What happens
Ed Lowry, a reporter for the Daily Sentinel, learns that a gas station attendant has been selling genuine gas coupons without ration papers, and his investigation draws the attention of racketeers. Britt Reid, the paper's publisher, becomes worried when Lowry vanishes after a phone call is cut short, and he and his valet Cato set out to find him. The Green Hornet series, which features Britt Reid as the masked crimefighter, is broadcast in this episode, first aired on May 30, 1944. The story follows Reid's attempts to trace the racketeers through the gas station and the rationing board office on the east side of the city.
A city's west and east sides, including a gas station, the Daily Sentinel newspaper office, police headquarters, an apartment, and a rationing board office during the wartime gas ration period
Characters: Britt Reid, Cato, Ed Lowry, Mike Axford, Lenore Case, Sergeant Burke, Joe, Pete
Listen for: The phone call from Lowry cut off at a drugstore, Cato's reports from the east side, and the police broadcast about stolen gas coupons
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.