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Speaker 3: And now to Counterspy, it is a scene truly out
of the Old West. A dance and gambling hall crowded
with hard riding, fast shooting men, enjoying themselves but at
any moment ready for action. Suddenly, the swinging doors fly,
opening A tall, languid cow polk stands framed in them.
The crowd quiets down as the cowpoke ambles to the
bar and stops in front of a well dressed, shifty
eyed man.
Speaker 7: Well, dude, it's sundown and I'm still in town.
Speaker 8: You don't take advice, easy, Steve Morgan.
Speaker 7: I'm choosy about whose advice I take. Dude, I don't
like yours. I give you five seconds to drow.
Speaker 8: Well, look, Steve, you know.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, that's that cut. Cut, camera will print that take.
Speaker 6: All right, boys, pair of the SUTs. We can do
the fight scene next.
Speaker 3: Oh Gary, Gary, well how did it go? I'm a
great director?
Speaker 9: Okay, well, swell great strong josstuff.
Speaker 7: Thanks.
Speaker 2: You've got a visitor, Gary, Doctor Hobart Whalen. This is
Gary Marlow Steve Morgan in this picture we're shooting.
Speaker 6: Well, how do you do, mister Marlow. It's quite a
thrill meeting you in person after seeing you in so
many films. Thank you, doctor May I present my assistant
James Dover.
Speaker 7: Hello, mister Dover. Oh sorry, mister Mow. I can shake
hands with my left Get used to it after being
without a writer arm a couple of years. I'm sorry
I didn't notice. Okay, everyone spots the leg, Chris.
Speaker 6: Mister Marlow is somewhere we could talk privately.
Speaker 7: Why my dressing room? Just follow me.
Speaker 6: To get to the point, mister Marlowe, I'm heading the
Institute for Disabled Workers and we're embarking on a large
fundraising campaign.
Speaker 7: Well, maybe i'd better save your time. I'm doctor Whalen.
All my charitable contributions are handled by my business man.
We're not looking for charity, mister Marlow. Why is it
every time you guys see somebody without an arm or
a leg, you think of ten cuts and peck boy,
I'm sorry, I thought sure it. I know you thought
we're looking for a handhot charity. Huh did you ever
take any mister Marlow? It sticks in your craw.
Speaker 6: Jimmy, you you better wait outside.
Speaker 7: I'm sorry, doctor, believe me, mister Dover, I didn't mean Morlow.
I fly off the handle to Lae. Wait outside, Jimmy.
I'll finish our business with mister Marlow. That I'm sorry again.
I'm always being sorry, doctor, I didn't mean to hurt him.
Speaker 6: No one does, you see, mister marlow That's what my
institute is for, to educate the public to the disabled
people to accept a man minus an arm and a leg,
like Jimmy for instance, as a man, not a.
Speaker 7: Gripment, Doctor whalan any way I can help you, I will.
Speaker 6: Thank you, mister Marlow. You can by a contribution, not
of your money, but of your time.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 6: Month from now we're holding a benefit in New York City.
It's to raise money to set up a chain of
industrial and liberal arts schools for the disabled so they
can become self employed.
Speaker 7: A month from now.
Speaker 6: You said yes, and I like you the famous Western
film style to be our master's ceremonies. We'll have a
full program of stars and celebrities.
Speaker 7: Well, I think I can do it, doctor Whalen. I'll
have declared it with my agent, my studio, but that
you'd be simple.
Speaker 6: Splendid mister Marlowe. Thanks for your cooperation. I'll have my secretary,
Miss Vicky Brandt call you for a final confirmation. Good day, Sir.
Speaker 8: David Harding, United States Counter Spires, Washington, from United States
and Screen Actors' Union, pursuant to Tax Bureau memorandum listens
to notify you that members of our union are being
solicited to appear at a benefit performance for the Institute
for the Disabled doctor Hobot Whalen, Director. We are notifying
our members they may appear unless you notify us to
the contrary herting.
Speaker 3: With telegram just came in.
Speaker 6: Quinn, I see, Peter, Oh yes, what's it all about. Oh,
that's right.
Speaker 2: You were out of town on the horn case when
this memorandum issued.
Speaker 6: I don't know what it refers to.
Speaker 2: Charity benefit performances. The tax Bureau has been having trouble
with them.
Speaker 7: Oh oh well.
Speaker 2: In some instances, the tax regulations allow entertainers to deduct
contributions of their services to charity, just as if they
had donated. Case, but there were a number of benefits
last year that were nothing but highly organized racket.
Speaker 7: Oh I get it.
Speaker 9: The tax people wouldn't allow the deductions to.
Speaker 2: Play in those benefits. That's right, So we've worked out
an arrangement with them. In the various entertainers union, they
notify us of scheduled benefits, we make a routine investigation
the sponsors the benefits know about it. Not if we
give them a clean bill of health, and if we don't,
no benefit unless they want to promote one for themselves
in the penitentiary.
Speaker 9: Fine, or once we get a chance to stop a
crime before it's committed.
Speaker 6: It's about it.
Speaker 2: So put this institute in this doctor Hobart Whalen through
a routine investigation, then we can forget it, unless, of course,
it turns out to be not routine.
Speaker 10: Yes, mister mollow Well, this is doctor Whalen's secretary. I'll
give him your message just as soon as he gets
back here to the office, and.
Speaker 11: We'll see you in New York in a month.
Speaker 7: Goodbye, the Great Gary Marlow.
Speaker 10: Yes, Jimmy, he says, you'll m see the benefit performer.
Speaker 11: You're not very enthusiastic.
Speaker 7: About it, are you, Jimmy Sorr.
Speaker 6: I think you've got the bluesty. I have splendid you.
Who's splended you?
Speaker 11: What is it, doctor Whalen?
Speaker 6: Well, I've just talked to the management of Colisim Hall
in New York by transcoontinental phone. They're going to let
us have the hall for our benefit, for just expenses.
They're giving up their usual profits.
Speaker 11: Wonderful, doctor, isn't it Jimmy.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Greed, Well, what's the matter.
Speaker 11: Jimmy's a little down in the dumps today.
Speaker 7: Oh doctor, it's just that I haven't been doing anything,
just hanging around, acting like a pitch to soften people up.
I walk in, they took a look at me, and
they go woozy and well. I can't stand the pity
in their eyes when they see what the war did
to me.
Speaker 6: I know how you feel. By That's why your job
is the toughest of all. Yeah, because you've got to
stand that pity, the misplaced pity of a lot of
well meaning people. You've got to do that so we
can break the ground and educate them to know that
you I don't need pity. We've got to show people
that a boy like you is well able to take
care of himself, show them in a dramatic manner that
they'll never forget. Maybe you're right back, of course. Now,
I just made train reservations to New York. You get
down the station, get those tickets on the double, and
don't tell me that you can't do that with one leg.
Speaker 7: I know you better, Okay, doctor Levin. Sorry, I'm gonna tell.
Speaker 6: You, Vicky, I think I set the boy straight, no
question about it. Funny thing is every word I said
was true.
Speaker 11: And you didn't mean a single one.
Speaker 6: The important thing is he thinks I did.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he does.
Speaker 6: Now, what's the matter with.
Speaker 7: You, Vicky?
Speaker 11: Him?
Speaker 6: Him? You falling for that half man?
Speaker 11: No, I'm working this con game with you. That doesn't
mean I have to like it.
Speaker 6: But on this sudden I.
Speaker 10: Just got a metal picture of Jimmy when he finds
out that you and I are phony.
Speaker 6: It was a heartbroken why but tears were streaming down
his face, touching sight.
Speaker 11: Doc, what do you use for a heart?
Speaker 6: A pump composed of animal tissue like every other human being.
Don't flatter yourself, all right, I'll change that like every
other animal in the jungle. You call civilization, Doc, the
survival of the fittest. The strong eat the weak. I'm strong,
the gay. The kid's a sucker. In fact, he's a cripple.
Doesn't change that, simply makes him better bait to lure
on the healthy suckers.
Speaker 11: Okay, Doc, no lectures.
Speaker 6: Whatever you say, Vicky, just don't turn into a sucker yourself.
Speaker 11: It's a little late for me to change sides.
Speaker 6: I guess that's right, So snap out of it, VICKI
two more days we head for New York.
Speaker 11: Who is it?
Speaker 10: Jimmy sure, Jimmy sure, the door's not locked.
Speaker 7: I thought you'd being a club cardrop.
Speaker 11: My own club car, right here in my own confinement.
Speaker 7: Oh well, I see you. Do you get trained sick?
Is that? Why?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 11: I just like a drink now and then? Nothing wrong
with that, is it?
Speaker 6: Of course?
Speaker 7: Not if you want me to go?
Speaker 11: Why should I want you to go? Sit down? Look
at the scene right it goes by.
Speaker 7: I've just been talking to doctor Whaler.
Speaker 11: Doctor Whaling that calls for another drink?
Speaker 6: You want one, Vicky.
Speaker 7: Don't you think you've had enough?
Speaker 11: I've had enough or something.
Speaker 7: But it's not this, okay? What's your looking at the
country side? Oh makes me kind of ashamed of myself.
Speaker 11: You're shamed?
Speaker 7: Look at it, Vicky, wide and rolling those sweet fields,
pretty in the sun. I think it's pretty.
Speaker 11: The doctor's right, the darkness, Oh yes, doctor.
Speaker 7: Wade, Vicky, Vicky, I've decided something. This country is big
enough for everything, everybody. The mountains we went through, the
plains will be rolling over soon. There's a room in
it for every man, even a guy like me. A hat.
Speaker 11: Sorry the doctor that huh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, But I added something in my own, Vicky. This
country is big, but it needs me. I'm alive. I've
got something to give it, me and a million other
men and women like me. Trouble is it kind of
slow to wake up to the fact. Sort of stupid,
But I'm going to help smartness that you are sure, Vicky,
and you too.
Speaker 11: You know something, Jimmy. You know who's stupid?
Speaker 6: Vicky?
Speaker 7: Who you know?
Speaker 11: You're stupid? Stupid, stupid and a sucker.
Speaker 6: Oh what a sucker.
Speaker 11: You're not a strong one.
Speaker 10: You're not like the doc.
Speaker 11: You're not like me, strong one.
Speaker 6: That's me. What do you say the doc?
Speaker 10: The doc you couldn't even give you a prescription to
buy a bandage and.
Speaker 7: A drug store to.
Speaker 6: Tell you a beautiful story about a rat?
Speaker 11: Pretty rat? You think I'm pretty, don't you?
Speaker 7: Vicky? Makes sense?
Speaker 11: I wish I didn't. I wish I didn't, but I do.
Speaker 10: Jimmy, our organization is a phony, and the doc is
a phony, and I'm a phone.
Speaker 11: Why do I say it? Down? Off that crutch and
I'll tell you.
Speaker 7: Operator I'm in a railroad station. I only have eight minutes.
I don't know the number, but I've got to talk
to Countess by headquarters in Washington, d C. Mister David Hardy, Mister.
Speaker 4: Peters, call mister Harding right away. Mister Peters, call mister
Harding right away.
Speaker 2: Yes, Peters, has anything come in on the investigation of
that benefit.
Speaker 3: For the disabled?
Speaker 9: You said it was just routine.
Speaker 2: There's not routine anymore. Bring whatever you've got to my office.
We've got to go to work fast.
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Countress by He Brents are in the corridor of a
large New York hotel. Jimmy raises his good arm to
knock on the door of Room Prio two, then parted,
sure you wanted to true with the city.
Speaker 6: I'm sure.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, mister.
Speaker 6: Hardy, that's right, mister dover come in.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 7: Uh this is miss Vicky Brent. I told you about it.
Speaker 6: Won't you sit down? Miss Brent? Oh?
Speaker 11: Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 2: Why not in the bag, Miss Brand. You don't look
very comfortable person on the edge of that chair.
Speaker 11: I'm a little nervous.
Speaker 2: N's all right, this is my assistant, mister Peters, Ms Brent,
mister Dover. V How mister Dover, let's listen to you.
What about this phony benefit?
Speaker 7: You called me about it? Well, I told you about
doctor Whalen and my partner it sketchally. Yes.
Speaker 2: Well we've already investigated Whale and he has a long
record as a confidence man and a chiseling promoter.
Speaker 7: Well, I think, Vicky, I mean Miss Brent can give
you a better picture of the set up than I
can Alms.
Speaker 10: Bran First, mister Harding, I want to get one thing straight. Yes,
Jimmy's got a little blind spot about me. This isn't
the first fake deal.
Speaker 11: Liveing in the doctor didn't con me into what I
knew what it was all about from the start.
Speaker 2: I'm glad you said that, Miss Brand. It's a good beginning.
What we've been looking you up too.
Speaker 9: Peter Victoria, Brent and Is Barry and Is Brandon indicted
for racetrack swindle, suspended sentence and died a suspect and
Firth left probation.
Speaker 11: That's more, I couldn't have hidden it if I wanted to.
Speaker 2: Well, the important thing is you didn't want to. Now,
will you tell your story?
Speaker 10: Well, Doc Whalon got the idea to promote this benefit
for disabled people.
Speaker 11: He called me in on the deal, and I went
for it.
Speaker 10: Jimmy was hired by the doc, and the Doc gave
him a song and dance about useful work and what
a great project it was, make the people aware of
the ableness of the disabled.
Speaker 7: And I went for it, hook line and sink. No reason.
You shouldn't miss the dollan. It's a great idea.
Speaker 6: I'm keeping that in mind. Go ahead, miss bran well with.
Speaker 11: Jimmy to go around with them and soften them up.
The doc promoted half the big names in Hollywood. They
well say it.
Speaker 7: They'd take one look at me and drown in their
own pity. I'm sorry, And I was supposed to pull
the same stunt with the Broadway in Radio Stars, only
I'm not supposed to know that's what it is.
Speaker 2: We'll come back to that, Jimmy, go on, miss brand.
Speaker 10: The docs set up a phony outfit, the Institute for
the Disabled, chartered in some state out west.
Speaker 2: Yes, with himself as the sole trustee for the institute.
Speaker 7: As we've checked that, that's right.
Speaker 10: He was going to send a check for the pro
to the benefit to the institute, all right, and be
there himself to receive it.
Speaker 9: He expected to get away with something that wrong.
Speaker 10: No, mister Peters, but he expected to be out of
the country by the time it was found out.
Speaker 6: Well, how far has the organization gone?
Speaker 10: All the way tickets advertising, He's even got a colisseum
Hall lined up.
Speaker 11: Now he just wants to line up some more names.
Speaker 9: I notice he's scaled the prices on the tickets from
ten dollars up to one thousand.
Speaker 7: There's no pocket were anything else.
Speaker 11: M'sprin No, that's it. I'm glad it's finished.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I'm kind of sorry. Well, at least
somebody was interested in guys like me finding out that
disabled guys can do lots of jobs as well as
they did before they were cracked up.
Speaker 11: Jimmy, don't see that.
Speaker 7: You know, it's funny. The only guy interested was a crook,
and now he won't be around.
Speaker 6: Jimmy.
Speaker 2: I think he maybe for a little while.
Speaker 11: But I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Mister Harmer when we make an erastus for the good
of society. But I'm not sure this case is as
simple as that.
Speaker 7: I don't understand, mister Hardy.
Speaker 2: Well, I may be sticking my neck out, but if
we plan the how and when of doctor Whalen's arrest,
we'd be doing a lot more for society than we
would by picking him up.
Speaker 7: Right now, how's that?
Speaker 6: Sut him?
Speaker 2: I've got an idea that might work if Jimmy and
VICKI will cooperate.
Speaker 7: Oh, anything you say, mister Harney, there will be some
risk Vicky's.
Speaker 11: Gone along with Is this far, Jimmy, I'll go all
the way.
Speaker 2: Good, I'll make yourself comfortable. I'll tell you my plan.
Speaker 11: She would have crawled, Jimmy. I never figured they turn
out like this. The coliseum's jams.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but I'm wondering, where's doctor Wallen? Call?
Speaker 11: We hear you? Stop worrying.
Speaker 7: Well, mister Hardy's to swell about this. I'd hate for
him to get in a jam. Say you don't think
Doc Whale's wise, do you, Jimmy?
Speaker 11: You don't think?
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, Dad, I know you couldn't. But I
what I think about you? Well, A guy like me, shouldn't.
Speaker 11: Jimmy, how do you know I couldn't crush out jim.
Speaker 7: Oh, Vicky? Oh, oh, there's Doc. I guess he just
came in.
Speaker 11: I'm looking so happy.
Speaker 7: Hello Jimmy and vickyed splendid crowds flot well were you're
down too? He was getting worried just checking up at
the box office. Jimmy, don't you think it's time Gary
Marlow started the program? Yeah, sure, Doc, I'll tell you
he's right over there, say miss Marlow. Oh yes, Jimmy,
you want me to begin out right away? Oh and uh,
mister Marlow, don't forget that first. Guess he'll He'll be
kind of a surprise for everybody.
Speaker 3: How could I forget him?
Speaker 7: Well, here we go. Good luck, mister Morrow going to start, Jimmy, Yeah, yeah,
right away. That's women to Let's sit here close and
enjoyed the show.
Speaker 6: We put a lot of work in it.
Speaker 11: We've all put a lot of work in doctor.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, thank you.
Speaker 7: Before we begin the show, there's a special guest i'd
like to introduce right now, as he has to leave
shortly on urgent business. In fact, this gentleman is always
on urgent business leaders and gentlemen. I'm proud to present
the Chief of the United States taters fis mister David.
Speaker 6: Harden Carter, Jimmy. How did this happen?
Speaker 7: Special guest, Doctor Ellen, I thought it was great with
Kedemy doesn't make many public appearances.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, great.
Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you, mister Marlowe. Later on,
I want to ask you about a trade secret in
those western builds of yours.
Speaker 7: How do you get.
Speaker 4: Fifty to one hundred shots out of one six shooter revolver?
The counter spies could youse a.
Speaker 7: Trick like that.
Speaker 4: But seriously, ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to be
here for the purpose of this benefits is a major
importance to America. It's wonderful that more and more of
us realize that the disabled can take their places as
useful citizens. This occasion is to see that they get
their chance, not as a charity, but as a rank.
And now will the organizers of this great event come
over here, both of you, Doctor Hobart Whalen, I listed
Hardy and Jimmy Dormer. Now I have a surprise for
the audience, an actual arrest here on the platform, ladies
and gentlemen. Blendid as its affair is, it has one
black mark. It was organized by a confidence man, a swindler,
a crunch this man here, doctor Hobart whaleen, you mean
I want you.
Speaker 1: To arrest me?
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go bother you.
Speaker 4: This crush streaming gores pretty good or a supposedly disabled man,
wasn't it. Now while assistant Harry Peters help mister Dover
remove the prisoner, I'll tell you the audience why we
did not cancel this benefit week to go, even though
we knew the promoter with a crook. We didn't stop
it because the cause is close to our hearts. The
counters by the employ many so called disabled men and women.
They hold key positions in our code division, communications and others.
Though we allow this benefit to go on, you may
rest assured that is the suggestion of the President's Committee
on National Employees is physically handicapped week. Your money will
go to a legitimate organization interested in its problem. And
now here is Gary Marlowe with the rest of the show.
Speaker 7: Golly, mister Hardy, that was wonderful, wasn't it? Say it?
Speaker 6: Certainly was hows whalem, he's unhappy.
Speaker 9: There's two of our ragents are taking donaua field office
to be booked.
Speaker 6: Well, then that winds up things there.
Speaker 11: Jimmy, except for me, mister Hardy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what about Vicky, mister Hardy, Well, she'll have to
testify against the doctor.
Speaker 9: Of course, But well that means jail as the material witness.
Speaker 2: Jail of course, if someone would accept responsibility, Vicky could
be parole in his custody.
Speaker 6: Oh, off to that, mister Hardy. How Jimmy, you don't know, Vicky.
Speaker 7: We've stuck together this long. I can stand it a
little longer as you can, okay, mister Hardy.
Speaker 6: Okay, Jimmy.
Speaker 2: In fact, from the sound of things, I'd say very okay.
And by the way, when you find time, get in
touch with me about becoming a regular counter by will you, Jimmy.
Ladies and gentlemen, It's an honor to present the following message,
especially prepared for this counters by a broadcast by the
Honorable Alvin W. Barklay, Vice President of the United States.
Speaker 9: Today's disabled veterans and handicapped workers have the full support
of the United States government in their quest for suitable
employment opportunities. The President of the United States has established
a special civilian committee to lend assistance in discharging this
national responsibility of providing work for qualified handicapped men and women.
The response by businessmen, industrialists, and labor officials has been
highly gratifying, but we must intensify our efforts so that
a war wound or an industrial accident is not a
one way ticket to the sideline. I ask your continued
interest in those handicapped workers presently employed, and added opportunities
for those seeking work. I urge all Americans to remember
that abilities is much more important than disabilities.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, mister Vice President. Next week's copy
case deals with the teenage terrors who worshiped a heel,
the stolen loop that was paid for with a wet
handkerchief and hard cash, and the underworld mobster who pulled
a switch and continued to be a right guy. Be
sure to tune in next Tuesday to.
Speaker 3: The case of a flat push Fagan on Counterspy, and
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Speaker 3: Tonight's counter Spy program, originated in New York, was directed
by William M. Sweet, dramatized by Palmer Thompson, and feature
Don McLachlan and Mandel Kramer, with music by Jesse Crawford.
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Speaker 7: Welcome back.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 1: I have to say that Alvin Barkley has never sounded
so much like Mandel Kramer before. This does actually happen
in old time radio on occasion where you would have
a major public official lot Jed or Hoover wanting to
speak to a program's content, but you have an actor
go ahead and read a statement from them instead, And
this can be to simplify the process and also to
provide the best quality that can If the political leader
is not able to be in a station at the
time of the broadcast, which is usually, it's not going
to work out that you have to go through a
process to get a recording made and transmitted in time
for the broadcast. And on those occasions where I've heard
like a pre recorded message put in there is a
visible dropping audio quality. Was it makes the politician sound good?
I can imagine the unobservant listener at home say, yeah,
I thought Berkley might be too old for the job.
He's in his seventies, but he certainly said vigorous. Of course,
on other programs, like there was an episode of Family
Theater where they had someone appearing that way, they noted
that the person was impersonated. Now, of course, this is
yet another program with a very strong PSA focus and
certainly raising a very important issue about the need of
disabled veterans to find not just support, but the ability
to work with dignity. This has been a message that
you can hear across multiple programs in multiple different genres
and counterspy was carrying that message. They of course became
involved in a somewhat improbable way. While it was true
that there were some shady charities running around in the
nineteen forty, there was no organization that did preemptive investigations
of charitable events. Certainly the crooks would have been aware
of this if nothing else, and even if you were,
As we have said a few times, imagine that counterspy
is the FBI. Imagine JEdgar Hoover getting involved with routine
background checks or ANYBI director getting involved in those sort
of things. So this is yet another case of counterspy
really stretching its jurisdiction in order to tell the story
it wanted to tell, which was an important one. All right, Well,
now it's time to thank or Patreon supporter of the day,
and I want to thank David, Patreon supporter since January
twenty nineteen, currently supporting the podcast at the first mate
level of seven dollars and fourteen cents more per month.
Thanks so much for your support, David. That will do
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