 The anchor-hawking glass cooperation brings you crime photographer Hi, it's a birdhouse thing. Okay, Casey. Shay Tony was in here and he dropped this car. Let me see That's A-H-T-M-F-N-I-G. I wonder what that means. Here comes Tony now. Hey, wait a minute. Let's see if I can get it Hi, Tony. What does A-H-T-M-F-N-I-G mean, huh? What you don't know? By everybody knows, Casey. Huh? Everybody knows that means anchor-hawking, the most famous name in glass Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Tony Marvin. Every week at this time, the anchor-hawking glass corporation of Lancaster, Ohio And it's more than 10,000 employees bring you another adventure of Casey crime photographer Ace cameraman who covers the crime news of a great city Written by Alonzo Dean Cole our adventure for tonight Queen of the Amazon Late afternoon the Blue Note Cafe the door opens admitting a flurry of snow a blast of freezing air and a very cold Ethelbirds ahead bartender. Well, look who's here. Give me a warmer. I'll be quick. Got any fresh coffee? Sure, Casey. Chili out, huh? Chili. My fingers are dropping off and there's no feeling my feet I think they're gonna drop off. I guess winter's pretty hard on you delicate people. That's you Yeah, this'll make you feel better. Thanks. Thanks. Where's miss Williams? Oh, she's trying to fall out over the office We just finished an 18 mile drive. I thought we both freeze before we get back. Oh, here's miss Williams now Oh, that's a birdie. Hi Annie. Come on sit down. Ethelbird, get her a cup of coffee. Oh, there's no Ethelbird. No can do. Casey We've just been handed another assignment. What? We just got back. No, I didn't know how kind-hearted city We now get back into our nice cold automobile and drive out to a little farm near the Lindenhurst Aircraft plant near Lindenhurst Aircraft. Well, that's 20 miles out and 20 miles back And we cover an attempted burglary and attempted The woman who runs the farm caught the burgers before they could take anything the two eggs are now in cells at the old Turnpike police station. Well, there's no news value and that kind of a yarn certainly not enough to warrant a 40 mile drive in zero Water listen, I'm gonna go up and talk to that murderer that calls himself a city editor I'm gonna tell you what we're gonna have a swell comedy story comedy The two would be burglars took quite a beating from the little farm rats discovered him you see he used to be with a circus Her specialty was bending iron bars into pretzels shape and she was billed as marina queen of the Amazon a circus strong woman Imagine two dopey eggs trying to rob a circus strong lady Yeah, you know, it'll be worth a long cold drive nothing's worth that but let's go Swell businesses new paper rex only dope stick to it Annie my feet are like chunks of ice I can hardly work the brakes in this car. I'll stop crabbing Casey. I'm cold too. Well, yeah Oh, and look for me tuck that blanket around you You know city desks shouldn't have sent you out here in a day like this. Why not? I'm no softy And I'm looking forward to meeting marina queen of the Amazon sounds interesting I was like a homely met the muscle with a personality of a male gorilla. Oh That must be your place Say look if she got a regular name or do we just address her as your majesty queen marina her real name is Millicent Hodges Millicent Looking farmhouse. She has not bad. Well, I turn in and we'll park in the driveway. Oh She's a she's back near those chicken houses that that must be her cases. Yeah Is she big? I guess 62 at least at 300 pounds. None of it fat. I'm gonna stop here She's coming over. Hey Annie, you know something you've got a pretty face kind of a baby face. Yeah Let's get out of here. There's something I can do for you both. Oh, you miss Millicent Hodges We're from the morning express we'd like to get the facts about the trouble you had here today Oh, I didn't have no trouble, mister. That's what them two fellers had who tried to rob me. Yeah, I believe that This is miss Williams. My name is Kate. Please meet you. Hello, Miss Hodges I kind of figured some of your reporters would be getting out here pretty soon Well, I hope you won't mind telling us about what happens. I don't mind like you probably heard I used to be with a circus and my kind of folks never hate publicity But no you talking out here is cold come inside the house where it's wall. Oh, that suits me Fine me too. I like cold bracing jays like this. I think that's the kind of tough on you little people That'll hold you for a while. Okay Oh heat again, this is what Cheers you stole from chef. Oh, here's a nice comfortable one miss Williams. I'll take my knitting off it Oh, you're knitting salt. Uh-huh Gentlemen friends. Oh, I wish I was your gentleman friend miss Hodges Dr. Really keep a guy's feet from freezing. Look at a woolen of Annie and this Hodges knit beautifully. Oh, it is Well, that's right. I ain't ever been married yet But you want to hear how I caught them two bums and knocked their heads together. Yeah Yeah, I'd like to shoot some pictures of you Oh, I hope you don't mind if a pot of my nose and push up my hair first I wouldn't like the circus folks who know me to think I'm letting myself go since I went back to farming When did you leave the circus and you said you went back to farming? After the old folks died and with the war coming on it seemed growing food was more important than weight left in Now you can take my pictures anytime you want to. Oh, I hope I look a little better than I did before you look sweat He's one of them flattering man 80 miss Williams. Well, I've never noticed it Look if you'll sit down and tell miss Williams your story I'll just take some informal shots while you're talking and then that later. I'll ask you to pose for a few. All right Well about them burglars now I left the house to go out to the cow barn which I do it just that time every day Until a week ago. I had a good old watchdog who stayed here while I did such chores But he died suddenly it's something poison. I think. Oh Well, then I got inside the barn I remembered that I clean forgot something so I started to go back for it And what did I see but a couple of strange fellas sneaking into my house for the back door? Well, Mr. Casey you took a picture. Yes, miss. I oh, I hope it didn't look awful Mm-hmm. I snapped it then because I thought you looked especially nice. I don't trust you at all I never lie to a good-looking moment. Oh you are getting back to your story How long do you usually stay in that cow barn? Mr. Harvey at that time a good hour at least well Then if you hadn't forgotten something and going back down tell us would have gotten away with what they tried to do But they didn't I snuck back to the house soft and easy It must have taken me a good 15 or 20 minutes and here with them two burglars trying to bust open the trunk in my Bedroom where they had time to think I grabbed him taught him a lesson and phoned the cops to come and pick up the pieces They were trying to open a trunk in your bedroom. Yeah, come on. I'll show you There and that old circus pop drunk looks more like a steel safe than a trunk Well, it was built special to carry the big weights I used to my axe It's almost as strong as a safe and it's a dog gone good luck on it Take a long time to open that trunk without a key and I always carry that with me you Keep something valuable in that trunk. Well, I'm not any burger could cash in on very heavy I use it for storage. There's mostly just clothes in there and linens This Williams. I am. Well, it's kind of what you call my whole chair I see just because the girl was big doesn't mean she has to die an old maid Well, you're not the old maid type Miss Hodges. I ain't gonna be one either They is that is everything in this room just as it was when you discovered those two men Pretty here the same dresser set looks like silver Eddie Sterling. I want it in the ladies wrestling contest This very handsome Clark that case is solid 18 karat gold. I got it for busting that hammer throw record They were here in plain sight when those men were here just as you see them now Miss Hodges Why do you suppose they didn't take these things instead of trying to open that trunk the cops asked me that and the answer is I got no idea. There's anything in that trunk that it do anyone, but me the slightest bit of good Oh, there's my doorbell. Hey, excuse me. Yes, go ahead Why do you suppose attempted burglary is becoming interesting Annie? Why do you suppose that watchdog was poisoned last week? Why forgotten about that? Ambrose, my darling. Ambrose. I have company. Oh, Miss Williams and Miss Casey. Would you come out here? Miss Hodges. Oh, I want you to meet my my friend. Mr. Higginbossum. How are you? Mr. Higginbossum. How do you do? And Mr. Higginbossum works at the Lindenhurst aircraft He's one of their most valuable men and Miss Williams and Mr. Casey are from the newspaper Ambrose. Oh about the burglary I suppose. You heard about them burglars, Ambrose? Yes Placement told one of the guards at the plant and the guard told me I'm so glad you caught those crooks, Queenie They were trying to get into our trunk dear. I mean they they might have cleaned me out of house and home if I hadn't stopped them Yes, were you and Miss Williams just about to leave, Mr. Casey. Leave? Well, I told you all there is to tell. Oh I've only taken one picture of you, Miss Hodges. Oh, I'll take the pictures of course. I suppose I shoot one of you and Mr. Higginbossum together. No, no, I've had nothing to do with the burglary I mean I can be of no interest to your newspaper reader. Oh, Ambrose is the retiring kind. Mr. Casey Why not have one of us do together, Ambrose? It'll be all right now. No Okay Well, I'll take a few more of Miss Hodges alone and we'll be on our way Then Ann will we'll stop at the old turnpike precinct station and see what the cops have learned about the two men that tried to rob you, Miss Hodges. Why would you do that? Hmm? That's my line of business, Mr. Higginbossum And besides that, I'm a curious guy I Got a headquarters report on the fingerprints of those two eggs just before you and Miss Williams walked into the station here, Casey Yeah One of them is Gus Newton. Gus Newton? Well, he's a notorious safecracker. One of the cleverest box men in the racket. Well, he's always going out for furs and jewelry, big stuff Yeah, he must have been awfully low in the chips to be prowling a farmhouse. Well, did you make him talk any? You can make his kind talk, Miss Williams or guys like the other fella. Who's the other fella, sir? Name's Loder. He has the eye on him for suspected espionage and illegal entry into this country. Hmm Funny, ain't it? Yeah What do you know about a guy named Ambrose Higginbossum, sir? Oh, he's the little shrimp big Queenie's suite on works for the Lindenhurst aircraft. Yeah, that's the guy. Is he okay? He couldn't hold a job at Lindenhurst if he wasn't Doing some hush-hush government stuff there and their employees are investigated pretty thoroughly And why do you ask about him? I was just curious. Oh, what do you know about Miss Hodges, Sergeant Rourke? Plenty, Miss William, and all of it good. Queenie's little weak in the head where men are concerned. Her size makes most guys fight shy of her and she don't like it that way. But a better woman hasn't been made yet. I figured that. Well, thanks, Sarge. I'm along, Annie. We'll do back at the office. Yeah, so long, Sergeant. Drop in again when you're out here in the sticks. Yeah, we will. So long. Oh, boy. Hey, your face is cold again. Me too. After I drop you at the office, Anne, I'll have this trip to make again. Why? Because I'd like to know more about that big trunk of Miss Hodges. We've got to pay her another visit this evening. You mean we'll pay her another visit? No, Annie. I'm making this call alone. Oh, why? Annie, look, Miss Hodges is a gal. When a guy wants to make himself popular in Florida, he doesn't go there with a crate of California oranges. No, once most weddings were in June, but today there are almost as many marriages in January. So if you have the problem of selecting a wedding gift, I'd like to suggest Anchor Hawking's amazing new kind of dinnerware, jadeite. 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No. Good-looking gentleman I met here, Mr. Higginbottom. Gone. Ambrose left just a few minutes ago. I cooked dinner for him. You did? Lucky guy that you're as well-cooked. Yeah, oh, I know how to do a few things besides lifting quarter-ton barbells. I've already guessed that. Pick up your own coat, Mr. Casey. Don't you feel the cold when you go out again? Oh, wait, I've got something in my pocket. I hope you won't think I'm presuming too much and short acquaintance of it. Well, this is for you. That box of it? A few chocolate creams. Hope you like it. Oh, they're my favorite candy. I'm glad. Oh, I suppose you want to take those pictures as soon as possible so you can get back to your office. I'll go pot them a note. Oh, I'm in no hurry. No, no. Matter of fact, I'd like to talk to you while Miss Hodges gets better acquainted. What do you mean, Mr. Casey? Well, isn't often a man meets a woman like you? No, it ain't. I'm a freak, a female giant. Only a few like me in the whole world. But I ain't frameless, Mr. Casey, and not all together. I don't like to be kidded. You ain't signed to kid me, are you? No, Miss Hodges. I figured you, friend. Nice guy. Friends, you don't have to call me Miss Hodges. My friends call me Queenie and we're going to be friends. I know so, Casey. I was trying to put something over on you and you've made me feel like a louse. My cards are face up from this time on. What do you mean by that? I haven't come out here because I want more pictures or because I'm a wolf on the hunt. I'm here to find out what you've got in that trunk that those burglars tried to open. You said to use the trunk for a hope chest. I do. And what business is it of yours, Mr. Casey? There is none. None of my business. I know that. I'm not a cop who has a right to question you. I'm just a newspaper stiff out for pictures and exclusive stories. And you don't have to give them to me. I'm a staff for folks who lay their cards on the table. I'll tell you what you want to know, Casey. Thanks. But learning about that trunk won't give you any big news feed. This has been a secret up to now. Ambrose and I are going to be married. You and Mr. Higginbotham? Uh-huh. Let's make that old trunk born just a hope chest. A full of things I've accumulated for our weddings. Clothes, nice linens, plus a lot of U.S. savings bonds. Ambrose has given me to put away. Saving bonds? Yeah, made out in my name. That's why I told you this afternoon that nothing in the trunk could do a burglar any good. But there's nothing there but clothes and linen and savings bonds in your name? In my name and his. Oh, I'll open the trunk and show you. Come on. Ambrose and I have been having some little arguments about them bonds. You see, he's been giving them to me at least one a week, ever since we got secretly engaged last September. We kept our engagement secret because he was getting a divorce. Oh, divorce? Uh-huh. There's only ten days ago and then to celebrate, he wanted me to let him have the bonds so that he could cash them in and buy me a swell wedding present. Oh, well, just let them bonds stay as they are and draw the interest. They're the only wedding present I want, I told him. But ten days ago you refused to let him have the bonds. Yeah. He was pretty sore about it, and he was sore again tonight because I wouldn't let him have them after them burglars were here. He'll get over his math. I carry the only key that's trunked around my neck. It's kind of precious to me. It's my future, Mr. Casey. Yeah, I understand. Take this out. The bonds are in this compartment in them seals, Manila envelopes. And sealed envelopes? Yeah, Ambrose gave them to me that way so I get a big surprise when they're finally open. You see, I don't know how big those bonds are. Some may be only twenty-five, some may be hundreds or bigger. Queenie, will you open one of those envelopes now? Oh, I couldn't do that. Then I'll have to do it. No, no, give me that. I-I won't let you. You're too late now to stop it. Look, look. It ain't a bond. It's just paper. Draftsman's tracing paper. It's a plan of some kind. It's like only a small section of a plan, like part of an airplane wing. I don't understand. I think I do. Queenie, your Ambrose works in the drafting room of Lyndon Hearst Aircraft. They've been working on jet propulsion planes, and your Ambrose has been tracing blueprints. He didn't dare keep those tracings, so he tricked you into keeping them. When his copying was complete, he tried to get the sections back from you, but you refused to let him have those envelopes, which accounts for the attempted burglary today. Oh, you don't mean that Ambrose- As such as one of the burglars you caught here is a known enemy of our government. I-I can't believe it. Because you're a fool. Ambrose! Hello, Keegan Potter. Put up your hand, both of you. Okay. Put him up, Queenie, or I shoot. All right, Ambrose. Now, stay that way. I saw your car pull up in front of this house tonight, Mr. Casey. I thought it best to stay around. I let myself in very quietly and have been listening. You're selling out your country. You're something I hoped I'd never meet. A traitor. Certain people will pay me well for those plans. And you conned me into helping you. Nobody would suspect you of hiding stolen plans, and it was so easy to make you believe that I was your devoted future husband. Yeah, that was a sin. Until now, Phil, I thought a worm was the lowest thing on Earth. Your opinion doesn't matter to me, Casey, or hers either. In a few minutes, you'll both be very dead, but first I'll, uh, take my savings bond from this crumb. No, you won't! Don't lock it! Don't lock it! Well, work, Queenie. When he hit his eyes on you, I got him. I got that gun I knocked out of his hand. Oh, I ain't bothered with any gun. I just want my hands on that rat. Can you touch me? Help! Markle, Markle! Pull up your hand! I forgot to tell you fools, I had friends outside. Come in, Joe. These Sambros this week had to call for our help. He couldn't handle these people alone. It's Casey Jumpney, Markle. Oh, shit, it killed me. You're a bungler! Do you even let her lock the trunk again? She has a key in her hand. Take it from her, Joe. Yes, Captain. You don't have to take it. I'll give it to her. Here. Captain, it is broken. Usually. I just busted it in pieces for her young. That's the only key there is. A Queenie or some girl. Ambrose. A garage that joins this house. Yes, sir. There's a door into it from the kitchen. You and Mr. Casey will proceed to that garage, Miss Hodges. I ain't going to... They'll get the drop on us, Queenie. Better do as they say. You're correct, Mr. Casey. Both of you, go. All right. Open that door, Ambrose. I will. You ready, Joe? Yes, Captain. Go into that garage, Miss Hodges and Casey. Okay. Joe. Now! Look out, Casey! He's from behind. As long as I help him. Get rope. Find their hands and feet and gag them. Why don't you kill them now, Marko? Get it over. The important thing now is to get those plans. Mark is very loose now, Captain. He is beginning to break free. It has taken a very long time. Die strong, Locke. River dead. To steal. I see them, Ambrose. I put them in my pockets. Now you'll pay me for them. The complete plan is they are ready to assemble. The complete plan, the secret... You will be paid. First, I have another payment to make. Those two in the garage. You mean you're going to kill them now? Yes. Bring that little crowbar, Joe. It will be a quiet instrument of execution. Come, both of you. I'm looking forward to this. That Casey nearly twisted my arm off and quenched it. There will be nothing personal in their punishment, Ambrose. I don't care why or how they get what's coming to them. Just so they don't get it before they can turn me over to the FBI. Joe. You bound them very securely? Yeah. Even the big woman could not get free, Captain. Ah. See? They land the floor just like we let them. Their eyes are open. They have recovered consciousness. That's good. Put away your gun, Ambrose. None of us need such noisy weapons now. You're the boss, Marko. Yeah. Ah! See you guys to come within our reach. I've finished my mark, Queenie. Oh, sorry. We leave something for the cops to take away. Right. Surprise. Am I? How did you get here? Why? Well, we've been waiting for Higgin' Bossam and these guys to come out of the house and walk into our arms. But then when we heard a battle going on in the garage here, it seemed best to cut in. You've done a job on these birds. Wait a minute, Phil. You knew about Higgin' Bossam and the stolen plant? Well, the FBI doesn't miss many vet cases. I'll say they don't. Well, we've been wise little Ambrose ever since he first traced the section of a secret jet plane blueprint and smuggled it out of the Lindenhurst plant. And after that, we made it easy for him to trace and smuggle out sections of the wrong blueprint. The wrong one? That's right. You see, we had an idea that Higgin' Bossam was using this place as a hideout for the false plan. But our real concern was to find the big boys. You mean, you were watching them in this house when I came here? Uh-huh. We saw you come into the house, but we couldn't identify in the darkness. You were an unexpected development that caused us a little worry. Why did you come here? I was sticking my nose into something I might have known you FBI guys have under control. Say, say, Bill, look, I got a camera around somewhere. How about letting me do a job I do know something about? The crowd of the Blue Note in just a moment, but first let me ask you a question. Tell me, are you proud of the coffee you serve? Well, here's a way to make delicious coffee at a moment's notice without fuss or bother of any kind. All you need is a spoon, a cup, and a glass jar. 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After them fellas bound you and Miss Hodges hand and foot, Casey, how'd you get free? Oh, that. There was a car in the garage with old tire chains on the wheels. Old tire chains? Some of the links were worn so thin that the edges were like knives, and that's how we used them. Huh. That queenie must be a swell fella. Oh, yeah. She's aces. Annie, you know what she's going to do? What? She promised to nip me wool socks. Looks like you're going to have some romantic competition, Miss William. As my sister Edna says, quote, in the winter time, the way to a man's heart begins with a pair of warm feet. Unquote. Brian Photographer, starring Stots Cotsworth as Casey, is brought to you each Thursday by the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation. Makers of Fire King Oven Glass. Anchor Glass Containers. Anchor Caps and Closures. All products of Anchor Hocking. The most famous name in glass. Directed by John Deets. The original music is by Archie Blyer, and the program features Miss Jan Minerazan and John Gibson as Ethelbrod. The part of Queenie was played by Hope Emerson, and Herman Chittison is the Blue Note pianist. This is Tony Marvin saying good night for the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation of Lancaster, Ohio, with offices in all principal cities of the United States and Canada. This is CBS, where 99 million people gather every week, the Columbia Broadcasting System.