Classic Radio 11-07-25 - Shows from Sunday November 7 1948 - 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, Node Washington calling David Honey, count.

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

Speaker 2 (00:21):
The Great Yeldesslide, Labor McGhee and Molly Dragones Guns Alone,
Rang Zoe.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine. Is your host
Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Good Evening Friend, Savionna Tancu.

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Drama on this Friday from seventy seven years ago with
episodes of Under Arrest, Nick Carter, Master, Detective Quiet, Please
the Whistler, and Claudia. That's all coming up on this Friday.
This is the seventh day of November, the three hundred
eleventh day of the year, fifty four days remaining in

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twenty twenty five presidential elections that took place on this date.
In eighteen forty eight, Zachary Taylor elected president in the
first presidential election held in every state on the same day.
In nineteen sixteen, Woodrow Wilson re elected president by defeating
Republican Charles Evan Hughes. Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the

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first woman elected to the House. In nineteen forty four,
President Roosevelt won reelection over challenger Thomas E. Dewey to
found the only president elected to a fourth term. He
had argued during the campaign, it would be dangerous to
change leadership during World War II, what.

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Is the job before us? In nineteen forty four, first
to win the war? He win at first to win
at overwhelmingland.

Speaker 4 (01:51):
President Roosevelt would die just five months after this election.
In nineteen seventy two, incumbent Richard Dixon defeated Democrat Senator
George McGovern and in two thousand, the election that wasn't,
That was and wasn't. Democrat Al Gore appeared to a
one Florida and the presidential contest, but then the network

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started back peddling. Later that night, the networks gave Florida
and the presidency to Republican George W. Bush, but then
pulled back again. Gore had called for mister Bush, called
mister Bush to concede. He then angered the Republican camp
by phoning again to take back that concession. His campaign
asked for hand recounts in some heavily Democrat counties. Gore argued,

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the will of the people must be heard.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
This is America. When votes are cast, we count them.

Speaker 7 (02:43):
We don't arbitrarily set them aside. Because it's too difficult
to count them.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Meanwhile, over on CBS, Dan rather tried to keep track
of what was going on.

Speaker 8 (02:53):
I have been to goat ropings and space shots, and
I've covered presidential elections since the nineteen fifties, and I
I have never seen anything like this. Take a good look, folks.
You haven't seen it before. You're not likely to see
it again in your lifetime.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
The back and forth race, which brought out the term
hanging chads and tracking these punch cards that Florida was
using at the time, got rather insane. But al Gore
did not win. In two thousand, George W. Bush declared
the winner of that race. And it was four years

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ago today former Democrat Vice President Joe Biden upset sitting
President Donald Trump in an election that a number of
people still dispute. Nevertheless, the former vice president then president elect,
addressed a drive in rally in Delaware.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
We've won with.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
The most votes ever cast some presidential ticket in the
hasty of the nation, seventy four million.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
And as I said, that two thousand race still in
dispute by a number of people, And to be honest,
the numbers still look kind of funny, because not that
many votes have been cast in an election since, but
that was the two thousand presidential election. Now in other
things that took place not dealing with elections on this

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date in history. Eighteen seventy four, a cartoon by Thomas
Nast in Harper's Weekly considered the first use of an
elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party. Women in
the state of Colorado granted the right to vote on
this date in eighteen ninety three. The first issue of
the New Republic magazine published in nineteen fourteen, and the

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nineteen eighteen influenza epidemic spread to western Samoa on this date,
killing seventy five hundred people, about twenty percent of the
population by the end of the year. On radio for
the first time on this date in nineteen thirty two,
buck Ry Rogers in the twenty fifth century. In nineteen
fifty sixty, UN General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for

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the UK, France, and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops
from Egypt. And it was on this date in nineteen
sixty two. Yeah, this is electoral, but it's not the
election of a presidency. In nineteen sixty two, Richard Nixon,
former Vice president, at that time lost the gubernatorial election

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in the state of California. In his concession speech, he
said it was the last time you would hear from him,
the last residential press or the last press conference.

Speaker 9 (05:40):
I think that it's time that our great newspapers have
at least the same objectivity, the same fullness of coverage
the television has. And I can only say thank God
for television and radio for keeping the newspapers a little
more honest. Last point, I leave you, gentlemen, and you

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will now write it. You will interpret it. That's your right.
As I leave you, I want you to know just
think how much you're going to be missing. You don't
have Nixon to kick around anymore.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
And six years later, Richard Nixon would be elected President
of the United States. So Kyle, Things Change. Also released
on this date in nineteen sixty two, an album entitled
The First Family.

Speaker 10 (06:30):
Yeah sure, go to sleep now, Carolina. Daddy tucked you
in and you've had the three glasses of water. Now
good night.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Tell me a story, daddy.

Speaker 10 (06:37):
Oh, come on, sweet hot, it you late. Just one
short story, daddy, all right, just one.

Speaker 1 (06:44):
Tell me my favorite story.

Speaker 10 (06:46):
About the tall man.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Yes, with all a hair well.

Speaker 10 (06:51):
There was this tall man with a lot of hair,
and he was prince and a great warrior. And the
people of Visia country you picked him to be their
leader because he could to protect them and lead them
on to the new frontiers.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Tell me about when he had the trouble.

Speaker 10 (07:08):
Now, one day the evil Prince with the black beard
from the island in the south and the terrible fat
bear from the cold north came and they tried to
hurt the Prince, but the Prince was too schmod and
he chased them away. Show the handsome Prince and all
the people of his country lived happily ever after.

Speaker 1 (07:26):
Thank you, Daddy, good night, good.

Speaker 10 (07:28):
Night to Caroline, good night.

Speaker 1 (07:32):
These sessions do him so much good.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
The album a good natured parody of President Kennedy, both
as Commander in Cheap and as a member of a large,
well known political family. The album sold a million copies
a week for the first six weeks of release. Imagine
that six week, six million copies. A second album released
in the spring of nineteen sixty three. Von Meter's career

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ended when President ken the assassinated in November sixty three.
The albums recalled, many of them destroyed. They weren't released
until Oh gosh, it was the two thousands, rich Little
said told us. And on the radio I interviewed, he said,
poor von von Meeter. I should say poor von Meeter.

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His career was in that car with President Kennedy, and
it died at the same time. I nineteen sixty seven,
President Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of nineteen sixty seven,
establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Nineteen seventy three, Congress
overrode President Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which

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limited presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. It
was on this date. In nineteen eighty seven, Judge Douglas
Ginsberg asked President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the
Supreme Court.

Speaker 11 (08:59):
I was looking forward to sharing with the American people.
My view is about justice and about the role of
the courts in our society. Unfortunately, all of the attention
has been focused on our personal lives, and much of
that on events of many years ago.

Speaker 4 (09:15):
Ginsburg withdrawing his nomination after he admitted he had smoked
marijuana a number of times after becoming a professor at
the Harvard Law School in the late seventies. These days
that smoking of marijuana is almost a requirement in some
parts of this nation. Douglas Wilder won the governor seat

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in Virginia on this date in nineteen eighty nine, becoming
the first elected African American governor in the US, and
in nineteen eighty nine that same year, David Dinkins became
the first African American mayor of New York City. In
nineteen ninety one, based basketball player Magic Johnson announced he
had tested positive for HIV, the virus that led to AID,

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and was retiring.

Speaker 12 (10:02):
Because of the HIV buyers that I have attained, I
will have to retire from the.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
Lakers, Magic Johnson on this date in nineteen ninety one.
In nineteen ninety six, NASAs Mars Global Surveyor blasted off
on a mission to map the surface of the red
planet and went into orbit around Mars. The next year,
Associate Administrative for Space Sciences Wes Huntress spoke about the
trip's scientific potential.

Speaker 13 (10:31):
There has plenty of evidence of liquid water on the
surface in it's past, and because of that very fact,
there's always the potential for life having arisen on Mars,
or even being there present today.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
That hasn't been led up to and discovered to this date.
It was twenty five years ago. Hillary Rodham Clinton elected
to the Senate, becoming the first first lady of the
US to win public office. The supersonic commercial aircraft Concord
resumed flying on this date in two thousand and one
after a fifteen month break. Iran banned advertising of US

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products on the state in two thousand and two, and
in two thousand and four, the interim government of Iraq
called for a sixty day state of emergency as US
forces stormed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Keith Ellison, a
Democrat from Minnesota, became the first Muslim elected to Congress
in two thousand and six. In two thousand and nine,

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the Democrat controlled House narrowly passed landmark healthcare legislation known
as Obamacare, and it was on this date. In twenty eleven,
a jury in Los Angeles convicted Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray,
of involuntary manslaughter first supplying a powerful anesthetic implicated in
the entertainer's two thousand and nine death. Judge Michael Pastor

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gave his final remarks following the jury's decision.

Speaker 14 (11:55):
Doctor Murray's reckless conduct in this case poses a demonstrable
of risk to the safety of the public.

Speaker 4 (12:02):
Murray sentenced to four years in prison. He served two years,
was released in October of twenty thirteen. Among those passing
away on this date in history, former First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt a powerful woman effort for that time, and in
many ways she did a lot more than her husband did,
and that's saying a lot. Actor Steve McQueen passing away

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on this date as well, Martin Maverick, and television shows
Jack Kelly. Also actors singer Howard Keel, Smokin' Joe Freesia
The Boxer, singer songwriter Leonard Cohen, Attorney General Janet Reno
from Quantum Leap and Battlestar Galactica, je Dean Stockwell, and

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from Apollo eight not the movie, but the real life
Apollo eight astronaut Frank Borman. Birthdays on this date include
The Very Funny Country comedian writer Archie Campbell, evangelist Billy Graham,
trumpeter al Hirt, Peter Paul and Mary, singer Mary Travers,
singer d Clark, comedian Judy Tanuda, wrestler King Kong Bundy

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and actress Dana Plato all born on this date in history.
All have left this mortal coil.

Speaker 7 (13:18):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
It is now time for the birthday announcements. The following
people are now officially older than.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Dirt Singer songwriter Johnny Rivers eighty three years old today,
also eighty three. Former Olympian professional wrestler Ken Petera. Musician
Joni Mitchell help me, I think I'm falling eighty two
years old Today? Is Joni Mitchell? Remember him from Bar Rescue?

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John Tapper seventy one, the real Peter Brady. Christopher Knight
is sixty eight from Comedy Central's Workaholics and the Pitch
Perfect franchise. Adam Debyne is forty two.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
So I have a feeling that we should kiss.

Speaker 4 (14:04):
I don't think so. No, no, no no. Adam Adam
Divine from The Pit's Perfect Adam Divine forty two today.
And singer Lorde who did I Want to be a Royal?
She is twenty nine today. Though some of the people
celebrating the seventh day of November is their birthday. If
this is your birthday, Happy.

Speaker 15 (14:26):
Birthday, Happy birthday, And we roll on on this Friday
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox with drama from Sunday,

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November seventh, nineteen forty eight.

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Speaker 4 (17:05):
We will take a look at the news from this
date seventy seven years ago in a bit, but we're
going to start off with a mutual program starring Joe
DeSantis Under Arrest, And if you were listening, you heard
Joe DeSantis on our special podcast that we did a
couple of weeks ago regarding the passing of June Lockhart.

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He was in an episode of Suspense with her, and
we're going to hear him in the starring rule in
this program. Under Arrest seventy eight, seventy seven years ago, Sunday,
November seventh, nineteen forty eight, on Mutual.

Speaker 17 (17:43):
Your Juel, then under all Right, Into Your.

Speaker 18 (17:53):
Well, Criminals Behind Bars, Under Arrest, the story of Police

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Captain Jim Scott fight against crime.

Speaker 17 (18:34):
Captain Scott.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
There's a woman out here to see you.

Speaker 17 (18:36):
Captain match Barker. I'm busy. I can't see anybody, mad Barker.
You said, that's right, Yeah, Okay. Sent her in.

Speaker 14 (18:46):
Gardan Nicoll came in around five o'clock in the afternoon.
I was busy filling out a report, too busy, ready
to see anybody.

Speaker 17 (18:59):
But madd Barker was different. I hadn't seen Madge in years.

Speaker 14 (19:05):
She was what you might call an old friend from
the other side of the tracks, married to Joe Barker,
small time crook who was in and out of Stir
as often as the river ferry is in and out
of the slip. But Madge hadn't always been on the
other side of the tracks. Once she'd been inspected. Tom
Wilson's daughter Funny, a CoP's daughter marrying a crook.

Speaker 17 (19:26):
None of us in the department could figure it out. All.

Speaker 14 (19:29):
Inspector Wilson had been dead five years now, and I
hadn't seen Mad since the funeral. I wondered what the
years with Joe had done to her. So I pushed
aside the report and waited. Pretty soon the door opened.
Mad's hadn't changed much on the surface. He was about
twenty eight now, and a tract of honey blonde with

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plenty of a field and big blue eyes. And that's
where the change was in the eyes. There was a
kind of sad expression in them and hadn't been there before.
I guess they've seen funny of hard times knocking around
with Joe, what she did with her own business, even
though I'd been pretty burned about the whole thing. Made

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sat down, pulled a pack of cigarettes from a person,
opened them cigare Thanks.

Speaker 17 (20:21):
It's been a long time.

Speaker 14 (20:23):
Yeah, yeah, are you've been keeping yourself mad around thes
a social call or business?

Speaker 19 (20:31):
Half and half it's about Joe.

Speaker 17 (20:33):
Thought he was doing time got out last month. What
kind of trouble is he in now? Fin?

Speaker 20 (20:41):
How is Joe?

Speaker 21 (20:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 17 (20:44):
I haven't seen him later, Sydney come home. Sure, he
came home for a while. He had a flattened Jarry.

Speaker 22 (20:50):
When he came back and sent to his kidneys and
then slipped restlessly.

Speaker 17 (20:55):
You know, Joe, where is he now? I don't know.
That's why I came to see you. Why. I mean, Jim,
you've got to help. Why mean listening persons is just
down the hall.

Speaker 23 (21:07):
I take Jim, I'm asking you'll help me.

Speaker 14 (21:09):
I think I should, all right, maybe I asked for
you all told me he was no good, that he
was a good for nothing crook and it always be
a crook and never goes straight. But let me tell
you something, if I had it to do all over again,
I'd still marry Joe.

Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'd marry him.

Speaker 17 (21:25):
Because I love him. I I love that all, Madge.

Speaker 20 (21:30):
All right, take it easy.

Speaker 14 (21:32):
I wasn't saying I told yourself. I just wanted to
find out.

Speaker 17 (21:35):
That's all. Find out what Why do you still love
him or not? And I see you doo. That's good
enough for me. I'm sorry forget it and let's have
the fact. When did you laste Joe?

Speaker 7 (21:50):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (21:50):
He got a phone call the night before he left
Garry from this city.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
From a guy named Nick.

Speaker 23 (21:56):
Bn Tanner.

Speaker 17 (21:57):
I've heard him. Nicky's bad, doesn't can't him to see
away from dance business.

Speaker 14 (22:02):
So you figure he's here in town and you want
me to help you find him. Well, let's hope Joe
isn't in any more trouble.

Speaker 17 (22:08):
I tried, Jim, I swear I try. Every time he
comes out. I try to set him on the right track.
I do my best. What did I do? Come on? Match?
Come on? Crying isn't going to help that, Jim?

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Will he give me a hand?

Speaker 17 (22:28):
Chip, I'll do what I can.

Speaker 20 (22:30):
Match, I'll do what I can't.

Speaker 14 (22:39):
And Matte last night sat back and tried to figure
out the best way to find Joe Barker among four
million people. Did He's big and Joe's a small guy,
you know, sense and going around knocking on doors?

Speaker 17 (22:53):
So I went to see the tooth thicks do stick around? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (23:04):
How wing On is the guy he wants to see?
Leo Sedlak was a smart little drifter who sold his
information and inflationary prices five hundred bucks here.

Speaker 17 (23:17):
Thousand bucks for the next guy.

Speaker 14 (23:19):
A lot of dough. But his information was level and
he never crossed anybody. Maybe that's why he was still alive.
They called him the tooth pick because he always wore
one sticking out of the corners of his mouth, and it's.

Speaker 17 (23:30):
Wagged up and down as he talked. What brings you
down here? What are you drinking? Leo?

Speaker 24 (23:35):
Right?

Speaker 14 (23:36):
You heard the man right? Well he wants that Joe
Barker very easy. That's come on, Leo, no curve.

Speaker 17 (23:46):
It's an especial ground. I can make it official and
drag into headquarters.

Speaker 14 (23:50):
Ron Hasker. The thirty five pounds to getting in strained
your own mic. That's talking.

Speaker 17 (23:56):
Iik for a drink, I think at all. By the way,
lee O, where can I find Nick Montano?

Speaker 25 (24:03):
I ever heard of him?

Speaker 17 (24:06):
You need another drink? Now? Even if you cut me
and I fell, wouldn't Now who makes got everybody that's scared? Huh?

Speaker 14 (24:14):
I'm in good health from how Scotch. I wanna stay
that way, okay, Leo?

Speaker 17 (24:19):
Thanks two three five sous. Scared me?

Speaker 14 (24:28):
Was the tenement walk up A roommate was like room
six and room seven and all the other rooms more
dingy and dog door was half open, but I knocked
just the same.

Speaker 17 (24:39):
You know, I was brought up that way.

Speaker 14 (24:43):
Not he didn't raise anybody, and my knuckles were getting raw,
so I lost all sense of good manners, pushed the
door wide and walked in. I couldn't see a thing.
I tried the light, which did nothing happened.

Speaker 17 (24:57):
I got out my flag life chats flit the darkness
like a razor.

Speaker 26 (25:02):
I'd picked out a chair and I'm posted bed batter
chests of doors, but no Joe Barker, Barkerk, are you here?

Speaker 24 (25:15):
You?

Speaker 14 (25:15):
And Barker stumbled over something turned my flash to the floor.
He was in all right, but obviously hadn't been expecting guests.
Joe Barker was lying on the floor and there were
two holes in his chest. I couldn't have been standing
there more than a few seconds, and my brain was
already working on the call, the homicide, the notification of

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the medical examiner, and coming mad.

Speaker 17 (25:39):
And I heard the door close behind me, and I
could hear somebody breathing in the room, and I knew
it wasn't Joe Barker.

Speaker 14 (25:49):
I waited one second too then I twisted around fast
with a flash pointed at the door in my hand,
reaching for my gun too late.

Speaker 17 (26:08):
Yeah, that's nice. Who settle b south Hendy Gaddy he
was observe.

Speaker 14 (26:14):
When I came out of it, I found myself sitting
in a chair with a damn Powell on my forehead.

Speaker 17 (26:20):
The lights were on. Down I heard somebody talking. It's
founded very far away.

Speaker 14 (26:28):
First I thought it was the archangel Peter, but when
my eyes focused.

Speaker 17 (26:31):
Again, I saw that it was Lieutenant Larry Gavin on
the phone. Across the room. There were a few uniform
cops looking around.

Speaker 22 (26:39):
Yeah, lots around some of the lab boys.

Speaker 14 (26:43):
I told you through thirty five sous Eddy's no matter,
Johnny going, Jeff okay, yeah.

Speaker 22 (26:50):
Yeah, oh we did do right, Give me that again.
But I felt much better before what happened. He got sapped,
and I.

Speaker 17 (27:02):
Know that much. How did you get here?

Speaker 14 (27:04):
One of the big cops, a guy running out of
the building in an awful hurry, came up to investigate.
What about the guy who ran lost some fierce face.

Speaker 17 (27:11):
Nope, Hey, that's a nice egg there on your head.
Wanted five of scrambled, very funny, You need a cigarette?
When he sat sure, thanks? How did the lights get on?

Speaker 14 (27:23):
It wouldn't work before somebody unscrewed the boat, Barker said,
it very set the ball rolling, just going for them,
the photographer and the guy squad from the Scientific Research Division.
You better stick here and mask to mind the operations.

Speaker 17 (27:37):
Where you going?

Speaker 25 (27:38):
His wife, Matt Voker, you want to know?

Speaker 3 (27:55):
Sorry, give up.

Speaker 17 (27:56):
I didn't need the breakdown.

Speaker 20 (27:58):
Well, it comes some I might keep it in.

Speaker 17 (28:01):
I don't know.

Speaker 23 (28:02):
I'm always crying on your.

Speaker 17 (28:03):
Shoulder, forget it to love him, didn't he?

Speaker 23 (28:06):
Joe wasn't a bad guy, couldn't keep on the right
side of the lord.

Speaker 22 (28:10):
But he never heard anybody you.

Speaker 2 (28:12):
I loved him, and I.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Think he loved me.

Speaker 17 (28:15):
It was only only like he had a disease, that's all. Sure,
Maybe it's better this way.

Speaker 20 (28:22):
Well anyway, mad, he won't get him any more trouble.

Speaker 7 (28:26):
That's right.

Speaker 17 (28:28):
I'll tell me, madd What did he do his last
stretch for?

Speaker 23 (28:31):
They picked him up one day and some policy.

Speaker 17 (28:34):
Slips on him. First time, first time he got caught
with him? Uh huh? Who was in with him? I
don't know. He did have a partner, sure.

Speaker 14 (28:40):
But I never met him.

Speaker 17 (28:41):
Joe never told me much about his business, right ever?
Hear this, Nick Ventano before the day he caught up. No,
you're sure.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Maybe Joe mentioned him once or twice but.

Speaker 17 (28:50):
I can't remember.

Speaker 14 (28:51):
He never named anybody in connection with the policy.

Speaker 17 (28:53):
Record, not to me, and he wouldn't squeal in court.

Speaker 23 (28:56):
That's why Joe took the rapp alone.

Speaker 20 (28:58):
It's cold beyond the world.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
I always told him it would give them in trouble.

Speaker 19 (29:04):
Who do you think did it?

Speaker 17 (29:06):
I don't know yet, but I'm playing a hunch.

Speaker 14 (29:09):
What hunt Nick Brintana is a boy, the Nick Printana
was playing trouble with Joe's base in the policy rackets,
and have one of them tried to cross the other.

Speaker 27 (29:17):
They'll never try to cross anybody.

Speaker 17 (29:19):
Maybe not.

Speaker 23 (29:20):
You're going to pick them up, sick Brentano when.

Speaker 20 (29:23):
I find them.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
Where is?

Speaker 14 (29:24):
Nobody seems to know, but I'm going to do my
best to find out.

Speaker 17 (29:37):
It has been a long, hard night.

Speaker 14 (29:39):
When I left mad it was near seven in the morning,
and the butterflies in my stomach told me I needed
some breakfast. So I dropped into a greasy spoon diner
around the corner from headquarters, where I eat lunch every
now and then, m an egg, toast and coffee and
leave off the wisecracks.

Speaker 17 (29:57):
Tony, you'll never make the airwaves. I can try.

Speaker 28 (29:59):
You add any bottle.

Speaker 24 (30:02):
Laugh.

Speaker 14 (30:05):
The toast was burned and the coffee was flat, but
at least the empty fit in my stomach began to
fill up. I was gulping the last of the coffee
when somebody came along and perched on the stool beside me.
I didn't take any notice. HEAs really nudged my arms.
It was Leo said, like the toothstick.

Speaker 17 (30:24):
Hello, Leo, what brings you into this poor man's rich if?
I'm looking for you all night? Scott? Yeah? Why I
heard about both? So listen Scott for peacecake. Don't let
on it. I told you where he was? Why not?
Why not listen? The Frintana ever fighting? Huh do you
think he bumped Joe? What about Joe? Maybe? What's your

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sunt coffee and a toastack? Toothcake?

Speaker 22 (30:47):
What do you need?

Speaker 17 (30:48):
A toothpick with coffee? Give him a toothcache? Don't need
a man's mad? You're killing me, but you'll play with me, Scott.
You won't let it out that I wish you and
not tell me Leo?

Speaker 14 (30:58):
What sprintona gos that makes everybody so weakned when his
name comes up.

Speaker 17 (31:04):
Get a gun for one thing. That's what he did
the butter Uh huh? Tell me another. Where is Princeano?
I don't know. What does he look like? I don't know?

Speaker 14 (31:14):
Come on, Lee, I don't know. Scott, I swear I
don't know. Afraid of him? I know where to sit?
Tell me everybody knows where to sit, right on the
edge of their chairs. I could fix that, Leo. Yeah,
how many? Where Brintanno is? I'll pick him up and
I'll bring him down. I know where he is, Gott,
I told you once.

Speaker 17 (31:28):
I don't know. He's your coffee and to two six back? Hey, camp,
where'd you get to? Eg a Terry? It's the better egg.

Speaker 29 (31:37):
Than the one just serving here, Jim, Yeah, Larry, come in.

Speaker 17 (31:52):
It looks better. He looks better.

Speaker 24 (31:56):
Now.

Speaker 17 (31:56):
What's you in the bucket doing?

Speaker 25 (31:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (31:58):
Any maid's report? Yeah, he went straight through the heart
killed int. What time do you get it? About? One am?
Doc says, uh huh. Must have happened just a few
minutes before I got there. Why you got tapped? Who knows? Ding?
Just as the killer was getting ready to leave that
trick he pulled with a light mar Yeah. Anything from
the laire boys say, found a few things? What the

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red ashes for? One? BOXX. They don't know yet, but
U the two chips the wood on the floor in
the corner are from They don't know that yet. Eat it.
I'll let you know. Ho re Fortunately any prints? None
at the crop? Yep, Mary tell me something. M M.
Do you ever hear of Nick Brintano? Sure? Who is he? Sure?

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Nothing more than the name right now? Where'd he come from?

Speaker 14 (32:43):
Nobody knows, but he's moved in on most of the
rackets in town and moved in hard. He must have
a record and under that name, I've looked, well there
are you think it gets me?

Speaker 17 (32:51):
Is this? Nobody's ever seen this guy.

Speaker 14 (32:53):
They don't know what he looks like, but they're all
scared of deasen sure because Brentano's big, muscal and dangerous.
He's supposed to be responsible for a couple of unsolved
killing still on the books.

Speaker 17 (33:01):
Yeah, and the only way will nailhim is to get
him out in the open. Hadn't idea? He pulled the
trigger and Barker, Barka and Britanna worked together. Where'd you
get that from? Barker's wife?

Speaker 14 (33:11):
They were living in Gary when Joe got out of stir.
One day, Brentano called up and right away Barker packed
his bag and Lance.

Speaker 17 (33:19):
Next thing we see of Barker, he's full of holes.
Now you figure the.

Speaker 14 (33:24):
Don't have to Printana seems to be quite a guy.
Got the department going crazy. The underworld's scared stiff. How
can he lose with that company?

Speaker 17 (33:32):
He will leave us, hope.

Speaker 14 (33:34):
So he's a little heavy handed, Larry. He'll make a
slip one of these days, and soon.

Speaker 17 (33:48):
They health services for Joe Barker. The next day I
went along, not out of any deep seated love for Joe,
but because of mad.

Speaker 14 (33:57):
As I stood beside her there in the church and
looked at Joe's casket, I began to think Joe Barker
had been a crook and a swindler, gotten his money
by taking it out of other people's pockets. But Joe
had paid the penalty time and time again, and each time.

Speaker 17 (34:15):
He was sentenced he accepted it with a shrug.

Speaker 20 (34:19):
M funny little guy.

Speaker 17 (34:22):
He never learned.

Speaker 14 (34:24):
Maybe, as Madge said, it was like a disease. Sure,
there were criminals than Joe Barker, much worse, like.

Speaker 20 (34:31):
The Nick Brintanno types of killer, the kind of gets what.

Speaker 14 (34:34):
He wants every time, even if it means taking another
man's life. I don't know, but I guess it was
right then and there in church, looking from Madge's face
to the casket and back again, that I decided I
wouldn't sleep until I heard Nick Frantano behind bars.

Speaker 17 (34:53):
What's the matters in? Huh?

Speaker 20 (34:56):
Nothing made nothing?

Speaker 17 (35:00):
I was only thank you later out of the street,
I offered to go along with a burial. No, you
don't have to do. You've got kids. Job. I don't
want to keep you away from whatever you say.

Speaker 3 (35:17):
Matim for everything you've been to.

Speaker 14 (35:22):
Get it, he saved your thanks until later, and I
bring Joe's killer into headquarters.

Speaker 17 (35:36):
Happain Scott, Yeah, Larry what okay? Shoot?

Speaker 14 (35:43):
Yes, yes it was huh. I sure it does great.
I'll tell you when I see you. Yeah, I think
we got it now, Thanks boys, see you later.

Speaker 17 (36:04):
Just tick around. Yeah, where's boots over by the wall? Thanks? Hello? Leo?
Got wind? If I sit down and go ahead? Thanks?
That's on your mind, the same thing, Ntano? Yeah, why
don't you give up? Scot?

Speaker 24 (36:22):
Uh?

Speaker 17 (36:24):
Where is Leo? I don't know, come on, I'll up scrite.

Speaker 14 (36:27):
I know what you told me, and I don't believe it.
You know where Brontano hangs his had, Leo, Why don't
you loosen up because they wouldn't be healthy you stay flamed,
le Or. I can make it unhealthy for you too.

Speaker 17 (36:39):
What do you mad? You know where Brontano is and
you won't tell. I can book you for complicity and
suppression of information. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (36:45):
Yeah, I can also drop word around that you're a
crossing Brintano and playing with the Loo and your lawyer springs.
Your Brontano might be so enough to come gunning.

Speaker 17 (36:57):
You know what I mean? Listen? Done for men. That's
what I can do for I tell you what it gets,
and you don't get him. He'll hear about it. He
won't listened, Leo.

Speaker 14 (37:04):
It's all very simple. Just give me the address. Come
along when I make the pinch if you like? What
can Brentano do to you one season?

Speaker 17 (37:12):
Stir? Oh you can. I don't make it hard, Leo.

Speaker 14 (37:16):
I don't want to drag you in if I don't
have to.

Speaker 17 (37:19):
What do you say?

Speaker 14 (37:22):
Okay, I get a cab, i'd it's not far from here.

Speaker 17 (37:26):
You want to come along? Yeah?

Speaker 14 (37:29):
You don't have him. Don't want to be alone when
he finds out that I told you'll get protections.

Speaker 17 (37:34):
Now let's go.

Speaker 20 (37:41):
He got a cab right outside the tavern.

Speaker 14 (37:44):
Leo sat hunched up with his hands clams tightly in
his lap. They look chalky, and the muscles around his
mouth for a rigid soosetick wasn't wagging now. It just
stuck out of his mouth, straight and motionless. Reminded me
of a guy i'd seen once up at State ten,
a few minutes before he went to the chip.

Speaker 17 (38:03):
What's the matter, Leo, you're nervous. I'm all right. We'll
let it get you down. You're doing the right things.
Neck walk. Thanks.

Speaker 14 (38:10):
You ever mind what he thinks? Yeah, and don't worry.
I'm pretty quicker on the drawer myself.

Speaker 17 (38:17):
You'll have to be. I thought you said it wasn't far.

Speaker 14 (38:22):
It's a few more blocks right at the next corner,
max classy neighborhood. Next cat do won't have much use
for it.

Speaker 17 (38:30):
Pretty soon.

Speaker 14 (38:37):
We dropped the cab in front of a quiet, very
respectable apartment building in these fifties. A very polite dorman
did the honors, and inside was a very polite lobby,
very expensively furnished. It all selled money in my book
Frintano did all right. Leo led the way to a
self service elevator in christ the button on the third floor.

Speaker 20 (39:00):
I studied Leo on the way up.

Speaker 17 (39:03):
It was so tight in our edge, and I thought
his eyes looked a little glassy. The third flow was caught,
but I'd like the lobby.

Speaker 14 (39:12):
But when it's been a lion right downstairs, it seems
to a green plush up here. We walked over to
three or nine and Leo pushed the doorbells.

Speaker 17 (39:20):
Maybe he's not in it. Try again, No, so we'll
have to come back. We'll wait here.

Speaker 20 (39:28):
See more comfortable inside.

Speaker 17 (39:31):
But to us last, maybe it isn't.

Speaker 20 (39:33):
Let me see, I feel Leo.

Speaker 17 (39:42):
What do we do now? Sit down, wait for mister
Brintano to show. But he might be out of time.
I might have to wait to wake him. I don't
think so.

Speaker 14 (39:53):
Nick Brentano's right here in this apartment, Leo, and I'm
looking straight at him, okay, tapper rick Rick. I'd always
thought I was quick on the draw, but Leo gave me.

Speaker 17 (40:08):
A lesson that night.

Speaker 14 (40:09):
There I was looking right at him, his hands hung
at his sides, and all of a sudden he had
a gun.

Speaker 17 (40:13):
In his fit.

Speaker 14 (40:14):
But like magic, get over against the wall. That's holly.
I'll pick that grunt, fat.

Speaker 17 (40:24):
Fair Leo.

Speaker 14 (40:25):
I practice in front of a mirror every night. It
must give me a few pointers sometime. I'd be glad
to as you know, with mate Scott, a lot of
little things.

Speaker 17 (40:33):
They all added up. I'm not good at a session.
Explain it to me for sure.

Speaker 14 (40:38):
The night Joe Barker got it, for instance, the killer
heard me coming up the stairs and he unscrewed the
light bulb, opened the door and waited and sat me
in the dock. Now, why would he go to all
that trouble unless he knew it was a police officer
coming up those stairs, coming to Barker's rooms. You knew, Leo,
because you sent me my pregument. And the next morning
in the dining you said you'd been looking for me

(40:58):
all night, that you'd heard about Barker, and the papers
didn't have it yet, right.

Speaker 17 (41:03):
The department didn't let it out ni teen o'clock that morning.
W Else the clincher. One of my men phoned me
a little while ago with a big piece of news. Yeah,
a lot of boys found some chips of wood in
the corner of Barker's room. They put him together and
got a tooth pick. Yeah, I have a habit at
killing of picks when I get excited that happened in

(41:25):
this case. He left the key to your identity Leo
or Nick? By the way, what do you like to
be called? Leo? That's my right name. Yeah, they all
added up Leo, but it wasn't enough.

Speaker 25 (41:41):
I had to have it out of your own mouth.

Speaker 14 (41:42):
And I've got it, but I won't tell you any good.
Maybe tell me, Leo, why did you kill Barker? You'd
never figured that he thought I owed him.

Speaker 17 (41:51):
One hundred bucks? Did you? Well, that's beside the point.

Speaker 14 (41:54):
He gets sure about it, betting the skill, about the
policy game, about me being Brentana. Why did you pay
him a hundred bucks and sent him on his way?
Because I like money too much?

Speaker 17 (42:03):
Too bad? You had a nice little business at the thought.
Should have stopped to it. Step to what being a
smart little grifter and you turn racked Manechille. You stepped
out of character. You can't handle it. You're in trouble now.
I'm not worried. Now I got the rot.

Speaker 14 (42:22):
I've been watching Leo closely ever since we stepped out
of the elevator.

Speaker 17 (42:26):
A big change had come over him.

Speaker 14 (42:29):
He wasn't tighting, tense anymore, but seemed to have command
of every muscle in his body. His tooth stick wagged
up and down like mad. Now he's chewing it.

Speaker 17 (42:36):
Like a cigar.

Speaker 14 (42:38):
His eyes weren't cold and steely, but glass. He almost
without expression, the eyes.

Speaker 17 (42:42):
Of a killer. I watched this trigger thinger waiting for
the first sign of tightening. Como, Scott for sorry, Leo
just shifting my feet tramp huh. Yeah, he was playing
the cat and.

Speaker 14 (42:56):
Mouse game, enjoying himself thickause he thought he had it all,
no doubt.

Speaker 17 (43:02):
But there was a chair.

Speaker 14 (43:04):
Leo has toward the center of the room with his
back against the chair. I had my back against the wall,
and along the wall of the floor, I noticed the
lamp cord connected to the only lighted.

Speaker 17 (43:15):
Lamp in the room. I did it slowly, pinching my
foot over to the wire. Fraction, my fraction. It was
hard work. My legs began to hurt.

Speaker 14 (43:28):
Yeah, smart taper, Scott, thanks for the compliment. Nothing at all.
I like smart people. I got respect for them. That's
why I didn't pop you and bocket Clay. Thanks, but
now well, I got no choice. Leo's knuckle began to
whiten around the trigger.

Speaker 17 (43:48):
I made the lamp caught just in time, and I turned.

Speaker 14 (43:52):
Miss Leo.

Speaker 17 (43:53):
I'll get you the next time. Leo still had the gun,
but in the dark it was a more even game.

Speaker 14 (44:00):
I landed most of my puns up to his mid
sections and tried to keep as load as the floor
as possible.

Speaker 24 (44:05):
He couldn't lose him.

Speaker 17 (44:06):
Every time he fired the gun, the price told me.

Speaker 24 (44:07):
Where he was missed.

Speaker 17 (44:09):
Again, you haven't got me yet beside.

Speaker 14 (44:27):
Hello, Johnny got yeah, Listen, I got Nick, Brentano, Bretanno.

Speaker 17 (44:36):
No, he's not dead, just.

Speaker 14 (44:37):
That cold four five six, sudden place set. No, Brentano
beer isn't ballistic. Hurry, I'll tell you.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I'm all in.

Speaker 17 (45:02):
Under arrest into your soul all president is President accounted

(45:34):
for it.

Speaker 30 (46:01):
You have just heard Under Arrest, presented by Mutual Unused
Period featuring Jodah Santasus Police Captain Jim Scott. Under Arrest
is directed by Martin Margna and written by Bill Wells.
Original music is composed by Bob Monroe. Madge was played
by Florence Robinson, Leo by Joseph Julian Yavin by Carl Eastman,

(46:22):
Tony by Murray Forbes. All names of persons used in
under Arrest are fixticious, and your resemblance to names of
actual persons living or dead is coincidental.

Speaker 17 (46:41):
At madly speaking, this is the Mutual Broad Captain System.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Eight thirty PM, Sunday, November seventh, nineteen forty eight, seventy
seven years ago, Under Arrest. The other shows on Mutual
that night included The House of Mystery at four, two,
Detective Mysteries at four point thirty, The Shadow at five,
Quick as a Flash at five point thirty, Roy Rogers
at six, Nick Carter, Master Detective at six point thirty,

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which we will hear coming up in a few minutes,
Sherlock Holmes at seven, Gabriel Heater's Front Page at seven
point thirty, Alexander's Mediation Board at eight, and then Under
Arrest at eight thirty, followed by Secret Mission and Jimmy Fiddler.
That was the Mutual lineup that night. Before we get

(47:48):
back to the shows, we'll bring you the news of
this date, seventy seven years ago.

Speaker 31 (47:54):
In a moment, civil defense is common sense. This is
Fred McMurray. Home shelters can be built for as little
as one hundred dollars. Simple plans for building inexpensive home
shelters are available free from your Civil Defense office. Ask
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Speaker 4 (48:15):
We're listening to shows from this date seventy seven years ago,
November seventh, nineteen forty eight, and let's take a look
at the headlines that election year seventy seven years ago,
November seventh, nineteen forty eight. President Truman yesterday laid down
a hard boiled spending policy for the piscoal year nineteen

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fifty which Budget Director James E. Webbson would hold federal
expenditures to the lowest possible level. The announcement came after
a day of conferences between Truman and various cabinet members,
during which Defense Secretary James forrest All disclosed he does
not intend to stay in the government. President Truman upset
many old political maxims with his victory over Governor Dewey

(48:59):
of New York. He tossed into the ashcan so many
traditional factors that appeared to favor his opponent that the
experts are still looking for the Whys and war Force,
for example. He won a fifth straight time for the Democrats,
the first time any party had achieved this since the
Civil War, and he won despite the following factors. First,
from the Civil War until now, the party winning an offish,

(49:21):
off year congressional election always went on to win the presidency.
Two years later, the GOP captured control of Congress. In
nineteen forty six, the Democrat party split, with Henry Wallace
winning more than a million votes, most of them perhaps
from the Democrats, and Governor j. Strom Thurmann taking thirty
eight electoral votes from the states writers. The solid South

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broken for the first time since nineteen twenty eight, when
Herbert Hoover captured five states for sixty two electoral votes.
Many city and state party leaders, who had bought tooth
and nail against Truman's nomination, did little, if anything, to
further his campaign. The vote was small. All previous signs
indicated the Democrats needed a large turnout fifty five million

(50:06):
or so to beat Dewey. The vote will probably be
less than fifty million. The Democrat war chest was small,
and truman triumph without the electoral votes of New York
and Pennsylvania. Something no party of candidate of either party
has done since Woodrow Wilson won over Charles E. Hughes
in nineteen sixteen. Official sources said yesterday the Secretary of

(50:30):
State George C. Marshall may decide to delay his retirement
until the end of next summer so he can complete
negotiations for a North Atlantic defense treaty. They thought President
Truman would persuade Marshall to do so, despite the Secretary's
off express desire to quit at the end of this year.
Seven German publishers and editors who had been visiting the

(50:51):
US for the last six weeks left for home yesterday,
impressed with what they had seen of the American presidential election.
The reactions of the visitor summed up by Felix Richter,
the publisher of the Fororsheimer Tegenblatt, Borsheim, Germany, as the
group boarded a Planet Laguardian field, quoting the election proved

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to me that the people of America run their own
country and are not influenced by editorial opinions of the press,
but by the facts as they appear in the press.
Six members of Paraguay's legislature expelled yesterday for taking part
in the short lived revolt against President Natasilio Gonzalez's government.

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Nearly one hundred thousand officers of local and national unions
now have filed affidavits with the Labor Relations Board disavowing communism.
The Board reported yesterday the total of ninety eight, two
hundred and fifty six of the non red oats required
by the tapped Hartley Act have been submitted up to
October first. That was nine two hundred and thirty four

(51:59):
more at the end of August. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov
said last night the American people had rejected a program
of aggression and reaction by defeating the Republicans in Tuesday's election.
But despite this expression from the people, Molotov said, the
ruling circles in the US and other Western countries are

(52:22):
preparing new aggressions and the unleashing of new wars. Molotov
spoke before an audience of Soviet leaders in Moscow's Bolshoy
Theater on the eve of the thirty first anniversary of
the Russian Revolution. A un Sore said last night that
four Arab governments had been advised their military position in

(52:43):
Palestine is hopeless and that they had better make peace.
This authoritative informant who insisted upon anonymity, said Brigadier General
William E. Riley, a US Marine Corps general and chief
of staff of the UN Truce Mission in Palestine, mince
no words in a three hour conference with Syria, Egyptian,

(53:05):
Lebanese and Iraqi representatives. The meeting, which took place on
the initiative of doctor Ralph Bunts, acting UN mediator, attended
by Bunch and his deputy, Henry Wiegler. The source said
Riley made it clear than in the opinion of the
people who try to make it work, the truce now
is a dead duck. Missus Eleanor Roosevelt served notice on

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Russia yesterday that the US will not be intimidated and
that American patients cannot be counted on to be everlasting.
The widow of Franklin Delano Roosevelt also commented on Henry A. Wallace,
asserting that his Progressive Party sustained a crushing defeat because
the American people reject communism and accept liberal democracy. A

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beautiful twenty five year old singer Victorious Schools, who appeared
in a Broadway musical in nineteen forty one after singing
with Rudy Valley's man found dead yesterday. Miss Schools found
in her East fifty fourth Street apartment by her mother,
missus Almira Schools of Norfolk, Virginia police, and she had
swallowed pills. An autopsy was ordered. Though some of the

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day's news stories from Sunday, November seventh, nineteen forty eight.
On your radio, we continue with programs from Mutual now.
Next up will be Lawn Clark as Nick Carter Master Detective.
That's next.

Speaker 32 (54:34):
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Speaker 4 (54:53):
We continue now with programs from seventy seven years ago today,
and we stay with Mutual at this moment in a
program called Nick Carter Master Detective starring Lawn Clark, and
that was originally broadcast at six thirty PM on Sunday,
November seventh, nineteen forty eight, seventy seven years ago today

(55:16):
and the case of the Forgetful killer.

Speaker 33 (55:19):
You.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
Post War Old Dutch Cleanser, famous for chasing Dirk, presents
Nick Carter, famous for chasing crime. Every week. At this time,
two great names are joined as new post war old
Dutch Cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and

(55:42):
daring characters in all detective fiction, Nick Carter, Master Detective.
Don't move any of you.

Speaker 34 (55:54):
Don where'd you get that done?

Speaker 2 (55:56):
Never mind? Just don't make me use it. Don't be
a fool. Done, I'm not. I'm going out of here.
Nobody's gonna be too sure. Anybody else want to try
any smart tricks before I leave? Now? The case of
the Forgetful Killer. Today's adventure starring Lawn Park is Neck Carter,

(56:17):
brought to you by New postwar Old Dutch Cleanser. In
the back booth of a dingy bar in the slum district,
a well dressed young man takes a thick package of
banknotes from his pocket and passes it across the cigarette
guard table to the shifty eyed little man who sits
across from him. That's every set I have in the world, whitey,

(56:38):
six thousand dollars, I said ten. Where's the other four?
Grand I couldn't get anymore? You bet it?

Speaker 17 (56:44):
Get it.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Remember that letter I told you about. If anything happens
to me, that'll be in the hands of the DA
within twenty four hours. That'll be the end of you.
But why han't meet you here tomorrow night? And I
can't come here again? Whitey? If anyone child's klk not
phone you at the office, tell you where to bring it.
But why do I get the other four grandamarrow Knights?

Speaker 35 (57:05):
All right?

Speaker 2 (57:05):
Go to the cops and you go to the electric
chair from murder.

Speaker 7 (57:17):
John.

Speaker 2 (57:17):
If there were any way I could raise the money
for you, I would you know that. I know, Chris,
I wouldn't have asked you, except I've tried everything else.
You're the only real friend I've got. Uh Now, when
you need me, I can't come through. I don't know
what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 24 (57:34):
Why do he phone me?

Speaker 2 (57:35):
About an hour ago? I promised to have the money
at the corner of First and Water Streets at one
o'clock to night. I've got to have it there. Why done?
What's he got on you? You can tell me no, Chris,
I don't want to talk about that. But if why
he ever tells the cops? Who I really am. It's
the end of everything, and the little rat's got me

(57:56):
tied hand and fush mean that letter to the district attorney? Yes,
but Chris, Chris, do you think you could be lying
about that letter if I thought that on? You're not
getting any crazy ideas, are you.

Speaker 7 (58:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
I don't know what I'm thanking. There's only one chance left.
Mister Hughes gets back from Washington at eleven tonight, and
I'll never get him to part with four thousand dollars.
If I know our beloved employer, He'll never He's got to.
It's my last hole I want to be. Won't. Then
I'll be waiting for Whitey just the same, and it'll
be a meeting. He'll never forget.

Speaker 35 (58:43):
Whitey.

Speaker 2 (58:44):
Eh All, it's you, Sonny boy, so doc in that doorway,
couldn't see you. Okay, where's the poor grand It's right here.
I'll tell you. Don't trying to trust me.

Speaker 24 (58:57):
It is.

Speaker 2 (59:10):
Maddie, Oh Hi and Nick. Hello, Patsy Mathison. Mister Hughes,
this is Nick Carter and Patsy Bowen. How do you
do hello, missus Hughes. Frank goodness, you heard last? At last,
mister has been exactly seventeen minutes since sized Madison phone
and asked us to come down here to hear your office.

Speaker 34 (59:26):
I haven't even had my breakfast yet.

Speaker 2 (59:28):
What's this all about, missus Connor? My firm publishes children's
and religious books. An notoriety, scandal, unfavorable publicity, anything like
that can run us. And you see, Nick, there was
a murder in the Waterfront district last night. Cheap little
two bit crooked named Whitey Gear was shot to death.
We found this slip of paper on Whitey's body.

Speaker 34 (59:49):
Why that looks like one of those slips of paper
they have in phone booths with people to write phone
numbers on.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
That's what it is, Patsy. What's the connection, Maddie. The
phone number written on that paper is the number of
the Hughes Publishing House. Oh I see, hey, there's something
else written here too. Don Mason, one am, First Avenue
on Water Street, right, and Whitey was found dead at
the corner of First and Water, shot to death about
one am, according to the medical examiner. So Don Mason,

(01:00:18):
wait a minute, is who is this? Don Mason? Oh, that,
mister Carter, is the cracks of the whole thing. Don
Mason is my sales manager. If Ben he's engaged to
my daughter. Oh, I see, And you think Mason kept
the appointment with Whitey had murdered him. Huh, of course,
don't you. I wouldn't know, Maddy. This slip of paper
with Mason's name on it certainly doesn't convince me. Well,

(01:00:39):
I don't get you what you tell me. I doubt
that Whitey was the kind of man who'd make a
memorandum about anything. Oh fool, he did it this time,
and that's all I care about, Nick, maybe Louck Maddie.
Has anybody else handled this piece of paper.

Speaker 24 (01:00:50):
Except you and me?

Speaker 2 (01:00:51):
I no, I took it off the bottom myself. What
and let's put it in an envelope and see that
no one else does touch it? Uh huh, okay if
you want to. But there's another thing, Nick, Yeah, white
there was a skinny little run. But from the looks
of things, he must have put up aware of a
fight before he was killed. We found a couple of
gray wool threads under his fingernails, like from a gray
tweed coat, and Whitey's coat was brown.

Speaker 34 (01:01:14):
Oh, then you think those threads came from the killer's coat.
During the struggle.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
Sure, Patsy, what else And mister Hughes here tells me
Don Mason wears a gray tweed coat and so to
lots of other people. Maddie, you must understand Stakurta. This
company simply cannot afford to have one of its executives
to accuse of murder. Now, I want you to prove
that Don had nothing to do with this, this whitey person.
But what if he did have, Well, well then we'll

(01:01:40):
publicize the fact that you was publishing I had the
best detective it could get to see justice done. Even
though the comport is one of our own executives. That
may help some Well, how about it, cutter. Before I
give you an answer, mister Hughes, I'd like to talk
this over with Don Mason. He hasn't gone down to
the office yet, Nick, I just waiting for you to
get here before going over to his apartment after him.
A good idea, Maddie, except that he may leave for

(01:02:02):
the office before we get to his place. Or I
have an idea. Don shares an apartment with my star salesman,
Chris Bentley. I could phone Chris Town to keep down
there until you arrived. Yeah, I suppose you do that,
mister Hughes. And unless he's got a mighty good alibi,
that young fellow's going to move to another apartment, a
small one in the city jail. Don don wake up?

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Are you wake up? Your dope? Snap out of it?
Good morning, Chris. Oh Man Hughes just phoned that some
people are coming to see you, he says, to tell
you to wait here until they arrive. Oh, I feel terrible,
don Where were you last night? Get with it, don you.
You didn't get in until after I went to bed,

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and that was three o'clock. Where were you?

Speaker 17 (01:03:00):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
I don't know. I can't remember. Did you get the
money from old man Hughes? Money?

Speaker 24 (01:03:06):
What money?

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
The money to pay off that blackmailer?

Speaker 17 (01:03:08):
Did you get it?

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Good grief? White Yes, Whitey. Did you see him? I
can't remember whether I did or not. I mean, you
had another one of those blackouts. I guess I must have. Now,
let's see. I remember eating dinner here at the apartment
with you, Yes, And afterwards I went out for a
pack of cigarettes. When I came back, you were gone,
And so was that gun you're keeping your dresser drawer? Oh, Chris, No,

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what did you do, don why'd you take the gun?
You've got to remember, Oh I can't. I gotta remember.
And I went all over town looking for you, but
you just disappeared. Oh from the way my head feels,
I think I must have been in some bar, but
I don't drink. Wait a minute, what are you doing
looking for York gun?

Speaker 25 (01:03:54):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:03:55):
Here it is in the pocket of your top coat.
And John, three bullets have been fired from it. What
do you mean three bullets? It wasn't even loaded last
time I saw it. Well it is now, John. Are
you sure you didn't meet that whitey fellow.

Speaker 17 (01:04:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:04:13):
I can't remember. Hey, hey, maybe it's the police are
coming here. Maybe whye he turned me in And I'll
hold yourself. We haven't much time. What are you doing now?
I'm putting the gun on this little shelf over the
door in the cold closet. Not much of a hiding place,
but it'll have to do until we can get rid
of it. Chris, I won't let you get mixed up.
And I don't be silly. I'll get this. You never

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even heard of this whitey person. You were here all
last night. You never left the apartment, understand I never
left the apartment after dinner. You and I played Gin
Rummy and listened to the radio until three am, and
then we went to bed. You were here all last night,
and I'll swear to it.

Speaker 24 (01:04:58):
And you're still so.

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
You didn't meet Whitey Gear at the corner of First
and Water Streets last night, Mason, No, I never even
heard of the guy, Sergeant, And how come you had
your name and phone number?

Speaker 24 (01:05:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Can you approve where you were at one o'clock down?
I was right here in the apartment. That's right, mister Carter.
Don never stepped outside all last night. You'll swear to
That's what I'm sure I will. We played Jim Rumm
until three am.

Speaker 34 (01:05:21):
That sounds like a pretty good alibi, Sergeant, Yeah for it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
Holes up, frankly Don, You don't look as though you
had spent a quiet evening at home. I'd say you
were suffering from a pretty bad hangover. Well, Mason, Whitey
Gear was killed with a thirty eight revolver. You owned
such a gun? No, you own a great tweet coat. Yeah,
why where is it? It's in the closet that John
Darling Jetty said you were in some kind of trouble.

(01:05:44):
Don isn't in any trouble, Betty, No, honey, it's all right. Hey,
wait a minute, who's this Betty Hughes don s fiance. Hey,
you're looking for Betty? And then you hear do isn't it?

Speaker 34 (01:05:54):
Of course not Chris? But what a Getty mean?

Speaker 2 (01:05:57):
Yes, it's just because I haven't seen you for so long?

Speaker 23 (01:06:00):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 34 (01:06:01):
You saw me only last night?

Speaker 24 (01:06:02):
But what was that?

Speaker 34 (01:06:04):
Chris came over to my house last night looking for Don?

Speaker 23 (01:06:07):
He said, Donna disappeared and he thought, whoa, something is wrong.

Speaker 34 (01:06:12):
You are in trouble, aren't you?

Speaker 24 (01:06:13):
You?

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Bet he is, missus Hughes. So he was with you
every minute last night? Was heril I am now, look, sergeant,
I'll talk to you later. Get your hat done. I'm
taking you in for the murder of Whitey Gear.

Speaker 24 (01:06:26):
I'm mad at you.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
Are you sure you have enough of a case to
justify and arrest you?

Speaker 17 (01:06:29):
Bet?

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
I have Nick? Why would he frame a phony alibi
if he wasn't gilly Chris? If I'd only know try
to tip you off? Betty? That I guess I was
pretty clumsy about it. You already done.

Speaker 34 (01:06:40):
I got my hat and I got there as you
get that done.

Speaker 2 (01:06:45):
Never mind, just don't make me use it because if
I do, somebody's gonna get hurt. Unmindful of the fact
that his action is practically a confession of guilt, Don
stamps near the door, holding Nick, Maddie and the others
at the point of his gun. In just a moment,

(01:07:05):
we'll see what happens next. Now back to the case
of the Forgetful Killer. Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought
to you by a new post war old Dutch cleanser.
Holding Nick, Maddie and the others at the point of
his gun, Don stands beside the door to the inner

(01:07:25):
room of the two room apartment he shares with Chris.
Now get into the bedroom. Let's do as he says, Man,
I know use anyone getting shot, thanks.

Speaker 28 (01:07:33):
Mister Carter.

Speaker 2 (01:07:34):
I want to be sure.

Speaker 36 (01:07:35):
Nobody's gonna don't be too sure.

Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
Hey, keep your hand away from your gun. Sergeant. Okay, okay,
you hurt Nick? Oh, I just got the wind knock
out him.

Speaker 24 (01:07:46):
It went down through me.

Speaker 2 (01:07:48):
I was quite a stunt. I was a commando in
the war. Ah, anyone else want to try any smart tricks?
Before I leave. You're playing this awful dumb kid. I'm
playing at the away I can now. I'm gonna lock
this bedroom door and then I'm getting out of here,
and Heaven help anyone.

Speaker 36 (01:08:07):
Who tries to follow me. So you both just stood
there and let him walk up.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Did you a fine pair of detectives you turned out
to be?

Speaker 34 (01:08:21):
They didn't just stand there. As soon as they heard
the outside door close, Nick and Sarja Madison were after it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:26):
Yeah, But by the time we got the door unlocked,
he was out of sight. He left his wallet and
the dresser, along with some small chains, cheese and so on.
He won't get far without a cent in his pocket. Hey,
he left that great tweed coat too. I sent it
down to the police lab. And if those threads under
whitey gears fingernails came from that coat, we'll know it
in a couple of hours. Nickas that young scoundrel. When

(01:08:47):
I think of oh I did for him? What did
you do for dom mister Hughes Wall I gave him
a job, didn't I? He even promoted him to be
sales manager when he wasn't in line for the job,
simply because Betty was in love with him, and I
guess she sees him now. I got it when a
girl's in law I love fiddlesticks, or he came along,
it was Chris for him somebody else. How long has

(01:09:07):
Don worked for you? Ever? Since he came here from
Toronto nineteen forty two. He was just out of the
Canadian Army. I thought I was being patriotic by helping
a disabled veteran disabled, and there wasn't anything disabled about
the way he threw me clear across that room was
a head wound. That's why they discharged him from the army.
He used to have periods when he'd black out completely.

(01:09:29):
You couldn't remember where he'd been or what he'd done
for hours at a time, even days. That hasn't happened
for a year or so now, and according to Chris,
it happened last night. That's why Chris tried to give
him an alibi. He said, whatever Don did, he wasn't responsible.
Oh the guy's just getting ready for a plea temporary
and sanity Nick. But he won't get away with it.
Maybe he will, Maddie, unless you can prove him motive.

(01:09:50):
I'll prove the motive, don't you worry? About that. It
seems to me. The first thing you've got to do
is catch him. Yeah, well, i'll do that too. Every
cop in town is on the lookout for him, and
five will get your ten. We have him rounded up
inside of twenty four hours.

Speaker 34 (01:10:14):
Hello, Betty done? Who done?

Speaker 17 (01:10:18):
Is that you?

Speaker 35 (01:10:18):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
Are you a lone? Yes?

Speaker 24 (01:10:22):
Darling? Where are you?

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
Never mind?

Speaker 17 (01:10:24):
Betty?

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
I need help and I don't dare. Try to get
in touch with Chris. The cops are sure to be
watching the apartment.

Speaker 34 (01:10:31):
If there's anything I can do, there is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:33):
I've got to have some money so I can get
out of town.

Speaker 24 (01:10:36):
A couple of hundred.

Speaker 34 (01:10:37):
Dollars, I'll get it. I'll bring it to you.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
No, no, I won't let you take any chances. Give
the money to Chris. Tell him I'll be waiting in
the freight yards at the foot of sixty eighth Street
at midnight.

Speaker 24 (01:10:59):
Hey, Nick, Nick, We've got it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
Got what Maddy. The only thing that was wistening in
this case the motive. Look at this letter. Who's the
drum sergeant from Whitey Gear? That's who, righty? And let's see,
hey hunt. He was afraid Don might try to knock
him off, so he left this with a friend to
be mailed to the district attorney in case anything happened
to him. He got it in the mail about an
hour ago. What it does newspaper clippings, Nick, I don't
know yet, had dated Portland, Oregon, nineteen thirty Nine's all.

(01:11:24):
There even a picture of Don Mason. His real name
is Jimmy Burk and he's wounded from murder. Murder, Yeah, Patsy,
he was mixed up with a juvenile gang in Portland
that robbed the warehouse and shot the night watchman, and
Don was the one.

Speaker 34 (01:11:37):
Who killed him.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
That's what this clipping says. Oh, the gun that killed
the watchman was positively identified as belonging to Don. He
must have escaped in the Canada and joined the army
there under the name of Mason. You wire Portland for confirmation, Maddy?

Speaker 17 (01:11:50):
Sure?

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Sure?

Speaker 24 (01:11:51):
I did?

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
No answer yet, Nick, Hey, I put the handwriting on
this note that was with the clippings. What about it?
That's Whitey Gears handwriting. At least his name is signed
to it. So what well, it's nothing like the handwriting
on that memo you've found in his pocket.

Speaker 34 (01:12:05):
Why, Nick, You're right?

Speaker 2 (01:12:06):
Hey, maybe Don wrote down the time and place he
wanted to meet Whitey and then gave it to him. No, No,
I don't think so, Mattie. I have a hunch that
memo was planted.

Speaker 35 (01:12:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:17):
Well the laboratory boys tested those gray threads under Whitey's fingernails, Nick,
and they're definitely from Don Mason's coat. It's an air
tight case.

Speaker 24 (01:12:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:27):
Sure, you seem to have everything except the prisoner.

Speaker 25 (01:12:29):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
You haven't found any trace of done yet, have you.

Speaker 24 (01:12:32):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:12:33):
No, he won't make a move until laughter dark. But
like you said, he's got to have money. Probably he'll
try to get it from Chris and I've got all
my men around that apartment. I don't think you'll go
back to the apartment.

Speaker 24 (01:12:44):
Matty.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
My hunches he'll try to contact Betty Hughes. Hey, maybe
you're right. Well, I'll just plant some of the boys
around the Hughes house too. You won't have to. Maddie
iphoned Walter McGlenn. He's watching the place now. Oh, well, okay,
then we got him, no matter which way he jumps.

Speaker 34 (01:13:10):
Oh, I think I'll go on home, Nick, it's been
a long day.

Speaker 2 (01:13:15):
Yeah, it's almost midnight.

Speaker 34 (01:13:17):
No, but I wanted to stick around the office.

Speaker 2 (01:13:19):
Hold it Nick Carter speaking, Oh Waldo, huh what.

Speaker 35 (01:13:27):
I see?

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
Where she meet him?

Speaker 34 (01:13:28):
That he met Don somewhere?

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
No, she met Chris where? Why that's the freight yard.
What's happened, good boy, Walda, We'll get right on it.

Speaker 24 (01:13:36):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Betty just met Chris in the cafeteria on the east
side and gave him a roll of bills.

Speaker 34 (01:13:40):
We get away money for Don.

Speaker 2 (01:13:41):
That's what Waldo figured. So he trailed Chris out of
the cafeteria. You and heard him tell a cab driver
he wanted to go to the foot of Age sixty
eighth Street.

Speaker 34 (01:13:47):
So that's what you meant when you said the freight yards.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Yeah, Chris just left a couple of minutes ago. We hurry,
maybe we can get there first.

Speaker 34 (01:14:04):
That was Chris ahead of us.

Speaker 17 (01:14:05):
I know it was.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Yeah. I got a good look at him when he
passed into the light.

Speaker 17 (01:14:08):
Where did you go to?

Speaker 34 (01:14:09):
Do you went around the other side of this box car?

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
There are a couple of hundred box cars in this
part of the Hearts. You can stop right where you are.
Carter done, Thank Heaven, we pound your donn. I was
afraid you dave it. Chris Y Don, yet he's gone. Okay,
I wait a minute, Chris, you're in trouble already. You
help him now, that's gonna make you equally gilly. What
can I do, mister Carter? Don's making me do this
as the point of a gun hunt.

Speaker 35 (01:14:30):
You down?

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Sure, I am? You got it?

Speaker 24 (01:14:33):
You bet?

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Don listen to me. Don't be a fool. You give
yourself up. I think I can prove your innocence.

Speaker 28 (01:14:39):
But I'm not.

Speaker 2 (01:14:40):
I killed Whitey because he was blackmailing me.

Speaker 36 (01:14:43):
I must have.

Speaker 2 (01:14:43):
Do you remember killing him? Oh no, I don't remember
anything that happened last night. But I don't think you
did kill him down. In fact, I'm positive you didn't.
Don't listen to him, Don, It's a trick. Look done.
There's only one person who knew where and when you
were going to meet Whitey, only one person who could
have drugged you. Yes, drugged you. Why you thought you
had a hangover this morning, So that's it. This person
drugged you, then kept your appointment with Whitey wearing your

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great tweet. Coach Chris, it was you with hey, let's
quit playing games. You gun Whitey, You met Whitey and
you killed you. Don't drop your gun, stupid, I'm gonna
use this gun I took from Carl and Jay. Now
you're being sensible, but but I don't get it. You
were my friend, I trust sure. I was your friend.
I didn't mind a bit when you got the sales
manager's job I should have had, and I was tickled

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to death when you took my girl away from it.

Speaker 28 (01:15:28):
So that's sure.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
With you out of the way, I'll be the new
sales manager and i'll be the boss's son in law too,
someday all own the whole business.

Speaker 34 (01:15:35):
You're gonna have to work awfully fast and do all
that before you go to the chair for killing whitey On.

Speaker 2 (01:15:40):
Who's gonna send me to the chair? Not any of
you three, because when Carter and Don get through fighting
it on, I'm afraid there won't be any survivors. What
are you talking about. It'll be easy, Carter. I've got
your gun to shoot Don with, and then I'll take
his gun to finish off you and miss Bowen riscriuse
your trade. I will think Carter tried to arrest you
and you're shut it out.

Speaker 34 (01:15:57):
Why that's ridiculous. Someone will hear the shot freight.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Engine is going to pass on the other side of
this box. Gone a few seconds, it'll make enough noise
to cover anything, even gunshot. With a passing freight engine
to cover the sound of gunfire, Chris's finger tightens on
the trigger. We'll see what happens in just a moment.

(01:16:27):
Now for the conclusion of the case of the Forgetful Killer.
Today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by a
new post war old Dutch cleanser. In the freight yards
at the foot of sixty eighth Street, Chris Bentley is
holding Nick, Patsy and Don Mason at the point of
a gun, waiting only for the noise of an approaching
engine to cover the sound of his shot. Before he fired.

Speaker 36 (01:16:48):
Here's the engine.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
We'll get ready. You first done, oldtow.

Speaker 17 (01:16:59):
As you want me put this only gun.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Roller the next time. By the time you got here, Meddy,
I started soon as I got your phone.

Speaker 28 (01:17:04):
Coldly.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
You're not gonna take me in, Nick, he's getting away.
I'm so fast.

Speaker 36 (01:17:08):
Hum, I'll hold you for a while.

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Good work done. Holy what did you do to it?
Didn't you recognize that's not Meddy? It's the same one
I used on me, and I can tell you from
experience that Chris isn't going to do any more running away,
not for a minute or two. I can't thank you

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enough for what you did, Nick, But well, I guess
it wasn't much use. They'll only send me back to
Oregon to stand trial for the killing that night killing
the night watchman back in thirty nine.

Speaker 34 (01:17:45):
Oh no, they were done. Sargeant Madison wired the Argum
police about you, and they wired back that the charge
had been dropped.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
That's right down. About a year later, the real killer
was caught and he confessed a love of peace. You
were completely cleared. But if Chris wanted to get rid
of me, why did he kill Whitey to do it?
For all he knew he only had to sit tight
and let Whitey turn me in. He said, you were
going to mister Hughes for the money, and he was
afraid you might get it.

Speaker 34 (01:18:08):
And he couldn't turn you in himself because you wouldn't
tell him what white he had on you, or even
what your real name was.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Yeah, yeah, that's right. But even after he killed Whitey
to make sure the DA got that letter, Chris tried
to give me an alibi. It just didn't make sense.

Speaker 34 (01:18:22):
Well, that was only a part of his scheme to
put himself in a good light with Betty Hughes. He
knew that alibi wouldn't stand up.

Speaker 2 (01:18:28):
In fact, he made sure it wouldn't stand up by
going to a dozen places looking for you. He knew
someone would remember that he'd said you disappeared and couldn't
be found. And to think you figured the whole thing
out from that piece of paper with my name on it,
and the time and the place where I was supposed
to meet Whitey in just a minute time, that's not
quite true. That slip of paper looked a bit phony
to me, but that was all.

Speaker 34 (01:18:47):
When Chris tried to incriminate you by putting that piece
of paper in Whitey's pocket, he was actually furnishing the
evidence that was going to convict him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:55):
Well, why do you mean he forgot a very important thing? Fingerprint?

Speaker 17 (01:18:59):
Fingerprint?

Speaker 2 (01:19:00):
Yes, Whitey's fingerprints weren't on that paper, so obviously he
couldn't have written it.

Speaker 34 (01:19:04):
But Chris's finger prints were all over it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:06):
Ah, he did forget something important, didn't huh huh?

Speaker 34 (01:19:09):
But uh, say, Nick, you didn't know about those things
until an hour ago. Why were you so sure Don
was innocent.

Speaker 2 (01:19:17):
I became convinced the minit he threw me across the
room in his apartment.

Speaker 23 (01:19:20):
Would that have to do with it?

Speaker 2 (01:19:22):
Well, Whitey was a scrowny little fellow, yet Maddy said
he put up quite a fight before he was killed.

Speaker 34 (01:19:27):
Oh, I see what you mean. If Don could put
you flat on your back in two seconds, a little
guy like white he would have been licked before he started.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
Right, Betsy, Well, this is the first time in my
memory that a man has made a friend of me
by knocking me down. How about the adventure you postwar
old Dutch cleanser is going to bring us next week, Nick, Ralph.

(01:19:56):
It's about a young fellow who wanted to buy his
wife a diamond ring and almost b himself a one
way ticket to the electric chair instead.

Speaker 34 (01:20:02):
And he completely ruined my new look, not to mention
almost giving me pneumonia.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Well, that was my fault. He is here, Ralph. The
only way I could keep Patsy from being shot was
by pouring cold water.

Speaker 6 (01:20:11):
On her sounds.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
As though he had a rough time Patsy I did.
What do you call this adventure, Nick? I call it
the case of the clue called Eck. Nick Carter Master
Detective is presented each week at this time by the

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Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Them seventy seven years ago, November seventh, nineteen forty eight,
Nick Carter Master Detective here on Classic Radio Theater with
Wyatt Coxes. Take a look at what's coming up for
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Speaker 37 (01:23:00):
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Speaker 4 (01:23:18):
We move now from Mutual to ABC and an episode
of Quiet Please, and actually early in the day at
five o'clock on ABC Eastern Time. This episode stars Ernest Chapel,
as they all do seventy seven years ago November seventh,
nineteen forty eight, Adam in the Darkest.

Speaker 6 (01:23:39):
Day, Quiet Please, Quiet Please.

Speaker 38 (01:24:08):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.

Speaker 14 (01:24:18):
Quiet Please for today is called Adam and the Darkest Day.

Speaker 12 (01:24:29):
I don't know whether you ever heard of a place
called Chicago or not, but I knew it very well
in my youth. I've forgotten how long ago that was.
Even there was a lake, beautiful, big wide lake that
could be bluer than the sky.

Speaker 6 (01:24:43):
Of a summer morning or gray.

Speaker 12 (01:24:45):
Is that's ad I can't think of anything that's great
the way the lake was on a stormy day, gray
like the trees used to be, no more alive, like
the gray of steel.

Speaker 28 (01:24:58):
Steel.

Speaker 6 (01:25:00):
It's a mental we used to have. Forget about it.
I used to go down and walk along the lake front.

Speaker 12 (01:25:05):
Years and years ago, before the dark days, just walk
along the shore and smile at the lake, and it
would smile back at me.

Speaker 6 (01:25:13):
And it didn't smell salty and fishy the way the
ocean does. Oh yes, i've seen the ocean too, both oceans.
There are two of them. I forget their names.

Speaker 12 (01:25:23):
And even during the dark days, when Doc said it
was safe to go out, I'd go out of the
morning and walk along where the lake shore used to be.
It's all swamped now and there are some pretty weird
things in it, things that used to be fish once.
Only they've gone through a lot of changes.

Speaker 6 (01:25:39):
And they're not fish anymore. Mutants.

Speaker 12 (01:25:44):
Doc said, they were things that have gone through mutations changes.

Speaker 24 (01:25:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:25:50):
I don't understand it, but it's interesting. Doc. Doc said
they might even get to be human.

Speaker 12 (01:25:54):
Beings in another fifteen or twenty million years if they're
left alone. Doc said that's the way human beings started originally.
The only different Stock said is that it took a
couple of million years for the first changes to take place,
and with these fish things, it took place practically overnight.
Of course, it was a pretty long night. I guess

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I was about twenty when the war started. I say
I guess because I don't really know when it did start.

Speaker 6 (01:26:30):
I guess nobody knows.

Speaker 12 (01:26:31):
One of minute, people were buying and selling things to
each other, talking and laughing and looking at the lake and.

Speaker 6 (01:26:36):
The sunshine and stuff, and just just being people.

Speaker 12 (01:26:39):
And the next minute they were fighting and yelling, killing
each other, and I guess just being people in another way. Yeah,
it was pretty rough. My uncle Bryce was in the
last four the one before this one.

Speaker 6 (01:26:52):
He had some pretty terrible things to tell us about it.

Speaker 12 (01:26:54):
He always said, well, Adam, if another war comes, that's
all because this I don't start without any notice, and
there won't be any such thing.

Speaker 6 (01:27:02):
As battlefields and soldiers and all that.

Speaker 12 (01:27:04):
Everybody will be in it, no matter where they are
at home or wherever, and everybody will fight with each
other till there isn't anybody left.

Speaker 6 (01:27:11):
It'll be just like to kill Kenny.

Speaker 12 (01:27:12):
Katz On, the Brice said. And that's pretty nearly the
way it was, wasn't it. Well, you know, there was
an awful.

Speaker 6 (01:27:24):
Lot of people lived in this Chicago. I guess it
was about four million.

Speaker 12 (01:27:29):
The houses and buildings they lived in were right up
against each other, know about four million.

Speaker 6 (01:27:36):
Well, you know the stars you look.

Speaker 12 (01:27:39):
Up at them some night, and you see what an
awful lot of them there are, And you figure there
was about as many people living in Chicago's there are stars.

Speaker 6 (01:27:48):
No, there's lots more stars. But you can't see him.

Speaker 12 (01:27:50):
Without a telescope, the telescope or the thing.

Speaker 6 (01:27:54):
I got one somewhere, I'll show it to you. Yeah,
that's right.

Speaker 12 (01:27:58):
There were four million people in this Chicago, and there
was a lot more places around the country just as big, some.

Speaker 17 (01:28:06):
Of them bigger.

Speaker 6 (01:28:07):
No, I'm not making it up.

Speaker 12 (01:28:08):
I remember there was a place called New York, and
a place called Minneapolis, and a place called.

Speaker 6 (01:28:17):
Los Angeles. Im sure they named all the places where
people lived. Yeah, it seems a long time ago. Well
it is.

Speaker 12 (01:28:27):
I've kind of lost track of time. But it must
be man, thirty years ago at least. And we've come
a long way in thirty years. Man, in the next
ten fifteen million years, who knows.

Speaker 20 (01:28:42):
What will happen.

Speaker 12 (01:28:47):
Well, after the war started, this place, this Chicago, was
pretty well destroyed.

Speaker 6 (01:28:51):
The buildings got smashed, the people got killed. Everything was
just terrible.

Speaker 12 (01:28:55):
There was a lot of soldiers there, the people that
were paid the fight, but the soldiers couldn't get away
and there wasn't anybody to fight with because you couldn't
see them.

Speaker 6 (01:29:05):
You'd be standing there and there'd be a noise and
fire and smoke.

Speaker 28 (01:29:09):
The whole big building would fall down right in front
of you.

Speaker 12 (01:29:12):
People would scream and yell and run around and cry,
and I got mad at the soldiers.

Speaker 17 (01:29:16):
I remember.

Speaker 6 (01:29:17):
Pretty soon it wasn't safe for the soldier to be.

Speaker 24 (01:29:19):
Seen in the streets, and for that.

Speaker 12 (01:29:22):
Matter, wasn't safe for anybody but a soldier, especially because.

Speaker 6 (01:29:27):
People would do terrible things to 'em.

Speaker 12 (01:29:31):
Well, as I said, the buildings were all being knocked down,
and it.

Speaker 6 (01:29:34):
Was getting along toward winter. Yeah, it was cold. People
were having an awful time.

Speaker 12 (01:29:42):
So I looked around. There wasn't anything else to do,
and they found me a place. There was a big warehouse, uh,
the place where people stored things. They'd buy furniture and
stuff for their homes, and then they'd lock all the
stuff up in the warehouse.

Speaker 20 (01:29:59):
Oh I, I I don't know why.

Speaker 6 (01:30:00):
It isn't important.

Speaker 12 (01:30:03):
Well, this warehouse was a great, big, strong, heavy building
was on the corner of the street that had a number,
and another big white street with a parkway down the
middle of all green grass and flowers and trees.

Speaker 6 (01:30:16):
You know, I was off they pretty there where the
warehouse was.

Speaker 12 (01:30:21):
It had got knocked around a little bit. It was
still a fine, big safe place. The people that owned
it had got killed or went away or something.

Speaker 6 (01:30:30):
So I just moved in.

Speaker 12 (01:30:33):
Man, it was a mighty good thing for me that
I did, because the second night I was there, behind
those nice thick walls and those big doors, somebody did
something that blewed Chicago off the map. Off the map. Yeah,
that's an old saying. It It means that the place
just disappears. And that's what happened to Chicago. Well except

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a little bit of this. I'm telling you about a
little part way down deep on the ground where I
was asleep and where I found dark.

Speaker 6 (01:31:09):
And I found Emily. I didn't know anybody else was there.

Speaker 24 (01:31:16):
My head hurt.

Speaker 12 (01:31:18):
It just seems as if I couldn't hear anything or
see anything, even feelings, and except my head hurting.

Speaker 6 (01:31:25):
For the longest time. And finally I was able to
get up. It was black dark. I moved around a little,
I got up and I could walk clear in the darkness,
and then somebody took hold in my arm. Are you
I'm Adam or what Adam? What are you laughing?

Speaker 33 (01:31:51):
Boy? If I'm not badly mistaken, they gave you the
right name. Huh, that's just little gags and you all.

Speaker 28 (01:31:57):
Right on my heads?

Speaker 6 (01:32:01):
Who are you?

Speaker 28 (01:32:02):
Well, my name is Prece Railey. Well, everybody calls me doc.
That is when there was everybody. How do we get
out of here?

Speaker 6 (01:32:10):
Well? There was a door some places I expected.

Speaker 28 (01:32:13):
There would be.

Speaker 33 (01:32:15):
What happened that I don't know, son, but whatever it was,
they wait a minute, where are you here?

Speaker 28 (01:32:22):
Don't go opening any doors yet?

Speaker 6 (01:32:24):
Why I I don't want to get out of here.

Speaker 35 (01:32:26):
Uh?

Speaker 28 (01:32:27):
You got anything to eat?

Speaker 24 (01:32:29):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (01:32:30):
There was some stuff in here someplace, some some cans
and stuff?

Speaker 33 (01:32:35):
Good?

Speaker 6 (01:32:36):
How'd you get him here?

Speaker 17 (01:32:37):
I I thought that I got lost.

Speaker 6 (01:32:40):
You're not a soldier right here?

Speaker 2 (01:32:41):
Me?

Speaker 28 (01:32:42):
No, no, Son, I'm not.

Speaker 33 (01:32:43):
I'm a scientist. Oh that's a very vague term, though,
isn't it. I'm a geneticist.

Speaker 17 (01:32:50):
Oh what's that a well?

Speaker 33 (01:32:52):
Uh, let's say that I kind of study Well it
I you know what biology is? No, Well, it's the
science of life. See my racket's a special part of biology.
Oh what's the matter?

Speaker 12 (01:33:08):
I thought maybe you were one of these fellows that
makes bombs out of atoms or whatever it is.

Speaker 28 (01:33:13):
No, No, I don't do that.

Speaker 33 (01:33:15):
I studied the effect of nuclear fission and all that
on human beings and whatnot.

Speaker 6 (01:33:20):
Oh, well, let's get out of here.

Speaker 28 (01:33:23):
No, I don't think we will, Adam.

Speaker 24 (01:33:26):
Why not.

Speaker 33 (01:33:29):
In the first place, Adam, I don't think it's very
healthy outside. And in the second place, I seriously doubt
we can get.

Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
Out of here. Well, if we can't, we can make
a noise, hammering or something.

Speaker 24 (01:33:40):
Somebody will come and dig it out.

Speaker 33 (01:33:42):
Well, yes, except for one thing, Adam. What I don't
think there's anybody out there.

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
Well maybe not right now, but somebody will come.

Speaker 28 (01:33:51):
I doubt it.

Speaker 33 (01:33:52):
Why because I'm pretty fairly sure there's nobody left in Chicago, Adam,
except you and me, see what I mean?

Speaker 6 (01:34:06):
And so there was somebody else.

Speaker 24 (01:34:09):
Emily.

Speaker 6 (01:34:11):
We stumbled around in the dark for quite a while
before we found her.

Speaker 12 (01:34:14):
When we did find her, she was so scared she
couldn't talk. She had a flashlight when she came in
the place she dropped it.

Speaker 6 (01:34:20):
Couldn't find it again. Flashlight.

Speaker 12 (01:34:23):
It was a kind of a thing like a stick
on It was metal. You pressed a button and the
light came on. Finally wore out.

Speaker 28 (01:34:30):
Well.

Speaker 6 (01:34:30):
Finally Emily found her voice again. Once she got started,
we couldn't stop her for the.

Speaker 19 (01:34:35):
Longest time, walking walking, days.

Speaker 6 (01:34:39):
It seems Squeet lived out in lake Forest.

Speaker 39 (01:34:44):
We had a bad time out there, and people thought
it dying from some disease nobody ever heard of.

Speaker 34 (01:34:51):
And I decided to run away.

Speaker 19 (01:34:54):
I took some money.

Speaker 40 (01:34:56):
I was afraid to take any food because they was
the food of it, giving people the horrible diseases and
making them diet.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
All I wanted to do was.

Speaker 34 (01:35:04):
Get as far away from like fins.

Speaker 37 (01:35:06):
As I could.

Speaker 2 (01:35:06):
And I walked and walk and.

Speaker 33 (01:35:12):
Then it so chased me and a man hit him
and doasting down and the men don't.

Speaker 23 (01:35:19):
Have to me And I read it.

Speaker 33 (01:35:21):
The door was open and I read and.

Speaker 18 (01:35:24):
Something happened.

Speaker 23 (01:35:29):
What did happen?

Speaker 28 (01:35:30):
Could you stop crying?

Speaker 33 (01:35:31):
Now?

Speaker 28 (01:35:32):
For sure?

Speaker 33 (01:35:33):
I'll try, because, believe me, won't do a particle of
good young lady.

Speaker 28 (01:35:38):
Who play for us.

Speaker 34 (01:35:40):
My name's Emily.

Speaker 28 (01:35:41):
It won't do a particle of good Emily.

Speaker 23 (01:35:44):
Are we going to die?

Speaker 33 (01:35:46):
Not at just this moment, Emily, But uh, I have
an idea. We may not be very interested in living
after we know a little more about what did happen?

Speaker 24 (01:35:55):
Are you hungry, Emily?

Speaker 34 (01:35:58):
I haven't had any anything to eat.

Speaker 21 (01:36:01):
I I don't know how long.

Speaker 6 (01:36:03):
Well, there's some cans of stuff.

Speaker 28 (01:36:05):
Yes, I think they'll be safe to eat. At 'em safe,
if anything's safe. I can you find them all? Right?

Speaker 41 (01:36:12):
Uh?

Speaker 24 (01:36:12):
I I think so.

Speaker 28 (01:36:13):
I I th I think they're all been here or
maybe light a match a match.

Speaker 12 (01:36:21):
A little stick with something on the end of it,
and you rubbed it on the wall or something, and
there was a fire. We found it very useful. Well,
I don't wanna talk to you about that awful place,
the awful, black, stuffy little place that saved our lives
because we were down there for Yeah, I don't know
how long it was. It must have been two months,

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three months, I don't know how long. It was water
and it was more of the can stuff than I thought.
That part of the warehouse cellar we were in had
been used for storing different kinds of food, so we
didn't starve, but it was awful.

Speaker 20 (01:36:56):
It was awful.

Speaker 12 (01:36:58):
Finally, I said to Dot one day, I didn't know
day from night, of course, I said to Doc, Doc.

Speaker 28 (01:37:05):
I'm going to get out of here.

Speaker 6 (01:37:06):
We're all going to go crazy if we don't get
out of here.

Speaker 28 (01:37:09):
I know that sound.

Speaker 33 (01:37:10):
It's been bothering me a little too, Not that it
makes any difference. We all three went crazy, of course.

Speaker 35 (01:37:16):
I want to get out of here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:17):
Why can't we get out of here?

Speaker 28 (01:37:19):
Look, I told you I had a pretty good idea
what happened.

Speaker 33 (01:37:22):
And I also have a pretty good idea that it wouldn't.

Speaker 28 (01:37:25):
Be very healthy outside for a long time. So that's
why I.

Speaker 24 (01:37:29):
Know you told us that. But how are we ever
going to get out?

Speaker 6 (01:37:33):
Have we got to stay down here forever?

Speaker 24 (01:37:35):
No?

Speaker 28 (01:37:35):
What do you mean, Doc, I've been out, you have Yeah,
can we go? I've been keeping it to myself. Why, Well,
I didn't like it outside.

Speaker 6 (01:37:50):
But you're all right, Doc?

Speaker 33 (01:37:52):
Yes, yes, I'm all right. I'm alive, if you want
to call that all right?

Speaker 34 (01:37:58):
Is there anything out there?

Speaker 23 (01:38:00):
Did you stuck.

Speaker 28 (01:38:01):
Anything to hurt you?

Speaker 40 (01:38:03):
No?

Speaker 33 (01:38:04):
Nor there isn't anything out there to hurt you. In fact,
there isn't anything at all.

Speaker 12 (01:38:14):
And when Emily I followed Doc out through the tunnel
he had found and through the dark caves the tunnel
led to with water dripping in, little things scrambling out
from under our feet in the dock.

Speaker 28 (01:38:26):
When we crawled out into the.

Speaker 6 (01:38:27):
Daylight, we found out Doc was right. There wasn't anything.

Speaker 12 (01:38:32):
Y's just like it is now, just nothing only then there,
but nothing ness was so new. There wasn't an Chicago
with all, just a.

Speaker 28 (01:38:43):
Big flat prairie, everything all gray.

Speaker 12 (01:38:47):
The gray sky. I looked around to see the lake
was reflecting the gray sky, and there wasn't any lake either,
But a long way off I could see the edges
of the marsh and swamp it had turned into. And
I could smell the dead fishes that it was hard
it was to smell. They were the only dead things left,

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and we three.

Speaker 6 (01:39:10):
Were the only live ones.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
So dark is it?

Speaker 6 (01:39:16):
I mean, what time of day is it?

Speaker 28 (01:39:19):
The lake was on the east, wasn't it.

Speaker 6 (01:39:21):
That's right?

Speaker 28 (01:39:22):
A dreck Bulevard ran along this way, and this was forty.

Speaker 6 (01:39:26):
Third free east and the west, and there isn't a sign.

Speaker 33 (01:39:29):
Of the sun the little south of east. It's morning.

Speaker 28 (01:39:34):
It's morning a lot of time and day people's be
going to work morning.

Speaker 6 (01:39:39):
The sun seems so far away, Doc, Is it like
this every place that?

Speaker 28 (01:39:48):
I don't know, Adam, But it can't be. It very
well can be Emily.

Speaker 6 (01:39:54):
Are we the only ones left?

Speaker 28 (01:39:57):
I don't know, and I don't think we're find out.

Speaker 33 (01:40:01):
We might go away from here and maybe find somebody,
but we don't know which.

Speaker 28 (01:40:06):
Way to go, and and there's only one way to
go walk.

Speaker 6 (01:40:09):
But somebody will come and find us if there is anybody.

Speaker 33 (01:40:14):
If there is child, they'll be just as dead as
we will be for very long. Why did you say
something about the sun a little while ago?

Speaker 7 (01:40:22):
Why I said something so far away?

Speaker 6 (01:40:25):
Didn't I?

Speaker 28 (01:40:26):
That's what you said?

Speaker 33 (01:40:27):
Well it is, it's what far away? And we're getting
farther away from it every second.

Speaker 17 (01:40:35):
I don't get that.

Speaker 28 (01:40:38):
Let's go back, shall we.

Speaker 17 (01:40:41):
Cold out here?

Speaker 12 (01:40:45):
This is what Doc told us down there in the
cave where we'd found each other.

Speaker 6 (01:40:49):
And this is what we listened to, sitting there.

Speaker 12 (01:40:51):
In the half dark, the feeble daylight filtering in through
a hole we made in our roof. Think of a
sitting there, family's hand in mine. Do not looking at
us as he talked.

Speaker 6 (01:41:03):
This is what Doc said. Listen.

Speaker 33 (01:41:06):
We had this figured out quite a while ago. Ross
Wilson and I. We were pretty sure of what had happened.
One day when the right kind of bomb went off.
We knew what the physical effects would be on cities,
on the surface of the Earth, on people, and we
guessed what might happen if a giant.

Speaker 28 (01:41:24):
Bomb were set off.

Speaker 6 (01:41:26):
A bomb being enough to.

Speaker 28 (01:41:27):
Knew what what this one did, we worked on it
for years.

Speaker 33 (01:41:32):
We have whole we had whole books of mathematical calculations.

Speaker 6 (01:41:38):
Tell us, doc, Well, the Earth used.

Speaker 33 (01:41:41):
To revolve around the Sun. The Sun was ninety three
million miles from the Earth, Doc, Why do you say
used to What do you say was Well, because we
suspected that a heavy enough blast of nuclear fission would
throw the Earth out of its orbit.

Speaker 6 (01:41:56):
What's that, Doc?

Speaker 24 (01:41:58):
Well?

Speaker 28 (01:41:59):
Uh, you take a rubber ball on a string.

Speaker 33 (01:42:02):
You're swinging around the circle. Now, that's circles, it's orbit.
The string is the Sun's attraction that keeps it moving evenly.

Speaker 24 (01:42:09):
Yes, I get it.

Speaker 33 (01:42:10):
And then somebody comes up and hits the ball with
a stick while it's going around and round.

Speaker 6 (01:42:14):
Yes, and what happens The ball flies off of the tangents.

Speaker 28 (01:42:19):
That's right. Well, that's what's happened to the Earth. The
Earth has left it's orbit. Children, and this explosion did
it set it off like a rocket?

Speaker 24 (01:42:30):
In a way.

Speaker 33 (01:42:31):
And so we're all of us, we three, and whoever's left,
we're off on the biggest joy ride.

Speaker 28 (01:42:38):
That ever happened.

Speaker 6 (01:42:40):
What's gonna happen?

Speaker 17 (01:42:41):
Doc?

Speaker 33 (01:42:42):
Well, the soung looks smaller and smaller to us, and
the days will get progressively darker and colder.

Speaker 14 (01:42:49):
H won't dear ever come back to?

Speaker 42 (01:42:52):
Doc?

Speaker 33 (01:42:53):
Yes, it may, it may, probably will won't be much use?
Why because all the people.

Speaker 28 (01:43:01):
If any, will be frozen to death.

Speaker 33 (01:43:04):
And that's, my dear children, is the reward of science,
That's the big payoff. That's what happens as the end
result of some cave man a couple of hundred million
years ago, discovering.

Speaker 28 (01:43:17):
That two and two make four.

Speaker 24 (01:43:20):
What can we do?

Speaker 6 (01:43:22):
Nothing?

Speaker 34 (01:43:23):
But that can't you?

Speaker 2 (01:43:25):
I mean you're a scientist, scientist.

Speaker 33 (01:43:27):
My dear without his tools is just another man, a
highly useless man.

Speaker 34 (01:43:32):
Yeah, but Doc, what Dear, do we have to die?

Speaker 28 (01:43:36):
I wouldn't be surprised by I just told you.

Speaker 33 (01:43:40):
I know, but you could help without my tools, without
my papers and my books, my laboratory without why, I haven't.

Speaker 17 (01:43:46):
Even got a pencil.

Speaker 40 (01:43:47):
You know so many things, Doc, Why?

Speaker 28 (01:43:52):
By God?

Speaker 17 (01:43:52):
And that's right?

Speaker 33 (01:43:53):
I do you could I say, I know how to
keep his warm. You know, to think I know how
we can survive? For well, we've got food, Yes, sure
we can. Why we can make two?

Speaker 23 (01:44:03):
Will you just tell us how if the real old
cave man had to start from scratch and they had
to learn everything even two and.

Speaker 40 (01:44:09):
Two a four, why we can't people had a real
light for fitter with us.

Speaker 2 (01:44:12):
To show us all the shortcut dark, whimmy, you're wonderful.

Speaker 40 (01:44:15):
To Besides dark, if Adam and I are well, gee,
Adam and Eve had children, and.

Speaker 12 (01:44:30):
The dark days thus began. Daily the sun grew smaller,
and daily the coal grew more and more bitter. In
the month, there was no daylight, only a kind of
heavy twilight over all the gray prairie. My little sun
was red and tired. Looking in the sky where the
stars never stopped shining. Doc showed us how to make
our cavern not comfortable but livable.

Speaker 6 (01:44:53):
The coal grew more awful.

Speaker 12 (01:44:55):
We huddled together over our little fire, existing rather than living.
We tnslated the place, following Doc's directions. Once in a
while we went out into the dead world, face the
frightful cold for a minute or two to look up
the dwindling sun to see if we still.

Speaker 6 (01:45:10):
Fled from it. We talked very very little, for our
very breath froze at our lips.

Speaker 23 (01:45:18):
Doc, will we ever go back?

Speaker 28 (01:45:20):
We've got to go back. All the laws of nature.

Speaker 12 (01:45:23):
And time went on and on and on, and we
knew that we three were all at the world held
of living people.

Speaker 6 (01:45:31):
We were very close to death, and Doc still encouraged us.

Speaker 28 (01:45:36):
No, dal'll come, A day'll come, Adam.

Speaker 23 (01:45:39):
Oh, I'm still cold.

Speaker 33 (01:45:42):
Hold me, Adam, A day'll come, A day'll come, will
be the darkest day of them all, and that'll be
the best day. And me, why, Doc, why, That'll be
the day when the earth reaches the end of this
wild runaway ride.

Speaker 28 (01:45:57):
That'll be the day when we stop and stark back.

Speaker 6 (01:46:01):
But maybe we'll not be here to see it.

Speaker 28 (01:46:04):
We will, Adam, We will? And Adam Litten, what are
you comfortable?

Speaker 17 (01:46:09):
What?

Speaker 12 (01:46:10):
Doc?

Speaker 33 (01:46:11):
The day, the darkest day, that's the day I'm really
going to start teaching you the things you need to
know to survive, because I am over than you, kids.
I don't know how much longer I'll last, and I
want to teach you and your children. Ah, it's pretty frightening, Doc,

(01:46:33):
is anything frightening?

Speaker 25 (01:46:34):
Now?

Speaker 28 (01:46:34):
I mean nothing any more? Doc, A brand new world, and.

Speaker 12 (01:46:40):
Doc told us the secrets of the nine planets. Sometimes
we dared that frigid outside air to look up into
the strange sky.

Speaker 6 (01:46:48):
It was always dark.

Speaker 12 (01:46:49):
Now nothing but the stars and the tiny, withered sun
were above us. We saw Saturn's rings and the strange
markings on Mars. We saw the Milky Way grow brighter
and greater. The nebulous the Doc told us about these.

Speaker 6 (01:47:03):
We saw as no man has ever seen them. We
suffered much, and we lived. We lived until that day
when we could no longer find the sun and the sky.

Speaker 12 (01:47:13):
For all the sky was filled with stars, universes undreamed of,
and our little sun was fought away, and only another
star among the billions. That day came the darkest day
the Doc had told us of. That was the day
the Doc and I stood outside and saw our sun

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was lost, the darkest day, And we went back inside
to Emily.

Speaker 33 (01:47:41):
While Emily slept, we talkedmor no, no, Adam, we won't
see any change. By one day, in another week we
should be able to see the sun again, to recognize it.
And by another month it'll be warmer, the sun will
begin to get bigger, and in a few months.

Speaker 6 (01:47:58):
It'll be longer than that.

Speaker 35 (01:47:59):
Doc.

Speaker 6 (01:48:00):
It took us a long time to get way out here.

Speaker 12 (01:48:02):
But now we'll return faster, Adam. The Sun's attraction, you see.
And then what becomes of us.

Speaker 28 (01:48:07):
Well, there's so much to teach you. What, oh, so many,
so many things?

Speaker 6 (01:48:14):
Yeah, I suppose so I'm almost afraid. Afraid.

Speaker 28 (01:48:19):
Why well, science did this to the earth.

Speaker 6 (01:48:27):
Good Night, I'll talk to you about no, Doc, let's
talk some more.

Speaker 28 (01:48:30):
I've got a lot of thinking to do.

Speaker 24 (01:48:32):
Ad him.

Speaker 28 (01:48:33):
Hi, I promise you, I won't teach you anything it'll
hurt you. Good Night.

Speaker 6 (01:48:41):
When I awoke and Emily awoke, Doc was gone. I
called his name.

Speaker 12 (01:48:47):
There wasn't any answer. Emily woke up and smiled at me.
I got out and went to the door.

Speaker 6 (01:48:51):
Of the cave. I went on outside. I found Doc.

Speaker 12 (01:48:58):
Doc was lying there in the snow. Go outside the door,
and he'd opened up his coat and I just lay there.
There was a smile on his face, that quizzical, crooked
smile I'd got to love so well.

Speaker 6 (01:49:14):
And there was a frozen sheet of paper in his hand.
Fucking found a pencil somewhere. He'd written across the top of.

Speaker 12 (01:49:21):
The sheet to Adam for the dark as day, And
as I picked it up, I discovered something Across the
snow bank where Doc laid found my shadow.

Speaker 6 (01:49:34):
I looked up and there was the Sun the Third.

Speaker 12 (01:49:36):
As big as it used to be, but blinking cheerfully
at me and the dead man in the snow, And
as I stared, as seemed to grow bigger.

Speaker 6 (01:49:44):
I turned and went back into the cave where the
paper Doc had left me. Emily, Emily, I said, Emily,
Doc's dead.

Speaker 24 (01:49:58):
Doc left a note from me.

Speaker 6 (01:50:00):
I'm going to read it to you. Listen, Emily, I said,
had I read it?

Speaker 12 (01:50:09):
Dear Adam and Emily, you make your own world without
benefit of what I can teach you and your children,
because I'm a scientist children, and I know too much,
and I know I can't keep from teaching what I know.
And the old world had all it needs are the

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things that come from knowing too and to make for.

Speaker 6 (01:50:34):
So good luck to you both and to your children.

Speaker 17 (01:50:41):
That's all there was.

Speaker 12 (01:50:44):
But Doc, we didn't have any children, no Doc, not
After the earth got back where it belonged and we
had a good look at those things that used to
be fish, those mutants, those changes you call them. Remember, no,

(01:51:06):
you were afraid to the Darkest Day, you said, Doc,
They're all dark now. The title of today's Quiet Fleas story.

Speaker 28 (01:51:43):
Is Adam and the Darkest Day was written and.

Speaker 38 (01:51:46):
Directed by Willis Cooper. The man who spoke to you
was Ernest Chapper, and William Adams played Doc. Emily was
Kathleen cordell As. Use your music for choir please, is
by Albert Burman.

Speaker 12 (01:52:01):
Now for a word about next week, here is our writer,
Director Willis Cooper.

Speaker 6 (01:52:05):
Thank you for listening to cry and please next week
I have a story for you.

Speaker 22 (01:52:09):
Cove the evening and the morning.

Speaker 6 (01:52:23):
And so until next week.

Speaker 12 (01:52:24):
At the same time, I am quietly yours, Ernest Chappel,
And now.

Speaker 6 (01:52:40):
A listening reminder.

Speaker 38 (01:52:42):
There's another dramatic adventure waiting for you on David Harding
Counterspy this afternoon, when this efficient law enforcement group becomes
involved in the case of the senseless slayers.

Speaker 6 (01:52:53):
It's David Harding Counterspy.

Speaker 38 (01:52:55):
This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company, twenty seven.

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Speaker 35 (01:53:37):
Up.

Speaker 4 (01:53:37):
Next, we go to the West coast of the US
for an episode of the Whistler.

Speaker 2 (01:53:49):
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Speaker 4 (01:54:07):
Now an episode of the Whistler, concluding our shows from
seventy seven years ago today November seventh to nineteen forty eight.
This episode, eard only on the West Coast, is entitled
cover Up.

Speaker 27 (01:54:20):
Listen that whistle is your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The Whistler rated tops in popularity for a longer period

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of time than any other West Coast program, and Signal
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Speaker 35 (01:55:21):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.

Speaker 24 (01:55:24):
For I walk by night.

Speaker 35 (01:55:26):
I know many strange 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.

Speaker 27 (01:55:41):
And now the whistler strange story cover up.

Speaker 35 (01:55:51):
As the cold, gray dawn broke over the fog shrouded
coastal village of Bent and Coal, death came to the
big House on the hill. Moments after the chimes of
the hall clock had echoed six times through the silent house.
A door along the upstairs corridor closed quietly, and Joan Harper,
white faced, nervously, twisting a handkerchief in her fingers, moved

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slowly down the great circular stairway at the foot of
the stairs. She stopped, looked back over her shoulder for
an instant, and then hurried into the library. As she
picked up the phone, placed her cold with the operator.
Her thoughts raced back to a moment two years ago,
to a bright, warm spring morning in the garden, when
David Blaine had come to her.

Speaker 24 (01:56:39):
Here, I am David over here er hard at work.
I see, well, these.

Speaker 23 (01:56:44):
Plants certainly do need a lot of care. I don't
suppose you'd be interested in some spade work, mister Blaine
might be good after that. I'll have something else for
you to do the hedge along ago.

Speaker 39 (01:56:57):
Yes, David, I supposed you couldn't help overhearing that rawl upstairs.

Speaker 23 (01:57:03):
Well, Adele's voice has a way is no use, John.

Speaker 39 (01:57:07):
I've tried to make it work, but it just won't.
I'll be leaving in a day or two, moving into
an apartment in Los Angeles.

Speaker 23 (01:57:14):
I see.

Speaker 39 (01:57:15):
Of course there'll be no divorce. If Adele was well
and strong, that would be another matter.

Speaker 6 (01:57:22):
But she isn't.

Speaker 24 (01:57:23):
And well, I just I know, David. I'll do all
I can for Adele.

Speaker 23 (01:57:27):
Of course, Adele has more than enough money to take
care of everything.

Speaker 39 (01:57:31):
I just can't stay on here any longer. It wouldn't
be good for adle either. You understand why I can't stay,
don't you, John, Yes.

Speaker 23 (01:57:44):
I understand.

Speaker 43 (01:57:46):
David, Yes, I.

Speaker 23 (01:57:50):
Nothing, it's nothing.

Speaker 35 (01:57:59):
Yes, that was two years ago, wasn't it, John, Two
long years? Yet you remember it well, don't you. You
understood then quite clearly why it was impossible for him
to stay here at the house, And at that moment
you wanted to tell David that you were in love
with him too, but you couldn't, and you told yourself

(01:58:20):
it would all work out for the best. This way,
David would go away and there would be no divorce.
Your sister Adele would always stand between you as long
as she lived. Now, two years later, you're placing a
call to David to tell him at Adele is dead.

Speaker 23 (01:58:40):
Hello, David, this is John.

Speaker 28 (01:58:43):
John.

Speaker 24 (01:58:44):
This is a surprise.

Speaker 23 (01:58:45):
How are you, David. I've been trying to reach you
for the past two hours.

Speaker 39 (01:58:48):
Ah well, I was at the airport seeing someone up,
you know, Justice Miller got back to the apartment, Joan.

Speaker 24 (01:58:55):
Is something wrong.

Speaker 23 (01:58:57):
Hit Adele? She's yes, sometime during the night she shot herself. David. Yes,
she was expecting you last night.

Speaker 24 (01:59:14):
I know, something came up at the last minute. I
couldn't make it. I was planning to drive down this morning.

Speaker 23 (01:59:21):
I see all right, David, you'll hurry, Yes, yes, I'll
leave right away.

Speaker 35 (01:59:33):
Your hand is trembling as you replace the receiver. There's
a tight, hard knot in your throat. A mere sound
of his voice can do that, can't it, Joan. But
there's something else, David's manner, his excuse about not coming down,
and that vague feeling that has persisted ever since you
were awakened by the gunshot. In that confused half awake

(01:59:55):
stated it sounded as if there was someone on the
back stairs hurrying away, but you couldn't be sure. The
thought keeps running through your mind now as you wait
for David, while you answer them any questions of Sheriff Quinn.
And then it's all swept away as you meet David,
and in the days that follow you call yourself foolish
for letting your imagination run wild. David helps with everything

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after he arrives, and you stand side by side at
the funeral, attended by a large gathering of friends villagers,
and when it's over, you walk from the family cript
down the tree shaded path toward the road in the
waiting car.

Speaker 23 (02:00:36):
David, Yes, have you made any plans about going back
to Sydney?

Speaker 24 (02:00:43):
No? Nothing, definitely, How about you, Joe.

Speaker 23 (02:00:47):
Oh, I suppose I'll stay on at the house, Missus Hastingson.

Speaker 39 (02:00:54):
John, Yes, Who who's that man walking up ahead to
one of the trench coat.

Speaker 23 (02:01:01):
Oh that's Mark Quinn.

Speaker 24 (02:01:04):
He's the sheriff here, sir, I see are they young?
Isn't he?

Speaker 7 (02:01:10):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (02:01:11):
Very capable? They say, why do you ask?

Speaker 17 (02:01:15):
Oh?

Speaker 39 (02:01:17):
I couldn't help noticing doing the services back there. He
seemed to take it all pretty badly. I've seen that
look on a man's face before, hard, drained of all color,
a little angry get you know, he's crying inside.

Speaker 24 (02:01:37):
He was in love with the doll, wasn't he?

Speaker 17 (02:01:39):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (02:01:40):
Ever since high school? They were engaged once.

Speaker 24 (02:01:43):
Then I came along. Is that it?

Speaker 43 (02:01:46):
That's it?

Speaker 39 (02:01:47):
And I had a haunt you with something like that.
Suppose he blames me for what's happened, of course, not David.
He didn't come around to offer his condolences.

Speaker 23 (02:01:56):
Perhaps he's going to do that now. Why he stopped
at the gate. I think he's waiting for him.

Speaker 24 (02:02:01):
Eh, yes, I think he is. Oh, Joan, Hello, Mark.
I don't suppose I'm the first to say this, but well,
if there's anything.

Speaker 17 (02:02:11):
I can do, thank you.

Speaker 23 (02:02:13):
Oh, you've never met David, have you.

Speaker 24 (02:02:18):
Hello, Ma, we met a long time ago, mister Blaine.
I don't suppose you remember. I Uh, I was at
the wedding. Oh, I see, sorry, that's quite all right.
Some people have a memory for faces. Others don't. I
happen to have, although sometimes it plays tricks on me.
That's so. Take the other night, for instance, Tuesday night,

(02:02:39):
the night of that Missus Blaine died. I could have
sworn I saw you getting off the train here at
the depot. Oh, caught only a glimpse of the face.
I was mistaken. Of course, you couldn't have been on
that train. No, I didn't drive till the following morning.
I drove out.

Speaker 35 (02:02:57):
Uh huh.

Speaker 24 (02:02:59):
Well, I I know you're anxious to get back up
the hill, Joan, I won't keep you. Remember if I
can be of any help.

Speaker 17 (02:03:06):
What?

Speaker 37 (02:03:08):
Oh?

Speaker 23 (02:03:08):
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 24 (02:03:09):
Mark.

Speaker 35 (02:03:16):
The fear has swept over you once again, hasn't it, Joan,
The fear that points a finger of suspicion to David
and you Wonder if Mark really did see David at
the depot Tuesday night. Wonder if Mark actually believes he
was mistaken. As you drive back to the house. You
wonder too about the footsteps you thought you heard on
the back stairs the same night. You don't want to

(02:03:37):
think about it, try to force it from your mind,
but you can't, and you're afraid that what you suspect
is true, that David was in the house the night
your sister died. When you return to the house, you
leave David downstairs in the library. Hurry up to your room,

(02:03:59):
pick up the phone. Moments later, you're talking to the
telephone operator at David's business office.

Speaker 3 (02:04:04):
I'm sorry, mister Blaine is out of town.

Speaker 23 (02:04:06):
Oh oh, yes, I remember now. He said something about
going down to Benton Cove. Of when did he leave?
He left Tuesday on the afternoon train, Tuesday afternoon. You're satain, Yes,
I'm quite certain.

Speaker 17 (02:04:22):
I made a reservation myself.

Speaker 23 (02:04:25):
I see, thank you, he was here that night. David
was here.

Speaker 27 (02:04:42):
With the prologue of cover up, the Signal Oil Company
brings you another strange tale by the Whistler. But first
a word about the amazing growth of Signal Oil Company
from a mere handful of stations in southern California into
a coast wide organization serving six Western states from Canada
to Mexico. That growth has in large measure been due

(02:05:05):
to one policy which Signal has followed consistently for seventeen years,
to make each product that bears the name Signal even
better and better. That goes not only for Signal gasoline
and Signal Premium compounded motor oil, but also for Signals
line of fine quality automotive accessories. For instance, take Signal's

(02:05:26):
new Deluxe battery. Unlike ordinary batteries, which are guaranteed for
only twelve or eighteen months, Signal Deluxe batteries are guaranteed
for a full thirty months on a service basis, and
there improved all rubber separators, the finest type known to
battery engineering, make Signal Deluxe batteries deliver up to thirty
five percent more power. So whether it's long life or

(02:05:50):
dependable trouble free performance you're interested in, you'll be wise
to see your Signal dealer before you buy any battery.
Compare the low cost per month of a Signal Deluxe battery.
Compare the generous trade in Signal dealers are not offering
for old batteries. Compare their convenient credit terms. You'll see why.
From any angle to day's best battery buy is the

(02:06:12):
Signal Deluxe battery sold only at Signal Service stations.

Speaker 24 (02:06:18):
And now back to the whistler.

Speaker 35 (02:06:36):
There's little doubt in your mind, now, is there? John
David was in the house the night adele died. You
suspect the terrible reason as you wonder why he lied
to you. You're afraid to think about it, afraid of
what it can mean. You pace up and down the
room for hours, fighting the horrible thoughts that keep creeping
into your mind. Finally there's a knock in the door,

(02:06:58):
Missus Hastings, the housekeeper.

Speaker 19 (02:07:01):
You know we'll be ready in about an hour, and
this Joe dinner.

Speaker 43 (02:07:04):
Oh I domsted.

Speaker 19 (02:07:05):
David was wondering if you'd like to join him in
the library for a cocktail.

Speaker 23 (02:07:08):
No, no, I don't think I'll come down tonight, Missus Hastings.
I'm feeling well.

Speaker 19 (02:07:14):
You really should have something, miss joke.

Speaker 23 (02:07:15):
I'll be all right, perhaps after I rest a while.

Speaker 43 (02:07:19):
Very well.

Speaker 35 (02:07:27):
A moment after Missus Hastings leaves, you slip quietly down
the back stairs, out into the cool night air, and
start down the road to the village. You can't bear
to face David, now, can you?

Speaker 17 (02:07:39):
Not?

Speaker 35 (02:07:39):
Until you've had more time to think. You keep telling
yourself it's all a horrible mistake. You're confused, but it'll
all work out somehow. Then as you cross the small
wooden bridge a short distance from the house, you hear
someone call jo.

Speaker 17 (02:07:57):
Who is it? Oh?

Speaker 24 (02:07:59):
Hello, out for a little stroll?

Speaker 23 (02:08:01):
Oh Mark, what are you doing here?

Speaker 24 (02:08:05):
But i'd take in a little night. Are beautiful evening?
And then yes, yes, it is going down the village.
Oh yes, mind if I go along? No, of course not,
I'm I'm sort of glad I ran into him. Oh yes,

(02:08:25):
I've been wanting to talk to you about Adele. Of
course if you'd rather.

Speaker 23 (02:08:32):
No, No, it's quite all right. Mark.

Speaker 24 (02:08:34):
Oh what when you found her? You didn't touch anything?

Speaker 28 (02:08:39):
The gun?

Speaker 24 (02:08:40):
For instance?

Speaker 23 (02:08:42):
Gun? Why no? No, I didn't even notice it until
later after doctor Kempston had arrived. He ate had fallen
from her hand.

Speaker 24 (02:08:51):
Why do you ask, Well, there's there's something rather odd
about the fingerprints on it, Adele's prince. What do you
mean the position of the prince is rather unusual. Would
seem more like that gun had been placed in her
hand than the hand had been closed tightly around the
handle to make the print?

Speaker 44 (02:09:11):
Hi?

Speaker 24 (02:09:12):
See it doesn't seem natural to me, the way the
gun was held. Oh, but then who knows. I guess
it's entirely possible.

Speaker 23 (02:09:24):
Fuck, I don't believe I'll go down to the village
after I remembered something. I'll have to go back to
the house.

Speaker 24 (02:09:30):
You go on something important.

Speaker 23 (02:09:32):
Yes, yes, it's quite important.

Speaker 35 (02:09:40):
Suddenly you've made up your mind, haven't you, John, Yes,
you've got to see David right away. You've got to
know for certain. You'll hurry back to the house, to
the library. David isn't there. You'll go on up to
his room, knock on the door, No.

Speaker 23 (02:09:56):
Answer, David, Daviess why you call his name softly?

Speaker 24 (02:10:04):
What?

Speaker 35 (02:10:04):
Sensing as you do that he's not in the room,
and knowing too that you're glad you don't actually have
to face him. Then your eyes move to the top
of the bureau, to a letter addressed to David. Your
hand moves to it, slowly, mechanically, and even as you
tell yourself that it's wrong, You take the letter from
its envelope, stare at the first page, at the letter

(02:10:26):
head of doctors Ferguson and Dundee, physicians and surgeons. You
know at once that old doctor Ferguson, executor of Adele's
father's estate, wrote that letter. That isn't important, is it? John?
It's what he tells David in the first paragraph. A
brief paragraph, but so very important.

Speaker 23 (02:10:44):
And so, David, I feel it my duty to advise
you that, in the event of Adele's death, prior to yours,
and while a state of marriage still exists, all of
the money's and property involved in your late father in
law's estate I bequeathed to you.

Speaker 19 (02:11:03):
Oh no, David, Oh, I didn't know you were here.

Speaker 23 (02:11:11):
I I thought, David, Ah, have you seen him?

Speaker 19 (02:11:14):
I believe he's out in the garden. Miss said something
about taking a turn before dinner.

Speaker 23 (02:11:19):
I see, Thank you, Missus Hastings.

Speaker 35 (02:11:28):
You tremble as you go downstairs and out into the garden.
It was wrong of you to be in David's room,
wrong to take his letter, but somehow you couldn't help it,
And those words keep blurring in your mind as you
walk quickly toward the rose Ardor David had a motive
to kill her, didn't he joan a strong one, and
no matter how hard you try to fight down your fears,

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they persist. Suddenly you're aware of David's voice. You step back,
stand behind the protection of the rose arbor, listening as
he questions, old the garden.

Speaker 24 (02:12:00):
What do you mean to say, is Ben, you didn't
do as you were told that night where mister David.

Speaker 44 (02:12:06):
I didn't mean to go against mister Dell's wishes, but
I was tired. I saw no reason why I should.

Speaker 24 (02:12:13):
Go into town. But all the other servants did go
into town.

Speaker 44 (02:12:17):
Yes, sir, If only we had known what poor mister
Dell was planning to do to herself.

Speaker 39 (02:12:24):
It might have been prevented. Yes, that's what I was
wondering about. Ben, from your cottage. Didn't you hear the shot?

Speaker 24 (02:12:31):
Yes, but I thought it was only a car backfire.
You didn't go out look around in the yard.

Speaker 44 (02:12:39):
You mean there might have been someone here, mister David,
that it might not have been suicide.

Speaker 24 (02:12:45):
I'm asking the questions, Ben, did you see or hear anyone?

Speaker 2 (02:12:50):
No, sir, No, sir, I didn't.

Speaker 24 (02:12:52):
That's all I want to know.

Speaker 44 (02:12:53):
But I guess there could have been someone, mister David.
I had no idea anyone, even no one, does Ben?

Speaker 24 (02:13:01):
Forget it? Forget we even discussed the matter.

Speaker 35 (02:13:07):
The tone of David's voice frightens you, doesn't it, Joan?
You draw back into the shadows as the two men
start away toward Old Ben's cottage. Then you turn and
hurry back to the house, enter the library, the letter
still clasped in your hand. You want to read that terrible,
frightening paragraph again. But David suddenly calls your name. You

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whirl around frantically, wondering if he saw you, knows that
you were listening outside. Then as you hear him coming
toward the library, you remember the letter know that you
must tide it. You turn hurriedly slip the letter behind
the heavy oil painting on the mantelpiece.

Speaker 24 (02:13:44):
Oh there you are, John, I've been wanting to talk
to you.

Speaker 23 (02:13:47):
I've within the garden. Oh David, is there anything special
you want to tell me?

Speaker 24 (02:13:54):
Why?

Speaker 39 (02:13:55):
Yes, Joan, When everything is cleared up here, I'll be
going away again. If I sent for you, say, in
six months, would you come to me? I don't know, David,
You don't know.

Speaker 23 (02:14:09):
No, No, I don't David. It seems there are more
important things we.

Speaker 24 (02:14:13):
Should be talking, the more important things. What could be
more important than you and I? You know why I
went away the first time? You must know now that
I do anything for you.

Speaker 23 (02:14:22):
Yes, I believe you would do anything.

Speaker 24 (02:14:26):
What are you talking about, John, David?

Speaker 23 (02:14:30):
Where were you the Knight had Dale died?

Speaker 24 (02:14:33):
I told you I was in Los Angeles? Joan, where
are you going?

Speaker 23 (02:14:38):
Leave me alone? David, I've got to think.

Speaker 19 (02:14:53):
Goodness, miss Joan, you've scarcely touched your breakfast.

Speaker 23 (02:14:56):
I'm sorry. I don't want any more, my dear.

Speaker 43 (02:14:58):
You simply must calm you.

Speaker 2 (02:15:01):
I know you didn't sleep at all well last.

Speaker 23 (02:15:03):
I'm going to drive into town. If you have to
reach me for any reason, I'll be at doctor Ferguson's office.

Speaker 43 (02:15:10):
All right, Miss John, may I help you?

Speaker 23 (02:15:21):
I'm Joan Harper. I wanted to see doctor Ferguson.

Speaker 43 (02:15:25):
Were you a patient of his?

Speaker 24 (02:15:27):
No?

Speaker 23 (02:15:27):
But you see he looked after my sister and handled
her affairs.

Speaker 3 (02:15:31):
Doctor Ferguson passed away last week. He's dead, Yes, pneumonia.

Speaker 23 (02:15:39):
I see. Could doctor Dundee help you? No, No, I'm
afraid not. It wasn't anything important anyway.

Speaker 7 (02:15:47):
Thank you?

Speaker 19 (02:15:55):
Is that you, miss Joe? Yes, missus Hastings, John and
I didn't know whether to call you or not, but
mister David has decided to leave he's upstairs packing packing. No, yes,
I didn't know if he discussed it with you or not.
It all seems so sudden.

Speaker 23 (02:16:09):
I'll go up, David. Oh, John, I thought you, David,
Why are you going away?

Speaker 24 (02:16:20):
I told you?

Speaker 23 (02:16:21):
But only last night you said you were going to
wait until everything was cleared up.

Speaker 39 (02:16:25):
Everything's as clear as it as it'll ever be, joll
But I just can't say why. But yes, David, Well,
I can't stand it around here, this, this house, the memories.

Speaker 23 (02:16:38):
Is that all that bothers you, David, John, I wish
that in a minute, Missus Hastings.

Speaker 19 (02:16:47):
I'm sorry, but Sheriff Clean is downstairs. There's a man
with him, he insists on seeing mister David.

Speaker 23 (02:16:53):
Oh, David, I'll go No, I want to go with you, David.
We'll talk to him together.

Speaker 35 (02:17:06):
Going down the stairs, you take his hand, grasp it tightly, reassuringly.
But all the time, the fears of the past few
days pound in your brain, telling you exactly what's going
to happen when you walk into the living room with
David to confront Sheriff Mark Quinn, Oh.

Speaker 24 (02:17:23):
Good morning, John, Sorry to disturb it.

Speaker 23 (02:17:25):
It's all right, Mark, I understand you want to talk
to David.

Speaker 24 (02:17:28):
Yes, mister Blaine, this is Joe Larkins.

Speaker 20 (02:17:32):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (02:17:33):
Hey, Hey, don't remember, I guess.

Speaker 24 (02:17:36):
Sheriff the Knight your wife was killed, mister Blaine. Larkins
here was on a freight train that passed through Benton
Cove on its way to Los Angeles. Hey, it's him,
all right, can't he know? Mistake?

Speaker 2 (02:17:47):
He swung on the train, rode up to LA and
hopped off.

Speaker 24 (02:17:52):
David Blaine, I had a hunch all along you were
in town the knight your wife was shot. No, I'd
go a step further and say you were in this
hul No.

Speaker 23 (02:18:01):
David, tell them it isn't true. Tell them you never
saw this man before.

Speaker 39 (02:18:05):
I'm sorry, John, there's no use pretending any longer he
saw me. All right, I was on that freight I
was here that night with Adele.

Speaker 27 (02:18:28):
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(02:19:13):
stop there, no, sir, Just to make doubly sure not
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which is why it's called signal double check lubrication.

Speaker 24 (02:19:25):
Now that's the.

Speaker 27 (02:19:25):
Kind of lub service you want if your car is
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Speaker 24 (02:19:38):
And now back to the whistler.

Speaker 35 (02:19:49):
It's all over, isn't it.

Speaker 24 (02:19:51):
Jone?

Speaker 35 (02:19:52):
In David's own words, there's no use pretending any longer.
And you look from him to the quiet, accusing face
of Sheriff Mark Quinn. There's no doubt a question. David
was in the house when the night adele died. He
had every reason to kill her. You know that from
what you read in the letter you hid behind the
painting on the mantelbiets. It can mean only one thing.

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David is guilty. And then you're suddenly aware of his voice,
speaking quietly, futilely, telling Sheriff Quinn another version of what
happened the night he came here to see Adele.

Speaker 39 (02:20:26):
I suppose there's little use telling it. I knew how
it would sound. Then that's why I ran rad You
saw me all right that night at the station, Sheriff.
I came down on the train. Adele had fogned that afternoon,
asked me to come, said she'd arranged force to be
alone so we could talk, get things straightened out once
and for all. When I arrived at the house, in Adele's.

Speaker 6 (02:20:49):
Room, she was dead.

Speaker 24 (02:20:52):
The one, mister Blaine.

Speaker 39 (02:20:53):
I don't know whether he asked me to come here
to frame me or not. Anyway, the gun was lying
on the floor beside her. I picked it up, without
thinking that I realized I was going to look. I
wiped the gun off, brushed it back into Adele's hand. Oh, Daisy,
an interesting story, Blaine. It's true you knew about it, Quinn.

Speaker 24 (02:21:13):
But it's all in that letter of doctor fergus Oh
wait a minute, I don't know anything about any letter.
You took it, Quinn knowing it would have saved.

Speaker 23 (02:21:19):
Me Ferguson's letter. Yes, David, what are you saying that
letter makes everything worse? Your motive?

Speaker 24 (02:21:25):
You know anything about any letter? Joan?

Speaker 17 (02:21:27):
Yes?

Speaker 23 (02:21:27):
I hit it here behind his feature at it, Johnny,
You did this for me?

Speaker 17 (02:21:34):
Oh.

Speaker 23 (02:21:34):
I knew it was wrong, David, but I couldn't help it.
I just knew you didn't do it.

Speaker 34 (02:21:39):
I had it to help you.

Speaker 24 (02:21:41):
Give me that letter.

Speaker 39 (02:21:42):
You didn't read it all, did you, John I read enough,
read the second page, Sheriff, that last paragraph.

Speaker 24 (02:21:48):
I tell you these things, David, because of the situation
existing between you and your wife Adele, and because my
most recient examination show that she has less than a
month to live. Hey, well, A guess that does it, David.
Nobody would kill someone who had only a month to live. Sorry,

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I caused you so much trouble, oh, David, And I
almost burn that letter.

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speaking is the CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.

Speaker 4 (02:23:47):
And seventy seven years ago November seventh, nineteen forty eight,
The Whistler on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox wrapping
up our look at four shows from seventy seven years
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to November seventh, nineteen forty seven. Next to see what's
going on in something not criminal but sweet. Claudia, David.

Speaker 41 (02:24:23):
Lesson and learn through civil defense.

Speaker 2 (02:24:25):
This is Johnny Cash.

Speaker 41 (02:24:27):
I'd like all of you to remember that America can
withstand enemy attack if we support the emergency plans of
our community and learn to help ourselves. Make sure you're prepared.
Contact your local civil defense office.

Speaker 4 (02:24:41):
Today we wrap up this Friday podcast with an episode
of Claudia. This was originally broadcast seventy eight years ago,
November seventh, nineteen forty seven.

Speaker 27 (02:24:52):
Your Coca Cola Botler presents Claudia. Claudia based on the
original stories by Rose Franken, brought to you transcribed Monday
through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca Cola.

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Relax and while you're listening, refresh yourself.

Speaker 24 (02:25:17):
Have a coke. And now Claudia.

Speaker 7 (02:25:36):
The most elegant dinner missus nothing, thank you, sir?

Speaker 17 (02:25:40):
What was good?

Speaker 3 (02:25:41):
Wasn't it?

Speaker 7 (02:25:41):
You're improving and.

Speaker 3 (02:25:42):
You had one candid I hope you noticed I did?

Speaker 7 (02:25:45):
Was that what I almost broke my front?

Speaker 42 (02:25:47):
Two thongs?

Speaker 24 (02:25:48):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (02:25:48):
No, that was my bake biscuits? Were they awful? I
either put too much baking cotton or not enough either one.

Speaker 7 (02:25:54):
I know, maybe you put in two little biscuits.

Speaker 28 (02:25:57):
How's that?

Speaker 3 (02:25:58):
Shut it up by being nice?

Speaker 42 (02:26:00):
End up being that you asked for you Seriously, I
think I'm very patient, lovely and an understanding husband, So
do I.

Speaker 3 (02:26:06):
One of the best husbands I've ever had. I've gone
in the living room, read your paper, and I have
the dishes done in no time.

Speaker 7 (02:26:12):
I'll help you, you won't.

Speaker 3 (02:26:13):
I've told you ever since we've been married, I don't
approve of men helping.

Speaker 2 (02:26:16):
With the dishes.

Speaker 7 (02:26:17):
Yep, And ever since we've been married, I've been helping.
So what can I do?

Speaker 42 (02:26:21):
Come on, Yeah, I'll show you how we'll manage. Now
we'll stack them up here. So, oh, that's it, and
make it all more care in one trip.

Speaker 3 (02:26:29):
Oh, David, that's enough. The popple and bread here, Let me.

Speaker 21 (02:26:33):
Have that cup you.

Speaker 7 (02:26:35):
I'll get away, get away if you push me, I
can do it, don't you there? Now hold the door open,
We'll let it swing here. I come, David.

Speaker 3 (02:26:43):
Please let me take that coppet.

Speaker 7 (02:26:45):
You let me alone and go back and finish playing
on the table.

Speaker 37 (02:26:47):
Man.

Speaker 7 (02:26:47):
Now there we are, Hey, take that bottle of laundry
away so I can put them down. I hope my
shirts came back.

Speaker 3 (02:26:53):
Wait a minute, put them right in the sink. They did.

Speaker 7 (02:26:55):
Where's the dishpan? What did your shirt?

Speaker 3 (02:26:57):
I don't use a dishpan. I'd like to wash them
under running water.

Speaker 7 (02:27:00):
I like the dishpants.

Speaker 3 (02:27:01):
I don't anyway, what's your business to know how I
did it?

Speaker 7 (02:27:04):
Because i'm washing, you're not your dry I won't.

Speaker 3 (02:27:06):
I want to wash, David. I hate to dry, so
I washing dishes. It's such a messy job for a man.
You get your hands wet and the soap and everything.
Drying is much nicer.

Speaker 7 (02:27:17):
That's why I want to let you do it, David.

Speaker 3 (02:27:20):
Get away from that sick.

Speaker 7 (02:27:21):
Where's the soap?

Speaker 3 (02:27:22):
It's a just thing to wash dishes.

Speaker 7 (02:27:24):
Oh, it's much sissier to dry.

Speaker 3 (02:27:26):
You look at a nice clean dish, tallerl red, white
and folded an iron and boy, Prince of boys, the
dish tow doesn't she wonderful?

Speaker 7 (02:27:34):
That's terrific. See that you do the same. Go clear
the table.

Speaker 3 (02:27:37):
You didn't leave me anything to clear but a salt
cellar and a cake plate.

Speaker 7 (02:27:41):
That's what you call efficiency. It is not.

Speaker 3 (02:27:42):
It's silly to waste the trip in for just two things.

Speaker 7 (02:27:45):
Now, bring a dining room chair back with you?

Speaker 17 (02:27:47):
Will you? What?

Speaker 35 (02:27:48):
Four?

Speaker 17 (02:27:48):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:27:49):
Just so you don't waste the trip it. Hey, why
do I have two frying pans to wash?

Speaker 34 (02:27:56):
I made a type of probably all over again.

Speaker 7 (02:27:59):
I didn't bargain for two frying pans.

Speaker 24 (02:28:03):
What was that?

Speaker 7 (02:28:04):
Nothing sounds like a flower bloom.

Speaker 3 (02:28:07):
Oh you're so careless. I told her not to leave
plate on the table.

Speaker 7 (02:28:10):
I dropped you dropped it. I don't see what's so funny?

Speaker 3 (02:28:14):
You don't What do I do with the pieces?

Speaker 7 (02:28:15):
I guess what do you think you do with them?

Speaker 26 (02:28:17):
Here?

Speaker 24 (02:28:17):
Stick them together?

Speaker 3 (02:28:18):
I mean, do I dump them in the garbage pale
naked or wrap them.

Speaker 34 (02:28:21):
Up in the newspaper?

Speaker 42 (02:28:22):
Well, the razor blade you wrap up in a newspaper,
But you can drop these in naked.

Speaker 19 (02:28:26):
Oh I see.

Speaker 3 (02:28:28):
Oh well, it wasn't a very good plate anyway.

Speaker 23 (02:28:30):
It had a chip in it.

Speaker 7 (02:28:31):
It's got a little larger chip. Now I suppose you
want to medal here, hair dry? Not another word out.

Speaker 3 (02:28:37):
Of you, David. This saucer is not washed clean where where?

Speaker 7 (02:28:41):
I don't see a thing there there?

Speaker 17 (02:28:43):
Oh, wait a minute, I'll have to get this up
like don't.

Speaker 7 (02:28:46):
That's the design on it. It's a buttercup.

Speaker 3 (02:28:50):
It could have been an egg.

Speaker 2 (02:28:52):
An egg, darling.

Speaker 23 (02:28:53):
Do you have to work tonight?

Speaker 7 (02:28:54):
It smells like a buttercup too. I'm working. I'm gonna
come home after a hard at the office and stand
over a sink, I.

Speaker 3 (02:29:02):
Mean over blueprints or plans or something.

Speaker 7 (02:29:05):
What do you want to do?

Speaker 17 (02:29:06):
Nothing?

Speaker 3 (02:29:06):
If you're going to be.

Speaker 7 (02:29:07):
Busy and I knowble my evening belongs to you, you alone,
What would you like me.

Speaker 3 (02:29:12):
To do nothing?

Speaker 23 (02:29:14):
It's funny.

Speaker 3 (02:29:15):
I'd rather do nothing with you than something with anybody else.

Speaker 7 (02:29:18):
I've got to think that one out.

Speaker 6 (02:29:20):
Give me a minute.

Speaker 7 (02:29:22):
How would you like to go to the theater?

Speaker 3 (02:29:24):
Hide the door?

Speaker 7 (02:29:26):
It's too late though, No it isn't on a quarter
of eight.

Speaker 3 (02:29:28):
Oh, we never get tickets for anything good at the
last minute, and the tickets cost a fortune. David, why
don't we just go to the movie instead?

Speaker 17 (02:29:35):
Say?

Speaker 3 (02:29:35):
How'd you like to see a good dog picture in
the neighborhood?

Speaker 7 (02:29:38):
Yes, I'd love it.

Speaker 24 (02:29:39):
Let's go.

Speaker 7 (02:29:39):
What's playing?

Speaker 19 (02:29:40):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:29:41):
I just asked you if you'd like to see when
I would you mean?

Speaker 7 (02:29:44):
You were just hoping that there's one around someplace.

Speaker 23 (02:29:46):
Sure, what's wrong with that the place?

Speaker 3 (02:29:48):
Just take pot Locke and go to whatever is playing.

Speaker 7 (02:29:51):
I've had enough pots here. I want to know what's
playing before I start out.

Speaker 3 (02:29:55):
Oh, dear, you have no wild, sweet spirit of adventure,
And yes, why do here?

Speaker 42 (02:30:00):
I come with wild, sweeping spirit of adventure. But I
don't have anyone who comes to sitting through a bad movie.

Speaker 3 (02:30:07):
Wait a minute, I do know what's playing, but I
just don't remember. It's pretty good, though. I mean, when
I passed the theater, I looked at the Marquis. How
do you pronoun set Marquis or my keys Marcus?

Speaker 7 (02:30:19):
I think, look it up in the dictionary. Go ahead,
look it up.

Speaker 6 (02:30:24):
Look it up in the dictionary.

Speaker 7 (02:30:25):
David, don't what's playing in the dictionary?

Speaker 17 (02:30:32):
I know?

Speaker 7 (02:30:35):
Well, don't take it so hard.

Speaker 23 (02:30:37):
Now, this is pretty.

Speaker 3 (02:30:41):
I said to myself when I was walking the movie,
you know, when I was walking fast.

Speaker 42 (02:30:48):
And the pinch, we can see it. Well, what's the
movie about? Now get yourself, you exhaust me.

Speaker 3 (02:30:52):
It's not historical. I mean, the costumes in the picture
of Front looks modern. There's a Mickey mouse playing in it.

Speaker 24 (02:30:57):
Well, what do you know?

Speaker 7 (02:30:58):
Why did you say so? In the first. Come on,
hang up that dish towel.

Speaker 24 (02:31:01):
We're on our way.

Speaker 3 (02:31:02):
Say you didn't leave a very clean sink. You're supposed
to swish it around.

Speaker 7 (02:31:05):
The soap powdery, you swish it around in the morning.
I'm going to Mickey Mouse.

Speaker 3 (02:31:08):
Oh, David, what would I do if I'd married a
man that didn't like Mickey Mouse?

Speaker 24 (02:31:11):
No, what would you do if you didn't?

Speaker 23 (02:31:13):
He knows something. Mama loves them too.

Speaker 7 (02:31:15):
Well, go call her up.

Speaker 3 (02:31:16):
Oh darling, you are so sweet.

Speaker 7 (02:31:19):
Well, the one thing worse than a man being sweet,
that's being cute.

Speaker 3 (02:31:24):
Sweet the way I mean it is very sweet thing
to be. It's a combination of understanding and gentleness and
all kinds.

Speaker 7 (02:31:31):
Of and sugar and spices and everything nicest.

Speaker 3 (02:31:36):
Oh, I'll go for I hate to think of her
spending every evening alone. So you know, there's no answer
to the phone.

Speaker 23 (02:31:42):
I wonder what's happened.

Speaker 7 (02:31:44):
She's gone out. Probably maybe she went over to your
aunt Louisa's for dinner.

Speaker 3 (02:31:49):
Maybe, but I don't think so.

Speaker 23 (02:31:50):
Why not she didn't say anything about it?

Speaker 42 (02:31:52):
Does she have to account to you for everything she does?
Get your hat and coat. I hate to get into
a movie theater. After everybody's breathed up all the.

Speaker 24 (02:32:00):
Air, So do I, David.

Speaker 3 (02:32:03):
I phoned Mama twice to day. There's no answer.

Speaker 7 (02:32:05):
Well, she was probably out marketing, but I.

Speaker 3 (02:32:07):
Gave her a chance to come back before I called again.

Speaker 7 (02:32:09):
That was big of you.

Speaker 3 (02:32:10):
Still no answer.

Speaker 7 (02:32:11):
Maybe the phone's out of order.

Speaker 3 (02:32:12):
Oh, I asked the operator to check on it. Well,
I'll be a big girl, not worry about her. I'm ready. Hey,
wait a minute, that's close the windows in case it rains.

Speaker 23 (02:32:22):
Ohps, this window sticks. Oh now, I broke my nail.

Speaker 7 (02:32:26):
Let me see where I didn't. But I could have
switch out that lamp over there. I'll put out the
lamp in the hall.

Speaker 3 (02:32:31):
Wait a second, i'n't got a handkerchief. Oh, never mind,
you can lend me yours anyway. I don't think it's
a sad picture.

Speaker 24 (02:32:37):
Uh, we're not going to any picture, David.

Speaker 2 (02:32:40):
What made you change?

Speaker 42 (02:32:41):
Because you'd be on pins and needles. You wouldn't enjoy
a minute of it. You're only going because you think
I want to go?

Speaker 7 (02:32:47):
Well, don't you no no particular?

Speaker 3 (02:32:49):
And what are you walking to the door for?

Speaker 23 (02:32:50):
Where you're going?

Speaker 17 (02:32:51):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (02:32:51):
The mothers set your mind?

Speaker 24 (02:32:53):
At rest.

Speaker 7 (02:32:53):
You're cooking up all sorts of ideas.

Speaker 21 (02:32:55):
I can tell, Darling, I'm so ashamed.

Speaker 3 (02:32:57):
I don't I I don't know why.

Speaker 34 (02:32:58):
I just kept feelings.

Speaker 2 (02:33:00):
What are we doing?

Speaker 7 (02:33:00):
We get there, we have a key to her apartment.

Speaker 3 (02:33:02):
No, but if she's not home, well.

Speaker 42 (02:33:04):
Once we find out she hasn't slipped in the bathtub
or got tohixiated, whether.

Speaker 7 (02:33:08):
It's a cord.

Speaker 3 (02:33:10):
If she's not home, we'll phone Aunt Louisa. What do
we do she's not at Aunt Louisa's.

Speaker 7 (02:33:14):
Shouldn't wait for her to come back.

Speaker 42 (02:33:15):
Then we'll both give her a piece of our minds
for daring to budge out of the house without asking
you for express permission.

Speaker 43 (02:33:22):
Make me feel like such a fool.

Speaker 3 (02:33:24):
Look, if we find she hasn't slipped in the bathtob
or anything, I'll go to the movies with you, and
then afterwards we can phone her and.

Speaker 23 (02:33:30):
She'll be home by then.

Speaker 24 (02:33:31):
It's a deal. Come along.

Speaker 3 (02:33:33):
Sure you don't think I'm silly.

Speaker 7 (02:33:35):
Of course I think you're silly.

Speaker 3 (02:33:36):
Well, I think you're silly too for giving in to me.

Speaker 7 (02:33:39):
But I just get I know you get feelings. No
sense of ringing the bell?

Speaker 24 (02:33:49):
Who go out? Of my life party. Let's see if
this is the key?

Speaker 3 (02:33:52):
All keys looking like in the dark?

Speaker 7 (02:33:54):
Or's that cats near enough? Claudia, her hands are like iceless.
Nothing to be nervous about it.

Speaker 3 (02:34:02):
I'm not nervous, David. There's a light in the bedroom.

Speaker 7 (02:34:06):
Well, stop looking so scared. She's probably just god mother.

Speaker 3 (02:34:11):
Mama, you home, flaw here? You scared the wits out
of us? Where have you been all day?

Speaker 21 (02:34:16):
Can I have any privacy?

Speaker 19 (02:34:18):
Mommy?

Speaker 21 (02:34:18):
You're in bed, of course I am. It's I passed
a time for all nice old ladies to be in bed,
I mean, your second dead nonsense? What are you do
doing over here? Anyway? Come on home?

Speaker 7 (02:34:30):
Hold your horses?

Speaker 2 (02:34:31):
Mother?

Speaker 24 (02:34:31):
Now, what is all this?

Speaker 21 (02:34:32):
Nothing at all? I went to bed early. I have
a little cold.

Speaker 7 (02:34:35):
Now we're getting closer to the truth.

Speaker 21 (02:34:36):
I'll keep out both of you. There's no need for
you catching a col You were all right yesterday. When
did this come on in the middle of the night?

Speaker 7 (02:34:43):
How much tempered your mother?

Speaker 37 (02:34:44):
No?

Speaker 17 (02:34:44):
Not much?

Speaker 7 (02:34:45):
How much it's down now?

Speaker 3 (02:34:46):
Was the difference A lot of difference? Why didn't you
call me?

Speaker 21 (02:34:48):
I was glad to be rid of you.

Speaker 3 (02:34:50):
You didn't even ask the phone no, I was hoping.

Speaker 21 (02:34:52):
If you didn't get any answer, you'd think I was out.

Speaker 24 (02:34:55):
I guess you did, like a fool.

Speaker 3 (02:34:57):
You can't even be trusted.

Speaker 7 (02:34:58):
You didn't feel very much getting up to the phone,
did you, mother?

Speaker 21 (02:35:02):
Frankly I didn't.

Speaker 2 (02:35:03):
David.

Speaker 7 (02:35:04):
Let's take your poll now, please, please don't come to
near the boy. Give me your wrist. What is it, David,
he's still a little feverish. Do your bones ache?

Speaker 25 (02:35:14):
Mother?

Speaker 7 (02:35:14):
Any coffee?

Speaker 21 (02:35:15):
Much less than this morning?

Speaker 14 (02:35:17):
Hm?

Speaker 7 (02:35:17):
Very professional, David.

Speaker 3 (02:35:18):
He always wanted to be a doctor.

Speaker 21 (02:35:20):
Who make a good one too?

Speaker 7 (02:35:21):
You're happy toothing? I would Who would you get that expression?

Speaker 3 (02:35:24):
It's all his own, isn't it?

Speaker 26 (02:35:25):
Silly?

Speaker 21 (02:35:26):
Very expressive?

Speaker 24 (02:35:26):
Though?

Speaker 21 (02:35:27):
No, No, come on, children, you can open the window
a little while you're here and run on home. I'll
be fine in the morning and I'll phone you the
first thing.

Speaker 3 (02:35:33):
Mommy, you should be having fruit juice every two hours.
And who's gonna fix your breakfast?

Speaker 11 (02:35:37):
Now?

Speaker 23 (02:35:37):
Tower the doorbell?

Speaker 21 (02:35:38):
Tell me that anybody think that a person never had
the flu?

Speaker 23 (02:35:41):
To hear you too?

Speaker 21 (02:35:42):
Carry on?

Speaker 44 (02:35:43):
Claudia is right.

Speaker 7 (02:35:44):
Nevertheless, you can't lie here alone. You ought to have
a nurse.

Speaker 21 (02:35:47):
A nurse Oh, don't be ridiculous. In the first place,
you can't get one, they're too scarce.

Speaker 7 (02:35:52):
Oh, I think I can get one for you right away, Really,
can you, David?

Speaker 14 (02:35:56):
Yes.

Speaker 7 (02:35:56):
The only trouble with her is that she's married. She
comes on a case, she brings her husband along.

Speaker 24 (02:36:02):
Oh.

Speaker 21 (02:36:03):
Oh, oh, I think I know who you mean.

Speaker 3 (02:36:05):
A very pretty girl, very tractive, very bright.

Speaker 42 (02:36:08):
No, No, you're getting her mixed up with someone else.
This girl's husband is very handsome, very brilliant fellow too.

Speaker 21 (02:36:15):
I look here, I'm not so feverish that I can't
guess with you two are trying to hatch up between
you and I will not have it.

Speaker 42 (02:36:23):
Well, we're not asking you any questions, missus Brown. I'm
going home now to tell this girl's husband to bring
over his shaving stuff and the par of the jama
hey telling the.

Speaker 3 (02:36:30):
Biggest wife's nightgowne too, and her toothbrush. Gosh, we're lucky
to have that extra bedroom I used.

Speaker 21 (02:36:35):
To have before I got my hurried, got me so
mixed up now I don't know whether I'm delirious or not.
You mean you both intend to sleep here tonight?

Speaker 3 (02:36:42):
Don't be so inhospitable Darling, you better bring some extra oranges,
nice box?

Speaker 7 (02:36:47):
Mm hmm anything else? How'd you like a little water
ice from the drug store?

Speaker 21 (02:36:51):
Mother, David, you're a mind rita. I've been longing for
some all day.

Speaker 3 (02:36:54):
Make mine chocolate, David. Oh, and David, when you go home,
turned off all the radiators. It'll be too ho hey,
and be sure to put the cat up before you leave.

Speaker 17 (02:37:03):
What cat?

Speaker 3 (02:37:04):
That nice little black cat?

Speaker 21 (02:37:05):
We haven't got? Sounds like old times. David, you're a
bad influence on your wife. Why don't you make her
realize that she's married and has a home of her own?

Speaker 24 (02:37:13):
Well?

Speaker 7 (02:37:13):
Did you ever hear the old saying circumstances alter cases?

Speaker 2 (02:37:18):
Well, this is one of those circumstances.

Speaker 24 (02:37:19):
Mother.

Speaker 21 (02:37:20):
M you know there's another old saying that I suddenly
remember a little trite but awfully true.

Speaker 43 (02:37:25):
What what?

Speaker 10 (02:37:26):
Ooh?

Speaker 21 (02:37:27):
Something about not losing a daughter but gaining a son.

Speaker 27 (02:37:41):
All story material used on this broadcast of Claudia was
under the supervision of Rose Franken and William Brown Maloney. Ooh,
take a tip, lady from those lucky people who have
a Coca Cola cooler where they work and work refreshed.

Speaker 24 (02:38:02):
Why not you too.

Speaker 27 (02:38:04):
All you have to do is reach into the refrigerator
in your kitchen, take out a bottle of ice cold
Coca cola, and enjoy the pause that refreshes yourself. So
make a note to keep coca cola in your ice
box all the time, or refreshment anytime. Every day, Monday

(02:38:28):
through Friday, Claudia comes to you, transcribed with the best
wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles coca cola. So
listen again Monday at the same time. And now this
is Joe King saying a revoir. And remember, whoever you are,
whatever you do, wherever you may be, when you think
of refreshment, think of coca cola or ice cold. Coca

(02:38:51):
Cola makes any pause, the pause that refreshes.

Speaker 4 (02:39:23):
Far too sweet for their own good. Seventy eight years ago,
November seven to nineteen forty seven, Claudia on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyattox. Join us tomorrow for the shows from
sixty six years ago. November eighth, nineteen fifty seven. Suspense,
Have Gun, will travel Gun, Smoke your Suley, Johnny Dollar.

(02:39:47):
That's all coming up on tomorrow's program here of Classic
Radio Theater. Have yourself a great sat Friday. We'll see
you Saturday. For more classic radio theater, I'm Wyattcox.

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