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Calling All Cars: The Artful Dodger

Calling All Cars · September 1, 1938 · 27 min · 5,159 words

The transcript of “The Artful Dodger”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast September 1, 1938. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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All cars, the copyrighted program created by Rio Grande. Our family's police calling all cars, sentinel cars broadcast 250 at Wilshire and Western, assist the officers. That's all. Go. Supposing a friend of yours were coughing the street, and you could see that his next step would plunge him into an open manhole with Papa this serious injury.

As a friend, you'd call out to warn him of his danger, wouldn't you? You. Well friends, in that same spirit, I'm calling out to those of you who are flirting with another kind of misfortune, probably without knowing it. Don't court the financial disaster of motor failure or premature breakdown by trying to get by with slabby, short-lived oil.

Just think of all the friction-resistant heat-defying-reallube you could have brought with that last repair bill. Just try to break-reallube down with your higher speed. Even with the help of a sometimes hot-tempered weatherman, it can't be done. Here's how you can prove it to yourself.

The next time you drive into the red and white wheel grandest station in your neighborhood for a thankful of police car performance Rio Grande de Crat, take a border crankcase full of Rio Lu, drive a thousand miles, then look at your oil gate, then feel the still great film, strength and body of this best lubricant.

And I can hear you saying, that was the straight dope Dr. Lindley gave it the other night. other night. This real lube is the newest and finest motor oil sold in the West. The story of the artful dodger is to be found in the confidential files of the Los Angeles Police Department.

We have therefore requested Chief of Police Jamesy Davis to open our program, he states, one of the most elusive criminals that my department has ever had to deal with is the story of the man we are to hear tonight. He was one of the hardest men to capture and convict that we of dealt with. He had a criminal record that began in 1911, and yet he had never been held

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