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Over the hills of Tennessee, the late afternoon sun was
low on the horizon. A young chemist stood on the
grounds of the world's largest atomic plant, its grounds protected
by high fences, its gates guarded by the latest scientific devices.
As the young man walked along the grounds. Inside the
main gate, he bent over and picked up a little
great cat.
Speaker 6: Hello, kiddy, how's melded house catching business? Pretty good?
Speaker 1: H got that dog the gate?
Speaker 6: Oh, Mildred, here he comes, easy, I don't jump down,
call take my head off.
Speaker 7: Lust And now you're in for a fight.
Speaker 8: Come on, leave that cut along there.
Speaker 7: Let's see a cop. What's your name, Tommy, beautiful color
you are, Tommy, Yes, sir, good long.
Speaker 6: Master's whistling for you, Tommy. That man outside the gate
he's going to scold you for running in here.
Speaker 7: Go down, Tommy, Go.
Speaker 8: Boy, Tuddy.
Speaker 9: The more memory paper, Yeah, mister Morton, you're working on
that little statue of Saint Cecilia like you was Michael
Loewe and Mangelo.
Speaker 10: I certainly didn't hire you because you had brains. Stubby,
it's Michaelangelo.
Speaker 4: Here's your memory paper.
Speaker 11: How's the statue?
Speaker 8: Look?
Speaker 11: It's okay if you like and teach you never guess.
Speaker 10: There's a vial of uranium compound worth half a million
dollars hidden in the neck.
Speaker 7: With half a million dollars.
Speaker 4: I'd like to.
Speaker 10: Kiss it, kissing it's all right, but keep this stuff
close to you long enough and you'll become radioactive and die.
Don't you ever touch this statuette without a pair of
these special gloves.
Speaker 11: I won't even kiss him.
Speaker 9: But mister Martinham found guys you're in touch with, will
they pay you up in their own door? Good old
United States, Green Banks Stubby.
Speaker 10: You and I have lived in this Dayanke town, fifty
miles from the atomic plant for two years, planning and working.
Finally success. We're going to be paid plenty in the
United States.
Speaker 11: Green Bank.
Speaker 9: That was a slick Stunn, all right, getting this uranium
compound out of the gate and stuck in the dog's
long hair with adhesive tape.
Speaker 11: The dog was so low and ran so fast.
Speaker 9: Even the gey got counter at the gate didn't register. Boy,
I had done good when I hooked up with you,
mister Morton. You get more brains in all them bank
heisters and counterfeiters I ever worked with.
Speaker 11: But now we got this stuff.
Speaker 9: Mister Morton, how do we get the statue out of
the country.
Speaker 11: You'll have a guess study or will anybody out? Yeah,
have to be some way, like nobody ever thought of him.
Speaker 10: Remember every Sunday the past two months I drove over
to that mountain resort one hundred miles west.
Speaker 11: So at the big hotel.
Speaker 10: There's a certain guests I've been studying, wealthy Mexican gentleman
named Juan Satillo, about forty seven, good character and.
Speaker 7: Very relitious.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he's visiting over the resort.
Speaker 10: But his home is in Acapulco, Mexico, the famous beach resort,
beach and an ideal place for us to catch a
ship Europe.
Speaker 4: So maybe we could stay a while.
Speaker 10: There's the uranium compound will be discovered any minute.
Speaker 11: We've got to get it.
Speaker 10: To Acapulco fast. That's where the Mexican gentleman, Senor.
Speaker 11: Sattillo is going to help it.
Speaker 7: I don't get you.
Speaker 11: We're going over to visiting study.
Speaker 4: Get the car.
Speaker 10: Only about ten miles more to the hotel where Senor
Satillo is staying study. And what do we do then,
mister Morton, every evening about dusk he walks along the
shore of a little lake in the back of the hotel.
Speaker 11: There are on the lake. I'm going to be rowing
in one of them. Oh look, I hate rowing.
Speaker 10: Want to be with me study. I want something to happen.
So this statue of Saint Cecilia will mean a great
deal to him, so that he won't part with it
under any condition.
Speaker 4: Look, mister Martin, you hired me to help you.
Speaker 9: I've been with your two years, most of the time
with my mouth hanging open.
Speaker 11: And what you do with onont you explain to me
about the boat and stuff.
Speaker 10: Don't see the sailing study. No matter what happened, don't
come to me in the boat. That's what I want,
Senor sil walking on the lake shore. All right, that's
the time.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well.
Speaker 11: Oh.
Speaker 10: H m hm, listens a tale. I'm the man you
said from drowning last day.
Speaker 7: Oh yes, Senor Martin, come in.
Speaker 4: A tell.
Speaker 11: I brought you a gift appreciation. Let me show it
to you.
Speaker 10: No, it's beautiful, a statue of Saint Cecilia that belonged
to my mother before she died.
Speaker 7: Please take no, no, Senor mort and I I could
not accept such a could you say my life? I
want you to have it, I insist I would juish it. Senor.
I realized how dear it must be to you. Are
you staying in the States And no, I am starting
to my home in a copol for Mexico tomorrow.
Speaker 4: I am driving down.
Speaker 11: I'll be happy to know, sir, that my statue of
Saint Cecilia will.
Speaker 4: Be going with you.
Speaker 7: Thank you, mister Martine. Why you stake on deals? An
English one would say, May God be with you.
Speaker 4: Helena.
Speaker 12: While I've been waiting here at the missional afternoon.
Speaker 7: It is a long drive here from Tennessee, Elena, and
I have five hundred miles more to drive to my home.
Speaker 8: One.
Speaker 7: I hope perhaps this time he would stay. I promised
you that while I was in the States, I would
think about us and come to a decision. I love
you very much, one. I love you very much too, Elena.
But listen and try to understand. You know I'll do
whatever you say. Your father is a fine man, a
proud man, and you are all eslea I do in
my way. I am a proud man, and and I
know he does not want you to marry.
Speaker 11: Me, but we will tell him.
Speaker 7: My life does not belong to him anymore. It belongs
to you, Elena. I am much older than you. Your
father wants you to be the wife of a younger man.
And because I am older than you, I know something
you do now. If you defy your father, he will
die of bitter and shame, and you could never forgive
yourself or whe you're a fine man. There is no
other man, maew Elena. I have something in the car here,
something I want you to have. His statue of Celia
given to me by a man whose life I said
it was very dear to him. What better could I
do than give it to the one I love as
our parting. I would keep it at the head of
my bed always. I will never part with it. I
should pray every morning and night that she will watch
over you and protest you by any good bye, one,
good bye.
Speaker 8: I love you for it.
Speaker 7: Mhm mhm, m hmm.
Speaker 4: That is a tar.
Speaker 7: Huh what are you doing here in my patia?
Speaker 11: Don't you recognize me? Then?
Speaker 7: You're Mortin, the man whose life I saved.
Speaker 13: Didn't you tell this is Stubby, a man who works
for How do you do mill that statuette of since
Cecilia I gave you in the state I need it back?
Speaker 7: I do?
Speaker 8: Where is it?
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, but I can't tell you.
Speaker 11: Why can't you tell you?
Speaker 7: I cannot say that.
Speaker 10: Maybe just gone will make you think a little differently, mister,
if you don't want to be shot right this minute,
walk up front to our car.
Speaker 4: Oh no, can you hear me.
Speaker 11: Again?
Speaker 4: I ask you, where's that statuette?
Speaker 8: I will not tell you?
Speaker 4: Okay, study, yeah, you.
Speaker 11: Know more than I can take it.
Speaker 4: Listen to me.
Speaker 11: The reason you won't say where that statue of Saint Cecilia.
Speaker 8: Is is it?
Speaker 10: Because you might hurt somebody if you did. Now we're
getting somewhere. Who is that person?
Speaker 7: I would never tell, not if you beat me for
a hundred years.
Speaker 10: Does that person have the statuette? Listen to til I
gave you that statuette so you would bring it down
here to Acapulco. I knew with your reputation no one
would suspect you. But hidden in that statue it's half
a million dollars worth of a certain uranium compound. What
the statue is not lead? If anyone has it who
doesn't know how to handle it, that person who will
become radioactive and die.
Speaker 7: Joy you try to frighten me with lice you overhead.
Speaker 11: Of the effects of the atom bomb. The radioactivity will
just cause death.
Speaker 7: I will go and get the statue.
Speaker 11: Tell me where it is and we'll get it.
Speaker 14: No, no, Benja must promise not to follow me, all right?
I probably on your word upny, Yes, on my word
of I must drive five hundred miles.
Speaker 4: I would start now, five hundred miles.
Speaker 7: I'll get to my feet. I will be back in
three days.
Speaker 4: On my aunt.
Speaker 8: You better hurry.
Speaker 4: Yes, I must Hurney.
Speaker 8: I must.
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a luxurious Mexican haucienda, two men tensely face each other.
Speaker 15: Senor Sortio, I must ask you to leave my house.
Speaker 7: At once, Senor appuiness, I beg of you to let
me see your daughter.
Speaker 8: I will not.
Speaker 7: You are right to be angry, but believe me, I
would not come without a good reason.
Speaker 15: You are a man of honor.
Speaker 7: Signor.
Speaker 11: You told her an you would never see her again.
Speaker 4: I am her father.
Speaker 11: I forbid you to see.
Speaker 7: Her now, Senor, with all respect, by Mossie Elena, and
I shall before I leave this house. Her life depends
on her life.
Speaker 15: Do you say you must have great reason indeed to
come here now to use such words too? I am
sorry you could not have knowne none. I must remember
even now that you loved her deeply. That is the
door to her room.
Speaker 7: Her room is she in?
Speaker 15: The doctors do not understand it, but they say there
is no hope for her. No hope she is. She's dying.
Senor Statio, that is her room. You may go in.
Speaker 8: H h kah.
Speaker 15: H h.
Speaker 7: Helena one, what are you wea here? Yess Elena? I
am let me touch you. I am sorry, Helena, so bitterly,
terribly sad. On the table here your statue of Saint Cecilia.
Speaker 15: It has been near me all the time.
Speaker 16: Right.
Speaker 7: I don't know what to say. I am so happy
in your car, Elena. I'm going to take the statue
right away, very well. If you must for a moment,
hold it where I can see it, and you m h.
Speaker 15: I'll be waiting for you.
Speaker 7: What sometimes some who are I promise and my word
of honner. I must leave now, goodbye one, but.
Speaker 15: I'll be waiting.
Speaker 8: H m hm.
Speaker 4: Huh say away what? Oh, Senor Martin, you had a statuette,
give it today?
Speaker 10: You promise you would not follow me if I have
a million dollars at stake, stubby, Let you have it
so I can't talk.
Speaker 12: Oh, yes, this is coming throughus in mister Harding Secretary. No,
mister Harding's not here. He flew out this morning. He's
already at the atomic plant in Tennessee.
Speaker 3: Naturally, mister Harding, the theft of uranium compound from this
atomic plant doesn't matter for the compass binder. Well, doctor Corning,
what section of the plan do you believe it was
stolen from right from this laboratory section, mister Harding. It's
highly radioactive, isn't it. Unless precautions are taken, it can
be fatal. Partly, mister Harding bir yes, what, yes, yes, yes,
of course, Well that's awful, awful, Yes, I'll tell mister
Harting at once.
Speaker 4: What is the doctor?
Speaker 3: One of our young chemist, cell would Parks, that just
shot himself over his house home, and he left a
suicide note addressed to you.
Speaker 4: Let's get over there as fast as we can.
Speaker 8: Doctor.
Speaker 4: I want to read that note.
Speaker 17: I am killing myself because I committed trees and blackmailed
by a man whose identity I never learned, but I
followed his orders. I stole the uranium from the laboratory.
Out in the yard, I picked up the yard cat.
The man was on the outside of the gate with
a Collie shepherd dog. He let the dog run in
through the gate and there was a fight of all
the fiendishlyles schemes. I petted the dog, but as I
did so, I hid the vial under the collie's stomach
with adhesive tape. The dog's owner whistled, the dog ran
out of the gate. Looks unnatural. The guard paid no attention.
What a trick to Now I cannot live on as
a trader. My children, forgive me? What a name for
young Zellno, it could have given us just one clue
to the identity of the man. Maybe he did Peters
without realizing it. In this part of the country, people
prefer hounds, and not many have Collie shepherd dogs. I
want you to locate every Collie shepherd dog within one
hundred miles of this plant were outside the town. Peters,
you can drop the sirn Now, go ahead and tell me.
We've located one hundred and nineteen college shepherd dogs within
one hundred miles of the atomic plant. The owner's all
students fiction. The only odd situation is this family were
going to visit Six weeks ago. A man named mort
said he was going to Mexico and gave them his dog.
That's worth investigating. I'm glad you brought along the Geiger
counter too. With so much uranium compound taped to the
body of the dog, even though it was only on
him for a few minute, it may have made him radioactive.
And there are some trucks I had, Peter Sounder, siren
time country, Easy, easy, boy, this isn't gonna hurt all
set with the counter.
Speaker 8: Day.
Speaker 4: Move a dog over this way, father, Peter, Boy, come on,
let's try the Geiger counter. Oh that's normal. Swing a
dog over a little, father, Come on boy, here you
doing good? Boy?
Speaker 17: He sure is radioactive. This is the dog, without any question, Peters,
look at that needle. This dog will never live. Sorry,
old boy. Look at his eyes. I think he knows
the too, Peter. As you say, the woman who has
this dog now says that the man who gave it
to her mentioned flying to Mexico. Yes, I'll check any
plane reservations made recently from around here to Mexico and
contact the Mexican police. The thieves are going to want
to get that Gurini into some foreign country.
Speaker 4: Just as soon as they can.
Speaker 9: To mister Morton, I'm sure glad to see that boat study.
I'll be glad to get out of rockapool coat too.
Speaker 10: Not too happy about our disguise, as though, whereas the
best we could do. You got the tickets ice one
study for Europe.
Speaker 4: And a half a million books per your fame.
Speaker 8: Hey, well, we aren't going.
Speaker 10: To Europe for that little tob That's only the lighter
to take passengers out of the ship.
Speaker 9: He's anchored way out. Don't let that suitcase get out
of your hands. Feather have a line. We have to
show our tickets.
Speaker 7: You know, I got a laugh.
Speaker 4: Watching right in my hands. Enough you rained him come shopping.
Here's the guy taking the pickets. Tickets, please please show
your tickets.
Speaker 18: There you are you two gentlemen, brs, two gentlemen. I
want to port it for that banks And okay, very well, that.
Speaker 8: The moment we're delaying a lie.
Speaker 4: Let's keep going. Stand where you are A gun and
another one right behind your boy. Walk through that door?
What is it? And I say, counter five Peters, I've
got the covered. See they have guns.
Speaker 16: We're one each. But the honey, I protest that treatment.
If I am wrong, I'll apologize. Peter in the table,
WO bring the gager counter closer.
Speaker 17: Yeah, no, let's see paper, books, shirts, ties, toilet. Martin
wants this wrapped in flannel.
Speaker 11: Just h thatt your wet.
Speaker 8: Hear that.
Speaker 4: The gager counter tells us that whatever is in this
plannel is radioactive. Open up, Peters, let's see.
Speaker 11: But I well.
Speaker 4: That's your weather thinks? Is cee you? Martin? Is this
where you hit the uranium compound you stole from the
Atomic plan.
Speaker 11: I don't know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: You blackmailed a man, and you're helping you get it
up with your own Cali dog.
Speaker 11: You're out of your mind.
Speaker 4: I never owned a dog in my life. Just the moment,
I have another way to make a test. Come not
tell me my wife. He's jumping all over.
Speaker 11: It doesn't mean anything.
Speaker 4: The dog hasn't forgotten. You had all the people here.
He picked you right out. You killed him. Now he's
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Speaker 1: Well, this was an interesting case as far as it went,
but a bit of a bummer. I felt so bad
for Senior Setillo, as he really did seem to be
a stand up guy in every way, and Elena, and
of course the poor Tommy the Holy Shepherd. The sad
thing is that Morton and Stubby probably will have a
more pleasant fate than any of them. In terms of
the episodes statement about dog ownership in Tennessee in nineteen
forty nine, it was pretty accurate. This was based the location,
likely inspired by an actual facility that was in East Tennessee,
and hounds far more popular than other dogs, although coley
shepherd is probably much more a colloquial term before a
lot of our language about various breeds became more standardized.
All right, Well, listener comments and feedback now, and we
have an email from Ken who riots was traveling so
couldn't send this sooner. The Counterspy episode The Case of
the Poison Peddler is the latest examples of shows taking
on issues in the forties and fifties that still exists today.
That particular episode takes on individuals in the community recruiting
and warping the minds of young people with hatred towards others,
something we see happening today. Previous episodes of Counterspy, The
Silent Men, The Man Called X, and Dangers a Sign
and also have had our heroes taking on issues of
that time period that either still exist or have raised
their head again in modern times. You should consider pointing
that out in your commentaries in the future. In addition
to these being good stories, I enjoy contrasting the way
life existed seventy to eighty years ago with the different
and in my opinion, better use of language, and how
the issues of the time have changed or not. Thank
you for providing us this entertainment, Ken Well, thank you
so much, Kin, and I guess I would also mention
a couple of the programs that The Adventures of Superman
with their series on intolerance going on for about two
hundred and three hundred episodes, and then you actually had
another Phillips Lord series that we played that's not particularly
well remembered, particularly when compared to Counterspy, District Attorney, and Gangbusters,
but he had a series called Treasury Agent, and actually
the first episode it's something like that now. It included
an original racist song that was written for the episode
that got stuck in my head, so that was a challenge,
but he was trying to address the issues. I do
think it's always a fine line in terms of my commentary,
because where I will try to explain something is where
it might be unclear to some listeners, like this is
actually relevant to our times, but it's a bit more obscure,
so I need to bring this out a bit and
research and come up with the contexts. But sometimes an
old time radio program is speaking to events in our
time and it is plain, and in those cases I
tend to really lean in more towards a less is
more approach, because there is a danger where you can
become really on the nose and can almost militate against
the point by aggressively pointing out and being like get it,
get it, which I think can end up alienating people
and make them feeling like you're using the show as
a platform to express your own opinion. So I tend
to think it's best just to let the programs speak
for themselves on those sort of points. But I do
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