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Today's Adventure: An escaped criminal disfigures his own face to get plastic surgery to claim a $250,000
Original Radio Broadcast: June 6, 1948
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters, Bryna Rayburn, Chuck Webster
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Original Radio Broadcast: June 6, 1948
Originating in New York
Starring Don McLaughlin as David Harding, Mandel Kramer as Peters, Bryna Rayburn, Chuck Webster
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
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Detectives dot net. Now from June sixth, nineteen forty eight,
(00:51):
here is the recruited nurse.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Cover the makers of Whole and Bitter Honey candy bars,
and today, for the last time on this program, we
present our special money saving offer of a stainless steel
slicing knife for you folks who enjoyed delicious old nick
and Bitter Honey candy bars.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
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Speaker 4 (01:22):
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Here's where to send your order. Send to Old Nick
Box one forty four, New York eight, New York.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
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time this offer will be made on the David Hardin
Counterspive Program.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
Washington Calling David Harding Counterspies, Washington Calling David Hering Counterspines.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
Arting Counterspy Calling Washington.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
David Harding, Chief United States counter Spies, especially appointed to
investigate and combat the enemies of our country, both at
home and abroad, and to secure for every American the
rights which are his under our constitution.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Mary, Mary, haven't gone yet, have you?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And Mary?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Where are you in here?
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Child?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
What's not call? Thank Heaven?
Speaker 8 (02:51):
O gee? I was afraid to leave before I got home.
And I've got something for Uncle Bill. Oh wait, I'll
show you.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
They're tter you.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Of course, it's kind of glamorous, but still it looks
more like me than any of.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Those old ones you said him. It's really lovely.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Now at least Uncle Bill will recognize me when he
sees me for the first time.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm sure he would anyway, Aunt Mary. Do you think
her luck the same? The same as what? Anne? You've
never seen him? Well, I mean, will he look the
same to you? Yes, I think he will. Two years
can change a personal lot.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Look at me.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I wonder you wonder what, Aunt Mary? Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Nothing, anh Now, I expect to be gone until Friday.
But if the boat should be late getting in, I'll
send you a while. Oh, don't worry, and Mary, it's
only four days. I can take care of myself.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh a big girl.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Now, yes, of course you are a young lady. Well,
i'd better be going, or that be no one there.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
To meet your uncle Bill. And I don't think he'd
like that.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
A local and federal police, this is a general alarm.
Rick Malone escaped federal prisoner serving a fifty five year
term for bank robberies. He may be armed, is considered dangerous.
It's tall, blond hair and blind and right eye, left eye,
blue range of nose, broken three inch knife scar along
(04:18):
left side of face. All information about this man is
to be transmitted to counters by headquarters. We are coordinating
the nationwide search for escape federal prisoner Rick Malone.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Counters by headquarters, Peter speaking, Oh, good work, fully give.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Him the usual distribution.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Send about twenty copies over here, the watered circulars printed already, right,
mister hunting, They ran off an extra five thousand copies.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Good.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Any results on the woman who visited Malone, not so far.
We've got four agents trying to pick up her back trail.
And what about the letters he smuggled out through that
guard he bribed. Well, that's a funny thing. As far
as the God can remember. They all went to South Africa. Huh,
Cape Town, South Africa. I've wired Johnson, our agent in
the consult They had to check on it. Nothing back yet,
South Africa. Have you learn our seaport officers? Yes, just
(05:15):
in case. I don't think Malone will try to leave
the country. Chief, his face is too easily identified and
bad eye the scar. They should make it a lot
easier for us to pick him up. I'm not too easy,
I hope. What do you mean we recovered practically none
of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars he was
convicted of stealing. I'd like him to find that for
us before we find him.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
That water tower we just passed. Mary, means that we
should be getting close.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
To Caldwell now the couple of minutes, Bill.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Then we should be coming to that ledger described.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Just past that curve up ahead on the left side
of the road. You're going through with the whole scheme.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
Do of course I am. How long do you think
I'll be free of this face of mine? Stays away?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
It is?
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Why do you think I had your set up house
here with that kid of my brothers?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
It's about something goes wrong. The doctor Franklin can't do
anything for you.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I've read all about him.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
He can, but if he suspects something, if you played
your part all right for the last two years, he
won't as far as he's concerned. I'll be just Bill
Gordon turning home to his beloved wife Mary. That cute
little niece.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Man.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Don't have descriptions of you all over the country by
now he may recognize you.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Slow down, Bill, let the ledge.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Slow down, nothing, hang on, we'll go over the edge.
Did that purposely? Marry so the cops and see the
skid marks. Uh huh, Yeah, it's perfect, Mary. I can
(06:58):
work myself down to that ledge. You know what to
do with a car. Don't forget to leave it and
hide here before you jump. I spent three years in
the pen for that dough I snatched away. I'm not
going to lose out on it. For three hours of
pain and I get through working over my face with
my knife even you won't recognize me.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Please, and Mary, don't cry. I should never have let
this help.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Oh you can't help accidents. Uncle Bill will be all right. Well,
they so long? Why don't they tell us something?
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Gordon have good news for you.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
He'll be all right, doctor Franklin.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Yes, it'll take a little time, but when we've finished,
he'll be better than you.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
When will he be able to come home, Doctor Franklin.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Well, you can go home in a few days if
you get nurse to take care of him.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's who knows. I'll take care of him.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Well, I'm sure you would, but we'll need a little
bit more expert care than that. And now, if you'll
excuse me, I'd like to talk to your aunt for
a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Of course, doctor.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Doctor Frankson, is there anything No, no, no, I just
want to clear up this point of sending him home.
You see, he will still be under my care for
several months to come. His case requires extensive plastic surgery.
There'll be operations, there's quite a few, and he'll have
to heal completely between each one. He can do that
just as well at home.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
We'll see that he's well taken care of. One thing.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
More about his eye, Yes, I doubt if there's any
sight left, but I'll have an eye specialist look at it.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Then we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Thank you doctor.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
It's going to be a most interesting case. Oh, by
the way, about a nurse. Will it be all right
if I send out a young woman who's worked with
me in a number of cases, whatever you say. Her
name's Jane Wilton. I think his salary is either ten
or twelve dollars a day. I'll send her around as
soon as I send mister Gordon home. Here they are
(09:02):
chief the coordinated reports on the Malone escape.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
You've gone through them?
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Yes, I can give you a fast briefing on it. Yes,
go on, it'll save time. But first there's the general
alarm and description that was broadcast. We got four reports
that fit a definite pattern, huh, all from diners and
roadside stands two one Highway twenty eight and two one
Highway fifty five, and the sequence indicates that, if it
was Malone, he's heading west and north in the general
direction of Ohio and Illinois. Well, now, what about those
(09:27):
letters to Cape Town, South Africa that Malone smuggled out.
I just got a cable from Johnson and the consulate there.
Are weady for good, he says, check on address head.
It is commercial mail drop for a fee. They male
letters from South Africa to any part of the world.
Their records incomplete, wiring list of fourteen American addresses they
forward mail to.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Cable of additional information is desired Johnson.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
If the addresses come in, yes, here they are, you
will have them all investigated. It's already being done in
all but two of the versus chief. I thought we
might look into those ourselves. Oh which one called Well
Ohio and Evanston, Illinoisan they're both directly in line with
the root Malone may be taking. If those reports are true, well,
it's a sense she won't come to Washington, so we
may as well get out into the field, arrange transportation
(10:12):
to called Well, we'll direct operations from there until further notice.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We'll continue our David Harding Calder spy case for Old
Nick in a moment. Today, for the last time on
this program, we repeat our special money saving offer of
a stainless steel slicing knife. Thousands and thousands have set
in for this knife. Many people have sat in a
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Speaker 7 (10:44):
You'll want to pay special attention and act right away.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
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inches long with a blade of gleaming lifetime stainless steel.
And notice this especially the blade is hollow ground. Hollow
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this knife for only twenty five cents with two rappers
(11:10):
from delicious Old Nick or Bitter Honey candy bars. Yes,
to get your stainless steel slicing knife, just send twenty
five cents in coin with two Old Nick or Bitter
Honey rappers to Old Nick Box one forty four, New
York eight, New York.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
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Speaker 4 (11:32):
We can make this offer only through special arrangement with
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(11:55):
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So when you send in, you're really getting an outstanding bargain.
Buy now remember the address Old Nick Box one forty four,
New York, eight, New York. For each nameless steel slicing
knife you want, send us two rappers from either Old
(12:16):
Nick or Bitter Honey candy bars and twenty five cents
in coin. This is the last time this offer will
be made, so act immediately. Be sure you get yours
nameless steel slicing knife.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Send your order today.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Now back to our Old Nick David Harding counterspy case.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Well you sain my uncle wants you. I'll be right
with him. You keep him company till I come. I
don't think he likes my company now, and you've got
to understand it's not comfortable being wrapped up in bandages
the way your uncle Bill is you have to make
allowances if you want to be a nurse. Sure that
I do anymore just because your uncle's a little bit irritable. Oh,
(13:04):
I'd rather be an airline hostess travel go everywhere like
Uncle Dick.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Then i'll get you anyway. Most airline hostesses are registered nurses,
Miss Wildon. Mister Gordon asked one.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Oh, I was just going into him now I am keep
an eye on that brawl. What was that all about, Anne? Oh,
I was just talking to miss Wilton about being a nurse. Yes,
I think it's a wonderful idea. It'd be nice to
do something useful in this world, I suppose.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
So when your.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Uncle's better, we'll see maybe there'll be enough money to
send you to college so you can take up nursing.
Oh but you don't have to go to college, being
a high school graduates enough.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Oh, anyway, I don't think uncle Bill would care enough
to send me to college. Well, what do you mean,
Anne Darling? Oh nothing, missus golden. Mister Gordon would like
to see.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
You right away, and you stay here. I want to
talk to you afterwards. How is he splendid? He's coming
along fine? Little bit impatient?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
All that's good. I'll get his broth.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Close the door.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Mary, all right, what's the matter?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Bill?
Speaker 10 (14:12):
I'm just going nuts sitting around here.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
This is your idea.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
It's a dead and quiet there's pen there. At least
they keep you from leaving here. You gotta be your
own guide.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
And you're not a very good one. Bill, What do
you mean? And you want to treat them more like
an uncle? Shit?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I can't stay in the bread. I never did like kids.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You told me to get her when your brother died.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
Yeah, sure, so you could set up a respectable front
in this berg, And I'm not sorry I did. No
one's going to connect a nice mystery and missus Gordon
and their lovely niece with Rick Malone.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I thought we were forgetting Rick burying.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
Him, of course were do you think I'm putting up
with all this for?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
But the burial is only skin deep? Is at it?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
What?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Nothing? I thought? Doctor Franklin?
Speaker 10 (14:59):
Yeah, what do you say about?
Speaker 6 (15:01):
The Eye's going to start on it next week?
Speaker 10 (15:03):
What can you match?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
The color?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Am a good one?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
He does again?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Something about restoring the color by tattooing.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
You don't tell me, don't tell me that part. I
know read about it every day for three years. We
could make a bad eye looked just like a good
one by tattooing in the color.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Is that why you picked this town? Because doctor Franklin
practiced you.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Of course, you know, after he does that, maybe we
can pull out. And that's the big thing that cups
will spot on me my eye. With that fixed, we
can blow this bag stot enjoying.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
That dough, enjoying it.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Hell, I'll make up for these two years that you
were buried in this heck town.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
All right, bill On, you're baking up for the wrong years.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Looks like we're on the right track, mister Hunting.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Those letters from South Africa go into a mist. This
is Mary Gordon and her niece Anne. They supposedly came
from her husband, Bill, who's been abroad for two years.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Two.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Yeah, I checked. Malone was in the pen for three.
But mister Gordon just came back a few days ago.
Did you see him?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Well, what's it?
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Chief?
Speaker 9 (16:13):
For all I know, he could be a dark horse candidate.
His whole head is wrapped in bandages. Nobody in this
town has seen him. He was in an automobile accident
just before he arrived. It'd be a nice cover up
for plastic surgery. I checked at the local office of
the Highway Patrol. There were skid marks on the hill road.
How about the car? But he thoroughly banged up, but
still in high gear. And I talked with the ambulance
(16:34):
boys who had to remove Gordon from the ledge. He
said his face looked like they've been through a meat grinder.
Who's the doctor, doctor Carl Franklin. Franklin, Oh, isn't he
the plastic surgeon, the one who specializes in the new
method of hiding scars by tattooing? Might be chief. I
don't know anything about that. What about Mary Gordon? There's
(16:54):
no good description the woman who was with Malone. So
I've wired the prison to send along a guard could
identify him a good and check with the state and
immigration authorities on the Gordon passport.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Right, you know?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I I'd like to get a look at mister Gordon.
We can hrdly go in and rip off his bandages,
just on a suspicion. I could speak to the doctor. No, No,
I'd rather not tip our hands.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Gordon at the hospital. No, he's home. There's a registered
nurse taking care of him.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Nurse.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Huh now, I'm but asking him be the same as
asking the doctor.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Perhaps not if we didn't ask her directly. What do
you mean you know if she was in the army
during the war.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
I think so I could find out, Yes, do that,
find out what outfit she was with, who she knew
in it, and everything you can about her army career.
What for, because you're going to pose as an next
member of her outfit, take her out, talk about old times.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We may be able to.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Parley your conversation into a positive identification of malone.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
This has been a wonderful dinner, mister Peters.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I'm glad you've called me before you left town. I
don't know when I've enjoyed myself so much.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
How reminiscences are always fun, Miss Wilbon.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
It's good to know that everyone in the ninety seventh
Evacuation Hospital is making.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Out so well.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Well you seem to be doing, Laura.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
It's an understatement.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
There are more nurses now than ever before in the country,
and still there aren't half enough to take care of
all the work there is.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Don't tell me you have to go back on duty
again tonight.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
No, the patient I'm taking care of is a lovely niece.
She pinch hits for me nights. Oh, I'll make a
nurse out of her. Yet not a prate of competition. Competition, heavens,
no more the better. It just makes it easier all around.
I'm not keeping you from anything, am I.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Well, I have to be leaving soon. Oh, by the way,
I knew there was something I forgot. I've got some.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Pictures here of the old ninety seventh. I took them
after you left the outfit, But you know some of
the people, and I thought you might.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Like to see them. I'd love to see now. He's
one of craggy. He's gotten a little fatter since he's
out of uniform.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Oh he's not the only one. Oh that's Doris, still
as blonde as ever. Yeah, for heaven's sake, this picture,
oh that one.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
He's just a friend of mine.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
He wasn't going yo, he's my patient. Why for all
the coincidences?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
You mean you know Bill Gordon?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I certainly he's the case I'm on now. Of course,
since the accident, he's changed. But I recognized the picture easily.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Why what do you know.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
You're having his pictures somewhat reassuring his attitude a little
well gruff. But I guessed it was just the accident.
I'll have to tell him about this tonight. It can
keep until morning. I'm off duty.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Maybe i'll stick around and see him myself. You know
him well, not as well as i'd like to. I
better arrange for hotel accommodations if I'm going to stay older.
If you wait, i'll see your home.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Don't bother. I don't live far from here.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
All right, and thanks, very interesting evening, Corien.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh, missus Gordon. Is he awake? Of course I am.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (20:20):
I'm sorry to disturb you. I didn't see you standing
at the window. I forgot a book I was reading
and came back for it.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Get it.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
I thought you'd be interested in knowing. There's a friend
of yours in town.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
But a friend.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yes, I had dinner with him. We had mutual friends.
He had your picture in his.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Wallet, like picture?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
What was his name, mister Peters? He said he'd probably
call tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Mary.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Please, well, can't stay with Anne for a few minutes.
I want to talk to my husband.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Certainly, Missus Gordon, you know what this means?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Married?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Yes, coppers.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
They traced me. I don't know how, but they didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I always will. You gotta get out of here.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
What's the use?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I'll tell you what's the use?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Three years astir, I whipped my own I figure everything
so I can enjoy that two hundred and fifty grand.
I'm gonna do it if I have to kill half
the coups in the country.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
I was hoping you might forget that money, that you
might like this kind of living with the kid and everything.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
You're nuts. You're talking like some Gingham and Roses house
for aus.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Why not, I've been living like one for the past
two years, Bill, what about it?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Shut up?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
A card just stopped outside.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Well, if you gave back the money, maybe they too good?
Speaker 7 (21:27):
He Llah.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
You can smell them from the here.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
You can't talk talk talk.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
I would have gone except for your talk, Miss Walton.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
And what are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Bill?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
We'll see I'll see two of these cupses start coming
up that walk.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
We'll return to our old make David Harding Coller spy
case in a moment. You know, friends, this is the
last time that David Harding Collder spy listeners will hear
our outstanding offer of stainless steel slicing knives. So if
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(22:11):
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But we offer this slicing knife to you for only
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(22:33):
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Speaker 3 (22:34):
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to our old Nick. David Harding Cowder spy case.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
Looks quiet enough to it's a nice suburban home. Well,
as long as he's not expecting us, let's go. What
duck chief over here behind this tree here?
Speaker 10 (24:13):
I thought he wasn't expecting me, said, It just shows
how wrong you can be.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
It's going to be a tough one.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Lesn't come it, hear me?
Speaker 7 (24:21):
You canna hear him alone?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Better give yourself up.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I got one, two good guns.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I'll worry about me alone.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Where the United States Countess.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Bies, We'll have a squatter man out here in five minutes.
I haven't got a chance of getting out of there.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I make my own sense.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I get this gate straight.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
I got too.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Dave in here and nurse your.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Students taktoo and I got.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Into the lease.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I can't let my Phurst book.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
You make that colub Harry, I come take it, Come
I cover.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You're crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Bill.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You can't do it.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
Marry, You're out of this now, Mary, missus Gaulan Scott
moving you.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I won't let you do it.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Bill, out of my way, Marry.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Okay, come on, come on, you start moving.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Bill so help me, you too.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Don't move.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
I'll kill you right now.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Mary.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
No, missus Gordon, don't Welcodbye.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Bill, I wish you too. Not good.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
What about that girl Anne? She didn't know anything about
it at all. No, she wheeling Alone's niece. Yes, I
mean Malone's real name actually was Gordon. He planned to
kill the character of Malone and live off the stolen
money as Gordon.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Why all this elaborate front involving the kid in it?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Doctor Franklin is one of the few men that can
treat Gordon's eyes so that it wouldn't give him away. Oh, Mary,
Gordon spent two years building up respectability so that frank
would have no hesitation in treating Gordon.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
But she liked the parts she'd been playing more than
the parts you'd been living.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Enough so that she resisted Malan to protect the nurse
and the girl, And when that wasn't enough, she used
his second gun to kill him.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Mister Hardham, will you come in please?
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Of course, Miss Walton, she wants to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (26:18):
Please, Aunt Mary, don't talk, just mi, mister Hadding the
money bill hidden.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
There's a reward for it by the insurance companies.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Would and get it.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Please, Aunt Mary, don't talk. I don't want anything but
you Bill and his gun.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
It's a paper. It tell us about the money. No, Mary, no,
I won't touch it. I don't want it. I want you.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
You know.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
I can't promise anything about a reward, but I don't
want to leave for long.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
Missus Gordon, don't text your strength. I promise you she'll
be all right. I owe you well. I look out
for Anne. She'll be all right. I swear, so. Will
you head married?
Speaker 11 (27:18):
I will you.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
I'll see that she goes to school. I promise you
will stay together, and very.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Very Miss Welton, you'd better take her with you.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Peters will drive. I'll wait for well, I'll stay here.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
And now we're happy to present the First Army Surgeon,
Brigadier General Guyett.
Speaker 10 (28:01):
I'd like to talk with our young women who will
be graduated this month from secondary schools all over the country,
and I'd like to have your mothers and dads listen
to because this concerns your future and the future health
and well being of America. Also, we here at the
First Army are proud to speak for the National Student
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Nurse Recruitment Program and his campaign to enroll fifty thousand
student nurses into civilian hospitals this year. I can tell
you that the need is great, that while more young
women are entering the profession than ever before, the patient
load in our hospitals has increased faster than the available
supply of nurses. I can tell you from our own
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observation in More and in Peace, about those things that
set a nurse apart from the young woman who is
content with just a job. If you've ever watched the
capable hands, the courage, and the clear mind of the
nurse as she ministers to a child, to a soldier
brought from the battlefield, to the man or woman who
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is helpless, you will know what I mean. So I
say to you, young women, consider siously the many SPED
opportunities in nursing and the opportunity to work with those
who are making medical history.
Speaker 9 (29:20):
Thank you, General Dennett, and our appreciation to the American
Hospital Association and to the Advertising Council for their cooperation.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Tonight's David Harding Calder Spy Case was dramatized by Palmer Thompson,
with music by Jesse Crawford and featured Mendel Kramer and
Briana Rayburn. David Harding Calder Spy is a Phillips h
Lord production originating in New York for the makers of
Old Mick and Bitter Honey Candy Bars. Now a listening reminder,
predictions and Inside Washington stories. That's what Drew pe And
(30:00):
brings you every Sunday night here at Pearson Tonight over
this ABC station, as is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Welcome back. In addition to the name cast, I am
pretty sure that our escape convict was played by Chuck
Webster after hearing him in so many episodes of The Falcon.
Just like the program a couple weeks before, this one
had a sort of PSA note to it. But one
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that I don't think God in the way of the
plot looking at Counterspy as an FBI stand in, As
was suggested by listener Steven a few weeks ago, this
seems like a perfectly plausible case for Counterspy to take on,
and even some of the conversation where the nurse is
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talking about the shortage of nurses felt like relatively natural
things to say, particularly in the conversation with Peters.
Speaker 12 (31:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
One piece of information that was becoming outdated at this
point was when the niece was thinking that maybe she
would rather be an airline hostess. Well, too bad, you
have to be a nurse to be an airline hostess. Well,
this used to be the case. In fact, the very
first airline hostess or stewardess was a registered nurse. Ellen
(31:38):
Church was the first stewardess, and she pitched the idea
to Boeing air Transport, which obviously has changed, it's still
around as you're not at airlines, but she pitched the
idea that it'd be a way to make flights safer
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and also make the public more comfortable with flying. And
I think that the sort of public on ease with
flying in the nineteen twenties and thirties is really understandable.
It's if you just think about it and try to
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put yourself in their position. And that can be a
challenge because I assume that everyone listening to this podcast,
even some of the oldest people. I've had people in
their eighties email me and say they listen. Has had
airplanes and air travel is like an established part of life,
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and so people had questioned what's going to happen if
there's a medical emergency in flight, and there's so many
unknowns in terms of what effects that a flight might
have on various tops of human bodies and human ailments.
And you add that the planes of the era were
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not you know, the sort of jets we have today
or even the post war planes that were built, so
you could have a crash where people needed attended to,
or at least people would fear that. So the idea
of having a trained nurse on board the plane was
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a comfort to the public and it was a success,
and that got ruled out as the requirement for being
a hostess or stewardess. Now by nineteen forty nine, this
was on its way out. The war had taken a
lot of nurses away from the airline industry, and then
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after the war you had this nursing shortage, and then
of course you began to have increases in the number
of people flying, and the nursing profession just could not
produce enough nursing for the airline industry, and planes were safer,
the public.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
Was more comfortable with the.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Process of flying, and so the nursing requirement really had
begun to go away. So if the niece had decided
to become a flight attendant, it would not have required
nursing training in nineteen forty nine. All right, well, listener
comments and feedback now, and we have an email from
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Nick who writes, in these post war counterspot plots are
definitely a stretch. As the old saying goes, counter intelligence
and fairhousing go together like candy and knives. Seriously, I'd
love to have seen the boardroom meeting where a bit
of honey people decided on that knife promotion. You know
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what Americans think about when they think about our sweet candy,
sharp sharp knives, brilliant. Well, that is a good point. Now, Obviously,
radio sponsors gave away all kinds of things that they
sound like pretty good knives, and in some ways. They
might have been borrowing a template from Kids Candy and
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Kids Cereal, which they often sold their products with promotions.
And if you listen to an old episode of Superman,
they'll talk more about the really cool key chain that
you can get rather than the taste of Kellogg's pep.
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But I don't think the same approaches is effective with adults,
even in nineteen forty nine. I do wonder if the
not promotion is part of the reason we actually even
have these episodes. We have these three consecutive episodes that
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contain the not promotion in it, and no other episodes
from nineteen forty eight, so it makes me wonder if
these were made as transcriptions originally for that not promotion. Otherwise,
it's kind of an interesting coincidence. But thanks so much.
I appreciate the comment. Thank you to Tony, Patreon supporter
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here is the recruited nurse.
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rights which are his under our constitution.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Mary, Mary, haven't gone yet, have you?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
And Mary?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
Where are you in here?
Speaker 8 (02:48):
Child?
Speaker 6 (02:48):
What's not call? Thank Heaven?
Speaker 8 (02:51):
O gee? I was afraid to leave before I got home.
And I've got something for Uncle Bill. Oh wait, I'll
show you.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
They're tter you.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Of course, it's kind of glamorous, but still it looks
more like me than any of.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Those old ones you said him. It's really lovely.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
Now at least Uncle Bill will recognize me when he
sees me for the first time.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
I'm sure he would anyway, Aunt Mary. Do you think
her luck the same? The same as what? Anne? You've
never seen him? Well, I mean, will he look the
same to you? Yes, I think he will. Two years
can change a personal lot.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Look at me.
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I wonder you wonder what, Aunt Mary? Oh?
Speaker 8 (03:27):
Nothing, anh Now, I expect to be gone until Friday.
But if the boat should be late getting in, I'll
send you a while. Oh, don't worry, and Mary, it's
only four days. I can take care of myself.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Oh a big girl.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Now, yes, of course you are a young lady. Well,
i'd better be going, or that be no one there.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
To meet your uncle Bill. And I don't think he'd
like that.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
A local and federal police, this is a general alarm.
Rick Malone escaped federal prisoner serving a fifty five year
term for bank robberies. He may be armed, is considered dangerous.
It's tall, blond hair and blind and right eye, left eye,
blue range of nose, broken three inch knife scar along
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left side of face. All information about this man is
to be transmitted to counters by headquarters. We are coordinating
the nationwide search for escape federal prisoner Rick Malone.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Counters by headquarters, Peter speaking, Oh, good work, fully give.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
Him the usual distribution.
Speaker 9 (04:44):
Send about twenty copies over here, the watered circulars printed already, right,
mister hunting, They ran off an extra five thousand copies.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
Good.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Any results on the woman who visited Malone, not so far.
We've got four agents trying to pick up her back trail.
And what about the letters he smuggled out through that
guard he bribed. Well, that's a funny thing. As far
as the God can remember. They all went to South Africa. Huh,
Cape Town, South Africa. I've wired Johnson, our agent in
the consult They had to check on it. Nothing back yet,
South Africa. Have you learn our seaport officers? Yes, just
(05:15):
in case. I don't think Malone will try to leave
the country. Chief, his face is too easily identified and
bad eye the scar. They should make it a lot
easier for us to pick him up. I'm not too easy,
I hope. What do you mean we recovered practically none
of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars he was
convicted of stealing. I'd like him to find that for
us before we find him.
Speaker 10 (05:46):
That water tower we just passed. Mary, means that we
should be getting close.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
To Caldwell now the couple of minutes, Bill.
Speaker 10 (05:52):
Then we should be coming to that ledger described.
Speaker 8 (05:56):
Just past that curve up ahead on the left side
of the road. You're going through with the whole scheme.
Speaker 10 (06:02):
Do of course I am. How long do you think
I'll be free of this face of mine? Stays away?
Speaker 9 (06:06):
It is?
Speaker 10 (06:07):
Why do you think I had your set up house
here with that kid of my brothers?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
It's about something goes wrong. The doctor Franklin can't do
anything for you.
Speaker 7 (06:15):
I've read all about him.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
He can, but if he suspects something, if you played
your part all right for the last two years, he
won't as far as he's concerned. I'll be just Bill
Gordon turning home to his beloved wife Mary. That cute
little niece.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
Man.
Speaker 8 (06:31):
Don't have descriptions of you all over the country by
now he may recognize you.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Slow down, Bill, let the ledge.
Speaker 10 (06:36):
Slow down, nothing, hang on, we'll go over the edge.
Did that purposely? Marry so the cops and see the
skid marks. Uh huh, Yeah, it's perfect, Mary. I can
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work myself down to that ledge. You know what to
do with a car. Don't forget to leave it and
hide here before you jump. I spent three years in
the pen for that dough I snatched away. I'm not
going to lose out on it. For three hours of
pain and I get through working over my face with
my knife even you won't recognize me.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Please, and Mary, don't cry. I should never have let
this help.
Speaker 8 (07:29):
Oh you can't help accidents. Uncle Bill will be all right. Well,
they so long? Why don't they tell us something?
Speaker 9 (07:38):
Gordon have good news for you.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
He'll be all right, doctor Franklin.
Speaker 9 (07:41):
Yes, it'll take a little time, but when we've finished,
he'll be better than you.
Speaker 6 (07:45):
When will he be able to come home, Doctor Franklin.
Speaker 9 (07:47):
Well, you can go home in a few days if
you get nurse to take care of him.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
That's who knows. I'll take care of him.
Speaker 9 (07:52):
Well, I'm sure you would, but we'll need a little
bit more expert care than that. And now, if you'll
excuse me, I'd like to talk to your aunt for
a minute.
Speaker 6 (08:01):
Of course, doctor.
Speaker 9 (08:03):
Doctor Frankson, is there anything No, no, no, I just
want to clear up this point of sending him home.
You see, he will still be under my care for
several months to come. His case requires extensive plastic surgery.
There'll be operations, there's quite a few, and he'll have
to heal completely between each one. He can do that
just as well at home.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
We'll see that he's well taken care of. One thing.
Speaker 9 (08:26):
More about his eye, Yes, I doubt if there's any
sight left, but I'll have an eye specialist look at it.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
Then we'll see what we can do.
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Thank you doctor.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
It's going to be a most interesting case. Oh, by
the way, about a nurse. Will it be all right
if I send out a young woman who's worked with
me in a number of cases, whatever you say. Her
name's Jane Wilton. I think his salary is either ten
or twelve dollars a day. I'll send her around as
soon as I send mister Gordon home. Here they are
(09:02):
chief the coordinated reports on the Malone escape.
Speaker 7 (09:04):
You've gone through them?
Speaker 9 (09:05):
Yes, I can give you a fast briefing on it. Yes,
go on, it'll save time. But first there's the general
alarm and description that was broadcast. We got four reports
that fit a definite pattern, huh, all from diners and
roadside stands two one Highway twenty eight and two one
Highway fifty five, and the sequence indicates that, if it
was Malone, he's heading west and north in the general
direction of Ohio and Illinois. Well, now, what about those
(09:27):
letters to Cape Town, South Africa that Malone smuggled out.
I just got a cable from Johnson and the consulate there.
Are weady for good, he says, check on address head.
It is commercial mail drop for a fee. They male
letters from South Africa to any part of the world.
Their records incomplete, wiring list of fourteen American addresses they
forward mail to.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Cable of additional information is desired Johnson.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
If the addresses come in, yes, here they are, you
will have them all investigated. It's already being done in
all but two of the versus chief. I thought we
might look into those ourselves. Oh which one called Well
Ohio and Evanston, Illinoisan they're both directly in line with
the root Malone may be taking. If those reports are true, well,
it's a sense she won't come to Washington, so we
may as well get out into the field, arrange transportation
(10:12):
to called Well, we'll direct operations from there until further notice.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
We'll continue our David Harding Calder spy case for Old
Nick in a moment. Today, for the last time on
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Speaker 7 (12:28):
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Speaker 4 (12:32):
Now back to our Old Nick David Harding counterspy case.
Speaker 8 (12:44):
Well you sain my uncle wants you. I'll be right
with him. You keep him company till I come. I
don't think he likes my company now, and you've got
to understand it's not comfortable being wrapped up in bandages
the way your uncle Bill is you have to make
allowances if you want to be a nurse. Sure that
I do anymore just because your uncle's a little bit irritable. Oh,
(13:04):
I'd rather be an airline hostess travel go everywhere like
Uncle Dick.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
Then i'll get you anyway. Most airline hostesses are registered nurses,
Miss Wildon. Mister Gordon asked one.
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Oh, I was just going into him now I am keep
an eye on that brawl. What was that all about, Anne? Oh,
I was just talking to miss Wilton about being a nurse. Yes,
I think it's a wonderful idea. It'd be nice to
do something useful in this world, I suppose.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
So when your.
Speaker 8 (13:28):
Uncle's better, we'll see maybe there'll be enough money to
send you to college so you can take up nursing.
Oh but you don't have to go to college, being
a high school graduates enough.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Oh, anyway, I don't think uncle Bill would care enough
to send me to college. Well, what do you mean,
Anne Darling? Oh nothing, missus golden. Mister Gordon would like
to see.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
You right away, and you stay here. I want to
talk to you afterwards. How is he splendid? He's coming
along fine? Little bit impatient?
Speaker 6 (14:00):
All that's good. I'll get his broth.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
Close the door.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Mary, all right, what's the matter?
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Bill?
Speaker 10 (14:12):
I'm just going nuts sitting around here.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
This is your idea.
Speaker 10 (14:15):
It's a dead and quiet there's pen there. At least
they keep you from leaving here. You gotta be your
own guide.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
And you're not a very good one. Bill, What do
you mean? And you want to treat them more like
an uncle? Shit?
Speaker 7 (14:30):
I can't stay in the bread. I never did like kids.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
You told me to get her when your brother died.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
Yeah, sure, so you could set up a respectable front
in this berg, And I'm not sorry I did. No
one's going to connect a nice mystery and missus Gordon
and their lovely niece with Rick Malone.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I thought we were forgetting Rick burying.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
Him, of course were do you think I'm putting up
with all this for?
Speaker 6 (14:52):
But the burial is only skin deep? Is at it?
Speaker 11 (14:55):
What?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Nothing? I thought? Doctor Franklin?
Speaker 10 (14:59):
Yeah, what do you say about?
Speaker 6 (15:01):
The Eye's going to start on it next week?
Speaker 10 (15:03):
What can you match?
Speaker 7 (15:03):
The color?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Am a good one?
Speaker 6 (15:04):
He does again?
Speaker 8 (15:06):
Something about restoring the color by tattooing.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
You don't tell me, don't tell me that part. I
know read about it every day for three years. We
could make a bad eye looked just like a good
one by tattooing in the color.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Is that why you picked this town? Because doctor Franklin
practiced you.
Speaker 10 (15:24):
Of course, you know, after he does that, maybe we
can pull out. And that's the big thing that cups
will spot on me my eye. With that fixed, we
can blow this bag stot enjoying.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
That dough, enjoying it.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Hell, I'll make up for these two years that you
were buried in this heck town.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
All right, bill On, you're baking up for the wrong years.
Speaker 7 (15:56):
Looks like we're on the right track, mister Hunting.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
Those letters from South Africa go into a mist. This
is Mary Gordon and her niece Anne. They supposedly came
from her husband, Bill, who's been abroad for two years.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Two.
Speaker 9 (16:05):
Yeah, I checked. Malone was in the pen for three.
But mister Gordon just came back a few days ago.
Did you see him?
Speaker 6 (16:10):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Well, what's it?
Speaker 10 (16:13):
Chief?
Speaker 9 (16:13):
For all I know, he could be a dark horse candidate.
His whole head is wrapped in bandages. Nobody in this
town has seen him. He was in an automobile accident
just before he arrived. It'd be a nice cover up
for plastic surgery. I checked at the local office of
the Highway Patrol. There were skid marks on the hill road.
How about the car? But he thoroughly banged up, but
still in high gear. And I talked with the ambulance
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boys who had to remove Gordon from the ledge. He
said his face looked like they've been through a meat grinder.
Who's the doctor, doctor Carl Franklin. Franklin, Oh, isn't he
the plastic surgeon, the one who specializes in the new
method of hiding scars by tattooing? Might be chief. I
don't know anything about that. What about Mary Gordon? There's
(16:54):
no good description the woman who was with Malone. So
I've wired the prison to send along a guard could
identify him a good and check with the state and
immigration authorities on the Gordon passport.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Right, you know?
Speaker 9 (17:04):
I I'd like to get a look at mister Gordon.
We can hrdly go in and rip off his bandages,
just on a suspicion. I could speak to the doctor. No, No,
I'd rather not tip our hands.
Speaker 7 (17:16):
Gordon at the hospital. No, he's home. There's a registered
nurse taking care of him.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Nurse.
Speaker 9 (17:20):
Huh now, I'm but asking him be the same as
asking the doctor.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Perhaps not if we didn't ask her directly. What do
you mean you know if she was in the army
during the war.
Speaker 9 (17:29):
I think so I could find out, Yes, do that,
find out what outfit she was with, who she knew
in it, and everything you can about her army career.
What for, because you're going to pose as an next
member of her outfit, take her out, talk about old times.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We may be able to.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Parley your conversation into a positive identification of malone.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
This has been a wonderful dinner, mister Peters.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
I'm glad you've called me before you left town. I
don't know when I've enjoyed myself so much.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
How reminiscences are always fun, Miss Wilbon.
Speaker 8 (18:08):
It's good to know that everyone in the ninety seventh
Evacuation Hospital is making.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Out so well.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
Well you seem to be doing, Laura.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
It's an understatement.
Speaker 8 (18:17):
There are more nurses now than ever before in the country,
and still there aren't half enough to take care of
all the work there is.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Don't tell me you have to go back on duty
again tonight.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
No, the patient I'm taking care of is a lovely niece.
She pinch hits for me nights. Oh, I'll make a
nurse out of her. Yet not a prate of competition. Competition, heavens,
no more the better. It just makes it easier all around.
I'm not keeping you from anything, am I.
Speaker 7 (18:45):
Well, I have to be leaving soon. Oh, by the way,
I knew there was something I forgot. I've got some.
Speaker 9 (18:52):
Pictures here of the old ninety seventh. I took them
after you left the outfit, But you know some of
the people, and I thought you might.
Speaker 7 (18:57):
Like to see them. I'd love to see now. He's
one of craggy. He's gotten a little fatter since he's
out of uniform.
Speaker 8 (19:05):
Oh he's not the only one. Oh that's Doris, still
as blonde as ever. Yeah, for heaven's sake, this picture,
oh that one.
Speaker 7 (19:14):
He's just a friend of mine.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
He wasn't going yo, he's my patient. Why for all
the coincidences?
Speaker 7 (19:19):
You mean you know Bill Gordon?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I certainly he's the case I'm on now. Of course,
since the accident, he's changed. But I recognized the picture easily.
Speaker 7 (19:28):
Why what do you know.
Speaker 8 (19:29):
You're having his pictures somewhat reassuring his attitude a little
well gruff. But I guessed it was just the accident.
I'll have to tell him about this tonight. It can
keep until morning. I'm off duty.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Now.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
Maybe i'll stick around and see him myself. You know
him well, not as well as i'd like to. I
better arrange for hotel accommodations if I'm going to stay older.
If you wait, i'll see your home.
Speaker 6 (19:56):
Don't bother. I don't live far from here.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
All right, and thanks, very interesting evening, Corien.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Oh, missus Gordon. Is he awake? Of course I am.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
What do you want?
Speaker 8 (20:20):
I'm sorry to disturb you. I didn't see you standing
at the window. I forgot a book I was reading
and came back for it.
Speaker 7 (20:25):
Get it.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Oh.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
I thought you'd be interested in knowing. There's a friend
of yours in town.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
But a friend.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Yes, I had dinner with him. We had mutual friends.
He had your picture in his.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
Wallet, like picture?
Speaker 6 (20:36):
What was his name, mister Peters? He said he'd probably
call tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Mary.
Speaker 8 (20:42):
Please, well, can't stay with Anne for a few minutes.
I want to talk to my husband.
Speaker 10 (20:45):
Certainly, Missus Gordon, you know what this means?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Married?
Speaker 6 (20:51):
Yes, coppers.
Speaker 10 (20:52):
They traced me. I don't know how, but they didn't.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
I always will. You gotta get out of here.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
What's the use?
Speaker 7 (20:56):
I'll tell you what's the use?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Three years astir, I whipped my own I figure everything
so I can enjoy that two hundred and fifty grand.
I'm gonna do it if I have to kill half
the coups in the country.
Speaker 8 (21:07):
I was hoping you might forget that money, that you
might like this kind of living with the kid and everything.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
You're nuts. You're talking like some Gingham and Roses house
for aus.
Speaker 8 (21:15):
Why not, I've been living like one for the past
two years, Bill, what about it?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
Shut up?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
A card just stopped outside.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
Well, if you gave back the money, maybe they too good?
Speaker 7 (21:27):
He Llah.
Speaker 10 (21:28):
You can smell them from the here.
Speaker 7 (21:30):
You can't talk talk talk.
Speaker 10 (21:31):
I would have gone except for your talk, Miss Walton.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
And what are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (21:35):
Bill?
Speaker 10 (21:36):
We'll see I'll see two of these cupses start coming
up that walk.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
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Speaker 9 (23:56):
Looks quiet enough to it's a nice suburban home. Well,
as long as he's not expecting us, let's go. What
duck chief over here behind this tree here?
Speaker 10 (24:13):
I thought he wasn't expecting me, said, It just shows
how wrong you can be.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
It's going to be a tough one.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
Lesn't come it, hear me?
Speaker 7 (24:21):
You canna hear him alone?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Better give yourself up.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
I got one, two good guns.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
I'll worry about me alone.
Speaker 10 (24:28):
Where the United States Countess.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Bies, We'll have a squatter man out here in five minutes.
I haven't got a chance of getting out of there.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
I make my own sense.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I get this gate straight.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
I got too.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Dave in here and nurse your.
Speaker 10 (24:41):
Students taktoo and I got.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Into the lease.
Speaker 10 (24:44):
I can't let my Phurst book.
Speaker 9 (24:47):
You make that colub Harry, I come take it, Come
I cover.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
You're crazy.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Bill.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
You can't do it.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
Marry, You're out of this now, Mary, missus Gaulan Scott
moving you.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I won't let you do it.
Speaker 10 (25:05):
Bill, out of my way, Marry.
Speaker 6 (25:06):
Okay, come on, come on, you start moving.
Speaker 10 (25:10):
Bill so help me, you too.
Speaker 7 (25:13):
Don't move.
Speaker 10 (25:14):
I'll kill you right now.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Mary.
Speaker 8 (25:15):
No, missus Gordon, don't Welcodbye.
Speaker 7 (25:18):
Bill, I wish you too. Not good.
Speaker 12 (25:34):
What about that girl Anne? She didn't know anything about
it at all. No, she wheeling Alone's niece. Yes, I
mean Malone's real name actually was Gordon. He planned to
kill the character of Malone and live off the stolen
money as Gordon.
Speaker 7 (25:48):
Why all this elaborate front involving the kid in it?
Speaker 9 (25:50):
Doctor Franklin is one of the few men that can
treat Gordon's eyes so that it wouldn't give him away. Oh, Mary,
Gordon spent two years building up respectability so that frank
would have no hesitation in treating Gordon.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
But she liked the parts she'd been playing more than
the parts you'd been living.
Speaker 9 (26:06):
Enough so that she resisted Malan to protect the nurse
and the girl, And when that wasn't enough, she used
his second gun to kill him.
Speaker 6 (26:13):
Mister Hardham, will you come in please?
Speaker 7 (26:15):
Of course, Miss Walton, she wants to talk to you.
Speaker 11 (26:18):
Please, Aunt Mary, don't talk, just mi, mister Hadding the
money bill hidden.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
There's a reward for it by the insurance companies.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Would and get it.
Speaker 7 (26:33):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (26:34):
Please, Aunt Mary, don't talk. I don't want anything but
you Bill and his gun.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
It's a paper. It tell us about the money. No, Mary, no,
I won't touch it. I don't want it. I want you.
Speaker 3 (26:55):
You know.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
I can't promise anything about a reward, but I don't
want to leave for long.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
Missus Gordon, don't text your strength. I promise you she'll
be all right. I owe you well. I look out
for Anne. She'll be all right. I swear, so. Will
you head married?
Speaker 11 (27:18):
I will you.
Speaker 8 (27:19):
I'll see that she goes to school. I promise you
will stay together, and very.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
Very Miss Welton, you'd better take her with you.
Speaker 7 (27:34):
Peters will drive. I'll wait for well, I'll stay here.
Speaker 9 (27:55):
And now we're happy to present the First Army Surgeon,
Brigadier General Guyett.
Speaker 10 (28:01):
I'd like to talk with our young women who will
be graduated this month from secondary schools all over the country,
and I'd like to have your mothers and dads listen
to because this concerns your future and the future health
and well being of America. Also, we here at the
First Army are proud to speak for the National Student
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Nurse Recruitment Program and his campaign to enroll fifty thousand
student nurses into civilian hospitals this year. I can tell
you that the need is great, that while more young
women are entering the profession than ever before, the patient
load in our hospitals has increased faster than the available
supply of nurses. I can tell you from our own
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observation in More and in Peace, about those things that
set a nurse apart from the young woman who is
content with just a job. If you've ever watched the
capable hands, the courage, and the clear mind of the
nurse as she ministers to a child, to a soldier
brought from the battlefield, to the man or woman who
(29:06):
is helpless, you will know what I mean. So I
say to you, young women, consider siously the many SPED
opportunities in nursing and the opportunity to work with those
who are making medical history.
Speaker 9 (29:20):
Thank you, General Dennett, and our appreciation to the American
Hospital Association and to the Advertising Council for their cooperation.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Tonight's David Harding Calder Spy Case was dramatized by Palmer Thompson,
with music by Jesse Crawford and featured Mendel Kramer and
Briana Rayburn. David Harding Calder Spy is a Phillips h
Lord production originating in New York for the makers of
Old Mick and Bitter Honey Candy Bars. Now a listening reminder,
predictions and Inside Washington stories. That's what Drew pe And
(30:00):
brings you every Sunday night here at Pearson Tonight over
this ABC station, as is ABC, the American Broadcasting Company.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Welcome back. In addition to the name cast, I am
pretty sure that our escape convict was played by Chuck
Webster after hearing him in so many episodes of The Falcon.
Just like the program a couple weeks before, this one
had a sort of PSA note to it. But one
(30:33):
that I don't think God in the way of the
plot looking at Counterspy as an FBI stand in, As
was suggested by listener Steven a few weeks ago, this
seems like a perfectly plausible case for Counterspy to take on,
and even some of the conversation where the nurse is
(31:00):
talking about the shortage of nurses felt like relatively natural
things to say, particularly in the conversation with Peters.
Speaker 12 (31:10):
Now.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
One piece of information that was becoming outdated at this
point was when the niece was thinking that maybe she
would rather be an airline hostess. Well, too bad, you
have to be a nurse to be an airline hostess. Well,
this used to be the case. In fact, the very
first airline hostess or stewardess was a registered nurse. Ellen
(31:38):
Church was the first stewardess, and she pitched the idea
to Boeing air Transport, which obviously has changed, it's still
around as you're not at airlines, but she pitched the
idea that it'd be a way to make flights safer
(31:58):
and also make the public more comfortable with flying. And
I think that the sort of public on ease with
flying in the nineteen twenties and thirties is really understandable.
It's if you just think about it and try to
(32:18):
put yourself in their position. And that can be a
challenge because I assume that everyone listening to this podcast,
even some of the oldest people. I've had people in
their eighties email me and say they listen. Has had
airplanes and air travel is like an established part of life,
(32:40):
and so people had questioned what's going to happen if
there's a medical emergency in flight, and there's so many
unknowns in terms of what effects that a flight might
have on various tops of human bodies and human ailments.
And you add that the planes of the era were
(33:02):
not you know, the sort of jets we have today
or even the post war planes that were built, so
you could have a crash where people needed attended to,
or at least people would fear that. So the idea
of having a trained nurse on board the plane was
(33:23):
a comfort to the public and it was a success,
and that got ruled out as the requirement for being
a hostess or stewardess. Now by nineteen forty nine, this
was on its way out. The war had taken a
lot of nurses away from the airline industry, and then
(33:46):
after the war you had this nursing shortage, and then
of course you began to have increases in the number
of people flying, and the nursing profession just could not
produce enough nursing for the airline industry, and planes were safer,
the public.
Speaker 10 (34:05):
Was more comfortable with the.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Process of flying, and so the nursing requirement really had
begun to go away. So if the niece had decided
to become a flight attendant, it would not have required
nursing training in nineteen forty nine. All right, well, listener
comments and feedback now, and we have an email from
(34:30):
Nick who writes, in these post war counterspot plots are
definitely a stretch. As the old saying goes, counter intelligence
and fairhousing go together like candy and knives. Seriously, I'd
love to have seen the boardroom meeting where a bit
of honey people decided on that knife promotion. You know
(34:53):
what Americans think about when they think about our sweet candy,
sharp sharp knives, brilliant. Well, that is a good point. Now, Obviously,
radio sponsors gave away all kinds of things that they
sound like pretty good knives, and in some ways. They
might have been borrowing a template from Kids Candy and
(35:18):
Kids Cereal, which they often sold their products with promotions.
And if you listen to an old episode of Superman,
they'll talk more about the really cool key chain that
you can get rather than the taste of Kellogg's pep.
(35:39):
But I don't think the same approaches is effective with adults,
even in nineteen forty nine. I do wonder if the
not promotion is part of the reason we actually even
have these episodes. We have these three consecutive episodes that
(35:59):
contain the not promotion in it, and no other episodes
from nineteen forty eight, so it makes me wonder if
these were made as transcriptions originally for that not promotion. Otherwise,
it's kind of an interesting coincidence. But thanks so much.
I appreciate the comment. Thank you to Tony, Patreon supporter
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since March of twenty twenty three, currently supporting the podcast
at grid agent level of four dollars or more per month.
Thanks so much for your support, Tony. That'll do it
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will be back next Saturday with another episode of Counterspy
on The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio. Join us
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and we'll be back on the Great Adventurers Podcast on
Tuesday with Tarzan. In the meantime, do send your comments
to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. From Boise, Idaho,
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this is your host, Adam Graham signing off.
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