WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 The Tom Mix Ralston's Tray Shooters are on the air. 00:04.000 --> 00:07.000 And here comes Tom Mix, America's favorite cowboy. 00:07.000 --> 00:09.000 Cut Tony, come on boy! 00:09.000 --> 00:14.000 Red is Ralston for your breakfast. 00:14.000 --> 00:16.000 Starts the day off shine and fry. 00:16.000 --> 00:19.000 Gives you lots of cowboy energy. 00:19.000 --> 00:21.000 With a flavor that's just right. 00:21.000 --> 00:24.000 It's delicious and nutritious. 00:24.000 --> 00:26.000 Bite size, ready to eat. 00:26.000 --> 00:29.000 Take a trip from home, go and tell your mom. 00:29.000 --> 00:32.000 Ready for Ralston KBB. 00:32.000 --> 00:37.000 The Tom Mix Ralston's Tray Shooters bring you action, mystery and mile a minute thrill. 00:37.000 --> 00:41.000 Tonight you're about to hear another episode in a baffling mystery. 00:41.000 --> 00:45.000 The mystery of the Vanishing Village. 00:48.000 --> 00:52.000 Tom Mix and Sheriff Mike are trying to solve the oddest mystery of their career. 00:52.000 --> 00:56.000 For an entire village of 600 people has disappeared. 00:56.000 --> 01:00.000 Vanished as totally as if it had never existed. 01:00.000 --> 01:06.000 Worse than that, two men, obviously somehow connected with the disappearance of the village, have been murdered. 01:06.000 --> 01:09.000 Tom is determined to find the answer to the mystery. 01:09.000 --> 01:13.000 Not only because the people must be found and the murderers apprehended. 01:13.000 --> 01:20.000 But also because Sergeant Hank Smith of the United States Army is desperately anxious to find the girl he came home to marry. 01:20.000 --> 01:23.000 A girl who lived in the village which has vanished. 01:23.000 --> 01:27.000 In a moment we'll ride an action packed trail of adventure. 01:27.000 --> 01:29.000 But first, here's good news. 01:29.000 --> 01:31.000 The best news you've ever heard. 01:31.000 --> 01:34.000 It's news of a sensational radio offer. 01:34.000 --> 01:38.000 Sheriff Mike Shaw has arranged to have some badges made. 01:38.000 --> 01:43.000 That's right, whistling sheriff badges, exactly like the one the vigilantes gave him. 01:43.000 --> 01:50.000 Think of it, you can have a whistling sheriff's badge, exactly like Mike Shaw's, for your very own. 01:50.000 --> 01:52.000 This badge is a knock-off. 01:52.000 --> 01:54.000 There's never been anything like it before. 01:54.000 --> 01:58.000 You see, it's made of metal, shaped in the form of a shield. 01:58.000 --> 02:00.000 Has cross six shooters at the top. 02:00.000 --> 02:04.000 And the word sheriff stamped in big letters to make it official. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.000 In the center of the badge, now get this. 02:06.000 --> 02:10.000 In the center of the badge, there's a siren whistle. 02:10.000 --> 02:12.000 Yes sir, a siren whistle built in. 02:12.000 --> 02:15.000 And when you blow on it, it sounds like this. 02:15.000 --> 02:20.000 Boy, oh boy, will you ever get a kick out of this whistling sheriff's badge. 02:20.000 --> 02:23.000 And will your friends envy you when you wear it? 02:23.000 --> 02:26.000 Now, to get yours, here's all you have to do. 02:26.000 --> 02:30.000 From the top of a red and white checkerboard package of delicious shredded Ralston, 02:30.000 --> 02:35.000 tear off the little circle with the letters RSS printed in it. 02:35.000 --> 02:41.000 Tear off the circle with RSS printed in it from the top of one shredded Ralston package. 02:41.000 --> 02:49.000 Mail this RSS circle with ten cents in coin and your name and address to Tom Mix. 02:49.000 --> 02:53.000 Box 808 St. Louis, Missouri. 02:53.000 --> 02:57.000 That's all you have to do and we'll send you your whistling sheriff's badge right away. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 This offer is good only in the United States. 02:59.000 --> 03:04.000 The supply is limited, so get your order in tonight, tomorrow sure. 03:04.000 --> 03:10.000 And now, let's join Tom, Mike, and Sergeant Smith as they examine the body of Harry Phillips, 03:10.000 --> 03:14.000 Moose Creek Junction's station agent, who has just been killed. 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 Listen. 03:15.000 --> 03:16.000 He's the second one, Tom. 03:16.000 --> 03:19.000 Salethi Albine was the first and he's the second. 03:19.000 --> 03:23.000 Both of them killed the same way by a long-range rifle equipped with a silencer. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.000 Holy mackerel sheriff, how can you tell that? 03:24.000 --> 03:29.000 Easy, Sergeant. You'll note that that there, Winter, at the other end of the room, has a hole through it. 03:29.000 --> 03:32.000 A neat hole drilled by a bullet. Now, that bullet comes from the outside. 03:32.000 --> 03:33.000 Nice work, Mike. 03:33.000 --> 03:34.000 Thanks, Tom. Thanks. 03:34.000 --> 03:38.000 Well, it holds bodies, blood, and this is no motion picture. It's real. 03:38.000 --> 03:42.000 Sounds what a tragedy. How come this man to be killed, Mix? 03:42.000 --> 03:45.000 If I knew that, Mr. Dane, I'd know the answer to a lot of questions. 03:45.000 --> 03:49.000 It's all silly of me to ask you. I forget that, after all, you're really only a cowboy. 03:49.000 --> 03:50.000 That does it. 03:50.000 --> 03:51.000 What, Mike? 03:51.000 --> 03:54.000 I said that does it. I just naturally can't hold myself no longer, Tom. 03:54.000 --> 03:58.000 Now, looky here. You saw it all spindly shank imitation of a man. 03:58.000 --> 04:00.000 You may think you're a great Hollywood director. 04:00.000 --> 04:04.000 At least ways you may think that their dinky little yellow French hat you're wearing 04:04.000 --> 04:06.000 and that blue muffler makes you one. 04:06.000 --> 04:10.000 But around here, and especially with me, you're just a little shrimp trying to make a big noise. 04:10.000 --> 04:12.000 Now, shut up. 04:12.000 --> 04:14.000 Oh, Parrish, it's all. Did you hear what he said to H.D. 04:14.000 --> 04:16.000 Quiet, boys. Quiet, boys, now. 04:16.000 --> 04:17.000 Look here, my poor fellow. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 I said shut up. 04:19.000 --> 04:25.000 I ignore you. Mix, do you believe honestly that the death of this man has some connection with the lost village? 04:25.000 --> 04:28.000 If you don't mind, Harlequin, I'd rather not discuss the matter with you. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.000 After all, it's none of your affair. 04:30.000 --> 04:32.000 Eureka! Eureka! 04:32.000 --> 04:34.000 Calls me around again, will he, now, Horace? 04:34.000 --> 04:37.000 I found it, boys. It has come to me in a flash of miraculous brilliance. 04:37.000 --> 04:39.000 Oh, yes, Mr. Dane. Oh, indeedy, Mr. Dane. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 You're very wonderful, Mr. Dane. 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Just what has come to you, Dane? 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 Oh, the story line from my picture. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Oh, sounds, what an idea. 04:47.000 --> 04:49.000 Village vanishes. 04:49.000 --> 04:51.000 Six hundred people disappear. That gives us mystery. 04:51.000 --> 04:54.000 Now, for action, we have the murder of two men who are implicated somehow. 04:54.000 --> 04:56.000 Now, all we need is love interest. 04:56.000 --> 04:58.000 Must have love interest. How about it, boys? 04:58.000 --> 05:00.000 Oh, yes. Quiet, let me think. 05:00.000 --> 05:02.000 Quiet. Wait. I have it. 05:02.000 --> 05:04.000 Yes, we knew you'd get it, Mr. Dane. 05:04.000 --> 05:06.000 We did indeed. Yes, we did. 05:06.000 --> 05:09.000 The sergeant there. Of course, that gives us the war interest, too. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 The wounded sergeant returns home, desperately anxious to marry the girl he left behind him. 05:13.000 --> 05:15.000 But the girl has vanished, too. 05:15.000 --> 05:17.000 Do you get it? The girl has vanished with the village. 05:17.000 --> 05:19.000 Why, you... 05:19.000 --> 05:21.000 Oh, my skin. 05:21.000 --> 05:24.000 Oh, oh, what he did to Mr. Dane. 05:24.000 --> 05:26.000 He struck Mr. Dane with his fist. 05:26.000 --> 05:28.000 Take it easy, Hank. Take it easy. Why, he struck me. 05:28.000 --> 05:30.000 Get him out of here, Tom. Get him out of here or I'll kill him. 05:30.000 --> 05:33.000 Steady, steady, son. I agree he's a kind of a crawling thing. 05:33.000 --> 05:36.000 But I don't reckon he knew he was hitting that close to home. 05:36.000 --> 05:38.000 Why, that man hit me. 05:38.000 --> 05:42.000 You mean... you mean the things I said, the idea I pro-projected? 05:42.000 --> 05:44.000 You mean it's so? 05:44.000 --> 05:46.000 I'm afraid it is, Dane. 05:46.000 --> 05:48.000 You'd better wait outside and wait quietly. 05:48.000 --> 05:52.000 Oh, yes, yes, I... perhaps silence is golden, perhaps. 05:52.000 --> 05:54.000 Come, my men, let's go. 05:54.000 --> 05:57.000 Yes, Mr. Dane, you know you were marvelous the way you handled that group, Mr. Dane. 05:57.000 --> 05:59.000 Simply supreme, Mr. Dane. 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 Thank you very much. 06:01.000 --> 06:07.000 Hey, Tom, you sure ain't meanin' to have that there loudmouth skunk as a guest at the ranch. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.000 When I made that offer, it was hospitality, pure and simple, Mike. 06:10.000 --> 06:11.000 But now... 06:11.000 --> 06:13.000 Oh, but now you changed your mind, huh? 06:13.000 --> 06:15.000 No, no, my offer's still good, Mike. 06:15.000 --> 06:16.000 Huh? 06:16.000 --> 06:19.000 The great Harlequin Q. Dane will be my guest at the TM Bar. 06:19.000 --> 06:21.000 Oh, Tom. 06:21.000 --> 06:24.000 But for a different reason, Mike, a completely different reason. 06:24.000 --> 06:26.000 What do you mean? What's in your mind? 06:26.000 --> 06:32.000 Just a feeling, Mike, just one of those hunches that Harlequin Q. Dane is even more important than even he thinks he is. 06:32.000 --> 06:37.000 Tom, you gotta look in your eyes. It tells me you've discovered something, that you're fallin' a trail. 06:37.000 --> 06:38.000 Now, what is it? 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 No, not now, Mike. Two men have been killed and we've got to do something about it. 06:41.000 --> 07:02.000 I want Doc Green and Doeby to perform a thorough medical examination. 07:02.000 --> 07:06.000 Later that night, Tom sits in his darkened office at the TM Bar. 07:06.000 --> 07:13.000 He sits hunched in a chair, his feet propped on the open window, gazing out into the star-filled night. 07:13.000 --> 07:20.000 Tom is deep in thought, and off in the distance, a coyote yaps mournfully. 07:20.000 --> 07:21.000 Who's that? Who's there? 07:21.000 --> 07:23.000 It's me, Tom, Hank Smith. 07:23.000 --> 07:25.000 Oh, come in, Hank. 07:25.000 --> 07:27.000 I... I know you're thinking, Tom. 07:27.000 --> 07:30.000 I know you're trying to figure out what the mess is all about. 07:30.000 --> 07:31.000 Oh, over here, Hank. 07:31.000 --> 07:34.000 No, no, don't turn on the light. Just take that other chair by the window. 07:34.000 --> 07:35.000 Thanks, Tom. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 Oh, I know how you're feeling, Hank. You're having a terrible time of it. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 You're certainly right about that. 07:40.000 --> 07:45.000 But, Tom, I... I just can't help feeling guilty about having you brought all the way from Antwerp, 07:45.000 --> 07:48.000 from a hospital bed, to solve a case that hasn't got any solution. 07:48.000 --> 07:52.000 Every mystery has a solution, Hank. Every question has an answer. 07:52.000 --> 07:54.000 And we'll find the answer to this one. 07:54.000 --> 07:57.000 If I could only know that Mary's safe, that she's well. 07:57.000 --> 07:59.000 But the chances are she isn't. 07:59.000 --> 08:02.000 I don't know how a village could possibly disappear, 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 but it must have been something terrible that happened. 08:04.000 --> 08:07.000 Terrible? In some ways, I suppose it was. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.000 What do you mean, in some ways? 08:09.000 --> 08:12.000 Son, I know how important this is to you, 08:12.000 --> 08:15.000 and while I've got an idea as to what happened, Hank, I... 08:15.000 --> 08:18.000 Well, I can't talk about it right now, even to you. 08:18.000 --> 08:21.000 I'm just beginning to find the signposts along the trail. 08:21.000 --> 08:25.000 Just ride along with me till I've actually found the trail itself. 08:25.000 --> 08:26.000 Will you? 08:26.000 --> 08:28.000 Okay, Tom. 08:28.000 --> 08:32.000 But what about this Harlequin Bane jerk, the Hollywood director? 08:32.000 --> 08:36.000 For one thing, Hank, don't consider him the typical Hollywood director. 08:36.000 --> 08:39.000 Bane is one of the phonies. A lot of talk and nothing behind it. 08:39.000 --> 08:42.000 He's also a chiseler of the First Water. 08:42.000 --> 08:46.000 Just before you came in, I was getting ready to make a call to the Twin Rivers Hotel. 08:46.000 --> 08:49.000 A call in connection with Mr. Bane. Do you mind if I do it now? 08:49.000 --> 08:51.000 Holy mackerel, of course not, Tom. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 You see, there was one thing among others that I noticed about Mr. Bane 08:54.000 --> 08:56.000 that I never noticed before. 08:56.000 --> 08:58.000 Oh, Twin Rivers Hotel, please. 08:58.000 --> 09:00.000 Yes, ma'am, thank you. 09:00.000 --> 09:04.000 See, I've seen him often, Hank, when I've been making a picture in Hollywood. 09:04.000 --> 09:07.000 Him and his hangers on those boys who yes him to death. 09:07.000 --> 09:10.000 But there was one hombre who isn't with him on this trip, and that's surprising. 09:10.000 --> 09:11.000 Oh, who's that, Tom? 09:11.000 --> 09:13.000 A publicity agent named Hardy Post. 09:13.000 --> 09:16.000 A crackerjack when it came to publicity. Full of ideas. 09:16.000 --> 09:18.000 But he loved to gamble. 09:18.000 --> 09:22.000 The result was he was always in debt, and no decent studio would have him around. 09:22.000 --> 09:24.000 But, oh, hello? 09:24.000 --> 09:26.000 This is Tom Mick speaking. 09:26.000 --> 09:27.000 Oh, hello, Bill. 09:27.000 --> 09:33.000 Say, Bill, have you got a person registered by the name of Hardy Post? 09:33.000 --> 09:35.000 Yes, Hardy Post, that's right. 09:35.000 --> 09:37.000 Yes, I'll wait, Bill. 09:37.000 --> 09:41.000 As I was saying, Hank, Dane was glad to hire him for a small salary 09:41.000 --> 09:43.000 when Hardy was broke and needed the money. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Yes, Bill? 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 I see. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 How long has he been registered? 09:49.000 --> 09:51.000 July 17. 09:51.000 --> 09:53.000 Yes, I see. 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 Oh, no, no, no, no, Bill. 09:54.000 --> 09:58.000 Now, listen, Bill, just forget I called. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.000 Right. 09:59.000 --> 10:02.000 Oh, and by the way, how's the youngster doing? 10:02.000 --> 10:04.000 Uh-huh. 10:04.000 --> 10:05.000 Specialist did the job, Eddie? 10:05.000 --> 10:07.000 Oh, that's good. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.000 Oh, no, forget it, Bill, forget it. You don't owe me a thing. 10:10.000 --> 10:11.000 Oh, much obliged, Bill. 10:11.000 --> 10:13.000 So long, brother. 10:13.000 --> 10:14.000 I was right, Hank. 10:14.000 --> 10:16.000 By heaven, I was right. 10:16.000 --> 10:17.000 Tom, you're excited. What is it? 10:17.000 --> 10:20.000 I don't know. I don't really know, but here are the facts. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 An entire village is banned. 10:22.000 --> 10:25.000 A phony Hollywood director gets a letter from your father, 10:25.000 --> 10:27.000 a letter dated July the 8th. 10:27.000 --> 10:29.000 The letter says your father will be glad to have him come 10:29.000 --> 10:31.000 and make a picture in Smithville. 10:31.000 --> 10:35.000 Now, on July 17, the Hollywood director's press agent 10:35.000 --> 10:38.000 arrives in Twin Rivers, the closest large town to Smithville, 10:38.000 --> 10:39.000 and he's been registered there ever since. 10:39.000 --> 10:40.000 Tom, what are you driving at? 10:40.000 --> 10:43.000 I tell you, I don't know, Hank. I'm just giving you the facts. 10:43.000 --> 10:45.000 I'm giving you the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle 10:45.000 --> 10:47.000 that we've got to put together. 10:47.000 --> 10:50.000 Now then, the Hollywood director, Harlequin Q. Dane, 10:50.000 --> 10:53.000 and his press agent, Hardy Post, are both the kind of men 10:53.000 --> 10:54.000 you wouldn't trust 10 inches. 10:54.000 --> 10:56.000 Also, the minute they enter the picture, 10:56.000 --> 10:58.000 an entire village disappears. 10:58.000 --> 11:02.000 I tell you, Hank, they're connected with us somehow, somewhere. 11:02.000 --> 11:04.000 I knew Harlequin was in on it earlier this evening 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 when he shot his mouth off about the picture he was going to make. 11:06.000 --> 11:07.000 I don't get it, Tom. 11:07.000 --> 11:10.000 Hank, the Great Dane is the type of person who will tell a lie 11:10.000 --> 11:12.000 and then begin to believe in himself. 11:12.000 --> 11:15.000 You hit him because he began to invent a story 11:15.000 --> 11:17.000 around you and a missing girl. 11:17.000 --> 11:19.000 But he wasn't inventing it. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 He knew it was actually so, Hank. 11:21.000 --> 11:23.000 He knew, even though he didn't realize it, 11:23.000 --> 11:26.000 that you had come back and found your boyhood sweetheart missing. 11:26.000 --> 11:28.000 Well, I just don't understand, Tom. 11:28.000 --> 11:30.000 Well, Hank, here, let me put it another way. 11:30.000 --> 11:32.000 The so-called Great Dane, and believe me, 11:32.000 --> 11:33.000 that's not his right name. 11:33.000 --> 11:35.000 Wait, Tom, out there in the moonlight, 11:35.000 --> 11:37.000 staggering toward the house. 11:37.000 --> 11:38.000 Great guns, it's a girl. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Look, she stumbled. She's fallen. 11:40.000 --> 11:42.000 Come on, let's get to her, Hank. Through the window. 11:42.000 --> 11:44.000 Tom, Tom, I got a feeling. 11:44.000 --> 11:45.000 I think... 11:45.000 --> 11:46.000 Here we are, Hank, here we are. 11:46.000 --> 11:47.000 The girl. 11:47.000 --> 11:49.000 Tom, I was right. 11:49.000 --> 11:50.000 It's Mary. 11:50.000 --> 11:51.000 It's Mary, the girl. 11:51.000 --> 11:53.000 I came back to Mary, and she's hurt, Tom. 11:53.000 --> 12:13.000 She's hurt badly. 12:13.000 --> 12:15.000 What is the meaning of this new development? 12:15.000 --> 12:18.000 Where has Mary Slade come from? 12:18.000 --> 12:20.000 What story will she have to tell 12:20.000 --> 12:23.000 about the vanished village of Smithville? 12:25.000 --> 12:28.000 Straight Shooters, here's your chance to be a detective. 12:28.000 --> 12:31.000 You have all the facts and all the clues, 12:31.000 --> 12:34.000 just as many as Tom himself has. 12:34.000 --> 12:36.000 See if you can figure out the answer 12:36.000 --> 12:38.000 to this strange mystery yourself. 12:38.000 --> 12:40.000 And to check your solution, 12:40.000 --> 12:42.000 and to follow a trail of breathtaking adventure, 12:42.000 --> 12:45.000 be sure to join Tom Mix and his Ralston Straight Shooters 12:45.000 --> 12:48.000 next Monday in the next episode of 12:48.000 --> 12:51.000 The Mystery of the Vanishing Village. 12:51.000 --> 12:54.000 And don't miss this sensational offer. 12:54.000 --> 12:56.000 To get a handsome whistling sheriff's badge, 12:56.000 --> 12:58.000 exactly like Mike Shaw's, 12:58.000 --> 13:01.000 act tonight, tomorrow sure. 13:01.000 --> 13:04.000 Boy, this badge is made of metal, and it's a beauty. 13:04.000 --> 13:06.000 Designed in the form of a shield, 13:06.000 --> 13:08.000 it has cross-six shooters at the top, 13:08.000 --> 13:10.000 and the word sheriff in big raised letters 13:10.000 --> 13:12.000 to make it official. 13:12.000 --> 13:15.000 And built in the center of the badge is a siren whistle. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 That's right, a siren whistle 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 used by the vigilantes. 13:19.000 --> 13:21.000 When you blow on the whistle, it sounds like this. 13:21.000 --> 13:23.000 Whistle 13:23.000 --> 13:26.000 Boy, oh boy, this is one offer you don't want to miss. 13:26.000 --> 13:28.000 And here's all you have to do. 13:28.000 --> 13:31.000 To get your badge, just ask Mother to get you 13:31.000 --> 13:33.000 a red and white checkerboard package 13:33.000 --> 13:36.000 of delicious bite-sized shredded Ralston. 13:36.000 --> 13:38.000 From the top of the package, 13:38.000 --> 13:43.000 tear off the little circle with the letters RSS in it. 13:43.000 --> 13:47.000 Mail this RSS circle with your name and address 13:47.000 --> 13:50.000 and ten cents in coin to 13:50.000 --> 13:54.000 Tom Mix, Box 808, St. Louis, Missouri. 13:54.000 --> 13:59.000 That's Box 808, St. Louis, Missouri. 13:59.000 --> 14:01.000 Do it tonight, tomorrow sure. 14:01.000 --> 14:04.000 This offer good only in the United States. 14:04.000 --> 14:09.000 Music 14:09.000 --> 14:11.000 Tom Mix was played by Curly Bradley, 14:11.000 --> 14:13.000 Don Gordon speaking. 14:13.000 --> 14:31.000 Music 14:31.000 --> 14:41.000 This is the Mutual Broadcasting System.