 The Roy Rogers Radio Show has focused the Roy Rogers Radio Show for the whole family. Adventures, conventions, history, and music. Starring Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys, and Dale Evans, Queen of the West, with Pat Brady, the middleman, and an all-star cast. And now, here to treat you with a song and a story are Roy and Dale. The fellow city and the greatest man of all. Well, good evening, folks. Greetings again to the whole family. It's really a shame that every American can't visit the nation's capital city. Somehow, seeing the government buildings where our laws are made, and the memorial statues honoring some of our greatest Americans. Well, it does something to you. It gives you a feeling of pride and makes you glad to be an American citizen. While back, Dale and Pat and I went to Washington for a personal appearance, and while we were there, a very strange thing happened. Pat and I were in our hotel room waiting for Dale so we could go sightseeing, and, oh, I don't know why we have to go sightseeing. I can see practically the whole city from here with these buying-upers. It sure is a good view, isn't it? Well, I'll say, hey Roy, see those two reddish brown towers over there? Where? Oh, yeah. I bet you don't know what that is. Okay, what is it? That's the, uh, Miss Zoonium. Or the Zoonium? You mean the Smithsonian Institute? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's all right here in this guidebook. And you know what? What? They got every American stamp that was ever printed over there. Well, boy, sure, I want to see that. You know, I'm a fool-lateness. Or a field-tattletail. Or, um, I collect stamps. Stamps when? Stamps when? I got a book of them for a friend. Come in. All set? Yep, ready to go. Oh, so, this package is in your mailbox downstairs in the lobby. What is it? It's wrapped like a book. Open it up, will you, Pat? Sure. Well, what shall we take in today? Well, I want to see the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial and the... Roy? Yes? These, these stamps on the package. What about them? They're 8th Stamps Statue of Liberty. So? Yeah. But look at the statue. It's upside down. Something I can show you in the way of our stamps. Aren't you Roy Rogers? Yes, sir. Well, let's just have a real pleasure, Mr. Rogers. Well, thank you. This is Day 11 from Pat Brady. How do you do? How do you do? Delighted. Taking a little sightseeing tour? Yes, we are. Well, I could take an interest in our department. Were you looking for any special series? Oh, yes. Well, as a matter of fact, we were. We'd like to see a copy of the 8th Statue of Liberty. Oh, certainly not right over here. No, no, no. We don't mean that one. We mean the one with the statue printed upside down. Upside down? That's right. I don't blame you. I'd like to see one of those myself. There's no such stamp, Mr. Brady. It doesn't exist. Go on in. Pat, get the paper the book was wrapped in. See if there's a return address. Okay. Here's the book, Roy. Hmm. Six biographies of famous living Americans by Avery Wharton. There's an inscription inside. Mm-hmm. Here, Mr. Rogers, please accept the first edition of my book. You will find your own biography beginning on page 12 on Avery Wharton. Here's the wrapping paper, Roy. The return address is Avery Wharton Warton Manor 415 Nelm Street, Georgetown. Georgetown? It's that's the hoity, hoity section for all them new-time millionaires living. It's a very fine suburb of Washington, Pat. Pat, give me the phone book, please. Phone book? Okay. What are you going to do, Roy? Well, these two inverted liberty stamps were on a package mailed by this Mr. Wharton. Rightfully, it seems to me that the stamps belong to him. Belong to him? Oh, Roy. Why do they belong to him? He mailed a package for you. You got as much right to him as he has. All right, Pat. Don't get excited. You got the phone book? Yeah. Here it is. Hmm. You must have an unlisted number. He's not in the phone book. Okay, let's go. Go? Where? The 415 Nelm Street in Georgetown. We can't talk to Mr. Wharton on the phone, so it looks like we'll have to tell him a visit. Sit down, Mr. Rogers. Mr. Evans, Mr. Brady, this is our great pleasure. Thank you. All right. I'm glad you caught me at home, I shall demand, you know. I hardly expected that my little book would give me a personal audience with you. I don't mind telling you. I enjoyed working on your biography more than anyone else in the book. You've had a fabulous life, Rogers. Just fabulous. Well, it has been interesting. Yes, that's the key to a happy life, Rogers. Not money or the keys or position or power. Just interest. Things to be interested in. Things you can get excited about. That's why I write books for a hobby and collect stamps. Oh, you're a stamp collector? I have one of the finest collections in the world. I see. Well, do you happen to have two copies of an 8-cent Liberty stamp with a statue upside down? Upside down. Oh, not that, Mr. Rogers. No such error was ever made. Well, there may not be a record of it, Mr. Wharton, but take a look at these. Heavens, it is that can imparted liberty. Mr. Rogers, where did you get these? They were used as postage on a book he sent me. Postage? Oh, but that's impossible. Yeah, they'd never notice it if I had to see it. You see, I'm a file padel. Er, a file ladle. Excuse me. Nancy! Yes, Uncle Averine? Come here a moment, please. My memory serves me. The book was mailed by my niece. Perhaps he can tell it. Yes, Uncle Averine. Oh. Mr. Rogers admitted it. Gail Evans and Pat Brady. Well, this is a surprise. How do you do? How do you do? Oh, Nancy. Yes? Do you remember my giving you a copy of my book to mail to Mr. Rogers? Oh, yes. It was yesterday, wasn't it? I took it with me on my date with Zola. Oh, my goodness. Well, what is it, Mr. Wharton? Oh, Uncle Averine, terribly sorry. I forgot all about it. I must have left it in Zola's car. You mean to say you didn't mail it? Well, we went to the country club, and you know how Joe really is. He doesn't like that drunk crowd. He always says he feels out of place. Yes, yes, yes, yes. So you left the package in his car? Well, I must have. Now, this is important. He tried to remember. Did you put stamps on the package before you went to the club? Stamps? Well, as a matter of fact, no. I never bought it with stamps when I was Joe. He's a guard in the government printing department, Mr. Rogers. He buys stamps by the book, and whenever I have a mail... Namely, please stop chattering and pay attention. Are you absolutely positive that Joe put the stamps on the package? Oh, you mean Joe mailed the package? Yes, ma'am. He knew these, supposedly. It's a great sense, isn't it? What's so surprising about that? The book probably... Never mind. You can run along now. I'm sorry about forgetting to mail the package, Uncle. I guess everybody's right. Since Joe and I became engaged, I'm just kind of off on cloud nine somewhere. I'd like you to meet him this time. He's really a wonderful man. Of course, he isn't rich, and he wouldn't ask me for a long time. You know how to resist, ma'am. He said everyone would say he was marrying me for my... All right, all right, Nancy. These people are not interested in hearing your life story. On the contrary, Mr. Wharton. I know how Nancy feels, and I'm so glad you found your future husband, Mr. Wharton. And we hope you'll be very happy. Thank you. Well, nice to have met all of you. See you later, Uncle. Bye. Bye. Bye. Well, Mr. Rogers, this begins to make a little sense. Does it? I don't know how that scatterbrained young idiot could have made a mistake like this. I don't know. I don't think I'll follow you, Mr. Wharton. What exactly happened? Well, it's perfectly obvious that Joe O'Potter came into possession of two of the greatest rarities in stamp animals. And then the young fool accidentally used them as posters. I can't understand that he's a guide in the printing bureau. His father is a government printer. He makes sense. Mr. O'Potter's father, Prince Dan? Yes, he is. I think I'm beginning to understand. So do I, Mr. Wharton. I think this is a matter for the treasury department. Mr. Rogers, yes, sir? These are these inverted liberties. They've been cancelled so they're of no further use to anyone except the collectors. I suppose they're yours by right of possession. I'm not sure, Mr. Wharton. It depends on what the treasury man says. They may be government's profit over that, since what would the government want with them? Why not tell them the means? I can't do that, Mr. Wharton. Not until I've had a talk with Mr. Rogers. I'll give you $50,000 a piece for them. $100,000. Hey, Dale, it's no fun going sightseeing without Roy. I know, Cap, but Roy went to see the treasury man. He'll meet you here in a capsule building as soon as he's through. Have you got to guide him with you? Oh, yeah, here he is. How high does it say the capital dome is? Capital dome. It's second now, look it up. Here it is. Capital dome. $288,000. Oh, certainly it's a magnificent sum. The dome of the capital is unusual in several respects. It contains extraordinary acoustical... acoustical... acoustical. A acoustical property. Standing directly under the dome itself, it is possible to hear even the slightest whisper of a person many feet away in the other part of the... Boy, you? Boy, yeah. Boy, yeah. You suppose that's so, Dale? It must be, Cap. It says so. Thank you. Yeah? How come Roy didn't want to sell those inverted liberty stamps to Mr. Wharton? Well, in the first place, Roy isn't sure they belong to him. In the second place, it goes there forgery. Forgery? Sure. Stamp-selecting is a big business, Cap. What if someone is deliberately forced to stamp and made it look like a genuine pair? He could get a fortune for it. Yeah, $50,000 of stamps. Roy says they ain't forgery. What? I said Roy says they ain't. I could have sworn I heard Roy say something. Yeah, that's what I thought. Roy! Where are you? I'm on the other side of the path. On the other side of the room. Come on. Well, what do you know? Whispering clear on the other side of the room, but hey, Roy, the book is right. You sure were a cow sack. Did you hear me, Whispering? Just why you're standing right and making sure. That's a remarkable effect, isn't it? Oh, it's very stupid. What did the Treasury man have to say? It stands for genuine. They will print it in the government office. The question is, why wasn't the error reported to Joe Potter's hand? You mean if a mistake is made in a stamp, it has to be reported? Immediately passed, and in most cases, the stamp or stamps are destroyed. So what now? Well, the Treasury men are starting an investigation. They'll probably call Joe Potter and his father in for questioning. Joe Potter? Yes, Joe Potter's father was in charge of the machine that made the error in the stamp. I see. I hope George doesn't get into trouble on account of you. He's in trouble right now, Dale. Plenty of trouble. What? I told him we'd be back here at the hotel by then. It's almost six now. Jumping cat-stakes with your look at this room. Somebody's torn a suit. Yeah. Whoever it was might have saved themselves a lot of trouble. I took the stamps with me. What's that? Something like somebody in the closet. Mr. Wharton. You sound hurt, Roy. Mr. Wharton. Mr. Wharton, are you all right? Well, it was me, Kevin, Mr. Rogers. Don't try to fit up. Hey, that's a nasty bump you have on your head. What happened? Well, I decided to call and renew my offer for the stamps. I knocked on the door. Roy said, come in, actually. Oh, hey, take it easy. Well, I thought it was you, of course, so I opened the door and came in. That's all I remember. You must have surprised whoever was searching the room, Roy. Yeah. Well, that's probably Mr. McDougal. You're crazy, man. I'll get it. Get Mr. Wharton a cold towel for his head, Pat. Okay. Hello. Yes? Really? I see. Yes, sure. I'll go there right away. Yes, I have the stamps. Put the address again. 1229 J.C. Room 217. Okay, sure. I understand. I'll see what I can find out. Bye. What is it, Roy? The Treasury Department thinks that old man Potter printed more of these inverted liberties. They want me to see what I can find out. I'm going over there now. Roy Rogers, Mr. Potter. May I come in? Roy Rogers, can I see you for a minute? Why? Why, yes, I guess. Thank you. Hey, it's like you and I had the same vision. What? Your room. It's been ransacked. Oh, yes. I found it this way when I came home from work to go. Where? Where? Yes. I see. What are they looking for, Mr. Potter? Well, I really don't know. I'm not a rich man. I don't see any large amounts of money in my room. I really can't see much of a time. Oh, would it be some more copies of these, Mr. Potter? They're inverted liberties. They're not the same copies. Mr. Potter, the important question is, where did you get them? I printed them. By mistake. By mistake? Are you sure? Yes, yes, I swear that it wasn't a mistake. Why didn't you report it like you were supposed to? Well, I... Have you seen Mr. Rogers? I have a son. Yes, I know. He doesn't. You know Joe? I've never met him, but, well, I've heard about him. He's engaged to Nancy Wharton, isn't he? Yes. That's why... That's why I decided to keep to Stancy and sell him. I wanted him to be able to stand on his own with Nancy. He was going to call off the marriage because he said he couldn't afford him and he wouldn't live off of her money. But Nancy loves him. He was willing to live on what he meant. That's what he says now. But Joe didn't believe her. And then when the mistake occurred in the printing press and I saw the inverted statue, I realized that I had a fork in my hand. I put them in my pocket. I corrected the mistake in the machine. And, well, I didn't report to you. I see. But how did your son get two of them? My son. Yeah, he used them for postage on a package that I received. Postage? How could he have gotten them, Mr. Potter? Well, we live here together, my son and I. I suppose he had something to mail and he just looked in my pocket and found them. He often does that. I carry stamps with me all the time. You mean to say you just put the inverted liberties in your coat pocket and left them there? Well, they were safe in my pocket as anywhere, Mr. Rogers. I didn't want to attract attention to myself by putting them into a vault or trying to hide them. That is. Not until I discovered the two of them were missing. And then you hid the others? Yes. Where? In the back of that 60-th� over there. Okay, Mr. Potter, I'll get some. Then we'll go down to the treasury department and explain what happened. I don't think you will, Mr. Rogers. The family you are, both of you. Mr. Warden, what are you doing here? I came to get the stamps, Mr. Rogers. I'm not stupid, you know. I'm aware that Joe's father prints stamps. And I heard Nancy's story. I knew that Joe probably got the stamps by accident from his father. I reasoned that there were more than two copies the press has can't stop that fast. I want all the copies, Mr. Rogers. All of them. I'm going to own the greatest fillet telecrarity in the world. That's why I searched this apartment in your room. Unfortunately, I didn't look behind the picture frame when you had your copies with you. But you said that you were... I know, I know. You surprised me by returning too soon. So I hit myself over the head and went into the closet. Now, Mr. Rogers, if you kindly take that cord from the curtains in time, it's a potter up. Listen, Mr. Warden. Do as I say. I'm going to have those stamps, and no one is going to be the wiser. Now, get the cord. Okay. Don't get issue with that gun. You don't want a killing on your hands, do you? Oh, certainly not, Mr. Rogers. All I want are the stamps, and I'm going to have them. Once I've got them, no one will ever see them again. No one will be able to prove that they even exist. They'll be hidden safely away where no one will find them. Hurry with that tape record, Mr. Rogers, and stop stalling, Mr. Warden. You're a millionaire. Why? Why are you doing this? You don't understand me. No, I don't suppose you would, no one, but a stamp collector could understand. Do you remember, Mr. Rogers, I spoke of Idris? But stamps are mine. I love them. They're my very life. They're like a fine set of areas to a violinist. But no one will ever see them if you steal them like this and hide them away. That's not important, Mr. Rogers. The important thing is that I will own them. I will own the only copies of the greatest stamp in the world. I see. It's okay, Mr. Warden. I guess I can understand how you feel. It's too bad, but you leave me no other source except... That is done, Mr. Warden. Okay, Mr. Warden, just hold still and you won't get hurt. Is that all, Mr. Rogers? This is the first time I ever saw anyone make a laugh due out of a great record. Well, there it is, Pat. This is where the government makes all of our money. Wow. With the look at all that beautiful green lettuce. Roy? Yes? What'll happen to Mr. Warden and Mr. Potter? I don't know about Mr. Potter, Dale. That's up to the Treasury Department. Mr. Warton's case on attempted theft comes up for trial next week. The jury will decide what happens to him. What? I don't know about Mr. Potter, Dale. That's up to the Treasury Department. What? Hey, here's that. It's back? Where is it? That $1 bill that just came off the track. What about it? Well, look. It comes to see George Washington's head. It's on backwards. And folks, that's the story of an incident that happened to us in the capital city of the nation, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.