WEBVTT 00:00.400 --> 00:02.760 Hey! 00:02.760 --> 00:05.700 Rolls for your breakfast. 00:05.700 --> 00:08.600 Starts your day off shining bright. 00:08.600 --> 00:11.700 Gives you lots of cowboy energy 00:11.700 --> 00:14.400 with a flavor that's just right. 00:14.400 --> 00:17.300 It's delicious and nutritious. 00:17.300 --> 00:20.200 Size and ready to eat. 00:20.200 --> 00:23.500 Take a tip from Tom going after your mom's 00:23.500 --> 00:27.700 shredded rolls and canned beef. 00:27.700 --> 00:32.380 The Tom Mix Ralston straight shooters bring you action, mystery, and mile a minute thrills 00:32.380 --> 00:34.580 in radio's biggest Western detective program. 00:34.580 --> 00:39.900 Tonight you're about to hear another episode in a battle of history. 00:39.900 --> 00:50.980 The mystery of the vanishing herd. 00:50.980 --> 00:55.220 Tom Mix is now in a desperate fight to the finish with the dangerous Nazi saboteur known 00:55.220 --> 00:56.220 as the Iron Mask. 00:56.220 --> 01:01.220 In our last episode, we heard how Tom saved a new secret army plane from being bombed 01:01.220 --> 01:06.260 out of existence by the Iron Mask and then set off for Devil's Mesa to capture the Mask 01:06.260 --> 01:07.260 in his hideout. 01:07.260 --> 01:13.020 As our last episode ended, the amusing Mr. Tweedles turned out to be Joe Begley, FBI 01:13.020 --> 01:17.380 agent, who was wounded and about to be killed by the Mask and his henchmen. 01:17.380 --> 01:20.660 In a moment, we'll take you to the hideout of the Iron Mask. 01:20.660 --> 01:27.540 But first, straight shooters, if you wake up every morning singing, oh how I hate to 01:27.540 --> 01:40.340 get up in the morning, oh how I love to lie in bed, then I'll just bet you a busted jackknife 01:40.340 --> 01:44.420 against a moth-eaten skullcap you've never tried shredded Ralston. 01:44.420 --> 01:45.940 Shredded Ralston is neat. 01:45.940 --> 01:50.300 It's crisp, toasty, whole wheat baked into little bite-sized biscuits that fit right on 01:50.300 --> 01:52.380 your spoon for easy eating. 01:52.380 --> 01:54.260 And does shredded Ralston taste good? 01:54.260 --> 01:58.820 Boy, oh boy, it tastes so good, your whole family will stand right up and shout, it's 01:58.820 --> 01:59.820 delicious. 01:59.820 --> 02:05.300 And say, shredded Ralston packs more wallop than a cowboy's.45. 02:05.300 --> 02:09.740 It's loaded with whole wheat energy, cowboy energy, the kind of energy it takes to be 02:09.740 --> 02:11.500 a winner in a straight shooter. 02:11.500 --> 02:16.140 Ask your mother to get you a red and white checkerboard package of shredded Ralston tomorrow. 02:16.140 --> 02:21.060 Tell her it's the favorite ready-to-eat cereal of Tom Mix and his cowboys, and it's just 02:21.060 --> 02:23.900 the cereal you need to give you cowboy energy. 02:23.900 --> 02:27.900 And when you start to saddle up every morning with shredded Ralston, you go around singing, 02:27.900 --> 02:32.140 oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day. 02:32.140 --> 02:35.300 Yes sir, you bet you will. 02:35.300 --> 02:39.420 And now, come on out to the hideout of the Iron Mask near Doby. 02:39.420 --> 02:43.500 At the edge of a hidden runway, the Mask and his henchmen are about to finish off Joe Begley 02:43.500 --> 02:48.420 before they board a plane and make their escape when Tom Mix, flying a P-47, comes roaring 02:48.420 --> 02:49.420 in over the field. 02:49.420 --> 02:50.420 He's just in time, listen. 02:50.420 --> 02:53.420 We must get away, into the plane, snail. 02:53.420 --> 02:55.420 You're too late, Iron Mask. 02:55.420 --> 02:58.420 Ah, what do you mean Begley? 02:58.420 --> 03:01.820 Unless I miss my guess, Tom Mix is in that plane. 03:01.820 --> 03:04.940 He's arrived before you could get away, and brother, that means you're not getting away. 03:04.940 --> 03:07.700 You're trapped, Iron Mask, this is your finish. 03:07.700 --> 03:08.700 Oh no it is not. 03:08.700 --> 03:11.700 You men into the plane, quickly, snail. 03:11.700 --> 03:13.700 Careful, that devil is swinging around. 03:13.700 --> 03:15.700 He's going to drag the field once again. 03:15.700 --> 03:17.700 Yes my heaven, and here he comes. 03:17.700 --> 03:20.700 Boy flat, flat on your face, boy flat. 03:20.700 --> 03:24.700 He's breaking the paper machine, sir. 03:24.700 --> 03:27.700 He's trying to blow it up. 03:32.700 --> 03:34.700 He has blown it up. 03:34.700 --> 03:38.700 Good boy, Tom, that's showing these Chinese how Americans do it. 03:38.700 --> 03:41.700 Try and, uh, Max, try not. 03:41.700 --> 03:47.700 As for you, Begley, Mix may capture me, but if he does, I will get rid of you. 03:47.700 --> 03:49.700 I will have that satisfaction at least. 03:49.700 --> 03:51.700 Go ahead and shoot, Mask. 03:51.700 --> 03:53.700 I've done my job and so has Mix. 03:53.700 --> 03:56.700 You're through, and all your plans to wreck the food supplier of this country, 03:56.700 --> 04:00.700 to bomb the new experimental plane out of existence, are all washed up too. 04:00.700 --> 04:02.700 Go ahead and shoot. 04:02.700 --> 04:04.700 That's what I'd expect from a Nazi. 04:04.700 --> 04:06.700 Yeah, and that is what you will get. 04:06.700 --> 04:08.700 Yeah, what's this? 04:08.700 --> 04:10.700 He's landed that plane. He's coming towards us. 04:10.700 --> 04:12.700 What is he up to? 04:12.700 --> 04:14.700 I do not know, unless he'll tell you. 04:14.700 --> 04:17.700 He's turning the plane. He's following us firing as he comes. 04:17.700 --> 04:19.700 Comrade, comrade! 04:23.700 --> 04:26.700 Hello filthy clown, you spy! 04:26.700 --> 04:28.700 Oh no, you don't. Give me that gun, Mask. 04:28.700 --> 04:33.700 I will give it to you, just as I give it to this spy who's a comrade! 04:33.700 --> 04:36.700 Give me that gun! There! 04:36.700 --> 04:39.700 I'm afraid your aim isn't so good, even at close range. 04:39.700 --> 04:41.700 You're scared, you're yellow. 04:41.700 --> 04:44.700 Look, Mix is climbing out of the plane with a gun in each hand. 04:44.700 --> 04:47.700 One move now, Mask, and you're a dead pigeon. 04:47.700 --> 04:49.700 Good work, Tom. 04:49.700 --> 04:50.700 Joe! Joe Megley! 04:50.700 --> 04:52.700 Here, here I am, Tom. 04:52.700 --> 04:53.700 Thank goodness you're alive. 04:53.700 --> 04:55.700 They were going to finish me off. 04:55.700 --> 04:56.700 You got here just in time, Tom. 04:56.700 --> 04:58.700 You're wounded, partner. 04:58.700 --> 05:01.700 They pumped a slug into me when Jane and I tried to make a getaway. 05:01.700 --> 05:05.700 Just take it easy, Joe. I'll get you back to a hospital as soon as I tend to this hombre. 05:05.700 --> 05:07.700 So you're the Iron Mask. 05:07.700 --> 05:08.700 Yeah, that is right. 05:08.700 --> 05:10.700 I've heard a lot about you in Europe. 05:10.700 --> 05:13.700 Never thought we'd meet up here on Devil's Mesa. 05:13.700 --> 05:16.700 It is a small world, eh, Mr. Mix? 05:16.700 --> 05:18.700 Yes, and getting smaller all the time. 05:18.700 --> 05:22.700 But I reckon, Iron Mask, your world is going to get a lot smaller for a while. 05:22.700 --> 05:39.700 Nothing bigger than that cell the sheriff's got down at the Dolby jail. 05:39.700 --> 05:43.700 Sure must feel good to relax, Tom, after all the excitement we've been through. 05:43.700 --> 05:45.700 Yeah, sure does, Sheriff. 05:45.700 --> 05:47.700 Yeah, it's all over now. 05:47.700 --> 05:50.700 Doc says Tweedles are rather beg that he's going to pull through. 05:50.700 --> 05:54.700 The Iron Mask and his men are all tucked away where they can't do no more harm. 05:54.700 --> 05:55.700 Yeah, that's right. 05:55.700 --> 05:58.700 Don't fall me for an ornery maverick, Tom. 05:58.700 --> 06:04.700 Isn't it any good just to sit here on the porch at the TM bar and look out over the range? 06:04.700 --> 06:08.700 Out there where the hills begin with the sun going down behind them, 06:08.700 --> 06:12.700 making everything kind of gold and purple and blue. 06:12.700 --> 06:16.700 Well, I reckon almost any color you could name. 06:16.700 --> 06:24.700 Yeah, Tom, sure is mighty good just to sit here doing nothing, just drinking in the scenery. 06:24.700 --> 06:26.700 You should have been a poet, Mike. 06:26.700 --> 06:29.700 You sure begin to sound plenty lyrical. 06:29.700 --> 06:32.700 Yeah, Tom, I reckon I am sort of that. 06:32.700 --> 06:38.700 Of course, I sure do feel like singing about them heifers out there being all safe out there on Peterson's range. 06:38.700 --> 06:42.700 They wouldn't be there, Tom, if you hadn't thrown the Iron Mask 06:42.700 --> 06:47.700 and you hadn't roped him and busted him good in a manner sort of speaking like. 06:47.700 --> 06:49.700 Oh, the breaks was with me, Mike. 06:49.700 --> 06:52.700 Sure, sure, you would say that. 06:52.700 --> 06:56.700 But everybody else is talking about what brains it took and what courage. 06:56.700 --> 06:58.700 You did a mighty fine job, Tom. 06:58.700 --> 07:00.700 Oh, one thing sort of led to another. 07:00.700 --> 07:05.700 Well, one thing didn't sort of lead to another before you got back from England, Tom. 07:05.700 --> 07:09.700 It took you to find out that gas was killing them steers. 07:09.700 --> 07:14.700 It took you to figure out that that gas was spread amongst the herds by airplane. 07:14.700 --> 07:18.700 Mike, I'm going to start preening my feathers like a peacock any minute now. 07:18.700 --> 07:20.700 No, you won't, Tom. 07:20.700 --> 07:23.700 You ain't no fancy dude with grand ideas. 07:23.700 --> 07:25.700 Sure, you've traveled. 07:25.700 --> 07:28.700 I reckon you've seen about all the world there is to see. 07:28.700 --> 07:35.700 Set down to chow with the dukes and countesses and kings and all that sort of thing. 07:35.700 --> 07:40.700 But you're just natural and regular like any other westerner. 07:40.700 --> 07:43.700 Well, let's say like any other American, Mike. 07:43.700 --> 07:45.700 Sure, Tom, sure. 07:45.700 --> 07:50.700 Well, Tom, now that your work is over, you going to get back to ranching? 07:50.700 --> 07:52.700 Well, I reckon my work isn't over yet, Sheriff. 07:52.700 --> 07:54.700 Yeah, but you've done what you come back to do. 07:54.700 --> 07:56.700 You captured the Iron Mask and his men. 07:56.700 --> 07:58.700 You saved the food supply of our country. 07:58.700 --> 08:01.700 Well, I'm expecting new orders now that that's over any day now. 08:01.700 --> 08:05.700 Now, Tom, don't tell me that you're going back across the ocean. 08:05.700 --> 08:07.700 Don't tell me you're going to get into the invasion. 08:07.700 --> 08:09.700 I'd like nothing better. 08:09.700 --> 08:13.700 I sure was caught up about having to come back here when I knew the invasion was about to break loose. 08:13.700 --> 08:18.700 Yeah, I guess you know more about that than you're saying, Tom. 08:18.700 --> 08:21.700 Well, maybe, Mike. 08:21.700 --> 08:26.700 Hey, Tom, you must have been sashaying around with some mighty important folks there. 08:26.700 --> 08:27.700 Quite shocking to see, huh? 08:27.700 --> 08:28.700 Hey, wait a minute, Mike. 08:28.700 --> 08:32.700 Someone turned in at the gate. He's sure in a hurry. 08:32.700 --> 08:34.700 In a hurry? Just about half describes it, Tom. 08:34.700 --> 08:38.700 That boy's riding, riding like the devil's on his tail. 08:38.700 --> 08:40.700 Can you see who it is, Tom? 08:40.700 --> 08:42.700 No, it's got too dark. 08:42.700 --> 08:45.700 But if I don't miss my guess, he'll be here in about three seconds flat. 08:45.700 --> 08:46.700 He sure is coming. 08:46.700 --> 08:49.700 A man rides a horse like that for only one reason, Tom. 08:49.700 --> 08:51.700 That means trouble. 08:51.700 --> 08:52.700 Certainly looks as if it does. 08:52.700 --> 08:55.700 Well, whatever it is, we'll know about it fast. Here he is. 08:55.700 --> 08:57.700 Tom, it's Windy. 08:57.700 --> 08:58.700 Windy Wilson. 08:58.700 --> 08:59.700 What? So it is, sir. 08:59.700 --> 09:03.700 That means one thing, Tom, at least like you and me are in for a lot of joy. 09:03.700 --> 09:08.700 Once Windy stops talking, he never stops and he never, never gets to the point. 09:08.700 --> 09:10.700 Tom, Tom, Tom. 09:10.700 --> 09:12.700 I gotta see you, Pounder Tom. 09:12.700 --> 09:13.700 Hello, Windy, sit down. 09:13.700 --> 09:16.700 I can't sit down, no, sir, no, I just can't sit down. 09:16.700 --> 09:18.700 It's impossible for me to sit down. 09:18.700 --> 09:21.700 Oh, I'm jumpin' in a grasshopper eatin' local weed. 09:21.700 --> 09:24.700 Tom, Tom, it's gone. It's vanished. It's skedaddled. 09:24.700 --> 09:25.700 Tom, I'm like the fiend. 09:25.700 --> 09:27.700 Well, go ahead and faint. 09:27.700 --> 09:30.700 It'll save us the trouble of having to listen to your John for the next six hours. 09:30.700 --> 09:32.700 What's gone? What's disappeared, Windy? 09:32.700 --> 09:36.700 Well, sir, it's a stranger thing that ever happened. It is, Tom, it really is. 09:36.700 --> 09:41.700 Ain't nothin' as strange as this since my Uncle Houndstooth died from eatin' hogberries out in season. 09:41.700 --> 09:44.700 Say, you know, well, that was a funny thing come to think of it. 09:44.700 --> 09:47.700 Uncle Houndstooth went out one mornin', he sees all these berries. 09:47.700 --> 09:50.700 Shut him up, Tom. Shut him up and make him stick to the point, Windy. 09:50.700 --> 09:51.700 Now, wait a minute, Windy. 09:51.700 --> 09:53.700 You said something disappeared. Is that right? 09:53.700 --> 09:55.700 Yes, sir, that's right, Tom. It just up and kind of just... 09:55.700 --> 09:58.700 Now, wait. Yes, but what? What disappeared, Windy? 09:58.700 --> 10:02.700 Well, sir, it's this way. You know, I live out right next to the Green Man. 10:02.700 --> 10:04.700 The Green Man, you know the Green Man, the boy there. 10:04.700 --> 10:09.700 Well, who don't? Everybody knows the Green Man's that jumbo cactus ten miles out on the desert. 10:09.700 --> 10:12.700 That green jumbo cactus that's shaped like a man. 10:12.700 --> 10:15.700 Yes, sir, shaped like a man. That's right, chef. Yes, sir, you're right. 10:15.700 --> 10:17.700 And I have a little house there, too, you know. 10:17.700 --> 10:19.700 Little house where I sell souvenirs. 10:19.700 --> 10:21.700 So many tourists come out to see the Green Man, you know. 10:21.700 --> 10:23.700 Yes, yes, we know. Yes. 10:23.700 --> 10:25.700 The Green Man is quite an attraction. Yes, he is. 10:25.700 --> 10:27.700 There's even sort of a legend growing up about him. That's right. 10:27.700 --> 10:28.700 But what's happened, Windy? 10:28.700 --> 10:35.700 Well, sir, three days ago I went to Silver City to pick up a consignment of souvenirs that was coming on from Rapid Falls. 10:35.700 --> 10:36.700 Yes. 10:36.700 --> 10:38.700 And, of course, I shut up my little house, locked it good and tight, I did. 10:38.700 --> 10:41.700 Unaccounted. You can't trust nobody, see. 10:41.700 --> 10:45.700 Why, once, I recall, I didn't shut up the house. I didn't lock it at all. 10:45.700 --> 10:48.700 And when I got back, somebody had stolen my house. Never mind all that. 10:48.700 --> 10:50.700 Stick to the point. What's disappeared? 10:50.700 --> 10:54.700 Well, like I say, I went to Silver City to get these here souvenirs, you see. 10:54.700 --> 10:57.700 Been gone about three days. Just got back this afternoon. 10:57.700 --> 11:01.700 Just a little foreshadowing, said I did. And it ain't gone. Well, it's gone. 11:01.700 --> 11:03.700 It's completely vanished. Yes, sir. 11:03.700 --> 11:05.700 What ain't there, Windy? 11:05.700 --> 11:07.700 Well, I just don't sav it at all, Tom. 11:07.700 --> 11:11.700 I'll tell you, the shock alone was enough to make me fall off a banjo, wise my horse. 11:11.700 --> 11:14.700 I rode up. I looked for it. And I couldn't find it. 11:14.700 --> 11:18.700 I'm going to cloud up and rain all over you if you don't tell us what you couldn't find. 11:18.700 --> 11:22.700 I feel the same way myself. It's beyond me, just simply beyond me. 11:22.700 --> 11:24.700 Now, wait a minute, Windy. Yes, sir. 11:24.700 --> 11:27.700 Just take up a notch in your saints and let's get a few things straight. Yeah. 11:27.700 --> 11:29.700 You've been jabbering away about losing something. 11:29.700 --> 11:32.700 Oh, no, no, Tom. I didn't lose nothing. I didn't lose it. 11:32.700 --> 11:36.700 It disappeared. It vanished. It's just not there. 11:36.700 --> 11:42.700 And after all, people just don't walk off with a house, and a house sure don't walk off by itself. 11:42.700 --> 11:44.700 A house? Whose house? 11:44.700 --> 11:45.700 Well, my house, of course. 11:45.700 --> 11:48.700 You mean to say, Windy, that your house has vanished? 11:48.700 --> 11:52.700 Well, it ain't far, Tom, and it was our 3-D ago. 11:52.700 --> 11:53.700 Tom, I was right. 11:53.700 --> 11:54.700 What do you mean, Sheriff? 11:54.700 --> 11:57.700 We got trouble, Tom, and plenty of it. 12:09.700 --> 12:14.700 How can Windy Wilson's house disappear, vanish into thin air? 12:14.700 --> 12:16.700 That doesn't seem possible, does it? 12:16.700 --> 12:19.700 Well, a lot of strange and amazing things are about to happen. 12:19.700 --> 12:25.700 So be sure to hear the next episode of The Mystery of the Green Man. 12:25.700 --> 12:28.700 Monday, same time, same station. 12:28.700 --> 12:29.700 Say, say, Don. 12:29.700 --> 12:31.700 Oh, Mike Shaw. Yeah, Mike. 12:31.700 --> 12:32.700 I want to ask you a favor. 12:32.700 --> 12:34.700 Why, sure, Sheriff. 12:34.700 --> 12:39.700 Whatever you do, Don, don't, for the love of Pete, mention anything about Shredded Raulston to Windy Wilson. 12:39.700 --> 12:40.700 Oh, why not? 12:40.700 --> 12:47.700 Why not? Say, the last time Windy started talking about Shredded Raulston, he talked for 48 hours straight. 12:47.700 --> 12:51.700 When he gets going on Shredded Raulston, he gets wound up tighter than a grandfather's claw. 12:51.700 --> 12:55.700 Well, say, Windy isn't the only one who can't stop talking about Shredded Raulston, Sheriff. 12:55.700 --> 13:00.700 Everybody who tries it raves about this whole wheat ready-to-eat, bite-sized cereal. 13:00.700 --> 13:01.700 Of course they do. 13:01.700 --> 13:05.700 Eh, I ain't seen anybody yet that didn't go hog wild over its flavor, 13:05.700 --> 13:09.700 that didn't rant and snort about how much cowboy energy it gives them. 13:09.700 --> 13:12.700 But, Don, I'm telling you, don't let Windy cut loose. 13:12.700 --> 13:13.700 Well, okay, Mike. 13:13.700 --> 13:18.700 Even Windy gets started, I do have an idea of how maybe we can stop him, though. 13:18.700 --> 13:19.700 Oh, how? 13:19.700 --> 13:23.700 Well, we'll just slip him a red and white checkerboard package of Shredded Raulston 13:23.700 --> 13:26.700 and tell him to start chewing and stop jawing. 13:26.700 --> 13:28.700 Well, that's a great idea, Sheriff. 13:28.700 --> 13:34.700 Well, straight shooters, join us again Monday, same time, same station, when Tom Nicks rides the range again. 13:34.700 --> 13:39.700 Hop, Tony, come on, boy. 13:39.700 --> 13:44.700 Shredded Raulston for your breakfast, start the day off shining bright. 13:44.700 --> 13:50.700 Gives you lots of cowboy energy with a flavor that's just right. 13:50.700 --> 13:56.700 It's delicious and nutritious, bite-sized and ready-to-eat. 13:56.700 --> 14:03.700 Take a tip from Tom, go and tell your mom, Shredded Raulston can't be beat. 14:03.700 --> 14:07.700 There goes Tom Nicks, America's favorite cowboy. 14:07.700 --> 14:12.700 But he'll be back with another exciting adventure Monday evening, same time, same station, 14:12.700 --> 14:15.700 when the Tom Nicks-Raulston straight shooters are on the air. 14:15.700 --> 14:17.700 Tom Nicks was played by Curly Bradley. 14:17.700 --> 14:22.700 This is Don Gordon speaking. 14:22.700 --> 14:37.700 This is Mutual.