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Welcome. I'm Eg Marshall.
I am a parcel of vain striving by a mere chance held together.
Sometimes, perhaps, in the silence of the night, when there is a moment for quiet reflection, pause to ask, what is this burning package of desire known as the body?
What is this seething mass of chaotic thought known as the mind?
Think about it. Some of the answers you get will frighten, amuse and astound you. Our mystery drama the Smoking Pistol, was written especially for the Mystery Theater by Sam Dan and stars Howard Da Silva. It is sponsored in part by Buick Motor Division and Anheuser Busch Incorporated, brewers of Budweiser. I'll be back shortly with Act 1.
[00:01:51] Speaker C: Budweiser presents Beer Talk.
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[00:02:07] Speaker B: And the Bud's on ice and nobody.
[00:02:08] Speaker C: Brought a thermometer, go right ahead. It's nothing to get hot about.
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[00:03:13] Speaker F: Ah, Madame Rochas.
[00:03:15] Speaker E: Je vous adore.
[00:03:16] Speaker F: Ah, Madame Rochas. Pour moi, mouz, et tout les femmes.
In France, romance is a national passion.
[00:03:25] Speaker B: So is Madame Rochas.
[00:03:27] Speaker E: Madame Rochas perfume and eau de cologne. There's never been a more romantic fragrance or a more beautiful interpretation of what it means to be a woman. But why wait for him to make.
[00:03:38] Speaker A: A gift of it?
[00:03:39] Speaker F: Discover Madame Hautchas for yourself.
[00:03:53] Speaker E: Sed quis custodiet ipsos. Ask the ancient Roman poet Juvenile. But who is to guard the guards themselves?
Those who watch over us. Those to whom we entrust the right to use the awful power of the state in our name. As you can see, it's not a new problem. For the guards themselves are also human. Which means they are neither better nor worse than the best or the worst of us. This has been a bad day for Detective Lieutenant Harry Reinfield. Quite possibly the worst day he has ever known in his life.
[00:04:31] Speaker F: Harry, I. I don't know what to tell you. I'm so sorry.
[00:04:35] Speaker B: I saw him, Jim.
I just saw him.
[00:04:38] Speaker F: I got hot coffee here.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: He was laying there.
[00:04:42] Speaker F: Let me pour you a cup.
[00:04:43] Speaker A: Here.
[00:04:43] Speaker B: He didn't even look dead.
What's he doing in the morgue?
[00:04:46] Speaker F: I said, here, drink this, Henry. Drink it.
[00:04:51] Speaker B: What's this 21 year old kid doing laying on a slab in the morgue?
He don't even look dead.
[00:04:58] Speaker F: You want to go home, Harry?
[00:05:02] Speaker B: But then you look close and there it is.
[00:05:05] Speaker F: Maybe you should come home with me, Harry.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Just a little black hole.
[00:05:11] Speaker F: Stay with Bell and me tonight, Harry. And get some sleep.
[00:05:15] Speaker B: And it's my fault.
[00:05:16] Speaker F: No, it isn't.
[00:05:17] Speaker B: He was crazy to be a copy. Why do you want to be a cop? I asked him go to college. I told him.
[00:05:23] Speaker F: He went to college.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: Yeah. The day he graduated, he joined the cops. What did he need it for? I gave the department 25 years. Shouldn't that be enough for one family? He could have made something out of himself.
[00:05:35] Speaker F: He made something out of himself.
[00:05:38] Speaker B: Yeah, well, here's how it is. Right now I'm out to get the punk that killed my boy.
[00:05:46] Speaker F: I know how you feel.
[00:05:48] Speaker B: If I have to spend the rest of my life, I'll get him. And Jim, this is between you and me.
Don't expect me to bring him in.
[00:05:55] Speaker F: Harry.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Look at me, Jim. Harry Reinfield. Detective Lieutenant Harry Reinfield, Ace homicide sleuth. That's what it says in the papers.
[00:06:05] Speaker F: There's something you are.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: All those cases I solved. We used to sit around and laugh at the stories they wrote about me, remember? We know what police work is, don't we, Jim? Huh? Don't we?
[00:06:16] Speaker F: Sure, Harry.
[00:06:18] Speaker B: All those cases I solved for the city, for the law, for the taxpayers, for the department.
Well, now I'm gonna solve one for me.
I'm gonna crack one. Break it wide open.
Nothing, nobody's gonna stop me. And when I get my hands on that.
[00:06:33] Speaker F: Harry, sit down.
[00:06:35] Speaker B: Don't you give me orders.
[00:06:36] Speaker F: I'm your superior. I got the right to give you orders.
[00:06:39] Speaker B: Not today.
[00:06:40] Speaker F: Sit down.
We got him.
[00:06:45] Speaker B: You what?
[00:06:46] Speaker F: I said we got him.
[00:06:50] Speaker C: You.
[00:06:51] Speaker B: You brought him in?
[00:06:52] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:06:54] Speaker A: Who?
[00:06:55] Speaker B: Who have you got?
[00:06:57] Speaker F: Well, he was there on the corner of Collins and Maple. A gun in one hand, Jerry's wallet in the other.
Some glassine packets of horse scattered on the ground.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Go ahead.
[00:07:10] Speaker F: Well, what more do you need? What more does the DA have to produce for first degree? It was a drug bust and the punk had a gun. And. And.
[00:07:20] Speaker B: Yeah? Yeah. What's the punk's name?
[00:07:22] Speaker F: Mason. George Mason.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Has he got a sheet?
[00:07:26] Speaker F: Oh, some little stuff. Breaking entry, assault.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Where is he?
[00:07:31] Speaker F: Down in the holding pen.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: I want to look at him.
[00:07:34] Speaker F: Harry, Would that be such a good idea?
[00:07:38] Speaker B: I want to see the punk that killed my son.
[00:07:40] Speaker F: Maybe you shouldn't, Harry. Not now. Not the way you feel.
[00:07:44] Speaker B: Now, I said I'm going down to the tank.
On your feet, punk.
What's your name?
You have a name, don't you?
Okay, that doesn't matter.
So you confessed yet?
Let's hear the answer, punk.
Has he confessed, Jim?
[00:08:10] Speaker F: He won't say a word.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: He won't say a word, huh? Quiet little punk.
[00:08:16] Speaker F: Right?
[00:08:17] Speaker B: So let's go over what happened again.
There's this young undercover cop and he arranges to make a buy from you, right, punk? On the corner of Collins and Maple. You meet, you hand over the junk, he flashes the badge and you pull a gun, right?
Right, punk?
What's the matter now? Answer me.
[00:08:42] Speaker F: He doesn't have to talk, Harry.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: And you pull the trigger. You kill the cop. That's what happened, right, Harry?
[00:08:47] Speaker F: You know the law better than anyone else around here. He doesn't have to say a word.
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Oh, yes, he does. He does. And I'm gonna make him sing the loudest song you ever heard.
[00:08:56] Speaker F: Are you crazy? You can't rough this kid up.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: He's gonna talk, Jim.
[00:09:00] Speaker F: Lay a finger on him and you destroy the case. He'll get away with it. The judge will have to throw it out of court.
[00:09:06] Speaker B: Never gonna get the court, Harry.
[00:09:07] Speaker F: You're crazy.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: No, Jim. He killed my son.
[00:09:10] Speaker F: Put that gun back in the holster.
[00:09:11] Speaker B: Don't try to make me, Jim.
[00:09:12] Speaker F: You're a police officer.
[00:09:14] Speaker B: I'm also a father. That is, I was a father.
[00:09:17] Speaker F: You took an oath to uphold the law.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: There's another law. An older law. An eye for an eye. Now, punk. You're gonna die, Harry. Confess, punk. Don't go to meet Jamaica with a lie in your soul. Don't go with a sin in your heart. Confess now. Confess to me and I'll forgive you and I'll send you out of the world clean.
[00:09:36] Speaker F: You're crazy, Harry.
[00:09:38] Speaker B: Come on, punk. Confess before I pull the trigger.
[00:09:40] Speaker F: Jump him, Carter.
[00:09:41] Speaker B: What?
[00:09:42] Speaker F: Hold it, Carter. Hold on to him. I'll kill him. Hold on to that gun.
[00:09:47] Speaker C: Hand connector.
[00:09:48] Speaker F: Hold on.
[00:09:48] Speaker B: You can't stop me.
[00:09:49] Speaker F: You asked for it, Harry.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Hold on.
[00:09:53] Speaker F: I'm sorry, Harry.
I'm sorry.
Here, Harry, drink this.
[00:10:08] Speaker B: What. What happened?
[00:10:09] Speaker F: Well, we had to subdue you, as the saying goes.
[00:10:13] Speaker B: Subdue? Yeah.
I'd be on the other side of that subdue from time to time.
[00:10:20] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:20] Speaker F: Well, now you know how the other half lives.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: I see. I'm home.
[00:10:26] Speaker F: Yeah.
Carter and I figured it would be best to bring you here. You would have killed that punk.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: I would have.
[00:10:35] Speaker F: Can I give you back your gun?
[00:10:38] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:10:39] Speaker F: Harry, take some time off. You got plenty coming. Do think about it, huh?
[00:10:46] Speaker B: I'll think about it.
[00:10:47] Speaker F: You want to come over the house and stay with Bev and me for a while?
[00:10:50] Speaker B: No, Jim. I'll stay here.
[00:10:51] Speaker F: You shouldn't be alone.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: I know, but I'm going to be alone for the rest of my life.
All right. All right. I hear you.
Yes?
[00:11:10] Speaker A: You're Lieutenant Reinfield.
[00:11:12] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: May I come in?
[00:11:16] Speaker B: Well, I.
[00:11:16] Speaker A: It's. It's very important.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: Important?
I'm sorry, ma'am. I. I can't consider anything as being important today.
I just buried my son.
[00:11:27] Speaker A: I know.
I was at the funeral.
[00:11:31] Speaker C: Well.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: Well, then I'm. I'm sure you know how I feel.
[00:11:36] Speaker A: Not know. But I will.
Because a few months from now, I'll be coming home from my son's funeral.
[00:11:44] Speaker B: I beg your pardon?
[00:11:46] Speaker A: My son is going to die. Everybody says so. That's because everybody says he killed a cop. Look, ma'am, my name is Mason.
Bessie Mason.
[00:11:58] Speaker F: Mason.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: I'm George Mason's mother.
I must talk to you.
[00:12:05] Speaker B: We don't have anything to say to each other. Please, Mrs. Mason.
[00:12:09] Speaker A: Please.
[00:12:09] Speaker B: Look, I don't want to seem impolite or anything like that, but I must ask you to Leave.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: But he didn't do it.
[00:12:15] Speaker B: The evidence speaks for itself.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: I don't care about your evidence.
[00:12:19] Speaker B: Well, what do you want me to do?
[00:12:21] Speaker A: What the city pays you to do. Find the killer.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: The killer's been found.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: My son is innocent.
[00:12:28] Speaker B: How do you know?
[00:12:29] Speaker A: Because he told me.
[00:12:31] Speaker C: Oh.
[00:12:31] Speaker B: Oh, sure, yeah. That makes everything different.
[00:12:34] Speaker A: Your son is a punk in many ways, yes. I can't deny that.
[00:12:38] Speaker B: He's already done time.
[00:12:40] Speaker A: That's a matter of record.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: Once for breaking entry.
[00:12:43] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: And once for assault.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:12:44] Speaker B: And he was innocent those times too, huh?
[00:12:46] Speaker A: No. No.
[00:12:47] Speaker B: So he's not a little angel?
[00:12:48] Speaker A: No, no, he's far from it.
But he's not a murderer.
[00:12:52] Speaker B: Look, lady, I. I just can't stand here and talk to you. You'll have to excuse me.
[00:12:57] Speaker A: Please. Please let me in.
[00:12:59] Speaker B: I.
[00:13:03] Speaker A: Thank you.
[00:13:04] Speaker B: What do you want me to do?
[00:13:05] Speaker A: I've already told you. Find the killer. Now, Lieutenant, you had a good boy. I don't. And it's my fault. I was busy, very busy. His father ran out on me many years ago, and I got a job in personnel. I made something myself, but I guess I neglected George.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: Mrs. Mason, please believe me, I. I can't do anything for you.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Funny how he could always find the wrong kind of friends.
But, you know, no matter what kind of trouble he got into, one thing he never did. He never lied to me.
And he said to me, mother, I didn't kill that cop. I didn't.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Look, Mrs. Mason, let me tell you something. I've had experience in these things. He has to hold on to you. You're all he's got. And so he has to deny it.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: But I believe him.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: And by denying it to you, he denies it to himself because he doesn't want to believe he committed murder.
[00:14:02] Speaker A: I believe him.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: Yeah? Yeah.
[00:14:05] Speaker A: Why don't you believe him?
[00:14:07] Speaker B: Why should I believe him?
[00:14:09] Speaker A: Because you're the best detective on the force.
[00:14:13] Speaker B: Okay, look, Mrs. Mason, I can understand how you feel, but what you're asking me to do is.
[00:14:17] Speaker A: What am I asking you to do? The thing you do best. I read the papers.
[00:14:22] Speaker B: Don't believe what you read.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: Oh, it isn't true what they say, that. That Harry Reinfield is an intuitive detective. That he has a feel for how a case should be.
[00:14:33] Speaker B: Well, that's just newspaper talk, Mrs. Mason. On the basis of information and evidence assembled by the police department, the district attorney has asked for an indictment.
[00:14:42] Speaker C: It's over.
[00:14:43] Speaker A: Have you been fair to me, Lieutenant?
[00:14:47] Speaker B: I don't know what you're talking about.
[00:14:48] Speaker A: I think you Do.
Have you been fair to my son? Of course, he's only a young punk in your eyes, but he is entitled to justice.
[00:14:57] Speaker B: He'll get it in court, but he.
[00:14:59] Speaker A: Isn'T getting it from you.
Now do one thing, Lieutenant. Please assume that. That it wasn't your son who died. Suppose it was just another homicide victim and you were the investigating officer.
Now would you be satisfied?
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Mrs. Mason, I have to ask you to leave.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: All right, all right, I'll go.
But I've asked the question and you have to answer it.
[00:15:27] Speaker B: I don't have to answer to you.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: That's true, you don't.
But you do have to answer to yourself.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: He had the gun in his hand.
[00:15:35] Speaker A: Doesn't deny it.
[00:15:37] Speaker B: He had my son's wallet.
[00:15:38] Speaker A: He doesn't deny that either.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: What's everybody supposed to think then?
[00:15:42] Speaker A: I don't know what everybody's supposed to think.
I want to know what Lieutenant Harry Reinfield thinks.
What ideas are in his head.
What does he see?
I know my son is innocent.
Won't you prove it, Lieutenant?
[00:16:10] Speaker E: In a recent highly celebrated public proceeding, a definition of guilt was requested. And it was said that if a murder has been committed and you see a man near the corpse with a smoke smoking pistol in his hand, it would be reasonable to assume he's the killer. The smoking pistol. That does it, or does it? I'll continue in just a few moments.
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[00:19:38] Speaker E: The victim, a young undercover cop named Jerry Reinfield. The suspect, with a smoking pistol in his hand. Young George Mason, the detective. The victim's father, Lieutenant Harry Reinfield. The case is open and shut. That is, it should be. But the suspect's mother, Bessie Mason, believes her son is innocent. Well, faith can move mountains. Or so we've been told.
[00:20:07] Speaker B: Mrs. Mason, I.
I must ask you to leave.
[00:20:11] Speaker A: All right, I'll go.
Because I know the kind of man you are. Lieutenant, you swore you wouldn't rest until you found your son's murderer.
[00:20:21] Speaker B: He's been found.
[00:20:23] Speaker A: Are you sure?
Are you sure?
[00:20:33] Speaker B: What are your plans, Leona?
[00:20:35] Speaker A: Plans?
I don't know. I haven't made any.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Are you going to?
[00:20:42] Speaker A: I suppose so, one day.
Thanks for taking me to dinner, dad.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Thanks for calling me Dad.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: I guess today it would have been official.
[00:20:56] Speaker B: Yeah.
I'm sorry, Leona.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: A quiet little wedding, that's what we wanted.
[00:21:06] Speaker B: You'd have made a good wife for a cup.
[00:21:08] Speaker A: How do you know?
You've known you such a short time.
Whirlwind courtship that was, Jerry.
[00:21:16] Speaker B: Love at first sight. It's the only kind there is.
[00:21:20] Speaker A: Jerry, he met me at a party on a Friday night. He proposed to me on Saturday morning.
I said yes. Saturday afternoon. Saturday night, he tried to talk me out of it.
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Why?
[00:21:35] Speaker A: He suddenly realized, he said, how dangerous a cop's life can be.
He didn't want me to be a cop's wife.
Especially his wife doing undercover work. He made a lot of enemies.
[00:21:49] Speaker B: Yeah, I know.
[00:21:51] Speaker A: After some pretty good arrests. There were threats made on his life.
[00:21:55] Speaker B: We all get those.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: He tried to talk me out of it, but by then it was too late. I. I was in love with him, too.
[00:22:04] Speaker B: I know how you feel, Leona, but you're only 22. Life has to go on.
[00:22:11] Speaker A: I suppose it does.
[00:22:13] Speaker B: Although I wonder why you think so now. The time will pass.
You'll find another guy.
[00:22:20] Speaker A: I know.
That's why it's so awful.
That night, he.
He was supposed to come over for dinner, and he said, I'm. I'm going to be late. I. I have to meet a fellow all the way across town. Corner of Collins and Maple Collins. And I said to him, jerry, this is confidential. How can you tell me?
He gave me that smile of his and said, you mean I can't trust you, honey.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: I used to tell his mother everything, too. You're not supposed to, you know.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: I was so scared.
It's such a dreadful neighborhood. And he laughed and said, if you're out to make a drug bust, you don't usually go to the high rent district.
One consolation, at least they got the killer.
[00:23:12] Speaker B: Yeah, we got the killer.
The latest manpower allotment.
Allotment? Is that one L or two?
[00:23:32] Speaker A: Two Ls, huh?
[00:23:36] Speaker B: What are you doing here?
[00:23:37] Speaker A: My son goes on trial tomorrow.
[00:23:40] Speaker F: Look, Mrs. Mason, I tried to get.
[00:23:42] Speaker A: You at home, but you're never there.
[00:23:44] Speaker B: Mrs. Mason, I've already told you, there's nothing I can.
[00:23:46] Speaker A: I know what you told me. I've come here to ask you a few questions.
[00:23:51] Speaker B: I'm busy. And besides, there's no questions you should have asked yourself.
[00:23:56] Speaker A: Now, who was your son supposed to meet?
[00:23:58] Speaker B: We know that. A drug pusher, right?
[00:24:00] Speaker A: Not anyone of great importance, just a pusher.
[00:24:02] Speaker B: Your son.
[00:24:03] Speaker A: Let's say it was my son.
Why would my son kill him?
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Because A, your son spotted him as a cop, or B, after my son identified himself, your son decided to shoot it out.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: You're forgetting C, your son's gun was still in his holster. Your son felt safe. Why? Because he knew he was going to pick up a small potato.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: That describes your son, doesn't it?
[00:24:30] Speaker A: But small potatoes don't kill cops.
Why? You know perfectly well if my son was pushing drugs, he'd be part of an organization. You Know they protect their own.
You know that. He would get a suspended sentence, maybe a few months in jail. That's how it usually works out. Why kill?
[00:24:50] Speaker B: Reasonable. Logical. But your son just lost his head.
[00:24:54] Speaker A: My son didn't do it. And your son wasn't there merely to catch a small time pusher. He was being set up.
[00:25:01] Speaker B: By who?
[00:25:03] Speaker A: Am I a law officer? Do I have the resources of the police department behind me?
[00:25:09] Speaker B: Why would my son be set up?
[00:25:12] Speaker A: Well, maybe he was too good a cop. Maybe somebody didn't like him.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: If your son didn't do it, why was he there with a gun in his hand?
[00:25:20] Speaker A: Why don't you ask him?
[00:25:22] Speaker B: The other officers in the case have asked him.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: Then why didn't they listen to his answer? Really? Listen, Mrs. Mason, you know I'm right.
[00:25:30] Speaker B: What do you want from me?
[00:25:31] Speaker A: Why are you angry?
I'm just a mother, and not a very good one. Now, all I know is my son tells me he's innocent, and I want to believe it. I want to believe it.
[00:25:44] Speaker E: Now, look, now, it's all right.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: I'm sorry I bothered you.
Please excuse me.
[00:25:57] Speaker B: Okay, Pete. I'll bang on the door when I want to see you.
[00:26:01] Speaker F: No. God, don't leave him in the cell with me. He'll kill me.
[00:26:03] Speaker B: Ah, shut up. See you later. Pete.
[00:26:06] Speaker F: Don't go. He'll kill me.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: I said shut up.
[00:26:10] Speaker F: Well, what do you want?
[00:26:13] Speaker B: The truth, punk.
[00:26:14] Speaker F: I. I got a name. It's George. George Mason.
[00:26:18] Speaker B: To me, you're still a punk.
[00:26:20] Speaker A: You.
[00:26:21] Speaker F: You can't kill me.
[00:26:22] Speaker B: I'm not gonna kill you.
[00:26:24] Speaker F: What do you want from me? What are you doing here?
[00:26:27] Speaker B: Your mother wanted me to talk to you.
[00:26:29] Speaker F: My. My mother?
You mean my old lady asked you to come here?
[00:26:35] Speaker B: And I'm doing this for her sake.
[00:26:37] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:26:38] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:26:38] Speaker F: Bessie's still a good looking dame, ain't she?
[00:26:41] Speaker B: I'm gonna let that pass, but don't press your luck.
[00:26:44] Speaker F: Ah, she's cut up about me. Well, it's the only time.
[00:26:50] Speaker B: What do you mean, it's the only time?
[00:26:51] Speaker F: She never knows I'm alive except when I'm in jail.
[00:26:54] Speaker B: Is that so?
[00:26:55] Speaker E: Yeah.
[00:26:56] Speaker F: She's a very busy dame, you know. Works at a big important job, runs with big important guys.
[00:27:03] Speaker B: Look, I'm not here to talk about her. I want to talk about you.
[00:27:07] Speaker F: She always gets guys that do things for her. I. I don't care what it is. You know, even something like this. Well, look, you're here.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: What happened that night?
[00:27:17] Speaker F: You wouldn't believe a word.
[00:27:19] Speaker B: Well, tell it to Me, then.
[00:27:20] Speaker F: I already told it a hundred times.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Make it 101. Let's start with what we've got. You were on Collins and Maple, huh?
[00:27:27] Speaker F: Yeah. You know, Collins and Maple. It's a. It's a place for all kinds of, you know, weird characters.
[00:27:34] Speaker B: And you were looking for some loose change, huh?
[00:27:36] Speaker F: I'm coming down Maple, and just as I get to Collins, I hear voices.
[00:27:41] Speaker B: Voices? Saying what?
[00:27:43] Speaker F: I don't know. Just voices. I. I can't make out the words. Anyhow, I. I hear a shot and I hear steps running off, and I. I hear somebody moaning. So I. I go around the corner, and it's dark. I. I see someone laying on the ground. I bend down. He's dead, huh?
[00:28:01] Speaker B: How did you know he was dead?
[00:28:03] Speaker F: You can tell when somebody's dead. So I figured, why does he need his wallet? Where he's going, he don't need nothing. So I reach inside his jacket, and there it is.
[00:28:13] Speaker A: So now.
[00:28:14] Speaker F: Now I hear footsteps coming around Maple, see? And I get scared. There's. There's this pistol laying on the ground. So like a chump, I pick it up. Maybe I need it, you know? And the next thing I know, there are these two guys pointing guns at me, and they yell, freeze. Police officers.
And that's a story?
[00:28:34] Speaker B: Yeah, some story.
[00:28:36] Speaker F: I told you, you wouldn't believe it.
[00:28:39] Speaker B: Go back to the voices.
[00:28:40] Speaker F: Now, I'm not even sure they were.
[00:28:43] Speaker B: Voices, but what were they?
[00:28:45] Speaker F: Then when you're walking down the street, minding your own business, you hear, like, a hum of, you know, maybe people talking. Who pays attention?
[00:28:56] Speaker A: And then, bang.
[00:28:56] Speaker F: The shot.
[00:28:57] Speaker B: You say you heard footsteps running off. Did you see anybody?
[00:29:02] Speaker F: By the time I turned a corner, whoever it was got away.
[00:29:06] Speaker B: What did the footsteps sound like, for crying out loud?
[00:29:09] Speaker F: What do footsteps sound like?
[00:29:11] Speaker B: Were they heavy footsteps? Did it sound like it was a big guy, heavy step?
[00:29:18] Speaker F: Oh, I see what you mean. No, no, they wasn't heavy. They.
They were light.
[00:29:25] Speaker B: Light?
[00:29:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:29:26] Speaker F: You could almost picture a guy to, you know, by the sound of the foot.
Yeah, yeah, I see what you mean. Yeah.
[00:29:34] Speaker B: Okay, get over it. How do you picture this guy?
[00:29:37] Speaker F: Well, no, no, wait a second. Wait a second.
I don't picture him as a guy at all. It was a dame.
[00:29:46] Speaker B: A dame?
[00:29:48] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:29:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:29:49] Speaker F: But listen, when a dame is running down a sidewalk, a dame with heels, you know, it makes it sound like.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Rap, tap, tap, click, click, click, you know?
[00:29:57] Speaker B: A dame, huh?
[00:29:58] Speaker F: Yeah.
[00:29:59] Speaker B: Why didn't you say this before?
[00:30:01] Speaker F: Nobody ever asked me before. Who believed me?
[00:30:03] Speaker B: You.
[00:30:04] Speaker F: Do you believe me? Or you just trying to score some points with the old lady?
[00:30:09] Speaker B: I think it's time I got out of here.
[00:30:18] Speaker F: Harry. We were all through this. We went over it with his partners, Carter and Fordyce. He said to them, I'm making a contact at Collins and Maple, 9 o'clock. They were there to back him up. They had to keep out of sight. They saw him go around the corner. Then they heard the shot. When they got to him, he was on the ground. And the punk, this George Mason, was standing there with the gun in his hand.
[00:30:47] Speaker B: And they didn't see anybody else? Didn't hear anybody else.
[00:30:49] Speaker F: You want to ask him again, he'll get the same answer.
[00:30:53] Speaker B: The punk says he heard someone running away.
[00:30:55] Speaker F: Oh, sure. What's the matter with you, Harry? Surely reacting to your son's deaths, suddenly this. This concern for the killer.
[00:31:06] Speaker B: Who says he's the killer, Harry?
[00:31:08] Speaker F: You're talking to me. He was standing there with the smoking pistol.
Now we're satisfied he did it. So is the da. In a matter of weeks, so will nine judges and a jury.
[00:31:21] Speaker B: Yeah, well, maybe I'm not satisfied.
[00:31:24] Speaker F: It can be a problem if your attitude becomes known, Harry.
Well, once he's acquitted, that's the ball game.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: I'm not sure of anything anymore.
[00:31:34] Speaker F: Ever since Ruth died, your son has been your whole life. I know that. And now suddenly he's gone and you've got nothing and nobody.
[00:31:48] Speaker B: That has nothing to do with it.
[00:31:49] Speaker F: This Mrs. Mason is a very good looking woman.
[00:31:53] Speaker B: And that has nothing to do with it.
[00:31:54] Speaker F: You sure about that? You're lonely, Harry.
[00:31:57] Speaker B: She means nothing at all to me. Nothing. I got a. I got a hunch about this case, Harry.
[00:32:03] Speaker F: The two of them, the punk and his mother, they could be working this together. Playing you for a sucker.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe.
[00:32:11] Speaker F: Will you admit it's possible?
[00:32:12] Speaker B: Oh, everything's possible. Everything's possible.
[00:32:14] Speaker F: All right. All right. What are you going to do?
[00:32:19] Speaker B: I'm going to nail it down.
[00:32:21] Speaker F: How?
[00:32:22] Speaker B: I don't know yet. I've got a hunch, and as far as it goes, it's crazy, but I'm going to run it down. All the way down.
[00:32:36] Speaker E: As it stands right now, the District attorney has a good enough case to get a verdict of murder in the first degree against George Mason for the murder of Officer Jerry Reinfield. He had the smoking pistol in his hand. Why shouldn't Lt. Harry Reinfield be satisfied with that and let the law take its course?
Why, I'm sure we'll find out in Act 3.
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[00:36:08] Speaker E: The World According to Lt. Harry Reinfield is a place of feelings and hunches. Yes, people do pay lip service to something known as Facts. But there's nothing factual about the truly important things in our lives.
Do we consider facts when we love?
Do we look for facts when we hate? Do we require facts to support what we believe?
And what is a fact anyhow? Do any two people look at the same so called fact in exactly the same way?
[00:36:44] Speaker F: You busy, Harry?
[00:36:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:36:48] Speaker F: Doing what?
[00:36:49] Speaker B: I'm looking through this file.
[00:36:52] Speaker F: Which file is that?
[00:36:53] Speaker B: The threat file.
[00:36:55] Speaker F: What for?
[00:36:57] Speaker B: These are all the letters we get threatening to kill cops.
[00:36:59] Speaker F: Harry, this is stuff written by nuts.
[00:37:02] Speaker B: Who else commits by murder?
[00:37:04] Speaker F: Harry, this thing is so obvious. George Mason has to be the killer. What are you doing to yourself?
[00:37:12] Speaker B: This is how I work.
[00:37:14] Speaker F: Is this the theory we're going on now? Some nut sends a letter threatening to kill a cop, then he sets Jerry up.
[00:37:22] Speaker B: We're just following a certain line of inquiry and seeing where it leads us.
[00:37:26] Speaker F: Oh, yeah? Well, let me know when you get there.
[00:37:32] Speaker C: Look at this.
[00:37:34] Speaker B: A plain piece of white paper. Neat, clean and type. Very good typing, huh? Fresh black ribbon.
[00:37:41] Speaker F: So what?
[00:37:43] Speaker B: Your average nut letter is typed badly on an old machine with hardly any black at all on the rib.
[00:37:47] Speaker F: You still haven't told me what this proves.
[00:37:50] Speaker B: The strike on each letter is even.
And this was done by a typist.
[00:37:55] Speaker F: Okay, nuts who know how to type. So what?
[00:37:58] Speaker B: But listen to this. I intend to get even with you for what you did to someone I love more than anyone else in the world.
What was done to him will be done to you.
And that's it. That's all of it.
[00:38:14] Speaker F: And somebody wrote that kind of note to Jerry?
[00:38:16] Speaker B: No, it's addressed to me. To you see, Lieutenant Harry Reinfield.
[00:38:26] Speaker F: Okay, for the sake of argument, somebody's out to get you. So they call to set up a trap. But the call goes to the wrong Rhinefield. To your son Jerry instead. So it's mistaken identity.
[00:38:40] Speaker B: If I could only find the machine on which this was typed.
[00:38:42] Speaker F: Oh, sure. There are only a million typewriters in the city.
[00:38:51] Speaker A: Look, Lieutenant, I told you I couldn't.
[00:38:54] Speaker F: Make out what them voices were saying.
[00:38:56] Speaker B: Now just relax.
You're not giving me any help.
The voices now, they were low.
[00:39:04] Speaker F: I could hardly hear him.
[00:39:06] Speaker B: Well, what did you hear? Just be quiet. Don't say a word. You're walking down the street at night.
It's dark, deserted.
You approach the corner, you're aware of voices.
[00:39:21] Speaker F: I. I told you I be quiet.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: Why do you say you heard voices?
[00:39:27] Speaker A: Because.
[00:39:28] Speaker B: Come on, tell me.
[00:39:30] Speaker F: Because.
[00:39:31] Speaker B: Why do you say voices? Why not noise from a truck or one of the dog bargain?
[00:39:36] Speaker A: Because.
[00:39:37] Speaker F: Because they were human voices. I mean, people.
They were saying words.
[00:39:44] Speaker B: What words?
[00:39:46] Speaker F: I don't remember. There's no way I can remember.
[00:39:49] Speaker B: Don't quit on me now.
[00:39:50] Speaker A: I wasn't paying attention.
[00:39:52] Speaker B: Maybe you don't remember the words. Can you remember how they were said?
[00:39:55] Speaker F: How they were said?
[00:39:57] Speaker B: Yeah. Did it sound angry? Like an argument?
[00:40:00] Speaker F: An argument?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I think so.
[00:40:05] Speaker B: Why?
[00:40:07] Speaker F: It sounded like a fight? Yeah, yeah.
One word. I can remember one word. Crazy.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Crazy?
[00:40:15] Speaker F: Yeah, that was the word. No, the two words. You're crazy.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: And then the shot and the dame ran away.
[00:40:22] Speaker F: I mean, I heard what had to be a dame's footsteps running away.
[00:40:26] Speaker B: You heard him say you're crazy?
[00:40:28] Speaker F: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now that I concentrate, that's. That's what I heard. But don't. Don't ask me to remember anything else. That was all I heard.
[00:40:37] Speaker B: It's enough.
The question is, what did I ever do to anybody that would make some dame want to kill me?
[00:40:48] Speaker F: Harry, where are you getting all this?
[00:40:51] Speaker B: From the note. The note was written by a woman.
[00:40:53] Speaker F: How do you know?
[00:40:54] Speaker B: We agree it was done by a professional typist, huh?
[00:40:56] Speaker F: Well, there are plenty of men who are professional typists.
[00:40:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But George Mason says he heard a woman's footsteps.
[00:41:03] Speaker F: If I were in the spot George Mason's in, I'd say anything.
[00:41:06] Speaker B: Work with me on this, will you? What did I ever do to anyone that would make some dame want to kill me? Now, this note was received on April 18, which means that whatever it was, it happened before that date. Now, what did I do?
[00:41:21] Speaker F: It beats me.
[00:41:23] Speaker B: You were the one who said it could have been mistaken identity. Someone's out to get me. They call me to set me up. Except they get Jerry by mistake. So this dame meets Jerry and says, lieutenant Reinfield, I'm going to kill you. Or something like that. And she has the gun, and Jerry says you're crazy. That's what George Mason heard. The question is, whose husband or whose boyfriend did I kill?
[00:41:48] Speaker F: You didn't kill anybody, Harry.
[00:41:50] Speaker B: Yeah, I know that. In all the years on the force, I never had to fire a single shot. But whose husband or boyfriend did I send up for life or who died on account of me?
[00:42:00] Speaker F: You better forget that letter and the file and let justice take its course.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: Lieutenant.
[00:42:13] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, hello, Mrs. Mason.
[00:42:18] Speaker A: I've just come from the courtroom.
The jury will find him guilty.
[00:42:23] Speaker B: Mrs. Mason, I. I've done what I could.
[00:42:26] Speaker A: Have you?
[00:42:27] Speaker B: What more do you want?
[00:42:29] Speaker A: I don't want my son to pay for a crime he didn't commit.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: I'm going to tell you something, Mrs. Mason. You can take this any way you like. I didn't have to do anything at all. It wasn't my case, you understand. You talked me into trying to open up something that was already closed. As far as the department is concerned.
[00:42:46] Speaker A: I thought you were proceeding out of a sense of duty.
[00:42:48] Speaker B: Oh, that's just conversation.
Look, I went as far as I could, and it wasn't easy. What I'm doing could be prejudicing the state's case against your son.
[00:42:59] Speaker A: Well, our lawyer doesn't seem to be getting much mileage out of that.
[00:43:03] Speaker B: I don't know why I'm doing this.
Am I doing this because you're an attractive woman?
[00:43:09] Speaker A: We're very much alike. In certain ways. We go by intuition. I follow mine all the way. And usually you go all the way with yours.
[00:43:19] Speaker B: Except this time, I don't know what you're talking about.
[00:43:22] Speaker A: Now, don't fence with me.
Are you protecting somebody?
[00:43:26] Speaker C: Who?
[00:43:27] Speaker A: You tell me.
Now, there's one last question.
What would you do as a matter of routine in an ordinary case that you haven't done here? Here?
[00:43:38] Speaker B: Nothing. I've done absolutely everything. I. I've.
[00:43:42] Speaker A: Yes? What?
[00:43:44] Speaker B: Well, it's not important here. What?
[00:43:45] Speaker A: What? What's not important?
[00:43:47] Speaker B: Well, going on the theory that your son is innocent.
Who knew my son would be on that street corner? Well, nobody.
[00:43:56] Speaker A: Nobody.
[00:43:57] Speaker B: Well, his two partners. I eliminate them.
[00:43:59] Speaker A: Nobody else.
[00:44:01] Speaker B: There was nobody else?
[00:44:03] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:44:05] Speaker B: There was somebody else.
[00:44:07] Speaker F: Who?
[00:44:08] Speaker B: Oh, that's impossible. That's impossible.
[00:44:11] Speaker A: Is it impossible, or do you want it to be impossible?
[00:44:16] Speaker B: Mrs. Mason, I need your help. Here, read this note.
[00:44:22] Speaker A: I intend to get even with you for what you did to someone I love more than anyone else in this world. What was done to him will be done to you.
[00:44:34] Speaker B: Now, why do I believe that Jerry was killed by mistake?
Maybe that was how the killer wanted to get back at me.
[00:44:41] Speaker A: Who's the killer?
[00:44:43] Speaker B: The one who typed this note. Now, if the person who knew where Jerry was going to be that night also had the machine on which this was typed, I'd broken the case.
Are you still willing to help?
[00:45:03] Speaker A: Yes. I'm sorry to ring your bell this late. I just moved into the building.
Do you have a typewriter? Yes. Why? Well, miss. Oh, I see your name is Lewis. Leona Lewis. Ms. Lewis. My name is Smith. Mrs. Smith, I have to fill in this lease form and drop it off to the landlord's office first thing in the morning, and my typewriter broke down. I know it's an imposition. Oh, it's all right. Come on in.
See, I have an electric and. And when something goes wrong, there it is on the table. You don't have to take it out of the case. Oh, thank you.
Oh, I see you're packed. Are you moving? Yes.
Going back home.
Home? The Midwest.
There's nothing here for me anymore.
Oh, this is a very good machine. I keep it that way. Learned it from my father. He was a first class machinist. Was?
Yes. He died. Oh. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that.
Was he ill?
He had a sickness there's no cure for.
Have. Have we met before? I don't think so. You look familiar. What was.
What was the sickness? A broken heart.
You see, my brother had been sent to prison. Oh, that's awful. And my brother died there in an accident. Oh, I wish I knew why you look so familiar. I know I've seen you somewhere recently. Oh, Finished. Thank you very much, Ms. Lewis. When my brother died, it killed my father.
The grief was too much to bear. Well, I understand, but those things can't be helped. Oh, don't say that. I was able to help it.
Really? Yes, very much.
Wait.
Now I know where I've seen you before.
Your name isn't Smith. It's Mason.
Your picture is in tonight's paper.
Your son is on trial for the murder of that cop. Don't say that cop. He was your fiance. So that's why you wanted a sample from my typewriter. Yes. Then I've got it. Well, you won't keep it. I don't see how you could. Can. Can take it from me. I can. Just don't make me use this. Now, shooting.
Shooting won't. Won't help you. Oh, it'll help me. No, no, no, you can't. You can't kill me. I won't have to. You see, first you will place that paper you typed on the table. That's it. And now you will walk into that closet. It's not going to help. It's weird. Know that you killed Jerry Reinfield? Who knows? You. What can you prove? I'll destroy the paper. I'll lose the typewriter where no one can ever find it. And it all comes down to your word against mine. Why? Why did you kill him? The idea was to kill him so his father would know how. It was with my father. But he must have been a nice boy. Yes. That's why I had to kill him quickly. I was.
I was starting to fall in love with him. Okay, now get into that Closet. Open the door.
Inside.
And now get out of here.
Get rid of the gun and the typewriter.
[00:48:44] Speaker B: Hello, Leona.
[00:48:53] Speaker E: Hello, Leona, says Lt. Harry Reinfield. Of course. Goodbye, Leona. Might be more appropriate. I can inform you that Leona Lewis was found mentally disturbed and is serving an indeterminate sentence. I shall return shortly.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: I guess I'm lucky. My family's always been healthy. Oh, a touch of constipation now and then, but we've got ex lacs for that.
[00:49:18] Speaker C: When you need a laxative, shouldn't your.
[00:49:20] Speaker F: First choice be the one more families.
[00:49:22] Speaker C: Buy than any other?
[00:49:23] Speaker F: That's today's XLax.
[00:49:25] Speaker C: Families like the chocolatey taste.
[00:49:27] Speaker F: You'll like the way XLax works gently.
[00:49:30] Speaker B: Overnight for relief in the morning.
[00:49:32] Speaker E: Next time, make gentle chocolate egg slacks, your first choice for occasional use only as directed.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: We've always been healthy, and XLax is part of that.
[00:49:43] Speaker E: What's for dinner?
[00:49:44] Speaker D: Has an old, old familiar ring.
Where does a mother go for the best of everything?
[00:49:53] Speaker F: What's for dinner?
[00:49:55] Speaker C: The family wants to know.
[00:49:58] Speaker F: Who's got the answers? Who's got the most to show? Shop Right hand.
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[00:50:43] Speaker C: In Italy, we celebrate many traditional holidays and feasts. There is Capodano to bring in the new year Festa di San Giuseppe, in honor of St. Joseph and Carnevale, what you call Mardi Gras. And then there is my favorite Italian tradition, Corvo. Corvo is not the holiday. Corvo is a wine, and it has been an Italian tradition since 1824. That is when the Duke of Salaparuta began producing Corvo on his estate near Palermo. Today, Corvo red and Corvo white wines are enjoyed up and down the entire Italian peninsula. And now Corvo wines are available in America too, in fine Italian restaurants. So the next time you go out for an Italian dinner, enjoy it in traditional Italian style with Corvo. Ask for Corvo at the store where you buy wine, too. Corvo, the wine that's been an Italian tradition since 1824, imported by Paterno. Imports, Chicago, Illinois.
[00:51:52] Speaker E: Well, now you talk about facts. And yet wasn't it Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes himself who said the decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise? Yes, it was. And so what you should do is follow your own subtle intuition and attend us here on this spot on your dial.
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[00:52:52] Speaker D: Tonight's WR Mystery Theater was also brought to you in part by shoprite Supermarkets, where you get a lot more for a little less. Preceding program is furnished by CBS Radio. This is WOR New York and RKO General Station. It's 8:00. Here's John Wingate with the news.
[00:53:09] Speaker C: For New York City. Bus and subway service cutbacks. Telephone company nixed on rate increase. Carter names two it's 30 degrees, that's minus 1 Celsius in clear mid Manhattan Weather Watch Outlook clear and breezy, but not so cold as last night. Low in the upper 20s.
Hi, John Wingate with the 8:00 report from WOR News. This includes the nightly column, the Financial Review. The New York Transit Authority has announced it plans a series of bus and subway service cutbacks beginning January 1st. The TA will try to trim $30 million in expenses over the next 18 months. The savings are required by the Emergency Financial Control Board to balance the budget. The TA will lay off 181 former city and Housing Authority policemen who have been working as change booth clerks. Subway service reductions will include elimination of the IRT Bowling Green South Ferry shuttle in Manhattan, the BMT Franklin Avenue shuttle in Brooklyn and independent AA service in Manhattan. Services will be trimmed during late night hours on the double G, N and B trains. Instead of operating 10 car trains during non rush hours. Train lengths will be reduced during off periods to four, six or eight cars to save money on power and car maintenance. There will also be increased headways between buses ranging from an extra 5 to 20 minutes during non rush hours on most routes in the five boroughs.
The State Public Service Commission has thrown out New York Telephone Company's request for a 393 million dollar rate hike, telling the phone company to back up its figures better. The commission ruled the documents filed by the phone company last month did not contain enough information to judge the case properly. Phone company had filed a pile of documents one foot thick. The PSC ordered the phone company either to cancel its request for a rating Greece or to agree to postpone further action until it supplies additional information.
Yet another investigation underway involving the flu vaccination program. WR's Ed Nash has that story.
[00:55:19] Speaker F: Several states, including New Jersey, have started an investigation to determine if swine flu shots can cause Guillam Barre syndrome. This syndrome affects the nervous system. It can cause partial but temporary paralysis.
Six cases were found in New Jersey last month and four of these involved persons who had received flu immunization.
About 25 cases in various states are under investigation by health departments and the Federal Disease Control Center. The New Jersey Health Department has notified all doctors in the state that the investigation is underway. The department is seeking information on all cases that were diagnosed during the past two months or any that may occur during the next three months, whether or not the patient had been immunized. This is Ed Nash, WOR news.
[00:56:18] Speaker C: Convicted killer Gary Gilmour ordered his attorneys today not to fight his execution. They in turn asked Utah's 4th District Court to dismiss a petition which sought to have Gilmour's death sentence tossed out on the grounds it was not imposed quickly enough. At the same time, Gilmour's mother asked the US Supreme Court to reconsider its decision yesterday, which lifts the say of execution for Gilmore Wor. 7:10 news. Time is coming up on four minutes past 8:00. Have you heard, I wonder, about the wonderful new life at the Cupola, a very attractive senior citizens facility in Paramus, N.J. at the Cupola, all living suites are private, each kitchenette equipped and available either furnished or unfurnished to suit your particular taste. There are gift, barber and beauty shops, card and game rooms, libraries and theater, maid service seven days a week, many planned activities, three superb daily meals from a diversified venue, a fully staffed infirmary and convenient shopping in the Paramus Ridgewood area. The Maloney family, owners and managers invite you to visit the Cupola. Talk to the people who are living there and I think you'll agree this is the ultimate in senior citizen living. The Cupola is at West 100 Ridgewood Avenue in Paramus, 15 minutes from the George Washington Bridge. Call 201-444-H200 or write to me for a full color brochure. The Cupola make the next years the very best years of your life.
President Elect Carter has added two more names to his Cabinet list, announcing the appointment of businessman economist Michael Blumenthal as Treasury secretary and Congressman Brock Adams of Washington State as transportation boss. Carter said both men had intense and complete knowledge of their areas. Carter told an Atlanta news conference that the economy is in worse shape than he anticipated three or six months ago. He said he will confer with his economic advisers on plans to stimulate the economy, but added that he leans to job opportunities.
At his afternoon news conference, Carter revealed that former IBM Vice President Jane Pfeiffer is asked not to be considered for a Cabinet post. There had been widespread speculation that Mrs. Pfeiffer would be named commerce secretary. President Ford told leaders of Congress today he might approve a pay raise for high ranking federal officials and members of Congress. The raise, perhaps as high as 40%, would go to the top 2500 people in government. Mr. Ford said he would not like the raise coupled with a new code of ethics on the disclosure of outside income.
Pentagon sources report that a select commission headed by former astronaut Frank Borman has urged the speedy readmission of cadets who left West Point in the recent cheating scandal.
Stock MARKET story to come wor 7:10 news time six minutes past 8:00. She's promised to reimburse the emergency fund as soon as the lottery begins.
Bing Crosby will sing White Christmas on the steps of City hall tomorrow as Mayor Beam lights the city's official Christmas tree. Crosby's wife, Catherine, will also take part in the public ceremony tomorrow afternoon at 4:30.
An inmate sentenced to a cleanup detail at a Brooklyn criminal court mopped his way to freedom this morning. The man, 28 year old Oliver Wendell Stevens, mopped his way down the hall to an open courtroom, mingled with the crowd and then made his escape. Stevens had only a month and a half to go on his six month sentence for petty larceny and bail jumping. One prison spokesman said he may just have wanted to go home for the holidays.
A State Supreme Court jury in Albany has been has begun deliberations in the corruption and larceny trial of Assemblyman Alan Hochberg, chairman of the Assembly Ethics Committee. Earlier today, the jury received a two hour charge from Judge William Crangle. Hochberg is accused of trying to buy off a primary challenge in his Bronx assembly district by offering a job and political support to his potential opponent.
The Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade announced today that it will seek a 13% fare increase for New York City taxi rides. Spokesman for the organization of 54 taxi fleets said it will ask that the initial charge for a cab ride be raised from the present 65 to 75 cents and the subsequent charge be 10 cents for each 1/7 of a mile instead of the percent 10 cents for 1/6 of a mile. Spokesman said the hikes would raise the cost of the average 2.4 mile cab ride from the present $2.30 to $2.60 the fare increased. Requests follow a tentative agreement between the cab owners and the taxi drivers.
We'll have moderating weather to come and of course, the night's headlines wor 710 news time 12 minutes past 8pm my.
[01:01:22] Speaker E: Name is Rene Charbeau and here in France, my vintage Charbeau champagne is so highly regarded it cost about as much as Piper Motion Moet or Mum. Ah, but prices change when champagne leaves France for the Piper Moet or Man. To get to America, they go through large importers who mark up the price substantially, then to distributors who add at least another 20% and finally to your store. But Charbot is shipped directly from my vineyards to my exported director, Monsieur Portier in New York. He then distributes the them to fine wine shops where Charbot vintage champagne is sold for only 8.99, about $5 less a bottle than Piper Moet or Man. Try Charbot and pay only for fine champagne, not for its journey across the Atlantic.
[01:02:15] Speaker B: Charbot, the imported champagne without the importer's profit. Imported by Patrick G. Portier New York, New York.
[01:02:22] Speaker C: Now the weather watch update for New York City and vicinity. Clear and breezy, but not so cold as last night. Low in the upper 20s, partly sunny with moderating temperatures tomorrow. Highs from 45 to 50. Becoming cloudy tomorrow night with a chance of rain late at night or Thursday low tomorrow night 35 to 40 and the high Thursday 40 to 45.
The chance of rain is 10% tonight and tomorrow, increasing to 40% by late tomorrow night. Wind southwest at 10 to 20 miles an hour with some higher gusts tonight.
In mid Manhattan it's clear 30 degrees Fahrenheit minus 1 Celsius. Humidity 47%. Wind is southwest at 12, gusting to 30 miles an hour. We've still got those winds. Barometer 30.25 and it is falling.
The top stories of the hour. New York City Transit Authority announces it plans series of bus and subway service cutbacks starting Jan. 1. Authority says it must trim fat from budget. President elect Carter names businessman economist Michael Blumenthal as Treasury boss and Congressman Brock Adams from Washington State to head Transportation. That's the 8:00 news. John Wingate reporting. Next news on this station. Always the moment it happens, we get there. Next scheduled news. I'll be back at 9:00 tonight.