The Rub Out

Tales of the Texas Rangers starring Joel McCray is Ranger Chase Pearson. Another authentic reenactment of a case transcribed in the files of the Texas Rangers. Some places in the following story are fictitious for obvious reasons.

The events themselves are a matter of records. Hello dear friends, this is Gordon Macray. If I may I'd like to take a minute of your time to tell you about tomorrow's Monday night of music on NBC.

We all have fine programs planned for you tomorrow and I know that you'll find listening enjoyment when you tune to this NBC station. Begin your listening with the voice of Firestone and its guest soloist, Soprano Bido Sayao, and then it's time for the Railroad Hour.

Tomorrow night I'll have petite and lovely Mimi Benzel as my guest as we present the Sigmundraumberg Oscar Hammerstein's success, East Wind. I know you'll enjoy the romance-filled songs in the Railroad Hour production of East Wind.

So be our guests tomorrow right here on Good Old NBC. And to top off your Monday Night of Music, tomorrow the telephone hour will present an all-operatic program featuring Aetio Pienza. So remember for your Monday Night of Music on NBC, tune to this station tomorrow for the Voice of Firestone, the Railroad Hour, and the Telephone Hour.

But now let's hear today's adventure with the Texas Rangers. And now from the files of the Texas Rangers, It's the case called the Rubout. It is 9.30 p.m. July 23, 1936. The night is sticky hot.

In the dimly lit dressing room of a border town fighterina, young, good looking ex-calpoke, Johnny Buck, is getting a last minute rub down from one of his handlers, Slim Corey. Hold still, cowboy. Man, you keep grinding around like a frog and a frying pan.