Classic Radio 11-08-25 - Shows from 66 years ago - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Now the greatest radio shows of all time, Suspense, Shadow,
Node Washington, calling David Honey, count.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
As my classic radios Theater.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
The Great Yonderslide, Zipa McGhee and Molly Dragones Guns Alone,
Rang Zoe.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Now step back into a time machine. It's your host,
Wyatt Cox.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Good evening friend, Vionna Tanco.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
We head back sixty six years this hour for the
shows from Sunday November eighth, nineteen fifty nine episodes of Suspense,
Have Gun, Will Travel, Gun Smoke, and Yours Truly Johnny
Dollar and be tapping all off with the nineteen forty
three edition of Lomon Abner. That's straight ahead. On this Saturday,

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the eighth day of November, three hundred and twelve day
of the year, fifty three days left in twenty twenty five,
turning two election news on this date Presidential election news.
Abraham Lincoln re elected in eighteen sixty four an overwhelming
victory over George McClelland in eighteen ninety two, Grover Cleveland

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elected over Benjamin Harrison and James B. Weaver to win
the second of his non consecutive terms. Only two presidents
ever elected to two non consecutive terms Grover Cleveland and
Donald Trump. It was on this date. In nineteen thirty two,
President of Franklin, Delano Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover in

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a landslide upset victory and look, my.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
Friends were like a real landslide best time.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
In nineteen sixty, John Kennedy elected ober Richard Nixon, becoming
the youngest man ever elected to the office of president.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
All citizens of this country, Democrats, Independents, Republicans, regardless of
how they may have voted, that it is a satisfying
moment to me, and I want to express my appreciation
to all of them and to mister Nixon personally. The
next four years are going to be difficult and challenging
years for us.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
All.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
The election may have been a close one, but I
think that there is general agreement by all of our
citizens that a supreme national effort will be needed in
the years ahead to move this country safely through the
nineteen sixties. So now my wife and I prepare for
a new administration and for a new baby.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
In nineteen eighty eight, George Herbert Walker Bush elected over
Michael Decacca's Mister Bush, promising a slogan of his campaign
would become a goal of his presidency.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
When I said I want a kinder, gentler nation, I
meant it, and I mean it.

Speaker 3 (02:56):
And in twenty sixteen, Donald Trump elected as as the
forty fifth president of the US, defeating Hillary Clinton, the
first woman ever to receive a major party's nomination.

Speaker 6 (03:08):
I promise you that I will not let you down.

Speaker 7 (03:10):
We will do a great job.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Who will do a great.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Chob Moving from presidential races that took place on this date,
in eighteen eighty nine, Montana admitted is the forty first
state of the Union. The Bronx Zoo opened on this
date in eighteen ninety nine. In nineteen thirty three, President
Roosevelt unbailed the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to

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create jobs for more than four million of the unemployed.
The soap opera Days of Our Lives debut on NBC
on this date in nineteen sixty five.

Speaker 8 (03:53):
Like SAMs through the Power Lives, so are the Days
of Our Lives. Days of Our Lives a new dramatic
serial starring McDonald Carroll.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
For almost three decades, MacDonald carried the central cast member
of the show. He passed away of lung cancer in
nineteen ninety four, and for years thereafter, Kerrey's voice opened
the program with those words like sands through the hourglass,
these are the days of our lives. In nineteen sixty
sixth former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first

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African American elected to the US Senate. In nineteen sixty six,
President Johnson signed into law an anti trust exemption allowing
the National Football League to merge with the upstart American
Football League. In nineteen seventy one, to fourth album of
the British rock group led Zeppelin released Bled Zeppelin four,

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including one of the group's most well known songs, Stairway
to Heaven. The right ear of John Paul Getti IID
delivered to a newspaper on this date in nineteen seventy three,
together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay
two point nine million dollars in ransom. ABC premiered a

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late night news show on this date. In nineteen seventy nine,
America held Hostage, updating the audience on the latest on
the Americans held hostage in Iran. The show evolved into Nightline.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
Wouldn't It Be Wonderful?

Speaker 7 (05:41):
If someone could explain all those complicated Wall Street terms
that the experts are always tossing around, so we could
all understand here.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
So if you can't tell a put from a call,
or if you're having trouble with your liquidity, join us
Tonight One Nightline.

Speaker 9 (05:56):
We'll have some other experts too.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Now, World News Tonight anchor Frank Reynolds originally host of
the show, but Ted Copple, who you heard there with
a Certain Frog, took over hosting duties. Copple would host
the show until November of two thousand and five, after
twenty five years of anchor of the show and forty
two years with the network. In nineteen ninety one, Marion

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Barry re elected mayor of Washington, d C. And in
nineteen ninety four, for the first time in forty years,
the Republican Party took control of both the House and
the Senate in midterm congressional elections. In nineteen ninety nine,
Bruce Miller killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife,

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Sherry Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassidy to
kill him before later killing himself, was convicted of the
crime in what became the world's first internet murder. More
than ten thousand US troops and a small number of
Iraqi Army units participated in a siege on the insurgent

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stronghold of Fallujah on this date in two thousand and four.
In twenty ten, an engine buyer left over four thousand
passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor cruise ship stranded at sea
for three days without electricity. Cruise director John Healed tried
to calm the passengers before power went out.

Speaker 10 (07:23):
This morning a moment, and.

Speaker 11 (07:25):
We're going to may shield.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
The winger and care that run.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
Now, it was a long cruise with no power. It
was on this date. In twenty thirteen, Typhoon high End,
one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, struck the
Besaias region of the Philippines. The storm left at least
six thousand, three hundred and forty people dead, with over

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one thousand missing. This person survived.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
My mother and my younger sister were holding on to
a refrigerator floating around in mock for forty five minutes.
They put the young children inside the refrigerator.

Speaker 3 (08:04):
The storm surge from high End killed a ton of people.
Now while The total who died remains unknown. It's still
believed to be over ten thousand. High End caused two
point eight six billion dollars in damage, and in twenty
thirteen dollars three point nine billion. Today, what would become

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California's deadliest wildfire destroyed the community of Paradise in northern
California on this date in twenty eighteen. Thousands drove through
roads with flames all around trying to get out.

Speaker 12 (08:39):
Everything was ignited.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
By the time I got out of my house, it
was like everything was on fire.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Among most passing away on this date in history include
Doc Holliday, the dentist and poker player and wild West figure, journalist,
TV personality and What's My Line panelist Dorothy Kilgallon, actor,
politician Wendell Corey, singer songwriter Ivory Joe Hunter, painter illustrator

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Norman Rockwell. Family Circus creator Bill Keene. The Family Circus
carries on with Bill Keene's son as artists, and it
was five years ago today we lost Alex Trebeck. Birthdays
on this date include lithographer and probably better known as
game manufacturer, Milton Bradley. Yes, there was a real Milton Bradley.

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Actress Esther Roll, best known for her role in Good
Times Heart surgeon Christian Barnard. Actor Joe Flynn remembered best
for his role in Michale's Navy, Singer Patty Page, How
Much is That Doggy in the Window? Darla Hood of
the Our Gang comedies. Also Canadian journalist Morley Safer, best

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remember for his time with Sixty Minutes, and singer Minnie Rippertson.
Loving you is easy because You're beautiful. Although folks born
on this date and history, they have all left the building.

Speaker 11 (10:08):
Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy. It is now time for
the birthday announcements.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
The following people are now officially older than dirt.

Speaker 3 (10:16):
Birthdays of those still with us include the wonderful singer
Bonnie Rait seventy six years old today from Hill Street
Blues and St. Elsewhere. The delightful Alfrey Woodard is seventy three.
Singer Ricky Lee Jones her big hit Chuckies in Love,
seventy one years old today. Teen Idle Leaf Garrett is

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sixty four today. Chef Gordon Ramsey is fifty nine.

Speaker 13 (10:42):
Right cooking the scallops, make sure that pan is piping hot.

Speaker 8 (10:45):
Yeah, quells X, take the knife gently, break, use the tip.

Speaker 3 (10:49):
And then we go for once he's not yelling at anybody.
Gordon Ramsey fifty nine today from melrose Place, and Ali McNeill,
Courtney Thorne Smith fifty eight from Mayor Briage boot Camp
and Shark Nato, Tara Reid is fifty and Ozzie's son
Jack Osborne is forty today. Those just a few of

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the people celebrating the eighth day of November as their birthday.
And if this is your birthday, hi.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
We're the four Freshmen and we just want to say happy.

Speaker 14 (11:21):
Birthday to.

Speaker 15 (11:25):
Now.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
Our four main shows today will all come from CBS,
all from the afternoon of Sunday, November eighth, nineteen fifty nine.
We'll start off with an episode of Suspense starring Ralph
Bell that opens up in a moment after I tell
you about some of the things that can give you grief,
and one of the biggest is your gut. And I

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don't care if you're skinny or if you're fat like
I am. One of the things that you have to
remember is that you'll get those gut issues ever so often.
It's a problem. I know that, but if you're somebody
who Particularly when you get up to a certain age,
or you're dealing with other health issues diabetes, cancer, any

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Speaker 1 (13:46):
Not all careless drivers have accidents, but many such careless
drivers cause accidents. A woman driver who drives slowly down
main street while doing a little window shopping is a menace.
So there is the man who insists on telling the
people in the backseat of his car about his poker
game last week. It's no wonder that ordinarily cautious drivers
start to lose their tempers and take dangerous chances to

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pass these careless drivers. When an accident results, the person
who caused the accident probably won't even be touched. So
the National Safety Council says, if you want a window shop,
get out and walk. If you are too busy describing
one of your sterling feats to pay any attention to traffic,
get out and walk. The driver's license you have does
not give you the right to endanger the lives of

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your passeng fitters are other human beings. Driving can be dangerous,
you keep your mind on what you're doing, or walk.

Speaker 3 (14:34):
We continue now with classic radio theater. Ralph Bell Eugene
Francis star in this episode of suspense as it was
originally broadcast on Sunday, November eighth, nineteen fifty nine, and
it was broadcast early on wasn't it that was? I
believe a four to thirty Easter No. Five thirty Eastern

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Time on CBS. And this episode, as I said, starring
Ralph Belle Eugene Francis, and it's entitled The Last Trip.

Speaker 16 (15:10):
Another tale well calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 17 (15:16):
Suspense.

Speaker 1 (15:19):
When our found the husband leaves on an overseas business trip,
his loving wife is apt to slip a remembrance gift
into a suitcase, as our heroin Myra does in a
story by Ralph Bell and Eugene Francis called The Last Trip.

Speaker 18 (15:48):
Here Ted over here.

Speaker 6 (15:50):
I'm Myra. Sorry, I'm late, baby.

Speaker 18 (15:55):
Going out of my mind waiting in this horrid cafeteria.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Easy, easy, babe. Took me a little longer than I
figured to rig up my little surprise package.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
Then I got stuck in a cab traffic is murdered.

Speaker 18 (16:06):
Yeah, that's another thing. What makes you think they're gonna
let planes take off in this weather.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Relax, will you? I called the airport just before I
left my apartment. All overseas flights leaving a schedule. It's
only a little missed. Here here's the package. Let it
get moving before Harry gets home.

Speaker 18 (16:21):
He's home already.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
What you sure?

Speaker 18 (16:24):
I just phoned He got him five minutes ago and
started to pack. Now, how am I supposed to get
this into his suitcase without his noticing?

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Huh? I don't have to tell you how. He's your husband.
You've never had trouble handling him up to now. Distract
him somehow, Then slip the package into the suitcase, close
it and see that it stays closed till he leaves
with it. That's all there is to it.

Speaker 18 (16:45):
It's not gonna be that sense.

Speaker 19 (16:47):
Sure, sure it is. You can do it, Mara. Look
you still.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Want to go on living with him, I'll tell you
right now. I'll just have to fade out of the picture.
I mean, you stop seeing me. I'd leave town. That's
all all right? Good to me, good girl. Now, Look,
you don't have to be nervous about handling it. It
won't go off till it's time.

Speaker 18 (17:12):
Hey, are you sure it'll work?

Speaker 6 (17:13):
It'll work, my I guarantee it.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
At five pm when it explodes, his plane will be
well over the ocean. Now you better get going. Phone
me at my apartment after he leaves, and good luck.
Sweethart is let youmorrow?

Speaker 18 (17:38):
Yes, Harry, had you packed it?

Speaker 20 (17:40):
Dear?

Speaker 6 (17:40):
Almost?

Speaker 1 (17:41):
Dear, I'll do the rest out Ry finished shaving.

Speaker 18 (17:44):
Oh, I'll do it, Harry. I'd have done it before,
but I was delayed shopping.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
Ah, what'd you buy? Handling?

Speaker 6 (17:51):
Interesting?

Speaker 18 (17:52):
For nothing?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Really?

Speaker 6 (17:53):
What's in that package?

Speaker 15 (17:54):
Huh?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
The package you're holding?

Speaker 18 (17:57):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (17:58):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (17:58):
This just just some Oh?

Speaker 1 (18:00):
Really? How they look? You know?

Speaker 6 (18:03):
You have such pretty feet downing?

Speaker 17 (18:05):
Put them on?

Speaker 18 (18:05):
Let me see a right, there's no time, no way.
Is the suitcase?

Speaker 1 (18:09):
It's on the bed there.

Speaker 18 (18:12):
What do you want me to put in?

Speaker 8 (18:14):
What?

Speaker 1 (18:15):
Speaking up there? I can't hear what this thing on?

Speaker 18 (18:18):
I said? What do you want me to put in?

Speaker 8 (18:20):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (18:21):
Just some handkerchiefs and socks. I've typed everything.

Speaker 18 (18:23):
Else, all right, dear?

Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (18:29):
What color tots?

Speaker 18 (18:30):
Dear?

Speaker 1 (18:31):
I'm wearing the gray suit?

Speaker 17 (18:33):
What the blue?

Speaker 1 (18:34):
They all rides?

Speaker 18 (18:35):
I think?

Speaker 1 (18:35):
So?

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Dear? Spot what there?

Speaker 18 (18:40):
How many pairs? Well?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Just enough for three days there. I don't forget the handkerchiefs.

Speaker 18 (18:46):
Now, I'll put them right under your shirts and your
surprise package and everything else.

Speaker 9 (18:51):
You'll go what there?

Speaker 18 (18:54):
I said, The handkerchiefs are under your shirts, Darling?

Speaker 1 (18:58):
If back there, oh golly will, I'd be glad when
this trip is over. Oh, I don't bother with this suitcase?
There close? All right? You know, I often think what

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my life was like before I met you. Years spent
just grubbing for money, and who was there to spend
it on?

Speaker 2 (19:28):
Here?

Speaker 1 (19:28):
I was over fifteen, I hadn't really lived meaningless existence.
And then two years ago Providence was merciful. You came
into my life. You gave me back my use my rah,
you know that? Say what what's in here? Did I
petro much?

Speaker 18 (19:48):
No? No, no, let's put our weight on it together.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
When I could take some things?

Speaker 18 (19:52):
Now, come on together? Ready, I pushed down.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
And that'll never close. There's too much in here. I
guess I'll have to take some things out.

Speaker 18 (20:05):
Oh, Harry, I won't.

Speaker 6 (20:06):
Take a minute. My right, your package? What's doing in
my suitcase?

Speaker 18 (20:14):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (20:15):
Oh?

Speaker 18 (20:15):
The package? Will, Harry Darling? If it was to be
a surprise, a surprise yes, for your birthday.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
My birth but but my right, it's.

Speaker 18 (20:24):
A gift for you. I didn't want you to see
it until you're unpacked. Now you've spoiled it.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
Oh, I'm sorry, darling. I didn't mean so well.

Speaker 18 (20:32):
You put it right back and don't open it till
you arrive. Then it'll it'll still be a surprise. Promise.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
Oh, I promise it. You're so sweet, so thoughtful, panky donning.

Speaker 18 (20:41):
Now hurry, you haven't much time.

Speaker 1 (20:43):
And I suppose I take out these slippers of mine.
I want to make room for the package. Now it'll
close it see, and I better lock it so cutty
thievery going on lately. They can't be too careful, so
I'll say see me as the door, of course.

Speaker 18 (20:58):
Now hurry, darling, you'll be late.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
All right, okay, as soon as I man. Yeah, and
give me a kiss.

Speaker 18 (21:04):
And goodbye Donnie, and take care of yourself.

Speaker 1 (21:07):
Oh, don't worry about me. I'll be fine.

Speaker 21 (21:09):
Goodbye man.

Speaker 22 (21:24):
Yes, yes, yes he's gone. He managed it, but he
know he drove me right out of my mind. What
do you mean take it easy? You don't know what
I've been through? Yes, who is it?

Speaker 6 (21:44):
May open up?

Speaker 11 (21:47):
Dad?

Speaker 18 (21:48):
What are you doing? I told you to stay way
till it's all over. It's too whiskey.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
You sounded almost hysterical. Baby, thought I'd better come over
and stay with you till you calm down.

Speaker 18 (21:57):
He an calmed down.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
Well, I'll stick around anyway. We get the news about
the plane. As soon as we hear you're a widow,
I'll take off.

Speaker 18 (22:03):
I suppose somebody decides to drop in, so I'll use
the fire.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Escape in the bedroom like I've done before. How about
a drink?

Speaker 18 (22:10):
I've had one?

Speaker 1 (22:11):
Oh, I have another?

Speaker 6 (22:12):
Sell your nerves.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
When we know, will you stop fretting? The explosion will
happen at five on the nose. Radio'll probably flash the
news later this evening. Then what, oh, Myra, We've been
over this a dozen times. We sit tight to the
airline calls. Then you go into your act but shocked
and bereft widow. Yeah, only you'll have to be convincing.

Speaker 18 (22:34):
That won't be easy. It'll be such a relief to
know I'm finally rid of him. One thing worries me.

Speaker 9 (22:41):
Though, there's your drink.

Speaker 1 (22:43):
What worries you?

Speaker 18 (22:45):
Suppose the plane's only damaged and it manages to turn
back and land.

Speaker 1 (22:49):
Huh, not a chance. There's enough blast in that little
package to knock over our house. You can imagine what
it'll do to a plane ten thousand feet up. Come on,
got my rah? Wait wait, wait to toast to Harry, our.

Speaker 6 (23:04):
Benefactor to his last trip. Let's turn on the radio.

Speaker 9 (23:11):
Huh.

Speaker 18 (23:16):
You know I can't help feeling a little sorry for
those other playing passengers.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Well, that's very humanitarian of you, myrah.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
But like I've always said, some must die.

Speaker 6 (23:27):
So that others may live in Clover.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
That's a basic factor line.

Speaker 18 (23:32):
You're very necessary to me, kid, I.

Speaker 19 (23:35):
Mean emotionally, really why.

Speaker 18 (23:39):
You're such an unadulterated heel. You make me feel almost respectable.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
And you're such a charming hypocritical you make me feel
like an honest man.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Almost.

Speaker 19 (23:53):
Oh, we're a dandy team.

Speaker 23 (24:06):
And now the late afternoon news. The weather is making
headlines again today. The slight haze that's hung over the
city for the past two days thickened late this afternoon
and developed into a.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
Heavy smart hey, turn that up.

Speaker 23 (24:19):
The smog has been caused by a heavy, congested, smoke
filled atmosphere that is imprisoned over the city by damp
immobile air Meanwhile, all flights have been canceled at city
airports and motor traffic is moving at a snail's pace.
Motorists are warned to drive with extreme caution. President Eisenhower

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held a press conference today.

Speaker 6 (24:43):
Dead yeah, you spook, go on say it, and he's flighted.

Speaker 18 (24:52):
It's been kindled.

Speaker 16 (25:04):
In just a moment, we will return for the second
act of suspense.

Speaker 24 (25:13):
This is Gemomichi. Are you from Arizona. In fifteen thirty nine,
Marcos Denisa, a Franciscan friar, wandered through what is now
the state of Arizona looking for the fabled Seven Cities
of Seabalon. The friar never found the seven cities. They
and their treasure did not exist, but the land Denisa

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explored is richer today than the Seven Cities could ever
have been. Arizona is important as a mining, manufacturing, and
agricultural state. Its natural beauty is unsurpassed in any part
of the world. Arizona is the state of the Grand Canyon,
the Petrified Forest, and the Painted Desert. The city of

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Tucson is one of the major health resorts in the
United States. Rapidly growing city of Phoenix is an important
shipper of cotton and vegetables. The Hopi, Navajo and the
Patchee tribes give Arizona the largest Indian population in the
United States. Arizona, the forty eighth state to join the Union,

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has contributed much to the heritage of America. In the
years ahead, Arizona will add much to America's future.

Speaker 1 (26:30):
Look at that, Hayes with you.

Speaker 19 (26:31):
It didn't seem so bad when I was on my
way over here.

Speaker 18 (26:34):
If this plane didn't take off, ware, do you suppose
Harry is now?

Speaker 6 (26:38):
I don't care where Harry is. Where's a suitcase?

Speaker 1 (26:41):
If it explodes while he's carrying it around, we're really
in a soup.

Speaker 6 (26:44):
There'll be an investigation. It'll lead right back here.

Speaker 18 (26:46):
What do we do?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Wait?

Speaker 6 (26:47):
Wait a minute, let me think.

Speaker 18 (26:48):
This is a fine time to think, genius.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
Why didn't you think before now?

Speaker 7 (26:52):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
The weather reports had slight, Hayes.

Speaker 6 (26:54):
The airline said they were operating.

Speaker 1 (26:55):
A regular schedule.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Nobody could figure they'd be small.

Speaker 18 (26:58):
Nobody could figure. It's hard enough to figure everything else.
Why can't you figure this fight out?

Speaker 25 (27:03):
Right?

Speaker 20 (27:03):
All right?

Speaker 4 (27:03):
I didn't.

Speaker 6 (27:04):
Now we're just shut up for a minute.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Wait, wait, wait, maybe we're jumping to conclusions. We're not
sure his plane was grounded?

Speaker 18 (27:14):
So how do we find out?

Speaker 26 (27:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Nah, come on an sir, Hello, can you tell me
if flight three seven seven took off on schedule? Galveld on? Hello,
Oh thank you. You see we panicked over and nothing.

(27:41):
Plane took off ten minutes late.

Speaker 9 (27:43):
But it took off.

Speaker 18 (27:46):
Oh what a relief. I'm sorry to that's.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
All right baby. For a moment there, it felt like the.

Speaker 19 (27:53):
Whole world was falling in on us. Say I could
use another drink?

Speaker 15 (27:57):
You?

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (27:58):
Hey, who can that be?

Speaker 18 (28:00):
I don't know where you go in the bedroom.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
I'll wait out on the fire. Escate till you get
rid of whoever it is?

Speaker 18 (28:05):
Close coming? Who is it?

Speaker 1 (28:11):
It's made here? Hurry, open up there, Harry.

Speaker 18 (28:19):
What happened? Why aren't you on that plane?

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Mara?

Speaker 6 (28:21):
You won't believe it. Wait until you're here, close it, Dodar.

Speaker 18 (28:24):
Hurry if heaven sakes, what happened?

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Well, my cab got stuck in an awful traffic jam,
and the fog, the smog or whatever it is, kept
getting heavier every minute. Traffic was just crawling. And finally
it occurred to me that even if the cab got
me to the airport on time. All flights should probably
be canceled.

Speaker 18 (28:41):
So the plane took off.

Speaker 9 (28:43):
Oh did well?

Speaker 1 (28:45):
How do you know what I called the airport? Now?

Speaker 6 (28:49):
How do you like that? I probably could have made
it after all?

Speaker 18 (28:52):
Where you've been all this time?

Speaker 1 (28:53):
I went back to the office, sent a cable that
i'd be a day mate.

Speaker 18 (28:56):
You left your suitcase in the office? What your suitcase?
Did you leave it in your office?

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Well?

Speaker 6 (29:00):
No, of course not.

Speaker 18 (29:01):
Well where is it?

Speaker 1 (29:03):
Why hasn't that foolish man I left it outside the dark?
I better bring it in here we are. I'll just
leave it in the corner here. There's no point in unpacking.
I'll be going first thing tomorrow.

Speaker 18 (29:18):
What time is it?

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Let me see?

Speaker 1 (29:21):
Yuh it's quarter five more or less. My watch may
be a little slow.

Speaker 18 (29:25):
Oh look, Harry, let's go out to dinner tonight.

Speaker 6 (29:28):
Huh, Well, it's not very pleasant outside.

Speaker 18 (29:31):
Why I don't care. I just don't feel like cooking
in tonight. Let's let's see it early right now and
go to a movie or something.

Speaker 6 (29:36):
Huh wow, if you really want, Yeah.

Speaker 18 (29:39):
I'll go fix my face. Why don't you mix a
drink for us.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
While I get ready.

Speaker 18 (29:43):
All right, there's soda in the kitchen. I'll be ready
in a minute. Mara, what put that shot? Why I'm
taking the bedroom? It clads at the room here in sank.

Speaker 1 (29:53):
You'll strain yourself. That's too heavy, boy.

Speaker 18 (29:56):
I can manage that. Don't fuss, Harry.

Speaker 25 (29:59):
Make it well?

Speaker 7 (30:01):
All right?

Speaker 25 (30:02):
But if you strain.

Speaker 18 (30:03):
Yourself, it's all right. Harry's in the kitchen. Get in here.
I've got the suitcase.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Okay, what do you want me to do?

Speaker 18 (30:20):
What do I want you to do? Take the bomb
out and get it out of here? Okay, okay, Harry,
you've got less than fifteen minutes before it goes off.

Speaker 6 (30:26):
I know I.

Speaker 1 (30:28):
Oh great, what's a minute?

Speaker 6 (30:30):
That's locked?

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Was the key?

Speaker 18 (30:31):
Harry's got it?

Speaker 1 (30:32):
I have to break the lock down?

Speaker 18 (30:33):
How I explain that?

Speaker 1 (30:35):
No?

Speaker 18 (30:35):
Wait, I've got a better idea. What take the suitcase?
Get rid of it in the river. It's only a
block away. You'll have time.

Speaker 9 (30:42):
Yeah, but how can I take it down?

Speaker 18 (30:44):
All right?

Speaker 1 (30:45):
All right?

Speaker 27 (30:45):
All right?

Speaker 28 (30:46):
Hit me?

Speaker 29 (30:47):
What?

Speaker 1 (30:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (30:48):
Hit me in the face, then take the suitcase. I'll
wait till you get down the fire escape. Then I'll
call for help. I'll tell Harry that was a thief
that he that he knocked me unconscious before I could scream.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
Yeah, but dirc do what I say?

Speaker 9 (31:01):
Okay, ready, yeah.

Speaker 18 (31:05):
Hard now, hard enough to leave a mark. It's got
to be convincing.

Speaker 9 (31:10):
Come on all right, okay, Mara, I'll be in.

Speaker 16 (31:18):
Touch in just a moment. We will return for the
concluding act of.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Suspense.

Speaker 30 (31:34):
Did you know that an American citizen was once arrested
for trying to vote In eighteen seventy two, forty seven
years before the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, Susan B.
Anthony was one of the leaders of women's rights in America.
It was in that year that she entered a New
York polling place and insisted that, as an American citizen,
she'd be allowed to vote, but she was arrested, taken

(31:57):
to court, and fined one hundred dollars and the car
to prosecution. Susan Anthony refused to pay either, and insisted
that she would continue to fight against unjust and unconstitutional laws, which,
as she put it, tax fine, imprison and hanging women
while denying them the right to representation in the government.
Because of public sentiment in her favor, she never did

(32:19):
pay her fine. Through her fight for the privilege to vote,
Susan Anthony added an important page to your political history.

Speaker 18 (32:34):
Help Harry, he where is your fool?

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Harry morol? Oh, Harry, let me help you run?

Speaker 6 (32:49):
Look at your face?

Speaker 18 (32:50):
What a man. He must have come in from the
virus KP. He struck me before I could scream good law.
I saw him take his suitcase. How I passed out?

Speaker 6 (32:59):
I better call please?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
Are you all right? Shall I call a doctor?

Speaker 18 (33:02):
No, No, it's just a bruise.

Speaker 1 (33:03):
You better lie down. I'll be right back. Hello, operator,
I want to report a robbery. Hurry please, now, Myra, Myra,
you should lie down.

Speaker 18 (33:15):
I'm all right, I tell you.

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Oh no, who can that be?

Speaker 28 (33:19):
I get?

Speaker 18 (33:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (33:24):
What is it? Harry Jason's residents? Yes, Detective Sergeant Duran,
twenty eighth precincts Oh, I was just calling you, fellas. Yeah,
what about Well, a man just broke into our apartment
from the fire escape. He struck my wife and got
away with a suitcase. And you better come in, officer,
just a minute. Is this your suitcase, mister Jason? Oh? No, oh,

(33:49):
yes it is Myra. Oh, it's definitely my suitcase.

Speaker 25 (33:52):
Sergeant.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
You see they are my initials.

Speaker 1 (33:54):
HJ Hey, Keane, bring him in here, close the door.
This the man who assaulted your lady.

Speaker 18 (34:06):
I can't be sure. I didn't get a good look.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Can you identify mister Jason or no, Sergeant, I didn't
see him at all.

Speaker 6 (34:13):
I was in the kitchen when it happened. What makes
you think he's the one?

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Somebody from across the way called a report there was
a man liking on your fire escape. We got here
just as he was coming down carrying your suitcase. He
started to run and we called her, please, what time
is it? Time?

Speaker 25 (34:29):
Thought?

Speaker 1 (34:29):
It's about five, I mean exactly exactly, I got four
minutes to five.

Speaker 18 (34:36):
Why, oh, no reason. I I'm just confused the shock.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
Oh sure, sure, I understand. Now a few folks will
come down to the station and file chargers. Sure I
might as well get old with him.

Speaker 18 (34:49):
Well, well, why don't you all go ahead. I'll join
you as soon as I make myself more presentable.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
It's all right, man, we'll wait for you in no hurry.

Speaker 18 (34:57):
But I don't feel out my faith.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Yeah, it sure looks a mess, meaning no offense, man,
Maybe you better bring it down later, mister Jason. Okay,
you pick up the suitcase. No, what do you mean
though you wanted it so bad you lugged it down
the fire escape. Now you can lug it down to
the station. Pick it up. Go on, wait, listen to me.
There's a time bomb in there. It's set to go

(35:23):
up in less than four minutes. If we don't get
away from here, we'll all be building pieces. What are
you a comedian? Pick up that suit it's the truth.
I'd tell you. You gotta believe me. How do you know
there's a bomb in there? His wife put a thing.

Speaker 18 (35:34):
He's crazy. Officer. I don't even know this man.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
We were in it together. It was supposed to blow
up on the plane.

Speaker 6 (35:40):
I'll open that suitcase. I'll refuse the bomb before it's
too late.

Speaker 1 (35:43):
With your hurry, I don't understand you mean there's actually
a Relax, mister Jason. You know there's no bomb in there.
He's pulling some kind of store. I'm not, I swear it. Oh,
now go along with a gag. We'll just sit here
for five minutes and see if the bomb goes off.
I can't stand as a two bit crooked. That's a
wise guy.

Speaker 18 (36:05):
He's telling the truth. Harry, open it given the key,
Harry quick.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Where's the key is the Jason, the key of the
suit case?

Speaker 4 (36:12):
Of you got it?

Speaker 6 (36:13):
Oh? Where'd you put it?

Speaker 25 (36:22):
My shapes.

Speaker 24 (36:27):
There?

Speaker 1 (36:29):
If you're referring to my birthday present, Myra, Dear, you're
quite right. It's not in my suitcase, you see, Myra,
my dear, I was so touched this afternoon when, for
the first time in our whole married life, you remembered
I had a birthday. In fact, it was the first
birthday gift you'd ever given me, so on my way

(36:52):
to the airport, I couldn't resist seeing what it was.
Imagine my surprise when I recognized its somewhat lethal nature.

Speaker 18 (37:00):
It wasn't my idea, Harry Honesty.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
At first I was somewhat stunned, and then all your
little maneuvers, your adroit little eyes in the past, began
to fall into place. I took your gift to Sergeant
Iran here, and then we drove over and waited outside
the house until we saw your friend arrive.

Speaker 6 (37:18):
We evolved a little stratagem to get a confession from
you both, and now that we have it, Sergeant, I
think you'd better get him out of here.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
Sure, mister Jason, Okay, let's go in here too.

Speaker 6 (37:31):
Oh er, myrah. One thing more.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
My birthday actually occurred last month. It's a pity you
never remember the date, or rather how lucky suspense you've

(38:04):
been listening to The Last Trip written for suspense by
Ralph Bell and Eugene Francis. Heard in Tonight fri were
Ralph Bell, Connie Lemke, Eugene Francis and Bob Dryden. Suspense
is produced and directed by Paul Roberts. Listen again next
week when we return with The Companion, A story of

(38:24):
Jealousy and Jewels written by Walter Black, another tale well
calculated to keep you in.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Suspense, and an Armed Forces recording of that suspense broadcast.
And I find a number one couple things interesting. It's

(38:55):
believed it may have this may have been based on
a nineteen forty nine Canadian incident where a plane crash
in nineteen forty nine exploded en route to a community
in Quebec, and that's the only way they could figure

(39:18):
out that it happened, so it could be based on that. Second,
isn't it interesting that the two male leads, Ralph Bell
and Eugene Francis not only starred in this episode of Suspense.
They also wrote the episode of Suspense, and of course
Connie Lemke doing a good job there as well. On

(39:39):
the program Suspense as it was broadcast at five point
thirty Eastern Time on this date, Sunday, November eighth, nineteen
fifty nine. Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Coox,
we'll take a quick look at some of the headlines
of this date in a moment.

Speaker 14 (40:04):
How many people are there in a crowd of ten million?
Do you have any picture in your mind or is
that figure too overwhelming? Well, ten million is more people
than there are in Chicago, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles combined.
And that's how many men, women and children in our
country are suffering from some form of mental illness. Yes,
ten million. Among that ten million, maybe there's someone you know,

(40:26):
a neighbor, friend, or a relative. So you see, mental
illness is a problem that concerns us all, and that's
why we are all being asked to give to our
local mental health campaign to fight mental illness. The best
weapon is research. Research to find out how to prevent
mental illness. Your doctors can be helped by your dollars.
They can learn enough to really lick this number one problem,

(40:47):
mental illness. The victims of mental illness need your help desperately.
Give to your local mental health campaign.

Speaker 3 (40:54):
Now, before we get back to a western adventure, let's
take a look at some of the headline from this date. Sunday,
November eighth, nineteen fifty nine, sixty six years ago today.
An Air Force satellite put into polar orbit yesterday. Last night,
the Air Force announced that the Discoverer seventh satellite, launched

(41:17):
at three twenty eight pm, attained in orbit. The satellite
from which the Air Force hopes to recover a capsule
picked up by tracking stations in Alaska at four point
fifty seven PM as it neared the completion of its
first circuit of the Earth. A fleet of search planes
scanned Florida's vast Everglade yesterday on the chance of swamps

(41:40):
may hold the secret to the disappearance of Cuban Army
commander Camillo Counfuegos. The Cuban government, presumably at the urging
of Fidel Castro, requested the new search after a ship's
captain reportedly he saw Siam Fuegos' airplane heading towards South
Florida ten days ago. The automotive industry probably will have

(42:04):
to lay off at least another fifty five thousand workers
for its production lines can get enough steel to begin
to return to normal. Currently, there are two hundred six
thousand employees of General Motors and Chrysler who have been
laid off because of steel shortages, and another sixty eight
hundred GM workers are scheduled to be laid out next week.

(42:25):
That despite the return to work in the steel mills
by a vote of eight to one, the Supreme Court
yesterday upheld the back to work injunction in the one
hundred and sixteen day old steel strike. As a result,
the five hundred thousand steel workers who quit work on
July fifteenth must return to work for eighty days under

(42:45):
emergency provisions of the tapped Hartley Act. David J. MacDonald,
president of the steel Workers' Union, said the Supreme Court
has spoken. As law abiding citizens, the steel Workers Union
will comply with the Court's judgment. Prince Ranier and Princess

(43:06):
Grace of Monaco, the former Grace Kelly, had a private
audience with Pope John the twenty third, at the conclusion
of a four day state visit to Italy. Attorney General
William P. Rogers said yesterday the Justice Department would have
a report on its investigation into the quiz show scandals

(43:27):
ready for President Eisenhower before January first, the Rogers saying,
our study will deal not only with TV problems, but
the general problem with accepted practices in TV and what
can be done about it. He said he expected to
confer with the Federal Trade Commission, which police his fraudulent

(43:47):
practices in the Federal Communications Commission, which has charge of
licensing programs. A financially hard pressed Democratic National Committee yesterday
began putting the heat on state organizations that are behind
in their campaign contribution quotas. National chairman Paul M. Butler

(44:08):
called the role on the slow payers, including thirty states
and territories he said have not paid a cent toward
their nineteen fifty nine quotas. He said the delinquents will
be penalized in seating and housing at the nineteen sixty
National Convention in Los Angeles if they don't pay up.
Employment in the eight Southeastern States increased by eighty five

(44:33):
thousand workers in September, according to the Labor Department. Florida
the only state with gains in all major industrial divisions.
Brunswick A. Magdon, the Southern regional director for the Department's
Bureau of Labor Statistics, said non agricultural employment climbed to
six point nine million, a one point two percent increase

(44:57):
in the region. Congressional in investigation of rig television quiz
shows has been widened into a broad probe of the
television and radio industries, according to Alex Radford, as a
House subcommittee probing fixed quiz shows wound up its dramatic hearings,

(45:17):
Congressman Orn Harris, the Democrat at Arkansas, announced his subcommittee
would launch a probe into television commercials which deceived the
publics alleged payoffs by record companies to disc jockeys to
get popular records played on the air known as Paola
Kick Max, and under the table payments by businessmen to

(45:38):
get plugs on nationally televised programs. According to recent testimony,
one department store in Allentown, Pennsylvania, paid thousands of dollars
to public relations firms just for this for the first
time since they reached an all time low point last spring,
the Republican Party's congressional fortunes looked just a little bit brighter,

(46:00):
but according to George Gallup, the GOP still has a
long way to go if they hope to seriously challenge
the president Democrat dominance of the House of Representatives in
the nineteen sixty g congressional races. President Eisenhower's daughter in
law will accompany him on his Good Wilch tour of Europe,

(46:21):
Asia and the Middle East as a substitute for Missus Eisenhower.
Pres Secretary James Hagerty confirmed that Missus Eisenhower is passing
up the nine hour, twenty thousand mile trip in announcing
new details of the itinerary. The Russians celebrating the forty
second birthday of the Bolshevik Revolution yesterday with pageantry in

(46:45):
a western rather in red square, hailing peace, Soviet scientific
prowess and economic growth. Now it's one thing for a
girl under twenty one to dance in a chorus line,
even partially. Dude sitting in a cocktail lounge, that's another matter.
In fact, it's illegal. That's what District Attorney George Foley

(47:08):
said in Las Vegas. Folly said the city's resort hotels
must keep their underage chirines out of the lounges and
in which Kansas. The Sedgwick County Sheriff's office declared a
large bar and off limits to teenagers following reports of
wild haylock parties among high school boys and girls. Deputies

(47:30):
cracked out after a fifteen year old boy wounded by
a twenty two caliber rifle and what was described as
a play war. Twenty six youngsters picked up in a
recent raid on the barn, and another one hundred got away,
though some of the day's top news stories has reported
in the newspapers of Sunday, November eighth, nineteen fifty nine.

(47:53):
On your radio up next, Have gun, will travel.

Speaker 29 (48:02):
Here's a word that millions of people in Europe fear,
a word as destructive and deadly as a weapon.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
It is hunger.

Speaker 29 (48:10):
Many millions knew it during the war and know it still.
One of the best ways we can help is by
sending food parcels through Care. Care sends food and clothing
packages which provide more per dollar than individuals can supply
any other way. For instance, one food package costing ten
dollars contains twenty four and a half pounds of food.

(48:31):
Care guarantees delivery of this food package to any individual
or group in eleven countries in Europe and in Israel
and Japan. So if you want to send a food
package overseas, just mail ten dollars to Care. Give your
name and address and the name and address of the
person the package is going to help care for them
through care. Remember you can send more for less through care.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
One more story from the newspapers of Sending November eight,
nineteen fifty nine. You may remember we talked about Evelyn Rudy,
who starred in an episode of Suspense Dog Star and
I think another episode as well well a dateline Baltimore.
Evelyn Rudy, the child TV actress, flew back to her

(49:17):
Hollywood home, her mission to see Maimie Eisenhower unaccomplished. The
little brown eyed blonde girl touched off a wide search
for a few hours when she stole away from home
early last Wednesday and took a jet flight from Los
Angeles to Baltimore. The youngster appeared to be a bit
more nervous on departure than she was when she arrived.

(49:39):
Evelyn never did get to meet the President's wife in Boston. Instead,
she spent her time at the home of friends of
the girls parents. My goodness, some people were just a
little more grown up than they thought they were. All
right now an episode of Hagunwell Travels starring John Dayner

(50:01):
as Paladin. This broadcast was originally heard at six pm
Eastern Time on Sunday, November eighth, nineteen fifty nine, and
that was sixty six years ago today. The story brother lost.

Speaker 7 (50:29):
You men are mistaken. I'm not an executioner, but you're
still going to pay me that money because I came
a long way.

Speaker 1 (50:37):
To face this ridiculous situation.

Speaker 14 (50:51):
Have done will travel? Starring mister John Dayner as Palatee.
In San Francisco, eighteen seventy five, the Carlton Hotel headquarters
of a man called Paladin, Miss Wong, what are you

(51:23):
giggling about?

Speaker 1 (51:25):
You look so funny?

Speaker 18 (51:26):
Play that game, j Mada.

Speaker 21 (51:29):
Throw him in here, let him fall, pick him up,
throw him in there, let you fall. What is his scar?

Speaker 7 (51:35):
This is not a game, miss Wang. It's serious business.
You see. I've had an urgent wire from a man
named Jules Cleaver. He wants me to come to a
place named Stone's Crossing. Never heard of it.

Speaker 22 (51:48):
Immediately, Oh, why are you fritter away your time?

Speaker 7 (51:53):
Playing games when you have urgent business, Miss Wong, it
wasn't a game. The opera ball is there after tomorrow.
I planned on that, so I said to myself, I'll
toss a coin. Heads, I'll take the job. Tails, I'll
go to the ball. It came up heads, I take
the job. But then I said no, three out of
five heads, four out of seven heads, five out of

(52:16):
nine heads. So it looks like I better take the job.
Miss Wall.

Speaker 18 (52:25):
Play that game some more. It's much fun to watch.

Speaker 26 (52:40):
Talk about best selling records. Here's a familiar tune about
America's best selling filter cigarette, Winston. Do Do Do. Winston

(53:04):
gives you real flavor, full rich tobacco flavor. And you
know that's because only Winston has filter blend, up front choice,
flavorful tobaccos, specially selected and specially processed for filter smoking.

(53:26):
No wonder Winston tastes good like saga red shod.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Smoke. Winston.

Speaker 7 (53:45):
I rode into a section of Nevada territory I'd never
traveled before. The stark, desolate flame. It's lined to the horizon,
broken only by sparse, dry sagebrush. The ground was lava
form hot, and the ash like dust. That rose off.
It burned, my eyes closed my throat. I got about

(54:07):
five miles when my horse stumbled and fell and broke
his leg. I was reminded then that when things seemed bad,
they can always get worse. There was nothing to do
but shoulder my gear, walked back to the last water
hole I had seen, and hoped that help would show up.
Three days passed before I heard the sound I was
waiting for. I think you better go a little easy

(54:38):
on that water there.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
Eh.

Speaker 7 (54:40):
I'll hold it, friend, There's no need to reach for
that gun doesn't look to me as if you could
lift it, let alone aim it straight. You shouldn't sleek
up on a man like that. And you better let
me take a look at that wound. It's no use, mister,
all right, let me just take a look at it.

(55:02):
Huh rifle, lucky shot. They should have had attention.

Speaker 31 (55:09):
I was quite short a time. Bussy been trailing me
for five days. Posse got a Marvin. You didn't take
kindly to my shooting win of their citizens.

Speaker 7 (55:25):
What was the trouble?

Speaker 1 (55:27):
No trouble.

Speaker 31 (55:29):
Somebody paid me five hundred dollars for killing him.

Speaker 7 (55:32):
Hired gun.

Speaker 31 (55:35):
You have a here, myron Curtis.

Speaker 7 (55:39):
Yes, that's me.

Speaker 31 (55:43):
Hey, what are you doing sitting out here by this
water hole? Sides poking into people's business.

Speaker 7 (55:51):
My horse broke his leg out there in the desert.
I had to shoot him. That's right.

Speaker 31 (55:59):
Well, now this workout just dandy.

Speaker 6 (56:05):
I'm gonna make you present.

Speaker 31 (56:06):
I'm a little mayre there.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
I won't be needing her.

Speaker 25 (56:11):
Well.

Speaker 31 (56:11):
No, look you watch your left front hoof. She's missing
a shoe.

Speaker 1 (56:20):
Where you're headed.

Speaker 31 (56:21):
Stone's Crossing, Stone's Crossing. That was gonna be my next step.
Fell a cent for me. Let's see. Uh Hansen, Yeah,
that's it, Mike Hanson. I wonder what he's got up

(56:42):
his sleeve. I guess, I guess I'll never know.

Speaker 7 (56:47):
Now, Curtis. I buried Myron. Curtis then mounted his mare
and started once more for stones Crossing my appointment with
Jules Cleaver. The going was slow. It was almost nightfall

(57:09):
when I decided to make camp and go on to
the town. The next morning. I was gathering firewood when
I heard the two horses that came from the direction
of the setting sun, and I wasn't able to see
until they were right on me that both riders held rifles.
Pointed in my direction.

Speaker 6 (57:25):
Don't make one moves.

Speaker 7 (57:26):
There was the idea.

Speaker 6 (57:28):
Rolly, Yeah, keep your rifle on him. Now, I'll I
get his gun.

Speaker 7 (57:34):
And I'll wait a minute.

Speaker 1 (57:35):
You don't want no talk from you, Curtis, Curtis, just
give me that gun.

Speaker 6 (57:41):
You know I'm like this.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
I just don't give up. Others they turned back, but
not me. I knew i'd find you.

Speaker 7 (57:50):
Would it do any good for me to tell you
that I am not Curtis? Not a lick? Did you
ever see, Curtis?

Speaker 1 (57:55):
No? We joined up when the posse organized back there
in Marvin. All I had to know is that we
was after killer.

Speaker 7 (58:03):
What makes you think that I'm not killer?

Speaker 6 (58:05):
Let me tell you, sith ed Wills.

Speaker 1 (58:08):
Don't bow to nobody, Indian or white when it comes
to tracking a man.

Speaker 6 (58:12):
Tell him Crowley, that's right.

Speaker 32 (58:14):
Ain't nobody better than nid.

Speaker 1 (58:15):
I followed your trail for too many miles out of
marb and not to recognize them tracks. And we crossed
him again. Back there, your barefoot horse. Put the noose
around your neck. Curtis Crowley, get down in, get his
hands tight, hind his back.

Speaker 6 (58:30):
We're gonna take him back to Marvin.

Speaker 29 (58:32):
Ed.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
Yeah, but he'll be slung over that mare on his
belly when he goes.

Speaker 6 (58:37):
We're gonna hang him first.

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Speaker 7 (59:56):
I sat through the night, my handsome feet bound, the
two rifles trained on me. Then just before sun up,
we rode out in search of a tree to serve
as gallows. Unfortunately, after a time we were successful. I
sat on the little mare under a spreading limb, with
the noose tight around my neck, while the men made

(01:00:17):
their preparations. And I hadn't the slightest idea how to
save myself. I only knew I must stall as long
as possible.

Speaker 32 (01:00:26):
Yeah, this is awful close to stones crossing. There's some
people don't take to this, you know. Yeah, there's the
first stand of trees would come to I know, but
there's some people's awful finicky about hanging. Yeah, it won't
take long now, as soon as I.

Speaker 1 (01:00:41):
This fruit over. Yeah, Hannah, I'd like to ask you something.

Speaker 6 (01:00:49):
Are we at times getting short?

Speaker 7 (01:00:52):
Would it bother you to learn later that you would
hang the wrong man?

Speaker 6 (01:00:56):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:00:56):
It would, And that's the truth. As far as I
can see, you ain't the wrong man. Tie off the
end of the rope that Crowley.

Speaker 7 (01:01:03):
I suppose I tell you that Curtis is dead, that
he gave me this horse.

Speaker 1 (01:01:08):
Hell, now, just supposing you did year that, Crowley, lookie, Curtis,
the way I heard it, you're a pretty slick one.

Speaker 6 (01:01:16):
He ought to be able to do better.

Speaker 7 (01:01:17):
Now, yes, I guess i'll have to again. I can
hear a horse headed this way.

Speaker 1 (01:01:25):
Yeah, yeah, looks like we're ready. Stand back, Crowley, Well
I give this may a whack.

Speaker 7 (01:01:30):
Get her going? Wait, yeah, I trust you are a
god fearing man.

Speaker 11 (01:01:35):
I am that.

Speaker 7 (01:01:36):
Then surely you will allow me a moment to silently
make my peace with my maker, yed.

Speaker 1 (01:01:41):
Can't you see he's stolen? That horse is moving in
here fast?

Speaker 6 (01:01:45):
Sure is Sorry, Curtis, guess you'll have to die unrepented.
Give a horse a whack, Crowley.

Speaker 1 (01:01:49):
Wait a minute, Yeah, now what is this? What's going
on here? You see he was with a posse, trailed
this man for moment.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
Now this is myron, Curtis.

Speaker 11 (01:02:01):
He's wanted for.

Speaker 6 (01:02:02):
Killing who Iron Curtis hired gun?

Speaker 7 (01:02:05):
These men are mistaken. Mister, My name is Paladin.

Speaker 6 (01:02:09):
Wait a minute, let's have a look at you.

Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
Well, of course I didn't recognize you right off with
that growth of beard. It's been a long time, you know,
this man, yes, and his name is Paladin.

Speaker 6 (01:02:25):
It can't be. We followed his trail from Marvin.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
I tell you, look, all I've got to say to
you two is get out of here fast before I
take you into the sheriff.

Speaker 7 (01:02:42):
Well. I'm a little confused because of course you've never
seen me before in your life, but I'm mighty grateful.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
It's glad I happened along when I did. Curtis Paladin,
How you can drop that now? It's all right? I
know you, Curtis.

Speaker 7 (01:03:01):
Oh you do.

Speaker 25 (01:03:02):
Sure you have to be.

Speaker 6 (01:03:05):
I was wondering when you were going to show up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:07):
Yes, I'm Mike Hanson and begun to think maybe you
hadn't received my message. But I can see that you
ran into a little trouble getting here, and I certainly didn't.
I have to turn off at the fork up here.
I guess you want to get on into town. But
maybe this is as good a time as any to
bring up my proposition.

Speaker 7 (01:03:28):
Yeah, I suppose it is.

Speaker 1 (01:03:31):
I heard about you, Curtis. I knew you were the
man to do this job for me. That's why I
sent for you and the job. Where's the man like you?
No need to beat about the Bush, Curtis, Stone's Crossing
is a pretty big town, and it's going to get bigger,

(01:03:52):
but it's never going to be big enough to hold
me and a man named Jules Cleaver.

Speaker 7 (01:03:57):
Jules Cleaver, I.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
Intend that Stone's Crossing is going to be my town.
Cleaver's in my way. I'm going to lay it right
on the line. I want you to get rid of
me for me. I see, will three thousand dollars handle it?

Speaker 7 (01:04:16):
Three thousand hanson?

Speaker 1 (01:04:19):
Could we?

Speaker 7 (01:04:20):
Could we do it this way? Could we let the
matter rest right here for now?

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Speaker 7 (01:05:46):
I was grateful to Mike Hanson for saving my life,
but I figured the explanations I owed him would have
to wait. After all, Jewle's Cleaver was my client. I
traveled a long way to keep this assignment. I've checked
into the hotel at Stone's Cross and call it Cleaver's home.
That afternoon, mister Yes, your servant told me. I tried

(01:06:06):
to hear in your study. I'm Paladin. Mister Paladin, Oh,
where you've been. I've been expecting you for days. While
I ran into a few delays, I got into town
this morning with there are a few things I'd take
care of like a bath or shave decent meal. So
what's on your mind, mister Clever? Ah, that's what I like.
You're a businessman. I'm a businessman. Let's not waste time.

(01:06:29):
Let's get right to the point. Sit down, Paladin, all right, Paladin,
a businessman, or anyone for that matter, striving for success
or certain attainments, fines, as a matter of course, obstacles
along the way. If he intends to forge your head,
the obstacles must be removed.

Speaker 25 (01:06:51):
Right.

Speaker 7 (01:06:52):
But yes, yes, I suppose so.

Speaker 33 (01:06:54):
Now I'm a determined man. Oh at the moment, there's
another to go in my path, a man named Mike Hanson. Yes,
and I'm going to lay it right on the line.
I want you to get rid of him for me.
How about Yeah, three thousand dollars.

Speaker 17 (01:07:18):
For the job.

Speaker 7 (01:07:19):
Three thousand. Well, I've come a long way for this meeting,
mister Cleaver. Yeah, it's been uncomfortable and miserable. I was
nearly hanged in the bargain. But I'm afraid I've arrived
here to find that there's there's been a misunderstanding. What
do you mean I am not an executioner, mister cleaverh
your gun is for hire, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
Well, my.

Speaker 7 (01:07:44):
Doll, I suppose we let the deal remain right here
for the moment. I'll get in touch with you, all right.
I've been surprised to find stones crossing the prosperous town
that it was. Then, as I wrote back to my hotel,
I took note of the fact that all the places
of business seemed to be owned and controlled by either M.

(01:08:04):
Hanson or JJ Cleaver. That appeared that I was involved
with the two leading citizens. That afternoon, I gave the
matter careful consideration. Then I sent messages to the two gentlemen. Hello, Hanson,
come in.

Speaker 6 (01:08:23):
I got your message.

Speaker 7 (01:08:25):
You're right on time. You want to drink? Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:08:28):
No, thanks, I don't have much time. Well did you
decide to accept my offer? Curtis?

Speaker 10 (01:08:34):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:08:35):
Hanson, I am not Myron Curtis. He is dead dead, yes,
and my name is Palette. Well, excuse me about Cleaver,
Clean Hanson, Paladinn. What's the meaning going on here? You'll
find out both of you, Saiddan. I still want to

(01:08:57):
be quiet. Gentlemen. I asked you to meet with me
here in my hotel because I feel that we're involved
in a situation that requires further discussion. This morning, mister Hanson,
you made me an offer of three thousand dollars to
kill mister Cleaver. What and you, mister Cleaver, early this afternoon,

(01:09:21):
made me an offer of three thousand dollars to kill
mister Hanson. Now you both can see what this means,
can't you. This means that I would have six thousand
dollars and you would both be dead. Now you sit down,

(01:09:41):
I'm going to give you a chance to reconsider. This
is my offer. I'm going to lay it on the line,
a phrase you gentlemen are so fond of. You will
each pay me three thousand dollars, and I will see
that you both stay alive.

Speaker 6 (01:09:56):
Nothing but a cheap gun slinger.

Speaker 7 (01:09:57):
Pat You're going to pay me that money too, because
I can a long ways to face this ridiculous situation.
And I brought you together here today so you could
learn just how stupid you are. Now. I am not
a killer, but you Cleaver, didn't know that when you
hired me for this job. You thought you'd bought yourself
an executioner. Then how can you hired Hansen never managed
to make it this far. He died before he could

(01:10:19):
make a deal with him. So through circumstance, you gentlemen,
have another chance. Plain, there's room in stones Crossing for
both of you. May I suggest that you try to
share the town in peace. Each of you, in attempting
to destroy the other, just might find yourself destroyed. Oh, gentlemen,

(01:10:41):
shall we have a drink? He Paldy so nice to
have you home again, Thank you, Hey boy. Well, Missy
Wong have surprise for you you uh huh what she

(01:11:01):
been up to? Now you eight?

Speaker 12 (01:11:02):
You see you go in missa Paladin? Well, now, well
what's all this very fancy?

Speaker 10 (01:11:13):
Huh?

Speaker 12 (01:11:13):
Oh, Missy Wong so sorry you can't go to opera
ball When she cleaned rooms in hotels, she say, all
party favors decorate for you.

Speaker 7 (01:11:21):
Well, I'm overwhelmed. Look at that paper, hads, balloons, streamers.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Wow, this is festive. I tell you what.

Speaker 7 (01:11:30):
Hey boy, tonight we'll order up some champagne. You and
miss Wong and I will have our own ball.

Speaker 12 (01:11:36):
Oh he saw very nice, heyd you have very angry
red scar and neck.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
What is that?

Speaker 7 (01:11:45):
Erm so rope burn, hey boy, rope burn. Yes, it's
to remind me the next time I travel in the
Vada territory to be sure to bypass a place called
Stone's Crossing.

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Speaker 11 (01:13:21):
Have Gun, Will Travel.

Speaker 14 (01:13:26):
Created by Herb Metal and Sam Roff, is produced and
directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
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(01:13:48):
and Vic Parrin. This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to
join us again next week when CBS Radio presents have
Gun Will Travel?

Speaker 3 (01:14:59):
As it was Broadcas we asked at six oh five
Eastern Time on Sunday, November eighteenth, nineteen fifty nine, Have
Gun Will Travel Here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt
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three Sunday favorites back in nineteen fifty two, Jack Benny,
the Aldridge Family, and Edgar Bergen all from nineteen fifty two,
and then we will have an episode of Loman Abner
two of them in fact, an episode of the nineteen
forty nine a half hour show, and a fifteen minute
show from nineteen forty two. We'll get back to crime

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on Monday with Mister Keen, Tracer, Lost Persons, Broadway is
My Beat, Lights Out, and Danger Doctor dan Field. On Tuesday,
Comedy returns with Milton Burrell and the Salute to Washington,
Archie andrews Abbott and Costello and the CBS rad Workshop
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not only Part two of Escape Earth Abides, but we
will also have a couple of comedy programs well, a
comedy program with Jimmy Duranty, Annethu Hour, The Chasing Sanborn Hour,
Music Variety, and drama with the Gene Arthur as the guest.
On Thursday, we'll spend some time out West with Gunsmoke,

(01:16:28):
Cabgun Will Travel and Saunders of the Circle X and
an episode of Romance starring Henry Fonda entitled Cassanover Brown.
On Friday, we will have Mister President Edward Arnold Romance
The Egg Farm, also a dark fantasy, and The Man
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(01:16:50):
week from today we will have Western Adventure again with
Gene Autry's Melody Ranch from nineteen fifty two, Jimmy Stewart
is a six Shooter, The Escape from Smoke Balls, and
episodes of Have Gun Will Travel and Gun Smoke. That's
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Speaker 3 (01:18:07):
Now we go to six thirty Eastern time on Sunday,
November eighth, nineteen fifty nine, sixty six years ago, as
a gun smoke, William Conrad and the cavalcade.

Speaker 1 (01:18:32):
Around god City and in the territory on West there
is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
And that's where the US Marshall and the smell of
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(01:19:04):
that moved ware to young America, and the story of
a man will moved with it. I'm that man, Matt Dyllon,
United States Marshall, the first man they looked for and
the last they want to meet. It's a chance, a job,
and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.

Speaker 10 (01:19:46):
More coffee, Marshall, here's man.

Speaker 25 (01:19:49):
I guess so about how about you?

Speaker 35 (01:19:50):
Chester?

Speaker 10 (01:19:50):
That's sure?

Speaker 28 (01:19:51):
I believe I will.

Speaker 25 (01:19:52):
Why don't you just leave the coffee fight right here
on the table, Miss.

Speaker 20 (01:19:55):
Kellen, think Marshall, I got some fresh egg this morning.
If you're interested, they would just brought in pressure eggs.

Speaker 25 (01:20:01):
How good? Wh aren't you cookings up about a half
a dozen? Man?

Speaker 36 (01:20:03):
I happen to play right away, all right, I swear
I don't want to go. They ain't getting to be
about as fancy. Send them Kansas City restaurants.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
That's civilization, Chester progress. You know, another five years and
Badge City will be tamed and curried and bridled.

Speaker 36 (01:20:17):
Uh. Seeing the believing mister down, you'll say it.

Speaker 1 (01:20:20):
We'll both said as if we live that well, I
beg your pardon, gentlemen.

Speaker 25 (01:20:24):
Uh, yeah, you the Marshall here. That's right.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Well, I'm sorry to bother you at your breakfast, Marshall.
My name is Hunter, Ed Hunter. I'm a deputy sheriff
from Richmond, Virginia. Came in on the train this morning.
I say, want you to pull up a chairman's Hunter. Oh,
thank you.

Speaker 33 (01:20:39):
This is my first trip to the front.

Speaker 25 (01:20:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 35 (01:20:41):
I find it a rather remarkable experience.

Speaker 25 (01:20:44):
I imagine. Oh that's my assistant, Chester Proudfort. How are you, sir?
How looking like? Has a coffee?

Speaker 7 (01:20:49):
Thank you?

Speaker 35 (01:20:50):
No, no, at Marshall.

Speaker 1 (01:20:52):
Uh, I've come out here to arrest two men who
are wanted in Virginia.

Speaker 7 (01:20:56):
Uh.

Speaker 35 (01:20:57):
Paid the warrants and the orders of extradition.

Speaker 1 (01:21:00):
I stopped off into Peaker for him and John Allison
Alvin Moore, both wanted for murder. You know these men, knows, sir,
I don't. Her name's an't permitted to me. I never
heard of him.

Speaker 25 (01:21:14):
Well, I have some.

Speaker 1 (01:21:15):
Information that might help, not much on Alice, and I'm
afraid he shot and killed a bank teller in Greenbrier
last spring. He's about thirty years old, dark haired, mustache,
medium build, excellent horseman, confirmed Gambler. Fine, that narrows it.
Dondo about two thirds of the man in the city,
if possibly I do a bit better regard to the

(01:21:37):
other man, Calvin Moore. He came down to Richmond from
the north. He was about thirty three at the time.
He ambushed and shot young Roger Borregard and left town.
Now that was nineteen years ago. Borogod's family been trying
to trace him ever since. I'm afraid that I haven't
I have a picture of this more photograph. Oh yeah,

(01:21:58):
because he's much younger and this, oh, this is it?
Most something familiar about the picture nineteen years Hm, he'd
be somewhere past fifteen now.

Speaker 31 (01:22:09):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:11):
You sure these men are here in Dodge, mister Hunter?

Speaker 35 (01:22:13):
Reasonably so?

Speaker 17 (01:22:15):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:22:15):
Is there something about the photograph? Why it was too
blurred to tell much about it? And besides he'd be
nineteen years older now, oh that's true.

Speaker 7 (01:22:22):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:22:22):
I'll tell you what, mister Hunt. I wan't you leave
me this picture and the descriptions and uh and I'll
check around Tom keep in touch with al. I thank you, sir,
And I wonder could you suggest a good hotel? Yeah,
why don't you try the Dodge Houses? A corner of
Railroad Avenue at the east end of the plaza. You
tell mister w I sent you. Thank you again, Marshall.
I'm grateful for any help you can give me in
this manner.

Speaker 4 (01:22:42):
Sure, it's how long.

Speaker 10 (01:22:47):
Did you think you.

Speaker 25 (01:22:49):
Want to see the photograph?

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
Chester?

Speaker 7 (01:22:51):
Uh? Yeah, sure, I'm oh, well, how much you do
on that?

Speaker 36 (01:22:58):
That's yeah? What are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:23:03):
He's not I don't know, Chester, he's my friend, but
not the low says he's a murderer.

Speaker 25 (01:23:11):
And I'm part of the law.

Speaker 6 (01:23:12):
Ooh, maybe it ain't him young.

Speaker 25 (01:23:15):
Now it's him all right?

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Chester. You so it's the same as I didn't.

Speaker 7 (01:23:20):
That's stuck.

Speaker 25 (01:23:41):
Work work, work, work.

Speaker 1 (01:23:44):
Eh, this is the first chance I've had this week
to clean a few instruments properly. Gunshot wounds, Mad, I'd
lay odds. I'm the only doctor in the United States
who makes three fourths of his living off a gunshot wound.

Speaker 25 (01:23:59):
That's a rough country, Dot, Maybe uh, you ought to
have stayed back East.

Speaker 10 (01:24:06):
Broken bones and babies and gunshot wounds. I wouldn't know
the first thing about a good civilized case of gout anymore.

Speaker 25 (01:24:14):
Part of the East. Did you come from uh. I.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
At a medical school in Boston, I studied consumption and
colic liver complaints. Never had a case of liver complaint
all the time I've been out here. Uh I guess
that kind of thing is more common down the South,
around the Richmond, Virginia, for instance.

Speaker 10 (01:24:35):
So I stop beating around the bush. You've got something
on your mind and it's bothering you, alright.

Speaker 25 (01:24:46):
Doug, a deputy sheriff from Virginia, came in on the
morning train. He's got a warrant for murder against a
man named Calvin Moore, and a photograph of Moore had
taken nineteen years ago.

Speaker 10 (01:24:57):
Would you like to take a look at a I
don't think some matter.

Speaker 25 (01:25:04):
How you call the lord.

Speaker 10 (01:25:06):
It wasn't murdering Matt. They said it was murder, of course.

Speaker 25 (01:25:13):
Would you like to tell her about it?

Speaker 10 (01:25:17):
Not much to tell me. I had been in practice
in Richmond about a year.

Speaker 25 (01:25:25):
There was a girl.

Speaker 10 (01:25:26):
H This was a beautiful girl with spirit and fire
and that soft radiance that only seven girls seemed to
have me so long ago.

Speaker 25 (01:25:37):
I better to solve myself.

Speaker 10 (01:25:39):
Doctor for Jim Borough guard and I were both courting
this girl. He was a typical Virginia gentleman, hot headed
and used to having his own way. He started threatening me,
warning me, and I laughed it off.

Speaker 1 (01:25:52):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:25:52):
Then one day I was coming back from accasion. I
ran into gym on the country road. He had a
pair of dueling pistols and he challenged me.

Speaker 25 (01:25:58):
Or that's a lot of crime, dark self defense not
a crime here anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:26:03):
I tried to talk him out of it, but he
was crazy mad. He shoved one of the pistols in
my hand and pulled back on his horse and leveled
his gun. I had no choice.

Speaker 10 (01:26:10):
We both fired. He missed, and I didn't self defense. Yes,
but there were no witnesses and that and I was
an outsider, a Yankee.

Speaker 25 (01:26:21):
So you ran for it?

Speaker 31 (01:26:22):
Is that it?

Speaker 10 (01:26:23):
I ran for it. Saint Louis, Virginia City is the Panhandle,
Abilene Dodge.

Speaker 25 (01:26:32):
Yeah, the girl?

Speaker 7 (01:26:36):
Uh what happened to the girl?

Speaker 10 (01:26:40):
I waited for her in Saint Louis. We were married there.
Two months later she she died, tied for his favor.
I can't go back there, man, I've got no defense
at me in prison. I grorock in prison. I won't

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go back.

Speaker 25 (01:27:03):
No hunter here.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
After two prisoners, duck, I got no right to my
own rules. Go after one mine and keep the other
one covered. I've always figured the only kind of law
that would work out here is an honest law.

Speaker 10 (01:27:20):
What are you gonna do?

Speaker 25 (01:27:24):
I don't know? Dogs you right? Map?

Speaker 20 (01:27:51):
I think if it wasn't gonna stop in the night.
Uh tell over there by the seal table map.

Speaker 10 (01:27:56):
What about this Virginian that's been hanging 'em as the
last to day?

Speaker 25 (01:28:00):
Uh hunter?

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Uh huh.

Speaker 25 (01:28:01):
He's a deputy sheriff, got a couple of warrants to serve.

Speaker 20 (01:28:05):
Yeah, why oh you've been asking questions? Yeah, he was
a black, a little skinny.

Speaker 25 (01:28:10):
Here you free now, miss kitty?

Speaker 10 (01:28:12):
Are you busy?

Speaker 26 (01:28:13):
What it looks like?

Speaker 10 (01:28:14):
I figured maybe he's just killing time? God a Martians
Bunco bought your drink kiddys out on the bar.

Speaker 20 (01:28:22):
Hi. Thanks, Now I'll be asking a couple of hours yet.

Speaker 25 (01:28:28):
Yeah, maybe I understand.

Speaker 10 (01:28:30):
You gotta arrive a law man in town, Marshall.

Speaker 25 (01:28:34):
I was a deputy here from Virginia. That's what you mean.

Speaker 10 (01:28:37):
I always figured you was a law here. A short
miss down Washington. You say the word real running out?

Speaker 25 (01:28:43):
I have a ridsk for help. Buncle. Well, no, man,
I'm short and uh child, run him out no offense, march.
You keep your run crench tight and don't worry about
anybody else, and I'll see your buncle.

Speaker 10 (01:28:59):
That's whoever's John.

Speaker 36 (01:29:00):
I ain't never seen nobody.

Speaker 10 (01:29:01):
It was that bad luck in the whole life.

Speaker 36 (01:29:03):
You are sear Pharaoh and stick the stud oh, I say,
Jeff o' keenner, he just lost three whole weeks pay
and Bunco Benson sat and right there beside him mine
you picked up two hundred and thirty dollars.

Speaker 25 (01:29:17):
So that's why he's straight and drink. Let's take a walk,
he swears three weeks.

Speaker 36 (01:29:23):
Say, I ain't never seen such luck.

Speaker 7 (01:29:25):
What about dark?

Speaker 36 (01:29:27):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:29:27):
He turned in a couple hours ago. That's when I
come on over here, I say, acting oh by as usual.
One thing he's doing though that he ain't never done before.
He's told me done even Marshall.

Speaker 25 (01:29:41):
Uh, how's a hundred?

Speaker 1 (01:29:44):
Since you didn't come to see me, mister Dunno, I've
come to you wondering what progress you might fire.

Speaker 25 (01:29:50):
I some soul checking and the results at all, bust,
I haven't got much cha.

Speaker 1 (01:29:57):
Go on, you know, Calvin Mall was a doctor by profession.
He might still be practicing. I suggest we investigate local doctors.
That wouldn't take long. We've only got one dog, Adams.
How old a man as he early fifties, I imagine,
But he doesn't show much resemblance that photograph he gave me.
Maybe you're too used to him to notice the resemble pair.

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Maybe I'd like to look him over myself.

Speaker 25 (01:30:21):
Mort he's pretty busy out on calls most of the time,
but not all of the time. No, not all the time,
of course. Alrighty, there, don't bring him wrong.

Speaker 10 (01:30:51):
In any care. That's the funny miss you're doing.

Speaker 25 (01:30:53):
Yeah, he should have answered, but now I would wait,
Can I anchester.

Speaker 10 (01:31:01):
He might have got called out on CA Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:31:03):
And uh, well that was across the flies that don
toward the dots.

Speaker 7 (01:31:07):
I'll come out, man.

Speaker 25 (01:31:14):
Somebody shows turned up smoke that's across the straight edge
of the railroad yard.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
Is that you, Marshall?

Speaker 25 (01:31:22):
Yeah, what happened to the cor hunter?

Speaker 35 (01:31:24):
Somebody had tried to kill me.

Speaker 25 (01:31:26):
I started into the hotel at fired from the doctor.
I care five back when he got away. You gotta
look at him.

Speaker 10 (01:31:31):
No, I just saw the flashes.

Speaker 25 (01:31:32):
It's an easy time to get killed in the counter.
So it seems about that doctor Marshall.

Speaker 1 (01:31:38):
You didn't bring him around now he's out on a call.
But I think I wanna meet him more than ever.

Speaker 25 (01:31:43):
Now you will uh a time as a truster.

Speaker 36 (01:32:06):
No, man, it's quarterback too, sir. I do hope we
won't have to spend the whole night waiting in here.
You don't see how Doc puts up the smell all
his medicine and stuff.

Speaker 25 (01:32:18):
I sure stood.

Speaker 10 (01:32:18):
I guess for a man can get used to anything.
Stept downing mister Dillon, you reckon it could have been
dark that fired them. Shot such m somebody.

Speaker 25 (01:32:33):
Coming come in.

Speaker 1 (01:32:40):
That I got Marsher come out in buck out? Well
I it, what's the matter with your arm?

Speaker 10 (01:32:47):
So I I got throwed into a barblar fance here, that's.

Speaker 25 (01:32:49):
How I look at it.

Speaker 10 (01:32:50):
I'm no, that's alright.

Speaker 25 (01:32:52):
It's a gunshot, won't Oh?

Speaker 7 (01:32:54):
They both of you?

Speaker 1 (01:32:57):
Uh?

Speaker 25 (01:32:59):
Is uh that the same gun you tried to kill
a hunter with.

Speaker 10 (01:33:03):
Bunco Hey where you are, marn't you?

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:33:05):
About thirty years old? Dark hair, mustache, medium bill. That's
one of the horsemen. Confirmed gambler wanted from murder, John Allison,
Lelias Bunco, Benson, right, Bunco.

Speaker 10 (01:33:17):
He's not taking me back here. Stay where you are dealing.

Speaker 25 (01:33:20):
Don't be a fool, Bunko, and I put away that gun.
Stay back on warning you and go up right.

Speaker 36 (01:33:30):
Yeah that worked pretty slick, didn't Misdahn?

Speaker 31 (01:33:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:33:33):
Thanks Tesser. Alright, just get him down to the jail
and you can go find Zac. We're gonna need him.

Speaker 6 (01:33:48):
Hold on mego.

Speaker 15 (01:33:49):
You want to know about stereo photographs, listen to my
last bullfight on.

Speaker 25 (01:33:53):
Or the very stereo. But now go on, be a
stereo one.

Speaker 15 (01:34:03):
There is a Krena Rtorus free life like Magnetica. There
is such a big difference in stereo phonographs. With most
all you get is a couple of speakers shooting in
different directions. But with Colombia Humber you get fantastic stereo projection.
What it does is to send circles of sounds sweeping

(01:34:24):
through every inch of a room. You are surrounded with
live sound, live feeling, live passion.

Speaker 1 (01:34:32):
Hooray. Worry are they cheered me?

Speaker 15 (01:34:35):
Ask your Columbia phonographs dealer to demonstrate stereo one by Columbia.
Prices start as low as thirty nine ninety five for portables,
one twenty nine ninety five for consoles.

Speaker 6 (01:34:46):
Heel picador, who let it go out?

Speaker 1 (01:35:02):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (01:35:03):
This whole still in our bunk horn? One more second?
And now have a hold of that bullet and then
uh William h yeah, now add that one their collection.

Speaker 25 (01:35:17):
Mat, I'll make hunter at present of it wasn't bad
shooting to be firing in the dark.

Speaker 10 (01:35:22):
At the gunflage, and they would give me back to Virginia.
I will heal a bunker high secondmanded higher bandage. And
how did you know that he'd come to my office?

Speaker 25 (01:35:33):
Man, doesn't dark? We were waiting for you.

Speaker 10 (01:35:38):
Oh, I see you know fare Yeah, I'd always stopped bleeding.
They don't loosen it up now. And if you'll live
to hang yet, I don't worry about my hanging Dark.
I'll outlive you and view the circumstances. And I can't
say odds about even.

Speaker 25 (01:35:58):
Well Mat.

Speaker 10 (01:35:59):
So we adjourned to the front office.

Speaker 25 (01:36:01):
Yeh, come on, okay, like with Suchester, as I would.

Speaker 10 (01:36:12):
I turned in at ten o'clock to night and I
got one hour of sleep. They called me over to
missus b hand. They thought her baby was on the way.
False line cut usually is the first time. And I
got back and came straight over here.

Speaker 25 (01:36:33):
Dark. You were wearing a gun earlier today.

Speaker 10 (01:36:36):
What did you do with it? I put it back
in the drawer or it belonged. I realized I was
acting like a fool. Was that why you were waiting
in my office? Somebody tried to kill a hunter and
you thought it was me.

Speaker 25 (01:36:55):
And I've tried to think of some way out of this,
a way out for to this doctor. But I got
one man under a raft back then. Now I can't
rightly set myself up as a judge and a free
the other man. I'd even hope you'd come and run
for it. I'd get away if you did, because when

(01:37:17):
they doesn't.

Speaker 10 (01:37:18):
Know the country and I'm too old to run, Matt,
what are you gonna do?

Speaker 1 (01:37:27):
I am a row man?

Speaker 31 (01:37:28):
Uh?

Speaker 7 (01:37:29):
Right or wrong?

Speaker 10 (01:37:32):
Well? Then, uh, I guess I'm under rst.

Speaker 25 (01:37:35):
No, I didn't say the ready Oh there?

Speaker 20 (01:37:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:37:40):
What's hep sell in the railroad? Jarge who was asleep
on the track drunk?

Speaker 1 (01:37:44):
I guess you now what to switching car? Well, you
better come, doc. He he's awful bad, he said, near
the lord and bends down this way.

Speaker 10 (01:38:04):
I guess I guess this might go there and people
standing around.

Speaker 25 (01:38:07):
Marshall that you yeah, hunter, I thought you went to
bed hours.

Speaker 1 (01:38:12):
I'm a light sleep on.

Speaker 35 (01:38:13):
Mister billy because there's an accident.

Speaker 1 (01:38:15):
Over in the yard or just walk along? Would you
give me a chance to meet your local doctor? And
I guess you can meet him right now if you
want to, doctors?

Speaker 25 (01:38:22):
Is that hunter? Doc at him?

Speaker 7 (01:38:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:38:25):
How do you do?

Speaker 1 (01:38:26):
Sir?

Speaker 25 (01:38:27):
I got one of your prisoner's walk up, mister Hunter?
John Allison on here is bunk oh Benson good. He's
the man who tried to kill you tonight.

Speaker 35 (01:38:34):
One down and just one to go. Calvin Moore, doctor
Calvin Law.

Speaker 25 (01:38:49):
All right to move back where you please? You're not
throw here? Please here, doctors, I'm right, we don't all right?
Stand back? Will you give doctor chance?

Speaker 17 (01:38:58):
Way?

Speaker 25 (01:38:58):
Will you stand back? Please?

Speaker 7 (01:39:00):
Do uh bad?

Speaker 10 (01:39:03):
His right? I will do it again.

Speaker 25 (01:39:06):
That letter is hurt Mark? So who is he? I?
Uh stripped hers been around Dodge a couple of years
cause himself Texas Joe m usual not oh friends, your family?
Have you fixed a couple of nobody knows where he
came from.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
It's usual hill very us.

Speaker 10 (01:39:20):
Oh that's right. I told him, get you be all right,
said you guys here, Sure it'll be all right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
He certainly has the work under primitive conditions.

Speaker 31 (01:39:32):
Doc.

Speaker 25 (01:39:32):
Uh yeah, I'd chat her when he got those lanterns
going and give Doc.

Speaker 10 (01:39:36):
Some more like Yeah, yes, he's jumped the sick that.

Speaker 31 (01:39:38):
He was at.

Speaker 25 (01:39:39):
Yeah, he's the only real doctor at the set of Abie.

Speaker 20 (01:39:42):
Get there anything I could do to help mister do
I guess.

Speaker 25 (01:39:45):
Not, Miss Kelly. Thanks anyway?

Speaker 37 (01:39:47):
Oh, oh tax it.

Speaker 20 (01:39:49):
He stopped and at the restaurant not more than four
hours ago, and I fixed him a meal. You never
know who doct can pull him through? If anybody can,
sure he can if I thought the.

Speaker 25 (01:40:00):
Line on the other side, just it okay that I
seem to put a lot of faith in your about that.
I got raised him too, child.

Speaker 10 (01:40:07):
Yeah, mad could you give me a handhook?

Speaker 25 (01:40:09):
Yeah? Should uh.

Speaker 10 (01:40:12):
Uh lift his head up a little bit there? That Yeah,
not much chance, man. All I can do is make
him comfortable.

Speaker 25 (01:40:21):
Uh, I don't try to talk to our texts. He
gonna be alright.

Speaker 37 (01:40:24):
You you've indecent to me. Marshall you change me square.
You got ary friends, I got shot a text I
and you got one more favorite ash could could could

(01:40:45):
someone read me?

Speaker 10 (01:40:48):
Who scripture?

Speaker 17 (01:40:52):
Well?

Speaker 25 (01:40:52):
Text I, I just don't recall when he.

Speaker 10 (01:40:56):
Said, Well I I do uh missus cony I die.
If you can hear you uh uh uh uh I
can hear. He's the Lord, is my shepherd.

Speaker 20 (01:41:08):
I shall not want he maketh me to lie down
in green pasture.

Speaker 10 (01:41:13):
He leadeth me beside me, still waters.

Speaker 20 (01:41:16):
He restores my soul.

Speaker 10 (01:41:18):
H I think that's enough, miss.

Speaker 6 (01:41:20):
Coming that talk from h.

Speaker 10 (01:41:28):
Well, you can't win 'em all like us.

Speaker 25 (01:41:31):
No, I can't win 'em all. Well, like I said,
doctor Adams, there's all the physicue here. I suppose you're
also a function with Connor. That's right. And this man here,
he'll be buried on the blame of Texas joke.

Speaker 10 (01:41:45):
And don't worry about his boot hill is full of
men buried in the nicknames in this country.

Speaker 36 (01:41:51):
Doc.

Speaker 10 (01:41:52):
I just came from.

Speaker 20 (01:41:53):
Oh yeah, doctor, I didn't sitting there with missus being
you let your stone.

Speaker 10 (01:42:00):
You need you over there right away. Well, there wasn't
a false line. H oh, right, kitty, I'll be there
as quick as they get pull the susan.

Speaker 25 (01:42:08):
Well, well, uh, kitty, uh, you go out back over
to what you can for her.

Speaker 10 (01:42:14):
Doctor belong, All right, mate, you better hurry.

Speaker 25 (01:42:20):
Well mister Hunter.

Speaker 1 (01:42:21):
Gentlemen, this seems to have been my lucky night. Both
my future is located within an.

Speaker 25 (01:42:26):
Hour of each other. Yeah, I guess there's nothing.

Speaker 1 (01:42:30):
I wanna do that I's been in jail and one
of 'em dead. Or didn't you notice the resemblance Marshall
Texas Joe here obviously the man in the photograph.

Speaker 25 (01:42:41):
I saw it immediately. Well, I hope you'll.

Speaker 35 (01:42:44):
Take all the necessary steps to see that he's.

Speaker 25 (01:42:46):
Buried under his real name, Calvin Moore, and his death
of course close the caps.

Speaker 1 (01:42:52):
I've been even for Virginia with my other prisoner.

Speaker 10 (01:42:54):
Tomorrow, leave, mister Hunt.

Speaker 25 (01:42:59):
Doctor.

Speaker 1 (01:42:59):
I say that there's no time to stand around there talking.
You have a patient waiting. It's uh, it's time seem
to depend on you.

Speaker 25 (01:43:10):
Man. Well, dark you've got work to though you. You'll
just make sure it's a boy. Huh.

Speaker 10 (01:43:20):
Well, I'll he said, I'll do my darkness, might I uh? Well,
good night, sa.

Speaker 7 (01:43:34):
So I.

Speaker 1 (01:44:05):
Gun smoke Roduston, directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald's stars
William Conrad as Matt Yllon Us Marshall, the story especially
written for Gun Smoke by Less Utsfield for the editorial
supervision by John Messing, featured in the cast with Lawrence Stopkin,
Harry Bartel, Ralph Moody, and Virginia Christine Harley.

Speaker 17 (01:44:27):
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Speaker 1 (01:44:29):
Doc, and Georgia Hawkins is Kiddy. This is George Walsh
inviting you to join us again next week when CBS
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once more. It's America growing West. In the eighteen seventies,
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A lot of these old shows, particularly in the fifties,
were not recorded professionally the way of at least a
network broadcasts of them. Some of the shows we do
have original copies of, some we have Armed Forces radio
recordings of, and some like this particular episode of Gunsmoke

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(01:45:47):
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Speaker 3 (01:47:22):
Okay, for our final look at the four shows that
we listen to on this date, we're going to roll
back a little bit and listen to an episode of
Yours to Lead Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey. This broadcast
at five o five Eastern time. This is apparently another
off the air recording from somebody's personal collection. This one,

(01:47:44):
as we said, broadcast five oh five Eastern time on Sunday,
the eighth day of November nineteen fifty nine.

Speaker 1 (01:47:58):
Johnny Deller, this is are bretson the Philadelphia Mutual Liability
and Casually Insurance Company. Well, it's about time, Harry. How
come I haven't heard from you lately? Fortunately, we've had
no problems recently, that is, nothing requiring investigation. Until now. Huh, yes,
So what's the trouble? Arson may have murder? John, It
paid me all of them. Unless you're able to put
a stop to what's going on. Sounds interesting? Who's involved

(01:48:21):
in all this? And don't tell me you've been selling
insurance to some gangsters? Well, as a matter of fact,
he is an ex gangster. At least he was known
to have been mixed up with who perty Larson Lisner
or at least the name sounds appropriate, So tell me
what he's Wait a minute yet, shot isn't pretty Larson?
The punk they've had before that Special Investigating Committee, the

(01:48:44):
Committee on Narcotics and Gambling, the one that has the
hearings on television now and then that's the one. Well,
and Harry, if you want my advice, you'll cancel his policy,
pay him all but interest, and forget him. I'm afraid
that's impossible. What's more, since those hearings began, we've increased
the face value of some of his policies half what Yes,
but now, if you was a threat, he's been receiving
threats on his night, his whole, his family. Well, John,

(01:49:07):
maybe you're in trouble.

Speaker 27 (01:49:09):
John.

Speaker 1 (01:49:09):
Do you think you can help us and get my
head blown off by some gunsel. Marry this and his
stuff I shouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. In'spite
of the big fee your company will have to pay
me in addition to my just a minute and least
it will guarantee me a decent funeral. But if that's
the way you want it, as long as you're willing
to pay for the nose for my service, John John,

(01:49:30):
that is okay. Keep your shirt on, Harry, I'll run
on down.

Speaker 17 (01:49:33):
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accounts of a bit of buy Special Investigator Johnny Dollary
to the Philadelphia Mutual Liability and Casually Insurance Company. Following
is the account of expenses Encourage during my investigation of
the Larson Arson matter. Expense account out of one eleven
twenty for a train to Philadelphia a taxi to Philly
Mutual's office over on Walnut Street. It was late in

(01:51:41):
the afternoon, but Harry Brandson, the perennial worry ward, was
still there waiting for me, and he wasted no time
in getting down to business. Now, Bertie Larson or more
properly heard, but James Larson lives out in Penfield, John
That's kind of part of West Philadelphia, isn't her? Just
beyond He and his wife live in a very nice
one story home that we've insured for some thirty thousand dollars.

(01:52:03):
And he must have done fairwell on the ragus and
had sense enough to put some aside. Also, John, we've
insured his personal property furniture, clothes, all the things in
the house and so on, for some twenty thousand dollars.

Speaker 17 (01:52:16):
No kidding.

Speaker 1 (01:52:17):
And didn't you say you've increased some of his insurance
lately to the figures I just mentioned in the beginning
He was under insured, but the policies provided for the
increase at his option. Provided that's all right, You don't
need to go to the of course, that in no
event should stipulated coverage exceed actual appraised valuation.

Speaker 8 (01:52:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:52:38):
Well, now few ordance with paragraphs ADG of Article twenty
one of our standard Comprehensive Policary. Oh yes, John, Also,
his life is insured with us for twenty thousand dollars,
making a total of seventy thousand, seventy thousand yees. So
if everything goes, including Bertie himself, somebody's liable to collect

(01:52:59):
plenty exactly. Okay, who's the beneficiary? His wife?

Speaker 6 (01:53:03):
Nora?

Speaker 9 (01:53:03):
I see.

Speaker 1 (01:53:05):
And now you say that somebody's been threatening him, Oh yes,
ever since he agreed to appear before this investigating committee. Ah,
what kind of dress? Over the telephone, he tells me,
warning him that if he continues to testify. Well, they
haven't directly threatened his life as I understand it, but
they might as well have. And then last week we
wait to say, Harry, haven't the police been in on this. Oh, yes,

(01:53:27):
yes they had, and for a while they kept some
man stationed about his place. So naturally nothing happened. But
last week John, when he returned from one of the hearings,
he found me and said that he'd found a can
of gasoline standing on his front doorstad Ah, just a
hint of what might happen if he doesn't clam up. Yeah,
that's an all style gang morning. Yes, a very obvious

(01:53:49):
threat to burn up his home. But he's continued to
appear at the hearings. Yes, and if he's killed off
by these people, if his home is burned out from
under by by what people? Harry has any idea might
be behind this monkey business? Well, of course it must
be someone who was involved with him in narcotics and
illegal gambling at one time. Right, he doesn't know exactly who,

(01:54:10):
not specifically. He says he never recognized the voice on
the phone, and of course it was probably well disguised.
Do you suppose he's still involved in the rackets. No,
apparently not, or we'd never have sold him insurance. But
then who can be sure. The point is, John, that
if anything does happen to him or to that home

(01:54:31):
of his, the company will have to pay out sizeable
sums of money. Naturally, we don't want to do that. No,
And if he can be protected properly, well, John, that's
why I telephoned to you. Yeah, But Harry, the kind
of protection you seem to want for him is something
for the police to provide. John, I am convinced that
the protection they are giving Bertie Larson is wholly inadequate.

(01:54:55):
You told them so, I most certainly have, but they
simply refused to listen to me. Well, that is why
I called you. Oh, I'm sorry, Harry, but it seems
to me that well, Okay, give me his address, tell
me who the police contact is, and I'll see what
I can do for you. I dropped my banks at

(01:55:17):
the Bellevue Stratford. Then, having missed my lunch, I spent
at them two five minut a quarter for a drink
at some early dinner. I had him three fifty bucks
to posit on a rental car, and I headed out
through West Philadelphia to the address in Penfield. As Harriet said,
it was a nice place, not large, but neat and modern,
sitting at the end of a new street. Apparently there
was no one home. I looked around to see if
there was a patrolman watching over the place. No one, nothing,

(01:55:39):
and the street itself was deserted. I was just about
to swing around a head for police headquarters when I
noticed a thin streak of light from one of the
rear windows, in spite of the drawn shades. Yeah, I
suppose I'll learn one of these days not to be
so curious. But I walked quietly up the driveway beside
the house, and I heard something, just a little sound,

(01:56:03):
as though someone had quietly opened to close the door
the side of the garage in the rear, and I
suddenly caught the smell of gas, of all gasoline. It
was coming from the garage. I carefully edged my way
on back there, hoping I wouldn't trip over something in
the dark, And I said, but give me away. Saw
my gasline was stronger, How much stronger? My next step
was into a puddle in front of the garage door.

(01:56:25):
I remember bending over to sniff at it, and it
was gasoline all right, and I remember a flashlight stabbing
through the darkness behind me. But as I rose and
turned fact two of yours truly Johnny Dollar in a

(01:56:50):
moment question, where will you find the leading stars of
the entertainment world? Answered right here on CBS Radio, Gary
Moore at the Godfrey and the Grip with Bob and
Ray Link Letter, Amos and Andy and Moore.

Speaker 17 (01:57:02):
The gang's all here.

Speaker 1 (01:57:04):
You'll also find the New York Philharmonica and the Metropolitan
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Radio and now act too of yours truly, Johnny Dollar
and the license heisen matter. I came to in a

(01:57:24):
hospital room and I had company. One of them was
in a blue uniform with Brand's buttons, with the strength
of a sign on his sleeve.

Speaker 6 (01:57:30):
So you decided to come back to the land of
the living man?

Speaker 7 (01:57:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:57:33):
There was a man of about forty, big, beefy, and
in spite of his rather flashy clothes, he looked as
though he hadn't shaved his fat, trucking and face for
a couple of days. Oh, I'm sure glad he's okay.
I generally, how was I to know he was to
somebody come to carry out them treads against you know,
you're lucky you didn't aim those shots, adding Bertie, he
actually trying to kill somebody's Like I told you, I

(01:57:56):
know the noise that bring on the nearest flat foot Bertie. Yeah, you,
mister Dollar, you just take it easy. Dollar pretty nearly
broke your head when he found you prowling around his
home a while ago. But I didn't know. I don't
know who you wanted. Told me and a couple and
who your pockets send your identification.

Speaker 25 (01:58:16):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (01:58:16):
Now, look I come home and seen you're sneaking around
and that gasoling in all of my garage like somebody's
gonna put a torch. Okay, okay, so you can't blame
me for slogan. Yeah, yeah, pretty, I'm sure sorry I
did it. Dolla, oh dola that the hospital bills on me,
so live it up. Oh yeah, sure, okay, Now, Bertie

(01:58:40):
Dollar is going to be all right, So you go along.
I'll check with you later. Oh yeah, sure, okay. Oh,
I'm going up in a country to make sure my
wife's all right. Up in the country, up in the
castles with a couple of relatives, Mac and Josie. Oh,
you don't think i'd leave a stay around here with
those people on the phone saying they're gonna burn me
out if I don't stop that committee And you don't

(01:59:02):
know who it is making the threats. Huh, I sure
wish they did.

Speaker 17 (01:59:05):
Okay, run along, Albertie.

Speaker 1 (01:59:07):
Oh wait, please, well, what is it? Well, I'd like
to talk to Bertie somore for sure, not until the
medics say you're all right and let you out of here.
And besides, I want to talk to you myself. Now,
go along, Bertie. Yeah, sure, all right. Now, look, let's
stay flat on a bit, Dolly, and now you're lucky

(01:59:30):
Bertie didn't kill you, and I can't say I would
have blamed him. Why didn't you come to me before
trying to contact him? I could have given you all
the information you need about this kick I'll and I
only have saved you a lot of trouble, but kept
you from getting banged on the head. Okay, okay, or

(01:59:51):
you private dixter a line. Now listen. As for that
nosy guy over at your insurance company who's been bothering
me three and four times a day, now, now I've
got two of you. They keep from upsetting the Apple cards.
What's that supposed to me? Bertie Larson isn't the man
this investigating Committee's after what? Of course not. He's strictly

(02:00:13):
small time and he hasn't even been that since he
served a stretch on a burglary Arson rap. What about
the narcotics and gambling us under investigation? He was never
any more than a messenger boy for the big shots. Well,
what's the importance of these hearings? Don't you see? If
the committee can hold him up as a guy who talks,
doesn't get hurt by him, and it'll help them flesh

(02:00:35):
out some of the others. And who knows, maybe some
of his information might have a little value and he'd
be glad to give it. Yeah, why Bertie's been trying
to run a used car business legitimate or is a
cover up for something else legitim you're sure that dond,
that stupid punk has been so scared is he got
out of the clink if and listens the publicity that

(02:00:58):
he's been getting from the hearings, you know, because of
cooperating with the committee, I had practically made a public
hero out of him. Who knows, maybe it'll help his
business enough to get him out of the red for once.
That's why he's singing like a canary, probably making half
of it up just to keep his name in a favor.
What about the threats he's been getting you know something.

(02:01:19):
We've only got his word about those threats. Oh we know,
and he's making him up himself. Maybe, Oh all right,
all right, So what if some of his old pals
are calling him up telling him to lay off? Huh
they try anything foolish, we'll no, matter of fact, there
are a few of those guys around here. We just
love to ask something on and maybe all this will

(02:01:41):
flush him out for us. I'll get Berdie killed and
ask me. I don't think anybody even bothered to rub
him out. I hope you're right, Sir Georgia. Oh that's
that around. Come on over to the station and see me.
But meantime, leave this to me. Wait a minute, wait,
what about that jess ithing He mentioned? It was spill
all over his garage one of those shots he fired.

(02:02:01):
And now we'll drill the hole in a can of gas?
He headliner out, Yeah, yours there, nights out. Let's surge
to you later. Doc, Wait a minute, will sergeant. Sergeant

(02:02:26):
acts free if yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment,
here's Hollywood star morna Freeman.

Speaker 18 (02:02:32):
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Speaker 18 (02:02:50):
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(02:03:41):
wrong about the whole Senate. I smelled the gasoline around
that garage before Bertie licen It slugged me. But what
about the can of gasoline he said was left in
this doorsteps of warning if somebody'd bring him out, if
he kept on testifying before the Special Investigating Committee. Why
the police oho looking back? And then suddenly I began
to smell a rat.

Speaker 17 (02:04:00):
A big one.

Speaker 1 (02:04:00):
Don't ask me why. I climbed rather painfully out of
the hospital bed, put on my clothes, and pulled the
corny tricket going out the way of the fire escape.
Luck was with me. The police had left my rental
car in the hospital parking lot. I spent on him
for a buck and a half in a bar and
a grill, for a slug of brandy and some hot
black coffee. But I was still feeling pretty rocky, so
I took my time driving out to Bertie license Spice Again.

(02:04:21):
As I stepped out of the car, I noticed the
light coming from an open window with a rear and
a big sedan back in front of the garage, the
trunk of a wide open Bertie's, or the car of
someone who'd come to put the torch to his home.
I didn't have to wait long for an answer, Bertie

(02:04:47):
h gowing up in the country. I had to see
your wife.

Speaker 4 (02:04:50):
Oh yeah, that's right.

Speaker 1 (02:04:53):
Say listen, it's lucky you come bright here? Is it
lucky for you or for me? Oh? Listen, I come
by to pick up some things, you know, to haul
up to my wife. And you know what happens. Yes,
when I pulls up in the driveway, there's some guy
running away out back. So I yells him to stop,
but he keeps on going. And it's so dark I

(02:05:14):
can't see where the troll shot it. And listen, I'm listening.
Then I smell gasoline. It's coming from inside the house.
So I unlocked the door and go in, and you
know what I find in there? Go on, Verdie, come on,
come on inside, Dollar, I'll show you. It's lucky. I

(02:05:36):
come by here, that's all I gotta say. Hey, wait
a minute, are you figuring on moving out of here? Huh?
What do you mean, Oh no, don't tell me this
is all the furniture you're keeping his place.

Speaker 17 (02:05:51):
Of course not.

Speaker 1 (02:05:52):
I send a lot up to Josian mac from while
my wife is staying with him. But if the place
burned down, you wouldn't hesitate to call insurance on all
the furnishings.

Speaker 25 (02:06:01):
What' you?

Speaker 1 (02:06:03):
You're trying to be funny done?

Speaker 8 (02:06:06):
Now?

Speaker 17 (02:06:07):
Look you look here in my den.

Speaker 1 (02:06:12):
You see you see where somebody dump gas all over
the rug, play them sell a Lloyd's strips and and
out over the window sill. So is you could put
a match to it from the outside, Yeah, I see it, Bertie.
Well it's a guy i've seen running away from you
who's gonna find me out. You see how he broke
in by forcing the screen on that window. I see

(02:06:36):
where this spring was bashed out from the inside.

Speaker 37 (02:06:39):
But what do you say?

Speaker 1 (02:06:41):
And I feel see any footprints in the flower bed below?
It's no wonder you served a term for arson, among
other things. Oh listen, I mean a sloppy center you
made here? What are you talking about? Given loose in
your shirt and used car business, so it looked like
you might have to take a chance in the rackets again.
You're running and just tend This investigating committee came along,

(02:07:02):
talking freely before them, gave you an excuse to claim
you were getting threats, build up the insurance on this
place of the limit, then gave out the tail of
that jasoline that's on your doorstep as a warning, all
of it so that when your house went up in flames,
everybody would think it was set by the medical person
was supposed to be making their threats crazy time. Of course,
you've carefully emptied the place of anything valuable in stories

(02:07:24):
with these pals of yours, Josie and mack Up and
the cats skills. If any such people really exist, this
home and the garage would probably be nothing, even ashes
right now. If I hadn't come along earlier, could have
killed you. Then I think you were just a lousy shot. Yeah,
I don't want all that noise brought the police and
you found out who I am. I'm sure sure you

(02:07:46):
could use me to help build up your case for
whenever you decided to fire this place you thought. But
it didn't work, Bertie, because oh no, you don't come on,
put your hand, come on over your head, rich Bertie, listen,
didn't pull a gun quickly, can.

Speaker 18 (02:07:59):
You You don't need to, don't move right in back
of you.

Speaker 1 (02:08:04):
Drop the gun. Kill him, yeah, man, or kill him.
We'll fire a joint and get up in a country
where Josie and Michael swear we've been with him all
the time. Yeah, Berd Yeah, Yeah, that's what we're doing. Listen,
we'll strip this guy after you knock him off. He'll

(02:08:26):
find his bones after the fire, and I'll think it's me.
That's another twenty grand of insurance to collect. No Bertie,
what I'm leaving both of you here. You've gone crazy
after this night set up. I'd be crazy if I
didn't take all I could get out of it. You ready, Berty?

(02:08:50):
All right, dyl I know it's you, Vinaura.

Speaker 18 (02:08:53):
Would you come from your dirty gun?

Speaker 1 (02:09:00):
Thanks? Sagon. Well that's okay, Dollard. But you can be
mighty glad that hospital called me up when they found
you'd sneaked out on them. You know something, session, Yeah,
I'm mighty glad. Expense accounts Soul, including my hospital bill,

(02:09:21):
my run at the bell if you want a couple
of bills, plus of course the trip back to Heartburd
seventy nine, seventy five remarks my brother. From here on in,
it's up to the company and the police to straighten things.
Us yours, Judie Johnny Dollar, our star will return in

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even doctors, and when constallation occurs, it's interesting to see
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Speaker 25 (02:10:01):
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Speaker 17 (02:10:52):
Now here is our star to tell you about next
week's story.

Speaker 1 (02:10:55):
Next week, Sarasota Florida, A body floating in a byo
and one too many sus join us? Won't you yours
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(02:11:27):
originates in Hollywood and has written, produced and directed.

Speaker 17 (02:11:30):
By Jack Johnstone.

Speaker 1 (02:11:33):
Heard in our cast were Virginia, Greg, Harry Bartel, John Diamond,
and Bert Holland. Be sure to join us next week,
same time and station, or another exciting story of Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar.

Speaker 17 (02:11:54):
This is Dan Cobberly speaking, Take.

Speaker 1 (02:12:05):
The Last Trip, a bizarre way to end a romantic
triangle on suspense Next on the CBS Radio Network. Hello,
my name's Henry J. Mitchell. Missus Mitchell and I are
standing here on the second deck of this ocean liner
waiting to start our trip around the world. You know

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now that the day is finally here, we can hardly
wait to get going. Naturally, we started saving towards this
day some time ago by investing regularly in United States
Savings bombs.

Speaker 17 (02:12:39):
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E bonds, we were making the wisest, safest investment possible.
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see the money that goes into US savings, bombs helps
to keep America strawn. We all know that peace costs money.
Money to help keep the peace through industrial and military strength,
and money to make it last through science and education.

(02:13:04):
We're mighty cloud to do our share in securing the
future of our country. Are you doing your part? Start
today in the United States? Savings fis W radio fifty nine. Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:13:19):
That WROW air check probably from the collection of Patrispoley.
He lived in the WROW listening area near Albany. And
here's the reason we have a lot of these late
fifties and early sixties yours truly Johnny Dollar gunsmoke and

(02:13:42):
suspense shows. He also collected a lot of baseball game
recordings at the same time, Dodgers, Giants, Yankees, Mets, all
New York teams. He traded his recordings heavily and they
survived the ebbs and flows of collecting among collector since
he passed away at the age of fifty three back

(02:14:03):
in nineteen seventy nine. We have a number of shows.
In fact, we've got a full line of shows from
nineteen fifty seven that we got from the Internet archive
from him as well. I did a little number crunching,
and while television sets at the time were two to

(02:14:24):
four hundred dollars for a good television set, a good
tape recorder for home use was about one hundred to
one hundred to two hundred dollars. So some people who
wanted to actually save these old shows because it was
obvious to any fan of dramatic radio at the time

(02:14:46):
that the era was coming to a close. So that's
what they did. They recorded the shows themselves, all right.
Up Next, here an episode of Bloomin Abner with in
Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox. Oh that by the way,
November eight, nineteen fifty nine, Bob Bailey and yours truly,
Johnny Dollar, as it was broadcast on this date, Sunday,

(02:15:10):
November eighth, nineteen fifty nine. We will wrap it up
with a nineteen forty three episode of Alomenabner.

Speaker 1 (02:15:16):
Next.

Speaker 11 (02:15:23):
Keep your Guard up.

Speaker 13 (02:15:24):
That's the key slogan of the nineteen fifty National Guard
recruiting drive, and it's a slogan as timely as today's headlines.
More than ever before, America stands prepared, and the National
Guard must recruit approximately two hundred and twenty thousand men
as soon as possible. By joining the National Guard, young
men will have the advantage of choosing their own unit
and preparing themselves for promotion by being in a job

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for which they are best qualified. Investigate the National Guard
now help America to keep up its guard.

Speaker 3 (02:15:52):
Now we wrap up this Saturday edition of Classic Radio
Theater with an episode of Alomnabner eighty two years ago
November eight, nineteen forty three. Give you an idea of
what's being talked about here. Lomon Abner trying to open
a motion picture theater. Problem is squire skimps trying to
compete with them.

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(02:17:45):
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(02:18:07):
let's see what's going on down on Pine Ridge. Well,
yesterday Lemon Avenue learned that the Squire Skimp's threat to
open a competitive theater was not idle talk. He's runted
the lodge hall for his theater and also the chairs
which the old Fellows had planned on using in their
picture house. As we're looking on the little community today,

(02:18:27):
we find Lemon Avenue and then jot them downstore and library,
trying to solve the seating problem. Listen, we got to
have seats for some kind Avenue. We can't expect folks
to stand up and watch the show.

Speaker 28 (02:18:40):
Well, we can't afford to buy new ones neither. Long
them things runs into awful lot of money.

Speaker 4 (02:18:46):
I don't know what to do.

Speaker 1 (02:18:47):
I mean either I never slept a wink or last
night worrying about it. My dog is wait a minute, long.

Speaker 28 (02:18:53):
Maybe we could get them seats over at the school
house because they don't run school at night. Their scholar
just take up books during the day time.

Speaker 1 (02:19:00):
Yeah, but we'd have to be toting the chairs over
to the picture show every night and back to the
school house every morning. Huh, that wouldn't do. I I
thought about getting some rocking chairs and putting over there.
But folks get the rocking They all wind up down
the front roll.

Speaker 27 (02:19:13):
Yeah yeah, they floor. Well they can't rock on that
sliding floor.

Speaker 28 (02:19:17):
And I dobt if we could get enough rockers to
go in there too, had to take an awful lot
of them.

Speaker 17 (02:19:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:19:23):
Them them desks so wouldn't do it all? An't there?
They'd be too little, too little?

Speaker 28 (02:19:27):
Wait, sure, well, maybe we could just let their children
setting down littles and put them up on the front roll.

Speaker 4 (02:19:33):
You know, No, I don't believe that had work.

Speaker 1 (02:19:34):
No, huh, couldn't get children to come to a show
if they had to sit down at school desks to
see it, No and feel like they'd got caught in.

Speaker 4 (02:19:41):
A trap or huhing.

Speaker 27 (02:19:42):
Yeah, yeah, I reckon.

Speaker 28 (02:19:43):
They do like to get as fur away from things
as they can.

Speaker 4 (02:19:46):
Now I'm feared that I ain't gonna help us now, yam,
I don't know what we can do.

Speaker 28 (02:19:50):
Then I thought that you done made a deal with
Mores Moose to ramp them chairs from a lodge hole.

Speaker 1 (02:19:56):
You said you did, well, I did, I jumped on
was about that this morning too, But he says, Squire
called a meeting of the trustees of the lodge estoryt
then made him a proposition to rent the chairs and
the lodge hall board. Uh see, Squire's one of the
high ouspers in the lodge and they'll do might know anything.

Speaker 28 (02:20:11):
He says, Well, you are to got Mores to put
that right. And then when you made that deal with him, long.

Speaker 4 (02:20:16):
Yeah, I reckon, there are too.

Speaker 1 (02:20:18):
Never seemed necessary then though, good Squire or nobody else
is planning to open up another show, then no, you know.

Speaker 28 (02:20:25):
Always Now we've thought about renting that lodge hall. That's
going to make a dandy place for a show, and
we wouldn't have had to remall that warehouse like we're
having to do.

Speaker 1 (02:20:33):
One wouldn't cost us nothing. I know. I just never
had no ideas they rented though. They never have let
it out for anything like that before. No, never, or
at leastways, not that I recollect of.

Speaker 37 (02:20:44):
No.

Speaker 4 (02:20:45):
I tell you one thing.

Speaker 1 (02:20:46):
If Squire Skim thinks he's going to keep us from
opening up our picture show just for renting them chairs,
he's got another thinker coming over he has.

Speaker 4 (02:20:52):
Huh. I'm more determined than ever to make a success
out of it now.

Speaker 7 (02:20:56):
I know.

Speaker 1 (02:20:56):
That's the way I like to hear you talk long.
That's a I believe we got to jump on Squire too.
Got to jump on Yeah, huh, we got started before
he did. Oh, I don't mean started jumping either.

Speaker 28 (02:21:08):
Well, I just wondered what you meant. I thought you
meant we order to jump on him. I'm in favor
of that. Long, give him on whooping. I'll help you
do it. Jump on him my first time he comes
in here. I'll tell you what long you get him
over here, and I'll get up over the door there
and when he comes in.

Speaker 4 (02:21:21):
The front door.

Speaker 27 (02:21:22):
I'll jump right down straddle of his shoulder.

Speaker 4 (02:21:24):
I ain't talking about that kind of jumping.

Speaker 27 (02:21:25):
Abner, Well, what are the kind ready to do?

Speaker 1 (02:21:28):
We've got to jump on him. We got started for
he did huh. We got the music all arrange for.

Speaker 28 (02:21:33):
Oh yeah, we got that grand Pappy speared in this
Flaire Pine or we got the music.

Speaker 1 (02:21:37):
Yeah, and we've got a moving picture machine all bought,
and some films to run in it. Cedric's learned how
to operate the machine good. Now he practices on it
half the time.

Speaker 28 (02:21:47):
Yeah, Yeah, Old Squire's gonna find out he's bucking up
again the wrong fellowship. Ain't no doubt about that, especial
when we.

Speaker 27 (02:21:53):
Jump on him.

Speaker 1 (02:21:55):
I wouldn't be a bit sprided for what he goes
bankrupted in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 28 (02:21:58):
Old e Staff may not be out of heart spit
on in that length of time we get done with him.
I wish we could open my far picture show tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (02:22:04):
Long Well, I.

Speaker 1 (02:22:05):
Don't know, don't see why we can't open by Thursday. Anyway,
Thursday that is, we can get some chairs by that time.

Speaker 28 (02:22:12):
Well, let's get some INLNG well where well, I don't
know but whatever we do, let's get opened up for
a squire skimp does long?

Speaker 4 (02:22:19):
I don't worry, we will.

Speaker 1 (02:22:20):
Yeah, yeah, got to do it to be comes to
our pianer player now, huh our pianeer player, Grandpap, Oh.

Speaker 28 (02:22:27):
Yeah, old Grandpath, bless you. I love that Taylor friend.
He has a true friend if ever I seen.

Speaker 4 (02:22:33):
Yeah, we're lucky to get him.

Speaker 1 (02:22:35):
Oh yes we are. We sure hope he's bought some
new roles of music for pianer like I told him to.

Speaker 28 (02:22:40):
I do too, Folks, who's going to get off of
tard to hearing him two rolls that he's got for
that steamboat? Be on, casey John, We want to have
some new one. Yeah, hi, Grandpath, come on in, Grandpath.
Oh boy, say did you get some new music?

Speaker 4 (02:22:56):
How's that?

Speaker 1 (02:22:56):
Evener?

Speaker 27 (02:22:57):
A law wants to know if you bought some new
music for the player piano.

Speaker 4 (02:23:01):
Oh yep, yeah, yeah, I knowed you ain't got him yet,
but ordered them.

Speaker 28 (02:23:06):
Well good for you, Grandpath.

Speaker 27 (02:23:08):
What ones did you order?

Speaker 1 (02:23:09):
Oh? I forget this now, huh, say Heller say something
I wanted to talk to you about.

Speaker 4 (02:23:13):
I don't know exactly how to say it, hardy.

Speaker 28 (02:23:16):
Boy, just go out of head, Grandpap, where your friends?
You know that your true friends be in law?

Speaker 4 (02:23:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:23:22):
Well, uh did you know that squire skimps putting in
a picture show over in a large hole?

Speaker 28 (02:23:27):
Oh we can we know that, grandpath all. We don't
need to worry about breaking that.

Speaker 27 (02:23:31):
News to us.

Speaker 1 (02:23:32):
We already know that too, good and well yeah, yeah,
of course. Now he's going to have to have music
over there, you know.

Speaker 28 (02:23:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, but we beat old squire to a
there that player pianer yours is the only one in town.

Speaker 27 (02:23:44):
We've got him there.

Speaker 4 (02:23:46):
Yeah, that's right? Any why sure it is?

Speaker 27 (02:23:48):
Of course?

Speaker 1 (02:23:49):
Now I understand he's done hard yourself a pianer player
he has? For goodness akes, who did you get anyways? Why? Uh?

Speaker 4 (02:23:57):
He got me?

Speaker 1 (02:23:58):
Got you?

Speaker 4 (02:24:00):
Now, don't be too hard on me, Fellers, try to
see my side of this whole thing.

Speaker 28 (02:24:03):
Well, if that don't beat anything I ever heard of,
I thought you was our friend, Grandpa. I am your
friend after it's gonna sound like it. Hey, I hate
to quit you fellas the worst way, especial since I'm
quitting for I even get started. But a feller's got
to look out for yourself nowadays, I've got to get
the best I can from a talent. Talents you call

(02:24:25):
playing a player pane or talents?

Speaker 4 (02:24:27):
Why sure?

Speaker 1 (02:24:28):
And us fellas with talents ain't good business heads as
a rule, and we're always getting underpaid. But Squire said
he wouldn't take advantage.

Speaker 4 (02:24:35):
Of me that way. He'll pay me a fair wage.

Speaker 28 (02:24:38):
All right, dogs, I can't get over this, Grandpap.

Speaker 1 (02:24:42):
How much is Squire giving you Grandpath six dollars a week?
Just twice what you fellas offered. Did he know that
you was aiming on furnishing the music for us?

Speaker 6 (02:24:52):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (02:24:52):
He said that was the reason he's family situages is
at That sounds like him? All right, Grandpap, supposing we
raised them wage, it is a little give you a
little more than he's offering.

Speaker 27 (02:25:02):
Yeah, say say seven dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:25:04):
Oh on, no, I couldn't do that.

Speaker 27 (02:25:07):
Eight dollars, ten dollars, No, one hundred dollars.

Speaker 4 (02:25:10):
You mean that one hundred dollars?

Speaker 1 (02:25:12):
Wait a minute here, Avenue never meant that. Huh, let's
go back to eight dollars. Yeah, bat you well, I'd
love to take that long, but it's it's too late.
I doesn't sign agreement a contract to furnished music for
Squire for three months.

Speaker 28 (02:25:26):
I don't get Grandpappy spears you order to be ashamed
of yourself. You onre low down, varmit abnuer, you overhanded
snake in the week.

Speaker 4 (02:25:36):
Wait a minute, avenue, pew body. I ain't taking that
kind of talk off of you or nobody.

Speaker 27 (02:25:39):
Else, anybody to pull a stump like that, you dog.
You can't see nothing too bad, old Barnmit.

Speaker 1 (02:25:46):
If we can't blame Grandpap for taking a better deal
than we give him, that's just human nature.

Speaker 28 (02:25:51):
Yeah, thank you, I'm for sing it my way. Just
hope you fellers want hold this again. I know one
of us that's going to ain't saying whod is that?

Speaker 4 (02:26:00):
I expect? I better be going. I want to run
over to the place and tell Charity the good news.
I'll see you fellers later.

Speaker 28 (02:26:06):
Well, don't hurry back, hoping never comes back in hate
and despising all of us.

Speaker 4 (02:26:12):
Have Well, no, you oughtn't have been so hard on
Grandpath Well.

Speaker 28 (02:26:15):
Lord me lam ain't no other player pine in town
except Hism.

Speaker 1 (02:26:19):
No. I know then, but it's Squire that's to blame
for all this. I hate him too, But we will
put in a picture show just the same.

Speaker 4 (02:26:26):
Don't you worry.

Speaker 1 (02:26:27):
He can't stop us just by herring our pianer player
from hers We said we could play the pioneer or something.

Speaker 27 (02:26:34):
Well, he's going to be running a picture show machine.

Speaker 28 (02:26:36):
Laun can't be upfur and down in front playing a.

Speaker 27 (02:26:39):
Pine at the same time.

Speaker 28 (02:26:41):
Boy, just do one job at a time. Women with
that all rang, it might have been yeah, answer that grand.

Speaker 1 (02:26:49):
Pap, Hello, old John, Im down store and library, and
I'm Edward's talking.

Speaker 27 (02:26:52):
But she's a little older. Oh, howey you Jeane beat
the daylights out of him?

Speaker 4 (02:26:57):
How you getting along over there?

Speaker 7 (02:26:58):
I know?

Speaker 27 (02:26:59):
Just how strong?

Speaker 1 (02:27:01):
Huh?

Speaker 27 (02:27:01):
Take something over?

Speaker 1 (02:27:02):
I see?

Speaker 27 (02:27:03):
Well, what's the matter somethe can be?

Speaker 1 (02:27:05):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (02:27:06):
Well, how much is square pen?

Speaker 27 (02:27:09):
You get up over the door and jump on?

Speaker 4 (02:27:11):
Well we will double lad. Oh doesn't sign the contract? Huh?

Speaker 1 (02:27:16):
Oh, well, now, Eugene, can't we talk this thing over
short of finish our job for you?

Speaker 27 (02:27:22):
Huh Yeah, looks like I'm gonna have a lot of jump.

Speaker 1 (02:27:27):
Yeah, sure, I see all right, the Eugene flying Avenue
that corner.

Speaker 4 (02:27:33):
Yeah, good day, Greny. What folks won't do for a
few dollars.

Speaker 28 (02:27:38):
Has Eugene Blevins quit us, now sign up.

Speaker 27 (02:27:41):
With Squire Skimp too.

Speaker 4 (02:27:43):
Yeah, him and all the other cartenters.

Speaker 28 (02:27:45):
Just what I figured, dog, that's him's on the cartenters
is in town too long? Eugene Blevins and that bunch
and everyone there is in town.

Speaker 4 (02:27:53):
It just looks like they ain't no one thing.

Speaker 27 (02:27:55):
And Squire won't do snake in the weeds.

Speaker 1 (02:27:58):
He ain't stopped the ship though, So we'll get that
picture show of ours open. If we have to finish
building ourselves.

Speaker 27 (02:28:04):
I dog, is that's your thing to do? Women?

Speaker 1 (02:28:06):
Women?

Speaker 28 (02:28:06):
There comes Cedric. He'll help us, old Sedric. He's a
good man with a hammer too long. You tell him
where to nail, he can nail gus.

Speaker 4 (02:28:13):
Yeah, that's right. He can help it a whole lot.

Speaker 1 (02:28:15):
Well, the three of us get over there and get
the work, and we can get the thing over Thursday anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:28:19):
Why sure, we can some chairs or boards or something
for him to set on.

Speaker 27 (02:28:22):
Get Elizabeth over there.

Speaker 28 (02:28:24):
She can haul the lumber for us while we cut
it up, so it hammered on to the places where
it ought to be hammered on to. Now come on
in here, Cedric, We've got something to talk to you
about what is mister Abner, Well, that's snake in the weeds.
Squire's camp has hard our pie and our player, and
now it's hard all our carpenters away from us.

Speaker 4 (02:28:43):
Whoa what do you know about time?

Speaker 27 (02:28:45):
But Dad ain't gonna stop us, Cedric? Where going?

Speaker 28 (02:28:47):
I finish the carpenter work ourselves, and we want you
to help us.

Speaker 4 (02:28:50):
Ool, Yes, well I'd love to do that.

Speaker 11 (02:28:52):
Well, good for you.

Speaker 27 (02:28:54):
I know we could depend on old seddry.

Speaker 1 (02:28:57):
We were moren't likely get started on it right tomorrow?

Speaker 27 (02:28:59):
Can you make it tomorrow? Sentry?

Speaker 1 (02:29:01):
Yes, ma'am, well, good bird. Have to check first the
one and see if my contract says it's all right
for me to do that. Hit your contract, Yes, mama,
I signed a contract to run mister Squire's picture machine.
Fir him.

Speaker 2 (02:29:12):
Huh.

Speaker 4 (02:29:12):
He sure pays good wages too, don't it.

Speaker 1 (02:29:14):
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(02:29:38):
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(02:29:58):
stores package by the glass. Episode of Fountain.

Speaker 3 (02:30:26):
Just what you'd expect from Squire Skimp eighty two years ago.
November eight, nineteen forty three, Lomon Abner here on Classic
Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox on our Sunday show Comedy
with Jack Bennie, The Aldridge Family, Edgar Bergan with Charlie McCarthy.
Lomon Abner and we'll be back on tomorrow. Have yourself

(02:30:48):
a great Saturday. We'll see you tomorrow for more Classic
Radio Theater. I'm Wyatt Cox

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