Classic Radio 11-15-25 - The Fair Fugitive, the Square Triangle, and the Carved Initials - Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cox

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Now the greatest radio shows of all time.

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As my classic Radios Theater, the.

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Alone rang Zer.

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Now step back into a time machine.

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It's your host, Wyatt Cox.

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Good evening Friend, Vionna Tanto.

Speaker 6 (00:39):
Westerns on this Saturday with editions of Have Gun World
Travel and Gun Smoke, Gene Autry's Melody Ranch, Jimmy Stewart
is a six Shooter, and an episode of Love and After.
That's all coming up on this Saturday, fifteenth day of
November three hundred and nineteenth day of the year, forty
six days remaining. After sixteen months of the Bay, the

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Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation on this date
in seventeen seventy seven. The first US Catholic college, Georgetown University,
opened its stores on this date in seventeen ninety one.
Lieutenant Zebulon Pike saw a distant mountain peak on this
date in eighteen oh six, while near the Colorado foothills
of the Rocky Mountains. It would be later named Pike's Peak.

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Union General William Tacumcye Sherman burned Atlanta to the ground
and started Sherman's March to the Sea during the Civil
War on this date. In eighteen sixty four, the first
Assembly of the League of Nations held in Geneva on
this date. In nineteen twenty, NBC Radio Network opened with
twenty four stations on this date in nineteen twenty six.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Versus NBC the National Broadcasting Company.

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Originally developed in nineteen twenty seven as seven notes, the
NBC times were standardized to the current three note version
in the early thirties, possibly as early as nineteen twenty nine.
The chimes were originally employed as an audible programming queue

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used to alert network control engineers and the announcers at
NBC's radio network affiliates. They soon became associated with NBC
programming in general, and are an early example of an
interval signal used to help establish a broadcaster's identity with
its audience at times of emergency. During World War II,

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there were occasions where there were four chimes used. The
fourth chime indicated as a signal to employees to report
to studios, or a signal to affiliates that special programming
was upcoming. In nineteen thirty nine, President Roosevelt laid the

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cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, d C. The
first Elvis Presley opened down this state in nineteen fifty six.
Love Me Tender. It was on this date. In nineteen
fifty nine, poor members of the Herbert Clutter family were
murdered at their farm outside Holcombe, Kansas.

Speaker 7 (03:13):
It was a frightening thing, and of course we had
no idea of at the time what had happened. And
once we found out about the guy from the guy
from the pen that came forth, we didn't release any
of that information to the press at all. And of course,
this day and age, why they probably would be dumb

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enough to do that, but we didn't, and of course
because we didn't want to spook him, and he didn't
believe that story, and he poo pooed the whole thing.
And they had written some bad checks. And so rather
than us try and file file a warrant or anything
for the arrest for murder, why the county attorney down

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there in Johnson County cooperated with us, and so we
sent out the bulletin that these people wanted for these
bad checks.

Speaker 6 (04:08):
Former Finney County Kansas prosecutor Dwayne West speaking to Wichita
Eagle reporter Fernando Salazar. Of course, that Holcombe, Kansas murder
of the Herbert Clutter family became enshrined by a fellow
by the name of Truman Capodi in the book and
movie In Cold Blood. In Washington, on this date in

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nineteen sixty nine, anywhere from a quarter to a half
million protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War,
including a symbolic march against death. O. I don't know

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what I said, had on the sounds of Washington on
this date in nineteen sixteen. The first Wendy's fast food
restaurant opened on this date in nineteen sixty nine by
Dave Thomas in Dublin, Ohio. A package from the unibomber
ted Kazinski began smoking in the cargo hold of apply

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from Chicago to Washington on this date in nineteen seventy nine,
forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. It was
six years later, nineteen eighty five, a research assistant injured
as a package from Kazinski the unibomber, addressed to a
University of Michigan professor, exploded. It was on this date.

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In nineteen ninety producers acknowledged Millie Banilli, who won the
nineteen ninety Best New Artist Grammy Award, didn't sing on
their own albums. And it was on this date in
nineteen ninety one, a federal appeals court throughout Iran Contra
related felony convictions against former National Security advisor John Poindexter,

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court ruling that that immunized testimony Poindexter had given before
Congress improperly used against him. Poindexter said the prosecution, led
by independent counsel Lawrence Walsh, had gotten out of control.

Speaker 8 (06:12):
He's got a bunch of young attorneys down there that
are anxious to make a name for themselves and are
doing it at other people's expense, and I think that's wrong.

Speaker 9 (06:20):
Now.

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It was twenty six years ago today. Virtual Pets internet
website neopets was founded back in nineteen ninety nine, and
to this date, neopets still exists. It is still active.
It was on this date twenty four years ago today.
Two thousand and one, Microsoft released the Xbox, the company's

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first video game console. In two thousand and four, New
Jersey Governor Jim mcgreeby left office three months after resigning
due to a gay extramarital affair, State Senator Richard Cody
took over as interim governor. Al Jazeera English launched worldwide
on this date in two thousand and six, and on

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that same date in two thousand and six, O. J.
Simpson caused an uproar with plans for a TV interview
in a book titled If I Did It, in which
Simpson described how he would have committed the nineteen ninety
four sling of his ex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and
his friend Ronald Goleman. In an interview two days later,

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Ronald Goleman's father, Fred expressed his disgust with the announcement He's.

Speaker 10 (07:30):
Going to tell the world how he would have murdered
his children's mother and my son in a book and
on national TV.

Speaker 6 (07:40):
Just as quickly as the idea was hatched, it was
scrapped after an outcry condemning it as reboltive and exploited.
But it was announced nineteen years ago today on this date.
In two thousand and seven, baseball home run king Barry
Bonds indicted on charges related to grand jury testimony during

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which he denied knowingly using performance enhancing drugs. Monds later
convicted of obstruction of justice. Now, in twenty eleven, hundreds
of police officers in riot gear rated the Occupy Wall
Street encampments in New York City. Hundreds of protesters were

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evicted and the tense city was demolished. We mentioned earlier
in two thousand and one, the Xbox was first released,
while on this date, two years ago, on the twelfth
anniversary of the release of the Xbox, Sony released the
PlayStation four game console. Among those passing away on this

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date in history, radio's Ebenezer Scrooge, Lionel Barrymore passing away
on this date. Interestingly enough, in nineteen fifty four, shortly
after a release of the whole of the Christmas Carol

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on records, many radio stations who never aired a Christmas
Carol would air the recordings from the record set that
was released by I Believe r C. A victor also
passing away on this date, Tyrone Power, anthropologist Margaret Meade,
government official in alleged spy Alger Hisss, actress singer Dorothy Loudon,

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and musician Roy Clark birthdays on this date. Of those
who are no longer with us include the Macho Man
Randy Savage, the.

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World Wrestling Federation for Ricky Steinbaut being the other continental champion.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
Today interference here in my moment of glory. Yeah, no,
I'm living in a nightmare. Can I name the queen?
Not your cold heavyweight Championship belt must fall, but the
World Heavyweight Championship.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Belt, because yeah, came the quean. Yeah, the Queen of
the crop.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
And there is no one.

Speaker 9 (10:15):
That does it better than the Mozo Man Randy Savage.

Speaker 6 (10:19):
Second generation wrestler. His father Angelo Poffo, was a moderate performer.
He ran uh what was at that time called an
outlaw promotion against established wrestling territories, featuring not only Randy
Savage but his brother who would later become known as

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Leaping Lanny Propo Pofo. Uh and uh, but quite frankly,
the big star was Savage and of course uh. One
of the people who was in the outlaw promotion as
an interviewer was a young lady named Liz Hewitt who
would later become known as Miss Elizabeth, his real life wife.

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Macho Man Randy Savage born on this date in history.
Also celebrating birthdays today, Judge Hardy in the Andy Hardy
movies and on radio. Lewis Stone, the composer of beautiful
lush music elevator music as some people call it, Montevani.
Curtis LeMay, who, in addition to being an Air Force general,

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was presidential vice presidential candidate along with George Wallace in
Wallace's independent run. LeMay and Wallace, Wallace and LeMay, I
should say, the last independent candidates to ever receive electoral votes.
People's Court Judge Joseph Wapner born on this date of

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Senator Howard Baker, who was vice who was the President
Reagan's chief of staff. Singer CW. McCall, who did lots
of radio jingles and lots of commercial jingles, but then
created The Convoy in the height of the cb craze.
That record was a massive crossover hit, not only on

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country charts but also on pop music charts. Ed Asner
Lou Grant born on this date, and singer Clyde McPhatter,
all born on this date in history. They have since
left the building.

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Hi, this is Jeff Foxworthy.

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people are now officially older than.

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Dirt Patula Clark, big hit record Downtown ninety three years
old today from Law and Order in the Killing Field.
Sam Waterston is eighty five from National Lampoon's Vacation. Beverly
di'angelo is seventy four from Jay Leno's Tonight's Show Band.
Kevin Eubanks is sixty eight and she starred in a

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Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Talks continues now as we
go back sixty six years to November fifteenth, nineteen fifty
nine for an episode of Have Gun Will Travel.

Speaker 13 (15:35):
You won't stop me from getting these logs through. My
gun is pointed at your man's head. Now put your
rifle down or he'll be a long time dead.

Speaker 14 (15:57):
Have Gun Will Travel, starring mister John Dayner as Paladin,
San Francisco, eighteen seventy five. The Carlton Hotel headquarters of
a man called Paladin, Yes.

Speaker 13 (16:31):
Who is it? He's half boy? Well, come in, hey boy, hello,
I can't help, I'll do missa paladin arm is four
All right? Wait a minute, Oh see he's a paladin?
Good heavens? What's all that you're carrying? Basible things? You
remember you said you teach hey boy how to play baseball?

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He can bring stuff in sat down? Well, yes, of
course he's hot. He Oh he's a great heavy mess
learning to play baseball. What on earth are all those
things supposed to be?

Speaker 15 (17:09):
Hey boy?

Speaker 5 (17:10):
Bats?

Speaker 13 (17:11):
Bats? What do you think, missa paladin? What it looks
like you brought every kind of sticky con fine?

Speaker 16 (17:16):
Oh you saw?

Speaker 17 (17:17):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (17:17):
Why the one? Skinny ones? Fat ones? Hey boy? Have
many basketball players to choose from? Oh I see he saw?
Shall we get started, mister paladin? Hey boy wanted to
tell all members of Chinese Imperial Dragon Club about the baseball.
Uh you take you back now? Oh no, not now,
hey boy, I've got to finish packing. Oh uh you
leave today? Yes, I thought you knew. Oh to see

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Macy Mitchell in Washington Territory. That's right, Oh, hey boy,
think you leave tomorrow. Well, you've been so busy buying
up all that baseball equipment. You've lost track of the days.
You wanna help me finish packing?

Speaker 5 (17:52):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (17:52):
Sah, so sorry, hey boy, forgot. There'll be plenty of
time for your baseball lessons when I get back. You'll
have all winter to practice. Oh oh, you think Imperial
Dragon Club have good team by springing time. If they're
as interested as you are, it should be one of
the best teams in San Francisco. Oh, very good. At
least make a hey boy, very important man club.

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Should Winston tastes good like a cigarette? Should?

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Speaker 13 (19:29):
Elizabeth Mitchell had been in San Francisco attending a finishing
school for young ladies. When we met. We attended many
parties together for a period of months. Then, during one
of my absences, she left with no indication as to
where she was going. Now, six months later I had
received a telegram from her saying that she was the
owner of a logging camp near Palmer Junction in Washington

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Territory and that she needed me. I took a steamer
to Seattle and there rented a horse with a ride
into the Green River section of the Cascade Mountains. There
was snow on the ground and the air was strangely
still as I rode through the tall timbered mountain country.

Speaker 5 (20:10):
You've come far enough to stop where you are.

Speaker 13 (20:13):
Mister all right, you're down off your horse.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
You're a stranger in these mountains, ain't you?

Speaker 13 (20:25):
You always shoot a strangers.

Speaker 21 (20:26):
Nobody passes here.

Speaker 13 (20:28):
This is mister Hoffman's camp. Well, look, I mean no harm,
mister Hoffman. I'm just looking for another logging camp. It
belongs to miss Mitchell.

Speaker 15 (20:36):
Mitchell, and you turn around and go back where you came.

Speaker 13 (20:41):
I've come too far for that.

Speaker 22 (20:43):
Aks.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
What's going on there, stranger, mister Hoffman? He says he's
going to that Mitchell.

Speaker 13 (20:51):
George, give me that rifle right now. Now shall we
find out what this is all about. I've got your
covered jahn. My pistol is pointed at your man's head,
but your rifle downery is dead. The rifle put it down,
all right? Why makes no difference who I am? I

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told this man I was going to miss Mitchell's camp,
and that's where I'm going. I own his lot to
cross my land to get there, and I go around.

Speaker 5 (21:21):
Oh you won't.

Speaker 13 (21:22):
I own all the lands surrounding our camp, all right.
In that case, I'm going through an axle here will
guide me. I think you will get up on your feet.

Speaker 23 (21:36):
What he says axel, Yes, sir, you've come to help
her get those logs through. Your wasting your time. I'll
stop you every way there is. All I know is
I've come because a lady called me. Now get out
of my way.

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Speaker 13 (23:13):
Under the circumstances, the man called Axel was only too
happy to direct me to Elizabeth's logging camp and then
depart from my company. There was a typical camp with
a sturdy main cabin, a cookshack, several other buildings for
the work gang, and the tool sheds. Something was wrong.
There were no men working, and felled logs lay scattered

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about on the ground. They should have been in stacks
for the trip to the mills. I dismounted and walked
toward the cabin, Palady.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Elizabeth, is it really you?

Speaker 13 (23:49):
Oh, I'm so glad to listen. It's good to see
you too. Now here, let me just have a look
at you.

Speaker 24 (23:55):
I've changed having that.

Speaker 13 (23:56):
Oh you're just as beautiful as ever. But I never
expected to see you in these surroundings.

Speaker 24 (24:01):
Well, this camp belonged to my father. He left it
to me when he died six months ago.

Speaker 13 (24:07):
Is that why you left San Francisco so suddenly?

Speaker 24 (24:09):
Yes, come on, come on inside where it's warm. Oh, Palade,
And I knew you'd come.

Speaker 13 (24:15):
Well, you know, if your neighbor had his way, I
wouldn't be here.

Speaker 25 (24:18):
Oh.

Speaker 24 (24:18):
Then you met mister Hoffman.

Speaker 13 (24:20):
Oh, yes, and the giant what's his name, Axel.

Speaker 24 (24:23):
Axel Grundle, Hoffman's woods boss. Sit down and sit down
at the table, and I'll pour you some coffee.

Speaker 13 (24:30):
And I could use some, Elizabeth. Why did he try
to stop me?

Speaker 24 (24:37):
Mister Hoffman? Is a reason I sent for you. I
need a man like you who knows his way around
the gun.

Speaker 13 (24:44):
Here you are, thank you.

Speaker 24 (24:49):
You see, after father died, Hoffman brought up all the
land that surrounds mine, and he won't let me cross
his property to take my logs.

Speaker 5 (24:57):
To the mill.

Speaker 13 (24:58):
I see, well, how many men do you have in
your crew?

Speaker 24 (25:03):
My crew quit when they heard Hoffman had hired Axel.
That man is the devil himself, and you'll make killers
out of every one of Hoffman's men. My men were
simply afraid.

Speaker 13 (25:13):
That's all.

Speaker 24 (25:14):
Max, my woods boss, is still with me.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
And then there's Jeff.

Speaker 24 (25:18):
He was a very good friend of father's.

Speaker 13 (25:20):
And now you well, we ought to hire some good
men to work for you.

Speaker 24 (25:24):
No, no, until I get paid for the logs on
the ground, I can't afford any man. There's money out
on this land as it is, and if I default
on the payments, Hoffman gets it.

Speaker 13 (25:37):
How's that he bought the bank stock? Ooh, he's kept
himself busy, hasn't he. That noon, Elizabeth fixed lunch for us,
and I met Jeff and Max for the first time.
It was apparent that these two men had a deep

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respect for li Butt's father, and it now transferred that
devotion to his daughter. They'd been trying to do everything
they could to stop Hoffman from taking over the land,
but they admitted that it was almost impossible. After lunch,
Max showed me around the camp. Well, Max, what about
Hoffman's woods boughts. What kind of a man is he?

Speaker 2 (26:18):
Actual?

Speaker 21 (26:19):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (26:19):
Shock, she ain't no woodsman. He's a sailor work out
of Seattle. He's trackshot with a rifle.

Speaker 17 (26:25):
Thugh.

Speaker 13 (26:25):
I know that he started taking pot shots to the
boys while I were working. Carried him all off that way.
Uh huh. Then he's he's strictly Hoffmann's strong arm man,
is it in? Yeah, that's why I brung you out
to my shed. Here, come on in, got come and
show you she hid under my bunk. H Max. I'm

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more interested in seeing what equipment you've got for stacking
those logs. Yeah, first things first, Baladin, Yeah, here she is.
Whah Will you look at that? An old Jennings rifle?
In't she beauty?

Speaker 26 (27:05):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (27:06):
Still shoots too. I figured you'd be all for going
after Hoffman's gang with guns blazing, so I've been loading Shelsford, Max.
I'm not here to kill people. The job to be
done is to get those logs to the mills. Can't
be done, Palatin. We got no man. Even if we
could stack them logs, there's no way to get him through.
There's too much snow, no roads out, no engine no team, nothing,

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nothing but my old Jenning's not gun of yours. Maybe
maybe there is a way to get the logs out?

Speaker 2 (27:38):
Huh?

Speaker 13 (27:39):
I he the man here can top a spar tree.
I can't climb no more, and Jeff don't know how.
But tell me Max, how much equipment do you have
for moving the logs?

Speaker 8 (27:47):
All of it?

Speaker 13 (27:49):
That ain't the problem. We can move this hole mountain,
the trees, but not without a high rigor maybe I
can do it Max? You Oh, you ain't, no woodsman.
I think I can spar tree shall I doubt that?
But even if you can, how are we going to
get them logs to the mill? Max? How long has
the air been still like this? The kind of questions

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are the air? It's standing still? It's strange? How long? Oh?
Ten twelve days?

Speaker 5 (28:19):
Why?

Speaker 13 (28:20):
I'm not sure? I was just thinking about something an
old Indian chief told me one time. What was that? Well,
I'd rather not say right now. Maybe he was wrong.

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Speaker 13 (29:44):
Woo. Look out below, Miss Lizabeth, I never seen nothing
like it. You told me that man was a gunman.

Speaker 24 (30:05):
Only if he has to max. Mister Paladin's a good
man to have.

Speaker 13 (30:08):
Around curis, ma'am. There's only one thing. What's that I
don't agree with? Where he picked that spar tree. Why
right too close to that old dry river.

Speaker 8 (30:17):
Bid.

Speaker 13 (30:19):
If we're going to stack logs, let him get closer
to the road where we can get a team up here.
Come springtime and get him out.

Speaker 24 (30:24):
Springtime's too late, maxed If now or never?

Speaker 8 (30:27):
All right?

Speaker 13 (30:28):
Max, not send up that block and ropes, We'll stack
the logs. What's use of it?

Speaker 24 (30:35):
Do what he says, Max?

Speaker 5 (30:36):
Max.

Speaker 13 (30:38):
Oh, It wasn't easy to get Max to agree to
stack the logs where I wanted them. But finally the
job was done. Now it was just a question of
wait and hope. This went on for a week. Max
and Jeff were getting edgy. It was all Elizabeth and

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I could do to keep Max from trotting down to
Hoffman's place with his old Jennings rifle. But finally it
came what I have been waiting for. A chinook wind.
It comes. Some people say out of an old Indian's dreams.
Others say it's the devil's breath on a particularly bad day.
All I know is it came in dry and hot,

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and it lasted for two days. Doug got it, Kaladin,
You was right, a chinook wind. It's working. That snow's
melting like it for summertime. Look at that water come down?
All then that's Jeff where deep being? Anyway? I sent
him down the river.

Speaker 5 (31:35):
Bed here, right, Helen.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
Then Hoffmann's onto our plan and got Axel and his
men building a log jam down below, going the law,
he can claim every log it clots down there.

Speaker 13 (31:45):
And stops on his property. Con shin him, Paladin, Let's
go down there and shoot him all day it. Max.
If you don't settle.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
Down, Paladin, you can't stop the logs from going.

Speaker 8 (31:54):
Now.

Speaker 24 (31:54):
The water's rising so fast they'll be starting.

Speaker 13 (31:56):
Wait a minute, Max, how much black powder do you
have have to blow this mountain up? We use it
for blashing our tree stumps?

Speaker 5 (32:03):
Good?

Speaker 13 (32:03):
What are you going to do? Jeff? Do you know
how to use a pike?

Speaker 8 (32:06):
There?

Speaker 27 (32:07):
Do?

Speaker 13 (32:07):
All? Right? Then? Now you make a skid jam here,
and when you hear a shot fired from down below,
start the logs down. Will you do it right? Come on, Max,
let's get that black powder.

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Speaker 8 (33:27):
Lost that bird?

Speaker 13 (33:40):
There they are, Paladin? Sure enough?

Speaker 1 (33:42):
Yeah, hello, summers will possibles.

Speaker 13 (33:46):
Look at actules right in the middle where we got
apprentice powder? How are we going to move him? I
know I'll shoot him from here. No, as they hear
the shot, they start the logs from up above. I
listen carefully. Yes, Paladin, I'll draw axel off the jam
they've built. Now, well, I'm busy with him. You plant
the black powder out there? Can you do it? He did.

(34:07):
I'll do it right, smack in the center. All them
logs he got stacked up.

Speaker 8 (34:10):
That's right.

Speaker 13 (34:11):
Then get off the log jam in a hurry. I'll
throw a shot at it and blow it up. All right, pallid,
Good luck to us? Right? Hey, you you Axel?

Speaker 8 (34:28):
Go on my name?

Speaker 26 (34:30):
I did.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
You?

Speaker 26 (34:33):
What do you want?

Speaker 13 (34:35):
I come to fight you. I hear you are the
toughest man ever to go to sea.

Speaker 8 (34:41):
You Scott.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
I'll fight you this time without a pistol.

Speaker 13 (34:47):
At my head. I'll kidding you.

Speaker 5 (34:52):
I'll break you in true.

Speaker 29 (34:53):
Oh no, you friend, my hands kill return all the
way A lost and my herds out.

Speaker 13 (35:06):
You I killed him?

Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (35:12):
You killed your own man? Hi didn't I? Well, I
never meant this to go so far. It was a mistake. Well,
they hold me for murder, and I suppose they will,
even Axel had a right to live. That shot you
started the law, all right, Get off the jam, Max.

Speaker 8 (35:28):
Did you see er Potter?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
Yes?

Speaker 13 (35:30):
I can see it. But get out of the way
and here comes the law too quick? All right, Max,
there they go.

Speaker 2 (35:46):
You made it.

Speaker 16 (35:47):
You made it.

Speaker 13 (35:48):
Look at them long to go through? Hey boy, sit down?

(36:15):
Oh why say you don want to learn baseball? Sit down?

Speaker 8 (36:19):
Oh you saw?

Speaker 13 (36:20):
But hey boy, figure to take many batsball, but Kate
run around very much and learn that we're not sitting stuff.
You wrong, hey boy. If I'm going to teach you,
we're going to start at the beginning.

Speaker 5 (36:32):
Now, I mean, can you tear you what your father?

Speaker 9 (36:40):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (36:40):
Yes, bring it in, just set it down this one. Now,
hey boy, here's how the hold you?

Speaker 29 (36:46):
Boy?

Speaker 25 (36:46):
What you're doing here?

Speaker 7 (36:48):
Uh?

Speaker 13 (36:49):
Learning to play baseball?

Speaker 1 (36:52):
Why m hm oh?

Speaker 13 (36:56):
Maybe get to be uh president of Imperial Dragon Club? Oh,
miss Wong Si Corna. Now, hey boy, listen to this.
Baseball is played by two teams. You are not going
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Speaker 14 (38:38):
Created by Herb Meadow and Sam Roth is proteuced stand
directed in Hollywood by Frank Parris and stars John Dayner
as Paladin, with Ben Wright as hey Boy and Virginia
Gregg as Miss Wang. Tonight's story was specially written for
Have Gun Will Travel by Tom Henley. Featured in the
cast were Barney Phillips, Louke Krugman, Ralph and Virginia Christine.

(39:09):
This is Hugh Douglas inviting you to join us again
next week when CBS Radio presents Have Gone Will Travel.

Speaker 6 (40:22):
From sixty six years ago, November fifteenth, nineteen fifty nine,
Have Gun Will Travel on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt
Cocks next up, Gun to Smoke.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Friends.

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Speaker 6 (41:37):
We continue on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cocks with
an episode of gun Smoke. This is not the greatest
audio from an episode of gun Smoke we've ever had,
but it goes back sixty six years to November fifteenth,
nineteen fifty nine. The episode is entitled The Square Triangle.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Around Odd 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 Mother of
Gun Smoke Gun moves foot, starring William Conrad. The story

(42:38):
of the violin that moved west with Young America and
the story of a man who moved with it.

Speaker 8 (42:44):
I'm that man, Matt Dillon, 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 22 (43:00):
Ah, oh, quiet night, miss John.

Speaker 8 (43:25):
Yeah, except for that child. It's mad at the moon,
I guess, and in love maybe.

Speaker 22 (43:32):
Oh well, I've noticed it.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Any time you find a man or animal, I'll squalling
around in the dark as.

Speaker 31 (43:38):
You usually love.

Speaker 21 (43:41):
Yeah, but this one sounds kind of more than could
chester love.

Speaker 22 (43:45):
Is mournful some time, So I've heard that.

Speaker 15 (43:49):
Right, is that you?

Speaker 29 (43:51):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (43:53):
Good evening, miss Marlefe.

Speaker 31 (43:55):
I'll have you been there?

Speaker 13 (43:57):
Oh fine, thanks, ma'am.

Speaker 8 (43:59):
Uh you down here on Front Street, This time of.

Speaker 32 (44:02):
Night alone, I'm looking for red laws and I was
meeting him some time after midnight, and they're going out
on a a cattle buying trip.

Speaker 20 (44:09):
I want a dog to him first.

Speaker 8 (44:11):
Are you satisfied? Oh, it's no place for a woman alone.
Maybe you better go home.

Speaker 13 (44:19):
Huh.

Speaker 32 (44:20):
There are other women down here.

Speaker 8 (44:22):
Why they belong here, Miss Morley, they work here.

Speaker 32 (44:25):
Don't be so stuffy mad call me ave uh everybody
else to use?

Speaker 8 (44:29):
Why your husband might take exception.

Speaker 32 (44:31):
Of that, Miss Morley, you are blaming me for what
happened before.

Speaker 8 (44:36):
I'm not blaming you for anything this morning.

Speaker 32 (44:38):
I didn't tell them to get into a gunfight over me.

Speaker 20 (44:40):
It wasn't my fault.

Speaker 8 (44:41):
I didn't say it was Uh Chester, you better see that.
Ms Marley gets home all right him?

Speaker 22 (44:49):
Uh, yes, sir, I.

Speaker 32 (44:50):
Can get home by myself.

Speaker 8 (44:53):
Good night, Ms Morley.

Speaker 22 (44:57):
My he's pretty as a picture. Think you wonder now.

Speaker 8 (45:05):
Maybe you were right? Chester? A woman like that, Uh
might be kind of mournful, my love.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
A couple of times around at Jennifer something I jerk.

Speaker 33 (45:32):
Back on it aw some Huh?

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Oh Hi, an't you.

Speaker 8 (45:34):
I wonder if I could see you for a minute?

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Yeah, sure, I'll be right by boys.

Speaker 31 (45:37):
Okay, what's on your mind? I?

Speaker 5 (45:47):
Uh, I just ran into missus.

Speaker 8 (45:50):
Morley on the street outside we did uh. I suggested
that she go home. She's got no business being down
here this time of night. Might be a good idea
if uh you would tell her that exeused to me.
That's up to her husband. You know you're new here, Lawson.

(46:10):
I guess you didn't know. Fred Curtis and the Center
a Kit. I heard about it A couple of fool
as far as I can see, as sure they were
after they met Ms Morley.

Speaker 20 (46:22):
Well, Marshall, what's your steake in it?

Speaker 8 (46:24):
I got no mistake what Ms Morley does with her
own business, as long as it doesn't cause any trouble.

Speaker 31 (46:29):
I mean, I feel kind of sorry for her, that's all.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
I'll treat her like a dog.

Speaker 8 (46:36):
Yeah, Fred and the kid used to talk the same way, Like.

Speaker 15 (46:40):
I said, a couple of fools.

Speaker 28 (46:43):
I'm not.

Speaker 8 (46:45):
I hope not.

Speaker 34 (46:47):
I'll see you around, yeah sure, yeah, Kenny, Can I
expect kids?

Speaker 2 (47:00):
What does it matter?

Speaker 8 (47:01):
Has i' moraley been in tonight?

Speaker 27 (47:03):
No?

Speaker 24 (47:04):
I haven't seen him.

Speaker 35 (47:04):
Man, Should he have been around or not?

Speaker 8 (47:06):
Necessarily he hadn't lost in the riding hodder on midnight
on a cattle buying trip. I thought they might be
meeting here.

Speaker 35 (47:14):
Well, not yet anyway, Jesse Well didn't know what the
friends are there, Jesse Wells him and you brought him
down at the end, young one.

Speaker 11 (47:21):
You met him?

Speaker 8 (47:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, Uh why would he know?

Speaker 20 (47:27):
But he's going along.

Speaker 35 (47:29):
I'll ask him to help out. They're gonna follow the lady.
Be wrong of him, try to get in ahead of
the bios in Chicago.

Speaker 8 (47:34):
Uh he Uh he's a nice looking kid in there.

Speaker 13 (47:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (47:43):
Is uh he?

Speaker 35 (47:45):
Uh, yes, he's another friend of Athers.

Speaker 17 (48:05):
Go what.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
Michael, Michael Dylon?

Speaker 26 (48:17):
We got a right?

Speaker 17 (48:19):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (48:19):
Is that it's Jesse Wells Michael holding up?

Speaker 36 (48:23):
Alright?

Speaker 25 (48:23):
Got it?

Speaker 27 (48:24):
Go?

Speaker 8 (48:28):
Yeah, what's the trouble?

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Well, better get your horse.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
We gotta ride back out there?

Speaker 15 (48:32):
Out of where?

Speaker 13 (48:33):
What's happening?

Speaker 20 (48:34):
Buffalo fletch?

Speaker 2 (48:35):
We camp there to wait for the round up crew.
Al Morley is dead, Marshall. Uh, knife in the back.

Speaker 8 (48:40):
Well you know who did it?

Speaker 2 (48:41):
Yeah? It was a red lass and he knifed al
and stole the money we were gonna use to buy cattle.

Speaker 8 (48:46):
Going on, you you better saddle up Chester we gotta ride.

Speaker 22 (48:50):
What's trouble you?

Speaker 8 (48:51):
The usual, nothing new but the names and his red
losses turned out to be a fool in spite of himself.

Speaker 5 (49:17):
Oh this way, Marshall.

Speaker 2 (49:20):
Camps right there by the plumb.

Speaker 15 (49:21):
Thicket right be daylight twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Yeah, oh oh h y, he's uh lying there by
the bushes there.

Speaker 26 (49:39):
I see.

Speaker 8 (49:48):
Hose knife?

Speaker 13 (49:48):
Is that? I see owls.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
We're all asleep. We built a fire and made some
coffee and then turned in to wait the daylight. The
lazy be bunch had planned worked their stocks up.

Speaker 13 (50:01):
This way, I see.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Are at tester rapping knife and something and hang.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
On to it, and I see go on, I see
what happened for the well, Like I said, Marshall, we
were all asleep. I guess it was the sound of
the horses hooves that woke me up. It was Red
Laws and he was pulling out.

Speaker 17 (50:21):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
I ran over to Al and shook him to wake
him up and tell him. But well, then I saw
the knife.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
He was dead.

Speaker 8 (50:28):
Why were you asleeping just well?

Speaker 9 (50:30):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (50:31):
Right about here? I guess Red was across the fire
there now where he's lying.

Speaker 8 (50:37):
Now, Uh huh what about the money? How did you
know it was gone?

Speaker 9 (50:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (50:43):
I thought of it right off. I figured that's why
I read had done it. You see, I was caring
about ten thousand dollars in a leather sack, and he'd
stuck it under his blanket before we'd gone to sleep.
I looked for it and it was gone.

Speaker 8 (50:55):
Now you figure Red killed him for the money, Well, sure, I.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Doubt if he meant too, though.

Speaker 13 (51:01):
No.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
I think Red was trying to ease the sack out
from under the blanket, and aw woke up and caught
him as possible, be light enough to start tracking him
in a few minutes.

Speaker 15 (51:09):
Still, Yeah, which way had lost?

Speaker 8 (51:12):
And head out Jesse east.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
He seemed to be following the wagon tracks.

Speaker 8 (51:16):
He's got quite a stride, Homs too much of us.
Start well, right back into the dodge and take the
train from that to a believe and then work back
from the east.

Speaker 22 (51:27):
That's a good idea.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Boston probably won't be expecting anybody ahead of him. I
can't understand it. I just can't understand that anybody.

Speaker 1 (51:36):
Could do a thing like this.

Speaker 31 (51:38):
He uh, go back break water tanks right around to
being Upperhead.

Speaker 5 (51:54):
How long the way to stop there?

Speaker 2 (51:55):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (51:55):
About five minutes, just long enough to take all the water.
I well latch mornch Hoo's a long way to get
the able who by we even twenty four miles from
Dark City.

Speaker 2 (52:06):
Feels more like a hundred teacher hard and a iron saddle.

Speaker 31 (52:10):
Hey this here, fella, you boys are looking for.

Speaker 13 (52:13):
I guess he's a real mean one man, I mean
and yeah, just like I always say, this very country
never going to be a long abiding place to live in.
Every time I pull out a Kansas City on a
run with I'm expecting every minute to be shocked from
worst cachester. Madam, mister Johnson, I got the winter air,

(52:34):
get out the bend there by the water taxi.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
Ah, looks like we don't have to go to Abileene.

Speaker 31 (52:40):
Oh yeah, I'm power awaiting to catch trainer Reckon.

Speaker 21 (52:44):
Yeah, yeay he is.

Speaker 15 (52:47):
He's the one that's him his horse and.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Tied to avery time. He must have decided down to
quick the way at traveling.

Speaker 8 (52:53):
Let's all right, Chester, you want to be expecting us.
Let's get out in the vestibule and then drop off
and taking the centers of trains.

Speaker 31 (53:00):
Yes, Marco, whatever you do, don't let him on the train.

Speaker 8 (53:03):
That just keep the passengers away from the windows.

Speaker 13 (53:08):
No way to sad mis Jones.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Ms Morley would have really enjoyed that ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 8 (53:13):
I guess, yester, how he hasn't seen the shit? All right,
let's go, Blawson, got your hands up, your running the rest?
I got your hands up.

Speaker 21 (53:28):
How about that?

Speaker 2 (53:30):
That's cutting off the team that's doing. You'ven a man
a couple of tangents for you.

Speaker 5 (53:34):
Haul down on him.

Speaker 21 (53:35):
Now we're still on our feet.

Speaker 2 (53:36):
He's not you're sure he is pushing nods though, I guess.

Speaker 8 (53:39):
Pick up his gun there will he.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
H Yes, Lawson, he's still alive.

Speaker 8 (53:47):
Yeah, can you hear me? Lawson?

Speaker 13 (53:50):
Sure?

Speaker 35 (53:50):
Sure?

Speaker 26 (53:51):
I can hear.

Speaker 17 (53:53):
You?

Speaker 20 (53:53):
Got the sack of money?

Speaker 8 (53:54):
Yeah, I see it, Lawson. There's no doctor on the train.
How we're gonna try to stop up leading into the
best we can for you. So they had trained back
toward Dodge setting in about a half hour. We'll wait
for it. I guess.

Speaker 13 (54:08):
I guess I don't have much choice do it now?

Speaker 8 (54:12):
I guess you don't. You made your choice last night.

Speaker 13 (54:16):
Hm. But she with it?

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Yes, that's it's so bad then, Matt, I'd say the
bullets lying right in against his heart, and I.

Speaker 8 (54:51):
Try to just wing him. I but you can't always
call him, you know, No, I guess not.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
Well, I'm afraid that's about well I do for him
that and that's not enough?

Speaker 13 (55:03):
Is that it? He won't live in hour?

Speaker 8 (55:07):
And I wish you were conscious. I wanna talk to him.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
The stimming that might take effect might not. But this
kind of ocase you never know.

Speaker 20 (55:18):
What is it you're after?

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Matt ms Morley accessory before the fact.

Speaker 8 (55:24):
That I should kill him? In put a minute, mm Lawson,
M Wasson?

Speaker 21 (55:32):
Can you talk?

Speaker 8 (55:33):
Can you hear me? Sure?

Speaker 21 (55:37):
Was ms Morley in on it?

Speaker 2 (55:42):
Nobody was in on that.

Speaker 8 (55:45):
You know you were gonna do it?

Speaker 20 (55:47):
She she had had had to do with it?

Speaker 8 (55:53):
Was she gonna meet you somewhere later?

Speaker 22 (55:56):
She had nothing to do.

Speaker 20 (55:58):
If it was it was m I did know it.

Speaker 8 (56:01):
Nobody else lost him. You're dying, do you know that? Yeah?

Speaker 13 (56:11):
I I n I know.

Speaker 21 (56:13):
I I can't feel it.

Speaker 13 (56:16):
She wasn't you know?

Speaker 8 (56:20):
Alright, that's why you wanted at least I don't want
Tree to like a dog anymore.

Speaker 15 (56:27):
What do you mean?

Speaker 8 (56:29):
I mean that that man can't bother anybody? Well, now
you ought to know you killed him?

Speaker 20 (56:36):
No, no, but no, I he he he was asleep.
I took the money and rode away.

Speaker 13 (56:48):
I I didn't touch him.

Speaker 20 (56:52):
I swear I didn't kill him. I I only stole
the money, and I I I did I didn't kill him.

Speaker 27 (57:01):
Hm.

Speaker 13 (57:06):
I guess I was wrong at me. Bullet was closer
to his heart than my thoughts.

Speaker 8 (57:11):
Yeah, and I was wrong about something myself. I I
thought this was the end of it. Now it's wide
open again, wide open.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
I don't see why you got me here just to
ask me the same thing all over again.

Speaker 22 (57:46):
Marshall.

Speaker 31 (57:46):
I told you how it happened.

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Yeah, I know you caught Red lost him with the
money on him.

Speaker 20 (57:50):
What more proof do you need?

Speaker 8 (57:52):
I don't he proves he took the money to I say,
it doesn't prove he killed all.

Speaker 37 (57:57):
Now what do you mean by that?

Speaker 13 (57:58):
Marshall?

Speaker 8 (57:59):
You killed yourself, didn't you?

Speaker 13 (58:01):
Jesse? You're out of your mind.

Speaker 8 (58:02):
You woke up and you saw a Red steal the
money and take off, and I gave you ideas. You
slipped over and your knife down, and I sleep and
you loss and would get that blame for sure, because
he did it, he said, he didn't.

Speaker 2 (58:12):
Of course he'd say that.

Speaker 8 (58:14):
Did you expect him to tell the truth he was dying, Jesse,
he knew he was dying. I think he did tell
the truth.

Speaker 2 (58:19):
I see his word against mine, the word of a thief.

Speaker 8 (58:22):
I didn't say I could prove it. Jesse. You did
it though, we both know that, And sooner or later
I'll get you for it.

Speaker 2 (58:37):
Quiet night was June, and it was a quiet night
last night. And two men who was alive last night
was John the Knight.

Speaker 22 (58:47):
Make you stop and.

Speaker 8 (58:48):
Wonder, well, at least one thing hasn't changed, like Kyle's
still there.

Speaker 22 (58:55):
Yeah, I guess he'll always be. Kyle's around this film.
What you gonna do about Jes you?

Speaker 17 (59:01):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 8 (59:03):
Chester. He's guilty, you could see it written all over him.
But if you know us of bringing him in, I
haven't got one piece of evidence.

Speaker 27 (59:13):
That h.

Speaker 8 (59:17):
Good evening mony is Morley Oho you're looking for tonight?
Can't be Red Loss and he's dead, so is my husband. Yes,
my deepest sympathy, don't.

Speaker 20 (59:33):
Bother you know better?

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Sorry about Red though he was nice.

Speaker 32 (59:39):
You're the one who did it, aren't you.

Speaker 13 (59:41):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (59:41):
I killed him for you. I couldn't do anything else.

Speaker 32 (59:44):
I don't know why you say for me it wasn't
my fault?

Speaker 8 (59:46):
Yeah, sure, right now?

Speaker 32 (59:47):
Oh you know you don't know anything, mad. You don't
know how it feels to sit in the house alone
with your husband dead, no one in town coming near you,
like you like you were poisoned at something.

Speaker 9 (59:58):
Sure.

Speaker 32 (59:58):
I don't feel sorry for al, but I w of ones.
He's the one who changed me, made me feel different.

Speaker 8 (01:00:04):
I know it wasn't your fault, and you you didn't.

Speaker 38 (01:00:07):
Even come to tell me that he was dead.

Speaker 31 (01:00:09):
Why not? It's part of your job, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:00:10):
I didn't come and tell you him as all that
because I figured you.

Speaker 15 (01:00:17):
Jesster, Thank sir?

Speaker 8 (01:00:21):
Uh would you mind walking on my head? I uh,
I'll make you in a long branch and a few minutes.

Speaker 22 (01:00:26):
H Oh, alright, I much done.

Speaker 32 (01:00:30):
You say so, Matt, Why did you send him away?

Speaker 27 (01:00:42):
Have a.

Speaker 8 (01:00:44):
You're gonna be home leaders tonight? I could be from
ten o'clock, Say.

Speaker 20 (01:00:54):
Sure, man, Sure, I I'll be there.

Speaker 15 (01:00:58):
Oh well, allot, Kitty, I was young.

Speaker 35 (01:01:21):
Chetch and I were trying to think of some way
to rescue you from Mavis clutches or one thing m don't.

Speaker 22 (01:01:26):
I I wasn't sure you won't.

Speaker 8 (01:01:28):
Be rescued, kiddy as doc vent evernight.

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Oh I haven't anywhere, Chaster.

Speaker 8 (01:01:32):
What do you see if you can find him and
have him meet me here?

Speaker 22 (01:01:34):
Uh, yes, sir, I wouldn't, Jim.

Speaker 8 (01:01:38):
Kitty, I wonder if you could find a rumor for me?

Speaker 2 (01:01:42):
What kind of rumor?

Speaker 8 (01:01:44):
The drop?

Speaker 15 (01:01:44):
I head to that new.

Speaker 8 (01:01:45):
Bartender yours Jesse wells that it might be smart to
slip out of here and pay a visit to miss
Morley around I'll say nine forty five tonight.

Speaker 31 (01:01:56):
Oh all right, wim m.

Speaker 35 (01:01:59):
Is it anything you can talk about?

Speaker 8 (01:02:01):
I don't exactly know how to talk about it, kiddie.
I got a murder on my hands. I know who
the killer is, and I can't touch him, so so
I'm gonna try to make him touch me.

Speaker 35 (01:02:12):
Old man, I'll tap to him.

Speaker 30 (01:02:15):
Uh.

Speaker 31 (01:02:16):
You're gonna be a room for one?

Speaker 13 (01:02:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (01:02:17):
Sure, I'll be.

Speaker 21 (01:02:19):
Here until ten o'clock. Matt Dylan, who'd you think.

Speaker 24 (01:02:50):
You don't murder?

Speaker 8 (01:02:52):
Hurry up? Let me end.

Speaker 2 (01:02:59):
Alright, Dylan, come on in.

Speaker 8 (01:03:01):
Oh, Jesse, I thought you were working.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
I was until a few minutes ago.

Speaker 32 (01:03:07):
I think to Marsha just wants to ask me some
questions or something.

Speaker 29 (01:03:11):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 8 (01:03:11):
As a matter of fact, Jesse, wells here for instance,
he didn't tell me he was gonna be here.

Speaker 2 (01:03:17):
Well, what do you mean she didn't tell you? What
about this saber? So you were expecting him? You knew
he was coming a little cause she knew I was coming.
You and Matt Dylan just for how long? And what
kind of a fool does that make me?

Speaker 8 (01:03:29):
You were born a fool, Jesse. That's why she picked you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
It would be so wonderful, you said, if only Al
didn't stand in our way.

Speaker 32 (01:03:34):
Well, I didn't tell you to kill him.

Speaker 2 (01:03:35):
I didn't mention it one Oh, you didn't have to.
You just kept dropping hands and leading me on, and
all the time, you and Mac Dylan.

Speaker 8 (01:03:40):
He's so smart for you, Jesse. You should have realized that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:43):
Sure, But instead I played right under your hands. Both
of you like, kill her now, getting him out of
your way, giving the two of you a clear field.

Speaker 8 (01:03:50):
You're under arrest, Jesse. If I murderer or you.

Speaker 2 (01:03:53):
Like that, wouldn't you both of you would? You could
sit around and laugh about it, waiting for me to.

Speaker 8 (01:03:57):
Have I said, you're under arrest now, hand over here.

Speaker 2 (01:04:01):
You're not taking the imp companable that you wanted me
to do. And of your gun, Jesse, if you want
my gun, you'll like to take it away from it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:07):
Get away from that door.

Speaker 31 (01:04:08):
Sure, I'll get away from it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:12):
All the world, all right, Chester.

Speaker 31 (01:04:19):
Yester, you were fools.

Speaker 2 (01:04:21):
But he miss me.

Speaker 13 (01:04:23):
Well, you too didn't miss him.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
I don't know which one be fired first, but either both.

Speaker 20 (01:04:29):
Would have done it. Ad, you got what you wanted.

Speaker 2 (01:04:31):
All right, You're done, Doc, And I heard more every
word we should in only one thing, though, Mad He
he didn't implicate the woman in it.

Speaker 8 (01:04:42):
Yeah, I know, Well you take charge, doctor, you should. Matt,
all right, Chester, let's.

Speaker 31 (01:04:51):
Go, Matt.

Speaker 5 (01:04:54):
Could I see you a minute before you go?

Speaker 27 (01:04:58):
Mat?

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
What's it that after mister Jones, free men have been
killed since the same time last night.

Speaker 22 (01:05:09):
Yeah, you know, mister Doonan, I think maybe it's.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
Kind of all her ful and you can't be a thing.

Speaker 8 (01:05:16):
Or well unlucky, saying Chester, there aren't many women like her.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Gun smoke but Houston. Directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald,
stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, Us.

Speaker 15 (01:05:52):
Marshall mc sory was specially woking for a guns.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
Vote by Less Blackfield without aitorial supervision by John.

Speaker 6 (01:05:59):
Meslon sixty six years ago. From Sunday, November fifteenth, nineteen
fifty nine, have gone, We'll travel here on Classic Radio
Theater with Wyatt Cox. On this Saturday, our Sunday podcast
will have an episode of the Jack Benny Program from
nineteen forty one as the story he Fumbled the Ball.

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We'll also have an episode of Abboton Costello from nineteen
forty four and a return to his old public school
PS fifteen in Patterson, New Jersey, and a couple of
episodes from nineteen fifty two, The Aldrich Family as Henry
joins the debating team, and what is alleged to be

(01:06:44):
the ten thousandth Amos and Andy radio broadcast from nineteen
fifty two. It couldn't have been the case. There were
not ten thousand programs before it, but they used the
number ten thousand because of the rex All drug stores
ten thousand rex All drug stores at the time. And
we'll have an episode of Lom and Abner. Then on

(01:07:06):
Monday we'll get back to crime with Broadway is my beat,
Calling all cars. Frank Sinatra is Rocky Fortune and Sam
Spade Detective. On Tuesday, we'll have more comedy with a
nineteen forty eight episode of The Aldridge Family, an episode
of Avanton Costella from nineteen forty eight, Harold Perry is

(01:07:27):
the Great Guilder Sleeve and My Favorite Husband, starring Lucy o'ball.
Then on Wednesday, we will have Counterspy Calling All Cars,
a nineteen thirty five episode based on a true story.
We'll also have an episode of Escape from nineteen forty
seven and a nineteen sixty one episode of Suspense. Then

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on Thursday, we'll start getting into our Thanksgiving shows as
we are at that point in time. We are going
to be a week away from Thanksgiving, and of course
we'll be here having shows with Amos and Andy from
nineteen forty nine, Let George Do It from nineteen fifty,

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The Cavalcade of America from nineteen fifty one, and Jeff
Reagan Investigator from nineteen forty eight. Yeah, it's going to
be mixed bags pretty much for that week of Thanksgiving.
On Friday, we'll have a nineteen forty eight episode of
Bluman Abner Ezra Seastron's cousin Rowena has Thanksgiving Dinner with Lum.

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Then we'll have an episode of Maxwell House Coffee Time
from nineteen forty Jack Benny Dreams He's a Turkey and
Willard Waterman inviting Thanksgiving guests over as the Great Guilder Sleeve.
Then a week from today, we'll have a mixed bag
with a comedy and drama with a pair of shows

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involving Harold Perry, the nineteen fifty Harold Perry Show from
Thanksgiving Day and then Perry as guild or Sleep in
the Thanksgiving Dinner Play. And then we'll have Doctor Christian
from nineteen thirty nine in the prelude to Thanksgiving, and
an episode of Tarzan from nineteen fifty one and the

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story of the African Thanksgiving. Lots of Thanksgiving shows that
you'll hear between now and Thanksgiving Day, and we'll have
them all for you here on the Classic Radio Theater
with Wyatco's podcast beginning on Thursday. Coming up next though,
we're going to head out to Gene Autry's Melody Branch.

Speaker 16 (01:09:42):
Hello, this is Dennis James. Civil defense preparedness is important
to all of us living in today's nuclear age or
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and family.

Speaker 5 (01:09:51):
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Speaker 16 (01:09:53):
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or Civil Defense Preparedness.

Speaker 39 (01:09:59):
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during an attime. These instructions are available to you on
a convenient wallet sized card. You can obtain one at
your local several Defense office.

Speaker 6 (01:10:40):
Okay, Okay, those of you who remember Dennis James know
that he did that in all of his commercials. Okay.
Gene Autrey's melody Ranch As we go back seventy three
years to November fifteenth, nineteen fifty two, seventy three years
ago today about the initials carved on a tree.

Speaker 12 (01:11:14):
Yes, it's time once again for melody rants and gene Autrey.

Speaker 40 (01:11:18):
I'm back in.

Speaker 4 (01:11:19):
Let's send.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
Our where a friends is a free.

Speaker 2 (01:11:27):
Where alongst Love?

Speaker 12 (01:11:36):
That's right boat, your friendly local merchant who sells in
displays Household Refreshing, Delicious double and Chewing Gum, invites you
to another Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (01:11:44):
Visit with all a gang Here at Melody Ranch.

Speaker 12 (01:11:46):
There's Pat Buttram, Johnny Bond, the Cast Coli Boys, Carl
Cottner's Melody rant orchest during yours truly Charlie Lyons. But
right now meet the boss man himself, America's favorite cowboy,
Gene Autrey.

Speaker 4 (01:12:08):
The bells are rings for me and my goal. The
birds are singing farm, me and my goal. Everybody seems
knowing to a wedding their goal, and for weeks they've
been solving every susie and side. They're congregation for me

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and my cow. The Parson's way army and my goal.

Speaker 41 (01:12:41):
And sometimes he's gonna be able little home much to
far me, a farm.

Speaker 4 (01:12:47):
In love lond FARMI and my cow.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
Bells are ringing.

Speaker 4 (01:12:54):
Army in my little gown.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
The birds are singing calls the jealous.

Speaker 41 (01:13:00):
Of me and my gown.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Everybody's been knowing too well they're going, And for weeks
they've been so every susie inside they're congregate Army and
my gown. In the Parson's wagle Army and.

Speaker 1 (01:13:22):
My guy, and sometimes he's not avail a little home
budget in Loveland Army.

Speaker 9 (01:13:33):
And my guy.

Speaker 1 (01:13:42):
He'll hide there, folks.

Speaker 4 (01:13:43):
And welcome once again to Melody Ranch. Glad you could
drop by and join in the fund, which reminds me, folks,
let's begin that fund with a few words about a
wonderful treat that everybody enjoys, delicious refreshing double mat chewing gum.
You know, it always strikes me that doublement's a swell

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name for what really is a double treat. Yes, indeed,
that grand doublemint gum is not only a delicious refreshing
taste treat, but a satisfying, long lasting chewing treat as well.
So how about having some real soon?

Speaker 8 (01:14:21):
Huh?

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
That's delicious refreshing doublemt chewing gum.

Speaker 8 (01:14:29):
Take me.

Speaker 42 (01:14:32):
Your like I've in.

Speaker 27 (01:14:43):
You and my.

Speaker 8 (01:14:50):
Take me.

Speaker 13 (01:14:54):
Your that you've missed me.

Speaker 4 (01:15:05):
Since we've been upon You just don't know how hearts
I'm lonesome i've been, or how much I praise that

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you'd come back again. So take me in.

Speaker 21 (01:15:36):
Your own.

Speaker 4 (01:15:43):
Like I've been holding.

Speaker 27 (01:15:46):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
You just don't know, said.

Speaker 22 (01:16:07):
Shot.

Speaker 4 (01:16:10):
Let you come back, So take me in.

Speaker 1 (01:16:17):
Your awn.

Speaker 4 (01:16:24):
Like I've been holy.

Speaker 39 (01:16:28):
You and my.

Speaker 4 (01:16:46):
Well, thank you friends. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
Now wait a minute, I wait a minute, Hold it
just a second.

Speaker 4 (01:16:51):
What the world's the matter with you?

Speaker 1 (01:16:52):
I just got a letter from home from my papa.

Speaker 4 (01:16:55):
Oh that ought to be real, dove, What does it.

Speaker 43 (01:16:58):
Say, says a dear son, pat that's me.

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
Oh that's you.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
I know you'll be interested to.

Speaker 43 (01:17:05):
Learn that your aunt Hazel just give birth to a
set of twins. Oh it's terrible hard to tell them
apart though, except that Horace is maybe a little heavier
than Mabel.

Speaker 4 (01:17:17):
Oh well that's.

Speaker 1 (01:17:21):
All right, minds me of my uncle Cecil Creoles too.

Speaker 5 (01:17:24):
Kids.

Speaker 43 (01:17:25):
Oh they was also twins, is yeah. In fact, there
was so much apart you couldn't tell them alike.

Speaker 4 (01:17:32):
Must have been pretty confusing.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
Oh it was that, all right. They named them Pete
and repeat, Pete and repeat.

Speaker 6 (01:17:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 43 (01:17:41):
Even their mama ain't nell She couldn't tell them apart.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
Oh funny thing.

Speaker 43 (01:17:45):
I remember one time when Pete was naughty and his
mama gave Repeat a whipping for it, and.

Speaker 1 (01:17:51):
Pete never even knew the difference. Oh repeat did though, Yeah,
I bet he did.

Speaker 43 (01:17:58):
And then one time Pete was and his mama give
repeat a dosa castor oil, and Pete never even knew
the difference. Repeat did though, Go on, finally, I remember
when repeat he was gonna get married. Oh, in fact,
he was gonna elope with the girl.

Speaker 8 (01:18:18):
The girl.

Speaker 43 (01:18:19):
Yeah, and Pete got there an hour ahead of him
and run off with the girl and married her first.
And the girl never even knew the difference.

Speaker 1 (01:18:29):
Repeat did though?

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
Why the family you've got buddy?

Speaker 1 (01:18:35):
Oh, say that again? Instantly.

Speaker 43 (01:18:37):
Papa says here that Grandpa Gomer just celebrated his seventieth birthday.

Speaker 4 (01:18:43):
Seventy. Yes, that's more. You'll ever make it better.

Speaker 1 (01:18:45):
Oh, I don't know, funny thing.

Speaker 43 (01:18:47):
You won't believe this, But Grandpa he could pass for
a man of thirty.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
No, kitty, Well, I think that's remarkable.

Speaker 1 (01:18:53):
Yeah, but it's kind of sad too.

Speaker 4 (01:18:56):
Sad. Huh Yeah, how do you mean?

Speaker 1 (01:18:58):
Well, while Grandpa was.

Speaker 43 (01:18:59):
Passing for a man of thirty, a man of thirty
was passing for Grandpa and run away with Grandma.

Speaker 44 (01:19:15):
Sequel saw the weed turn and way up in the
middle of the air was Exequiel saw the wheel listening
and when in the middle of the air or the
big wheel run by faith, and the little wheel run
by the grace of God was.

Speaker 13 (01:19:28):
The wielding the weld.

Speaker 41 (01:19:31):
When in the middle of the.

Speaker 45 (01:19:32):
Air a wee up yonder on the mountaintop, way up
in the middle of the air, my Lord spoke, and
the chariot stopped.

Speaker 4 (01:19:39):
When in the middle of the air, Ezequiel saw.

Speaker 26 (01:19:43):
The wheel turn, way up in the middle of the air.

Speaker 13 (01:19:46):
Ezequel saw the wheel turned.

Speaker 45 (01:19:48):
And when in the middle of the air, Joshuay was
the son of none away up in the middle of
the air. He never quit to you the work was done.

Speaker 44 (01:19:57):
When in the middle of the air, Exequiel, the weeds,
and way up in the middle of the air, wisec
you so the weed.

Speaker 4 (01:20:05):
And when in the middle of the air, I'll see
that sister dress so.

Speaker 13 (01:20:09):
Fine, way up in the middle of the air.

Speaker 1 (01:20:12):
She ain't got religion known her mind.

Speaker 41 (01:20:14):
When in the middle of the air, see you saw
were where in the middle of the air saw happen
you Where in the middle of the air, Sequel saw
the weed way up in the middle of the air,
Secu saw the wheeling. And when in the middle of
the air, or the big wheel run by faith and

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the little wheel run.

Speaker 4 (01:20:36):
By the grace of God was the wee.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
We when in the middle of the air.

Speaker 4 (01:20:53):
Thank you, Guess, Kenny Boys and Alley Bond, thanks a lot.
It was really fine. Matter of fact, it was almost
is fine as chewing a stick of delicious refreshing double
chewing gum, which incidentally happens to be our favorite treat
around here at Melody Ranch. Of course, less cowboys depend
on grand double mint gum for a lot of little

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helps too. For instance, out on a ranch, just like
anywhere else, there's a lot of chores we have to
keep doing over and over again. Well, sir, when the
going gets monotonous, I just sink my teeth into a
stick of that grand double mint gum. In that way,
double met smooth study chewing seems to break the monotony,

(01:21:39):
helps pass the time faster. What's more, that cool clean
double mint flavor is so refreshing it gives me a
pleasant little lift too. So you see, friends, delicious refreshing
double mint gum is a swell help on any job,
So treat yourself and enjoy it anytime.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:23:01):
God takes a lot, plus, sir, it won't be long now, kids,
Before all over the world, all of the kids will
be anxiously awaiting a visit from the little fat man
with the long white beard. So look, boys and girls,
take advice. When the jolly old man with.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
His bag of toys and his beard.

Speaker 35 (01:23:23):
Of snowy.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
Stop sud your house to make your chrismas spry, don't
look out the window, and don't wait by the door.
He'll become in down the chimney like he always did before.

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When you hear his sleigh bells, don't look brought our bye.
He'll become in down the chimney with a sack up
on his back. If you wrote your letter to Center
and you're good, you find your stockings all filled up
with the things you hoped you would. So don't look

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out the windows and don't wait by the door. You'll
becoming down the chimney. Yes, by gosh, by jimminy, you
become in down the chimney like he always did before.
If you wrote your letter to Santa and you're good,

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you find your stockings all filled.

Speaker 1 (01:24:32):
Up with the things you hoped you would. So don't
look out and and don't wait.

Speaker 4 (01:24:39):
By the door, You'll be coming down the chimney. Yes,
by gosh, by Jiminy, you'll be coming.

Speaker 8 (01:24:47):
Down the chimney like he always did.

Speaker 4 (01:24:50):
Be fine, huge folks. If you I'm glad you likes it.

Speaker 1 (01:25:01):
Hey, Jean, I got a question I want to ask you.

Speaker 46 (01:25:04):
Well, I know I'm silly for asking, but what is it? Well,
you see, it's like this. The other day, I was
a rabbit hunting over near Mill Valley. Oh anyway, there's
an old oak tree over there, and carved on one
side of it is a big heart. Inside the heart
it says John loves Martha nineteen and fifteen. So so

(01:25:25):
what I want to know is who's John and who's Martha?

Speaker 43 (01:25:29):
And do you really think they carved that their stuff
on that tree thirty seven years ago?

Speaker 4 (01:25:34):
I not only think they did, Johnny, I know they did.

Speaker 13 (01:25:36):
You mean you was there?

Speaker 29 (01:25:37):
No?

Speaker 4 (01:25:38):
I wasn't there, But I do know the true story
of how and why it happened. First of all, Johnny,
that tree you saw is on the Wilson's property, if
I'm not mistaken. Secondly, like I said before, I wasn't
around that day in nineteen fifteen when the carving ceremony
took place. But as I later got the star, it

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must not have been too much different from any other
day when two kids in love on their honeymoon look
ahead and start planning their lives together.

Speaker 1 (01:26:11):
Look, Martha, now, am I an artist?

Speaker 26 (01:26:14):
Or are I what?

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
John Thomas Wilson.

Speaker 4 (01:26:16):
You didn't tell me didn't think your husband had any talent?

Speaker 3 (01:26:19):
H Well, frankly, I wouldn't much care if you didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:26:21):
I'd still love him.

Speaker 4 (01:26:23):
Do you really mean that.

Speaker 27 (01:26:26):
Me?

Speaker 33 (01:26:27):
I think that someday you and I are coming right
back here to this very same spot, not just for
a day, but forever and ever and ever.

Speaker 4 (01:26:44):
And so Johnny, that was how it all began, two
kids in love making a vow that someday they'd returned
to that very same tree. Anyway, the following night, they
went back east to live. John got a good job.
They even bought a house settle down, just the same
as any other young married couple. Then one day, just

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two years later, John and Martha had a son. They
named him Timothy, after Martha's brother, and from that day on,
both their hearts were filled with a new kind of
love that they had never known before. Anyway. After that,
the years seemed to go by faster and faster. Young
tim started grammar school, then high school. Then almost before

(01:27:27):
they knew it, he was a man of eighteen, ready
and eager to make his own decisions, like, for instance,
this week.

Speaker 1 (01:27:34):
Dear Mom and Dad.

Speaker 36 (01:27:36):
By the time you read this, I'll be many miles away.
And although you may think me foolish, I'm sure you
can understand that making my own way in life is
far more important to me than anything else in the world.
I didn't say goodbye because it would have been hard,
and anus just know that I'll always love you as ever.

Speaker 1 (01:28:00):
Ten Well, Johnny.

Speaker 4 (01:28:06):
It wasn't more than just a few months later that
John Martha Wilson left the big city went back to
that very same spot near Stony Creek. That was just
five years ago this fall. Of course, at the time,
I didn't even know Martha Wilson. As a matter of fact,
I had only seen her occasionally shopping in the town.
All we had exchanged greetings, but that was just about all.

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Then one day Doc Tipton asked me to drop by
and see said he had a patient he wanted to
talk to me about gene.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
I want to ask you a favor, Sure, Doc, what
is it? It concerns a patient of mine and a
neighbor of yours. Incidentally, Oh was that so?

Speaker 4 (01:28:49):
I didn't know I had any sick neighbors?

Speaker 5 (01:28:51):
Who isn't?

Speaker 33 (01:28:52):
Her name is miss john Wilson, lived just about a
mile and a half up the road from your place.

Speaker 4 (01:28:57):
Sure, sure, I know what's wrong with her.

Speaker 13 (01:29:00):
Believe it or not.

Speaker 33 (01:29:01):
She's an amazingly well and active woman for age except
for one thing.

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
She's dying. She's what she's dying.

Speaker 33 (01:29:11):
But the worst part of it is I have no
medicine to help her. In fact, her ailment is nothing
that science even has a name for. It's just plain
old fashioned everyday loneliness.

Speaker 4 (01:29:24):
Start sorry to hear that. Is there anything I could.

Speaker 13 (01:29:29):
Do to help?

Speaker 1 (01:29:30):
That's why I ask you to come in and see me.

Speaker 33 (01:29:32):
I'd like you to go out and pay her a visit,
not out of curiosity, understand, but as a friendly neighbor.
Try and get her to talk to you. Maybe that way,
together we can find the cause. If we do, believe me,
the cure will be easy.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
Look, mister Oughtrey, I appreciate your stuff and buy like
this to see me. But you've been talking to doctor Tipton,
haven't you, well, and he told you I need a
little cheering up said I was lone, lady Nedwright, Well.

Speaker 4 (01:30:16):
I don't know what to say.

Speaker 1 (01:30:17):
I suppose then I do the talking.

Speaker 3 (01:30:21):
I have a son, mister Outrey, a son that means
more to me than anything else in the whole world.
And yet if you was to ask me right now
where it is, what it does, what kind of place
he lives in, or even what he looks like, I
couldn't tell you because I haven't seen him since the
eighth day of July five years ago, when he first
left home.

Speaker 4 (01:30:40):
You mean he doesn't even write you.

Speaker 1 (01:30:41):
I'm afraid not very often.

Speaker 3 (01:30:43):
You see, he holds quite an important position with a
railroad company and he has to travel a great deal.

Speaker 4 (01:30:48):
O tell me, missus Wilson, when was the last time
you did hear from your son?

Speaker 3 (01:30:54):
Strangely enough, just stay boor yesterday. It's the first letter
I've had over six months.

Speaker 4 (01:31:01):
And uh, where was the letter from? That is, if
you don't mind me asking?

Speaker 3 (01:31:05):
Some hotel in Capital City, the embassy I think it was.
He said he'd only be there for a day or two, though,
and then he was heading back east again.

Speaker 4 (01:31:14):
I see, well, manam's getting late. I've got to be
getting up early in the morning, so I guess i'd
better be starting home.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
Oh you've been very kind, mister Audrey. I hope I
haven't bored you with an old lady's tale to the home.

Speaker 4 (01:31:27):
The contrary, Missus Wilson, I've enjoyed our visit more than
you know.

Speaker 3 (01:31:32):
Good night, good night, mister Audrey, and thank you again
for stopping by.

Speaker 4 (01:31:44):
Well Johnny before the door closed behind me. That afternoon,
I knew i'd be in Capital City the next morning,
and I was a matter of fact. When I got
off the train, I went right to a phone book,
looked up the address of the Embassy Hotel, got in
a cab. Five minutes later, was walking up the front
steps of a dinalpidated old place that looked like it

(01:32:06):
had been built before the Civil War. When I got inside,
I asked the landlady if she knew which room was
Timothy Wilson's. She pointed to the next floor and mumbled
something about a six. So hope, I went, who is it?

(01:32:26):
Friend Tom? I want to talk to you.

Speaker 5 (01:32:29):
Go away.

Speaker 40 (01:32:30):
I don't want to see anybody.

Speaker 4 (01:32:31):
You want to see me. I think I've got a
job for you.

Speaker 13 (01:32:36):
I'll give me that stuff. They ain't hiring bums these days?

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
Or haven't you heard?

Speaker 4 (01:32:41):
The person I represent is? But she doesn't want just
any bum, She only wants one, her son.

Speaker 13 (01:32:53):
What did you say?

Speaker 17 (01:32:55):
You heard me?

Speaker 4 (01:32:57):
Don't you think it's about time they at least later
a visit?

Speaker 36 (01:33:01):
You know that's very funny.

Speaker 1 (01:33:03):
In fact, if I still know how to laugh, I would.

Speaker 4 (01:33:06):
What's so funny about that?

Speaker 36 (01:33:07):
You mean you haven't heard about Timothy Wilson, the big
railroad executive, the budding young genius who made good but
owning in his letters home. The closest I've ever been
to a railroad is riding on box cars and being
shagged by yard cops.

Speaker 4 (01:33:21):
Look, son, I think you've got things figured out all wrong.
Your mother doesn't care whether you're rich or broke. All
she needs is you? You mean she needs me? Your
mom's pretty sick, too.

Speaker 13 (01:33:38):
Sick?

Speaker 1 (01:33:40):
How bad is she physically?

Speaker 8 (01:33:43):
She's perfect?

Speaker 4 (01:33:45):
All she's got wrong with her is a broken heart.

Speaker 13 (01:33:48):
Huh?

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
How soon can we get.

Speaker 4 (01:33:51):
There by dinner time? If we hurry, let's go, Hi?

Speaker 29 (01:34:09):
Mom?

Speaker 27 (01:34:10):
Me?

Speaker 6 (01:34:12):
Is it you?

Speaker 31 (01:34:13):
Is it really you?

Speaker 27 (01:34:14):
It?

Speaker 5 (01:34:14):
Sure is?

Speaker 36 (01:34:15):
Mom? And this time I'm home for good?

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
Oh my boy, And so Johnny. That's the story. Behind
those initials you saw on that tree.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
Golly, I got dug bumps all over me.

Speaker 4 (01:34:42):
I had to fear myself what had happened?

Speaker 1 (01:34:44):
To believe me, I can imagine. Oh, I bet Tim's
mother and dad. It's plenty glad to see him.

Speaker 4 (01:34:49):
His mother was, I know that for sure. What about
his dad, Well, I guess he was too.

Speaker 1 (01:34:55):
What do you mean you guess he was?

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
Just what I said, Johnny, You see, Dad is buried
right under that tree you saw. John Wilson died just
a week after his son first left home. You know, friends,

(01:35:30):
I guess most favorite time of the day out here
this part of the country is just before sun's own,
when the whole valley seems to take on a look
it's hard for words to describe. In fact, I think
this next song tells the way makes me feel better
than all the words in the world. I am tired,

(01:35:54):
and I'm weirdy, but I must toil alone. Tell the
Lord comes to call me away, where the more in
his bad and the lamb is the light, and the

(01:36:16):
night night is as fair.

Speaker 42 (01:36:19):
As the day.

Speaker 35 (01:36:23):
The will be in the Valey army.

Speaker 4 (01:36:31):
There will be peace in the valley.

Speaker 20 (01:36:35):
Or I pray now my son.

Speaker 35 (01:36:41):
Sad.

Speaker 47 (01:36:46):
There will be peace in the balby army. There the
bear will be.

Speaker 4 (01:37:04):
Chapel, and the wolves will be tanged, and.

Speaker 42 (01:37:10):
The line will lay down by the lamp. The host
from the wild will.

Speaker 4 (01:37:22):
Be laid by a child, and I'll be changed, changed
from the creature I am.

Speaker 8 (01:37:33):
There be in the linear.

Speaker 13 (01:37:39):
Side.

Speaker 47 (01:37:41):
There will be peace in the abbey or the I
pray my side.

Speaker 4 (01:37:51):
Side, there will be peas peace in the abbey army.

Speaker 48 (01:38:17):
Gene, I sure enjoyed hearing you sing that song. I
guess it's because even though life is pretty strenuous along
toward the end of the day, there's generally always a
peaceful break.

Speaker 4 (01:38:28):
But you're right there, Charlie. In fact, I think that's
the way life goes along for most everybody. The end
of the day means it's time to just sit back,
relax and take things easy, which reminds me, folks, Grand
double mint gum sure makes a friendly companion at a
time like that. Yes, indeed, double Mit smooth study chewing

(01:38:52):
kind of helps keep pace with your thoughts, and that
delicious double mint flavor tastes mighty good too. Matter of fact,
Doublement's a familiar favorite it's always good company. So remember delicious,
refreshing doublemint chewing gum.

Speaker 13 (01:39:11):
I like it.

Speaker 4 (01:39:24):
We all good friends of labors.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
Looks like that stops the clock for.

Speaker 4 (01:39:26):
This week's Melody Ranch open House. But me and all
the gang will be back for another session next week,
same time, same CBS radio stations. So make you a
day to join us, then, won't you. In the meantime,
I'd like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere
congratulations to my very very good friends Amos Nandy who

(01:39:47):
tomorrow will celebrate their twenty fifth anniversary in radio. And
now this is Gene Autry for Double Mint, asking you
to keep thinking of us until we're back in a saber.

Speaker 10 (01:40:00):
As folks next week at the same time and all
these same stages.

Speaker 1 (01:40:03):
The regular people will again to protest gm Altree.

Speaker 10 (01:40:06):
Will they currently be seen in a zoo Plumbia picked
Barbwire and will beginning next Tuesday, November eighteen, will be
appearing in prest. We'll have a big all star hip
show of nineteen fifty two in Wichita Falls, Texas, Telsa, Oklahoma, Dallas, Texas,
Pope and Little Rock, Arkansas and Memphis Tennessee as a
Charles Lyon as the CBS Radio Network.

Speaker 6 (01:40:35):
Except for the time when Autry was in the Army
Air Corps nineteen forty two nineteen forty four. The show
ran basically from nineteen forty to nineteen fifty six and
sponsored for much of the time by Wrigley Chewing Gum

(01:40:56):
Gene Autry's Melody Ran. And you noticed there that they
didn't try to spend the ten thousandth broadcast when they
were promoting the episode of Amos and Andy that you'll
hear on our next podcast. He was spending it as
their twenty fifth anniversary, which really was since Amos and

(01:41:18):
Andy had started out not as Amos and Andy but
as Sam and Henry, and they had started off in
the mid twenties. So that'll explain that. Okay, Gene Autry's
Melody Ranch seventy three years ago today, November fifteenth, nineteen
fifty two, here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Cos.

(01:41:43):
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Speaker 16 (01:43:03):
This is Dennis James. Civil defense preparedness is important to
all of us living in today's nuclear age or information
on what you can do to protect your home and family.
Here's a message from Leo Ahoyg, Director of the Office
of Civil and Defense Mobilization.

Speaker 39 (01:43:18):
After an enemy attack on this country, even if your
city is not bombed, the radioactive fallout may be so
intense that you will have to remain inside your shelter
for two weeks. Therefore, your shelter should be stuck with
a two week supply of food, water, and other essential items.

(01:43:39):
Choose foods that will provide a well balanced diet. Canned fruits, meats, soups, vegetables,
package cereals, dried foods are a few examples of good
energy building foods that can be stored. Remember, a family
prepared aids the community and strengthens the nation in time

(01:43:59):
of war.

Speaker 13 (01:44:00):
Make sure you do your part.

Speaker 6 (01:44:03):
And while a lot of this was based on a
preparedness in case of nuclear attack, we do want to
emphasize the fact that you should be prepared with emergency
food supplies to this day because you never can tell
when you just might need it because of supply chain
issues or emergencies in your community. Up next, Jimmy Stewart

(01:44:26):
as the six Shooter seventy two years ago, November fifteenth,
nineteen fifty three, The Escape from Smoke Falls.

Speaker 11 (01:44:47):
In just a moment, you will hear James Stewart as
the six Shooter. Only one of the many fine programs
brought to you Sundays on NBC. Each Sunday, listen to
the music of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, broadcasting from Carnegie Hall.
Here the amusing adventures of Hume Cronin and Jessica Tandy
in the Marriage and tuned to the NBC Star Playhouse
for the nation's greatest Stars. It's a lineup of wonderful programs,

(01:45:10):
all of them heard only on NBC. James Stewart as
the six Shooter. The man in the saddle is angular

(01:45:30):
and long laded. His skin is sun dyed brown. The
gun and his holster is gray steel and rainbow, mother
of pearl. It's handle unmarked. People call them both the
six Shooter. The NBC Radio Network presents James Stewart as
The Six Shooter, a transcribed series of radio dramas based

(01:45:54):
on the life of Britt Ponsett, the Texas plainsman who
wandered through the Western territories, keeping behind a trail of
still remembered legends. Now, in just a moment, immediately following
this important announcement, you'll hear Act one.

Speaker 5 (01:46:12):
Of the Six Shooter. A Christmas gift with a future.

Speaker 11 (01:46:16):
That's how everyone feels about a gift of United States
Savings bonds, because when those bonds mature they pay back
four dollars for every three dollars invested. What's more, they
can be held as long as ten years beyond maturity
and earn even further interest. Give a gift of United
States Savings Bonds now Act one of the six Shooter

(01:46:41):
starring James Stewart.

Speaker 25 (01:46:54):
I an't expected to stay over in Smoke Falls, but
five stop off seal Dad Somerset and found them all
crippled up as a lung baygo. And of course he
didn't ask me to look after his stock, but I
can see he's you were wanting me too, so well,
A couple of weeks later he began feeling better, so
I started thinking about moving on. It was nearly five

(01:47:16):
o'clock in the afternoon that day, sun just spilled over
the top of Eagle Mountain when the buckboard pulled into
the yard. Mister Pomson, Oh A mean, ma'am. Mister Pomson,
I'm great, proudly, oh pleased to make you miss.

Speaker 38 (01:47:34):
Probably I meaning to come out and see how mister
Somerset's been getting along, but I just never have him
innute three time. It's counting season, you know.

Speaker 25 (01:47:40):
Yes, ma'am. Well, Dad's feeling much better if you like
to talk to him.

Speaker 38 (01:47:44):
You know, just say that I asked for him. As
a matter of fact, it's you I want to talk
to you, mister pomp said. Oh, you see, I'm president
of the Ladies Aide Society, a smoke faull. I'm affiliated
with the church and do lots of charity work, Christmas
baskets and things like that. You know, all the best
ladies in town are member, and we don't just take
in everybody either. Well, this is what I'm getting at,

(01:48:04):
mister Pompson. Tonight's our box suffer In Square Dance. It's
an annual event. Mister Simpling always loanses his barn for
the occasion. I've spent the whole afternoon helping with the decorations. Now,
Polly Sullivan, that's Wade Sullivan's wife. She's chairman of the
decorating committee.

Speaker 37 (01:48:19):
But since I'm president, I felt it was.

Speaker 38 (01:48:20):
My duty to give her a hand.

Speaker 49 (01:48:22):
That's what made me so late coming out here to
ask you to.

Speaker 12 (01:48:25):
Ask me about attending the supper.

Speaker 38 (01:48:28):
Oh oh, now, I'm not gonna take no for an answer,
but jes of the truth. Well, I've already told folks
you were planning to come.

Speaker 25 (01:48:36):
Oh, but you shouldn't have done that now.

Speaker 38 (01:48:38):
After all, you're practically the first celebrity we've ever had
in Smoke Falls. The auction starts at seven point thirty.
You won't be late, will you, mister Pompkins. And one
more thing, would you mind wearing your gun? The men
folks are especially interested in that.

Speaker 25 (01:48:51):
Ye wait a minute, say there, miss? Probably, oh dear, Well,

(01:49:14):
after I gave Dad his supper, I washed my face
and went down the hair and started off for old
Man Simplings barn. When I got there, it probably met
me at the door and introduced me around. The only
name that sank in was her daughter, Alan, pretty girl.
I figured that when the box supper sheet pack was

(01:49:35):
put up for sale, the bed would be mighty serious.

Speaker 49 (01:49:39):
All right, everybody were ready to begin the aun You
we don't want the.

Speaker 1 (01:49:43):
Music, no, Wilbert.

Speaker 31 (01:49:47):
Now just add around the table.

Speaker 49 (01:49:49):
Here so you can get a good market what you're buying.

Speaker 24 (01:49:52):
But remember you can't judge your book by its cover.
Which one shall we start?

Speaker 40 (01:50:01):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:50:01):
My, look at this one, pretty pink.

Speaker 49 (01:50:03):
Women and white kiss of paper. Why I'll just bet
you there's a whole fried.

Speaker 38 (01:50:08):
Chicken inside this hole.

Speaker 49 (01:50:10):
Now, who's gonna make the first bed a dollar fifty cents?
Don't forget gentlemen of Pretty Ladies Company calls.

Speaker 46 (01:50:18):
With the supper.

Speaker 40 (01:50:19):
I'll give a nickel.

Speaker 49 (01:50:22):
Nos fun hooker, you stop joshing. You know we don't
take any bid. Listener, court, no cord, just to get
things underway.

Speaker 1 (01:50:31):
Look at this lovely box.

Speaker 38 (01:50:33):
Just think some nice young lady spent the whole day fixing.

Speaker 5 (01:50:36):
It up, and she'll be too tired of Then.

Speaker 49 (01:50:42):
Come on, somebody twenty five, Then why call Norman.

Speaker 25 (01:50:47):
The auction was kind of slow and picking up momentum,
but when Missus proudly started in to make the third
say well, there weren't much doubt who suffered. She was
sound ellen proudly, sort of red on the cheeks and
tried to look unconcerned. I saw her give somebody a
glance on the other side of.

Speaker 8 (01:51:05):
The room, almost like a signal.

Speaker 25 (01:51:08):
Couldn't tell who it was intended for. But there were
two fullas standing over there spot hookers. One taul Husky
about twenty five. He'd been cracking joke snocking, sort of
like he owned the place. The other boy's kind of
a different sort. He's sinner, shorter. He hadn't opened his
mouth since I got there.

Speaker 38 (01:51:27):
Indeed, you can't do a little bit of this time, gentlemen,
here's the next super boy?

Speaker 24 (01:51:33):
Why it looks familiar?

Speaker 42 (01:51:35):
Oh I tick?

Speaker 1 (01:51:36):
I shouldn't have said anything, should I?

Speaker 38 (01:51:39):
Ellen know just about murdered me when I get off.

Speaker 10 (01:51:43):
Twelve.

Speaker 38 (01:51:43):
As long as the cat's out of the bag, I
might as well go ahead.

Speaker 33 (01:51:46):
With the same fifty mud hooker, he's fifty cent.

Speaker 2 (01:51:50):
A supper like this ought to be worth more than.

Speaker 10 (01:51:53):
Half a dollar.

Speaker 49 (01:51:55):
A little bird told me there's a chocolate cake inside.

Speaker 37 (01:52:01):
Seventy five cents.

Speaker 2 (01:52:02):
Ma'am, I got seventy five.

Speaker 24 (01:52:03):
Now what about a spud?

Speaker 1 (01:52:04):
You're not gonna let Tom number it out.

Speaker 15 (01:52:06):
At you dollars?

Speaker 18 (01:52:07):
One dollar?

Speaker 1 (01:52:08):
I'm did one silver dollar.

Speaker 32 (01:52:11):
O'll give a dollar and a quarter, dollar.

Speaker 26 (01:52:14):
And a quarter.

Speaker 38 (01:52:15):
Don't forget, gentlemen, it's all for charity.

Speaker 2 (01:52:18):
Hoar and a half. Now we're getting somewhere.

Speaker 1 (01:52:20):
I'm been a dollar and fifty cents. Fun Hooker offers
a dollar and fifty cents.

Speaker 13 (01:52:23):
Are there anymore?

Speaker 15 (01:52:24):
Bit?

Speaker 24 (01:52:24):
Two dollars? You're betten? Two dollars time?

Speaker 2 (01:52:28):
This man three dollars? Oh three, that's what I said, well, now, we.

Speaker 49 (01:52:32):
All appreciate your enthusiasm, boys, but remember this isn't the
only supper you can buy.

Speaker 2 (01:52:38):
So twenty one.

Speaker 40 (01:52:38):
I'm fine and I'll take it right.

Speaker 1 (01:52:40):
Four dollars, well, alright.

Speaker 25 (01:52:42):
Alright, going one's going twice and.

Speaker 24 (01:52:45):
It's all five dollars.

Speaker 6 (01:52:46):
Now, enough spun six dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:52:49):
Miss Prowley, you're there gonna fool yourself, lover.

Speaker 16 (01:52:51):
No one wants seat with me.

Speaker 37 (01:52:53):
I've been six dollars seven.

Speaker 49 (01:52:54):
Oh boys, ten oh yeah, Now you don't mean that, Tom,
you can't afford ten dot.

Speaker 24 (01:53:00):
I mean, well, all right, I'm did ten dollars.

Speaker 25 (01:53:02):
Hire anymore?

Speaker 4 (01:53:03):
Man, I'm going on fine ahead, sell it to him.

Speaker 40 (01:53:06):
It ain't gonna do them no good.

Speaker 24 (01:53:08):
Now, we don't want any trouble.

Speaker 40 (01:53:09):
Spolence my girl, and she's eating with me. I'll take
that box.

Speaker 37 (01:53:14):
Miss proudly gies your money.

Speaker 40 (01:53:16):
Didn't you hear what I said? She's eating with me.
Get out of the waist, buddy, you're not man enough
to make me move. I'll give me that box, or
I'll take it away from you.

Speaker 5 (01:53:27):
Okay, Tom, you hurt me.

Speaker 2 (01:53:31):
Hold on here, no get a minut here, now, hold on.

Speaker 17 (01:53:34):
Don't concern you put it.

Speaker 25 (01:53:35):
Oh, maybe it doesn't. Maybe it doesn't concern me. It
just seems to me that there ought to be a
better place for settling things, that's all, mister.

Speaker 37 (01:53:44):
Mister Const's right, spunny, Let's let's go out.

Speaker 2 (01:53:49):
Hey, Hey, where where is Mitt pronchet Daan thomerst Jay
was over here?

Speaker 25 (01:53:52):
Yeah, I'm a concert.

Speaker 2 (01:53:53):
Oh, miss Pronchett, A sheriff Tinsmith told me to find you.

Speaker 1 (01:53:57):
What's the matter, jan Dan Folk just broke out a jay?

Speaker 27 (01:53:59):
Hear?

Speaker 1 (01:54:01):
Yeah, he shot the sheriff in the back while he
was getting away.

Speaker 2 (01:54:03):
Oh he had well, we we took him over to
the dark postures and he's bleeding pretty bad. He he
wants to talk to Mr. Ponchett before, well before he.

Speaker 25 (01:54:14):
I'll get my horse.

Speaker 26 (01:54:17):
Oh glad, had you got here brick before?

Speaker 27 (01:54:35):
Now?

Speaker 25 (01:54:35):
Now what are you talking about? Right? You're gonna be alright,
The doc says, you'll be back on your feet again
inside of a waker shell.

Speaker 26 (01:54:41):
I don't know what I was thinking of.

Speaker 13 (01:54:44):
Nothing.

Speaker 26 (01:54:44):
Didn't Falk get hold of my.

Speaker 17 (01:54:45):
Gun while I was serving the supper?

Speaker 8 (01:54:48):
Must be.

Speaker 26 (01:54:50):
Must be getting curless old age.

Speaker 25 (01:54:52):
Now, well, you're not the first man to have trouble
with fog. He had a pretty fancy reputation for what
I hear.

Speaker 27 (01:54:58):
That's that's why I had to see a briton my fault.

Speaker 26 (01:55:02):
He got loose.

Speaker 17 (01:55:03):
Not I don't want other folks to pay for my mistakes.

Speaker 8 (01:55:08):
What do you mean?

Speaker 27 (01:55:08):
I know this town, Brett, They'll I'll get a posse
together and start after Falk.

Speaker 25 (01:55:14):
Wow.

Speaker 8 (01:55:15):
That's and they'll catch him too.

Speaker 27 (01:55:18):
But going out in a crowd like that, he'll hear
him coming. Folk's a wild cat killer, Breton. When he's cornered,
he won't give up.

Speaker 17 (01:55:30):
Pick off three or four of the posse before. They
couldn't close in.

Speaker 25 (01:55:35):
Well, not if they're careful.

Speaker 17 (01:55:37):
That's the trouble.

Speaker 27 (01:55:38):
Uh. Fellas here ain't cautious. They're bullheaded. But but you'd
know how to take him, Britton. N No, I I
ain't saying that's your duty. You don't even live in smoke, folks.

Speaker 17 (01:55:52):
But you could capture Folk without him having a chance
to go.

Speaker 25 (01:55:57):
I'm afraid you're giving me too much credit, right.

Speaker 26 (01:55:59):
And I want some, But it'll go along any of
the boys.

Speaker 25 (01:56:02):
Sure, I know that.

Speaker 26 (01:56:03):
I'd be mighty grateful Brett. Folks here been good to me.

Speaker 27 (01:56:10):
I wouldn't like to leave them thinking it because of me,
because of what I did.

Speaker 25 (01:56:15):
Some of them was going no, no, no, you better
take it easier.

Speaker 17 (01:56:19):
Just let's ask him. A lot folks are good shot
a wildcat killer.

Speaker 8 (01:56:28):
It's just.

Speaker 11 (01:56:41):
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James Stewart as Britt punts.

Speaker 25 (01:58:08):
It Sheriff Tinsmith had been right about the town farm
and a posse I had lost any time Spud Hooker
was taking charge. I was kind of surprised to see

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that Tom Leverett was along, but I figured he and
Hooker sort of joined forces of the time being, how
is he puns it all? He passed out a few
minutes ago. Maybe it's just as well. Least he's getting
some breasts.

Speaker 21 (01:58:40):
Yeah, well, we're going after twelve.

Speaker 40 (01:58:41):
The other boys are waiting behind American Seal.

Speaker 25 (01:58:43):
Uh huh, looks like he got caught a gang.

Speaker 40 (01:58:47):
I ain't got no objections to having you go along too,
not that we need you understand.

Speaker 26 (01:58:52):
Yeah, well you're coming.

Speaker 21 (01:58:55):
Well.

Speaker 25 (01:58:55):
I had a little talk with the sheriff. Just before
he lost consciousness. He seemed to think that taking out
a posse after Falk wasn't such a good idea.

Speaker 40 (01:59:05):
What's he wanted to do?

Speaker 5 (01:59:06):
Let him go Scott free?

Speaker 25 (01:59:07):
No, no, now, Sheriff tin Smith sort of suggested, maybe
one or two men that have a better chance of
catching them. They can make faster time, maybe sneak up
on Falk unaware.

Speaker 8 (01:59:17):
Oh yeah, yeah, Oh.

Speaker 15 (01:59:21):
That's okay with me.

Speaker 40 (01:59:23):
You're gonna be one of the boys who goes after him.

Speaker 21 (01:59:25):
Ponset M.

Speaker 25 (01:59:26):
Well, I hadn't exactly made up of mind.

Speaker 40 (01:59:29):
You better make it up faster. I'll take somebody else.

Speaker 25 (01:59:31):
Oh oh, I see. Uh, well in that case, I
full We'll say. Your name's Leverett, and that's right, miss sponsort,
Tom Levertt. You want to ride along with me?

Speaker 40 (01:59:46):
Why sure, I'll wait a minute here. I thought you
said one or two men. I did, Well, we don't
need Leverett.

Speaker 25 (01:59:52):
Then, well, I tell you, I sort of figured maybe
you want to stay in town hooker. So Tom and
I get into trouble, Well, you could bring the posse
out later.

Speaker 40 (02:00:00):
Trying to make a fool out of me, punts it.

Speaker 2 (02:00:01):
No, No, I'm not everybody knows I'm twice the man
liver it is. I can ride better and shoot faster
and not fight him two to one. You want the
credit for catching Funk yourself, don't you. Well it ain't
gonna work out that way.

Speaker 40 (02:00:12):
Come on, boy, I'll find more myself and I'll bring
him in.

Speaker 25 (02:00:15):
All well, Tom, let's go.

Speaker 8 (02:00:22):
Huh.

Speaker 25 (02:00:38):
Fox trail headed west up toward Eagle Mount, and the
moon was our sort of a half moon, but it
gave us enough like so we could follow the cool
prince Fox horse of left. Long About midnight, we spun
another trail Freischer couldn't been more a couple of minutes

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Old hut in from one side and then went on
ahead in the same direction Fulk was riding.

Speaker 2 (02:01:04):
Ah you see that, Tom, Yeah, looks like spot Hooker
took a short cut.

Speaker 8 (02:01:11):
Yuh.

Speaker 13 (02:01:13):
You written he would beat us to him?

Speaker 8 (02:01:15):
Oh you never know, never know he does.

Speaker 25 (02:01:18):
He might say about some grief, well do he?

Speaker 13 (02:01:20):
Huh?

Speaker 37 (02:01:22):
You're not anxious to tangle with Foulk, are you, mister Fonson?

Speaker 13 (02:01:26):
No?

Speaker 25 (02:01:26):
No, no, I'm not anxious tangle with anybody, Tom.

Speaker 37 (02:01:31):
But I thought, well, you brought in and other outlaws
before poor.

Speaker 25 (02:01:36):
Some so I'm not as money as folks think. But uh,
I've never enjoyed tangling with any album.

Speaker 37 (02:01:42):
Why'd you pick me? Spurt's right, he is twice the man.

Speaker 25 (02:01:48):
I am not shooting maybe, Uh, but there's more to
trail on a killer than being able to shoot Youah,
Lots of times it's more important for a man to
know when not to shoot, you know.

Speaker 37 (02:01:58):
Uh uh yeah, but I was itching to pull.

Speaker 25 (02:02:01):
A trigger like spot, but he's he's have to pull
it too soon. And uh hey, uh uh at the
moon's going down. Yeah, you might as well get some
shut eye.

Speaker 13 (02:02:14):
Whoo boy, whoosh going high.

Speaker 25 (02:02:16):
Uh, he couldn't see the trail anyway.

Speaker 37 (02:02:19):
Spud won't be stopping for sleep.

Speaker 25 (02:02:21):
No, No, don't suppose he will. That's not a reason
I picked you. I I gotta figured he'd wanna keep pushing.

Speaker 5 (02:02:30):
On all night.

Speaker 25 (02:02:31):
And uh, dog gone away. You got along about this time, I'd.

Speaker 8 (02:02:37):
Just get tired. Huh.

Speaker 25 (02:02:52):
As soon as the morning sun began grand the sky,
we started off again. Fox Trail was winding up the
side of Eagle Mountain.

Speaker 17 (02:02:59):
Ah.

Speaker 25 (02:03:00):
Well, it was a pretty hard ride. Tom didn't complain,
even though I could see wasn't used to it. Every
once in a while he almost slide out of his saddle,
but somehow he managed to hang on. At noon, we
reached little Creek and Falk's trail gave uh the other trail,
the one we figured was hookers. It sort of milled
around in all directions, then went off on a tangent

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and we climbed down from our horses, tried to drink
of water.

Speaker 8 (02:03:30):
Ah, he tastes good. U sure?

Speaker 25 (02:03:33):
Does you uh have been out this way before? Tom?

Speaker 27 (02:03:36):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (02:03:37):
Yep, no, for the last couple of years.

Speaker 25 (02:03:39):
Though any cabins around place a man could hide.

Speaker 37 (02:03:42):
Out, well, not that I remember. Do you think we're
getting close to him?

Speaker 27 (02:03:47):
Uh?

Speaker 25 (02:03:47):
All he could have gone on usual the crick to
cover his trail, but he didn't have stopped pretty soon.

Speaker 15 (02:03:52):
Oh oh yeah.

Speaker 25 (02:03:53):
A man can't keep riding forever. He even think Falk.
So far, we haven't seen any signs that he made camp.

Speaker 13 (02:03:59):
You see, that's so.

Speaker 2 (02:04:03):
Giant Cave. Hm, he might be there, brit It's nothing
more than a mile away due south Giant Cave.

Speaker 37 (02:04:11):
You've heard of it, Angine?

Speaker 2 (02:04:12):
No, Oh, don't take I well, it'd be a perfect
spot for a man to hold up.

Speaker 37 (02:04:16):
Nobody knows for certain just how far back into the
mountain the cave really goes.

Speaker 2 (02:04:21):
Some scientific fellas tried to explore it last summer, but
while their lanterns gave out before they come to the end.

Speaker 25 (02:04:28):
Uh, well, it sounds like something. Go out to see
even the Falk isn't there.

Speaker 8 (02:04:31):
Come on, let's go and have a lot.

Speaker 2 (02:04:45):
Oh that's the entrance there, brit beside that slab of
yellow rock. Uh huh, I don't see any sign of
fox trail. I guess he could have come up from
the other side.

Speaker 25 (02:04:58):
Though, Yeah, that's what he must have then.

Speaker 20 (02:05:01):
Huh.

Speaker 25 (02:05:01):
I had a pony over you on your that clump
of bushes grazing.

Speaker 37 (02:05:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, Sam.

Speaker 2 (02:05:08):
Easy scar or easy easy woboard Now, Jake Watson said,
Falk stole us sorrow when he made his getaway, and we'd.

Speaker 25 (02:05:16):
Better close in on foot. Well, we'd tell that our
horses on a couple of spruce sapling moved into the cave.
The entrance wasn't a very big hole. We had to
sort of spind over and crawl through it. What put
the room on the other side. I had much about

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a hundred feet long, fifty feet wide, and the walls
were sheer rocks, sort of rainbow colored, so smooth you'd
have thought somebody had been polishing them. And then they
light behind us, gun down to a pin point.

Speaker 2 (02:05:56):
He wouldn't be hiding here in the dark, would he bring?

Speaker 8 (02:06:00):
Maybe you heard us coming?

Speaker 37 (02:06:04):
Sh somebody up?

Speaker 25 (02:06:10):
Hen he got your gun ready. I don't use it
unless you're pretty sure hitting something. We start shooting, it'll
just help his aim.

Speaker 37 (02:06:19):
Okay, I know, back up against.

Speaker 8 (02:06:21):
The wall here, find you.

Speaker 1 (02:06:30):
Know you're in here.

Speaker 8 (02:06:31):
Pop.

Speaker 2 (02:06:32):
You go any further, you'll get washed.

Speaker 25 (02:06:34):
You'll never find your way out.

Speaker 40 (02:06:37):
Hey, you hear me, Pop, you're wasting lead.

Speaker 2 (02:06:42):
You can't.

Speaker 31 (02:06:44):
We know that you can't see me in either. We
don't have to.

Speaker 46 (02:06:49):
You've got to come out sooner or later and we'll
be waking.

Speaker 2 (02:06:54):
All right.

Speaker 26 (02:06:55):
We're gonna leave you.

Speaker 25 (02:06:55):
No fuck, we're going outside and wait, hey, where are you.

Speaker 5 (02:07:01):
You giving up?

Speaker 40 (02:07:02):
No?

Speaker 5 (02:07:03):
I ain't and I ain't a lord.

Speaker 2 (02:07:06):
What I got somebody with me, friend of yours? I reckon,
we're coming out together, and if you try to stop me,
out kill him?

Speaker 37 (02:07:14):
What's he talking about?

Speaker 26 (02:07:16):
They?

Speaker 42 (02:07:16):
He ain't lying, Brett.

Speaker 20 (02:07:18):
It's it's me spot hooker.

Speaker 8 (02:07:19):
It's fun. I I caught up with him last night.

Speaker 40 (02:07:22):
But he but he got to draw on me.

Speaker 17 (02:07:24):
Hold your fire.

Speaker 40 (02:07:25):
But he means what he says, you'll kill me if
you don't hold your fire.

Speaker 42 (02:07:28):
He you gotta do what he told you.

Speaker 29 (02:07:29):
But you gotta.

Speaker 2 (02:07:32):
Alright, fo come on, start backing up, poor dandre I
don't hear you moving, Fritt.

Speaker 8 (02:07:41):
Please alright, let's go Tom.

Speaker 25 (02:07:50):
We backed out into the daylight, Tom and me and
waited for them. About a minute later, spread hooker march
through the mouth of the cave, half scared the death.
I think Falk was right behind him, holding the forty five,
aimed with the smallest buds back. I'm pretty sure he
wouldn't hesitate pull the trigger either. Sure if Tim Smith
was right, he's just a wildcat killer. He had that stamp.

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He'd look in his eyes as he stood there, blinking
against the sun, same kind of a look you see
in a steer when the herd shoving him along. He
can't stop or be trampled at it.

Speaker 2 (02:08:22):
Hang off your gun, I'll come here, Hey, come off,
or I'll fix your friend here.

Speaker 25 (02:08:28):
Park gave Spot a shove with his gun. He jumped forward.
There was an opening nile between him and Falk The
next thing I knew, Tom dived forward. Tom tackled Spud
and he rolled over. The bullet missed him, but Tom
was in range and he took it. Falk aimed fire again,
and I managed to get my gun out. Bullet hit

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his Spighe spun him around and then his leg buckled
me fell face down.

Speaker 8 (02:08:54):
He had let go of the pistol he had.

Speaker 25 (02:08:56):
He started to bring it up, drop it fawk for
a I can His finger went right on squeezing the trigger.
But nah, he just didn't have the strength.

Speaker 2 (02:09:11):
Tom Tom alright, sure, Yeah, it's hardly bleeding.

Speaker 13 (02:09:18):
I I said, let folk alone. I said, let you
handle him.

Speaker 25 (02:09:22):
Bread.

Speaker 9 (02:09:23):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 25 (02:09:27):
Looks may like Tom did most of the handler around here.
I mean, if I hadn't been for him, Yeah I was.

Speaker 40 (02:09:34):
I guess I had you figure the wrong time.

Speaker 5 (02:09:36):
I never thought you'd be the one to save me, but.

Speaker 37 (02:09:38):
I wasn't saving us.

Speaker 13 (02:09:40):
But huh.

Speaker 31 (02:09:42):
I don't like you.

Speaker 37 (02:09:44):
I never did, and nothing's gonna change that.

Speaker 2 (02:09:48):
And why I like Ellen?

Speaker 37 (02:09:51):
I like her a lot, but now she's in love
with you.

Speaker 2 (02:09:57):
If you got yourself killed or just hurt her and
wouldn't do me, no good, I would tell you.

Speaker 16 (02:10:03):
If she's in UK with me.

Speaker 2 (02:10:06):
She didn't have to and she finds out what happened today,
she ain't gonna find out.

Speaker 13 (02:10:10):
I'm gonna tell her. I'm gonna tell her myself.

Speaker 2 (02:10:12):
I don't want her to know.

Speaker 40 (02:10:13):
It's for me to decide.

Speaker 2 (02:10:14):
Now that's near spot hooker, you do.

Speaker 40 (02:10:15):
The listening threats.

Speaker 13 (02:10:19):
Hold on, hold on now.

Speaker 25 (02:10:21):
Now, I think we ought to get Tom to a doctor.
Don't Jill. If we don't, Allan won't have no way
of choosing him, even if she wanted to come on spot. Uh,
give me a hand.

Speaker 41 (02:10:38):
Now.

Speaker 25 (02:10:42):
We tied Falk onto the back of his party and
started off for town. I sure didn't know what Allan
was gonna do about spotting Tom, or he'd never know
what a woman's gonna do and comes to, you know,
fall in love and marrying and all that's show.

Speaker 21 (02:11:00):
I'm saying.

Speaker 25 (02:11:01):
But I didn't know one thing that picking Tom to
go along with me. I've done a pretty good choice.
Alan probably could do a whole lot.

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founding of our country. So in these days of world crisis,
when our nation and all its citizens need spiritual strength
and guidance, all of us should think again of what
religion means to us and to our country, for its
religious faith that makes our way of life possible. During November,
people of many faiths are joining in a Great Religion

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Speaker 5 (02:11:58):
So whatever your faith may be, you.

Speaker 13 (02:12:00):
Are asked to join in this campaign.

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Be sure to attend and support the church or synagogue
of your choice. And if you have children, by all
means light their life with faith, bring them to worship
this week. The six Shooter is an NBC Radio Network
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Speaker 2 (02:12:39):
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Speaker 5 (02:12:42):
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Speaker 11 (02:12:44):
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Speaker 13 (02:13:14):
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Speaker 2 (02:13:28):
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Speaker 6 (02:13:34):
Seventy two years ago, November fifteenth, nineteen fifty three, The
six Shooter on Classic Radio Theater with Wyatt Talks. By
the way, I have not mentioned this website for a while,
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us defend ourselves because we are heading to Pine Ridge, Arkansas,
to see what's going on on this Saturday with Lemon
Abner in a moment.

Speaker 50 (02:14:25):
This has Grocho Marx. A few days ago, I was
talking with the Director of Civil Defense and he told
me some things that I feel everyone should know. That's
why I'm speaking to you now. Did you know, for example,
that your chances of surviving an Adam Bam attack are excellent.
It's true, but there's a big if. You must do
everything possible now to help yourself and your family. Nobody

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else will help you. Listen, because this is important. Keep
a complete face aid kit, handy, keep a clothes, container
of drinking water and your refrigerator and not for three days.
Be sure you have a good fire extinguish yet, take
a look around your house right now and pick out
the safest spot away from windows and doors. Make sure
that every member of your family understands he is to

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rush to that safe spot when there's danger. I'm convinced
that these precautions are necessary right now, and I hope
I can convince you they're important to your family, yourself,
and your community.

Speaker 6 (02:15:25):
And even though we're you know, nuclear war is not imminent.
It never hurts to be prepared. Don't rely on your government,
be self reliant when you can figure it out. Now
we're going to go back eighty one years to noverb fifteenth,
nineteen forty four, and see what's going on in pine Ridge,

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Arkansas with woman Abner.

Speaker 13 (02:15:53):
Granny.

Speaker 5 (02:15:53):
I believe it's our ring.

Speaker 19 (02:15:55):
I know the lama.

Speaker 8 (02:15:56):
I believe you're right.

Speaker 2 (02:15:57):
No, see hello Johnam now Robin Abner, and now let's

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see what's going on down in pine Ridge. Well, it
looks as though Abner and his wife will never get
any closer to Texas than the Johnson farm. Yesterday, after
being passed up by the mail hack driver, they were
quarantined when one of the Johnson children contracted measles. As
we look in on the little community today, we find

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Lum in the Jotham down Store and library talking on
the telephone. Listen, all right, Cannish Argon five yards addressed
good pokey Dottie and finding us now missus Adams. We're
having a spatient on harmony right now. Three cents under ceiling.

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Yeah all right then, miss Adams, Well, no, I can't
guarantee you get this order today. I'm having a little
trouble with the delivers. See Abner still out of town.
Oh you had a long distance call from him?

Speaker 13 (02:17:16):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (02:17:18):
Whereabout did he say he's calling from Texas?

Speaker 8 (02:17:21):
Hunh uh?

Speaker 5 (02:17:23):
What else did he tell you?

Speaker 13 (02:17:26):
Uh? Huh?

Speaker 2 (02:17:29):
Hey, lol, I got a telegram? Oh excuse me, I
never noticed he's.

Speaker 20 (02:17:32):
On the phone.

Speaker 2 (02:17:33):
Be through here in a minute, Grandpam. Yeah, it is
nice that Abner's have him. Sits your big time, Miss Adams. Well,
I'll do the best I can on delivering your order, yes, ma'am,
all right, not you obliged? Goodbye? Hey, Lom, I got
a telegram here for Abner. And I don't understand the
pigeon told thing at all. Don't understand it. How do

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you know what's in it?

Speaker 8 (02:17:54):
Even?

Speaker 5 (02:17:55):
Do you open all the telegrams you deliver?

Speaker 1 (02:17:57):
No, of course not.

Speaker 2 (02:17:59):
That's againting the rules my profession. Well, how do you
know what's in the telegram?

Speaker 13 (02:18:02):
Now?

Speaker 5 (02:18:03):
And if you hold him up to the lights, you
can get a pretty close tyde of what's in him?

Speaker 26 (02:18:07):
Well?

Speaker 5 (02:18:07):
Who's this?

Speaker 2 (02:18:08):
And from it's from Fred, you know, Abner's brother in
law down in Texas. He says, in aunt Agath he's
got there and wonders why Abden Elizabeth ain't showed up yet.

Speaker 5 (02:18:18):
Oh well, ain't nothing so hard to understand about that?

Speaker 2 (02:18:22):
Yeah, but the telegram was sent this morning, and I
got a long distance call from Abner last night, and
he told me how he's in join himself down there
in Texas. Oh, I see, well, I can straighten you
out on that freaking of Grandpab. Abner and Elizabeth ain't
down in Texas?

Speaker 5 (02:18:38):
Why he is too? I told you call me from there?

Speaker 13 (02:18:41):
No, he never.

Speaker 2 (02:18:43):
He was calling you from the Johnson Place, just four
miles out of town.

Speaker 5 (02:18:47):
Johnson Place. Are you sure that's where he's at?

Speaker 13 (02:18:51):
Sure?

Speaker 5 (02:18:51):
I'm sure it's all the father they got.

Speaker 2 (02:18:53):
Why that little varmit, that's favn legged little varmit trying
to make me think he's down in Texas when he ain't.
Ain't that honery little tritter? Well, now, don't be too
hard on him, Grandpab. It ain't altogether Abner's fault that
they're stuck out there. And if he's out to Johnson's flash,
why don't he say he's out there?

Speaker 5 (02:19:12):
Well, I can tell you why.

Speaker 2 (02:19:14):
He don't want nobody to know where he's at, don't
know what, but know where he's at. Well, he's feared
he'd be the laughing stocks of the town. Him and
Elizabeth made cit you to do about going away on
this trip, and so now he's afeared of everybody else
joshing for not getting no further away than four miles
from town.

Speaker 5 (02:19:32):
Well, why didn't they get further away? Then?

Speaker 2 (02:19:34):
Why are they staying out there to Johnson's fla fair?

Speaker 5 (02:19:37):
Well, they have to. You see, when they left the
mail hack driver.

Speaker 2 (02:19:42):
Got fed up with him and went off and left
him at the Johnson place. They got in some kind
of argument, and Elizabeth wouldn't hike hitch to the county
seat where they's going to catch the train and wherever
they could get out of there. One of the Johnson
youngins come down with the measles, and now the whole
batch of them's quarantine, all for the double East age quarantine.

Speaker 5 (02:20:02):
Huh, that's what's happened.

Speaker 2 (02:20:04):
And you can imagine what's going on out there, all
them people cooked up in that little house. I don't
envy Abnuer told feel downright chor for firm, not with
that Johnson anyway. There's an honresh critter I've ever known
in my life. Yeah, but that ain't the worst part
about it. Mister Johnson's uncle's out there too.

Speaker 5 (02:20:24):
You don't mean Uncle Earl. That's the one Uncle Earl
when it.

Speaker 2 (02:20:28):
Comes to honreing this now he outcaps mister Johnson six
ways for Christmas.

Speaker 5 (02:20:32):
Oh yeah, that Uncle l Earl.

Speaker 13 (02:20:34):
He's a sight.

Speaker 2 (02:20:35):
I wouldn't want to be around him for more than
two minutes at a time. Reckon how long Avenue's gonna
have to be quarantined in there?

Speaker 5 (02:20:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:20:43):
I tried to call doctor Melorivula go to find that out.
What I'm afeared of now, I'm feared of Abniral get
yourself in a lot of trouble playing that slide trombone.
Slide trombone. Yeah, I guess I never told you about that. See,
somehow or other, this aunt Agathy got the idea that
Abner was a big trombone player, and Elizabeth never told

(02:21:05):
her no different facts is she sort her built up
the idy found it good to her. So when she
found out that Abner was going to have to meet
aunt Agathy, why she brought the Macmillan boy's trombone and
told Abnue he had to learn to play it before
they got to Texas.

Speaker 5 (02:21:20):
And that's a pigeon told this one thing over here.

Speaker 2 (02:21:23):
You mean that Abner is actually toting a big trombone
horn around with him.

Speaker 5 (02:21:27):
He's not just toting it.

Speaker 2 (02:21:28):
He's driving everybody struck, raving mad crazy, playing it, according
of what Doc Miller says. And he must knock somebody
down every time he pushes that sliding part of the
horn out crowded as that house is.

Speaker 8 (02:21:42):
Oh, it must be awful.

Speaker 2 (02:21:44):
And just think of that one young and laying in
bed with the measles and having to listen to that
horn blowing all the time. And if i's mister Johnson,
wait a minute, there comes old finest Peabody up out there,
Abner's papa. Why don't we send him out there and
tell him to get his boy and take him back home.

Speaker 5 (02:22:01):
Well, he can't do that.

Speaker 2 (02:22:03):
And anyways, I don't think we are to even tell
findus where Abner's at. He'd blab it all over town.

Speaker 5 (02:22:09):
Well what's wrong with that? Or Avenue? Don't want nobody
to know.

Speaker 2 (02:22:13):
And I don't think we are to ruin what little
fun he's getting out of this trip, because he'd just
be embarrassed. Come back here and let folks know he
never got out of town. Mind out here he comes.
I don't see nothing, No, I ain't going to how love?
How do you do, mister Peabody? How are you today?
I just had the food to call from, Oh, Hardie Wilford,

(02:22:36):
I see, I just had the phone to call long
distance from boy Abner?

Speaker 5 (02:22:41):
All you did? I suppose he said he was calling
from many Ola, Texas.

Speaker 2 (02:22:45):
Yeah, sir, that's just where he said. He was calling
from many Or in Texas. That's the sound, all right,
Bendy Ora, Texas. He called me from there. I'm wrong,
distance Abner didn't.

Speaker 5 (02:22:56):
Yeah, you just told us that.

Speaker 2 (02:22:57):
Yep, he called me a long distance It was familiar
or in Texas. Well, that's not yes, sir, long distance. Yeah,
Aber's a good son.

Speaker 5 (02:23:08):
What old did he tell you? Who you're doing down there?

Speaker 27 (02:23:10):
He?

Speaker 2 (02:23:11):
Oh, let's see. What did he tell me is that
he's joined some big band down there, believe Yeah? Yeah,
said he was going to lead some big parade with
his trombone, that.

Speaker 5 (02:23:24):
Little army grand bad patient.

Speaker 2 (02:23:27):
What did you say, Mildred? He never said nothing, mister Peabody.
Just tell us what else Abner doing in Texas. You
just don't know how interesting this is. I mean, wellbody,
I think that was our ring? Oh hello, Jonnam downstore
and library.

Speaker 5 (02:23:45):
Lumbeddard's talking. How's that?

Speaker 2 (02:23:49):
Well, calm down. I can't make out nothing you're saying.
Oh it's mister Johnson. Huh.

Speaker 5 (02:23:56):
Well, I can't do nothing about that. He's quarantined in there.

Speaker 2 (02:24:01):
But Doc Miller says he can't leave though, Well, take
the trombone away from him. Wait till he ain't playing it,
then then you can get close enough to him to
grab it. Well you just have to figure it out
for yourself.

Speaker 9 (02:24:17):
Then.

Speaker 2 (02:24:19):
Well, if I see Doc Miller, I'll see what I
can do. All right, mister Johnson, goodbye?

Speaker 13 (02:24:25):
Who is that?

Speaker 7 (02:24:26):
Love?

Speaker 13 (02:24:27):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (02:24:27):
I forget now? Nothing important?

Speaker 2 (02:24:29):
Is it somebody in Texas?

Speaker 5 (02:24:31):
Ahead?

Speaker 2 (02:24:32):
You mentioned something about to tromboarde uh yeah, yeah, it
was somebody from Texas. I think, well, what did they say?

Speaker 27 (02:24:40):
What?

Speaker 2 (02:24:40):
What is Abdu getting hisself into that parade?

Speaker 20 (02:24:43):
Like he said he was garn it?

Speaker 2 (02:24:45):
Well, I wouldn't say it was exactly a parade. He's
getting hisself in. That must be it a You told
me on the long distance telephorm that it was going
to be the longest parade ever held anywheres in the world.

Speaker 5 (02:24:59):
Now that's really said.

Speaker 8 (02:25:00):
He did.

Speaker 2 (02:25:01):
Yeah, Abrew's a good boy. I'm proud to have he's
turned out. I never figured he'd ever get through her.
He'd be leading the big word parade. Tho, I can
tell you any thing or two about that boy, Your
grandpapa recollect what I say. Yes, as a good boy
leading leading the parade, my old son, I wish taken

(02:25:25):
to be there to see it. I'd stand there and
cheer and raise.

Speaker 20 (02:25:29):
For my head.

Speaker 5 (02:25:30):
Wait a minute, the step on again?

Speaker 8 (02:25:32):
A minute?

Speaker 2 (02:25:34):
Hello, johnam down store? What's that emergency call?

Speaker 5 (02:25:40):
Who is it? Miss Johnson?

Speaker 34 (02:25:44):
Why?

Speaker 5 (02:25:44):
No, Doc Miller ain't here. Well, what's the matter? Is
you young and worse? Or for pity's sakes? Or you
don't mean it?

Speaker 2 (02:25:58):
Well, I'll try to get hold of him. Ye're all right,
Miss Johnson?

Speaker 5 (02:26:02):
Goodbye? WA's the trouble all on?

Speaker 2 (02:26:05):
Uncle Earl and mister Johnson robbed Abner's trombone around his
head and he's out cold. Hey, mister Johnson done that?
Is he down in Texas?

Speaker 13 (02:26:14):
Too?

Speaker 2 (02:26:14):
No, you might as well know the truth that mister
Peabody Abner's out at the Johnson's place.

Speaker 5 (02:26:20):
He ain't in Texas.

Speaker 13 (02:26:21):
Now, Well, do you know.

Speaker 2 (02:26:23):
Now there's a true Peabody for you. I'm prouder every
of him.

Speaker 5 (02:26:28):
Now, prouder as you are.

Speaker 2 (02:26:31):
He said he was gonna lead the longest play in
the world, But I never dreamed that it run from
minne or at Texas clean up to the Johnson's Place.

Speaker 5 (02:26:41):
And that Abner's a good.

Speaker 6 (02:26:43):
Boy, Oh LORDI From eighty one years ago. November fifteenth,

(02:27:07):
nineteen forty four, Lomon Abner on Classic Radio Theater with Wyattcox.
Big story at the time, you know, because people during
the war couldn't really take those kind of vacations, and
so going from Arkansas to Texas, well, that was a
big trip. And you know that you could get accommodations

(02:27:28):
or be able to make that kind of trip during wartime.
That was just something else. It really was. But it
didn't quite go the way that. Yeah, there you have it.
Lomon Abner here on Classic Radio Theater with Wyattcox. Be
listening to our Sunday show. We'll be getting laughs. With

(02:27:48):
a nineteen forty one edition of the Jack Mini Program,
they put on a football drama entitled He Fumbled the Ball,
also Abbot and Ostello from nineteen forty four as Lou
goes back to his hometown of Patterson, New Jersey for

(02:28:09):
a school play. Yeah I know, even then. And then
a couple of nineteen fifty two episodes with the Aldridge
family and Amos and Andy, both from Sunday, November sixteenth,
nineteen fifty two. And then we'll go back to nineteen
forty two for another episode of Loman. After that's all

(02:28:31):
coming up on our Sunday podcast. We'll see you then,
have a great weekend, won't you see you tomorrow? For
more great classic radio theater, I'm Wyatt Cox.

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