This Is Your FBI: The Old Hat

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation presented transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

H.O. A.H.O. Those are three letters that every husband and wife who are thinking of mortgaging their home should remember. A.H.O. stands for the Assured Home Ownership Plan of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. A money-saving home-saving plan designed to speed the day when you say, Not one cent of mortgage on my house, I own it free and clear.

Does that appeal to you? And please listen carefully in about 13 minutes for full information on the Equitable AHO plan. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Death of Government Property, its title, The Old Hat.

Scientific advances are being made in laboratories throughout the country that stagger the imagination. An instrument has recently been perfected, for example, that will measure time to the hundred millionth of a second. Another instrument will reveal the exact chemical properties in a fragment of material smaller than the tip of a needle.

Those advancements and others like them are important to every person in the country because science is no longer now a branch remote to human learning, but a direct contributor to the fight against crime. The FBI laboratory in Washington, D.C., the largest crime lab in the world, It's used by special agents and local police in every part of the country.

Used to help South cases which only a few short years ago would have remained mysteries. The case chosen for dramatization this evening is proof of that statement. Tonight's file opens in the downtown district of a large eastern city.