Texas Rangers - Clean Up

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2:07Texas more than 260,000 square miles and 50 men who make up the most famous and oldest law enforcement party in North America. Now from the files of the Texas Rangers come these stories based on facts. Only names, dates and places are picked dishes for obvious reasons. The events themselves are a matter of record. Tales of the Texas Rangers. Case for tonight? Clean up. Several years ago the town of Kiliman, Texas boasted a population of slightly under 3000 inhabitants

3:08until a wildcat gushes started a fabulous new oil boom. In a matter of months the population rose to 12,000 as drillers roughnecks and other field personnel poured in. And behind them like vultures came the hoard of racketeers gamblers and grifters. But even organized vice was not profitable enough for the boss of the crime syndicate, Frankie Genaro. Genaro started to move in on the oil business itself. Sure Paul is lost that's it. Yeah Frankie in the shack with a light. What have we been getting from him? Herbs got the figures. Yeah he's got four wells in production. We've been getting 200 barrels a day. So watch his beef. He's still getting 20. He choked the wells down says he won't pay off anymore. Oh see about that. You better come into her. Yeah okay. Oh knock open it. Hey what's the idea of busting in here? No idea Paul. I hear you've had some kind of

4:15a misunderstanding with my boys. There's no misunderstanding Genaro. You're just not getting any more oil from my wells. I'm not taking any more threats from you or your tin horn friends. What would you say Paul? I'll say what I want. I'm not only saying to you I'll say it to the law. Your mouth's got a loose trigger Paul. It shoots off to his side. Get out. Get out of here before I bend this pipe wrench over your head. Hey I'm starting. Hey go me. Got him Frankie. Let me go. He's got a knife. I don't have it hurt. Oh he clipped me with that wrench. How they won't go against that's. I'll teach you other operas not to get smart. Come on, Herbal. Let's get out of here. The death of Joe Powell sealed the lips of other frightened oil operators and they said nothing is Frankie Genaro continued to exact tribute from the smaller private companies.

5:16But Powell's murder arose special interest of the Texas Rangers. Captain Stinson sent for Ranger Jace Pearson. You know what's been happening in Kiliman since the oil boom started Jace? I've heard. I've got Rangers in the town of course. Good men. But the two well known we're being blocked all the way by people who won't talk or who are afraid to talk. I've never worked the Kiliman district. I'm not known there. That's why I say it for you. I want Kiliman cleaned up starting with Joe Powell's murder. But a man wearing a badge won't stand a chance. You want me to work without one? That's right Jace. But not alone. We've got a new man just transferred into the company. Steve Clark. You can work together. Good. You better brief me on the power. And all we've got is in the next room. Have a look. I hear some photographs taking a familiar scene. Stabbed in the back. A belt and shirt twisted though. Powell must have put up a fight before he went down. You photo alright. Look at this wrench. Yeah. Blood stains and a few

6:23matted hairs on it. This is the same wrench that was next to the body in the photos. You're same one. Powell must have hit somebody with it before he was killed then. It looks that way. That means two or more men ganged up on him. He dropped one with a wrench and then the other one stabbed him. That's the way I see it. Blood on the wrench been typed. Yeah. Here's a report from the lab at Austin. Type O. Brown hair Caucasian male. My crumbot measurements are there too. And that's all we've got, Jace. How about a list of undesirables hanging out and killing them? Yeah, I got there too. Here mostly a tettic crooks, gamblers and muscle men. Our boys run a few out and new ones come in. Must be one man at the top though. Usually is, but which one? There's a few possibilities on your list here. This one, uh, Stutz Tracy? No, no. It's not big enough to be given the orders. Does he know you by sight? No, I just know a few of these names by reputation and photos.

7:28Here's another battle room. Herb infield. Yeah. I heard about him too. Flannery. Supposed to be a real vinegar own. It's tougher than the back end of a shooting garrer. Yeah. Well, he's not smart enough to cover up for himself. The only other possible boss I can see is this one. Frankie Jinerel. Got lots of arrests and a couple of indictments. No convictions. On the surface is records clean. He always has an alibi and it always stands up. I guess I better get started. Right. We'll go over to the barracks and I'll introduce you to Steve Clark. You want to change your clothes in a half? Yeah. And the first job is to locate the key men. We'll find out who's making the wheels turn. We can put our badges on again and move in with a force. And her whole company will be standing by. You better warn the Rangers and found not to let on. They know me. Well, they've been warned. You'll be treated just like a stranger. You have anything to report. Contact me directly. But be careful. And you better leave

8:28your car outside the town and just meander in on horses. Cow folks. Yeah. Just a couple of wandering cow folks. I met Steve Clark. We dressed like a couple of cow folks and parked our car outside of Kilman. It was almost midnight when we rode in. The town was sprawled all over the map dotted with trailers and food shacks thrown together from tin and old packing crates. Despite the hour, everything was going full blast. Show your bum and chase. Yeah. They tell down a ways looks especially lively. That isn't legal liquor. They're taking on around here. Yeah, but there isn't much of anything here. A bunch of oil trucks coming through. You better get out of the way. Get over charcoal. Come on. It seems to me that it's kind of late from the Behaul and Oil. It ought to be a daytime operation.

9:28Might be a shortage of trucks. There's nothing else to be hauled. No pipelines or the refineries yet. As you can, it might be hot oil. Maybe we don't know why Joe Powell was killed. But if somebody been stealing his oil and Powell found out about it, we'd have a pretty good motive. Yeah. If those trucks are hauling stolen oil, they're being pretty open about it. Oh, whoa boy. Listen to that, we're acting there. Being pretty open about everything out of here. Come on, Frank. Let's get us a room. I want to call it captain and find out about these night riding trucks. Come on. Any plan we had about staying at the hotel was cut short by the desk clerk. That wasn't a room available in the town. We hung around for about an hour before we found a rancher who told us we could bunk down in the loft of his barn outside of the town. Being in that mess up isn't going to be easy, Jason. It's going to be even tougher than it looks

10:32like. Notice what happened when the sheriff and one of the rangers they know walked in. Yeah. All the gamblers stopped five minutes before they got there and all the liquor disappeared. Whoever's running that place knew they were coming. I don't wonder our men haven't been able to get any place. We could have stopped that place from our freight and chase. We saw it was going on. I wouldn't do any good to show a badge and shut down one spot. We got to shut them all. First, we got to hook them all together. Yeah, get you right. Hey, look over there. Roadside phone booth by that gas station. Are you still going to call Captain Stinson? Yeah, it's a good spot. Stations flowed. I'll take the horses back off the road and wait. I got through to Captain Stinson in his home. What he had to say about the trucks wasn't encouraging. Yes, James, we've had records on the trucks. We run every night. Have our men ever stopped any of them? Yes, but they seem to be alright, James. They have receipts for everything they're carrying. And the trucks are probably licensed. I still can't see why they're running at night.

11:33Neither can I, but there's no law against it. Why hasn't the commission set a limit on the number of barrels each welcome pumping a day? Yes, each well is allowed 300 barrels a day, as long as the present pressure holds. Have the operators been accounting for that much oil each day? Yes, the commission keeps a careful check. Operators report production of 300 a day. The trucking company receives you a whole age of 300 a day. And the thing is that the refineries tell it to. It's a three-way check, James. I don't see how they compete it. Well, I'm still convinced that Powell's death has something to do with hot oil. And I can't help you there, James. It's sold and you will laugh. I'm hoping to match the hair of the lab found on that wrench power used, but I need a motive to narrow down the field. 12,000 people in town make a lot of suspects. We'll do the best you can. I will. I'm sending you list of names. Men we spotted running gambling games and selling liquor at the hotel. We'll have to let them run for a while, till we move in with a big broom. We raise dust whenever you're ready.

12:37Three days I left Steve Clark wandering around town spotting the racquets. While I rode through the oil field at night striking up casual conversations with the pumpers wherever I saw with the night riding trucks load up and lead. Howdy. Well, howdy. A little bit off your trail ain't your cop, okay? Just riding around wishing some of his land was mine. Here we all wish in the same thing. I'm just gonna have a donut a little coffee here. Wanna tell you? If your friends on the truck didn't drink at all. That's always big. They're always in too much of a hurry. You can tie a horse to the derrick there and he'll be all right. Thanks. There you are. Thanks. Yeah, the funny hour for making oil pickups. What makes them all so late? I don't know. I always take a full load. A hundred barrels of clip, that's a full tank truck.

13:40And field storage tanks hold a thousand barrels each, don't they? Err, one donut? No tanks. I checked with a few more pumpers, then rode out to the barn where Clark and I were bunking. I woke him up. Ugh. Ugh. Oh, what a chase what time is it? Almost six. What'd you find out? Ugh, I'm stretched here. Yeah, I've got another flock of names you can send out of the captain. Here you are. Yeah, we've got just about every small time hood staked out. Everything but the head man. Jace, now I'm not so sure there is head man. There's gotta be. All the racketeers stick to their own game and their own part of town. They're all protected by the same muscle man. Yeah, sure. So they belong to an organization. Otherwise they'd be fighting among themselves, trying to move in on each other. Yeah. They didn't think of that. Different a finger in the oil business here too.

14:40I'd swear to it. And that's big. We find a man on top of that and we'll have the kingpin of the entire operation. Well, I'll keep looking around, Jace. No. No, let the town go for a while. From now on, we'll concentrate on the wells. When we get the man responsible for killing power, a whole thing will tumble like a house of cards. You are listening to tales of the Texas Rangers, starring Joel McCray as Ranger Jace Pearson. Beginning one week from tomorrow, that Sunday, October 8. Tales of the Texas Rangers will be heard at a new time. Remember, our next show is Sunday, October 8, one week from tomorrow. Now we continue with tonight's case, cleanup, an authentic story from the files of the Texas Rangers.

15:47We've staked ourselves out of the powers wells. For two days, we kept check around the clock on every load of oil it was all away, watching from a distance. It was a dead end watch. We had to check shout, Jace. Four wells, 300 wells each per day, 1200 wells total. And that's what they've hold away. Yeah, but since we've been here, nothing's been hauled from Powell's wells at night. Yeah, they're going to keep watching them. Just for the night so we can measure the flow from the wells. You can keep the pump for busy for a while at nine o'clock while I run a tape gauge into the storage tank. We'll have to check them again later. Yeah, I'll wander up and keep the pump for busy around 3 a.m. Then you can make the second check. We can compare our figures and we'll know if those wells are really choked for 300 barrels each or if they pump and more in the legal quota. Okay, Jace. That's hope it works. We made the check, but we didn't have to do much figure. Ever found yourself in a beautiful foreign city, utterly lost in translation?

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18:51And the refinery reports show that it's all going through. There's no hot oil to be accounted for. Well, it was a thought. Let's get the horses in the turn, Ian. Yeah. Yes, Paul, just happened to brush somebody the wrong way. Yeah. At all angle, with a hell plenty. Too bad. Wait a minute, hmm? It's a car coming. Yeah, yeah. If turn up the road, throw that rigging over there. Rigging isn't lit. Nobody's working there. It was a dry hole. Get them home. Yeah. This lights will sweep this way when he turns. Hey, stop the dry hole, all right? Yeah. And look, Paul's pumpers walk across the field to meet him. Yeah, they're going up to the knowledge house on the rig. It's a funny place to be holding meat at this time of night. It's a cinch they don't want to be seen. And that pumper knows Mourny told us. Come on. What's the plan, Jase? Maybe we can slip under the platform of the rigging without them seeing us. We can get under the knowledge house. We may learn a few things through the floorboards.

19:58We crept through the muddy channel, the drained into the slash pit, and got under the knowledge house. We were hidden, but we could hear them. We've got to start making pickups again tomorrow night here. Why not? As you think you're going to have a check. I can't do it. You know how to change the choke people? Before the... Before his accident? Yeah. All right, sir. How can I give you any more? Well, for only public regular quarters, have the choke changed again. So they pump a little extra... I can't help without Ms. Powell's okay. I'm working for her now. Maybe you didn't hear me. I said, change the choke. Oh, I'm a freed stud. Must be studs, Tracy, Jase. Yeah. What do you look at me like they're studs? You know I'm on a spot. Listen to you. We've got the operators in this deal lined up. We don't intend to have any trouble with our wise guy. Uncle, don't, don't, don't wait a minute. Stop, wait a minute. Yeah. Oh, what... What do you have to get me for? Just to make you think that's only a sample. Maybe you'd like what Powell got.

21:00Don't talk like that. I'll do what you say, Jess. Just tell me what you want me to do. I've already told you. The trucks are rolled tomorrow night. Yeah. Don't disappoint them. Don't forget. Yeah? The bomb! He knows what happened to Powell, Jase. Let's grab him. Help. No, stay down. He's not the head, man. But I wonder why we haven't been seen in a round. We should have gotten a look at his face. His voice sounded familiar. You've seen mug shots of him in the photos we have. A fellow with the broken nose. That's right. Have you seen him around? Yeah, I think I have. Humper's leaving. All right. How about it? You seen studs? Yeah, only the shaft of Nour at the hotel. He was talking to Frank and Janero. That's the first time either of us has seen him since we've been here. I heard him talking to Janero. He said he'd been up to Big D. And Dallas? What was he up there for? Well, that wasn't mentioned. They didn't talk much. All I know is that studs just got back. He'd been gone two weeks.

22:00Come on. We can get out of here now. Gone two weeks, huh? In other words, since Powell got killed. Yeah, what do you make out of that, Jason? Maybe he doesn't know just something about Powell's murder. I got a hunch he was in on it. Powell clipped one of his attackers with that pipe wrench, remember? Must have left a mark. And if studs had that mock, he wouldn't hang around and give people a chance to notice it. Is that he? Two weeks ago, just to be about long enough for a scar to heal over. We've got to get a sample of studs hair to match with a hair sample's lab got off that wrench. But how do we get that? We get our hands on a comb or brush. Anything he's used on his head. First, we've got to find him. Well, he may have headed back to the hotel. That's a favorite hanger. Now we'll try it. On the way into town, I want to call a captain. Yeah. Come on, Chuck. Come on, boy. What are you going to call a captain fall? Find out who owns the trucks haul in the oil and what refinery they're going to. See if we can hope the ownership up with any of the people we've been watching here. Why?

23:01Because records have been falsified to cover that hot oil. We find out who's changing them and we'll know who studs is working for and who killed Powell. Jason hot oil will improve murder. Now, once we link studs as an accomplice in the murder, I got a feeling he will squeal like a pig caught under a gate. I made my call to Captain Stinson. He arranged to have the trucks followed the ownership check. Then Clark and I headed for the hotel where business was going on as usual. There he is, Jason, at the counter. He was in his bath. And, huh? The urban field and Frank Echinow. There's a tree over there that huntspulled with love to have. Well, maybe you'll get him later on. Well, what do we do just wait around until studs combs his hair? No. Look, on the stool beside him, huh? Oh, he's head. Is it his? That's the one he was wearing when I saw him this afternoon. Good. There'll be enough hair strands in it or little clippings in the band to tell us what we want to know. Jason, how do we get it?

24:01I don't know. Call for a drink and proud him. You just grab it with a fave. Want me to take it back to the barn? No. Now, there's a small airfield near the next town. Get it over there and call the Austin Lab and have it picked up. They can report to Captain Stinson. When I call him in the morning, he should have enough for us to start dropping them now. I've got the lab report, Jason. It's not stressy as the man power lead with that rich alright? Good. You get a line on the trucking company in the refinery? Yes, you like it. The trucking company is owned under an elius and my hub ends here with his wife. Good. And the refinery is owned by a woman. We checked on her, Jason. She's Frankie Jardinero's girlfriend. Oh, that does it. When are you coming in? For the whole company standing by right now, ready to rule. Well, then come ahead and throw up roadblocks on the way. And awful lot of people are going to want to leave here in a hurry. We're ready to comb the town, Viz. Got a section for Clark and me.

25:03Take your choice. You know who I am. Good. Go ahead. The rest of the men have their assignments. Names you supplied. Listen, you people. All of you. Now, most of you are decent folks. Go home and stay home. The streets may not be safe for the next couple of hours. But by tonight, you'll have your town back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We use the hotel for a jail. All right, let's go. You men in there. You're surrounded. Come out with your hands up. All right, come on. Get moving. All right, come on. Get moving. All right, come on. Get moving. All right, come on. Get moving. Get moving. Get moving. Get moving. All right, all of you. I'm beginning to wall. You don't need anybody to reach for a gun.

26:03Anybody else want to try that? All right, that's on your feet. What do you cop, folks? We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop. We're not cop, folks. We're Texas Rangers. Rangers. But get up. Get up. You're coming over to the hotel lobby. We'll tell you all about it. Well, I was quite a whole, geez. Yeah. I can't locate her Benfield and Frankie Generall. Park Holden studs Tracy in that side room, though. He might know where the others are. You got the photos of the hair samples lab matched? Yeah. Here. Good. I'll show these to studs. They should convince him.

27:06He say anything yet, Clark? Jason, I'm not a buzz. I'm not going to say anything, either. Stuts. I got something to show you. Ever seen anything like this before? Take a look at this photograph. What is it? Just a couple of hairs. That came from your hat. We borrowed it last night. What's the idea? Hair on the right is just like it. Exactly like it. That came from a bloody wrench we found beside the body of Joe Powell. Powell hit you with that wrench studs, and then you killed him. Husk. Husk. I was never even near him. That hair in the skull on your head proves you were. But I didn't kill him. You were there. You know who did. I was knocked out. I didn't see who... Come on, studs. Oh, it was with you. Who been feeling... And Frankie Genaro. Yeah. Oh, he'll kill me. He's going to kill me. Genaro's the boss then. Yeah. He's got to hide out someplace. Where is it? No, he'll kill me. I said where is it?

28:06You got to protect me. There's a cabin. Or pass a red seat as other side of the oil field. That's where he's been living. You'll have a clear view of the road up there, Jason. We won't use the road. We're right up in behind. Is Enfield there, too? Yeah. Yeah, they're always together. Jason may not even know we moved in on the town. They'll know soon. There's the cabin, Jason. Pretty fancy. It ought to be. I even held plenty out of this town. Yeah. The guys running dry-form now, though. Hey. Somebody around the side of the cabin there in Hemlock. That's a Genaro. And a nice silk robe. He's in for a change award robe. He isn't going to lie. He's getting up, Jason. You're ceaseless. You're looking for something? Yeah. You're wanted in town. That's Tracy's send you for me. Huh?

29:06Oh, yeah. Yeah, he did. Enfield, too. Anything wrong in town? Huh. I don't think so. You see anything wrong, Clark? No. Go. I thought everything was fine. Hey, earth! Yeah, Brady? That's what's at some time. Cynthia's follows out to tell us. Oh. All right. I seen you two around before, haven't I? Hey, what's that on your shirt, Coppook? Oh, that's just a Texas Ranger badge. Come on, both of you. You're going into the old shite! You, uh, fellas, might tell me what you think you've got on me? Well, let's start with a killin' a Joe Power. Oh, I can prove I was someplace else when Power is killed. Urban Stuts and I were playing cards with three other men all night long. Not this time, Jonetti. That I mean. We've already proven where Stuts was and he's made a full confession.

30:08There'll be no alibi this time. Don't move, General. Look out, friend! What the fuck? We don't want to play. You're getting full around with a gun herb. A knife in the back is your specialty. Oh, my God. I'm glad to see you know that I didn't kill Power. Sure, General. You're the boy with the brains. You don't do the work. You order it. That's something you can't prove. No. You don't think Herb is going to take all of blame, do you? You're not going to set me up, General. I'll move. I want to lawyer. I can understand that. I never saw a fellow in needed one more. All right. Get moving. Take it. Frankie Genero and Herb Enfield were sentenced to life terms at Huntsville.

31:09Stutz Tracey was given 50 years and lesser offenders in the Kylman cleanup were given sentences of from one to five years. Those who were released without being charged left the town of Kylman quickly and quietly. The cleanup was complete. And now here again is the start of our show, Joel McCray. Folks, here's a special announcement I think you'll be interested in. You'll next hear tales of the Texas Rangers beginning Sunday, one week from tomorrow. Yes, we're moving to a brand new time on Sundays. Beginning Sunday, October 8th. I hope you'll make it a point to hear us at our new time beginning in just eight days. Good night, folks. See you next Sunday. A week from Sunday, Joel McCray and another authentic reenactment of a case from the files of the Texas Rangers.

32:22Joel McCray has currently seen starring in the MGM production stars in my crown. Tonight's cast included Tony Barrett, Lou Krugman, Paul Freeze, Tom McKee, Herb Ellis, and Byron Cain. This story was transcribed and adapted by Joel Mercott and the program was produced and directed by Stacey Keach. This is Hellgiv-Me speaking and reminding you to be with us again at our new time, one week from tomorrow Sunday, October 8th. Three times mean good times on NBC. Next Saturday at this time, Dennis Day returns to the air. Dennis Day's comedy is always refreshing because he appears so timid and bewildered, but one thing that doesn't bewildered Dennis is how to sing a popular ballad or rhythmical novelty.

33:24So for comedy and songs, it's Dennis Day at this time next Saturday. That day also marks the return of the Judy Canova Show. And tomorrow, Phil Harris and Alice Faye return to NBC.