November 15, 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 (00:00):
And now stay tuned for the program that has rated
tops in popularity for a longer period of time than
any other West Coast program in radio history, The Signal
Oil Program, the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Highity Signal, the famous Go Farther Gasoline.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
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 (01:21):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange
Story Night Flight.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It was early evening, but the man sitting in the
corner booth with Kelly Owen had entered the hotel cocktail
lounge in the early afternoon, and he was beginning to
show it he'd taken a liking to Kelly when he
found out that he too was a flyer. As for Kelly,
he wasn't in a mood for liking anyone, but his
present situation of unemployment made him more than mildly interested
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in what the stranger had to say. You even find
yourself willing to gamble a bit, don't you, Kelly, spend
part of the few dollars in your pocket on more
drinks in the hope that you'll pick up some profitable informations.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
C you.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
If I ever made that hop fell out flowing freight
back and forth across the civic so many times, I
think I can swim a little over around my back
you gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And one Scotch and swell it's a dollar thirty. I
get this one, Sam, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hey, wait a minute, what did you do that for?
I told you, old Sam, I hit the jackplane skipper Olie.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
You didn't finish telling me Sam, something about a private deal.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I can't tell you everything that it's too important. Hush, hush,
honestly important passions big.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Oh that's it? Eh? Well a big fair is nice, Sam,
But not like what you were talking about. Not not
enough to retire on.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I think not, eh. And you think twenty five jeeves
go pretty fire.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Don't you? Twenty five five?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Sam? Who do you know that's taking a private trip
around the world. I don't know, and they don't know me.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
That's why you ain't gonna know.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Mere.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Nobody is alright, Sam, talking too much?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
It feels a good a lot to drink. You sure, Look,
I gotta go upstairs. Seat in my room, Valley, sleep
it off. I can't fly no plane like this.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
What you are? You can fly without a plane?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Thanks? Oh hey, hey, hey, you you tell that that's
clerk for me with you high Tell them what?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, you call me about about ten o'clock. There they're
picking me up here in a car.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Oh yeah, sure, I'll tell them come on upstairs.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It sounded interesting, didn't it, Kelly. Twenty five thousand dollars,
Sam said, and something about it being his payment for
flying an important passenger somewhere, but all too vague to
be of any use to a man in your position.
By the time you help Sam upstairs to his room,
lay him on the bed, he's fallen to a deep sleep,
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and instead of twenty five thousand, you're thinking of the
dollar thirty you spent, aren't you a dollar thirty that
might have gone towards a better hotel room for the night.
And then you think of something else. Yes, you're helping
yourself to the contents of Sam's wallet. As the phone
near the bedroom dams stirs restlessly, and you lift the
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receiver quickly to prevent waking him.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Mister Leedford, Hello, mister Ludford, there's someone here to see you, mister.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Leedford, someone here to see you. The words flash across
your mind, don't they, Kelly? And you recall something that
Sam said downstairs in the bar. I don't know him.
He said, they don't know me. But it wasn't until
ten o'clock that the somebody was to meet Sam in
the lobby, was it, Kelly?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Mister d mister Ledford, why don't you answer?
Speaker 8 (05:18):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Oh, mister Ledford, there's someone waiting for you in the lobby.
Should I tell the lady to come up?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
No, No, I told a lady that.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Sam Ledford will be right down.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes, sir, it's a chance, isn't it, Kelly? A chance
you've decided to take. And with Sam Ledford's wallet, identification
and pilot's license in your coat pocket, you let yourself
out of his room and go downstairs. There's a girl
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in the lobby, a dark haired, very attractive girl. She's alone,
waiting impatiently.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Miss uh, miss Martin.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yes, you wanted Sam Leadford, and supposing I did, well,
you don't have to look any further.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Oh, well, I didn't realize. It's okay, I suppose you're already, Sam.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I didn't expect anybody until kind of class.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Well that's right.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Well then, quite frankly, when I talked to you on
the telephone, you sounded like you just might be in
the mood for too much celebrating.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
But that's all.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
That's why I came earlier, Sam, I know ten thousand
dollars is something to celebrate.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
You're awful little there, aren't, Miss Martin. I understood I
got twenty five thousand for this job, all.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Right, Sam, So we won't barg it anymore, not if lady. Okay,
you won't mind leaving.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Now though anything is' Sam, it's Martin now later you're
running it.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Well, I'm glad we understand each other. All right, Sam.
There's a cab outside wait for I've got one quick
call to make.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Wait in the cab. Okay, Miss Martin, you you won't
belong we No, Sam, I won't be long.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You've a nervous, uncertain feeling inside, haven't you, Kelly. Miss
Martin seems to have accepted you as Sam Ledford. Walking
out to the taxi, cab parked in front of the hotel.
You wonder about her reference to a quick call. Wonder
if perhaps the call is in some sort of a
check up with whoever made the original arrangements with the
real Sam Leadford. But there's nothing to do but sweat
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it out, is there, Kelly, Play it close and careful
for the biggest payoff you've ever gambled on. Ten minutes later,
Miss Martin comes out, slips into the cab beside you.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Everything all right?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Yes, Sam, everything's fine. No, where we're heading now?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I said you're running this, Sam.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
I think we're going to get along perfectly. Drive the airport.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Lease you understand everything now, Sam, I think so. Be
sure you're run at least a three place ship, and
make certain of the fuel.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
You haven't told me yet exactly how farward?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Never mind, I'll tell you that part afterwards. In the air.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Are you're not coming with me?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I'll wait here. Do you get the plane? Tell him
you want it for a sight seeing hop over the city.
Tell him I'm the girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
The girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, it's going almost too well, isn't it. Kelly feeler.
Martin is a warm, exciting girl, and the thought of
twenty five thousand dollars isn't exactly chilly, but you are
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nervous over what's just ahead, aren't you. The renting of
the plane in Sam Leadford's name. It has to be
done that way, just in case THELA should check. At
the last minute. You cross toward one of the rental hangars,
hoping whoever's in charge doesn't know you or Sam Ledford.
But nothing goes wrong. Twenty minutes later, you escort THELA
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from the cab to the warm up apron, where a
mechanic is readying a trim fair child job. Help Fla
into the front seat, step back as the mechanic finishes
the warm up. Nice clear night for sightseeing, hot mess.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Hope you enjoy it, bags, I'm sure I will.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You're in good hands, all right, understand Sam Ledford's taking
up you please. At the mechanic's words, leap back toward
the tail of the ship, trying to avoid him. Fela
can't see either of you, can't, she keilly, But the
mechanic is waiting between you and the door to the
ship in an absolute desperation.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
Hey yeah, isn't there something wrong with this tail assembly?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Wrong?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I don't think so mister Ladford, Hey, what is this?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're not missed out?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Sorry, pal that I get a date with twenty five
thousand bucks and nobody's getting in my way.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
I'm sure, friends, you're glad that although this is the
season when so many popular shows go off the air
for the summer, there'll be no vacation for the Whistler program.
Thanks to your loyalty to the Whistler, which has made
this the most popular West Coast program in radio history,
plus your loyalty to signal dealers, which made this last
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year the greatest year in signal history. Signal Oil Company
is keeping the Whistler on the air all summer without interruption.
So each Sunday evening throughout the summer, when you turn
to this spot on your radio dial, you can depend
on finding your favorite mystery, just as each time you
turn into a signal station you can depend on finding
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a friendly, independent dealer to serve you with fine quality
signal products, including the famous go farther gasoline.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Say no signal gasoline, Your car'll go for the gasoline.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You've managed every step, haven't you, Kelly. Everyone since the
telephone rang in the sleeping sam led for Droom the
moment when you decided to take his place with the
unknown air passenger who would pay twenty five thousand dollars
for a single mysterious flight in a rented plane. The
last step was a dangerous one, wasn't it, knocking out
the mechanic at the airport, A man who realized that
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you weren't Sam Lidford. But it's going to be all right,
isn't it, Kenedy? And as you level out, high above
the twinkling lights of the city, you glance over at
Theela in the seat beside you.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Well, FeelA, you said once we were in the air, Yes,
I know, all.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Right, Sam. We fly almost du Salve to a spot.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Near Rosarita Beach, first the border.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yes, there's a landing strip there. We'll sit down, wait,
spend a lot of wedding. You're getting a lot of money,
So I am.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
All right, Dayla, settle back, grab a few winks if
you like. I'll wake up at Rosarita.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Beach, Taylor, I think they're here. I just pulled off
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the highway.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
All right, get back to the plane. Look it's them.
They'll flash the headlights off and on. I'm the answer
with a flashlight check feeling.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Yes, you're sure.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
You don't want to tell me who this guy is.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Use your head, Sam, if you want to keep it.
We're across the border, aren't we. They're flying him back
to the States and the dead of the night. Doesn't
that say enough?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Twenty five thousand dollars says enough. And by the way,
we're not taking him back to that airport.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Of course, We've got a spot all picked out on
the desert. There's a car waiting. Everything.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Yeah, everything, even you skip it.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Plan and remember not a word to him doing the flight.
Just keep your mind on your flying.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Oh sure, I'll go the highlights over there.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yes, go on, Sam, back to the plane. I'll answer them.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Okay, end of the line.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Wait here, mister Leedford, wait for I'm flying back with you.
We'll return the plane.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yeah, but I got him into the States. Now what
about my money?
Speaker 8 (14:43):
You'll get your money, mister Ledford.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just do as your tool.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
But I said do as your tool?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What about this guy? Fela?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Look Nick, this plane has to go back and be
set down from where it took off, and two sight
seers have to get out of it.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I don't want to leave any trades.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Sure, all right, flyboy, you wait for the lady.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Huh uh. Look, I'd like to go into town for
a little while. Why I didn't mention it, but I
was having at trouble i fuel line. I'd feel safer
if I could ride in and buy some stuff for it.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
What do you think there?
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Is it necessary?
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Mister, very necessary? Missus Martin?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The plane won't be safe otherwise.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Nick, I'll be flying back, all right?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
So he goes into town.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Come on, you had to think fast, didn't you, Kelly.
You know you can't take the plane back to the
airport where you picked it up posing as Sam Ledford.
The mechanic you knocked out will have revived, reported the theft,
and yet they've told you that you won't get your
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money until the plane is returned. You need time, don't you, Kelly,
Time to think it out, decide what to do, And
as you sit beside THELA and the big guy and
the chauffeur driven limousine that met you when you landed,
a plan begins to take shape in your mind. In town,
you go through the motions of buying what you need
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to repair the broken fuel line, and then wait as
the big guy gets into the limousine and he's driven
off toward the highway.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
You get everything you needed, said, yeah, I'll set any
might as well get back to the plane.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh it's a hurry. You can take a cab back
anytime we want.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yes, only I thought you would be sort of anxious to.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Take home our so won't make much difference. I was
going to suggest we have dinner.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Well, there's a spot down the street a few blocks
the parmn Oh what I were waiting for, Sam? Yeah,
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I've been wondering.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I was gonna buy another brandy.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Sure, No, I was wondering about that twenty five thousand.
What are you going to do with it? Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Got a girl? No?
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Why?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Oh I don't know. Don't you ever think of the cottage?
Small white ticket, fence, roses around the door.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Quit kidding, failure anyway, I'm not in the market for
real estate. Yeah, so you're the big guy's girlfriend, then
that's right, meaning nothing?
Speaker 7 (17:47):
All right, So he buys me everything I need.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
M have fun while you're young.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I say, you know something, I like you.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
I like you a lot, Eddie, Eddie, a little mixed up.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Eddie, Frank Harry, Sam, what's the difference.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
What are you driving at, sweetheart?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
What is your name really?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Sam Leadford?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You see, I close this deal with Sam Leadford in
person long before you showed up.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Okay, so what does that for us?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
It's up to you.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
You went along with a deal even though you knew
I wasn't Leadford.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I was in the market for a new pilot. Sam
was too talkative. Besides, I like you. I like your
names something for a girl to fall back on. Hell,
you're pretty okay in my.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Book, Kelly First of Life, Kelly Owen, Kelly Owen, I
like that too.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah. So let's get down to business. Now, let's start
with my twenty five grand So I'm not Leadford, but
I pulled a job.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I'm entitled dough of course you are.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
And more. Oh, how would you like to split one
hundred thousand dollars down.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
One hundred grand?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Sound interesting?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Very very tell me more.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Let's get back to the plane. You have work to do.
Work the fuel line, remember, Oh sure, Kelly?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Was that fuel line really giving trouble?
Speaker 6 (19:26):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
All right?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Sweet right to pouse you fill me in.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
The big guy was willing to spend twenty five grands,
So long as he got back into the state. Yes,
I oh, I said to myself, wat should a little
steeler pick up that dough after the job was done?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Right?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Double cross? So you knock off the pilot, keep the
doll yourself?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Why not go on?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Well, when I saw you, another idea occurred to me.
A way we could both get more than the twenty
five thousand, and I'll need your help.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
My help, Uh, definitely, I knew that as soon as
you walk up to me in that hotel lobby.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
What's the deal?
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Nasty word? Blackmail?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Oh, real nasty? But keep talking the big.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Guys in the States now and he plans to stay
only how much do you think it would be worth
him to keep the informations in the police. You tell
me another seventy five thousand for a starter?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
So how do we set this up?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
First little trip to South America for you.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I always wanted to go there too.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
I'll go on to join the big guy in New Orleans.
He's rented a house there twenty one St.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Germain and and in about a month he gets a
letter from South America.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
The blackmail pitch he pays off or else. I like
blackmail by long distance much healthy.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Well, Kelly, is it a deal?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yep? One more thing? How do I get to South America?
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
That yeah? That my twenty five brand?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
I have it.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
You'll need let's say, five thousand to get settled. You'll
want a few thousand to spend. So I'll give you
half now, twelve thousand.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Five hundred.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
What about the other half.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I'll hold onto it for the time being, just to
be sure you don't double across me in South America.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
After you clip the big Guy, we'll meet down there
in it. Well, do you think you can stand to
have me around, partner?
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Mm hmmm, Oh, give me time, sweetheart. I just might
go to love you.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Flying north along the coast. Your mind is spinning, isn't it, Kelly.
There's twenty five thousand dollars in feel a suitcase, and
there will be another seventy five thousand once you reach
South America and send the blackmail letter to the big guy,
one hundred thousand in all, Kelly. That is if he
doesn't double cross. After all, she was willing to double
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cross Sam, wasn't she. Yes, And you decide quietly not
to take a chance on to follow through a loan. Now,
not share the money? With anyone, not even Celia.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Darling. Do me a favor. Sure you have to fly
over the water and makes me nervous.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh what your dip land of water? If you fall,
your fall? Hide?
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Oh please relax, heilor Hey, how do we address the
big guy in New Orleans again?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Nick you twenty one Roussaint Jermain. You won't forget it,
will you?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Daughter?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
I won't Nick Hugh's twenty one Roussaint Germain. I won't
forget it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Your fist lashes out, catches Cela on the point of
the chin, and she slumps down in the seat. Reach over,
open the door beside tall walk sweetheart. It's over quickly,
and you're alone in the plane with a full twenty
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five thousand dollars. You swing the nose around head inland
and soon ease into a landing in an empty pasture
not far from the highway. A truck driver gives you
a lift into Los Angeles, where you spend the rest
of the night in a quiet hotel. The following morning,
you're downtown. First stop the fashionable men's store.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
May I help you, sir?
Speaker 10 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Shoot the works, I beg your pardon. I tried out
the best you got suit sport outfits. I r in
the market for a complete wardrobe. Oh yes, sir, if
this will I'll need some luggage to that uh light
airplane stuff. Of course you are planning a trip, yeah,
South America. By the way, Western nearest airline office.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Down the street three blocks.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
However, if we may be of assistance, that is to say,
if you should care to use our Telenana.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Thanks, I'll walk down after I finish here. Oh, mister Knowles,
this way please, best man in the story. He will
take care of you.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I hope you have a pleasant trip and a most
enjoyable stay in South America.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Sir, Thanks again. I'm sure I'll have a great time. Yeah,
a great time.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
A friend of mine was telling me last night that
when he's eating out, he always chooses a restaurant that's crowded.
They must have something, he says, to be so popular. Well,
by the same token, Signal gasoline must have something. When
you consider that last month drivers bought more gallons of
Signal gasoline than during any other month in signal history.
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What is that something which accounts for such increasing popularity.
Some users tell us it's good mile age, which has
made signal known throughout the West as the go Farther gasoline.
Others say it's the life and pep and smooth easy
response they get with the gasoline. It's engineered to help
your motor run more efficiently. But frankly, friends, just as
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sure as my name's Marvin Miller, you're never going to
know all the good reasons why so many drivers are
switching to signal until you try a few tankfuls in
your own car. Do it this week and see if
you don't agree with me. You get a full full
measure of all the things that make driving more pleasure
when you fill up with signal famous go farther gasoline.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
Same No, take the gasoline, your car, go the gasoline.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The future looks bright, doesn't it, Kelly very and you're
looking forward to your trip to South America. You're carrying
close to twenty five thousand with you now, and this
to be more a great deal more. Once you reached
Rio and set up your plan to blackmail a big
guy who has entered the United States illegally. The following morning,
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the airline limousine picked you up at the hotel, takes
you out to the airport, and then as you're checking
your luggage, mister.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Owen kelly On, Yeah, that's right. I'm Lieutenant Dawson lay homicide.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Homicide. Now.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
He bought a new wardrobe downtown yesterday, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah? I did. The scar of the old suit you
were wearing left at the shop. Sure, I told a
clerk to give it to his favorite charity. So what well?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
It wrapped something out of your wallet as you were
transferring into your new clothes. The clerk tried to catch up,
it couldn't, and when he noticed the name he'd seen
in the papers, he called us.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Look, I don't follow this. Here's what the clerk.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Found, identification cards, including a pilots license made out to
Sam Ldford Ldford. Yeah, better turn in your plane, take
of mister Rowan. You aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Wait a minute, what's this all about? That's what we
want to know.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
You see.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Sam Ledford was found in a hotel room late last
night dead.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
He'd been murdered. Murdered. Sila Pegla must have got him.
When she went back to make that call.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
You were carrying Sam Ledford's pilot slcens around. I'm afraid
that's one you'll never be able to explain, mister Rowan, Let.
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Speaker 3 (01:34):
It was early evening, but the man sitting in the
corner booth with Kelly Owen had entered the hotel cocktail
lounge in the early afternoon, and he was beginning to
show it he'd taken a liking to Kelly when he
found out that he too was a flyer. As for Kelly,
he wasn't in a mood for liking anyone, but his
present situation of unemployment made him more than mildly interested
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in what the stranger had to say. You even find
yourself willing to gamble a bit, don't you, Kelly, spend
part of the few dollars in your pocket on more
drinks in the hope that you'll pick up some profitable informations.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
C you.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
If I ever made that hop fell out flowing freight
back and forth across the civic so many times, I
think I can swim a little over around my back
you gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
And one Scotch and swell it's a dollar thirty. I
get this one, Sam, thank you.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Hey, wait a minute, what did you do that for?
I told you, old Sam, I hit the jackplane skipper Olie.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
You didn't finish telling me Sam, something about a private deal.
Speaker 7 (02:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I can't tell you everything that it's too important. Hush, hush,
honestly important passions big.
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Oh that's it? Eh? Well a big fair is nice, Sam,
But not like what you were talking about. Not not
enough to retire on.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I think not, eh. And you think twenty five jeeves
go pretty fire.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Don't you? Twenty five five?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Sam? Who do you know that's taking a private trip
around the world. I don't know, and they don't know me.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
That's why you ain't gonna know.
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Mere.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
Nobody is alright, Sam, talking too much?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
It feels a good a lot to drink. You sure, Look,
I gotta go upstairs. Seat in my room, Valley, sleep
it off. I can't fly no plane like this.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
What you are? You can fly without a plane?
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Thanks? Oh hey, hey, hey, you you tell that that's
clerk for me with you high Tell them what?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Yeah, you call me about about ten o'clock. There they're
picking me up here in a car.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
Oh yeah, sure, I'll tell them come on upstairs.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
It sounded interesting, didn't it, Kelly. Twenty five thousand dollars,
Sam said, and something about it being his payment for
flying an important passenger somewhere, but all too vague to
be of any use to a man in your position.
By the time you help Sam upstairs to his room,
lay him on the bed, he's fallen to a deep sleep,
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and instead of twenty five thousand, you're thinking of the
dollar thirty you spent, aren't you a dollar thirty that
might have gone towards a better hotel room for the night.
And then you think of something else. Yes, you're helping
yourself to the contents of Sam's wallet. As the phone
near the bedroom dams stirs restlessly, and you lift the
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receiver quickly to prevent waking him.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Mister Leedford, Hello, mister Ludford, there's someone here to see you, mister.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Leedford, someone here to see you. The words flash across
your mind, don't they, Kelly? And you recall something that
Sam said downstairs in the bar. I don't know him.
He said, they don't know me. But it wasn't until
ten o'clock that the somebody was to meet Sam in
the lobby, was it, Kelly?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Mister d mister Ledford, why don't you answer?
Speaker 8 (05:18):
Hello?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Oh, mister Ledford, there's someone waiting for you in the lobby.
Should I tell the lady to come up?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
No?
Speaker 6 (05:24):
No, No, I told a lady that.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Sam Ledford will be right down.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes, sir, it's a chance, isn't it, Kelly? A chance
you've decided to take. And with Sam Ledford's wallet, identification
and pilot's license in your coat pocket, you let yourself
out of his room and go downstairs. There's a girl
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in the lobby, a dark haired, very attractive girl. She's alone,
waiting impatiently.
Speaker 8 (06:01):
Miss uh, miss Martin.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
Yes, you wanted Sam Leadford, and supposing I did, well,
you don't have to look any further.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
Oh, well, I didn't realize. It's okay, I suppose you're already, Sam.
Speaker 6 (06:20):
I didn't expect anybody until kind of class.
Speaker 7 (06:23):
Well that's right.
Speaker 9 (06:23):
Well then, quite frankly, when I talked to you on
the telephone, you sounded like you just might be in
the mood for too much celebrating.
Speaker 6 (06:30):
But that's all.
Speaker 9 (06:32):
That's why I came earlier, Sam, I know ten thousand
dollars is something to celebrate.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
You're awful little there, aren't, Miss Martin. I understood I
got twenty five thousand for this job, all.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Right, Sam, So we won't barg it anymore, not if lady. Okay,
you won't mind leaving.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Now though anything is' Sam, it's Martin now later you're
running it.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Well, I'm glad we understand each other. All right, Sam.
There's a cab outside wait for I've got one quick
call to make.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
Wait in the cab. Okay, Miss Martin, you you won't
belong we No, Sam, I won't be long.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You've a nervous, uncertain feeling inside, haven't you, Kelly. Miss
Martin seems to have accepted you as Sam Ledford. Walking
out to the taxi, cab parked in front of the hotel.
You wonder about her reference to a quick call. Wonder
if perhaps the call is in some sort of a
check up with whoever made the original arrangements with the
real Sam Leadford. But there's nothing to do but sweat
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it out, is there, Kelly, Play it close and careful
for the biggest payoff you've ever gambled on. Ten minutes later,
Miss Martin comes out, slips into the cab beside you.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Everything all right?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
Yes, Sam, everything's fine. No, where we're heading now?
Speaker 6 (07:59):
I said you're running this, Sam.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
I think we're going to get along perfectly. Drive the airport.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Lease you understand everything now, Sam, I think so. Be
sure you're run at least a three place ship, and
make certain of the fuel.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
You haven't told me yet exactly how farward?
Speaker 7 (08:29):
Never mind, I'll tell you that part afterwards. In the air.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Are you're not coming with me?
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I'll wait here. Do you get the plane? Tell him
you want it for a sight seeing hop over the city.
Tell him I'm the girlfriend.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
The girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Okay, it's going almost too well, isn't it. Kelly feeler.
Martin is a warm, exciting girl, and the thought of
twenty five thousand dollars isn't exactly chilly, but you are
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nervous over what's just ahead, aren't you. The renting of
the plane in Sam Leadford's name. It has to be
done that way, just in case THELA should check. At
the last minute. You cross toward one of the rental hangars,
hoping whoever's in charge doesn't know you or Sam Ledford.
But nothing goes wrong. Twenty minutes later, you escort THELA
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from the cab to the warm up apron, where a
mechanic is readying a trim fair child job. Help Fla
into the front seat, step back as the mechanic finishes
the warm up. Nice clear night for sightseeing, hot mess.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Hope you enjoy it, bags, I'm sure I will.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
You're in good hands, all right, understand Sam Ledford's taking
up you please. At the mechanic's words, leap back toward
the tail of the ship, trying to avoid him. Fela
can't see either of you, can't, she keilly, But the
mechanic is waiting between you and the door to the
ship in an absolute desperation.
Speaker 10 (10:01):
Hey yeah, isn't there something wrong with this tail assembly?
Speaker 7 (10:06):
Wrong?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
I don't think so mister Ladford, Hey, what is this?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
You're not missed out?
Speaker 6 (10:14):
Sorry, pal that I get a date with twenty five
thousand bucks and nobody's getting in my way.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
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season when so many popular shows go off the air
for the summer, there'll be no vacation for the Whistler program.
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So each Sunday evening throughout the summer, when you turn
to this spot on your radio dial, you can depend
on finding your favorite mystery, just as each time you
turn into a signal station you can depend on finding
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a friendly, independent dealer to serve you with fine quality
signal products, including the famous go farther gasoline.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Say no signal gasoline, Your car'll go for the gasoline.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
You've managed every step, haven't you, Kelly. Everyone since the
telephone rang in the sleeping sam led for Droom the
moment when you decided to take his place with the
unknown air passenger who would pay twenty five thousand dollars
for a single mysterious flight in a rented plane. The
last step was a dangerous one, wasn't it, knocking out
the mechanic at the airport, A man who realized that
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you weren't Sam Lidford. But it's going to be all right,
isn't it, Kenedy? And as you level out, high above
the twinkling lights of the city, you glance over at
Theela in the seat beside you.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Well, FeelA, you said once we were in the air, Yes,
I know, all.
Speaker 7 (12:30):
Right, Sam. We fly almost du Salve to a spot.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
Near Rosarita Beach, first the border.
Speaker 7 (12:35):
Yes, there's a landing strip there. We'll sit down, wait,
spend a lot of wedding. You're getting a lot of money,
So I am.
Speaker 10 (12:46):
All right, Dayla, settle back, grab a few winks if
you like. I'll wake up at Rosarita.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
Beach, Taylor, I think they're here. I just pulled off
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the highway.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
All right, get back to the plane. Look it's them.
They'll flash the headlights off and on. I'm the answer
with a flashlight check feeling.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Yes, you're sure.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
You don't want to tell me who this guy is.
Speaker 9 (13:26):
Use your head, Sam, if you want to keep it.
We're across the border, aren't we. They're flying him back
to the States and the dead of the night. Doesn't
that say enough?
Speaker 6 (13:34):
Twenty five thousand dollars says enough. And by the way,
we're not taking him back to that airport.
Speaker 7 (13:39):
Of course, We've got a spot all picked out on
the desert. There's a car waiting. Everything.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
Yeah, everything, even you skip it.
Speaker 7 (13:49):
Plan and remember not a word to him doing the flight.
Just keep your mind on your flying.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Oh sure, I'll go the highlights over there.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Yes, go on, Sam, back to the plane. I'll answer them.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Okay, end of the line.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
Wait here, mister Leedford, wait for I'm flying back with you.
We'll return the plane.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Yeah, but I got him into the States. Now what
about my money?
Speaker 8 (14:43):
You'll get your money, mister Ledford.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Just do as your tool.
Speaker 8 (14:46):
But I said do as your tool?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
What about this guy? Fela?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
Look Nick, this plane has to go back and be
set down from where it took off, and two sight
seers have to get out of it.
Speaker 7 (14:57):
I don't want to leave any trades.
Speaker 8 (14:58):
Sure, all right, flyboy, you wait for the lady.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
Huh uh. Look, I'd like to go into town for
a little while. Why I didn't mention it, but I
was having at trouble i fuel line. I'd feel safer
if I could ride in and buy some stuff for it.
Speaker 8 (15:16):
What do you think there?
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Is it necessary?
Speaker 8 (15:19):
Mister, very necessary? Missus Martin?
Speaker 6 (15:22):
The plane won't be safe otherwise.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Nick, I'll be flying back, all right?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
So he goes into town.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Come on, you had to think fast, didn't you, Kelly.
You know you can't take the plane back to the
airport where you picked it up posing as Sam Ledford.
The mechanic you knocked out will have revived, reported the theft,
and yet they've told you that you won't get your
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money until the plane is returned. You need time, don't you, Kelly,
Time to think it out, decide what to do, And
as you sit beside THELA and the big guy and
the chauffeur driven limousine that met you when you landed,
a plan begins to take shape in your mind. In town,
you go through the motions of buying what you need
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to repair the broken fuel line, and then wait as
the big guy gets into the limousine and he's driven
off toward the highway.
Speaker 9 (16:24):
You get everything you needed, said, yeah, I'll set any
might as well get back to the plane.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Oh it's a hurry. You can take a cab back
anytime we want.
Speaker 7 (16:33):
Yes, only I thought you would be sort of anxious to.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Take home our so won't make much difference. I was
going to suggest we have dinner.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Well, there's a spot down the street a few blocks
the parmn Oh what I were waiting for, Sam? Yeah,
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I've been wondering.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
I was gonna buy another brandy.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Sure, No, I was wondering about that twenty five thousand.
What are you going to do with it? Oh?
Speaker 6 (17:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Got a girl? No?
Speaker 10 (17:26):
Why?
Speaker 7 (17:27):
Oh I don't know. Don't you ever think of the cottage?
Small white ticket, fence, roses around the door.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Quit kidding, failure anyway, I'm not in the market for
real estate. Yeah, so you're the big guy's girlfriend, then
that's right, meaning nothing?
Speaker 7 (17:47):
All right, So he buys me everything I need.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
M have fun while you're young.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
I say, you know something, I like you.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
I like you a lot, Eddie, Eddie, a little mixed up.
Speaker 7 (18:06):
Eddie, Frank Harry, Sam, what's the difference.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
What are you driving at, sweetheart?
Speaker 7 (18:12):
What is your name really?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Sam Leadford?
Speaker 7 (18:17):
You see, I close this deal with Sam Leadford in
person long before you showed up.
Speaker 8 (18:25):
Okay, so what does that for us?
Speaker 7 (18:29):
It's up to you.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
You went along with a deal even though you knew
I wasn't Leadford.
Speaker 7 (18:33):
I was in the market for a new pilot. Sam
was too talkative. Besides, I like you. I like your
names something for a girl to fall back on. Hell,
you're pretty okay in my.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
Book, Kelly First of Life, Kelly Owen, Kelly Owen, I
like that too.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Yeah. So let's get down to business. Now, let's start
with my twenty five grand So I'm not Leadford, but
I pulled a job.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I'm entitled dough of course you are.
Speaker 7 (19:01):
And more. Oh, how would you like to split one
hundred thousand dollars down.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
One hundred grand?
Speaker 7 (19:08):
Sound interesting?
Speaker 6 (19:08):
Very very tell me more.
Speaker 7 (19:11):
Let's get back to the plane. You have work to do.
Work the fuel line, remember, Oh sure, Kelly?
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (19:20):
Was that fuel line really giving trouble?
Speaker 6 (19:26):
What do you think?
Speaker 7 (19:41):
All right?
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Sweet right to pouse you fill me in.
Speaker 9 (19:44):
The big guy was willing to spend twenty five grands,
So long as he got back into the state. Yes,
I oh, I said to myself, wat should a little
steeler pick up that dough after the job was done?
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Right?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
Double cross? So you knock off the pilot, keep the
doll yourself?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Why not go on?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Well, when I saw you, another idea occurred to me.
A way we could both get more than the twenty
five thousand, and I'll need your help.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
My help, Uh, definitely, I knew that as soon as
you walk up to me in that hotel lobby.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
What's the deal?
Speaker 7 (20:12):
Nasty word? Blackmail?
Speaker 6 (20:15):
Oh, real nasty? But keep talking the big.
Speaker 9 (20:18):
Guys in the States now and he plans to stay
only how much do you think it would be worth
him to keep the informations in the police. You tell
me another seventy five thousand for a starter?
Speaker 6 (20:30):
So how do we set this up?
Speaker 7 (20:33):
First little trip to South America for you.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
I always wanted to go there too.
Speaker 9 (20:37):
I'll go on to join the big guy in New Orleans.
He's rented a house there twenty one St.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Germain and and in about a month he gets a
letter from South America.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
The blackmail pitch he pays off or else. I like
blackmail by long distance much healthy.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Well, Kelly, is it a deal?
Speaker 6 (20:57):
Yep? One more thing? How do I get to South America?
Speaker 7 (21:01):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:02):
That yeah? That my twenty five brand?
Speaker 7 (21:04):
I have it.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
You'll need let's say, five thousand to get settled. You'll
want a few thousand to spend. So I'll give you
half now, twelve thousand.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Five hundred.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
What about the other half.
Speaker 9 (21:16):
I'll hold onto it for the time being, just to
be sure you don't double across me in South America.
Speaker 7 (21:21):
After you clip the big Guy, we'll meet down there
in it. Well, do you think you can stand to
have me around, partner?
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Mm hmmm, Oh, give me time, sweetheart. I just might
go to love you.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Flying north along the coast. Your mind is spinning, isn't it, Kelly.
There's twenty five thousand dollars in feel a suitcase, and
there will be another seventy five thousand once you reach
South America and send the blackmail letter to the big guy,
one hundred thousand in all, Kelly. That is if he
doesn't double cross. After all, she was willing to double
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cross Sam, wasn't she. Yes, And you decide quietly not
to take a chance on to follow through a loan. Now,
not share the money? With anyone, not even Celia.
Speaker 7 (22:18):
Darling. Do me a favor. Sure you have to fly
over the water and makes me nervous.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Oh what your dip land of water? If you fall,
your fall? Hide?
Speaker 10 (22:27):
Oh please relax, heilor Hey, how do we address the
big guy in New Orleans again?
Speaker 7 (22:34):
Nick you twenty one Roussaint Jermain. You won't forget it,
will you?
Speaker 3 (22:38):
Daughter?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
I won't Nick Hugh's twenty one Roussaint Germain. I won't
forget it.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Your fist lashes out, catches Cela on the point of
the chin, and she slumps down in the seat. Reach over,
open the door beside tall walk sweetheart. It's over quickly,
and you're alone in the plane with a full twenty
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five thousand dollars. You swing the nose around head inland
and soon ease into a landing in an empty pasture
not far from the highway. A truck driver gives you
a lift into Los Angeles, where you spend the rest
of the night in a quiet hotel. The following morning,
you're downtown. First stop the fashionable men's store.
Speaker 6 (23:31):
May I help you, sir?
Speaker 10 (23:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:32):
Shoot the works, I beg your pardon. I tried out
the best you got suit sport outfits. I r in
the market for a complete wardrobe. Oh yes, sir, if
this will I'll need some luggage to that uh light
airplane stuff. Of course you are planning a trip, yeah,
South America. By the way, Western nearest airline office.
Speaker 8 (23:55):
Down the street three blocks.
Speaker 10 (23:57):
However, if we may be of assistance, that is to say,
if you should care to use our Telenana.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
Thanks, I'll walk down after I finish here. Oh, mister Knowles,
this way please, best man in the story. He will
take care of you.
Speaker 8 (24:08):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I hope you have a pleasant trip and a most
enjoyable stay in South America.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Sir, Thanks again. I'm sure I'll have a great time. Yeah,
a great time.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
A friend of mine was telling me last night that
when he's eating out, he always chooses a restaurant that's crowded.
They must have something, he says, to be so popular. Well,
by the same token, Signal gasoline must have something. When
you consider that last month drivers bought more gallons of
Signal gasoline than during any other month in signal history.
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What is that something which accounts for such increasing popularity.
Some users tell us it's good mile age, which has
made signal known throughout the West as the go Farther gasoline.
Others say it's the life and pep and smooth easy
response they get with the gasoline. It's engineered to help
your motor run more efficiently. But frankly, friends, just as
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sure as my name's Marvin Miller, you're never going to
know all the good reasons why so many drivers are
switching to signal until you try a few tankfuls in
your own car. Do it this week and see if
you don't agree with me. You get a full full
measure of all the things that make driving more pleasure
when you fill up with signal famous go farther gasoline.
Speaker 10 (25:40):
Same No, take the gasoline, your car, go the gasoline.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
The future looks bright, doesn't it, Kelly very and you're
looking forward to your trip to South America. You're carrying
close to twenty five thousand with you now, and this
to be more a great deal more. Once you reached
Rio and set up your plan to blackmail a big
guy who has entered the United States illegally. The following morning,
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the airline limousine picked you up at the hotel, takes
you out to the airport, and then as you're checking
your luggage, mister.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Owen kelly On, Yeah, that's right. I'm Lieutenant Dawson lay homicide.
Speaker 6 (26:35):
Homicide. Now.
Speaker 5 (26:36):
He bought a new wardrobe downtown yesterday, didn't you.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
Yeah? I did. The scar of the old suit you
were wearing left at the shop. Sure, I told a
clerk to give it to his favorite charity. So what well?
Speaker 5 (26:48):
It wrapped something out of your wallet as you were
transferring into your new clothes. The clerk tried to catch up,
it couldn't, and when he noticed the name he'd seen
in the papers, he called us.
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Look, I don't follow this. Here's what the clerk.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
Found, identification cards, including a pilots license made out to
Sam Ldford Ldford. Yeah, better turn in your plane, take
of mister Rowan. You aren't going anywhere.
Speaker 6 (27:10):
Wait a minute, what's this all about? That's what we
want to know.
Speaker 7 (27:14):
You see.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Sam Ledford was found in a hotel room late last
night dead.
Speaker 6 (27:19):
He'd been murdered. Murdered. Sila Pegla must have got him.
When she went back to make that call.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
You were carrying Sam Ledford's pilot slcens around. I'm afraid
that's one you'll never be able to explain, mister Rowan, Let.
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H siity.
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