Speaker 1: The FBI in Peace and War. Another great story based
Speaker 1: on Frederick Lcollins copyrighted book The FBI in Peace and
Speaker 1: War drama Thrill's Action Tonight's Story The Smoke Ring.
Speaker 2: United States. James Office, Mis Davis speaking hello.
Speaker 1: I'd like to speak with mister Taylor. Please. This is
Speaker 1: Agent Stephens over at the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Speaker 3: Oh, Miss Stevens, just a minute, please, mister Taylor, Agent
Speaker 3: Stephens on the line.
Speaker 2: Can you talk with him? David work very will.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Mis Dan, Hello Steve?
Speaker 2: What can I do for you?
Speaker 1: Now? A thing for the moment? This calls on us.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm listening.
Speaker 1: We just picked up a stolen car in Ohio. Bruce
Speaker 1: was being driven by a character we've been after named
Speaker 1: Miguel Trella. In the back of the car we found
Speaker 1: some four hundred unstamped boxes of cigars. The guide ah unstamped.
Speaker 1: I thought you are revenue boys might be interested. Mike
Speaker 1: is putting it mild blade. Okay, we're holding Trailia over here.
Speaker 2: Good, We'll be over in ten minutes.
Speaker 1: During the early part of this year, a ring dealing
Speaker 1: in tobacco was defrauding the government of a sum in taxes,
Speaker 1: which was subsequently determined to be over one million dollars.
Speaker 1: This was accomplished through deliberate failure of the manufacturer put
Speaker 1: revenue stamps on his cigar boxes while selling them to
Speaker 1: under the counter buyers. Our attention was brought to the
Speaker 1: evasion when a fugitive wanted by the Bureau was apprehended
Speaker 1: with a number of the unstamped boxes in his possession.
Speaker 1: The questioning of this man brought out an unexpected tangent
Speaker 1: development which plunged us directly into the case. Hello, Collas,
Speaker 1: this is me. I'm going from you nowhere. We go ahead,
Speaker 1: pick me up in the car right away.
Speaker 2: You and me are driving east. Anything wrong enough?
Speaker 1: The Fed's picked up Miguel with the car or the smokes.
Speaker 1: We're checking out of the area, setting up new outlets.
Speaker 2: Golis. Yeah there it is over there where store.
Speaker 1: Next to the corner, A perfector? Oh yeah, you're sure
Speaker 1: you won't come with me? Banny, No, wait in the car. Okay.
Speaker 1: If you think I can swing it alone, you.
Speaker 2: Can swing it.
Speaker 1: Just say what I told you. Okay, don't be too long.
Speaker 1: I want only say what I told you. The rest
Speaker 1: will be grady, Okay, Why can I help you? Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the propriet.
Speaker 2: Or that's me. Huh, mister Van you down, let's your service?
Speaker 2: Oh what they told me?
Speaker 1: A lady?
Speaker 2: I know you mean my mother. Everybody does as she's
Speaker 2: in the backup colic. Oh no, that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'll find thank you.
Speaker 4: And the same candy orders last time. That's right. No,
Speaker 4: I guess that's all this week, mister Wollen. Thanks a lot, goodbye.
Speaker 2: Afternoon, Good afternoon, sir.
Speaker 1: Your boy out front said you're the one who runs
Speaker 1: this place, Missus Hudell, Right, that's right. My name is Carlos,
Speaker 1: Missus Rudell Ramond Carlos, Huh, I couldn't help over here,
Speaker 1: and you place that order. I would like to talk
Speaker 1: to you about that.
Speaker 4: Well, if you're a salesman, I'm sorry. I do all
Speaker 4: my buying.
Speaker 1: Through mister Wollen, but I can give you a better deal,
Speaker 1: Missus your dad. I got your finest merchandise to offer
Speaker 1: for the cheapest price.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, mister Carlos.
Speaker 2: I'd like to help you.
Speaker 1: Out, but you couldn't do it for me. Huh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: not even for Benny Benny, not your boy. Missus Hudell,
Speaker 1: This Benny I means a lot older.
Speaker 4: I don't know any other Benny.
Speaker 1: That's so, that's so well. It has been a long time.
Speaker 1: You could have forgot, Benny said. If your memory was better,
Speaker 1: all I had to do was to remind you that
Speaker 1: this Benny you don't know is the same one you
Speaker 1: got hitched to back in Detroit October nineteen thirty four.
Speaker 2: Your memory any better now, Missus h then what do
Speaker 2: you want?
Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I got fine merchandise. I just
Speaker 1: want you to place your orders through me from now
Speaker 1: on instead of any comparitors.
Speaker 4: What kind of merchandise smokes smokes.
Speaker 2: Missus Udell, Cigars.
Speaker 1: Any kind you can name?
Speaker 4: Why come to me?
Speaker 1: I tell you, Missus Hudell, these are real fine smokes.
Speaker 1: Like I say, one thing only where somebody just forgot
Speaker 1: to put those revenue stamps on the box.
Speaker 4: Leave mister Carlos right now, because if you don't, I'm
Speaker 4: going to pick up this phone and call.
Speaker 1: The police, Missus Hudell, Benny said, there's something else I
Speaker 1: might have to remind you about. You and him are
Speaker 1: still married?
Speaker 4: Are you leaving around?
Speaker 1: Not only that you got a son, Benny's own boy.
Speaker 1: He even wears the same net after Himmy can't imagine
Speaker 1: how lonesome her father gets for his son, Missus Hudell,
Speaker 1: his own son that he hasn't seen the.
Speaker 2: Last eighteen years.
Speaker 1: What Benny said, if you turn this down, why he
Speaker 1: just naturally won a nice little reunion with Ben Julie,
Speaker 1: father and son after all this time. And you better
Speaker 1: put down that phone, Missus Judell. I don't think you'll
Speaker 1: be calling any police after all, do you. Memorandum from
Speaker 1: the United States Attorney to wall Field Offices, the FBI
Speaker 1: and Revenue of Europe beyond the leftout were understamped tobacco
Speaker 1: ship must being distributed in this country, reaching the rest
Speaker 1: of ring members the guest. New areas may be opened
Speaker 1: somewhere along the eastern seaboard. All agents are worn to
Speaker 1: be as especially alert.
Speaker 3: Good Night, Mama, you said the takeover, I'll said, Ben,
Speaker 3: since get these out of the way.
Speaker 2: You let me home on these boxes not for sale?
Speaker 4: No, well, it's just that they were taking up aisle space.
Speaker 4: I wanted them out of the way.
Speaker 2: That's all. Okay, they're out of the way. You will
Speaker 2: check the register yet.
Speaker 4: I will when you're gone. If let me.
Speaker 2: Look at you, yes, ma'am, wash behind my ears and everything.
Speaker 4: You look real nice.
Speaker 2: Ben new suits, Well, you said I could buy one.
Speaker 4: I don't mean that you never wear a new suit
Speaker 4: unless a girl's going.
Speaker 2: To see it. Okay, maybe one is uh mar.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you check the register, if you should find
Speaker 3: a couple of ten spots missing, then you.
Speaker 4: Just got your pace Saturday.
Speaker 2: It was sure, but you know how it is. If
Speaker 2: a guy doesn't want to look small potatoes, yes, I know.
Speaker 4: And if he wants to hang around nightclubs on oh ma,
Speaker 4: then listen to me.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I don't like to butt into your affairs, but show
Speaker 4: girls aren't for you, believed Tom.
Speaker 2: Let's not go over all that. I'm old enough.
Speaker 4: I know you are. I know that. But but you
Speaker 4: know so many girls in the neighborhood. Now do I
Speaker 4: object when you see them? That sweet Belding girl for instance.
Speaker 2: I'm going to relate my good night.
Speaker 4: I'm only telling you for your own good band.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, Ma, give a fellow kiss me now,
Speaker 3: don't you worry about me. This is one boy knows
Speaker 3: how to take care of himself. Then good night, mind,
Speaker 3: don't wait that for me.
Speaker 2: It's Okay, I cust.
Speaker 1: Got to hand it to you.
Speaker 2: Grace. You did a fine job with him.
Speaker 1: What the boy, Benny Jr.
Speaker 2: You did a fine job. Get out of this store.
Speaker 1: Oh now, Gracie, that's no way to talk.
Speaker 2: For all these years, I thought you'd be glad to
Speaker 2: see me get out.
Speaker 1: I mean it, then, okay, you mean it. I just
Speaker 1: came back to see how you were doing on our
Speaker 1: first delivery. Object to that, and maybe I object to custody.
Speaker 1: To what custody? Fod has got writsing visitation.
Speaker 4: Benny, you stay away from my son. You hear that
Speaker 4: you stay away?
Speaker 1: Or or what kill? Maybe kill me?
Speaker 4: Maybe you stay away, Benny, or maybe I will kill you?
Speaker 4: Maybe I will.
Speaker 1: Hello, this is Marvin Miller with another page from your
Speaker 1: American Heritage scrap book. The majestic Hudson River, which has
Speaker 1: cut such a wide path through American fact and fiction,
Speaker 1: was apparently first discovered by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a foreign
Speaker 1: teen navigator, on April seventeenth, fifteen twenty four, but the
Speaker 1: man for whom it was named, Henry Hudson, made the
Speaker 1: first conclusive exploration of the river during the months of
Speaker 1: September and October of sixteen nine, Henry Hudson, hoping to
Speaker 1: find a waterway through North America to the East Indies,
Speaker 1: sailed his ship the Half Moon up the Hudson as
Speaker 1: far as present day Troy, New York. In the sixteen twenties,
Speaker 1: Dutch patroons had established a permanent colony New Netherlands along
Speaker 1: the banks of the Hudson, and New Amsterdam was spreading
Speaker 1: out from the southern tip of Manhattan Island. It was
Speaker 1: in sixteen sixty four that an English invasion force entered
Speaker 1: the deep channeled mouth of the Hudson River and took
Speaker 1: over control of New Amsterdam from the Dutch. They renamed
Speaker 1: the city New York. Ships flying the Union Jack cruised
Speaker 1: the Hudson for more than a century, bringing furs and
Speaker 1: food supplies to cosmopolitan New York. Control of the Hudson
Speaker 1: became imperative during the Colonial Revolution for Independence. The British
Speaker 1: attacked and captured Fort Washington and Fort Lee late in
Speaker 1: seventeen seventy six, but their attempt to cut the jugular
Speaker 1: vane that united New England and the Middle Colonies was unsuccessful.
Speaker 1: Colonial independence one peace reigned again over the river. Henry Hudson,
Speaker 1: once described as the great River of the Mountains. Yes,
Speaker 1: running three one hundred and six miles from the summit
Speaker 1: of Mount Marcy and the Aniron Backs to the wide,
Speaker 1: spreading harbor of New York City, the Hudson River became
Speaker 1: the lfeline of a new nation just beginning to explore
Speaker 1: and develop its natural riches. Hello, look, Carlos, is me
Speaker 1: I just left the store. Any trouble talk.
Speaker 4: With no trouble. She's playing, Paul, don't worry?
Speaker 1: What about boy?
Speaker 2: Hey was all right? The dead image?
Speaker 4: Huh?
Speaker 1: Never minded dead image?
Speaker 2: Did you follow? I'm sure I followed him.
Speaker 1: He's having drinks at the bar of the fifteen club
Speaker 1: with Candy already burned. You said action, and that Candy
Speaker 1: is a fast worker and he orders meantime. Notice Carlos,
Speaker 1: same routine every week, keep the smokes coming, keep them going,
Speaker 1: that sort, and they're still getting the cigar distributed, Steve.
Speaker 1: As you can see from that report, the revenue agents
Speaker 1: found another retailer last week with an inventory of over
Speaker 1: one hundred buses without on his death. Uh huh, what
Speaker 1: about that safe recording you wanted me to hear, Bruce,
Speaker 1: it's the last talk we had with Miguel Trelia. I
Speaker 1: had an idea you'd be specially interested. Why especially well, Steve,
Speaker 1: You know that memo pad Trailia had on him at
Speaker 1: the time you boys picked him up. You remember the
Speaker 1: entries were mostly initials. Obviously a record of Trailia's.
Speaker 2: Deliveries and receipts.
Speaker 1: Sure I remember, and maybe you remember that the entry
Speaker 1: of showing so many boxes from b you was the
Speaker 1: most frequent. Uh huh, all right, So we tried an
Speaker 1: old stunt on failure. That's not I'll admit I borrowed
Speaker 1: from you, Steve. It worked in that army desertion case,
Speaker 1: so why not again? Why not? Anyway, we dug up
Speaker 1: all the names connected with Trailia's past record. One of
Speaker 1: them might have the initials b you, and one of
Speaker 1: them did. Yes, Benny you dead be you Benny you Dell.
Speaker 1: I said you'd be specially interested. I am, and on
Speaker 1: four separate counts, you mean he's the one behind all this.
Speaker 2: Just listen to the tape, Steve.
Speaker 1: While we were questioning Tralia, one of my men rushed
Speaker 1: in in stage whispered that Benny you Dell had just
Speaker 1: been picked up by the FBI and sang his head off.
Speaker 2: You listening and decide for yourself.
Speaker 1: Candy, Yeah, cause I just come from seeing Benny, and
Speaker 1: he says, give Gandy the green light on the boy,
Speaker 1: get the work out.
Speaker 3: Way, or two more of these cocktails please, and small
Speaker 3: doors for the lady.
Speaker 4: Sorry Kenny here saying no nothing. I'm just saying you
Speaker 4: better not come by for minnight at the club.
Speaker 3: Why I thought we had a day, good day, But
Speaker 3: I changed my mind.
Speaker 2: But why I thought you liked me? I more than
Speaker 2: like you. That's just did well?
Speaker 4: Then why don't you just let well enough alone?
Speaker 3: We met, we had fun together. It's better with put
Speaker 3: friends well, Candy, what's no matter?
Speaker 2: What have I done? Nothing? But you haven't done?
Speaker 4: Then?
Speaker 2: Huh luck?
Speaker 4: Honey. You're a nice kid, but you're only a kid.
Speaker 4: You can't afford to keep taking me up? Sure I
Speaker 4: can I that easily hand out your mother gives you
Speaker 4: from the store. Oh, Ben, honey, I don't think you
Speaker 4: follow me. Oh sure you can take me up for
Speaker 4: a drink or maybe a meal. But it's just hello, ho,
Speaker 4: aren't you? How do you think this fury got on
Speaker 4: my shoulders? Grew there?
Speaker 2: Oh a girl gotta.
Speaker 4: Live honey, it's rent to pay and stockings to buy,
Speaker 4: and a bank broke to fell for any days.
Speaker 2: Sorry to throw the raw meat on the floor.
Speaker 3: Oh that's okay, it didn't.
Speaker 2: Course you didn't, but a girl has to.
Speaker 3: If you were on your own, and I might feel
Speaker 3: different on my own.
Speaker 4: Would you like to be ben make yourself a bank
Speaker 4: girl every week instead of pennies?
Speaker 2: Well, who wasn't.
Speaker 3: I've got friends, honey, They let you in on a
Speaker 3: good thing if I gave the word, yeah, But what
Speaker 3: could I do for them?
Speaker 2: You'd be surprised.
Speaker 4: You might do something for them right inside that store?
Speaker 3: You is?
Speaker 2: Huh honeys.
Speaker 4: I wasn't gonna mention this, but when I see the
Speaker 4: way your old lady's.
Speaker 2: Been holding out on you, what are you talking about?
Speaker 4: You didn't know she's been holding up. You didn't know
Speaker 4: what she's been doing to rake in extra cash?
Speaker 2: What cash, Kenny? What do you mean man's been holding off?
Speaker 2: I mean just what I say.
Speaker 4: You'd better drink your drink. Then I'm afraid you're in
Speaker 4: for an awful shock. Then, yes, you're right, you're all upset.
Speaker 4: Oh it's my fault for prying into your private life.
Speaker 4: Here take this money and go out and have a
Speaker 4: good time.
Speaker 2: I should I didn't want any money. Maybe you didn't
Speaker 2: understand me.
Speaker 4: Well, of course I understand you. You came across a
Speaker 4: few boxes that weren't sealed. All right, I'll call mister
Speaker 4: Walland and tell him.
Speaker 2: That's all you've got to say.
Speaker 4: What else should I say?
Speaker 3: I've already called mister Wallan. He told me you weren't
Speaker 3: buying cigars to him anymore.
Speaker 4: Please, then, what are you so worked up about?
Speaker 2: How about you? That's what about what you've been doing
Speaker 2: behind my back? About all those lies? You've been telling me?
Speaker 2: What you heard me? Nothing but lies?
Speaker 4: Please then tell me what you're trying to.
Speaker 3: Get at all right, all right, I'll tell you only
Speaker 3: when I'm through.
Speaker 2: You'd better be ready to start telling me.
Speaker 1: Hello.
Speaker 4: Oh yes, he is.
Speaker 1: Just a minute, I ask you, Benny, Candy, she's got.
Speaker 2: The kid with her.
Speaker 1: Once, then it's okay to bring him over.
Speaker 2: He let me speak to it. Candy? Is me what story?
Speaker 2: Oh he did he does?
Speaker 1: What do you know? A chip of the old black?
Speaker 2: What's it? Why?
Speaker 1: She'll bring him over his my own flesh and blood?
Speaker 1: Any you bring.
Speaker 2: Him right over?
Speaker 1: Hello, this is Marvin Miller with another page from Your
Speaker 1: American Heritage scrapbook. Theodore Roosevelt, rough rider, all around sportsman
Speaker 1: and President of the United States, waged a lifetime battle
Speaker 1: against complacency. He overcame a frail and asthmatic childhood by
Speaker 1: advocating the strenuous life. Courage, endurance, and stamina were component parts.
Speaker 2: Of his personal creed.
Speaker 1: It was in eighteen ninety eight that tr resigned as
Speaker 1: Secretary of the Navy to lead Colonel Leonard Woods rough
Speaker 1: Riders on the charge up San Juan Hill. Warborne popularity
Speaker 1: won him the governorship of New York in that same
Speaker 1: year and made him President McKinley's running mate in the
Speaker 1: election of nineteen hundred. A year later, McKinley was assassinated
Speaker 1: and Roosevelt became president. His motto for seven years was
Speaker 1: speak softly and carry a big stick. During his second
Speaker 1: term as Chief Executive, he launched construction of the Panama Canal,
Speaker 1: and he also became the first president to set foot
Speaker 1: on foreign soil. In nineteen ten, he became the first
Speaker 1: president to ride in an airplane, although by then he
Speaker 1: had been out of office for two years. Running for
Speaker 1: president on the Progressive Party ticket. In nineteen twelve, tr
Speaker 1: displayed his familiar campaign vigor at Milwaukee. A would be
Speaker 1: assassin's bullet failed to silence his big voice and heart.
Speaker 1: With a bullet lodged in his chest, he delivered his
Speaker 1: scheduled speech. Yes, Theodore Roosta believed in the strenuous life,
Speaker 1: in running the risk of wearing out.
Speaker 2: Rather than rusting out.
Speaker 1: This, he advocated for the individual, the community, and the nation.
Speaker 2: Go on, kid, keep talking. I'm loving every minute of it.
Speaker 2: Well that's about it what she gets telling me. I
Speaker 2: walked out and here I am.
Speaker 3: She was against the eye, but I told her she's
Speaker 3: not enough farm, and I was doing things in my
Speaker 3: own way.
Speaker 1: Now that Colors Candy boys got spunk Like his old man,
Speaker 1: I was right about him, was it?
Speaker 2: It looks like?
Speaker 1: But you won't be sorry, kid. You me gonna hit
Speaker 1: it off great now on wherever I go, you go
Speaker 1: with me. You'll see what living is really like. No
Speaker 1: more psalm singing from hearing.
Speaker 2: How's that done? Then?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: Candy?
Speaker 3: Just like his old man, I told you, Colins, Hollie,
Speaker 3: I'm afraid it won't work.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 2: Ma won't let me go with you? How's she going
Speaker 2: to stop you?
Speaker 1: I thought you said you were doing things You're on
Speaker 1: right now I am.
Speaker 2: So how's she going to stop you by going to
Speaker 2: the FBI? So what, that'd be a big help you.
Speaker 2: They've been trying to find me for months.
Speaker 3: If I followed me and Candy, she'd find where you were,
Speaker 3: then call the FBI following us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the idea. The FBI is probably outside
Speaker 2: by now. That's why I can't.
Speaker 1: Go, Benny, I add up, colors hide, I got no
Speaker 1: enjoyment for around the bush.
Speaker 2: You could have started talking straight. Okay, here it is straight.
Speaker 3: Ma told me about you, all about you and why
Speaker 3: she kept it from me all those years. When she
Speaker 3: got through telling, I told her what I thought of him.
Speaker 2: How wonderful I thought she was, and how I was
Speaker 2: gonna see through it that I felt the scum like
Speaker 2: you don't have a bower again?
Speaker 1: Shut up?
Speaker 2: What else I said?
Speaker 3: I didn't know where you were, but I knew someone
Speaker 3: would lead me to you. I told her follow and
Speaker 3: then call the cops. She was against the idea, like
Speaker 3: I said, but I told her I was doing things
Speaker 3: my own way from now on. I walked out and
Speaker 3: here I Am, it's not straight enough for you.
Speaker 2: That's straight enough, Bennet, I said, shut up. We got
Speaker 2: out of time.
Speaker 1: Then he get out you candy closure. Yet I was
Speaker 1: wrong about you kid.
Speaker 2: For a while there. I thought I saw a lot
Speaker 2: of me and you.
Speaker 1: I was dead wronged.
Speaker 2: You haven't got nothing of me, nothing at all.
Speaker 1: Andy answering, Hello, listen carefully. This is a federal officer speaking.
Speaker 1: I'm directing every one in that room to surrender. Open
Speaker 1: the door and walk out with your hands up. You
Speaker 1: have exactly sixty seconds to come out. After that, we're
Speaker 1: coming in.
Speaker 3: Well, that was a cup and waiting outside the door
Speaker 3: for us.
Speaker 1: Okay, we fixed it. Fanny on, be a fool.
Speaker 4: What chance do we got the gun?
Speaker 2: They're outside the door, So we get out to the roof.
Speaker 2: They won't shoot at the kid, will he? Now wait
Speaker 2: a minute, come on, you one phony move. This guy's
Speaker 2: off right. You're back open the wind the kids.
Speaker 4: Not me. I'm staying here.
Speaker 1: I am not going with you.
Speaker 2: They won't shoot it.
Speaker 1: Not going with okay, okay, the kid and me will
Speaker 1: go without you.
Speaker 2: Come on, the lord, never mind, look like a take
Speaker 2: get out. They got a place around it. You want
Speaker 2: a chance up the escape door.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm down from there.
Speaker 1: You know I'm down the shoot okay, so let him shoot.
Speaker 2: You'll only hit the party. Why get up the stairs?
Speaker 2: Now go up? Get him corporates to go any takes?
Speaker 1: Did you asked for it?
Speaker 2: Get those lights off me, Get them off here.
Speaker 1: You get it too, very get him, You get it too.
Speaker 1: Get those lights off me. With the recovery of young
Speaker 1: Ben Udell from the gunshot wound inflicted by his father,
Speaker 1: the United States Attorney presented the whole story of tax
Speaker 1: evasion and coercion to a federal grand jury. Beny Udell, Ramon, Carlos,
Speaker 1: Miguel Tregian, the score of others were indicted on various counts,
Speaker 1: brought to trial, and convicted. Missus Udell, though guilty of
Speaker 1: concealing a crime, was given a suspended sentence in view
Speaker 1: of both the circumstances and her son's action in helping
Speaker 1: to dissolve the smoke ring. This is the United States
Speaker 1: Times Forces Radio and Television Service HMM of the stalling
Speaker 1: the s