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August 22, 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 the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who's guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at the
final curtain. In the Signal Oil Program, the Whistler Signal,

(00:30):
the famous go Father Gasoline invite you to sit back
and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things, for
I work by night. I know many strange canes hidden
in the hearts of men and women who have stepped
into the shadow. Yeah, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange
Story Deadly Rumor.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
It was quiet in the Wholebrook home. Upstairs, A doctor
and nurse stood near the foot of the bed. The
nurse who had attended Francis Holbrook for many months. She
appeared stunned and confused at the doctor's verdict. Hi, I just.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Can't believe it, doctor, that she could take her own
life after we've worked so struggle.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
To bring her back to help.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Missus Holbrook was more than an invalid Lilian.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
She was tired.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
I can believe it.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Mister Holbrooky, you'll be terribly shocked.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
I think it will be easier if you telling Lilian.
It will be gentler that way.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
I'll go downstairs call his office.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
I wait, tell him to come at once.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's going well, isn't it, Lilian? Very well? And there's
even a certain pleasure that you're the one to call
Ralph Holbrook explain. You almost wish you could tell him more,
especially as you sense the relief he displays instead of
outright shock or grief. Yes, you'll know that Ralph is

(02:50):
actually glad that his wife, Francis is dead, but he
manages to put on a good act in front of
the doctor when he arrives home.

Speaker 4 (02:59):
Francis, poor Francis. Now she suffered for a long time,
mister Holbrook. It isn't as if she were in perfect health.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
And you gave her a great deal of happiness.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Mister Holbrook, thank you.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Lilian.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
You'll excuse me now, I've got to fill out my report.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Suicide. You've got to put.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
That down, mum.

Speaker 4 (03:24):
Overdose of sleeping tablets. You see here, very few left.
That's what she did, all right.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
Strange the way she hung on all those months wouldn't
think she'd do a thing like that.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Don't you agree, Lilien?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do. I was telling the doctor the same thing.
But it seems obvious.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yes, yes, it does, doesn't it. He said it strangely,
didn't he, Lilian. And in the days that follow you
wonder about Ralph, how much he suspects. You're certain that

(04:09):
he'd be aware of the reason you killed her. You're
sure of how he feels about you, certain that he's
aware of your own feelings toward him, But you felt
all along that he would do nothing about it. As
long as Francis lived. You wonder how long it'll be
before Ralph comes to you and asks you to marry.
And then, on the day after the funeral, you overhear

(04:31):
him talking on the telephone. Yes, go, I'll meet you
to night.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
We can plan everything, Hu, Nancy, you know how much
I don't want to put it off.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I don't care what anybody thinks. You listen, completely stunned
at Ralph's words of endearment to some one else, Nancy,
a girl you remember who called him once before? Yes,
you remember how he hung up quickly when he saw
that you were near by. It's beginning to fit together,

(05:06):
isn't it, Lilian? A clever calculation on Ralph's part which
added up correctly. One he tricked you into believing he
cared for Two, you fell in love with him. Three,
and most important of all, because you thought he loved you,
you put his wife out of the way to clear
the path for him, literally set him free for some

(05:27):
one else. You continued the list.

Speaker 7 (05:30):
Yes, I know you've been wonderful, sweetheart.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Sweetheart, I'll show him. He will make a fool of me.

Speaker 6 (05:38):
Good bye, Dolly, didn't I?

Speaker 2 (05:43):
Oh, oh, lilian.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Er been standing there long?

Speaker 3 (05:49):
Oh no, not very I was just looking for you,
mister Holbrook.

Speaker 7 (05:55):
Oh well, that's a coincidence. I was going to look
for you in just a few minutes.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
But now that you're hear him, you do have something
to say to me at last?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I yes, I do. I really haven't had the chance
to say before.

Speaker 7 (06:12):
I wanted to thank you, Lillian. You've been especially kind,
considerate to Francis and very helpful to me.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Have I row.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
You have?

Speaker 7 (06:24):
I think you know how much I appreciate all you've done.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
I wonder if I do.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I hope this check I've made out to you will help.

Speaker 6 (06:34):
Convin Cholet's see now here it is five.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Hundred dollars.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
I insist to accept it.

Speaker 2 (06:45):
After all, you were so much more than just Franc's nurse.

Speaker 8 (06:48):
I thought I was.

Speaker 3 (06:49):
I tried to be so much more.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
You were splendid.

Speaker 7 (06:53):
Really, Now I imagine you'll be leaving some new job.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
Is that what you want me to do?

Speaker 2 (06:59):
Now? Leave?

Speaker 6 (07:00):
Why?

Speaker 2 (07:01):
What else? Lily?

Speaker 3 (07:02):
I don't need you, don't need me any more. I've
served your purpose.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
My dear Lilian, I can't imagine what you're talking, can't you?
I think you can.

Speaker 3 (07:13):
I didn't imagine that. You know, you did leave me
on You wanted me to think you were in love
with me.

Speaker 9 (07:18):
Wanted me to think that if anything happened to Francis,
we'd be together some day.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
You wanted me to.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
You wanted her to die.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Perhaps I did, my dear, and she committed suicide, didn't she? Yes?
Of course, And.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
Now that you know I'm in love with someone else,
I'm sure you don't want to hang around around.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Of course, if you want a recommendation, I'll be glad
to send it to you any time. Let me hear
from you, Yes.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
Mister Holbrook, you'll hear from me, you can plan on it.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
Sus tonight.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I'd like to have a little chat, especially with you
drivers who buy just any brand of gasoline that happens
to be convenient because you think gasoline is gasoline. You'd
change your mind in a hurry if you'd spend some
time around Signal service stations as I do, listening to
comments of regular Signal customers. You'd hear them telling about
records they've kept which prove the good mile age that

(08:34):
has made Signal famous as the goal farther gasoline. You'd
hear them bragging about their car's performance. It's lively getaway
and the smooth, quiet way it walks up those steep
hills in high since they switched to Signal. What's more,
there are now so many drivers like this who won't
be satisfied with anything less than Signal. This summer has

(08:56):
been by far the biggest summer in the entire history
of Signal Oil Company. Well, friends, when a gasoline is
increasing so in popularity, it seems to me you just
naturally want to find out what it is about that
gasoline which makes drivers prefer it. There's no better time
to find out than with your very next tankful of gasoline,

(09:18):
and no better place to get it than at the
next signal station. You see.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
Well, Lilian, it's backfired. Hesn't Your plan to kill Ralph
Holbrook's wife so that he would be free to marry
you was turned in a mockery. Now you know that
Ralph was leading you on all the time, actually bringing
you to the point of murder so that he could
be free but to marry some one else. What if

(10:07):
ral thinks he's through with you, If he believes that
his check for five hundred dollars is a final payoff
that you'll accept, He's very wrong, isn't he. He's going
to pay for his double cross and pay him full.
Isn't it Already? Your mind does at work on another plan,
a plan for complete revenge, and part of your plan
goes into action less than a week later when you

(10:29):
accept another case only a block or so away. Missus Pringle,
your new employer, is one of the neighborhood gossips, and
that fits imperfectly. You know what she will do with
a few well timed insinuations.

Speaker 10 (10:43):
Now you mustn't think I'm inquisitive, my dear, but you
were quite close to Missus Holbrook.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
Oh, yes, she was a fine woman, very patient in
spite of his suffering.

Speaker 11 (10:53):
Well, now, I was just thinking, someone who stood so
much pain, so patiently, it seems rather strange that she
suddenly decided to do away with herself. This is Pringle.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
I wish you hadn't brought that up. Oh, I shouldn't
talk about it, shouldn't even think it. But yes, yes, yes,
well I've so often thought that mister Holebrook, that he No, no,
I shouldn't say that.

Speaker 11 (11:24):
Oh do please do? Or you know I wouldn't breathe
it to a soul.

Speaker 10 (11:28):
You thought, what about mister Holbrook.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Well, he always seemed so kind and so devoted. And
poor missus Holbrook, she adored himself.

Speaker 11 (11:38):
Yes, poor thing, go on dere.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, like I say, he seemed devoted. But I wondered
if maybe she hadn't discovered something about him.

Speaker 10 (11:49):
Discovered something you mean you mean something like another woman?

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Or I shouldn't say it. Still she did change. She
wasn't cheerful, kind of quiet, deep in thought. Just towards
the end, did you ever hear them calling or missus Pringle? Really,
I don't think we should talk.

Speaker 12 (12:09):
About it, my dear. It's just conversation, just idle conversation.
We're just supposing, now, aren't we.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
Yes, we are. And you won't repeat even suggest that
I've thought such things, will you?

Speaker 12 (12:23):
Oh, my dear, you know I won't. I wouldn't think
of it. Let sleeping dogs lie. I always say, I'm glad.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
That's what you always say.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
But the very next day, Lilian, you hear something that
assures you that your plan is a good one. Over
the back fence, two of missus Pringle's neighbors are talking,
unaware that you're around, as they discuss a very choice
bit of gossip.

Speaker 13 (12:56):
Now you know, Madeline, you Andic Springle wouldn't want this repeated.
And she swears that that new nurse she's hired doesn't
even realize the import of her remarks. But Eunice managed
to draw out some very interesting items, really, Louisa. Such
is the fact that Missus Holbrook's death might not have.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Been by her own hand. You mean, I mean her husband, yes,
But go on to me. Well, Uni says that she's
been adding things up. Oh the few innocent remarks from
her nurse facts as they appeared in the papers. And
a motive motive oldest motive in the world. Another woman now, Yes,

(13:33):
younger and pretty.

Speaker 8 (13:35):
I'll bet she's the one I saw him with the
other day.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
It's all well underway now, isn't it, Lilian? And you're
only waiting for Missus Pringle to take the final bold step,
bring it out into the open. And then one afternoon,
as you sit in the garden with Missus Pringle reading
to her.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
Though the day of my days, and he's over the
star of my fate, hath declined, Thy soft heart refused
to discover the faults which so many could find. Though
thy soul, with my grief was acquainted, did shrank not
to share it with me?

Speaker 14 (14:17):
And Lilian?

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Oh yes, Missus Pringdle, why don't you tell the truth? Why?

Speaker 11 (14:25):
I mean, now, tell me, tell me what you really think.

Speaker 10 (14:28):
About the whole Brooks poor Francis suicide.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
Why I don't know what you mean?

Speaker 10 (14:34):
You know as well as I do that it's entirely
possible that Ralph Holbrook had something to do with her death,
Missus Pringle, After all, there was another woman. Well, yes,
but it wouldn't be the first time a man murdered
his wife.

Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh really, Missus Springle, you think that mister Holbrook why not.

Speaker 11 (14:54):
Why do you mean to tell me the thought hadn't
occurred to you.

Speaker 3 (14:58):
Well, miss Springle, as a matter of fact.

Speaker 10 (15:02):
Of course, my dear, of course it occurred to you.
I never did care for that Ralph Holbrook from the
very first day that Francis introduced me to him. Give
us something sneaky about him, shifty ad you know. Oh,
go on reading, Lilian. I do so love Barn, don't you.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
Its building, isn't it?

Speaker 5 (15:30):
Lilian?

Speaker 2 (15:30):
The case against Ralph Holbrook, and you're pleased it's going
exactly as you plan, thanks to missus Springle. Later that afternoon,
several of the neighborhood ladies drop in for tea. You
note the excited whispers, the glances they exchanged. And now
you're certain and in a matter of hours, the latest
rumor about Ralph Holbrook will spread through town like wildfire.

(15:57):
That evening, at your small cottage, you stay at your
kitchen window, chatting with your next door neighbor, Missus Armstrong,
standing outside.

Speaker 8 (16:05):
Well, I've always thought it rather queer all along here,
you see. I knew Francis Holbrook quite well, and it
just seemed odd to me that she'd ever consider suicide.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh, I don't know, missus Armstrong. It's rather difficult to
tell about things like that.

Speaker 8 (16:19):
Even so, my dear, I just can't bring myself around
to believe that Francis Holbrook would take her own life.

Speaker 3 (16:25):
Oh excuse me, someone's at my.

Speaker 6 (16:27):
Door, of course, dear, good evening, Lilian.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Why mister Holbro, I want to talk to you.

Speaker 7 (16:36):
Well, yes, we're going to have a little chat right
here and now now see here.

Speaker 6 (16:40):
This won't take long.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
Is something wrong, Ron.

Speaker 6 (16:44):
Yes, something's wrong, very wrong.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
There is.

Speaker 7 (16:46):
Someone's been spreading some rather ugly rumors about me.

Speaker 6 (16:50):
Oh know anything about that?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Would you really? Miss Oh?

Speaker 5 (16:54):
Stop it.

Speaker 6 (16:55):
I'm a fool.

Speaker 7 (16:56):
You've been feeding your patient, that Gabby, missus Pringle, a
lot of lies about and she's been spreading them all
over town.

Speaker 6 (17:01):
And I don't like it. I don't like it at all.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
I don't know what you're talking.

Speaker 6 (17:05):
Oh, yes you do, and I won't stand for it.

Speaker 14 (17:07):
I'm warning you those rumors had better.

Speaker 3 (17:09):
Stop just a minute. Mister Holbrook. What right have you
to come in here and get out?

Speaker 2 (17:15):
Get out this.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
Instant until I put you straight? Now, sit out?

Speaker 14 (17:18):
I said get out, and I said sit down.

Speaker 2 (17:28):
You're frightened aunt you, Lilian, as Ralph grabs you by
the shoulders and shoves you down into the chair. You've
never seen him like this before, his face flushed with anger,
his eyes blazing with hatred, his voice trembling, rising higher
and higher. And then suddenly you remember the open kitchen window,
Missus Armstrong in her yard next door, listening.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
And then finally, do you mind if I answer the door?
Mister Holbrook?

Speaker 6 (17:55):
Go ahead, I've had my say.

Speaker 5 (17:56):
I'm leaving.

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Hello, Lilian. I Oh, good evening, mister Holbrook.

Speaker 6 (18:04):
I'm stronger.

Speaker 8 (18:05):
Excuse me, couldn't help overhearing him, My dear, I was
worried if Bradon might harm you. That's why I came over.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
I'm so glad you did. I was frightened, so terribly frightened.
I didn't know what he was going to.

Speaker 2 (18:17):
Do, poor dear.

Speaker 3 (18:19):
He accused me of spreading rumors, said I told people
he'd murdered Missus Holbrook.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
It threatened me, My dear.

Speaker 8 (18:27):
I think it's time you face something.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I really believe it is face something.

Speaker 8 (18:32):
The rumors about his wife supposed suicide, Lillian, heaven.

Speaker 14 (18:35):
Knows, they're all over town.

Speaker 8 (18:37):
Be honest with yourself. What do you really think about them?
Could they be true?

Speaker 14 (18:42):
True?

Speaker 8 (18:44):
Surely you can tell.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Me, Lilian.

Speaker 8 (18:46):
You were there caring for Francis Holbrook all those months.
You must have noticed the way I did things he did.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
I suppose there were things I should have sensed. Yes,
now that I look back on it, they're told the
last I'm sure he didn't want her to live he
got so he insisted on giving her the sleeping pills
himself every night.

Speaker 8 (19:10):
He insisted he give them to her.

Speaker 3 (19:11):
I thought it was just a kind, loving gesture.

Speaker 8 (19:14):
But now, my dear, since he's threatened you.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
Sure, yes, Missus Armstrong, Now I must think of myself.
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 9 (19:22):
Of him, But he did give her sleeping pills. And well,
there there isn't anything else to think, is there.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
It's all happened naturally enough, hasn't it, Lilian? A bit
more suddenly than you'd plan. But Ralph's surprise visit his
angry threats, Missus Armstrong overheard. That's a break you hadn't expected.
Now there's no reason for delay, no reason why you
can't go ahead and make your final move. Missus Armstrong
will make a perfect witness, won't she Lilian. An hour later,

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you arrive at the Holebrook home, park your car a
safe distance away, and find the house in total darkness.
Hurry around to the rear entrance, and then, using the
key Francis had once given you, the key you neglected
to return when you left the Holebrook house, you slip inside.
You make your way along the down stairs corridor. Then

(20:31):
inside the study you find what you came for, Ralph
Holbrook's gun and the desk drawer, slip it into your
coat pocket, and then a wave of panic sweeps over
you as you hear Ralph's approaching footsteps. You glance around
the room frantically and then slip behind the window drates
an instant before the studied door ovens, and then Ralph

(20:56):
dials a number on the phone.

Speaker 15 (21:00):
Hello Nancy. Oh uh, where may I speak with Miss
Nancy Arnoldlease?

Speaker 6 (21:06):
But eh, but I've.

Speaker 15 (21:08):
Been trying to reach her all day? I see any
idea when you'll be back?

Speaker 2 (21:15):
All right?

Speaker 14 (21:17):
All? I?

Speaker 6 (21:18):
Oh, no, no message, I'll call it later.

Speaker 2 (21:22):
You wait in the darkness and hear Ralph's footsteps on
the stairs, and then when you hear the bedroom door close,
you slip into the corridor out the rear entrance and
race back to your car. When you get to your
own home, you step to the telephone and dial Ralph's number.

(21:43):
As you wait for him to answer, you stare at
the gun. He is gun lying on the table beside you.

Speaker 3 (21:50):
Hello, mister Holbrook. This is Lilian Parker.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
Ralph.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
I must see you right away.

Speaker 6 (21:56):
We've nothing further to discussion.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
Lene, I please, it's very important.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
What's it all about?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Since you were here, I've thought it over and I've
decided to leave town. Oh I could stay here, make
a lot of trouble for you, but that wouldn't be smart.

Speaker 6 (22:15):
I'm glad you see it that way.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Oh, don't get me wrong, Ralph. You're not frightening me
one bit.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
You know.

Speaker 16 (22:21):
It's just that I happen to be a little low
on funds. I have some bills to pay, some things
to buy, including a plane ticket to New York.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
I see, I.

Speaker 16 (22:32):
Wouldn't need much a few thousand. I'd never come back.
Surely it would be worth it to you.

Speaker 6 (22:40):
Yes, it would be worth it to me.

Speaker 17 (22:43):
I'll stop by the office and get the cash and
I'll be right over.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
It's done, isn't it, Lilian? Now there's nothing to do
but wait. You pace the floor of your living room,
and as the minutes tick by, you grow more and
more confident, certain that your plan won't fail. Finally, you
hear a car stop out front. You glance out and
see Ralph Holbrook coming up the walk. Quickly you look
next door. Missus Armstrong's lights are still on. Ralph's loaded

(23:14):
gun is in your jacket pocket as you answer his knock.

Speaker 6 (23:17):
On the door, Well, Lilyn.

Speaker 3 (23:21):
Come in, Ralph, come right in.

Speaker 7 (23:25):
I came as soon as I could. I hope you're
ready for me.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
Believe me, mister Holbrook, I am ready for you. Star

(23:52):
over the.

Speaker 8 (23:53):
Door please, I was just getting a road.

Speaker 3 (24:01):
It's Ralph Hopbrook.

Speaker 11 (24:03):
You tied to kill me.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
We struggle for the gun.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
I think he's I think he's dead.

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Speaker 6 (25:39):
It's over, isn't it, Lilian.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Ralph Holbrook is dead, just as you plan. You killed
him with his own gun in your home and then
racing across to Missus Armstrong's house next door. You sobbed
out the story that he had tried to kill you.
Minutes later the police arrived. You saw them across the
way moving around in your home. Now they're back in

(26:01):
Missus Armstrong's living room and you've told them your version
of the tragedy.

Speaker 14 (26:06):
You say, miss Parker that he offered you money to
leave Tom.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Yes, that's right, mum.

Speaker 5 (26:12):
Hm.

Speaker 14 (26:12):
We found over three thousand dollars in his pockets.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
When I refused the money, he pulled out the gun.
I grabbed what.

Speaker 14 (26:20):
There was a struggle and the gun went off. Yes,
and Miss Parker, Yes, there've been a lot of rumors
circulating through the town about Holbrook and the death of
his wife.

Speaker 3 (26:32):
Yes, I've heard some of the talk, and.

Speaker 14 (26:35):
So have we at headquarters. We've had some calls about it,
none very conclusive, but only to night received one that
moved this toward immediate action. I don't understand the call
saying Holbrook had threatened you, Miss Parker, because you said
he'd killed his wife. That call came from your neighbor,
missus Armstrong.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
Missus Armstrong called.

Speaker 10 (26:56):
You told you this.

Speaker 14 (26:59):
Yes, on the strength of her core, we assigned a
man to keep an eye on Holbrook. Sergeant Done here
got to Holbrook's house to night just in time to
follow him here here.

Speaker 17 (27:09):
That's right, Miss Parker, I was right behind Holbrook. I
got to your living room window just after he entered.
I had my gun ready to protect you, but there
was no struggle.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
Miss Parker.

Speaker 17 (27:21):
I saw you pull the gun shoot Holbrook down in
cold blood.

Speaker 14 (27:27):
I don't know why you killed him, Miss Parker, but
I'll bet whoever started these rumors about Holbrook had no
idea they'd turn out to be so deadly.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler Each Sunday night at this same time,
Signal Oil Company has asked me to remind you now
that school days are here again, it's even more important
to drive at sensible speeds, be courteous, and obey traffic regulations.

(28:27):
It may save a life, possibly a child's. Featured Intnight's
story were Bill Foreman, Gene Bates, and Ted Osborne. The
Whistler was produced by George w Allen and directed by

(28:47):
Robert Hafter, with story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatch,
and was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed
Forces Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all
characters poor trade on the Whister are also fictional. Any
similarity of names or resemblance to persons living or dead
is purely coincidental. Remember, at the same time next Sunday,

(29:12):
another strange tale by the whistler Marvin Miller, speaking for
the Signal Oil Company. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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