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Calling All Cars: Plague of the Black Locust

Calling All Cars · June 1, 1939 · 31 min · 4,627 words

The transcript of “Plague of the Black Locust”, an episode of Calling All Cars first broadcast June 1, 1939. 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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The wretched program created by Rio Grande is a non-caught, calling all cars, and taking all cars broadcast to 280, regarding the illicit drugs, and just non-caught engages. That's all. Rio Grande has forsaken the beaten path and blazed the new trail with a revolutionary new gasoline, embodying twice as many expertly combined ingredients as found in ordinary

fuel. It is a scientifically perfect blend of gasoline. Great Run, Caking Head, Stabilizer and Tester Ethel. Each one gives your car a different kind of power. And you can't get perfect performance without all types of gasoline blended in the right proportion to provide it.

It was tested and proved by the exacting drivers of police, fire in the emergency equipment in the cities and counties of California who found it to fulfill all their demanding requirements. No wonder thousands of new customers have joined with the Army of regular Rio Grande patrons during these last three-week civilians reduction.

With dynamite at your red and white Rio Grande station in the morning, I can personally promise you that you can feel the improved performance when this new crack gasoline hits your coverage. The facts around which tonight's story has been built were taken from the file of the Bureau of Narcotics and Fantasy Film.

We have therefore asked Mr. Paul E. Madden, Chief of the State Narcotics Bureau, to open our of the studios of PSFO, gentlemen. There may be harder jobs than breaking up an narcotic brain. I don't know. I've never seen one. Especially difficult is a job of rounding up a band of narcotic peddlers, including the brains of the gang.

Narcotic sellers are not always users, and usually the organization back of the the country extends to many countries. The capture of such a group is a long and arduous process, one that requires many hours of painstaking labor and much money. I have found definitely however that no matter how smart a man thinks he is, when he starts out to sell dope, he is

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