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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio, eleven hundred episode special from
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Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. If you have
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support of our listeners. Thanks so much for your support. You can support
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the show at support dot Great Detectives dot net. Well, today we have
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somewhat of an unusual show for our program. It's an episode of Cavalcade of
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America. Cavalcade of America began in nineteen thirty six, and really it was
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sponsored by the chemical maker DuPont, and it focused on telling great stories from
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American history. In the early years, most of these stories were completely true
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and faithful adaptations of history. As time went on, they focused on other
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educational programs. Certainly there were some great true stories, but sometimes they would
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focus on a principle or an agency, or some sort of initiative using a
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fictitious situation, such as the case with today's episode. And I'm also very
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place to say we have a great star for you for today, Gregory Peck.
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This episode was first aired May the fifth, nineteen forty seven, when
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Pack was really in the midst of a long run of highly acclaimed roles between
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nineteen forty six and nineteen fifty. During those five years, he was nominated
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for the Best Actor Award four times, eventually winning it in nineteen sixty three,
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and he also went on to win couple of Golden Globe Awards, one
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for Kill a Mockingbird and the other in nineteen ninety nine for his supporting role
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in the TV mini series Moby Dick. He also won his place on the
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Hollywood Walk of Fame for motion pictures and so definitely Gregory Peck not known for
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his radio work, but he's got actually a very good body of work.
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It's kind of small, and there are a lot of adaptations of motion pictures,
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but some pretty interesting from the plots anyway, episodes of suspense and this
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episode of Cavalcade is a good vehicle for him. And there's and his secondary
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star is someone that I think we've all heard of. But I've gone on
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long enough. Let's go ahead and take a listen to today's episode our eleven
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hundred episode special The School for Men, The Cavalcade of America starring Gregory Peck.
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for Men starring Gregory Peck as Jim Davenport on the Cavalcade of America. Don't
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let the title of tonight's play foolier. This is a mystery. Yes,
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that's right. I'd like to tell you the story. My name is Jim
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Davenport. This is my story too. It was just after my training,
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twelve weeks of it, and the finest school of its kind in the world,
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the FBI School in Washington. Our don't get that wrong. I'm not
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an FBI agent, just a member of the brook City Police Force, a
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detective sent by my chief to take the training. The FBI offers any police
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officer who can go, and the facilities are well. We'll let my story
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tell more about that. I wasn't assigned to this case because it was in
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Midvale, where my brother Jerry lives and works as a detective. Midvale an
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average sized, average looking Midwestern town, and on this particular spring night,
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it was quiet, dark, cool. Who's that? Come on? Open
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up, go away, get away from here. Hey, Agnes, what's
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the matter with you? Means Jim, Jim, Oh, Jim, oh,
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Jem, Hey what goes on here? Can a brother in law drop
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in? All right, Jim, Wait a minute, I'll close the door.
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What's the idea of the barrage of locks and bolts? Dracula making his
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nightly round. It's just I'm on pen needles. What for Agnes. What's
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the trouble? Nothing wrong with Jerry. Oh no, he's fine. Where
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is he? Sorry? What's the trouble. Jerry's out on these cases?
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These cases. Oh, this is a fine way to treat a brother in
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law. Soon as he steps in the house he gets trouble through. Now,
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luck, Agnes settled down. Suppose you started beginning. You're sure there's
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nothing wrong with Jerry. Jimmy hasn't slept decently or eken a square meal in
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weeks? Oh well, my brother doesn't eat. There's something wrong jim have
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been two murders a third night. Oh, now I get it. I
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got off the train, walk down the main street. It was like a
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moor. Yes, everyone's terrified. People are afraid to go on. I
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worries so about Jerry. Yeah, why you know how he is Jim when
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he's working on a case, he never thinks about himself. He rushes in
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almost without thinking. Someday I'm afraid he's courage Yeah, I know what you
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mean, the old methods. That's it. But oh, jem, I
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feel awful. We haven't seen you in Monson. When you do drop in,
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Paul, Right, let's forget it now. Can you still do magic
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with a waffle baker? I listen much better on a full stomach. Yeah,
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Jim, this guy's got the devil's luck, Anne Brewery. Yeah,
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but that must be some lead, Jerry, something you can pick up.
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Well, that's what we thought. After the first murder, we hit a
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wall. What about the second? The same thing? Now? This once
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tonight? Who was it? Same as the other two? A girl?
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This time it was Yeah. I'll wait a minute, Jerry, Are you
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sure the same person's doing all the killing? Looks like it break in kill,
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break in kill. It sounds like pattern murders. H pattern murders.
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This kind of a killer never varies. Every murder was committed the same way
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exactly strangulation and the time between them. I mean, how long from one
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murder to the next, Almost exactly two weeks to the day. But this
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killer is following a set pattern. You've got about two weeks before he hits
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again. If he does, you can do a lot in two weeks with
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what we've got nothing to work on. Well, you can never tell,
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I could. Well, what are we going to say? Oh? I
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don't know, Jerry, I've got no business butting in. Well, who
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says you are if my own brother can't count the same? Oh, I
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don't mean my visit, I mean my oh my help, help? What
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are you getting at? Well? Look, I spent twelve weeks in Washington.
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Yeah, I know the FB High school. Look, John, Look,
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look, wait a minute. I've heard about fellas going down to that
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place. They all come back talking like professors of crime. Why they're a
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pained every comp on the force. I'd rather keep my popularity and learn the
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tricks from Bill Howell. Yeah, who's Bill Hall. He's been on the
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force ten years. He's in the tradition. When there's a job, he
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goes into it head on. He doesn't handle the crooks with tweezers and microscopes.
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He lets him have it. This is his case we're going on now.
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And he called me in because he likes me and he thinks I can
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help. Hellok, Jerry, I know I'm with the Brook City Police Force
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and this is midfield. But if what I've learned in Washington will help you,
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I'll be glad to stick around. Okay, first thing tomorrow morning,
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we'll go to the nevill home. You see, Jim. Just like I
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said, the killers smart. Yeah, but he'll slip sometimes. That's what
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we said six weeks ago. Oh, hire Bill, Jim. This is
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Bill Howell, best detective on the force. Bill, My brother Chi.
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How are you Bill? Okay? I was on the carpet again this morning.
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Jerry, Oh bad, my ears are seen. We got to get
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something anything, Yeah, you tell me where to find it, Jerry.
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You seeing this room after the murder last night? Did Jim? Yeah?
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No, one's been in here od since we left last night. Why oh,
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I'm just asking. Yeah, let's get it straight. The murderer broke
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in this window. Well, first he cut that screen so he could pry
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open the window. Let you it's copper, the screen, it's it's copper.
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Yeah, he had to cut all around to get in. That's nothing
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new. We saw that last night and I went him in a Bill.
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What are you driving at, Jim? Well, this windows, it's out
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of the way over here at this side of the house. Where are you
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going? Look there are three other windows towards the front of the house,
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much easier to get at. But this killer picks the one that's the hardest
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to get it a go ahead? Why why the window he broke into is
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almost covered with shrubbery from the outside. Yeah, what's on your mind,
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Jim? Well, this murder was committed while it was dark. This window
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would be tough to find to see in the dark, but he picked it,
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passed up those other three. Sure less chance of them being seen for
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the street. Yeah that's all, Jim, is it? I'll give you
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ten to one that if there was no light in this window at night,
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you couldn't see it, but your murderer knew where and how to find it.
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You thinking about an inside job, Jim, I'm not thinking about anything
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until we asked a family some questions. But we have only one servant,
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a maid. Surely you don't think that's no, No, we don't.
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What was anyone in the house who might have looked it over, who might
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have seen that that window was the most protected from the street. I don't
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know. I don't know. I can't be expected to remember something like that
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at a time like you. Of course not. Thank you, missus Neville.
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Is that all you wanted? Well? Now, yes, what are
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you doing to find the man who kill my What are you doing? Nothing?
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That's not nothing. He killed three people already, knew, do it
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again while you k better get some rest. Missus Neville, it's so came,
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missus Nevill. We know I'm in my room. What are we doing?
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Well, what are we doing? Banging our heads against the wall,
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That's what we're doing. Joe think it was an inside job, Jim,
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Oh, I didn't say that. I just thought that it might have been
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someone who knew that that window was there. A dozen strangers come into a
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house in a month. Him milk man, guess man, waterman, grocery
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delivery, dry clean as laundry man. Yeah, we can't check all of
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them. And what are you doing? Say? Did you see this?
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What have you got? So? Threader was on the floor, let me
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see it? Well? What about it? Well? Was it here when
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you looked last night? I didn't see it. It would be easy to
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overlook against the sure, sure, but maybe it's just something you've been waiting
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for. A thread not even an inch long. It could have come from
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anything. I know that you want it if you're thinking it might have come
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from the killer's coat no days more. We examined the cut edges of the
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screen with a magnifying glass, thinking maybe he might have caught his coat,
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but he didn't. He came through clean as a whistle. Well, uh,
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let me have this thread. What are you gonna do with it?
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I'd like to send it down to Washington, Wising. Yeah, to the
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FBI lab there, and they'll tell us what all about it. The FBI
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Lab in Washington gives every police force in the country the best laboratory of it's
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kind in the world. Take advantage of a Jerry Bill. You're in a
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blind alley. Now this thread might tell you something. What can you lose?
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But Jim, there are eleven thousand people in this town who might own
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a brown tweed coat well worn by That report from the FBI lab doesn't help.
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No, you didn't read all of it. They found traces of sodium
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biosulfate on the thread. What's that? I send along a list of uses
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for the chemical look of these last three? I checked. What's the matter
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with the rest of the list. There's a flocky use too unlikely, but
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it's used for paper bleaching. Anybody in mid Veil manufactured paper? No on,
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the next ink manufacturer, no dice there, And the third is photography
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pography. Yeah. Sodium fire sulfate is commonly called hyper used in photography to
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fix prints and negatives after development m photography photographer, Hey, Jim, maybe
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a gimmick is right a photographer to be able to get into a house,
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he'd be there a long time, plenty of time to case. The fly
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suggests we go back to the nevill home and ask a few questions. No,
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no, there's no one here who knows anything about photography. What's that
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got to do with my man? It's just a check, Miss Neville?
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No, did Mary have any recent photographs made photographs? I am oh,
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chok it? I don't know. I was away. When I came back,
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Mary had it already made, gave it to me. Is that it
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on the piano? Yes? And you don't know the photographer's name, and
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the only one who could tell us would be married missus Neville. We're going
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to take that photograph. We'll return it later. Did end again? The
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guy didn't even sign it? No, No, what kind of a photographer
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doesn't signs? Made? You got me, Jerry on a long chance,
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let's question the families of those other girls. No, I don't remember who
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it was, but he did come to the house and take my picture,
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and shortly after your sister was cute. Yes, that's true. Now think
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hard, please what was his name? I can't remember? Please? How
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was I to to know what would be important? You couldn't know. But
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we'd like to take that photograph. Yes, there was a photographer who took
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Anne's picture just before. What was his name? Do you remember? I?
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Please think hid missus Cook? I think it was Benson. Yes,
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that was it, Joseph Benson. How do you know? Because I was
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going to make out a check, but he wanted cash. Jim, it
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looks like we're on the right track. Eleven photographers in the phone book and
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not one named Benson. Well, missus Cook was wrong, or maybe not
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Jerry. It doesn't have to be his right name. Maybe he's not even
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a real photographer to use that excuse to get into the houses and look them
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over. I don't think so, looking at it this way. To take
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those photos and they're good, he'd have to have equipment, camera, lights,
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dark room. Does that sound reasonable? Yeah? Sure, Okay,
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let's pay a visit to these eleven photographers, one by one. Oh no,
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don't do that, are you crazy? Jim? The one lead We've
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got the first in six weeks, and you want to stop dead on it.
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No, it's not that, and you sent these were pattern murders space
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two weeks apride. All right, it's been six days, almost a week
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since Mary Neville was killed. That gives us about eight days to nail the
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murder before he gets somebody else. Eight short days. Yeah, But if
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you ask questions now, the one we're after among those eleven photographers will get
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suspicious. He's clever, Jerry, so clever that he didn't leave a clue
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until we found his thread. Give him one chance to suspect that we've got
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a lead on him, and he'll cover up fast. And what's the answer.
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Well, I'm going to send these three photographs to the FBI lab in
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Washington, have them checked for fingerprints and a few other things. But then
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it'll take time. Jerry asked a couple of days, and we've got eight.
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Let's hope we learned something, something, and it'll put the finger on
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that killer before those eight days are up. You are listening to School for
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Men, starring Gregory Peck as Jim Davenport with Robert Bailey as Jerry on the
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Cavalcade of America sponsored by the DuPont Company, maker of Better things for better
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living through chemistry. With only a few days left to catch a vicious murderer
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before he strikes again, Jim Davenport and his brother Jerry have used the facilities
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of the FBI laboratory. Jim, trained in the FBI school in Washington,
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tells Jerry the results of sending three photographs to the lab. Each one of
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these three photographs was printed on the same kind of paper. So Goodn't a
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lot of photographers use the same kind? Sure, but we've got three coincidences,
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Jerry. First, a photographer entered the three houses where the three girls
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were killed. Second, he left his photographs unsigned. Third, the same
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kind of paper was used to print each one. That's too much to ask,
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even of the long arm of chance. Yeah, sure it is all
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right. Here's the list of the eleven photographers in Midvale. Now which one
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do we want? And we've got only three days to jump him before he
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goes on the LUSI again. Get a list of photographic supply houses. We'll
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ask some questions. Well, let's see, we supply all the shops with
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that paper. Well, do you have us applying directly to photographers. It's
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very seldom. We're wholesale photographer usually gets his discount at the shops he deals
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with. All right, let's have a list of the shops you supplied in
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the last three or four months. Right here, there are only four.
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The ACME Camera Shop, the Iras Miller's Photo and Hobby Shop, and the
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Rammed Central Camera store addresses right there. Well, yes, we saw quite
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a bit of it. It's popular. Well, it sold a large quantity
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of this paper to a photographer. Recent thing I can check? Please?
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Do oh some better of In fact, I think I remember selling a gross
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about two months ago to one photographer. Yes, I think so. He
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showed me his business card and I gave him the regular trade discount on the
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gross of paper. He got his name there, yes, and his studio
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address to see Hubert Carson five fifteen. Long wait, but that's just around
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the corner. That was a nice studio you've got here, mister Carson.
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Yes, I'm quite pleased with it. Can I help you? Mister Davenport?
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Davenport? Does the name sounds familiar? No, I don't think so.
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Oh you do very nice work, Thank you, I say, isn't
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that a photo of a Neville girl? Yes? It is. I took
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her picture just about a week before the horrible tragedy poor girl lovely too,
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about a week before. Yes, when I read about the terrible tragedy,
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I could hardly believe it, so I imagine it was a shock, dreadful.
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But you came to see me about some work I want done. I'm
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not quite sure what I want. Perhaps you'd like to see some samples of
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my work, I mean, other than these hanging in here. Yes,
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as I would very much. Well, if you'll step into the display room,
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I'll just bring a couple in here. I'd like to look at these
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color prints. Oh, certainly, I won't be a moment, I know.
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Hurry, mister Carson, No, hurry. Sure, he admitted he
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took Mary Neville's picture, even had a print of it in his studio.
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While that doesn't sound like a gilly man of means Jerry the man whore after
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as a psychopathic killer, he'd treat it insane ego. On news of his
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crimes, he'd want things around him to remind himself of his his imagined superiority.
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Having Mary Nebles's photo around might be there, and hey, hey,
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fingerprints on that glass? Yeslitch from Carson studio match those on the photos you
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sent to the FBI. Land Wait, got him not here? Huh?
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What more do you want? Now? He can prove you as an all
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three houses where the murders were committed, even gave a phony name on one
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job. Granted, but evidence like that wouldn't stand up five minutes in court.
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A smart defense lawyer could bust that wide open. Let's haul him down
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and ask him a few questions. I wouldn't Bill, simply because a man
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took photos of the three girls, there's no reason to believe he killed him.
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Look, suppose we put a tail on him. We got two and
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a half days before he's able to go on another rampage. Okay, put
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a tail on him, have him watched. What if he gets wie,
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then you've lost him. You can't prove anything. Now, let him get
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wise than in light dogo. Maybe even leave town and stat is killing someplace
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else. Oh we're up another tree. Oh look, Jerry, Bill,
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I sent something else to Washington. What a knife I found in his studio?
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Knife? But the murders weren't committed with a knife, I know.
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But the copper screen in the nevill home was cut with a knife. Or
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something like it. So if there's even a minute trace of copper on Carson's
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knife, the FBI lab will find it and that'll be it. And one
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more thing. The newspapers are yealing for something, Give it to him.
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What tell him? You've got to lead? You mean tip my hand.
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Let Carson know? Are you crazy? Tell the papers about the thread from
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a wool jacket a brown coat. I don't get it. If Corson's are
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man, he may try to get rid of that coat. Yeah, but
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put a tail on him. If he leaves the studio apartment with a package,
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nail him. Sure. Sure, he left his studio apartment a dozen
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times. I'm no package. No, And the manager of the building squeares
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nothing like a coat was burned in the incinerator. But if Carson's a man,
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he must have read the papers. You must know about that thread,
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and you try to get rid of that coat. Yeah, but he didn't.
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There was an eye on him every minute of the day and night.
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I'm telling you the guy didn't take it out. All he should have done
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is get in his place while he was out and pick up the coat.
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As so that wouldn't have meant a thing. Jared don't you see he'd admit
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it was his coat. We could prove the thread came from it. But
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so what he admits having been in the Neville house. Oh, but no
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thread could lay around for four weeks work. One of the things I le
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FBI school was that the case wants to be tight, so tight that there's
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no loophole. Sure, but Carson didn't try to get rid of the coat.
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We gave him two days. All that could mean he was wise spotted
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your man, and that could mean he'll lay off, maybe leave town.
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Jim, we got to stop that. If we have a losing lord knows
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how many more he'll kill. He'll be eight a minute. Jerry, Holy
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Matro. What the something you said at the Nevil home? Jerry? You
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said thousands of people come into a house in a month. Yeah, what
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about a gas man, laundryman, dry cleaner, dry cleaners pick up and
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delivery. Carson could have had the dry cleaner pick it up. Oh,
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what dumbbells? We are find out what cleaner service that neighborhood? Carson?
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Here it is, my driver picked it up. You're sure that's the coat?
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There's the time, Hubert Carson. Oh, another dead end this coat's
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not brown, it's blue. Oh it was brown brown book? Now was
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this coat when it came in? Yes, Jerry, our newspaper trick worked.
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He had his coat died. Come on, let's get caught. Take
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it easy, Jerry, easy? What for you said? You've got always
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need? Sure? But remember consience killed three times? One more won't matter
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to him. Don't worry. The FBI lab gave us the case. But
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I'll take over from here on. Make him step off the hall, don't
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go in. Look I've picked up one hundred guys. Yes, I said,
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you're under arrest, right, I don't know. I can get dressed
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and come on, but what's this all about? You know? Want me
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to come and ask you? Well? Do you mind if I get my
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coat? Tom sendwy our cost? What's the matter? It's just this.
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It's a gun in his coat? Plane? And why not with all these
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crimes? Very well? Now? May I have my hat? Or do
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you think I have a gun in that Oh? I hed? Look out,
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Jerry. Oh he did have a gun in that hat. You see,
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Jerry, it would have been much better if he'd been made to step
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out in the hall. You two are pretty smart, yeah, and we're
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getting sweaty. Get moving, Carson, get out of here. We'll I've
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got him covered, Jerry. What's the rest? Rather, I'm in a
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hurry with all these things I learned about the FBI on this case, and
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now that I find myself still alive, I'm going to pay a visit to
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dear All Washington. Come on, Carson, you're making a late for skull.
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So Hubert Carson was tried and convicted. My brother Jerry's an FBI school
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now, but when his twelve weeks are over, he'll go back to Midvale
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and teach the others on the force. He'll know, like every other police
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officer that the FBI Laboratory stands ready at all times to aid local law enforcement
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by brilliant scientific methods, and the result a more and more effective fight against
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crime. My men equipped with the best training America has to offer, the
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best in the world. Thank you, Gregory Peck. But don't go away.
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We have something more for you, something that will be very exciting to
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you and our audience. But first let's listen to gain whipment and is interesting
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message from DuPont. One of the many pleasant things about summer is that we
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can wear lightweight, comfortable clothes, light dresses from women, light suits for
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men, slacks, open collar shirts, and summer shoes. Remember the crape
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soul shoes you bought before the war, How they gave you the feeling of
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being well dressed and yet had all the comfort and usefulness you looked for in
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a cash or a sports shoe. People who worked in factories and garages like
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them because the springy crape made a wonderful shock of sober But ordinary crape sole
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shoes did have several admitted disadvantages. They couldn't take much heat, for one
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thing. After a few weeks on hot summer pavements, the soles began to
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spread out from the bottom of the shoes more and more, so that after
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a while you looked as if you had gotten your feet stuck in a clay
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bank. Men who wore crape soled workshoes had trouble with them because oil or
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tar or grease attacked the rubber and it went to pieces. Now a number
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of shoe manufacturers have crape soled shoes on the market which resist the action of
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heat, sunlight, and oil. Instead of natural rubber, they are using
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DuPont neoprene crape soles of neoprene can be worn in the warmest weather without danger
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of spreading. The neoprene soles do not become soft and sticky, which means
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that they were not pick up and track dirt. And what is more,
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the neoprene crepe is tougher than natural rubber. In addition to the popular amber
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color, neoprene crape soules can be furnished in bright, attractive fast shades,
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which makes it possible to obtain a wider variety of styling for women's and men's
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shoes. If you buy a pair of shoes this summer with neoprene crape soles,
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you'll learn for yourself how much better they are. This is a typical
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example of applied chemical science. Souls of natural rubber were good, so good
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that people bought them even knowing they had faults. But now chemical research has
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developed souls which have the good points of natural rubber and in which through the
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use of DuPont neoprene, the faults have been corrected. Chemistry has made a
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good product better. Neoprene rubber is one of the DuPont companies better things for
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better living through chemistry. During the past seasons, the DuPont Cavalcade of America
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has brought you Hollywood's most famous picture stars. We are pleased to have Gregory
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Peck with us again tonight, especially so because of the honor he is about
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to receive. I'd like to introduce at this time Maxwell Hamilton, Editor of
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Motion Picture Magazine. Mister Peck, it gives me great pleasure to present you
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with this award on behalf of the readers of Motion Picture Magazine. Through a
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nationwide poll, they have selected you as the most popular actor of the year.
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Congratulations and good luck from your fans. Thank you, mister Hamilton.
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If one of America's greatest newspaper men had not happened to attend a public auction
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on the day his future career was hanging in the balance, he might have
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deserted journalism and become a lawyer. But auctions are difficult to resist, and
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Joseph Pulitzer suddenly found himself the owner of the defunct Saint Louis Dispatch, the
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newspaper which was to start him on the fabulous career that was to make American
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journalism a highly respected and honored profession. Be shuranless. Next Monday, to
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page one, the story of Joseph Pulitzer starring John Hodiac on the Cavalcade of
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America. The music for the debarked Cavalcade is composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster.
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Our cavalcade story was written by Philip Lewis. Gregory Peck may currently be
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seen in The Macumber Affair, a Benedict Bog's production. United artists featured in
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the Guest with mister Peck tonight, where Robert Bailey as Jerry and Betty lou
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Gerson as Agnes. Others included Ken Christy Virginia, Greg Elliot, Reid,
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Beggy Weber, and Francis Hepman. This is John Easton inviting you to listen
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next week to John Hodiac in page one, and in coming weeks you will
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hear Joseph Cotton, Robert Young, Lee Bowman, and other famous Hollywood stars
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on the Cavalcade of America, brought you by the Dupart Company of Wilmington,
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Delaware. Cavalcade of America came to you from Hollywood. This is NBC,
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the National Broadcaster Company. Welcome back. Well a pretty nice procedural story,
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though Gregory Peck's character the poor guy, really didn't get much of a vacation.
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It's somewhat interesting to hear Bob Bailey playing a secondary detective in a crime
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story. Was, of course, at the time this aired in the middle
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of his run on Let George Do It. The main point, of course,
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was to illustrate the utility of the FBI laboratory as well as the training
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that the FBI offered to law enforcement. Inevidently, it succeeded on that count.
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So I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Join us back here tomorrow as
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we'll start off with another Yours truly, Johnny Dollar Cereal. In the meantime,
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send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot Now, follow us
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