September 27, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for a program that has rated
toughs in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history. The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline
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invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadow. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange
story Custom made Murder.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
David Price gripped the wheel of his speeding automobile firmly,
and the grim set of his jaw matched the tightly
building pressure within. He was oblivious to the heavy rains
flattering against the windshield, oblivious to the danger of the
storm swept highway. He was too preoccupied with the anger
welling around in sight. Anger at his wife's older sister, Harriet,
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just arrived for one of her frequent visits and her
brilliant success in the style world. David could accept Harriet's month.
In fact, he often did in generous amounts, but he
couldn't accept her even for a short time. Harriet had
always wanted David's wife Margaret, to exploit her skill as
a designer, or so she said, Actually, David fell. She
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had always wanted Margaret to divorce it for marrying David
was the one thing Margaret had ever done without Harriet's
supervision and approval. Now, David swung the car off the
highway into the driveway under the car port. A moment later,
he was letting himself into the house. Must have driven there.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Aren't you even going to kiss me? Fine greeting? I'm
a phoner, Harriet. Yes, it was an important called San Francisco. Sure, sure, important.
Everything's important for Harriet. And I suppose it's still important
that you go to work for her too.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, I'll at least be earning some of the money
she gives me. Do you always have to bring that out?
You bring it up whenever you need anything.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can certainly to be nice to her, especially since
she's only here for such a.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Short time, as shorter time as I'd like.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
How come on, David, forget it, She'll only be here
a few days.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Sit down, I'll poor you drink. I'll fixed her and
Martinez it's favorite. I'll left bourbon to be abstinast you
are at Margaret. I know she's your sister. You couldn't
help that, But what you can help you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Get up?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I didn't intend to Harriet.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How sweet do you drink?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
No, let me give it to a No, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
David, my the lord and master.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And now do you run?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Little sister fetch his pipe and slippers.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And if she don't, well, she always.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was a little backward.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
No, you too, don't worried, Dear David and I understand
one another.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's what bothers it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I don't understand you, Harriet, or anyone who tries to
break up her home. Is that what I'm doing? And
it's what you'd like to do. Only I'm not the
type to stand and watch.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, no, no, I'm aware of your type. David, the
big driving mail, the burly one bull in a china shop.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Got it out, Harry, I can't take so much.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And then the big mask when one starts breaking.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Thing, maybe you like to break your neck sometimes.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Defen it's all right, Margaret like I've always said, he's
plain speaking, almost an earthy quality.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You should we have more tweed, David.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
You know, and Margaret, where is that pipe you were
about to fetch?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You love it? Don't you? Grinding your heel? Am I
a bud beneath it? Mary? Sort of like Kurt Kramer,
Poor little Kurt Kramer.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Kurt Kramer was a fool, huh, but.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
A faithful one. How long he worked for you? Sixteen years,
wasn't it? And his reward?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
David, you know perfectly well that Kurt Kramer was a criminal.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
My sister did nothing more than any employer would have done.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Kramer was entrusted with company funds.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
David.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Everything I said was true.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It is you're careful that way. It's probably true that
Margaret should take up designing again, but it's scarcely necess
sorry for her to leave her home and husband will
do it.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
You don't even try to understand who you're David, for
just one instant, you know, you might consider Margaret.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm not exactly rolling in.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Wealthy, so she doesn't need my money.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
She has you let me finish.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Margaret could have four or five times as much as
she came to work with me. And more than that,
as much as it displeases me, I just may not
live forever.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm older than you two.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Margaret should know something about the business you'll inherit. The
move to San Francisco's just a beginning eventually. If you
stop it, please stop shouting at one another and stop
acting as if I had nothing to say about this whole.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Thing, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I'm sorry, Harriet, but I do want to try to
make this decision independently, independent of both of you about that.
But I'm telling you, Harriet, it won't work, because, like
you say, I'm the driving mail of bull and the
China shir. I won't stop smashing things until I'm certain
my wife is going to remain my wife. A very no,
and my way is to beat you at every turn
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of the game. A challenge, take it any way you like.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
It's in the clear, isn't it, David.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Through all the bitterness and coldly amusing speeches you exchange,
you and Harriet, your wife's sister, have squared off, and
the plan of attack keeps buzzing around in your mind.
That part isn't amusing, is it? No? Rather, it's a
burning bitter hatred. What to do? How and when. And
the knowledge that now more than ever, Harriet will do
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her best to separate you and Margaret sharpens your fury
to a fine point. You're determined to beat Harriet any
way you can. The plan of definite action starts to
take hold, doesn't it, David, And the following day at
the office, it dominates your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, I'll right out here.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Yes, my name's Willard, George Willard. I was court reporter
on the Kramer kiss. I'm out of that line now,
I see you said at the time, And it'd be
worth your while to know what happened to Kramer. I
mean when he got out and all. Kramer is out
of prison, that's right, a couple of months ago. And
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he's pretty bitter about your sister in law's Price for me.
He could kill her for what she did to him,
setting him up and all that, he could kill Herry.
Like I say, he's pretty bitter. Uh, still worth your
while to know about him?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Why? Yes, yes, of course?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Where is he here? Wanted to drop out of sight,
mister Price. I'll I'll make it with you a while, Willard.
Where is he? Little Berg south of here, Luma Vista,
I believe runs a shop there, tailoring men's clothing, mostly
nothing like the old days. Kramer was a top designer.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Once, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He is?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh a.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Funny little guy.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Not too well. I understand. Well, thanks Wood, Thanks very much.
I'll get my check book.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I'd you're a man of your word, miss Price. I
didn't mean to bother you here at your office, but well,
you seem to want to know about Kurt Kramer.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I did. I appreciated, mister Willard. Yes, maybe you want
to help him? Uh? This way, does everybody a little girl? Yes,
it's this way. We'll do everybody some good. As I say,
I'm very pleased to be the first to know that
Kurt Kramer is out of prison.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You folks who listen to the Whistler regularly have heard
me get enthusiastic about signal efyl, the premium grade of
signals famous go farther gasoline. You've heard me say that
the next best thing to a new car is any
car of any age powered with signal efyl. But tonight, friends,
I just like to tell you, in plain everyday language,
why I use signal ethyl in my car. When I
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touch the starter, I want my motor to spring to
life quick like turning on a light, and signal EFO
gives me that.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Kind of starting.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
When I step on the gas, I want.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
To feel pick up that makes the back of the
seat come up and push me forward, and signal EFOL.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Gives me that kind of pickup.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When I start up a hill, I want plenty of
smooth power to take me over the top without shifting,
and I can always count on signal EFEL for that.
There you have it, in a nutshell, friends, the reasons
why I like signal ethyl and why I'm so sure
you will be just as enthusiastic as I am about
signal EFYL once you'd try a thankful.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
It's interesting, isn't.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It, David, how a few hours a day can change things.
So now you will weapon against Harry a means to
frighten her, perhaps send her away, because Kurt Kramer, a
man who once bowed he'd repay her for sending him
to prison, is out free, and only you know where
to locate. And there's something else, isn't it it Harriet's
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own words that Margaret will inherit her business. Harriet's dress
business is worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars you
feel that you can afford to be pleasant to Harry,
perhaps toy with her for a while before dropping the bombshell.
Of course, you've no way of knowing that Harriet has
a bombshell of her own.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Hello, anybody here, Margaret? Oh? Oh, Harriet, go upstairs.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
No, No, she's David.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That tie? Do you wear such things just to torment?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, Harriet, you're not drawing my fire tonight. I mean
a most delightful move here. I'll take it off.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't much, providing you don't decide to choke me,
really hardly, not even when I tell.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You about Margaret. What about Margaret?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
She's gone, David to San Francisco. It was her decision.
She arrived at it just as she said she would, independent.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Of both of them.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Got it out, Harriet. I can't believe it. She'd go
without telling me.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
She left you this note. I'd sort of like to
know what it says, too.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You probably dictated it. Okay, Okay, I'll go along with
a gag, she says, as if you didn't know, David,
I thought leaving this way was best. I'm a little
weary of angry words. I decided that going to San
Francisco is the wise thing for me to do. I
determinent this movie. There is something I can't predict right now,
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and I've reached that decision now, as you know, the
only thing I'm certain of at the moment is that
I do want to go see whether I'm really a
good designer or not. My not David's.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But you're angry at me. You you could strangle me.
I know it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, No, Harry, I I was surprised for you, all right.
Did it was a shock that I'm not angry?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What did you say?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I'm not angry?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Maybe it's best this way. I I'll take my chances
with Margaret because what she wants, she's entitled to her.
She really cares me when she'll come back.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Why you you do amazing, David? You really do?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I forget it. I'm tired and I turn in see
them ole, Harriet. Maybe I could take you on to dinner.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I love it, just the novelty of it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Good Night, Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You're glad you remain calm and reasonable. You've thrown Harriet
off guard, and you've made a decision. You're certain you
can win Margaret back, but only if Harriet is permanently
out of the way. Yes, David, it's going to take
a little time, some careful climates. And it begins the
next day with a quick trip to the neighboring city
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of Loma Visita, a little shop operated by Kirk Klimer.
Fortunately you find him alone, Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Sir, what k oh, mister Price. David Prize know it
can it is good? David Price in the place?
Speaker 8 (13:53):
How I oh, I'm all right, mister Price.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No complaint.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, you've a right to you. I said, why to
find you here? I'll get head straight to my dear
sister in law when you were released.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh no, no, no, no, I had thought of it.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Yes once, mister Priser, I'd give him anything to kill her.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But now now all I want to prive peace of
mind to live and let live. Believe me, mister Price,
I don't even want to see Harriet Gold.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It don't look too well. Oh, I'm all right, I'm fine,
mister Price.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Just do me a thing.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I say nothing to Harry about where you are, if
you please.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I don't want any more trouble and I'm out of prison.
That's all I want right now. If you excuse me,
mister Price, I have a suit button to lay out.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
A rush job.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Of course, go ahead, gay, good luck, and I'll say nothing.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Thank you, thank you, mister Price.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You always were all forget it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You watch him walk wearily off toward the back of
the shop, and you start away yourself, and and then
your eyes fasten on something, a huge shiny pair of
tailor's shears lying on a table with some bolts of
cough and a taking of Quickly, you reach out, slip
the big shears under your overcoats. Leave the shot. Now.
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You know exactly what you're going to do, don't you.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
David.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Back home, you're surprised to find Harriet packing your suits.
She decided to join Margaret in San Francisco and then
go on for a tour of her numerous shots. You
greeted presently try to persuade her to stay on for
a while. When she refuses, you drop the bombs.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know, Harry, I saw an old friend of yours,
Adam oh M Kurt Kramer. He's out of prison, been
out for a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Craymer out.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I wonder why no one told me. I've been very
quiet about it, though you talked to me. I'm talking
did he mention yes several times, there's ears in prison
didn't make him feel anymore kindly toysy No, No.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I don't suppose they would.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I love Harry. I'm not gonna try to kid you.
Your safety means too much. But you're my wife's sisters.
He thinks you're pretty wonderfully for her sake, I'd like
to well sort of old chap for I mean, we're
curtsy until we know what he's up. He wouldn't dad
be in a man who's thought of nothing else for
so long. I'm so sure, why not stay on a while?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Harry don't mean help ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
I'll talk to the police.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Tell him somebody told you Kurt Kramer feels bitterly towards you,
that you're frightening one of the police body does the
will laugh at you.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
He's uh, I suppose they would.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What do you suggest?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Let me handle it. I'll run down a lumavista and
have a.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Chapter that's nice out your baby. But I still don't
know why I shouldn't go to.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
San Francisco, Because if Kramer we're figuring on any thing,
very desperate, he'd do it while you were on one
of your trips, not here where he'd be picked up
in question.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Perhaps i'd better stay here.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
And have you talk to him.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh, mister Fries, you're bet.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, yes, I'm back. I thought i'd better come down
and one.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes, it's about Harriet. She knows where you are. Oh
I didn't tell her. You knows about the shop down house.
I see you, and you can expect to visit from proll.
I know you may be on her way down here now.
He's up to no good. Great, in certain she intended
to run you out of kicks, run me out of business.
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She'd be too late.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What do you mean I've quitted? Didn't you notice the
signs on the front window?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Right? No, no, matter of fact.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Oh, I'm closing out in my surprise. Finish, it's he
It will be very disappointed to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'm sure, very disappointed. Yes, she'll be sure.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Mister Price, would you do me a favorite?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Here?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Take it? It's the key to myself.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Give it to her with knife.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Compliment really hurt you? I am meanings give it the key.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You can have it all I told you before, mis surprise.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I want piece of mind, and I'm going to get it.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I'm leaving town tonight on the ten o'clock train. You
can give her at the message for me. Yes, tell
her she might as well forget about me, because she'll
never find me. I'm going a long way from here
and I'm never coming back.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The key to Kurt Shop safely tucked away in your pocket,
you'll start the drive back home. It was a lucky break,
wasn't it, David, getting the key so easily, And now
you know the curtain tends to leave town on the
ten o'clock train. It fits your plan perfectly, doesn't it, David.
It's early evening when you arrive at the house. Fine,
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Harriet in the living room waiting.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
For Did you see clemm and David? Yes, I saw him.
We had quite a chat. Well, now he wants to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
See you, Oh does he? Well? I don't want to
see him.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I think you should get it over with. I say,
once and for all, I'll go with you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
What does he want?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't know. I can't quite make him a He
seemed to have changed as my first start with him. Frankfully,
I'm rather curious to find out what he has in
his mind. Aren't you. Well, it's nothing to be afraid of.
As long as I'm with you, we could run down
to the night. It's only a half hour's drive. I
really think you should harry.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Or I'll go bye.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Tell you what I have to drink by the office
for a bit. Why don't you get ready while I'm gone,
I'll be back in a little while.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Her curiosity is aroused, isn't it, David? As you knew
it would be? And now you hurry from the house,
But instead of driving to your office, you turn off
at the railroad depot, chat pointedly with Sam at the
ticket window, then buy a ticket for San Francisco on
the streamliner leaving later in the evening. And there it is, David,
another key step in your plan accomplished. As you drive home,
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you glance at your watch. A quarter to eight.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
I'll be over soon, wound it, David.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, Harriet will be dead, and your wife, Margaret is
sole heir to her successful chain of dress shops. You'll
kill Harriet around nine thirty, and Kurt Kramer's sudden departure
from town a half hour later on the ten o'clock
train will look like he's running away after killing. You've
planned the timing perfectly, haven't you, David. And when it's over,
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you'll take a plane to San Francisco, and Margaret arrived
there a few minutes before the streamline. You manage a
confident smile as you reach home and enter the house.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Harriet. Harriet, well, I sently be back in a little while.
I changed my.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Mind, David, I'm not going to see Dreamland.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He wants to talk to me. You've come to see me, Harriet.
I'm not going, David. That's final.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You'll have to alter your plans, now, won't you, Dave.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
But that won't be difficult.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You decide to drop the subject of Kramer, and the
two of you have a high ball. Then you suggest
going out for dinner, because in that you see a solution.
Harriet's never been the Kramer's shop. You can drive her
there on the pretext of taking her to an out
of the way restaurant you know, and to your surprise,
Harriet's instantly agreeable. As you drive Harriet toward Loma Vista,
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you're conscious of the Shears Cooke Pop When you park
on the side street. It leads to the back entrance
a Kirk Kramer's shop. Harriet becomes physical Jimmy restaurant.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
David, I don't see anything much with the dirty building.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Only atmosphere's on the inside. Come out, come on, you
like it. It's the favorite of Margarets.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Enough, but you'll have to prove it to me.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I have to go on the back entrance out those
exclusive deals now. Thanks for any hour to give it
your own. Katy too.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Think it looks so dark, David?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Anywhere?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Uh to you?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Harriet?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, David, I don't want.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
To after you.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
David, what what is this? I don't like this, oh, Harriet,
but I like it. I like it.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
It's dumb, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
David?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You've killed Harry and drop Kirk Kramer's shears. Your fingerprints
white clean on the floor beside it. A beam of
light from the front of the shop highlights one of
Kramer's signs on the wall behind Harriet's body, quitting for good.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
How apropos, Harriet, how apropos?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'm from Missouri.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You gotta show me.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That was my answer to Signals motor oil experts when
they first told me new Signal premium motor oil would
reduce engine wear due to lubrication fifty percent and show
me they did, friends, with some of the most amazing,
most convincing tests I've ever witnessed on scientific devices. They
showed me how some motor oils break down and permit
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damaging wear inside an engine, where that causes engines to
lose heft and power, causes them to eat oil and
need expensive motor overhauls. Then they showed me a revolutionary
new technique that measures this wear at the very second
it is happening. And on this device, they showed me
how new Signal Premium motor oil reduces this wear due
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to lubrication by fifty percent. Well, friends, after seeing this
convincing proof with my own eyes, you can guess what
kind of oil I'm using in my car, the same
kind I hope you're using if you want your car
to laugh, New Signal Premium, the heavy duty type oil
you get at no increase in price at signal service statements.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's done, isn't it, David. You've killed Harry and now
you're leaving her in Kramer's shop, his scissors, the murder
weapon coast to the bottom. Now all you have to
do is drive to the airport, take a plane to
San Francisco arrived there a few minutes before the streamline,
and you'll be with your wife Margaret when she received
the shocking news the murder of her sister Harriet at
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the hands of her old enemy, Kurt Kramer. You'll also
be with her when she inherits her sister's flourishing business.
You slip out the side entrance at Kramer's shot.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
If you turn to close the door, a.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Car pulls up close by a police car, David, and
you know they've seen you. It's too late to run. Now,
You've got to think quickly and revise your plan.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh, officer, I'm glad you're hair. I was about to
call the police. I'm here quickly. I've been a murder.
Murder yes, hey, Mike, come on over. Okay, let's have
a look in. It's my sister in law, Harriet Gordon.
I left him the shop more more than ten minutes ago,
with Kurt Kramer. Ten minutes ago. Yes, I dropped her
off here, and then I went down the street with
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cigarettes wandering. I fak the shot was done. Kramer was gone.
But I I'm Harriet. Where yeh? She said, Oh, just
a few minutes, missus. Horrible horrible Kramer. He must have
hated her worse than I thought.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Speaking of Kramer, Huh, why mister Price, Kramer recognized this woman,
mister Kramer.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Harry, that's Harriet Gordon.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
That's the woman who called us late this afternoon. Told
us you threatened her alive.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
But I've taught you I didn't threaten the officer.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Mister Price has warned me about Harriet, had she planned
to run me out of business?
Speaker 9 (26:27):
He threatened her, all right, officer, I heard him. Miss
Gordon told us Kramer hadn't made.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
The threat to her in first. You must have told
her about them, naturally, do the wonner.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
I see, and you say you left Harriet Gordon here
with Kurt Kramer ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yes, you saw them together. Well, of course Kramer opened
the door when Harriet under the shop. I'm afraid not.
Mister Price.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
Looks like you've got some explaining to do.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Because of your warning.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Your sister in law called us. We decided we'd better
ask mister Kramer of your questions. So we picked him
up an hour ago, and he's been with us ever since.
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Speaker 2 (01:21):
David Price gripped the wheel of his speeding automobile firmly,
and the grim set of his jaw matched the tightly
building pressure within. He was oblivious to the heavy rains
flattering against the windshield, oblivious to the danger of the
storm swept highway. He was too preoccupied with the anger
welling around in sight. Anger at his wife's older sister, Harriet,
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just arrived for one of her frequent visits and her
brilliant success in the style world. David could accept Harriet's month.
In fact, he often did in generous amounts, but he
couldn't accept her even for a short time. Harriet had
always wanted David's wife Margaret, to exploit her skill as
a designer, or so she said, Actually, David fell. She
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had always wanted Margaret to divorce it for marrying David
was the one thing Margaret had ever done without Harriet's
supervision and approval. Now, David swung the car off the
highway into the driveway under the car port. A moment later,
he was letting himself into the house. Must have driven there.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Aren't you even going to kiss me? Fine greeting? I'm
a phoner, Harriet. Yes, it was an important called San Francisco. Sure, sure, important.
Everything's important for Harriet. And I suppose it's still important
that you go to work for her too.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Well, I'll at least be earning some of the money
she gives me. Do you always have to bring that out?
You bring it up whenever you need anything.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You can certainly to be nice to her, especially since
she's only here for such a.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Short time, as shorter time as I'd like.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
How come on, David, forget it, She'll only be here
a few days.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Sit down, I'll poor you drink. I'll fixed her and
Martinez it's favorite. I'll left bourbon to be abstinast you
are at Margaret. I know she's your sister. You couldn't
help that, But what you can help you.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Get up?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
I didn't intend to Harriet.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
How sweet do you drink?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
No, let me give it to a No, it's all right.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
David, my the lord and master.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
And now do you run?
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Little sister fetch his pipe and slippers.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
And if she don't, well, she always.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Was a little backward.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
No, you too, don't worried, Dear David and I understand
one another.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's what bothers it.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
I don't understand you, Harriet, or anyone who tries to
break up her home. Is that what I'm doing? And
it's what you'd like to do. Only I'm not the
type to stand and watch.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
No, no, no, I'm aware of your type. David, the
big driving mail, the burly one bull in a china shop.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
Got it out, Harry, I can't take so much.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
And then the big mask when one starts breaking.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Thing, maybe you like to break your neck sometimes.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Defen it's all right, Margaret like I've always said, he's
plain speaking, almost an earthy quality.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
You should we have more tweed, David.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
You know, and Margaret, where is that pipe you were
about to fetch?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You love it? Don't you? Grinding your heel? Am I
a bud beneath it? Mary? Sort of like Kurt Kramer,
Poor little Kurt Kramer.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Kurt Kramer was a fool, huh, but.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
A faithful one. How long he worked for you? Sixteen years,
wasn't it? And his reward?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
David, you know perfectly well that Kurt Kramer was a criminal.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
My sister did nothing more than any employer would have done.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
Kramer was entrusted with company funds.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
David.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Everything I said was true.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
It is you're careful that way. It's probably true that
Margaret should take up designing again, but it's scarcely necess
sorry for her to leave her home and husband will
do it.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
You don't even try to understand who you're David, for
just one instant, you know, you might consider Margaret.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I'm not exactly rolling in.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Wealthy, so she doesn't need my money.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
She has you let me finish.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Margaret could have four or five times as much as
she came to work with me. And more than that,
as much as it displeases me, I just may not
live forever.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
I'm older than you two.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Margaret should know something about the business you'll inherit. The
move to San Francisco's just a beginning eventually. If you
stop it, please stop shouting at one another and stop
acting as if I had nothing to say about this whole.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Thing, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I'm sorry, Harriet, but I do want to try to
make this decision independently, independent of both of you about that.
But I'm telling you, Harriet, it won't work, because, like
you say, I'm the driving mail of bull and the
China shir. I won't stop smashing things until I'm certain
my wife is going to remain my wife. A very no,
and my way is to beat you at every turn
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of the game. A challenge, take it any way you like.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
It's in the clear, isn't it, David.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Through all the bitterness and coldly amusing speeches you exchange,
you and Harriet, your wife's sister, have squared off, and
the plan of attack keeps buzzing around in your mind.
That part isn't amusing, is it? No? Rather, it's a
burning bitter hatred. What to do? How and when. And
the knowledge that now more than ever, Harriet will do
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her best to separate you and Margaret sharpens your fury
to a fine point. You're determined to beat Harriet any
way you can. The plan of definite action starts to
take hold, doesn't it, David, And the following day at
the office, it dominates your thoughts.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Yes, I'll right out here.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Yes, my name's Willard, George Willard. I was court reporter
on the Kramer kiss. I'm out of that line now,
I see you said at the time, And it'd be
worth your while to know what happened to Kramer. I
mean when he got out and all. Kramer is out
of prison, that's right, a couple of months ago. And
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he's pretty bitter about your sister in law's Price for me.
He could kill her for what she did to him,
setting him up and all that, he could kill Herry.
Like I say, he's pretty bitter. Uh, still worth your
while to know about him?
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Why? Yes, yes, of course?
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Where is he here? Wanted to drop out of sight,
mister Price. I'll I'll make it with you a while, Willard.
Where is he? Little Berg south of here, Luma Vista,
I believe runs a shop there, tailoring men's clothing, mostly
nothing like the old days. Kramer was a top designer.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Once, wasn't it?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
He is?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh a.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Funny little guy.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Not too well. I understand. Well, thanks Wood, Thanks very much.
I'll get my check book.
Speaker 7 (08:24):
I'd you're a man of your word, miss Price. I
didn't mean to bother you here at your office, but well,
you seem to want to know about Kurt Kramer.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
I did. I appreciated, mister Willard. Yes, maybe you want
to help him? Uh? This way, does everybody a little girl? Yes,
it's this way. We'll do everybody some good. As I say,
I'm very pleased to be the first to know that
Kurt Kramer is out of prison.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You folks who listen to the Whistler regularly have heard
me get enthusiastic about signal efyl, the premium grade of
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the next best thing to a new car is any
car of any age powered with signal efyl. But tonight, friends,
I just like to tell you, in plain everyday language,
why I use signal ethyl in my car. When I
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touch the starter, I want my motor to spring to
life quick like turning on a light, and signal EFO
gives me that.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Kind of starting.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
When I step on the gas, I want.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
To feel pick up that makes the back of the
seat come up and push me forward, and signal EFOL.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Gives me that kind of pickup.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When I start up a hill, I want plenty of
smooth power to take me over the top without shifting,
and I can always count on signal EFEL for that.
There you have it, in a nutshell, friends, the reasons
why I like signal ethyl and why I'm so sure
you will be just as enthusiastic as I am about
signal EFYL once you'd try a thankful.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
It's interesting, isn't.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It, David, how a few hours a day can change things.
So now you will weapon against Harry a means to
frighten her, perhaps send her away, because Kurt Kramer, a
man who once bowed he'd repay her for sending him
to prison, is out free, and only you know where
to locate. And there's something else, isn't it it Harriet's
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own words that Margaret will inherit her business. Harriet's dress
business is worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars you
feel that you can afford to be pleasant to Harry,
perhaps toy with her for a while before dropping the bombshell.
Of course, you've no way of knowing that Harriet has
a bombshell of her own.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Hello, anybody here, Margaret? Oh? Oh, Harriet, go upstairs.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
No, No, she's David.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
That tie? Do you wear such things just to torment?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, Harriet, you're not drawing my fire tonight. I mean
a most delightful move here. I'll take it off.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I don't much, providing you don't decide to choke me,
really hardly, not even when I tell.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
You about Margaret. What about Margaret?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
She's gone, David to San Francisco. It was her decision.
She arrived at it just as she said she would, independent.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Of both of them.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Got it out, Harriet. I can't believe it. She'd go
without telling me.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
She left you this note. I'd sort of like to
know what it says, too.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You probably dictated it. Okay, Okay, I'll go along with
a gag, she says, as if you didn't know, David,
I thought leaving this way was best. I'm a little
weary of angry words. I decided that going to San
Francisco is the wise thing for me to do. I
determinent this movie. There is something I can't predict right now,
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and I've reached that decision now, as you know, the
only thing I'm certain of at the moment is that
I do want to go see whether I'm really a
good designer or not. My not David's.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
But you're angry at me. You you could strangle me.
I know it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
No, No, Harry, I I was surprised for you, all right.
Did it was a shock that I'm not angry?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
What did you say?
Speaker 3 (12:40):
I'm not angry?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
I didn't.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Maybe it's best this way. I I'll take my chances
with Margaret because what she wants, she's entitled to her.
She really cares me when she'll come back.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Why you you do amazing, David? You really do?
Speaker 3 (12:55):
I forget it. I'm tired and I turn in see
them ole, Harriet. Maybe I could take you on to dinner.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I love it, just the novelty of it.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
Good Night, Harry.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
You're glad you remain calm and reasonable. You've thrown Harriet
off guard, and you've made a decision. You're certain you
can win Margaret back, but only if Harriet is permanently
out of the way. Yes, David, it's going to take
a little time, some careful climates. And it begins the
next day with a quick trip to the neighboring city
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of Loma Visita, a little shop operated by Kirk Klimer.
Fortunately you find him alone, Yes.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Sir, what k oh, mister Price. David Prize know it
can it is good? David Price in the place?
Speaker 8 (13:53):
How I oh, I'm all right, mister Price.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
No complaint.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
No, you've a right to you. I said, why to
find you here? I'll get head straight to my dear
sister in law when you were released.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Oh no, no, no, no, I had thought of it.
Speaker 8 (14:08):
Yes once, mister Priser, I'd give him anything to kill her.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
But now now all I want to prive peace of
mind to live and let live. Believe me, mister Price,
I don't even want to see Harriet Gold.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
It don't look too well. Oh, I'm all right, I'm fine,
mister Price.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Just do me a thing.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
I say nothing to Harry about where you are, if
you please.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
I don't want any more trouble and I'm out of prison.
That's all I want right now. If you excuse me,
mister Price, I have a suit button to lay out.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
A rush job.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Of course, go ahead, gay, good luck, and I'll say nothing.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Thank you, thank you, mister Price.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
You always were all forget it.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
You watch him walk wearily off toward the back of
the shop, and you start away yourself, and and then
your eyes fasten on something, a huge shiny pair of
tailor's shears lying on a table with some bolts of
cough and a taking of Quickly, you reach out, slip
the big shears under your overcoats. Leave the shot. Now.
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You know exactly what you're going to do, don't you.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
David.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Back home, you're surprised to find Harriet packing your suits.
She decided to join Margaret in San Francisco and then
go on for a tour of her numerous shots. You
greeted presently try to persuade her to stay on for
a while. When she refuses, you drop the bombs.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
You know, Harry, I saw an old friend of yours,
Adam oh M Kurt Kramer. He's out of prison, been
out for a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Craymer out.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
I wonder why no one told me. I've been very
quiet about it, though you talked to me. I'm talking
did he mention yes several times, there's ears in prison
didn't make him feel anymore kindly toysy No, No.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
I don't suppose they would.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
I love Harry. I'm not gonna try to kid you.
Your safety means too much. But you're my wife's sisters.
He thinks you're pretty wonderfully for her sake, I'd like
to well sort of old chap for I mean, we're
curtsy until we know what he's up. He wouldn't dad
be in a man who's thought of nothing else for
so long. I'm so sure, why not stay on a while?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Harry don't mean help ridiculous.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
I'll talk to the police.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Tell him somebody told you Kurt Kramer feels bitterly towards you,
that you're frightening one of the police body does the
will laugh at you.
Speaker 7 (16:43):
He's uh, I suppose they would.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
What do you suggest?
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Let me handle it. I'll run down a lumavista and
have a.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
Chapter that's nice out your baby. But I still don't
know why I shouldn't go to.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
San Francisco, Because if Kramer we're figuring on any thing,
very desperate, he'd do it while you were on one
of your trips, not here where he'd be picked up
in question.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Oh, I see what you mean.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
I think you're right.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Perhaps i'd better stay here.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
And have you talk to him.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Oh, mister Fries, you're bet.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yes, yes, I'm back. I thought i'd better come down
and one.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Yes, it's about Harriet. She knows where you are. Oh
I didn't tell her. You knows about the shop down house.
I see you, and you can expect to visit from proll.
I know you may be on her way down here now.
He's up to no good. Great, in certain she intended
to run you out of kicks, run me out of business.
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She'd be too late.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
What do you mean I've quitted? Didn't you notice the
signs on the front window?
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Right? No, no, matter of fact.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Oh, I'm closing out in my surprise. Finish, it's he
It will be very disappointed to hear about it.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'm sure, very disappointed. Yes, she'll be sure.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Mister Price, would you do me a favorite?
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Here?
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Take it? It's the key to myself.
Speaker 9 (18:18):
Give it to her with knife.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Compliment really hurt you? I am meanings give it the key.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
You can have it all I told you before, mis surprise.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
I want piece of mind, and I'm going to get it.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I'm leaving town tonight on the ten o'clock train. You
can give her at the message for me. Yes, tell
her she might as well forget about me, because she'll
never find me. I'm going a long way from here
and I'm never coming back.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
The key to Kurt Shop safely tucked away in your pocket,
you'll start the drive back home. It was a lucky break,
wasn't it, David, getting the key so easily, And now
you know the curtain tends to leave town on the
ten o'clock train. It fits your plan perfectly, doesn't it, David.
It's early evening when you arrive at the house. Fine,
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Harriet in the living room waiting.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
For Did you see clemm and David? Yes, I saw him.
We had quite a chat. Well, now he wants to.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
See you, Oh does he? Well? I don't want to
see him.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
I think you should get it over with. I say,
once and for all, I'll go with you.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
What does he want?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I don't know. I can't quite make him a He
seemed to have changed as my first start with him. Frankfully,
I'm rather curious to find out what he has in
his mind. Aren't you. Well, it's nothing to be afraid of.
As long as I'm with you, we could run down
to the night. It's only a half hour's drive. I
really think you should harry.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Or I'll go bye.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Tell you what I have to drink by the office
for a bit. Why don't you get ready while I'm gone,
I'll be back in a little while.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I'll be ready.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Her curiosity is aroused, isn't it, David? As you knew
it would be? And now you hurry from the house,
But instead of driving to your office, you turn off
at the railroad depot, chat pointedly with Sam at the
ticket window, then buy a ticket for San Francisco on
the streamliner leaving later in the evening. And there it is, David,
another key step in your plan accomplished. As you drive home,
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you glance at your watch. A quarter to eight.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
I'll be over soon, wound it, David.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Yes, Harriet will be dead, and your wife, Margaret is
sole heir to her successful chain of dress shops. You'll
kill Harriet around nine thirty, and Kurt Kramer's sudden departure
from town a half hour later on the ten o'clock
train will look like he's running away after killing. You've
planned the timing perfectly, haven't you, David. And when it's over,
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you'll take a plane to San Francisco, and Margaret arrived
there a few minutes before the streamline. You manage a
confident smile as you reach home and enter the house.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
Harriet. Harriet, well, I sently be back in a little while.
I changed my.
Speaker 5 (21:16):
Mind, David, I'm not going to see Dreamland.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
He wants to talk to me. You've come to see me, Harriet.
I'm not going, David. That's final.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
You'll have to alter your plans, now, won't you, Dave.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
But that won't be difficult.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
You decide to drop the subject of Kramer, and the
two of you have a high ball. Then you suggest
going out for dinner, because in that you see a solution.
Harriet's never been the Kramer's shop. You can drive her
there on the pretext of taking her to an out
of the way restaurant you know, and to your surprise,
Harriet's instantly agreeable. As you drive Harriet toward Loma Vista,
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you're conscious of the Shears Cooke Pop When you park
on the side street. It leads to the back entrance
a Kirk Kramer's shop. Harriet becomes physical Jimmy restaurant.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
David, I don't see anything much with the dirty building.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Only atmosphere's on the inside. Come out, come on, you
like it. It's the favorite of Margarets.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Enough, but you'll have to prove it to me.
Speaker 3 (22:24):
I have to go on the back entrance out those
exclusive deals now. Thanks for any hour to give it
your own. Katy too.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Think it looks so dark, David?
Speaker 3 (22:33):
Anywhere?
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Uh to you?
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Harriet?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
No, David, I don't want.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
To after you.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
David, what what is this? I don't like this, oh, Harriet,
but I like it. I like it.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
It's dumb, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
David?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
You've killed Harry and drop Kirk Kramer's shears. Your fingerprints
white clean on the floor beside it. A beam of
light from the front of the shop highlights one of
Kramer's signs on the wall behind Harriet's body, quitting for good.
Speaker 10 (23:16):
How apropos, Harriet, how apropos?
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'm from Missouri.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
You gotta show me.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
That was my answer to Signals motor oil experts when
they first told me new Signal premium motor oil would
reduce engine wear due to lubrication fifty percent and show
me they did, friends, with some of the most amazing,
most convincing tests I've ever witnessed on scientific devices. They
showed me how some motor oils break down and permit
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damaging wear inside an engine, where that causes engines to
lose heft and power, causes them to eat oil and
need expensive motor overhauls. Then they showed me a revolutionary
new technique that measures this wear at the very second
it is happening. And on this device, they showed me
how new Signal Premium motor oil reduces this wear due
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to lubrication by fifty percent. Well, friends, after seeing this
convincing proof with my own eyes, you can guess what
kind of oil I'm using in my car, the same
kind I hope you're using if you want your car
to laugh, New Signal Premium, the heavy duty type oil
you get at no increase in price at signal service statements.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
It's done, isn't it, David. You've killed Harry and now
you're leaving her in Kramer's shop, his scissors, the murder
weapon coast to the bottom. Now all you have to
do is drive to the airport, take a plane to
San Francisco arrived there a few minutes before the streamline,
and you'll be with your wife Margaret when she received
the shocking news the murder of her sister Harriet at
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the hands of her old enemy, Kurt Kramer. You'll also
be with her when she inherits her sister's flourishing business.
You slip out the side entrance at Kramer's shot.
Speaker 3 (25:19):
If you turn to close the door, a.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Car pulls up close by a police car, David, and
you know they've seen you. It's too late to run. Now,
You've got to think quickly and revise your plan.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Oh, officer, I'm glad you're hair. I was about to
call the police. I'm here quickly. I've been a murder.
Murder yes, hey, Mike, come on over. Okay, let's have
a look in. It's my sister in law, Harriet Gordon.
I left him the shop more more than ten minutes ago,
with Kurt Kramer. Ten minutes ago. Yes, I dropped her
off here, and then I went down the street with
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cigarettes wandering. I fak the shot was done. Kramer was gone.
But I I'm Harriet. Where yeh? She said, Oh, just
a few minutes, missus. Horrible horrible Kramer. He must have
hated her worse than I thought.
Speaker 9 (26:07):
Speaking of Kramer, Huh, why mister Price, Kramer recognized this woman,
mister Kramer.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
Harry, that's Harriet Gordon.
Speaker 9 (26:16):
That's the woman who called us late this afternoon. Told
us you threatened her alive.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
But I've taught you I didn't threaten the officer.
Speaker 8 (26:23):
Mister Price has warned me about Harriet, had she planned
to run me out of business?
Speaker 9 (26:27):
He threatened her, all right, officer, I heard him. Miss
Gordon told us Kramer hadn't made.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
The threat to her in first. You must have told
her about them, naturally, do the wonner.
Speaker 9 (26:39):
I see, and you say you left Harriet Gordon here
with Kurt Kramer ten minutes ago.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Yes, you saw them together. Well, of course Kramer opened
the door when Harriet under the shop. I'm afraid not.
Mister Price.
Speaker 9 (26:54):
Looks like you've got some explaining to do.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
Because of your warning.
Speaker 9 (26:58):
Your sister in law called us. We decided we'd better
ask mister Kramer of your questions. So we picked him
up an hour ago, and he's been with us ever since.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil program.
The Whistler each Sunday night at the same time meantime
Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who help
you go farther with Signal gasoline. Hope you'll remember. Regardless
of what gasoline you use, you will enjoy more miles
of happy drivers. If you drive at sensible speed, obey
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taffic regulations, and avoid taking chance, you may even save
a life, possibly your own. Featured of Tonight's story were
Bill Forman, Betty lou Gerson, John Stephenson, Alice Backert, Fritz Fells,
Charles Seel, and Byron Kane. The Whistler was produced and
directed by George w Allen, with story by Joel Malone,
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music by Wilbur Had, and was transmitted to our troops
overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is
entirely fictional, and all characters portrayed on the Whistler are
also fictional. Any similarity of names or resemblance two persons
living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember at the same
time next Sunday, the Whistler will bring you another strange story,
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Seapple Takes three, in which an advertisement for three passengers
to Seattle leads to a double murder.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
And the solution of a robbery.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Marvin Miller speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tune
now for our Miss Brooks, sorry Eve Arden, who follows
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