1 00:00:28,320 --> 00:00:36,000 Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. This 2 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:40,759 is your host, Adam Graham. If you have a comment, email it 3 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:46,520 to me Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. Follow us on Twitter at 4 00:00:46,679 --> 00:00:52,039 Radio Detectives, and check us out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, 5 00:00:52,039 --> 00:00:57,560 slash Great Detectives. If you're enjoying this podcast, please follow us using your 6 00:00:57,679 --> 00:01:03,319 favorite podcast software. Welcome to our Thanksgiving Special. I do want to let 7 00:01:03,319 --> 00:01:08,079 you know that if you want more Thanksgiving old time radio, we've got you 8 00:01:08,239 --> 00:01:14,680 covered. On Monday, we're going to have some Thanksgiving appetizers on the Old 9 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:21,239 Time Radio snack Wagon at snackwagon dot net. And then on Wednesday a special 10 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:26,760 Thanksgiving trait you want to be sure and listen to at Amazing dot Great Detectives 11 00:01:26,799 --> 00:01:33,359 dot net. And if you want to hear our past Thanksgiving programs, you 12 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,159 can find all of those over on the YouTube channel. It's the featured playlist. 13 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:44,840 Now it's YouTube dot Great Detectives dot net. Now let's go ahead and 14 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:51,400 get into our Thanksgiving special. This is another one where we have played this 15 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:55,319 program on the podcast, but it was many years ago. I think it 16 00:01:55,439 --> 00:02:00,200 was season two or three. And we have a much better sound quality version 17 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:07,799 of that episode. And while we will probably be doing replays future seasons, 18 00:02:07,879 --> 00:02:13,919 I did want a better version of this episode before we bet off that rotation. 19 00:02:14,479 --> 00:02:17,000 So now let's go ahead and take a listen to an episode of Let 20 00:02:17,039 --> 00:02:23,120 George Do It. The original air date November the twentieth, nineteen fifty and 21 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:35,960 the title is Cause for Thanksgiving. Personal notice stanges my stock in trade. 22 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:38,080 The job's too tough for you to handle. You've got a job for me, 23 00:02:38,240 --> 00:03:06,039 George Valentine right full details. Standard Oil Company of California, on behalf 24 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:12,520 of independent Chevron Gas Stations and Standard Stations throughout the West, invites you to 25 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:35,800 let George do It Cause for Thanksgiving. Another adventure of George Valentine. Hello, 26 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:40,840 yere, mister Valentine, what hello? Quiet? I'm ten years old, 27 00:03:42,280 --> 00:03:46,000 Haley? Is that you? Well, it's not Tom Turkey. Listen, 28 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:47,719 my friend, I'm sure it's not. What's that ten year old stuff? 29 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,879 You've been jumping the gun on the cranberry sauce? All right, all 30 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:53,919 right, all right, I'll say it straight. I'm phoning on behalf of 31 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:58,439 a little boy ten years old. No, it's not, it's worse, 32 00:03:59,439 --> 00:04:01,439 said, little boy could no more write you or letter than he could hope 33 00:04:01,439 --> 00:04:05,919 the joke. I doubt if he can write? What's he can't talk either? 34 00:04:06,439 --> 00:04:10,680 Huh? You hurt me? I said he can't talk? Oh, 35 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:13,639 I don't mean there's anything wrong with him, Or maybe there is. I 36 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:15,360 don't know. But look, Valentine, get over here, will you right 37 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:18,399 away? To my house? Well? Sure, but I want your friend. 38 00:04:18,720 --> 00:04:23,199 This little boy never heard of Thanksgiving. If you're gonna help him, 39 00:04:23,199 --> 00:04:39,879 you'd better bring your breast knuckles. Oh, missus Riley's got him in there 40 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:42,959 trying to coax them deweek. But the only time he will take a bite 41 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,639 is when she's turned it back. Oh is he? Where'd you get him? 42 00:04:46,439 --> 00:04:48,639 One of the boys in my department picked him up early this morning at 43 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:54,120 three am on the waterfront of the warehouse, laying. Oh see a little 44 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:56,800 on the tough side. Oh, they all are down there, like a 45 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:00,000 bunch of dirty seagulls and scavengers running loose. We can't even find out who 46 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:05,639 he belongs to. Maybe nobody. Only ten years old. Listen this sergeant 47 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:09,319 of mine and a squad car and then he runs him down. See the 48 00:05:09,399 --> 00:05:13,480 kid was racing across the empty street, not even looking well. Mike gets 49 00:05:13,519 --> 00:05:15,879 out to help. Naturally, the kid wasn't hurt, but he swung on 50 00:05:15,959 --> 00:05:19,160 him. He trying to get away, scared to death and got and scratched. 51 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,319 And then Mike realized the kid wasn't talking, not a sound. That's 52 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:28,519 the part I don't care clear it of were you wrong? Well, Mike 53 00:05:28,519 --> 00:05:31,439 couldn't even find out where he lives, so he brought him in. My 54 00:05:31,519 --> 00:05:36,800 friends, that boy hasn't spoken one single solitary word since, hardly a noise 55 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:41,759 out of him. Oh, except maybe to cry a little, only he 56 00:05:41,800 --> 00:05:45,319 stops that when you look at him. But utility's probably a mute. Uh. 57 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,759 Two doctors were out from juvenile hall to look at him. One of 58 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:50,680 them said, the kid's faking, but they both agreed there's nothing wrong with 59 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:57,319 his vocal cords. And what's the other doctor saying? Psychic shock? Oh 60 00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:00,480 you mean he can't talk because of something that happened to him. They're not 61 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:03,839 sure, they say, it'll take time to be sure. I've arranged for 62 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:08,199 the hall and take him over to try to find his family if there is 63 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:11,759 one, to feed him. But that takes time, like you say, 64 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,160 days. Wow, now you get a pal. And the doc says it'll 65 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,439 help him a lot better if we could work fast, because the most likely 66 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,279 thing is that last night he saw something. What's mixed up and something that 67 00:06:23,399 --> 00:06:26,319 scared the blue blazers out of him, and he was running away a little 68 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,839 before three am last night. I saw something. Yeah, but what Nothing 69 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:34,720 happened down there, Nothing was reported. My department can't just go bursting into 70 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:42,120 him. Eh, well, hello there, selly, Hello, you finally 71 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,160 ate something, did you? He dies, He listens, but he doesn't 72 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:49,879 listen. Yeah, come on in here, son, Come on, he's 73 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,360 a friends of mine. See ah, Now wait him and don't jump like 74 00:06:54,399 --> 00:06:56,720 that. I'm not going to bite you. Come on in. Hear of 75 00:06:56,759 --> 00:07:00,959 it? Really? What time is it? Eh? One forty five Church? 76 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:05,480 Hey, look kid, how about coming with me. I've got an 77 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:11,120 extra ticket to the big football game. Well, get you to meet Big 78 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:15,680 Mike marre Levski, the All American. Maybe you can even sit on the 79 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:20,439 bench with a team. He's just more fright and he's crying. You see, 80 00:07:21,079 --> 00:07:25,480 you can't get him interested in anything but a boy in a football game. 81 00:07:26,399 --> 00:07:30,279 I think the doctor's oh it's Thanksgiving, I mean a kid belongs in 82 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:32,720 somebody's home on Thanksgiving? Well, are you going to just sit there? 83 00:07:32,759 --> 00:07:35,519 Valentine? I know, softy, I know we've got work to do in 84 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:40,040 fast. Come on, Brooks, you take the kid's hand. We're gonna 85 00:07:40,079 --> 00:07:56,600 go straight at this. At the waterfront warehouse lane, great place, honey, 86 00:07:56,639 --> 00:08:01,360 afraiders tied up, but no people ship chandlers. He must have spent 87 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,839 some time around there, haven't you a kid? How about the candy store? 88 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:09,480 Wasting your time? George just seems to get more and more tense. 89 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,959 This is where he was picked up right here, I'll relaxed, Honey, 90 00:08:16,759 --> 00:08:18,560 don't just sit there and look right to left. So he must have come 91 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:24,079 from this way. Okay, let's move on. A little cobblestones by the 92 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:26,240 empty warehouse. Huh, George, look at it, it's this direction, 93 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:31,039 right, George, look out for that boy in the street, a street, 94 00:08:31,159 --> 00:08:35,360 your lovely neighborhood. I wonder if that boy would know anything about our 95 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:41,039 friend here. Hey you shorty, Oh you want you bought it yet? 96 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:46,799 You know me? Hey, hey shorty, shutty? Wait George, George, 97 00:08:46,799 --> 00:08:50,879 come here, I'm having an awful time hole. Oh look, kid, 98 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:52,679 kid, stop it? Will you run? To George. Yeah, 99 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:56,799 no, easy, that's better. Yeah, he'll get away from us if 100 00:08:56,799 --> 00:08:58,559 I try to catch up with that's shorty. Look Brooks, he look, 101 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,679 there's a I don't on house over there at Murphy's. You know him. 102 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:03,200 Take the kid over there and wait for me, will you sure, George? 103 00:09:03,399 --> 00:09:05,879 Maybe they don't know something about it. I got at three am last 104 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,879 night, the father out there in the periods where it happened, whatever it 105 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:28,519 was, So me, I'm gonna take it on foot by myself. Look 106 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,200 out, all right, sure, I got you this, gotcha, polot 107 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,080 out, get you cut it out. I just want to ask you something. 108 00:09:37,399 --> 00:09:39,240 You know that other kid I had back in the car there, you 109 00:09:39,279 --> 00:09:43,919 know his name? I've never seen him before. I've done nothing. What's 110 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:46,559 your name? I don't know? Like God, you kids running loose out 111 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:50,759 here by the ships last night? How was up by the moon eating cheese? 112 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:54,720 Honey? Go brother? Great tribe, bunches stick together. Never tell 113 00:09:54,759 --> 00:09:58,080 anybody anything going out a little kid. I'm not a copper or anything. 114 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:03,440 I just want to find the I got one there, don't I know? 115 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:09,039 You don't, Shorty? I got you here, we are hold him. 116 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,960 Let me go through his pockets Hey, hey, wait a minute this skip, 117 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,679 What are you talking of? Cigars? Left him out on deck, 118 00:10:15,799 --> 00:10:20,399 stolen, stolen, shining store, He hasn't got anything. Still big anyway, 119 00:10:20,679 --> 00:10:24,559 you're not going on? And what go on? Shorty? Get out 120 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:31,039 of here? You know help, I tell you, j water rats, 121 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,879 same the world all over all the same. Good cigars to worst mate, 122 00:10:35,879 --> 00:10:37,679 Give him to me, so I let him stay up town. Wait a 123 00:10:37,759 --> 00:10:41,039 minute, skip the wait a minute. Were you looking for another kid? 124 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:46,159 No? Uh? Yes, something stolen last night? You made during the 125 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,039 night? Cigars, no rules half known a few minutes ago. Come up 126 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:54,000 right, like rat soap on the horses. I tell you it's awful, 127 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:58,399 Marseille. It was my last part. Same thing. Save the world over. 128 00:10:58,799 --> 00:11:01,519 Nobody stops from over the can stop them. Hey, wait a minute 129 00:11:01,679 --> 00:11:07,600 a minute, skipper, this is your ship tied up here, leaky old 130 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:13,200 tub full of potatoes frenchman like potatoes, looks about ready to sail. Were 131 00:11:13,240 --> 00:11:18,919 you here last night? H what do you peddley dope punchboards cheaply? God 132 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:22,440 all listen, will you you have trouble with kids getting aboard? Huh? 133 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:26,519 Characters like you and ever report too, Doc loafers always kind of deal. 134 00:11:28,879 --> 00:11:31,600 Sure, I have trouble. That's the customs peer watchmen. Nobody can stop 135 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:37,240 them. You see those big rat gods right over them like monkeys. Did 136 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:41,440 some kids get aboard your ship last night? No? No, I stopped 137 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,600 pestering. Are you sure? Around three am? Fight was on the pier, 138 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:48,200 not the ship. What fight? Oh that's the peer watchman. He's 139 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:52,120 the one spreading the story. A couple of bombers. I guess I don't 140 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,480 know. My old deck watch was sound asleep. Of course you didn't see 141 00:11:56,519 --> 00:11:58,440 it. No, yeah, I don't know. Whoop me up? I 142 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,879 hel up out of my port hole, went back to sleep. The escape 143 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:07,320 away. I'm so glad to catch you. Oh now a sailor comes ashore. 144 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:11,240 I'm just going to take a minute. It's about a woman you see. 145 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:15,399 Oh that I see and so nicey. But right now I want to 146 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:18,559 put my main doc. Loafers all trying to sell something. Now it's telephone. 147 00:12:18,759 --> 00:12:20,840 It's gone ball to get out of here. Wait a minute, I've 148 00:12:20,879 --> 00:12:26,960 seen this guy before. Yeah, well it's not mutual skip if you're just 149 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:31,080 listening, named Salvory out Yeah, I've seen him in the lineups. Are 150 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:35,120 you around here last night? I beg you pardon. Oh it's a great 151 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:41,200 neighborhood. Salvory the big operator. Last trip he was here selling raffle tickets 152 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:46,720 for a three wheel automobile. Well thanks and good night, you pressed to 153 00:12:46,759 --> 00:12:50,279 him. I'm going backwards. Yeah, hey, look at that. What 154 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:52,519 do you now? What you want to see us about Salfory? That crowd 155 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,440 down at the pier? No, no, no, I got come on, 156 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:01,639 let's take a look after friends. What's going on? Huh? Don't 157 00:13:01,639 --> 00:13:05,879 suppose you have fifty cents? You so see? Yeah? No, Pela 158 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,600 mine, See he's gonna buy me Thanksgiving Toddy? You see you mind that? 159 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:13,080 What are those men doing down with the water fishing? Son? Fifty 160 00:13:13,159 --> 00:13:16,519 cents is about all would take though, you see now this old Pela mine, 161 00:13:16,519 --> 00:13:18,960 he would have spent five bucks, you know, men's pie and the 162 00:13:18,039 --> 00:13:22,799 watch you know said the last knife? Hey, hey down there, awesome 163 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:26,840 buster did you say last night? Yeah? What are you know? Yeah? 164 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,200 Sure? Now yeah, now it seems to me that hell about that? 165 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,480 Wow, he left in a hurry, didn't he? Body? Skipper 166 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:43,200 got a body? What just fishing him off? Guyot with a knife in 167 00:13:43,399 --> 00:13:50,559 him? Guy, yeah, with a knife. Oh you see That's what 168 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:52,159 I tell you. You see a pelamine. He was gonna buy me a 169 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:56,519 Thanksgiving dinner, see only instead it looks like he got in a fight about 170 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:01,320 three am last night. I figured he got might a seen. So tell 171 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:20,120 me, how's about the pitch stents. We'll return to tonight's adventure of George 172 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:26,200 Valentine in just a moment. When you RPM, motor oil was developed in 173 00:14:26,279 --> 00:14:30,720 the laboratory. It was subjected to the most rigidly controlled tests that modern research 174 00:14:30,799 --> 00:14:35,799 could devise, and it proved tops the oil that doubles engine life between major 175 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,039 overhauls due to lubrication. The next question was would it live up to these 176 00:14:39,080 --> 00:14:43,600 tests? In your car? Tonight you'll hear the answer from the crews of 177 00:14:43,679 --> 00:14:48,399 two actual test cars in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Following is a 178 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,919 special transcription made during the road test period. We sweat you to Test unit 179 00:14:52,000 --> 00:15:00,840 number one and research supervisor Carl Watson in San Francisco. We can rather slow 180 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:05,200 progress heading west along Market Street. Test Unit number two is behind us. 181 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:11,320 In the traffic we're driving under the same kind of stop and go conditions that 182 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:16,759 you do. The toughest kind on engine ware. It's our job to see 183 00:15:16,799 --> 00:15:20,919 if New RPM will back up our laboratory findings. I'll switch you now to 184 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:26,480 research engineer Bob Burchell in Unit number two. He'll tell you about these special 185 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:31,879 cars and the data we are recording from the instruments. Go ahead, Bob, 186 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:37,559 this is Bob Burchill. The engines in this test car and test unit 187 00:15:37,679 --> 00:15:43,360 number one ahead of us are both equipped with irradiated piston rings, just like 188 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:48,679 those in our laboratory test engine. They also have Geiger counters attached so that 189 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:54,440 we can hear and record where as it actually takes place. We are making 190 00:15:54,519 --> 00:16:00,240 a comparison. Test Test Unit one is using new RP, but in this 191 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:06,399 car we have a well known conventional oil in the crankcase. It is one 192 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:11,399 of the best premium type oils. Naturally, I can't review its brand name. 193 00:16:11,360 --> 00:16:17,240 Now, I'll hold the microphone closer to the gyre counter, which detects 194 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:22,960 minute particles of metal as they wear off the irradiated pistoning. Hear that rapid 195 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:30,159 clicking. That means a comparatively high rate of engine were Now I'll switch you 196 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,679 back to Carl Watson for a comparison with New RPM motor oil. Come here, 197 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:41,080 Number one, Miss Watson again, Do you hear that slow click of 198 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:48,600 the Geiger counter? That is an outstanding low wear rate count. It's new 199 00:16:48,759 --> 00:16:53,240 RPM on the same condition type oil you heard about a moment ago, Day 200 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,159 in and day out, mile after mile, the counters have clicked off the 201 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:03,120 same story. Results. We've got an a laboratory kiss on new RPM motor 202 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:07,599 oil are checking out on the road, proved in the laboratory, supported in 203 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:12,759 severe road service. That's new RPM motor oil, the oil that cuts in 204 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:18,880 half the wear rate of critical engine parts, doubles engine life between major overhauls 205 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:23,119 due to lubrication. Try it sold with a money back guarantee of satisfaction at 206 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:30,160 independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations where they say and mean we take better 207 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:53,799 care of your car. Now back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine, a 208 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:59,240 boy ten years old who's been scared to death, who either can't or won't 209 00:17:59,319 --> 00:18:02,960 talk well. If your name is George Valentine, you begin to understand the 210 00:18:03,039 --> 00:18:06,039 reason when you see the neighborhood in which he was picked up by the police. 211 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:08,359 You understand a good deal more when you see that the body of a 212 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:12,880 man has been fished out of the water off the pier. Yes, now, 213 00:18:14,039 --> 00:18:18,920 it's certainly a case for Lieutenant Riley. Oh but what a case. 214 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:22,440 They don't get solved around here, my friend, they just happened. Okay, 215 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:26,400 really did your boys pick up that bomb? The guy who sniffed? 216 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:30,680 Oh, he won't know anything. Nobody does. The name of the corpse 217 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,920 is Lefty Sims. Well, you seem to know something. Well, everybody 218 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:37,799 knew him. He's a common thief, that's all. Few big jobs, 219 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:41,400 but nothing to steal down. He usually worked the city. This wasn't his 220 00:18:41,599 --> 00:18:44,799 territory, it, Doc says the Times about r I'd been dead since last 221 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,720 night, around three or four may be killed and then tossed in the water. 222 00:18:48,599 --> 00:18:52,400 What about the peer watch one? He must heat covers five warehouses. 223 00:18:52,480 --> 00:18:56,839 How could he see anything? And everybody off duty for the holly? Okay, 224 00:18:57,279 --> 00:19:02,400 Riley, what's this stuff where the fight happened. It's a spot of 225 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:07,920 blood, I figured on closer, powdering little pieces of broken glass. What 226 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:12,519 hey, here's some more of it? Yeah, doctor, yeah, yeah, 227 00:19:12,559 --> 00:19:17,480 doctor over here, we do you thinking? What I am? Riley? 228 00:19:17,640 --> 00:19:22,680 Yeah? Hey, here, take a look white powder and Donna pier. 229 00:19:22,799 --> 00:19:26,880 We're both no it's not talking about dope, aren't you. Yeah, 230 00:19:29,720 --> 00:19:33,160 I don't think so faults alone, doctor, I might explain why there was 231 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,480 a fight. What was going on out here? Something of value? Yes, 232 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:41,119 yes, of course smuggling you think, uh, peddling, Yes, 233 00:19:41,799 --> 00:19:47,160 I'll do the thinking doctor, still mess and perhaps something like that. Now 234 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,160 I can run a tesk a valuable. Didn't I say that drug? Drug 235 00:19:52,279 --> 00:19:56,240 is some kind cure people instead of making them sick, worth a lot more 236 00:19:56,319 --> 00:20:00,920 than dope. Too easier to market? Yeah, yeah, the same thing. 237 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:03,920 Only did that watchman say there were any kids on the pier last night, 238 00:20:06,319 --> 00:20:08,160 Valentine, I'm trying to get the dock here the talking. Didn't watchman 239 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:22,200 see any kids? No? Okay, so long. I wish I could 240 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,680 head you, miss Brooks. That's all right, mister Murphy. Come on, 241 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:29,799 son said, even host here is pretty badly under married Cleveland woman would 242 00:20:29,799 --> 00:20:38,359 be back tomorrow. She might know something about the buy here again. Come 243 00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,759 on, get out of the street, you and the kid. Never mind 244 00:20:41,759 --> 00:20:42,920 any place here, duck in the alley in this neighborhood, angel, I 245 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:49,319 don't want to. I don't know packing crate. You can't see he's gone. 246 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:52,440 Now, what's happened? What's going on? Simple brooks? A nice 247 00:20:52,519 --> 00:20:56,319 simple case. My guess is the kid here was an eyewitness to murder. 248 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:15,200 It'll be a simple case if he isn't murdered. Oh kid, please talk, 249 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,920 Please tell me what you what did you see last night? Look, 250 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:26,079 nobody's gonna hurt you. I won't let him. You must have seen things 251 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,519 like this plenty of times before. Kid. I don't mean murder, but 252 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:33,599 you grew up in a tough place, and you're not gonna do anybody any 253 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:38,319 good if you just yes, he just cries, George, I'm taking him 254 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,480 home. You can solve your own fancy waterfront murders. Okay, I'll leave 255 00:21:42,519 --> 00:21:48,759 him alone. But which one are you covering for? Kid? Only a 256 00:21:48,839 --> 00:21:51,920 few men around that pier last night? Which one is that important to you? 257 00:21:52,839 --> 00:21:56,799 All right? Maybe you've given me the answer at that without talking, 258 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,480 says you. You admitted you saw your left? He didn't you? Before 259 00:22:15,519 --> 00:22:18,680 he was murdered? I ten one rally along the deck. Look, I 260 00:22:18,839 --> 00:22:22,920 promised me a nice Thanksgiving dinner. See left, he can pass walking up 261 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:25,440 to the pier and never come back. But didn't he say who he was 262 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,880 coming out to meet? Didn't he here we are rally. What's going here? 263 00:22:29,759 --> 00:22:32,160 Hey, Skipper, this is your cabin, right? Oh? No, 264 00:22:32,359 --> 00:22:34,160 no minds for the ways, it's all right, the owner's cabin. 265 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:37,640 Nobody was you just want a place to toss all raise. I'm going to 266 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:41,000 say, come on you too, Skipper. The name is Stove, isn't 267 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,680 it. Yeah? Well wait a minute, here's the other one. Bring 268 00:22:45,759 --> 00:22:48,519 him in here, sergeant, Let go, Let go, mister salvallry, 269 00:22:48,599 --> 00:22:52,160 Now I have to stand rats on my ship right, picked him up in 270 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,839 the neighborhood, Skipper. That's all for now, Sergeant. What about the 271 00:22:56,079 --> 00:23:00,559 kid Valentine? Oh he's all right, Riley. I uh, I left 272 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,960 him in my car out on the street. So because my name is Salvo, 273 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:10,200 you think you were around here last night too, Wasn't it always around 274 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,880 stock loafers? Yeah? But don't try to cover up so much, Skipper. 275 00:23:15,279 --> 00:23:18,559 What I listen to all of you. We can't find anybody else with 276 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,200 a chance of being out here last night, but you three. I was 277 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:26,720 on my ship talking this peddler. I said, don't cover so much. 278 00:23:26,799 --> 00:23:30,759 Salvory is a friend of yours. Sure, sure, everybody's a Salvori's frank, 279 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:34,160 except the law oh look, this is a smuggle case. Oh what 280 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,039 not on my ship. I've never brought it. Lefty, the man who 281 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,920 was killed, knew his way around the city. Salvori, you're the big 282 00:23:42,039 --> 00:23:48,880 waterfront middle man. And Captain you've got a boat. See where I meet 283 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:53,640 cops. They got enough to spot an ideal set up for smuggling. Captain 284 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:56,440 Stove. You bring it in, Salvory picks it up, gets it through 285 00:23:56,519 --> 00:24:00,880 customs, and left he fitted in some place in the city. I think 286 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:03,920 you crazy. Somebody was waiting a little while ago to wale Miss Brooks and 287 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:07,680 a kid who was an eyewitness Brooks Brooks, Skipper, you're too fat to 288 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:11,359 run down an alley like he did. Sure I heard his steps. Sniffy 289 00:24:11,519 --> 00:24:17,440 just shuffles. So tags Alfori, you're rich because now I know why you 290 00:24:17,559 --> 00:24:21,200 ran the first time when we saw the body. It's what proves you guys 291 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:25,240 work together. Now I know you because on the pier earlier you came up 292 00:24:25,319 --> 00:24:27,319 yelling to the skipper something about a woman. Well, a woman must have 293 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:30,319 been Miss Brooks. You'd seen her with a boy, the witness. The 294 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,759 two of you have been trying to find sure Skipper. You were looking for 295 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,759 boys. When I first met you too, weren't you my cigars? That's 296 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:40,759 all my cigar. Never mind, Salvorie. The kid out there is going 297 00:24:40,839 --> 00:24:42,400 to give us the whole story, and a lot straighter than you ever would, 298 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,119 because I finally figured out his whole story. I never been mixed up 299 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,319 in it all smuggled, sure, and never in the fight or use a 300 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:53,319 knife. Why did you do it? Befty? Tried a double cross on 301 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,440 you too. You're under arrest for murder, SABORI come on, I'll take 302 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:00,759 him out for you. Riley Le take the other two. But I'm not 303 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:06,440 mixed up in his terial witness and accessory for you. Captain, please please 304 00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:08,279 not come on, come on out the door. Meet you on the pier, 305 00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:15,640 Rilly, Hey, you nobody's sorry. Grab him you come on there? 306 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,839 He goes down the plank. Yeah, head it farther up on the 307 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:25,319 pier, up to the warehouse, Samory. Do you think a sergeant saw 308 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:26,920 him? Yeah? Sure, sure, you'll get him all life. Well 309 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,559 that was a nice act, good idea. Now come on, far's back 310 00:25:30,599 --> 00:25:33,119 the other way. Yeah. Hey, hey, did you notice that empty 311 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:37,400 cabin on the ship, Yeah, stings on the pillow empty. I'll bet 312 00:25:37,559 --> 00:25:41,319 I've always even been traveling with the skipper. Sure it's a smuggling ring, 313 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:45,799 all right, Still confused, don't you, Riley? Oh it was originally 314 00:25:45,839 --> 00:25:49,119 a smuggle sure. Never mind. He'll never prove anything on this bunch unless 315 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,880 you catch him in the act. And Riley, we're going to do just 316 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:10,279 that. Well, it's the only car in the street. We're close enough. 317 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,359 But it's been five minutes already, about tying that this hundred yours is 318 00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:17,319 going to pay off at better time to run the other way, hasn't it. 319 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:22,400 I don't see how you can do. Oh no, I didn't expect 320 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,319 a gun. Come on, come on around the side of the building. 321 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:26,720 That's my car, Riley. I hope somebody is going to pay for it. 322 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,079 There he is. You're wasting your time, Skipper. The car is 323 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:37,279 empty, you hear me? The kids uptown It was a trap, Skipper. 324 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:44,720 The only one who'd stick his neck into what trap is the one who 325 00:26:44,799 --> 00:26:48,519 did the stabbing, right, the one who has to get rid of the 326 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:52,640 kid, the witness. So we don't even need to ask the kid, 327 00:26:52,759 --> 00:27:15,680 now, do I got them at the hospital, Georgie, He says he 328 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:22,000 I'll get his confessions from stow the kids in there. I'm trying out a 329 00:27:22,079 --> 00:27:26,400 system. We write each other notes. What about the smuggle stuff? Those 330 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,079 drugs they searched the ship. Ye, yes, they've already found some drugs 331 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,240 hidden. I don't understand what did you say writing notes? Don't you understand 332 00:27:34,279 --> 00:27:38,720 how the smuggle worked with a thief, a middleman and a skipper involved the 333 00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,400 drugs that couldn't be sold in this country except through the proper channels. It 334 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:47,799 would sell for a fortune Europe or on the black market. Oh you mean 335 00:27:47,839 --> 00:27:51,319 it was to be smuggled out of the country. That's right, Brooks and 336 00:27:51,480 --> 00:27:55,079 Lefty. The guy who was killed stole the drugs and delivered them last night, 337 00:27:55,599 --> 00:27:57,880 but he got a knife instead of a payoff, and the kids saw 338 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:00,920 it. George, you mean the boy he talked? He's all right. 339 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,240 I guess he will be. See. I was afraid he was, well, 340 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,559 maybe the skipper's son or something. Yeah, I know, psychic shock 341 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,519 his refusal to talk. But he's not. He's only none of for a 342 00:28:10,599 --> 00:28:14,440 few weeks. Kid didn't even know where he fitted into the plan until a 343 00:28:14,519 --> 00:28:17,920 few days ago. Oh, George, for heaven's sake, he doesn't have 344 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:22,039 any parents. Books and just a waterfront kid, but not nearly as tough 345 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:26,759 as the eggs. What's missing in the smuggle set up? There's customs on 346 00:28:26,839 --> 00:28:30,039 the other side. You know, who gets the goods into the other country 347 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,400 off the ship? The boy you mean, he was a partner. Nobody 348 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:38,519 can stop him all over the world, up and down like monkeys. Perfect, 349 00:28:38,599 --> 00:28:41,480 isn't it. Yeah, if he'd been with me, you should have 350 00:28:41,559 --> 00:28:47,079 noticed empty cabin on the ship with grease stains on a pillow. But Salvori 351 00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:51,799 is bulled. We better buy some shampoo for that kid. By the way, 352 00:28:52,359 --> 00:28:56,079 he was a Yeah, he saw the captain go ashore to meet Salvory 353 00:28:56,119 --> 00:28:59,200 and Lefty. He saw the murder, and he broke out and got away. 354 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,319 Let me talk to him. It's ridiculous business of writing notes. Oh 355 00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:06,599 sure, he'll talk now. Just been scared to death, that's all. 356 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,039 Only wanted was to be happy. He was expecting to be happier than he'd 357 00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:15,000 ever been before. George, if you don't stop playing Clervlin and the captain's 358 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,799 the only one who could have brought the kid, therefore, made him afraid, 359 00:29:17,839 --> 00:29:19,880 made him run ashore. Therefore, Brooks, he the skipper, was 360 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:23,440 it well? Don't you remember how the kid reacted when I asked him to 361 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:29,440 go to a football game. Just puzzled, Georgie is writing sure, sure 362 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,960 is gives me more time to look the words up in the dictionary. Ah, 363 00:29:36,599 --> 00:29:40,000 sure right, That's why I wouldn't talk before. He wants to stay 364 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:42,119 in this country. Great, we'd find him out. He's from Marseille, 365 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:48,400 he's friends. Wait, Marchie ma Shimla. That week he monsieur you dic 366 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:59,000 hey friend? Uh here, give me the pencil and the dictionary. You 367 00:29:59,119 --> 00:30:04,359 think you could stand it? Tw dinner, George Turkey, we one language. 368 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:07,920 I guess it is Thanksgiving, isn't it? And now I got a 369 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:26,720 pilgrim on our hands, Angel hungry little pilgrim Tonight. Earlier in the program, 370 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:32,359 you heard how road tests jibed with laboratory results in the development of new 371 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,160 RPM motor oil. 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Robert Daily is starred as George, with Virginia 380 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:41,279 greg as Brooksy. Let George Do It as written by David Victor and Jackson 381 00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:45,880 Gillis and directed by Don Clark, Whilely Mayer is Lieutenant Riley Alan Reid was 382 00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:51,920 heard as Stove, Dick Ryan as Sniffy, Anthony barrett A Salvory, Jeffrey 383 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,960 Silver as Shorty, and Stephen Chase as the Doctor. The music is composed 384 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:01,480 and presented by Eddie Dunstedder your announcer John Houston. Listen again next week, 385 00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:15,759 same time, same station two. Let George Do It. Your Community Chest 386 00:32:16,039 --> 00:32:22,160 helps care for homeless and neglected children in your own neighborhood. Community Chest childcare 387 00:32:22,279 --> 00:32:28,160 centers operate year round this year, Make sure you give enough to your Community 388 00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:58,039 Chest to help all year. This is the mutual Don Lee broadcasting system Welcome 389 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:04,519 back. One thing I'll about the Let George Do It episodes from before nineteen 390 00:33:04,599 --> 00:33:09,400 fifty one was Wally Mayer as Lieutenant Riley. Such a great actor, and 391 00:33:09,519 --> 00:33:16,039 he manages to make his character so interesting with some cynicism, but also with 392 00:33:16,319 --> 00:33:22,480 a real true fondness and friendship for George and a kind heart. He also 393 00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,759 has the power to hear and respond to the narrator, as happened at the 394 00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:30,440 return from Commercial break. Now in the twenty first century, the idea that 395 00:33:30,599 --> 00:33:35,920 the only way to make money on the sale of prescription pills was smuggling them 396 00:33:36,039 --> 00:33:40,799 out of the country might sound counterintuitive or even naive. However, World War 397 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:46,160 II had created many shortages in Europe that were years being resolved, and that 398 00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:52,519 does include medication. The persistence of the black market would make prescription drug smuggling 399 00:33:52,759 --> 00:34:00,640 an appealing crime and even more profitable than any sort of domestic prescription abuse. 400 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:07,400 I also really enjoy the commercial. It was a really neat treat that might 401 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:12,480 have worked better on television, but was still interesting in radio. As they 402 00:34:12,639 --> 00:34:19,199 described this experiment, I've been thinking about doing a interesting commercials edition of the 403 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,519 Old Time Radio snack Wagon, and this one might actually fit the bill. 404 00:34:23,559 --> 00:34:29,039 Overall, I thought this was an enjoyable Thanksgiving special. Unlike some others, 405 00:34:29,119 --> 00:34:35,400 it doesn't have heavy handed uses of turkeys or pilgrims, or even make the 406 00:34:35,519 --> 00:34:39,559 Thanksgiving me all the centerpiece of the story, but it does use Thanksgiving as 407 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:45,519 a backdrop and also to provide a nice emotional payoff as well. I hope 408 00:34:45,559 --> 00:34:51,920 you enjoyed this episode and again a reminder to check out or other Thanksgiving specials 409 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:57,960 this week over at the Old Time Radio Snackwagon tomorrow at Snackwagon dot net and 410 00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:05,280 our annual World of Radio Thanksgiving special on the Amazing World of Radio podcast at 411 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:09,920 Amazing dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, now it's time to thank our 412 00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:14,880 Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead and thank Max. 413 00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:20,559 Max has been one of our Patreon supporters since November twenty fifteen, currently 414 00:35:20,599 --> 00:35:25,559 supporting the podcast at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen cents or 415 00:35:25,639 --> 00:35:30,719 more per month. Again, thank you so much for your support and that 416 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:34,199 will do it for today. 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You want us if Thursday was dangerous? 425 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,679 Of course you lied to us about your sister and all that, but that 426 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:29,440 doesn't count. We didn't believe you. Oh help me, mister Spade. 427 00:36:29,599 --> 00:36:31,920 I need help so badly. I've no right to ask you, but I 428 00:36:32,039 --> 00:36:37,920 do ask you. Help me. You won't need much of anybody's help. 429 00:36:37,519 --> 00:36:43,199 You're good. You're awful good. Its chief for your eyes. I think 430 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,760 in that throb you get into your voice when you say things like help me, 431 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:50,480 mister Spade. I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 432 00:36:50,679 --> 00:36:55,400 do send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net. 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