WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the 00:14.520 --> 00:15.760 innocent. 00:15.760 --> 00:31.760 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you dragnet. 00:31.760 --> 00:37.240 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the juvenile bureau. The high schools in your 00:37.240 --> 00:42.800 city have been flooded with obscene literature. You stamp out one source and a dozen more 00:42.800 --> 00:49.520 spring up. Your job, stop them. 00:49.520 --> 00:56.520 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. Smoke king size Fatima. 00:56.520 --> 01:03.480 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly 01:03.480 --> 01:10.240 blended to make Fatima extra mild. And that's why Fatima has a much different, much better 01:10.240 --> 01:16.120 flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. That's why Fatima has more than doubled its 01:16.120 --> 01:23.120 smokers coast to coast. So enjoy Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 01:23.800 --> 01:27.760 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:27.760 --> 01:34.760 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 01:34.760 --> 01:41.760 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation 01:43.240 --> 01:47.560 with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the 01:47.560 --> 01:53.680 law through an actual case from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to 01:53.680 --> 02:00.680 punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 02:00.680 --> 02:05.240 It was Monday, October 21st. It was cool in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch 02:05.240 --> 02:09.560 at a juvenile bureau. My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Inspector Lester, commander of 02:09.560 --> 02:13.960 the juvenile bureau. My name is Friday. It was 10 a.m. when we got to the auditorium 02:13.960 --> 02:18.960 of Canfield High School. Stage door. 02:18.960 --> 02:23.960 I guess we go right out onto the stage. There's a better way to work call though, huh? 02:23.960 --> 02:25.160 You're the man from the police department? 02:25.160 --> 02:27.760 Yes, sir. This is Sergeant Romero. My name's Friday. 02:27.760 --> 02:28.760 How do you do? 02:28.760 --> 02:29.760 Right in here. 02:29.760 --> 02:32.840 You're the principal here. Come right out onto the stage and we'll get the meeting started. 02:32.840 --> 02:33.840 All right. 02:33.840 --> 02:36.840 Just have a chair there. 02:36.840 --> 02:37.840 Thank you. 02:37.840 --> 02:40.840 Is the microphone on? 02:40.840 --> 02:47.840 Ladies and gentlemen of the coordinating council, members of the parent-teacher association, 02:49.840 --> 02:55.320 as you know, this meeting has been called for the purpose of discussing ways and means 02:55.320 --> 02:59.960 to bring about an end to the distribution of the filthy and obscene books and pamphlets 02:59.960 --> 03:04.520 that have been littering every high school campus in the city of Los Angeles. We've tried 03:04.520 --> 03:10.080 every means at our disposal to clean this matter up and they all seem to fail. On the 03:10.080 --> 03:15.080 advice of the coordinating council and Mrs. Randall to the PTA, we've called in the authorities 03:15.080 --> 03:20.080 here to discuss the matter with us this morning, our two offices connected with the juvenile 03:20.080 --> 03:27.080 bureau of our police department, Sergeant Romero and Sergeant Friday. And now may I turn the 03:29.200 --> 03:34.200 meeting over to Sergeant Friday of the Los Angeles police department. 03:34.200 --> 03:37.000 Thank you. 03:37.000 --> 03:40.920 Ladies and gentlemen, the only way we're going to get to the bottom of this thing and put 03:40.920 --> 03:45.080 a stop to it is to get all the information we can on where this lascivious material is 03:45.080 --> 03:49.880 coming from. You people as parents and teachers of the children who are buying and reading 03:49.880 --> 03:54.640 this stuff might be able to give us some help. So if it's all right with you Mr. Fisher, 03:54.640 --> 03:57.400 I'd like to hear from some of the people sitting out there if I may. 03:57.400 --> 03:58.400 Certainly, go right ahead. 03:58.400 --> 04:02.840 Thank you. Well if any of you people have anything to say or any information, any questions, 04:02.840 --> 04:06.240 why don't we be glad to listen to you and do our best to answer your questions. 04:06.240 --> 04:07.240 Sergeant. 04:07.240 --> 04:10.240 Yes, the lady out there, go right ahead. 04:10.240 --> 04:17.240 I'm Mrs. Stein. I know of a place in our neighborhood that has dirty books. I feel sure that that's 04:17.240 --> 04:24.240 one of the places where the children are getting this trash. Complaints have been made to the 04:24.240 --> 04:31.240 police department, but the man who runs the place has never been arrested. Can you tell 04:31.240 --> 04:32.240 me why? 04:32.240 --> 04:36.640 Well, ma'am, I think I'd better make it clear now that there's only one way a police officer 04:36.640 --> 04:41.280 can arrest anyone for possession of lewd literature. The officer has to prove that 04:41.280 --> 04:45.980 the party who possesses this literature does so for the purpose of selling it. Sometimes 04:45.980 --> 04:47.400 that's difficult to prove. 04:47.400 --> 04:49.920 Well, I told you I can prove it. 04:49.920 --> 04:52.920 You mean you can go to this place and buy a book from him? 04:52.920 --> 04:55.920 Maybe I couldn't. If I were known. 04:55.920 --> 05:00.040 Yes, ma'am, that's just the point. Now, I don't know offhand about the one in your 05:00.040 --> 05:03.280 neighborhood, but I can assure you that we've cracked down on hundreds of such peddlers in 05:03.280 --> 05:07.080 the past few months. You can see for yourselves that this doesn't put a stop to it. We've 05:07.080 --> 05:08.080 got to get to the source. 05:08.080 --> 05:09.080 I have a question for you. 05:09.080 --> 05:10.080 Yes, sir? 05:10.080 --> 05:11.080 My name's Fred Scott. I'm director of the Squareshooter's Boys Club. 05:11.080 --> 05:12.080 Yes, sir. 05:12.080 --> 05:19.080 The point I'm trying to make is, I know the young boys pretty well. With the exception 05:19.080 --> 05:27.080 of my boys, 49 in number, I believe that just about every boy in this high school has one 05:27.080 --> 05:30.080 of those books. Or at least he's seen one. 05:30.080 --> 05:31.080 Yes, sir, we're aware of that. 05:31.080 --> 05:36.080 The point I'm trying to make is, somewhere in the municipal code, there's got to be a 05:36.080 --> 05:38.080 law to forbid such things. 05:38.080 --> 05:39.080 Yes, sir, there is such a law. 05:39.080 --> 05:40.080 Then why isn't it enforced? 05:40.080 --> 05:42.080 It is. 05:42.080 --> 05:44.080 What does the law say? 05:44.080 --> 05:45.080 Well, how do you mean, sir? 05:45.080 --> 05:49.080 Well, I mean, what happens when somebody's found guilty of selling these books? What's 05:49.080 --> 05:50.080 the penalty? 05:50.080 --> 05:55.080 Oh, well, the law states that an offender is liable to fines, a jail term of six months 05:55.080 --> 05:56.080 or both. 05:56.080 --> 06:00.080 That's not much of a law, is it? Why is there a stronger law? 06:00.080 --> 06:02.080 Well, I wouldn't know that, sir. 06:02.080 --> 06:06.080 The point I'm trying to make is, we need laws with some teeth in them. 06:06.080 --> 06:10.080 We have good laws in the state of California for the most part. It's true that we're weak 06:10.080 --> 06:13.080 in some cases, but you can say that about most states, I think. 06:13.080 --> 06:19.080 Well, you may be satisfied with the laws, but I'm not. I say stronger laws. That's the 06:19.080 --> 06:20.080 answer. 06:20.080 --> 06:24.080 No, I don't think it is, Mr. Scott. Passing a set of new laws isn't going to make this 06:24.080 --> 06:29.080 city a cleaner or a safer place for your boys to grow up in. Laws don't decide how moral 06:29.080 --> 06:35.080 a city's going to be. People do. Laws don't mold character in young boys either. The parents 06:35.080 --> 06:36.080 and the teachers do that. 06:36.080 --> 06:39.080 I don't think I know what you're getting at. What do you mean? 06:39.080 --> 06:42.080 Well, just this, Mr. Scott. It's our job on the police department to keep filthy junk 06:42.080 --> 06:44.080 like these books from falling into youngsters' hands. 06:44.080 --> 06:45.080 Yes. 06:45.080 --> 06:49.080 Now, on the other side of the fence, the youngster has to be taught to recognize the 06:49.080 --> 06:54.080 obscene material for what it is, filth and garbage. And the youngsters have to be taught 06:54.080 --> 06:59.080 that in the home, in the school, and the church. Now, if they can be made to understand what 06:59.080 --> 07:04.080 the kind of dirt and filth these books represent, well, that would be worth more than any new 07:04.080 --> 07:05.080 set of laws, wouldn't it? 07:05.080 --> 07:10.080 But what about these men who put out their books? The men who sell them? How do you reach 07:10.080 --> 07:11.080 them? 07:11.080 --> 07:14.080 Through the youngsters. They seem to know the way. 07:16.080 --> 07:20.080 The next morning at 8 a.m., after meeting with Inspector Lester of Juvenile Bureau, 07:20.080 --> 07:24.080 Ben and I went on stakeout at Canfield High School. From past experience, we knew there 07:24.080 --> 07:29.080 was little hope of a quick end to the case. It was going to be a long haul, tracing the 07:29.080 --> 07:32.080 source all the way up the line from the high school kids who bought the filthy books to 07:32.080 --> 07:37.080 the small fry pushers, the wholesalers, and finally, we hoped, to the top, the man who 07:37.080 --> 07:42.080 printed the books. We had no illusions on that score. Generally, with the arrest of his pushers 07:42.080 --> 07:46.080 and other small timers who worked for him, the top man gets the alarm and clears out 07:46.080 --> 07:51.080 before the police officer can apprehend him with evidence that he'll stand up in court. 07:51.080 --> 07:55.080 During the first two days at Canfield High, Ben and I found out nothing. The obscene literature 07:55.080 --> 07:59.080 was being bartered in exchange between students, but the main source of supply was still a 07:59.080 --> 08:04.080 mystery. We had one slim lead to go on. Mr. Fisher, the high school principal, helped run 08:04.080 --> 08:09.080 it down. We've been watching that boy down in the yard since yesterday, Mr. Fisher. He 08:09.080 --> 08:13.080 seems to have quite a bit of spending money, expensive clothes to carve his own. I don't 08:13.080 --> 08:17.080 know that boy's family. They could be wealthy. We saw him with a stack of those dirty books 08:17.080 --> 08:20.080 in his notebook. He must have had a dozen of them. We were showing him around to his 08:20.080 --> 08:27.080 crowd. Travers, are you sure? Joe, take a look down there. Yeah. Yeah, Travers is showing 08:27.080 --> 08:33.080 him something. I can't see what it is. Come over to this side and run. Yeah. Small books. 08:33.080 --> 08:37.080 He's giving them to one of the other folks. They've got their wallets out. They're giving 08:37.080 --> 08:42.080 Travers money. Come on, Ben. You better come too, Mr. Fisher. This way out to the yard? 08:42.080 --> 08:52.080 No, to the left. That's it. What's hurry, huh? This door side. Right here. Travers. Travers. 08:52.080 --> 08:58.080 Hello, Mr. Fisher. They like to talk to you. Yeah? These men here are from the police department. 08:58.080 --> 09:04.080 They want to ask you some questions. Can we go inside? Yeah, sure. Come on. What's the 09:04.080 --> 09:12.080 matter, Mr. Fisher? I haven't done anything. We'll see. Come on. What is it? What's it all 09:12.080 --> 09:17.080 about? Sergeant, it'll be a lot easier if we have the truth now, son. Did you just sell 09:17.080 --> 09:23.080 those boys out there some dirty books? No, I mean, it's only a gag. They're funny books. 09:23.080 --> 09:29.080 Have you got any more of them, one? Yes, sir. Can we see them, please? I didn't steal them. 09:29.080 --> 09:38.080 Only books. Funny books. Here. Thanks. Almost a dozen. Do you think these are funny books, 09:38.080 --> 09:45.080 do you, Travers? Well, some of them, I guess not. It's only a gag, Sergeant. Where'd you 09:45.080 --> 09:51.080 get them? I didn't steal them. I bought them off a guy. Who? I can't tell you. Do you 09:51.080 --> 09:55.080 have any more of these books? No, sir. Will you show us your locker? I can't remember the 09:55.080 --> 10:00.080 combination. It's a new locker. Could you open the locker for us, Mr. Fisher? Yes, but I'll 10:00.080 --> 10:09.080 have to get the maintenance man. All right. I'll show you. Come on. Down here, sir. This 10:09.080 --> 10:21.080 one. 412. I've only got a couple. All right. We'll see. Come on. Open it. I haven't 10:21.080 --> 10:30.080 done anything. Here's a sample, Joe. Lockers loaded down with rotten silk. You can't arrest 10:30.080 --> 10:35.080 me. I don't sell the books. I only rent them. Somebody's been briefing you, who? You're 10:35.080 --> 10:39.080 only making it hard on yourself, boy. You can't prove anything. These are my books. I don't 10:39.080 --> 10:44.080 sell them. Where do you get them? Who sold them to you? Nobody. I got them, that's all. 10:44.080 --> 10:50.080 All right. We'll have to talk to your folks. You can't. They're away. No, you can't. Don't. 10:50.080 --> 10:53.080 I'm afraid we'll have to, son. Oh, please. Please don't tell them. Please don't let them 10:53.080 --> 10:57.080 know. I'll do anything. All right. Let's have the truth, then. Who are you selling your books 10:57.080 --> 11:03.080 for? His name's Barney. That's all I know. I meet him at a cigar store downtown, 5th 11:03.080 --> 11:07.080 and Harrison. Does he sell you the books? He gives them to me. I sell them and then give 11:07.080 --> 11:14.080 him the money. I get 10 cents for every one I sell. How much do you sell them for? 25 cents. 11:14.080 --> 11:18.080 Some are a dollar. I get 30 cents for those. The boys in this school have been paying that 11:18.080 --> 11:23.080 kind of money for this film? Yes, sir. This man who gives you these books, you know where 11:23.080 --> 11:29.080 he lives? No, sir. I have any idea. When are you going to see him? Well, this is Wednesday. 11:29.080 --> 11:33.080 I was going to meet him downtown this afternoon. The cigar store? Yes, sir. But I don't want 11:33.080 --> 11:38.080 to get Barney in trouble. He's been okay to me. Sure. He's done a lot for you. 11:41.080 --> 11:46.080 4 p.m. Wednesday. Ben and I drove downtown with 16-year-old Eddie Travers. We parked 11:46.080 --> 11:51.080 the car near the corner of 5th and Harrison and kept an eye on the cigar store. We waited. 11:53.080 --> 11:58.080 No sign yet, Travers? No, sir. Barney usually waits by the newsstand there. I haven't seen 11:58.080 --> 12:04.080 him yet. How long have you been selling for this man, son? About three months, maybe four. 12:04.080 --> 12:09.080 Any idea where he gets the books? Well, I... Just a minute, sergeant. Yeah? I think... 12:09.080 --> 12:14.080 Yeah, that's Barney, the one going up to the cigar counter. The man in the gray suit, then? 12:14.080 --> 12:18.080 Yeah, that's him. He's going into Juanita's Cafe. Is that where you usually go after you 12:18.080 --> 12:22.080 meet him? Yes, sir. You better take the boy back to the office, Ben. I'll tail this guy 12:22.080 --> 12:25.080 and see what I can find out. Okay. Want me to pick you up later? No, I'll call you at the 12:25.080 --> 12:31.080 office. Oh, you got any matches? No, I'm out. I'll pick some up at the cigar stand. All right. 12:32.080 --> 12:34.080 See you later. Yeah. 12:41.080 --> 12:47.080 Box of matches? Oh, yeah. And, uh, pack a spearmint, too. All right, sir. 12:47.080 --> 12:53.080 What's the boys? Uh, got a special on old typical new bourbon today. 269.5. No, no, thanks. 12:53.080 --> 13:03.080 Hey, Rosie. Rosie, another tamale when you get time, huh? All right, Barney. Go for a minute. 13:03.080 --> 13:10.080 Yes, sir? Uh, let me have a chicken tacos, a side order of fried beans and a cup of coffee, huh? 13:10.080 --> 13:13.080 Chicken tacos on one. Side up beans. 13:14.080 --> 13:16.080 Okay. 13:17.080 --> 13:19.080 I'll take the other one. 13:20.080 --> 13:22.080 Okay. 13:23.080 --> 13:25.080 I'll take the other one. 13:26.080 --> 13:28.080 Okay. 13:28.080 --> 13:34.080 Another tamale. Anything else, Barney? Let me have some more coffee, Rosie. Tamale on one. 13:37.080 --> 13:45.080 Hey. Huh? Slide the ketchup down here, will you? Yeah. Here you go. Thanks. 13:46.080 --> 13:50.080 They got good tacos. You know, lots of minivans. Fresh stuff. Yeah. 13:50.080 --> 13:58.080 There's the sugar. Oh, thank you. Hey, Rosie. Here. Here, Rosie. Yeah? 13:58.080 --> 14:03.080 I got some new ones in just today. Whole stack of them. What are you talking about? 14:03.080 --> 14:08.080 You know, the picture book. Good ones. You can make some money on the side. They sell good around here. 14:08.080 --> 14:12.080 Listen, Barney, I told you once, no. Oh, come on, here. Look, I'm over here. 14:12.080 --> 14:14.080 I'm over here. 14:14.080 --> 14:20.080 I said no to that lousy junk. The next time you bring that stuff in here, I tell the boss, understand? Now, eat and get out. 14:22.080 --> 14:27.080 Well, that's a real funny thing. Looks great, but what a cold potato. Yeah. 14:29.080 --> 14:32.080 Come on. Come on. Eat and get out and take that junk with you. 14:32.080 --> 14:36.080 Ah, cold potato. I don't want you to chow on her anyway. 14:36.080 --> 14:43.080 Well, coffee's certainly cold. Yeah. Yeah. You probably get a big boot out of you. Here, look. 14:48.080 --> 14:53.080 Pretty good. Yeah, it's good quality stuff. Yeah. Give me that little book there. Let me show you one. 14:53.080 --> 14:55.080 What do you mean? Yeah. 14:56.080 --> 15:01.080 You know, I'm not going to tell you anything. I'm just going to tell you something. 15:01.080 --> 15:07.080 Give me that little book there. Let me show you one. What do you mean? Yeah. 15:08.080 --> 15:10.080 When I kill you? 15:10.080 --> 15:14.080 I mean, how about selling me one of them? 15:15.080 --> 15:19.080 Okay. Four bits for the small ones, buck for the big ones. Wait a minute. 15:19.080 --> 15:26.080 Let's see, I got, I got 14 of them out there. Tell you what I'll do, I'll make you a deal. You can have the whole works for 10 bucks. 15:26.080 --> 15:28.080 Okay. You got any more? 15:28.080 --> 15:32.080 Why don't you go on a business for yourself? No, I got a new stand out in Riverside. 15:32.080 --> 15:36.080 Books, I guess, ought to go fast. I think I can probably handle another 25 bucks worth. 15:36.080 --> 15:40.080 Ah. I'll get the rest of them back at the hotel. Some will rank color. 15:40.080 --> 15:43.080 You want to meet me there tonight? Around seven? 15:43.080 --> 15:48.080 Where's the hotel? Why don't you go straight up 6th Street from here. It's just one block on your left. 15:48.080 --> 15:52.080 Called the Denver House. I'm in room 337. You going up there now? 15:52.080 --> 15:59.080 I was supposed to meet some guy, but yeah, we can go now. What about a check, Rosie? 15:59.080 --> 16:04.080 Yeah. Hey, you're probably wanting more of these. I can put you on my mailing list. 16:04.080 --> 16:07.080 Okay. The prices are right. I don't want to pay retail. 16:07.080 --> 16:10.080 We can work out a deal. Come on, let's go. Okay. 16:10.080 --> 16:14.080 Look at that Rosie, huh? She's really putting together. Yeah. 16:14.080 --> 16:22.080 Two bags. A real cold potato though. Summer like that. Yeah. No sense of humor. 16:24.080 --> 16:29.080 We left Juanita's Cafe and walked up Harrison Street to 6th. We turned left and went down one block. 16:29.080 --> 16:34.080 It was five minutes to five when we got to Barney's room in the Denver House, number 337. 16:34.080 --> 16:36.080 He dragged out a steamer trunk from under the bed. 16:36.080 --> 16:43.080 He counted out a stack of books and pamphlets covering the general topic of degenerate filth in stories and photographs. 16:43.080 --> 16:49.080 Okay, Mac, yeah, it's 25 bucks worth. The money and the bucks are all yours. 16:49.080 --> 16:59.080 Okay. Here you go. That's 10, 15, 18. I have to give you a check for the rest. 16:59.080 --> 17:03.080 How do I know it's any good? You could take off. I'd never see you again. 17:03.080 --> 17:07.080 You'll see me. You're under arrest. Huh? You're kidding. Hey, let go. All right. Let's hold it right here. 17:07.080 --> 17:12.080 Hey, wait a minute. Look, we can work this thing out. We'll work it out downtown. 17:12.080 --> 17:13.080 Wait a minute. I can set this thing right for you. 17:13.080 --> 17:15.080 What are you getting this junk? Who's supplying you? 17:15.080 --> 17:20.080 Why not use your head? You never get the top, man. Not in 10 years you won't. 17:20.080 --> 17:22.080 We got lots of time. Come on. 17:32.080 --> 17:40.080 You are listening to Dragnet, the case history of a police investigation presented in the public interest by Fatima Cigarettes. 17:40.080 --> 17:47.080 If you smoke a long cigarette, it will be in your interest to listen to a typical case history of a Fatima smoker. 17:47.080 --> 17:56.080 It's the case of Mr. Joseph G. Hertzberg, city editor of one of New York's great newspapers, and this is his actual signed statement. 17:56.080 --> 18:04.080 I recommend Fatimas to anyone who likes a king-size cigarette. In my business, the long hours really put smoking to the test. 18:04.080 --> 18:14.080 Working overtime means smoking overtime, and that has sold me on Fatimas. No matter how often I light up, Fatima gives me an extra mile smoke. 18:14.080 --> 18:22.080 And Fatima flavor, it's much better every time. I found out it's wise to smoke extra mile Fatima. 18:22.080 --> 18:30.080 And more and more smokers are discovering this every day. Actual figures show Fatima has more than doubled its smokers coast to coast. 18:30.080 --> 18:41.080 So enjoy Fatima yourself. The long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make it extra mild. 18:41.080 --> 18:52.080 You will prefer Fatima's much different, much better flavor. You will agree. It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 18:52.080 --> 19:00.080 The best of all long cigarettes. 19:00.080 --> 19:08.080 The filthy literature racket feeds on the curiosity of youngsters and the stupidity and ignorance of adults. 19:08.080 --> 19:14.080 It's an all-season business, and in its own quiet way, it has reached a market which the other heavy rackets never hoped to reach. 19:14.080 --> 19:25.080 Your home and your children. 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 23rd. We checked the records and the make sheet showed the book peddler's true name to be Barney W. Timpson, 38 years old. 19:25.080 --> 19:36.080 He had a past record of one previous conviction for peddling lewd literature in Dodge City, Iowa in March 1948. We had him brought to the interrogation room. 19:36.080 --> 19:38.080 Sit down, Timpson. 19:38.080 --> 19:44.080 Let's make it easy, Barney. Where are you getting the books? 19:44.080 --> 19:46.080 I told you, Sergeant, they deliver them to me. 19:46.080 --> 19:47.080 Who do they? 19:47.080 --> 19:50.080 Different guys. I don't remember them all. They send different guys every time. 19:50.080 --> 19:51.080 How often do they make the deliveries to you? 19:51.080 --> 19:52.080 Once a month. 19:52.080 --> 19:53.080 When? 19:53.080 --> 19:55.080 Around the first, usually. Sometimes, maybe the second and the third. 19:55.080 --> 19:56.080 They bring the books to your hotel? 19:56.080 --> 19:58.080 Yeah, they leave a pack up in the lobby addressed to me. 19:58.080 --> 19:59.080 Do they ever use the mail? 19:59.080 --> 20:01.080 They never do. They're not that dumb. 20:01.080 --> 20:03.080 So you've never seen the men that you do business with? 20:03.080 --> 20:04.080 Not so I'd know them, no. 20:04.080 --> 20:06.080 You have no idea where they're operating? 20:06.080 --> 20:07.080 I don't know. 20:07.080 --> 20:09.080 You expect us to swallow that? 20:09.080 --> 20:10.080 I'm telling you, I don't know. 20:10.080 --> 20:11.080 Oh, don't push it. Is that kind of a story, Barney? 20:11.080 --> 20:13.080 I'm giving it to you straight. Now what else do you want? 20:13.080 --> 20:15.080 Who's the supplier, man? 20:15.080 --> 20:19.080 Look, we found this notebook in your hotel room, Barney. There's a list of names in it. 20:19.080 --> 20:20.080 Is this your customer book? 20:20.080 --> 20:21.080 Right. 20:21.080 --> 20:23.080 Okay, okay, the customer's... 20:23.080 --> 20:24.080 That gives us enough to land on you. 20:24.080 --> 20:26.080 I know that. I told you everything. 20:26.080 --> 20:28.080 You still don't know who you're working for? 20:28.080 --> 20:31.080 Look, there's a phone number in this notebook. No name to go with it. 20:31.080 --> 20:32.080 Yeah. 20:32.080 --> 20:34.080 Now look at it. This one right here. 20:34.080 --> 20:36.080 I don't know. It must be another customer. 20:36.080 --> 20:37.080 There's a blunt, boss. 20:37.080 --> 20:39.080 I don't know the boss. He don't know me. 20:39.080 --> 20:40.080 Then who do you buy the books from? 20:40.080 --> 20:41.080 Who says I buy them? 20:41.080 --> 20:42.080 You must owe somebody a lot of money. 20:42.080 --> 20:44.080 Don't worry. I don't owe him nothing. He don't owe me nothing. 20:44.080 --> 20:45.080 He does now. 20:45.080 --> 20:46.080 What? 20:46.080 --> 20:47.080 You're going to jail for him. 20:51.080 --> 20:56.080 Barney Timpson was booked into central jail for violation of the penal code, section 311.3. 20:57.080 --> 21:01.080 We contacted the telephone company and they traced the extra phone number in Timpson's notebook 21:01.080 --> 21:04.080 to a private residence on Wonderview Drive in Laurel Canyon. 21:04.080 --> 21:07.080 A detail of men was assigned to stake out on the place. 21:07.080 --> 21:11.080 During the next week, mainly from information obtained from Barney Timpson's customers, 21:11.080 --> 21:15.080 seven other peddlers of obscene books and pamphlets were taken into custody and questioned. 21:15.080 --> 21:20.080 Five of the seven told us they picked up their supply of books from the Laurel Canyon address. 21:20.080 --> 21:24.080 We moved in on the place and found thousands of lewd books and pamphlets stored in the garage. 21:24.080 --> 21:26.080 Three men on the premises were taken into custody. 21:26.080 --> 21:31.080 They identified themselves as John Alexander, George Kelleher, and Raymond Kester. 21:31.080 --> 21:35.080 We brought them downtown and interrogated them for two hours. They refused to admit anything. 21:35.080 --> 21:40.080 They were booked in, but by noon their lawyers arrived and they were released on writs of habeas corpus. 21:41.080 --> 21:44.080 2 p.m. Ben and I met with Inspector Lester of Juvenile Bureau. 21:44.080 --> 21:47.080 Just had a call from the men on stake out of the Laurel Canyon place. 21:47.080 --> 21:49.080 They've just been over the garage with the books restored. 21:49.080 --> 21:50.080 Did they get anything, Skim? 21:50.080 --> 21:52.080 A couple of things. Might be fair leads. 21:52.080 --> 21:53.080 What's that? 21:53.080 --> 21:56.080 Three stacks of books they found were wrapped in proof letterheads from the Havenbrook Hotel. 21:56.080 --> 21:57.080 Yeah? 21:57.080 --> 21:58.080 We checked with the hotel. 21:58.080 --> 22:01.080 They get all their printing done at Rudolph Brothers, placed out in West L.A. 22:01.080 --> 22:03.080 That name's not familiar to me. 22:03.080 --> 22:06.080 It's a big layout. They're specialties in religious books, Bible, things like that. 22:06.080 --> 22:07.080 That doesn't add. 22:07.080 --> 22:08.080 That's for sure. 22:08.080 --> 22:09.080 How do you mean? 22:09.080 --> 22:10.080 Be a perfect cover for the racket. 22:10.080 --> 22:13.080 Printing the Bible one day and a flock of filthy books the next. 22:13.080 --> 22:14.080 Could be the setup. 22:14.080 --> 22:17.080 What kind of a name does this Rudolph's place have around town? 22:17.080 --> 22:18.080 They've been here long. 22:18.080 --> 22:19.080 50 years. Good reputation. 22:19.080 --> 22:21.080 Well, if you give it a look, where is the place? 22:21.080 --> 22:23.080 On West 3rd, just below Athens Street. 22:23.080 --> 22:24.080 All right. 22:24.080 --> 22:26.080 Check the place over, but don't make them suspicious. 22:26.080 --> 22:28.080 If there's anything wrong, no use telling them until we're ready to move. 22:28.080 --> 22:29.080 Right, Skipper. 22:29.080 --> 22:32.080 We've got to reach the presses turning out this junk and choke off the supply where it starts. 22:32.080 --> 22:33.080 Do that when we've got a beat. 22:33.080 --> 22:34.080 All right. 22:34.080 --> 22:35.080 Just a minute. 22:35.080 --> 22:36.080 Juvenile Bureau left it. 22:36.080 --> 22:37.080 Can't have it. 22:37.080 --> 22:38.080 Now where? 22:38.080 --> 22:40.080 Okay, it'll be right out. 22:40.080 --> 22:42.080 Rosenbottelli, they spotted one of the delivery cars. 22:42.080 --> 22:43.080 Where? 22:43.080 --> 22:44.080 Downtown. They followed it out to West L.A. 22:44.080 --> 22:45.080 Yeah? 22:45.080 --> 22:46.080 Rudolph's printing shop. 22:50.080 --> 22:53.080 4 p.m. Ben and I, together with two other men from Juvenile Bureau, 22:53.080 --> 22:55.080 drove out Beverly Boulevard to Athens Street 22:55.080 --> 22:57.080 and down one block to the corner of West 3rd, 22:57.080 --> 23:00.080 where we picked up Rosenbottelli on stakeout. 23:00.080 --> 23:03.080 The Rudolph Brothers printing company covered almost half a square block 23:03.080 --> 23:05.080 on the corner of West 3rd and Athens. 23:05.080 --> 23:08.080 The front of the plant had display windows, 23:08.080 --> 23:11.080 featuring expensive leather-bound bibles and other religious literature. 23:11.080 --> 23:13.080 While the other men remained on stakeout, 23:13.080 --> 23:15.080 Ben and I crossed the street and entered the plant. 23:15.080 --> 23:19.080 We introduced ourselves to the clerk in charge as potential wholesale customers, 23:19.080 --> 23:21.080 and we asked to be shown around the shop. 23:21.080 --> 23:23.080 It was more than obliging. 23:23.080 --> 23:25.080 I'd be happy to show you our plant, gentlemen. 23:25.080 --> 23:28.080 The most modern religious publication company in the West. 23:28.080 --> 23:30.080 That's our claim. Would you step this way, please? 23:30.080 --> 23:31.080 Thank you. 23:38.080 --> 23:41.080 On your left there, those are three of our new level-o machines. 23:41.080 --> 23:43.080 Excellent mechanisms, needless to say. 23:44.080 --> 23:46.080 You must employ quite a few men in here. 23:46.080 --> 23:48.080 65 full-time. 23:48.080 --> 23:51.080 Enough to meet any emergency rest job you might want done. 23:51.080 --> 23:54.080 Now, over here are Bush Emerson hand presses. 23:56.080 --> 23:58.080 You handle only religious books then, nothing else? 23:58.080 --> 24:01.080 That's right, sir. We specialize exclusively in that. 24:01.080 --> 24:05.080 You don't take in any small contracts, school journals, things like that? 24:05.080 --> 24:08.080 No, our steady customers take up all of our time. 24:08.080 --> 24:12.080 Here on this stone, you see the pages of a new prayer book we're getting together. 24:12.080 --> 24:13.080 Very ultra. 24:13.080 --> 24:15.080 An entirely different kind of typeface. 24:15.080 --> 24:16.080 Oh, is that so? 24:16.080 --> 24:19.080 Yes, and back there, along the wall, our new line of types. 24:19.080 --> 24:21.080 The very latest, monotypes. 24:22.080 --> 24:24.080 Then the proof presses. 24:24.080 --> 24:26.080 Next to them are proof readers. 24:26.080 --> 24:29.080 And the flatbed trussload press beyond that. 24:29.080 --> 24:32.080 Seems like lots of activity. Business is pretty good, I guess, huh? 24:32.080 --> 24:34.080 Oh, yes, we're kept pretty busy. 24:34.080 --> 24:36.080 Quality printing is always in demand. 24:36.080 --> 24:37.080 Yeah. 24:37.080 --> 24:39.080 Well, thanks very much for showing us around. 24:39.080 --> 24:41.080 Not at all, gentlemen. Anytime. 24:41.080 --> 24:42.080 Here, this way out. 24:42.080 --> 24:43.080 All right. 24:45.080 --> 24:47.080 I'll get you one of my cards here. 24:47.080 --> 24:48.080 Here you are. 24:48.080 --> 24:49.080 Thank you. 24:49.080 --> 24:51.080 And when you're ready to do business, why don't you just give me a call? 24:51.080 --> 24:52.080 I'd be glad to take care of you. 24:52.080 --> 24:54.080 All right, sir, thanks. We'll do that. 24:54.080 --> 24:55.080 Good afternoon, gentlemen. 24:55.080 --> 24:56.080 Good morning. 24:56.080 --> 24:57.080 All right. 25:00.080 --> 25:01.080 What do you think? 25:01.080 --> 25:03.080 You got me. Nothing out of place. 25:03.080 --> 25:05.080 Yeah, whatever system they're using, they got it down past. 25:05.080 --> 25:08.080 Bibles, prayer books, church announcements, that's all I saw. 25:08.080 --> 25:09.080 Hey, Ben, look. 25:09.080 --> 25:12.080 That man getting out of that car going into Rudolph's there. 25:12.080 --> 25:15.080 Alexander, the guy we picked up this morning out in North Canyon. 25:15.080 --> 25:17.080 Yeah. 25:45.080 --> 25:46.080 What are you doing here? 25:46.080 --> 25:48.080 I'm just figuring the plan. 25:49.080 --> 25:50.080 That printing press. 25:50.080 --> 25:51.080 I'm starting up. 25:51.080 --> 25:52.080 Okay, let's move. 25:53.080 --> 25:55.080 Hey, uh, Gross, you and Pacelli want to go through the back, 25:55.080 --> 25:56.080 and Ben and I will take the front. 25:56.080 --> 25:57.080 Right, let's go, Mike. 25:59.080 --> 26:00.080 It's a neat setup. 26:00.080 --> 26:01.080 I had it all figured. 26:01.080 --> 26:03.080 Yeah. You didn't spot any side entrances, did you? 26:03.080 --> 26:04.080 No. 26:04.080 --> 26:05.080 Here we are. 26:05.080 --> 26:06.080 Want to try the door? 26:06.080 --> 26:07.080 Yeah. 26:07.080 --> 26:08.080 It's no good. 26:08.080 --> 26:09.080 All right. 26:09.080 --> 26:10.080 Who is it? 26:10.080 --> 26:11.080 Police officers. 26:11.080 --> 26:12.080 Open up. 26:13.080 --> 26:14.080 All right, come on. 26:14.080 --> 26:15.080 Open up. 26:16.080 --> 26:17.080 They're precious stuff. 26:17.080 --> 26:18.080 All right, let's hit it quick. 26:18.080 --> 26:19.080 Come on again. 26:21.080 --> 26:22.080 There we are. 26:23.080 --> 26:24.080 There they are, Joe. 26:24.080 --> 26:25.080 They're trying to smash the plates. 26:25.080 --> 26:26.080 Come on. 26:26.080 --> 26:27.080 McHenry! McHenry, leave those plates! 26:27.080 --> 26:28.080 Watch it, Ben. 26:31.080 --> 26:32.080 All right, come on. 26:32.080 --> 26:33.080 All right, you all right. 26:33.080 --> 26:34.080 Hold it. 26:34.080 --> 26:35.080 Hold it against the wall. 26:35.080 --> 26:36.080 All right, come on. 26:36.080 --> 26:37.080 All right, you all right. 26:37.080 --> 26:38.080 Hold it. 26:38.080 --> 26:39.080 Hold it against the wall. 26:39.080 --> 26:41.080 Hey, Groves, get those plates off the press, will you? 26:42.080 --> 26:43.080 All right, hold it, you two. 26:43.080 --> 26:44.080 Joe, look out! 26:44.080 --> 26:45.080 All right. 26:48.080 --> 26:49.080 Get the plates, Joe! 26:49.080 --> 26:51.080 I round up those men and keep the doors covered. 26:51.080 --> 26:53.080 Get them at the most tables. 26:53.080 --> 26:54.080 Come on over to the wall. 26:54.080 --> 26:55.080 That's about most of them, Joe. 26:55.080 --> 26:56.080 Those two men going at the door. 26:56.080 --> 26:57.080 Come on, hit them off, will you? 26:58.080 --> 26:59.080 Come on, you. 26:59.080 --> 27:00.080 Come on back inside. 27:00.080 --> 27:01.080 Get out of the way. 27:01.080 --> 27:02.080 Get your hands off of them! 27:02.080 --> 27:03.080 Hold it up, mister. 27:03.080 --> 27:04.080 Come on, over there with the rest. 27:05.080 --> 27:06.080 You'll pay for this. 27:06.080 --> 27:07.080 I'll sue you down your last knick. 27:07.080 --> 27:08.080 Yeah, come on, simmer down. 27:08.080 --> 27:10.080 Hey, Joe, we got Rudolph going out the back. 27:10.080 --> 27:11.080 Right. 27:11.080 --> 27:12.080 Call the office. 27:12.080 --> 27:13.080 We're going to need transportation. 27:13.080 --> 27:14.080 Okay. 27:14.080 --> 27:15.080 Take those two with you, huh? 27:15.080 --> 27:16.080 All right, come on. 27:20.080 --> 27:23.080 Well, we got enough evidence against them? 27:23.080 --> 27:24.080 Yeah, we're going to need it. 27:25.080 --> 27:28.080 Two old pages of the junk right here. 27:29.080 --> 27:30.080 Yeah. 27:31.080 --> 27:32.080 Look. 27:33.080 --> 27:34.080 Right next to it. 27:34.080 --> 27:35.080 Yeah. 27:35.080 --> 27:37.080 Page from the Bible. 27:43.080 --> 27:46.080 The story you have just heard was true. 27:46.080 --> 27:50.080 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:50.080 --> 27:53.080 On January 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:53.080 --> 27:56.080 Department 94, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 27:56.080 --> 27:58.080 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:58.080 --> 28:03.080 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 28:03.080 --> 28:04.080 Here is the actual report. 28:04.080 --> 28:09.080 From coast to coast, king-size Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 28:09.080 --> 28:12.080 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering 28:12.080 --> 28:15.080 that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 28:15.080 --> 28:22.080 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 28:22.080 --> 28:25.080 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild 28:25.080 --> 28:31.080 because it's the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 28:31.080 --> 28:34.080 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 28:34.080 --> 28:37.080 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 28:37.080 --> 28:40.080 Best of all long cigarettes. 28:40.080 --> 28:44.080 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:44.080 --> 28:48.080 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 28:54.080 --> 28:57.080 Frank Rudolph and 16 of his accomplices were tried and convicted 28:57.080 --> 29:00.080 of possessing lewd and lascivious literature for the purpose of sale. 29:00.080 --> 29:03.080 They received sentences as prescribed by law 29:03.080 --> 29:06.080 and are now serving their terms in the county jail. 29:06.080 --> 29:29.080 Remember this Saturday because that means Dimension X on NBC.