaroni for a
found it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Out of the dish?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Happy one, grizz What comes for tomorrow? Around this corner?
Speaker 11 (07:41):
Quick?
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Okay?
Speaker 11 (07:43):
Why sky up with the hands.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Green hat there, I come up the saftee for now.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
I must be my lucky day.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Men, handy, there you are five cents becomes green Had
fast well.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Nice, Now down to the steam table. Beat him. Here's
the macaroni in the corner. I drop a quarter and
grab it.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Hey, you'll give me ova look? Cut with the macaroni?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Handed?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
All that coffee is, Come on, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Well as fast as you can.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm uncoffee spilt on green hatle hitting busy for a while?
Did you get the fish and the macaroni for but?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I found it.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Out of the dish?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Happy when grizzy? What comes for tomorrow? Around this corner?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Quick? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Okay, wi sky you up with my hands?
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Green hat there is I come up the coffee for now?
It must be my lucky day, I mean, handy.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
There you are five cents becomes Greenhead, fast.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well nice, Now down to the steam table. I drop
a quarter and grab it. Feed him. Here's the macaroni
in the corner.
Speaker 11 (08:51):
Hey you'll give me ov a look. Cut with the macaroni?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Hand it all got coffee is?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Come on, Patsy, walking past as you can't fish and
the macaroni for a un? Coffee spilt on green Hattle,
getting busy, brow file?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Did you get there?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Found to see when Grizzo comes for tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Never container out of the dish I.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Had round this corner quick, yeah, okay?
Speaker 12 (09:15):
Why sky up with the hands, green hat there is.
I come out this spee for now I must be
my lucky day in handy, there you are.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Five cents he comes, green hat fast, well nice. Now
I'm down to the steam table. Drop a quarter and
grab it.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
Hey you give me all all cut with the macaroni.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Hand it?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
All that coffee is come on, Patsy.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Walking past as you can't fish and the macaroni for alright?
Uncoffee spilt on green hattle getting busy, brow file did
you get there? You see when grizz what comes for tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Round this corner?
Speaker 11 (09:58):
Quick? Yeh never container out of the Oh okay wine,
sky up with the hands.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Green hat.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
There, I come up this saffee for now, I must
be my lucky day.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Man handy, there you are, becomes green hat fast well,
five cents nice.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Now down to the steam table. I'll drop a quarter
and grab it.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Beat him.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Here's the macaroni in the corner.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
Hey, you give me an old look up with the macaroni.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Handed?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
All that coffee is come up, Patsy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Beat walking past with the canfish and the macaroni. For
I'm un coffee I spilt on green hattlet getting busy
for a while. Did you get you see when Grizzi
comes for tomorrow around this corner?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Quick?
Speaker 12 (10:44):
Yeah, okay, wine sky up with the hands of the
dish a green hat.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
There I come up the saffee for now me I
co must be my lucky day man.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Handy, there you are. Boy.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's just the way to treat a new pair of nylons.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
As a door pass.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It's open too.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I think it leads to an ally Yes, dust, fresh air, careful.
Green hat may be around some place.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Huh oh, dear, I've got ashes in my shoes down
the back of my neck. Why the first thing I'm
gonna do is go home, take a shower, and get
into some clean clothes.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
I know you're not Why I am too right now.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I got a phone call to make, and I'm running
a race, a very important race, race.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like you feeling all right?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Never felt better, but this race. I want to run
a race Patsy with a department of sanitation.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Covered with dust and ashes, Nick and Patsy hurry through
the city on a mysterious race. Their goal the secret
of the container in the Wandering Macaroni. As their cab
kareems through the streets, Nick wonders what lies behind the
struggle for this puzzling prize. We'll see how he finds
the answers in just a minute. Now back to the
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case of the Wandering Macaroni. Today's adventure with Nick Carter,
brought to you by all Dutch cleanser. Covered with ashes,
Nick and Patsy hail a cabin hurried back up town.
It is after midnight when they are dropped on a corner,
and now they hurry along the dimly lighted, deserted streak.
Patsy is still trying to brush the dust off her hair. Thick.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't see why I can't go home and clean
up later.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Hurry up, God, there's a cafeteriat on the street.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
But just look at my stockings. There is enough left
for them to make.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
A pair of Bobby stocks.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Here we are why this is the same.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Corner where green hat held us up? Nick, what are
you diving into that trash can.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
For from the macaroni ited in here when I was picking.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Up your purse.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So that's why green hat couldn't find it when he
searched you.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Hurk the sanitation afar, get here first and empt.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It again, Oh past, put banana peels in here?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Find it yet?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yes, here it is good.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Our little macaroni covered brim is the coupling of a
police car.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Sargeant Mathieson said he meet us here when I hold.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
You know one of these days, Nick Carter, I ain't gonna.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
Come running when you call hi, Sergeant Hi passy, Hey,
what have you been doing?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Playing hide and seeking that garbage can?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
In a way, we've been chasing a dish of macaroni.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
At this time of night.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
You're both going off your rockers. Now just stay nice
and quiet, and Uncle Mary will.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Call the wagon.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I'll be funny, Mattie. I'm in a case.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I need your help, and how like to look through
your files and check a few things. Okay, Nick, hopping
back and I'll take you downtown. Now, what's all this about?
I can't tell you much now, Maddy, but I have
a hunch around a trail of something big all right,
(13:55):
sit down, Nick Cord, I'll have those fingerprints for you
in a minute. Where'd you get them from my notebook?
The ape of the green hat had his paws all
over it when he searched me. They kept the wallet,
but he gave me back the notebook.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
What about the other guy, the colonel?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah there, Maddie is a smooth operator.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Didn't touch anything and tried to keep his face in
the shadow, but he leaned forward when he reached for
my wallet. Why didn't you check through our file, Nick,
and see if you can spot him from the photographs.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Good idea, Betsy, sound too, she can help. Hey, where
is Bessy down the hall washing up?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
You could use some soap too, Nick.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I haven't time. Got to crack this for tomorrow morning
when I see grizzling.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
God and he luck in the file?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Not so far, I know one that even looks like
the gun, and come in. There's a record on the
French sergeant. Mister Carter was right. This guy's got a record.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
As long as your arm.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Okay, Carter, thanks.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I'll read it off to Melia. Maddie. I'll keep looking
for the colonel.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Let's see. Now, quite a guy you're a man in
the green hat, Nick, Yeah, name ship Gorse. Convictions three
six nine, anything from dope and hot cars to making
book m wandered by the Treasury boys for smuggling. I
better have him picked up.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
What's the latest they got on him?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, here he's been spotted down in South America port
of San Louisorro.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Looks like the Treasury's been keeping a close eye on
that baby, Nick.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
On that trick, Hey, Hobby, Well what is it?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You'll find the colonel's toy for on my client's picture.
What do you mean here in this card?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And Grizzwold convicted nineteen twenty three illegal stock manipulation, served
two years in state prison.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Ben Griswold say, I remember that case. I was a
rookie when it broke.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Remember anything about him, Anny, Well, now let me see.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, he was a research scientist, but he got mixed
up with a couple of stock juggling wizards and took
the rap. Huh, he's been going straight ever since as
far as I know. The lick Oh, that's what he
meant when he said he was a contact man for
my father in unusual circles. Huh, must have been an
Underworld agent after I got out of prison. Could be
mattery after I checked these piles. I want to borrow
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your laboratory for a while, all right, Sure.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Thing, Nick, I've got a little special work to do,
all right, I have Carter.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Opened it up for you. But how about the container
from the macaroni?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We can't wait all morning for the unveiling. Can you
pick Whizzled up to night?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
If we need him, that's no problem.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
We'll find him somehow.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Good And if you can get him down here and
hold him to my call, I think we can break
this tonight. Well back at the office last, Betsy, you're
sure you don't want to go straight home?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, I couldn't sleep anyway. It is never girl. He
gets kidnapped on a birthday instead of being taken to dinner.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I'm sorry about that, Bessy.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Maybe I shouldn't admit it, but I was looking forward
to that party too.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Thanks for telling me.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Oh, here we are.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I think i'll finished those letters if we're up.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Didn't you leave the light on when we went out?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think I did.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I guess I turned them out though it's dark now, Nick,
do you think something's wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
There's only one way to find out. Wait a minute,
I got the right key. Hmm, okay, come on, Pagie,
I'll get the right.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think it's green hat.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yes, and it's dead.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
The colonel.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yes, my dear, the colonel I've been waiting for you said,
down at your deskcot bother reaching in the drawer. I've
removed the revolver from it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I warn you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I shoot quickly, inaccurately, So don't attempt any heroics.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You think of everything, don't you, Colonel, I try to.
I find it necessary in my business, your business.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Perhaps I should say profession I'm a smunkler and do
any good one.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Don't move, miss Bowen. I have no scruples. Again, it's
using a gun on my lady.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I'm sure you haven't.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
What's that air conditioning? AH works in an automatic thermis?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Dead?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I see, cart I think i'd better convince you that
I mean business.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well we're convinced of that already.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The container you managed to get out of our hands.
Ose microfilm plans plans photographed on small film.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Oh we know what microfilm is.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Out of those plans, are Colonel a new and secret
process for casting aluminum, which doesn't belong to you, negly
know you see, old Griswold discovered the process in South America,
but it wasn't too careful about guarding his property.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You mean you hijacked it of him. Uh, you could
call it that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I knew it would be worth millions to the automobile industry,
which would pay heavily to the first man to secure
an American patent.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I plan to have a frontman patented, but.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You couldn't get it into the country because the treasurymen
were watching your gang too closely precisely, Hm, that's why
we had to adopt that complicated method of delivering the container.
And I, my dad, your shrewd guess decreases your chances
of surviving this meeting.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You're pretty careless with murder onn't you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm afraid there's been a trail of death following that container,
starting with the original inventor of the process in South
America and ending in our unfortunate friend in the green
hat be Pale, and I was forced to remove him,
and he may not be the last. Mister Carter, you
won't get Claire on that wrap.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Colonel on the contrary. It's a perfect set up.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Griswold couldn't call the police. Any publicity would call attention
to the new process before he could patent it. You'll slip, Colonel,
it won't work. I've told you this, Carter, to convince
you that I am deadly serious. I'm going to get
those Villans, and I don't care particularly how I go
about it. I think that corpse cooling on your pressure
should prove that. Looks as though you're holding all the
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aces dun exactly now the container please, I grow impatient,
mister Carter. You don't hand it over by the time
I count three, I shall proceed to shoot your secretary
right between her very pretty eyes. Nick sits watching the
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unwavering gun in the Colonel's hand. You must act now,
or the soft spoken murderer will kill again.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
We'll see what he does in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And how for the conclusion of the case of the
Wandering MACARONI to day's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to
you by all Dutch cleanser man. Nick's office is quiet
as the Colonel covers Nick and Patsy, his finger tightening
on the trigger.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
The only sound is the colonel's voice. One two, Hold it, Colonel.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't see why I should stick my neck out
for a client. Last you show intelligence, mister Carter.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
How can you the container I gave you?
Speaker 8 (21:02):
You'll give it to me.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh what's the use of hiding it in the heel
of my shoe if you're going to double cross a
client anyway?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
The clever cutter, I see the heel unscrews.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Here it is.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I guess there's nothing left to do, Colonel. Here's your container.
Don't leave your chair, put it on the this okay,
I'll sit back. He move, Cotter, had you finally displayed reason.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Before we decide what to do with him? We'll see
whether this is the real container.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It opens on this end. Stuck, Colonel.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I've got the gun now, colonel, and now we'll see
how you like looking down the barrel. Well, it's all said, Nick,
We got the colonel book murder in the first How
about the rest of the gang? Maddy all locked up
as soon as you call, and Toby green Hat was
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dead and you had caught the Colonel griswol led us
to the guy who tipped him off about the macaroni deal,
and he squealed on the rest.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Good.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I turned the plans over to Griswold, and he's got
him in the.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Bank, Bolt, and you better get the patent papers filed
in a hurry before anybody else gets any ideas.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
You know what burns me?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That rat the colonel will probably hire six genius lawyers.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Oh no, no, he won't.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
May he took plenty before you got here.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But he was right to scamming at a handing over
the container. He even confessed to murder.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Well that's fine, but can we prove that to a jury.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We could let them hear the confession with their own ears.
What just before he started talking, I kicked the switch
on my recording machine under the desk.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well i'll be I got everything, he said.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He thought the noise with the air conditioning, but he
was really dictating his own death sence.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
But Nick, how the devil did you get out from
under that gun? The colonel looks like a pretty cool me.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yes, Nicks, just what happened?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
First I'm looking at that gun too, scared debris, thinking
you were double crossing your client.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And then the colonel screaming that he.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Can see Well I knew the colonel would come to
visit me. Sometimes he had my wallet and my address
in it.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The only way he could locate the container was to
come after me. So I stopped in the police laboratory
and fixed a surprise for him.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
While I was washing up.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yes, I took the films out of the container and
rigged the little booby trap inside it with tear gas. Well,
I'll be dog gone, but that stunt with the heel
of my shoe, Patsy, he'd had suspected me if I
had just had it in my pocket, I knew he'd
open it up immediately to check.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And that's exactly what he did. He got it right
in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Well, there's still one thing I'm not satisfied with, Mick.
Oh what's time my birthday dinner?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Even if we do go to the penguin room, the
head waiter will probably get murdered.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And you'll take the case.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, then how about going back to the cafeteria caudish
of Macaroni? Oh, well, Nick, what about the adventure old
Ash cleanser is going to bring us next week.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I'll get to that just a moment, Bob.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
First, I want to wish or rather, I wish to
call attention to the fact that this is the first
day of National Farm Safety Week. I want to remind
every farmer I possibly can that the best way to
prevent accidents on his farmers to be sure that everybody
knows his job. Safety records and industry are achieved by
training and watchfulness.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
The same thing is true in the farm. So don't
take chances. The life you save may be your own.
How Bob. Next week we're going.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
To beat a man who was murdered because he was
cured of a disease he didn't have.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And the most amazing thing about him with the fact
that his face could take pictures after he was dead.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
A man's face that could take pictures after he was dead.
That sounds fascinating. What do you call the story, Nick,
I call it the Case of the Dead Camera. Nick
carter Master Detective is presented each week at this time
and over these same stations by the Cutdaheat Packing Company,
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makers of Old Dutch cleanser. Nick Carter Master Detective, produced
and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Streeden Smith
Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick with Charlotte
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Manson featured as Patsy Matty is played by Ed Latimer.
Today's script was written by Ernest Cannoy. Original music is
played by George Wright. And this program is fictional and
any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count, use old
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Dutch cleanser.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System
Speaker 4 (26:06):
M
Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing dirt, presents Nick Carter,
famous for chasing crime. Every week at this time, two
great names are joined as Old Dutch Cleanser bring to
one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all
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detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
This is the silliest business I ever heard of, Nick,
ordering a dish of macaroni just so somebody else won't
get it.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yes, Betsy, but it's this particular dish that holds the fortune.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
But what if you don't get it before Greenhat does?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
And I failed and what I promised to do?
Speaker 3 (00:54):
But what happens after you get the dish of macaroni?
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (00:57):
We search it for what it contains, and after that
anything can happen. Now the case of the Wandering Macaroni.
Today's Adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by All
Dutch Cleanser.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's been a busy day.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
For Nick Carter, who's been cleaning up the routine business
that has piled up on his desk. Now it is
late afternoon and Nick is still dictating letters to his
recording machine while his secretary Patsy, sits at her desk
and capts her foot impatiently. Dear mister Gaylord, I received
your letter dated January seventeenth, semi colon. However, it is
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not my policy to accept cases of this nature period.
I find the activities of the sort you suggest they're
incompatible with a general standing. I have attempted to Patsy.
He turned off the machine.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's right, it's five thirty. I won't transcribe those letters
till tomorrow anyway. And besides, it's my birthday. I only
Tony Carter. You promise me six months ago that we
go out to dinner to celebrate my birthday, and I'm
going to drag you away from the office.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I have to use a black jack.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
All right, all right, Patsy, I didn't forget. I'll close
up the office right now and go out and celebrate.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Well, that's better. Which do you think would be nice?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
And nick?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
The Penguin Room or the Moonlight Root.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Your choice, Patsy, you're the birthday child.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
I think the Penguin Room. They've got that big name
band and order.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
The door.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh no, not another case. Let's keep very quiet.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Maybe he'll go away.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
I'd like you, but it might be important.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Don't worry.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
About the dinner, Patsy.
Speaker 6 (02:31):
I'll see to it that you've missed.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Come in.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
You're Nick Carter, the detective.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
That's right, this is my secretary, Miss Thorne.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
How do you do?
Speaker 7 (02:40):
How do you do?
Speaker 4 (02:41):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I want you to get me a dish of macaroni.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I beg your pardoner. I thought you said macaroni.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
I did what.
Speaker 7 (02:51):
Perhaps i'd better explain, I should think so. My name
is Griswold, Ben Grizswold. Years ago, I used to work
as a contact man for your father, Tim Carter, when
he needed an inside track and unusual circles.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Say wait a minute, Ben Griswold, I remember you.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I hoped you would How you.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Used to come to the house when I was a
boy and help me with arithmetic.
Speaker 7 (03:12):
It's right, Nick, but I need your help now. I
can't go to the police. I can't afford publicity of
any sort.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
It would ruin me.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
I'm glad of you. What any thing I can, Ben,
w I.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Pay any fee you ask.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
I don't worry about that. For an old friend of
my father's. That's on the house.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
But you said you wanted a dish of macaroni.
Speaker 7 (03:29):
Yes, now, here's the whole setup. At seven o three tonight,
a man wearing a green hat will go into the
cafeteria at forty seventh Street and Avenue M. Yes, exactly
one minute later, he'll drop a glass.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
On the floor and break it.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
But why that's an identification signal? Then at seven oh
five he'll go to the steam table. There'll be three
dishes on top of the counter. The middle one will
be macaroni, Nick, and I want you to get that
dish before the man in the green hat dies.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Oh what, senate? Why is it so important?
Speaker 7 (04:01):
In that macaroni dish, you'll find a metal container. I
can't tell you what's in it, but i'll meet you
here tomorrow, and before you hand it over to me,
i'll give you legal proof that it's really mine.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
I can't go myself, NICKI. They know me by sight.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
I see.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Let's say now, green hat comes in at seven oh three,
at four, after he breaks a glass, and I'm to
beat him to the macaroni at five.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
After that's right, and be careful, Nick, it'll be dangerous.
Speaker 8 (04:28):
All right.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Then you've got yourself a detective. I'll get that macaroni
for you. May even bring back some salt and pepper
for season.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
He said, Nick, your promise to take me to the
Penguin Room for dinner. It's my birthday.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
That's right. Well, never let it be said that a
carter broke a promise.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
We're off to dinner at the Penguin Room. No Patsy
at the cafeteria.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Hmmm, bake beans for a birthday dinner.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
We'll make it up later. Patsy, you're taking the Penguin Room.
Man the moonlight route. Oh there he is, greennat where
behind you? I by the water cooler.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
I see he's looking at his wristwatch. He's awfully big.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Mick looks as.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Though he could walk upstairs with a piano. Want to
reach arm. I don't like that bulge in his poach either.
That's a shoulder.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Folster.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Here goes to the broken glass. Right on schedule?
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Have you got enough change the whole pocket? Proll?
Speaker 9 (05:19):
Come on right?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You keep away from green hat.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Patsy, you see me, start for the door, Get going
fast and beat me outside?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Right?
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Nick, wait a minute, I help you bud coffee black
and plenty hot.
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Oh you want coffee for now?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Might come in handy.
Speaker 8 (05:35):
There you are five cents nice.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Now down to the steam table.
Speaker 10 (05:40):
He comes green hat fast.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
We'll beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner. I'll
drop a quarter and grab it.
Speaker 11 (05:46):
Hey, you'll give me the macrophoney?
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (05:50):
Hand it over?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
Look up?
Speaker 6 (05:52):
What that coffee is for? Come on, Patsy, beat it.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Walk as fast as you can. Unoffee spilt on green hattle?
Getting busy?
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Boor file?
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Did you get the metal container out of the dish?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I had a fish the macaroni for it, but I
found it to see when grizze it comes for tomorrow?
Round this corner quick, yeah, oh okay, wine sky up
with the hands green hat there.
Speaker 9 (06:14):
This must be my lucky day. I come up with
this coffee for.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Now I've come here, handy.
Speaker 8 (06:21):
There you are.
Speaker 11 (06:22):
Five cents nice?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
Now down to it becomes green hat fast, wheeled the
steam table. Beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner.
I'll drop a quarter and grab it.
Speaker 11 (06:32):
Hey you give me that macaroni?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Hand it over?
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Look up? What that coffee is? Come up, Patsy, better.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Walk as fast as you can. Uncoffee I spilt on
green hattlem getting busy, boor file Did you.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Get the nettal container out of the dish?
Speaker 1 (06:50):
I had a fish and the macaroni for it, but
I found it to see when Grizzel comes for tomorrow
round this corner?
Speaker 11 (06:55):
Quick?
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Ye?
Speaker 12 (06:56):
Oh okay, wine sky up with the hands green hat there,
this must be my lucky day.
Speaker 11 (07:02):
I come up the.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Saftee for now.
Speaker 10 (07:04):
Me I come in, Handy, there you are five.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Cents becomes green had fast well nice, Now down to
the steam table.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner. I'll drop
a quarter and grab it.
Speaker 11 (07:18):
Hey, you give me a look up with the macaroni?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Hand it all that coffee is come up?
Speaker 6 (07:28):
That's beat.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Walk as fast as you can, un coffee spilt on
green hattlet getting busy for a while.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Did you get the fish in the macaroni for a
found it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Out of the dish?
Speaker 4 (07:39):
Happy one, grizz What comes for tomorrow? Around this corner?
Speaker 11 (07:41):
Quick?
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:42):
Okay?
Speaker 11 (07:43):
Why sky up with the hands.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Green hat there, I come up the saftee for now.
Speaker 9 (07:49):
I must be my lucky day.
Speaker 10 (07:51):
Men, handy, there you are five cents becomes green Had
fast well.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Nice, Now down to the steam table. Beat him. Here's
the macaroni in the corner. I drop a quarter and
grab it.
Speaker 11 (08:05):
Hey, you'll give me ova look? Cut with the macaroni?
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 8 (08:09):
Handed?
Speaker 6 (08:10):
All that coffee is, Come on, Patsy.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Well as fast as you can.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I'm uncoffee spilt on green hatle hitting busy for a while?
Did you get the fish and the macaroni for but?
Speaker 8 (08:22):
I found it.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Out of the dish?
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Happy when grizzy? What comes for tomorrow? Around this corner?
Speaker 6 (08:27):
Quick? Yeah?
Speaker 11 (08:28):
Okay, wi sky you up with my hands?
Speaker 9 (08:31):
Green hat there is I come up the coffee for now?
It must be my lucky day, I mean, handy.
Speaker 10 (08:39):
There you are five cents becomes Greenhead, fast.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well nice, Now down to the steam table. I drop
a quarter and grab it. Feed him. Here's the macaroni
in the corner.
Speaker 11 (08:51):
Hey you'll give me ov a look. Cut with the macaroni?
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (08:55):
Hand it all got coffee is?
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Come on, Patsy, walking past as you can't fish and
the macaroni for a un? Coffee spilt on green Hattle,
getting busy, brow file?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Did you get there?
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Found to see when Grizzo comes for tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Never container out of the dish I.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Had round this corner quick, yeah, okay?
Speaker 12 (09:15):
Why sky up with the hands, green hat there is.
I come out this spee for now I must be
my lucky day in handy, there you are.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Five cents he comes, green hat fast, well nice. Now
I'm down to the steam table. Drop a quarter and
grab it.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Beat him. Here's the macaroni in the corner.
Speaker 11 (09:37):
Hey you give me all all cut with the macaroni.
Speaker 4 (09:40):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 9 (09:42):
Hand it?
Speaker 6 (09:42):
All that coffee is come on, Patsy.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Walking past as you can't fish and the macaroni for alright?
Uncoffee spilt on green hattle getting busy, brow file did
you get there? You see when grizz what comes for tomorrow?
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Round this corner?
Speaker 11 (09:58):
Quick? Yeh never container out of the Oh okay wine,
sky up with the hands.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Green hat.
Speaker 9 (10:04):
There, I come up this saffee for now, I must
be my lucky day.
Speaker 10 (10:09):
Man handy, there you are, becomes green hat fast well,
five cents nice.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Now down to the steam table. I'll drop a quarter
and grab it.
Speaker 11 (10:19):
Beat him.
Speaker 4 (10:21):
Here's the macaroni in the corner.
Speaker 11 (10:23):
Hey, you give me an old look up with the macaroni.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Why should I I paid for it?
Speaker 11 (10:28):
Handed?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
All that coffee is come up, Patsy.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
Beat walking past with the canfish and the macaroni. For
I'm un coffee I spilt on green hattlet getting busy
for a while. Did you get you see when Grizzi
comes for tomorrow around this corner?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Quick?
Speaker 12 (10:44):
Yeah, okay, wine sky up with the hands of the
dish a green hat.
Speaker 9 (10:50):
There I come up the saffee for now me I
co must be my lucky day man.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Handy, there you are. Boy.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
That's just the way to treat a new pair of nylons.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
As a door pass.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
It's open too.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
I think it leads to an ally Yes, dust, fresh air, careful.
Green hat may be around some place.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Huh oh, dear, I've got ashes in my shoes down
the back of my neck. Why the first thing I'm
gonna do is go home, take a shower, and get
into some clean clothes.
Speaker 10 (11:28):
I know you're not Why I am too right now.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
I got a phone call to make, and I'm running
a race, a very important race, race.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Like you feeling all right?
Speaker 4 (11:36):
Never felt better, but this race. I want to run
a race Patsy with a department of sanitation.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Covered with dust and ashes, Nick and Patsy hurry through
the city on a mysterious race. Their goal the secret
of the container in the Wandering Macaroni. As their cab
kareems through the streets, Nick wonders what lies behind the
struggle for this puzzling prize. We'll see how he finds
the answers in just a minute. Now back to the
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case of the Wandering Macaroni. Today's adventure with Nick Carter,
brought to you by all Dutch cleanser. Covered with ashes,
Nick and Patsy hail a cabin hurried back up town.
It is after midnight when they are dropped on a corner,
and now they hurry along the dimly lighted, deserted streak.
Patsy is still trying to brush the dust off her hair. Thick.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
I don't see why I can't go home and clean
up later.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Hurry up, God, there's a cafeteriat on the street.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
But just look at my stockings. There is enough left
for them to make.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
A pair of Bobby stocks.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Here we are why this is the same.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Corner where green hat held us up? Nick, what are
you diving into that trash can.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
For from the macaroni ited in here when I was picking.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
Up your purse.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
So that's why green hat couldn't find it when he
searched you.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Hurk the sanitation afar, get here first and empt.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It again, Oh past, put banana peels in here?
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Find it yet?
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yes, here it is good.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Our little macaroni covered brim is the coupling of a
police car.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I know.
Speaker 4 (13:08):
Sargeant Mathieson said he meet us here when I hold.
Speaker 8 (13:13):
You know one of these days, Nick Carter, I ain't gonna.
Speaker 12 (13:16):
Come running when you call hi, Sergeant Hi passy, Hey,
what have you been doing?
Speaker 8 (13:20):
Playing hide and seeking that garbage can?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
In a way, we've been chasing a dish of macaroni.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
At this time of night.
Speaker 8 (13:27):
You're both going off your rockers. Now just stay nice
and quiet, and Uncle Mary will.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
Call the wagon.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I'll be funny, Mattie. I'm in a case.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
I need your help, and how like to look through
your files and check a few things. Okay, Nick, hopping
back and I'll take you downtown. Now, what's all this about?
I can't tell you much now, Maddy, but I have
a hunch around a trail of something big all right,
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sit down, Nick Cord, I'll have those fingerprints for you
in a minute. Where'd you get them from my notebook?
The ape of the green hat had his paws all
over it when he searched me. They kept the wallet,
but he gave me back the notebook.
Speaker 8 (14:05):
What about the other guy, the colonel?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Yeah there, Maddie is a smooth operator.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Didn't touch anything and tried to keep his face in
the shadow, but he leaned forward when he reached for
my wallet. Why didn't you check through our file, Nick,
and see if you can spot him from the photographs.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
Good idea, Betsy, sound too, she can help. Hey, where
is Bessy down the hall washing up?
Speaker 8 (14:25):
You could use some soap too, Nick.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
I haven't time. Got to crack this for tomorrow morning
when I see grizzling.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
God and he luck in the file?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Not so far, I know one that even looks like
the gun, and come in. There's a record on the
French sergeant. Mister Carter was right. This guy's got a record.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
As long as your arm.
Speaker 8 (14:44):
Okay, Carter, thanks.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
I'll read it off to Melia. Maddie. I'll keep looking
for the colonel.
Speaker 8 (14:50):
Let's see. Now, quite a guy you're a man in
the green hat, Nick, Yeah, name ship Gorse. Convictions three
six nine, anything from dope and hot cars to making
book m wandered by the Treasury boys for smuggling. I
better have him picked up.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
What's the latest they got on him?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, here he's been spotted down in South America port
of San Louisorro.
Speaker 8 (15:13):
Looks like the Treasury's been keeping a close eye on
that baby, Nick.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
On that trick, Hey, Hobby, Well what is it?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Nick?
Speaker 4 (15:20):
You'll find the colonel's toy for on my client's picture.
What do you mean here in this card?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
And Grizzwold convicted nineteen twenty three illegal stock manipulation, served
two years in state prison.
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Ben Griswold say, I remember that case. I was a
rookie when it broke.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Remember anything about him, Anny, Well, now let me see.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Yeah, he was a research scientist, but he got mixed
up with a couple of stock juggling wizards and took
the rap. Huh, he's been going straight ever since as
far as I know. The lick Oh, that's what he
meant when he said he was a contact man for
my father in unusual circles. Huh, must have been an
Underworld agent after I got out of prison. Could be
mattery after I checked these piles. I want to borrow
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your laboratory for a while, all right, Sure.
Speaker 4 (15:59):
Thing, Nick, I've got a little special work to do,
all right, I have Carter.
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Opened it up for you. But how about the container
from the macaroni?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
We can't wait all morning for the unveiling. Can you
pick Whizzled up to night?
Speaker 4 (16:08):
If we need him, that's no problem.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
We'll find him somehow.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Good And if you can get him down here and
hold him to my call, I think we can break
this tonight. Well back at the office last, Betsy, you're
sure you don't want to go straight home?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
No?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
No, I couldn't sleep anyway. It is never girl. He
gets kidnapped on a birthday instead of being taken to dinner.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
I'm sorry about that, Bessy.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Maybe I shouldn't admit it, but I was looking forward
to that party too.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Thanks for telling me.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
Oh, here we are.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I think i'll finished those letters if we're up.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
Didn't you leave the light on when we went out?
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think I did.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I guess I turned them out though it's dark now, Nick,
do you think something's wrong.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (17:03):
There's only one way to find out. Wait a minute,
I got the right key. Hmm, okay, come on, Pagie,
I'll get the right.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
I think it's green hat.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
Yes, and it's dead.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
The colonel.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Yes, my dear, the colonel I've been waiting for you said,
down at your deskcot bother reaching in the drawer. I've
removed the revolver from it.
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I warn you.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I shoot quickly, inaccurately, So don't attempt any heroics.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
You think of everything, don't you, Colonel, I try to.
I find it necessary in my business, your business.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Perhaps I should say profession I'm a smunkler and do
any good one.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Don't move, miss Bowen. I have no scruples. Again, it's
using a gun on my lady.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
I'm sure you haven't.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
What's that air conditioning? AH works in an automatic thermis?
Speaker 8 (18:08):
Dead?
Speaker 4 (18:09):
I see, cart I think i'd better convince you that
I mean business.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Well we're convinced of that already.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
The container you managed to get out of our hands.
Ose microfilm plans plans photographed on small film.
Speaker 10 (18:21):
Oh we know what microfilm is.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
Out of those plans, are Colonel a new and secret
process for casting aluminum, which doesn't belong to you, negly
know you see, old Griswold discovered the process in South America,
but it wasn't too careful about guarding his property.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You mean you hijacked it of him. Uh, you could
call it that.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
I knew it would be worth millions to the automobile industry,
which would pay heavily to the first man to secure
an American patent.
Speaker 4 (18:47):
I plan to have a frontman patented, but.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
You couldn't get it into the country because the treasurymen
were watching your gang too closely precisely, Hm, that's why
we had to adopt that complicated method of delivering the container.
And I, my dad, your shrewd guess decreases your chances
of surviving this meeting.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
You're pretty careless with murder onn't you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I'm afraid there's been a trail of death following that container,
starting with the original inventor of the process in South
America and ending in our unfortunate friend in the green
hat be Pale, and I was forced to remove him,
and he may not be the last. Mister Carter, you
won't get Claire on that wrap.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Colonel on the contrary. It's a perfect set up.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Griswold couldn't call the police. Any publicity would call attention
to the new process before he could patent it. You'll slip, Colonel,
it won't work. I've told you this, Carter, to convince
you that I am deadly serious. I'm going to get
those Villans, and I don't care particularly how I go
about it. I think that corpse cooling on your pressure
should prove that. Looks as though you're holding all the
(19:53):
aces dun exactly now the container please, I grow impatient,
mister Carter. You don't hand it over by the time
I count three, I shall proceed to shoot your secretary
right between her very pretty eyes. Nick sits watching the
(20:16):
unwavering gun in the Colonel's hand. You must act now,
or the soft spoken murderer will kill again.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
We'll see what he does in just a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
And how for the conclusion of the case of the
Wandering MACARONI to day's adventure with Nick Carter, brought to
you by all Dutch cleanser man. Nick's office is quiet
as the Colonel covers Nick and Patsy, his finger tightening
on the trigger.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
The only sound is the colonel's voice. One two, Hold it, Colonel.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
I don't see why I should stick my neck out
for a client. Last you show intelligence, mister Carter.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
How can you the container I gave you?
Speaker 8 (21:02):
You'll give it to me.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
I'm all right.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Oh what's the use of hiding it in the heel
of my shoe if you're going to double cross a
client anyway?
Speaker 4 (21:09):
The clever cutter, I see the heel unscrews.
Speaker 10 (21:14):
Here it is.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I guess there's nothing left to do, Colonel. Here's your container.
Don't leave your chair, put it on the this okay,
I'll sit back. He move, Cotter, had you finally displayed reason.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Before we decide what to do with him? We'll see
whether this is the real container.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
It opens on this end. Stuck, Colonel.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
I've got the gun now, colonel, and now we'll see
how you like looking down the barrel. Well, it's all said, Nick,
We got the colonel book murder in the first How
about the rest of the gang? Maddy all locked up
as soon as you call, and Toby green Hat was
(22:13):
dead and you had caught the Colonel griswol led us
to the guy who tipped him off about the macaroni deal,
and he squealed on the rest.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Good.
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I turned the plans over to Griswold, and he's got
him in the.
Speaker 1 (22:23):
Bank, Bolt, and you better get the patent papers filed
in a hurry before anybody else gets any ideas.
Speaker 8 (22:27):
You know what burns me?
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Nick?
Speaker 1 (22:28):
That rat the colonel will probably hire six genius lawyers.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
Oh no, no, he won't.
Speaker 3 (22:33):
May he took plenty before you got here.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
But he was right to scamming at a handing over
the container. He even confessed to murder.
Speaker 8 (22:39):
Well that's fine, but can we prove that to a jury.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We could let them hear the confession with their own ears.
What just before he started talking, I kicked the switch
on my recording machine under the desk.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Well i'll be I got everything, he said.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
He thought the noise with the air conditioning, but he
was really dictating his own death sence.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
But Nick, how the devil did you get out from
under that gun? The colonel looks like a pretty cool me.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yes, Nicks, just what happened?
Speaker 2 (23:02):
First I'm looking at that gun too, scared debris, thinking
you were double crossing your client.
Speaker 3 (23:07):
And then the colonel screaming that he.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
Can see Well I knew the colonel would come to
visit me. Sometimes he had my wallet and my address
in it.
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Well, that's true.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
The only way he could locate the container was to
come after me. So I stopped in the police laboratory
and fixed a surprise for him.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
While I was washing up.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Yes, I took the films out of the container and
rigged the little booby trap inside it with tear gas. Well,
I'll be dog gone, but that stunt with the heel
of my shoe, Patsy, he'd had suspected me if I
had just had it in my pocket, I knew he'd
open it up immediately to check.
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And that's exactly what he did. He got it right
in the eyes.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Well, there's still one thing I'm not satisfied with, Mick.
Oh what's time my birthday dinner?
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Even if we do go to the penguin room, the
head waiter will probably get murdered.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And you'll take the case.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
Well, then how about going back to the cafeteria caudish
of Macaroni? Oh, well, Nick, what about the adventure old
Ash cleanser is going to bring us next week.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
I'll get to that just a moment, Bob.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
First, I want to wish or rather, I wish to
call attention to the fact that this is the first
day of National Farm Safety Week. I want to remind
every farmer I possibly can that the best way to
prevent accidents on his farmers to be sure that everybody
knows his job. Safety records and industry are achieved by
training and watchfulness.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
The same thing is true in the farm. So don't
take chances. The life you save may be your own.
How Bob. Next week we're going.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
To beat a man who was murdered because he was
cured of a disease he didn't have.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
And the most amazing thing about him with the fact
that his face could take pictures after he was dead.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
A man's face that could take pictures after he was dead.
That sounds fascinating. What do you call the story, Nick,
I call it the Case of the Dead Camera. Nick
carter Master Detective is presented each week at this time
and over these same stations by the Cutdaheat Packing Company,
(25:10):
makers of Old Dutch cleanser. Nick Carter Master Detective, produced
and directed by Jock McGregor, is copyrighted by Streeden Smith
Publications Incorporated. Lon Clark is starred as Nick with Charlotte
(25:33):
Manson featured as Patsy Matty is played by Ed Latimer.
Today's script was written by Ernest Cannoy. Original music is
played by George Wright. And this program is fictional and
any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
This is Bob Martin saying, when minutes count, use old
(25:53):
Dutch cleanser.
Speaker 8 (26:02):
This is the Mutual Broadcasting System
Speaker 4 (26:06):
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