Classic Radio 09-29-25 - Doubtful Dairy, Vamp Til Dead, and Conspiracy - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Suspense, Shadow Note Washington Calling David Honey, count.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
As my classic Radios Theater.

Speaker 4 (00:21):
The Great Yeldest Lade, Zipper McGhee and Molly Dragon Guns
Alone Rang Zoe.

Speaker 5 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Iss your host, Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 6 (00:34):
Good evening Friend, Savionna.

Speaker 7 (00:36):
Tancu Drama on this Monday with episodes of Yours Truly,
Johnny Doallar and Suspense going back sixty nine years. We'll
have an episode of Wanted from seventy five years ago,
the Whistler from seventy seven years ago, and we will
start over again with the wonderful series Claudia. That's all

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coming up on this Monday, twenty ninth day of September
two hundred seventy second day of the year. We have
ninety three days slept in twenty twenty five. The US
War Department first established a regular army on this date
in seventeen eighty seven with the strength of several hundred men.
The First Congress adjourned on this date in seventeen eighty

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nine as well. The cornerstone laid at Washington National Cathedral
in the US Capitol on this state in nineteen oh seven.
In nineteen forty three, eighty two years ago, General Eisenhower
and Italian Marshall Pietro Bargordio signed an Armistice award the
British ship Nelson off the shore of Malta, premiering on

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this date. In nineteen fifty nine, The Many Loves of
Dobie Gillis mac Shulman short stories adapted per scripts for
the show, Dwayne Hickman starring as Adobe. His best friend
Maynard g. Krebs was played by Bob Denver, later to
be Gilligan on Gilligan Silon manor g Krebs was a

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ride out beat me.

Speaker 8 (02:06):
He really was.

Speaker 7 (02:08):
It was on this dage. In nineteen seventy three, Vice
President Spiro Agnew declared he was totally innocent of the
charges he accepted bribes when he was governor of Maryland.

Speaker 9 (02:19):
I am innocent of the charges against mary. I want

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to make another thing so clear that it cannot.

Speaker 10 (02:43):
Be mistaken in the future because.

Speaker 9 (02:48):
Of these tactics which have been employed against me, because
small and fearful men have been frightened in the furnishing
evidence against me. They have heard of themselves in many cases.
It's my understanding, I will.

Speaker 10 (03:08):
Not resign if indicted.

Speaker 9 (03:10):
I will not resign if indicted.

Speaker 7 (03:19):
Less than a month later, I Agnew allowed to plead
no contest to a single charge he had failed to
report almost thirty thousand dollars of income received in nineteen
sixty seven, with the condition that he resigned the office
of Vice president. President Nixon replaced Agnew by appointing House

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Minority leader Gerald Ford as Vice President. Ford would then
later become president after President Nixon resigned about another year later,
after presiding over the Roman Catholic churches. Thirty four days,
we woke up in America to hear that Pope John

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Paul I had died suddenly at the Vatican. Among those
shocked by the news vice President Walter mondale.

Speaker 11 (04:07):
It is saddening, shocking, indeed unbelievable that this remarkable personality
would be taken from us so quickly.

Speaker 7 (04:17):
The Pope was just sixty five years of age.

Speaker 12 (04:20):
It was on this date.

Speaker 7 (04:21):
In nineteen eighty two a tilanol scare began when the
first of seven individuals died in metropolitan Chicago after ingesting
extra strength tilanol that had been deliberately contaminated with cyanide.

Speaker 13 (04:36):
It was very obvious that these capsules were tampered with.
It was not an accidental thing. It was not a
product effect. It was not something that occurred in a
stream of distribution. It was Willford, Wanton and very deadly.

Speaker 7 (04:49):
Johnson and Johnson spokesman Tyrone Feygner. The crime never solved
to this day, and it changed the way our drugs
were packaged forever, and in some ways to the to
the worse, if you will. Now it's on the state.
In nineteen eighty eight, Nassa resumed space shuttled flights grounded

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after the Challenge your disaster.

Speaker 10 (05:13):
We have start three two one year girl.

Speaker 7 (05:19):
And lifts up.

Speaker 14 (05:22):
Americans return to space and Discovery clears the tower. Man
Discovery kicks and goes straight up into a Florida blue
sky on top of Tower of flame and smoke. Almost
three years after the Challenger tragedy, the Space Shuttle is
flying again, all five astronauts pushed back in their seats.
Now the power of seven and a half million pounds

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of frost. You can hear the roar from the launch
pad across the range. Here Discovery roars.

Speaker 15 (05:49):
Up into the Florida sky, now rolling over.

Speaker 16 (05:52):
Headed for space.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
More problems with discovery as they descend. They suffered severe
damage to the thermal protection tiles in the underwing area.
Post flight analysis showed the impact of a twelve inch
long piece of cork insulation during assent was the culprit
the origin of the debris the forward field joined on
the right hand SRB, and the damage such that during

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re entry the thermal protection tile eroded almost completely, similar
to the loss of the Columbia fifteen years later, Nintendo
on this date in nineteen ninety six, released in Nintendo
sixty four. In North America, the Senate confirmed John Roberts
to be the Chief Justice of the US on this date.

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In two thousand and five, and in two thousand and eight,
following the bankruptcies of Lahman Brothers and Washington Mutual, the
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell seven hundred and seventy seven points,
the largest single day point loss in history.

Speaker 12 (06:55):
To that date.

Speaker 7 (06:56):
The House defeated a seven hundred billion dollar emergency rescue
plan for the nation's financial system. Among those passing away
on this date in history, baseball player manager Casey Stingle,
businessman Henry Ford, the Second, cartoonist Charles Adams, actor Tony
Curtis and singer Helen Ready birthdays.

Speaker 4 (07:17):
On this date.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
Of those who are no longer with us include actress
Greer Garson, actor, singer and businessman Geene Autry, whom we'll
hear tomorrow on Classic Radio theater in his Melody Ranch program.
Also film director Stanley Kramer, actress Anita Eckberg, pro wrestler
manager Scandal Akbar who trained some of the greats. Also

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Jerry Lee Lewis, the last surviving member of Sun Records
Million Dollar Quartet. He passed away three years ago at
the age of eighty seven. Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash,
and then Jeri Lee Frank Burns from mash Larry Lynn
Bill born on this date as well Madeline and Drake Hodgskin.

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John Black on Days of Our Lives passed away on
this date a year ago, one day before his seventy
first birthday. Those people born on this date, they have
all left the building.

Speaker 6 (08:15):
If you will HI, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is
now time for the birthday announcements.

Speaker 17 (08:20):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 7 (08:24):
We don't often think of jazz violinists. We often think
of country fiddlers. We often think of the classical, but
Jean Luke Ponti, the French jazz violinist, turns eighty three
years old today. The sportspella who also hosted some on
The Today Show as well. Brian Gumbel seventy seven today.

Speaker 15 (08:47):
Hello, and welcome to our special Real Sports Overtime.

Speaker 4 (08:50):
I'm Brian Gumble.

Speaker 7 (08:51):
Gumble seventy seven Today. The guitarist for Grand Bunk Railroad,
Mark Farner is seventy seven. Comedian actor Andrew days Clay
sixty eight years old today. The Love Boats Jill Waylon
fifty nine, Wow, a Playboy playmate in nineteen eighty nine. Also,

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Baywatch actress Erica Alaniak is sixty three. Stand up comic
Russell Peters is fifty five from This Is up Us,
Chrissy Metz is forty five from Chuck and Shazam. Zachary
Levy is forty five from Gray's Anatomy. Kelly McCrary is

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forty four, and the singer Halsey is thirty one. Those
just few people celebrating the twenty ninth day of September
as their birthday. If this is your birthday, Hi, We're
the four Freshmen and we just want to say happy
birthday to and we're gonna go back to Sunday September

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twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven for a couple of shows
from CBS, Your Truly Johnny Dollar and Suspense and those
who'll be along along with so the headlines from that
Sunday in just a few moments, ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 4 (10:16):
In the next seven years of bigger and bigger enrollments,
America's grade schools will need nearly a quarter of a
million extra teachers, beside those to fill normal vacancies. This
great need, plus the growing public interest in education and
improvements in schools, make elementary school teaching a more rewarding
career than ever, a career that high school and college

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students should certainly consider. Education holds America's future, perhaps your future.

Speaker 7 (10:45):
By the way, Coming out tomorrow, we will have our
annual remembrance of the last two great old radio shows
from Classic Radio Theater. We will have Suspense in Your
Truly Johnny Dollar episodes from sixty three years ago September thirtieth,
nineteen sixty two. We'll also have a nineteen forty five

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episode of orson Wells Commentary kind of give me an
idea where radio was heading at the time, and a
lot of people weren't even fully aware. Now we're going
to go to yours truly, Johnny Veller. And this episode
of the program was broadcast on CBS at five oh

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five Eastern Time on Sunday, September twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven.
And that is sixty eight years ago today, sixty nine
years ago today, I should no, it is sixty eight
years ago, yes, nine, yeah, sixty eight years ago. But anyway,

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they're going to Western Nevada for the doubtful dairy matter
from Hollywood.

Speaker 10 (11:55):
Yes, time now, Johnny Dollar, this is.

Speaker 18 (12:01):
Peter Hardy, a try Western Property and Casualty Insurance.

Speaker 10 (12:04):
Hi, how are things in the Golden West? He's Dylan
right now? Sure, I am good boy. What goes Pete?

Speaker 18 (12:08):
A little trouble with a big dairy farm out here,
Johnny Amenian dairy?

Speaker 10 (12:12):
Okay, Pete, tell me the year.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
And a half ago in a fire Emenia lost one
of his silos, you know, one of those big towers
where they store and cure a lot of chopped up corners.

Speaker 10 (12:20):
Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 18 (12:21):
Cost us twenty one thousand.

Speaker 10 (12:22):
Dollars twenty one thousand for a silo.

Speaker 18 (12:25):
This time is a compound silo and the claim is
for fifty six thousand. Oh, but I don't want to
pay it.

Speaker 10 (12:30):
I don't blame you.

Speaker 18 (12:31):
Sure, because Johnny, I think it was a person.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of a Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigators,
Truly Johnny Dellar and now act one of yours, Truly
Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 10 (13:13):
Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollars to the
Tri Western Property and Casually Insurance Company Reno, Nevada office
following has an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the doubtful dairy Matter expense account out of one
one hundred and forty one twenty Transportation and Incidental's Hartford

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to Reno Noveda. It was about nine am when I arrived,
so I checked into the Mapes Hotel and then walked
over to Pete Hardy's office.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Domenian Daiies are just north of here, Johnny and Warm
Springs value off Route thirty three. Well, and I've better
remy at car, or you can use mine I'll peat,
how can I run on my expense account?

Speaker 10 (13:52):
Nless I have something to run it up with Johnny
for one.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Anyhow, the reason why these silos Amenia has a so
expensive if not to own his name.

Speaker 10 (14:01):
By the way, Yes, Arab a median, and I take
it he's our median.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Strangely enough, now now he's had all his silos very
specially built. All how specially can you build a silo
just a concrete base, a lot of long wooden staves
to get the circular shape.

Speaker 10 (14:15):
And a good roof on top.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Well, he asks them trick with them inside, like what
that's his deep dark secret, But he claims and makes
better silence for his cattle than is possible anywhere.

Speaker 10 (14:23):
Else in the world. And one of these things burned
up a year and a half ago. The word exploded
best describes it. Yeah, and as I said, costs that's
twenty one thousand and now the replacement has gone up
a plan yes day before yesterday, he filed a claim
the same day. Well, why do you, suspect.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Arson, Did the local authorities find anything suspicious? No, But
you go out and talk with a median, Johnny, and
if you don't end up with the same kind of
feeling I have.

Speaker 10 (14:47):
Well, I'll leave my shirt expense account at him too,
fifty dollars deposit on a drive your own car. Finding
the Amenian Dear Marian Rants, some twenty miles north of
the city was easy. It was spread out all over
the countryside hundreds of acres of well irrigated, lush screen pastures.

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Square in the middle of the rant sat one of
the cleanest most modern dairies I ever saw. Aaron Armenian
gave me the grand tour, and I must say I
was impressed. It was close to two hundred well kept
guernseys in the main barn, which was as clean as
a whistle. The milking machines, coolers, separators, clarifiers and so
on were the same. Yep, a prosperous looking setup. Finally,

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mister Median took me out to where a small group
of workmen were cleaning up what was left of his compound. Silent.

Speaker 4 (15:36):
As you can see at the dollar only the concrete
base is left.

Speaker 10 (15:40):
That must have been a pretty big silo, mister Amenian.

Speaker 4 (15:43):
That's the largest and most efficient in the entire West.

Speaker 10 (15:46):
Still fifty six thousand dollars.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Oh, the side had nothing to do with that. It
was the inner construction known only the barn Well, the
man who built it for me and to myself. Of course,
all was so special about it, principally a method of venting. Venting, Yeah,
that increases the phosphorus and lactic acid content. Well, I
thought the point in the silo is to keep it
pretty well sealed up, venting within mister dollar.

Speaker 10 (16:08):
But that's all I'll tell you about it.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
It costs me fifty six thousand to have Barnwell build it,
and I wish the company to pay my claim as
quickly as possible because I'm starting construction anew it immediately.

Speaker 10 (16:18):
Of the same type, or vastly improved type. Oh, then
it was to your advantage to lose the old one.
Just what he means by that? Your loss came at
just the right time, didn't it? Not just a minute? Dog?
With the insurance money, you can build a new and
better one, and when it gets out of date, I
suppose you'll have another fire.

Speaker 4 (16:36):
Oh, I see.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
You think perhaps these last two were.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Deliberately set where they ridiculous, isn't But if they were,
If they were, I certainly wouldn't know.

Speaker 10 (16:48):
I'll come on now, after what you've just said.

Speaker 4 (16:50):
What's more, mister Dollar, I'm sure you'll never be able.

Speaker 12 (16:53):
To prove it.

Speaker 4 (17:10):
Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment,
we sometimes wonder what is the life of a human
being really worth? Not too much or maybe a great deal?
Does it depend on whose life it is? Whatever the answer,
one thing is certain. Fred Hargesheimer, since World War II,
has felt that his life is worth quite a lot,

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quite a lot of gratitude. During the war in the
Pacific about June of nineteen forty three, Lieutenant Hargesheimer had
his P thirty eight fighter planes shot out of the sky.
Badly wounded, he bailed out over a tiny.

Speaker 10 (17:45):
Island, New Britain.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
It looked pretty small from where he hit the silk,
but he found it much bigger when he hit the ground.
It was bigger and in complete control of the enemy.
But Hargersheimer was lucky. After a month of lonely hiding,
he was found by a group of friendly natives from
the village of Nantambu.

Speaker 10 (18:06):
They cared for him and successfully hid.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Him from enemy patrols for the next four months at
the risk of their own lives. Then Hargesheimer was able
to make it back to civilization. For the next seventeen years,
Fred Hargesheimer thought about those wonderful people of Nantambu, twelve
thousand miles away in the United States of America. Hargesheimer
put a great plan into effect. He made speeches, took

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up collections, sold jewelry belonging to his family, and worked
out a way to bring a bit of civilization and
happiness to the little village of Nantambu. Needless to say,
the villagers gave him a spectacular welcome. Upon his return.

Speaker 10 (18:46):
Fred Hargesheimer showed his gratitude to the people who had
saved his life.

Speaker 4 (18:51):
But life is worth little without freedom, the right of
all men everywhere, And now act too of yours trueth
Johnny Dollars and the dutful Dirry matters.

Speaker 10 (19:06):
Why what he said and the way he said it?
Arab Dominian was practically.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
Challenging me to find out how Arson was involved in
the destruction of his fifty six thousand dollars secretly constructed
compound Silo.

Speaker 10 (19:18):
Expense. A con item three phone call from a gas
station on Highway thirty three to a Reno police headquarters
but Lieutenant Brady of the arson squad assured me he'd
failed to find anything indicating the fire was setting, so
dead end until I remembered a little trick that it
worked for her me before it might work again, I
had him four to twenty seven cents for a local
white bread at the grocery store along the highway. Then

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I drove back to the Armenian ranch.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
If I had known you were hungry, miss a Dollar,
I should have had something provided for you with the
ranch house. In spite of your rather nasty attitude about.

Speaker 10 (19:50):
This loss of mind. Food is the last thing I'm
thinking of, mister Armenian. But then why this loc of
bread if you're not what i' let's see.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
Oh now, surely you're not going.

Speaker 10 (20:00):
To eat the piece, but dropping the ashes now?

Speaker 4 (20:04):
But then get it out of your mouth, man, No,
mm hmm. Whatever in the world you're doing, mister Dollar.

Speaker 10 (20:11):
Yeah, yeah, I knew it. You knew was a sure
a sure test for kerosene, mister Imanian, Yeah, fresh bread
dropping the ashes of a fire. Even days after the
fire is out, I don't know. I can still taste
the kerosene, and mister it makes things look pretty bad.

Speaker 16 (20:26):
For you me.

Speaker 10 (20:28):
Oh good, heavens man, you can't Dollar.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
I resent this completely unfounded accusations, ran.

Speaker 10 (20:34):
Ahead and resent. I better still. Let me get hold
of a stenographer and you can dictate a confession.

Speaker 4 (20:39):
Get out of here.

Speaker 10 (20:39):
I want to do it the hideway, get office, lanch Dollar,
No leave immediately.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
Sure, I warn you don't come back, because if you do,
we gotta be careful. Mister Armanian, the kind of a
threat you're about to make wouldn't sound very good in court.

Speaker 10 (20:52):
Gets out, Get out, I don't know highway. I stamped
at the moment gas station again and made another phone call.
Had him five another twenty cents. It was to my
old friend Herb Carlbert Cashier of Reno's Farm Trade National Bank.
It was fast closing time, but he promised to leave
a door open for me, so I grabbed the sandwich

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and a coke along the way. That's had him six
eighty cents including tip. Then at the bank, Herb led
me back to his private office.

Speaker 4 (21:22):
Oh, sit down, Johnny, tell me all about yourself.

Speaker 10 (21:25):
Yeah. Later here we'll go out on the town and
talk our heads off. Right now, I need some information.
I hope you can tell me where to get it? Oh,
information about what the Armenian derry, or better still, a
Menian himself.

Speaker 4 (21:37):
You know, I'm oh, I certainly do where his bank
His happens to be one of the best accounts we have,
especially in our investment department. I mean it's big, funny, big,
like how much. Well, now, Johnny, I'll tell you this.
If I had a quarter of his net worth, I'd
have retired long ago.

Speaker 10 (21:55):
Oh big outstanding debts on his place, anything like that?

Speaker 4 (21:59):
Not a pennant. Aaron's financial condition is as with him. Minute. Yeah,
that fire and explosion of his compound silo, that's right.
Herby found evidence indicating ours.

Speaker 10 (22:09):
Well, certainly aren't accusing him? Oh else? Oh no, no, no,
you're wrong. Well now look, Herb, he filed that claim.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
So fast, the most nature thing in the world for him.
It's the way he does everything, like paying his bills
immediately on receipt. He works that way, you expect everybody
else to. Finally gave me the impression he wanted to
collect quickly in order to have money for rebuilding, of course,
rather than cash in some of his blue chip investments.

Speaker 10 (22:32):
Herb, somebody fired that silo. Well it certainly wouldn't be Aaron. Ah,
he sounded like hearing co host with him. What about
his employees? From my impression of the man, I.

Speaker 12 (22:41):
Love him like a father, every one of them.

Speaker 4 (22:44):
And if every employer was as generous as he is,
there wouldn't be any labor troubles.

Speaker 10 (22:47):
In this country.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well, a fact remains at somebody, somehow stood the profit
by destroying that silo and the one before it. Well,
I can't imagine who even his competitors like and respect
the man, or so they say, Oh no, no they do.

Speaker 10 (23:00):
He's helped them.

Speaker 4 (23:01):
Stay on their feet during hard times, developed new ideas
and methods, then passed them on to them. Oh the
factory maid and Johnny, Johnny, I have had a rough day.

Speaker 10 (23:10):
How about a nice, cool casual drink. Then we'll have
dinner and.

Speaker 12 (23:14):
Take in the town.

Speaker 10 (23:15):
Oh itdem seven twenty one thirty for drinks and a
good dinner back in the mates. But I didn't enjoy either,
because herb and his defense of a median was no
help at all, except perhaps for giving me a list
of all the people he could think of who did
business with him. I decided to check them all first

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thing in the morning. Finally, about midnight, having lost our
share at a couple of nearby gambling clubs, we parted.
Herb drove away to his home on the outskirts of town.
I went back to the mates.

Speaker 18 (23:47):
And take mister missus Kenway to the room.

Speaker 10 (23:49):
Three fourteen boys.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Yes, yes, their watch, oh missus dolly, Oh that's might
keeply certainly. Hey, I time, and I help you enjoy
a pleasant night's restlank. Oh, by the way, there was
a gentleman here looking for you early this evening, hung around.

Speaker 10 (24:06):
Quite a while, said he'd be back.

Speaker 12 (24:08):
Oh was he?

Speaker 4 (24:09):
He didn't give his name, sir, nor did he wish
to leave a message, mister Amenian, mister Amenian the Derriman.

Speaker 10 (24:16):
Oh no, sir, I'm quite sure. Okay night, yes, good night,
good night. Oh mister dollar, Yeah there he is there.
Huh going out the door of the dark brown coat
for sure. Yes, you're the same man, I wonder.

Speaker 12 (24:29):
Yeah, so do I.

Speaker 10 (24:30):
But if he knows you, sir, and so, By the
time I got out the front door, the man in
the brown coat was halfway down the block and walking fast,
faster and faster. As a matter of fact. As I
gained on him, he turned the corner, and by this
time both of us were running.

Speaker 4 (24:46):
Hey, hey, are you looking for me?

Speaker 10 (24:51):
By the end of three or four blocks, it was
a real foot race. Then suddenly he turned into an alley,
and like a darned fool, I plunged into the darkness
of it after him. Hey, hey, right here, Oh, no use.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Act three of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.

Speaker 19 (25:20):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
New Hampshire State flag carries its state seal on a
field of dark blue. The seal is surrounded by a
wreath of Laura Leeds, the symbol of peace, interspersed with
nine stars. Because New Hampshire was the ninth state to

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join the Union, the heart of the state seal is
a representation of the Frigate Raleigh, recalling the glory of
the early days of sale. New Hampshire State Flag, the
flag of the ninth State and to the Union, was
adopted on April twenty ninth, nineteen thirty one. No Act
three of Yours Truly, Dollar and the dark pull dairy matters.

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If it hadn't been for a big interstate moving van
that drove into the alley where I've been way lady, Well,
I had a strong hunch.

Speaker 10 (26:13):
I wasn't supposed to have lived through that beating. The
truck driver, who absolutely refused a tip, incidentally half walked,
half carried me back to the mapes and the desk
clerk had a doctor in my room within a few minutes.

Speaker 20 (26:25):
That's yeah, this thing, terrible thing that is own. You're
being attacked like this, and of course I'll have to
make a report over to the pleas.

Speaker 21 (26:32):
Do anything you like?

Speaker 10 (26:32):
Doctor, just just get me passed up with him? And
you mean you you have no idea who could have done.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
This to you?

Speaker 10 (26:43):
Believe me, I intend to find out.

Speaker 20 (26:45):
Judging by this swollen hand, viewers, you've got in some
good licks though, and whoever.

Speaker 10 (26:50):
Wants so many?

Speaker 20 (26:52):
This is a very unusual ring.

Speaker 22 (26:54):
You.

Speaker 10 (26:54):
Oh, some kids in the ymc A gave it to
me a couple of years ago. The softball team. Oh yes,
of course why insignia, Yeah one of them made it.

Speaker 20 (27:04):
And the three raised points stand for spirit, body and mind.

Speaker 10 (27:08):
Yeah that's right. Well now if you're just oh wait,
what's that for?

Speaker 20 (27:12):
To make sure you get plenty of rest.

Speaker 10 (27:14):
Oh no, no, I'm the doctor. Well, look sleepy, I'll
do it. Look if this shot leaves me groggy in
the morning, you.

Speaker 20 (27:21):
Wake up feeling fine.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Incidentally, that ring listens before you notify the police. Hey,
this this shot works pretty fast.

Speaker 20 (27:36):
Yep, As I started to say, if that ring of
yours didn't leave a mark on whoever, you defended yourself
against him, saying I'm very much.

Speaker 10 (27:49):
In a few seconds, I was out like a life.
But then a whole set of weird dreams began to
plague my somewhat battered mind, and questions about who would
have attack me and why told me the why was
only too obvious to keep me from finding an arsonist
who yeah, yeah, who probably bore the mark of my

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ring on his kissing. I thought of the names Herb
had given me, and his insistence that none of them
could be guilty. Wait a minute, there was one name
he hadn't mentioned, but a median had of one man
who stood to gain a lot by the destruction of
the silos. Or maybe it was just a crazy hunch,
part of the wild dreams that came from the beating

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I'd taken. In any event, in the morning, as soon
as the bank was opened. I was in Herb Carlbert's
office again.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
Well, yes, he has an account here too, Johnny, at
least he did before.

Speaker 10 (28:44):
How about loans? Says this man were talking about taking
out any loans? So yes, But Johnny, you know, I yeah,
I know, I know. The fact remains he's pretty hot
up for dosn't Well?

Speaker 4 (28:54):
I didn't say that, although, of course, if that's the
conclusion you choose to draw, tell.

Speaker 10 (28:59):
Me this he owes the bank money? Now, it doesn't
mean yeah, all right? Did he also owe the bank
a lot of money about a year and a half ago, Johnny?

Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (29:08):
Well, Johnny, you're right, But who would have suspected?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
And when you consider that Arab Amenian is the one
man who was giving him money for all the work
he's I can't believe.

Speaker 10 (29:18):
It, Herb.

Speaker 4 (29:18):
It started out as a pure hunch, But right now
I'd bet my where can I find him?

Speaker 10 (29:22):
Well?

Speaker 4 (29:23):
If Aaron plans to go ahead with new construction.

Speaker 10 (29:25):
Probably are out there at the derry. You want to
come along, maybe i'd better.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
After the way Aram threatened you, I guess I owe
him an apology for the way I tore into him.
Let's go Johnny, Yeah, what what if you're wrong? What
if this man we think is the arson this?

Speaker 10 (29:41):
Will you agree that the firebug is the same man
who attacked me in the alley? I suppose so, and
we'll soon know, because, believe me, he's a marked man.
We made the Armenian Terry in thirty minutes flat. We're
kild at the eight and Aaron Amenian was in the

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pasteurizing plan. Maybe you better let me talk to Aaron first, Johnny.
It's not Aaron that I'm interested in her, and you
know it's just a minute. What's the matter? Hold it
a second? What do you want to tell my shoelace? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (30:15):
Sure, I've been thinking, Johnny on the way out. You know,
we could really be terribly terribly were Herbert old man? Ah,
we're just looking for you. When I heard the car
pull up, I thought it was Joe Barnwell. He do
here to show me final plans for the new stylo.
He's gone to, Oh that's the dollar and.

Speaker 10 (30:35):
That's right, mister, meaning I want to apologize for what's
the matter dressing on your cheek? What about it?

Speaker 23 (30:46):
Just?

Speaker 10 (30:46):
What is that little bandage hiding? Johnny? Well?

Speaker 4 (30:48):
I Meanian as a matter of fact, I caught myself
shaving this morning. Well I'm sorry, mister, but that bandage
is gonna have to come off. Look, johnny'll just a minute,
dollar Ah, here you are a here's the final blue?

Speaker 10 (31:02):
Why the song? Joe?

Speaker 4 (31:04):
Gentlemen, this is mister Joseph.

Speaker 10 (31:06):
Barnwell, Herb Halbert.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
We know each other and mister Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 10 (31:10):
Yeah, I think we know each other too. Barnwell, Oh
do we?

Speaker 4 (31:16):
Joj you have an accident of some sort your face?

Speaker 10 (31:19):
What's gonna happen to him?

Speaker 4 (31:20):
Now?

Speaker 10 (31:20):
Won't be any accident? Mystery meaning? And I apologize for
doubting that you cut yourself.

Speaker 4 (31:24):
With a razor, but I'm afraid I don't understand.

Speaker 10 (31:27):
But that bandage on your face doesn't hide any razor cut,
does it? Barnwell, For I don't know what you're talking about.
All right, then let's rip it off. You certainly won't
good heavens, Johnny.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Look the mark from the ring on my hand where
I struck him last night. Okay, Barnwell, now I'll stop.

Speaker 10 (31:44):
Don't don't touch me. Started talking? Tellamedian how you burned
up his fancy expensive silo so you can build another one.
How you burned the other one up? Talk I swear
talk talk. Yeah. He talked all right plenty about a

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ranket sold I hadn't heard of it in years, A
crooked builder who burned out his own plans to get
himself more work, and in this case of natural because
he was the only one who shared Aaron's secret construction plans.

Speaker 4 (32:21):
And by the time I was through with him, he
blabbed about some of the other clients he'd taken the
same way. Expense account total including incidentals and the trip
back to Hartford four hundred and eighteen dollars even yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar. Our star Bob Bailey will return in just

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a moment to give you a hint about what's in
store for you on next week's program. Meantime, listen carefully.
There is a biblical verse which promises life is going
to be better for everybody in the world when mercy
and truth are met together, and righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. When the people of the United States

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of America expressed that thought, it is not in idleness
but in deeds. Today, it is common knowledge that when
the gigantic earthquakes and tidal waves struck the Republic of
Chile and South America not too long ago. Thousands of
lives were lost and tens of thousands were left homeless, hungry,
and suffering.

Speaker 10 (33:28):
Immediate aid in the form of food.

Speaker 4 (33:30):
Medicine, clothing supplies, and professional and technical help were flown
to Chile by the United States Air Force in a
Mercy airlift. When the work was done and the suffering
people made happier and more comfortable, American servicemen received such
grateful thanks from the people of Chile that they felt
increased pride in being able to wear the uniform of.

Speaker 10 (33:51):
The United States of America.

Speaker 4 (33:53):
This same pride has come to other Americans in uniform
when mercy and truth have come together to follow the
wake of disagre through.

Speaker 10 (34:00):
Other parts of the world, after.

Speaker 4 (34:02):
The earthquake and Agada, Morocco, after two devastating cyclones swept
across the Bay of Bengal into East Pakistan, after a
typhoon rocked and battered Japan. As mercy and truth got together,
so did peace and righteousness to form a pact for
freedom the right of all men everywhere. And now here

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is our star to tell you about next week's intriguing
story on Yours Truly Johnny Dollar next week while I
get into cattle country again and a Hanford steer solves
a case for me. So joy notts, won't you Yours
Truly Johnny Dolly. Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey,

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originates in Hollywood. It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone,
who also wrote tonight's story. Heard in our cast where
Paul Duba, Will Wright, John Dayner, Harry Bartel, Harley Bear,
and Boris Lewis be sure to join us next week,
same time and station, or another exciting story of Yours Truly,

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Johnny Dollary.

Speaker 10 (35:23):
This is Dan Coverly speaking.

Speaker 7 (35:39):
That's one of two Armed Forces recordings we're going to
hear from these shows from Sunday, September twenty ninth, nineteen
fifty fifty seven, and one of the We have uncovered
more of these, these old Armed Forces recordings, and that
is how we are still discovered. Bring better quality and

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better restoration on these master discs. Let me tell you
the rundown for CBS in the afternoon, and they were
the only ones doing any sort of drama. You did
have some comedy sketches on NBC's monitor which ran all

(36:23):
weekend long. But as far as long form drama and
this information, I have to give a shout out to
CBS's World Music Festival show, which ran from two thirty
five until four o'clock Eastern time and did some great
musical shows. But then at three, at four o'clock, rather

(36:47):
after news, you had suspense or no indictment, which we'll
hear in a moment. And then at four thirty five,
after the Rosemary Clooney Show, a five minute show which
they'd play a record and then depending on who it was,
may have been four, may have been PEPSI, may have
been coke, somebody else. But they would do suspense from

(37:12):
four to thirty five until five o'clock, and then at
five o'clock this five oh five, the show you heard
immediately following a CBS news was Your's Truelee Johnny Dollar.
They would go to five thirty, at which time CBS
would bring you the FBI in Peace and War at
five fifty five, five minutes of Bing Crosby. That would

(37:34):
be followed at six o'clock by a CBS newscast and
then six 'zho five gun smoke six thirty, they would
do the thirty minute game show, says who, which was
Virginia Graham, Joey Adams, and Arthur Treacher with their host

(37:55):
Henry Morgan. So you know, it was a real serious
quiz show. Then o'clock you had the Jack Benny Show, which, yes,
nineteen fifty seven, it was repeats. It was repeats of
the show. Then at seven thirty they had the Stan

(38:16):
Freiburg Show, and let's see what was Stan doing it.
They didn't give us a rundown of that, just variety,
that's all they said. Okay. Then at eight o'clock, after
a five minute CBS newscast, they did Mitch Miller for
an hour. So they were still doing lots of good
stuff out there, but it was nearing the end, all right.

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In a moment, we'll take a look at the news
items from that Sunday sixty eight years ago today when
Classic Radio Theater with Wyafcox continues.

Speaker 24 (38:53):
In a moment, millions in Europe and Asia are going
hungry and facing actual starvation. Therefore, it's up to us,
the best fed nation in the world, to tighten our belts.
We can share a meal and save a life.

Speaker 10 (39:11):
And here's how.

Speaker 24 (39:12):
By only as much brand and other wheat products as
you really need. Use rice, fats and oils sparingly. Don't
waste any food. Turn in your used fats and oils
at the food store. Proptly plant a garden, and raise
as much of your family's food as you can. You
are saving food for of those who desperately need it
when you buy less, especially when you use up those leftovers.

Speaker 7 (39:34):
Now, let's take a look on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt Talks with some of the news headlines from sixty
eight years ago. Today, Sunday, September twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven,
President Eisenhower accused Arkansas Governor orbell E. Babas indirectly of
encouraging mobs of extremists to flo out federal court orders

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on school integration. The President at the same time denied
his order sending federal troops into Little Rock bore any
resemblance to hit Larry in tactics. Eisenhower expressed his views
in the telegram to Senator Russell, the Democrat of Georgia,
who had protested the president against what he called high
handed and illegal methods being employed by the federal forces

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in the Little Rock. The telegram did not mention Babas
by name, but in an obvious reference to the Arkansas
Chief executive. The President said, and we're quoting. When a state,
by seeking to frustrate the orders of a federal court,
encourages mobs of extremists to flout the orders of a
federal court, and when a state refuses to utilize its

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police powers to protect against mobs persons who are peaceably
exercising their right under the Constitution has defined in such
court orders. The oath of office of the President requires
that he take action to give the protection an armistist
declared in a Little Rock, Arkansas, in the Battle of

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Fort Chs. Central High High School had closed its warry
doors for the weekend. The battalion of newsmen transferred operations
to the Governor's mansion, where one hundred and thirty seven
Little Rock mothers moved into the spotlight and an audience
with the governor. The mothers put forth their pleas for
a special session of the legislature, a closing of the

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school and reopening under sponsorship that would remove Chs from
federal control, and then fell back into the role of
typical women. Newsmen were admitted to the grounds for reporters
questions started up, but the governor had to move the
ladies out before he could get a word in edgewise.

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In his press conference, Governor Faba said he might seek
to close Central High School rather than see it continue
in its integrated classes at the point of federal bayonets.
The governor also said he has considered taking legal steps
to obtain a federal court injunctioned against President Eisenhower with
the aim of preventing use of federal troops at Little up.

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Boba said the closing of Central High would be a
very pleasant development. In other news, an appeals court cleared
the way for the hotly contested Teamsters election, but warned
that convention delegates must be seated in accordance with the
Union Constitution. The US Circuit Court of Appeals for the

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District of Columbia state a temporary injunction granted by federal
Judge F. Dickinson Letta. He had acted to block this
week's election of Miami Beach on the pleas that union bosses,
with the aid of criminal elements, had rigged the ballot
in favor of James R. Hop Up from Turkey. Pursuit

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planes of the US six fleet, which shoot orders went
into action against an aircraft spotted snooping on fleet maneuvers.
The intruding plane, believed to have been a Russian jet
on a photographic mission, escaped to Co Bulgaria before air
American carrier planes could intercept it. Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown,

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six feet commander, ordered missile carrying Navy jets to shoot
down the plane Thursday when it flew over American amphibious
forces off Turkey. For the fourth straight day, the jurors
who have deliberated the confidential magazine libel conspiracy case for
eleven days, have reported to the court that they have

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not yet taken a formal ballot. Superior Judge Herbert V.
Walker summoned the jury to his courtroom to ask how
they were progressing. The judge one that he was not
inquiring how they stood as to guilt or innocence, but
how they were divided numerically. Foreman Fred L. McCullough replied,
your honor, we have not reached a verdict. We've not
finished going through the evidence and no ballots have been taken.

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Sure LEGERA el dra then asked the judge, could I
send you a little load in private so both attorneys
can see it. Judge Walker said, I can't commit came
with the jury at all any more than anyone else.
After weekend rest, but the jurors will resumed their deliberations
on Monday. Russia to publish a five volume history of

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World War II, The Moscow Radio announced last night the
radio's overseas service of the Communist Party Central Committee will
publish the work between now in nineteen sixty under the
title The History of the Great Fatherland of the Soviet
Union of nineteen forty one to nineteen forty five. Taking
a look at the roper pole, the high hoped entertained

(44:34):
by the electorate for President Eisenhower's second term, which began
to cool down last spring, has chilled still further that
according to the latest survey of across section of American public,
the public's answers to the same questions we asked last
spring took to continued downward slope. If one hundreds of
perfect grade and below seventy is a failing grade, what

(44:55):
grade would you give to the Eisenhower administration. So far,
it appears that ninety percent are over twenty two. The
current poll twenty two percent. We can give them a
ninety or over seventy to eighty fifty percent, below seventy
twelve percent and no opinion sixteen percent. And atle Stephenson

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said yesterday he hope soldiers can fully be quickly withdrawn
from the school integration scene at Little Rock, Arkansas. Though
some of the day's news stories from Sunday, September twenty ninth,
nineteen fifty seven on your radio sixty eight years ago
to day up next Suspense.

Speaker 25 (45:47):
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(46:10):
Aid for Freedom here of your local postmaster. That's Cruse
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Speaker 7 (46:17):
Now we're gonna have an episode of suspense through sixty
eight years ago September twenty nine, nineteen fifty seven, wrapping
up our pair of shows from that Sunday sixty eight
years ago suspense, Vanessa Brown starring in an episode Vamp Till.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Dead Suspense, and the producer of radio's outstanding theater of thrills,
the Master of Mystery and Adventure, William N. Robson.

Speaker 26 (46:50):
It is a cliche of murder that the killer always
returns to the scene of his crime. But we know
of no recorded instance in which the victim has reached
turned to the scene of his demise. However, we come
as close as we can in the upcoming story. We
have contrived to produce a reasonable facts similar of the corpse,
with some startlingly unpredictable results. Listen, listen then, as miss

(47:14):
Vanessa Brown stars in Vamp Till Dead, which begins in
exactly one minute.

Speaker 4 (47:21):
How are you on riddles? What makes a country strong
and active? Well, the answer is a healthy constitution, Yes, sir,
A sound, healthy constitution can cure anything that's wrong, and
the American Constitution is one of the soundest. You take voting,
for example, nearly sixty five percent of the population in
the United States is eligible to vote, and most of

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them take advantage of the opportunity. However, voting in the
United States is actually a privilege and not a right,
since the Constitution gives no one the right to vote,
but it has removed certain unhealthy restrictions under which United
States citizens otherwise qualified to vote were once denied the privilege.
The fifteenth and nineteenth amendments to the Constitution assure citizens

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that they cannot be prevented from voting because of their race, color,
previous condition of servitude, or sex. And nowhere does the
Constitution prevent the people from voting for the candidate of
their choice. Well, as you can see, the primary concern
of the Constitution is the health and well being of
the people of the United States. That's how your American

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Constitution works. And now.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Vamped till Dead starring Miss Vanessa Brown, a tale well
calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 4 (48:45):
Suspense.

Speaker 16 (48:48):
Your first name, what did you say?

Speaker 1 (48:50):
It was?

Speaker 23 (48:51):
Amy, mister gentry, Amy Watkins.

Speaker 16 (48:54):
Amy, Amy, Amy? Yes, yes, yes, and awre you a
good secretary? Amy.

Speaker 23 (48:59):
You have one of recommendations, mister Gentry. I mailed them
to you a week ago.

Speaker 16 (49:03):
Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. To be sure, I must
have looked at them, or I wouldn't have hired you
and had you come all the way from New York,
Now would I do you think you'll like it here
in this big house working for me? I hope, so, sir,
tell me, what do you think of me?

Speaker 23 (49:16):
I beg your pardon me?

Speaker 16 (49:17):
How do I strike you? What? Am I a gentle person,
a wit, a profound talent, a buffoon? Tell me, Amy,
I'd be interested in your opinion.

Speaker 23 (49:27):
Ah, I've only known you were half hour, mister Gentry.

Speaker 16 (49:30):
Well, then I'll tell you. I'm a writer. Amy. Do
you know what it means to have a million words
inside of you and not to be able to let
them out? No, sir, it's not a horror, and that's
the way it's been with me for more than a year.
But now I'm ready to go back to work again
and release those million words, and it will be your
job to take them down.

Speaker 23 (49:49):
I'll do my best.

Speaker 16 (49:51):
Not going to be easy, very demanding.

Speaker 23 (49:54):
Amy, I understand, mister Gentry.

Speaker 16 (49:56):
The cook's name is Jenny. She'll help you find your
way around the house. And heaven say call me Paul,
not mister Gentry. Yes, Paul's better, Amy. I feel it
helps if people adjust to new situations as quickly as possible.
Have you heard about my wife?

Speaker 8 (50:13):
No, sir, I haven't.

Speaker 16 (50:14):
Well you will, so I'll tell you. People around here
say that I killed missus Gentry. Good night, Amy.

Speaker 23 (50:31):
I ran upstairs to my room. I could still hear
him laughing even after I closed the door. And then
finally he started, and I was lying across my bed
when I was aware that someone was standing beside me.
He's like that child. You mustn't mind.

Speaker 12 (50:50):
Who are you?

Speaker 27 (50:52):
I'm Jenny the cook? Oh oh yes, but somehow you
don't all look like a cook.

Speaker 8 (51:02):
My dear.

Speaker 27 (51:03):
I find more inspiration in cooking meals for a great
writer like Paul Gentry than I ever found in the
twenty three years I taught high school English. I see now,
don't let him upset you. He really doesn't mean it.
He can be as gentle as he is harsh. No
one really understands him.

Speaker 23 (51:24):
Did duh?

Speaker 3 (51:25):
Did?

Speaker 23 (51:26):
Did missus Gentry understand him?

Speaker 4 (51:31):
No?

Speaker 27 (51:32):
She didn't. She never made an attempt. There's a question
in your eyes, Amy, Yes, was she murdered? Yes, in
that little guest cottage down by the brook. You can
see it from this window.

Speaker 23 (51:49):
How how how did it happen?

Speaker 27 (51:53):
It was almost a year ago. They argued over something
trivial at dinner. The flowers on the table missus. As
Gentry ran out of the house. A few minutes later,
I could hear her playing the piano in the cottage,
some little tune that always infuriated him. The next morning,
her body was found slumped over the piano. Her neck

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was broken. And people think there was no evidence against
mister Gentry, no proof, only hearsay and talk.

Speaker 23 (52:23):
I see now, now there's a question in your eyes.

Speaker 27 (52:30):
Yes, Amy, this information doesn't seem to disturb you, and
that puzzles me because along with that this, there's something
about you. What about your appearance, my dear, Really, it's
quite remarkable how much you resemble Isabelle Gentry.

Speaker 23 (53:07):
For the next three weeks, I took dictation from morning
until night. There was quantity, certainly, but the quality was poor.
The book was going badly. And then one afternoon, when
I walked into his study, there was another man standing
there beside Paul Amy.

Speaker 16 (53:24):
This is Al Pender. Al's a reporter on the local paper.
He tried his best to have me indicted for murder.

Speaker 23 (53:30):
Oh how do you do, mister Pender.

Speaker 28 (53:33):
I'm glad to meet you. Amy just dropped in the
interview mister Gentry about his new book.

Speaker 16 (53:38):
You see, Amy, I'm a celebrity. They interviewed me about
my new book. Why don't you tell him all about it?

Speaker 23 (53:43):
I wouldn't want the responsibility, Paul.

Speaker 16 (53:45):
You can tell him how bad it is as well
as I can.

Speaker 23 (53:47):
Oh, no, Paul, I couldn't possibly say that about it.

Speaker 16 (53:50):
What could you say about it? Anything worthwhile?

Speaker 29 (53:53):
Oh?

Speaker 16 (53:54):
The dropped eyes to withdrawal. Isabel used to react the
same way when I became angry with her.

Speaker 23 (54:00):
Why do I remind you of her?

Speaker 16 (54:02):
Yes? Yes, you'll remind me of Isabelle, of all the
things in her that stopped me from writing. How do
you like that, Panda? That's a story for your to print?

Speaker 28 (54:09):
You want me to print it? Gentry?

Speaker 16 (54:10):
I kill you if you did.

Speaker 23 (54:12):
I'm sorry if I remind you of Isabel?

Speaker 30 (54:14):
Paul?

Speaker 16 (54:15):
Are you Amy? Are you really? No? I don't think
you are. I don't think you are at all.

Speaker 28 (54:22):
Huh have you been like this very long?

Speaker 23 (54:25):
I'd rather not say, mister pender.

Speaker 28 (54:27):
Amy, did you know that no one in town would
take this job?

Speaker 3 (54:31):
Yes?

Speaker 28 (54:32):
Still you came here.

Speaker 12 (54:34):
Yes, he killed his wife.

Speaker 28 (54:36):
Everyone knows it.

Speaker 23 (54:36):
It was never proved.

Speaker 28 (54:38):
No, no, because of a technicality.

Speaker 6 (54:41):
You know, He's right.

Speaker 28 (54:43):
You do look a great deal like Isabel and that
means you're in danger here. He's crazy. He might actually
come to think of you as Isabelle.

Speaker 23 (54:52):
I want him to think of me as Isabel in
every way possible, every day, every minute. There must be
some way to prove he killed her.

Speaker 28 (55:04):
See why are you so interested? Who are you anyway?

Speaker 23 (55:11):
I'm Isabelle Gentry's sister.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
The second act of suspense continues in one minute.

Speaker 31 (55:27):
Those of us who live in cities and localities where
regular letter carriers drop off our mail probably never wonder
how mail is handled in places where almost nobody lives,
where there just isn't anything and not much reason for
going there. But the Postmaster General thought about it, and
he did something about it. Now, the Post Office doesn't
operate regular routes to these places because there isn't enough

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mail to pay to have a regular postman. But these
lonely ones, such as prospectors in the Nevada Mountains, or
trappers in the Alaskan Wilderness or Louisi on of Bayous,
are entitled to their mail, and an answer had to
be found, So the Post Office Department set up a
system of signing contracts with responsible people to deliver mail

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to these out of the way places. These routes are
known as star routes. Deliveries are made usually to boxes
same as RFD boxes that stand deserted in some barren
waste or along a rarely travel river. Star route carriers
use cars, horses, mules, rowboats, dog sleds, airplanes. Sometimes they
walk whatever they need they use to deliver the mail.

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I'll bet being a Star route postman could be a
lot of fun.

Speaker 10 (56:38):
But rugged.

Speaker 2 (56:42):
We continue with that too of vamp Till Dead, starring
Miss Venica Brown, A tail well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 4 (56:53):
Suspense.

Speaker 23 (56:57):
Yes, sister of the woman Paul Gentry was accused of murdering.
I was abroad during their courtship and marriage. We had
never met, so it was simple for me to begin
my campaign. I began to do everything the way I
had remembered Isabelle. I wore her favorite perfume. I held

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my head to one side and smiled the.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
Way she used to.

Speaker 23 (57:24):
I started using her expressions in my speech. I wasn't
sure whether I was torturing him or he was torturing himself.
That I was certain. He began to think of me
as Isabelle. And then I began visiting the guest cottage.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
Where she was murdered.

Speaker 23 (57:47):
And playing the piano at which she died. Amy, Oh,

(58:08):
I didn't notice you come in, Jenny. What are you
doing here in this cottage practicing?

Speaker 12 (58:15):
Must you practice that?

Speaker 16 (58:17):
What do you mean?

Speaker 27 (58:19):
That's the tune she used to play. I told you
he hated it.

Speaker 23 (58:24):
Oh, I forgot, and you're here.

Speaker 27 (58:30):
You're wearing it the way she used to do.

Speaker 15 (58:33):
Am I.

Speaker 27 (58:35):
Don't you see what you're doing to him? What He
hardly spends an hour a day writing Now It's just
like it was when she was alive. There was something
about her that killed his inspiration. Instead of creating, he
only wanted to destroy. Now you're doing the same thing
to him.

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Me, But I only want to help him.

Speaker 27 (58:58):
There's only one way you can do. Leave, But he
needs me. You're not helping, You're hindering, always reminding him.

Speaker 23 (59:06):
Of her, Jenny, why do you stay?

Speaker 12 (59:10):
Oh?

Speaker 27 (59:11):
I'm like his desk while the cherry sits on just
a piece of furniture doing a job. He doesn't think
about me one way or the other. Oh, someday I'll
see him get back to writing the way he used.

Speaker 23 (59:23):
To Do you mean without her? Yes?

Speaker 27 (59:28):
Do you think he killed her?

Speaker 23 (59:29):
Jenny?

Speaker 27 (59:30):
Oh, that's something I don't dare think about, Amy.

Speaker 8 (59:44):
I thought about it.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
In the days that followed.

Speaker 23 (59:48):
Paul's work went from bad to worse, and so did
his temper. He was unmanageable. Most of the time. He
would slump in his chair, drinking and staring at me,
just staring, staring, staring and staring. I knew he was
almost ready to break. The day he went into a

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rage and he started throwing things around his study. I
left the house, walked down to the guest cottage, sat
down at the piano and started to play.

Speaker 21 (01:00:21):
Was this it?

Speaker 23 (01:00:22):
I wondered? Would the track be sprung now? I hadn't
long to wait behind me. I heard the door slowly open,
and I continued playing. First move would have to be his.

Speaker 32 (01:00:46):
Ah, surprise you?

Speaker 12 (01:00:51):
Uh? Yes, I brought you something A gun?

Speaker 28 (01:00:57):
What for if you won't be sensible and leave this place,
then you need it for your own protection.

Speaker 23 (01:01:03):
I can handle my situation without a gun, can you?

Speaker 28 (01:01:07):
That man is out of his mind the first time
he comes at you.

Speaker 8 (01:01:10):
Let him have it.

Speaker 28 (01:01:11):
Everybody in this town knows about him. Look, no jury
would ever convict you.

Speaker 23 (01:01:16):
I came here to get proved that Paul Gentry killed
my sister. I want him to pay for it legally.
But it seems to me that you want me to
be judge, jury and executioner.

Speaker 28 (01:01:26):
Oh no, no listening.

Speaker 23 (01:01:27):
Well, I am going to tell you something. Isabelle used
to write to me, and she was pretty frank. She
told me about a newspaper man she was interested in.
Could you be that man?

Speaker 4 (01:01:40):
Yes?

Speaker 33 (01:01:42):
Now?

Speaker 23 (01:01:43):
Is it because you loved Isabelle that you wanted to
see her murderer court? Or would you just like to
sacrifice Paul Gentry because he was married to the woman
that you wanted nda?

Speaker 16 (01:01:55):
Are you aware that this property belongs to me? What
are you doing on it.

Speaker 28 (01:01:58):
Talking to her? What does it look like?

Speaker 17 (01:02:00):
Paul?

Speaker 33 (01:02:00):
Poor?

Speaker 23 (01:02:00):
Please?

Speaker 16 (01:02:01):
How many times do I have to tell you to
leave my wife alone? Your wife? Just a minute, you
get up my property while you can still walk, and Isabel,
you get back up to the house while you belong.

Speaker 23 (01:02:20):
I ran back to the house, up to my room.
A moment later I heard his heavy steps coming up
the stairway, and before I could do anything, he was
standing in my doorway.

Speaker 16 (01:02:31):
Isabel, Isabel Why did you make me do it?

Speaker 4 (01:02:35):
Why?

Speaker 23 (01:02:37):
Why did you do it?

Speaker 8 (01:02:39):
Paul?

Speaker 16 (01:02:39):
I couldn't help myself with those men all the time,
especially pendent Amy. Isabel's dead, you're Amy. Why do you
keep making me think that you're Isabel?

Speaker 23 (01:02:50):
Why you're imagining it? Paul?

Speaker 34 (01:02:54):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (01:02:54):
Amy?

Speaker 10 (01:02:54):
Why don't you leave here.

Speaker 16 (01:02:56):
While it's safe?

Speaker 23 (01:02:57):
I think it is safe, Paul.

Speaker 16 (01:03:00):
You aren't afraid of me the way you were that
first night. You aren't afraid of what I might do
to you.

Speaker 23 (01:03:04):
No, Paul, I'm not afraid. If you really want me
to go, I will, but I'd rather stay. I want
to be close to you, closer to you than anybody
in this world has ever been.

Speaker 16 (01:03:17):
Oh, I don't want you to go any ever.

Speaker 12 (01:03:21):
I love you.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
I know.

Speaker 16 (01:03:24):
I want you to marry of course, sir, of course, Paul.

Speaker 23 (01:03:30):
Ever since Isabel died, I've wanted to be your wife.

Speaker 10 (01:03:35):
Act three of a.

Speaker 2 (01:03:46):
Suspense follows in one minute.

Speaker 16 (01:03:50):
Fool thief.

Speaker 35 (01:03:51):
Perhaps you think name calling isn't very nice, but people
who are careless with fire in our forest land are
not very nice. Think about the use you give wood
and wood products every day of your life. Wouldn't you
be foolish to risk damaging a single tree when wood
is the source of so many comforts. People who toss
matches or cigarette butts away before they're fully extinguished.

Speaker 6 (01:04:11):
People who will leave a.

Speaker 35 (01:04:12):
Camphire behind without taking the trouble to douse it thoroughly
with water are thieves. They take the pleasures our forestland
offers them, but they won't pay for those pleasures with
the consideration of forest deserves. What else can you call
them but thieves, unless, of course they're killers. All too
often lives are lost in fighting forest fires. Call it
anything you like, but the reality of it is death.

(01:04:34):
Enjoy our forest land to the full, but please handle
fire with care. Be sure matches and cigarette butts are
out before you toss them away. Never leave a campfire
until after you've doused it with water.

Speaker 12 (01:04:46):
And now.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
We continue with that three of vamp till Dead starring
Miss venis a brown well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 4 (01:05:03):
Suspense.

Speaker 23 (01:05:07):
Next day we were married quietly by the justice of
the peace. Surely this bait would spring the trap. Surely
my sister's murderer would attempt to kill the woman who
so closely resembled her and now replaced her. That night,
I dressed for dinner in the perfect image of my sister,

(01:05:30):
and Paul greeted me as I expected him to.

Speaker 16 (01:05:33):
Isabel you never looked more beautiful.

Speaker 23 (01:05:35):
Oh, thank you, Paula, thank you.

Speaker 16 (01:05:39):
You misserved Jenny. Yes, sir, oh, Jenny us the large
Super bowls please for Isabel. I understand, Sir, I know
you prefer them, darling. Yes, there's something wrong, Isabelle.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Paul.

Speaker 23 (01:05:52):
I just noticed you have carnations on the table.

Speaker 16 (01:05:57):
Why, yes, you know.

Speaker 23 (01:05:59):
I don't like conn nations, Paul.

Speaker 12 (01:06:00):
I don't like them at all, Isabelle.

Speaker 16 (01:06:02):
They were all I could get. I'm afraid you'll have
to like.

Speaker 23 (01:06:05):
Look, I don't have to like anything.

Speaker 27 (01:06:07):
Have Jenny take them off the table.

Speaker 16 (01:06:08):
I see here.

Speaker 33 (01:06:09):
You'll either get rid of them or I won't.

Speaker 36 (01:06:11):
Eat dinner with you.

Speaker 16 (01:06:12):
You hear me, Then don't eat dinner with me, my dear.
I'd like it better that way, and I won't have
to look at your bored, critical face all the time.

Speaker 23 (01:06:28):
It was rude and cruel, but I had to know.
I had to act the same way Isabelle had acted,
for it was just a year ago tonight she had
been murdered. And then I was in the cottage where

(01:06:51):
did it happened? Sitting at the piano playing her tune.
I sat there waiting. I knew I would hear steps
first and then a door, But I heard nothing, nothing,

(01:07:24):
And then at last I heard the steps.

Speaker 8 (01:07:34):
Oh now, Amy, Amy, you all right?

Speaker 12 (01:07:45):
Oh you all right?

Speaker 8 (01:07:46):
Amy? Yes? O, yes, yes, and.

Speaker 16 (01:07:50):
Stay where you are. Blow your head off. I always
knew it was you who killed isabel You guys, you
refuse to run away with you.

Speaker 28 (01:07:57):
You're wrong, Gentry, it wasn't me.

Speaker 23 (01:07:59):
Look, Paul, Paul, Darling.

Speaker 16 (01:08:03):
She was the one, Jenny, Jenny.

Speaker 28 (01:08:07):
I had to knock her out. She tried to kill
Amy the same way she killed Isabelle. She was afraid
Amy was going to take you away from her.

Speaker 16 (01:08:13):
Oh, Amy, Amy, my darling, Paul, do you know who
I am?

Speaker 33 (01:08:21):
Who I really am?

Speaker 12 (01:08:23):
Yes?

Speaker 16 (01:08:24):
I know You're not Isabelle. I've known all along. I
had to pretend because you pretended.

Speaker 23 (01:08:28):
Give me, Please forgive me.

Speaker 16 (01:08:31):
It's all over, my darling, Andy, Yes.

Speaker 23 (01:08:34):
Yes, Paul, it's over. Isabelle is truly Dead.

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Suspense in which Miss Vanessa Brown starred in vamp Till Dead.
Written by E Jack Newman and John Michael Hayes, suspense
is produced and directed by William and Robeson, supporting Miss

(01:09:14):
Venice A. Brown in Vamp Till Dead, Where Janette Nolan,
ben Wright and Normalden Listen, listen again next week when
we bring you another tale well calculated to keep you
in suspense.

Speaker 7 (01:09:54):
Vanessa Brown a quite intelligent actress. She had to work
for couple of years on Quiz Kids. She had an
IQ one sixty five. She specialized in language and literature,
and she had an interview program on the Voice of America.
She was heard on Lux Radio, Theater, Skippy Hollywood Theater,

(01:10:15):
NBC University Theater, Theater Guild on the air. She had
a number of motion picture appearances. She was the eighth
actress to play the role of Jane, appearing in the
nineteen fifty Tars and then The Slave Girl opposite Lex Barker,
a role in Vincent Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful

(01:10:35):
and I Guess. Her last film appearance was in The
Witch Who Came from the Sea in nineteen seventy six.
In addition to a lot of early shows, she appeared
on The Wonder Years and Murder She wrote. She played
the title role on the Wagon Train episode The Sally
Potter Story in nineteen fifty eight and did a lot

(01:10:59):
of states work as well. So and she also did
some painting as well. She passed away in nineteen ninety
nine at the age of seventy one. Vanessa Brown born
in Austria to Jewish parents. There you have about Vanessa Brown,

(01:11:21):
the star of this episode of suspense, and that wraps
up our look at Sunday, September twenty ninth, nineteen fifty seven,
sixty eight years ago. Coming up on our Tuesday show,
we will have westerns Gun Smoke and Port Laramie from
nineteen fifty six, Gene Autrey's Melody Ranch and Tales of
the Texas Rangers from nineteen fifty. We also have our

(01:11:44):
special podcast tomorrow with Suspense Yours Truly Johnny Dollar their
final episodes that aired sixty three years ago Tomorrow. Also
coming up, we will have on Wednesday The Shadow Adventures
of Philip Marlow, the Man Called X and Carter Master
Detective Thursday Fibber and Molly Great Gildersleeve, Phil Harrison r

(01:12:06):
Miss Brooks. On Friday, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Nick Carter,
the counter Spy, and Theatre Royal. We'll also have on
Saturday Harry Lime with Orson Wells, Dragnet with Jack Webb,
Jackson Becks, Filo Vans and John Daner is the Frontier Gentleman.
Sunday Comedy with it Deames Taylor and it pays to

(01:12:28):
be ignorant, Stan Freeberg, Jack Benny and the Great Gildersleeve.
And that'll get us to Monday where we'll have more
comedy Fred Allen and Ozzie hen Harriet from nineteen forty five,
the Who's Your hot Shots from nineteen fifty and Milton
Burrow from nineteen forty seven. That's all coming up on

(01:12:48):
the Days Ahead here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt
Cogs up next Wanted.

Speaker 22 (01:13:00):
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Speaker 7 (01:13:28):
We go back seventy five years now to September twenty ninth,
nineteen fifty for an episode of the NBC's program Wanted.

Speaker 37 (01:13:38):
What.

Speaker 6 (01:13:40):
What a Poor jail break presented in the public interest.
This is the program that brings you, for the first
time on the air, a nationwide manhunt in action. This
is the program that has led to the capture of
three dangerous criminals. From the record, the on the spot
reports of the actual people in nothing is withheld, no

(01:14:02):
one is protected. Here are the dramatic eyewitness accounts of
a man wanted, wanted for jail break and now want
It's on the spot, Investigator Walter mcgrawl.

Speaker 4 (01:14:16):
Good evening, once again, you and I are going on
a nationwide man hunt for a criminal who is now
at large somewhere in this country. Tonight you will hear
from the actual eyewitnesses who are involved in this case.
You'll meet the fugitive's friends and family, his victims, and
the police who are at this moment working on his case. Remember,

(01:14:38):
each and every one of these people are putting themselves
on the spot to give you firsthand information about a
man who is wanted. Tonight, we're turning Wanted spotlight on
a psychopathic murderer, a man whom psychiatrists say should be
segregated from his fellow men, a man to be carefully

(01:14:59):
watched for the rest of his life. Yet this is
a man who was, at this moment at large.

Speaker 6 (01:15:06):
Possibly endangering even you.

Speaker 4 (01:15:08):
So listen.

Speaker 10 (01:15:09):
These are the facts.

Speaker 6 (01:15:12):
Date October twelfth, nineteen thirty nine. The location a quiet
residential street in the small sleepy town of Brissell, Oklahoma.
A line of residential houses placed one close to the other,
so close, in fact, it's an easy matter to see
into the neighbor's rooms.

Speaker 38 (01:15:27):
The voices you hear next of those of the actual
people who, through no fault of their own, are involved
in the case of Gladys Tibbet Glasgow Stewart and her husband,
young Lieutenant Alvin Stuart First their next door neighbors.

Speaker 39 (01:15:40):
I'm missus Jim Trainor of Percell, Oklahoma.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
Husband and I leave next.

Speaker 39 (01:15:45):
Door to the Stewarts. I was aptin in to the
children about two thirty and on my way back to bed,
I heard loud screams. I looked out of the window
and saw the scrange was coming from the Stuart's next door.
I saw the book of a man coming through the
screen door. Glady Stewart screamed, and her husband, Sergeant Stewart,

(01:16:11):
sat up in bed and says, you have the wrong man.
But the intruder says, no, I haven't, and he shot him.
Gladys screamed again, and he turned the gun in and
shot her several times. Gladys fell to the floor and
he left and then turned around and came back and

(01:16:35):
hit her several times with his gun over on the head.
Now here is my husband, Jim.

Speaker 8 (01:16:41):
What did you do? Then?

Speaker 40 (01:16:43):
I ask you, shid I ashoot him? I had a
six hitter in my hand. You said, no, he is
not bothering you, so let him go. I watched him
so far as I could see him, and then I
went on my front porch to see where he went.
About one half locked down the street, he parked his

(01:17:05):
car and then he entered his car and drove away.
And then I went out to call sheriff Edgemon.

Speaker 41 (01:17:12):
I'm sheriff Edgeman of McLean County, Oklahoma.

Speaker 32 (01:17:15):
I received a call at about three o'clock and U
arriving at the scene, I discovered the screen dover had
been forced open and uh Sartan stood had been shot
by the intruder and was learning in bed dead. The
shots and noise around Gladys and she cried for her

(01:17:36):
son Danna to go for help. She's in grappled with
the intruder and was shot twice in close range. I
began searching the house for evidence while Uh, the wounding
girl was uh being questioned by the county Attorney E.

Speaker 21 (01:17:51):
Smith Hester.

Speaker 8 (01:17:53):
My name is E.

Speaker 41 (01:17:53):
Smith Hester. I was the prosecuting attorney of McLean County,
Oklahoma at the time. I was called to the home
of Sergeant Stewart in the west part of Purcell. Upon
my arrival there about two forty in the morning, I

(01:18:16):
found that Sergeant Stuart was shot through the heart and
lying in bed. Missus Stewart had been shot twice, once
through the spleen, and was bleeding badly.

Speaker 28 (01:18:36):
She advised me.

Speaker 41 (01:18:39):
That she realized that she was going to die.

Speaker 6 (01:18:43):
The dying girl, Gladys Glasgow Stewart, lapsed into one consciousness
and was taken to the hospital. Call the attorney E.
Smith Hester and Sheriff Edgmond hoped she'd regain consciousness and
make a full statement giving the needed details of the attack.
They knew from the first that this double tragedy was
no accidental shooting by a prowler, but the direct result
of Gladys's past life, and that past had started ten

(01:19:06):
years before, ten years before, when Gladys was eighteen.

Speaker 5 (01:19:13):
Of course, I'm no one to talk. I'm not the
gossipind kind, but gladdis well, her name is Gladys Tippetain.
When she was eighteen, and for a girl eighteen, she
had away with men. My goodness, she was so popular
that well, no other girl in town had a chance,
I must admit.

Speaker 23 (01:19:30):
Gladys was there.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
Well, she was much prettier than any other young girl
had any right to be.

Speaker 42 (01:19:38):
Naturally, Gladys had a lot of bows. Not she cared
for anyone in particular, but every young man in town
was a courtner, and even old Raymond Glascow says she was.

Speaker 21 (01:19:47):
A mighty cute drick.

Speaker 42 (01:19:48):
Of course, everybody knew Raymond Glascow was kidding. He'd been
married in past forty, but he talked about her so
much he got his son Ted all steamed up, and
Ted Glascow began to call on Gladys.

Speaker 5 (01:20:02):
They began Dayton's steady, and it wasn't long before wedding
bells rang out. It was quite a wedding, Gladys so beautiful,
and young Ted so happy, and Gladys folks, the Tibbets
thrilled to death, and even Ted's father, Raymond Glasgow, seemed
happy now that Gladys was his.

Speaker 12 (01:20:20):
Daughter in law.

Speaker 16 (01:20:23):
Married.

Speaker 6 (01:20:23):
Now, Gladys faded from the public eye, and within a
few short years Ted and Gladys had a child, a
son named Danny. Then gossip startled again.

Speaker 5 (01:20:33):
About this time a fellow named Preacher Deeton was seen
in and around. Forself, hind manned the preacher. He was
not only a holy man, but he happened to be
an important member of the Oklahoma State legislature. Well with
anybody that important around, folks were naturally.

Speaker 12 (01:20:52):
Interested in everything he did.

Speaker 6 (01:20:55):
As for Gladys, she was happy, happily married to Ted Glasgow.
Frequently Ted and Gladys, Ted's mother and father, Old Raymond
Glascow and his wife and Gladys' mother and father, Mister
and Missus Tibbot, would go up together on Saturday night.
They'd drop into one of the various roadside cafes and
spend the evening having a few drinks together.

Speaker 42 (01:21:14):
But whenever they had a few drinks together, the fight
that starts. Old Raymond Glascow was a moody kind of guy,
and he'd get mad over anything. Gladys had a time
of it trying to keep peace in the family.

Speaker 6 (01:21:25):
Then on a Saturday night in the fall of nineteen
thirty seven, the Glasgows, the Tibbets, Ted and Gladys stopped
in for a drink at a place called Camp Joel.

Speaker 10 (01:21:36):
This is Ray Hammers.

Speaker 43 (01:21:38):
I run Camp Joe. About ten thirty eleven o'clock one night,
Raymond Glascow and his wife, Young Ted Glascow and his
wife Gladys, You, and Tippett and his wife came to
my place. Always joined themselves and having a good time.
When the little rukas come up between Raymond Glasgow and Tippett.

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Finally they got into a little fight and Truman Deaton,
legislator from Pontalk County that happened to come through, kick
Glasgow out the door, and he came back in. He
and Ted and hunting for uh Deaton and Uh. We
tried to stop him at the door, but he kept
coming and kept drinking on Deaton till finally he drew

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his gun and fired two shots. First shot evidently aimed
at Raymond Glasgow missed. The second shot hit Ted, which
killed him. After that, I called the police.

Speaker 41 (01:22:32):
My name is Walter Woods, connected with the sheriff Department
of McClain County. I was called to Camp Joel. I
was the first officer to arrive at the scene. I
questioned the witnesses about the shooting that had happened there,
and I found out that uh Preacher Deaton had shot
in Glasgow. Later, I returned to town here at Purcell

(01:22:58):
to put out alarm far Deepon, but he surrendered.

Speaker 17 (01:23:03):
Hisself to the church department.

Speaker 41 (01:23:06):
He admitted that he shot Glasgow, that he shot in
self defense.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
Preacher Deaton, a member of Oklahoma's state legislature, was arrested
for the murder of young Ted Glasgow. The small town
self defense shooting blossomed into a statewide scandal, and the
face of gorgeous Gladys and her family christ into the
headlines of every paper in the state, together with that
of Preacher Deaton. And Deaton went to trial.

Speaker 44 (01:23:30):
The jury returned a verdict de Bennison's self defense. Preacher
Deaton was exonerated of any guilt in the matter of
the murder of young Ted.

Speaker 6 (01:23:37):
Glasgow exonerated by a jury. Deaton was released. Oklahoma papers
heralded his release and innocence, But that was an election year.
The voting public went to the polls and when they
saw his name on the ballot.

Speaker 12 (01:23:53):
Wasn't that the fell involved in that shooting?

Speaker 10 (01:23:55):
Sure, that's the guy killed a man?

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Imagine him running for office.

Speaker 6 (01:24:00):
Glory had exonerated him of any guilt, but the scandal
had a lasting effect, and Preacher Eaton was voted out
of office. After that, no word was heard from Preacher
Deaton at all. He seemed to have disappeared. As for Gladys,
she was a widow, now a widow with a child.

Speaker 42 (01:24:18):
At first, Raymond Glasgow took on something terrible about the
death of his son. He seemed to feel he himself
was to blame for the frakers. He wanted to make
it all up to Gladys. He said he wanted to
support his daughter in law and grandson.

Speaker 6 (01:24:32):
Gladys turned that offer.

Speaker 42 (01:24:34):
Dom A lot of other fellows offered to help. They
all wanted to marry her.

Speaker 6 (01:24:39):
Gladys turned them down.

Speaker 42 (01:24:41):
She desired to move home with her own mother and father.
The Tibbets and to get a job.

Speaker 45 (01:24:46):
This is Ruth Hardage. I knew Gladys Glascow. She used
to work at the Archer Lumber Company as a bookkeeper.
She was liked by everyone. She used to go out
on a lot of dates. She was very popular, especially
with the boy.

Speaker 6 (01:25:01):
But popular Glattys wasn't interested.

Speaker 4 (01:25:03):
Days she worked, evening she.

Speaker 6 (01:25:05):
Spent at home with son Danny and her family.

Speaker 42 (01:25:07):
He Usually she didn't have any visitors except for Raymond Glasgow.
He used to drop by all the time. Usually it
was some kind of present for Danny. He used to
brag to everybody that he and the youngster were great friends.

Speaker 6 (01:25:21):
One year passed for Gladys Tippet Glasgow. She worked hard
and was lonely.

Speaker 5 (01:25:30):
Then Gladys met Lieutenant Stewart. He'd been transferred to the
c CZ Camphiches, located right outside of herself. Handsome fellow
this Lieutenant Helvin Stewart, handsome and clean cut.

Speaker 42 (01:25:45):
At first, the folks used to see Gladys and the
lieutenants troll around town together. Then the notice that young
Danny was always long. That boy took the lieutenant from
the start well for long Gladys let us know that
she and the lieutenant had serious intentions, and that was
nice for Danny Tooles and seeing the lieutenant got along fine.
Lieutenant Alvin Stewart and Gladys tip At Glasgow were married

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in the spring of the year nineteen thirty nine.

Speaker 5 (01:26:11):
Now everyone thought the past was buried. Now Gladys had
a new start. There's an old adage, you can't escape
your past. Gladys couldn't. Right after her marriage to the lieutenant,
she seemed nervous about something, and each succeeding day that

(01:26:32):
nervousness grew. She'd tell the neighbors sometimes that she's worried.
Sometimes you wouldn't talk at all, just walk around the
backyard of her house, hugging the child to her, jumping
at the sound of the wind in the trees, crying
out at any sudden noise.

Speaker 12 (01:26:48):
Lots of folks aren't.

Speaker 5 (01:26:49):
Gladys was imagining things having a breakdown.

Speaker 36 (01:26:53):
And then.

Speaker 21 (01:26:56):
October twelfth, nineteen thirty.

Speaker 5 (01:26:58):
Nine, that morning Gladys had been crying.

Speaker 23 (01:27:01):
She was almost friandy.

Speaker 5 (01:27:03):
She told the neighbors, I'm afraid, not for myself, but
I'm afraid for Danny. But she wouldn't tell anyone who
she was afraid of.

Speaker 21 (01:27:13):
During the night of October twelfth, nineteen thirty nine, the
intruder broke in and shot both Gladys and her husband.

Speaker 6 (01:27:20):
After the shooting, Gladys Glasgow Stewart said she knew she
was going to die. He was taken to the hospital unconscious.
Catty Attorney Hester kept a vigil outside her door while
Purcell sheriff Edgman went to work gathering the details of
the case.

Speaker 21 (01:27:35):
He got a description of the murderer.

Speaker 1 (01:27:37):
I saw him, he walked to the limp.

Speaker 33 (01:27:39):
I heard him talk.

Speaker 8 (01:27:40):
I know who he is.

Speaker 21 (01:27:43):
He got a description of the gun, thirty eight Colt revolver.

Speaker 10 (01:27:46):
It's registered.

Speaker 6 (01:27:48):
He got a description placing the murderer at the scene
of the crime. And he got a motive, if you
can call it that.

Speaker 5 (01:27:56):
The day Gladys married young Lieutenant Stuart's started, he.

Speaker 42 (01:28:01):
Was jealous the lieutenant. Not jealous like an ordinary guy,
but different. He started to think about it, brooding, kind
of thinking up ideas all the time.

Speaker 12 (01:28:10):
Then he had.

Speaker 27 (01:28:11):
Trouble on the job.

Speaker 5 (01:28:13):
You see, he was a guard at the penitentiary at
Granite City. Suddenly he seemed to go to pot. He
was acting strange and sick. They gave him a leave
of absence, thinking you needed to rest.

Speaker 42 (01:28:26):
He needed to rest, but he didn't get it. He
had more time on his hands to think about Gladys
and the lieutenant that there was nothing she did that
he didn't know about, standing watching her house, waiting for
a look at her and look at that kid Danny.

Speaker 5 (01:28:42):
That night of the murder, he grove to see his brother.
It was after midnight. Funny thing, no one knew what
was really in his mind. He said he was depressed
and upset. He threatened to commit suicide. Then as he
left his brother's house, he mentioned that he wanted to
take one last look at Gladys.

Speaker 6 (01:29:04):
Yes, sheriff Edgman found out everything there was to know
about the shooting. Then word came from the hospital that
Gladays Glasgow Stewart had recovered consciousness.

Speaker 17 (01:29:14):
Sheriff Edgmon.

Speaker 32 (01:29:17):
We immediately went into Oklahoma City, into the sant Anton
the hospital and got another statement from Gladys about.

Speaker 17 (01:29:28):
What happened at the resident.

Speaker 10 (01:29:30):
She said that.

Speaker 41 (01:29:33):
That Raymond Glasgow was the man that shot her.

Speaker 6 (01:29:38):
Shortly afternoon, Gladas Glasgow Stewart died and Raymond Glasgow, ex
father in law of Glasgow kindly grandfather of the many gifts,
was wanted for a double murder.

Speaker 44 (01:29:52):
Glasgow had disappeared. He lit out right after the shooting.
Her cell police spread the word of the Oklahoma State Police.
Roadblots were set up and wor was received.

Speaker 46 (01:30:01):
This is Officer Ron Wadley, Lawton Police Department, Loton, Oklahoma.
I received a long distance telephone call from Sheriff Edgeman,
Sheriff of McClain County, Oklahoma.

Speaker 10 (01:30:14):
He stated that h.

Speaker 46 (01:30:16):
Raymond Glasgow, who was a resident of Loton, Oklahoma, was
wanted for murder.

Speaker 10 (01:30:22):
And for us to be on the lookout for him.

Speaker 46 (01:30:26):
Before I could notify our mobile units and police patrolman
of the wanted notice on Raymond Glasgow, he came into
the police station and identified himself and stated that he
was wanted for murder in McLean County and wanted to
give up. Immediately booked Glasgow and telephone Cheriff Edgemen that

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we had him in custody. Cheriff Edgeman stated that he'd
be right down after him and returned him to mcpain
County where he was tried for murder.

Speaker 6 (01:31:02):
Raymond Glasgow, forty six year old father in law of
the gorgeous Gladdie, went before the jury. At first he
entered a plea of not guilty. Later he changed that
plead to guilty. The state tried to get the maximum
sentence the chair, but they were extenuating circumstances.

Speaker 10 (01:31:20):
This is doctor Frank Kane.

Speaker 34 (01:31:22):
Doctor Griffin, superintendent of the Central State Hospital over at Norman,
interviewed Raymond Glasgow and turned in the following report. Glasgow
is suffering from a mental condition and is what the
medical profession terms a psychopathic patient. A man in this
condition is much more likely to commit such crimes since

(01:31:42):
he is under much less restraint than a normal person.
Any person in Glasgow's mental condition is very dangerous and
should be kept apart from other people for the remainder
of his life.

Speaker 6 (01:31:55):
Worth this report in mind, the jury returned a guilty
verdict but recommended clemen see.

Speaker 44 (01:32:00):
Raymond Glascow was sentenced at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary for
the rest of his normal life.

Speaker 32 (01:32:06):
This is Warden Berford, the Oklahoma State Penitential McAllister, Oklahoma.
Raymond Glasgow was received here the ninth of November nineteen
thirty nine, being a farmer and having served as a
guard at granted, it was only six years until he
was made of trustee. When he was made trustee, he
was assigned to the dairy barn under supervision of mister

(01:32:27):
Johnny Arborough.

Speaker 11 (01:32:29):
This is Johnny Arbery, superintendent of the dry To, Oklahoma
State Penitentiary. When Raymond Glasgow came out born as a trustee, uh,
we had him working in the milk croom for about two.

Speaker 10 (01:32:40):
Weeks and he was very efficient in there.

Speaker 11 (01:32:44):
And I talked to him and found that he knew
a lot about cattle, and he was good on uh
figuring feet and presented protein in it and and stuff
like that. I made him my clerk and he worked
in the office for two years. He was also made
a sleep out. He used to sleep here all night

(01:33:06):
and the guard would check him over two hours.

Speaker 10 (01:33:09):
I were on the night of April.

Speaker 11 (01:33:12):
Seventeen, nineteen forty eight, when the guard came along at
three in the morning. Why Raymond wasn't there. We immediately
put out a state wide alarm.

Speaker 6 (01:33:27):
A state wide alarm for a double murderer, a man
emotionally unstable, a psychopath. The alarm spread from Oklahoma through
the entire Midwest. But from the moment of his escape
until the present moment, no word at all has been
heard of Raymond Glasgow. It is not our function here

(01:33:49):
to determine the guilt or innocence of a man, nor
do we intend to. But according to the facts you've
heard tonight and or other pertinent material, Raymond Glasgow is wanted.
Here again is Walter McGraw.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
You can help find Raymond Glasgow. Remember, you, the listener,
have already run up an impressive record with the apprehension
of three of the fugitives whose case histories we've broadcast.
But to bring Glasgow to justice, you must be informed
of all the facts. What does he look like, how
does he dress? What are his habits? These we will

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give you so stand by. How can you recognize him?
Listen and listen carefully.

Speaker 32 (01:34:41):
This is Warden Berford Raymond Glasgow, age fifty eight years,
height five feet eight inches, weight one hundred and seventy
two pounds, medium billed hair, blonde, gray teeth, good tattoo
of horseshoe, horsehead and whip inside right arm. Tattoo of

(01:35:02):
dagger and heart inside of left arm between elbow and wrist.

Speaker 6 (01:35:06):
Now back to Walter McGraw in New York.

Speaker 4 (01:35:09):
If you should see Raymond Glasgow, don't approach him on
the street. Remember this man is mentally ill, a psychopath.
He may be very dangerous. Simply call your own local
police tell them that you've seen Raymond Glasgow, an escapee
from Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAllister, Oklahoma. Remember that Raymond

(01:35:32):
Glasgow is wanted by the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAllister.

Speaker 21 (01:35:37):
This is his description.

Speaker 38 (01:35:39):
Raymond Glasgow is fifty eight years of age, five feet
eight inches tall, weighing one hundred and seventy two pounds.
He has blue eyes, graying blonde hair, and light skin.
He has a half inch cut scar on the side
of his palm near the thumb. The inside of his
right arm, between the elbow and wrist is tattooed a horseshoe,
a horse's head, and a whip. His left arm is
tattooed in the same place with a dagger and a heart.

Speaker 4 (01:36:04):
To date, we've presented case histories on twelve of the
most dangerous fugitives at large in this country. You the listener,
have brought to justice three out of the twelve and
impressive record a good job. But nine of these men
are still at large. Nine dangerous fugitives are still loose.
So let's look at the scoreboard and bring these nine

(01:36:26):
bums in. Who are they?

Speaker 6 (01:36:31):
Lyron Mike Selick wanted for unlawful flight by the FBI.

Speaker 4 (01:36:35):
MIKEY Selick is a former member of Detroit's Purple Gang.
He was convicted of armed robbery and conspiracy to commit murder.
Selik is one of the most dangerous men at large today.
He was a key figure in the sensational murder of
Michigan State Senator Warren G.

Speaker 21 (01:36:52):
Hooper.

Speaker 4 (01:36:53):
Directly after our broadcast on July fourteenth, we received word
that Selik was in mossge Angelus, California, but he escaped
a police dragnet there. Additional word has come in since then.
Myron Mike Selik has been in or near Cleveland, Ohio.
Myron Mike Sellick was seen near or in Cleveland, Ohio.

(01:37:19):
If you know of his present whereabouts, reported at once
to the FBI.

Speaker 12 (01:37:26):
Glenroy Wright wanted for jail break.

Speaker 4 (01:37:29):
The latest information on this big time bum hophead and
trigger happy gunman is that he's in Dallas, Texas working
with a Dallas mob.

Speaker 21 (01:37:38):
Did you hear that, Texas, this is your baby?

Speaker 10 (01:37:42):
Look for him reporting to the FBI.

Speaker 6 (01:37:47):
Kenneth Wagner wanted for jail break.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
Kenneth Wagner, the five time admitted killer who was a
hero in his own hometown, is still at large. Although
there have been numerous commune occasions with this program assuring
us Wagner wants to give himself up so that his
case can be reconsidered. None of these mystery voices have
paid off. Meanwhile, he's still wanted by the warden of

(01:38:13):
Partsman Prison in Mississippi. The Sea Brothers Thurman and Troy
c are practitioners of a confidence game which has robbed
innocent thousands. Right after the Wanted broadcast, we were advised
by the Sainsville, Ohio Police that they'd had tips reporting
Seas to be in their area, but no capture resulted.

(01:38:37):
So watch out when you're asked to cash a check
by a stranger. All information concerning the Seas should be
directed to the attention of the District Attorney's Office, Denver, Colorado.

Speaker 10 (01:38:49):
They are wanted there.

Speaker 6 (01:38:52):
Henry clay to Lett.

Speaker 4 (01:38:54):
We've had no word at all on Henry clay to Left,
but keep on the lookout for. Remember this makeup artist
who disguises himself as an Indian is one of the
FBI's ten most wanted men in America. Today, California still
looks like the best bet.

Speaker 6 (01:39:14):
Fred the Angel to Noodle.

Speaker 4 (01:39:16):
Fred to Nuto, the gunpunk who likes to kill, has
struck again. His last robbery that we know about was
in Pittsburgh. Remember Fred to Nudo is number two public enemies.
He's dangerous and he's tricky. Our latest information places him
once again in New York City. Willie the actor Sutton.

(01:39:41):
Willie Sutton is number one public enemy. The Voice of
the Underworld has the latest information on him.

Speaker 47 (01:39:49):
This bird Saturn is a smart guy. I once told
you that he knows his stuff. He never works with
the same gang more than once. And the reason he
don't do it is because he don't want anybody to
be able to put the finger on him. But now
he changed. He's working with a partner named Tom Kling.

(01:40:12):
You remember I told you about Tom Kling. This guy
can be spotted easy now because recently he pulled a
hold up and got a bust on the head and
he's got a scar that anybody can recognize. And this
guy is also tattooed from head to foot. Now, if
you want to pick both of them up, and the
best way to do it is first find Cling because

(01:40:34):
he hasn't got any brains. He's the guy that will
ultimately lead you to Sutton. If you want to find
both of them, hit the waterfronts. If you hear of
a big time racket right on the waterfront, you're going
to get a beautiful whiff of sudden and clean.

Speaker 21 (01:40:54):
Nine fugitives at large.

Speaker 4 (01:40:56):
Nine dangerous criminals still out, free to rob murder unless
you stop them. Many of you might have information concerning
any one of these men. If you've seen them, or
if you think you know someone who might have information
about them, notify the authorities or write directly to me

(01:41:16):
Walter McGraw care of Wanted, NBC New York. All male
will be considered confidential unless you otherwise specify. Remember, be
sure of all your facts and give all details in
your letter. Write directly to me, Walter McGraw, care of Wanted,
NBC New York. That's Walter McGraw, Wanted, NBC New York. Now,

(01:41:44):
this is Walter McGraw saying there's no time right now,
you wipe out crime.

Speaker 6 (01:41:53):
Watch for the return of Wanted one. You will again
hear the actual people give their eyewitness accounts of the
countries must dangerous fugitives who are whatted wanted by the
police of the nation.

Speaker 48 (01:42:09):
All material her tonight was factual from the record. Pseudo
names were used by mister and Missus Trainer for their safety.

Speaker 6 (01:42:16):
All other names were real. Tonight's report was written by P. L.

Speaker 4 (01:42:20):
Mayer.

Speaker 48 (01:42:21):
Music was by Morris Macmorski. William Meader was at the
organ The narrator was Fred Collins. Wanted was supervised for
NBC by Joel Hammill and produced and directed by Walter McGrath.

Speaker 7 (01:42:43):
And I can find nothing out about this case at all,
nothing at all. Seventy five years ago, September twenty ninth,
nineteen fifty Wanted Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox.
Visit our webpage at Classicradio Dot stream to support the
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Speaker 4 (01:43:04):
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The National Safety Council believes that the best way to
promote safety on the road is for each of us

(01:43:25):
to know and obey traffic laws, to read and.

Speaker 10 (01:43:28):
Heed traffic signs. So be careful. The life you save
may be your own.

Speaker 7 (01:43:35):
Please drive defensively. Life you save might be another podcast
listener now seventy seven years ago September twenty ninth, nineteen
forty eight. The Conspiracy, an episode of The Whistler.

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The Whistler, the mystery program that is unique among all
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Speaker 1 (01:44:13):
Because you know who's guilty.

Speaker 4 (01:44:14):
You see his every move, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:44:16):
His complete plans, even his innermost thoughts.

Speaker 29 (01:44:19):
Yet the final curtain always brings a startling surprise. In
the Signal Oil Program The Whistler.

Speaker 30 (01:44:42):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange.

Speaker 49 (01:44:49):
Tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who
have stepped into the shadows. Yes, I know the nameless
terrors of which they dare not speak.

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(01:45:24):
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(01:45:44):
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in other states eight thirty Sunday evening beginning next Sunday,
October third, And now the Whistler Strange Story Conspiracy.

Speaker 49 (01:46:14):
The lunch room was deserted except for a young man
who sat perched on a stool at the end of
the counter. From time to time he looked up, stared
out the window into the driving rainstorm, and then his
eyes wandered back to the newspaper spread out before him.

Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
He's a meld of cheese Joe anything in the paper
about the storm. Who's that guy's picture there?

Speaker 15 (01:46:38):
Alvin Pettis local citizen, shoe clerk and murderer coffee.

Speaker 12 (01:46:42):
Of melt Joe Coffee.

Speaker 15 (01:46:45):
Who'd he killed his wife?

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
His wife? Huh on a kind of another guy? No
he had a name. No, Oh he did it for
the insurance.

Speaker 12 (01:46:54):
No, he just didn't like her.

Speaker 1 (01:46:58):
Let me see what he looks like, Joe? So this
is Alvin Tedtis Huh. I don't like his looks.

Speaker 12 (01:47:06):
So he's a murderer.

Speaker 15 (01:47:07):
So people look at his picture and they shudder. I
wonder how many of 'em are entitled to do that.
I wonder how many of 'em might not be murderers too.
The circumstances were right and there wasn't any law. Huh uh,
Salt and pepper, hazel call ai.

Speaker 1 (01:47:22):
You're newspaper guys. What about people being murderers under the
right circumstances.

Speaker 15 (01:47:29):
Haven't you ever hated somebody enough to kill him if
you know you could get away with it?

Speaker 5 (01:47:32):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:47:33):
I don't know. Still, there was a guy in Saint
Louis one.

Speaker 15 (01:47:38):
Yeah, you take a city, a city full of people,
the innocent mc gilly with their loves and hates, their
pride and greed and jealousies. And in that city, a
pronouncement has made that on this date, between this hour
and that one, there is no law, no retribution, that
the crime of murder will go unpunished. Don't you think
there'd be quite a few people killed, don't you, Hazel?

(01:48:01):
They get over, baby, they get over. Never mind, probably
from me. I'm expecting to call from Corny.

Speaker 12 (01:48:08):
Hello, is you Joe?

Speaker 23 (01:48:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (01:48:10):
What's the latest report? An old man river?

Speaker 4 (01:48:11):
Just got a call from the sheriff at Greendale. Things
are getting tough down there. If the river breaks through,
they have to start looking for that town somewhere off
the coast of.

Speaker 15 (01:48:18):
Cuba, Greendale. But the army's out there.

Speaker 4 (01:48:21):
I talked in ground Shoe Alley might hold another hour
or two, maybe more, but she's going tonight, and I
want you to be there when it happens.

Speaker 12 (01:48:27):
You're able to pick me up off the coast of Cuba.

Speaker 50 (01:48:29):
Flournee, send a boat after you, sweetheart, But phone that
story in first, you know color stuff. I was there,
I saw it happen, hoped coffee sweating soldiers man versus nature.

Speaker 15 (01:48:39):
Okay, I'll give my all for the dar old baton
rouge times. I'm on my way, Floornie.

Speaker 49 (01:48:52):
A half hour later, you swing off the main highway
drive into Greendale, a low, flat, flimsy town with nothing between.
It's in the Mississippi but a levee. Your editor was right,
wasn't it, Joel. If the levee gives way, Greendale will
go down the drain like wet corn flakes. As you
plow through the downpour and approach Williams Avenue, you fight

(01:49:14):
to keep thoughts of Marilyn out of your mind. Marylyn,
she lives on Williams Avenue, doesn't she? The beautiful Marilyn,
The vicious, cruel Marilyn with a soft mocking voice, The
woman who ruined things between you and Alice, who took
you for every cent you had and then laughed at you.

Speaker 12 (01:49:32):
Who's still laughing at you.

Speaker 49 (01:49:35):
You turn into the familiar rain soak Street, slow down
for a moment as you passed the small wooden frame building,
the two story apartment house where she lives. Marylyn, the
one human being on this earth you'd almost enjoy killing.
And then you slam your foot down on the accelerator
and race off in the direction of the levee.

Speaker 10 (01:50:03):
Hey you there, Yeah, what are you doing here?

Speaker 12 (01:50:06):
Joe Kenne gets the name major and with a baton
rouge time.

Speaker 4 (01:50:10):
Okay, okay, how's it look? You can see for yourself.
Look at it boil down there.

Speaker 10 (01:50:13):
Yeahy's like a hung a Swiss cheese. Hey, way over there,
pull that truck around. No, no, this way, man, this way.

Speaker 49 (01:50:30):
It's a weird scene, isn't it, Joe, Men trucks equipment
fighting the Mississippi, and the glare of the giant searchlights,
heaving sandbags, pouring gravel, trying to save a town they
know is doomed. Your eyes take it all in. Your
pencil is busy making notes, but your mind is on Marilyn.
You wonder if she's back in that apartment on William's Avenue.

(01:50:52):
You hope that she's asleep, and somehow she'll get washed
out into the river with the rest of the rubbish.
And then suddenly everything stands still. The pencil slips from
your hand. Your eyes shut out the scene on the
levee as the realization hits you. It would be so simple,
wouldn't it, Joe, Yes, you could kill Marilyn and get

(01:51:14):
away with it. The river would cover for you.

Speaker 37 (01:51:26):
Hold it, palace, Hold, There's no use punching any longer.

Speaker 6 (01:51:30):
We're licked.

Speaker 37 (01:51:32):
Come on, fully, equipment out, evaccuate, tackle, Come.

Speaker 12 (01:51:36):
On, I'm not stronger before the river breaks through.

Speaker 37 (01:51:40):
Major ten fifteen minutes of worse or Sergeant, send a
man to warn him down at green Dale.

Speaker 12 (01:51:44):
He loves Major. You'll need every man you've got here.

Speaker 16 (01:51:47):
I'll go Hold.

Speaker 37 (01:51:47):
I don't be a pool tenn oft out of the
budd HiT's before.

Speaker 6 (01:51:49):
You get to green Dale.

Speaker 12 (01:51:50):
I'll take my chances. Major.

Speaker 15 (01:51:51):
That's where my story is gonna be. Greendale. Besides, I
can spend the warning myself.

Speaker 49 (01:52:01):
As you walk along the ground floor hallway of the
two story building on Williams Avenue where Marilyn lives, a
door opened suddenly at the end of the dingy corridor,
and you hear the petulant voice of Angela Dickison, the
woman who lives the apartment across from Maryland. And quickly
you step into the alcove and wait. You don't want
to run into the inquisitive Miss Angela Dickison at this moment,

(01:52:22):
do you, Joe. Moments later, you hear the door close
in the hall. It's silent, and you hurry on to
Marilyn's apartment.

Speaker 12 (01:52:31):
Marolyn, Carolyn, Oh, it's you. Yeah, me, I thought it
was there.

Speaker 15 (01:52:39):
No boyfriend off a wet out tonight. He probably crawled
under our rock. What do you want, Joe?

Speaker 12 (01:52:45):
As a flood on the way, baby.

Speaker 15 (01:52:47):
Yeah, I know, I heard about it over the radio.

Speaker 1 (01:52:48):
I was just throwing a few things together to take
with me.

Speaker 15 (01:52:51):
You're wasting your time. You aren't going anywhere, baby.

Speaker 1 (01:52:54):
Oh no, Look, don't be silly. I'm not going to
take that lamp with me.

Speaker 16 (01:52:57):
I know.

Speaker 10 (01:53:00):
Joel will a Milie.

Speaker 12 (01:53:05):
Joe.

Speaker 49 (01:53:13):
You stand there in the center of the room, staring
down at her. Then as you set the lamp back
on the table, you hear it a distant rumbling, and
the floor seems to be swaying beneath your feet. The
door behind you bang shut, and you wheel around and
watch it open again and then close. It's not your imagination,
is it. The building is actually swaying. The flood has

(01:53:33):
come quickly. You run into the hall and right into
a thin face.

Speaker 12 (01:53:37):
Little Oh.

Speaker 30 (01:53:38):
You hadn't counted on a witness.

Speaker 12 (01:53:39):
Hat your trait a minute, buddy, come here.

Speaker 21 (01:53:41):
Get my way.

Speaker 12 (01:53:41):
I gotta get out of here, eye out.

Speaker 8 (01:53:43):
No, you can't stop me.

Speaker 12 (01:53:45):
What's your hurry?

Speaker 15 (01:53:46):
Let me go?

Speaker 12 (01:53:46):
Are you struggling now? You're not gonna get away from me?

Speaker 50 (01:53:51):
Hey?

Speaker 49 (01:53:52):
You can't let him get away, can you, Joe? You're
sure he saw what happened in Marilyn's apartment and you've
got to kill him too. You reach him just at
the entrance of the apartment building, and the two of
you go crashing down into the flooded street.

Speaker 8 (01:54:06):
Oh go, please, let me.

Speaker 15 (01:54:07):
Go, murders A solo job. How strictly solo? Why you
don't think you'll get away from me? You scramble to
your feet, stagger after the little man. You're gaining on
him thirty twenty feet, and then a telephone call crashes
down in front of you. There's a crackle of flame,

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and the main course of the bud hits. At that moment,
everything is water. You remember reaching for something solid, finding
it and then.

Speaker 21 (01:54:38):
Nothing.

Speaker 15 (01:54:55):
You'll be all right, that's gonna be.

Speaker 1 (01:55:02):
Where am I in the hospital? You're a lucky man.
They picked you up right in the middle of it
and got it down. They can you let go of
that telephone pole?

Speaker 12 (01:55:11):
Oh yeah, yeah, the pole? Telephone pole h what's that?

Speaker 51 (01:55:16):
Oh no, no, it's just the man in the other bed.
They picked the two of you up at the same time,
brought you in here together.

Speaker 10 (01:55:22):
Nurse, nurse, we can give me a hand with this patience.

Speaker 1 (01:55:25):
Oh yes, doctor, what do you make of it? Doctor?

Speaker 16 (01:55:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (01:55:29):
Man's had a terrible shock.

Speaker 16 (01:55:31):
Of course, amazing. It wasn't cute.

Speaker 51 (01:55:33):
H We have dog maya m He's been going on
like that for over an hour, the same thing, over
and over again, about a murder.

Speaker 1 (01:55:42):
Murder, yes, something about the flood covering it up. Then
about a fight.

Speaker 52 (01:55:48):
It might be the result of shock, but well, I
think we'd better pass it on to the police. Know
who the man in the other bed is, don't you, Joe,
Even though you can't see him behind the screen. The
man you're certain saw you commit murderer and they put

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the two of you in the same room. A thousand
crazy thoughts at you all at once. You want to
kill him, jump out of the window, run anything but
face him when he comes to he wait till the
doctor and the nurse snap off the lights and leave
the room quickly. You fumble around for your clothes, throw
them on and step falteringly into the hall way.

Speaker 12 (01:56:28):
Do you think you're going?

Speaker 15 (01:56:29):
Oh, FLORNI, I got a little tired of this place.
I thought you might need some help.

Speaker 12 (01:56:34):
Thought I might need some help. Huh, they'll just leave
it to me. Hi, Joe.

Speaker 4 (01:56:38):
So you're a hero, So you're warn the town and
get caught in the flood. Well, fine, don't overdo it.

Speaker 12 (01:56:42):
Listen, Florny, I'm not.

Speaker 4 (01:56:43):
Going to lose my best reporter because he's too dumb
to nobody. Ought to stay in bed, that sweetheart, is
where you are going right now, Well you listen, don't
put in You've ben throw a lot tonight.

Speaker 12 (01:56:52):
You're lucky to be alive. Now back into that room
and get to bed.

Speaker 4 (01:56:55):
The docs ordered the eyebow to make you sleep, just
to make sure you don't get any more ideas about leave.

Speaker 12 (01:57:00):
I'm taking your clothes.

Speaker 1 (01:57:11):
Well, good morning, mister Kennicott.

Speaker 12 (01:57:13):
M oh, oh, good morning, nurse m about the time
you woke up.

Speaker 1 (01:57:18):
It's almost ten o'clock.

Speaker 23 (01:57:20):
I'll about some breakfast.

Speaker 12 (01:57:21):
Oh breakfast?

Speaker 23 (01:57:22):
No?

Speaker 51 (01:57:22):
No, I uh, nurse, Oh nice, mister Willis is coming
to the body. Better have a little nurse wait, asked
mister Willis.

Speaker 1 (01:57:30):
Well, good morning, mister Willis, how are we feeling this morning?

Speaker 21 (01:57:34):
Better?

Speaker 53 (01:57:35):
Thanks?

Speaker 1 (01:57:35):
Here, I'll move the screen out of the way. Say now,
how about some breakfast? Well, I don't know how, of
course you do. I'll find something, Oh, mister Kennicott.

Speaker 12 (01:57:48):
Yeah, this is mister Willis. How long, mister Willis? How
do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:57:56):
No about some breakfast? Mister Kennicott, N nice?

Speaker 12 (01:58:01):
Those bandages on his head?

Speaker 23 (01:58:03):
What he's had a terrible electric shock.

Speaker 1 (01:58:07):
He's blind.

Speaker 29 (01:58:19):
With the prologue of conspiracy, the Signal Oil Company brings
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in California and Arizona at eight thirty in other states.

Speaker 16 (01:58:38):
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to the whistler.

Speaker 49 (02:00:05):
Well, Joe, you're relieved, aren't you relieved to learn that
the one person who could point you out as a murderer,
the man who lies in the same hospital room with you,
can't see No, mister Willis won't be able to identify
you as the man he saw standing over Marylyn's body
at the apartment house on Williams Avenue just before it
collapsed from the force of the flood. You can lean

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back now and relax, take your time, wait for your
strength to return. The following afternoon, you're released from the hospital, Florni,
your editor is waiting for you in the lobby but
he isn't alone.

Speaker 12 (02:00:41):
This is Lieutenant Belshaw, Joe, Homicide.

Speaker 4 (02:00:43):
I heard a lot about you, Joe. Nice word, thanks, Homicide. Ah,
that's right. We have a murder on our hands. Or rather,
the lieutenant here asked me. It's a great story, Joe.

Speaker 12 (02:00:54):
What what's that? Conspiracy? Conspiracy to commit murder? A partnership. Oh,
one of the.

Speaker 4 (02:01:00):
Partners is already Yeah, who the Mississippi River, the cover up,
the accessory after the fact.

Speaker 12 (02:01:08):
I don't get it.

Speaker 4 (02:01:08):
Well, Florida is trying to say, we picked up a
woman's body this morning, knocked around pretty badly and no identification.
Yet your boss thinks she was murdered. Joe, you still
think that little guy Willis is talking through his hat?
I thought, now, Look, he took a lot of voliage
with water up to his knees, his head still spinning.
He's not responsible for what he says.

Speaker 52 (02:01:27):
Willis the guy in your room upstairs, Joe. You hear
him say anything in his sleep last night?

Speaker 3 (02:01:34):
No?

Speaker 12 (02:01:34):
No, I uh, I don't remember. Well, come on, let's
go up and have a talk with him. No, sure,
why not? Yeah? Why not? Please? Gentlemen, I can't remember now,

(02:01:55):
I don't know what happened. You've got to try.

Speaker 15 (02:01:57):
Well, look, Floria, the guy's sake alone.

Speaker 4 (02:02:00):
Well let's say I know you've had a tough go
of it. I want to be as easy on you
as a ken.

Speaker 12 (02:02:06):
Please please go away, sure, sure.

Speaker 4 (02:02:09):
After you level with us now. Ten minutes ago, I
was willing to write this thing off as a flood death.
Now I'm not so sure.

Speaker 28 (02:02:17):
Listen, Lieutenant, I told you I murder.

Speaker 4 (02:02:19):
One thing can lick us time. We've got to move now,
so let's go over it again.

Speaker 12 (02:02:26):
Uh, I told you I must have been dreamed.

Speaker 4 (02:02:28):
I don't dream the same thing over and over again
without a reason. We picked up a woman's body out
of the wreckage this morning. She could have been murdered,
and she could have lived in that apartment on Williams Avenue.

Speaker 12 (02:02:39):
You mentioned who was she?

Speaker 4 (02:02:42):
We don't know. There's nothing to identify.

Speaker 10 (02:02:46):
Now.

Speaker 4 (02:02:46):
Look, I ask you for a straight story when I
got here, and I haven't got it yet. Well, you're scared,
don't you? No?

Speaker 12 (02:02:56):
Why should I be?

Speaker 4 (02:02:58):
Come on with us, Come on, we'll take care of you.
Just give me the story.

Speaker 53 (02:03:05):
Well, I ran into the building because I thought I
heard someone shout a woman, Then water must have hit
just about then, because the building started to sway and
the door flew open, and I.

Speaker 12 (02:03:18):
Saw him standing there.

Speaker 4 (02:03:20):
Who was he?

Speaker 28 (02:03:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 12 (02:03:21):
I never saw him before. Then he came after me.

Speaker 53 (02:03:25):
We rode down the stairs into the water. I managed
to get away. I ran out in the street, and
I don't remember anything after that.

Speaker 4 (02:03:34):
Mister Willis, think now, what did this man look like?

Speaker 32 (02:03:38):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (02:03:40):
Dark hair, about six feet I guess medium bills, not.

Speaker 4 (02:03:45):
Your size, Joe, do you think you could identify him?

Speaker 12 (02:03:50):
I mean, if if I could see? Yes?

Speaker 52 (02:03:54):
How about his voice sounds something like the lieutenant's mine
or maybe Josie.

Speaker 6 (02:04:00):
I don't know, really, Please, I'm very I'd like.

Speaker 12 (02:04:04):
To rest sure.

Speaker 4 (02:04:08):
Okay, Well, let's take it easy. Come on, Joe, we'll
bit back to see it. Wellis when you feel better?

Speaker 12 (02:04:17):
Uh, lieutenant?

Speaker 21 (02:04:18):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (02:04:19):
What about his eyes? I mean, doctor says it's just
tempera they do the shot. He might regain an sight anytime?

Speaker 12 (02:04:27):
Oh anytime? Huh? Hell's Joe? How's that for a story?
Oh it's great, flunny.

Speaker 52 (02:04:32):
Now here's the angle conspiracy with the Mississippi River, you know,
playing up as a hunk of human drama. Here's a
law abiding citizen, maybe a bookkeeper, salesman, hues to the line,
cuts the lawn every Saturday, turns the paycheck over to
the little woman.

Speaker 12 (02:04:46):
Based traffic signal.

Speaker 15 (02:04:47):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 52 (02:04:48):
The flood comes, the big cover up, no law, no nothing. See,
mister X turns into something else. A lifetime of frustration
suddenly breaks loose. He turns into a murderer, with no
fear of the consequences.

Speaker 12 (02:05:00):
He kills chure.

Speaker 49 (02:05:02):
It figures, Joe, don't you think, Oh yes, it figures,
all right, Yes, it figures. If you run out now,
they'll add it up in a minute, won't they.

Speaker 4 (02:05:21):
Joe.

Speaker 49 (02:05:22):
Somehow, you've got to stop Willis from talking. You've got
to get to him before he can see again. And
that isn't going to be easy. A material witness. The
police are probably watching him every second, waiting for those
bandages to come off so they can hustle him down
the police headquarters to put the finger on you. You've
got to think of something, some way to silence mister Willis.

(02:05:44):
And that evening, as you sit in your office trying
to find a way out, the door bursts open and
floor and he enters.

Speaker 12 (02:05:50):
Joe, Joe, get your coat, some matter. Get your coat. Man.

Speaker 4 (02:05:52):
We're meeting Lieutenant Bellshaw at the hospital. It's about Willis.
He's being released.

Speaker 12 (02:05:56):
Willis. Yeah, he finally came out of it. Joe, he
can see. Come on, Joe has belt show waiting for
us on.

Speaker 10 (02:06:17):
Come on.

Speaker 4 (02:06:19):
Oh hello, Plony, Joe, you've got here in a hurry.

Speaker 12 (02:06:21):
Yeah, let's go up. I am anxious.

Speaker 4 (02:06:23):
No, no, no, wait, better wait here. They're bringing him down.
They'll take him down the headquarters. You know I picked it.

Speaker 10 (02:06:29):
Oh wait and he comes now, swell, let's.

Speaker 12 (02:06:31):
Go, Frony.

Speaker 15 (02:06:32):
Wait a minute, I uh yeah, what is it about
about this guy Willis?

Speaker 4 (02:06:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (02:06:40):
What is it?

Speaker 12 (02:06:41):
Madison main Levey starting to go old apartments are over there.

Speaker 4 (02:06:44):
Immediately, Maine Levy, I'll take the whole north end of town,
all right, Madison, Florony, I'll go with the lieutenant.

Speaker 52 (02:06:48):
No, no, I'm at baptist time, kid. Yeah, my cor keys.
Take care of mister Willison.

Speaker 4 (02:06:52):
Yeah, better drive him home.

Speaker 10 (02:06:53):
We'll get around to him later.

Speaker 16 (02:06:55):
Take a care of Joe.

Speaker 15 (02:06:57):
Sure, Florny, I'll take care of mister Willis.

Speaker 49 (02:07:06):
It's the sort of a break you get once in
a lifetime, isn't it. Joe, just a split second before
Willis had a chance to identify you. The river saved you.

Speaker 30 (02:07:15):
The police are.

Speaker 49 (02:07:16):
Gone now flowny with him, and you stand alone in
the rain and watch mister Willis approach.

Speaker 30 (02:07:22):
He won't get away this time, will eat Joe.

Speaker 49 (02:07:25):
You turn up the collar of your overcoat, keep your
face away from him, and hustle him into the car,
the back seat where he can't see you. Minutes later,
you're racing across town. Then as you hit a deserted
section not far from the Red River Bridge, mister Kennicott, Yeah,

(02:07:46):
you stop the car. I stopped the car. Sure, this
looks like as good a place as any.

Speaker 12 (02:07:58):
I'd like to talk to you.

Speaker 15 (02:08:02):
A sure, mister Willis, and I'd like to talk to you.

Speaker 29 (02:08:16):
The whistler will return in just a moment with the
strange ending of to Night's story. Meantime, for the benefit
of any contract Bridge players who missed last week's Whistler,
I want to repeat some news of his special importance.
The first changes and the rules of contract Bridge since
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famous go Farther gasoline. How back to the Whistler.

Speaker 49 (02:09:39):
The morning broke bright and clear. The storm had passed,
and some twenty miles out of Greendale, a police car
was parked on the highway by the washed out Red
River Bridge. Two men stood there looking down into the ravine.

Speaker 4 (02:09:54):
There's your car, Florida there. Yeah, yeah, I guess the
river and washed the bridge out Before it happened, Willis
didn't know that. I I can't get over at Bellshaw
Joe's the greatest guy we ever lived. He was already
dead when the car crashed, floating.

Speaker 12 (02:10:14):
Dead.

Speaker 10 (02:10:16):
Joe was dead before that.

Speaker 4 (02:10:17):
Yes, come on, Willis is over here up the bank.
He's cracked up pretty bad. All at Kelly, I'll take
over him.

Speaker 6 (02:10:26):
I think he's ready to do some talking.

Speaker 10 (02:10:28):
Lieutenant man Willis.

Speaker 12 (02:10:32):
Willis you you must be Lieutenant Belshaw.

Speaker 53 (02:10:37):
I remember your voice.

Speaker 4 (02:10:38):
Yes, yes, Look, you're not gonna last much longer. We
uh found the ranch you used in Joe Kennicott. Why
did you kill him?

Speaker 12 (02:10:47):
I had two lieutenant at the hospital. I knew he
was in another bed at the hospital all the time.
That's yes, yes, go on, come on.

Speaker 53 (02:10:58):
That's why I take blindness. I had to find some
way to cover my face before he woke up. But
what so he wouldn't recognize me? And last night when
he picked me up in front of the hospital, I
knew I had to get rid of him so he
could never identify me.

Speaker 4 (02:11:16):
Identify you?

Speaker 12 (02:11:17):
Oh what have you? That woman you found yesterday morning?

Speaker 10 (02:11:21):
Huh?

Speaker 53 (02:11:22):
My names Dickerson, Angela Dickerson. She was my wife right
away years ago. I killed her the night the later
broke there at the apartment of William's Avenue.

Speaker 12 (02:11:35):
I killed her. Joe Kennicott was in an apartment right
across the hall. He must have seen me.

Speaker 53 (02:11:42):
That's why he chased me. But there's one thing I'll
never understand. He wasn't just trying to catch me. He
was trying to kill me. I I can't figure out why.

Speaker 29 (02:12:15):
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Speaker 10 (02:12:22):
Beginning next Sunday.

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So a few years ago, something remarkable happened on this program.
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it captured a lot of you too, and y'all said,
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as Dave as Claudia and David. This episode is just

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after they have moved in with Claudia's mother from seventy
eight years ago. September twenty ninth, nineteen forty seven.

Speaker 54 (02:15:35):
Your Coca Cola Butler presents Claudia. Claudia based on the
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And while you're listening, refresh yourself have a coke. When
Rose Franken first created the character of Claudia, she was
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to tens of millions. It was a simple story, as
American as the main street of any small city, as
American as a bottle of Coca cola. It is not
easy to explain such far reaching acceptance unless it is
that the romance of a man and woman living together
happily is the most compelling of all dramas. You see,

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nothing much has ever happened to Claudia except that she
married David. Like many young couples today, they find themselves
without a place to live in and are coming home
to stay with Missus Brown, Claudia's mother.

Speaker 3 (02:17:16):
Wait, darling, let's surprise.

Speaker 36 (02:17:17):
Mama, use your key.

Speaker 17 (02:17:18):
I haven't got a key.

Speaker 12 (02:17:19):
Yes you have.

Speaker 36 (02:17:20):
I gave it to the day we were married, right
in front of this door.

Speaker 17 (02:17:22):
That's where you gave me the kiss, not the key, remember.

Speaker 3 (02:17:25):
I remember, And I also gave you the key. Look
in your pocket.

Speaker 17 (02:17:29):
I don't have to look in my pocket and look
on your key ring. I don't have to look up.
I don't carry a key ring.

Speaker 36 (02:17:34):
Claudia, Hey, wait a minute, maybe I didn't give it.

Speaker 21 (02:17:36):
I know you didn't.

Speaker 3 (02:17:37):
Hush up. Let me look in my pocketbook a minute.

Speaker 12 (02:17:41):
Well, i've got it.

Speaker 17 (02:17:44):
Are you going to be a wife who's always losing things?

Speaker 36 (02:17:47):
And are you going to find fault with me before
you even carry me over the threshold.

Speaker 10 (02:17:50):
I'm not going to.

Speaker 17 (02:17:51):
Carry you over any threshold until it's our own threshold.

Speaker 3 (02:17:54):
Oh, darling, you're not happy about us living here with Mama.

Speaker 17 (02:17:58):
You know I don't think this is the key.

Speaker 3 (02:18:01):
You don't want to add to me, do you about
living here with mama?

Speaker 17 (02:18:04):
Of course I want to live here with Mama. We're
lucky Mama will take us in. But this is still
not the key.

Speaker 3 (02:18:09):
It must be, only it doesn't always work.

Speaker 4 (02:18:11):
Well, that's help.

Speaker 3 (02:18:12):
You have to start to coax it along.

Speaker 33 (02:18:14):
Here.

Speaker 17 (02:18:14):
Let me show you go ahead.

Speaker 3 (02:18:16):
Coax Now you put it in and push it out?

Speaker 17 (02:18:18):
How far?

Speaker 3 (02:18:19):
Just a second? I think you push it down.

Speaker 17 (02:18:22):
Make up your mind.

Speaker 3 (02:18:23):
You all right to push it down. But the trick
is to turn it quickly before we.

Speaker 17 (02:18:27):
Need a mechanic.

Speaker 36 (02:18:28):
I think you push it off.

Speaker 17 (02:18:30):
You just said down.

Speaker 3 (02:18:31):
Well, you're you're you're getting me nervous.

Speaker 17 (02:18:33):
You look very pretty when you get nervous.

Speaker 33 (02:18:36):
Well, children, I didn't expect you for another hour.

Speaker 36 (02:18:38):
Oh mama, we were just gonna walk in and surprise you.

Speaker 3 (02:18:41):
But but David couldn't find the key.

Speaker 17 (02:18:43):
I couldn't find the key. Hello, Mama Brown.

Speaker 33 (02:18:45):
Hello David, welcome home.

Speaker 36 (02:18:47):
Come to the light, Mamma. Let me see how you look.

Speaker 33 (02:18:49):
Let me see how you look. Look wonderful, both of you.
I bet you're glad to see us.

Speaker 3 (02:18:54):
I bet you missed us like anything.

Speaker 33 (02:18:57):
This is the first time I've got a vacation for
eighteen years, and some tells me it's been my last
vacation for eighteen years. It's all yours, David, Welcome on in.
Your room's already now. Run along and unpacked. I'll be
in later. I've got something on the stove.

Speaker 3 (02:19:10):
Hey, the place looks very nice and clean.

Speaker 50 (02:19:12):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (02:19:13):
Come on, David, let's unpack.

Speaker 33 (02:19:16):
What's the matter.

Speaker 17 (02:19:17):
You're a funny couple of girls who mom and me
crazy about each other. And you didn't even kiss.

Speaker 36 (02:19:23):
Oh we never kiss her getting mushy, that's not our system.

Speaker 10 (02:19:27):
So I noticed, is this where we go?

Speaker 32 (02:19:29):
Yes?

Speaker 12 (02:19:31):
My old room nice, Oh.

Speaker 3 (02:19:33):
Dear, got smaller with two beds. I guess Mama moved
hers in here.

Speaker 33 (02:19:37):
While we were gone.

Speaker 17 (02:19:39):
And what she's sleeping on?

Speaker 12 (02:19:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:19:41):
I'll go see after I unpacked.

Speaker 17 (02:19:43):
Hey, where do you want your suitcase?

Speaker 12 (02:19:44):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (02:19:45):
On the floor, you know, darling, this is going to
be awfully crowded for your mother.

Speaker 36 (02:19:50):
Oh, David, will you be too uncomfortable?

Speaker 3 (02:19:53):
You can have the whole bureau except maybe one drawer.

Speaker 33 (02:19:57):
Is that all right?

Speaker 10 (02:19:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (02:19:57):
Sure, I don't need it all you will.

Speaker 3 (02:19:59):
When you move your stuff over. Have you got much stuff?

Speaker 4 (02:20:02):
Some?

Speaker 17 (02:20:03):
My drafting table for one thing?

Speaker 3 (02:20:05):
Don't you keep that out of the office.

Speaker 17 (02:20:08):
Architects usually keep on at home too, dog.

Speaker 3 (02:20:10):
Oh well, you can put it in the living room.

Speaker 17 (02:20:14):
Won't look very dressy. This happens to be your mother's home,
not a.

Speaker 3 (02:20:17):
Mama won't mind. We don't have much company.

Speaker 36 (02:20:20):
So are you sure you have enough room.

Speaker 3 (02:20:22):
In the tube bureau drawers?

Speaker 10 (02:20:23):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (02:20:23):
Yes, plenty.

Speaker 3 (02:20:24):
You can have the whole closet. I'll use the one
in the hall.

Speaker 17 (02:20:26):
Thanks, Sure you don't mind, no.

Speaker 33 (02:20:28):
Not a bit?

Speaker 3 (02:20:30):
Can I use just a little of yours on the side?

Speaker 17 (02:20:34):
Come on in?

Speaker 16 (02:20:35):
Thanks.

Speaker 36 (02:20:36):
I bet this closet doesn't know what got into it
after all these years.

Speaker 21 (02:20:39):
Yeah, I can see it.

Speaker 17 (02:20:40):
Blushin can I have half the shoe.

Speaker 3 (02:20:42):
Rack, all of it except maybe half the bottom shelf.

Speaker 17 (02:20:46):
Help yourself a hey, hold on a minute, there is
only a bottom shelf, Claudia, Oh so there is.

Speaker 3 (02:20:53):
Well, I only asked for half of it.

Speaker 17 (02:20:57):
Where we'll put the empty luggage above the.

Speaker 36 (02:20:59):
Closet their storage space, Say, David, you know what would
fix us up?

Speaker 4 (02:21:03):
Fine?

Speaker 17 (02:21:03):
Oh, I think we're fixed up.

Speaker 10 (02:21:05):
Fine?

Speaker 36 (02:21:05):
Al if we're just one more room in this apartment
so we could spread out a little.

Speaker 3 (02:21:09):
You're an architect, Now, why don't.

Speaker 17 (02:21:11):
You mm a nice portable room. We could uh hang
it out the window house.

Speaker 33 (02:21:17):
It's wonderful.

Speaker 17 (02:21:18):
I'll need a stool or something to get to the
top of this closet.

Speaker 3 (02:21:20):
MoMA's in the kitchen. She'll give you one.

Speaker 17 (02:21:22):
Want anything else, No except.

Speaker 3 (02:21:24):
Tell Mama I'm starved.

Speaker 17 (02:21:26):
You're what Tell Mama I'm starved, she says, to tell
you she's stark.

Speaker 33 (02:21:32):
Mama, she's always dubbed that child. What are you looking for?

Speaker 10 (02:21:35):
Uh?

Speaker 55 (02:21:36):
Something to stand on to put the suitcases away? Put
them in the hall closet, David, Yes, mother, David. I'm
not a very demonstrative person. I find it hard to
say things I know. I was dreading your homecoming a little.
At the moment I looked at both of you and
saw Claudia's face. I don't think I ever saw such happiness.

(02:21:57):
I want to thank you, David.

Speaker 17 (02:21:59):
I want to thank you Mother.

Speaker 33 (02:22:03):
You're a lot of like Sometimes I think we're too
much alive.

Speaker 4 (02:22:06):
Mm hm.

Speaker 17 (02:22:06):
It's hap to happen, isn't it. When a mother has
to bring up a child alone.

Speaker 33 (02:22:11):
Try to be patient with her, David, I will, mother,
will what none of your business? Clauda, come over here
and listen to me. They're not listening.

Speaker 3 (02:22:19):
Yes I am.

Speaker 33 (02:22:20):
Then stop looking at David. I want you to look
at this chicken.

Speaker 3 (02:22:23):
Hello, chicken.

Speaker 33 (02:22:24):
Just stop it, Claudia, Now look, it's already for the stove,
and there are baked potatoes in all the directions. I
want to be surprised.

Speaker 3 (02:22:30):
Say what do you think we're paying you for?

Speaker 33 (02:22:32):
I don't care for the position. I'm leaving.

Speaker 17 (02:22:34):
Hold your horses, not so fast. Where do you think
you're going over to Aunt Louisa's.

Speaker 33 (02:22:38):
I'll phone you in the morning.

Speaker 36 (02:22:39):
You just spend the nights, it swam, We're much more
fun than at Louisa.

Speaker 3 (02:22:42):
At Louisa, send us a silver soup treen, David.

Speaker 10 (02:22:45):
Is that good?

Speaker 3 (02:22:46):
No, it's just Aunt Louisa.

Speaker 33 (02:22:47):
Have a little more respect at Louisa's your father's only sister.
And I'm not spending the night with.

Speaker 3 (02:22:52):
Oh that's different. See that you're home not later than
ten o'clock. Give it the latch key, David.

Speaker 17 (02:22:58):
I haven't got the latch key.

Speaker 4 (02:22:59):
You took it back.

Speaker 33 (02:23:00):
I didn't.

Speaker 28 (02:23:00):
Yes, you did.

Speaker 17 (02:23:01):
Don't you remember you gave it back to you when
you were standing out children?

Speaker 33 (02:23:03):
Will you let me finish just one sentence? We certainly
go ahead. I started to say, I'm not going to
spend the night. I'm going to live with Aunt Louisa
until you two find a place of your own.

Speaker 3 (02:23:14):
But you can't live with an in law.

Speaker 33 (02:23:16):
Why not you wanted David to.

Speaker 3 (02:23:18):
Now, No, sass, Mammy, You're staying here and that's final.

Speaker 33 (02:23:21):
Wait expect me to sleep and David's drafting board. Just
a moment.

Speaker 3 (02:23:25):
What have you been up to, Mama. I'll be back
in a minute.

Speaker 12 (02:23:30):
Mother.

Speaker 17 (02:23:32):
We can't let you go off like this.

Speaker 33 (02:23:33):
It's the right thing, David, and you know it. Here
unhook my apron. Tell Claudia I'll call her in the morning.

Speaker 17 (02:23:39):
I I don't know what to say.

Speaker 33 (02:23:41):
Don't say anything. Just keep on being happy.

Speaker 17 (02:23:44):
But we can't put you out of your own home.

Speaker 10 (02:23:46):
Mother.

Speaker 33 (02:23:46):
It's your home for as long as you need it.

Speaker 17 (02:23:49):
We'll find a bigger party.

Speaker 33 (02:23:50):
Don't lived apartments that big, David. I like Louisa. She
lives alone and will be company for each other. I stop,
you're worrying. You're as bad as Claudia.

Speaker 17 (02:23:59):
Yeah, not sur fast. Come back a minute. Let me
straighten your collar.

Speaker 33 (02:24:07):
Why, David, that was a nice kiss, not because you're
supposed to either.

Speaker 17 (02:24:13):
Well, somebody's got to kiss you around here, Claudia doesn't,
that's true.

Speaker 33 (02:24:16):
I better go before she comes back. Goodbye, mister Norton.

Speaker 17 (02:24:20):
So long missus Brown.

Speaker 3 (02:24:30):
David, do you know what that woman has done?

Speaker 33 (02:24:32):
No wonder she wanted to go.

Speaker 3 (02:24:33):
There's no place for her.

Speaker 21 (02:24:34):
What do you mean?

Speaker 36 (02:24:35):
She's fixed up her room as a study for you,
with your your leather chair and your drafting table and
all your books in.

Speaker 3 (02:24:40):
The place for your clothes.

Speaker 33 (02:24:41):
Where is she?

Speaker 3 (02:24:42):
I'm gonna wring her neck?

Speaker 16 (02:24:44):
Uh, she just left.

Speaker 17 (02:24:45):
I guess she didn't want to be thanked or to
have her neck wrung, or whatever it is you two
girls do and you're nice to each other.

Speaker 3 (02:24:52):
David, why'd you let her go? Half the funny being
home is having her with us.

Speaker 17 (02:24:56):
Why are you little mama baby to know it?

Speaker 4 (02:25:01):
Well?

Speaker 17 (02:25:02):
I suspected it and that's not right, is it?

Speaker 33 (02:25:07):
David?

Speaker 17 (02:25:08):
No, no, darling, it's not too right.

Speaker 3 (02:25:13):
I'll try to get over it.

Speaker 33 (02:25:14):
Then I always seem to walk in at the wrong time.

Speaker 17 (02:25:19):
Well, look who's here, missus Brown?

Speaker 36 (02:25:21):
As I live and breathe, Where on earth did you
come from?

Speaker 3 (02:25:24):
Mommy, have a nice visit without Louisa?

Speaker 17 (02:25:26):
Yes, how is that Louisa?

Speaker 33 (02:25:27):
I don't want to interrupt this witty conversation. One of you,
two imbeciles left the key in the front door.

Speaker 36 (02:25:34):
Here it is, David is so careless about keys?

Speaker 17 (02:25:37):
Oh, listen to her, Mama, I am careless.

Speaker 33 (02:25:39):
You're both caring.

Speaker 3 (02:25:40):
And she arrives just as dinner's ready.

Speaker 17 (02:25:41):
Yes, they'll do it every time.

Speaker 3 (02:25:43):
Well, fortunately there's enough for an extra person.

Speaker 17 (02:25:45):
Come on, missus Brown, I don't be embarrassed. Just pretend
that we expected you all the time.

Speaker 10 (02:25:51):
Where we go?

Speaker 3 (02:25:51):
Put her up, Claudia, wait a minute, I'll be back
in a minute now.

Speaker 33 (02:25:54):
David, you're worse than imbeciles. She's very upset over my leaving.

Speaker 17 (02:25:59):
Oh, she you seem to be making her adjustment to it.
Of course we didn't know that you were going to
be gone so long.

Speaker 33 (02:26:06):
Come on, I'll be serious. She's such a baby about me.

Speaker 17 (02:26:10):
I'm serious.

Speaker 10 (02:26:12):
Of course.

Speaker 17 (02:26:12):
It isn't good to wean a baby all at once.
Sometimes it isn't too good for the mother either.

Speaker 33 (02:26:20):
You've got a lot of wisdom in ahead of yours, David.

Speaker 36 (02:26:24):
Well, I always seem to walk in at the wrong time.

Speaker 3 (02:26:28):
Really, with a big dinner to get in a house
to arrange.

Speaker 33 (02:26:30):
All you to do is gossip. Won't work, David won't work.

Speaker 3 (02:26:34):
Cops in the living room. I measured it. It's too
short for a first class man. Mama will have to
sleep on it.

Speaker 33 (02:26:40):
Mama's not sleeping on any couch. Mama is sleeping at
Aunt Louise's.

Speaker 36 (02:26:44):
Oh I called out Louise off. I mean I called
her up.

Speaker 3 (02:26:46):
She didn't seem to mind. I think she likes to.

Speaker 33 (02:26:48):
Live alone, poor Aunt Louise's children. I will not be
stampeded into this.

Speaker 3 (02:26:53):
She won't be stampeded, David.

Speaker 33 (02:26:54):
What do you know about that?

Speaker 3 (02:26:56):
Say Mama? Do I add flour and water to this? Gravy.

Speaker 33 (02:26:59):
Nothing to that grave. It's just right the way it is.

Speaker 17 (02:27:01):
Oh, it looks too tend to me. I think the
chicken has no character. Could stand a little, Claudia.

Speaker 3 (02:27:07):
Oh, lots of salt, David.

Speaker 33 (02:27:08):
It doesn't need salt you too. Now look here, will
you please get out of my kitchen before you ruin
this dinner entirely? I'll call you when it's ready.

Speaker 17 (02:27:17):
Well, it looks like she was stampeded with a little
salt on her pride. Do you think she'll stay?

Speaker 3 (02:27:23):
Do you think we should keep it?

Speaker 21 (02:27:25):
Well?

Speaker 17 (02:27:26):
She had very good references from her last place.

Speaker 36 (02:27:28):
Yes, But David, didn't they say something about she was
sober and willing but quite impertinent.

Speaker 17 (02:27:36):
Oh, yes, I believe they did. But well, the things
you won't put up with to get a cook these days.

Speaker 22 (02:27:44):
Oh, David, everything's so perfect again, And I'm so happy, Darling.

Speaker 54 (02:28:15):
All story material used in this broadcast of Claudia was
under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown.

Speaker 6 (02:28:21):
Maloney.

Speaker 54 (02:28:32):
Friends, here's big news and good news for you. There's
more coca cola available now. Now you can give a
party and have enough coke to go round. Now you
can offer the pause that refreshes with ice cold coca
cola when an unexpected guest drops in. Now you can
refresh yourself at the familiar red cooler when you go shopping,

(02:28:53):
or when you drive, or when you go to play golf,
and the price is still five cents. Every day, Monday
through Friday, Claudia comes to you, transcribed with the best

(02:29:16):
wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca cola. So
listen again tomorrow at the same time. And now this
is joking, saying au revoir. And remember, whoever you are,
whatever you do, wherever you may be. When you think
of refreshment, think of coca cola or ice. Coca cola

(02:29:39):
makes any pause, the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 7 (02:30:20):
And the first syndicated episode of Claudia. Of course, it
aired previously on CBS for a period of time. We
have very few, if any shows of that. Seventy eight
years ago September twenty ninth, nineteen forty seven, here on
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coox Tomorrow, Westerns, Gun Smoke,

(02:30:41):
Fort Laramie, Gene Autres and Melody Ranch, Tales of the
Texas Rangers, and another episode of Claudia. Thanks for being
with us on this Monday. We'll see you tomorrow for
more classic radio theater. I'm Wyatt Coox.

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