1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Now, the Roma Wine Company of Fresno, California presents... 2 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Suspense! 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Tonight, Roma wines bring you a suspenseful play by Dashiell Hammett called Two Sharp Knives, 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,000 and starring John Payne and Frank McHugh. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:29,000 Suspense is presented for your enjoyment by Roma Wines. 6 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:32,000 That's R-O-M-A. Roma Wines. 7 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,000 Those excellent California wines that can add so much pleasantness to the way you live, 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 to your happiness and entertaining guests, to your enjoyment of everyday meals. 9 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:45,000 Yes, right now a glass full would be very pleasant, 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,000 as Roma Wines bring you a remarkable tale of suspense. 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,000 And with the drama called Two Sharp Knives, and with the performances of Mr. John Payne as Scott Anderson 12 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:01,000 and Mr. Frank McHugh as Wally Shane, Roma Wines hope indeed to keep you in... 13 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Suspense! 14 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Shortly after 2 a.m., a poker game was breaking up at Ben Camsley's, 15 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:12,000 the doctor coroner of Dearwood City. 16 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:16,000 Scott Anderson, Dearwood's efficient chief of police, and Wally Shane, his wife, 17 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:20,000 were just about to leave. 18 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Talk about thieves. Our own chief of police committed nothing less than larceny, 19 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 the way he won that last part. 20 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:30,000 Yes, and having won it, I noticed he's losing no time in making off with the swag. 21 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Shots! Why don't you boys just break down, admit you don't know how to play like old Professor Scott here. 22 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 You couldn't win a poker hand if it was on a punch board. 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,000 It's a good thing he's chief of police. 24 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,000 Come on, Wally, let's get out of here before these amateurs break my heart. 25 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Okay, Scott, anything you say. 26 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Where are we heading for, chief? 27 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Just across the street, Wally, the railroad station. 28 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:59,000 Oh, shucks. Aren't you afraid of the excitement? 29 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Don't you think that watching the 211 come in is half to be too much for your blood pressure? 30 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 Well, if it is, Wally, you can always carry on. 31 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:09,000 You've been a fair imitation of an assistant to me for some time now. 32 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,000 Yeah? 33 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Yeah. 34 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 If anything happens to me, you'll be chief. 35 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,000 Don't worry, it won't be any harder for you to fool the public as chief. 36 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Hi, Elmer. 37 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Hi. Oh, howdy, Scotty. 38 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Well, hi, old Wally boy. 39 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Hi, Elmer. 40 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,000 Say, it's kind of late for you bigs to be around, isn't it? 41 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 Oh, I don't know. We sort of figured we'd put the town to bed tonight. 42 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,000 How's the 211? On time? 43 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,000 Right on the nose, Wally, right on the nose. 44 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:41,000 She ought to be blowing for the bend in just about three seconds now. 45 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 By golly, she fooled Mrs. Early. That's her now. 46 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:49,000 Why, you expecting anyone on us, Scotty? 47 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,000 No, Elmer, I'm not expecting anyone. 48 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 Wally, I just thought we'd mosey over and watch her come in, that's all. 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,000 You know, Elmer, you can never tell who might get off though. 50 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Jesse James or Jack the Ripper or even your Aunt Gussie. 51 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Yeah, I guess you're right, Wally. 52 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Well, here should be he prodigies, but I've got to be rolling the wagon out to the bank, Scotty. 53 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Good, good. 54 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Hi, Elmer. How's it going? 55 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,000 Oh, I can't complain. I can't complain, Captain. 56 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Well, maybe you can, Elmer, but I sure can. 57 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:22,000 You hold us up with that freight there. 58 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:23,000 Not much more? 59 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 No, no. 60 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,000 This is the last piece now. 61 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 Well, maybe I can't show all guns. 62 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,000 Okay, see you tomorrow, Elmer. 63 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,000 Hey, Scott, do you see what I see? 64 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 You mean do I see the man who just got off that train? The answer's yes. 65 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,000 Well, he's a ringer for the guy we got that circle about. 66 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,000 That is the guy. 67 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Well, then, what do we do now? 68 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 We take him, Wally, let's go. 69 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:01,000 Whatever you say, Scott. Here he comes, over toward the taxi stand. 70 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 Driver, I want to go to the Dearwood Hotel. 71 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:07,000 Oh, never mind. I see the hotel sign just a few blocks down the street. 72 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,000 Sorry, I'll walk. 73 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Hello, Furman. 74 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:19,000 Oh, I don't believe I... 75 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:20,000 You're Lester Furman, aren't you? 76 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:21,000 Yes, I am. 77 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:22,000 Philadelphia? 78 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,000 Yes. 79 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I'm Scott Anderson, Chief of Police here in Dearwood, I... 80 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,000 What? What's happened to her? 81 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:29,000 Happened to who? 82 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,000 Oh, no, you don't. 83 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,000 You think you can pull that sort of stuff with me? You're very much mistaken. 84 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Now, look... 85 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Okay, Scott. 86 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:35,000 You're silly. 87 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Let me get a quack at that mug. 88 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,000 Wait a minute. Wait a minute, gentlemen. 89 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:41,000 Hold it, Wally, hold it up. 90 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Well, Furman... 91 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 I'm sorry for a moment there. I thought that you weren't really a policeman. 92 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,000 Thanks. I guess I look almost human in civvies. 93 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Until... until I saw the other gentleman's uniform, I thought you were a hold-up man, Mr. Scott. 94 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,000 Never mind the thanks. 95 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,000 It was silly of me. I'm sorry. 96 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,000 Well, let's get going before anything else happens. 97 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Are... are you taking me to police headquarters? 98 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,000 Mm-hmm. 99 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:07,000 What for? 100 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,000 Philadelphia. 101 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I... I don't think I understand you. 102 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,000 You understand you're wanted in Philadelphia, don't you? 103 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,000 I'm wanted in Philadelphia? 104 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:18,000 Yeah. Got a cigarette? 105 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,000 Huh? Oh, yes, of course. 106 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:22,000 You are? 107 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,000 What am I wanted for? 108 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:26,000 Murder. 109 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,000 Here we are. Here's the circular on Lester Furman. 110 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:46,000 It was sent out by the Trans-American Detective Agency in Philadelphia. 111 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:53,000 $1,500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Lester Furman, alias Lloyd Fields, alias J.D. Carpenter, 112 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 for the murder of Paul Frank Dunlap in Philadelphia on December the 8th, 1942. 113 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Oh, no. 114 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,000 Take a look at it. 115 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 Well? 116 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,000 It's a lie. 117 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 You're Furman, aren't you? 118 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:07,000 Yes. 119 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,000 The photograph reproduced in the circular is a picture of you, isn't it? 120 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:12,000 Yes, yes, it is, but I... I can't understand it. 121 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,000 Here, here, here. You'd better sit down. 122 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,000 Oh, well, what we got here? 123 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:17,000 We got Lester Furman. 124 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Oh, the Phil... 125 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,000 You lucky stiffs. 126 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Now you and Wally spent a grand and a half reward, though. 127 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Jeez, I've never seen nothing like it. 128 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 If it ain't vacations in New York at the city's expense, it's reward, Moolah. 129 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 George, someday, if you don't remember you're the jailer around here and not the D.A., 130 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:37,000 you're gonna be wearing your teeth on the outside of your lip, 131 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,000 and I'll be the guy who arranged it that way. You understand? 132 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,000 Oh, just cause you caught a guy who's hot in Philadelphia. 133 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:46,000 It's a lie. I never killed anybody. I won't be framed. I won't be framed. 134 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Oh, Shocks. Take it easy, Furman. 135 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Save it for the Philadelphia police. We're just holding you for them. 136 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,000 If anything wrong, it's there, not here. 137 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,000 But it's not the police. It's the trans-American deti... 138 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,000 Mr. Anderson, I... I... 139 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I suppose you're sure there's nothing I can do. 140 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 There's nothing anyone can do till morning. 141 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 All right, George, you take Furman out and lock him up. 142 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,000 Come along, darling. We ain't had nobody in our little hoot-cow for three days running. 143 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,000 You'll have it all to yourself, just like a sweet at the Ritz. 144 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,000 Well, good night and... thank you. 145 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Make him as comfortable as you can, George. If he wants anything sent in, OK. 146 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:30,000 He's valuable, huh? Now, if some bum didn't mean a nickel to you, 147 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,000 maybe I ought to take a pillar off my own bed for him. 148 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,000 Eh, nuts. He's just like the rest of them to me. Shut up! 149 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 Perhaps you forgot my remark about your teeth a while back, George. 150 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,000 Any day now, I'm going to forget your uncle's county chairman 151 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,000 and throw you back in the gutter just to see how high you'll bounce. 152 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,000 Remember that. Do all the talking you want, but do what I tell you. 153 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:53,000 Oh, shock, Scott. George don't mean nothing. He's just money mad. 154 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:58,000 OK, OK, I'm going home now. If it's anything urgent, I can be reached there. 155 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:11,000 But I don't want to be disturbed unless it's urgent. 156 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:17,000 Oh, hello. Hello. 157 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:21,000 Scott, this is Wally. Yeah, Wally? Oh, what time is it? 158 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,000 It's five after six in the morning and you'd better come right down, Scott. 159 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,000 That fellow Furman's hung himself. What? Hung himself? 160 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:33,000 Yeah, by his belt from a window bar. Dead earn a mackerel. 161 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:37,000 I'll be right in, Wally. Phone Ben Camsley. Tell him I'll pick him up on the way down. 162 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Oh, shucks. No doctor's going to do Furman any good now. 163 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Well, I won't have him hurt to have him looked at. 164 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:45,000 You'd better phone the county court at Douglasville, too, and file a routine report. 165 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:48,000 I already did that. And what's more, hold on to your seat. 166 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,000 The DA's on the way over, in person. 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Good old Ted Carroll, the D.A.'s here, 194 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,000 and he's plenty hot under the collar. 195 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Yeah, what's he burning about? 196 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:25,000 Oh, he's just mad. He's run up quite a phone bill for us, too. 197 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 Been calling Philadelphia every couple of minutes since he got here. 198 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:30,000 What kept you so long? 199 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,000 I couldn't get my car started. Well, let's go in. 200 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:36,000 Hello, Ted. 201 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:38,000 Listen, Scott, what is all this? 202 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:39,000 Oh, what? 203 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,000 This fiddly D, this hanky-panky. 204 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,000 I suppose you mean Furman. Wasn't it suicide? 205 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:46,000 Sure it was suicide. I just telephoned TransAmerican, 206 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:49,000 dug a guy out of bed there. They phoned me just a few minutes ago 207 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,000 and said they'd never send out any circulars on Furman. 208 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:53,000 They didn't want him for murder or anything else. 209 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,000 The only thing they knew about him was he used to be a client of theirs. 210 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,000 I don't know what to say, Ted. 211 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 I don't either. What on earth kept you so long, Scott? 212 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:03,000 A car stall. Came as quick as I could. 213 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,000 Well, what makes you so edgy, Ted? 214 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Oh, nothing. I guess it's just the district attorney in me. 215 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:11,000 Oh, shucks. Jance, if you're not careful, 216 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:14,000 you're liable to give the impression that you two don't like each other. 217 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:17,000 Okay, okay, Wally. I'll quit if he will. 218 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:18,000 Tell me what's wrong, Ted. 219 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,000 Well, there's plenty wrong, Scott. Everything's wrong. 220 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,000 First, that TransAmerican thing. They never sent out any circulars about Furman. 221 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,000 And I'll get this. I talked to the Philly police just before you came in. 222 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:32,000 There wasn't any Paul Frank Dunlap murder down there that they know about. 223 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,000 They've got no unexplained murder for December 8, 1942. 224 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,000 What did you get out of Furman before you let him hang himself? 225 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 Only, well, that he was innocent. 226 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,000 Well, didn't you grill him? 227 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:45,000 Didn't you find out what he was doing in town? 228 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:46,000 Wally, didn't you... 229 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,000 Oh, shucks. What fur? 230 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:51,000 He admitted his name was Furman. The circular description fitted him. 231 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,000 The photograph was him. 232 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 TransAmerican Detective Agency's supposed to be on the level. 233 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,000 Philadelphia wanted Furman. We didn't. 234 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:00,000 But, Scott... 235 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,000 Oh, sure, Ted, sure. If I'd known he was gonna hang himself, 236 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:06,000 but then if your aunt wore pants, she'd be your uncle. 237 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:10,000 You said Furman had been a client of TransAmerican. 238 00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:12,000 Then tell me what kind of a job they were doing for him. 239 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,000 Well, his wife left him a couple of years ago, 240 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 and he had them hunting for her for five or six months. 241 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,000 But they never found her. 242 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,000 They're sending a man up here tonight to look things over. 243 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:21,000 Yeah. 244 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:22,000 Yes. 245 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Hmm. 246 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:25,000 And I might as well tell you, Scott, 247 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,000 they're gonna raise plenty of trouble over this. 248 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:29,000 Yeah, yeah, I know that, Ted. 249 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 There usually is trouble when somebody dies in a jail cell. 250 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,000 Chief Henderson? 251 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Yeah, yeah, come in. 252 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:37,000 They told me I'd find you here. 253 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 I'm Carl Rising, Assistant Manager of TransAmerican Detective Agency 254 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,000 in Philadelphia. 255 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,000 This is Mr. Wheelock, who was Lester Furman's personal attorney. 256 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:45,000 How do you do? 257 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:48,000 Glad to know you, Mr. Rising. Mr. Wheelock, this is Wally Shane, my assistant. 258 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:49,000 How are you? 259 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:50,000 How do you do? 260 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,000 I know you're general, but I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 261 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 262 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 263 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 264 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,000 I'm not sure I'm a good fit for you. 265 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 I know you gentlemen are already in possession of most of the details 266 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,000 concerning Mr. Furman from the time he arrived in Dearwood 267 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:09,000 until the time of his death. 268 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 But perhaps you don't know that the police of most towns 269 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,000 in our corner of the state have also received copies of this reward circular. 270 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,000 Get it for him, will you, Wally? 271 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 Here you are. 272 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,000 Why, this... this circular is a forgery. 273 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Wow. You're sure it's a forgery, Mr. Rising? 274 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,000 Oh, yes, yes, there's no doubt about it. 275 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,000 And it's an excellent forgery. 276 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:36,000 The papers, style and type are almost exactly like those we use at Transamerica. 277 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,000 Almost, but not quite. 278 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Wow. What do you know? A forgery. 279 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Tell me, Mr. Wheelock, was Mr. Furman a native Philadelphian? 280 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:48,000 Oh, my, yes. He was well-known, respectable, prosperous citizen of Philadelphia. 281 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:50,000 Married, wasn't he? 282 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 In 1934, he married a 22-year-old girl named Ethel Bryan, 283 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 daughter of a Philadelphia family. 284 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 He had a child, isn't that right, Mr. Wheelock? 285 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Yes, born in 1936. 286 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 But the child lived only a few months. 287 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Mrs. Furman's wife disappeared after the child's death. 288 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 What year was it she disappeared? 289 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:10,000 Mr. Rising should remember that. His agency worked on that matter. 290 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,000 Yes, I remember it very well. Mrs. Furman disappeared in 1937. 291 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:16,000 We never heard anything of her again, 292 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,000 although Furman spent quite a lot of money trying to locate her. 293 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,000 Furman never divorced her, huh? 294 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,000 No, sir. I should say now he was very much in love with her. 295 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,000 And he seemed to think that the kid's dying made her a little screwy 296 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,000 so that she didn't know what she was doing. 297 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,000 That's right, isn't it, Mr. Wheelock? 298 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:33,000 Well, that is my belief, Mr. Rising. 299 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,000 You said Furman had money, Mr. Wheelock. 300 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,000 How much did he have, and who gets it? 301 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,000 I should say his estate will amount to perhaps a half a million dollars 302 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:43,000 left in its entirety to his wife. 303 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,000 His wife, huh? 304 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,000 Hmm. That's quite a handy sum for anyone to have, huh, Wally? 305 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,000 Yeah. 306 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:52,000 Tell me, do either of you know why Furman came to Deerwood? 307 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 No, I don't. 308 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,000 No? Oh, shucks. You were his attorney, Mr. Wheelock. 309 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:58,000 Don't you know if he told his servants or his office employers 310 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,000 or someone why he came here? 311 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 I know of no one of whom he told, 312 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,000 and I can't see that these questions of yours are getting us anywhere. 313 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,000 Why do you persist in asking them? 314 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Because, Mr. Wheelock, everything shows that somebody framed Furman 315 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:14,000 into the Deerwood jail, and that frame-up drove him to suicide. 316 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:16,000 Nothing shows anything else. 317 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:19,000 And there has to be something else, a lot else. 318 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,000 Well, Chief, what do we do now? 319 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:25,000 I'm going across the street to Fritz' Undertaking Parlor. 320 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,000 Maybe I'll find something else there. 321 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:42,000 You find anything at the Undertaking Parlor, Scott? 322 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:44,000 No, not much. 323 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,000 Well, I was over there myself just after you left, and I did. 324 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:48,000 You did? What? 325 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Well, I saw these... 326 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Save it, Wally. Come in. 327 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:54,000 Hello. Am I bugging you into anything here? 328 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Oh, shucks, no. 329 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:59,000 You know, the coroner's report is always welcome at a time like this, Doc. 330 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:01,000 What's on your mind, Doc? 331 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,000 Well, is it all right to talk here? I mean, can anyone hear us? 332 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:05,000 No, no, go ahead, talk. 333 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 Listen, Scott, two of those bruises showed. 334 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,000 What bruises? 335 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000 Furman. Up under the hair, there were two bruises. 336 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:14,000 But why didn't you tell me? 337 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I am telling you, Scott. You weren't here when I made my examination. 338 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,000 You were off chasing some stick-up hoodlums. 339 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:22,000 This is the first time I've seen you since then. 340 00:17:22,000 --> 00:17:24,000 But why didn't you spill the stuff about Furman's bruises 341 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:26,000 when you were testifying at the inquest, Ben? 342 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:28,000 I'm a friend of yours. 343 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Do I want to put you in a spot where people say you drove this fellow to suicide 344 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,000 by third-degreeing him too rough? 345 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,000 Oh, shucks, Doc. You're nuts. 346 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,000 How bad was Furman's head? 347 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 Well, that didn't kill him, if that's what you mean. 348 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 There's nothing the matter with this, Scott. 349 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,000 Just a couple of bruises that nobody would notice unless they parted the hair. 350 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:48,000 It killed him just the same. 351 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:50,000 You and your friendship that... 352 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,000 Hello. 353 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Yeah, Fritz, a couple of ladies? 354 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Who are they? 355 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:58,000 Oh, okay, I'll wait. 356 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,000 I've got to run along now, Scott. 357 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:01,000 Okay, I'll see you later. 358 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:02,000 Right. 359 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,000 It's Fritz at the undertaking parlor. 360 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,000 A couple of ladies want to see Furman's body. He's going to ask why. 361 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,000 That's what I was going to tell you, Scott. 362 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,000 When I was over there, I saw... 363 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Hello, hello. 364 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,000 Oh, are you one of the ladies who wants to see... 365 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:18,000 your Furman's wife, Mrs. Furman, hmm? 366 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,000 Oh, then by all means, Miss Furman. 367 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:24,000 Only when you're through over there, I want you to come over to my office. 368 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:26,000 I've got some things I want to ask you. 369 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Right. 370 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 Well, what do you know about that Furman's wife? 371 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,000 That's what I've been trying to tell you. I saw him. 372 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,000 And one of them's Hotchaw Randall, a babe with a record as long as your arm. 373 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:41,000 She's one of that mob you had me working on in New York last summer. 374 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:42,000 Does she know you? 375 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Sure, but not by my right name. 376 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:47,000 She thinks I'm a Detroit rum runner. 377 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:49,000 No, no, I mean, does she recognize you just now? 378 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,000 I don't think she saw me. Anyway, she didn't give me a tumble. 379 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,000 Okay, Wally, stick around a while, but stay out of sight. 380 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,000 Maybe I'll be bringing these dolls back with me. 381 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:58,000 Whatever you say, Chief. 382 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,000 Come in. 383 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,000 Chief Anderson? 384 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 That's right. Mrs. Furman? 385 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,000 Yes. This is my friend, Mrs. Crowder. 386 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:12,000 Thought your name was Randall. 387 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,000 What do you care, Chief? I'm not hurting your town any. 388 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Okay. Now, before anybody says anything, I want to tell you something. 389 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,000 Furman didn't commit suicide. He was murdered. 390 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:24,000 Murdered? My husband murdered? 391 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:26,000 We got alibis. We were in New York. We can prove it. 392 00:19:26,000 --> 00:19:28,000 You're likely to get a chance. 393 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,000 How'd your people happen to come down here? 394 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Murdered. 395 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:33,000 Who's got a better right to come down here? 396 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,000 She was still his wife, wasn't she? 397 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 She's got a right to look out for her own interest, hasn't she? 398 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 Yeah, that reminds me of something. 399 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 Excuse me just a second. I gotta make a phone call in the next room. 400 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 Oh, murder totally. 401 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,000 Hey, Hamill. 402 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Yeah, Chief? 403 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:49,000 I want you to have someone get hold of that lawyer, Wheelock, 404 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,000 before he leaves town and tell him I want to see him. 405 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,000 And is Wally around? 406 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,000 No, he's not here. He said you told him to keep out of sight. 407 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:56,000 I'll find him for you, though. 408 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:00,000 Right. Tell Wally I want him to go to New York tonight. 409 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Send Mason home to get some sleep. He'll have to take over Wally's night trick. 410 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,000 Okay. 411 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 Feeling better, honey, now? 412 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:09,000 Mr. Anderson, do you think I had... 413 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 that I had anything to do with Lester's... with his death? 414 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:16,000 I don't know, Mrs. Freeman. I know he was killed. 415 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,000 I also know he left something like half a million. 416 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,000 Dollars? 417 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,000 Dollars. 418 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,000 All right, Chief. Now, now, don't be a clown. 419 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 The kid here didn't have a thing to do with whatever you think happened. 420 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:26,000 No? 421 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:27,000 No, no. 422 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,000 We read about Lester Freeman committing suicide in yesterday morning's paper. 423 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 And about there being something funny about it. 424 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 And I persuaded her she ought to come down to Dearwood and that's all... 425 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:38,000 I wouldn't have done anything to hurt Lester. 426 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:40,000 I left him because I wanted to leave him, 427 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:43,000 but I wouldn't have done anything to him for money or anything else. 428 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:48,000 If I'd wanted money from him, all I'd had to do would have been to just ask him for it. 429 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:49,000 That's all. 430 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Well, he used to put ads in the paper telling me if I wanted anything to let him know, 431 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:54,000 but I never did. 432 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,000 You can ask his lawyer, Mr. Wheelock. 433 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:58,000 Anybody who knew anything about it can tell you that. 434 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 Yeah, that's the truth, Chief. 435 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,000 For years I've been telling Ethel she was a chump not to tap him, 436 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000 but she never would. 437 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,000 I had a hard enough time getting her to come for her share 438 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,000 now that he's dead and got nobody else to leave it to. 439 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 I wouldn't have hurt him. 440 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,000 Why did you leave him then? 441 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,000 Well, after the baby died, I just... 442 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,000 Excuse me. 443 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Oh, yeah, Hamill. 444 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:23,000 You gave Wally the message. 445 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Yeah, I want him to go to New York tonight. 446 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 Okay, where is he, home? 447 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:28,000 He is home. 448 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,000 Okay, thanks. 449 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,000 This circular is what got your husband on the jug, Mr. Furman. 450 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:35,000 Did you ever see that picture before? 451 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 No, I... 452 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,000 Why, that... 453 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,000 It can't be. 454 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,000 It's a snapshot I have. 455 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,000 It's an enlargement of it. 456 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:47,000 Who else has one? 457 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Nobody that I know of. 458 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,000 I don't think anybody else could have one. 459 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 Have you still got yours? 460 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 Yes, I... 461 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,000 I don't remember whether I've seen it recently. 462 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,000 It's with some old papers and things, but I must have it. 463 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Oh, Mrs. Furman, it's stuff like this that's got to be checked up. 464 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Neither one of us can dodge it. 465 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,000 Now, there's two ways we can play. 466 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:06,000 Yes. 467 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,000 I can hold you here on suspicion 468 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:10,000 till I've had time to check things up, 469 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,000 or I can send one of my men back to New York with you for the checkup. 470 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I'm willing to do that if you'll speed things up 471 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 by helping them all you can. 472 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:19,000 And if you'll promise me, you won't try any tricks. 473 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,000 I promise. I'm as anxious as you are to track this down. 474 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,000 All right, all right. How'd you come down? 475 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,000 We drove. That's my car, the big green one across the street. 476 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Fine. Then my man can ride back with you. 477 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 But no funny business. 478 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:32,000 Funny shumny. What do you expect of... 479 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Huh? Oh, send him in. 480 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Hello, Mr. Wheelock. Is this really Mrs. Furman? 481 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Yes, that's really her, all right. How do you do? 482 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,000 Fine. You wait here, Wheelock. I'll be back in a little while. 483 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,000 Come on, girls. 484 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:51,000 Where are we going? 485 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:53,000 We're going to solve a murder, sister. 486 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,000 We're going to solve a murder, sister. 487 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,000 Who lives here? 488 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:08,000 Wally Shane, my assistant. 489 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,000 He's the man who's going to drive you to New York tonight. 490 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,000 All right. Here we are. 491 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,000 Wally? 492 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,000 Who is it? 493 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Scott Wally. 494 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,000 Oh, come in. 495 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:20,000 Ladies first. 496 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Harry. Harry! 497 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,000 Hello, Ethel. 498 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,000 You two know each other, huh? 499 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,000 Well, shucks. We just sort of... 500 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,000 Don't reach for that gun, Wally. 501 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:29,000 I've got you covered. 502 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,000 I guess you win, Scott. 503 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,000 I guess I do. 504 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 Why didn't you get out of town, Wally? 505 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:35,000 No, it's Harry. 506 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,000 You must have known when you saw these two women. 507 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,000 I did. 508 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,000 But when Hamill phoned and said you were going to send me to New York, 509 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,000 I figured I was getting a break. 510 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,000 You fooled me plenty on that one, Scott. 511 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:47,000 Yeah. 512 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 You going to come along nice and quiet, Wally? 513 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,000 Oh, shucks. Why not? 514 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Okay. And I'm afraid I've got to say it. 515 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:59,000 Well, Lashane, I arrest you for the murder of Lester Fuhrman. 516 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,000 You comfortable in here, Wally? 517 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,000 Can't complain. For a cell. 518 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,000 Say, Scott. 519 00:24:20,000 --> 00:24:22,000 Hmm? 520 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 You didn't just stumble on all this, did you? 521 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:27,000 No. 522 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,000 Fuhrman had to be murdered by a copper. 523 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:34,000 Only a copper with no reward circulates well enough to make a good job of forging one. 524 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:38,000 Only a copper, one of my coppers, would be able to walk into Fuhrman's cell, 525 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:40,000 bang him across the head and string him up. 526 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,000 When you told me you knew the Randall woman, 527 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,000 well, there it was. 528 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 What got you like this, Wally? 529 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,000 Oh, shucks. 530 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,000 What gets most saps into jams. 531 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,000 A yen for easy dough. 532 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:57,000 I'm in New York, see, Scott, working on that debt and job for you. 533 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 Then I run into this Ethel Fuhrman, and she goes for me like a houseifier. 534 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:04,000 Like her, too, so that's dandy. 535 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,000 But one night she tells me about how much dough her husband's got 536 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:11,000 and how it would all come to her if... 537 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,000 Well, I got to thinking. 538 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 Thinking what? 539 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,000 I think she's nuts enough about me to marry me. 540 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,000 I still think she'd marry me if she didn't know I killed him. 541 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 So, anyway, I did it. 542 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 I swiped that snapshot. 543 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,000 I sent those circlers out to a lot of places, you know, 544 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:29,000 not wanting to point too much to this one. 545 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,000 And when I was ready, I phoned Fuhrman and I told him to come to the Dearwood Hotel that night 546 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,000 and sometime before the next night he'd hear from his wife Ethel. 547 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,000 I knew he'd fall for any trap that was baited with her. 548 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000 Oh, shucks. 549 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,000 I guess I'm not as sharp as I thought I was. 550 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Maybe you are, Wally, but that doesn't always help. 551 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,000 Old man Camsley, as Ben's father used to have a saying, 552 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,000 to a sharp knife comes a tough stake. 553 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:01,000 I'm...I'm sorry you did it, Wally. 554 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,000 I always liked you. 555 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:05,000 I know you did. 556 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,000 I was counting on that, too, Scott, but... 557 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:14,000 Oh, shucks. 558 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:26,000 And so closes Two Sharp Knives, 559 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:29,000 in which Roma wines have brought you John Payne and Frank McHugh 560 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,000 as stars of tonight's study in... 561 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,000 Suspense. 562 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:38,000 Suspense is produced, edited and directed by William Spear. 563 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:41,000 Before our stars return to the microphone, 564 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,000 let me say a word for Roma Wines, the sponsor of Suspense. 565 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:49,000 Elsa Maxwell, noted authority on smart entertaining, 566 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:51,000 has this suggestion. 567 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,000 When the thermometer rises, 568 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,000 it's time for cooling, refreshing drinks. 569 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,000 Enjoy the taste thrill of frosty cold, 570 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000 thirst-quenching Roma Refreshers. 571 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,000 Aroma Sherry Cobbler is a 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Thursday's half hour of Suspense. 599 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:18,000 It will star that polished and sinister actor, Clifton Webb, 600 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:21,000 in a radio play based on John Dickson's car novel, 601 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,000 John Dickson Car's novel, The Burning Court. 602 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,000 Okay, Frank, take over. 603 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,000 The Battle of the Pacific has moved into high gear. 604 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Our fighting men are doing more than their share 605 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,000 in this big second half of our fight for victory. 606 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:39,000 The current seventh war loan drive is an opportunity 607 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,000 for you to do your share. 608 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,000 The money you invest in war bonds now will increase in value. 609 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,000 We'll be your ready cash for tomorrow. 610 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,000 Buy those extra war bonds today. 611 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