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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Quiet Please for Today is called one for the book.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Once upon a time when there were more lieutenants than
lieutenant colonels in the Air Force, and when.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You could tell a cada by his blue suit like
a mailman's, a thing happened.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And if you think the boys from the bright Blue
Yonder got snap food sometime in this last war, brother,
I'm here to tell you ain't seen nothing yet, because
this was the lodgest, the most comprehensive, the dog gundiest
man I have to tell you. And the thing about
it is this snuff who isn't over yet. It won't
be over for nine years. Listen, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Nothing here of Murac dryly.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, you go out San Fernando Road and you turn
off a free month pass onto six instead of going
up over.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The ridge rout.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You got through mid canyoncy and I'm through Palmdale and Lancaster.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Then you take a road off to the right for
the sp station.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
After about forty miles of Joshua trees, you get to
Murak and a big tough mp tails. You turn around,
go back where you came from, because that's why they
got the jets. Where guys are ringing them out so
fast they sometimes get where they're going before they've started,
and they tore up the or mad a long time ago,
but back in the early part of nineteen thirty seven
(02:05):
where it was kind of different. Iraq, which incidentally is
not an Indian name. It's just the name Korum spelt
backwards like on the radio. Korum Brothers as ranches that
owned a joint.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And it's just what you think. It is, the bottom
of an old, dried up lake. It's flat.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
There's a billiard table blacker than the one in the
office crub of Maxwell. And back in those days you
could take your car out in the middle and open
her up to eighty and sit back and watch.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Look, Mama, no hands, which was quite a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
There's some newspaper guy blew a tire into one hundred
and night snap.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Rolls with it with the customary results. Well it ain't
like that today.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean, the lake's still there, but it isn't a
monks place anymore. The low bow wolves and the coyotes
and the rattlesnakes and the road runners have scrammed.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
They got an installation there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That never mind, you're not gonna see us, but it's
a big ee. Then the lake itself is about the biggest.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Landing field in the world. You could set down anywhere practically. Well,
the Air Corps.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Decided back in nineteen thirty seven they have them a
big air maneuvers there at New i Raq. So it
came about everything they had that could fly. Martin b
Tends from Langley. P. Twenty sixes them Selvage and Maxwell Randolph,
a bunch of skinny blue things they call PB two
ways that came from I don't have any idea. And
over at Marchfield of Riverside they had a flock of
(03:29):
A seventeens attack jobs, two seaters if north of me they.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Have holes in their flats. I remember the first ones
to have holes in their flats. And there was a
lot of other miscellaneous stuff. It was quite colorful. P.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Twenty six is painted od the bombers black and yellow.
They all had yellow wings. The PB two a's were
blue and the A seventeen shiny dural. Everybody had their
red and white stripes and a rudder and the big
old white star and a blue circle on the wings
for all three.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Hundred of them all we had practically in nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And and the aircraft complete with the nineteen thirty seven
version of radar. A cluster of big horns on a
trailer with a guy wearing air forms in the middle
of 'em. You couldn't spit half a mile away after
horns was pointed at you, and I kind of you
bust the guy's ear drunk, And there was a bunch
of movie guys taking pictures. I had plenty of expense money.
(04:25):
He didn't shoot craps so good. So one way and
another was quite a thing. And brother, it was hot
it still is that he get down to forty or
fifty in the early morning, and manon it was up
to one hundred and fifteen with the sun bouncing off.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That white lake bottom and mirages everywhere you looked. Well.
I was a crew chief and a PEA twenty six
squadron from severage.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
See oh, excuse me, I didn't introduce myself. Westlake's my name,
Max Westlake, Captain USAF. I was a staff stargeant in
nineteen thirty seven up there at Europ I got acquainted
with a guy of all things, a sergeant and the
nanty aircraft up it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Named Bill Kant, And I remember how this snaf foo started.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Bill and I were sitting in a bar in Lancaster
one Saturday, drinking beer, listening to Pancho Barnes Don Rest
your Soul, talking about buzzing at church people in Long
Beach and at Jenny had a couple of elements of
b ten bees.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Went over Bill cart he said he'd buy another beer.
I'll buy another beer, Max.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'm going out and sit on the porch and read
what do you wanna read for?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And you can drink beer free beer.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I found a couple of magazines. Let's see, man, I
go on, drink your beer.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Super science stories, miraculous stories.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you like that kind of jack or what if
I do a lot of hooey?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh, they're not guys flying rockets and taking off for
the moon and mirakey like that. Yeah, listen to twenty
years the stuff in these books of the ancient history.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
In twenty years, people will be flying rockets.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
In twenty years they'll be writing the same kind of
guck and people be flying air flashing airplanes.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Botting wheel be shooting them down, and you wait and
see ya.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
In another twenty years, airplanes, rocket planes will be going
so fast you won't be able to see them, much
less shoot them down.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
How fast a couple thousand miles an hour? A guy
couldn't try that fast. Why couldn't he, Well, he'd out
run himself.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
He'd come in for a landing, and fifteen minutes later
you'd hear him.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You can fly as fast as sound. You earn that. Well,
bullet flies faster than sound, but there ain't anybody riding it.
They get a big enough bullet, somebody a rider, Bring
me another beer, They get me one. I'll fly.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You'd feel pretty funny starting out someplace on Saturday and
getting there on Friday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh listen, it'll happen in the magazine.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
These magazines told a lot of things that have come true.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Bill friends, WHA, I couldn't give you an instance, right, No,
but they have.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'll take deer now, you watch and see. One of
these days I'll come bouncing in someplace.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
In one of these rocket jobs, and you'll be right.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'll kiss your foot at high noon, right in front
of everybody. Now you want up here, He's gonna sit
there reading about buzzing a man in the moon in
the skyrocket or why.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I did both. Then we've done to ride back to
the lake after a while, and I went to bed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Bill Cartter was pretty disgusted when he got there and
found out he had to stand guard because the sergeant
that was supposed to be had broke out with the measles.
He had to put on his overcoat and stopped on
my tempt for a cigarette before he went off.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Where it was cold.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
We talked and he left and I went to sleep. Well,
I woke up in the middle of the night. See,
I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got out
and put on my pants and shoes and flying jacket,
went out to.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The end of the aircraft battery. I said, Hey, Karen, Hey,
Bill Tarrant, who's that me? Westlake? Max Wesley? What are
who's doing? Uh? Yeah, I couldn't sleep. Oh I wish
I could. I'm about froze. How much longer you got?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Half an hour? We'll have a bottle with you. I'm sorry.
Ah gee, pretty nice in it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'll give it thee.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Millions of stars. Yeah, ever fly at night, Bill, and
I ain't going to I ain't gonna fly at all.
That's swell up there with the stars. I'll stay here.
(08:59):
I wonder what's up there? I got no curiosity at all.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna find out some one day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
In your skyrocket? What was that? Search me? So I
I can't come up there? Probably one of your skyrockets. Well,
I don't think there's anybody up tonight. I don't see anything.
I wonder what hey? What look up there where? Right
(09:32):
there by the big zipper? What is it? I don't
see anything. Say you know what that is? That's a parachute.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Why say that's what it is, Hondy, that's the biggest parachute.
There goes the search light. That's not over They battery.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Gosh, that is a big one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, I wonder who it is.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's a funny looking thing. Looks like a box or something.
It looks like part of an airplane. They go to
the glass drug.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I didn't see an airplane, Bill, Maybe it was one
of your sky Roger.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I shot out. Give me a few glasses. He's gonna
hit awful hard. Give me the glasses. Oh oh, he
sure did. Yeah, that's part of an airplane. Bill.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
They're pulling a guy out of it in some kind
of funny suit.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What supenfisiency?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's kind of like a diver's suit, kind of like
a spaceflyer suit.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I know where he came from.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Where he bailed out of Goofy Stories magazine. I handed
back the glasses to Bill Karen and I walked over
to the infirmary, and that's where they take whoever it was.
I figured hand of the minute, the crash wagon came
back and they carried the fellow in. I sat there
a minute to talk to Daniel Webster, the medic that
(11:01):
had the duty. They were fussing around with a fella
inside the ward at the doc and everybody. I sat
there talking. There was a piece of metal lying on
the stretcher that one of the medics had picked up
where the thing crashed.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I looked at it. US Air Force was cenciled on
a US.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Air Force and a number and x F one three one.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What's XF one three one mean? I said? Why?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I said to myself, US Air Force? This is the
Army Air Corps. What's the US Air Force?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Something new and what's XF one three one? I know
what a P twenty six is in a TB two
way and a B ten b, but what's.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
The an XF one three one? And then the doctor
called me and I stood up surprised.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Sagean west Lake, Come in here, sir, I said, come
in here, Yes, sir, in the here, sir.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Ever see that man before? Why no, sir, Sure, well
he looks kind of familiar. But is he uh uh?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He's got a slight concussion and I have given him
a shot.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Who is he, sir? Is he from here? You don't
know him? Why no, sir, but I he sure looks familiar.
But what's your first name, sergeant, sir? Your first name? Oh? Uh?
Max M? What's the matter, sir, sergeant? That man's name.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Is Max Westlake two huh. Only he's a major in
the United States Air Force.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How do you make of that? Sergeant? Hey, h what
would you have made of it?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I looked at the guy more carefully, and then I
saw why he looked familiar. I had seen that pushed
in the mirror every morning for twenty two years. There
was the scar on the eyebrow where I drove the
car in the black post and he was on the
wrong eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Then I remembered I wasn't looking into a mirror.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I said, Doc, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He said, don't you? And I said, well, sir.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So I went out, and just as I was going
out with the tangent walks Bill Carront and I must
to look funny because Bill grabbed me for the arm.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What's the matter with you? Mag Huh? Will you look
as if you wait a minute? Bill? I think I've
got something figured out.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
For the love of I'm taking off my shoes, Sergeant Karrott,
what poor where?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Not exactly high noon, sergeant, But you're gonna kiss my
foot just the same.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Huh? That's right? Why because Sergeant Carrot, that guy in.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
There, that that guy that flew in here in a skyrocket,
that major.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
In there, it's me.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And so the snap woo began. I got called over
to the Colonel's tent right after breakfast.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He was sitting there with a doctor and.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
They looked up when I get my heels pretty close
together and placed my hand fingers extended and joined against
my right eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Sit down, So I didn't yes, sir, uh.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The doctor tells me this fellow who bailed out last
night has the same name you have.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yes, sir, it's still lot like you too, Sergeant. You
know him?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Sergeant, yes, said last night you didn't it?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, I got it all straightened up in my mind now, sir.
Well he's me, sir, Sergeant. Have you lost your buttons? Oh, Sir,
I don't think so, Sir. Say that again, sigean, Sir,
I said no, I don't think so. No what you
said before? Oh he's me, sir.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Crush your knees, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Sir, crush your knees, yes, how he flexed her?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
All right, sergeant, do you mind explaining what you're trying
to give us.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I've got a technical program on this morning, and I
go ahead and touch you. Well, sir, it's perfectly simple.
Aviation is progressing, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
So what well, sir, it's perfectly simple. It's Major Wesley.
Who is me in fluent in something like a rocket
plane or something quite.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A long time in the future. Do you want to stanswer?
Go ahead? Handy flew so fast? He well, he just
got here before he started, sir. Sadean, sir, nothing, go on, well, sir,
but I saw there is sometime I'll be a major
(16:14):
like he is. I mean, like I am not. What
do I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean, if he's me, I'm a major, but I'm
still a sergeant. I mean, I'll be a major and
I'll take off and when I get here, I mean
when I got here, I'm still a sergeant.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Sergeant, Please, my head fakes. I'm sorry, sir, but that's
what happens, sir. Somebody around here is crazy. Oh no,
s're not me.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Let's try that again, shall we. What's your theory?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I just want to be sure I'm not hearing.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Things dot here.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Well, if you're hearing him, so am I going?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Shine? Well, sir, some day in the future, I'm going
to be a major.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, never mind, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So someday I'm going to be a major scene and
I'm going to fly a rocket plane or something.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
How do you know all this, sergeant, You've got a
crystal ball? No, sir, it's obvious, ain't it, sir? Not
to me? You doctor?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, you're going to be a major, sir, Yes, sir,
well I must be. I'm over there in attendant, I doctor,
and I'm a major, ain't I You see sir, and
someday when I'm a major, Sir, I'm going to get
into this rocket plane.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Seeing I'm gonna take off and I'm gonna go so fast.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
If gosh, I sure must have been rolling last night, Sergeant,
you must want to get out of the army.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Awful bad, sir. Me, No, Sir, I don't want to
get out of the army. What makes the colonel think that?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, if I ever heard of anybody asking for a
transfer to the looney bin, this is it, sir, I
assure the colonel I am not nuts. Well, then why
did they is you telling me all this? Sir?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
The colonel asked me, okay, go on.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You were taking off in a rocket ship or something
like that certain boom like I said, I go so.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Fast that I just run out of time and I
landed last night. You believe that, guysan? Yes, sir? Where
did you live? I mean, how did you fall on
this theory?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, sir, I read science fiction magazines and ah, you
de and I just deduced it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh, sir, rocket travel is perfectly possible.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
M It's an interesting theory.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Doctor. Are you nuts too? I'm really not sure, colonel. Well,
what are you talking? About then. I was just looking
at this identification card.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I took out of the Major Weslake's pocket.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
What about it?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
It's dated November twenty four, nineteen fifty one, fifteen years
from now.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Smaf whoo and snaff who and snaff who.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The colonel he didn't have any guard house or anything.
He confined me to my tent, not as he can find.
Sergeant Max Westlake to my tent. Major mix Westlake was
still out like a light. He he couldn't talk, and me,
I didn't have anybody to talk to. But I thought,
and the.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Harder I thought, the sure I was. I was right.
And the second day I was in there, the colonel
came to my tent and he looked about eighteen years older.
I stood up. Yes, sergeant, now listen.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I had the doctor take that that major's fingerprits and I.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Flew them to Washington.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
If he looked up in the big fire, Yes, sir,
the dog came back this morning. Yes, I'll read you
what they say and see the subject fingerprints are Those
are staff Sergeant Max Westlake and south Portman's over. There
is no record of a Major Max Westlake in the
(20:21):
Army air cord my direction south Fortan's over, Yes, sir,
that's the way I figured it, west Lake.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
If you're running a sandy or running a sandy, sir,
come with me? Where are we going, sir?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Right into the infirmary, tim Yes, see A.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Then you sit here behind this canvas wall and you
listen to that fella talk. I don't say a word.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Just nod your head if he's right, or shake it
if he's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Hear me, yes, sir, alright listening? Major? Where did you
come from?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Here?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
At your rock?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What a fit are you with? I'm chief test pilot
here I see? And what happened?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You know?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yes, sir, I was flying an except one three one.
That's the newest experimental rocket job. You speed up about
max seven we talking about, sir, seven times the speed
of sound.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
See suddenly the needles food way over beyond the mark.
I got scared, pushed the automatic cockpit release and failed out.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And how fast do you think you were going?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
There?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
WHOA? I should say about twelve times the speed of sound?
I see?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
And uh?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What was the date of your take of Major? Why?
December twenty first, nineteen fifty seven. Now look here, see
if you see her. You see.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Smatho wow t fo foo bar Yeah, I mean never
saw one.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Like this before. He sent us to the general. Uh,
sit down, gentlemen. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now west Lake, yes, sir, yes your brothers no, sir, No, sir,
now just a minute, just a minute.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I mean Westlake.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yes, yes, sir, stop, yes, sir, yes, sir, Sergeant west Lake, yes, sir.
Who is this Major Westlake? He's me, sir, Sergeant. We
can't prove otherwise, General, that will do. Colonel, yes, sir,
Now Major Westlake. Who is this sergeant, Sir, I don't know.
(22:53):
Isn't he your brother? No, Sir, who is he?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Then Anthony? Sir? I think he's me? Doctor. Are these
men crazy? Not as far as I can tell, Sir, Well,
what ails? And then, sir, I just work here? Well, now, Major,
how come I don't know you well that I couldn't say, sir.
(23:23):
I don't know the general either, young man.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I have been in the army twenty eight years. Yes,
at twenty nine, I was a bliss with Lord George
Langman when he got the eighth Callery. Yes, sir, and
I know thousands of officers in the army, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Sir, but I don't know you no, sir, young man.
Do you know the penalty for impersonating an officer? Sir,
I'm not impersonating an officer. Here's his identifications? A General.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Is that your picture major, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And doesn't look like you?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, sir, these pictures never look like the people. That's right,
and nine looks like well, this seems to be an order,
all right, it is, sir.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I know that those your fingerprints, Yes, sir, they are.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
The sergeants, Washington says, General. Now, now how could that be? Well, sir,
they have to be me.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
He's me. I mean, I'm i'm uso.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I mean, sir, Colonel, has this man ever demonstrated he?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I mean, has he ever had a tax before?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Know, sir?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
He's always been rational, sir. He's one of my best men.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
He's rational now, General, and is I think he is.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Kind of? I mean the sergeant.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Do you know that the board may be convened and
that they're liable to throw you right out of the army?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Sir, I'm not worried about that. Oh you're not? Huh?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Because they can't, sir, I have to.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Stay in Kindly tell me why? Because well, don't you see, sir,
I'm going to be a major, and I'm going to
fly a rocketplane. The except one three one makes you
think so well, I'm here sir after all, Well, I
am going to tell you something. I am going to
solve this problem once and for all in a military manner.
(25:11):
Majors Lake. You are subbut to orders, aren't you, Yes, sir,
of course, and I want this to be a lesson
to you other officers too. You gentlemen are expected to
use your intelligence and initiative and not come boarding me
with all sorts of details that could just as well
be handling your own valueis understanding, Yes, sir silence. That
(25:32):
is a very simple way to solve this problem. As
I said, Major s Lake, you are ordered to return
to your base, Sir. I'm at my base. I'm stationed
of Murrock Dry Lake. This is Muroc Dry Lake.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Sir, Well, how did you get here? I flew, sir,
But how did you act? I mean, how did you
get here? Now, Sir?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I just flew so fast. I got here before I started.
I didn't ask you, sergeant. That's right, sir, I flew
so fast, I got here before I started.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Do you haven't asked Bernan.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You see who that is, sir?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I found something I thought, mikey important. Who are you,
Sargean William Terrence, sir, I'm sergeant the guards today. What
if you got there, Sergeant. I don't know what it is, sir,
but I.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Found it out there where the major lands MAJORA.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yes, well let's see it. Let's see it, sagont.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I never thought anything like it before, sir, and I
thought i'd better bring it to the general.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
May I see that? Please? Well it's my mac meter, sir.
You're what mac meter, sir? An instrument that measures speed,
Sergeant less like please excuse me, sir. That's what it is. General.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It measures speed in terms of the speed of sound.
MAC one is sound speed. MAC two is twice the
speed of sound. Yeah, let's see it. Very curious, Yes,
it's very very curious. All of a sudden it got jammed.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
General. You see the needless jam way over here on
the pin.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It indicated probably twelve times the speed of sound, and
that was awful fast.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So I bailed out, and see if I can't un
jail the needle. There's a ratchet underneath, sir.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh, well, I see it's like a speedometer, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It turns hard?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Ah there?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Hey, where do the major whish I go?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Why?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
He was right here? I see him, sir, I was
looking right at him.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
When you turn the same meter back, he just turned
all transparent and then he disappeared. What, sir, I think
the General just unscrewed him right back where he came from.
That was it. The General turned the macmeter backward, and
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that's all. But I liked another gut out of all
that snaffoo. Well, I'm a captain now, and it's only
nine more years, and I'll be a major, and I'll
fly nexcept one tree one here at Merack, and my
macmeter will go haywire and.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
My gosha ike? Have I got to go through all
at again?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is one for
the book. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper,
and the man who spoke to you was Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And Dan Sutter plays Sergeant Karrent Melville Royk was a colonel.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
The doctor was played by Charles Eggerson General Lloyd Buckley.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
That's for Major Westlake.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I'll will leave after a guess. As usual, music for
choir Please is played by Albert Burman, Now what a
worry about next week? Here's all right, Director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Thank you for listening to Choirt.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Please, my story for next week is called my Son.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
John, and so on until next week is the same time.
I am quietly yours, ernest child. And now a listening reminder.
There's an exciting story waiting for you this.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Afternoon on David Harding Conter Spy. See what happens when
the flood of counterfeit currency threatens to disrupt the entire
financial structure of a South American country, and the counter
spies are called in to investigate. Tune in David Harding
Conter Spy on.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Your ABC station. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Quiet Please.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written
and directed by Willis.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Cooper and which features Ernest Chappell.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Quiet Please for Today is called one for the book.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Once upon a time when there were more lieutenants than
lieutenant colonels in the Air Force, and when.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You could tell a cada by his blue suit like
a mailman's, a thing happened.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
And if you think the boys from the bright Blue
Yonder got snap food sometime in this last war, brother,
I'm here to tell you ain't seen nothing yet, because
this was the lodgest, the most comprehensive, the dog gundiest
man I have to tell you. And the thing about
it is this snuff who isn't over yet. It won't
be over for nine years. Listen, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Nothing here of Murac dryly.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Well, you go out San Fernando Road and you turn
off a free month pass onto six instead of going
up over.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
The ridge rout.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You got through mid canyoncy and I'm through Palmdale and Lancaster.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Then you take a road off to the right for
the sp station.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
After about forty miles of Joshua trees, you get to
Murak and a big tough mp tails. You turn around,
go back where you came from, because that's why they
got the jets. Where guys are ringing them out so
fast they sometimes get where they're going before they've started,
and they tore up the or mad a long time ago,
but back in the early part of nineteen thirty seven
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where it was kind of different. Iraq, which incidentally is
not an Indian name. It's just the name Korum spelt
backwards like on the radio. Korum Brothers as ranches that
owned a joint.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
And it's just what you think. It is, the bottom
of an old, dried up lake. It's flat.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
There's a billiard table blacker than the one in the
office crub of Maxwell. And back in those days you
could take your car out in the middle and open
her up to eighty and sit back and watch.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Look, Mama, no hands, which was quite a lot of fun.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
There's some newspaper guy blew a tire into one hundred
and night snap.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Rolls with it with the customary results. Well it ain't
like that today.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
I mean, the lake's still there, but it isn't a
monks place anymore. The low bow wolves and the coyotes
and the rattlesnakes and the road runners have scrammed.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
They got an installation there.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
That never mind, you're not gonna see us, but it's
a big ee. Then the lake itself is about the biggest.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Landing field in the world. You could set down anywhere practically. Well,
the Air Corps.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Decided back in nineteen thirty seven they have them a
big air maneuvers there at New i Raq. So it
came about everything they had that could fly. Martin b
Tends from Langley. P. Twenty sixes them Selvage and Maxwell Randolph,
a bunch of skinny blue things they call PB two
ways that came from I don't have any idea. And
over at Marchfield of Riverside they had a flock of
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A seventeens attack jobs, two seaters if north of me they.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Have holes in their flats. I remember the first ones
to have holes in their flats. And there was a
lot of other miscellaneous stuff. It was quite colorful. P.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Twenty six is painted od the bombers black and yellow.
They all had yellow wings. The PB two a's were
blue and the A seventeen shiny dural. Everybody had their
red and white stripes and a rudder and the big
old white star and a blue circle on the wings
for all three.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Hundred of them all we had practically in nineteen thirty seven.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
And and the aircraft complete with the nineteen thirty seven
version of radar. A cluster of big horns on a
trailer with a guy wearing air forms in the middle
of 'em. You couldn't spit half a mile away after
horns was pointed at you, and I kind of you
bust the guy's ear drunk, And there was a bunch
of movie guys taking pictures. I had plenty of expense money.
(04:25):
He didn't shoot craps so good. So one way and
another was quite a thing. And brother, it was hot
it still is that he get down to forty or
fifty in the early morning, and manon it was up
to one hundred and fifteen with the sun bouncing off.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
That white lake bottom and mirages everywhere you looked. Well.
I was a crew chief and a PEA twenty six
squadron from severage.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
See oh, excuse me, I didn't introduce myself. Westlake's my name,
Max Westlake, Captain USAF. I was a staff stargeant in
nineteen thirty seven up there at Europ I got acquainted
with a guy of all things, a sergeant and the
nanty aircraft up it.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Named Bill Kant, And I remember how this snaf foo started.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Bill and I were sitting in a bar in Lancaster
one Saturday, drinking beer, listening to Pancho Barnes Don Rest
your Soul, talking about buzzing at church people in Long
Beach and at Jenny had a couple of elements of
b ten bees.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Went over Bill cart he said he'd buy another beer.
I'll buy another beer, Max.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
I'm going out and sit on the porch and read
what do you wanna read for?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
And you can drink beer free beer.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Now.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
I found a couple of magazines. Let's see, man, I
go on, drink your beer.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Super science stories, miraculous stories.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Do you like that kind of jack or what if
I do a lot of hooey?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh, they're not guys flying rockets and taking off for
the moon and mirakey like that. Yeah, listen to twenty
years the stuff in these books of the ancient history.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
In twenty years, people will be flying rockets.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
In twenty years they'll be writing the same kind of
guck and people be flying air flashing airplanes.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Botting wheel be shooting them down, and you wait and
see ya.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
In another twenty years, airplanes, rocket planes will be going
so fast you won't be able to see them, much
less shoot them down.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
How fast a couple thousand miles an hour? A guy
couldn't try that fast. Why couldn't he, Well, he'd out
run himself.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
He'd come in for a landing, and fifteen minutes later
you'd hear him.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You can fly as fast as sound. You earn that. Well,
bullet flies faster than sound, but there ain't anybody riding it.
They get a big enough bullet, somebody a rider, Bring
me another beer, They get me one. I'll fly.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You'd feel pretty funny starting out someplace on Saturday and
getting there on Friday afternoon.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Oh listen, it'll happen in the magazine.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
These magazines told a lot of things that have come true.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Bill friends, WHA, I couldn't give you an instance, right, No,
but they have.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
I'll take deer now, you watch and see. One of
these days I'll come bouncing in someplace.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
In one of these rocket jobs, and you'll be right.
I'll tell you what I'll do.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I'll kiss your foot at high noon, right in front
of everybody. Now you want up here, He's gonna sit
there reading about buzzing a man in the moon in
the skyrocket or why.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I did both. Then we've done to ride back to
the lake after a while, and I went to bed.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Bill Cartter was pretty disgusted when he got there and
found out he had to stand guard because the sergeant
that was supposed to be had broke out with the measles.
He had to put on his overcoat and stopped on
my tempt for a cigarette before he went off.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Where it was cold.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
We talked and he left and I went to sleep. Well,
I woke up in the middle of the night. See,
I couldn't get back to sleep, so I got out
and put on my pants and shoes and flying jacket,
went out to.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
The end of the aircraft battery. I said, Hey, Karen, Hey,
Bill Tarrant, who's that me? Westlake? Max Wesley? What are
who's doing? Uh? Yeah, I couldn't sleep. Oh I wish
I could. I'm about froze. How much longer you got?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Half an hour? We'll have a bottle with you. I'm sorry.
Ah gee, pretty nice in it.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I'll give it thee.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Millions of stars. Yeah, ever fly at night, Bill, and
I ain't going to I ain't gonna fly at all.
That's swell up there with the stars. I'll stay here.
(08:59):
I wonder what's up there? I got no curiosity at all.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, I'm gonna find out some one day.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
In your skyrocket? What was that? Search me? So I
I can't come up there? Probably one of your skyrockets. Well,
I don't think there's anybody up tonight. I don't see anything.
I wonder what hey? What look up there where? Right
(09:32):
there by the big zipper? What is it? I don't
see anything. Say you know what that is? That's a parachute.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Why say that's what it is, Hondy, that's the biggest parachute.
There goes the search light. That's not over They battery.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Gosh, that is a big one.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, I wonder who it is.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That's a funny looking thing. Looks like a box or something.
It looks like part of an airplane. They go to
the glass drug.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I didn't see an airplane, Bill, Maybe it was one
of your sky Roger.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I shot out. Give me a few glasses. He's gonna
hit awful hard. Give me the glasses. Oh oh, he
sure did. Yeah, that's part of an airplane. Bill.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
They're pulling a guy out of it in some kind
of funny suit.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
What supenfisiency?
Speaker 3 (10:32):
It's kind of like a diver's suit, kind of like
a spaceflyer suit.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I know where he came from.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Where he bailed out of Goofy Stories magazine. I handed
back the glasses to Bill Karen and I walked over
to the infirmary, and that's where they take whoever it was.
I figured hand of the minute, the crash wagon came
back and they carried the fellow in. I sat there
a minute to talk to Daniel Webster, the medic that
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had the duty. They were fussing around with a fella
inside the ward at the doc and everybody. I sat
there talking. There was a piece of metal lying on
the stretcher that one of the medics had picked up
where the thing crashed.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
I looked at it. US Air Force was cenciled on
a US.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Air Force and a number and x F one three one.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
What's XF one three one mean? I said? Why?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I said to myself, US Air Force? This is the
Army Air Corps. What's the US Air Force?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Something new and what's XF one three one? I know
what a P twenty six is in a TB two
way and a B ten b, but what's.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
The an XF one three one? And then the doctor
called me and I stood up surprised.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Sagean west Lake, Come in here, sir, I said, come
in here, Yes, sir, in the here, sir.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Ever see that man before? Why no, sir, Sure, well
he looks kind of familiar. But is he uh uh?
Speaker 5 (12:16):
He's got a slight concussion and I have given him
a shot.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Who is he, sir? Is he from here? You don't
know him? Why no, sir, but I he sure looks familiar.
But what's your first name, sergeant, sir? Your first name? Oh? Uh?
Max M? What's the matter, sir, sergeant? That man's name.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Is Max Westlake two huh. Only he's a major in
the United States Air Force.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How do you make of that? Sergeant? Hey, h what
would you have made of it?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I looked at the guy more carefully, and then I
saw why he looked familiar. I had seen that pushed
in the mirror every morning for twenty two years. There
was the scar on the eyebrow where I drove the
car in the black post and he was on the
wrong eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
Then I remembered I wasn't looking into a mirror.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
I said, Doc, I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He said, don't you? And I said, well, sir.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
So I went out, and just as I was going
out with the tangent walks Bill Carront and I must
to look funny because Bill grabbed me for the arm.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
What's the matter with you? Mag Huh? Will you look
as if you wait a minute? Bill? I think I've
got something figured out.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
What are you doing?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
For the love of I'm taking off my shoes, Sergeant Karrott,
what poor where?
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Not exactly high noon, sergeant, But you're gonna kiss my
foot just the same.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Huh? That's right? Why because Sergeant Carrot, that guy in.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
There, that that guy that flew in here in a skyrocket,
that major.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
In there, it's me.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
And so the snap woo began. I got called over
to the Colonel's tent right after breakfast.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He was sitting there with a doctor and.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
They looked up when I get my heels pretty close
together and placed my hand fingers extended and joined against
my right eyebrow.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Sit down, So I didn't yes, sir, uh.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The doctor tells me this fellow who bailed out last
night has the same name you have.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yes, sir, it's still lot like you too, Sergeant. You
know him?
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Sergeant, yes, said last night you didn't it?
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Well, I got it all straightened up in my mind now, sir.
Well he's me, sir, Sergeant. Have you lost your buttons? Oh, Sir,
I don't think so, Sir. Say that again, sigean, Sir,
I said no, I don't think so. No what you
said before? Oh he's me, sir.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Crush your knees, sergeant.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Sir, crush your knees, yes, how he flexed her?
Speaker 3 (15:26):
All right, sergeant, do you mind explaining what you're trying
to give us.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I've got a technical program on this morning, and I
go ahead and touch you. Well, sir, it's perfectly simple.
Aviation is progressing, sir.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
So what well, sir, it's perfectly simple. It's Major Wesley.
Who is me in fluent in something like a rocket
plane or something quite.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
A long time in the future. Do you want to stanswer?
Go ahead? Handy flew so fast? He well, he just
got here before he started, sir. Sadean, sir, nothing, go on, well, sir,
but I saw there is sometime I'll be a major
(16:14):
like he is. I mean, like I am not. What
do I mean?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I mean, if he's me, I'm a major, but I'm
still a sergeant. I mean, I'll be a major and
I'll take off and when I get here, I mean
when I got here, I'm still a sergeant.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Sergeant, Please, my head fakes. I'm sorry, sir, but that's
what happens, sir. Somebody around here is crazy. Oh no,
s're not me.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Let's try that again, shall we. What's your theory?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I just want to be sure I'm not hearing.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Things dot here.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Well, if you're hearing him, so am I going?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Shine? Well, sir, some day in the future, I'm going
to be a major.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
You're not.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Well, never mind, yes, sir.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
So someday I'm going to be a major scene and
I'm going to fly a rocket plane or something.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
How do you know all this, sergeant, You've got a
crystal ball? No, sir, it's obvious, ain't it, sir? Not
to me? You doctor?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Well, you're going to be a major, sir, Yes, sir,
well I must be. I'm over there in attendant, I doctor,
and I'm a major, ain't I You see sir, and
someday when I'm a major, Sir, I'm going to get
into this rocket plane.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Seeing I'm gonna take off and I'm gonna go so fast.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
If gosh, I sure must have been rolling last night, Sergeant,
you must want to get out of the army.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Awful bad, sir. Me, No, Sir, I don't want to
get out of the army. What makes the colonel think that?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Well, if I ever heard of anybody asking for a
transfer to the looney bin, this is it, sir, I
assure the colonel I am not nuts. Well, then why
did they is you telling me all this? Sir?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
The colonel asked me, okay, go on.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
You were taking off in a rocket ship or something
like that certain boom like I said, I go so.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Fast that I just run out of time and I
landed last night. You believe that, guysan? Yes, sir? Where
did you live? I mean, how did you fall on
this theory?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Well, sir, I read science fiction magazines and ah, you
de and I just deduced it.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Oh, sir, rocket travel is perfectly possible.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
M It's an interesting theory.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Doctor. Are you nuts too? I'm really not sure, colonel. Well,
what are you talking? About then. I was just looking
at this identification card.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I took out of the Major Weslake's pocket.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
What about it?
Speaker 5 (19:00):
It's dated November twenty four, nineteen fifty one, fifteen years
from now.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Smaf whoo and snaff who and snaff who.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
The colonel he didn't have any guard house or anything.
He confined me to my tent, not as he can find.
Sergeant Max Westlake to my tent. Major mix Westlake was
still out like a light. He he couldn't talk, and me,
I didn't have anybody to talk to. But I thought,
and the.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
Harder I thought, the sure I was. I was right.
And the second day I was in there, the colonel
came to my tent and he looked about eighteen years older.
I stood up. Yes, sergeant, now listen.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I had the doctor take that that major's fingerprits and I.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Flew them to Washington.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
If he looked up in the big fire, Yes, sir,
the dog came back this morning. Yes, I'll read you
what they say and see the subject fingerprints are Those
are staff Sergeant Max Westlake and south Portman's over. There
is no record of a Major Max Westlake in the
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Army air cord my direction south Fortan's over, Yes, sir,
that's the way I figured it, west Lake.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
If you're running a sandy or running a sandy, sir,
come with me? Where are we going, sir?
Speaker 3 (20:34):
Right into the infirmary, tim Yes, see A.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
Then you sit here behind this canvas wall and you
listen to that fella talk. I don't say a word.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Just nod your head if he's right, or shake it
if he's wrong.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Hear me, yes, sir, alright listening? Major? Where did you
come from?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Here?
Speaker 1 (21:00):
At your rock?
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Sir?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
What a fit are you with? I'm chief test pilot
here I see? And what happened?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You know?
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yes, sir, I was flying an except one three one.
That's the newest experimental rocket job. You speed up about
max seven we talking about, sir, seven times the speed
of sound.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
See suddenly the needles food way over beyond the mark.
I got scared, pushed the automatic cockpit release and failed out.
Speaker 4 (21:36):
And how fast do you think you were going?
Speaker 2 (21:40):
There?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
WHOA? I should say about twelve times the speed of sound?
I see?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
And uh?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
What was the date of your take of Major? Why?
December twenty first, nineteen fifty seven. Now look here, see
if you see her. You see.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Smatho wow t fo foo bar Yeah, I mean never
saw one.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Like this before. He sent us to the general. Uh,
sit down, gentlemen. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Now west Lake, yes, sir, yes your brothers no, sir, No, sir,
now just a minute, just a minute.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
I mean Westlake.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yes, yes, sir, stop, yes, sir, yes, sir, Sergeant west Lake, yes, sir.
Who is this Major Westlake? He's me, sir, Sergeant. We
can't prove otherwise, General, that will do. Colonel, yes, sir,
Now Major Westlake. Who is this sergeant, Sir, I don't know.
(22:53):
Isn't he your brother? No, Sir, who is he?
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Then Anthony? Sir? I think he's me? Doctor. Are these
men crazy? Not as far as I can tell, Sir, Well,
what ails? And then, sir, I just work here? Well, now, Major,
how come I don't know you well that I couldn't say, sir.
(23:23):
I don't know the general either, young man.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I have been in the army twenty eight years. Yes,
at twenty nine, I was a bliss with Lord George
Langman when he got the eighth Callery. Yes, sir, and
I know thousands of officers in the army, yes.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Sir, but I don't know you no, sir, young man.
Do you know the penalty for impersonating an officer? Sir,
I'm not impersonating an officer. Here's his identifications? A General.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
Is that your picture major, yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
And doesn't look like you?
Speaker 3 (23:55):
Well, sir, these pictures never look like the people. That's right,
and nine looks like well, this seems to be an order,
all right, it is, sir.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I know that those your fingerprints, Yes, sir, they are.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
The sergeants, Washington says, General. Now, now how could that be? Well, sir,
they have to be me.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
He's me. I mean, I'm i'm uso.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I mean, sir, Colonel, has this man ever demonstrated he?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I mean, has he ever had a tax before?
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Know, sir?
Speaker 1 (24:24):
He's always been rational, sir. He's one of my best men.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
He's rational now, General, and is I think he is.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Kind of? I mean the sergeant.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Do you know that the board may be convened and
that they're liable to throw you right out of the army?
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Sir, I'm not worried about that. Oh you're not? Huh?
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Why not?
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Because they can't, sir, I have to.
Speaker 3 (24:50):
Stay in Kindly tell me why? Because well, don't you see, sir,
I'm going to be a major, and I'm going to
fly a rocketplane. The except one three one makes you
think so well, I'm here sir after all, Well, I
am going to tell you something. I am going to
solve this problem once and for all in a military manner.
(25:11):
Majors Lake. You are subbut to orders, aren't you, Yes, sir,
of course, and I want this to be a lesson
to you other officers too. You gentlemen are expected to
use your intelligence and initiative and not come boarding me
with all sorts of details that could just as well
be handling your own valueis understanding, Yes, sir silence. That
(25:32):
is a very simple way to solve this problem. As
I said, Major s Lake, you are ordered to return
to your base, Sir. I'm at my base. I'm stationed
of Murrock Dry Lake. This is Muroc Dry Lake.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
Sir, Well, how did you get here? I flew, sir,
But how did you act? I mean, how did you
get here? Now, Sir?
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I just flew so fast. I got here before I started.
I didn't ask you, sergeant. That's right, sir, I flew
so fast, I got here before I started.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
Do you haven't asked Bernan.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
You see who that is, sir?
Speaker 1 (26:07):
I found something I thought, mikey important. Who are you,
Sargean William Terrence, sir, I'm sergeant the guards today. What
if you got there, Sergeant. I don't know what it is, sir,
but I.
Speaker 3 (26:16):
Found it out there where the major lands MAJORA.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Yes, well let's see it. Let's see it, sagont.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
I never thought anything like it before, sir, and I
thought i'd better bring it to the general.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
May I see that? Please? Well it's my mac meter, sir.
You're what mac meter, sir? An instrument that measures speed,
Sergeant less like please excuse me, sir. That's what it is. General.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
It measures speed in terms of the speed of sound.
MAC one is sound speed. MAC two is twice the
speed of sound. Yeah, let's see it. Very curious, Yes,
it's very very curious. All of a sudden it got jammed.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
General. You see the needless jam way over here on
the pin.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
It indicated probably twelve times the speed of sound, and
that was awful fast.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
So I bailed out, and see if I can't un
jail the needle. There's a ratchet underneath, sir.
Speaker 3 (27:06):
Oh, well, I see it's like a speedometer, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (27:11):
It turns hard?
Speaker 3 (27:14):
Ah there?
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Hey, where do the major whish I go?
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Why?
Speaker 1 (27:19):
He was right here? I see him, sir, I was
looking right at him.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
When you turn the same meter back, he just turned
all transparent and then he disappeared. What, sir, I think
the General just unscrewed him right back where he came from.
That was it. The General turned the macmeter backward, and
(27:43):
that's all. But I liked another gut out of all
that snaffoo. Well, I'm a captain now, and it's only
nine more years, and I'll be a major, and I'll
fly nexcept one tree one here at Merack, and my
macmeter will go haywire and.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
My gosha ike? Have I got to go through all
at again?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
The title of today's Quiet Please story is one for
the book. It was written and directed by Willis Cooper,
and the man who spoke to you was Ernest Chapel.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
And Dan Sutter plays Sergeant Karrent Melville Royk was a colonel.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
The doctor was played by Charles Eggerson General Lloyd Buckley.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
That's for Major Westlake.
Speaker 3 (28:38):
I'll will leave after a guess. As usual, music for
choir Please is played by Albert Burman, Now what a
worry about next week? Here's all right, Director Willis Cooper.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Thank you for listening to Choirt.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Please, my story for next week is called my Son.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
John, and so on until next week is the same time.
I am quietly yours, ernest child. And now a listening reminder.
There's an exciting story waiting for you this.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Afternoon on David Harding Conter Spy. See what happens when
the flood of counterfeit currency threatens to disrupt the entire
financial structure of a South American country, and the counter
spies are called in to investigate. Tune in David Harding
Conter Spy on.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Your ABC station. This is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
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