Jeff Regan: Lo the Gentle Earth Worm

Original Release Date: November 22, 2021

Regan is hired by the wife of a worm farmer who claims her husband was cheated by someone who sold him 500,000 worms. 

Original Air Date: March 15, 1950 

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But now it is time for thisweek's episode of Jeff Reagan The Obiginal Air
date March the fifteenth, nineteen fiftyand the title is Low the Gentle Earthworm.

(02:24):
My name's Reagan. I worked forAnthony jay lyon Detective Bureau. They
call me the Lion's Eye. JeffReagan, Investigator, starring Frank Graham as
Reagan, with Frank Nelson as Anthonyjay lyon Standby for Mystery and Suspense and

(02:44):
Adventure. In tonight's story, Lothe Gentle earth Worm, You'll take a
beautiful woman, a tall, bonyfaced guy with a draw seven hundred and

(03:05):
twenty four million worms, mix themtogether and you come up with a case
of port wine. I did.Anyhow, the thing took off under Jeff
propulsion of a fatal Thursday. Imade the mistake of reporting for work as
usual if the Lion Detective Dureau office. So then you're mister Regan the Lions
Live. Oh I'm so glad,Drake, Missus Mercantile Development of nineteen forty

(03:29):
eight. I've been telling mister Lion, I won the title over four hundredth
powers, mister Reagan and for afive thousand dollars prize in merchandise. Congratulations,
missus. Drake has a serious problem, Jeffrey. It's my husband.
He's going to kill himself, andwith such a lovely wife too. Isn't

(03:49):
it a pity? Jeffy, yourhusband happened to mention what's bothering him?
The worms? Worms seven hundred andtwenty four million, makes it clearer,
mister Regan. And just eighteen daysit will be the first of the month
again, So and I'll be onebillion, four hundred and forty six million,
five hundred thousand worms. Do youseeje every this is a serious murder.

(04:10):
Sounds like you must help me this, Reagan. You must find the
man who swindled my husband. Hedid swindle him. We know that.
Now you must check mister Myron Bloxteinget our money back, for my husband
will kill himsel he will? Iknow he will. It went on like

(04:31):
that for a couple of minutes.Then it began to get confusing. After
Drake Mirabel's husband had bought five hundredthousand worms twelve months ago from Myron Bloxi.
The worms have crossed five thousand bucks. Mirabelle's prize winnings converted to cash.
It started a worm farm. Thealgebra the multiplication of worms began to
get out of hand away. Mirabelltold it so I said, maybe we

(04:54):
better get out to her place,and got the dope straight from the worm
grower's mouth. She said, okay. The Drake place was on the El
Segundo flats between La and the Ocean. Rancho Gusano in the Spanish worm ranch.
That man clapboard house, ten mailbox, jasolene cans and orange crates

(05:16):
lying around the yard. I thoughtof a beautiful kid like Mirabel Drake living
in a place like that, andthen all of a sudden I was thinking
of something else. Oh my,heaven't died. They shot him, my
baby. Good shots came from outand back of the house. I ran
around at the back of the tumbeldown house. Mirabel Drake fifteen seconds in
bacony. Yeah, But after Drakehadn't shot himself. There was a third
shot just as I round at thecorner of the house, and I saw

(05:40):
a tall, gaunt guy an overalls. He had an old fashioned springfield rifle
in his hands and when he sawme, he shouldered him. Now you
got your shore shot right, Itdidn't vegan the lions. I was just
going to hell, Oh well,I'm pleased to meet you, mister rigging.
I'm sorry, I forget it.What are you doing with the gun?
Well, now I got to thinking, we're pretty eyes laid it out

(06:00):
here in Mirabel. What are weto protect nothing? There's nothing here except
these world now there, Honey,don't you take on? I got you
to put that you've got the realreason you bought the gun. I'm look
on the sunburned rawb on the face. That wasn't the real reason. Martha
Drake ad bought the Springfield rifle youknow about. Looked at each other a

(06:21):
minute, and then Mirabel sobbed onesmothered at turning around into the house,
I reckon, she's kind of upset. Mystery. Yeah, it seems to
be. Well, I'll just septthis here gun aside, so at there
can overre. I've just said youhave a work. Now, i'd like
to show you around the play.Sure, I'd like to see well this

(06:43):
away? Okay, it ain't prettymystery, and I guess I'm what the
psychologist at the university back home inArkansas used to call failure prone. I've
lost my wife's beauty prize money onthese worms. That's what changed. This.
Uh worm raising sound a little complicatedthe way mirror I'll explained it to
me. Oh but it ain't nowI'll show you. Now. Here's the

(07:04):
vegetable lug boxes I raised him in, mister Reagan, m under the gunnysacke.
Yeah, that's correct, stacks oflug boxes and then all you need
is the cans of water and thetub of assing boxes water acid you Ah,
mister Reagan, I can't agree withMirabelle that the breeding of worms is
exactly complicated. For the five thousanddollars I gave mister Myron Blocks a year

(07:30):
ago, I got me five hundredthousand worm, five thousand bucks, five
hundred thousand words. That caught meone cent worm that ends well. Worms
is valuable and ricks of soil.People buy them for the gardens. Miss
Regan, I heard you. Now, A five hundred thousand worms produced one
million, five hundred thousand eggs capsuited at the end of the first month.

(07:53):
Don't stop now, and the eggcapsules mature in three months. Miss
Regan, and each capsu produces roundout one to twenty worms, so allowing
for fatalities to the young, youbegin to harvest two and a half million
worms a month after the fourth month, like you said, not complicated,
of course, in the eighth month, the first harvest of two and a

(08:13):
half million worms has produced fifteen millionyoungs. And the next month with the
first five hundred thousand worms, andthe first and second harvest was two and
a half million worms all produced himConcurrently, you get yourself twenty seven million,
five hundred thousand worms round. Thenafter that the figures begin to get
bay. Oh yeah they do,mister Reagan. Every one of those worms

(08:37):
is worth one cent. Yet that'sso let's come to a decent profit in
the year's time. We'll deducting onesix of the growth of costs in six
and a quarter million dollars on afive thousand dollars investment in one year.
All that sounds fair enough. That'swhat I thought when mister mern Biloxi explained
it to me and throw me theworms. He guaranteed me a thousand percent

(08:58):
profit or a month a boy.But now I've got miss even hundred and
twenty four million headed worm fume rankmister Reagan, I am. I can't
sell him, market won't abstore thatmuch, and I can't locate mister Myron
Billockey to get that term money back. That's why I begin to think that
mister Billoxey plane on me. Youknow, Drake, I think you may

(09:20):
be right. The first step inputting the bee on the worm king Myron
Biloxey was to find him. Maybethat wouldn't be easy, sounded the worm
deal he with slick mean Mirabel Drakeand her husband couldn't help me much.

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Just the description Myron Biloxey had seemedprosperous was about sixty kindly round fae.
I got ten bucks from Martha Drakeagainst expenses, and he had to go
down deep for that. Then Idrove back downtown to the Lion Detective Bureau
office. Lion had news for me. Oh here you are, gifty.
I'm led. Mirabel Drake just telephone, Yeah, what's wrong? I just

(10:03):
left that. Oh she was terriblyupset. Jeffrey really hysterical. Her husband's
disappeared. I told the Lion tocheck the regular channels Missing Persons, Bunco
squad files. Try to get alion on the guy, whose real name
might or might not be Myron Bloxey. Then I got out to a ranch
of Rossano fast like the lion,said Mirabell was nearly hysterical, and to

(10:24):
let her cry off the first waveof tears before she was calm enough to
make sense. Listen, lady,the faster you're giving me what happened,
the faster I get started to findyour husband. Yes, yes, of
course it's true. How long hashe been gone? Well, I'm not
quite sure. Yeah. I laydown in the bed, fell asleep.
When you woke up, he wasgone. Yes, too big. Well

(10:46):
maybe you had to go somewhere storeget from supplies for his worms. Maybe
no, no, no, sure, Oh, yes, he didn't take
the car. It's a three orfom I walk to any place at all
from here. That's how I know, mister reason, he's walked up into
the hills to chill him. Justtry to relax, Mirabel. I'll look

(11:07):
around the place and you see ifI can turn up a lead. I
walked out back of the house,no sign of art. I started poking
around the lug boxes the worms werekept in, and just pulling some of
the gunny stack coverings off when Mirabellcame out, you found anything? No,

(11:28):
not yet. You better wait inthe house, lady, No,
no, I can't, I can't. Okay, okay, three? Are
you looking for artists rifle? Yeah? Yeah, that's right. Look,
Mirabell, come on and get busyhelping uncover the stacks a lug boxes.
We may find something. Starting thatsection over there, pull off the gunny

(11:54):
stack. Yeah, check down betweenthe boxes. The rifle could be there.
Yeah, come mind, I flounderflat. Oh, mister Reagan,
your husband hasn't gone off someplace toshoot himself. That's right. Oh,
sh the rifle it's down here,back at these boxes. But then if
Arthur didn't go out to shoot himself, what I'm wondering myself? Why did

(12:18):
he disappear? Hey? The thingyou started uncover over there? That's not
a vegetable lug box? Oh yes, it's under the gun is sacking like
the other sure, but luck notthe same shape. It's round the surface

(12:39):
under the sacking. The top surfaceof these lug boxes is flat, flat,
wormy earths straight across from edged edge. That bumpy, something bumpy surfaced
under it. Stay here, Stayhere, let's see. Mm hmm,

(13:05):
well that's it's all right. Comeon, what do you think this caste
of wine? It's a pleasure,Yes, yes, there done. The
bottle made the mumps from the gunnysacking and this against the case of wine,
just some sacking. How to givea thing to shape them? Are

(13:26):
covered up? Body might have beenthere. Let a look at one of
these bottles. It look pretty oldand I can't understand ar just sending money
on wine now and we have fulllittle no expert but to figure this wine
costs a dough. Look here atthe label Robertson's Special Vintage Port bottled at
Villanova the Gaya, Portugal, neareighteen ninety two. The others are the

(13:52):
same twelve bottles, one case ofPort Wine vintage point mister Regan, I
remember enough from when we had moneyand ask you to buy wine. You
know that that must be terrible.So maybe somebody gave it to him.
Maybe we can find out who.ANTHONJ. Lion Detective you o, Anthony

(14:26):
J. Li Okay, ask youyou can stop staring at the petty girls
and get to work. Well,I don't know what you mean. I
know that you think I wouldn't recognizeyour voice. After only he is,
my boy? What kind of adetective you think I am? Skip that
free? Did you locate Myron VelacciLion? No, it's not a tree,

(14:46):
Jimmy anywhere. Okay, listen,Limb. Two things. First,
who Lieutenant Sam Ducci at Bahama SideDepartment. Well, it's not that I
want Sam Ducci to do something unofficially. Favorite ask him to get to the
right guy in the Highway Patrol Divisionand have a couple of squad cars from
the El Saguon apply a del Reyregion start combing the section from around Century

(15:09):
Boulevard South. Really is it beginsto look that way. He's tall,
lean faced, about thirty five out. They find him, they can write
him to a substation on some pretextand phone me. Now the other thing,
Liam, start phoning wine merchants.Find out all you can about Robertson's
port wine menage of eighteen ninety two. Jeffrey, give me thinking of such
a thing with that poor lovely missMirabiles crying her heart, how I don't

(15:33):
drown in her tears. I'll explainthe whole thing to you in forty minutes.
I'm starting back to the office now, So I am The best lead
we've got to go on so faris that case of port wine. Now
it cost enough and was bott anywherearound LA. The wine merchant who sold

(15:54):
it ought to remember that good health. Here's here's I see there, we've
got anything on it. Yeah,well then the port wine is expensive,
very expensive. Helps. It happens, Jeffrey that there's a wine merchant in
Beverly Hills who specializes in fine winesof that sort. I've located him,
Jeffrey. He'll be returning my telephonecall any minute. Okay, fat a

(16:15):
good work. Uh you got intouch with San Duci. Well, naturally
I did, Jeffrey taken fix it. So some cops will put the search
on after Drake. Hey, wellthen we're rolling. I got it.
It will be your Beverly Hills wineguy calling back. Hello, lion detective
freaking talking sure, go ahead,Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,

(16:37):
thanks you Well, my boy washe able to help you, wasn't the
wine guy? The cops. Oneof the squad car sand Duchy, had
to look around the Altagooner area,stopped at Ranch or Gusano. Throughout the
Drake's place, they found Drake.But that's good, Jeffrey. They found
him bent double and shoved into thevat of acid he kept out in the
back of his house. Yad Lionmurdered. I got back out to Rancho

(17:22):
Rossano fast after the phone call camefrom the cops that my client, Mirabelle
Drake's husband had been found in avat of acid out there, murdered.
But I didn't get there before Lieutenantsan Ducci the Alay Homicide Department Reagan.
This is Rake, tells missus aplan of yours. It checks with a
phone call from Anthony Lyon that sentthe boys out here. Missus Drake hired

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me to find a guy named MyronBiloxey Sanducci. I feel he's responsible for
all this somehow. He must besomehow. What about this Biloxe he let
He swindled Drake kind of to startthis worm farm, took five grand off
him. You're located blocks are yetnow it looks like a pretty clear thing

(18:06):
here, Regan By Missus Drake's ownstory, her husband was shot, shot,
shot. I just can't see howhe could have been shot this week.
I told you I'd fall on thesleep, but I'm a light sleeper.
If anyone as fired a shot,I'm sure I would have heard it.
That's a damaging admission, Missus Drake. It may be, but it's

(18:26):
the truth. The deceased was shotwith an old springfield, Reagan. I
just got the rap of you andI found out behind the lug box is
an hour and a half a goldenweek. You were you sure the springfield
at the job, Sander. Thebullet ended the heart and lighted in the
left venice rood. The body's nota pleasant thing after being in that acid,
Regan. And it just happened thatthe blast was closed, Sander.

(18:48):
I get the picture. Yeah,I'm not a tougher Cup than I have
to be a Regan. Sure,sure, I know. Anyway, we
got the bullet. It was anold timer. Chances are nine was that
it was fired by the springfield.Yeah. Sure. Drake seems to think
her husband committed suicide. Yes,she talked about being Afraidie Wood whence she
came to the office to hire me. But that wouldn't account for her not

(19:11):
hearing the shot. And even ifit would, I would find it hard
to believe a man could bend himselfdouble and shove himself down into a vat
of asset with a bullet lodged inthe left ventricle of his heart. See
what you mean, missus Drake,I haven't any choice except to hold you
on suspicion of murder. Sam Ducitook her off the headquarters. I drove

(19:41):
to the nearest phone. Tomirabel Drakewas proved guilty. She was still my
client, spector, inspector spirit spectorspeaking. This is the line detective here
offer. Oh, yes about that. I've been meaning to return your goal,
but we've been simply suffused with Yeah, I wonder if you've got anything

(20:02):
on Robertson's Special Vintage Board eighteen ninetytwo is most rare, most prayer.
But it does happen that we soldthe case of a few months ago.
Naturally we have a record of thesame collector. I am like that you
happen to sell it to a guynamed Marion Blasi. Woman not to starboard,
but Skippard. Listen, I havethe record of the transaction before me.

(20:26):
Now one case Robertson's Port two.We can't devote that about the name
and address of the buyer, MissusDiana Parker, one Royal Road. Thanks

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I phoned the lion, told himto call the Agricultural Extension Service, told
him to guarll he could on wormsand every piece of equipment needed for the
care and raising. And I droveout to bell Air. One Royal Road
was a king size cottage of fortyrooms, tile terracotta palms, swimming pool

(21:11):
after the right great vein chained onthe left there was lake in Continental Park.
In the drive Mississippi license. Igot a cute idea. They got
a town in Mississippi name Blaxey.And if a guy takes on a phony
name for some reason, he getsthe idea of what phony name to use
from someplace. Doorbell was the tongueof the devil. When you pulled the

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tongue, the eyes lit up red. What answered the door would have made
anybody's eyes light up? How doyou do it? She was the only
woman I've ever seen. It wouldhave beatn Mirabel Drake in a beauty contest.
Red hair, clean and clear skin. A little party. Maybe Reagan's
the name? Missus Biloxy s thanksthis way? Sure? I was about

(22:02):
to have tea? Won't you joinme? Lonely? You know? Tea?
Buy one self by oneself with twocups. There are two cups.
I was expecting someone your husband maybe, I know he's out of town.
Sure it is, do sit down. Thanks they I pray you tea be
betterized. Big fire you got downat the other end of the room.

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Yes, the day's even quite chilly. Not to me, missus Blackson.
How odd of you to persist incalling me that you know that I am
missus Diana Parker. I think that'syour real name. I'll pull your teeth.
It's really rather good team though weenglish a partial the tea like you
are to part wine. Yes,as we are pulled wine your team.

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Thanks. Oh, if you'll excuseme a moment, Diana got up from
the tea table and left the roomin a hurry. Her mask dropped just
for a second as she stood up. Then you could see she was scared,
worried. I went to the window, looked out. The Lincoln continented
with the Mississippi license was still inthe drive. The big great Dane was
tugging in his chain, barking.That was all I figured. I had

(23:17):
another forty fifty seconds. I wantedto know about that fire in the grate
on a hot day, so that'sit. Burning letters. There was a
packet of letters in the fire.I raked it out. One of the
middle letters hadn't burned yet. Itwas a love letter to Diana in a
man's handwriting. I read the signature, brushed the ash off a letter,

(23:40):
and stuck the letter in my pocket. I checked the window again. Diana
was out in front, trying toquiet the Great Dane. I kept an
eye on her from behind the drapeand picked up a telephone dialed the lion.
Lion, this has got to bequick. Did you get that stuff?
I actually too from the agricult WillExtension people about raising and taking care

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of worms the most amazing thing.Did you realize that just a few hundred
words can productively later? Lion?What did they give you on the equipment
for raising worms? Isn't it oneof the most beautiful things about It requires
almost nothing? I love boss.If you Gunny saxon woman, are you
sure that's all assured me? Okay, Lion? Thanks, they're an honest

(24:27):
regan. I must apologize for havingbeen so long. Don't God help?
I'm afraid I don't know who seein the afternoon papers. No, but
I have heard the wireless about thoseflying sauces you mean, I mean about
Arthur Drake, the worm gry gettingmurdered. Author Drake cut it. You

(24:49):
know him, your husband, goingunder the name of Marion Blaxley, took
him for five thousand bucks, soldomworms. Can you conceive, mister Regan,
that I might not know all myhusband's sure, buttunio Arthur Drake probably
met him through the worm deal.That doesn't matter. You met him.
Maybe it was the old story oppositeattract I mean, how are you and
Arthur Drake fell in love? Yougave him a present expensive Robertson's port Wine

(25:11):
eighteen ninety two vinage. You boughtit inspect Spector, Spector, inspector and
Beverly Hills a case of wines atDrake's house. Now that's the kind of
evidence you'll stand up in court verywell. I knew Arthur Drake. What
of it? Yes, this letter, I say from the fire as a
love letter from Drake to you evidence. Baby. You know if your husband

(25:36):
had happen to find a letter likethis could have made him quick be sore
at Drake. Are you inferring myhusband murdered Arthur Drake? I didn't say
that. I told you that myhusband's out of town. He's been away
since yesterday. And Arthur Drake wasalive this morning. That's right, he
was. No, it's my attorne. Excuse me a minute. Where are
you going to? Somebody else inthis house? And I'd like to talk

(25:56):
to him? It still shy.You're not very good at this gate.
Hid overcross the tea table, gothalf a cup of tea in my lap,
and I got Diana's gun, andthen I took off with the other
part of the house where I knewi'd find somebody hiding you. Ten seconds
later, I pulled up beside aheavy door. It was locked, but
there was movement behind it. Dianacaught up while I was standing to one
side, trying my skeletons on thelock for size. No, No,

(26:18):
don't go in there. I liedto you, mister rig and my husband's
not out of town. Stand back, baby, I want to work on
this line. You mustn't go inhere. My husband. My husband's desperate.
He'll kill you. You figure onemurder on his hands is enough?
Is that? Ed? Yes,Yes, you're a tough lock to make.
So then I guess it was yourhusband. The second team place was
set for when I came in.Yes, of course, yeah, it

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was either one. The dog barked, yes, yes, you know.
That's a careful watch dog. You'vegot the bark of its own master like
that. Well the dog is sure, you know, Diana, this key
is gonna work. No, don'tgo in there. He'll shoot you.
I don't think so. I thinkit was his gun you tried to use
on me a minute ago. Allright, Dreke, get your hands up

(27:00):
your head, reckon. I betterdue years what you say, mister Regan.
He passed on your gun to Dianawhen you slipped out to see you
a couple of minutes ago. Hewanted her to get rid of me one
way or another. Before I sawyou, saw you alive when you're supposed
to be dead. Okay, Drake, I got the gun. Now you
got no choice but to do whatI say. You're right about that,
mister Regan. I know women,bree I'll do whatever you can. That

(27:33):
was it. The guy in theacid wasn't Arthur Drake at all. It
was the guy known as Biloxi.Drake shot him, hit the body.
Then today Drake staged a disappearance beforehe left, while Mirabel was sleeping,
he put the body in the vatof acid. He figured it would be
found, and with the condition itwould be in, there'd be no way
to tell it wasn't him. He'dbe declared legally dead and under a new

(27:56):
name, begin life all over withDiana somewhere. I phoned Sam Ducci at
Homicide, turned Arthur Drake over andstarted out to find the lion. Lion,
what are you doing at home?Why aren't you at the office every
come back tomorrow. I'm very busy, is it, Lion? I wrapped
up the Arthur Drake murder for lettingMirabel Drake go. No, well,

(28:19):
good work, my boy. Whydon't you answer your phone? And I've
been phoning the office trying to tellyou that the case is closed. There
Lie may be in the office tomorrow. Maybe, yes, you can tell
me all about the gay Lion.Don't you even want to know who did
the murder? Oh? Oh yes, yes, of course I do.
Did it Arthur Drake? Yes,intency? So that was you? Do
you are the Drake murdered as aDrake? Every that's impossible. Well,

(28:42):
it was your detective work that clinchedthe lion. You don't say so,
I do the worm equipment. Lion. You found out from the agricultural extension
people what it takes to raise him. Yes, no tub of acid was
included. That that of acid Drakehad at this place didn't have anything to
do with worm breathing. It wasfor the disposal of the husband of the
woman. Drake was alive with guywho used the phony name of Marin Bolaxey.

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She imagine all this from my detectivework with the agricultural extension people.
Sure I am here, you know, Geoffrey, I'm glad Drake was a
criminal. It reassures me. I'dalready found out he was a very poor
business man. He wasn't swindled atall about the worms. I mean,
no, no, no, Iwas talking with the agricultural extension people.

(29:29):
You see, Geoffrey, I wonderif you have any conception of the fantastic
financial possibility. Jeffrey, Oh,nothing, man, go on here.
We ain't come over here, Geoffrey. I was just fixing up these vegetable
love boxes here, you see.I see, you know, Jeffrey,
five hundred worms, five dollars worthit. One center worm, you see,
will produce still in the value ofone center each worm, forty thousand

(29:52):
worms in the tenth month, onehundred and ten thousand worms in the eleventh
month, and in the twelfth monthalone five hundred. Jeff Regan Investigator is

(30:15):
written by William Fifield, produced anddirected by Sterling Tracy, and stars Frank
Graham as Regan, with Frank Nelsonas Anthony jay Lyon. Original music is
by Dick Ran. Jeff Regan Investigatorhas heard each week at the same time
Bob Stevenson speaking and inviting you tobe with us again for more suspense and

(30:37):
mystery and adventure with Jeff Regan Investigator. Welcome back. While that farmer it

(32:02):
looked like he was gonna get awaywith everything, but then the worm turned
Okay, I'll stop. Actually,I thought a really good episode. I
like the bit of realism in theway that Regin solved it. You know,
oftentimes when you have theories that arefocused on, say a genius detective,

(32:24):
you know they're like, hey,I know all about agriculture and things
that you know. You're like,why would you know about this? Here
there's a bit more grounding than that. Regan's like, I don't know about
worm farming. But this bat seemsa bit suspicious, so I'd better go

(32:47):
ahead and check and see if thisis a thing. Now, I do
believe the farmer was played by BartonYarborough, who, of course is best
remembered today for la Ben Romero,Joe Friday's first partner on Dragnet. But
it was also a very active radioplayer, and he actually appeared in the

(33:10):
couple episodes of the nineteen forty eightjeffre Regan with Jack Webb as Joe Can't.
So I think that Barton Yarborough mightbe the only actor to appear in
both the Jack Webb and the FrankGraham series. Now, the title is

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interesting that there is no actual palmcalled blow the Gentle Earthworm. But I
believe that they are actually evoking aShakespeare sonnet. Here Jim says it nineteenth
century by Henry Bishop, And wedo actually have a recording of someone singing

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that song. Alma Glock, thegreat Romanian born American soprano released a record
of that song in nineteenth twelve.And here's a little bit of a clip
from that record. Honey, no, no, all right, Well,

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I hope you enjoyed that. Andnow I want to go ahead and thank
our Patreon supporter of the day.Thank you to Robert, Patreon supporter since
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Robert, and that will actually doit for today. If you are enjoying
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adventure with the man called X wherestateline Bougarest, Romania. Theodore Johnson,
American businessman arrested in Harsylvia last weekby Vladimir Borich of the Romanian Security Police,
has confessed to being an American spy. Johnson's trial will be held in
the People's Court at Bougarest one weekfrom today, and within one hour after

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the news broke within the officers ofthe Bureau in New York City. Something's
got to be done about its fast. Ted Johnson is as innocent as you
are, sure, Bill, Iknow, but this involves the internal security
of another country. It's not theBureau's business. Chief, it's the world's
business. They forced that confession outof Johnson to whip up war hysteria against

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the United States. I agree,Bill, I agree, but there's nothing
we can do. We can proveto the world that Johnson's innocent by getting
him out of Romania. What youknow, Ted Johnson's wife tried to call
Ken Thurston with Ken laid up.I took the call. She told me
Ted was in Istanbul, Turkey.On business. Bill, as long as

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you're working for the Bureau, you'vegot to stay out of it. Chief,
you ought to read your mail alittle more carefully. Huh my mail.
Yeah, one of your agents hasjust resigned. I thought about the
name of Bill Pringle. Bill,I'll see you around, Chief. I
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