Speaker 1: The Blue Beetles, weeping down upon the underworld is smashed.
Ganglan comes a friend of the unfortunate enemy of criminals,
the mysterious all powerful character a problem to the police,
but a brue said of a law In reality. Dan
Garrett a rookie performer, loved by everyone but suspected by
none of being the Blue People.
Speaker 2: As the Blue Beetle.
Speaker 1: He hides behind the strange mask in a suit of
inteetrable blue chain armor, flexibles silk but stronger than still.
Today's episode of The Blue Beetle is untitled The Invisible Ghost.
The Roman Dan Garrett, who in secret operates as the
Blue Beetle, today, matches brains and drawn with a commonly
ruthless gang of crooked slot machine racketeers. Canny spiked their
plans to flood the city with crooked gambling devices. We'll
be able to uncover the mysterious.
Speaker 3: Leader who directs their activities.
Speaker 1: What is behind our endeavor to install our machine, the
John Dora's Carnival. As our story opens, the Troman Dan
Garrett is visiting his old friend and adviser, doctor Plan Danny.
I've been studying up on slot machines. Yes, you find
out anything interesting. Well, I'm convinced that the difference between
an honest machine and a dishonest or crooked machine is
very slight. In fact, i'd say the difference was purely academic.
What do you mean, Doc, Of course you realize I'm
referring now to nickel and dime or quarter in the
slot machines from which you'll return if any will be
a handful of coin. Yeah. That doesn't include vending machines
for candy chewing, gum cigarettes centre. Oh no, no, of
course not. I'm speaking about those machines where you put
a coin in the slot, push down the lever, and
pictures of fruits or birds or playing guards whirl around
and stop in different combination. Yeah, I understand. Well, if
certain combinations come up, a certain number of coins will
be returned to you. Sometimes as many as thirty may
come out. That's called a a jackpart. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Have they double a board in the.
Speaker 1: Forest play the machines in Charlie Tagata and uh, how
often do they hit the jackpot? I don't know, not often,
I'm sure precisely those machines are fixed in advance to
release a jackpot. Ev once every thousand, five thousand, ten thousand, yes,
even every hundred thousand times. In other words, if you
were the only one playing a machine, you would have
to put in one thousand or more coins before you'd
win a jackpot a nickel a piece. That's fifty dollars.
Fifty dollars to win two dollars. All right, there must
be an all of profit to those machines. Yes, yes,
there is. Now. Now, let's suppose the machines these racketeers
are trying to install are reasonably honest, say one thousand
to one, which is average. Yeah, in a place like
John Dore's carnival, each machine should average two thousand players
a day. Let's say ten machines were installed throughout the
area or that conservative? Yes, yes, I know, but let's
be conservative. Ten machines would get a play of twenty
thousand players a day, and the average amount spent on
such machines as about twenty cents per person. I've got
three hundred thousand nickels. At one thousand to one ratio,
the machines would pay back one hundred jackpots, or about
two hundred dollars. Yes, but the intake would be four
thousand dollars precisely intake four thousand dollars out go two
hundred dollars, and FOOTT operators will go to any links
to make profits like that. Just a minute time, now,
I'll see who it is. Okay, Hello, doc is the
Hey if you mean Patrolman Dan gallaty he's waiting for you, Madagan, Well, Mike,
have the car out time? Yep? Are you ready? Daddy ready,
I'm waiting. Come on that those crooked soft machine operators
are going to get a big surprise when they run
up against Officer Mannaghan and Patrolman Dan Garrett. Come on, Mannigan,
let's go off on special assignments. That Dan Garrett and
Officer Managhan and a police car.
Speaker 3: What is that destination? What will they find when.
Speaker 1: They get there?
Speaker 3: Will it be a simple routine cooking up job. All
of the wadill have to swing into actions.
Speaker 1: Within ten minutes, the police car bearing Dan Garrett and
Mike Mannigan is pulling up inside the gates.
Speaker 3: Of John DAW's car.
Speaker 1: Well, here we are at the carnival.
Speaker 2: Yeah, where do we head?
Speaker 1: Horse all, let's flock around a bit. It's part of
a dollar gang.
Speaker 2: You maybe you did you with the giants.
Speaker 4: Come on here, get right out a poor bosball with
the book like sag lappers.
Speaker 1: But I can try your hand about there for me.
Speaker 2: The ready made.
Speaker 1: You can win a seurity doll for my youngster.
Speaker 2: I'm on right up right, yeah right, I give me
three of them bars. I'll show you what real pitch
it is. Here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one to fight, and we had guy. He careful
of your arm, Lieutenant Mannigan, Remember you're an old man.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I'll call out the kid and then watch
this he better look out my tall had cross eyes.
Speaker 2: Keep better away.
Speaker 4: Oh one, No, that was just practice. Now watch this one.
Speaker 3: All two.
Speaker 1: I throwing maniguan and the sun was in the eyes.
Speaker 2: But watch this one.
Speaker 3: Hey, ye are you good?
Speaker 2: Madigan?
Speaker 1: You hit the proprider right in the old conk. You
sure know you're cuppie dolls?
Speaker 2: Over this there's a crowder.
Speaker 3: Oh that's this looks like?
Speaker 1: And over.
Speaker 2: What's happened?
Speaker 1: Door?
Speaker 2: Hurry? Anybody you're live? A look inside?
Speaker 3: Will you?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Jenny?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Get back on, come on mate here, get back on.
Speaker 1: What happened to her? Are you all right?
Speaker 2: I guess so?
Speaker 3: Ten how long years I was sitting at my best gear.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I'll manne can call a doctor. You
may be seriously jo No, don't call her doctor. I'll
be all right in a minute. You know, I'll get
you some water from the cooler. Oh than what caused
the pole to fall? I don't know. Maybe one of
the ropes holding it up rough it through and broke
or was cut here drink this things. Oh that's good.
Speaker 3: I feel better now.
Speaker 1: Those crooked slap machine racketeers have been working on you,
slap machine racket heres. Oh no, I'm I'm sure they
had nothing to do with this. Mm. Have any of
them been out to talk with you recently?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, when last night an he troubled. Oh, we
had a few words. They wanted me to put some
of their machines in and you refused. Yah. Did they
threaten you? Oh, in a general sort of way. But
you know suction Underworld's come how it talked big? But
most of them it's block Yes, yes, I know. But
sometimes Oh hello, this door, helldo Managan? What happened? I'll
tell you going back in the police car. Okay, donny,
mister door, you better have a couple of your men
you can trust act as a bodyguard that I can
get the men from the police department to sign to you.
In the meantime, we're going to track down this gang
of crooks and put them where they can.
Speaker 2: Do no more harm. Come on, managin act a headquarters.
Speaker 1: At police Headquarters, commission it, don LEI, upon hearing damn story,
what a fool's peterhead and the drive to round up
the crooked slot machine racketeers. Late that night, Dan Garrett
is in secret conference with doctor Franz at his little
apothecary shop. You know, I've got a hunch, Doc, that
there's going to be something doing out at the carnival
tonight after the crowd has gone home, And I suppose
the Blue Beetle will be buzzing around out there right
and probably nipping too. And look out he doesn't get
nipped himself. I'm not a chance, at least not prominently.
I know this blue beetle costume and mask, this blue
beetle chain armour has saved my life many times. Long
as I'm on the alert, nobody can overcome the Blue Beetle.
I hope you'll always be on the alert, Danny.
Speaker 2: I'd hate to lose you.
Speaker 1: Are you been a swell friend, Doc. I owe my
life to you and this chain armor you made me.
I'm working on something else that would be a great
help to you. I believe in your crusade against crime.
What's that like? A fluid that painted on your body
or your suit of armor will make you practically invisible? Hey?
Have you got me over it here?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, but it isn't perfected yet. What's it like? Well,
you know that every object we can see has some
color to it. Yeah, and as long as that color
is in the colour spectrum. See, human eye can see
the object. Yes, but if the object is some shade
outside the color spectrum, it is invisible to the human eye.
I see in this liquid you're working on outside that
color band. Ah, Ben, If I painted myself with this liquid,
I'd be invisible, Yes, temporarily. What do you mean, Well,
I've got to find a fixer, something to add to
the formula which will preserve the invisible qualities of the
fluid longer. At present, it oxidizes too quickly and becomes
visible to the human eye within a few minutes. Here,
here's some of it here in this jar. Mum, say,
that's very interesting. Well, if you had it perfect. I
could use it on this book. Quiet and quiet. Someone
out in the front of the shop. You us stay
here and I'll see who it is.
Speaker 3: Hello.
Speaker 1: Oh, hello, hello, Officer Managhan. And what brings you here
at this hour? Oh? I was passing by and it's
sat I drop in.
Speaker 2: Is Danny here?
Speaker 1: Eh? Uh no, no, Danny's not here.
Speaker 2: Well, I think I'll wait a bit of your on
mine dock. Maybe he'll turn up.
Speaker 1: Well, I I hardly think you find that garret here
to night. Malligan. By the way, have you seen the
blue beetle around? The blue beetle? You mean the fantastic
character who's always out within the police.
Speaker 4: He won't up with them forever.
Speaker 1: Someday I'm gonna catch up with that baby.
Speaker 2: And when I do, if you'll excuse me, I have,
by the way dock.
Speaker 1: Some neighbors of yours were telling me they've seen the
blue beetle in this neighborhood late at night.
Speaker 2: Would you be knowing anything about that?
Speaker 1: Well, I really go up at night. I spent most
of my time in my laboratory. Is that? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yes, I never saw one of them things. You mind
if I take.
Speaker 1: A look at the battle, I got you. You see,
I'm making some spy.
Speaker 2: I don't touch anything.
Speaker 3: That I just want to love.
Speaker 1: Well, when's a onn what is it?
Speaker 2: What is it? What do you see? So that's the laboratory?
What a place?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's the laboratory.
Speaker 2: Must be great to have.
Speaker 4: Brains like you, Dock once along, I've got to be gone.
Speaker 2: Tell Danny I was in.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes I will Mannagan good night, and keep your
eyes open for the blue beetles. Kenny, Hanny, what are
you right beside your Yes? When I heard Mannigan outside,
I quickly coded myself in your new formula. When he
looked into the laboratory, I was standing right in front
of him. Well, that certainly was a great test. But
the effects are beginning to went off. I can see
a slight tinge of the blue of the blue beetle
armor shining pool. Lay, Doc, I've gotta be on my way.
I'd like to take some of this lookud along with
me and use it tonight. All right, Danny, all right there,
but be careful. Remember the effects stayed away quickly. Thanks, Doc,
Say those racket tears will get the surprise of their
lives when they hear the blue beetle, but can't see him.
You better, honey, Danny, it's it's about closing time for
the carnival. Yeah, the blue beetle will have to really
ride the night wind tonight. What will the blue beetle
do over at John Dore's carnival? Will you run head
on into a band of black machine crooks? Can here
again make himself invisible with doctor Franz's magic formula on
through the night speeds the blue Beetle in his fast
motor car. As he hears the carnival. He parks his
car in a hidden spot and approaches John Doe's tent
on foot. So you won't shine that faith, No, not
follow any crooked schemes like yours. Okay, it's your funeral door.
What kind of frenchy?
Speaker 3: How about it?
Speaker 1: Yes, it's still no you ever tell him again frenchy?
You won't sign a but ain't similar to say, yeah
the blue beetle.
Speaker 2: Oh, there is no blue beetle.
Speaker 1: You it's a trick. Don't get a phonograph plant something
that's so well, here's something planted and it wasn't a phonograph,
So hey pty, what is it? You're no? Maybe you
can see stars. Come on, come on, let's get out
of here before I go with me.
Speaker 2: No, I can't fight. Don't wait a minute.
Speaker 1: Let me help you on your way with my foot.
I'll get doing both of you. If the Blue Beetle
ever sees you again, I'll blast you wide up and
we gotta tell about you. All right, Doors, I do,
I can't am, I do hang no, door, you're not blind.
I do as I can home police headquarters and report
what just happened. All right, and don't worry the blue
Beetles on the job. I'm going to trail those men.
Maybe they'll lead into their hangout. I'll get going.
Speaker 4: The blue beetles got a lot of nippings to do.
Speaker 1: Roll the blue beetle catch up with a thug to
a beating dunbar. What about the invisible pape Let it
well off before the blue Beetle reaches his destination. What
will he find when he gets there? Out of the
carn of the ground, dash the Blue Beetle, just in
time to see the peace dogs drive off and the
Long Sudan.
Speaker 3: Turning into the game car. The Blue beeo gay straight.
Speaker 5: Allows on the river road, a suddenly taking the road
to lead to the old hearted house that must be
the headquarters.
Speaker 1: I'll have to take a chance when visabet paint is
wearing off a person off the road and they'll have
to stop.
Speaker 2: I'm out and make a snapping blue beetle. I can
see him. No get he tell me no fight gorts.
Co'm on me, horties.
Speaker 1: I'll take your off at one man door for law
and order. Oh no you want, I don't take care
of you.
Speaker 2: Put up your head, broke, feel around you, sow.
Speaker 1: Not tonight, you won't. Here's a faithful of knuckles for you.
Well he's done for a while. Let's see. I'd better
not use my invisible paint and they need a little
FLEs to use later. How can I get into that
house up there? I think I'll just take one of
these bugs over here and.
Speaker 3: Plans. Here's the haunted house. But I'm fat with the
crooked slot machine racketeers lip looking on.
Speaker 1: It's weird and mysterious looking like looks. Throw the peopaul
and see who that Isna.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's croakery.
Speaker 1: Frankie alright, very here on carmel and admit them. Okay, hello,
see me and Sunch's thank yeah, So I say whatever
you drew, report all the French in me. We went
to see the old man door like you told us,
and we give him the works, but he wouldn't sign
up for the machines. Did you tell him the Duke's ergony?
Show a voice? Why didn't you you fill up this version?
We were just going to and sent me. There was
a funny humming sound and a crack off, no on
out from out of the air. A voice, one said,
he with the blue beetles told us to lay off.
The old man was her dark? No, it was lighted up,
but we couldn't see nobody but the old man. No on, ray,
what happened? That blue beetles started slapping us around. Oh ridiculous.
You must have been drunk. Conan word cheap. We were
sober to judge. Am I right, Frenchy? He did as
you say, m once am out of frenjury went on.
You raise your head on my neck. She has hurt
the blue people. He hits me hard, Yeah, like I said, Chief.
When we couldn't see no one in a fight, we
beat it out of there. But that blue beetle followed
us in his car and just down the road here
he forced us over the sidele.
Speaker 2: We had to stop.
Speaker 1: Then he rushed us and before we could plugged, he
conked this boat on the bean and we passed out.
When I come to, I was in the car and
French he was driving a blue beetle. He had disappeared.
A likely story, Groger, suppose you slipper side. I want
to talk to French. He'll tell you the same story.
Jeep boys, we gotta be ready. The blue beetle may
be here any minute. The blue beetle lives here. What
do you mean, Frenchie, Take how what happened? Called the
blue beetle himself disguises Frenchie. Yes, the blue beetle, and
he is going very well, Blue Berietle, I've got your
covered with the way that gun. You can't injure the
blue beetles. The blue beetles seems fond of appearing, and disappear.
Every time he does appear, another bunch of rats have
brought to justice. I'm happy at last to have met
the blue Beetle face to face, but I regret that
the meeting must be so brief. I have seen you,
I wish to see you no more so. There down
your gold blue Beetle through the CRP door to my
sufter radiant sre you like to he ruts as you
call him, Well, you can get your stomach full of
them down there. Maybe they'll turn the tables and chase you,
mister blue Beetle night. Yeah, you won't call him close
the drop door, cure bo. Yeah? Sure, then you say, boys, yeah,
listen to me. You'd better get this straight with no
fun me if you don't want to join the Blue
Beetle not me, boys, it was Frenchy's foot the other time.
He didn't stop the old man high enough before the
Blue Peter showed up. I don't want any excuses. I
want results this time. Yes, boys, you go and see
John Dorr again. Tell him there's a grand awaken it
for him if he signs up with us. If he
refuses again, tell him the Blue Beetles dead. Offer comprover
it to him by bringing him here. So easy on
him this time, by died, I get his signature to
a contract to install our slot machines at the Carnival.
I'll bring him out here. Have you got that stripe? Showbos,
you'd better have the one thing more if you don't
come back with Door's signature, or with Door himself. You'll
be pushing up daysies when spring comes round.
Speaker 2: Beg, it's the boys, it's the cock here. How did
they find out? It's stupid?
Speaker 1: Oh you must have left my wife.
Speaker 2: Now, boys, nobody tis but the problem.
Speaker 1: You hie brother behind my screen over there, they've got
nothing on me.
Speaker 2: I'll mean the man you right, yes, sure, all right
by that's your fun.
Speaker 1: Come on the evening, gentlemen calling around the late?
Speaker 2: Aren't you and laws on the job twenty four hours
a day.
Speaker 1: It's admirable? Something wrong? Yes, you me? What have I done? You?
Speaker 4: All the thrums have trying to kill an all man,
and you are trying to install your crooked slot machines.
Speaker 2: At the carnivals.
Speaker 1: I assure you you've made them streak.
Speaker 2: Soge I ain't sageant.
Speaker 1: It's playing Officer Mannigan, and we ain't made an others sake.
Speaker 2: The Blue beet and Bowlders ten minutes ago.
Speaker 1: Now I know you're a mistaken Officer Manigan. The blue
people couldn't.
Speaker 4: Let all you.
Speaker 2: Of blue people.
Speaker 1: It must be your gross The blue Britton all not dead,
just invisible? No no it Canty, I saw him got down. Well,
I sat you try to show, trying to tell you,
man again, that he saw me drop to my death
through that prep door you're standing on.
Speaker 3: How he was and I never noticed that?
Speaker 1: Get off? Great?
Speaker 2: Hey? Where why are you, Blue Beeple?
Speaker 1: I'm here there.
Speaker 2: Everywhere, criminal tries to hide.
Speaker 1: Let me out of here, let me here, and I
still you confess to this crime. I don't know what
you're talking about.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm confess you crook a ole, choke it out
of you.
Speaker 1: Come no, no, no, Take me away from here, Take
me to Polee. Goodby, I confess only done with the
Blue Beetles Gatin.
Speaker 2: All right, all what the heck cut? Very good work,
Blue Peter.
Speaker 4: Wherever you are, and thanks, but don't forget. Someday I'm
going to catch up with you. And when I do,
I'm going to run you in just on general principles.
Speaker 1: That's okay with me, Manigan, But remember you first got
to catch me.
Speaker 2: Along, Managan.
Speaker 1: Give my regards to the commissioner. And so the Blue
Beetle broke up another racket that was praying on unsuspecting
amusement speakers. What happened when he fell through the trap door?
How did he escape from his living tomb. Let's look
in on doctor Fran's little apropecary shop, where patrolman Dan
Garrett is relaxing after a strenuous night. Danny boy, you
sure have luck. It don't die none. I felt myself falling.
I twisted myself so I landed on my feet. The
twist must have thrown me to one side, so instead
of landing on the concrete floor, I landed in a
fairly deep stream of water that throws under the cellars
of that haunted house. And remarkable, wasn't it. What did
you do then? Well? I let myself be carried along
by the stream, keeping my head above water whenever I could.
And how far did it carry you? Oh? About five
hundred feet underground? When I came up in the open,
I quickly covered myself with your invisible paint, rushed back
to the house and entered with the police. Excuse me
a minute, as someone got front in the store. Well, god,
I want some coiner, and my hooster's got a touch
of the flood. Dear dear, I'm sorry to hear that.
Just a minute, Ah, that would be ten cents. Here's
a quarter.
Speaker 3: Say, did you hear that mysterious tiller on horseback is.
Speaker 1: Killed, and other cop another one that makes the sixth
in as many days. He here's your change has Yes,
a strange a police can't seem to do nothing about it. Well,
here's one policeman that's going to do something about it.
And right now, so it's patrolman day care. Yeah along, doc.
Speaker 2: If Mannequin calls, I'm over at police headquarters.
Speaker 3: What is this new scourge that ostruck the city?
Speaker 1: Six policemen shot in one week by a mysterious horseman
undoubtedly a strange, deadly maniac. Will Dan Garrett run him
to earth only to take the Blue Beetles to avenge
things death. These princetons will be answered in the next
episode of The Blue Beetle and now Here's the Blue Beetle.
To stay up your words. The moral of this story
is that courage will often win against any and all odds.
If you are right, stick to your gun, through thick
and thin, you'll come through somehow.
Speaker 2: All of the real leaders of our day and every human.
Speaker 1: Endeavor have courage, all its nerves, bravery, whatever you will,
but acquire it if you haven't already got it, and
hold on to it or it's very very pressure. This
country we live in was built on courage. The Blue
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