1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Autolite and its 96,000 dealers presents Suspense. 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:21,000 Tonight, Autolite brings you a story of murder in the roaring 20s, The Windy City Six, starring 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:30,400 Mr. Fred McMurray and featuring Red Nichols and his five pennies. 4 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:36,000 Before our play begins, here is a word about Autolite from our good friend, Harlow Wilcox. 5 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:39,480 Well, hello, Senor Wilcox. 6 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:43,800 Greetings, Pepito, my popular purveyor of potent and peppery plates. 7 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:44,800 How goes? 8 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Who knows? 9 00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,880 I am too filled with excitement like, oh, like... 10 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:54,320 Like an Autolite Stayful battery is filled with quick dependable starting power and long 11 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:55,320 life? 12 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:56,320 Si, si, si. 13 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,960 Well, why the glee, my merry muchacho? 14 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,160 Could it be your Autolite Stayful, the battery that needs water only three times a year in 15 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:04,400 normal car use? 16 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:08,640 Si, si, amigo, because with it I never worry. 17 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:13,800 And what's more, Pepito, the Autolite Stayful gives longer life, as proved by tests conducted 18 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:17,040 according to accepted life cycle standards. 19 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,400 This is longer than my father's siesta. 20 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:22,960 There's no siesta with the Autolite Stayful, Pepito. 21 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:27,640 Those fiberglass mats protecting every positive plate prevent shedding and flaking and keep 22 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,440 the Stayful power filled for you. 23 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:31,440 For me? 24 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:32,440 Sure. 25 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:37,240 You and every motorist who visits his neighborhood Autolite battery dealer for an Autolite Stayful, 26 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:43,360 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use, because you're always 27 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:45,840 right with Autolite. 28 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:52,040 And now with the Windy City Six and the performance of Mr. Fred McMurray, Autolite hopes once 29 00:01:52,040 --> 00:02:15,640 again to keep you in suspense. 30 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:17,920 It all happened some time ago. 31 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:21,480 By some time I mean those days when Moonlight on the Ganges was a must at the country club 32 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:26,640 dance, when our nerds was considered snappy repartee, when it wasn't entirely unfashionable 33 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:30,120 to be seen in a raccoon coat complete with flasks when the Harbards and the Yales met 34 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:31,120 in deathless combat. 35 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:40,640 Maybe it'll lose a little something in the translation, but it's worth a try. 36 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:45,040 Anyway as it happened we were playing in a little pad on Oriole Street, Crazy Jack Fisher's 37 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:46,040 high hat. 38 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:49,640 It was a speech, but then what wasn't at that time. 39 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:52,520 When the breeze was off the river you could hear the riff notes of the Windy City Six 40 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:53,520 blowing up town. 41 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,040 Reading from left to right there was Corny Peters on horn, Rip Jackson on alto, Thurber 42 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:03,240 Jones on the licorice, Tinkle Hobson on the Baldwin, Red Moore slapping and me on the skins. 43 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:07,700 I'm Carstairs Hamilton, sometimes known as Rimshot, but more often as Hand. 44 00:03:07,700 --> 00:03:08,700 So we'll keep it that way. 45 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:17,720 Ham? 46 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,200 You booted the beat three times in that last set, what is it? 47 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:25,360 Well every time I slide a glimmer over that skirt at table 13 my ticker skips a beat. 48 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:26,680 Maybe my sticks caught the fever. 49 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,680 Oh, well those two playboys with her are Bull Hurley and Red Rocks Farrell. 50 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:33,560 You get ready to whistle again, they want to talk with you. 51 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:34,560 Talk with me? 52 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:35,560 That's what they said. 53 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,440 Go on now, keep the customers happy. 54 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:43,400 Okay, Corny. 55 00:03:43,400 --> 00:03:45,240 Somebody said you wanted to see me. 56 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:46,880 I guess maybe it was a mistake, so I'll just... 57 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:47,880 It wasn't no mistake. 58 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:48,880 Sit down. 59 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:49,880 Yes, sir. 60 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:50,880 You see this girl? 61 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:56,000 Well, to tell you the truth, I don't think I ever noticed her. 62 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,000 How do you do? 63 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 Hello. 64 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,680 You've been staring at her all night, and last night, and the night before. 65 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,600 Oh, I might have been looking this way, but I'm nearsighted. 66 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,080 You ought to be in George White's scandals. 67 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,360 Now, let me give it to you straight bad ears. 68 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,840 We're taking care of this girl for a very particular friend. 69 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:14,720 So lay off her, huh? 70 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,040 Because if you don't, your poor old mother's going to have someplace to take flowers on 71 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,040 Sunday afternoon. 72 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:20,040 Your grave. 73 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:44,920 Back in my drums, I tried not to look at the girl, but I could still see her in my mind. 74 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:45,920 Soft dark hair. 75 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:47,440 None of that shingled barb stuff. 76 00:04:47,440 --> 00:04:49,200 A real Marcel finger wave. 77 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,400 A warm young face, and lots more that curved down into a fur coat that must have sent somebody 78 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,080 back a whole truckload of upstate scotch. 79 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,120 Once in a while, I sneaked a quick peek, and every time she was looking at me. 80 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,880 And suddenly, I got scared, and I lost up a couple of beats. 81 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:03,880 I only got some maddie blew up. 82 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,160 But it didn't make much difference then. 83 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:08,160 Our engagement was over. 84 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:16,600 Veterans all, we, the Windy City Six broke ranks and went into plan B. 85 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:17,600 There we are, everybody. 86 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:18,600 We're all under arrest. 87 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:19,600 I headed for the kitchen. 88 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:20,600 That was always the best way out. 89 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:27,600 In the hallway, a small blonde guy was lifting a couple of shaking hands to his face, and 90 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:31,400 his eyes grew as large as two hard boiled eggs just before he got it. 91 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:38,400 When I got out the kitchen door, I could still see that big black haired, vicious looking 92 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,440 guy peering out into the night trying to see who it was that passed him in the hall while 93 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:42,440 he was busy killing. 94 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:44,440 I hope he hadn't seen my face. 95 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:55,040 I ran for a while, and then I slowed down to a walk. 96 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,800 The first few snowflakes of winter were starting to fall, and the world was pulling on that 97 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:01,360 wonderland slip over. 98 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:05,000 I turned my Chesterfield collar up around my neck and noticed I was still holding a 99 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:06,000 pair of drumsticks. 100 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,120 I thought it over for a minute, and I threw them into the darkness beyond the street light. 101 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:15,560 I made up my mind that from now on I was going to stay out of joints like the high hat. 102 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:19,560 When I finally got back to my rooming house, there was a surprise in a fur coat waiting 103 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:21,960 for me sitting on the front stoop. 104 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,960 I tried to ignore her. 105 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:29,920 You blind or something? 106 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:38,320 I suppose you get dozens of girls sitting on your step and I waiting for you. 107 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:39,320 Hey. 108 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:40,320 Oh. 109 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:41,320 Were you looking for me? 110 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:45,280 What do you think I've been sitting out here in the cold for? 111 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:47,280 Selling subscriptions to the police gazette? 112 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:48,280 Sit down. 113 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:50,520 Won't you come inside? 114 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:52,440 It's safer out here. 115 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,920 I haven't forgotten the way you were looking at me at the high hat. 116 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:58,400 Say, tell me, how'd you get out of that raid so quick? 117 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:59,400 How do you think? 118 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:00,400 I was with Red Rocks Farrell. 119 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:01,880 They don't touch him. 120 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,040 Oh, yeah, of course. 121 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:05,040 Mind telling me your name? 122 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:06,040 Carlye Two E's. 123 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:07,040 Two E's? 124 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,040 That's pretty. 125 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:12,680 Tell me, Cora, what do you want with me? 126 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,560 How'd you find my place? 127 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:16,040 Crazy Jack gave us the address. 128 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:17,800 Farrell and Hurley sent me to get you. 129 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:18,800 To get me? 130 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:20,240 Look, I don't know anything. 131 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:21,240 I didn't see anything. 132 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:22,240 I told you I was nearsighted. 133 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:23,240 2040. 134 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:24,240 They got a place up in the mountains. 135 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:25,520 They decided to throw a holiday party. 136 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:26,520 They want a band. 137 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:29,960 Isham Jones was busy, so all you guys are being picked up. 138 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:30,960 I lost my drums. 139 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:31,960 Don't worry. 140 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:32,960 They'll get drums. 141 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:33,960 Let's go. 142 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:34,960 Are you going with me? 143 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,680 Somebody has to show you the road. 144 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:38,680 Alone? 145 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,880 Look, we can talk all about it on the way. 146 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,280 And don't get any ideas because I might send for reinforcements. 147 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:50,640 And these reinforcements will make a Marine landing look like Isadore Duncan's finale. 148 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,280 You got anything brave to say? 149 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:54,360 I'll bet you I'm ready before you can count to a hundred. 150 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:55,360 By twos. 151 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:04,920 I put the chains on my old marmon, buttoned up the icing glass curtains, cracked a bottle 152 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:06,760 of antifreeze, and we started off. 153 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:10,480 The snow was swirling down faster than ever and was better than three inches deep by the 154 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,200 time we were 40 miles out of town. 155 00:08:13,200 --> 00:08:16,880 Cora was under a blanket, cuddled up next to me like she meant it, her head on my shoulder. 156 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,680 But it wasn't as romantic as it sounds because under the blanket, Cora was shaking. 157 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:27,520 And it was the kind of shaking you don't get from being cold, but from being scared. 158 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,360 I should have known then that something was terribly wrong, but I had to learn the hard 159 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:32,360 way. 160 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:33,360 Cora? 161 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:34,360 Huh? 162 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:40,440 Cora, why do you hang around with bozos like Red Rocks Fell and Bull Hurley for? 163 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,880 For the same reason you play in places like the high hat. 164 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:46,600 The best offer I got. 165 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:47,600 Also the worst. 166 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:50,400 Look, suppose I just kept going now. 167 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:51,880 Somewhere out west, Chicago maybe. 168 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:54,480 Would you go with me? 169 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:55,800 They'd never let us get away with it. 170 00:08:55,800 --> 00:08:57,440 Why do we lose trying? 171 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:58,440 You don't belong with those guys. 172 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,440 You belong where the air is clean and you only take a drink when you want and love when 173 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:02,440 you... 174 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:03,440 Please, don't. 175 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:04,440 What's the matter? 176 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,440 Did I say something wrong? 177 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,680 Look, why don't you hit me on the head and throw me out and just keep going? 178 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:10,680 Throw you out? 179 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:12,680 Of course I wouldn't throw you out to save my life. 180 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:21,840 Oh, Hem, don't say that. 181 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:23,920 About an hour later we passed through the town of Norrisburg. 182 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:26,720 We arrived at a big private estate called Haywill Manning. 183 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,360 The big party was going strong. 184 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,000 The rest of the Windy City six boys had preceded me, all under escort. 185 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:41,520 The man who answered the door was the one person I never wanted to see again. 186 00:09:41,520 --> 00:09:45,320 When I'd seen him last, he was killing a man at the high hat. 187 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,720 Well, Cora, I see you got him. 188 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:53,840 You got a pretty smart way of leaving a raid in a hurry, Sonny. 189 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:55,560 Kitchen door. 190 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:58,000 I hope nothing happens to your luck. 191 00:09:58,000 --> 00:09:59,000 Kitchen door? 192 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,520 I didn't go out the kitchen door. 193 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,640 I was left by the basement window. 194 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:06,200 I hope for your sake you're right, Sonny. 195 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,640 Mike, he's a genuine nice guy. 196 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:13,040 Well, nice guy, I think you'll like this party. 197 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:17,320 Lots of drinks, lots of girls and lots of happy music. 198 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,160 Oh, sure, sure, I'll do my best. 199 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:20,400 Did you get my drums? 200 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,080 Don't worry about drums. 201 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:23,080 We don't have them. 202 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:25,680 We'll give you a couple of skulls to be. 203 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:30,080 Now go on, pour yourselves a drink and get warm. 204 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,960 Cora, who is he? 205 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:33,960 Big Mike Donovan. 206 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:34,960 This is his place. 207 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,600 He's to the rackets, what Dempsey is to boxing. 208 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:38,600 Yeah? 209 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,080 Well, I'm going to tell you something about him. 210 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,040 I hear the human life means nothing to him. 211 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:43,040 That he'd kill anybody. 212 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:44,040 So you heard it. 213 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:45,360 Don't go broadcasting it all over the place. 214 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:46,960 You want to stay alive, don't you? 215 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,200 It's always been one of my cheap aims in life. 216 00:10:49,200 --> 00:11:00,320 Then keep what you know under your hat, you dumb drummer. 217 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,160 The party was big and it was bouncy. 218 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,000 Cora was sitting in a corner looking scared. 219 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,480 Big Mike Donovan, Bull Hurley and Red Rock Ferrell were gathered at the bar drinking 220 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,680 an uncommon amount of liquor and looking our way every time they wanted to laugh. 221 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:18,080 Herbert Jones began to get nervous and his clarinet developed an off-key squeak. 222 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,760 The three men put down their drinks and came over. 223 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,560 Which one do you think it is, Bull? 224 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:26,440 I got ten bucks says it's a saxophone player. 225 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,240 He's got a shifty look. 226 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:31,680 I'll take the bet, because I don't think he's the guy. 227 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,360 Which one would you pick out, Red Rock? 228 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,360 Who else? 229 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:35,360 The drummer. 230 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,560 Yeah, he's afraid to look at us. 231 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:39,040 I think you're wrong too. 232 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,920 I put my money on a clarinet player. 233 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,080 It's elementary. 234 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,360 Every time he looks over at us, he shakes. 235 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:48,280 Every time he shakes, he squeaks on the high notes. 236 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,480 Are these the signs of a guy who don't know nothing? 237 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,360 Maybe you're right, Mike. 238 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:54,960 Look at him shake now. 239 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:58,560 Hey, you, with the clarinet. 240 00:11:58,560 --> 00:11:59,560 Yes, Mr. Donovan? 241 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:00,560 What's your name? 242 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:01,560 Jones, sir. 243 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:02,560 Thurber Jones. 244 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:03,560 Well, Thurber Jones. 245 00:12:03,560 --> 00:12:08,800 Me and Bull and Red Rocks think you're a lousy clarinet player. 246 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:10,480 I'm doing my best, sir. 247 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,160 We got an idea we can show you how to play it better. 248 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:15,160 Come with us, sir. 249 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:18,720 Well, I'll do better, sir, if you'll just... 250 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,920 I said come with us. 251 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:30,200 Hey, wait a minute. 252 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:36,240 They walked outside, and that was the last time I ever saw Thurber Jones alive. 253 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,640 The rest of us were as jumpy as cats and we played for two hours without a break. 254 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:43,520 Everybody was getting stoned, but I didn't dare take a drink. 255 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:46,200 Then Big Mike called an intermission while they served at the buffet dinner. 256 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,800 But everybody was so drunk that nobody ate much. 257 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,440 Big Mike began to be loud and noisy, and he started waving a gun around, boasting what 258 00:12:53,440 --> 00:12:56,440 a great shot he was. 259 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:01,240 He kicked open a couple of French windows, and out in the lawn, of all things, stood 260 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:02,680 a giant snowman. 261 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:03,680 Just watch, just watch. 262 00:13:03,680 --> 00:13:07,680 I'll blast every lousy button off his lousy chest. 263 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:10,680 Hey, great shot, Mike. 264 00:13:10,680 --> 00:13:26,120 He did it all right. 265 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,400 Four pieces of coal shattered and vanished into the snow. 266 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:32,760 Everybody cheered and then turned back to the food and drinks. 267 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:33,760 Everybody that is but me. 268 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:40,640 I couldn't take my eyes off the snowman, because running down its crystal white front was... 269 00:13:40,640 --> 00:14:03,600 Red blood. 270 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:08,800 Auto Light is bringing you Mr. Fred McMurray with red nickels and his five pennies in the 271 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:10,200 Windy City Six. 272 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:21,120 Tonight's production in radio's outstanding theater of thrills, Suspense. 273 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:30,840 Hey, Senor Wilcox, how about a tortilla? 274 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,240 Why sure, Pepito. 275 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:36,360 I'll always talk to you about that great Auto Light's staple battery. 276 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:38,800 How about a tamale? 277 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,560 Why wait till tamale? 278 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,480 Today and every day you'll get quick, dependable starts with the Auto Light's staple battery, 279 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,200 the battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 280 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,280 Oh, well, enchilada maybe? 281 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:56,800 Your enchilada, your Uncle Manuel and Grandpa, everybody loves the Auto Light's staple. 282 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,760 The battery that gives longer life, as proved by tests conducted according to accepted life 283 00:15:01,760 --> 00:15:02,760 cycle standards. 284 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:04,360 Glass of tequila, Senor? 285 00:15:04,360 --> 00:15:09,760 Fiberglass, Pepito, because fiberglass retaining mats protect every positive plate of the Auto 286 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:14,920 Light's staple battery to reduce shedding and flaking and keep the staple power packed 287 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,720 for perfect propulsions. 288 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,460 But what is this in English? 289 00:15:18,460 --> 00:15:23,440 It means visit your neighborhood Auto Light battery dealer for an Auto Light staple, the 290 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:27,220 battery that needs water only three times a year in normal car use. 291 00:15:27,220 --> 00:15:31,200 And remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 292 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:37,280 Now Auto Light brings back to our Hollywood soundstage, Mr. Fred McMurray in Elliot Lewis's 293 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:56,040 production of The Windy City Six, a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense. 294 00:15:56,040 --> 00:15:59,340 During the years of the big thirst, homicide was an art. 295 00:15:59,340 --> 00:16:02,480 Sometimes it was Tommy guns against a wall, sometimes it was a concrete overshoe in the 296 00:16:02,480 --> 00:16:05,560 bottom of the East River or maybe an ice pick in the heart. 297 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:11,040 But out on the snow swept lawn of Big Mike Donovan's mansion that cold December night, 298 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:16,040 I was looking at the chilliest bit of murder any crazy hooligan ever thought up, a bleeding 299 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:17,040 snowman. 300 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,520 Only now it wasn't a snowman. 301 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:24,920 Pam, you better get back inside. 302 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:27,920 You'll freeze out here. 303 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:31,000 Yeah, it's Thurber, Cora. 304 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:32,000 Thurber Jones. 305 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:35,160 Oh, the poor little guy. 306 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:36,160 Played the sweetest clarinet. 307 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:37,160 He used to St. Louis. 308 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,000 He was always loaning money to guys. 309 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:40,000 He loved everybody. 310 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,000 He never hurt a soul. 311 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:42,000 Who did it, Ham? 312 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,000 Who did it? 313 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Who else but your playmate, Donovan? 314 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:45,000 But why, Ham? 315 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,000 Why? 316 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:47,000 You tell me why. 317 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,000 You helped bring all of us up here, didn't you? 318 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:50,000 Oh, but not for this. 319 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,760 Believe me, Ham, not for this. 320 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,600 I suppose you don't know that Mike Donovan killed a man in a high hat tonight. 321 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:57,400 Well, I heard him bragging about it a while ago. 322 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,600 It was somebody who hijacked a truckload of Mike's liquor. 323 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:01,080 Well, somebody saw him. 324 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:02,080 And I guess... 325 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,360 I guess he figured it was one of us. 326 00:17:04,360 --> 00:17:05,360 Who saw him? 327 00:17:05,360 --> 00:17:08,360 Well, I guess he thought it was Thurber. 328 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:09,360 You mean it wasn't? 329 00:17:09,360 --> 00:17:10,360 I don't mean anything. 330 00:17:10,360 --> 00:17:11,360 I'm getting cold. 331 00:17:11,360 --> 00:17:13,360 Why don't you go back inside and join your killers? 332 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:14,360 Ham. 333 00:17:14,360 --> 00:17:15,360 Go on. 334 00:17:15,360 --> 00:17:17,000 You work this side of the street for all the laughs you're going to get. 335 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,040 Oh, Ham, I'm not the same as they are. 336 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:22,960 I don't blame you for thinking what you do, but I wish you wouldn't. 337 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,160 All right. 338 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:27,320 Let's just say the jury's still out on you. 339 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,040 Look how proofed you have not liked them. 340 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:31,040 Here. 341 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:32,040 You'll need a fast car. 342 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:33,040 What are these for? 343 00:17:33,040 --> 00:17:35,040 They're the keys to Mike's car. 344 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,040 It's in the garage. 345 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:38,800 Take it down to Norrisburg and come back with all the cops you can find. 346 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:39,800 Hey, Bernie! 347 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:40,800 That's Mike. 348 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,800 Cora! 349 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:42,800 That's Mike. 350 00:17:42,800 --> 00:17:43,800 Where are you? 351 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:44,800 Oh, hurry, please, go. 352 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:45,800 I want them to get what's coming to them. 353 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:46,800 I want them to get it good. 354 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:47,800 Well, but what about you? 355 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:48,800 Hey, Cora! 356 00:17:48,800 --> 00:17:49,800 Who are you talking about there? 357 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:50,800 Come on, let's go to the party, baby! 358 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:51,800 Go on, go on. 359 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:52,800 Before all of you wind up like Thurber, I'm going to have to get you out of here. 360 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:53,800 I'm going to have to get you out of here. 361 00:17:53,800 --> 00:18:00,800 I'm going to have to get you out of here. 362 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:14,880 After she'd gone inside with Mike, I made a beeline for the garages and back. 363 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:16,640 Just as I got the keys and the ignition, somebody... 364 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,800 In case you don't know it, flea brain, this is Mike Donovan's car. 365 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:20,800 Oh? 366 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,000 Well, I guess I must have made a mistake. 367 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,160 Hey, take that gun off my head, will you? 368 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,760 Mike hires me to do nothing but sit in the back seat of his car. 369 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:29,760 Now I might get a raise. 370 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:33,280 Well, I always like to see somebody get ahead of the gun. 371 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:36,760 I might get a raise because Mike wouldn't like you to leave his party without first 372 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:38,640 you telling him what a nice time you had. 373 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:39,640 Oh, you got me wrong. 374 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:42,640 I was going to write him a bread and butter letter first thing in the morning, honest. 375 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,120 How about the gun? 376 00:18:44,120 --> 00:18:47,080 Shut up before I shove it through your stinking skull. 377 00:18:47,080 --> 00:18:55,280 I start walking. 378 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:58,360 The next thing I remember was being kicked through the door of the big house. 379 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,880 The party kept right on whirling. 380 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:01,880 Nobody paid much attention. 381 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:08,200 Nobody except the boys in the band and they were beginning to get the idea. 382 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,920 Slowly they stopped playing and then people began to turn around and look. 383 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,840 It reminded me of a ring of faces about to watch a hanging. 384 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:18,400 What's this all about, Chick? 385 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,400 The creepier tried to lift your car, even had the keys. 386 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:23,400 Where'd you get them? 387 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,400 I sort of found them. 388 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,000 Hey, you can't do that to one of my boys. 389 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,000 Shut up, you. 390 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:31,280 I said, where did you get them? 391 00:19:31,280 --> 00:19:37,760 I told you I found them. 392 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,560 Where did you get them? 393 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:48,120 I didn't care whether I lived or died right then. 394 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:52,960 And when somebody kicked me twice in the kidneys, the choice was made for me. 395 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:59,240 I was sure I died because everything went black. 396 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:08,800 When I came to, I was still lying in the same place. 397 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:12,280 The party was still going on. 398 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,800 Nobody even looked at me as I staggered to my feet and wiped the blood and the booze 399 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,080 and the glass off the best I could. 400 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:24,680 I stood there holding onto the bar wondering what to do, wondering what it was all about. 401 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,080 Can you still walk, stupid? 402 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:29,840 Yeah, yeah, I guess so. 403 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,440 And charge them back to your drums and stop playing. 404 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:33,440 Okay. 405 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,440 You know something, blockhead? 406 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:39,120 I didn't want them to stop. 407 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:48,880 I think Big Mike's got something special in mind for you later. 408 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,160 None of the boys in the band even looked at me when I got back to my drums and picked 409 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:53,160 up the beat. 410 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:56,920 Corny and Rip and Tinkle acted as if I were dead already. 411 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,040 We played on through our sheets twice without a break. 412 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,400 None of us dared stop. 413 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:06,520 We knew how somehow we were playing for our lives. 414 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:11,800 That's a spline. 415 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:16,320 That's a spline. 416 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:18,280 Come on, ivory. 417 00:21:18,280 --> 00:21:19,280 Make that eight. 418 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,000 Five sissy cups on this one. 419 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 I'll take it. 420 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 Right. 421 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:26,920 Long about dawn, the party turned into a noisy crap game and nobody paid much attention to 422 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:28,920 our background music. 423 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,600 I was with them sort of moving in and around. 424 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,000 I saw her whisper something in Bull Hurley's ear and then later she did the same thing 425 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 to Red Rocks. 426 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:41,680 Then she sort of sauntered over by the band, not looking at us, but we all heard what she 427 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:42,680 said. 428 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,480 Boys, keep your eye on Mike Donovan. 429 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,720 When he goes over to Red Rocks, get ready to move. 430 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,040 It'll be your only chance to get out of here alive. 431 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,040 Make it good. 432 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:55,600 We all looked at each other and kept right on playing, waiting to see what she was talking 433 00:21:55,600 --> 00:21:56,600 about. 434 00:21:56,600 --> 00:21:59,040 Pretty soon it began to make sense. 435 00:21:59,040 --> 00:22:03,040 You dirty hill, making a pass at my girl. 436 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,320 I made a pass at your girl, Mike. 437 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,320 Just talk to you and Red Rocks both made passes at her. 438 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:10,560 And I'm going to break both your necks. 439 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Now, wait a minute, Mike. 440 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:12,560 That's our cue, boys. 441 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:13,560 Everybody up. 442 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:14,560 Don't forget your music sheets. 443 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,560 Boys, this way. 444 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,560 Out through this door. 445 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:17,560 I got it. 446 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:18,560 Come on. 447 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:19,560 Phew. 448 00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:20,560 This air feels good. 449 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:21,560 Yeah, it'll feel better a hundred miles from here. 450 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:26,560 Where's your car, Ham? 451 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,600 It's right over there, park in front. 452 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:29,600 Come on, come on. 453 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:30,600 Yeah, I'll be right with you. 454 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:31,600 Go ahead. 455 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:32,600 Cora. 456 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:33,600 Go on, get out of here. 457 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:34,600 You'll never have another chance. 458 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:35,600 I'm not going without you. 459 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:36,600 Come on, Ham. 460 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:37,600 Don't just stand there. 461 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:38,600 I'll be all right. 462 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:39,600 Yeah, for how long? 463 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,080 One of those ready boys in there will restart shooting his guns again and you might get 464 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:42,080 in the line of fire. 465 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,080 What if I do? 466 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,080 I deserve it for being so dumb. 467 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:46,080 Ham, we'll all be killed if you don't move. 468 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:47,080 Well, Cora? 469 00:22:47,080 --> 00:22:48,080 I'd only get you in trouble. 470 00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:49,080 Yeah, I believe you, but I want to take you anyway. 471 00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:50,080 Ham, for guy's sakes. 472 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:51,960 Look, lady, tell him you'll come with him, please. 473 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,160 Oh, Ham, I wanted anything but a dumb $35 a week drum player. 474 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:56,160 Oh, I get it. 475 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,160 Well, that tears it. 476 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,160 I'm washed. 477 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:01,320 But I never knew how wonderful a dumb $35 a week drum player could be. 478 00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:05,600 I'm coming with you. 479 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:07,920 We all scrambled over to my marmin and climbed in. 480 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:11,880 Red and Rip in the back seat, Cora in front, me at the helm and Corny on the crank. 481 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,880 Come on, baby. 482 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,800 What's the matter with it, Ham? 483 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:18,800 Hell is ten below zero. 484 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,280 Come on, give it another whirl. 485 00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:23,480 For guy's sakes, make it go, Ham. 486 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:29,240 Oh, no, we can't get stuck here. 487 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:30,240 Just take it easy. 488 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:31,240 It'll catch. 489 00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:32,240 Come on, Corny, get in. 490 00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:33,240 What did I tell you? 491 00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:34,240 Like a Swiss watch, huh? 492 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:35,240 Let's get out of here. 493 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:36,240 Hang on. 494 00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,240 We're off. 495 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:50,240 It's Mike. 496 00:23:50,240 --> 00:23:51,240 They're coming after us. 497 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:52,240 Yeah. 498 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,240 Anybody hit? 499 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:54,240 No, but we're going to have to move faster than this. 500 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,240 But don't worry. 501 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:56,240 I've got her souped up to where she'll go 50. 502 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:57,240 Hold on. 503 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:06,240 By the time we got out under the swamp, we were going to be in trouble. 504 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,360 By the time we got out under the slick, icy road, a whole car full of hooligans were coming 505 00:24:09,360 --> 00:24:10,360 right after us with guns blazing. 506 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:11,360 The gaining on his hand. 507 00:24:11,360 --> 00:24:14,360 I didn't know anything about guns, but one thing I knew was how to handle my marmot. 508 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:18,680 He didn't weigh much, and I figured I'd pull into the next curve, climb the coal on, skid 509 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:20,880 into the snowbank, and bounce off onto the straightaway. 510 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,560 If that heavy rose tried to make it at the same speed and hit the snowback, I was sure 511 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:25,560 to go right on through. 512 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,560 Ham, look out at the curb. 513 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:27,560 Where am I, kids? 514 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:28,560 This is it. 515 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:50,120 Several courses later, I fluttered an eyelet open and ventured a peak, somewhere I'd miscalculated, 516 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:53,240 because we were now stacked against a giant tree right on the edge of the road looking 517 00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:54,240 down into the valley. 518 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,800 And down there a hundred feet below us was a pile of something that had once been a rich, 519 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,440 expensive automobile full of rich, cheap thugs. 520 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,600 And around it, no one stirred. 521 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:11,200 Ham, oh darling, are you all right? 522 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:12,200 Yeah. 523 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,480 Yeah, I guess so, Cora. 524 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:15,480 How about you? 525 00:25:15,480 --> 00:25:16,480 I'm all right. 526 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,080 How about the rest of you? 527 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,680 I'm okay, shaking up, that's all. 528 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,000 I busted my lip. 529 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,000 Look. 530 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,520 I'll never put my face back together again. 531 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:26,520 Yeah. 532 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,520 At least we're all alive, except poor Thurber. 533 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:35,240 Well, what do you say we get out and take a walk into town? 534 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:39,280 This is a job for the John Laws. 535 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:47,600 Well, that's the Cora. 536 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,640 It was the last engagement of the Windy City Six. 537 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:53,320 We went out with a full arrangement and a big finish. 538 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:54,920 It was in all the papers. 539 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:55,920 Maybe you saw the spread. 540 00:25:55,920 --> 00:26:00,440 The boys on the front page, Mike Donovan and company, and Vital Statistics, and Cora and 541 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,920 me and the social columns. 542 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:03,800 Yeah, we did it. 543 00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:05,520 Complete with old shoes and new rice. 544 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:13,080 Oh, if you ever happen to get up Norrisburg way on a curve that turns on a steep hillside 545 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:20,120 with an old scarred tree looking down into the valley, take five and listen. 546 00:26:20,120 --> 00:26:23,880 Maybe you can still hear an old clarinet squeaking on the high notes. 547 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,200 Or if the light's right, maybe you could even catch the pale ghost of a big gunman with 548 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:40,880 homicide in his eyes looking around, looking around for a drummer who saw him kill. 549 00:26:40,880 --> 00:27:06,040 Suspense presented by Auto Light. 550 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:08,600 Tonight's star, Mr. Fred McMurray. 551 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:11,880 Ah, Pepito, that was a great meal. 552 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,560 And what's the matter, Senor Wilcox? 553 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,320 I'm too full to talk. 554 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,240 And if you could talk, Senor. 555 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,960 Then I'd tell all about the more than 400 products made by Auto Light for cars, trucks, 556 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,360 planes, and boats in 28 plants coast to coast. 557 00:27:25,360 --> 00:27:29,300 These include complete electrical systems used as original factory equipment on many 558 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:32,640 leading makes of America's finest cars. 559 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:37,040 Electric windshield wipers, starting motors, voltage regulators, coils, distributors, wire 560 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:42,480 and cable generators, all engineered to fit together perfectly, work together perfectly 561 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,200 because they're a perfect team. 562 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,520 So friends, don't accept electrical parts supposed to be as good. 563 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,640 Ask for and insist on Auto Light original factory parts at your neighborhood service 564 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:57,080 station, car dealer, garage, or repair shop. 565 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:09,520 Remember, you're always right with Auto Light. 566 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:14,500 Next week, we celebrate the return of the First Lady of Suspense, Miss Agnes Moorhead, 567 00:28:14,500 --> 00:28:17,400 in a play we call The Death Parade. 568 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:23,000 And then on February 22nd, in answer to your many requests, Backseat Driver, repeated for 569 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:31,800 you with its original stars, Fibber McGee and Molly, all on Suspense. 570 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,440 Suspense is produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with music composed by Lucien Moorowek 571 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:37,200 and conducted by Ludd Bluskin. 572 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,360 Portions of this program were transcribed. 573 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:44,240 Tonight's cast included Mary Jane Croft and Edmund MacDonald. 574 00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:49,320 The Windy City Six was written for Suspense by E. Jack Newman and John Michael Hayes. 575 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:54,120 Frederick Murray may currently be seen in the RKO picture, Never a Dull Moment. 576 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:59,480 And remember, next week on Suspense, Miss Agnes Moorhead has a woman who finds a letter 577 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:10,960 warning of death and has only three hours to deliver it, a tale we call The Death Parade. 578 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:15,240 You can buy Auto Light staple batteries, Auto Light standard type or resistor type spark 579 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,720 plugs, Auto Light electrical parts at your neighborhood Auto Light dealers. 580 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,600 Switch to Auto Light. 581 00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:21,600 Good night. 582 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,960 Nearly half of the people who died in America last year were victims of heart disease, our 583 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:28,760 number one killer. 584 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,280 This week, the American Heart Association appeals for your support to combat and conquer 585 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:34,600 this scourge. 586 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:38,400 Send your contributions to Heart, care of your local post office. 587 00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:48,840 This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System.