 Personal notice stages my stock and trade if the job's too tough for you to handle you got a job for me George Valentine write full details Standard Oil Company of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the west Invite you to let George do it Needle in the haystack another adventure of George Valentine My dear mr. Valentine, I quite appreciate the imposition of sending you this urgent demand on a holiday But I must see I must have your help immediately My entire life's work is in jeopardy my labor my love the brute of my brain has been stolen from me 12 priceless objects mr. Valentine the culmination of my life's endeavor my entire fortune stolen Please please meet me at your office regardless of the hour most desperately third in and bars Alright, alright, let's have it something pretty valuable was stolen from you was that right? Oh my most priceless possessions mr. Valentine without them. I am nothing without them Yeah, well, what were they my roses? Huh one dozen red roses you lost your Roses mr. Vars precisely I uh I suppose it gives you kind of an empty feeling no rather. Yes, yes Bruxy, it's been a rough weekend that I thought wait a minute George mr. Vars where Where did you lose these dozen red roses in Pasadena? Pasadena Look bus to get out of here fast before I the Valentine what is the matter with you? Have you gone crazy? Oh, no, I'm as sane as you are Napoleon, but let go of me now Now please listen mr. Valentine that the flowers are worth Thousands my life's work. They are sure sure worth thousands of Rose Bowl tickets I know find a dozen roses among million. Oh now listen to me. I have devoted my life to those roses They're the only ones of their kind in the world. They're not just red No, they're flame their crimson their fire the third in Ando Rose Ferdinando it was the mate's idea the name rather appropriate. Don't you think we live in Mexico City? Oh, sure. I could tell from your accent. Yeah, quite quite so quite so. Oh, yes. Yes. I see what you mean But we've been there for years now and climate you know mr. Valentine You don't seem to appreciate the rose festival in Pasadena attracts the world's foremost authorities on flowers My unveiling of the Ferdinando today would have emblazoned my name in history like Martha Washington I beg your pardon. Skip it. Never mind. Somebody clipped your board stolen, huh? Okay. How'd it happen? Well, I you came up on the train and then at the last possible moment the meter posted the roses to me by air Expected and so they'd be fresh, you know, but I have never received it. Did you call the airline? Oh, yes Yes, the boxers transported all right yesterday, but somewhere in the express delivery service It became lost or stolen I would service insist that they've never heard of it Oh, well look that sounds more like a mix-up and mail and it does Mr. Valentine, I have the name of the man at the delivery branch office I'm not concerned with whether he's a criminal or an idiot all I want is my roses. I've tried to see him alone I've got nowhere There's only a few hours left man. My roses will be wilted unless you help me not all right All right. Take it easy. We'll go see this guy with you. Oh Brother what a way to start the new year Waking people up run my aerials busted. I can't see the game today You got any idea how many packages we've handled the past two weeks Flowers to Pasadena calls the new castle my good fellow the package was distinctly marked F. Vaz Pasadena, California get somehow your company has made a mistake. We don't make mistakes Anyway It's not a bad thing once you open your eyes The flower vase that's it. That's what happened. Oh, yeah, I got a small district It's the name of one of our little floor shops in my area. It was marked for them wasn't it? That's where I had the delivery boy take it. You sent this guy's package to a flower store. Oh, well Well, I mean yes, but but that was the way it was addressed. I thought F. Vase it was marked flowers Naturally, I thought was distinctly marked Vaz They say tell you oh, cut it out. Would you both of you the flower base, huh? Come on, Bruxy. We can find it. All right, but wait a minute from the old fellow. Oh, no You don't bust in apologize to the man and then wait for us at your hotel I'm crazy enough to go sniffing for roses. I'd rather go crazy alone This is it. I guess George. Yeah, not much of a shot Well, it's a neighborhood place far cry from all the excitement up on Colorado, isn't it? Looks like it's open though. Somebody isn't rushing to get an early seat for the parade Oh, brother, I think I could be having scrambled eggs and waiting to tune in the orange bullet George look The joint's a mess Flowers all over the floor lock was broken. The shop's been broken. You mean broken up Angel boxes all torn open countertipped over Certainly don't see any roses, huh? Maybe this didn't happen so long ago George. I mean I thought I heard back room Let go slow down let go of me. I'll call the police now What what do you want? Just take it easy shorty. Take it easy. Now. What's the big idea playing scavenger hot in here? But I didn't do it. Well, I'm the owner theodore Herman Flowers for funerals. That's me Mr. Herman it just doesn't make sense none of it my shop has never been broken into before mr. Valentine never I hate trouble Funerals a few corsages Maybe somebody remembers a wedding anniversary. That's all I guess sure. I know I know what's tough But you say there wasn't any money taken out of the cash register. Well, how about those roses? Well, I have nothing to do with the rose festival. I'm just a small man I mean did you get the package the one intended for mr. Voss, but I tell you the only business I had yesterday With the papers with a countertipped over Yeah Sure, that's it. All right 4 p.m.. Yesterday received delivery air express package Mexico City. So your memory's not so good. Is it mr. Yeah, let me see Oh, but I didn't there you see J. H. It says J. H. Of course. It was my brother your brother Joshua Herman he signed for the package. I remember now. I had gone to forest lawn Joshua stayed here for an hour or so, but didn't your brother say anything when you got back He must have put those roses someplace in water. Maybe they must have been here several hours He didn't say anything unless Well, he might have made a mistake and put them in the big refrigerator back here. He's not a flower man Cold storage is usually just for Oh Everybody look at the dog Remarked sister Raleigh miss gun clothes. I suppose you stop waving in around the room, Ronald. I can't help it I'm cold waiting all morning for you guys to stop jeffered well get out of my way so fast Buster you're the guy who tore up this John. Of course. He did he did it. He was caught. He was hiding there Shut up shorty. I ain't got no roses. There's nothing in there, but a quarter ice cream Step to one side. I said stick around don't get me bright ideas about following me Valentina. You didn't find the roses, huh? Come on. Who do you work for you're not bright enough to want them? You can't hurt my feelings Valentine But I can hurt yours That's better now you want to know where I'm going. I'll tell you bright. I Hot bath All I ask of life is a good steady flow of funerals and now I'll skip it Well, yeah, there's too much excitement over a dozen roses even for Pasadena. It certainly is George, but he didn't find them Well, that's what I mean There's only one person who does know where they are mr. Herman your brother Joshua now. Where is I don't know I loaned him my car last night and he's been gone ever since He's from out of town. You see gone. Well, why didn't you report it? Oh, there's nothing wrong Don't misunderstand to me Joshua said he had to get in condition for the well, of course. That's why Josh was here. He's wealthy. He's successful He's just a little blind. That's all He thinks Ohio State is going to be in California Oh Let me tell you that any team from the Midwest can lick any team from anywhere Solari who's a drunk? I never heard of it Step right up and place your best gentlemen. I will give you And to bring us two cups of coffee That guy didn't want to talk football either what guy. Well, I was there my brother's store like I told you I Then this guy comes in a few minutes later. He didn't even know who Savick was Can you imagine if there's somebody want to talk roses? No, he didn't talk at all big person, you know Takes one look at the roses. They were the only ones in the joint He grabbed some fast throws me a dollar bill and he runs They're getting warmer brother remember anything else about him He left a big Cadillac setting at the curb with a motor running catch the license number. Well, well, sure sure. I did it was Like like something for you Mr. Valentine, I just thought he was a big support grabbing flowers for his wife, you know, you know, oh, yeah Yeah, something else. So he was a kind of squint. I had a mole on his cheek. Okay. Thanks very much. Oh, I am Stick around. Oh, what was he anywhere crook or something? Say, you know, I'm not really from Ohio State, you know I I did just happen to know a girl who was born in Deccan once and let me tell you But Joshua and I will be seeing the parade going to the game your eye on Ohio Would your brooksies in the next room they'll be on the park. We don't want to be mixed up in any trouble It's his holiday. Sorry, Mr. Herman, but I'm telephoning the police and two bits say they want you both to Stick around to answer questions This three-ring circus is getting wackier by the minute. Oh, I don't see him. Do you maybe tries needed to wash his hands? Mr. Brooks, I'll go you're looking for a higher state. He's outside. What they certainly needed some fresh air, miss coffee Makes him sleep. Oh through the back door toward the parking lot parking lot. Oh, you don't suppose He's on his way again. Do you mine is a blue sedan? No, no, there he is over there asleep in the back seat. Oh, yes, yes, you'd better let me slap him out of it Joshua No, wait a minute miss stay where you are wait till I cover him with a blanket He's a good go back inside get Mr. Valentine off that throne now hurry. I Shook him. He was I was blood on my hands Me asking for a steady flow of funerals Now he was dead my own brother Stabbed we'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment One of these days you get in your car to start out to a dinner party a business trip or maybe a family gathering You touch the starter and oh Dead battery But there's an easy way to avoid that kind of hold up and have your car start fast every time The protective service you get at independent chevron gas stations and at standard stations will do it They can tell in a jeffy if corrosion is threatening the battery cables They'll make sure the water level is right and the terminal posts and clamps are okay Why not get this speedy protective service tomorrow avoid the delay and extra costs of a neglected battery? 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Fertin and boss only you haven't found them yet And you didn't come to see the Rose Bowl game like Joshua Herman did only of course He won't be seeing it either now that he's dead Well like George Valentine you feel that so far 1950 is too full of thorns Particularly when you try to explain it all the lieutenant Riley a knife with no fingerprints a blanket with a hole in it A murder takes place in a parking lot only nobody they're all tearing out to see the rose parade What's always I said you had to go ringing bells be let it happen inside Pasadena city limits. All right All right, everybody's looking for a dozen roses only we know that a guy in a big car hijacked him last night And the guy who saw that guy who was afraid mr. Ohio State might remember some more of what he saw Maybe I don't know say I wonder if it was that cold storage thug you told me about the one with the gun What do you mean that original story about the roses? Yeah, but there were some roses for Mexico City We know that yes, and Josh will Herman told you we opened it George. He saw the roses They're what the man came in talking. Oh, yeah Thugs and hijackers and knife artists are all interested in a valuable new type flower You mean you smell something besides the Ferdinand. Well, sure Smuggling what else smuggling? Oh, it goes like this Riley a smuggler in Mexico or maybe a ring of smugglers I don't know decide to take advantage of the season must be a lot of flowers being shipped around right now for the tournament of roses Well, it's a good time and way to send something in isn't it inside the roses or maybe some of them are pony roses Yeah, yeah Ah Only the other stuff still happen the miss delivered package to hijack all I'm driving at Riley is send out a description of Ferdinand Vaz find him and you'll find the answer what? Well, that's right. I checked the hotel Vaz never registered there. He's a phoning But at least he could tell us what it's all about. It was his bouquet Well, come on. Come on get to work. He can't be anything worse than a smuggler and a murderer They got a lead on that car lieutenant Cadillac blank blank something 3-8 the one you said the guy who took the flowers is driving a good work sergeant Who's it registered to we're checking it up now the guy driving was big dark Squintite with a mole as the car just parked that's all lieutenant How could anybody move anywhere with the streets all cleared for the parade? It's right in the heart of Pasadena with the rest of the world Oh, no no grand Avenue right with a parade is forming Needles in the haystack. I'm not so sure good place to hide but a good place to get caught too Not even a crook can resist a parade that Cadillac's on this street somewhere. Look, Brooks. See you and Riley go ahead I'm gonna take a look around if our hijacker is here. It'll be quite a magnet What seven plenty of room for everybody to say there's a lady standing on my foot. I See was the parade star. You search me buddy. Oh boy. Look at them girls on the floats Blind with a baby suit made out of daisies see it. Oh boy. She loves me. She loves me not she loves me Yeah, quit shoving you see over my shoulder. Hey, yeah, Rollo. It's me Valentine. Remember you followed How is your hot bath? I had coffee instead beat it man at work. Don't you know it's a holiday? They still carry a gun get lost. Okay. You slide through the crowd. I slide through the crowd I'm a you'll join the paper. I don't mind go ahead pull the trigger Fearless for stick with a few thousand witnesses sure. Go on create a little excitement my god I don't slide that way cop over there. Hey Hey, yeah, what do you want Valentine? Oh much? Pardon him yet. Shut up. You'll never find him staring at the girls like that. Come on. I'll keep your mind in your work I won't interrupt. Oh, there he goes What it goes in the sport coat red necktie running out on the street. So that's him, huh? The hijack Oh, I say Valentine. Well, hello, mr. Vars. Welcome to the park. Well, I do with him boys I can't shake it. Well, never mind get after that red necktie. He's got the flowers. Sure. Get the hijack I let's see what's in those flowers. I'll attend a Valentine run a man will get away He's had he's hitting one of the folks boys. Wait a minute. You can't shoot a guy in his crowd Will you do as I say now run after all Valentine a chap to use a knife in a crowd a knife Well, not on a decoy. I'm afraid the bigger button I got fans in the audience mr. About a dozen cops watching me You see what's happening to your strong boy already? I'll stick around and watch the same over to yourself knock to me go down on one to go Buster I'm gonna grab that hijacker myself Hey, oh come back here I saw you run up there on the float hijacker stop with you. Oh, you don't get a free ride out of here Just you that's all Strike three you're all up That's it Valentine. We got him. We got them all smugglers. That's it. All right, and you know what it is diamonds a fortune in diamonds The Englishman folded up like a lawn chair and told us everything. Oh, did the murder Raleigh. Oh, don't you worry? We'll sweat it out a lot of them. All right, Joshua Hermann saw too much or something That's all so they sent somebody after him to keep him quiet except for the Hermann's they're all tied together And this guy the hijacker he stuck his nose in two. Yeah, that's what I mean. Come on, buddy Come on wake up wake up. Why we'll be done in time for the parade Valentine What what happened there you see here comes our answers to the guy come on. You're all right Buster wake up. Oh, yes Yes, somebody hit me. Oh, isn't that too bad? Yes. I was put somebody was walking up Get off this float. Hmm. What are you doing on my float? Get off your float? Of course. It's mine You it is most of the floats lined up for 10 blocks of mine. I'm a floral designer Yes, yes, yes, I ran into Herman's last night and bought some roses I ran into every flower shop and front yard in Pasadena. Don't you understand? We needed them at the last minute. We were short of roses at the last minute We thought you were a hijacker you interfered with a big smuggle. Do I care? Am I interested in diamonds? Well, you should be there in the roses you bought At first I thought I would sue you gentlemen now. I don't think I will Oh, there goes the first man about those dozen roses Getting ready for the parade We just throw all the flowers into bins for the decorators to use as they work gentlemen this year I used 325,550 roses and you're looking for diamonds in a dust rose Oh, no Look at the floats rally there. No, look elephants made out of roses girls throwing roses all over the crowd Horses decorated with roses horses even walking on roses It's all that it gets you Riley you said you could work your murder case on all right Why worry about the diamond, but they're there a fortune in diamonds Maybe those roses are in the hubcap of a float or maybe somebody you'll just throw them in a garbage can Well, at least you can't say we don't do things big in California They don't play bad football in the Midwest. Yes, and it was so nice of you to bring Make quite a day for us George you forgot the blanket. No, I didn't Angel. I've been thinking about it Why but you left it back up there. You better run back. I didn't get it miss Brooks I don't bother leave it there forget it. I uh, I don't want us to get separated in the crowd But if you said you were thinking about it was the other blanket. I was thinking about Angel I've been thinking about it all through the second half and feeling guilty for sticking around to see who won by mr Valentine, what are you talking about a steady flow of funerals mr. Herman? Yours what don't bother to look innocent you killed your brother I can wrap it all up in a blanket the one the police have exhibit B The one with a hole the one mr. Herman here covered his brother's body with Angel remember Remember how you walked outside and saw Joshua lying in the back seat. You thought he was asleep Well, I guess maybe he was a school mr. Valentine. No, Joshua was lying Yeah, mr. Herman it was you went over to open the car door and then told miss Brooks not to come any closer You pulled a blanket over your brother so she wouldn't be upset by seeing him told her to run to me for help Yes, George, that's right. Well, Brooksy. How did the hole get in that blanket unless our friend here stabbed his brother through it? After you'd gone and just before he came running back to the bar How about it funeral fan goodbye mr. Valentine. Hey, what's a rush excuse me? Oh, no, mr. Herman, you're not going in 30,000 people make a pretty good shape Riley bars the story in this phony name. Well, they were just cooked up to get me interested So I'd help them trace the down flowers. We're supposed to go to mr. Roman to the fire. They that's right Of course, that's how they were addressed the delivery man told us so there wasn't any mistake But if they were supposed to go to mr. He's already confessed that much miss Brooks He was part of the smuggling ring himself Why isn't the tough boy couldn't understand why he hadn't got the delivery yet? Or rather why Herman couldn't produce the diamonds to pass on they thought he was trying to pull the fast one Then Herman got the notion of saving himself by killing his big sharp brother at a time when there were so many people mixed up in it It almost well anybody else would be a suspect. His brother had money, didn't he? Lots of them we all knew that Herman could have squared himself with the boys So it ends up and he doesn't even have a rose to his name What is it crazy? Don't exaggerate miss Brooks people are too look look here. I still sit at the steering wheel. No, there's an opening Lieutenant hurry up There you see we made ten feet Yeah, hey, what time is it? Well, it's seven thirty. Where are we now, huh? Pasadena I Don't believe this. Do you? Almost the city limits go George I wonder if anybody else has taught a game today. It's home yet. You know, it's too bad We don't have a two-way radio set in this car. 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In fact, you can't buy a better gasoline for today's high compression engines Why not try chevron supreme tonight or ask for it tomorrow at Independent chevron gas stations and at standard stations where they say and mean we take better care of your car Tonight's adventure of George Valentine has been brought to you by standard oil company of California on behalf of Independent chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West Robert Bailey is starred as George Let George do it is written by David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by Don Clark Virginia Greg appeared as Bruxy walley mayor as lieutenant Riley Then right was heard as Ferdinand Stanley for our as the expressman Bob Griffin is Teddy Clayton post as the thug Bill Conrad is Josh and Sydney Miller is the hijacker The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunsteader your announcer John Heaston Listen again next week same time same station to Let George do it This is the mutual Dan Lee broadcasting system