 Let every ghost signal remind you that you do go farther with signal gasoline The signal oil program The signal oil company and your neighborhood signal dealer bring you another curious story by the whistler tonight the doctor Operates in crime I know many strange tales Many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows Presently, I'll tell you of nameless terrors of which they dare not speak the whistler will bring you his story in a moment But first for the benefit of those who missed the war production board's recent warning about the tire shortage I'll briefly repeat the facts Because of a predicted shortage of over a million bus and truck tires during the first quarter of 1945 WPB warns there may not be enough new passenger car tires for even B and C book drivers So regardless of what kind of ration book you have your best bet is to use your neighborhood signal gasoline dealer service For keeping your present tires in condition for recapping By inspecting your tires regularly, he can catch and repair small damages before they become serious and ruin the carcass Then when he finds the tread is worn to just the proper stage He can give you a recap job of top quality material packed with thousands of miles of additional wear for your necessary driving However, if you have a new tire certificate Signal dealer still have fresh new synthetic tires to help keep you rolling for the duration And now the whistler from the street. It looks innocent just a plain ordinary two-story dwelling There's a sign over the entrance way. It says dr. Julius J. Weber just that nothing more a Dark lean man his coat button tightly his hat brim pull low Turns into the entrance pauses a moment then pushes a button and opens the door This is doctor's office Sign just said ring and come in can I help you? You're a cutie What's your name? What did you want to see the doctor about? Me I want to see him about me your name, please Make it anything you like. I'm afraid I must have your real name Why perhaps you'd better see another doctor. Oh, no, dr. J. Weber's the guy I want. I'm sorry. No, don't get on your high horse Angelo's the name Anthony Angelo Anthony Angelo Tony to you. I don't quite know when the doctor All right, excuse me. I did not this is mr. Anthony Angelo doctor hi doc. How do you do? Have the eye any more appointments this afternoon. No, this is important doc Angelo Angelo Seems to me. I've heard the name before yeah, I've been getting lots of publicity especially lately That's why I want to see you Come inside Nurse bring along your book. Hey, this is confidential You were at liberty to take your business elsewhere Everybody's touchy around here. Okay. Okay. Let her come along. I mean you may sit here, please That's it Now who recommended me to you guy by the name of James so Friend of yours. I wouldn't say that maybe he did me a good turn perhaps you did some work for him, didn't you? Have you seen him lately? Not for five six months Then how did he manage to recommend me? Well, I wasn't personal grapevine gets around What would you like me to do for you? I Want the works how badly pretty bad I'm hot as a firecracker, and I don't think things will cool off this time You want the complete job of plastic surgery then you're the doctor or anything you say goes I'm glad we understand each other What kind of face would you like? Huh, you mean I could pick my own with certain limitations. I Can change the color of your eyes and hair I can change the contour of your face reshape your nose change the way you walk where I walk I can take every birthmark or scar off your body and replace them with others as well Well now the portions of your body permanent. Yes permanently I Will extract every tooth in your mouth Replace them with plate. Well, what form my choppers don't show there are positive means of identification Identification Yeah, that's right Anything else? Yes, your fingerprints. I will remove them. I will get you shoes which will increase your height and change your gait Kind of thorough who ain't you doc? I have to be Will you get the camera nurse, please? Yes, doctor camera. What for I need various photographs of you for study before I operate I don't want it. I must insist. I never had a picture of me taken yet. You're going to have one now You're quite a one dr. Weber How much is all that's going to cost me we can come to terms on that I believe and where is this operation going to be performed in my Surgery you will spend about five weeks here in this house Nurse I have you the camera. Yes, would you mind mr. Angelo a few shots of your face, please then your hands torso feet Okay, okay, don't mind me. I'm only the patient This is a big job you've taken on yourself dr. Weber Tony Angelo is a big man in the underworld and what you were planning not only in aiding the forces of evil But of your payment therefore just might have repercussions and What is your fee dr. Weber? Five weeks have elapsed and Tony is ready to go forth into the world newborn So to speak and you haven't mentioned your fee yet better go easy Tony Angelo is hard. He's tough You think about that while you're unwrapping his bandages a faithful moment, isn't it Tony? I'll take that nurse. All right doctor. Thank you There you'll find that the slight scars will vanish in a short time. Let's have a mirror. Let's have a look here Here you are my nose My face my lips Hey, this ain't me You may go nurse. Yes, and look at my eyes. They're gray And my hair and eyebrows Doc, you're a marvel. It's worth whatever you ask. How much do I owe you? Sit down Tony over there in that chair facing me. Yeah, sure, okay My fee is $1,000 a month for the rest of your life. How much? $1,000 a month You're kidding levity is the furthest thought for my mind at the moment. I Can't pay that much. Yes, you can and you had better I was afraid of something like this Okay, I'm listening there's nothing to tell My fee is $1,000 a month for the rest of your life The completeness of my job works for me as well as for you I'm satisfied you're going to live for a long time How do you know I got that much money to pay on the line? You have you've been investigated. I know what each of my patients can pay There's a sweet racket. You have dr. Weber. I am bringing it to a very successful conclusion You are my last patient. I Am now assured of an income for the rest of my life, which will permit me to live in luxury You mean with my thousand you have enough. That's right And if you have any ideas of not paying forget them Smarter men than you are paying right now. Maybe they forget easier That's what I advise you to do to forget your entire past. I Suppose you know that you can get knocked off any time by whom Any one of your patients Maybe Huey James. How do you know James was a patient? I heard rumors. I wouldn't put much stock in rumors Furthermore Any idea you may have of inflicting injury on me you can discard If I am absent 12 consecutive hours without notification at certain places a Complete file of documentary evidence is presented at the office of the district attorney Very smooth Go ahead doc and if by the 10th day of each month your payment is not in this office Complete evidence on you is sent to the DA It sounds like blackmail call it whatever you wish I'm only ensuring your payment In case you're in doubt as to the extent of my evidence I'll enumerate the things which makes my insurance the best in the world I'm listening. I have a complete set of your former fingerprints and of the impressions made by your fingers now. I Have photographs of you before the operation and while you have been sitting in that chair 30-stick shots have been made through that aperture in the world directly behind me. Yes, right there So Tony Get rid of any idea that my plan is not foolproof. It is There is nothing you can do Nothing Smooth pretty smooth. It's better than that. It's perfect And the reason it's perfect is because I am winding it up now You are my last case You know, I ain't got the foggiest idea what to do about it yet But I'll think it over you do that In the meantime keep sending those checks regularly. I'm through here now That's right. You can leave If anything bothers you come back, but please make it soon because I'll probably be taking a trip Okay, doc I'll be seeing you. Good luck. Tony Mr. Angelo, I got a new name sister sucker By the way, are you in with that guy's racket? Here's your wallet, mr. Angelo Will you let us know what name to use in place of Angelo? Yeah, sure You're a cutie, you know You cut me into the Docs melon. I am the doctor's wife, mr. Angelo Goodbye, mr. Angelo Goodbye nurse for now You were listening to the whistler brought to you by your friend the signal oil company Marketers of famous signal gasoline your best buy today Remember to let every go signal remind you you do go farther with signal gasoline That's a neat little racket. Dr. Weber has isn't it Tony? He has you so tied up. You can't possibly wiggle out of it. Can you or? Maybe you can if you can just think up the right angle Maybe if you can track down some of the others and Compare notes then you may be able to pick up a clue find out something that the good doctor forgot They'll cooperate with you. They're in the same boat as you and two heads will be better than one So who'll it be first? Well, there's only one you even know about here. We James Yes, look up here. We James or the man who used to be here. We James Here we James haven't seen him James he hasn't been around here for months just a spirit against I Heard he got his face lifted and as far as I know ain't nobody seen him since don't even know what he looks like now He's the guy used to wear those English tweed suits and smoke those English cigarettes players wasn't that's right? You don't worry bought those cigarettes. I might be able to track them that way Why sure there's a gas door down the corner. Maybe he can tell you Yeah, now you're getting somewhere Angelo try the cigar store. You're using your head now You have any players cigarettes? No, I yeah Well now wait a minute players Yeah here. I do have one pack left here in the drawer Max Not many people buy these huh? No, I Haven't keeping especially for one customer guess I'm about the only store in town that had one customer, huh? Yeah That one customer wouldn't be Huey James one. Oh, no, no, I haven't seen him for months I used to keep players especially for Huey then he disappeared But it was very funny a few weeks later. This other guy shows up and asked for them He's been coming back regular ever since. Oh, what's he look like? Oh, well now that you imagine it's something like Huey He wore those great tweed English made suits just like Huey And it's something of the same build but the face wasn't like Huey. Oh, no, no, not at all and he had red hair I see Maybe I'll stick around and meet him a fellow player's smoker, you know, oh, no now he won't be coming in again Huh, why not? Oh the cigarette shortage, you know, I can't get players at all anymore He bought out all I had the last time and said he wouldn't be back until after the war and I get more Might need come in just for any kind of cigarette. I doubt it He said he came from clear across the town to get him. I see Okay, thanks Too bad Angelo just when it seemed you were getting on the track the trail and You found out that Huey now has red hair if the player smoker is Huey But where are you going to find one red haired man out of all those in this big city? You try everything you can think of but the trail leads nowhere and the date of your first payment to dr Weber is approaching fast. You've got to do something figure something out forget Huey figure something else out Figure something gotta figure it out If I plug the dock the evidence gets turned over to the cop wait a minute Who turns it over to them? That's right, Angelo now you're thinking again who does turn the evidence of your transformation over to the police If you can get to that guy get him and destroy the evidence You're worried they're over slowly a plan takes form in your mind. Could it work? Could it? Maybe and it's worth a chance. You can't just sit and pay a thousand a month all your life now Can you hello sister? What are you doing back here something wrong? Don't you feel well? I feel okay sister. I want to see the die But what about he's very busy. I know I know but he'll see me I Got something for him. Oh Yes, you're early with it. Aren't you that's good a lot better than being late, isn't it? Yeah? That's just what I figured see in there. Yes, you may go in okay Maybe you better come along you might want to take some more of them notes. Oh Very well Mr. Angelo, Mr. Angelo says he has something for you doctor You're very prompt aren't you? I got something for you dr. Webber, but it's not what you think I get a surprise a surprise yeah Your game is up doc. You won't get a set out of me. Oh Yeah, because I found out who your trigger man is and where he kept the evidence That's right. You get it doc the evidence ain't there anymore. So you've got nothing on me Now if I decide I ain't gonna pay there's nothing you can do about it. I see you I don't believe you Angelo. You're well doc you will Now I'll be running along it's been very pleasant to make your acquaintance See you later sweetheart That's my trick Angelo by the look of your eyes By the look on their faces you figure you pulled it off too Now all you have to do is wait around across the street to see what happens If they take the bait one of them is sure to go see about that evidence and they'll lead you right to it and You don't have long to wait. It's only a few minutes before the doc comes out and hails a taxi You're in one right behind him and you tail him clear across town. You follow him into a swank looking apartment It's easy. He's an amateur at this game and you're an expert you take the stairs He takes the elevator and you're ahead of him all the way When he gets off at the fifth floor you're standing in the stairwell watching he knocks on a door and while you're both waiting You think how neatly your trick worked? He's led you right to the evidence then the door opens and you get a shock Yes, you get a shock because the man who opened the door to Weber wore a gray English tweed suit and had Red hair and you know without anyone telling you it was Huey James Your trick didn't work after all he didn't lead you to the evidence, but he did lead you to your fellow victim Huey James Now's your chance Angelo. You've got them together You've got Weber trapped there and with Huey's help you should be able to worm the truth out of him Go ahead Angelo go on in and start talking I see by your door plate. You're called mr. Peterson Whatever I'm called Becker. I want to talk with you. I'm busy now. All right. You needn't worry Huey. I'm okay My name's not you. Yes, it is. It's not Peterson any more than minds Becker. I Got something to say you'll want to hear Maybe dr. Weber won't maybe you better come in. Yeah, I thought you'd see it my way. Thanks Seems you two have met yes, we have So your information was a trick to try to get me to give away my information wasn't it then never mind about that You did me a favor. I've been looking for this guy for weeks now that I found him here on your last legs doc Angelo I warn you you're playing with fire. You can't scare me now doc once Huey and I get working together We'll break up your racket. Okay. Hey, what is this? Do you mind let me in on what you're talking about? I'll tell you Huey you and I are in the same boat this guy's blackmailing us for our shirt his payment for the operations He gave us if we can get that evidence. He's got cash to waste somewhere and destroy it. We're free. He's got nothing on us We can't stop paying him his hush money I see what you mean You and me together, huh? That's it. We got him here right now. Let's make him talk make him tell us where that stuff is We got ways to make him talk, you know that Angelo I'm warning there. We are doc. Don't move that gun won't help Angelo You're just going to write your own death one. That's what you think and so do I drop it Angelo. Hey Huey You aren't sticking up for him. Listen. Don't let him buffalo you everything was going okay punk, and I wanted to say that way see No dumb punk is gonna come shoot in his mouth off and ruin everything for all of us see Now drop it. I said why you yell a little bit stop it. Don't be a fool Oh Take it easy Angelo take it easy You got a couple of slugs where they do the most harm and there's Huey James lying over there And you can tell from here. He's dead Your bullets did that you're a fool Angelo you came here to get Huey on your side instead you end up by shooting and out with him bumping him off and Maybe getting bumped off yourself Better get out of here while you can still walk before the cops come Weber the doc got away. Here's the door get out. Hurry. Hurry. I'm here in the hall is still alive Not for long The other one's dead. Okay Here's the guy we caught running out of the building take your hands. Oh, what's your name? I'm Julius Weber I'm a doctor. I was just visiting here in the apartment, and I don't see why he He did it. Hey, wait a minute. What did you say man? He did it. I Was coming down the hall he ran out the door shooting. I Got in the way. That's not true. He's lying. He did it. I was just Innocent bystander. That's not true. I tell you he did it. He's Tony Angelo. He's the gangster Tony Angelo That's not Tony Angelo. I know Tony. I tell you it is and how do you know come on speak up, brother? You're staring a murder up in the face. I I Know it's Tony Angelo because I performed the plastic surgery on him. You hear that mister. What have you got to say to that? He's lying. I tell you make him tell you the truth Too late now. He's dead, but No You don't believe him Surely put the cuffs on him Joe Take him down and book him for murder The whistler will return in just a moment with a strange ending of tonight's story Meantime, let's consider for a moment the very important subject of how many miles you're getting for ration gallon of the gasoline You're using Perhaps you're among the 98% of drivers who don't know the answer to that question Then here's a point well worth remembering For years more and more Western drivers who keep close track of their gasoline mileage have been switching to signal the famous Go farther gasoline And what's more important the switch to signal has actually increased since gas rationing and here's why Although certain gasoline ingredients have gone to war signal standards of quality still guarantee you the very finest gasoline that can be made today and Signal still places the emphasis on mileage Naturally, no company today can promise you the same performance you found in pre-war gasoline And we can only hint at the brilliantly improved signal gasoline. You'll be able to buy after victory is won But what you're interested in today is getting the most possible miles from every ration coupon and For that job, you'll find signal go farther gasoline your best buy today Now back to the whistler Well, Angelo and Huey James both dead and the doctor booked for murder Funny thing the police never did believe that he was telling the truth or maybe they didn't care too much especially after they found all the evidence enough evidence to send the doctor up for a good many years for performing illegal operations So Angelo did do a pretty good job of Fixing the doctor the funny part of it was something he never knew that his trick had worked perfectly Yes, the doctor had taken the bait because the police found the doctor's evidence in Huey James apartment It seems Huey was really the brains behind the racket after he'd had his face remodeled by dr Weber he'd Persuaded the doctor that they could run a nice racket with Huey taking the lion's share of it You see blackmail works both ways Huey has as much on the doctor as the doctor had on him was very neat until Angelo came along The moral of the story is of course that a doctor who operates in crime may expect to run his practice into the ground six feet into the ground Next Monday at 9 o'clock the signal oil program will bring you another strange tale by the whistler The signal oil program is broadcast for your entertainment by the signal oil company marketers of signals famous go farther gasoline and motor oil and By your neighborhood signal oil dealer who is at your service daily to keep your car running for the duration The signal oil program produced and directed by George W. Allen with story by Selig Lester and Mervyn Gerard and music by Wilbur Hatch is Transmitted to our troops overseas by the armed forces radio service Bob Anderson speaking for your friend the signal oil company and suggesting once again that you let every go signal Remind you that you do go farther with signal gasoline This is CBS the Columbia Broadcasting System