October 3, 2025 • 29 mins
The Whistler was a suspenseful mystery anthology that ran from 1942-1955. A character known only as the Whistler was the host and narrator of the tales, which focused on crime and fate and had a suspenseful and eerie tone, always ending with a twist. The Whistler was later adapted to television.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now stay tuned for the 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 Signal, the famous Go Father Gasoline.
(00:28):
Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hut arts
of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange story.
The House on Hainesley Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The old Hacket Place on Hainesley Boulevard, was a monument
of the past, built by the very first of the
Hackets to arrive in California, good many years before. It
clung now to its former grandeur with a sort of quiet,
determined tenacity. But one evening, shortly after midnight, the quiet
of the neighborhood was suddenly shattered, the air torn with
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a startling cry, Yes, the cry of fire knifing through
the stillness of freelone.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Heinsley boulevards.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The old house threatened as flames lead to envelop it,
and immediately the street was alive with activity and miraculously
coming swiftly to the rescue a fire engine. It's cruel
working skillfully fighting off the threat of destruction. And then
out of the crowd a man appeared.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
The house is safe, yeah, I see no one in there?
Is there, mister Hackett?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You're Antleona way, she's away, thank Heaven, spending the night
in Glendale.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
How did it happen, Lieutenant Mellin? How did you start?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I went past about half an hour ago, going on duty.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I know, and Leona will be grateful to you, lieutenant.
Oh forget it.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The funny thing though, mister Hackett thought I saw somebody running.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Away from the place.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Huh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Well I'll see you later, mister Haggtt.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Sure, and thanks Mullen. Had it been sick if anything
had happened to the old place.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You are sick inside, aren't you, Frank, Because you're fail
so completely, And even as you thank Police Lieutenant Mullen
for his swift action, you'll inwardly curse yourself forgetting that
he passes this way regularly, not only a matter of
half an hour destroyed your timing, and you have to
have money soon, five thousand dollars to clear your gambling
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debt with Dino d Coasta, or the payoff will be
your life, even with the damage very slightly. Scene with
Aunt Leona the next morning is a non pleasant one
as she surveys the court section at the rear of
the old place.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Disgraceful.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Oh, there's very little damage, ant Leona.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
It isn't the extent of the damage. It's your carelessness
that disturbs me.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
I've left you everything I have in my will, and
all I ask in return is that you assume some
responsibility and make things easier for me while I'm still here.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Look, aunt Leona, it could have been much worse. You
were yourself sick over this house.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
It's my home, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's my home too, Aunt Leona. Mine half yours according
to Kathy's.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Will, and it'll be all yours when I die, along
with everything else I have.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
But I'm not did yet, Frank.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Just the same way, or except mister Fleming's offer to.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Buy if you ask me, no one's asking you.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The old argument sounds even more hollow than usual, doesn't it, Frank?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You're not getting anywhere with Aunt Leona, and.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You wish you were out of your way. You can't
help thinking how pleasant your situation would be if something
happened to that. You have everything you wanted. You could
square yourself with Dino and have all you'd ever need. Besides,
and there isn't much time, is there, Frank. Reno's given
you ten days. You can't stall much longer. Later that
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day you seek out the only solace these last few
months have offered Adele Richards lovely beautiful. You could marry her.
You could support it, couldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You, Frank.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
She's a stubborn old woman. Fleming's up that has bought
up most of the other houses along the street.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But you won't sell. You're going to put up an
office building.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Eventually, probably sure when it's too late. Oh Cappy had
the right idea. Captain Hackett, nat Leona's husband, he up
and left about eight years ago, went out one night
for some pipe tobacco, and so he said, never came back.
I don't blame him, But then he had some money
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they could afford to run.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
I can't you.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
From her and from an infernal old house. Yes you darling?
Never okay? Oh great, don't answer me, really, I have to.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Oh, yes, yes, he's here. I'll call him.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It's do you know you're here?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Okay? Hello, Dino.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I thought I might catch you at your girlfriends.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I was reading the.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Papers, Frank, that was that dumb thing to do? What
was setting fire to your house?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're nuts?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No, No, you know you're wrong. I didn't show you
did and it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I just wanted you to know.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's a bom mangled Frank.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
What difference does it make to you what I do
to settle with you?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I don't like strings on anything that's mine at five Granulemi.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I want it on time, but I want.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It clean, remember that, Frank?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Hello? Hello, damn nothing by I'm sorry, honey. I got
out of my mind.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Something to do with gambling and Dino da cross to
that's obvious.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
What is it's? Wow?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Might as well know I'm in the Dino for five
thousand dollars. I've got to get hold of the money
some way.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Oh, Frank, why don't you go to your aunt? Tell
her everything?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Should or stack? You don't know, Aunt Leona Dale. If
I did that, you'd cut me out of her whill everything. No,
I'll have to get the money for Dino some other way.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yes, Frank, some other way.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And the time is short, very short. It's ironic, isn't
it all. Hacket House isn't worth much to anybody except
Aunt Leona and mister Fleming, who wants very much.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
To buy it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You could settle your debt with Dino if she'd agree
to take mister Fleming's offer. That night, after Leona retires,
you're groping for a solution when the phone rings.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Hello, mister Hackett, John Fleming.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh oh, yes, mister Fleming.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Hope it's not too late to bother you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
But about the house.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Have you talked it out with your aunt?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I know that is I have talked to her, mister Fleming,
and well she's weakening, but.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Nothing definite yet though nothing settled.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
No, you know how it is living there so long.
She's pretty attached to the place.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I know.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
But we can't stall this thing indefinitely. I wish you'd
get a decision soon.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Or I will say very soon, and it's going to
be a favorable one. I'm sure he is weakening.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Good we'll talk again soon then, eh.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You wish it were true, don't you? Frank?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
There was even a slight sign of Antleyon a weakening
in her stand against selling the house. The next morning
you decide to bring the subject up once more, when
as you step out into the yard, you hear voices
raised angrily at Leona's voice, and the voice of old
bows and Pete, an old friend, former ship made of
Captain Packett, who now does odd jobs about the place.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Miss my rose bed, my favorite rose bed. And what
do you do? Neglected to ignore it?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
How the soilsmen worked to death? Here me hag it
best thing to do? Rip all in prickly old scrags.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Are don't you dare talk that way about?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And I wrote this your road, your house?
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Do you ever think anything? If anybody else's like my
patience wears my thinner and you wish? I want to
tell you right here now.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Look here, boson.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
If you don't enjoy the way I do things, you
don't have to stay around, you know all right?
Speaker 10 (09:44):
I will quit and with play here goodbye you miss
old fool and leonor.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Oh thank well, I suppose you had or.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Didn't Other neighbors must have heard you too, aunt Leona.
You can't send that old gent away. Can't that Hackett
said he was at a place here as long as
he wished it.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Captain Hackett's being gone over seven years, Frank, I'd say.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
That makes him legally dead. Dead. People don't dictate to
me all life once either.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Something in Aunt Leona's manner has suddenly set you to wondering,
wondering if the rose bed might hold a grim secret
of your aunts, perhaps even the secret of her husband's
strange disappearance, and you determined to find out. At dinner
that night, you ask her an important question.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
This weekend, Aunt Leona going to Glendale as usual, Cousin
Ellie thought, I might why nothing, just wondered if I.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Do go, I hope I can trust you to remain
in the premises and look after the pace better than
last time.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Of course, you can Ant Leona after the place very
well this time.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm predicting again, this time a site you're going to
see Oftener and Oftener.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
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Speaker 1 (11:23):
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Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's a hunch, isn't it, Frank? A growing belief, and
quite possibly something that will help you considerably in your
contest with Antleon. It's far more than a test of
individual wills, isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It, Frank?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The days are slipping by, and Dino DeCosta will collect
your gambling debt with him, one way or another. And now,
with your aunt spending the weekend in Glendale, giving you
some time alone on the premises, another more promising thought
has entered your head. That's why you set to work
as soon as she's gone, set to work, digging into
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the rose bed, digging deep. But all your efforts avail
you exactly nothing, only a ruined flower bed. And at
work the following Monday, you'll get the angry phone call
you expected.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Frank, Frank, how could you?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
How could you allow that terrible man to take his
revenge this way?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Terrible terrible man.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Boas and Pete.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
He's stuck up my rose bed, ruined it for good,
and you let him do it.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
You when you said you'd watch the place.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Well, I'm sorry, Aunt Leona, I'm enough for a short time.
I had no idea Bosa would do such a thing.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
I'm going to get the police on him, Lieutenant Mullin.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I'll report him to Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Mullin that evening.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
As you sit on the front porch of Hackett House
with Aunt Leona, you're a little hesitant to bring up
the matter of mister Fleming's offer, aren't you, Frank, Yes,
because you know she's still upset about the rose beds.
You're sitting back, puffing on a cigarette, trying to think
of some way you can ease into the subject.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
When someone's coming up the path.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Frank, Yeah, looks like Bosom Boson.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well, well I've got something to say to him.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Now take it easy at Leona. See from the looks
of that walkie's had a few beers.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Hello, Frank, Junie.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Well you have a nerve coming back showing your face
around here after what you've done.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
I'm talking about your tearing up my rose bets me.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
I didn't have nothing to do them rose bit. I
just come from my money.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Your money, What money?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You know?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
What money? Long before Cappy went away, he said I
should have part of his money when he died.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Did he tell you that?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
He told you? Tune your note?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Really? I don't seem to recall.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Listen, MINTELIONI I'm warning you. I better get my money
or you'll be sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Are you threatening me?
Speaker 10 (15:33):
We'll call her what you want.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I'll get my money if I have.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
To choke it out of you.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Come on, let's take a walk.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Let Frank, I finish here yet?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yes you are, Come on.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You lead him away, Frank the bows and shouting threats,
walk him down the street for several blocks to calm
him down.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Then you leave him.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You'll feel sorry for the bows and don't you. But
as you turn start back for the house, he's quickly forgotten.
You have other things in your mind, Dino, ant Leona
adele You haven't seen her in days, have you? Then
as you reach the crest of the hill side Hacket House,
silhouetted against the sky, you stop.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Suddenly an idea hits you.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Wait a minute, sure, why didn't I think of that before?
A Leona?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
A Leona, No, no thanks, Look, I just got an idea.
At Leona, Cappy left you several lots up in Glendale,
didn't he not far from cousin Ellie's place.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yes, that's right, an Leona.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Why couldn't we have the house move there? Just have
it picked up all away to the lots in Glendale?
Why not, Aunt, Leona?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Why not? Why not?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Indeed, it'd be nice being close to Ellie.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Sure, sure what?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
But wait, wouldn't it cast up the money?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I don't know. Look, let me talk to Fleming.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Now, don't rush me into this, Frank. I want some
time to think it over.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Okay, Okay, you think it over. But I've got another
idea and I'm going to see Fleming about it first
thing in the morning. Hello, and Leona. I talked to
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mister Fleming this morning and he called me back a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
His company is willing to move the house for us.
Stand all the expense. Oh really, Frank, how about it?
Do I tell him it's a deal?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Well, all right, Frank, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Good now listen.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
They are anxious to get on this thing right away,
so you'd better scout around see if you can find
us another place to live for the time being.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
It's a cottage just down the corner from here and
up the street. It's for rent. I saw it this morning.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Check on it right away. I'll see you tonight at Leona.
Mm hm h.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
M hmmmmmm.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Hello, Hello, Darling.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Where on earth have you been?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well it's a long story, but I'll.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Be talking Frank.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Go on, Darling, but I'll you hear me. Hang up,
I'll call you later.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Adele La, all right, I see the idea I came
to call. That's the idea was in your neighborhood, as
the saying goes, and decided to drop in.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You're not the social type, Dina.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I ain't, so we won't visit very long. Five more days, Frank,
h are you keeping score?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Two?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I know, and it looks good. Dino, I'm not so sure.
Five days, Frank, that's all the time you got. I
need to do myself bad.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Five days. It's gotta be.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I'll try, Dino, but I can't I do that, Frank.
If I were you, just as if your life depended.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
On it, Dino means business, doesn't it, Frank. Five more
days and that's all. Somehow you manage to move yourself
and Antleona to the little cottage not far from Hacket
House in two days time, and then you go to
mister Fleming's office to press for payment for your property.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So any time your company wants to start moving the
house is fine with us.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Good, my boy, good. I'll far for the moving permit
right away. Sometimes there are a little delays in getting
it and sometimes not, but we'll move the house as
soon as we get the permits.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
That was a matter of fact, mister Fleming. When you
move the house is of no importance to me. I
don't even want to hear about Hacket House until it's
safely planted on those lots in Glendale. I'm well about the.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Money for the property.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Since antleone and I own the property jointly, can we
each re see a check for half the total amount?
Perfectly agreeable with us, And I should say, if there's
some rush about it, our accounting department could get the
checks out for you right away. Fine, mister Fleming, Fine,
there is some rush about it.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's a relief, isn't it. Frank.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You leave Fleming's office fortified with two checks, one made
out to ant Leona for her half, the other to
you for exactly the mount you must pay Dino the
custom five thousand dollars your half all for Dino. You're
glad you have the money for Dino. But after you
pay him, you'll be no better off than you were before.
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Now you know you'll never be unless something happens to
your antleoner. As you walk along the busy downtown street,
you suddenly see an old friend right in front of you.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Well, Boson, how are you?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Hello, Frank, Look, I've been wanting to get in touch
with you. I wanted to, well, ask miss Leonie to
forgive me for the other night.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I all forget it.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I didn't mean to say all those things, but well
I kind of needed the money.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh thanks, Pretty tough, Yeah, pretty tough. We'll see what
I can do.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Oh would you, Frank?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
You know I didn't mean to harm or nothing like that.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I'll get in touch.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You watch Bosun as he turns away disappears into the
noonday crowd. Now you know what you're going to do,
don't you, Frank. The bo'sun is your answer. Soon you'll
have everything you want, including Adele, yes, bows and Pete
has given a solution, hasn't he? That night, a little
after midnight, you make it a point to run into
another old friend, Lieutenant Mullen of the Police Department, on
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his way to work, and as the two of you
stand and chat on the street on her you managed
to steer the conversation in the direction you wanted to go.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah, I was beginning to wonder about Boson. Haven't seen
him in the neighborhood for some time.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Well, he's living downtown now I understand.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Uh, Hardy had a run in with your head about.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
The rose beds.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, what a session. It was he'd been drinking. Oh,
I really don't think he meant what he said threatening her.
You know, you can't be too sure. He's got quite
a temper and the gun I didn't know that, Yes,
but I don't think you.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Have to worry too much about the Boson.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Oh here comes the street Kara.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'll see you later, mister Hackett.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I know, Tennant.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You're pleased, don't you, Frank?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Satisfied with your meeting with Lieutenant moment the following afternoon,
you phone the Seamen's hotel ask Bothan to pick you
up that night, right out to the cottage. You've made
a decision, haven't you, Frank set your plan in the motion.
Your debt with Dino will be settled, and when it's
all over, you won't have to share the money from
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the sale of Hacket House with anyone, and you'll have
all your aunt Leonner's money. Besides, late that night, you're
waiting on a quiet side street for Bosun to pick
you up. Finally round the corner and pulls up at
the curve.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Hell, right right on time.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Bossom shouldn't want to keep le on a waiting you know.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Sure she'll be up he is late.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
She's like a funny time of night.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Oh you're wrong, bosson the time's perfect, just perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
For ten minutes later, you're parked in front of the
cottage and you're wearing Bozon's pea jacket and cap. Bozan
is out of sight, slumped down on the seat beside.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You're still unconscious.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Your glance at your watch, then slip out of the
car and hurry quietly up to the porch of the
cottage to wait. It'll all be over soon, would it, Frank.
Once you get away, you'll wreck the car. Bozun will
be killed and the murder weapon will be found in
his pocket. Your grants at your watch again a little
after twelve and down the street and you'll see him
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approaching right on schedule. It's Lieutenant Mullins. Yeah, who is it?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It's Frank?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Well, Frank, did you forget your key? What in the
world are you doing in the Brozons cap?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What? As your aunt Leona slumps to the floor, you
whirl run back to the car, jump inside. Through the
rear view mirror you can see Lieutenant Mullen running towards you,
and if you put the car in gear, you'll let
the Bozon's cap all to the street.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
By by Lieutenant and thanks thanks for being right on time.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Like a spare tire without air. That's just how much
good an oil filter does your car. When the filter
cartridge inside is filled up with sludge and gool, it
can no longer do the job it was put there
to do.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And what is that job?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, for every one gallon of gasoline an engine uses,
it sucks in up to nine thousand gallons of air,
and air carries gritty dust which gets into the oil
and has to be strained out by the oil filter. Also,
tiny metal particles wearing off engine parts must be trapped
by the oil filter so they won't act as an
abrasive on other costly parts. In recognition of the importance
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of oil filters, signal dealers are this month joining in
the national program of the Purilator Company to check the
condition of oil filters.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
If he finds your filter.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Cartridge too clod to give your motor proper protection, your
signal dealer can replace it with a genuine Purilator filter cartridge.
After all, the best two ways we know to prevent
engine wear are one a good clean oil filter and
two a change to new signal Premium, the heavy duty
type oil that reduces engine were due to lubrication fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The crowd had gathered in the usually quiet side street
on the fringe of downtown Los Angeles, spoke in excited whispers,
stared at the body on the sidewalk A few feet away.
Lieutenant Mullen stood by, puffing slowly on a cigarette, and
his face wore a puzzled frown.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Then another officer pushed his way through the crowd and
joined them.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Er this one dead, lieutenant, yeh, nameless, hack it he
killed you, old lady back there at the cottage.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
U tried to make it look like Bosen did it.
The man over there in the Essex, how's he doing?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Oh, he's finally coming around. And how's the name of
this hacket? Cover?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Som run out of the cottage, his aunt had ranted.
After I heard the shots, I thought at first it
was Boston, the way he was dressed.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I took off after him.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I never caught him either.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Except that after he turned the corner he had to
abandon the car and go down the foot. That's when
my bullet nailed him.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Something go wrong with his car.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
No, the street was blocked, blocked. Yeah, the movers were
hauling a house.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Away, blocked the whole street. Hackett here couldn't drive the
car around it. Funny thing too, it was his home
they were moving Hacket house.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler each Sunday night at this same time,
and before you start your vacation trip, be sure to
ask your signal dealer for a free copy of Lane's Guide,
a booklet prepared by an independent travel organization to help
you find good eating and lodging places. While no pocket
sized booklet can include all the good hotels, motels and
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dining places, Lane's Guide covers a representative selection in hundreds
of cities and towns, and a copy of this handy
publication is yours free at signal stations. Featured in Tonight's
story were Bill Forman, John Stephenson, Norma Varden, Gene Bates,
Crip Arquette, Herbert Rawlinson, Frank Richards, and Charles Seals. The
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Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen, with
story by Adrian John Doe, music by Wilbur Hatch, and
was transmitted to Our Troops overseas by the Armed Horses
Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters
portrayed 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 next Sunday
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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 over most of these stations.
This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System
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 Signal, the famous Go Father Gasoline.
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Invite you to sit back and enjoy another strange story
by the Whistler.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
I am the Whistler, and I know many things.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
For I walk by night.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I know many strange tales hidden in the hut arts
of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. Yes,
I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
And now for the Signal Oil Company, the Whistler's Strange story.
The House on Hainesley Boulevard.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
The old Hacket Place on Hainesley Boulevard, was a monument
of the past, built by the very first of the
Hackets to arrive in California, good many years before. It
clung now to its former grandeur with a sort of quiet,
determined tenacity. But one evening, shortly after midnight, the quiet
of the neighborhood was suddenly shattered, the air torn with
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a startling cry, Yes, the cry of fire knifing through
the stillness of freelone.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Heinsley boulevards.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
The old house threatened as flames lead to envelop it,
and immediately the street was alive with activity and miraculously
coming swiftly to the rescue a fire engine. It's cruel
working skillfully fighting off the threat of destruction. And then
out of the crowd a man appeared.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
The house is safe, yeah, I see no one in there?
Is there, mister Hackett?
Speaker 5 (02:21):
You're Antleona way, she's away, thank Heaven, spending the night
in Glendale.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
How did it happen, Lieutenant Mellin? How did you start?
Speaker 3 (02:29):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
I went past about half an hour ago, going on duty.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
I know, and Leona will be grateful to you, lieutenant.
Oh forget it.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The funny thing though, mister Hackett thought I saw somebody running.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
Away from the place.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Huh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
Well I'll see you later, mister Haggtt.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Sure, and thanks Mullen. Had it been sick if anything
had happened to the old place.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
You are sick inside, aren't you, Frank, Because you're fail
so completely, And even as you thank Police Lieutenant Mullen
for his swift action, you'll inwardly curse yourself forgetting that
he passes this way regularly, not only a matter of
half an hour destroyed your timing, and you have to
have money soon, five thousand dollars to clear your gambling
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debt with Dino d Coasta, or the payoff will be
your life, even with the damage very slightly. Scene with
Aunt Leona the next morning is a non pleasant one
as she surveys the court section at the rear of
the old place.
Speaker 7 (03:33):
Disgraceful.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Oh, there's very little damage, ant Leona.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
It isn't the extent of the damage. It's your carelessness
that disturbs me.
Speaker 8 (03:41):
I've left you everything I have in my will, and
all I ask in return is that you assume some
responsibility and make things easier for me while I'm still here.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Look, aunt Leona, it could have been much worse. You
were yourself sick over this house.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
It's my home, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
It's my home too, Aunt Leona. Mine half yours according
to Kathy's.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
Will, and it'll be all yours when I die, along
with everything else I have.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
But I'm not did yet, Frank.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Just the same way, or except mister Fleming's offer to.
Speaker 7 (04:11):
Buy if you ask me, no one's asking you.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
The old argument sounds even more hollow than usual, doesn't it, Frank?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
You're not getting anywhere with Aunt Leona, and.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
You wish you were out of your way. You can't
help thinking how pleasant your situation would be if something
happened to that. You have everything you wanted. You could
square yourself with Dino and have all you'd ever need. Besides,
and there isn't much time, is there, Frank. Reno's given
you ten days. You can't stall much longer. Later that
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day you seek out the only solace these last few
months have offered Adele Richards lovely beautiful. You could marry her.
You could support it, couldn't.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You, Frank.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
She's a stubborn old woman. Fleming's up that has bought
up most of the other houses along the street.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
But you won't sell. You're going to put up an
office building.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
Eventually, probably sure when it's too late. Oh Cappy had
the right idea. Captain Hackett, nat Leona's husband, he up
and left about eight years ago, went out one night
for some pipe tobacco, and so he said, never came back.
I don't blame him, But then he had some money
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they could afford to run.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
I can't you.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
From her and from an infernal old house. Yes you darling?
Never okay? Oh great, don't answer me, really, I have to.
Speaker 7 (05:56):
Oh, yes, yes, he's here. I'll call him.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
It's do you know you're here?
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Okay? Hello, Dino.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
I thought I might catch you at your girlfriends.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I was reading the.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Papers, Frank, that was that dumb thing to do? What
was setting fire to your house?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You're nuts?
Speaker 4 (06:23):
No, No, you know you're wrong. I didn't show you
did and it didn't work.
Speaker 5 (06:26):
I just wanted you to know.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
That's a bom mangled Frank.
Speaker 9 (06:30):
I don't like it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
What difference does it make to you what I do
to settle with you?
Speaker 5 (06:34):
I don't like strings on anything that's mine at five Granulemi.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
I want it on time, but I want.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It clean, remember that, Frank?
Speaker 4 (06:43):
Hello? Hello, damn nothing by I'm sorry, honey. I got
out of my mind.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Something to do with gambling and Dino da cross to
that's obvious.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
What is it's? Wow?
Speaker 5 (07:03):
Might as well know I'm in the Dino for five
thousand dollars. I've got to get hold of the money
some way.
Speaker 7 (07:12):
Oh, Frank, why don't you go to your aunt? Tell
her everything?
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Should or stack? You don't know, Aunt Leona Dale. If
I did that, you'd cut me out of her whill everything. No,
I'll have to get the money for Dino some other way.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Yes, Frank, some other way.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And the time is short, very short. It's ironic, isn't
it all. Hacket House isn't worth much to anybody except
Aunt Leona and mister Fleming, who wants very much.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
To buy it.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
You could settle your debt with Dino if she'd agree
to take mister Fleming's offer. That night, after Leona retires,
you're groping for a solution when the phone rings.
Speaker 9 (08:00):
Hello, mister Hackett, John Fleming.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Oh oh, yes, mister Fleming.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
Hope it's not too late to bother you.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
But about the house.
Speaker 9 (08:07):
Have you talked it out with your aunt?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
I know that is I have talked to her, mister Fleming,
and well she's weakening, but.
Speaker 9 (08:14):
Nothing definite yet though nothing settled.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
No, you know how it is living there so long.
She's pretty attached to the place.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I know.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
But we can't stall this thing indefinitely. I wish you'd
get a decision soon.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Or I will say very soon, and it's going to
be a favorable one. I'm sure he is weakening.
Speaker 9 (08:32):
Good we'll talk again soon then, eh.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
You wish it were true, don't you? Frank?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
There was even a slight sign of Antleyon a weakening
in her stand against selling the house. The next morning
you decide to bring the subject up once more, when
as you step out into the yard, you hear voices
raised angrily at Leona's voice, and the voice of old
bows and Pete, an old friend, former ship made of
Captain Packett, who now does odd jobs about the place.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
Miss my rose bed, my favorite rose bed. And what
do you do? Neglected to ignore it?
Speaker 10 (09:16):
How the soilsmen worked to death? Here me hag it
best thing to do? Rip all in prickly old scrags.
Speaker 7 (09:22):
Are don't you dare talk that way about?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
And I wrote this your road, your house?
Speaker 10 (09:28):
Do you ever think anything? If anybody else's like my
patience wears my thinner and you wish? I want to
tell you right here now.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Look here, boson.
Speaker 8 (09:38):
If you don't enjoy the way I do things, you
don't have to stay around, you know all right?
Speaker 10 (09:44):
I will quit and with play here goodbye you miss
old fool and leonor.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Oh thank well, I suppose you had or.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Didn't Other neighbors must have heard you too, aunt Leona.
You can't send that old gent away. Can't that Hackett
said he was at a place here as long as
he wished it.
Speaker 8 (10:03):
Captain Hackett's being gone over seven years, Frank, I'd say.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
That makes him legally dead. Dead. People don't dictate to
me all life once either.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Something in Aunt Leona's manner has suddenly set you to wondering,
wondering if the rose bed might hold a grim secret
of your aunts, perhaps even the secret of her husband's
strange disappearance, and you determined to find out. At dinner
that night, you ask her an important question.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
This weekend, Aunt Leona going to Glendale as usual, Cousin
Ellie thought, I might why nothing, just wondered if I.
Speaker 8 (10:52):
Do go, I hope I can trust you to remain
in the premises and look after the pace better than
last time.
Speaker 5 (10:57):
Of course, you can Ant Leona after the place very
well this time.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
Tonight.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I'm predicting again, this time a site you're going to
see Oftener and Oftener.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
As the days grow.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
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Speaker 2 (12:48):
It's a hunch, isn't it, Frank? A growing belief, and
quite possibly something that will help you considerably in your
contest with Antleon. It's far more than a test of
individual wills, isn't.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
It, Frank?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
The days are slipping by, and Dino DeCosta will collect
your gambling debt with him, one way or another. And now,
with your aunt spending the weekend in Glendale, giving you
some time alone on the premises, another more promising thought
has entered your head. That's why you set to work
as soon as she's gone, set to work, digging into
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the rose bed, digging deep. But all your efforts avail
you exactly nothing, only a ruined flower bed. And at
work the following Monday, you'll get the angry phone call
you expected.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
Frank, Frank, how could you?
Speaker 8 (13:40):
How could you allow that terrible man to take his
revenge this way?
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Terrible terrible man.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Boas and Pete.
Speaker 8 (13:47):
He's stuck up my rose bed, ruined it for good,
and you let him do it.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
You when you said you'd watch the place.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Well, I'm sorry, Aunt Leona, I'm enough for a short time.
I had no idea Bosa would do such a thing.
Speaker 8 (14:01):
I'm going to get the police on him, Lieutenant Mullin.
Speaker 7 (14:04):
I'll report him to Lieutenant.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Mullin that evening.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
As you sit on the front porch of Hackett House
with Aunt Leona, you're a little hesitant to bring up
the matter of mister Fleming's offer, aren't you, Frank, Yes,
because you know she's still upset about the rose beds.
You're sitting back, puffing on a cigarette, trying to think
of some way you can ease into the subject.
Speaker 7 (14:35):
When someone's coming up the path.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Frank, Yeah, looks like Bosom Boson.
Speaker 7 (14:45):
Well, well I've got something to say to him.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
Now take it easy at Leona. See from the looks
of that walkie's had a few beers.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Hello, Frank, Junie.
Speaker 8 (14:57):
Well you have a nerve coming back showing your face
around here after what you've done.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
What are you talking about.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
I'm talking about your tearing up my rose bets me.
Speaker 10 (15:08):
I didn't have nothing to do them rose bit. I
just come from my money.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Your money, What money?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
You know?
Speaker 10 (15:15):
What money? Long before Cappy went away, he said I
should have part of his money when he died.
Speaker 7 (15:21):
Did he tell you that?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
He told you? Tune your note?
Speaker 7 (15:24):
Really? I don't seem to recall.
Speaker 10 (15:27):
Listen, MINTELIONI I'm warning you. I better get my money
or you'll be sorry.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Are you threatening me?
Speaker 10 (15:33):
We'll call her what you want.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
I'll get my money if I have.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
To choke it out of you.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Come on, let's take a walk.
Speaker 10 (15:38):
Let Frank, I finish here yet?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Yes you are, Come on.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
You lead him away, Frank the bows and shouting threats,
walk him down the street for several blocks to calm
him down.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Then you leave him.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
You'll feel sorry for the bows and don't you. But
as you turn start back for the house, he's quickly forgotten.
You have other things in your mind, Dino, ant Leona
adele You haven't seen her in days, have you? Then
as you reach the crest of the hill side Hacket House,
silhouetted against the sky, you stop.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Suddenly an idea hits you.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Wait a minute, sure, why didn't I think of that before?
A Leona?
Speaker 5 (16:32):
A Leona, No, no thanks, Look, I just got an idea.
At Leona, Cappy left you several lots up in Glendale,
didn't he not far from cousin Ellie's place.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Yes, that's right, an Leona.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
Why couldn't we have the house move there? Just have
it picked up all away to the lots in Glendale?
Why not, Aunt, Leona?
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Why not? Why not?
Speaker 7 (16:53):
Indeed, it'd be nice being close to Ellie.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Sure, sure what?
Speaker 7 (16:58):
But wait, wouldn't it cast up the money?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I don't know. Look, let me talk to Fleming.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Now, don't rush me into this, Frank. I want some
time to think it over.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
Okay, Okay, you think it over. But I've got another
idea and I'm going to see Fleming about it first
thing in the morning. Hello, and Leona. I talked to
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mister Fleming this morning and he called me back a
few minutes ago.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
His company is willing to move the house for us.
Stand all the expense. Oh really, Frank, how about it?
Do I tell him it's a deal?
Speaker 7 (17:41):
Well, all right, Frank, all right.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
Good now listen.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
They are anxious to get on this thing right away,
so you'd better scout around see if you can find
us another place to live for the time being.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
It's a cottage just down the corner from here and
up the street. It's for rent. I saw it this morning.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Check on it right away. I'll see you tonight at Leona.
Mm hm h.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
M hmmmmmm.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Hello, Hello, Darling.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
Where on earth have you been?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Well it's a long story, but I'll.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
Be talking Frank.
Speaker 4 (18:21):
Go on, Darling, but I'll you hear me. Hang up,
I'll call you later.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Adele La, all right, I see the idea I came
to call. That's the idea was in your neighborhood, as
the saying goes, and decided to drop in.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You're not the social type, Dina.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
I ain't, so we won't visit very long. Five more days, Frank,
h are you keeping score?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Two?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
I know, and it looks good. Dino, I'm not so sure.
Five days, Frank, that's all the time you got. I
need to do myself bad.
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Five days. It's gotta be.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
I'll try, Dino, but I can't I do that, Frank.
If I were you, just as if your life depended.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
On it, Dino means business, doesn't it, Frank. Five more
days and that's all. Somehow you manage to move yourself
and Antleona to the little cottage not far from Hacket
House in two days time, and then you go to
mister Fleming's office to press for payment for your property.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So any time your company wants to start moving the
house is fine with us.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Good, my boy, good. I'll far for the moving permit
right away. Sometimes there are a little delays in getting
it and sometimes not, but we'll move the house as
soon as we get the permits.
Speaker 5 (19:40):
That was a matter of fact, mister Fleming. When you
move the house is of no importance to me. I
don't even want to hear about Hacket House until it's
safely planted on those lots in Glendale. I'm well about the.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Money for the property.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Since antleone and I own the property jointly, can we
each re see a check for half the total amount?
Perfectly agreeable with us, And I should say, if there's
some rush about it, our accounting department could get the
checks out for you right away. Fine, mister Fleming, Fine,
there is some rush about it.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
It's a relief, isn't it. Frank.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
You leave Fleming's office fortified with two checks, one made
out to ant Leona for her half, the other to
you for exactly the mount you must pay Dino the
custom five thousand dollars your half all for Dino. You're
glad you have the money for Dino. But after you
pay him, you'll be no better off than you were before.
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Now you know you'll never be unless something happens to
your antleoner. As you walk along the busy downtown street,
you suddenly see an old friend right in front of you.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Well, Boson, how are you?
Speaker 5 (20:58):
Oh?
Speaker 10 (20:58):
Hello, Frank, Look, I've been wanting to get in touch
with you. I wanted to, well, ask miss Leonie to
forgive me for the other night.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
I all forget it.
Speaker 10 (21:08):
I didn't mean to say all those things, but well
I kind of needed the money.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Oh thanks, Pretty tough, Yeah, pretty tough. We'll see what
I can do.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Oh would you, Frank?
Speaker 10 (21:21):
You know I didn't mean to harm or nothing like that.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
I'll get in touch.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
You watch Bosun as he turns away disappears into the
noonday crowd. Now you know what you're going to do,
don't you, Frank. The bo'sun is your answer. Soon you'll
have everything you want, including Adele, yes, bows and Pete
has given a solution, hasn't he? That night, a little
after midnight, you make it a point to run into
another old friend, Lieutenant Mullen of the Police Department, on
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his way to work, and as the two of you
stand and chat on the street on her you managed
to steer the conversation in the direction you wanted to go.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah, I was beginning to wonder about Boson. Haven't seen
him in the neighborhood for some time.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
Well, he's living downtown now I understand.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Uh, Hardy had a run in with your head about.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
The rose beds.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
Yeah, what a session. It was he'd been drinking. Oh,
I really don't think he meant what he said threatening her.
You know, you can't be too sure. He's got quite
a temper and the gun I didn't know that, Yes,
but I don't think you.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
Have to worry too much about the Boson.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Oh here comes the street Kara.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I'll see you later, mister Hackett.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I know, Tennant.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
You're pleased, don't you, Frank?
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Satisfied with your meeting with Lieutenant moment the following afternoon,
you phone the Seamen's hotel ask Bothan to pick you
up that night, right out to the cottage. You've made
a decision, haven't you, Frank set your plan in the motion.
Your debt with Dino will be settled, and when it's
all over, you won't have to share the money from
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the sale of Hacket House with anyone, and you'll have
all your aunt Leonner's money. Besides, late that night, you're
waiting on a quiet side street for Bosun to pick
you up. Finally round the corner and pulls up at
the curve.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Hell, right right on time.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Bossom shouldn't want to keep le on a waiting you know.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Sure she'll be up he is late.
Speaker 10 (23:35):
She's like a funny time of night.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Oh you're wrong, bosson the time's perfect, just perfect.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
For ten minutes later, you're parked in front of the
cottage and you're wearing Bozon's pea jacket and cap. Bozan
is out of sight, slumped down on the seat beside.
Speaker 3 (23:57):
You're still unconscious.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Your glance at your watch, then slip out of the
car and hurry quietly up to the porch of the
cottage to wait. It'll all be over soon, would it, Frank.
Once you get away, you'll wreck the car. Bozun will
be killed and the murder weapon will be found in
his pocket. Your grants at your watch again a little
after twelve and down the street and you'll see him
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approaching right on schedule. It's Lieutenant Mullins. Yeah, who is it?
Speaker 4 (24:30):
It's Frank?
Speaker 7 (24:32):
Well, Frank, did you forget your key? What in the
world are you doing in the Brozons cap?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
What? As your aunt Leona slumps to the floor, you
whirl run back to the car, jump inside. Through the
rear view mirror you can see Lieutenant Mullen running towards you,
and if you put the car in gear, you'll let
the Bozon's cap all to the street.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
By by Lieutenant and thanks thanks for being right on time.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Like a spare tire without air. That's just how much
good an oil filter does your car. When the filter
cartridge inside is filled up with sludge and gool, it
can no longer do the job it was put there
to do.
Speaker 3 (25:28):
And what is that job?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Well, for every one gallon of gasoline an engine uses,
it sucks in up to nine thousand gallons of air,
and air carries gritty dust which gets into the oil
and has to be strained out by the oil filter. Also,
tiny metal particles wearing off engine parts must be trapped
by the oil filter so they won't act as an
abrasive on other costly parts. In recognition of the importance
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of oil filters, signal dealers are this month joining in
the national program of the Purilator Company to check the
condition of oil filters.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
If he finds your filter.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
Cartridge too clod to give your motor proper protection, your
signal dealer can replace it with a genuine Purilator filter cartridge.
After all, the best two ways we know to prevent
engine wear are one a good clean oil filter and
two a change to new signal Premium, the heavy duty
type oil that reduces engine were due to lubrication fifty percent.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
The crowd had gathered in the usually quiet side street
on the fringe of downtown Los Angeles, spoke in excited whispers,
stared at the body on the sidewalk A few feet away.
Lieutenant Mullen stood by, puffing slowly on a cigarette, and
his face wore a puzzled frown.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Then another officer pushed his way through the crowd and
joined them.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Er this one dead, lieutenant, yeh, nameless, hack it he
killed you, old lady back there at the cottage.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
U tried to make it look like Bosen did it.
The man over there in the Essex, how's he doing?
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Oh, he's finally coming around. And how's the name of
this hacket? Cover?
Speaker 5 (27:13):
Som run out of the cottage, his aunt had ranted.
After I heard the shots, I thought at first it
was Boston, the way he was dressed.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
I took off after him.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
I never caught him either.
Speaker 6 (27:23):
Except that after he turned the corner he had to
abandon the car and go down the foot. That's when
my bullet nailed him.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Something go wrong with his car.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
No, the street was blocked, blocked. Yeah, the movers were
hauling a house.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
Away, blocked the whole street. Hackett here couldn't drive the
car around it. Funny thing too, it was his home
they were moving Hacket house.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Let that whistle be your signal for the Signal Oil
program The Whistler each Sunday night at this same time,
and before you start your vacation trip, be sure to
ask your signal dealer for a free copy of Lane's Guide,
a booklet prepared by an independent travel organization to help
you find good eating and lodging places. While no pocket
sized booklet can include all the good hotels, motels and
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dining places, Lane's Guide covers a representative selection in hundreds
of cities and towns, and a copy of this handy
publication is yours free at signal stations. Featured in Tonight's
story were Bill Forman, John Stephenson, Norma Varden, Gene Bates,
Crip Arquette, Herbert Rawlinson, Frank Richards, and Charles Seals. The
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Whistler was produced and directed by George w Allen, with
story by Adrian John Doe, music by Wilbur Hatch, and
was transmitted to Our Troops overseas by the Armed Horses
Radio Service. The Whistler is entirely fictional, and all characters
portrayed 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 next Sunday
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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 over most of these stations.
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