September 28, 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 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.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Whistler.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Signal, the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to sit
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange 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 (01:11):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler Strange story,
Seattle Take Free.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was a pleasant sensation Ted Cordrey was experiencing, staring
down at the big pile of money on the bed coat,
his eyes lingering over the hundreds of small bills, a
moment before he would shove them into this half packed suitcase. Yes,
a pleasant sensation, because the job was done and soon
Ted would be on his way out of Los Angeles
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without a worry in the world, probably forever. A strange contrast,
all that money and the shabby hotel room that Ted
Cordrey had been forced to take until his departure. But
that sort of thing could be over Forevermber two.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Ted was thinking.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Then quickly, Ted shoved the money under some clothing in
his suitcase, snapped the case shut. He crossed slowly to
the door.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Come on, Ted, open up.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I know you're in there, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's me teddy boy surprised.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh, not to say, an old friend. What do you want?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Andie? Well, might you close the door? Teddy boyd and
somebody might be passing by?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, so what's that to me?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, I'll close it for you. Got anything to drink around? Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, No, this is kind of a temporary set up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Andy. You see.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What's a laugh for? What's so funny? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You're funny trying to play some innocent around little Andy.
It won't work, teddy boy, I know what's cooking, and
what is cooking about? Thirty geez, they're hot enough to
cook anyway. Oh, still not going to drop it. Huh. Okay,
it's money. Gus Stillman collected from the two dollar bookies
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and gave you to the distribute of the boys. Only
they didn't know he gave it to you and poor
old Gus got himself thrown over by a car. So
so so Teddy Boy and me his good friend Andy,
you gotta saw some dough. Uh A shakedown huh. It's
(03:31):
not like you, Andy, not like you at all. Getting tired, real, Tie,
I won't you never argue you. It ain't have Give
me a and I'll be on my way. You think
you will, But how long? Andy, hoddy boy, I said,
I'm tired. I won't chase after you. No, I know
you won't.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
That's a boy because you won't know where to chase.
The only thing you won't do is tell the boys,
because that cuts you out entirely, and because you know
what they do if they found out. You'd wait until
after I left town. The No, you look handy right
this way. I got a cleaner shot at your jar.
It won't hurt so much. And Andy, you said you're tired.
This will give you some rest.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
One blow, does it?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Doesn't it? Tad?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Andy sinks slowly passes out on the floor of your
hotel room. There's only one Wordy, You'll be covering every
bus and railroad station in town in an hour or so.
Tie him up securely with a handkerchief over his mouth.
Decide this will keep him quiet long enough for you
to catch a plane. You grab your suitcase, step out
of the room, and lock the door downstairs. You pay
(04:40):
your bill, step into a phone booth and call.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The airlines.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Central Airlines. I want passage for one please the next
planet in San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, sir, we can accommodate you.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That will be six eleven. That's three hour r is
haven't anything else? I'll try another line.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You don't like to stay too long in the phone,
do you tear? Not with Andy unconscious just upstairs, But
you take time to call two more airlines with the
same results, no space or a later departure. You're wondering
what to do when you hear an odd tapping on
the glass door of the phone booth. Your turn almost
frees to the spot at the sight of a girl
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who's staring in at you, smiling, amusing me.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh, hello, Betty, Hello, tes get your party. No, no, there,
they're calling me back.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You never call me anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I wish we could talk things over.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I made a mistake.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
It's you.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I want great tell that to your husband.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Please let me talk.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I'm in a hurry. I got things to do.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I gotta lot.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
How'd you know I was staying here?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
All right, I'll admit it.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
I followed you, saw you on the street the other day,
followed you a little puppy dog.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
You sure that's it? You weren't talking to Andy.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Andy Clark, I haven't seen him for months.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Up to a guy?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Will it?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I might scare up enough for a drink.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Look, I have to make this one call.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's important. Then I want to get out of this place.
It gives me the creeps. I'll wait for you, okay,
only wait around the corner. There's a little bar there,
kind of nice. I'll be right over, Betty.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Sure, sure, funny, I believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Make it the huh yeah, ten minutes I'll be sitting
right here reading the paper until his phone rooms.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You pick up a paper, Ted, make it look good
as Betty smiles and walks towards the hotel exit. You're
about to leave when your eyes fasten on something in
the paper. You're holding a little item in the classified section.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Driving Seattle Monday, a m can take three share expenses
called Midland ninety seven eight nine.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Mister Bemis, there it is Ted. Your answer.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You circle it with a pencil. It's your way out
of town, no matter who might be watching. And they
or any of the boys he referred to, they never
expects you to travel listling. It's so simple, Ted and
he can check every depot in town.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Man seven eight nine, mister Bemis, you're beams.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
What kind of well my name is Cordray. I saw
you're riding this morning's paper.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Yes, yes, yes, mister Cordray. Like to make the trip
with me?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Nice, come to my car. Yeah, how many are taking?
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Well? Now to be perfectly honest, and I expected of
people myself. No one, just no one's fallned me yet.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
First time.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
I haven't tried this sort of thing when I saved something.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Look beamus, I like it better that way. Yeah, I'll
go the whole thing, whatever it costs. How soon can
we get away?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Well, sir, you take me by surprise.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Let me see.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Now you starting right out night driving spade? You know,
how about five thirty in the morning. I'll pick you up.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Never mind, I'll meet you where you're staying.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Trouble where I said, the Midtown hotel?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The Midtown good enough, I'll be there five thirty, right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The Midtown Ted at five thirty, and you'll be on
your way out of town. You wish you could share
the luxury of mister Beamis address tonight, but you can't.
You've got to hide out Ted from Andy and anyone
else who might be interested, and of course from your
old girlfriend. Better you can't risk seeing her a motel
on the outskirts of the city. So the problem doesn't
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And the next morning, promptly, at five thirty, you're waiting
in the chain air outside the Midtown the big car
pulls up near.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
The curve older you're looking for Buel Beams.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes, mister Beamis, that's right.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I'll put your bag in.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Bag if you don't mind, I'll think you worse to.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Tell miss quadre get right in. What's your first name?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Ted? From now on, I'll make.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
It Tad, save time you call me Buel.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
All right, Buel, let's.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Go run our way. How do you like this boat?
Pat's walking? Huh?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, yeah, it's a nice car. Now what roade are
we taking? Mister Beamis, make it Buel, please.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I think one hundred and one is best more divided high.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I think there's a quicker way again on one on
one if you'll turn a post.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Who forgot the TI I'm saving you money? Yes, sir,
A nice little couple are jointing called shortly after. Look,
I told you I know very decently too.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
But since they called in the car so big, so
roomy anyway, picking them up and Glendale, that's kind of out.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Of the way.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Oh, don't worry. How good is there tied? I know
a shortcut then using it for years?
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Yeah, like the fella says, you can't teach an old
dog new tricks.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, you aren't pleased, are you ted?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But there's little you can do about the young couple
Buell Beamus is picking up, or about Buell Beamus himself.
You hadn't bargained on such a constant conversations. And in Glendale,
waiting outside a little duplex, this Beamus goes inside after
the couple. You're attempted to start the big car and
run off with you decide against it, then have cause
(10:57):
to regret the decision. The couple with Bemus you've never
seen the man, but the girl it's Betty, isn't it?
Getting right into the car.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Oh, mister cowdreymita missus Wilson Bob and Betty.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
And this is tedfolk, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Ted?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's a nice name.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
I knew it Ted once.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Never mentioned him to you, darling.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No, No, I don't think you did.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I should have.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
I think this is going to be fun mister cadre, Ted,
how did you happen to find out about mister Bemis?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I make that bull.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I ran across his adspaper.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Really, isn't that funny? I just happened to pick up
a newspaper too. Outside the phone booth, mister Bemis. Buell's
ad had been circled somebody who.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Didn't call her.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I suppose it's too bad.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
There's so much room here, more than mirror. Well, all set, Pop,
I'm fine, Bob, I'm all right good? And you Ted,
all set and all acquitted? Huh. I think it saves conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, let's save a little right now. But we'll get
this thing rolling a kidder.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
That's good. This trip will be dandy, real peachy dandy.
And folks, we're off.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Off to see the wizard.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
That little hand of mine was a good idea, A
very very good idea.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, just great.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
After last Sunday's broadcast, a Whistler fan came up to
me and asked, Marvin, how can you keep on thinking
of new things to say week after week about signal ethel? Well, friends,
keeping enthusiastic about the premium grade of signals famous go
farther gasoline is no problem at all. All I do
is drive into the nearest signal station and fill up
(13:08):
with signal ethyl.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Then I step on the gas.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
When I see how my car steps out ahead in
city traffic, I know what I'm going to say about
signal Ethyl's get up and go. When I point my
car up some steep hill and see how signal ethyl
keeps me in high right over the top, I know
what I'm going to say about signal Ethel's power. I
just say the same things you'll be saying once you
try this great gasoline. It's scientifically engineered to bring out
(13:34):
the best in any car of any age. In fact,
once you treat your car to a tank full of
this super powerful super fuel, I can just hear you saying,
Marvin Miller was sure right about signal ethyl.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was a shot, wasn't a tip? Your perfect plan
for slipping out of town backfire? Yes, when you're a
former girlfriend. Now Betty will stepped into the car in
which you thought you'd be driving alone with mister fuel bemus.
You realize now what a fool you were to leave
your newspaper where the ad circled in it. You should
have known Betty would have come back looking for you,
(14:27):
and you didn't keep your date with it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
When you begin to realize you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Were stupid to have used your real name with themis
slipped out before you've thought about it. But those mistakes
are behind you now did and Betty's sitting only a
few feet from you in the big car, listening along
with you and her husband to the rambling ceaseless talk
supplied by the driver and owner, mister fuel femas.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
But you see nice little valleys, beautiful hills, even see
the ocean every now and then.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You suppose we'll see a coffee shop, mule, I could
stand some Oh.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
No, justice, body, that's where I'm swinging back. Oh what
to pick up? One hundred and one?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Yeah you were glen there, folks. Don't be a little
out of the way.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Sorry, no, no, perfectly all right, worry tad here at all?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Really skip it.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Let's not wait till Castaic Beamus to join up. Ahead's fine,
Oh all right, but don't get sore.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Don't get sore.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He does stop, doesn't he? Tad?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
After you'd almost given up hope, Betty excuses herself while
her husband Bemus, and you enter the coffee shop. Later,
after your coffee, when Bemus returns to the car, you
manage a few moments alone with her as she waits
for her husband to return from a drug store half
a block away. Weren't you?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Frankly? Yes, how do you know I'd be in that car?
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Because you're a heel?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I mean specifically, how did you know.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Specifically you're a heel?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I came back into the hotel and outside the phone.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Booths was like, pay You've heard every word practically. The
newspaper told me the rest.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
So where do we go from here?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Seattle?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I believe the ad said.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Your husband does he jump whenever you give the order?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sometimes this was one.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He isn't too well?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Out of work?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I said there was a job for me in Seattle nightclub.
Wouldn't let me go alone, that's all.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's pretty slick, and the one is no job.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
There'll be no better either.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
She's going with Ted.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Isn't that right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I guess so. All right, I've got no objection. Have
you given any thought to what we'll use for money?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Do you? I'm broke, Betty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You always manage satisfied to take that kind of a chance, Uh,
have you? Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Okay, you seem to be calling the players. There's your
husband getting into the car. Come on, let's get started.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You're not too worried?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Are your ted?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
With Betty's husband along watching her worrying about her, you'll
be able to get away, perhaps in San Francisco. Meanwhile,
you can keep her assured that everything's all right. Back
in the car and on the road, everything doesn't go
all right Betty's husband. You happen to turn around just
in time to see him pitch forward slightly, clutching in
his stomach.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
What is it? I don't know, my stomach is shop?
Probably those donuts back there.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
I told you we shouldn't wait until we got to
catch there because the spots shap.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
It's happened before, isn't well.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You gotta find him a.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Dog for you'll heard her find a doctor. Turn around.
Somebody back there can tell us where to go.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
All right, whatever you.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Say sometime later, you're sitting in the waiting room of
a small hospital just off.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The main highway.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Demus nervously pacing the floor, stopping occasionally to glance at
the wall clock over your head.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Wonder how much longer we'll be here?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
What's your hurry?
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Well, we'll be getting dark before too long, and I
just don't like to drive at night, my boy.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Well, last, we can stop over somewhere along the road.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Oh, missus Wilson, how is he said?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Bobby's too sick to go on?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That is a shame. Yeah, that's too bad, Betty, Yes,
isn't it.
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Well that's that I suppose you'll be staying here, of
course cars, mister Deans.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
In that case, we might as well be on our
waybew Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
I had to turn out this way, missus Wilson. Betty
certainly enjoyed your company, didn't we, My boy?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Yeah, really hate to say good.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Bye, but we must have.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
But we've got a lot of road ahead of us,
A lot of road. Goodbye me their goodbye miss along
my boy.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Yeah, you're really going. I got business up north. Can't wait,
I can't not No, I'm not like this, that's right.
You can't leave me there. You're coming so lork sweet
see you around.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Back in the car, speeding north. You lean back in
your seat, please, With the way things have turned out, yes,
you're rid of Betty, now, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ted?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Once and for all you are certain of that, and
it's a big load off your mind. Finally, with the
coming of darkness, Beamus drives into a motel. After a
few drinks at the bar, dinner, you're retired to the
privacy of your own room. Open your suitcase.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
The money, it's gone. The money's gone, Betty. But we
stopped a coffee. She went back to the car. That's
what she took it.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Famous, get your stuff, Famous, we're leaving, leaving.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I was just about get your stuff. We're going back.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
We see here, my boy, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Going back?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Where? To the hospital where we left?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
To Wilson, the hospital that's miles back?
Speaker 7 (20:19):
What what?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Never mind the questions, get dressed.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
See here, Ted, I don't think I care to drive
all the way back there at this time.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That not this gun says we're going back, boy, I
don't care. Get excited.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I'll do whatever you say, only only put that gun away.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Gets you have a patient here. Mister Wilson came in
this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Wis oh, oh, yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I was wondering if Missus Wilson.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I'm sorry, sir, mister Wilson died on the operating table
two hours ago.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He died. Yes, I see.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Is missus Wilson still here?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
No? She left some time ago with doctor Mason. I
believe he was going.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
To drive it to the bus stop, the bus stop.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Down at the end of the street. She said something
about going back to Los Angeles too. Informality.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
At almost one o'clock in the morning, before you catch
sight of the southbound bus arked off the highway in
front of an all night cafe. As you order Beamus
to stop the car, you glanced inside the cafe. See
Betty sitting at the counter. Not too late, and this
time you're really glad to see Betty.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Okay, bemus, thanks for everything.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Mean and I can go now.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah, that's right, don'tont lead you anymore. Go on, get lost.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Believe me, this is the last time I'll advertise for past.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yes, honey, nobody ever puts anything over.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Charlie Simms been in the business.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Tomorrow for that.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
What did you say your name was honey.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I didn't say, oh that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, well, as I was saying, a guy in the
road like me gets to know all the ankles, see
all the.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh ery.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I hope I'm not intruding. No, of course not, mister Cordy.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
This is mister Simms.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
As a matter of fact, mister Simms here was just
about to get back.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
On the bus.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, yes, siree here, and they
have my chair? Yes, thanks, yeah, see you folks.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Later the bus line casts an over pestering me ever
since I got on the bus.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Wouldn't be out of his sight?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
So bad about your husband, wasn't it? How did you
know I went back to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Why did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Well? I get to thinking it over. How about you
came back?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Cause me?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
You know, don Will? What did you think i'd do?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Okay, what's the matter.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Believe me, I didn't expect.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You to come.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
That's a good baby, because you're not what I came
back for. I'll give you a big clue. You've got
something that appeals to me very much, my money.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Money.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
How come you didn't leave your suitcase on the bus.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I wanted to fishing up a little while we were waiting.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, I'll bet.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Come on, baby, you and I are going to take
a little walk.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
There's a nice little country road right across the highway.
It won't take long. It'll be all over before you know. Probably.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
The question drivers ask each other most often is how
much oil do you have to add between grains? That's
practically the same as asking how much engine ware do
you have?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
When oil consumption begins to climb, engine were is usually
one of the principal causes. That's why signals new premium
motor oil, which reduces engine ware due to lubrication fifty percent,
is such good news for drivers. Just think of it,
new signal premium. By reducing engine were fifty percent, every
mile you drive should double the number of miles you'll
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continue to enjoy low oil consumption. If your car isn't
already an oil eater, should double the number of miles
you can drive before your motor needs an overhaul due
to engine were should double the number of miles your
car will keep. It's like new PEP and power. Yet
all this extra protection of signals new heavy duty type
motor oil is yours that no increase in price. If
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you just remember one thing, get your next oil change
at a signal service station. Where at a signal station
you were right, weren't you tied?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It was all over before Betty Wilson knew you killed
her without a sound, quickly opened her purse. The money
wasn't there. You discarded it. Then pick up her traveling
bag you're certain contains the thirty thousand dollars that were
stolen from your suitcase, and hurry back toward the highway.
Once there, you decide it's safer to forego the bus
and thumbaride this time.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
You don't want.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Any complications, do you, Tip? No Betty, no, mister Bemis,
no one but you. You wait until the bus leaves. Then,
as you start walking rapidly down the highway, a voice
calls on you to halt. The sheriff, isn't it tip?
You wonder what could have gone wrong, how he could
have spotted you so quickly, especially how he could know
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your name. But once in his office, it doesn't take
you long to find out, Well.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Cordray, we know you killed her.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
We've got witnesses.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Charlie Simms, one of the passengers on the back.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
That's what he says. He probably did it himself. She
told me he'd been annoying her.
Speaker 11 (26:23):
Won't do Cordrey Sims followed you and the girl from
the cafe down the road.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He saw your kilt, burd back and phone me. If
I hadn't lived close by you to have gotten away.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Why would I kill her? She was just an old friend.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I bumped into hats what we want to know why?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
We know you killed her, but we don't know why?
In your suitcase?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Will tell us?
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Well get that phone where this lad? Will I go
through the girl's suitcase? M He beats me, Cordrey, nothing
here but close?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Make up?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
What that's right? Well, I can't beat there's three thoughts.
Be sure?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Oh so that's why you killed her?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Money?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, okay, I'll tell her.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
What was it? Sage? That guy got himself killed in
a car pass guy were on the lookout for him
named Bemis, wanted by the LA police.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Bemis.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh yeah, yeah. He was running a pretty slick rocket
advertising in the newspaper for passing. People could share costs
and motor trips and then he'd drop them. Sure made
himself a haul on this trip. Had over thirty grand
in his pockets when they found him.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program the Whistler each Sunday night at the same time
meantime Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who
help you go farther with signal gasoline.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Hope you'll remember.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Regardless of what gasoline you use, you will enjoy more
miles of happy driving if you drive at sensible speeds,
obey taffic regulations, and avoid taking chances. When you take
a chance to save a moment, you take a chance
on that moment being your last. Featured in Tonight's story
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were Bill Forman High have a Bag, Gene Tatum, Herb Butterfield,
Nancy Cleveland, Dondileo.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And Peter Leaves.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
The Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen,
with story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatch, and
was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces
Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters
or trade on 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
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next Sunday, when the Signal Oil Company will bring you
another strange story by the whistler Marvin Miller speaking for
the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned now for our Miss
Brooks starring Eve Arden, which follows immediately.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
Over most of the stations.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Whistler.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Signal, the famous go Farther gasoline invite you to sit
back and enjoy another strange story by the Whistler.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things. For
I walk by night. I know many strange 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 (01:11):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler Strange story,
Seattle Take Free.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It was a pleasant sensation Ted Cordrey was experiencing, staring
down at the big pile of money on the bed coat,
his eyes lingering over the hundreds of small bills, a
moment before he would shove them into this half packed suitcase. Yes,
a pleasant sensation, because the job was done and soon
Ted would be on his way out of Los Angeles
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without a worry in the world, probably forever. A strange contrast,
all that money and the shabby hotel room that Ted
Cordrey had been forced to take until his departure. But
that sort of thing could be over Forevermber two.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Ted was thinking.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Then quickly, Ted shoved the money under some clothing in
his suitcase, snapped the case shut. He crossed slowly to
the door.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Come on, Ted, open up.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I know you're in there, Eddie.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Yeah, it's me teddy boy surprised.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Oh, not to say, an old friend. What do you want?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Andie? Well, might you close the door? Teddy boyd and
somebody might be passing by?
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Yeah, so what's that to me?
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, I'll close it for you. Got anything to drink around? Uh?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
No, No, this is kind of a temporary set up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Andy. You see.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
What's a laugh for? What's so funny? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You're funny trying to play some innocent around little Andy.
It won't work, teddy boy, I know what's cooking, and
what is cooking about? Thirty geez, they're hot enough to
cook anyway. Oh, still not going to drop it. Huh. Okay,
it's money. Gus Stillman collected from the two dollar bookies
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and gave you to the distribute of the boys. Only
they didn't know he gave it to you and poor
old Gus got himself thrown over by a car. So
so so Teddy Boy and me his good friend Andy,
you gotta saw some dough. Uh A shakedown huh. It's
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not like you, Andy, not like you at all. Getting tired, real, Tie,
I won't you never argue you. It ain't have Give
me a and I'll be on my way. You think
you will, But how long? Andy, hoddy boy, I said,
I'm tired. I won't chase after you. No, I know
you won't.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
That's a boy because you won't know where to chase.
The only thing you won't do is tell the boys,
because that cuts you out entirely, and because you know
what they do if they found out. You'd wait until
after I left town. The No, you look handy right
this way. I got a cleaner shot at your jar.
It won't hurt so much. And Andy, you said you're tired.
This will give you some rest.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
One blow, does it?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Doesn't it? Tad?
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Andy sinks slowly passes out on the floor of your
hotel room. There's only one Wordy, You'll be covering every
bus and railroad station in town in an hour or so.
Tie him up securely with a handkerchief over his mouth.
Decide this will keep him quiet long enough for you
to catch a plane. You grab your suitcase, step out
of the room, and lock the door downstairs. You pay
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your bill, step into a phone booth and call.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
The airlines.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
Central Airlines. I want passage for one please the next
planet in San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
Yes, sir, we can accommodate you.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
That will be six eleven. That's three hour r is
haven't anything else? I'll try another line.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You don't like to stay too long in the phone,
do you tear? Not with Andy unconscious just upstairs, But
you take time to call two more airlines with the
same results, no space or a later departure. You're wondering
what to do when you hear an odd tapping on
the glass door of the phone booth. Your turn almost
frees to the spot at the sight of a girl
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who's staring in at you, smiling, amusing me.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh, hello, Betty, Hello, tes get your party. No, no, there,
they're calling me back.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
You never call me anymore.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I wish we could talk things over.
Speaker 7 (05:47):
I made a mistake.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
It's you.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I want great tell that to your husband.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Please let me talk.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
I'm in a hurry. I got things to do.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
I gotta lot.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
How'd you know I was staying here?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
All right, I'll admit it.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
I followed you, saw you on the street the other day,
followed you a little puppy dog.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Uh huh?
Speaker 4 (06:06):
You sure that's it? You weren't talking to Andy.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Andy Clark, I haven't seen him for months.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Up to a guy?
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Will it?
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I might scare up enough for a drink.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Look, I have to make this one call.
Speaker 5 (06:19):
It's important. Then I want to get out of this place.
It gives me the creeps. I'll wait for you, okay,
only wait around the corner. There's a little bar there,
kind of nice. I'll be right over, Betty.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Sure, sure, funny, I believe it.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Make it the huh yeah, ten minutes I'll be sitting
right here reading the paper until his phone rooms.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
You pick up a paper, Ted, make it look good
as Betty smiles and walks towards the hotel exit. You're
about to leave when your eyes fasten on something in
the paper. You're holding a little item in the classified section.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Driving Seattle Monday, a m can take three share expenses
called Midland ninety seven eight nine.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Mister Bemis, there it is Ted. Your answer.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
You circle it with a pencil. It's your way out
of town, no matter who might be watching. And they
or any of the boys he referred to, they never
expects you to travel listling. It's so simple, Ted and
he can check every depot in town.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Man seven eight nine, mister Bemis, you're beams.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's right?
Speaker 4 (07:40):
What kind of well my name is Cordray. I saw
you're riding this morning's paper.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
Yes, yes, yes, mister Cordray. Like to make the trip
with me?
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Nice, come to my car. Yeah, how many are taking?
Speaker 9 (07:49):
Well? Now to be perfectly honest, and I expected of
people myself. No one, just no one's fallned me yet.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
First time.
Speaker 9 (07:56):
I haven't tried this sort of thing when I saved something.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
Look beamus, I like it better that way. Yeah, I'll
go the whole thing, whatever it costs. How soon can
we get away?
Speaker 9 (08:06):
Well, sir, you take me by surprise.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
Let me see.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Now you starting right out night driving spade? You know,
how about five thirty in the morning. I'll pick you up.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
Never mind, I'll meet you where you're staying.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Trouble where I said, the Midtown hotel?
Speaker 4 (08:23):
The Midtown good enough, I'll be there five thirty, right.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
The Midtown Ted at five thirty, and you'll be on
your way out of town. You wish you could share
the luxury of mister Beamis address tonight, but you can't.
You've got to hide out Ted from Andy and anyone
else who might be interested, and of course from your
old girlfriend. Better you can't risk seeing her a motel
on the outskirts of the city. So the problem doesn't
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And the next morning, promptly, at five thirty, you're waiting
in the chain air outside the Midtown the big car
pulls up near.
Speaker 7 (09:03):
The curve older you're looking for Buel Beams.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yes, mister Beamis, that's right.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I'll put your bag in.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
Bag if you don't mind, I'll think you worse to.
Speaker 7 (09:14):
Tell miss quadre get right in. What's your first name?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
Ted? From now on, I'll make.
Speaker 7 (09:20):
It Tad, save time you call me Buel.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
All right, Buel, let's.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
Go run our way. How do you like this boat?
Pat's walking? Huh?
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Yes, yeah, it's a nice car. Now what roade are
we taking? Mister Beamis, make it Buel, please.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
I think one hundred and one is best more divided high.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
I think there's a quicker way again on one on
one if you'll turn a post.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
Who forgot the TI I'm saving you money? Yes, sir,
A nice little couple are jointing called shortly after. Look,
I told you I know very decently too.
Speaker 10 (10:03):
But since they called in the car so big, so
roomy anyway, picking them up and Glendale, that's kind of out.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Of the way.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Oh, don't worry. How good is there tied? I know
a shortcut then using it for years?
Speaker 10 (10:20):
Yeah, like the fella says, you can't teach an old
dog new tricks.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah, you aren't pleased, are you ted?
Speaker 3 (10:36):
But there's little you can do about the young couple
Buell Beamus is picking up, or about Buell Beamus himself.
You hadn't bargained on such a constant conversations. And in Glendale,
waiting outside a little duplex, this Beamus goes inside after
the couple. You're attempted to start the big car and
run off with you decide against it, then have cause
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to regret the decision. The couple with Bemus you've never
seen the man, but the girl it's Betty, isn't it?
Getting right into the car.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Oh, mister cowdreymita missus Wilson Bob and Betty.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Huh?
Speaker 7 (11:11):
And this is tedfolk, how do you do?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Ted?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That's a nice name.
Speaker 8 (11:16):
I knew it Ted once.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Never mentioned him to you, darling.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
No, No, I don't think you did.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I should have.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
I think this is going to be fun mister cadre, Ted,
how did you happen to find out about mister Bemis?
Speaker 7 (11:30):
I make that bull.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
I ran across his adspaper.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
Really, isn't that funny? I just happened to pick up
a newspaper too. Outside the phone booth, mister Bemis. Buell's
ad had been circled somebody who.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
Didn't call her.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
I suppose it's too bad.
Speaker 7 (11:51):
There's so much room here, more than mirror. Well, all set, Pop,
I'm fine, Bob, I'm all right good? And you Ted,
all set and all acquitted? Huh. I think it saves conversation.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yeah, let's save a little right now. But we'll get
this thing rolling a kidder.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
That's good. This trip will be dandy, real peachy dandy.
And folks, we're off.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Off to see the wizard.
Speaker 9 (12:26):
That little hand of mine was a good idea, A
very very good idea.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Yeah, just great.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
After last Sunday's broadcast, a Whistler fan came up to
me and asked, Marvin, how can you keep on thinking
of new things to say week after week about signal ethel? Well, friends,
keeping enthusiastic about the premium grade of signals famous go
farther gasoline is no problem at all. All I do
is drive into the nearest signal station and fill up
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with signal ethyl.
Speaker 7 (13:09):
Then I step on the gas.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
When I see how my car steps out ahead in
city traffic, I know what I'm going to say about
signal Ethyl's get up and go. When I point my
car up some steep hill and see how signal ethyl
keeps me in high right over the top, I know
what I'm going to say about signal Ethel's power. I
just say the same things you'll be saying once you
try this great gasoline. It's scientifically engineered to bring out
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the best in any car of any age. In fact,
once you treat your car to a tank full of
this super powerful super fuel, I can just hear you saying,
Marvin Miller was sure right about signal ethyl.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
It was a shot, wasn't a tip? Your perfect plan
for slipping out of town backfire? Yes, when you're a
former girlfriend. Now Betty will stepped into the car in
which you thought you'd be driving alone with mister fuel bemus.
You realize now what a fool you were to leave
your newspaper where the ad circled in it. You should
have known Betty would have come back looking for you,
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and you didn't keep your date with it.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
When you begin to realize you.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Were stupid to have used your real name with themis
slipped out before you've thought about it. But those mistakes
are behind you now did and Betty's sitting only a
few feet from you in the big car, listening along
with you and her husband to the rambling ceaseless talk
supplied by the driver and owner, mister fuel femas.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
But you see nice little valleys, beautiful hills, even see
the ocean every now and then.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
You suppose we'll see a coffee shop, mule, I could
stand some Oh.
Speaker 10 (14:58):
No, justice, body, that's where I'm swinging back. Oh what
to pick up? One hundred and one?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Yeah you were glen there, folks. Don't be a little
out of the way.
Speaker 10 (15:09):
Sorry, no, no, perfectly all right, worry tad here at all?
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Really skip it.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Let's not wait till Castaic Beamus to join up. Ahead's fine,
Oh all right, but don't get sore.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Don't get sore.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
He does stop, doesn't he? Tad?
Speaker 3 (15:28):
After you'd almost given up hope, Betty excuses herself while
her husband Bemus, and you enter the coffee shop. Later,
after your coffee, when Bemus returns to the car, you
manage a few moments alone with her as she waits
for her husband to return from a drug store half
a block away. Weren't you?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
Frankly? Yes, how do you know I'd be in that car?
Speaker 6 (15:50):
Because you're a heel?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I mean specifically, how did you know.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Specifically you're a heel?
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I came back into the hotel and outside the phone.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Booths was like, pay You've heard every word practically. The
newspaper told me the rest.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
So where do we go from here?
Speaker 7 (16:06):
Seattle?
Speaker 3 (16:07):
I believe the ad said.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Your husband does he jump whenever you give the order?
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Sometimes this was one.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He isn't too well?
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Out of work?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
I said there was a job for me in Seattle nightclub.
Wouldn't let me go alone, that's all.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
It's pretty slick, and the one is no job.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
There'll be no better either.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
She's going with Ted.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Isn't that right? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:35):
I guess so. All right, I've got no objection. Have
you given any thought to what we'll use for money?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
No?
Speaker 4 (16:46):
Do you? I'm broke, Betty.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
You always manage satisfied to take that kind of a chance, Uh,
have you? Yes?
Speaker 5 (16:56):
Okay, you seem to be calling the players. There's your
husband getting into the car. Come on, let's get started.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You're not too worried?
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Are your ted?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
With Betty's husband along watching her worrying about her, you'll
be able to get away, perhaps in San Francisco. Meanwhile,
you can keep her assured that everything's all right. Back
in the car and on the road, everything doesn't go
all right Betty's husband. You happen to turn around just
in time to see him pitch forward slightly, clutching in
his stomach.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
What is it? I don't know, my stomach is shop?
Probably those donuts back there.
Speaker 10 (17:40):
I told you we shouldn't wait until we got to
catch there because the spots shap.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
It's happened before, isn't well.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You gotta find him a.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Dog for you'll heard her find a doctor. Turn around.
Somebody back there can tell us where to go.
Speaker 7 (17:52):
All right, whatever you.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Say sometime later, you're sitting in the waiting room of
a small hospital just off.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
The main highway.
Speaker 3 (18:07):
Demus nervously pacing the floor, stopping occasionally to glance at
the wall clock over your head.
Speaker 7 (18:14):
Wonder how much longer we'll be here?
Speaker 4 (18:16):
What's your hurry?
Speaker 10 (18:17):
Well, we'll be getting dark before too long, and I
just don't like to drive at night, my boy.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Well, last, we can stop over somewhere along the road.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Oh, missus Wilson, how is he said?
Speaker 6 (18:27):
Bobby's too sick to go on?
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That is a shame. Yeah, that's too bad, Betty, Yes,
isn't it.
Speaker 10 (18:35):
Well that's that I suppose you'll be staying here, of
course cars, mister Deans.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
In that case, we might as well be on our
waybew Oh yeah, yes.
Speaker 10 (18:44):
I had to turn out this way, missus Wilson. Betty
certainly enjoyed your company, didn't we, My boy?
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Yeah, really hate to say good.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Bye, but we must have.
Speaker 7 (18:54):
But we've got a lot of road ahead of us,
A lot of road. Goodbye me their goodbye miss along
my boy.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Yeah, you're really going. I got business up north. Can't wait,
I can't not No, I'm not like this, that's right.
You can't leave me there. You're coming so lork sweet
see you around.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
Back in the car, speeding north. You lean back in
your seat, please, With the way things have turned out, yes,
you're rid of Betty, now, aren't you?
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Ted?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Once and for all you are certain of that, and
it's a big load off your mind. Finally, with the
coming of darkness, Beamus drives into a motel. After a
few drinks at the bar, dinner, you're retired to the
privacy of your own room. Open your suitcase.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
The money, it's gone. The money's gone, Betty. But we
stopped a coffee. She went back to the car. That's
what she took it.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
Famous, get your stuff, Famous, we're leaving, leaving.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
I was just about get your stuff. We're going back.
Speaker 7 (20:13):
We see here, my boy, what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Going back?
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Where? To the hospital where we left?
Speaker 3 (20:17):
To Wilson, the hospital that's miles back?
Speaker 7 (20:19):
What what?
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Never mind the questions, get dressed.
Speaker 10 (20:22):
See here, Ted, I don't think I care to drive
all the way back there at this time.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
That not this gun says we're going back, boy, I
don't care. Get excited.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
I'll do whatever you say, only only put that gun away.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Gets you have a patient here. Mister Wilson came in
this afternoon.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
Wis oh, oh, yeah, you're.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
I was wondering if Missus Wilson.
Speaker 6 (21:00):
I'm sorry, sir, mister Wilson died on the operating table
two hours ago.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
He died. Yes, I see.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Is missus Wilson still here?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
No? She left some time ago with doctor Mason. I
believe he was going.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
To drive it to the bus stop, the bus stop.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Down at the end of the street. She said something
about going back to Los Angeles too. Informality.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Thanks.
Speaker 3 (21:33):
At almost one o'clock in the morning, before you catch
sight of the southbound bus arked off the highway in
front of an all night cafe. As you order Beamus
to stop the car, you glanced inside the cafe. See
Betty sitting at the counter. Not too late, and this
time you're really glad to see Betty.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Okay, bemus, thanks for everything.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
Mean and I can go now.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah, that's right, don'tont lead you anymore. Go on, get lost.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
Believe me, this is the last time I'll advertise for past.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Yes, honey, nobody ever puts anything over.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Charlie Simms been in the business.
Speaker 7 (22:21):
Tomorrow for that.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
What did you say your name was honey.
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I didn't say, oh that's right.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
You didn't.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Well, well, as I was saying, a guy in the
road like me gets to know all the ankles, see
all the.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Oh ery.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
I hope I'm not intruding. No, of course not, mister Cordy.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
This is mister Simms.
Speaker 8 (22:43):
As a matter of fact, mister Simms here was just
about to get back.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
On the bus.
Speaker 7 (22:49):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, yes, siree here, and they
have my chair? Yes, thanks, yeah, see you folks.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
Later the bus line casts an over pestering me ever
since I got on the bus.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Wouldn't be out of his sight?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
So bad about your husband, wasn't it? How did you
know I went back to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Why did you do?
Speaker 4 (23:16):
Well? I get to thinking it over. How about you
came back?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Cause me?
Speaker 4 (23:24):
You know, don Will? What did you think i'd do?
Speaker 3 (23:28):
Okay, what's the matter.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Believe me, I didn't expect.
Speaker 3 (23:32):
You to come.
Speaker 5 (23:33):
That's a good baby, because you're not what I came
back for. I'll give you a big clue. You've got
something that appeals to me very much, my money.
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Money.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
How come you didn't leave your suitcase on the bus.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
I wanted to fishing up a little while we were waiting.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
Yeah, I'll bet.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Come on, baby, you and I are going to take
a little walk.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
There's a nice little country road right across the highway.
It won't take long. It'll be all over before you know. Probably.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
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much oil do you have to add between grains? That's
practically the same as asking how much engine ware do
you have?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
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you just remember one thing, get your next oil change
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you were right, weren't you tied?
Speaker 3 (25:27):
It was all over before Betty Wilson knew you killed
her without a sound, quickly opened her purse. The money
wasn't there. You discarded it. Then pick up her traveling
bag you're certain contains the thirty thousand dollars that were
stolen from your suitcase, and hurry back toward the highway.
Once there, you decide it's safer to forego the bus
and thumbaride this time.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
You don't want.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Any complications, do you, Tip? No Betty, no, mister Bemis,
no one but you. You wait until the bus leaves. Then,
as you start walking rapidly down the highway, a voice
calls on you to halt. The sheriff, isn't it tip?
You wonder what could have gone wrong, how he could
have spotted you so quickly, especially how he could know
(26:09):
your name. But once in his office, it doesn't take
you long to find out, Well.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Cordray, we know you killed her.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
We've got witnesses.
Speaker 4 (26:17):
Charlie Simms, one of the passengers on the back.
Speaker 5 (26:20):
That's what he says. He probably did it himself. She
told me he'd been annoying her.
Speaker 11 (26:23):
Won't do Cordrey Sims followed you and the girl from
the cafe down the road.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
He saw your kilt, burd back and phone me. If
I hadn't lived close by you to have gotten away.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Why would I kill her? She was just an old friend.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
I bumped into hats what we want to know why?
Speaker 2 (26:39):
We know you killed her, but we don't know why?
In your suitcase?
Speaker 4 (26:44):
Will tell us?
Speaker 11 (26:46):
Well get that phone where this lad? Will I go
through the girl's suitcase? M He beats me, Cordrey, nothing
here but close?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Make up?
Speaker 4 (27:01):
What that's right? Well, I can't beat there's three thoughts.
Be sure?
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Oh so that's why you killed her?
Speaker 3 (27:10):
Money?
Speaker 4 (27:11):
Yeah, okay, I'll tell her.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
What was it? Sage? That guy got himself killed in
a car pass guy were on the lookout for him
named Bemis, wanted by the LA police.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
Bemis.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Oh yeah, yeah. He was running a pretty slick rocket
advertising in the newspaper for passing. People could share costs
and motor trips and then he'd drop them. Sure made
himself a haul on this trip. Had over thirty grand
in his pockets when they found him.
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meantime Signal Oil Company and the friendly independent dealers who
help you go farther with signal gasoline.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Hope you'll remember.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
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miles of happy driving if you drive at sensible speeds,
obey taffic regulations, and avoid taking chances. When you take
a chance to save a moment, you take a chance
on that moment being your last. Featured in Tonight's story
(28:41):
were Bill Forman High have a Bag, Gene Tatum, Herb Butterfield,
Nancy Cleveland, Dondileo.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
And Peter Leaves.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
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with story by Joel Malone, music by Wilbur Hatch, and
was transmitted to our troops overseas by the Armed Forces
Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters
or trade on the Whistler are also fictional. Any similarity
of names or resemblance to persons living or dead is
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another strange story by the whistler Marvin Miller speaking for
the Signal Oil Company. Stay tuned now for our Miss
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