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The Shadow - Prelude To Terror [episode 157] Broadcast 1/29/1939 · The Shadow | Old Time Radio

• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Who knows what people lurks in the hearts of men.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: The Shadow knows.
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: Your local blue coal dealer presents the shadow. These half
• 0:25
  Speaker 3: hour dramatizations are designed to forcibly demonstrate to old and
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: young a like that crime does not pay.
• 0:36
  Speaker 4: Before today's Shadows story begins, here's a suggestion that will
• 0:40
  Speaker 4: save every householder time, trouble, and money. When you order
• 0:44
  Speaker 4: your next supply of fuel, make sure you ask for
• 0:47
  Speaker 4: blue coal. Unlike many other hard coals, blue coal burns
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: itself steadily and evenly, with little attention. It gives you
• 0:55
  Speaker 4: every bit of the heating comfort and performance you're paying for,
• 0:58
  Speaker 4: with far less heat lost the chimney and no unburned
• 1:02
  Speaker 4: or partially burned coal in your ashpit. Join the thousand
• 1:05
  Speaker 4: upon thousands of American homeowners who found perfect home heating
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  Speaker 4: satisfaction with blue coal. It's the finest quality Pennsylvania anthracite
• 1:14
  Speaker 4: money can buy. Order a supply from your neighborhood blue
• 1:17
  Speaker 4: coal dealer tomorrow. The Shadow, mysterious character who aids those
• 1:25
  Speaker 4: in distress and helps the forces of law and order,
• 1:28
  Speaker 4: is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town.
• 1:32
  Speaker 4: Cranston's friend and companion, the lovely Margot Lane, is the
• 1:36
  Speaker 4: only person who knows to whom the unseen.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: Voice belongs, the only one who knows.
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  Speaker 4: The true identity of that master of other people's minds,
• 1:44
  Speaker 4: the Shadow. Today's story prelude to Terror.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: Come in. Oh it's you, yeah, Professor Baker. I thought
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: you'd like this cup of hot tea.
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: S n yes, thanks, help to keep me awake, and
• 2:08
  Speaker 5: I have a lot of work to do tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Shall I for it? Say yes? Please? Isn't this your
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: night off?
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  Speaker 6: Cooper?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sir, I passed the house on my way home
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: and saw your light's on.
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  Speaker 7: Huh.
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: I know how you enjoy a late cup of tea.
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  Speaker 5: Very considered of you, Cooper. Then eh, but it's late
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: and you must get your arrest. Oh the door down, hmm.
• 2:30
  Speaker 5: I wonder who that could need this out of night?
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  Speaker 2: Shall I answer it? Say yes, Cooper? Yes, I'll take
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: care of the tea. All right?
• 2:41
  Speaker 6: All right, Amy, what are you doing here?
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Cut the gap?
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  Speaker 6: Close the door.
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  Speaker 2: I know Braden sent you. We's old man Baker upstairs
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  Speaker 2: in his study. Okay, Hey wait, I wanted you to
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: do this. I wanted you it.
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  Speaker 8: Will keep your mouth shut unless you want to go
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  Speaker 8: back and finish shot that present.
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  Speaker 2: Time you ran out, I leave, Professor Bacon Alan, Please,
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be this. I'm getting out.
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  Speaker 6: Well, who was the lake?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Hi, I thought it was Cooper?
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  Speaker 9: But do you gee?
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  Speaker 6: You're short jumping to night Brighton? What's you?
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  Speaker 2: What are you walking up and down like that for
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: something on your mind? Yeah?
• 3:39
  Speaker 8: Big things, things you would never understand. I wonder what's Keaton?
• 3:43
  Speaker 8: Heney should have been here half an hour ago.
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  Speaker 2: Think he might have muffed things? Boss, I hope not there.
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  Speaker 2: He is not hoping up.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, Boss, we were just talking about you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he need what happened? Do you have any trouble?
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  Speaker 11: Ah?
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  Speaker 2: Not much. I just put two slugs to the old guy,
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: Professor Baker.
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  Speaker 6: He's dead.
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  Speaker 2: The rest was easy. What about Cooper? He was scared, stiff,
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  Speaker 2: he let out. You let him get away.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you don't have to worry about that guy. He's
• 4:09
  Speaker 6: too scared to talk.
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  Speaker 2: You should have put this silence around him anyway. And
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  Speaker 2: you're the boss, Braiden, what do you want me to do?
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: Take no chances? Big Cooper up and close his trap
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  Speaker 2: for keeps.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Boss, I'll take care of him you'll get the
• 4:21
  Speaker 8: stuff I sent you after it?
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  Speaker 6: Sure did?
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  Speaker 2: Let me have it. Let's see I get it right
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  Speaker 2: to sign here?
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  Speaker 10: Yep, Hey, yeah, boss, the old professor had the right way,
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  Speaker 10: you said.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is it? All right?
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  Speaker 6: What is it? Braiden? Looks like an empty bottle to me?
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  Speaker 8: It's a colorless, orderless gas, the most powerful explosive in existence,
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  Speaker 8: enough to blow up this whole city.
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  Speaker 2: This is all there is in the world. Yeah. What
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  Speaker 2: are you gonna do with it? He'll find out.
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  Speaker 6: How Ain't it's tall?
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  Speaker 11: Boss?
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  Speaker 2: What's on your mind? You used to be a chemist?
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  Speaker 2: Right still I am. They're based outside the wall, all right.
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  Speaker 8: I want you to take this guess out of this
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  Speaker 8: little bottle and seal it creative light bulbs I got
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  Speaker 8: last night.
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  Speaker 2: You think you can do it? I guess? So how much?
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  Speaker 6: Guess to the boat?
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  Speaker 12: Wait?
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  Speaker 2: I'll help you, Morgan Grace, I'll have your came here.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, Plenty.
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  Speaker 8: When we get these explosive light bulbs fixed up, I
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  Speaker 8: want you to go out and plant them in light
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  Speaker 8: sockets everywhere the stars, houses, public buildings all over the city.
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  Speaker 2: What's the big idea, Briddon, I'm going to plun.
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  Speaker 8: The city into total darkness for one night, total darkness.
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  Speaker 6: How are you going to make them downstair lights?
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  Speaker 8: Look, we get these bulbs planted before noon tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: When it gets dark, they'll turn.
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  Speaker 8: On lights and some of these places will be blown
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  Speaker 8: to bits. The next night they want there, turn on
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  Speaker 8: a light.
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  Speaker 2: You know, where do we come in? What does that
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  Speaker 2: get us? Why does it get us? Your step?
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  Speaker 8: Don't you see when the city blacks out, we move
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  Speaker 8: in and take over. Oh I've drawn up a chart
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  Speaker 8: showing exactly where the explosive bulbs att to be planted.
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  Speaker 6: Oh wait, that's the trick happen.
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  Speaker 8: This is a big job. Make plenty of help for
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  Speaker 8: the clean up. Round up every dip, rod man, gangster,
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  Speaker 8: andy crook. You know I have been here in the
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  Speaker 8: mill tomorrow nighte Okay, as.
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  Speaker 2: Soon as everything set, we'll move in on the cover
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  Speaker 2: of darkness.
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  Speaker 6: They pour cops, they will be helping.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, robed stale prillage to our heart's content.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take everything that's not nailed down with a stunt. Wow,
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: that's a crook's paradise, greatest tide. Yeah, it's the greatest
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  Speaker 2: idea in the history of crime.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to create a rain of turnor like this
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  Speaker 8: country has never.
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  Speaker 2: Known something for a youngster, you say, madam.
• 6:38
  Speaker 7: Yes, I don't exactly know what that wants.
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  Speaker 2: A boy or girl? Girl?
• 6:43
  Speaker 7: I'm her grandmother?
• 6:44
  Speaker 2: Is that so well? I have a little girl too.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: How old is your granddaughter?
• 6:48
  Speaker 7: She's just four months old?
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  Speaker 2: Oh well then you must see our modern nurse with
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  Speaker 2: the infant. Things are all in my head. You come
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  Speaker 2: right this way, please.
• 7:00
  Speaker 7: Said right in thank you?
• 7:02
  Speaker 2: I'd rather dog. Isn't it put on my life? It
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  Speaker 2: switches it my child?
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  Speaker 9: Not tell her.
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  Speaker 13: Right? You get off. The walls are troubling.
• 7:32
  Speaker 7: Oh my leg, I guess.
• 7:36
  Speaker 6: Somebody please give me your hand.
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  Speaker 13: There's a child buried under here.
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  Speaker 2: The coming wider store, the whole front thrown up.
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  Speaker 13: It's terrible.
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  Speaker 9: Off backy boy.
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  Speaker 14: I'm I'm glad to hand you a man.
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  Speaker 13: We can't handle the wounded.
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  Speaker 14: Come on, there's a girl and that up there. Chuck,
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  Speaker 14: don't jump.
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  Speaker 11: Wait on s Street, Curburns, Leicester.
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  Speaker 6: The conductor, I'm going all the way to Hinds Terrys.
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  Speaker 8: Be another car right behind you.
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  Speaker 6: Mischief here you poach and sit in the weighting.
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  Speaker 9: Room over there.
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  Speaker 6: Pretty dark in this waiting room. How about some light
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  Speaker 6: quits right behind you. Oh yes, I'll turn it on.
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  Speaker 2: Anything else, Commissioner western.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, detail as many men as you can spare to
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  Speaker 10: the Castle street Carbines, and swear in every able body
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  Speaker 10: volunteer you can find as a special deputy. I'll broadcast
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  Speaker 10: an appeal to all doctors and nurses in this entire
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  Speaker 10: territory to report there at once, Stay right on the job,
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  Speaker 10: ropy follow me again in ten minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, commission to west goodbye, Cranston.
• 9:06
  Speaker 10: To see a Commissioner Cranson, Well you tell him for me,
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  Speaker 10: Commissioner Weston.
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  Speaker 6: Why don't you tell me yourself? I'm busy, Cranston. What
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  Speaker 6: do you want?
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  Speaker 15: I came to see if there's anything I can do
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  Speaker 15: to help in this horrible catastrophe.
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  Speaker 10: If you can swing a pick, drag a horse, or
• 9:19
  Speaker 10: carry a stretcher, there's plenty for you to do.
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  Speaker 6: I've already done my bit in that direction.
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  Speaker 2: For the moment. I'm interested in the reason for these
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  Speaker 2: awful crimes.
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  Speaker 6: Ah, wait a minute, Cranston.
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  Speaker 10: I've got more in my mind than just sitting here
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  Speaker 10: and satisfying your curiosity. This is not just curiosity, Commissioner
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  Speaker 10: I've got a theory, so has everybody else. I've got
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  Speaker 10: no time for crackpot theories.
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  Speaker 2: You certainly are flattering, Commissioner.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I'm not running a school paramatur detectives.
• 9:43
  Speaker 15: No, I'd never suspect you a pedagogic inclinations, Commissioner, But
• 9:47
  Speaker 15: tell me, do you know how the explosions are cut
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  Speaker 15: last night?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 6: I don't. All I know is that the two places
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  Speaker 6: went up when the lights went on.
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  Speaker 2: Then I'm sure I can help you.
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  Speaker 6: If you have any evidence, any facts. I'm willing to listen, but.
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  Speaker 13: I don't want to hear any more theory.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Commissioner, calm yourself and I'll explain.
• 10:05
  Speaker 6: I am calm, of course you are.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: Now my theory is this?
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  Speaker 13: What?
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: All right? Let's put it this way. My hunch is this.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead, get it off, your chance to let me
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  Speaker 6: get back to work.
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  Speaker 15: You want to clear up the mystery of these explosions,
• 10:18
  Speaker 15: don't you, Commissioner, That Transton.
• 10:20
  Speaker 6: Would seem to be the general idea.
• 10:22
  Speaker 15: Then you must first find out who killed Professor Baker.
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  Speaker 10: Are you trying to tell me that there's a connection
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  Speaker 10: between the death of Baker and these explosions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just trying. I'm telling you there is definitely.
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  Speaker 6: What makes you so sure about it.
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  Speaker 15: I happen to know that Professor Baker was experimenting with
• 10:37
  Speaker 15: an explosive such as might have been used in these
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  Speaker 15: two blasts.
• 10:40
  Speaker 6: Where's your theory go from there?
• 10:42
  Speaker 15: Professor Baker was killed for possession of that explosive. Find
• 10:46
  Speaker 15: his killers. And you've found the men responsible for the
• 10:49
  Speaker 15: other crimes.
• 10:50
  Speaker 6: Where's the motive?
• 10:51
  Speaker 10: What reason could they have had for throwing up those
• 10:53
  Speaker 10: places and killing.
• 10:54
  Speaker 6: All those people that I don't know?
• 10:57
  Speaker 10: There you are in a blind alley. You have a
• 11:00
  Speaker 10: you're hear nothing to support it. Now, run along, Cranston.
• 11:02
  Speaker 10: Mine ears won't stand anymore this. You must listen to me. Commissioner,
• 11:06
  Speaker 10: You've got now, I've got.
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Commissioner Western.
• 11:10
  Speaker 6: Yes, who's this?
• 11:11
  Speaker 2: Never mind that I got some doubt for you? What
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: do you mean those two explosions last night were bad? Huh?
• 11:17
  Speaker 2: Well that's only a little sample of what's coming tonight.
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: What what did you say about me?
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  Speaker 8: You're gonna have a worse mess on your hands if
• 11:24
  Speaker 8: you don't carry out my orders. I want this city
• 11:27
  Speaker 8: in total darkness tonight, total darkness. There's an electric light, autoheadlamp,
• 11:31
  Speaker 8: or even a flashlight turned on. You're gonna get a
• 11:34
  Speaker 8: bouquet of explosions worse than yesterday.
• 11:37
  Speaker 6: You must be stark mad. You'll never get away with this.
• 11:40
  Speaker 8: Cry me and see either the lights go out or
• 11:44
  Speaker 8: the city goes up.
• 11:46
  Speaker 6: Hello, Hello, Hello Granson.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: Did you hear that?
• 11:52
  Speaker 9: Yes?
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: I did?
• 11:52
  Speaker 15: Commissioner, What are we gonna do? You'll be talk in
• 11:56
  Speaker 15: a few hours, Commissioner. That man must be stopped. If
• 11:59
  Speaker 15: he's not, this city be the scene of indescribable horror tonight.
• 12:02
  Speaker 15: We've got to stop him.
• 12:07
  Speaker 10: Extra extra explosive light bulb threaten more bless mystery voice
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  Speaker 10: sform's commissioned West Extra Extra extra explosive electric lamps spread
• 12:19
  Speaker 10: through city.
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: Read all about it? Extra say this is terrible. We
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: won't have any light? Are we gonna see in the dark.
• 12:32
  Speaker 7: I'm not turning any light out in my place tonight.
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: Me neither had one. My family blown up?
• 12:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 12:37
  Speaker 7: But what are we gonna do? Can't they stop this?
• 12:40
  Speaker 6: Can anything be done about it?
• 12:47
  Speaker 7: Emerga calling doctor mark doctor Marker.
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: Do something?
• 12:58
  Speaker 7: Please say my little man be.
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: Allowed to do all I can. Missus, Leddy, your child
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: is very sick.
• 13:03
  Speaker 13: My baby.
• 13:06
  Speaker 6: What are you going to do?
• 13:06
  Speaker 7: Doctor?
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: My child won't last an hour if we don't operate
• 13:09
  Speaker 2: at once.
• 13:10
  Speaker 7: We can't do that. We don't dare turn on the line.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, We've got to do something.
• 13:14
  Speaker 7: Couldn't we operate by candlelight?
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: Oh that's impossible, the operations to delic help. Maybe I'm
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: going to operate, but but the light that I can't
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: stand here and see this child die. We've got to
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: take the chance.
• 13:28
  Speaker 7: Turn on the lights very well, doctor, I'll turn them out.
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: Hello Mayor Hamilton, Yes, who can speaking? This is the shadow?
• 13:45
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And what can I do for you? Mister mayor?
• 13:47
  Speaker 2: The hospital has just been brown up? What the hospital?
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: Good Heaven?
• 13:51
  Speaker 2: That can't be possible. It's true, mister Mayor.
• 13:53
  Speaker 6: I can hardly believe it.
• 13:54
  Speaker 2: What hell is Fien can be.
• 13:56
  Speaker 6: Responsible for this?
• 13:56
  Speaker 15: Mister Mayor. You've got to act it once. You must
• 13:59
  Speaker 15: make any up explosions tonight impossible cost?
• 14:01
  Speaker 2: But how can I do that?
• 14:03
  Speaker 15: Order the city power plan to cut the main switch,
• 14:05
  Speaker 15: the main switch.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: It's the only way. You can't depend on all the
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: people keeping their lights out. But cutting the main power
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: switch will tie up everything in the city. It's that
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: mister Mayor or death, destruction, and panic.
• 14:16
  Speaker 6: Very well, I'll order the power cut at once.
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: Our cast begins the second act of the Shadow's adventure
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: in just a moment. But first, here's some important information
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: for homeowner mister Roberts. At the opening of today's program,
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: I believe you said that blue coal was different from
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: other fuels.
• 14:41
  Speaker 6: Just how is blue coal different?
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: Well, blue coal is mine from the Northern Pennsylvania field.
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: That's the rich anthracite region which produces forty percent of
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: all American hard coal.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: How about the preparation of blue coal?
• 14:51
  Speaker 6: Is there a difference there?
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Yes, you see, the glen Alden Coal Company, which produces
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: blue coal, is the nation's largest hard coal company. As
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: each ton of coal comes from their minds. It's carefully sized,
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: then it's washed with twelve and one half tons of
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: water for each ton of coal to remove any existing impurities.
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: But most important of all, each carload is submitted to
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: a thorough laboratory test by inspectors. Only the coal which
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: meets glen Alden's high quality standard is trademarked a harmless
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: blue and accepted for shipment to blue coal dealers. How
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: about the results home owners received? From using blue coal well.
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: Blue coals unchallenged record of first place for years a
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: nationwide volume of sales speaks for itself. Hundreds of thousands
• 15:33
  Speaker 4: of American families have found that blue coal banks and
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: handles better, gives longer intervals between firing periods and perfect
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: all around heating comfort and satisfaction. So friends, if you
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: haven't yet tried blue coal, be sure and asked for
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: it by name. Next time you order fuel. Your nearest
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: blue coal dealer's name is listed in the wet by
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: its section of your classified phone directory.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Gosh, it sure is dark, right, I can't see where
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: I'm walking. Wonder what street we're on now? Won does
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it matter? I'm lost? We're all lost. I'm sorry, lady,
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I didn't see you. Hold on landing higher, Bill. We
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: don't want to walk off the viaduct, okay, Fred, Oh
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: my glad I found this old wagon land is as well.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: I did.
• 16:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a swell target shot right out of my hand.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: When that gang said the city had have to black out,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: they meant blackout.
• 16:45
  Speaker 16: So we can't keep flying around here all night. Our
• 16:47
  Speaker 16: gas is wunning out. You gotta set it down some place.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: He saidn't understand it. I couldn't possibly have missed the city.
• 16:53
  Speaker 16: We cruised around for twenty minutes now and I haven't
• 16:55
  Speaker 16: seen a single light. We just have to keep going
• 16:57
  Speaker 16: while the gas hoole's up.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Then what then?
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: We start praying rather.
• 17:08
  Speaker 15: Well, Margot, main switches turned off, no lights, no power,
• 17:14
  Speaker 15: nothing but bewilderment, uncertain Oh this.
• 17:16
  Speaker 7: Is awful, Lamont. What are people going to do?
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid this is all leading to something worse, Margot.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: I pray you to a greater terror.
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: Lamont, You must do something.
• 17:25
  Speaker 15: I've wrecked my brain for a solution, some faint clue,
• 17:27
  Speaker 15: and I'm stuck.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know what to do.
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: And we just can't sit and wait for some new
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: terror to strike, Lamont.
• 17:34
  Speaker 15: There must be some loose thread that might unravel this full,
• 17:37
  Speaker 15: vicious pattern.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: H I'll go. Yes, I'm I've got an idea. Yes.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Professor Baker's hired man Cooper. The police released him.
• 17:47
  Speaker 15: They said he proved that he was not in the
• 17:48
  Speaker 15: house the night the professor was killed. It just struck
• 17:51
  Speaker 15: me the killer's fingerprints were on the handle of the
• 17:54
  Speaker 15: door to the old man's study, but there were none
• 17:57
  Speaker 15: on the knob of the street door. Don't you see it,
• 18:00
  Speaker 15: muggo somebody opened the door for the killer Cooper. Perhaps,
• 18:04
  Speaker 15: come on, muggle, we've got to find Cooper. The Shadow
• 18:07
  Speaker 15: has got to talk to that man. He may be
• 18:09
  Speaker 15: the threat I've hoped for.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: Sure, not the last. Can't I have in the house,
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: mister Cooper. They're very scarce now, but at least you'll
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: be able to finish your packing and thanks miss Kelly.
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: Oh my no, I'm not sorry to see you go,
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: but I don't blame anybody for getting out of this
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: cursed city that I don't.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure now, if you don't mind, I got a
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: lot of packing to do. I'm missus Kelly.
• 18:35
  Speaker 17: If that's the way you feel, goodbye and good riddance
• 18:38
  Speaker 17: to your mister Cooper.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Quite your hurry, Cooper? Who's that? What are you running
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: away from me?
• 18:48
  Speaker 13: What?
• 18:49
  Speaker 9: Where are you?
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: I can't see you. I'm the Shadow, Cooper, the Shadow.
• 18:54
  Speaker 15: You know of me, don't you, Alison Cooper. I've got
• 18:57
  Speaker 15: to talk fast, and so do you.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I've done nothing to talk Cooper. You share responsibility for
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the death and destruction in this city.
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: No, that's a lie.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I had nothing to do, you know.
• 19:07
  Speaker 15: The men who killed Professor Baker. You've got to tell
• 19:10
  Speaker 15: me who he is.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: I did, I did. You must you.
• 19:13
  Speaker 15: Alone can release the city from the grip of terror
• 19:15
  Speaker 15: that man has pasted in.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I don't know anything about it. I tell you're lying, Cooper.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I know you opened the door for the killer.
• 19:24
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't write the old man.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: You were with him just before he died. But I
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: had nothing to do with his death, honest, I didn't.
• 19:30
  Speaker 15: If you want to save yourself and clear your conscience,
• 19:32
  Speaker 15: you've got to talk.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, I'm gonna get it off my mind.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: I'll talk. I'll talk to me, hee hee, What do
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: you want?
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Just deliver a little message from the boss Cooper. Here
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it is Cooper.
• 19:47
  Speaker 15: Speak to me, Cooper, for your throat, Try to talk, Cooper.
• 19:51
  Speaker 15: The fate of the city rests with you. I can't
• 19:55
  Speaker 15: understand you. For Heaven's sake, men, you've got.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: To tell me.
• 19:58
  Speaker 15: Look, Cooper, I'll put my ear close to your lips.
• 20:00
  Speaker 15: Try to whisper cry, yeah, yes, yes, I understood that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: His name Cooper, his name Try again? Where where? Quick?
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Quick? I thought I heard a shot out here?
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Somebody you know.
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: No, it's no use for a doctor.
• 20:24
  Speaker 12: Now, Cooper, hey, young install bring me that shot.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Here you are? Have you checked off?
• 20:38
  Speaker 8: Every place where we planeted bottoms everyone, they're all marked red.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: What are we waiting for, Britain? Yeah, let's go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: Come on, I'm waiting for the boys to come back
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: from the city and give me the lowdown on how
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: things stand.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Say Britain, how can we get lights with the city
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: power plant turned off?
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I've been planning this job for over a year. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: put in my own power plant. Well that's smart, I'll say.
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, But how did you manage to exp say this bulb? Well,
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: with one of these that blew up the Gallan's department store.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, don't worry. They're all safe. This
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: one go off unless it's put in a light socket
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: and the switch is thrown just the same.
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I feel better if you didn't wave it around like that.
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: Margo.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Pull right over here off the road.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: There we are the man.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: It's good you.
• 21:29
  Speaker 15: Stay here in the car, take this gun. Be perfectly safe.
• 21:33
  Speaker 15: Just keep out of sight.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: But where are you going in the month.
• 21:36
  Speaker 15: There's an old mill someplace along here. If I understood
• 21:39
  Speaker 15: Cooper correctly, I'll find the man I'm looking for there.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: You're not going in alone.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: I've got to Margo.
• 21:44
  Speaker 15: I phone Commissioner Western it's the Shadow, and asked him
• 21:47
  Speaker 15: to send them in.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Why not wait for them.
• 21:49
  Speaker 15: I'm not sure they'll get here. I've got the hands
• 21:51
  Speaker 15: foot in the city. There is no moment to lose.
• 21:53
  Speaker 15: The Shadow's got to work and work fast.
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Find all of you.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Well, boys, what do you find out in the city? Boss?
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: You hit the bulls eye.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: The city is as.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Dark as a landlord's rook. It's all set for us.
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: Boy.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: All right, boys, we've got the green light. Time to go.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Take Morgan, you take six men and go to the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Macy Street Bank. You know what to do. Grays right,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Take twenty men and clean out the Imperial Hotel. Go
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: through the rooms.
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: Don't leave anything you can carry hi Ewangen Star the
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: post office.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Five men can handle that. The rest of you got
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: your spots. Work fast.
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: If anyone crosses you, use your guns, let them have it,
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: all right?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: All right, grab your flash lambs and let's go. What
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: was that?
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: Am I hearing things? Did anybody hear that?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Laugh? Yeah?
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: I did, quite a nice little thing.
• 22:50
  Speaker 15: You've cooked up Britain. But here's where there's another ingredient
• 22:53
  Speaker 15: added to your own holy brew?
• 22:55
  Speaker 13: Is this?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: It's the shadow? Right? Well, you're not scaring me. You're
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: not stop on me either. I wouldn't be too short
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: about that, Braiden.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Hey, I don't see no good man.
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: This guy's right here in the room with us. He's
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: got some trick so we can't see him. But that
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: don't mean we can't get him. Raise stand by that door,
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: keep your back against it, and don't let anybody or
• 23:13
  Speaker 8: anything open it. Now, Morgan, you pick up that machine
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: gun and spray the other end of the room where
• 23:18
  Speaker 8: that voice came from.
• 23:20
  Speaker 14: Somebody down to light you?
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: All right?
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Quiet, don't be.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: Afraid, make it easy.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Somebody switch on that light. You don't dare turn on
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: those lights? What do you mean if you do? Every
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: man here will be blown to bits?
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: What are you talking about?
• 23:37
  Speaker 15: I took that explosive bulb you had on the table
• 23:40
  Speaker 15: in front of you. What when I turned out the light?
• 23:42
  Speaker 15: I put it into one of the light sockets. Now,
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: mister Braiden, do you want to turn on the lights?
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Your bluff and shadow? Or you have to do to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: prove that point just to throw on the light switch?
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Hey, Hey, what's that.
• 23:57
  Speaker 11: It's a lot of curst driving up outside the.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Polease, gentlemen, never take me alive, alive or dead. Braiden,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: you've got to be taken.
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: What are we gonna.
• 24:07
  Speaker 9: Come out?
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: In ten seconds? I will come in after you.
• 24:12
  Speaker 15: You might as well do, his Commissioner Western Commands. Walk
• 24:15
  Speaker 15: out the door with your hands.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: In the air. There's nobody walking on this place. I
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: know I'm chair baits.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: I'll die anyway, but there's one thing I'm gonna go first.
• 24:25
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna take you along with me, mister Shadow.
• 24:27
  Speaker 14: Keep your hand up that my way.
• 24:38
  Speaker 11: Commissioner, anyone alive in there? Captain had a single one.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Commissioner, it's all right, Mongo, I'm saying, Oh, thank Heaven.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: I thought you'd been killed in that explosion.
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: It was close, Mugo, but I got out when they
• 24:56
  Speaker 15: were trying to keep braiding away from the light switch.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: You go back to the car now. I'll be with
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: you in a minute.
• 25:02
  Speaker 15: Commission of Western Commission of Western Oh that you Shadow, Yes, Commissioner.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Well where a fine jam? Now they're all dead?
• 25:10
  Speaker 10: How I got to find out why the other explosive
• 25:12
  Speaker 10: bulbs are planned?
• 25:13
  Speaker 15: It's all right, Commissioner, I got Braydon's chart showing the
• 25:16
  Speaker 15: location of the explosives.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Where is it?
• 25:18
  Speaker 15: You'll find it in the front seat of your car.
• 25:20
  Speaker 15: And the city is safe, yes, Commissioner good, All right, men,
• 25:24
  Speaker 15: get in your cars. They've got to gather up those
• 25:26
  Speaker 15: lamps right away.
• 25:28
  Speaker 10: And my gratitude, Shadow, We're a job well done.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Come Margo, we're going home. Shadow's work is done for tonight.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: The reign of.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: Terror is ended thanks to you, Laman.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: It was bound in this way, Margo.
• 25:48
  Speaker 15: The plots and plans of criminals are the devices of
• 25:52
  Speaker 15: their own destruction.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Laura and Life know no compromise with the evil tour.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: And now here's blue cold Heating expert John Barclay, Thank.
• 26:10
  Speaker 17: You, Ken Roberts. This afternoon, I have a hint for you, ladies,
• 26:14
  Speaker 17: and you'll find it very useful. I'm sure you know
• 26:17
  Speaker 17: how many colds your family suffers during the winter and
• 26:19
  Speaker 17: early spring, but perhaps you don't realize how many of
• 26:23
  Speaker 17: those colds are caused by the hot, dry air of
• 26:25
  Speaker 17: an overheated house. That kind of heat, in addition to
• 26:29
  Speaker 17: absorbing the natural moisture we need in the air, also
• 26:32
  Speaker 17: dries out and damages furniture. Yet It's an extremely simple
• 26:36
  Speaker 17: matter to remedy this condition and provide your home with
• 26:39
  Speaker 17: the right amount of moisture. Just get one of those long,
• 26:43
  Speaker 17: narrow hot water pans which attach right onto the backs
• 26:46
  Speaker 17: of the radiators. They are designed to hang out of sight,
• 26:50
  Speaker 17: and the water they contain is gradually evaporated by the
• 26:53
  Speaker 17: radiator heat and so provides the needed moisture in the rooms.
• 26:57
  Speaker 17: You will find that these pan humidifier really do a
• 27:01
  Speaker 17: wonderful job of keeping rooms far more comfortable with helpful
• 27:05
  Speaker 17: and moisture, and in this way they reduce the chance
• 27:08
  Speaker 17: of catching or spreading coals and illness. And friends remember this.
• 27:15
  Speaker 17: Your support of the great drive against infantile paralysis is
• 27:19
  Speaker 17: urgently needed, So join the March of Dimes. Send your
• 27:23
  Speaker 17: contributions to the White House, Washington, d C.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Today Today's adventurers based on a story copyrighted by The
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Shadow magazine. All the characters and all the places named
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: or fictitious. Any similarity to person's living or dead is
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: purely coincidental. The Shadow magazine is now on sale at
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: your local news stands.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: The Weed of Crime bears bitter fruit. Crime does not
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: be The Shadow nos.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: Next week, same time, same station, Blue Coal, America's finest anthracite,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: will again present another thrilling adventure of the shadow. Be
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: sure to listen, and be sure to burn blue coal,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: the solid fuel for solid comfort.