 This is Conrad Nagel inviting you to stay tuned for the next half hour for one of radio's outstanding dramatic productions on Proudly We Hail Proudly We Hail and now another Proudly We Hail one of radio's outstanding dramatic half-hours transcribe coast-to-coast in cooperation with this station and presented by your army and your Air Force From Radio City, New York. Here is your host and star on Proudly We Hail the distinguished star of the theater screen radio and television Conrad Nagel Thank you, Kenneth Banghard. Hello everyone welcome again to Proudly We Hail our players entitled fair warning And we'll thrill to the chase and watch the hunter and the hunted Our first act curtain will rise in just a moment after this very important message It's new and it may be for you We mean the job of aircraft observer in your expanding United States Air Force It's an exciting new classification If you're between 20 and 26 and a half years of age single with two or more years of college Why not find out how you can become an aircraft observer? Visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station And now with your star Conrad Nagel in the role of Captain Hank McLean your army and your Air Force present the Proudly We Hail production Fair warning They say there's a thin hairline between the normal and the abnormal that all of us walk a kind of metal tightrope Where balance is the determining factor in life This is a story about a man whose balance was good and about another man who had no balance at all a man Whose primary aim in life was to destroy without apparent reason motive or pattern These two men lived in a city whose population was over two million They were completely unknown to each other and yet it became the job of one to find the other before he could Bring death and misery to an unsuspecting metropolis It wouldn't be right to do it without giving them some warning more sporting that way Always one for fair play Right to the newspapers Oh, no, no, no, no, then too many would know they'd all be looking for me Don't want everybody looking Man needs his privacy. I know Right the police Give the hounds fair warning write them once a day for a week and then Let the fools try to catch me Catch me if you can catch me if you can like a game Only I know them the stupid fools they won't believe me They'll go on their plotting way and only after I've done it will they wake up and start looking. Oh Well, I can do it once why the second time It will be even more fun And there's nothing I like better than fun Good clean awesome fun Come in down Hey, Hank, how'd you know it was me? Hello, man. Remind your lieutenant. I have x-ray eyes. Yeah Well focus your x-ray eyes on this Sherlock. Oh, no Not again Now this makes the fourth the same as the others getting monotonous Yeah, they find out anything from the others nothing that leads anywhere Don't sound so cheerful. You know, this could be for real sure So every crackpot letter that comes in here last week. We got one from a birdie. I know I know Tom But look this the fourth This one's exactly the same as the other three and nothing is in the rest. That's all Why should anyone who was really going to pull a job like this tip us off because anyone who would attempt anything? So horrible would naturally have to be mentally unbalanced anyone in that condition might write 60 letters. Oh I'm no psychiatrist. I think we better let Doc Morgan have a look at these things. Maybe he can read something into them We can't I still think it's a lot of hooey, Hank How could he get a hold of this tough to make I don't know the answer to that But I think we better start doing some checking just in case Look get hold of Higgins the lab and get a list of the materials that would go into a thing like this Let me have the report Let me see how this sounds To whom it may concern. This is my fifth letter to you and it is different than the others This is to assure you that being an individual who believes in sportsmanship I am giving you fair warning. I intend to carry out my plan and I'm offering you the Opportunity although I'll admit it a slim one to stop me Sometime within the next 10 days, I shall prove to you how serious I am about all this if I'm in the mood I may write you again tomorrow until then Hank are you gonna sit up there all night in the dark? Hmm. Oh, sorry honey. I thought you'd gone to sleep. No, I've been lying here watching you smoke one cigarette after another You'll stunt your growth Yeah, that would never do with it. What are you worried about Hank? Well, I'm not exactly worried. I'm just sitting up all night with a sick friend It's business Connie and a good wife doesn't interfere and the affairs of the police. No, no, it's not that what is it then? Would you rather not tell me I said it's business Nothing to do you any good to know but it might do you some good to talk about it And I haven't been talking about anything else in the past two days. We're all the good that's done. All right for you You'll miss me when I'm gone. What do you mean? Have you forgotten? I'm gonna take the kids up to see mother next week. Oh Gee, that's right. Yeah, I should sort of slip my mind Back to the days of bachelor Bet you'll love it. You can sit there all night every night and no one to disturb Oh, I don't know. No, no, no, I don't throw it. I give up I suppose you're gonna take the car and leave me on horseback the good on horseback No, I thought I'd be sweet to you and give the kids a treat. How do you mean? We'll go by train. You know how they love to ride on the go by what by train. What's the matter? Haven't you ever honey? You're not going anywhere but train next week Just that you're not going to take a train to mothers. Hey, you're hurting my arm. Let's come over you Are you all right? All right I'm sorry dear. It's it's just that you mustn't take the train look take the car go by bus fly anything But don't take what is it you're shaking all over just promise me will you yes, of course I'll promise you but why because it might not be safe to go that way might not Don't you know no No, Connie. I don't know and that's what's so horrible about this whole thing All right, sit down man come on sit down now. Let me have your attention This morning. We got number six at least our friend is regular to prove that he means what he says He's listed the ingredients. He's using the lab says he knows what he's talking about So from now on we're assuming this is not the work of a crank, but a madman who plans to do exactly as he says There's no need to go into the seriousness of this. I'm sure you can all imagine so far the press hasn't got wind of it We've got to see that they don't until we caught our man Dumb let's have a report from the beginning, huh? All the letters have been written on cheap paper It can be bought most anywhere and there's no way to trace where it was sold nor who bought it The writing is a paste up job the letters cut from the newspapers the glue five and dime stuff again No means of tracing it no fingerprints. Yeah, he uses gloves Envelopes are stamped bought at a post office From the microscopic study of the paper the lab says there's enough evidence to prove the Sunder lives in an industrial area That's our first concrete lead man Right go on down report confirms that the writer is a definite psychopathic type well educated probably a good background in engineering and chemistry Chemical engineer that's about it. I get this man according to his fifth letter. He lacked between the 10th and the 20th Well the day's the 8th that means we have from two up to 13 days to get him And it's not going to be easy Now the certain things will have to work from one the chances are good that he lives alone to that he's not employed According to Dr. Morgan a man of this type wouldn't be able to hide his abnormalities and people with whom he associated every day Pull down that math there will you down? Thanks Now look we've divided the industrial area up into six sections now each section has got to be calmed thoroughly All done my last letter and now to act upon it Will I do it the 10th the 15th or the 20th? Well, I do it in the morning the afternoon of the evening. I Should think sirs to that 5 p.m. More shortly thereafter would be an excellent time results far more gratifying But the date the date Well, that is important. I know I'll draw lots Hey What a game I'll take 10 slips of paper write a date on each one put them in my hat and then draw Capital capital Well, what do you want on Neil what any newspaper man wants a story well look I haven't got time to tell you one Who invited you here anyway? Listen, I have I got to go dig it out the hard way You know, I'm just a kid who can Come on. Tell me what's up? Well Could be we're looking for somebody who the ghost of Christmas past My buddy look on Neil, you know me and you know, I wouldn't hold back a story on you If there wasn't a whale of a good reason now when the time comes if it comes It's no good to tell me it when it's old it won't be old And it'll read a lot better. You want me to go on praying till I find it out myself You can't stop me, you know. No, no, I know I can't stop you All right. All right close that door Look what I'm gonna tell you was not for publication if you print one word of it. I'll have your head The only reason I'm telling you is to keep you quiet. I'll have to be the judge. This is off the record on Neil strictly off If you don't agree you can get out of here now. Okay, okay cool off. I got a job to do to you You know right now your only job is to shut up and listen Caught in the middle here. Yeah Either he's a crank we're wasting her time or he means it and we're up against the horrible Tomorrow is the 10th. What'd you do then we go on looking but suppose you try to come in a place will be watched from top to bottom Let's be watched right now. Why not close it up for ten days next to when possible And our friend had just wait till it was open again You got a problem charm. Yeah, you have to keep your mouth shut Make pretty headlines But seriously, don't you think the public has a right to be warned is how would you warn them? It's possible that sometime between the 10th and the 20th of this month a man We don't know but who we're looking for may attempt to Capmik lane. Yes, Tom Well, that's something when I See, we'll bring it down right away with it. Bye Maybe an Engineer from one of the chemical plants was committed to the state and Saint Asylum six years ago. He was released last year supposedly cured Now about telling your readers don't not a word on Neil You could start a first-class panic. I should think your fertile imagination could see that Okay, okay Hank know something. I don't envy you What a surprise it'll be a lovely surprise a red letter day think of the headlines and You my beauty will do it all You will be the hand that deals the blow I'll teach them. I'll teach them all laugh at me. Would they wasn't good enough ain't now I'm the one who laughs and how I laugh wonder How many people are there on all this earth? Who could build a bomb big enough to blow up a Railroad Oh Conrad Nagel starring in the role of Captain Hank McLean and the proudly we hail production fair warning will return in just a moment for the second act in 1917 our Air Force consisted of a half dozen flying flippers attached to the aviation section of the signal core But in less than 35 years these wood slats and canvas covered planes have become gigantic aluminum planes and our Air Force has Developed into the most powerful in the world The United States Air Force is still growing and if you can qualify You're needed to fly one of its new advanced aircraft If you are between 20 and 26 and a half with at least two years of college in good physical condition You can take aviation cadet training get all the details go to your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station today You are listening to proudly we hail and now with your star Conrad Nagel in the role of Captain Hank McLean We present the second act of fair warning Yeah Don't tell anyone I am here. Let me take your coat. No, Connie I can't stay and I'd stop and get a cup of coffee You know you keep this up and your children will get to know you as the man who stops in once in a while for a cup of coffee Yeah, lucky I can do that How are they Connie in bed and asleep? How much longer is this gonna go on honey? I don't know don't nag me. Do you think I like it? Why don't you go up to your mother's this week like you planned maybe the time you come back It'll be over. Yeah, and you'll be dead and buried. Yeah, I Well, I suppose there's no good in asking you what it is that Connie It's about a man who may or may not be planning to blow up the railroad station There Now close your mouth and don't be passing it on to the Hattons or anyone else You you mean stratton terminal. That's what I mean. Could I please have that cup of coffee? Horrible. Why would anyone want to know? I don't know. I only know he's got to be caught. Are there any leads millions of them? And they all end of the middle of nowhere. We thought we were onto something good this afternoon. No good. No good any of it Hello, this is Dom look Hank. I think we've hit pay dirt this time Holy slady who runs a grocery store and rents out rooms above. She's been telling us about a strange acting bird who's been living when No, he left yesterday, but Alright, I'll bring her right down Sometimes I wake up in the night. I hear him laughing. It sounds like You know hyena captain one time in the movies. I see it. Yes. I understand Mrs. Dabrowski now, please go on Never let me clean his room. He says he has important work to do he put luck on the door big like this Sometimes I hear him work or do something bang bang bang bang bang Sometimes he's shocked sometimes he just walk open down. Oh look, didn't your other rumors complain I have only two and they both work at night. So they don't mind too much. How is she didn't ask him to leave? Well, he paid good money for the room. He don't really bother nobody much So I say maybe he's a little crazy in the head, but who ain't these days? Yeah, well, what made him decide to leave? Yesterday morning he come down in the store his bag in his hand He gave me two weeks rent he tip his hat he go like that Yeah, well now Mrs. Dabrowski from what you and some of your other neighbors are told us about his looks We've had our artists try to draw a picture of him. I'm sure that's good. Will you down? Mrs. Dabrowski Does this resemble your rumor? That is him. That is the one. Oh, you never see him and you make a picture that that's magic Yeah, well, is there anything that should be changed now and I'll look at it carefully The mouth it turned on here more a little the nose is not quite so good. Good. Now anything else Maybe you should know He always wear a kind of yellow scarf here at the neck makes no difference whether hot cold rain snow He always wear great great. Mrs. Dabrowski. I could kiss you You've been a big help Do he kill someone we hope not Mrs. Dabrowski we hope not No doubt about it Hank he cleaned the room up pretty well, but the lab boys say it's him That's plenty of evidence that this is where he built his bomb The chief wants every paper in the city to carry his picture on the front page. He wants it there for the next 10 days There's to be a 24-hour watch on all luggage lockers We'll have men at every baggage counter all exits all ramps of the trains restrooms soda fountains every place in the terminal I won't man up there on those ramps with binoculars to watch the crowds We've got to do this thing without getting people excited or aware. They're in danger. Any questions? Boy You may keep the change So the hounds are in full cry Could they have gotten my picture Not bad likeness I Think I underestimated them. Well, I gave them fair warning and now they've returned the courtesy I think it would be wise To consider a new plan of attack Well, that's one day we got through To down eight to go Listen after four days of this I give up How much longer do you think you can keep this up Hank for seven days tomorrow's the 20th tomorrow's the day he'll try Yes, sir, I know that yes, yes Yeah, that's right But sir, we've got proof that he did make a bomb Well, no, yeah, but the laboratory confirmed it No, sir. No, nothing. Oh I don't know sir. Look, I'm only trying to keep a madman from killing four or five thousand people Just because he didn't make an attempt within the time. He said he what doesn't mean you give up all together No No, sir. I don't suppose we can You know, not if you say so, right? So I understand by sir Call it off. That's right So just tell a man who have that beat to keep their eyes open. That's dandy. Well, it is the 22nd. Yeah Guess you don't have a story on the El. This is the one time when I don't care. Don't give up hope May get a big one soon Stratton terminal blown up thousands killed you could go on watching that place for a year Listen, if that duck is still in the city, and I believe he is I could have him in another week Ah, we made one bad mistake. We put his picture in the paper. He saw it and he stayed undercover All right, the 20th has passed. He knows we'll begin to figure. He was just another crank So we'll do just what I've been told to do take them in office. Tell the few left on to keep their eyes open Another routine job. Listen Hank, you've been living with this thing too long It's getting you down. Chances are good. He's just a crank with a screw loose who made a bomb in his room to keep himself occupied Well, I hope I'm wrong. I Hope it's all been a wild goose chase But I've got a horrible feeling that it's not Attitude doesn't agree with you makes you more sour than usual. Yeah Well, we put an end to that in a few minutes down. What time do they get in 520? You can slow up. They've been gone a long time, haven't they too long they over three weeks I wish my old lady would take off for three weeks. Don't tell me your troubles You know every time I go near this station since that little episode last month. I get the willy. Yeah, I know what you mean I Didn't want Connie to come back to try but the cars laid up and Well, what are you gonna do put the railroad station off limits forever? Funny we never latched onto that bird. Yeah, maybe seeing his picture in the paper scared him Maybe he'll try it someplace else. Nice thought The way some people drive yeah, why don't you take lessons? I'm a perfect driver Say, you know something Today's the 20th anniversary. We should celebrate. I wish what's the matter? See, I just thought of something You know he he said between the 10th and the 20th But he didn't say what month This place really gets frottered on a Friday night. Yeah Come on, we might as well wait for the gate over there track 24. You're jumping the cap I got a nasty mind, I guess what are the chief say? What's the matter with you, Dom? Steps no no way over there leading to the exit. There's a guy with the yellow scarf and this ain't scarf weather. Come on. Come on, Dom You must have come out of here. Yeah, you go that way. I'll go there Come on over there getting in that cab. Hey, wait, can you stop stop? Police. It's all right It's him. What's the meaning of this thing? Where is it? Where did you put it? Take his other arm Dom. All right back to the station now quick Whether it is or you stay here and blow up with it. Let me out of here. We're getting good track attention I don't care about that. Listen you I won't wait for it to go off. I'll choke the life out of you right here Where is it? Where is it? Wait, wait, don't I'll tell you It's in a locker on the lower level. What's the number of the locker? I don't know. Let go of me Where's the key? I threw it away. I threw it away When was it set for five twenty you can't stop and now three minutes left Hold him down holding. I'll shoot the lock off now, then which locker which was it? We're all going to be blown up I don't want to bet you which locker you let go of me. I don't want to blow up It's that one that one there. Let me go Get the timing device out. No, no, it'll go off. Let me pull it away. It says five twenty So hard to make it Glad to have us back. Oh Connie Connie you'll never know And I'll never let you go again. I'll bet I told you six times six times the train would be in at five Twenty and you you don't show up until a quarter of six fine husband. Oh, I know. I know you were busy business honey If I'd been there at five twenty Wow You read all about it in your morning newspaper And then we can thank God that we're still able to Our star conrad maker will return in just a moment with a word about next week's show Here's news that is good news to you college men Which means a wonderful new opportunity for you if you can qualify First of all you get your training with pay You receive your silver wings and your commission as a second lieutenant And then you fill an important Air Force job as a pilot Navigator Bombardier radar observer flight engineer or electronics officer for full information Visit your United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station or nearest Air Force base today This has been another program on proudly. We hail presented transcribed in cooperation with this station by the United States Army And the United States Air Force recruiting service proudly. We hail stars Conrad Nagel This is Kenneth Banghardt speaking and here again is your host and star Conrad Nagel friends We hope you join us next week for proudly. We hail our players entitled turnabout and we journey to the Caribbean for a tale of treachery And a mysterious cargo aboard the schooner Marana until then Goodbye