 Old Dutch cleanser famous for chasing dirt presents Nick Carter famous for chasing crime Every week at this time two great names are joined as Old Dutch cleanser brings you one of the most resourceful and daring characters in all detective fiction Nick Carter master detective This is the silliest business I ever heard of Nick ordering a dish of macaroni just so somebody else won't get it Yes, Betsy, but it's this particular dish that holds the fortune But what if you don't get it before green hat does then I failed and what I promised to do But what happens after you get the dish of macaroni Nick we search it for what it contains and after that Anything can happen Now the case of the wandering macaroni today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by Old Dutch Clemser It's been a busy day for Nick Carter who's been cleaning up the routine business that has piled up on his desk now It is late afternoon and Nick is still dictating letters to his recording machine while his secretary Patsy sits at a desk and taps her foot impatiently Dear mr. Gaylord. I received your letter dated January 17th Semicolon however, it is not my policy to accept cases of this nature period I find that activities of the sort you suggest are incompatible with a general standing that I have attempted to Patsy you turned off the machine. That's right. It's 5 30 I won't transcribe those letters till tomorrow anyway and besides. It's my birthday But I only have a few of you promise me six months ago that we'd go out to dinner to celebrate my birthday And I'm going to drag you away from the office. I have to use a blackjack All right. All right, Patsy. I didn't forget the clothes up the office right now and go out and celebrate. Well, that's better Which do you think would be nicer Nick the penguin room or the moonlight roof your choice Patsy? You're the birthday child. I Think the penguin room they've got that big name band and all the The door. Oh, no not another case Let's keep very quiet. Maybe he'll go away. I'd like to but it might be important Don't worry about the dinner Patsy. I'll see to it that you mr. Carter. Come in You're Nick Carter the detective. That's right. This is my secretary miss Thorn. How'd you do? How do you do? What can I do for you? I want you to get me a a dish of macaroni Big your partner thought you said macaroni. I did why? Perhaps I'd better explain why I should think so my name is Griswold Ben Griswold years ago I used to work as a contact man for your father is Sim Carter when he needed an inside track and Unusual circles. Hey, wait a minute Ben Griswold. I remember you I hoped you would why you used to come to the house when I was a boy it helped me with arithmetic That's right, Nick, but I need your help now. I can't go to the police I can't afford publicity of any sort it would ruin me. I'd be glad to do anything I can Ben I pay any fee you ask now. Don't worry about that for an old friend of my father's that's on the house But you said you wanted a dish of macaroni. Yes. Now. Here's the whole setup at 703 tonight a man wearing a green hat will go into the cafeteria at 47th Street and Avenue M Yes, exactly one minute later. He'll drop a glass on the floor and break it But why that's an identification signal then at 705 you'll go to the steam table There'll be three dishes on top of the counter the middle one will be macaroni Nick And I want you to get that dish before the man in the green hat does well what's in it? Why is it so important in that macaroni dish? You'll find a metal container Now I can't tell you what's in it But I'll meet you here tomorrow and before you hand it over to me I'll give you legal proof that it's really mine. I Can't go myself Nick. They know me by sight. I see let's see now green hat comes in at 703 Yes at four after he breaks a glass right and I'm to beat him to the macaroni at five after that's right And be careful Nick. It'll be dangerous. All right, Ben. You've got yourself a detective I'll get that macaroni for you may even bring back some salt and pepper for seasoning Nick your promise to take me to the penguin room for dinner It's my birthday. Oh, that's right Well, never let it be said that a Carter broke a promise. We're off to dinner at the penguin room. No Patsy at the cafeteria Big beans for a birthday dinner. We'll make it up later We'll take in the penguin room and the moonlight room. Oh, there he is green hat. Where behind you about the water cooler I see he's looking at his wristwatch. He's awfully big Nick Looks as though he could walk upstairs with a piano wonder each arm. I don't like that bulge in his coat either That's a shoulder holster There goes the broken glass right on schedule. Have you got enough change whole pocket for come on, right? You keep away from green hat that's it. You see me start for the door get going fast and beat me outside, right Nick Wait a minute. I hope your bud coffee black and plenty hot One coffee for now Nick might come in handy I Are five cents nice now down to the steam table. He comes green hat fast. We'll beat him Here's the macaroni in the car drop a quarter and grab it Hey, you give me that macaroni. Why should I I paid for it and it over? Patsy beat it walk as fast as you can Coffee spilled on green hat. I'll keep him busy for a while. Did you get the metal container out of the dish? I had the fish and a macaroni for it. I found it. What's in it see when grizz will come sport tomorrow round this corner quick Yeah, oh Okay, wine sky up with the hands green hat. Yeah, this must be my lucky day I come out the side door and they are like a pair of sitting ducks careful, but this ain't a water pistol Yes, he's got us Patsy. Oh You made me drop my purse. Sorry Patsy. All right punk pick up the ladies bag and come on We're going visiting and don't try nothing because after that hot coffee stunt. I'm liable to get a little trigger happy Okay, but this way probably I couldn't see out of the car I brought us down here down by the docks looks like an empty warehouse. Yeah, I'm you too. All right. All right in this store Colonel you see you're this sir this punk here in a thing. They beat me to the macaroni I figured something was funny. So I brought him along. He was packing this I'm in 45 Do they have the container? Well, I uh, I couldn't go over him good in the car. What are you waiting for now? Yeah, sure sure. Okay punk off. What's your coat? That's a kid. He's it. Take it off. I said he's No book. All right, lift them hands. Come on. He's clean kind of unless he swallowed it. That's a handed it to the young lady You'd empty your pocketbook out on my desk. Nick. So what he says fancy. All right Gee yeah, it ain't that kind of well, mr. Hand me a swallot. Yeah, yeah Mr. Carter, I think you owe us an explanation seems you've hidden something that belongs to us I paid a quarter for the macaroni if that's what you mean you check back at the cafeteria The container wasn't that dish of macaroni and you're hiding it mr. Carter Well, we'd very cheerfully murder you and the young lady to get what we want see here get over mr. Carter I lock them up in the storeroom sure kind of I'll take care of them Well, there must be some way out of here. Oh, but Nick. I just love it here This is just the place for a birthday party pitch black dusty dram Strafty Betsy. That's it What do you mean? There's a draft in here. It's got to come from someplace. That's right. There must be an outlet Well, let's see Maybe if I run my hands over the wall Here it is. Is it open? No, but it's plenty big. It's a grating about a yard square See if you can find some that we can pry the grating off with Betsy, okay But it's your life looking for a needle in a haystack. Oh, that's so dark in here. It's even worse Nick, how come you didn't have a metal container when they searched you please Betsy one thing at a time All right What is it? I don't know Here Let's see whether to work. I sure hope it does Maybe it's going to are you getting it pretty sure I Wonderful What's matter? Oh, I just got a moth full of dust. It's not surprising in a place like this All right, come on Betsy trick is to follow me down this old stove pipe or whatever it is and believe me It's not going to be a pleasure trip I said careful the vent goes straight down from here What are you going to do jump nothing else to do? Okay? Here goes? I'm fine about an eight-foot drop come on You won't get hurt. I'll catch you Now what you're landing a pile of ashes come on Betsy we haven't time to talk things over Where the dickens are we my guess is that we're inside a furnace Well, we're certainly lucky that this is summer Otherwise you and I might be fairly well done by now. That's a streak of light over there Yeah, that's right probably the fire door We're lucky this is a big furnace. That's a fire door. All right All right, and I will help you out Boy, that's just the way to treat a new pair of nylons. There's a door. That's it. It's open too. I think it leads to a no Fresh air careful green hat may be around someplace Matter I've got ashes in my shoes down the back of my neck So why the first thing I'm gonna do is go home take a shower and get into some clean clothes Oh, no, you're not why I am too right now I got a phone call to make but and I'm running a race very important race a race Like you feeling all right never felt better, but this race want to run a race Patsy with the Department of Sanitation With dust and ashes Nick and Patsy hurry through the city on a mysterious race their goal the secret of the container in the wandering Macaroni has their cab careens through the streets Nick wonders what lies behind the struggle for this puzzling prize We'll see how he finds the answers in just a minute Now back to the case of the wandering macaroni today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by old Dutch cleanser Covered with ashes Nick and Patsy hail a cab and hurry back up town It is after midnight when they are dropped on a corner and now they hurry along the dimly lighted deserted street Patsy is still trying to brush the dust off her hair Nick I don't see why I can't go home and clean up later Patsy. We're not hurrying down There's a cafeteria down the street. We'll just look at my stockings. There is enough left for them to make a pair of Bobby socks Here we are Why this is the same corner where green hat held us up Nick, what are you diving into that trash can for a container from the macaroni? Distant in here when I was picking up your purse. So that's why green hat couldn't find it when he searched you Pray for sanitation department get here first and empty it again. Oh Plastic, what's the matter? We'll put banana peels in here. You find it. No, not yet. Wait Yes, here it is. Good our little macaroni covered friends. Nick, there's a car pulling up a police car I know Sergeant Rathasen said he'd meet us here when I hold him You know one of these days Nick Carter, I ain't gonna come running when you call hi sergeant Hi a Patsy. Hey, what are you been doing playing hide-and-seek in that garbage can in a way We've been chasing a dish of macaroni. I'm at this time of night. You're both going off your rockers Now just stay nice and quiet and Uncle Matty will call the wagon. Don't be funny. Matty. I'm on a case I need your help and how like to look through your files and check a few things Okay, Nick hop in back and I'll take you downtown now. What's all this about? I can't tell you much now Matty, but I have a hunch we're on a trail of something big All right, sit down Nick Carter. I'll have those fingerprints for you in a minute Where'd you get them from my notebook cover? The ape with a green hat had his paws all over it when he searched me They kept the wallet but he gave me back the notebook. What about the other guy the colonel? Yeah There Matty is a smooth operator Didn't touch anything and try to keep his face in the shadow, but he leaned forward when he reached for my wallet Oh, why don't you check through our file Nick can see if he can spot him from the photographs. Good idea Fancy something so she can help. Hey, where is fancy down the hall washing up? You could use some soap too, Nick. I haven't time Gotta crack this for a more morning when I see grizzly got any luck in the filing not so far No one that even looks like Come in Is the record on those prints sergeant? Mr. Carter was right. This guy's got a record as long as your arm Okay, quarter. Thanks. I'll read it off to me. Will you Matty? I'll keep looking for the colonel. Ah, let's see now Quite a guy your man in the green hat Nick. Yeah name ship garson convictions three six nine Everything from dope and hot cars to making book Warned by the Treasury boys for smuggling. I better have him picked up. What's the latest to get on it? Well here he's been spotted down in South America Porter's San Luis Oro Looks like the Treasury's been keeping a close eye on that baby. Nick. Oh, that's it Hey I'll be it. Well, what is it Nick? You find the colonel's picture in the files. Oh, I found my client's picture Yeah, what do you mean here in this card then Griswold convicted 1923? Illegal stock manipulation served two years in state prison then Griswold Say I remember that case. I was a rookie when it broke remember anything about a matty Well, now, let me see. Yeah, he was a research scientist But he got mixed up with a couple of stock juggling wizards and took the rap. Oh, he's been going straight ever since as far as I know The licker that's what he meant when he said he was a contact man for my father in unusual circles Huh must have been an underworld agent after he got out of prison could be Matty after I checked these files. I want to borrow your laboratory for a while sure thing Nick I've got a little special work to do. All right. I'll have quarter open it up for you Well, how about the container from the macaroni? I can't wait a morning for the unveiling Can you pick Griswold up tonight if we need him? That's no problem. We'll find him somehow good And if you can get him down here and hold him till I call I think we can break this tonight Back at the office at last fancy You're sure you don't want to go straight home. No, no, I couldn't sleep anyway It is never girl that gets kidnapped on a birthday instead of being taken to dinner now. I'm sorry about that Maybe I shouldn't admit it, but I was looking forward to that party too. Thanks for telling me Here we are. I think I'll finish those letters before I Didn't you leave the light on when we went out? I don't know. I think I did I Guess I turned them out though It's dark now Nick Do you think something's wrong? I don't know There's only one way to find out Wait a minute, I got the right key Okay, come on passing. I'll get the light Take its green hat. Yes, and it's dead Yes, my dear the Colonel I've been waiting for you Sit down at your desk Carter Don't bother reaching in the drawer. I've removed the revolver from it I warn you I shoot quickly and accurately. So don't attempt any heroics. You think of everything. Don't you Colonel? I tried to I find it necessary in my business your business. Perhaps I should say profession I'm a smuggler and a very good one. Don't move miss Vaughan. I have no scruples against using a gun on a lady I'm sure you haven't What's that air conditioning? Oh Works on an automatic thermostat. I see Mr. Carter, I think I'd better convince you that I mean business. We're convinced of that already Container you managed to get out of our hands those microfilm plans Plans photographed on small film. Oh, we know what microfilm is What are those plans of Colonel a new and secret process for casting aluminum which doesn't belong to you legally now You see all Griswold discovered the process in South America, but it wasn't too careful about guarding his property You mean you hijacked it off him. Oh, you could call it that I knew it would be worth millions to the automobile industry Which would pay heavily to the first man to secure an American patent I Planned to have a frontman patented but you couldn't get it into the country because the treasury men were watching your gang too closely precisely That's why we have to adopt that complicated method of delivering the container and I might add Your shrewd guess decreases your chances of surviving this meeting. You're pretty careless with murder, aren't you? I'm afraid there's been a trail of death following that container starting with the original inventor of the process in South America and Ending in our unfortunate friend in the green hat. He failed and I was forced to remove him And he may not be the last mr. Carter. You won't get clear on that rap Colonel on the contrary. It's a perfect setup Reswell couldn't call the police any publicity would call attention to the new process before he could patent it you slip Colonel It won't work. I've told you this Carter to convince you that I'm deadly serious I'm going to get those villains. I don't care particularly how I go about it. I Think that corpse cooling on your threshold should prove that Looks as though you're holding all these is done Exactly now the container, please I grow impatient mr. Carter You don't hand it over by the time I count three I Shall proceed to shoot your secretary right between her very pretty eyes Nick sits watching the unwavering gun in the colonel's hand He must act now or the soft-spoken murderer will kill again. We'll see what he does in just a minute Now for the conclusion of the case of the wandering macaroni today's adventure with Nick Carter brought to you by old Dutch Clemson Nick's office is quiet as the colonel covers Nick and Patsy his finger tightening on the trigger The only sound is the colonel's voice one two Hold it colonel. I Don't see why I should stick my neck out for a client. Yeah Last you show intelligence The container I gave you but Nick you don't argue give it to me What's the use of hiding it in the heel of my shoe if you're going to double crush a client anyway, but it clever Carter I See the heel and screws Here it is Yes, there's nothing left to do colonel. Here's your container. Don't leave your chair Put it on the desk I'll sit back Don't move Carter That you finally displayed reason Now before we decide what to do with you. We'll see whether this is the real container It opens on this end I've got the gun now colonel and now we'll see how you like looking down the barrel Well, it's all set Nick we got the colonel book murder in the first How about the rest of the gang Matty all locked up soon as you called and told me green hat was dead and you had caught the colonel Griswold led us to the guy who tipped him off about the macaroni deal and he squeal on the rest good I turned the plans over to Griswold and he's got him in the bank bowl And he better get the patent papers filed in a hurry before anybody else gets any ideas You know what burns me Nick that rat the colonel will probably hire six genius lawyers Oh, no, he won't he took plenty before you got here when he was trying to scare me into handing over the container He even confessed to murder. Oh, that's fine. But can we prove that to a jury? We can let them hear the confession with their own ears with that boss just before he started talking I kicked the switch on my recording machine under the desk. Well, I'll be got everything he said He thought the noise was the air conditioning, but he was really dictating his own death sentence But Nick how the devil did you get out from under that gun? The colonel looks like a pretty cool customer to me. Yes, Nick. Just what happened first I'm looking at that gun too scared to breathe thinking you were double-crossing your client and then the colonel screaming that he can't see Well, I knew the colonel would come to visit me sometime. He had my wallet with my address in it Well, that's true. The only way he could locate the container was to come after me So I stopped in the police laboratory and fixed a surprise for him while I was washing up. Yes I took the films out of the container and rigged a little booby trap inside it with tear gas Well, I'll be door going But that's done for the heel of my shoe. Patsy. He'd have suspected me if I just had it in my pocket Oh, I knew he'd open it up immediately to check and that's exactly what he did He got it right in the eyes. Well, there's still one thing. I'm not satisfied with Nick. Oh, what's that? My birthday dinner Even if we do go to the penguin room the head waiter will probably get murdered and you will take the case Well, then how about going back to the cafeteria for a dish of macaroni? Well, Nick, what about the adventure old-ish cleansers going to bring us next week I'll get to that just a moment Bob first I want to wish a rather I wish to call attention to the fact that this is the first day of national farm safety week I want to remind every farmer I possibly can that the best way to prevent accidents on his farm is to be sure that everybody knows his job Safety records in industry are achieved by training and watchfulness. The same thing is true in the farm So don't take chances the life you save may be your own Now Bob next week we're going to meet a man who was murdered because he was cured of a disease He didn't have and the most amazing thing about him was the fact that his face could take pictures After he was dead a man's face that could take pictures after he was dead. That sounds fascinating Ah, what do you call the story Nick? I call it the case of the dead camera Nick Carter master detective is presented each week at this time and over these same stations by the Karahi packing company makers of all Dutch cleanser Nick Carter master detective produced and directed by Jock McGregor is copyrighted by Street and Smith publications Incorporated Lon Clark is starred as Nick with Charlotte Manson featured as Patsey Matt He is played by Ed Latimer today's script was written by Ernest Kanhoye Original music is played by George Wright This program is fictional and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely Coincidental this is Bob Martin saying when minutes count use all that's clean This is the mutual