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You know, Harry and Lepke and Lucky and Albert. He's gonna be there. And Gura and the boys in Chicago, Milwaukee Casey. Nobody said nothing to my boss. I just thought you ought to know. The Dutchman ain't gonna like this, Flot. He's still got you running numbers. Yeah. Why don't you quit him? I can't. Why not? He's never quit that shit stuck on ice-picking his ear. Yeah, I heard about that. He's kind of a screwball, huh? A screwball? Oh, wait till he hears you're holding another meeting without him. What way he'll be banging all over the place? Maybe you better not go back to Newark today. And wholly be banging me. So I'll take a rest. Tell you what, Ginch, I blow you to a show. What's planned? Shirley Temple. I've already seen it, but I'll see it again. Shirley Temple, huh? Yeah. She's a cutest little thing, just like a doll. I tell you, Ginch, boy, I cried. I think we are all assembled. Somebody turn that radio off. Yeah, you're looking just fine. Yeah, Harry, how was the vacation? It was very charming. Very charming. Do you miss us? Enjoy yourself? Her bag gave her a few, what do you call it, twinges. But taken by enlarge, it was a charming vacation. That's nice. But enough of this pleasantries to business gentlemen. The question we have met to deliberate about is this new fellow in the DA's office. That bummer's got to be banged in their head. Please, a little consideration? Hey, Gara, don't be interrupted, Harry. Sorry. Apologies accepted. Now then, this new fellow has been investigating some matter which might prove embarrassing to we followers if all the facts should become known. I am referring in particular to the stuff he is investigating about the numbers business. Now, since we decided to get smart and form the syndicate... What do you mean? I don't go in. Hiya, boys. Dutch Schultz. Yes, Al, but it's the Dutchman. How come all of my good friends here, the people I've been doing business with for years, how come they're holding councils without the Dutchman, huh? Please, act like a civilized being, will you? Act like you didn't grow up in a barn or somewhere? And you, Harry, you're my pal. What is this? This is a matter concerning New York City, Mr. Schultz. Not New Jersey or Newark, which is why you weren't invited. Well, the way I heard it was you were going to discuss the new guy in the DA's office. Which is correct, but please, no name. That DA, he done a lot of bad things to me. I think I ought to be in on a discussion. Frankly, I didn't think you'd be interested, but since you see fit to come busting in here, you can stay. Yeah, that's more like it, Harry Tux. One thing, though. Wow, what's that? You're not on the board of the syndicate, Mr. Schultz, so you don't get to vote. Well, no matter what is this, a bunch of lead pipe hoods and you're trying to make like big businessmen, big operators. We are businessmen, Dutch. You can sit down and shut up or get out of here. That's more like it. Now, then, Harry, you were saying? Ever since that one-way grand jury took out Mr. Dodge, we have had great difficulties keeping the DA's office in line. We've got plenty of grease, but nobody to pay it to. It's no fellow. He's incorrevable. So the question is, what are we going to do about him? Just give him a treatment. He wouldn't forget that, sir. That's what I say. The bummer's got to be banged in the head. Now, please, gentlemen, a little consideration. Thank you. You see, Mr. Schultz, times are changing. We don't operate with those tactics anymore. This is big business. We've got to operate with the modicum of intelligence. Modicum? What gives without their modicum? It means a itty bit... What don't you say so? A itty bit intelligence. That I can understand, but modicum... Please, Mr. Schultz, let me remind you. You're here as an observer only. Oh, please proceed. I was carried away, a modicum. Oh, yes. Operate with intelligence. It seems to me that there is a definite possibility that we may have to resort to drastic measures in dealing with this fella. Yeah. And so I am debitizing Albert here to investigate the situation. This is no ordinary contract, Albert. I want you to figure out how it can be done so nobody gets fingered and nobody gets hurt, except for that fella, I mean. Well, though, the perfect contract. Yeah, and I'll help you. I've got a lot of ideas and experience in that line. No. Harry, listen, you don't know how much I hate that new DA. And all know this calls for finesse. And please, no names. Albert, I'm counting on you. Gentlemen, we'll meet here in one week for Albert's report. And in the meantime, don't worry about the future. You know the old saying, keep smiling. 34, 23. 78, 50. 23, 46. 891. And 415, 67. And that, my good friend, winds it up for the night. Really, a very nice little take, Ginch, if I do say so myself. Yeah, well, just don't you plan on taking any of it for yourself, Albert, ever. Who can be so stupid? You needn't speak to me like that, Ginch. I know Mr. Schultz. Yeah, but you don't know him like I know him. Yeah, what's the food on the table for? Mr. Schultz. He's back from the meeting. Ah, he was hoping he'd stay in New York, see a show or something. Hi, boss. Hello, Mr. Schultz. Hi, boys. OK, Berman, what's the tally? Oh, very good, Mr. Schultz. $13,561.13 for the day. Oh, that's because of you, Aberdebber. Ah, it was nothing. Yeah, so they think I'm slipping, don't they? You, Gitch, what do you think? Oh, I think you're on top of the world, Dutch. Yeah, and you know why? Because I use my brains. When I ain't got them, I buy them. Those knuckleheads in New York, those big businessmen, they got a numbers racket. Me, I got a numbers racket. Mine pays off the players, but hardly ever. Because it's paying off all the time, and why? Because mine is superior, that's why, because I use my head. I went out and bought me Aberdebber here. Oh, but I was glad to get the job. I liked the money. Shut up! I think, why isn't the numbers paying me more money? Because it's too honest, that's why. It's like a bad slot. When a slot's bad and paying off too much, what do you do? You fix it. So I went over to that college there, and I bought me a student, a mathematical genius. I said to him, kid, you fix this, and I'll take care of you. You were very generous. And was really a fascinating problem. Ginch, what's the matter with South Bayone? School kids, we're losing their business. One of their principals is working against our runners. Oh, principal, huh? I hate principals. I had a principal once, his name was, uh, uh, Jafsey Condon. Did you ever hear of him? Like a Lindbergh kid? Yeah, yeah, that's the one. He used to beat my ears up, and I was a defenseless kid too. But I'll tell you what, Ginch, you give this principal a workout. Oh, Dutch, he's an old man. I don't think you heard me good, Ginch. I heard you're Dutch. You're only working guys, though, but you've got plenty of guys who do that sort of stuff. But I want you to do this one, Ginch. Let me show you a trick, Ginch. Come here. Put your hand on the table. Oh, Dutch. Put it on the table there. All right. That was pretty neat, wasn't it? I know a lot of those kind of tricks, Ginch. So I'll tell you what now. Every week that passers without you doing what I tell you, like when I tell you to give the principal a workout, I'm going to break another finger for you. What are you staring at? Nothing, sir. All right, that's good. I don't like people to stare at me. How about it, Ginch? How do you feel? Oh, Dutch. Shouldn't he get that fixed, Mr. Schultz? Yeah, he should. Ginch, it's 50. Go down to the drugstore and get that fixed up. All right, Ginch, throw me a favor. Get me a present for my mother. It's up to nice, a big bottle of two-joule or more. You know what I mean? Yeah, for your mother. Sure, Dutch. Do you want us to get her some perfume or toilet water? I'll kill you if I say I'm not. Oh, does he take a years? When does he get off talking like that? Stop that! He's gone crazy around him. My own boys are talking out against me and all his businessmen. Just a simple contract. Hit the DA on the head, and they're going to meet with the board of directors like... Oh, that's a big deal. Keep smiling, he says. Keep smiling. Fight is bringing you Mr. Broder Crawford in Dutch Schultz, tonight's presentation in Radio's Outstanding Theatre of Thrill's Suspense. Say, Hap, have you had your car winterized yet? Well, no, Harlow, I haven't. Ah, Johnny, plug checks right, Hap. There's no time like now to get that car into your auto light spark plug dealer for a change of oil and grease, antifreeze. And check those... 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Let's hear it. And Albert, don't give us none of that keep-smiling stuff, huh? Look, Schultz, I don't want no trouble with you tonight. Okay, Mr. Businessman. Okay, let's hear the report, huh? All right. I want quiet. I don't want to have to tell this twice. Here it is. The subject under discussion is no DA. This guy's got it 24 hours around, two plain clothesmen all the time. They watch his building, they escort him everywhere. There's no way to get at him. I mean no ordinary way. You was a truck. You get a big garbage truck. See it comes speeding down the street. Mr. Schultz, do we have to have you ejected? All right, all right. Go on. My cousin. He's got a little kid five years old. So what I did, I borrowed this kid, bought him a tricycle, see? Every morning when his fella comes walking out with his bodyguards, there I am. Joe Citizen, typical square, taking my morning physical with my little boy right there by the door. Very nice. Good. Yeah, yeah. He comes walking out. He smiles at the kid's sort of tips his hat to me. I swear that guy's going to be a politician someday and then he walks down to the corner drugstore. Drugstore? Yeah, yeah. And the way I figured everybody in City Hall is trying to tap his phone, so he uses the drugstore's public pay station. He goes inside the two bodyguards keep out in the street. He stays in an average of three minutes alone, see? Then he comes out, gets into City Limousine and goes downtown. Very nice information of it. Now, how do you work it? He's very precise, this fella. Goes into the drugstore at 8.05 precisely every morning. The fellas who are handling the contract yet they're early. Bang the drugers with silences, wait. He comes in. Guards are outside. He goes into the boot. They bang him, stroll out. You got two, two and a half minutes to get away. The guns get left in the drugstore. That's good. Let's do it. Listen, Albert, I think it's a very compact and neat way to handle a contract and I only wish I still had you working for me in, in this, in your old capacity. Yeah, yeah. Incidentally, the guns I already arranged for a pair of brand new untraceable government 45s. We lifted them out of a crate down at the federal warehouse. Yeah, it's perfect. Nice work, Albert, but... I've been giving this entire matter a lot of thought during the past week. Now, really, I tell you honestly, I haven't slept. Now, please, gentlemen, I beg of you, a little consideration. All right. All right. Fine. All right, I care. You wouldn't listen. Well, that's better. Now, you know me. I got only your best interests at heart and I have come to the conclusion that it is in all our best interests that this fellow from the DA's office stays alive. Harry, what are you, a buggy or something? This guy's got to go. All right, all right, boys. You can just quiet down and listen to me. Yeah, Lucky, what do you say? I say Harry's right. The guy lives. You know, we've got to look at this with the long view. We've got to think of the syndicate. You and a syndicate can drop that. Albert's got the perfect plan. Let's use it. Listen, Schultz, I want you to shut up. And now, Harry's right and his wife. What can this DA investigate? Manhattan, nothing else. All right. So we're going to let him. We've got a nationwide business to take care of. We ain't going to sacrifice that just to search a couple of Times Square number runners and stare at the can. The syndicate will come first. Yeah, but that fellow, he's investigating pretty high up. He could even get some whiff of us in this room. No, Goura. No? Any lawyer would tell you they can get an indictment unless they got a solid case. And they can get a solid case unless they got two witnesses. And that is where we pass out the contracts. You mean, instead of taking us one fellow, we're going to have to take 10, maybe 20, huh? Yeah, yeah. And here's why. Take this fellow and it becomes a federal case. It gets out of Manhattan and it gets out of hand. And you boys are from Chicago and we'll walk in in case he know what I mean. And you too, Dodge. You don't want this investigation of spreading all over in New Jersey. I'm sure Mr. Schultz is beginning to see the light. Now, let's take a vote. Anybody against the notion that we let the little fellow go ahead with this investigation? Well, it seems a long way around the bond to have to kill all those witnesses instead of just one fellow. We can get them before they start to be news. There's no problem in there. I am with you. Well, I'm not. Leaving us, Mr. Schultz? Yeah. Yeah, I'm going back to Jersey where he had on stink from chicken. I take it you don't like the way we operate. Look, Albert here comes up with a perfect contract and you fancy pants are too chicken to carry it out. Well, listen, Lucky, Albert, Henry, Harry, all the rest of you. Maybe there's somebody in this world who ain't too chicken. That's just a little thought, gentlemen. Just a little thought. They're over there, Dutch, those fellas. Watch once, Ginch. Stand up by the shoe store there. Yeah. Well, you can't want me any more today, Dutch. No, I'll go back to Newark. Sure, Dutch. Hello, Mr. Schultz. Are you the fella? Yeah. Toy's the name. This is my partner, Murray. You fellas want to make a little? Depends on a contract. That's an easy contract. I got it all figured out, so there'll be no problem. Who's the mark? Just a fella. I gotta know who. What's the matter? What's a to-your-who? Just a job, that's all? It's no problem, Toy. Look, what is this? What's with you? A couple of sissies or something? You scared of a little job? I asked Ginch to get me some fella who could handle a little contract. Look, you want to know who the fella is? Oh, and I'll tell you, I got nothing to hide. It's the new DA in New York. Come on, Murray. Wait a minute. Where you gone? You got the wrong parties, Mr. Schultz. Haven't you heard? The DA lives. That's the word from the syndicate. Ah, hello, Flat. What happened to your arm? What's with the swing? Dutch. Oh. First the thumb, then the wrist, something you thought I said about his mother. He's an animal, that's what. Another year with Dutch, I'm on a being very bad condition. And you can't quit? That's right. You, well, let me go. Both quit. Dutch stuck an icepick in his ear. Ginch, I don't know, maybe I'm crazy, but I'll tell you something. Would you tell Dutch? I wouldn't tell him if his hat was on fire. Certain parties is having a meeting tonight. Six o'clock. Oh, that's one he really don't know about. Gentlemen, the situation is brought with danger to us all. I don't know. If it was anybody else, I would say, forget about it. It being the Dutchman, he's just screwing up the fellow's room. My boys never lied to me. They say he's out shopping for a man to take the contract right now. Been talking about it for almost a week. There's only one thing to do. We got to take Dutch before he takes that fellow from the DA's office. Albert, you got any ideas? Dutchman is kind of screwy, but he ain't crazy. You know what I mean? He's not the kind of a fellow you just walk up to and do it. He's covered all the time. I know where he's hanging out this week. Where's that, Lucky? The palace job house over in Newark. I know that place. It's got a little private dining room in the back there. That fellow would have to be screwy to try it in there. Yeah, I got just some man. Bug, Mandy, in here. What a job for you, Bug. Contract. Yeah, who? Dutch? Okay. He's got to be fast. Sure, fast. I mean tonight. Okay, tonight. Mandy, you drive. Come on. Walk you down the car. The probable business. Yeah, yeah. Well, gentlemen, we got nothing more to talk about tonight, so I would suggest we get out and get seen if you follow me. 183.11. 68.51. 17.39. 550 even. 137.45. Stop that creepy whistling. I'll fix your whistle so it'll never blow again. All right now. 775.15. That does it. What am I going to do to that ginch when he gets back? I told him to go back to Newark. Where is he? Maybe he missed the train. Or something. Look, Berman, I need you around here to handle my books and keep my numbers business functioning. I don't like it you should be talking all the time and whistling like a boy, like a schoolboy. Sorry, Mr. Schultz. I'm going to be in business for a long time, Berman. Remember that. You want to get rich? Stick with me. Yes, sir. I'm with you, Mr. Schultz. But keep your mouth shut, see? Tight shut. I'll get those tallies added up. I'm going to wash my hands. Okay. For now, I'm going to charge my money and give the boys a touch. He went to the bathroom. But you, you haven't answered my question. Kid, you bother me. I'm sorry it's busy. So am I. Busy? Busy as a bee? You see, get your boy, get your boy, was a hot seat, tozio was a hot seat, tozio. Oh, it was a hot seat. Tozio is all right, bottle boy. Dutch is really gonna be saw me now. I forget it. Come on. Come on. We'll go up to Lindy's have a couple of drinks She's standing around Listen, I can't I'm in so much trouble now. What's that? Did you hear that? Come on, let's buy a paper. Let's buy all the papers. Yeah, even the time we'll take them up to Lindy's and have a drink and have a party Suspense Presented by auto light tonight star mr. Brother at Crawford This is Harlow Wilcox again tomorrow members of the American trucking association Attending the annual convention in Los Angeles. 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