September 30, 2025 • 28 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 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
unique among all mystery programs, because even when you know
who is guilty, you always receive a startling surprise at
the final curtain. In the Signal Oil program, the Whistler
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signal the famous Go Father Gasoline invite you to sit
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
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 shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story a law of physics.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The narrow, twisting road that hugged the canyon wall was
precarious at best, but at the height of a driving rainstorm,
it became a treacherous, uncharted course, and Ross Warren's car
was literally out of control as he tried to steer
it safely down the canyon. The headlights were of little
help as the rain washed across the windshield in great
sheets that obscured his vision. The older man seated next
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to Ross his hands braced against the panel, Peering tensely
through its windshield was Dexter Prayer, important client of the
Ross Warren advertising agents. Suddenly, in between the waves of rain,
Ross could see the road ahead of him quite clearly.
For just an instant, a split second, the car was
headed for the far side of the road and a
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sheer drop of several hundred feet. With one tremendous effort,
Ross turned sharply, plied the wet brakes and kareem headlong.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Toward them out.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Are you all right, mister Bred, Yes, yes, I'm all right. Goodness,
I'm sorry, really sorry. I don't know what happened to
this car, and I couldn't see never seen such a storm.
Now what do we do? I don't think we have
much choice, mister Brand. You know there aren't many cars
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on this road, even in good weather. Come on, I
guess we'll have to walk at least as far as
the Edgeley Place. Of course, that's a good mile down
the canyon from here. But they've got a phone, all right,
But well, I'll be what is it, mister Brand?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Not a car coming around the curve ahead of us?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Hey, you there, give us a head. We are.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
That looks like you need it. Anybody hurt?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No, no, not hurt. Can you take us back to town?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Sure, pile in.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'll get the banks.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Ain't any help with them?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
No, No, I've got them. Okay, I'll just put him
in the back seat here. I don't know who you are,
young man, but you're a friend of mine. My name's Brand,
Dexter Brand.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Glad to know you, mister Brand. I'm Bob Turner.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh and this is Ross war And mister Turner, how
do you do? I think if you'll drive ahead for
about a quarter of a mile, you'll find a place
wide enough to turn around in.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Mister Turner, Okay, thanks, But what about your car? I'd
better call a garage, hadn't.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We It's a good idea, But hadn't we better wait
till we get to a phone.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
We don't have to, mister Warren. I've got a phone
here in the car.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You have.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I've heard of them.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's a wonderful gadget. Believe me, I wouldn't be with
that one. It just install service in this area. What's
the name of your garage in town?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Hoffman's phone numbers Lawton three two sixty four.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
This star might give us some trouble on the call,
but it's worth a try. Only trick is this button.
You push it down to talk, release it to listen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
This is your mobile operator.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
This is w J six five three eighty three. I
want Lawton three two sixty four.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
One moment please Pachmann's garage. It's this Blotton three two
six four. I have a call for you one moment.
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Please go ahead, please.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Here mister Warren, the garage is on the line.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh thanks, Hello, this is Ross Warren.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh yes, this is Tom. Mister Warren. What's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Wreck my car on Willow Canyon Road? Tom, I'm okay,
but the car's in bad shape.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How far up the canyon?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
About about fifteen miles from town, a mile or so
above the Edgeley Place. You better send a toe car
and get this wreck off the road before someone piles
into it right away.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Mister Warren, you'll be riding in with us.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, No, I've got a ride. Tom. Do the best
you can, huh, and let me know when you get
through looking.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Her over, you'll bet, mister Warren.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Goodbye, Tom, and thanks. The car phone made a deep
impression on Dexter Brands. Your biggest client, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Ross? And you're certain that Bob Turner, owner of the car,
made an even deeper one, and his dramatic appearance on
the seldom travel road from Dexter Brand's cabin into town,
seems more than a mere coincidence, doesn't. The next morning,
as you reach your office, you find that it is.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Oh, mister Warren, where have you been?
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I'm frantic?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh no, it couldn't be as bad as all that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Well, couldn't it.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh morning, I've been crazy looking for you.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Look beautiful. Suppose you calm down? Oh I'm down?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
How can I He's dead? I tell you he's dead,
all right?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Dead?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Now he's dead. Now who's dead?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Mister average American? That's who's dead?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Wayne Parks, the man we're featuring in this month's ad, Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
A stroke, and Graphic Magazine is holding their presses and
howling for another layout right away, because well, how can.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
We salute mister average American when he's dead?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
And what are we going to do? Rush them next
month's layout? Of course, there.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Isn't any mister Warren. That was the last of the series,
don't you remember? Next month it's all different.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I'd forgotten. We are in a hole, aren't well, mister Warren?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
If I may please, you'll have to wait.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Mister Warren is very busy now and emergency has come up.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I know you left the door open and I couldn't
help overhearing, mister Warren, I'm familiar with your campaign, and
I believe there's a simple way to save that.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Mister Turner again, hmm. You seem to have a knack
of turning up at just the right minute.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You've got an idea, Yes, why not change the caption
we salute to we mourn mister average American. All the
rest of it can remain pretty much as it is.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Hey, hey, maybe you've got something there, Edna, did you hear?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I think that's wonderful.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I'm so relieved all morning, the magazine calling and me
not knowing where you were.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I don't know what you came to see me about,
mister Turner, but the way I feel right now, you
can ask anything.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'll just make it.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Bob. I'm with Blaine and Blaine, mister Warren, the big
Hollywood advertising agency. No wonder you had to know how
on the ad. Hum. Hey, Bob, what can I do
for you? And you can make it ross.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Okay, Well, let me tell you a story. On my
last vacation, someone looted my car, took everything, including my
fishing tackle. So, passing through Laketown here on my way
to the lake, I bought some new gear made by
a manufacturer here in town.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The man you met last night, mister Brand. I handle
his advertising. I know well, his gear's wonderful. But later,
when I tried to get more of it in some
of the eastern cities, why nobody had ever heard of
brand fishing equipment. He only sells in the Western States.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
That's what I don't get. How Come why if he
advertised more, is that what you're here for. Don't get
me wrong. I'm not trying to chisel your account, just
the opposite. You see. I'm fed up with my job
and I've got a little money put by, and I
thought of starting my own agency, maybe in some place
like Laketown here.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh, competition, huh not if.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You don't want it. This is a manufacturing town. I
figured there must be lots of local men who could
triple their business if they went in for wider advertising.
Now you've got a nice set up up here, if
I can sell some of them on the idea, could
you and I maybe talk partnership. Partnership, say on any
new accounts I bring in and any hikes on old ones.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know, Turner, I think maybe I'll give it a try.
Swell on one condition, you either sell mister Brand on
national advertising or you find yourself another town. Fair enough,
By the way, mister Brand and his daughter are having
dinner with me tonight. Why why don't you join us. Hey,
that's great, that'll give you a chance to sound up
mister Brand. But no passages a kiddie brand. She's beautiful
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and she's mine.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Engaged.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Eh, well, we haven't announced it, so mum's the word. Huh, Okay,
I'll be good.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You thought you did that rather well, didn't you, Ross.
But you know that in Dexter Brand Bob Turner will
come up against the stone wall. And you have Bob's
word that if he he leave town, Yes, Ross, he'll leave.
Never knowing you lied about being engaged to Kitty. You
couldn't know, could you?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Buy inviting him to dinner with the Brands, you were
inviting him disaster.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I'll tell you why I'm being so hard headed. You see,
I hate manufacturing. Got into it in spite of myself.
I couldn't get the kind of fishing rod I wanted,
so I went ahead and made one. Friend saw it,
I had to make another, then another and another. First thing,
I know, I'm manufacturing all kinds of fishing tackle.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That's why I hate.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It. Doesn't leave me enough time to fish. If I
were to expand, it would leave me even less. And
I love fishing.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I said, sir that I don't think you give a
hoot about fishing.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Okay, young man, are you trying to tell me? I'm
afraid you read the wrong line that time? Yes, young man,
I wish you'd explain that remark.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Well. You said yourself, sir, that you made rods for
your friends, and why because you wanted them to have
the best, so they could enjoy their fishing as you
and enjoyed yours. Of course, which proves ya'll think of
the thousands of Isaac Waltons whose vacations will be spoiled
for lack of brand equipment. Why every time a good
one gets away from a Faully hook or snap's an
inferior Rod, You, mister brand, are directly responsible.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's the best argument I've heard yet. Ross, you ought
to take this, this caniver on as a partner. You
really think so?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Sa He will, sir, if you'll expand your coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Oh so it's a plot. Well, Ross, it looks like
I'm stuck with more advertising and you're stuck with a partner.
And if I were you, wide look out, he's likely
to take over your whole business. In that case, I'm
afraid I'd have to find a way to dissolve the partnership.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
If a shiny new car doesn't happen to fit within
your budget this year, no need to envy the other guy.
After all, it's easy to enjoy the next best thing.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And what's that?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Why any car?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Your car powered.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
With Signal Efel, the premium grade of Signal's famous go
Farther gasoline. Yes, this super powerful super fuel is scientifically
engineered to bring out the best in cars of any age.
And when I say best, I mean the kind of
performance many drivers never thought their cars capable of. I
mean pick up, the kind that carries with it that
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satisfying feeling when the back of the seat comes up
and nudges you gently forward, and I mean power the
kind of rockets you easily smoothly over hills, steep hills
that used to call for shifting. Don't get the idea,
of course, that signal ethel's going to let you step
away from all new cars.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
After all, Smart new.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Car drivers use signal ethel too to bring out all
the exciting performance that's built into today's power packed, high
compression motors. But of this you can be sure the
next best thing to a new car is your car
powered with signal ethyl gasoline.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, Ross, a lot of things have changed since Bob
Turner came into your life six months ago in that
storm on the Willow Canyon Road. He's become a full
fledged partner in your advertising agency after selling Dexter Brand
on the idea of a national campaign, and other accounts
of followed Brand's lead. Until your business has nearly tripled.
Bob sold you too, hasn't he Ross? True? You work
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harder and longer than you ever have, but you've acquired
a great many things you've wanted. A healthy bank account,
a big new car with all the extras, yes even
including a car our telephone. Through it all, you've had
just one regret, haven't you.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Ross?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You haven't been able to see Kitty brand nearly as
often as you'd wanted to. But as you walk up
the front steps to her home to keep your first
date in weeks, you're certain that tonight will make up
for all the nights you've been away from Kitty.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
You the official greeter here now only when it's the
maid's night out or Dad's packing.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Come in, Ross, your father taking a trip just up
to the lake.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
He and Bob have a theory about some special tackle
or something. You couldn't prove it by me, but anyway,
they're going to try it out.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Come on in the library. I'd mixed some cocktails.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Bob's going too huh funny. He didn't mention it.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I think he's just driving Dad up tonight. Probably spend
tomorrow fishing.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh, I see here we.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Are, sit down, Ross.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh, you look wonderful, Kitty. Do you mind if I
drink to that?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, let's make it that we both look wonderful, so
we can both drink.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
That's fair. Uh, yeah to us, because we're beautiful. Oh.
I missed you Kitty so much.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Well that's nice for Ross.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
No, it isn't nice. I don't like missing you. I
don't ever want to miss you again.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Oh, my, so serious.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I am serious, Kitty. I don't think I realized how
serious I was until I saw you again a few
minutes ago. Kitty, Darling, I love.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
You, Rosse, my goodness, just one swallow from a martine.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I want you to marry me, Kitty. I've wanted you
to for a long time, but now I'm in a position.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Ros.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Please don't don't say these things, not now.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
This is the first time I've been able to say them.
You've known all along, you must.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
I thought I knew, Ross, But why did you wait
so long?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I had to, Darling. I wanted money, lots of money.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
It wouldn't have mattered before, Ross, don't you see it
would have been all right? But now now it's it's
all different, Kitty.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
What's so different? I just got more money now. I
haven't changed, but I have.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I didn't want to, Ross, really I didn't, but I
changed in spite of myself. I guess I'm in love Ross,
really in love for the first time.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Kitty.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
But who with the man who doesn't even know it?
He's never said anything or done anything.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Ross.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I don't want to hurt you, but it it's.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Bob, Bob, Bob Turner.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I've told you he's done absolutely nothing about it. I'm
sure he hasn't any idea how I feel. But well,
since I do feel that way, Ross, I well, there's
not much I can do about it.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Is there no no Kitty? I guess there isn't.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Kitty and Bob. It's quite a shock, isn't it, Ross?
Not at all the way you plan. You realize you'll
have to do something about Bob because you're determined that
no one can have Kitty. But you you're still searching for
a solution. Shortly before midnight, as you enter your apartment
to find the phone ringing.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Hello, Ross, this is Bob. Didn't wake you today, No,
just got in. Where are you calling from?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
I'm up at mister Brand's cabin. Going to spend the
night here, do some fishing tomorrow, but I'm driving back
to town tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I see.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I'd like to see you tomorrow night, if you can
make it, Ross, I've got some things to talk over
with you.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Okay, Bob, But if you're off on a little fishing junket,
forget about business.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Oh, I don't want to see you about business.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Ross.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
It's well, I just want to talk with you a while.
I'd prefer to do in person.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Fine, Fine, suppose we meet at your apartment whenever you
say good I'll leave.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Here at seven point thirty. That should get me back
to town about nine. How does that sound?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Nine? It is tomorrow night. I'll see you then, good night, goodbye, Mom.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Your solution came suddenly, didn't it, Ross? And Bob gave
it to himself. A little after eight the next evening,
you park your car in the heavy woods at the
foot of a well known slide area on Willow Canyon Road.
In a matter of minutes, you roll several boulders into
the middle of the road, and then, as you hear
a car approaching, you rush back to your own car.
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Completely hidden from sight, you peer through the thick trees
see Bob's car approaching. He suddenly swings to miss the boulders,
balances precariously on the drop side of the road, and
then the car miraculously rights itself, hugs the road again,
and moves past the boulders to a safe stop. You fail,
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didn't you, Ross? You watch Bob get out of his
car push the boulders to the side of the road,
return to his car and start for town. As you
pull your car unto the road and drive slowly down
the canyon toward town, you realize you must get rid
of Bob Turner. Once he's out of the way, you'll
control all the new business he's brought in and have
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a clear field with Kitty. Then it hits you an
even better plan, and you're certain you'll not fail again.
There's an automatic in your glove compartment and an alibi
in your car telephone. You stop the car and place
it called Huffman's Garage in.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Laketown, Half Men's Garage, Tom speaking.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
This is Ross Warren. Tom, afraid I need your toe
car again.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Uh, oh, don't tell me you're stranded and Willow Canyon
Road again.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well not this time, Tom. I'm I'm about twenty miles
out on the Merylton Road. A car went up out
of control just by those bluffs, you know the spot.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
Sure, hello, mister Warren will be there, but it may
take an hour or so.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
The truck's out now and there's another call ahead of you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Well that's okay, Tom, there's no hurry. I'll wait right
here in the car for you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's a break, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Ross?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
An hour will give you ample time to get to town.
Take care of Bob Turner and drive out to the
bluffs on the Merylton Road. You'll wreck your car there
and make certain of a perfect alibi in the bark.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Well. Ross, you're punctual. You've a little ahead of time.
I just got here. I know that's a done, man.
I need a drink down near turn the car over
coming down here boulders in the road along that slide area.
I know that too, you do, But how I just
Bob this personal matter you want to discuss with me.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It's kitty, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Well, yes, Ross, it is.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I thought we could talk it out, you and I.
You're in love with her? Want a marryer?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Well? Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Is she in love with you? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Look, Ross, this isn't the way I've planned it. Sit down,
won't you? And we'll?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
But this is the way I planned it. No, I
won't sit down. I aim straighter if I stand Ah, Ross,
are You're crazy? Put that gun away? Don't it? Okay? Bob?
I don't mind putting the gun away.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Now he's dead.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Isn't he Ross.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
As you turn to leave, you pull the drakes aside
slightly to look out, and walking toward the apartment just
a few houses down, you recognize a familiar figure passing
under the street light. It's Kitty Brand. You sigh with
relief that you saw her before she could see you.
Then you turn quickly, race for the back of the apartment,
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let yourself out the back entrance, and rush out into
the night towards your car parked in the side of
the street. Once there, you check your time. You have
half an hour, Ross, ample time to drive to the
bluffs on the Maryton Road before the toe car from
the Hoffman garage is due to arrive, and you make
it with five minutes to spare.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No to make this alibi Hord that ought to do
it well, Ross.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You're pleased with the way things worked out, aren't you.
You bashed in the front of your car right by
the bluffs just as you plank, and before the toe
car arrived from town, you had time to bury the
automatic that killed Bob Turner. You're confident now, aren't you, Ross,
Certain that it's just a matter of time until Kitty
Brand gets over the shock of Bob's death and agrees
to marry you. The next day, you're properly shocked and
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bereaved as Lieutenant Norris calls for you in his police
car and the two of you discussed the crime. As
you ride along, you become so engrossed in the discussion
you're unaware that he's driven you far out from town
on the Merylton Road. Naturally, I'm anxious to help all
I can. Lieutenant Bob Turner was well like a brother
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to me.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
I'm going to take you up on that hell bangle,
mister Warren. Tom Upman's already pointed out the spot on
the Merylton Road where he picked up you and.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Your car last night.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Why did to verify that?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
If you don't mind, why, of course, be glad to
I didn't even notice. We're almost there, aren't we.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Now, you see, mister Warren.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
The two stories are a little confusing.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
But two stories yours and Kitty Brands.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
She was out for a walk last night, dropped by
Turner's apartment and discovered his body, and she saw your
car parked on the side street next to the apartment.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But she couldn't have.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Both you and Tom Hoffman say you were right here
in a smashed.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Car at the time.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That's true. Hey, that's my car.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
The how we took the liberty of bringing it back
out here, mister Warren to prove something to both of us,
Come on over here for a minute.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I'm afraid I don't understand, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You will.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
Now, just for the record, will you get in your
car and show me how you place that call to
the garage last night?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Of course, I.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Just picked up the receiver, pushed this button and the
operator answered, that's funny, something's wrong with his phone.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
No, and there's something wrong with your story.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I'll see here, Tom Hoffman picked me up right here
at the same time Kitty Brand found Turner dead twenty
miles away. In case you don't know it, Lieutenant, there's
a law of physics that says nobody you can occupy
two places at the same time, that's right.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
And there's a law of electronics that says you couldn't
possibly have made the phone called Hoffman's garage from this spot. Warren,
What do you mean I couldn't Just that nobody can
make or receive calls from here, because this whole stretch
of road is an absolute dead spot for radio.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
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Speaker 4 (26:25):
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Speaker 1 (26:26):
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story by George Asnes, music by Wilbur Hatch, and was
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Speaker 3 (28:00):
The MO
And now stay tuned for the mystery program that is
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Speaker 2 (00:52):
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 shadows. Yes, I know the nameless terrors of
which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, The Whistler's strange
story a law of physics.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The narrow, twisting road that hugged the canyon wall was
precarious at best, but at the height of a driving rainstorm,
it became a treacherous, uncharted course, and Ross Warren's car
was literally out of control as he tried to steer
it safely down the canyon. The headlights were of little
help as the rain washed across the windshield in great
sheets that obscured his vision. The older man seated next
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to Ross his hands braced against the panel, Peering tensely
through its windshield was Dexter Prayer, important client of the
Ross Warren advertising agents. Suddenly, in between the waves of rain,
Ross could see the road ahead of him quite clearly.
For just an instant, a split second, the car was
headed for the far side of the road and a
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sheer drop of several hundred feet. With one tremendous effort,
Ross turned sharply, plied the wet brakes and kareem headlong.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Toward them out.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Are you all right, mister Bred, Yes, yes, I'm all right. Goodness,
I'm sorry, really sorry. I don't know what happened to
this car, and I couldn't see never seen such a storm.
Now what do we do? I don't think we have
much choice, mister Brand. You know there aren't many cars
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on this road, even in good weather. Come on, I
guess we'll have to walk at least as far as
the Edgeley Place. Of course, that's a good mile down
the canyon from here. But they've got a phone, all right,
But well, I'll be what is it, mister Brand?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
Not a car coming around the curve ahead of us?
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Hey, you there, give us a head. We are.
Speaker 5 (03:19):
That looks like you need it. Anybody hurt?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
No, no, not hurt. Can you take us back to town?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Sure, pile in.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
I'll get the banks.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Ain't any help with them?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
No, No, I've got them. Okay, I'll just put him
in the back seat here. I don't know who you are,
young man, but you're a friend of mine. My name's Brand,
Dexter Brand.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Glad to know you, mister Brand. I'm Bob Turner.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Oh and this is Ross war And mister Turner, how
do you do? I think if you'll drive ahead for
about a quarter of a mile, you'll find a place
wide enough to turn around in.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
Mister Turner, Okay, thanks, But what about your car? I'd
better call a garage, hadn't.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
We It's a good idea, But hadn't we better wait
till we get to a phone.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
We don't have to, mister Warren. I've got a phone
here in the car.
Speaker 6 (04:08):
You have.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I've heard of them.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
It's a wonderful gadget. Believe me, I wouldn't be with
that one. It just install service in this area. What's
the name of your garage in town?
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Hoffman's phone numbers Lawton three two sixty four.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
This star might give us some trouble on the call,
but it's worth a try. Only trick is this button.
You push it down to talk, release it to listen.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
This is your mobile operator.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
This is w J six five three eighty three. I
want Lawton three two sixty four.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
One moment please Pachmann's garage. It's this Blotton three two
six four. I have a call for you one moment.
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Please go ahead, please.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
Here mister Warren, the garage is on the line.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Oh thanks, Hello, this is Ross Warren.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Oh yes, this is Tom. Mister Warren. What's the trouble?
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Wreck my car on Willow Canyon Road? Tom, I'm okay,
but the car's in bad shape.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How far up the canyon?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
About about fifteen miles from town, a mile or so
above the Edgeley Place. You better send a toe car
and get this wreck off the road before someone piles
into it right away.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Mister Warren, you'll be riding in with us.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
No, No, I've got a ride. Tom. Do the best
you can, huh, and let me know when you get
through looking.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Her over, you'll bet, mister Warren.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Goodbye, Tom, and thanks. The car phone made a deep
impression on Dexter Brands. Your biggest client, didn't it?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Ross? And you're certain that Bob Turner, owner of the car,
made an even deeper one, and his dramatic appearance on
the seldom travel road from Dexter Brand's cabin into town,
seems more than a mere coincidence, doesn't. The next morning,
as you reach your office, you find that it is.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
Oh, mister Warren, where have you been?
Speaker 8 (06:25):
I'm frantic?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Oh no, it couldn't be as bad as all that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Well, couldn't it.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
Oh morning, I've been crazy looking for you.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Look beautiful. Suppose you calm down? Oh I'm down?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
How can I He's dead? I tell you he's dead,
all right?
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Dead?
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Now he's dead. Now who's dead?
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Mister average American? That's who's dead?
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Wayne Parks, the man we're featuring in this month's ad, Yes.
Speaker 7 (06:46):
A stroke, and Graphic Magazine is holding their presses and
howling for another layout right away, because well, how can.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
We salute mister average American when he's dead?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
And what are we going to do? Rush them next
month's layout? Of course, there.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
Isn't any mister Warren. That was the last of the series,
don't you remember? Next month it's all different.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I'd forgotten. We are in a hole, aren't well, mister Warren?
Speaker 6 (07:10):
If I may please, you'll have to wait.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Mister Warren is very busy now and emergency has come up.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
I know you left the door open and I couldn't
help overhearing, mister Warren, I'm familiar with your campaign, and
I believe there's a simple way to save that.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Mister Turner again, hmm. You seem to have a knack
of turning up at just the right minute.
Speaker 5 (07:27):
You've got an idea, Yes, why not change the caption
we salute to we mourn mister average American. All the
rest of it can remain pretty much as it is.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Hey, hey, maybe you've got something there, Edna, did you hear?
Speaker 6 (07:40):
I think that's wonderful.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
I'm so relieved all morning, the magazine calling and me
not knowing where you were.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
I don't know what you came to see me about,
mister Turner, but the way I feel right now, you
can ask anything.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
I'll just make it.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Bob. I'm with Blaine and Blaine, mister Warren, the big
Hollywood advertising agency. No wonder you had to know how
on the ad. Hum. Hey, Bob, what can I do
for you? And you can make it ross.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Okay, Well, let me tell you a story. On my
last vacation, someone looted my car, took everything, including my
fishing tackle. So, passing through Laketown here on my way
to the lake, I bought some new gear made by
a manufacturer here in town.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
The man you met last night, mister Brand. I handle
his advertising. I know well, his gear's wonderful. But later,
when I tried to get more of it in some
of the eastern cities, why nobody had ever heard of
brand fishing equipment. He only sells in the Western States.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
That's what I don't get. How Come why if he
advertised more, is that what you're here for. Don't get
me wrong. I'm not trying to chisel your account, just
the opposite. You see. I'm fed up with my job
and I've got a little money put by, and I
thought of starting my own agency, maybe in some place
like Laketown here.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Oh, competition, huh not if.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You don't want it. This is a manufacturing town. I
figured there must be lots of local men who could
triple their business if they went in for wider advertising.
Now you've got a nice set up up here, if
I can sell some of them on the idea, could
you and I maybe talk partnership. Partnership, say on any
new accounts I bring in and any hikes on old ones.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
You know, Turner, I think maybe I'll give it a try.
Swell on one condition, you either sell mister Brand on
national advertising or you find yourself another town. Fair enough,
By the way, mister Brand and his daughter are having
dinner with me tonight. Why why don't you join us. Hey,
that's great, that'll give you a chance to sound up
mister Brand. But no passages a kiddie brand. She's beautiful
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and she's mine.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
Engaged.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Eh, well, we haven't announced it, so mum's the word. Huh, Okay,
I'll be good.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
You thought you did that rather well, didn't you, Ross.
But you know that in Dexter Brand Bob Turner will
come up against the stone wall. And you have Bob's
word that if he he leave town, Yes, Ross, he'll leave.
Never knowing you lied about being engaged to Kitty. You
couldn't know, could you?
Speaker 3 (10:07):
That?
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Buy inviting him to dinner with the Brands, you were
inviting him disaster.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
I'll tell you why I'm being so hard headed. You see,
I hate manufacturing. Got into it in spite of myself.
I couldn't get the kind of fishing rod I wanted,
so I went ahead and made one. Friend saw it,
I had to make another, then another and another. First thing,
I know, I'm manufacturing all kinds of fishing tackle.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
That's why I hate.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It. Doesn't leave me enough time to fish. If I
were to expand, it would leave me even less. And
I love fishing.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I beg your pardon.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
I said, sir that I don't think you give a
hoot about fishing.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Okay, young man, are you trying to tell me? I'm
afraid you read the wrong line that time? Yes, young man,
I wish you'd explain that remark.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
Well. You said yourself, sir, that you made rods for
your friends, and why because you wanted them to have
the best, so they could enjoy their fishing as you
and enjoyed yours. Of course, which proves ya'll think of
the thousands of Isaac Waltons whose vacations will be spoiled
for lack of brand equipment. Why every time a good
one gets away from a Faully hook or snap's an
inferior Rod, You, mister brand, are directly responsible.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
That's the best argument I've heard yet. Ross, you ought
to take this, this caniver on as a partner. You
really think so?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Sa He will, sir, if you'll expand your coverage.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
Oh so it's a plot. Well, Ross, it looks like
I'm stuck with more advertising and you're stuck with a partner.
And if I were you, wide look out, he's likely
to take over your whole business. In that case, I'm
afraid I'd have to find a way to dissolve the partnership.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
If a shiny new car doesn't happen to fit within
your budget this year, no need to envy the other guy.
After all, it's easy to enjoy the next best thing.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
And what's that?
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Why any car?
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Your car powered.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
With Signal Efel, the premium grade of Signal's famous go
Farther gasoline. Yes, this super powerful super fuel is scientifically
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And when I say best, I mean the kind of
performance many drivers never thought their cars capable of. I
mean pick up, the kind that carries with it that
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satisfying feeling when the back of the seat comes up
and nudges you gently forward, and I mean power the
kind of rockets you easily smoothly over hills, steep hills
that used to call for shifting. Don't get the idea,
of course, that signal ethel's going to let you step
away from all new cars.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
After all, Smart new.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Car drivers use signal ethel too to bring out all
the exciting performance that's built into today's power packed, high
compression motors. But of this you can be sure the
next best thing to a new car is your car
powered with signal ethyl gasoline.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Well, Ross, a lot of things have changed since Bob
Turner came into your life six months ago in that
storm on the Willow Canyon Road. He's become a full
fledged partner in your advertising agency after selling Dexter Brand
on the idea of a national campaign, and other accounts
of followed Brand's lead. Until your business has nearly tripled.
Bob sold you too, hasn't he Ross? True? You work
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harder and longer than you ever have, but you've acquired
a great many things you've wanted. A healthy bank account,
a big new car with all the extras, yes even
including a car our telephone. Through it all, you've had
just one regret, haven't you.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Ross?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
You haven't been able to see Kitty brand nearly as
often as you'd wanted to. But as you walk up
the front steps to her home to keep your first
date in weeks, you're certain that tonight will make up
for all the nights you've been away from Kitty.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Hi.
Speaker 8 (14:23):
You the official greeter here now only when it's the
maid's night out or Dad's packing.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Come in, Ross, your father taking a trip just up
to the lake.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
He and Bob have a theory about some special tackle
or something. You couldn't prove it by me, but anyway,
they're going to try it out.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Come on in the library. I'd mixed some cocktails.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Bob's going too huh funny. He didn't mention it.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
I think he's just driving Dad up tonight. Probably spend
tomorrow fishing.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Oh, I see here we.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
Are, sit down, Ross.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Oh, you look wonderful, Kitty. Do you mind if I
drink to that?
Speaker 6 (14:56):
Well, let's make it that we both look wonderful, so
we can both drink.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
That's fair. Uh, yeah to us, because we're beautiful. Oh.
I missed you Kitty so much.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
Well that's nice for Ross.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
No, it isn't nice. I don't like missing you. I
don't ever want to miss you again.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Oh, my, so serious.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I am serious, Kitty. I don't think I realized how
serious I was until I saw you again a few
minutes ago. Kitty, Darling, I love.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
You, Rosse, my goodness, just one swallow from a martine.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
I want you to marry me, Kitty. I've wanted you
to for a long time, but now I'm in a position.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Ros.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
Please don't don't say these things, not now.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
This is the first time I've been able to say them.
You've known all along, you must.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
I thought I knew, Ross, But why did you wait
so long?
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I had to, Darling. I wanted money, lots of money.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
It wouldn't have mattered before, Ross, don't you see it
would have been all right? But now now it's it's
all different, Kitty.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
What's so different? I just got more money now. I
haven't changed, but I have.
Speaker 8 (16:09):
I didn't want to, Ross, really I didn't, but I
changed in spite of myself. I guess I'm in love Ross,
really in love for the first time.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Kitty.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
But who with the man who doesn't even know it?
He's never said anything or done anything.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Ross.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
I don't want to hurt you, but it it's.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Bob, Bob, Bob Turner.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I've told you he's done absolutely nothing about it. I'm
sure he hasn't any idea how I feel. But well,
since I do feel that way, Ross, I well, there's
not much I can do about it.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Is there no no Kitty? I guess there isn't.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Kitty and Bob. It's quite a shock, isn't it, Ross?
Not at all the way you plan. You realize you'll
have to do something about Bob because you're determined that
no one can have Kitty. But you you're still searching for
a solution. Shortly before midnight, as you enter your apartment
to find the phone ringing.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Hello, Ross, this is Bob. Didn't wake you today, No,
just got in. Where are you calling from?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
I'm up at mister Brand's cabin. Going to spend the
night here, do some fishing tomorrow, but I'm driving back
to town tomorrow night.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
I see.
Speaker 9 (17:43):
I'd like to see you tomorrow night, if you can
make it, Ross, I've got some things to talk over
with you.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Okay, Bob, But if you're off on a little fishing junket,
forget about business.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Oh, I don't want to see you about business.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Ross.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
It's well, I just want to talk with you a while.
I'd prefer to do in person.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Fine, Fine, suppose we meet at your apartment whenever you
say good I'll leave.
Speaker 9 (18:07):
Here at seven point thirty. That should get me back
to town about nine. How does that sound?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Nine? It is tomorrow night. I'll see you then, good night, goodbye, Mom.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Your solution came suddenly, didn't it, Ross? And Bob gave
it to himself. A little after eight the next evening,
you park your car in the heavy woods at the
foot of a well known slide area on Willow Canyon Road.
In a matter of minutes, you roll several boulders into
the middle of the road, and then, as you hear
a car approaching, you rush back to your own car.
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Completely hidden from sight, you peer through the thick trees
see Bob's car approaching. He suddenly swings to miss the boulders,
balances precariously on the drop side of the road, and
then the car miraculously rights itself, hugs the road again,
and moves past the boulders to a safe stop. You fail,
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didn't you, Ross? You watch Bob get out of his
car push the boulders to the side of the road,
return to his car and start for town. As you
pull your car unto the road and drive slowly down
the canyon toward town, you realize you must get rid
of Bob Turner. Once he's out of the way, you'll
control all the new business he's brought in and have
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a clear field with Kitty. Then it hits you an
even better plan, and you're certain you'll not fail again.
There's an automatic in your glove compartment and an alibi
in your car telephone. You stop the car and place
it called Huffman's Garage in.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
Laketown, Half Men's Garage, Tom speaking.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
This is Ross Warren. Tom, afraid I need your toe
car again.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Uh, oh, don't tell me you're stranded and Willow Canyon
Road again.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Well not this time, Tom. I'm I'm about twenty miles
out on the Merylton Road. A car went up out
of control just by those bluffs, you know the spot.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
Sure, hello, mister Warren will be there, but it may
take an hour or so.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
The truck's out now and there's another call ahead of you.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Well that's okay, Tom, there's no hurry. I'll wait right
here in the car for you.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
It's a break, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Ross?
Speaker 2 (20:24):
An hour will give you ample time to get to town.
Take care of Bob Turner and drive out to the
bluffs on the Merylton Road. You'll wreck your car there
and make certain of a perfect alibi in the bark.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
Well. Ross, you're punctual. You've a little ahead of time.
I just got here. I know that's a done, man.
I need a drink down near turn the car over
coming down here boulders in the road along that slide area.
I know that too, you do, But how I just
Bob this personal matter you want to discuss with me.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
It's kitty, isn't it?
Speaker 5 (21:14):
Well, yes, Ross, it is.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
I thought we could talk it out, you and I.
You're in love with her? Want a marryer?
Speaker 5 (21:21):
Well? Yes?
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Is she in love with you? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Look, Ross, this isn't the way I've planned it. Sit down,
won't you? And we'll?
Speaker 4 (21:28):
But this is the way I planned it. No, I
won't sit down. I aim straighter if I stand Ah, Ross,
are You're crazy? Put that gun away? Don't it? Okay? Bob?
I don't mind putting the gun away.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
Now he's dead.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Isn't he Ross.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
As you turn to leave, you pull the drakes aside
slightly to look out, and walking toward the apartment just
a few houses down, you recognize a familiar figure passing
under the street light. It's Kitty Brand. You sigh with
relief that you saw her before she could see you.
Then you turn quickly, race for the back of the apartment,
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let yourself out the back entrance, and rush out into
the night towards your car parked in the side of
the street. Once there, you check your time. You have
half an hour, Ross, ample time to drive to the
bluffs on the Maryton Road before the toe car from
the Hoffman garage is due to arrive, and you make
it with five minutes to spare.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
No to make this alibi Hord that ought to do
it well, Ross.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
You're pleased with the way things worked out, aren't you.
You bashed in the front of your car right by
the bluffs just as you plank, and before the toe
car arrived from town, you had time to bury the
automatic that killed Bob Turner. You're confident now, aren't you, Ross,
Certain that it's just a matter of time until Kitty
Brand gets over the shock of Bob's death and agrees
to marry you. The next day, you're properly shocked and
(23:35):
bereaved as Lieutenant Norris calls for you in his police
car and the two of you discussed the crime. As
you ride along, you become so engrossed in the discussion
you're unaware that he's driven you far out from town
on the Merylton Road. Naturally, I'm anxious to help all
I can. Lieutenant Bob Turner was well like a brother
(23:56):
to me.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
I'm going to take you up on that hell bangle,
mister Warren. Tom Upman's already pointed out the spot on
the Merylton Road where he picked up you and.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Your car last night.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Why did to verify that?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
If you don't mind, why, of course, be glad to
I didn't even notice. We're almost there, aren't we.
Speaker 10 (24:14):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Now, you see, mister Warren.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
The two stories are a little confusing.
Speaker 4 (24:23):
But two stories yours and Kitty Brands.
Speaker 10 (24:27):
She was out for a walk last night, dropped by
Turner's apartment and discovered his body, and she saw your
car parked on the side street next to the apartment.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
But she couldn't have.
Speaker 10 (24:42):
Both you and Tom Hoffman say you were right here
in a smashed.
Speaker 5 (24:46):
Car at the time.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
That's true. Hey, that's my car.
Speaker 10 (24:50):
The how we took the liberty of bringing it back
out here, mister Warren to prove something to both of us,
Come on over here for a minute.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
I'm afraid I don't understand, Lieutenant.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
You will.
Speaker 10 (25:04):
Now, just for the record, will you get in your
car and show me how you place that call to
the garage last night?
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Why?
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Of course, I.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Just picked up the receiver, pushed this button and the
operator answered, that's funny, something's wrong with his phone.
Speaker 10 (25:30):
No, and there's something wrong with your story.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I'll see here, Tom Hoffman picked me up right here
at the same time Kitty Brand found Turner dead twenty
miles away. In case you don't know it, Lieutenant, there's
a law of physics that says nobody you can occupy
two places at the same time, that's right.
Speaker 10 (25:46):
And there's a law of electronics that says you couldn't
possibly have made the phone called Hoffman's garage from this spot. Warren,
What do you mean I couldn't Just that nobody can
make or receive calls from here, because this whole stretch
of road is an absolute dead spot for radio.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler each Sunday night.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
At the same time.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Signal dealers are so proud of the good mileage of
their famous Go Farther gasoline, they have available free a
mileage record book in which you can keep track of
your own mileage as well as other car purchases and information.
This handy mileage record book is just one of them
many thoughtful extras offered free by friendly, independently operated signal
service stations to add more smiles to your miles. Featured
(26:55):
in Tonight's story were Bill Foreman, Lets Tremaine, Gene Bates,
Bob Bruce, Elizabeth root, Herb Butterfield, and Charles Seal. The
Whistler was produced and directed by George W. Wallen, with
story by George Asnes, 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 portrayed on
(27:16):
The Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity of names or
resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental. Remember
to tune in at the same time next Sunday, when
the Signal Oil Company will bring you another strange story
by the Whistler entitled The Man in the trench Coat,
in which a topcoat belonging to another man leads the
wearer to the unmasking of a blackmailer and murder. Marvin Miller,
(27:41):
speaking for the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned now for
our Miss Brooks starring Eve Arden, which follows immediately over
most of these stations. This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
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