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Lights Out was one of the earliest radio programs focusing on horror and the supernatural. It ran on several networks from 1934 to 1947 before making the transition to television. This episode, “Oxychloride X,” was broadcast on January 26, 1938.
Lights Out was one of the earliest radio programs focusing on horror and the supernatural. It ran on several networks from 1934 to 1947 before making the transition to television. This episode, “Oxychloride X,” was broadcast on January 26, 1938.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Patson River Radio dot Com, your local Rockland Clan station.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Ironized YEES presents Lights Out Everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
It is.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Later than.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You think.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Lights Out brings you stories of the supernatural and the supernormal,
dramatizing the fantasies and the mysteries of the unknown. We
tell you this frankly, so if you wish to avoid
the excitement and tension of these imaginative plays, we urge you,
calmly but sincerely, to turn off your radio. Now this
(01:01):
is our jobler.
Speaker 5 (01:03):
Someone has said that the two main springs which drive
the world are hunger and the wild of power. I
think we'll all agree about the hunger, but as to
the world of power will sometimes I think it's not
quite as strenuous as that. There are some people in
this world who don't want to run anything. They just
want to be liked. And that's the mainspring of our
story tonight, Oxychloride Ages. But before we begin, Frank Martin.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Folks, it's a sad fact that today a number of
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(01:50):
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it now.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And now lights out everybody.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
So I says to mysels, Well, sir, I'd like to
be obliging, but I rarely haven't got the time. And
he says to me, He says, well, mister Jackson, after oh,
we're making this proposition, and uh we do field, you
should be interested.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
In our proposition. Well, uh what did you say? Well?
I said, miss I can't be bothered, just can't be bothered.
And I gets in my card. Off I go, but
Bob free clothes just for wearing him around the canvas,
and stand, my boy wouldn't want to be a clothes
Horsepinny old habitash Ray, My old Peppy's got more money,
and he knows what to do with? And what for?
I ask, well, I guess you got something there. MM
(02:58):
say what are you gonna take a dare Saturday night? Mm?
Have made up my mind? How about that new number
over at the Rotor House?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
No, thank you, brother, more it's the matter.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well did you ever take a look at her feet?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
No, sir, never got lord ship hold it?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, a race Stewart to see you stand?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Uh oh oh yeah? Uh send him on up, Ray Stuart.
Who's he? Well, we're still short one pledge, aren't we
lay another? Ray Stewart?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh? I met him over in chemistry. Got a mine
like a textbook.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Oh, but who is he? We can't pledge a man
just because he's a grind.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, we could use a few grinds around here. Exams
come around. There's nothing like a few of those brainy
boys pulls. But who is he?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Where's he from?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Who's his family? Who's his hot hole? One?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Inn?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Ray?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
There's good of you to bother to come over to ninth.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It was good of you to ask me.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No, not at all. Ray. I want you to meet
the president of our house, Bob Jackson. Mister Jackson, mister Stewart.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm certainly glad to make your acquaintance. I I might
as well admit this is the first time I've ever
been in the fraternity house.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Really, Uh, sit down, ray makes suff at home?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Now tell me ray H, do you ever go in
for any sports back in your prep days?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
No, I never had much time for that sort of thing. No, No,
I think that sports should be put into their proper place.
After all, I'm sure you agree they aren't particularly important.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Uh. And what might I ask, is important in your estimation,
mister Stuart?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Doing things, but being somewhat what doing things man's never
done before, taking the elements and transmuting them into things
which never existed until you thought of them. That's important.
That's It's being almost godlike, isn't it? Mester?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Are you too sorry?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I get sort of carried away?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Heyeah, well that's all right. Uh, Bob, this boy sure
knows his chemistry.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, oh, I really don't know so much.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Say I ought to know better. You pulled me over
some tough spots in this course.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I I'm very glad to help you whenever I can.
If if I lived here, I could help you all
the time. I could help you too, mister Jackson.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
If I need help, I know where to get it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh, I didn't mean to.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's all right, Stuart. Now tell me you're You're from
around your Cargo Way, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh no, Milwaukee lived there for you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, don't tell me. I'm one of those browin families.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're not wealthy people at all. My father runs a
small business. It isn't much, but we get along.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I don't think money's important anyway if a person's ambitious,
do you, mister Jackson?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh no, no, what's money?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You fellas may think this funny, but I always thought
it's more important what a fella does than what he has.
I mean, I've always had the feeling that some days,
somehow I'm going to do something really important, maybe even miraculous.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well, now, what do you expect to do? Discover the
missing link? Oh? Yes, Stuart? Uh, what is this miracle
you expect to perform?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, I I don't know exactly. Ever since i've been
just a kid, I've been interested in chemistry, and I've
had a feeling that someday I will perform an experiment
mix certain chemicals together and something would happen that never
happened before.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
While you here, that's there a miracle man, amazing, my
dear Bob, simply amazing.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I know it sounds silly, but the things I dream
about always seem to work on. Well, would you mind
telling us the last miracle had worked out?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
This this? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, as long as I can remember, I've always wanted
to belong to a fraternity, and here I am. I mean,
will you invite him?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Justin then? That there, fellow, and mister Stuart.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
It's been awfully nice of you to come over and
visit with us, and someday we'll have you back again.
But now we've got some studying to do, so if
you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh no, no, not at all. It was nice if
you'd invite me over well, can I fellas?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And of all this girl crackfie, did you see the
look in his eye when he was talking about gets
back to this out account? That is that in the world?
Ever made you ask him over here? Oh? I didn't know,
how was I didn't know?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
He's a crank ledgend of the opporternity ledgend of the
booby hatch.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
Mister Stewart, if you, please, mister Stewart. Yes, Professor, mister Stewart,
Might I ask if you're anxious to sever your relationship
with this university? Then might I ask why I'm creation
you persist in ignoring my warnings in this laboratory. You're
to perform the experiments given you to perform. Understand given
you to perform?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Then might I ask why you persist in yours? Shall
I call it original experiments? Perhaps your intention to blow
up the university or just the laboratory.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'm sorry, You'll be.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
More than sorry if I find you doing this sort
of thing again. Now take down this apparatus and continue
with the work in your textbook. Yes, sir, this is
my last morning, So Barrett mine, Hello Stewart.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Have I loarned him your notebook for a few hours? Jackson?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You you haven't been the lab much, have you?
Speaker 10 (08:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
No, I haven't, but I can make it up.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
We've been pretty busy over the house initiations and all
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, Jackson, Yeah, you never invited me back. I I
thought maybe you forgot.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, well, you know how those things are.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I wrote my mother that I was joining your fraternity.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well that was a sad thing to do, was it?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Well, we hadn't pledged stand simply invited job so I
could talk to you, and you said you wanted me
to come back out.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Look here, fella, don't be stupid about this. We didn't
pledge you.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So that's that you're not going to pledge me. But
why I don't have to tell you why. But you've
got to quit me, will you?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
All right? You're asking for it. So here it is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
We didn't pledge you because we think you're a crack pot.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
What our crack pot?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You talk about miracles?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You'll spend every minute of your.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Time here in the lab monkey and around with things
you don't know anything about, getting yourself in all kinds
of trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And you looked like the.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
First class screwball.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
But I'm just trying to make you whatever it is
you're trying, it isn't normal. Oh that you never had
a glass of beer in your life. And if a
girl ever looked at you you fall over in a faint.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Then you're not going to pledge me. You're not.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, you're not gonna pledge you.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
So if your mom expects you to be in a fraternity,
you better start cooking up one of those miracles, fella,
our first class miracle.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Sleep.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
It's so late, sleep, I got to sleep. Not gonna
pledge you, that's what he said. Not gonna pledge me.
Why do I keep thinking about it?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
If I could only sleep?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Sleep?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You think you're a crackpot?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I kinda stop thinking about these things. Not hell do
you to think what I'm thinking?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Crackpot, Not gonna pledge you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Crackots matter with my head, talking it over and over
and over again. Crackpot, I'm not crazy, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I got and as good as you are.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I'm as good as both you put together. Stop saying that.
Stop saying it. I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I'll show you both.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I better than you are. I'm better than anybody.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'll show you. I'll show you. Talk about miracles. I'll
give you miracles.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
The lab.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I've gotta get into it. I'll give you miracles.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Dark.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I've got to get in, oh blasted door. Gotta get
in window. I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
So dark in here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I gotta find a lab, table, gotta make a miracle.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Who's there?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Who's there? Watchman?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Come on now, who's there?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Talk?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
You don't have to get so excited. I'm a student, student, eh,
say a look at you flashlight, You're you're blinding me.
I've got to see who you are.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Go to Yeah, I know you see you on the campus.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I told you I'm a student.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well, I don't give you the right to be here
after hours. How'd you get in here?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Broke the wind? And I did yet I didn't break
the window, but I heard the glad, so did I.
And I followed the man in here.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Give me your flash flight and I'll show you all
right here, look behind you.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No one will stop me, No one. Miracle. I gotta
make one, got to got to got to CC Burier
five cc. So then he mocks the chloride. Oh good, good,
(11:41):
you're working out just as I play.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Who's there?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Who's working there? Professor?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
You do it?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And after all my wanting, because you're just in time, professor, Yeah,
it's just in time to have you thrown out of
the university.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What are you doing there?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
What is this mess of equipment? It's my miracle, miracle?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
My miracle?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Insane? Take it apart, all of it once, it bubbling,
a beautiful sound, isn't it, Professor? Empty out for a talk?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
No, now, I got to wait. Are you mad?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Turn out the burners all right, I'll turn them off
for it. No, say where you are.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Put down that ass, and I'll smash the bottle on
your head if you touch anything on the table, Now,
don't throw it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Put the bottle of ass down, Stewart, Please.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
My experiment, my miracle, bubbling and boiling and stewing. It
will work, Professor, It's got to work.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But but what is it?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I told him? I create something that no other man has.
I told him, and I will, Professor, you to hear me.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I will.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But what a solvent? A solvent more powerful than anything
the world has ever known?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
What do you mean?
Speaker 9 (12:35):
What are you talking about? Listen to it, Bubble, you
said solvent? Explain yourself. Yes, a solvent.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
A solvent will resolve steel like a hot flame.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
What do you say? You heard me say it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
A solvent that will dissolve steal faster than a razor
cutting through paper. Do you know what that means? Run
the line of this liquid across a steel girder. Girder
will crumple like a falling tree. Pour some of my
solvent into a glass shell and bomb this cities. I
tell you, it'll make war too horrible for men to endure.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You crazy boy, You you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm talking about that that liquid there to listen to
it sing.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
No such solvent exists selenium marxychloride perhaps, but to do
the impossible things you talked about would require a quantity.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
A beaker it cracked or do something.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
That liquid's flying all over my bench, my laboratory.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Listone to the bench. It's eating through the stone. Well
stop it for liquid. It's eating through the stone bench.
Oh no, it can't be. It's eating through the slate
of the floor. Was getting bigger and bigger. Run run,
I've done it.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I've created something no other man has done, a solvent
that dissolves anything, anything, anything.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Then what happened? What's that the lamb? I gets it's
on fire? Away as the file. I can't see that
old school's out here?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Hey, hey, fellas, what's up? And always has to know
something's going wrong in the last requirement, won't let us say?
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Something burning?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I don't know, can't get near enough to find out.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I can't see any fire, plenty of smoke plenty of excitements.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Read about it tomorrow, favor all men it hey listen
sounds like, oh gosh, what is it?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Nang you?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I did it? I did it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
A solvent that dissolves anything, anything.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Ladies and gentlemen, A deep breath is certainly indicated at
this moment in our story of young Ray Stuart and
his amazing discovery, and then this animation before we go
back to further developments in tonight's exciting life story. I
wonder how many of you girls are asking yourselves this
question to night listen.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Why is everything all wrong for me? Other girls have
jobs and do war work too, like I do. But
other girls get all the dates and all the fun.
All I get is tinner and tireder and more jittery
and lonely and miserable by the minute.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I certainly need something I haven't got.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, miss, maybe it's just more vitamin B and iron.
If that's it, I suggest you try ironized yeast tablets.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh, I've tried tonic after tonic. None I've taken seemed.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
To help me. But ironized yeast is different. It's the
two way tonic. It gives you both vitamin B and iron.
That's why it's been of such amazing benefit of thousands
who simply needed more of these substances.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I still don't understand.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well, here's how the experts explain it. When you don't
get enough vitamin be out of your food, you may
lose your appetite. You may eat so poorly that you
lose weight and lose your pep. Or you may not
get all the good out of what you do eat.
And when you don't get enough iron from your food,
you may be weak and pale and feel only half alive.
(16:10):
So if you're short on the substances for your own sake,
start taking ironized yeast tablets right away tonight. Then see
if before long you aren't saying I feel wonderful.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now everybody says I look like a million two since
I gained these good pounds, and talk about dates. Everybody's
asking me out nowadays. I wish I'd tried ironized yeast
ages ago.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
This is Hudson River Radio dot Com.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Hudson River Radio dot Com, your local Rockland County station.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And now back to lights out.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
A cheat cheaf look at this, huh wan't no matter?
Murphy have six travelers that a.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Load of this chief came in over the news wires.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
Reader addition, more on wit More University mysterious cavity on
campus growing larger early more followed mysterious cavity.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Hey what is it's a dentist in the very middle dot?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Remember chief a couple of hours ago that flash about
something eating a hole so big a building fell in it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
This is the follow up, the things getting bigger? What
do you want to do about? Where get it?
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Why don't you see through a gag when it hitch
in the face. Nobody's just having fun on the wires.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Fat mysterious cavity growing bigger.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Well, when it's as big as a hole in your head,
that'll be news.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Murph anything it dissolves anything, And I did it? I discovered,
I discovered.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, Hello?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But is it?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yes? Yes, this is doctor with Moore. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Ooh?
Speaker 11 (17:59):
National News Service. Now look here, my good man. It's
four o'clock in the morning, and I'm supposed to be
resting my vacation.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You know.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
What, my university building collapsed.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But are you sure? Yes?
Speaker 11 (18:15):
Yes, I call them long distance at once. No, No,
I can't give you any sort of statement.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Now hang up.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
Man, I've got to get the operator. Operator operator, give
me long distance, Give me what long distance is calling.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
We'll put them on.
Speaker 11 (18:28):
Put them on Hello, Hello, Yes, this is he Rogers, Yes, Rogers.
What did That's impossible?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Larger?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
But how could it grow larger? Chemicals?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Are you drunk?
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Men?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Insane? It's impossible, impossible, But.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I must do something something.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Listen, mister, I'm a fireman, not from exist, but that whore.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It's twenty feet wider than it lost ten minutes ago.
I don't know what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
No fire on the ground's burning right away.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You have five million dollars worth of propy on this ground.
If that won't for any freakly.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Mill aun re within fraw and water on the edges
of the thing ever since the building fallen, But it
tad two north forward.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It torn wood.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Night's paper the latest news on the Whitmore University mystery.
What at first was treated lightly by all newspapers is
either a hoax or a shifting of erth stratum, has
now developed into an authentic, yet unbelievable situation. The whole,
which began with the side of the chemical laboratory building,
is now three hundred feet in diameter and spreading with
unbelievable rapidity. Fire departments and fire experts from all neighboring
(19:38):
communities within a radius of one hundred miles have been
called in but have been helpless to combat the rapidly
spreading pit. Many conflicting theories have been propounded as to
the cause of the cave in, but at last reports
nothing definite had been determined.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Enough as a farker, what about the solvent?
Speaker 13 (19:54):
Unbelievable, unexplainable as it is, it is apparently self regenerating
and oxidizing anything it comes in contact with, so quickly
that we see no fire, but only the rapidly growing
cavity with the earth is being consumed.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But Professor Parker, what is this solvent?
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Surely you don't expect us to believe that this student
you were telling us about, I.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Mean exactly, that all preposterous.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It's a fault in the structure of the earth.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
There is no such thing as a self regenerating solvent,
simple cavin, That's all it is.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, if you please, what I know, I know
it's preposterous, gentlefleman, if you please, if my professional reputation
is not enough to substantiate what I've said.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Then at least you listen to the boy himself. He's here.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Listen to him.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Why should we Yes, gentlemen, if you'll listen, I'll tell
you you'd better listen to me. Gentlemen, Please, what Professor
Parker said is true. It is a solvent.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
It dissolves anything it touches quickly, furiously, and the byproducts
of that dissolution give it new strength and movement.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And I discovered it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Gentlemen, I know what will happen? What can we do?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We can wait?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Wait, how can we wait?
Speaker 11 (21:02):
Look out there, the holes within two feet of another building.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Already You've got to stop it at once. You will,
don't the building?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
The brown basic gun of mines.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Crashing Mother in Heaven, Harris Hole caves right in the hole.
Professor Parker, you boy, listen, which chemicals did you use?
We've got to fight it with chemicals. Spread them around
the edge, neutralize the south.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yes, yes, that's it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Chemicals will neutralize the reaction.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
No, jetle listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You may neutralize the reaction at the edges of the hole,
but you forget one thing.
Speaker 14 (21:39):
What what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
The solvent is eating downward. At many times the rate
is eating outward. You may neutralize the reaction.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
At the edges of the hole, but have you forgotten
it's eating the hole a quarter of a mile deep already,
and it's eating into the earth faster and faster.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
How are you going to stop there? How are you do?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Faster?
Speaker 12 (22:01):
Faster and faster, At ever increasing rate, this strange cancer
on the surface is heating way. It is now approximately
fourteen hours since the phenomenon began, and already it is
eaten outward a distance approximately one mile in diameter, with
the resulting damage of over a million and a half
in property.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Truly, the most astounding factor in this catastrophe is the
fact that the whole is increasing in depth at an
unbelievable rate. At our last reports, approximately ten minutes ago,
the pit had reached a depth of approximately three miles,
and experts apparently refuse to predict how much further this
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earth cancer will go. What only a handful of hours
ago was a quiet section of the country in which
stood the Whitmore University is now a great gaping pit
in the surface of the earth, out of which rise
strange noxious gases as that burning something eats deeper and
deeper and deeper into the bowels of the earth. The
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latest sonic recordings indicate that the shaft has now reached
a depth of eleven miles two thousand, three hundred and
forty two feet. I'm right on the scene and we'll
continue to send reports as quickly.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
About you're a cloud here, Yeah, half million, they say, yeah,
watching it and waiting and for what.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Ain't it ever gonna stop staying?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Don't ask me. I don't know. It's going deeper and
deeper every minute. There ain't no stopping it. Listen to it.
We scared, ain't every one of them? Well aren't you?
Speaker 12 (23:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Sure? That hole going deep and deep into the ground
and nobody can stop. And what happens when it gets
all the way through? Nobody knows. Sure.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm scared, scared plenty right.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Earthquake, help send help, Volcano erupting, city on fire, mantralogy,
clear waves weeping in lamb.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
Nothing can stopping nothing, nothing, earthquake fire title waves.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Were coming to an end.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Jutsman of Hutchman of cough from Siberia to Cape Town
to San Francisco and around the world again.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I tell you.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
The earth is ripping apart, and I tell you it's
that hole in the ground that's done it. It's effect
of the rotation of the earth, unbalanced things.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Yes, and it's biting deeper every minute. What'll happened when
it eats true to the other side, the ocean pouring through.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We'll die. We'll all die.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It's that kid who used to play air.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
We read it in the papers, That crazy college.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Kid there there he is, that's him. That's why not.
Let me tell you, fools, you.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
I done a great thing, a wonderful thing, created something
no one ever thought of.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
No, let me down, Let me down, Let me down,
your fools.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I started the song, but I didn't know this would happened.
You can't blame me for a marathon in the for
no hole he made.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
No, don't shut me down here, there's no.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Bottom to it. No die.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Here.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
They put him down here on the grass dead. Yes,
oh oh boy, will this be a sensation on the campus.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
But watch when how did it happen?
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Well me, I'm making my rounds of the grounds as usual,
and all at once in the moonlight, I see this
fella walking across the grass. So I go up to him,
and I see the fellas walking in his sleep and
his sleep, and just when I starts to grab him
easy like, he pulls loosey, yells something about don't throw
me in, don't throw me in, and then he runs
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across the campus and died his head first down into
the swimming pool and it's empty. When I pull him out,
he's he's like he is now.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Must Nick. But who is he? Anyone recognize him? Yeah?
I know him. Stuart's his name, way Stewart, kind of
a scurry little crack part, always talking about creating miracles
with chemicals. I wonder what he thought was happening to
him diving down that hole.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, mister Robbler, I suppose all I can say is we've.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Had quite enough holes tonight.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Supposing we talk about haunted houses.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Uh, who's haunted houses?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And where?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Well, it's the most famous haunted house in the world.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
In fact, in the good psychic circles, it's supposed.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
To be the haunted house where all the ghosts go.
I'll tell you about that, Frank, as soon as you've
talked to our audience.
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the Essex border. Ghostly figures of headless coachmen appear in
the lawn. In the ghostly figure of a nun walks
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Speaker 2 (28:08):
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Speaker 5 (28:08):
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Speaker 6 (02:23):
So I says to mysels, Well, sir, I'd like to
be obliging, but I rarely haven't got the time. And
he says to me, He says, well, mister Jackson, after oh,
we're making this proposition, and uh we do field, you
should be interested.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
In our proposition. Well, uh what did you say? Well?
I said, miss I can't be bothered, just can't be bothered.
And I gets in my card. Off I go, but
Bob free clothes just for wearing him around the canvas,
and stand, my boy wouldn't want to be a clothes
Horsepinny old habitash Ray, My old Peppy's got more money,
and he knows what to do with? And what for?
I ask, well, I guess you got something there. MM
(02:58):
say what are you gonna take a dare Saturday night? Mm?
Have made up my mind? How about that new number
over at the Rotor House?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
No, thank you, brother, more it's the matter.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Well did you ever take a look at her feet?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
No, sir, never got lord ship hold it?
Speaker 3 (03:13):
Yeah, a race Stewart to see you stand?
Speaker 4 (03:16):
Uh oh oh yeah? Uh send him on up, Ray Stuart.
Who's he? Well, we're still short one pledge, aren't we
lay another? Ray Stewart?
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Who is he?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Oh? I met him over in chemistry. Got a mine
like a textbook.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Oh, but who is he? We can't pledge a man
just because he's a grind.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, we could use a few grinds around here. Exams
come around. There's nothing like a few of those brainy
boys pulls. But who is he?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Where's he from?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Who's his family? Who's his hot hole? One?
Speaker 6 (03:45):
Inn?
Speaker 8 (03:45):
Ray?
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
There's good of you to bother to come over to ninth.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
It was good of you to ask me.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
No, not at all. Ray. I want you to meet
the president of our house, Bob Jackson. Mister Jackson, mister Stewart.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I'm certainly glad to make your acquaintance. I I might
as well admit this is the first time I've ever
been in the fraternity house.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Really, Uh, sit down, ray makes suff at home?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Thank you? Thank you?
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Now tell me ray H, do you ever go in
for any sports back in your prep days?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
No, I never had much time for that sort of thing. No, No,
I think that sports should be put into their proper place.
After all, I'm sure you agree they aren't particularly important.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Uh. And what might I ask, is important in your estimation,
mister Stuart?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Doing things, but being somewhat what doing things man's never
done before, taking the elements and transmuting them into things
which never existed until you thought of them. That's important.
That's It's being almost godlike, isn't it? Mester?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Are you too sorry?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
I get sort of carried away?
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Heyeah, well that's all right. Uh, Bob, this boy sure
knows his chemistry.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Well, oh, I really don't know so much.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Say I ought to know better. You pulled me over
some tough spots in this course.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I I'm very glad to help you whenever I can.
If if I lived here, I could help you all
the time. I could help you too, mister Jackson.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
If I need help, I know where to get it.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Oh, I didn't mean to.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
It's all right, Stuart. Now tell me you're You're from
around your Cargo Way, aren't you.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Oh no, Milwaukee lived there for you.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Yeah, don't tell me. I'm one of those browin families.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
We're not wealthy people at all. My father runs a
small business. It isn't much, but we get along.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I don't think money's important anyway if a person's ambitious,
do you, mister Jackson?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Oh no, no, what's money?
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You fellas may think this funny, but I always thought
it's more important what a fella does than what he has.
I mean, I've always had the feeling that some days,
somehow I'm going to do something really important, maybe even miraculous.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Well, now, what do you expect to do? Discover the
missing link? Oh? Yes, Stuart? Uh, what is this miracle
you expect to perform?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Well, I I don't know exactly. Ever since i've been
just a kid, I've been interested in chemistry, and I've
had a feeling that someday I will perform an experiment
mix certain chemicals together and something would happen that never
happened before.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
While you here, that's there a miracle man, amazing, my
dear Bob, simply amazing.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I know it sounds silly, but the things I dream
about always seem to work on. Well, would you mind
telling us the last miracle had worked out?
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Well?
Speaker 4 (06:24):
This this? What do you mean?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Well, as long as I can remember, I've always wanted
to belong to a fraternity, and here I am. I mean,
will you invite him?
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Justin then? That there, fellow, and mister Stuart.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
It's been awfully nice of you to come over and
visit with us, and someday we'll have you back again.
But now we've got some studying to do, so if
you don't mind.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Oh no, no, not at all. It was nice if
you'd invite me over well, can I fellas?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
And of all this girl crackfie, did you see the
look in his eye when he was talking about gets
back to this out account? That is that in the world?
Ever made you ask him over here? Oh? I didn't know,
how was I didn't know?
Speaker 6 (07:05):
He's a crank ledgend of the opporternity ledgend of the
booby hatch.
Speaker 9 (07:17):
Mister Stewart, if you, please, mister Stewart. Yes, Professor, mister Stewart,
Might I ask if you're anxious to sever your relationship
with this university? Then might I ask why I'm creation
you persist in ignoring my warnings in this laboratory. You're
to perform the experiments given you to perform. Understand given
you to perform?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yes, sir?
Speaker 9 (07:35):
Then might I ask why you persist in yours? Shall
I call it original experiments? Perhaps your intention to blow
up the university or just the laboratory.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'm sorry, You'll be.
Speaker 9 (07:44):
More than sorry if I find you doing this sort
of thing again. Now take down this apparatus and continue
with the work in your textbook. Yes, sir, this is
my last morning, So Barrett mine, Hello Stewart.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Have I loarned him your notebook for a few hours? Jackson?
Speaker 3 (08:01):
You you haven't been the lab much, have you?
Speaker 10 (08:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
No, I haven't, but I can make it up.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
We've been pretty busy over the house initiations and all
that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, Jackson, Yeah, you never invited me back. I I
thought maybe you forgot.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh, well, you know how those things are.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
I wrote my mother that I was joining your fraternity.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Well that was a sad thing to do, was it?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
Well, we hadn't pledged stand simply invited job so I
could talk to you, and you said you wanted me
to come back out.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Look here, fella, don't be stupid about this. We didn't
pledge you.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
So that's that you're not going to pledge me. But
why I don't have to tell you why. But you've
got to quit me, will you?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
All right? You're asking for it. So here it is.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
We didn't pledge you because we think you're a crack pot.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
What our crack pot?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
You talk about miracles?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
You'll spend every minute of your.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Time here in the lab monkey and around with things
you don't know anything about, getting yourself in all kinds
of trouble.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And you looked like the.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
First class screwball.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
But I'm just trying to make you whatever it is
you're trying, it isn't normal. Oh that you never had
a glass of beer in your life. And if a
girl ever looked at you you fall over in a faint.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Then you're not going to pledge me. You're not.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
No, you're not gonna pledge you.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
So if your mom expects you to be in a fraternity,
you better start cooking up one of those miracles, fella,
our first class miracle.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Sleep.
Speaker 7 (09:31):
It's so late, sleep, I got to sleep. Not gonna
pledge you, that's what he said. Not gonna pledge me.
Why do I keep thinking about it?
Speaker 3 (09:42):
If I could only sleep?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Sleep?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
You think you're a crackpot?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
I kinda stop thinking about these things. Not hell do
you to think what I'm thinking?
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Crackpot, Not gonna pledge you.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Crackots matter with my head, talking it over and over
and over again. Crackpot, I'm not crazy, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
I got and as good as you are.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
I'm as good as both you put together. Stop saying that.
Stop saying it. I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
I'll show you both.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
I better than you are. I'm better than anybody.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
I'll show you.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I'll show you. I'll show you. Talk about miracles. I'll
give you miracles.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
The lab.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I've gotta get into it. I'll give you miracles.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Dark.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I've got to get in, oh blasted door. Gotta get
in window. I'll show you.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
So dark in here.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
I gotta find a lab, table, gotta make a miracle.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Who's there?
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Who's there? Watchman?
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Come on now, who's there?
Speaker 8 (10:47):
Talk?
Speaker 3 (10:48):
You don't have to get so excited. I'm a student, student, eh,
say a look at you flashlight, You're you're blinding me.
I've got to see who you are.
Speaker 10 (10:56):
Go to Yeah, I know you see you on the campus.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I told you I'm a student.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Well, I don't give you the right to be here
after hours. How'd you get in here?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Broke the wind? And I did yet I didn't break
the window, but I heard the glad, so did I.
And I followed the man in here.
Speaker 4 (11:11):
And what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (11:13):
Give me your flash flight and I'll show you all
right here, look behind you.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
You know.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
No one will stop me, No one. Miracle. I gotta
make one, got to got to got to CC Burier
five cc. So then he mocks the chloride. Oh good, good,
(11:41):
you're working out just as I play.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Who's there?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Who's working there? Professor?
Speaker 4 (11:45):
You do it?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
And after all my wanting, because you're just in time, professor, Yeah,
it's just in time to have you thrown out of
the university.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
What are you doing there?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
What is this mess of equipment? It's my miracle, miracle?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 4 (11:55):
My miracle?
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Insane? Take it apart, all of it once, it bubbling,
a beautiful sound, isn't it, Professor? Empty out for a talk?
Speaker 4 (12:04):
No, now, I got to wait. Are you mad?
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Turn out the burners all right, I'll turn them off
for it. No, say where you are.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
Put down that ass, and I'll smash the bottle on
your head if you touch anything on the table, Now,
don't throw it.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Put the bottle of ass down, Stewart, Please.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
My experiment, my miracle, bubbling and boiling and stewing. It
will work, Professor, It's got to work.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
But but what is it?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I told him? I create something that no other man has.
I told him, and I will, Professor, you to hear me.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
I will.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
But what a solvent? A solvent more powerful than anything
the world has ever known?
Speaker 7 (12:34):
What do you mean?
Speaker 9 (12:35):
What are you talking about? Listen to it, Bubble, you
said solvent? Explain yourself. Yes, a solvent.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
A solvent will resolve steel like a hot flame.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
What do you say? You heard me say it?
Speaker 3 (12:46):
A solvent that will dissolve steal faster than a razor
cutting through paper. Do you know what that means? Run
the line of this liquid across a steel girder. Girder
will crumple like a falling tree. Pour some of my
solvent into a glass shell and bomb this cities. I
tell you, it'll make war too horrible for men to endure.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
You crazy boy, You you know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm talking about that that liquid there to listen to
it sing.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
No such solvent exists selenium marxychloride perhaps, but to do
the impossible things you talked about would require a quantity.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
A beaker it cracked or do something.
Speaker 9 (13:23):
That liquid's flying all over my bench, my laboratory.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Listone to the bench. It's eating through the stone. Well
stop it for liquid. It's eating through the stone bench.
Oh no, it can't be. It's eating through the slate
of the floor. Was getting bigger and bigger. Run run,
I've done it.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I've created something no other man has done, a solvent
that dissolves anything, anything, anything.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Then what happened? What's that the lamb? I gets it's
on fire? Away as the file. I can't see that
old school's out here?
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Hey, hey, fellas, what's up? And always has to know
something's going wrong in the last requirement, won't let us say?
Speaker 9 (14:06):
Something burning?
Speaker 4 (14:07):
I don't know, can't get near enough to find out.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I can't see any fire, plenty of smoke plenty of excitements.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Read about it tomorrow, favor all men it hey listen
sounds like, oh gosh, what is it?
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Nang you?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
I did it? I did it.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
A solvent that dissolves anything, anything.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Ladies and gentlemen, A deep breath is certainly indicated at
this moment in our story of young Ray Stuart and
his amazing discovery, and then this animation before we go
back to further developments in tonight's exciting life story. I
wonder how many of you girls are asking yourselves this
question to night listen.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Why is everything all wrong for me? Other girls have
jobs and do war work too, like I do. But
other girls get all the dates and all the fun.
All I get is tinner and tireder and more jittery
and lonely and miserable by the minute.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
I certainly need something I haven't got.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, miss, maybe it's just more vitamin B and iron.
If that's it, I suggest you try ironized yeast tablets.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Oh, I've tried tonic after tonic. None I've taken seemed.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
To help me. But ironized yeast is different. It's the
two way tonic. It gives you both vitamin B and iron.
That's why it's been of such amazing benefit of thousands
who simply needed more of these substances.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
I still don't understand.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well, here's how the experts explain it. When you don't
get enough vitamin be out of your food, you may
lose your appetite. You may eat so poorly that you
lose weight and lose your pep. Or you may not
get all the good out of what you do eat.
And when you don't get enough iron from your food,
you may be weak and pale and feel only half alive.
(16:10):
So if you're short on the substances for your own sake,
start taking ironized yeast tablets right away tonight. Then see
if before long you aren't saying I feel wonderful.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Now everybody says I look like a million two since
I gained these good pounds, and talk about dates. Everybody's
asking me out nowadays. I wish I'd tried ironized yeast
ages ago.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
This is Hudson River Radio dot Com.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
Hudson River Radio dot Com, your local Rockland County station.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And now back to lights out.
Speaker 10 (16:56):
A cheat cheaf look at this, huh wan't no matter?
Murphy have six travelers that a.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Load of this chief came in over the news wires.
Speaker 10 (17:02):
Reader addition, more on wit More University mysterious cavity on
campus growing larger early more followed mysterious cavity.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
Hey what is it's a dentist in the very middle dot?
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Remember chief a couple of hours ago that flash about
something eating a hole so big a building fell in it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
This is the follow up, the things getting bigger? What
do you want to do about? Where get it?
Speaker 10 (17:24):
Why don't you see through a gag when it hitch
in the face. Nobody's just having fun on the wires.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Fat mysterious cavity growing bigger.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Well, when it's as big as a hole in your head,
that'll be news.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Murph anything it dissolves anything, And I did it? I discovered,
I discovered.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, Hello?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
But is it?
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yes? Yes, this is doctor with Moore. Who is this?
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Ooh?
Speaker 11 (17:59):
National News Service. Now look here, my good man. It's
four o'clock in the morning, and I'm supposed to be
resting my vacation.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You know.
Speaker 11 (18:08):
What, my university building collapsed.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
But are you sure? Yes?
Speaker 11 (18:15):
Yes, I call them long distance at once. No, No,
I can't give you any sort of statement.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Now hang up.
Speaker 11 (18:19):
Man, I've got to get the operator. Operator operator, give
me long distance, Give me what long distance is calling.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
We'll put them on.
Speaker 11 (18:28):
Put them on Hello, Hello, Yes, this is he Rogers, Yes, Rogers.
What did That's impossible?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Larger?
Speaker 4 (18:42):
But how could it grow larger? Chemicals?
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Are you drunk?
Speaker 12 (18:46):
Men?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Insane? It's impossible, impossible, But.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I must do something something.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Listen, mister, I'm a fireman, not from exist, but that whore.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It's twenty feet wider than it lost ten minutes ago.
I don't know what it's all about.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
No fire on the ground's burning right away.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
You have five million dollars worth of propy on this ground.
If that won't for any freakly.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Mill aun re within fraw and water on the edges
of the thing ever since the building fallen, But it
tad two north forward.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
It torn wood.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Night's paper the latest news on the Whitmore University mystery.
What at first was treated lightly by all newspapers is
either a hoax or a shifting of erth stratum, has
now developed into an authentic, yet unbelievable situation. The whole,
which began with the side of the chemical laboratory building,
is now three hundred feet in diameter and spreading with
unbelievable rapidity. Fire departments and fire experts from all neighboring
(19:38):
communities within a radius of one hundred miles have been
called in but have been helpless to combat the rapidly
spreading pit. Many conflicting theories have been propounded as to
the cause of the cave in, but at last reports
nothing definite had been determined.
Speaker 11 (19:51):
Enough as a farker, what about the solvent?
Speaker 13 (19:54):
Unbelievable, unexplainable as it is, it is apparently self regenerating
and oxidizing anything it comes in contact with, so quickly
that we see no fire, but only the rapidly growing
cavity with the earth is being consumed.
Speaker 4 (20:06):
But Professor Parker, what is this solvent?
Speaker 11 (20:09):
Surely you don't expect us to believe that this student
you were telling us about, I.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Mean exactly, that all preposterous.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
It's a fault in the structure of the earth.
Speaker 11 (20:17):
There is no such thing as a self regenerating solvent,
simple cavin, That's all it is.
Speaker 9 (20:23):
Gentlemen, gentlemen, if you please, what I know, I know
it's preposterous, gentlefleman, if you please, if my professional reputation
is not enough to substantiate what I've said.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Then at least you listen to the boy himself. He's here.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
Listen to him.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Why should we Yes, gentlemen, if you'll listen, I'll tell
you you'd better listen to me. Gentlemen, Please, what Professor
Parker said is true. It is a solvent.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
It dissolves anything it touches quickly, furiously, and the byproducts
of that dissolution give it new strength and movement.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
And I discovered it.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
Gentlemen, I know what will happen? What can we do?
Speaker 3 (20:58):
We can wait?
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Wait, how can we wait?
Speaker 11 (21:02):
Look out there, the holes within two feet of another building.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Already You've got to stop it at once. You will,
don't the building?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
The brown basic gun of mines.
Speaker 11 (21:10):
Crashing Mother in Heaven, Harris Hole caves right in the hole.
Professor Parker, you boy, listen, which chemicals did you use?
We've got to fight it with chemicals. Spread them around
the edge, neutralize the south.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yes, yes, that's it.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Chemicals will neutralize the reaction.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
No, jetle listen, listen.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
You may neutralize the reaction at the edges of the hole,
but you forget one thing.
Speaker 14 (21:39):
What what are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (21:41):
The solvent is eating downward. At many times the rate
is eating outward. You may neutralize the reaction.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
At the edges of the hole, but have you forgotten
it's eating the hole a quarter of a mile deep already,
and it's eating into the earth faster and faster.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
How are you going to stop there? How are you do?
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Faster?
Speaker 12 (22:01):
Faster and faster, At ever increasing rate, this strange cancer
on the surface is heating way. It is now approximately
fourteen hours since the phenomenon began, and already it is
eaten outward a distance approximately one mile in diameter, with
the resulting damage of over a million and a half
in property.
Speaker 8 (22:19):
Truly, the most astounding factor in this catastrophe is the
fact that the whole is increasing in depth at an
unbelievable rate. At our last reports, approximately ten minutes ago,
the pit had reached a depth of approximately three miles,
and experts apparently refuse to predict how much further this
(22:39):
earth cancer will go. What only a handful of hours
ago was a quiet section of the country in which
stood the Whitmore University is now a great gaping pit
in the surface of the earth, out of which rise
strange noxious gases as that burning something eats deeper and
deeper and deeper into the bowels of the earth. The
(23:03):
latest sonic recordings indicate that the shaft has now reached
a depth of eleven miles two thousand, three hundred and
forty two feet. I'm right on the scene and we'll
continue to send reports as quickly.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
About you're a cloud here, Yeah, half million, they say, yeah,
watching it and waiting and for what.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Ain't it ever gonna stop staying?
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Don't ask me. I don't know. It's going deeper and
deeper every minute. There ain't no stopping it. Listen to it.
We scared, ain't every one of them? Well aren't you?
Speaker 12 (23:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Sure? That hole going deep and deep into the ground
and nobody can stop. And what happens when it gets
all the way through? Nobody knows. Sure.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
I'm scared, scared plenty right.
Speaker 11 (23:49):
Earthquake, help send help, Volcano erupting, city on fire, mantralogy,
clear waves weeping in lamb.
Speaker 12 (23:55):
Nothing can stopping nothing, nothing, earthquake fire title waves.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Were coming to an end.
Speaker 11 (24:00):
Jutsman of Hutchman of cough from Siberia to Cape Town
to San Francisco and around the world again.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I tell you.
Speaker 11 (24:08):
The earth is ripping apart, and I tell you it's
that hole in the ground that's done it. It's effect
of the rotation of the earth, unbalanced things.
Speaker 9 (24:15):
Yes, and it's biting deeper every minute. What'll happened when
it eats true to the other side, the ocean pouring through.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
We'll die. We'll all die.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
It's that kid who used to play air.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
We read it in the papers, That crazy college.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
Kid there there he is, that's him. That's why not.
Let me tell you, fools, you.
Speaker 9 (24:39):
I done a great thing, a wonderful thing, created something
no one ever thought of.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
No, let me down, Let me down, Let me down,
your fools.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
I started the song, but I didn't know this would happened.
You can't blame me for a marathon in the for
no hole he made.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
No, don't shut me down here, there's no.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Bottom to it. No die.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
Here.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
They put him down here on the grass dead. Yes,
oh oh boy, will this be a sensation on the campus.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
But watch when how did it happen?
Speaker 11 (25:17):
Well me, I'm making my rounds of the grounds as usual,
and all at once in the moonlight, I see this
fella walking across the grass. So I go up to him,
and I see the fellas walking in his sleep and
his sleep, and just when I starts to grab him
easy like, he pulls loosey, yells something about don't throw
me in, don't throw me in, and then he runs
(25:39):
across the campus and died his head first down into
the swimming pool and it's empty. When I pull him out,
he's he's like he is now.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Must Nick. But who is he? Anyone recognize him? Yeah?
I know him. Stuart's his name, way Stewart, kind of
a scurry little crack part, always talking about creating miracles
with chemicals. I wonder what he thought was happening to
him diving down that hole.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Well, mister Robbler, I suppose all I can say is we've.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Had quite enough holes tonight.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Supposing we talk about haunted houses.
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Uh, who's haunted houses?
Speaker 4 (26:32):
And where?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Well, it's the most famous haunted house in the world.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
In fact, in the good psychic circles, it's supposed.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
To be the haunted house where all the ghosts go.
I'll tell you about that, Frank, as soon as you've
talked to our audience.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Well, I just wanna remind you, folks that if you're
nervous and tired, underweight and under par And if, like
so many Americans these days, you only need more vitamin
B and iron, then don't wait. Do try ironized yeast
tablets right away.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
They give you.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Both vitamin B and iron. They cost but a few
pennies a day, and you don't risk even those few
pennies for ironized yeast. Tablets are sold on this money
backed basis. If you don't quickly begin to eat and
sleep better, to gain you pounds, to feel much stronger
and peppier. And if you are not convinced that ironized
(27:24):
yeast has been of real health, the cost of the
first bottle will be refunded to you in full by
Ironized Yeast Box I Y Rawway, New Jersey. But remember
there's only one ironized yeast. You'll know it by the
big letters I Y on the package and on each tablet. Now, then,
(27:48):
what about the Haunted house, mister Robler, Well.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
It's a rectory about sixty miles from London, just within
the Essex border. Ghostly figures of headless coachmen appear in
the lawn. In the ghostly figure of a nun walks
through the rooms. An old fashioned coach driven by two
headless men gallops across the lawn. No, I'm not more
than normally crazy.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Fact this.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
For ten years, these phenomena been investigated by various thoroughly
reliable and well intentioned gentlemen. But they say the headless
horseman still ride and the woman still walks through the
woods at the back of the house. Well for next week,
I've written a play about that particular house. It's a
nice fresh ghost story. Its title is They Met at Dorset,
and it concerns the attempt on the part of one
(28:29):
hideous Himmler, head of the German Gestapel, to rescue England's unwilling.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
House guests, her Rudolph Hess.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Yes, I I really think you're going to enjoy They
met at Dorset, But as usual, that's next week.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
Lights Out will come to you again next Tuesday. At
this same time, be sure to listen to arch Obeler's
amazing story They Met at Dorset. And if you need
more of vitamin being iron, be sure to try ironized yeast,
the one and only ironized ye with the big letters
I Y on the package and on each tablet.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
It is.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
Later than.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
You.
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the Columbia Broadcasting System Hudson River.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Radio dot com.
Speaker 14 (30:07):
We're so good we don't need a transmitter.
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