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Calling All Cars: Corpse in the Shack

Calling All Cars · July 23, 1936 · 27 min · 4,880 words

The transcript of “Corpse in the Shack”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast July 23, 1936. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). North Pole Radio: Holiday Specials plays Calling All Cars free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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All cars, a copyrighted program created for the Rio Grande Oil Company. All cars, attention all cars, attention all, Maricopa County, Fierce Cars broadcast 139, guarding a man-moored for murder, Ben Knight, last thing he had for California in a 1925 Tudor Baker, accompanied by two young girls and a woman, that's all.

The action in tonight's case starts in Maricopa County, Arizona, and then jumps to Los Angeles. Investigators from the Rio Grande Oil Company, while talking with the officers of the Medical County Sheriff's Office. We're proud to hear this statement from the Arizona officials.

Your radio program, call and call, calls is a powerful influence for good. We know that it explains police work to the people of Arizona, is getting us a lot of cooperation with citizens. It's only fair to tell you that your gasoline is just as good as your broadcast.

At the obvious, we wouldn't have renewed our contract to use Rio Grande Crac gasoline exclusively for another year. In our work covering the many miles of Arizona Mountain and Desert Road, gasoline is mighty important.

We never yet found any gasoline to equal Rio Grande Crac. We get more miles to the gallon, and that's not tall. I reckon prove it. But even more important, we get better all round performance, all the speed and power, and quicker starts that emergency cars must have.

And then from the Los Angeles officers who worked on the night's case, we heard the other side of the story. You can tell the world that we think Rio Grande Crac gasoline tops them all.

Every emergency car in Lagrangellis is powered with this gasoline. We've got to have the most powerful and fastest gasoline made. And for years, we've never found any brand any better than Rio Grande Crac. And that's the kind of reception our Rio Grande crime investigators get wherever they go, together material for calling all cars.

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