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distribute my information

all over the state at the same time.

It would cost you dough

but you could do it.

Did you ever hear of relay amplifiers?

Relay amplifier?

Yeah, that's a new gadget that was

developed so people in different cities

could listen in to a telephone

conference at the same time.

Could you set one up for me so it would

work right out of L.A.?

Oh, sure.

You could run wires right out of this

basement to any city you wanted.

Then the bookies in the other cities

could get the results

just like the guys

in the next room here.

Good.

I'd get rid of that telegrapher and

set up a teletype system.

Then you have a guy at a microphone

broadcast the results

just like a regular news broadcast

from a radio station.

Get the equipment and

set it up for me like that

and it's worth $125 a week to you.

Just as technical man

to keep it running.

I'll make it a hundred and fifty.

Is it a deal?

I always knew there was some way

to beat the races.

That'll do for now.

-Good.

One of you guys better count

your fingers. Hello, Chippie.

Sorry to be late, Vince. There was

a little trouble at the bank.

They didn't like some of those checks.

More bum checks, huh?

Mal Granger, Trudy Maxwell.

How are you?

-Hi.

He's going to put in

a few improvements around here.

You mean like fresh air?

I'm beginning to feel like a termite

working out of this basement

all the time.

Yeah, you could stand

a little air conditioning.

When I have time, you might give me

your ideas on the subject.

You've got a new approach.

First guy I ever met that made

air conditioning sound like etchings.

I've got things to do, Mal

You'll start work tomorrow, huh?

The faster, the better.

You can say that again.

Nice to have met you, Vince.

It was my pleasure.

Goodbye.

-So long.

That was a good dinner, wasn't it?

The steaks are delicious.

To think a few hours ago

I was a wage slave.

You ought to get rid of that.

-Uh-uh.

I still can't figure out why you

quit the phone company.

Honey, I got to thinking.

Are telephones here to stay?

Sure, they're here to stay.

You were doing fine with the company.

I was already beginning

to make a few plans.

Yeah? What kind of plans?

You know. I thought maybe

after your next raise...

Honey, there's nothing wrong

with your plans.

You just got the wrong guy.

-What do you mean?

You just hang on to your plans, baby,

but let go of me.

How are your plans...for tonight?

Hey.

What are they doing here?

Excuse us.

This is another one of Vince's angles.

He runs a check cashing service

for bookmakers.

He's sharp, all right.

I'm telling you right now,

I won't discount any more

checks at the old rate.

If you want to duck income tax,

you get eighty cents on a buck

for every stiff and no more.

It's not that, Vince.

He can't keep up the payments

on the 3,000 you advanced him.

It ain't my fault, Mr. Walters.

I only borrowed that dough because I

went overboard. I couldn't pay off.

So what? I want my dough

and the interest.

If you can't keep up your payments,

I'll cut you off the service.

If you do that, I'm out of business.

I gotta have that service, Mr. Walters.

If you could only give me a little time.

I'll give you one week.

Thanks, Mr. Walters, thanks. I'll...

-Get out.

For ten percent interest,

you have to expect a little trouble.

We got 3,600 in stiffs yesterday.

Yes, but you can't make any dough

playing handball with rubber checks.

I want to see a girl about a boy.

I was feeling a little corny just now

and couldn't resist coming over

to tell you what a small world

I think it is.

Oh yes, you're new little boy we hired

to string wires up around the place.

-That's right.

I'm also very good at filling in

when people's dates don't show up.

Mine always do.

I'm sure they do. But I thought maybe

you had a daughter around my age.

What do you want?

We're getting up a game

of hopscotch tonight and

could you play on my side?

You're wasting your breath, Granger.

Trudy's all business.

Believe me, I know.

You sound like an adding machine.

Hello, Mr. Walters.

I only dropped over

because I had an idea.

Chippie tells me that Trudy

works the races for you.

And I thought maybe I ought to go

out there with her and uh...

See just what the setup is.

You can do that later.

For the first few weeks you're

gonna have enough to do

wiring up that new system.

Well, I'm uh...I'm glad

we had this little talk.

SHAKE-UP ON L.A. POLICE FORCE

NEW GANGSTER SQUAD FORMED

How are you, lieutenant?

Hello, Wright.

Thanks for requesting me for your squad.

Sit down.

Where do I start?

You have a reputation of being a guy

nobody can approach.

That's why I asked for you when

they gave me the gangster squad.

You can start by checking up

on the bookie racket.

They've been having things

their own way too long.

There's one outfit in particular.

They call themselves the

Libertt Finance Company.

That's all we have on them so far.

There was enough there to convince me

that the Libertt Finance Co.

was the front

for one of California's largest

bookmaking organizations.

We didn't know then that Vince Walters'

Tri-State Wire Service

was actually behind it.

And that Mal Granger

was the technical brains.

His improvements ran the daily take

up to staggering figures.

They're on the track in Chicago

and ready to go.

Where's Vince?

-In Mal's workshop.

And there they go. They're ready

in Chicago at 36 1/2

It's a switch on those

walkie-talkie radios, huh?

That's right and miniature.

If it works.

-It'll work.

He receives me

through this hearing aid, see?

And the amplifier and microphone become

a transmitter

and that's how he gets back at me.

His cane here serves as an aerial.

Pop, just keep that ring

right on the metal band, will you?

The only trouble we might get into

is if a federal monitor car

picked up his frequency.

Then they could triangulate the beam.

How does that feel, Pop?

Fine, fine. However I must say

that I feel utterly ridiculous

being wired for sound.

Still the erector set kid, huh?

Well, why work when

electricity will do it for you?

There's things it hasn't been able

to do for me.

Mal wants to try out this new

gadget today, Trudy.

I thought maybe you'd better take him

out to the track with you.

Show him how you work.

Things have getting

a little hot out there.

It'll be my pleasure.

Madame.

Eight on top.

Twelve.

Two and a half.

Eight.

Two.

and twenty on the bottom.

All set, Pop.

Let's test it once from the grandstand.

Officer, can you tell me

where the coffee shop is?

Right over the grandstand.

I say, officer...

You're just the man I was looking for.

My eyesight isn't too good.

I wonder.

Could you give me

the odds on this race?

Sure. Number 1, 8 to1

Number 1, 8 to 1

Number 2, 12 to 1

Number 3, 5 to 2

Number 4, 5 to 2

Number 5, 8 to 1

Number 6

2 to 1

Number 7, 20 to 1

Thank you, sir, thank you.

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