October 30, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Leaver Brothers makers of Rinso, I I N s O
SOB Rich Rinso present Boston Blackie starring Chester Morris front boy.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Have you signed the registered police off right here? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Miss Manletter? Is there some trouble with your rube?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
No, it's fine, Thank you. I was just wondering do
you know of mister Boston Blackie when you see him?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know him.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm sorry, miss Manletter.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Well thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You's the same.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I'm supposed to meet him here in the lobby, but
I have no idea what he looks like. My uncle
arranged the appointment before I left San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There's a man standing over by the news stand who
looks as if he was waiting with someone.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Oh, oh yes, Oh, I'm sure that must be mister Blackie.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Hello there, I hope you'll forgive me. Wasn't I supposed
to meet you here?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
You aren't you?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes? At least Uncle should have had you wear a
white carnation. According to Uncle, white carnations don't stay white
long in Pittsburgh. Uncle told me.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
That you were very witty, but they do in San Francisco,
you know.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Well, shall we go where too?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Oh no, don't tell me. I'd rather be surprised. All right,
let's go, Oh, clerk, I found the man I was
looking for.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Thank you for your trouble, No trouble at all.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hello, room clerk speaking hello. Would you do me a
favor please. I'm supposed to meet a young lady in
your lobby and I've been delayed. Would you have a
page please? Her name is Alice.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Manlerter missus manleatherin. Yes, why she just left you a
minute ago. She met someone she was expecting and she
left with him.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That's impossible, Miss Manlader doesn't know anyone in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, she told me she had an appointment with a
mister Boston Blackie, and that's the man she left you with.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But that can't be possible. And why not, because I'm
Boston Blackie.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
In a few moments we will meet Boston Blackie. But
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blistering hot days, days when you ought to be taking
it easy, And what happens, You've got a bigger wash
than ever to worry about. More towels, more of the kids,
pike play clothes, more of your own wash dresses, more
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Rinso before next wash day. And now meet Boston Blackie,
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radio's newest adventure star. Meet Boston Blackie. Enemy to those
who make him an enemy, friend to those who have
no friend.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Listen, clerk, try to think what did the man look like?
I mean the one Miss Manletter left with.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know, mister Blackie, rather good looking about your
height and bill, But.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Miss Manletter didn't know anybody in New York. Her uncle
told me that when he asked me to meet her.
Well sorry I can't help you. Well, thanks, just the same.
Oh well, here's my card. If miss manletter returns, have
a call this number, will you, Yes, I will? Taxi
said no, no, thanks. Look, Dorman, did you happen to
(04:07):
notice a man and a girl leaving here about ten
minutes ago? A pretty girl and a man about my height?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes, come to think of it, I did call a
taxi for a couple of that answered that description?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Or do you remember which cab it was?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, it was the one Michael O'Hara drive. Oh well
that's who hair just pulling up the end of the line.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now, well, thanks a lot. Here, buy your wife some flowers.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Oh thank good, that's that.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh harrah, Yes, sir, you just drove a man and
a young ladies somewhere. I want to go where they went.
Oh you want to follow someone? You're a bright lad.
Oh harah.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I don't want to get into any trouble. Maybe Betty
getting not a care.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You won't get into any trouble. You see, I'm Inspector
Faraday of a homicide department. Oh, Inspector Faraday. That's right, okay,
step on it.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Oh sure, Inspector, go as fast as I can.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
This is it?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
This is the place I left them off right in
front of the store.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Thanks. Here, buy yourself a couple of cigars. Oh, thank you, gee,
I'll buy your box. No, well, how do you do?
I'm looking for a young couple who came here a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You're looking for a couple. I'm looking for a couple.
I'll take a single. Yet nobody comes here, only popping
me even popping in here now they have nobody else?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
See for yourself. Well, thanks? May I use your telephone? Please?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Certainly that'll be ten cents. You wouldn't be interested in
buying anything?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What you missed it? No?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
No, thanks, No nobody ever buys anything.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Hello, Ashley Hotel. I'd like to speak to the room.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Click.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Please say mom, have you got any chewing gum?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Chewing gum? I?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
For is he kidding? Room click speaking? This is Boston, Blackie.
Have you had any word from miss Alice Manletter?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh, mister Blackie, missus Manletter's been trying to reach you.
She wants you to come down here to see her
right away. She's in room three hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thank you very much. I'll be right over.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Three please, third floor.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, thank you three O one, three or three? Well,
here we are three or five?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Hello?
Speaker 10 (06:45):
Hello, So you're Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Mm hmm, I'm glad to see you, miss manletter. You
know your uncle asked me to look out for you,
and then you disappear. Well you didn't even give me
a chance.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
Oh you mean this morning?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (06:57):
No, I just made a friend, that's all. He followed
me from San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I don't blame him if I'd have followed you too.
How was your trip? Oh?
Speaker 10 (07:05):
Wonderful. This is my first time in New York. You know,
I practically lived in a dream all the way here.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, how do you like what you've seen it?
Speaker 10 (07:12):
There? Wonderful?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, I'd like to show you the real town.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
Oh, i'd like to only I have sort of an
engagement tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh the same fella. You haven't wasted much much time
before I came here?
Speaker 10 (07:24):
Have you only the eighteen years before I came here?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Isn't that a nut?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, it's enough for me to be running along Alice. Oh,
here's my phone number, and if you want anything, you
just call. How about lunch tomorrow?
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh, I'd love it.
Speaker 10 (07:37):
Thanks mister Blackie for.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Everything Oh everything is nothing.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Good night, Alice.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Twenty five? Boss, my shooting. Oh, Shorty, she's a beautiful girl. Look,
why don't you forget Dan's for a minute? Give me
a good reason? Fifteen?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Just like I'm telling your boss, your hand ain't steady.
You need some more practice.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well it's maxim silence that doesn't fit this gun too.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh, how come the new gun, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Where's your rolling? Well? Well, you see, Shorty, I you
want well. I hate to admit it, but I guess
I was robbed Boston, Blackie robbed? Hey, Bosh weeding any trouble?
I don't know, Jay Bullhi Boss, Yeah, yeah, I guess
this new gun will do well. I get my old
one back. There's nothing like a workout with a target
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to keep your aim in shape. Shorty.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You know I got a funny idea about that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Boss. I don't care if Miami's.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So good, as long as the other guys ain't either.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'll get it, Shorty, all right, Hello, Hicky, Well, well, well,
Inspector Faraday, my favorite cop. How'd you get? Oh? How
could I miss those low dulcet tones, Inspector?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
I want you down here ten minutes, Black here, I'll
send for you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's fine, But where's down here?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Ashley Hotel, Room three oh five.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You won't have to send for me, inspector. I'll be
right down.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Say boss Faraday hasn't got you jumping through a rope?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Has hem? Room three oh five, Ashley Hotel. Surety, that's
Alice Manletter's.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Room, sais Lord, Please watch your step getting out?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thank you? Hold on, how I inspect him? Holy Mac? Yeah, Blackie,
she's dead, dead as if you didn't know. Wait a minute,
how did you know about this Faraday?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Or hair?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The taxi driver got suspicious, so reported the headquarter. Oh
from his description, I knew it was you, and then
I got suspicious.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
So you're going around impersonating me?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Now, eh, Blackie, Well you should be flatted.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Why did you kill her?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Wait a minute, Faraday?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Okay, boys, cover it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't be a dope. I promised to look after
this girl. She was all right when I left her
a little while ago.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Maybe after we discovered the body of the boys, and
I waited for you to make an appearance.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
We knew you'd be back.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
How Faraday listened? This girl was off a man Letter's niece,
and I'll take care of whoever was responsible for her murder.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
No, no, I'll do that, Blackie. You killed her.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Now, that's your gun in her hand, my gun. But
I don't see how that we checked the serial numbers, Blackie.
I don't care what you checked. You can't take me
in for this. I didn't kill her, I tell you.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Okay, maybe not. Maybe the serial number on this gun
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know what a paraffin test is, Blackie? Oh sure,
I know.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, we'll get down the headquarters and cover your hand
with parafine.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Then we'll be able.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
To tell whether you fired a gun in the last
couple of hours. I'll inspect her, will you listen. Yeah,
this girl came to New York this morning. She wasn't
supposed to know anybody in town, and then she told
me she'd met a friend. Oh what are you trying
to prove? I'm trying to prove that somebody killed Alice
Manletter and I've got to be free to find out
who did it. Well, you won't be I'll see to
that personally, and we'll wait a minute out. What are
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you doing in that girl's handbag? Don't get scared, inspector, Please,
what are you doing on. You've got four cops with
guns on me. This isn't a trick. I might find
something here that will help me track down the murderer.
And we've searched this whole place time like it. There's
nothing here. What are you taking out of that bag?
I don't know yet. It's it's just a piece of paper.
Well i'll take it.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
M what's this?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Boston five, Zealand, Zealand, Louisiana three, Sascatcher one, Tennessee two, Nevada, Nevada.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Go ahead, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm just writing down what you've said.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Well, this doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Missouri one three, Denver four, France, France. You see Friday.
That's a code. Well you were gonna have plenty of
time to work it out, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Come on, let's get going.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm gonna give your hand a paraffin test to find
out whether you fired a gun recently, and if you have,
take it from me, pall, you'll have to do some
talking to keep your head above water. Well, I'm afraid, inspector.
The only way I can keep my head above water
is to duck you. Boston.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Blackie apparently is in a spot. And speaking of spot
so as a friend of mine. The other day, you
see a lady I know, I've looked out of her
window one morning, and it was such a lovely day.
She felt like singing, and all of a sudden she
remembered it was wash day.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Oh shucks.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So she got ready to do her wash and found
she was out of soap. Well, time was wasting, so
she borrowed some from her next door neighbor. I soape
she'd heard a lot about but never tried before. Yes,
you guessed it. It was soapy rich rinso. And when
she saw what mountains of SuDS rinso made.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Well, well, well, well, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And how quickly those Rinso SuDS soaked her clothes dazzling white.
And how she only had to give the very dirty
places a few finger rubs because rinso gets out more dirt.
She started singing all over again, like this.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
Rinso white, rinsol white, happy little wash day song, Rinsol white,
rinsol white, goody thing it.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
All day long.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You'll find featherfend has a message you send, So listen.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You can't go wong.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Rinsol white, rinsel white, happy little wash day song.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Sing your way through your next wash day with Rinso.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Boston.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Blackie is an inspector Faraday's office awaiting the police laboratory
report that will show whether he has fired a gun
within the past few hours, so that Paraday can build
a complete case against him for the murder of the
girl in the Ashley Hotel.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
How does it feel, Blackie, be sitting there just waiting
for a report that could send you to the chair.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
You're nervous?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Boston five Zealand Zealand. That's the first word. Now you
take the first letter of each word and you get biz.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Great.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
How do you do it, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You get that's right? Now we know everything who killed
the girl, what her mother's maiden name was, and what
down she was born. That's exactly what I'm trying to
find out. After the first letter, this is the number five.
See that could be the fifth bowel? You know? Aeiou?
That's right? Or do you yes? Then the word would
spell b u z z modelous buzz inspector. This is
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a clue to the murder. Now, using that system of
spelling out the first letters of each word, the note
reads buzz listen made off.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I wish I knew, yeah, verdy mm hm m hmm right, thanks.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
All that was it, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The test showed you fired a gun, all right, and
the gun we found next to the girl's body was yours, inspector,
I lost my gun, and it's true I fired another,
but I was just practicing. Sure, sure and alive target.
You don't expect me to believe that you're Blackie? Well, frankly, no,
You kill her and then you put her gun, your
gun in her hand after wiping off your fingerprint supports.
Oh that's an old trick, Blackie, and old and I'm
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surprised at you and Matthews inspect her. Take Blackie down
to the cell floor and lock him up. We'll book
him later. A right, gee, come on, black Hee. Okay, okay,
but you look very nice today. Matthews new uniform. Who's
your tailor?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
You won't be able to.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Go to him for a long time, you know, good
old Matthew stoppy clothes and patted the match, say, inspected me.
I washed my hands. Well, the covered with ink from
that fingerprint pad, is it?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh? Sure, sure, but keep an eye on him, Matthew's
I'll beat it both of you. I'm thinking thinking, huh,
I'd love to watch. Come on, Matthews, pluck me up
so long. Inspector Faraday said, I could wash my hands. Matthews. Remember,
go ahead, but no tricks.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Here's to wash ONEm. But remember I be right in
back here with my gun in my hand.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh goody, I let you in on a little secret.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Blackie with the inspector brought in a half a dozen
extra cops for another precinct, just to make sure you
didn't break out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, only half a dozen. Well, I'm flattered by the way, Matthews.
Did you take a shower this morning?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
No?
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Last night?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You need another one? Now, hey, quit splashing water off me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
God can't see me.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Not a chance. I'm going to gag you, Matthews and
lock you in here. I'm on turn around there now,
try and yell. And I want to borrow your uniform.
With the restrange cops here, they'll think I'm one of them.
You see, I'm leaving in your uniform. Come on, Matthews,
come on, take it off. Lackey affair.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
They ever find this waterfront hide out of oes you
know where sun Hall fare, They couldn't find a skunk
in the perfume shop, you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Would just stop worrying. Okay, okay, what we do next?
Bus nothing until I get that long distance call photo
wealth a man letter the operators trying to reach him
in San Francisco. Now, so after we reach him, so well,
I won't know, Shorty, will I talk to him?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The only thing I've been able to do since I
walked out of headquarters an hour ago is to break
the code we found in that girl's bag. It read buzz, listen,
made off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're telling me that before. Yes, yes,
I know, but those words don't make sense. However, suppose
we try an association. You mean we're going to join
a club. Oh cut it out, shorty, please. Now, for instance,
what does the word buzz make you think of? B?
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That's right now. Let's say the first word is b here.
Now the second word in the code message is listen.
What does that make you think of listen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Hey, wait a minute, boss, huh, don't tell me. Don't
tell me now, I'll get listen listen. The word is here.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh, so the message starts be here. Then the last
two words are made and off. Oh, by the way, Shorty,
what's the maid's day off?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Thursday?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
If anybody still has got one? Yeah, Thursday's right. So
the message reads be here Thursday.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Oh that's it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He was thirty the day the girl came to town.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's the code, all right? Only what good? There's my call?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Hello, Becky, this is man letter in San Francisco. Oh hello,
author Docky.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
What's happened? I just heard the radio and said that
Alice has been murdered. The police were searching for you.
It's not true, is it? Black?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes? Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Author, But you know
I didn't do it.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Of course you didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I don't know how it happened, but I'm going to
find out, Becky.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Look, I feel terrible. Was her twentieth birthday? The trip
was a present from me.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Twentieth birthday. Well wait a minute, author, is is she
a brunette?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh no, she had the most beautiful blonde hair you
ever saw.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh that's wonderful. Author. Your niece wasn't murdered. It wasn't Alice.
Now take my word for it. The radio is mind
the radio. Your niece wasn't murdered, and I'm going to
find her.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Author.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You don't hear from me. Thanks Blacky, Thanks call me
as soon as you know anything. I will goodbye.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Now, why did you tell him that?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
For Blackie? Because it's true, Shorty. You see, I never
saw the real Alice man Letter. I took it for granted.
She was the girl in the hotel room. Oh that
girl said she was eighteen, and man Letter his niece
is twenty, and the color of her hair settles it. Okay,
Well what happens now? Well, the real Alice man Letter
left the hotel this morning with a man. The cab
driver gave me the address, but she wasn't there. Of course,
they evenly got off there, but must have walked down
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the street to another house. Well what do we do first? Now,
let's see. First we've got to get a couple of
messenger uniforms. Then you take one side of the street
and I'll take the other, and we'll ring every doorbell
and say we have a wife or Alice Manletter. What
good will live do? Whoever is holding Alice will know
it's a trick and we'll try to grab us. That's
what I'll be waiting for. Telegram for Alice Manletter, and
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nobody here for that name. Are you sure? Sure?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Ain't nobody in this black for that name either. I
don't know. I've lived here for forty years.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
She just reminds me of Alan's Sally.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Should I try the next block? We've tried it together,
but I got two more houses to go. Wait for me. Okay,
I've got to find that girl shorty.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, boss, if it's a girl, you'll find her.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Did you vant telegram for hours? Man letter? Would you
come in? Well, it's Smith's manlatter here she she's got
a sign for this person. A nice place you have here.
I noticed a sign outside saying this.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Was a doctor in here please?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, okay, thanks? Hey what's this? See if he has
armed at ut? Yeah, i'll see. Keep your gun named Joe,
and here's his gun here, doctor here in this cardcase.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Both and Blackie, we were hoping you would come. It
took you a little longer than be thought.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh you knew i'd be here.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Girl said she was supposed to meet you in the
hotel lobby and although here, made the mistake and thought.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
She was manabat. I see, So that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Out of us suposed to meet one girl, he met another.
He thought she was someone else, and she thought he
was someone else.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Simple blunder. Oh you mean the super race has made
a simple blunder.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
But everything has been taken care of. This girl knows
no one else in the city, and very soon she
will know nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh, I see, and that goes for me too. I
suppose how would play? But you take it easy with
my hands back there going?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I am titled?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is he too easy?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Good?
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Good?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We have only a few moments.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's right. You just listen to the newscasts. You better
work fast, boys, you have only a few moments. Warsaw, Paris, Berlin.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Medican people take him in the other room and to
carry him.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Eh, help me, Joe, I opened the door for you.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just throw him in the lens and his neck.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It's too bad ready, Joe front.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Who is that?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, I think it's me, Boston Blackie. Oh you're euryalus Man.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Of course it's din't Blacky.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So much has happened to me because I think I
know most of it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
You think we'll get out of here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh, we're certainly going to try. Let's do something about
these ropes. Uh, you're tied up too, wus you. Yes,
well they weren't nice enough to leave some lights on
so I could see what it was doing. Well, there's
the first one off now from a legs. See, I
just thought of something. That girl accompass must have lifted
my gun when I was up there, figuring that if
I found out she was a spy, she could take
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care of me. Oh well, the legs are free now,
I'll untie you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Who's that they're going to send a message. We'll be
able to hear what they say. The microphone's right up
against the wall. Your hands are free, work on your
ankles and I listen.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
All right as ketchavana and over four two.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Dead ketch youvana s h O E S shoes.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
One a N D D shoes and uh ketkebama who
one to beat DNA? Three Nevada Georgia, Wisconsin gun.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Em pippys, ceiling wax shoes and ceiling wax one five
five a ut u m N autumn shoes and ceiling
wax autumn. That that's uh the message so far.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The neve a bum to beat the end of them,
and over bums benma to beat the end of bum o'bama,
Chicago food to beat the other four Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That spells Galahad and Launcelot. They stopped sending. Yeah, what
did they say? Do you know I keep working on
those ropes, Ellice? Yeah, here's the message, shoes and ceiling wax.
That's from Alice in Wonderland. The word missing is ships. Well,
that could be the first word in the message.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Sure, Now let's see. The next next thing was autumn autumn,
autum autumn. Uh, what's that make you think of, Ellice?
I don't know. Autumn leaves per that's it. And then
they said Galahad and Launcelot. They were two nights at
the round table.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Two nights.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's it. Ships leave two night. That's the message. We've
got to get out and stop that convoy from sailing
for be a U boat pack waiting waiting for it. Sure,
I've worked the not loose, I think, Rudy. I'll give
me your ropes. I'm gonna need them.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Well, they'll be in for us in a minute. Is
there a chair in the rooms?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
One next to me?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'm leaning against d I'll put it alongside the door
and stand on it. When the Nazis come in, you'll
be in back of the door and slam it shut
behind them. See no, no, no, not a chance. The room
is too dark. I'll drop a noose over them. But quick,
I think I hear something. Okay, I'll carry this chair
over and you stand behind the door.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Already, Bucky.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
We'll do it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Talk just like you said, come in with me. John. Now, Alice,
you can't you. I can't get it out, arms and
pinned down. Here's a present, I see. Don't be jealous, pal,
here's one for you too. Oh you can take it,
I kid, okay, Oh, I guess that does it? Alice?
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Watch this? Alice? Come in here. Doctor Let this look.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
This is.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Alice. Alice, get on that telephone the other room. Quick,
tell the FBI what you know. Then call Inspector Faraday. Well,
I keep an eye on these Nazis. Now when you
get him, I want to don't move. I've got your
cold this time, well hot a cold. You'll hate yourself
in the morning, Faraday. But I'm glad you're here. How
did you manage it?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I managed it, boss, I got worried and I couldn't
bust in here alone, So I called you row friend paradg.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, and I landed up here with both feet and
ten minutes flat. When you do anything with your feet,
Faraday flat is the right word. Thanks Alice for clearing
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me with Faraday.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
Oh Black, you're wonderful.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
You dave my life life and broke up a spy
ring and it doesn't bother you a bit.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Don't you feel good at that?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh? I should say, I do so good. I'm going
to celebrate alone. Oh no, no, you're coming with me, Alice.
But first we're going to call your uncle office. Who
are you going to say, Well, I'm going to tell
him I've spent a lot of time looking for you,
but from now on I'm looking after you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
We'll be back in just a moment with an interesting
preview of next week's program.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Now you know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Those rich Rinso SuDS I've been telling you are such
a help on wash day, Well they're just as big
a help come dishwashing time, Yes, ma'am. Milder than ever.
Rinso is easy on your hands too, doesn't get them
rough and red. So for dish washing and for all
the soap and water jumps around the house. Better get
rinso to help.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You out, they say, this is a complete record of
the people who came into Gordon's store yesterday.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
That's right, Inspector m.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
M Missus Van Dyke, Smith, George Ellis, Lady Mary Andrews.
Hey quite an exclusive list of customers for a small shop.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Let's see now this name here, was he a customer? Yeah,
Inspector Gordon says he was in a back noon. But
that could have been a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Matth.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Here's when a string of pearls is missing from a
certain store and a certain party was in that certain store,
and a certain party's name.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Is Boston Blackie. That's no coincidence.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Friends. Of course, you know the tremendous part of our
merchant marine is playing in the war. But did you
know that the merchant marine is being expanded to meet
increasing supply problems on every front, to meet the universal
demand for a strong post war merchant marine. Yes, six
ships a day instead of five will soon be coming
off the ways of our shipyards, and every one of
them must be manned by forty to fifty men. So,
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if you have had previously experience, or if you want
to get into a well paying job where everything you
do will help to win the war and to build
your own personal future. Then join the United States Merchant Marine.
Apply at once by wiring collect to United States Merchant
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(28:27):
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daily bath. You know if seven leading brands, Life Boy
gives you the most soap for your money, and it's rich, purifying,
Life Boy Ladder grees with your skin. And don't forget
Life Boy's the only soap especially made to stop me all.
(29:04):
Be sure to listen at this same time next week
for another exciting adventure with Boston Blackie. You can see
Chester Morris as Boston Blackie on the screen at your
favorite movie theater. Boston Blackie's latest Columbia picture is One
Mysterious Night, Soon to be released. Richard Lane appears as
Inspector Faraday. Music by Charles Cornell. This is Harla Wilcox
(29:24):
saying goodnight for Boston Blackie. Brought to you by the
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
Have you signed the registered police off right here? Yes?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Miss Manletter? Is there some trouble with your rube?
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (00:42):
No, it's fine, Thank you. I was just wondering do
you know of mister Boston Blackie when you see him?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know him.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I'm sorry, miss Manletter.
Speaker 5 (00:50):
Well thanks.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
You's the same.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
I'm supposed to meet him here in the lobby, but
I have no idea what he looks like. My uncle
arranged the appointment before I left San Francisco.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
There's a man standing over by the news stand who
looks as if he was waiting with someone.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Oh, oh yes, Oh, I'm sure that must be mister Blackie.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Hello there, I hope you'll forgive me. Wasn't I supposed
to meet you here?
Speaker 6 (01:15):
You aren't you?
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yes? At least Uncle should have had you wear a
white carnation. According to Uncle, white carnations don't stay white
long in Pittsburgh. Uncle told me.
Speaker 5 (01:26):
That you were very witty, but they do in San Francisco,
you know.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
Well, shall we go where too?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Oh no, don't tell me. I'd rather be surprised. All right,
let's go, Oh, clerk, I found the man I was
looking for.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Thank you for your trouble, No trouble at all.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Hello, room clerk speaking hello. Would you do me a
favor please. I'm supposed to meet a young lady in
your lobby and I've been delayed. Would you have a
page please? Her name is Alice.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Manlerter missus manleatherin. Yes, why she just left you a
minute ago. She met someone she was expecting and she
left with him.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That's impossible, Miss Manlader doesn't know anyone in New York.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Well, she told me she had an appointment with a
mister Boston Blackie, and that's the man she left you with.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
But that can't be possible. And why not, because I'm
Boston Blackie.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
In a few moments we will meet Boston Blackie. But
right now I thought about the weather. I'll bet it
sometimes doesn't seem fair to you ladies here. It is summer,
blistering hot days, days when you ought to be taking
it easy, And what happens, You've got a bigger wash
than ever to worry about. More towels, more of the kids,
pike play clothes, more of your own wash dresses, more
(02:43):
shirts of dad's, more everything. Well, you couldn't pick a
more ideal time than now to switch to soapy rich Rinso.
With Rinso, even the biggest, grimiest wash goes like a
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leaves them rinso bright. After dozens of dozens of washings,
you will be mighty proud of your Rinso wash, and
proud too that you bought the big green and yellow
package that made it so easy to do better. Get
Rinso before next wash day. And now meet Boston Blackie,
(03:29):
radio's newest adventure star. Meet Boston Blackie. Enemy to those
who make him an enemy, friend to those who have
no friend.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Listen, clerk, try to think what did the man look like?
I mean the one Miss Manletter left with.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I don't know, mister Blackie, rather good looking about your
height and bill, But.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Miss Manletter didn't know anybody in New York. Her uncle
told me that when he asked me to meet her.
Well sorry I can't help you. Well, thanks, just the same.
Oh well, here's my card. If miss manletter returns, have
a call this number, will you, Yes, I will? Taxi
said no, no, thanks. Look, Dorman, did you happen to
(04:07):
notice a man and a girl leaving here about ten
minutes ago? A pretty girl and a man about my height?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yes, come to think of it, I did call a
taxi for a couple of that answered that description?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Or do you remember which cab it was?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yes, it was the one Michael O'Hara drive. Oh well
that's who hair just pulling up the end of the line.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Now, well, thanks a lot. Here, buy your wife some flowers.
Speaker 6 (04:28):
Oh thank good, that's that.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh harrah, Yes, sir, you just drove a man and
a young ladies somewhere. I want to go where they went.
Oh you want to follow someone? You're a bright lad.
Oh harah.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
I don't want to get into any trouble. Maybe Betty
getting not a care.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
You won't get into any trouble. You see, I'm Inspector
Faraday of a homicide department. Oh, Inspector Faraday. That's right, okay,
step on it.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
Oh sure, Inspector, go as fast as I can.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
This is it?
Speaker 7 (05:12):
This is the place I left them off right in
front of the store.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Thanks. Here, buy yourself a couple of cigars. Oh, thank you, gee,
I'll buy your box. No, well, how do you do?
I'm looking for a young couple who came here a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
You're looking for a couple. I'm looking for a couple.
I'll take a single. Yet nobody comes here, only popping
me even popping in here now they have nobody else?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
See for yourself. Well, thanks? May I use your telephone? Please?
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Certainly that'll be ten cents. You wouldn't be interested in
buying anything?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
What you missed it? No?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
No, thanks, No nobody ever buys anything.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Hello, Ashley Hotel. I'd like to speak to the room.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
Click.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Please say mom, have you got any chewing gum?
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Chewing gum? I?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
For is he kidding? Room click speaking? This is Boston, Blackie.
Have you had any word from miss Alice Manletter?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Oh, mister Blackie, missus Manletter's been trying to reach you.
She wants you to come down here to see her
right away. She's in room three hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Thank you very much. I'll be right over.
Speaker 10 (06:30):
Three please, third floor.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Oh, thank you three O one, three or three? Well,
here we are three or five?
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Hello?
Speaker 10 (06:45):
Hello, So you're Boston Blackie.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Mm hmm, I'm glad to see you, miss manletter. You
know your uncle asked me to look out for you,
and then you disappear. Well you didn't even give me
a chance.
Speaker 10 (06:55):
Oh you mean this morning?
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes?
Speaker 10 (06:57):
No, I just made a friend, that's all. He followed
me from San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I don't blame him if I'd have followed you too.
How was your trip? Oh?
Speaker 10 (07:05):
Wonderful. This is my first time in New York. You know,
I practically lived in a dream all the way here.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, how do you like what you've seen it?
Speaker 10 (07:12):
There? Wonderful?
Speaker 2 (07:14):
You know, I'd like to show you the real town.
Speaker 10 (07:16):
Oh, i'd like to only I have sort of an
engagement tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Oh the same fella. You haven't wasted much much time
before I came here?
Speaker 10 (07:24):
Have you only the eighteen years before I came here?
Speaker 5 (07:27):
Isn't that a nut?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well, it's enough for me to be running along Alice. Oh,
here's my phone number, and if you want anything, you
just call. How about lunch tomorrow?
Speaker 9 (07:36):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
Oh, I'd love it.
Speaker 10 (07:37):
Thanks mister Blackie for.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Everything Oh everything is nothing.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Good night, Alice.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Twenty five? Boss, my shooting. Oh, Shorty, she's a beautiful girl. Look,
why don't you forget Dan's for a minute? Give me
a good reason? Fifteen?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Just like I'm telling your boss, your hand ain't steady.
You need some more practice.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well it's maxim silence that doesn't fit this gun too.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Well.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Oh, how come the new gun, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Where's your rolling? Well? Well, you see, Shorty, I you
want well. I hate to admit it, but I guess
I was robbed Boston, Blackie robbed? Hey, Bosh weeding any trouble?
I don't know, Jay Bullhi Boss, Yeah, yeah, I guess
this new gun will do well. I get my old
one back. There's nothing like a workout with a target
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to keep your aim in shape. Shorty.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
You know I got a funny idea about that.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Boss. I don't care if Miami's.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
So good, as long as the other guys ain't either.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I'll get it, Shorty, all right, Hello, Hicky, Well, well, well,
Inspector Faraday, my favorite cop. How'd you get? Oh? How
could I miss those low dulcet tones, Inspector?
Speaker 6 (08:58):
I want you down here ten minutes, Black here, I'll
send for you.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
It's fine, But where's down here?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Ashley Hotel, Room three oh five.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
You won't have to send for me, inspector. I'll be
right down.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Say boss Faraday hasn't got you jumping through a rope?
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Has hem? Room three oh five, Ashley Hotel. Surety, that's
Alice Manletter's.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
Room, sais Lord, Please watch your step getting out?
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Thank you? Hold on, how I inspect him? Holy Mac? Yeah, Blackie,
she's dead, dead as if you didn't know. Wait a minute,
how did you know about this Faraday?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Or hair?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
The taxi driver got suspicious, so reported the headquarter. Oh
from his description, I knew it was you, and then
I got suspicious.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
So you're going around impersonating me?
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Now, eh, Blackie, Well you should be flatted.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Why did you kill her?
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Wait a minute, Faraday?
Speaker 6 (10:01):
Okay, boys, cover it.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I don't be a dope. I promised to look after
this girl. She was all right when I left her
a little while ago.
Speaker 9 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Maybe after we discovered the body of the boys, and
I waited for you to make an appearance.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
We knew you'd be back.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
How Faraday listened? This girl was off a man Letter's niece,
and I'll take care of whoever was responsible for her murder.
Speaker 6 (10:18):
No, no, I'll do that, Blackie. You killed her.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Now, that's your gun in her hand, my gun. But
I don't see how that we checked the serial numbers, Blackie.
I don't care what you checked. You can't take me
in for this. I didn't kill her, I tell you.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
Okay, maybe not. Maybe the serial number on this gun
is wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
You know what a paraffin test is, Blackie? Oh sure,
I know.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
All right.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Well, we'll get down the headquarters and cover your hand
with parafine.
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Then we'll be able.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
To tell whether you fired a gun in the last
couple of hours. I'll inspect her, will you listen. Yeah,
this girl came to New York this morning. She wasn't
supposed to know anybody in town, and then she told
me she'd met a friend. Oh what are you trying
to prove? I'm trying to prove that somebody killed Alice
Manletter and I've got to be free to find out
who did it. Well, you won't be I'll see to
that personally, and we'll wait a minute out. What are
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you doing in that girl's handbag? Don't get scared, inspector, Please,
what are you doing on. You've got four cops with
guns on me. This isn't a trick. I might find
something here that will help me track down the murderer.
And we've searched this whole place time like it. There's
nothing here. What are you taking out of that bag?
I don't know yet. It's it's just a piece of paper.
Well i'll take it.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
M what's this?
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Boston five, Zealand, Zealand, Louisiana three, Sascatcher one, Tennessee two, Nevada, Nevada.
Speaker 6 (11:37):
Go ahead, what are you doing?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm just writing down what you've said.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Well, this doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Missouri one three, Denver four, France, France. You see Friday.
That's a code. Well you were gonna have plenty of
time to work it out, Blackie.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Come on, let's get going.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I'm gonna give your hand a paraffin test to find
out whether you fired a gun recently, and if you have,
take it from me, pall, you'll have to do some
talking to keep your head above water. Well, I'm afraid, inspector.
The only way I can keep my head above water
is to duck you. Boston.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Blackie apparently is in a spot. And speaking of spot
so as a friend of mine. The other day, you
see a lady I know, I've looked out of her
window one morning, and it was such a lovely day.
She felt like singing, and all of a sudden she
remembered it was wash day.
Speaker 9 (12:32):
Oh shucks.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
So she got ready to do her wash and found
she was out of soap. Well, time was wasting, so
she borrowed some from her next door neighbor. I soape
she'd heard a lot about but never tried before. Yes,
you guessed it. It was soapy rich rinso. And when
she saw what mountains of SuDS rinso made.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Well, well, well, well, what do you know?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
And how quickly those Rinso SuDS soaked her clothes dazzling white.
And how she only had to give the very dirty
places a few finger rubs because rinso gets out more dirt.
She started singing all over again, like this.
Speaker 10 (13:06):
Rinso white, rinsol white, happy little wash day song, Rinsol white,
rinsol white, goody thing it.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
All day long.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You'll find featherfend has a message you send, So listen.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You can't go wong.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Rinsol white, rinsel white, happy little wash day song.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Sing your way through your next wash day with Rinso.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Boston.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
Blackie is an inspector Faraday's office awaiting the police laboratory
report that will show whether he has fired a gun
within the past few hours, so that Paraday can build
a complete case against him for the murder of the
girl in the Ashley Hotel.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
How does it feel, Blackie, be sitting there just waiting
for a report that could send you to the chair.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
You're nervous?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Boston five Zealand Zealand. That's the first word. Now you
take the first letter of each word and you get biz.
Speaker 9 (14:02):
Great.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
How do you do it, Blackie?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You get that's right? Now we know everything who killed
the girl, what her mother's maiden name was, and what
down she was born. That's exactly what I'm trying to
find out. After the first letter, this is the number five.
See that could be the fifth bowel? You know? Aeiou?
That's right? Or do you yes? Then the word would
spell b u z z modelous buzz inspector. This is
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a clue to the murder. Now, using that system of
spelling out the first letters of each word, the note
reads buzz listen made off.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Yeah, what does that mean?
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I wish I knew, yeah, verdy mm hm m hmm right, thanks.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
All that was it, Blackie.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
The test showed you fired a gun, all right, and
the gun we found next to the girl's body was yours, inspector,
I lost my gun, and it's true I fired another,
but I was just practicing. Sure, sure and alive target.
You don't expect me to believe that you're Blackie? Well, frankly, no,
You kill her and then you put her gun, your
gun in her hand after wiping off your fingerprint supports.
Oh that's an old trick, Blackie, and old and I'm
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surprised at you and Matthews inspect her. Take Blackie down
to the cell floor and lock him up. We'll book
him later. A right, gee, come on, black Hee. Okay, okay,
but you look very nice today. Matthews new uniform. Who's
your tailor?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
You won't be able to.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Go to him for a long time, you know, good
old Matthew stoppy clothes and patted the match, say, inspected me.
I washed my hands. Well, the covered with ink from
that fingerprint pad, is it?
Speaker 6 (15:35):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
Oh? Sure, sure, but keep an eye on him, Matthew's
I'll beat it both of you. I'm thinking thinking, huh,
I'd love to watch. Come on, Matthews, pluck me up
so long. Inspector Faraday said, I could wash my hands. Matthews. Remember,
go ahead, but no tricks.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
Here's to wash ONEm. But remember I be right in
back here with my gun in my hand.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Oh goody, I let you in on a little secret.
Speaker 7 (16:02):
Blackie with the inspector brought in a half a dozen
extra cops for another precinct, just to make sure you
didn't break out of here.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
No, only half a dozen. Well, I'm flattered by the way, Matthews.
Did you take a shower this morning?
Speaker 4 (16:15):
No?
Speaker 9 (16:16):
Last night?
Speaker 2 (16:17):
You need another one? Now, hey, quit splashing water off me.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
God can't see me.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Not a chance. I'm going to gag you, Matthews and
lock you in here. I'm on turn around there now,
try and yell. And I want to borrow your uniform.
With the restrange cops here, they'll think I'm one of them.
You see, I'm leaving in your uniform. Come on, Matthews,
come on, take it off. Lackey affair.
Speaker 3 (16:52):
They ever find this waterfront hide out of oes you
know where sun Hall fare, They couldn't find a skunk
in the perfume shop, you.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Would just stop worrying. Okay, okay, what we do next?
Bus nothing until I get that long distance call photo
wealth a man letter the operators trying to reach him
in San Francisco. Now, so after we reach him, so well,
I won't know, Shorty, will I talk to him?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
Is he?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
The only thing I've been able to do since I
walked out of headquarters an hour ago is to break
the code we found in that girl's bag. It read buzz, listen,
made off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're telling me that before. Yes, yes,
I know, but those words don't make sense. However, suppose
we try an association. You mean we're going to join
a club. Oh cut it out, shorty, please. Now, for instance,
what does the word buzz make you think of? B?
(17:31):
That's right now. Let's say the first word is b here.
Now the second word in the code message is listen.
What does that make you think of listen? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Hey, wait a minute, boss, huh, don't tell me. Don't
tell me now, I'll get listen listen. The word is here.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Oh, so the message starts be here. Then the last
two words are made and off. Oh, by the way, Shorty,
what's the maid's day off?
Speaker 9 (17:52):
Thursday?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
If anybody still has got one? Yeah, Thursday's right. So
the message reads be here Thursday.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Oh that's it.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
He was thirty the day the girl came to town.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
That's the code, all right? Only what good? There's my call?
Speaker 9 (18:06):
Now?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Hello, Becky, this is man letter in San Francisco. Oh hello,
author Docky.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
What's happened? I just heard the radio and said that
Alice has been murdered. The police were searching for you.
It's not true, is it? Black?
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Yes? Yes, I'm afraid it's true. Author, But you know
I didn't do it.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Of course you didn't.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
I don't know how it happened, but I'm going to
find out, Becky.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Look, I feel terrible. Was her twentieth birthday? The trip
was a present from me.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Twentieth birthday. Well wait a minute, author, is is she
a brunette?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Oh no, she had the most beautiful blonde hair you
ever saw.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh that's wonderful. Author. Your niece wasn't murdered. It wasn't Alice.
Now take my word for it. The radio is mind
the radio. Your niece wasn't murdered, and I'm going to
find her.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Author.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
You don't hear from me. Thanks Blacky, Thanks call me
as soon as you know anything. I will goodbye.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Now, why did you tell him that?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
For Blackie? Because it's true, Shorty. You see, I never
saw the real Alice man Letter. I took it for granted.
She was the girl in the hotel room. Oh that
girl said she was eighteen, and man Letter his niece
is twenty, and the color of her hair settles it. Okay,
Well what happens now? Well, the real Alice man Letter
left the hotel this morning with a man. The cab
driver gave me the address, but she wasn't there. Of course,
they evenly got off there, but must have walked down
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the street to another house. Well what do we do first? Now,
let's see. First we've got to get a couple of
messenger uniforms. Then you take one side of the street
and I'll take the other, and we'll ring every doorbell
and say we have a wife or Alice Manletter. What
good will live do? Whoever is holding Alice will know
it's a trick and we'll try to grab us. That's
what I'll be waiting for. Telegram for Alice Manletter, and
(19:44):
nobody here for that name. Are you sure? Sure?
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Ain't nobody in this black for that name either. I
don't know. I've lived here for forty years.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
She just reminds me of Alan's Sally.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Should I try the next block? We've tried it together,
but I got two more houses to go. Wait for me. Okay,
I've got to find that girl shorty.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
Okay, boss, if it's a girl, you'll find her.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Did you vant telegram for hours? Man letter? Would you
come in? Well, it's Smith's manlatter here she she's got
a sign for this person. A nice place you have here.
I noticed a sign outside saying this.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Was a doctor in here please?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Yeah, okay, thanks? Hey what's this? See if he has
armed at ut? Yeah, i'll see. Keep your gun named Joe,
and here's his gun here, doctor here in this cardcase.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
Both and Blackie, we were hoping you would come. It
took you a little longer than be thought.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Oh you knew i'd be here.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Girl said she was supposed to meet you in the
hotel lobby and although here, made the mistake and thought.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
She was manabat. I see, So that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Out of us suposed to meet one girl, he met another.
He thought she was someone else, and she thought he
was someone else.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Simple blunder. Oh you mean the super race has made
a simple blunder.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
But everything has been taken care of. This girl knows
no one else in the city, and very soon she
will know nothing at all.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Oh, I see, and that goes for me too. I
suppose how would play? But you take it easy with
my hands back there going?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
I am titled?
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is he too easy?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Good?
Speaker 8 (21:27):
Good?
Speaker 3 (21:28):
We have only a few moments.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
That's right. You just listen to the newscasts. You better
work fast, boys, you have only a few moments. Warsaw, Paris, Berlin.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Medican people take him in the other room and to
carry him.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Eh, help me, Joe, I opened the door for you.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Just throw him in the lens and his neck.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
It's too bad ready, Joe front.
Speaker 8 (21:54):
Who is that?
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Well, I think it's me, Boston Blackie. Oh you're euryalus Man.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Of course it's din't Blacky.
Speaker 10 (22:01):
I'm so glad you're here.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
So much has happened to me because I think I
know most of it.
Speaker 5 (22:06):
You think we'll get out of here.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Oh, we're certainly going to try. Let's do something about
these ropes. Uh, you're tied up too, wus you. Yes,
well they weren't nice enough to leave some lights on
so I could see what it was doing. Well, there's
the first one off now from a legs. See, I
just thought of something. That girl accompass must have lifted
my gun when I was up there, figuring that if
I found out she was a spy, she could take
(22:28):
care of me. Oh well, the legs are free now,
I'll untie you.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Who's that they're going to send a message. We'll be
able to hear what they say. The microphone's right up
against the wall. Your hands are free, work on your
ankles and I listen.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
All right as ketchavana and over four two.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Dead ketch youvana s h O E S shoes.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
One a N D D shoes and uh ketkebama who
one to beat DNA? Three Nevada Georgia, Wisconsin gun.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Em pippys, ceiling wax shoes and ceiling wax one five
five a ut u m N autumn shoes and ceiling
wax autumn. That that's uh the message so far.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The neve a bum to beat the end of them,
and over bums benma to beat the end of bum o'bama,
Chicago food to beat the other four Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
That spells Galahad and Launcelot. They stopped sending. Yeah, what
did they say? Do you know I keep working on
those ropes, Ellice? Yeah, here's the message, shoes and ceiling wax.
That's from Alice in Wonderland. The word missing is ships. Well,
that could be the first word in the message.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That's the way it works.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Sure, Now let's see. The next next thing was autumn autumn,
autum autumn. Uh, what's that make you think of, Ellice?
I don't know. Autumn leaves per that's it. And then
they said Galahad and Launcelot. They were two nights at
the round table.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
Two nights.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
That's it. Ships leave two night. That's the message. We've
got to get out and stop that convoy from sailing
for be a U boat pack waiting waiting for it. Sure,
I've worked the not loose, I think, Rudy. I'll give
me your ropes. I'm gonna need them.
Speaker 5 (24:07):
What are you going to do?
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Well, they'll be in for us in a minute. Is
there a chair in the rooms?
Speaker 6 (24:12):
One next to me?
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'm leaning against d I'll put it alongside the door
and stand on it. When the Nazis come in, you'll
be in back of the door and slam it shut
behind them. See no, no, no, not a chance. The room
is too dark. I'll drop a noose over them. But quick,
I think I hear something. Okay, I'll carry this chair
over and you stand behind the door.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Already, Bucky.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah, me too.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
We'll do it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Talk just like you said, come in with me. John. Now, Alice,
you can't you. I can't get it out, arms and
pinned down. Here's a present, I see. Don't be jealous, pal,
here's one for you too. Oh you can take it,
I kid, okay, Oh, I guess that does it? Alice?
(25:01):
Watch this? Alice? Come in here. Doctor Let this look.
Speaker 10 (25:06):
This is.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Alice. Alice, get on that telephone the other room. Quick,
tell the FBI what you know. Then call Inspector Faraday. Well,
I keep an eye on these Nazis. Now when you
get him, I want to don't move. I've got your
cold this time, well hot a cold. You'll hate yourself
in the morning, Faraday. But I'm glad you're here. How
did you manage it?
Speaker 3 (25:26):
I managed it, boss, I got worried and I couldn't
bust in here alone, So I called you row friend paradg.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yeah, and I landed up here with both feet and
ten minutes flat. When you do anything with your feet,
Faraday flat is the right word. Thanks Alice for clearing
(25:55):
me with Faraday.
Speaker 10 (25:56):
Oh Black, you're wonderful.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
You dave my life life and broke up a spy
ring and it doesn't bother you a bit.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Don't you feel good at that?
Speaker 2 (26:04):
Oh? I should say, I do so good. I'm going
to celebrate alone. Oh no, no, you're coming with me, Alice.
But first we're going to call your uncle office. Who
are you going to say, Well, I'm going to tell
him I've spent a lot of time looking for you,
but from now on I'm looking after you.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
We'll be back in just a moment with an interesting
preview of next week's program.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Now you know.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Those rich Rinso SuDS I've been telling you are such
a help on wash day, Well they're just as big
a help come dishwashing time, Yes, ma'am. Milder than ever.
Rinso is easy on your hands too, doesn't get them
rough and red. So for dish washing and for all
the soap and water jumps around the house. Better get
rinso to help.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
You out, they say, this is a complete record of
the people who came into Gordon's store yesterday.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
That's right, Inspector m.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
M Missus Van Dyke, Smith, George Ellis, Lady Mary Andrews.
Hey quite an exclusive list of customers for a small shop.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Yeah, ain't it.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Let's see now this name here, was he a customer? Yeah,
Inspector Gordon says he was in a back noon. But
that could have been a coincidence.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
Matth.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Here's when a string of pearls is missing from a
certain store and a certain party was in that certain store,
and a certain party's name.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Is Boston Blackie. That's no coincidence.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Friends. Of course, you know the tremendous part of our
merchant marine is playing in the war. But did you
know that the merchant marine is being expanded to meet
increasing supply problems on every front, to meet the universal
demand for a strong post war merchant marine. Yes, six
ships a day instead of five will soon be coming
off the ways of our shipyards, and every one of
them must be manned by forty to fifty men. So,
(28:02):
if you have had previously experience, or if you want
to get into a well paying job where everything you
do will help to win the war and to build
your own personal future. Then join the United States Merchant Marine.
Apply at once by wiring collect to United States Merchant
Marine Washington BC. Warm weathers here and that means greater
(28:27):
danger from perspiration. Protect yourself. Use Life Boy in your
daily bath. You know if seven leading brands, Life Boy
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Life Boy Ladder grees with your skin. And don't forget
Life Boy's the only soap especially made to stop me all.
(29:04):
Be sure to listen at this same time next week
for another exciting adventure with Boston Blackie. You can see
Chester Morris as Boston Blackie on the screen at your
favorite movie theater. Boston Blackie's latest Columbia picture is One
Mysterious Night, Soon to be released. Richard Lane appears as
Inspector Faraday. Music by Charles Cornell. This is Harla Wilcox
(29:24):
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Speaker 2 (29:42):
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