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Calling All Cars: Trouser Cuff Clue

Calling All Cars · October 23, 1934 · 32 min · 5,151 words

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The autobiography, Easy Picking, was a best seller of 18 months ago. In tonight's dramatization you will hear Alleil in the part of Ed Curry. Tonight's program takes us into a police chemist laboratory. Before the show starts, let's take a look behind the scenes, moving with a lot of test tubes.

The testing now, Mr. Chemist, from evidence in the criminal case? Well, you might call it criminal. I'm pressing them gallantly. The gentlemen will certainly murder any motor. They're not good enough to use garbage trucks, let alone in police cars, ambulances and fire engines.

What do the tests say about Rio Grande Cracks gasoline? Rio Grande Cracks gasoline always says high in all essential qualities. That's why many cities specify it year after year and year. And all their police cars, ambulances and fire engines.

What makes it so good? You know, it's that cracking process. Certainly gives Rio Grande a big advantage over uncracks gasoline. There's no sense in anyone buying uncrack gasoline when they can get a real Randy Crank at the same fight. Tonight, Keith Davis has sent his personal representative, Captain Bert Waller, chief of the Homicide detail of the Los Angeles Police Department. Captain Waller.

Good evening, friends. As changed more radically in the past five years than in any other similar period since the kings of old empowered lanterns, screaming watchmen to keep the feet in the towns and cities of Anticipy. Science has come to our aid. Psychology has satisfied the workings of the human mind and provided the

clean office with a powerful weapon for penetrating the trained metal quirk lawbreakers off into the plate. We have fingerprints classified in elaborate systems that in some cases records as many as five million separate sets of prints. Chemistry and physics provide us with necessary procedures to detect the lawbreaker and prosecute him, although he has

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