August 8, 2025 • 34 mins
Today's Mystery:Johnny is sent to Lake Mojave to prevent the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in jewelry and money.
Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1958
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Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lawrence Dobkin; Alan Reed; Russell Thorson; Edgar Barrier; Junius Matthews; Barney Phillips; Eleanor Audley
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Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 20, 1958
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Bob Bailey as Johnny Dollar; Lawrence Dobkin; Alan Reed; Russell Thorson; Edgar Barrier; Junius Matthews; Barney Phillips; Eleanor Audley
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
going to get into this week's episode of Yours Truly
Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you,
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(00:51):
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But now, from April twentieth, nineteen fifty eight, here is
the Wayward Trout matter.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's time now for Johnny Dollar, Pat mccrack and Johnny
Universal Adjustment Bureau. Oh hi, Brad, Johnny, You've handled a
lot of difficult cases for the company as we represent.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You done a magnificent job, save some of them a
lot of money, sometimes nip things in the buddy before
they've happened. There have been times when you've given up
personal plans to take them on at a moment's notice
and without question.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Listen that boys, you're beating around is getting pretty big?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
All right, did I'll get to the point, Johnny, why
don't you take yourself on holiday at company expense?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Wh like Mohavey Resort, maybe where I understand you love
to fish at company expense. Huh okay, Prad, I'll grab
the first plane, good boy. But brother, just wait. Do
you see the expense account I pilot for you, Johnny?
Because if I ever smelled a believe me, it's now
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Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous free lance insurance
investigator as true Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a
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special investigator Johnny Dollar, the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hertford, Connecticut,
following his an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the Wayward Trout matter expense account. I am one
one hundred and seventy four to fifty plain Fair Hertford
to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to Las Vegas, item
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two fifty bucks to posit On a car, I headed
south on Route ninety five of Mohave Desert, thousands of
square miles of sand, sun bleached gravel, and rock of cactus,
sage and jeshua trees, high flat maces, towering crags, countless
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trails leading off from the highway, long abandoned roads leading
up into the harsh bleak Mountains, with their promise of
infinite wealth to the prospectors who scratched away in the
hungry search for silver and gold. And who knows, perhaps
some of these were trails of the pioneers who beat
a tortuous path westward to the great Pacific, who with
their oxen and heavy wagons, were lucky if they made
six miles a day. Yet here I was cruising along
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on an easy sixty miles an hour, and above me
a jet plain lazily tearing off six hundred miles an hour. Yeah,
it made me think about the men who lived in
struggle here, the men who died of hunger and thirst,
following the same path I was taking, never knowing that
only a few miles away, beyond the mountains was the
might Colorado water, food and life for those lucky enough
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to find it. But let's to get the more practical
things like Davis Dam and huge Lake Mohabbi on the
east bank at the lower end Lake Mahabi Resort with
its clean modern cabins, boat house, doc and harbor everything
for a fisherman.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was after nine pm when I pulled in. My
old friend Buster Favor was waiting for me. Bye, golly, Johnny, I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Glad this Yeah, same here, busy Hi, before you start
on why I am here? How's the fishing?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Remember Ham Pratt general manager doo? How is he went
out three days in a row, got three limits five six.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Seven pounders and I have to come here on business.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, but as soon as you cleared up, you and
I are going to do some fishing.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Believe may be better. And now what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh ahead, let me let me take your bags. You're
in number eight, okay, I'll put you right next to
mister Hatch Hatch, old time confidence man, Johnny and just
playing big time thief.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, Gordon Hatch, that's the one you used to operate
up in San Francisco. Over in Reno. Dried Las veg
bugs too, but they ran him out. Sure, sure he
served things like that, but they can never nail him
for anything. Big. That's right, shut down, Yeah, what's he
doing here?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Ordinarily we'd give a man like that some excuse about
being full of something like that. I should think so,
but ha him and I decided if we let him
stay and with somebody like you here, well maybe we
could do a kind of public service.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Keep talking, Buster.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, Tuesday morning I got a call from some wealthy
folks from Los Angeles. They wanted the accommodations from themselves
and their wives beginning tonight. They're doing now. So Tuesday afternoon,
this Gordon Hatch came Barreling, and my wife Marilyn, not
knowing who he was, put him in number seven. What
are you getting at, Buster, Well, those folks from LA
have been here before. Johnny and the women always come
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with enough firs and jewelry fishing resort. Well, you see
every night they drive up to Vegas to gamble and
take in the fancy night spot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Ah, what makes you think Hatch would come here just
because of them?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
One of them is a lawyer that got him sent
up for embezzlement once, and Hatch always swore that someday
he'd get even Oh well, now, I don't think he'd
try any rough stuff or anything like that. He is
the type. Well that's why I called Hartford.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well, what's the insurance.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Hang on, there isn't any unless a lot of heavily
insured jewelry suddenly disappears from around here. And your man
in Hartford was willing to play along with that. Yeah,
I see, well so do I.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I see we have another guestbuster, How do you do?
My name is Gordon Hatch.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Mister Hatch, this is Johnny Dollar. He's come for a
few days fishing, the same as you.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Excellent, We must go out together, mister Dollar. I found
a couple of wonderful spots.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I understand you had pretty good luck.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Sir cod didn't hamp Pratt tell you about the big
one I got over in their sculpture rock nearly ten pounds.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I'm keeping him in a.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Live box so I can take him back to Los
Angeles and have him stuffed.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Live box, Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A big sort of box made a heavy screen. Johnny.
You leave it in the water. It'll keep the fish
alive for a day.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why aren't you afraid somebody will walk off with them?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
All the nice people who come to this nice place,
of course not. And there's a fisherman. I'm sure you
know that even the worst crook in the world wouldn't
touch another man's catch.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Uh yeah, look, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I hears some cars coming down the road. Must be
the folks I'm expect, of course, bus I'll see you later, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Any plans for the evening, mister Dollar, Oh not particularly,
I'm a little tired. And then come along into my
cabin next door. I have some excellent scotch and plenty
of soda. Well, I've had a pretty long day.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
A book.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We can relax and regale each other with tall tales
about the big fish we've caught here and there.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
After all, there isn't anything else to do out here
of an evening. I kind of thought i'd wander down
to the dock and see if ham Pratt is about.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'll save that for tomorrow. Now come along, mister Dollar.
I won't take no for an answer.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Actually, I was glad for the invitation. I wanted to
know more about this man. Sound him out if possible
reason for being here, because it turned always been a
very pleasant evening talking entirely about fishing. Only once, in
answer to a pretty direct question that he speak about
what I wanted him to.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
That is all water over the dam, mister dollon. If
it's possible to make amends for some of the shall
we say, questionable things I may have done in the past.
So I can only assure you that I'm sincerely trying
to make such amends.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Please, please don't embarrass me this way again.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Sorry. Now tomorrow we'll go fishing.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, I'll not only take you to one of the
hottest spots on the lake, but I'll show you the.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Beauties I have in the live box. You'll turn green
with n fish. I cap. Well, it's been a pretty
long day and I really should hit the sack, and
so should I.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So here we go, bottoms up, and may tomorrow bring
us each a limit.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Then I will drink you.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
There we are, and I'll see you at the crack
of dawn.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sleep well, right, right wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I'm sure I was tired. It had been a long day,
but not long enough to make me drop off to sleep.
Almost before I could get out of my clothes. That
nightcap had had a lot more than scotching it. Yeah,
I'd fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the world,
and until I woke up, anything could happen, act too,
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if yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
In the Democracy in which we live. The concept of
the medal of honor is something which goes beyond the
medal itself, something which goes beyond the deeds of valor.
The concept is not a material thing. It is an idea,
an ideal which springs from the deepest roots of all
that is best in humanity. It stands for the democratic
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tradition of freedom, of liberty, of the code of conduct
in which the citizens of the United States of America believed.
These ideals do not belong to any one race, creed,
or religion of Americans, but to all private first class. A.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Dao S.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Munamore of the one hundred Infantry Battalion of the United
States Army proved the validity of these ideals on April fifth,
nineteen forty five. Pinned down by enemy fire from artillery
and machine guns in the Hilly Cerreves, a section of
the Apennine Mountains, p F. C. Munamori found himself in
charge of his squad after the corporal had been killed
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during a lull in the shelling, the men advanced, but
were forced to take cover from machine gun fire.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Grabbing some hand grenades, p F C.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Munamori rushed forward and demolished the enemy machine gun nest. Again,
the men advanced, but another machine gun forced them to
take cover. Munamori continued his assault with grenades and destroyed
another machine gun. The enemy opened up with grenades. Munamori
crawl back from more ammunition to a shell crater that
shielded two of his men. As he reached the edge,
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an enemy grenade bounced off his helmet and into the crater.
He immediately drove into the crater and smothered the deadly
grenade blast. For saving two lives at the cost of
his own, Private First Class Saddal Munamori was awarded the
Medal of Honor devotion to his men and to his duty,
exemplified the highest ideals of the Code of Conduct and
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now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
Wayward Trout matter.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Ha, Oh, it's bluster.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You're right in that, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Ooh sure, sure, Samurai here? Holy what term is it anyway?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Almost nine o'clock? Oh look at those big red hats.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You weren't kidding. I feel as though I where's Gordon.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Hatchout fishing at the crack? Had done? I said, you'd
promise to go with him, but he pounded on your
door and finally gave up. Johnny, you look like you wester.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The folks you were expecting in from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, they came right after I left you and mister
Hatch last night, six of them. I figured you wanted
to be alone with Hats to sort of feel a.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
MoU Yeah I did. But is everything all right?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yes, so far as I know. The part is, did
you learn anything from mister Hatch last night?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Only that he claims to have turned over a new leaf?
Is now the soul of integrity? Yeah? But I wonder
you say he's not fishing. That's right where he went.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, one of his favorite holes when I told him
about is in the big basin about ten miles up
the lake.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
What about the folks from LA They're still asleep.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
In their cabins. Look, Johnny, Like I told you, Hatch,
isn't the kind of trying to rough stuff even against
mister Fellows, a lawyer who sent him up one time,
and he's here with that party hen wanted organized it
made the Now Listen, Johnny, I may be all wrong
about fright of his threat to get even with Fellows.
I mean, maybe he's gone straight he well, he certainly
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acts like a nice enough guy.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The only thing I could do was keep an eye
on him. If he makes a play, I'll nab him.
If he doesn't, well, my trip out here will have
been wasted.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Wasted. I thought you and I were going to do
some fishing.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh that's different. Oh, I better get some breakfast in me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Sure, I'll tell Mary over at the cafe to have
it ready for you.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, okay, Buster Sunny sided up with plenty of strong,
dark black coffee. My head felt like it might split
open any second, and I was more sure than ever
that Hatch had poured me a mickey last night, yet
he had expected me to go out on the lake
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with him this morning. It must have been nearly ten
am by the time I showered, shaved, dressed, and joined
Buster at the little cafe, already half a dozen early
wanting hangers to come back to boast about their catches
and the big ones I got away. Yeah, now do
to tell us old Buster or that big one Boster.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
He must have been.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Eight eight and a half pounds, Ye, shot was mister.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
The bridge I lost him was in the second coldest
side of the damn But the big Square Rock and
called this side of the damn. Did you say that's
right right next to the Big Square Ride, jem, I
know a great spot works ride after Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh, how do you tell us ho about that Spotbuster?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Mister good? Say Henry, Henry, I want to tell you
about a prince time.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Feeling any better? Johnny?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah much. Now listen, if Gordon Hatch is up here
after the money and jewelry of mister Fellows and his party,
or for any reason, it's all connected with that, I
think you and I had better hop into a boat.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh yes, miss Fellows, he good morning.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
He's come outside quickly on Johnny right.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Miss Fellows, this is Johnny Dollar, friend of mine, especially investigator.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Oh thank goodness you're here, mister boy buster.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We've been robbed when missus Fellows sometime.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
During the night. All our jewelry, Missus Hockins, and missus
Peterson's mine. Why it must be hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth my diamond Bruchel Lowell. Yes, Ralph, Oh, this
is mister Dollar and he's some kind of an investigator.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Good have heard of you Dollar?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I told him Ralph about the jewelry.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Well, whoever did it got our money too. Oh we
brought along the gamble in Vegas. Must be over twenty thousand.
Now he managed to sneak into our cabins.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
And without waking us too.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Of course we were pretty tired. Well, good boring, mister Pratt.
Oh what seems to be Jerremy glad to see you.
Oh you Ham, I got some bad news for you. Yeah, Ham,
it looks like he's done it. Oh, Gordon Hatch. Yeah,
I got to make a thorough search of his cabin.
Gordon Hatch. Oh no, I'm afraid so great, Scott so Ham.
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Look at his luggage, one of the mattresses, anywhere else
you can think of it?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Right, mister Dollar, do you mean to say that Gordon
Hatch is here at this pub?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Better? Look in his car too, Ham, under the car
and the upholstery. Look here now, mister Dollar. Sorry, mister Fellows,
I'll have to talk to you lady. Come on, Buster,
you and I are going for a boat ride, Act
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three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment, Our
flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there
stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Pennsylvania's flag of dark blue carries a coat of arms
depicting their agricultural and maritime pursues. Her state motto is
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inscribed beneath it as the home of the Liberty Bell
and the Declaration of Independence. The motto is most befitting virtue,
Liberty and Independence. Pennsylvania state flag, the flag of the
second state to enter the Union, was adopted on June thirteenth,
nineteen oh.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Seven, No.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Act Three of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the Wayward
Trout matter o Wlake Mohobby was calm as a mill
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pond must have made the spray wh as we had
it almost due north up toward the big basin, but
we didn't have to go that far. Musty, with the
sharpest eyes I have ever known, spot of the ripples
from the wake of a boat that had pulled into
a deep winding coal on the Arizona.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Side aon Johnny looks to me like hate boat went
in that goat.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You mean to say, you can tell what boat made
that wake?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Playing of the footprints in the sand. When the lake
is calm like this.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
The first thing I want to do is inspect that
boat of his.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Do you think he might have the jewelry and money
on board.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Ah, he's too smart to have left him around the
cabin or his car.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Look, that's his boat in there, all right, tied up,
that low rocky ledge that sticks out.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What under the sun is he doing between his boat
and that ledge.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It looks to me like you're trying to hide something
there in the water. We'll soon find out.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, it looks like you've caught me in the ax.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah. Yeah, it kind of looks that way, doesn't it. Hatch,
What were you so busy shoming down in the water
between your boat and that ledge when we pulled out?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well, I figured no one would find it here, mister Dollah. Yeah,
but I decided to move the live box into this
hidden cove when I first came out this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The live box.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
After all, it.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Was you who warned me someone might try to steal
some of these beautiful fish I've caught, and I'm keeping
alive in it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But as long as you found me out from here.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Take a look at his boot jam, Yeah, look at them.
Ever see such a nice mess of pass in your life?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah? They're beauties.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And that croud on thee I got him way up
the lake yesterday morning.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Must be ten pounds at the one you plan to
have stuff, that's the one. Well you better have it
done pretty soon. He looks dead to me.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yes, it was this way when I came out this morning.
So when I'm through fishing today, I'll head back to
La with him to attack the dam.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Hatch. There's something I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I know, Dollar, but it's your own faults. I pounded
on your door till I thought i'd wake the day.
Oh no, no, that isn't However, since you're here now, well.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Why not keep off fishing? Date now, mister Hatch? When
you gone it? Though, I don't have an extra rodden
my boat?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Oh come on, Johnny, I'll give you one of my
boat rotten real.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, okay, fall I'll take you to
fishing spots.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Even Butter doesn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Not a sign of the jewels and stuff on his boat.
Johnny even went through his tackle box. Well maybe he's
hidden the stuff somewhere along the shore if he's the
one who took it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
He looks and talks as a baby. So the only
thing I can do is keep an eye on him
and try to feel him out.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh boy, I'm a wasting here, Johnny. You try this
rod on precise.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, that looks good to me.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Here too long. A couple of these fast track mento hooks,
if anything, they'll get you big bass, they sure will, Yeah, or.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Maybe a trout like the one that mister.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
What's the matter, Jenny, Come, I must what what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, it's about time. What were you forgiving about over there?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Say hatch, I want another look in the live box
at that big trout.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I don't blame you a bit.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Step into the boat now, raise the.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Top so you can really see it. No, I think
I'll pull a whole contraption up here on the ledge.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Better take the fish out of the water.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Why you said that trout was dead early this morning?
Then why is he on the bottom of this thing?
Why isn't he floating belly up here?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I don't know, but I don't see what Wait, what
are you doing? All those beautiful fish in there die
like the trout. Oh, I just want a real close
look at that tround just a minute. These live ones
a hole still long.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Enough for me to fell out and put them back
in the water.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Here we are, oh ten pounds. Why this fish weighs
twenty pounds if he weighs an house, And no, wonder
the way you've got him stuff full him. How about
this a beautiful diamond brooch. I wonder you decided to
get back to LA and not to stuff this trout
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but to unstuff him. And how about this bracelet? Emeralds,
aren't they? And look at these nice new one hundred
dollars bills A bit what perhaps you're holding more than
money and jewels in your hand. Dollar, I put that
thing away.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'm talking about your life, and I won't hesitate to
pull this trigger unless you trust.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That money and those jewels into this boat.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
While I tossed this over acums hat put it on, Buster,
I'll shoot you too.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Tust me the jewels, Dollar, trust them, and.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That's the the where you are.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
How about the whole trout, mister?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Drop rash boy Johnny Johnny you really clovered him.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, but oh Buster, if you hadn't thrown that or
and if you hadn't hit him in the face with
that wet fish, Johnny, you would have plugged it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, Buster, I always did, like Tarty expens a count
total in putting boat and bait for five days of
really great fishing, cabin rental and meals, and tripped back
to Hydrid eight hundred and fifteen dollars even yours truly,
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Johnny Dollar, Let's take.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
A moment to talk about something very vital to every
fighting man, to every man in the armed forces today.
That vital thing is a spread of core, or, as
we saved in English, team spirit. Between the few great
wars in which the United States has been involved, our
fighting men have had to settle small but deadly vicious
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rebellions around the world to protect our citizens and other interests.
In those comparatively peaceful days. It took more than the
waving of the flag and the sound of martial music
to make boys grow into men in double quick time.
It took that spread de cor about which you've heard
so much. One instance when that team spirit came in
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mighty handy in fashioning a code of conduct that helped
save men's lives took place on the morning of September
twenty fourth, nineteen eleven, in the Philippine Islands. A shore
party from the U s. S. Pampang was moving in
to capture the town of Mundang on the island of
Basilan during an uprising of native Morrows. Along the trail,
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the small party came upon a group of native huts.
Hospital apprentice Fred McGuire was standing by in case he
was needed for treatment of wounds. Suddenly, the Morrow bandits
open fire from ambush in the huts and other concealed positions,
dropping the sailors like flies. McGuire, essentially a non combatant,
grabbed a rifle, charged the attackers, and after a furious fight,
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routed the bandits. Although he was wounded in the bloody fight,
McGuire tirelessly tended to the wounds of the fallen sailors,
thereby saving their lives before he considered his own condition.
Fred McGuire's belief in Teen's spirit was exemplified by his
conduct and doing a job that had to be done,
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a job which earned him the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood
and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
wrote Today's story. Heard in our cast were Eleanor Hadley,
Larry Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Edgar Barrier, Junius Matthews, Russell Thorson,
and Alan Reeve. These are join us next week, same
time and station for another exciting story of yours truly,
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Johnny Dollars, This is Dan Cumberly speaking. This is the
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United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Welcome back. A good story with some fun moments. If
you hadn't hit him in the face with the fish
is one of those lines acting teachers don't really prepare
you for, but it was well delevered by Barney Phillips.
The only real question I had is that if you
need the money and jewels for your time in Vegas
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and are going back and forth, why leave your valuables
at the resort. There would have been plenty of vaults
in Vegas because having them at the resort not only
meant the risk of it getting stolen there, but also
you know, when you're going back and forth along the highway,
you know significant amount of area to drive through. Well,
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listener comments and feedback now, and we start on Spotify
with some pointed remarks to our hero regarding the episode
The Eastern Western Matter, Michael Wrights saved insurance company money
and herd owner ruin wife. The purp caught Jarny and
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he said he's sorry for the owner. You should be
very sorry, you jerk walk away from it. Not that sorry, right, Johnny. Well,
I guess in regards to that, I will say that
it's not actually clear that he saved the insurance company
any money unless she was the co owner of the herd,
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which would be kind of unusual. I mean, not just
for nineteen fifty eight, but in general, it'd be somewhat
unusual for her name to be on the herd as
an owner. And legally, in terms of the insurance payout,
the rancher was not responsible for his wife's actions. Now,
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unless there's a clause in the policy that would not
be operative if it were done due to intentional mischief,
and there's no indication of that, then the rancher probably
got the money. What Johnny was sorry about is essentially, yeah,
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the guy probably had his insurance money, but he didn't
have the cattle, and if he wanted to start again,
that would be a whole process. And it also was
a really painful betrayal by his wife in a way,
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even though in that case it was dealing with the
father daughter betrayal, it was kind of like the Molly
Ky matter where Johnny felt sorry for the captain at
the end, even though the captain was fully remunerated. Insurance
tries to make you whole four win. Certain events happen,
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but once the insurance company has paid money, there're certain
things that they just can't fix. As to Johnny walking
away from the case, I would remind you that the
wife tried to poison him, and that's a lot to
ask someone to walk away from. And of course you
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know she'd be in trouble with the insurance company because
she committed attempted murder and insurance fraud, and they take
that whole insurance fraud thing rather seriously. So I am
on Johnny's side, as I usually am. And then I
have an email from Rich who writes, I've been a
listener for a short while now since a long time
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friend hit me off to the podcast. It's been a
blast catching up with the series I wasn't familiar with,
as well as we acquainting myself with ones I haven't
heard in a long while. I was listening to the
recent Yours tru Lead Johnny Dollar episode you posted the
Eastern Western Matter when something caught my ear The Code
of Honor PSAs during the first and third break were
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being narrated by someone whose voice sounded very familiar to me,
but for the life of me, I can't place it.
I have a vague memory that he also voiced some
cartoons from my youth late seventies early eighty ishies. Any
thoughts on who it might be? Thank you for your time, well,
thanks so much, Rich and welcome to listening to the podcast.
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In terms of that, I'd always thought, particularly in the
post World War Two era, that you were dealing with
more more generic announcers than somebody who was or had
been or would end up being a star, which often
happened during World War Two. But when I read your email,
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I initially thought him might be Frank Nelson and maybe
John Deaner. But listening to it, I can't really place
the voice. And it can be true, Ricky, because I
do think that certain actors tend to change the voice
in the way they read something if they're reading something serious,
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as opposed to doing a cartoon or a radio program.
But if anyone has any idea as to who that
voice on the PSAs might be, please I feel free
to send me an email and I will share it
and I will learn and so well, Rich, thanks so
much for the email. And then finally we have a
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comment from YouTube. This was on an older episode, but
it's actually an episode of Johnny Dowler that we posted
the first time through haven't posted yet, but there are
no spoilers in this comment. And he writes it takes
Quotsbud to put in your expense report that you're not
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patting it this time like you normally would. It was
another time. You know, I miss the good old where
you could just confess to filing false reports and not
be a problem. In all seriousness, it could be interpreted
as a bit of humor, which it would be hard
to hold against someone in court, although the servicing side
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of the insurance industry is generally not known for its humor.
But thanks so much. Appreciate that comment from Mechanic eight
six' eight. Two and again it's apropos to a lot
Of Johnny dollar episodes where he says things like. That all, Right,
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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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But now, from April twentieth, nineteen fifty eight, here is
the Wayward Trout matter.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
From Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It's time now for Johnny Dollar, Pat mccrack and Johnny
Universal Adjustment Bureau. Oh hi, Brad, Johnny, You've handled a
lot of difficult cases for the company as we represent.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
You done a magnificent job, save some of them a
lot of money, sometimes nip things in the buddy before
they've happened. There have been times when you've given up
personal plans to take them on at a moment's notice
and without question.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Listen that boys, you're beating around is getting pretty big?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
All right, did I'll get to the point, Johnny, why
don't you take yourself on holiday at company expense?
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Wh like Mohavey Resort, maybe where I understand you love
to fish at company expense. Huh okay, Prad, I'll grab
the first plane, good boy. But brother, just wait. Do
you see the expense account I pilot for you, Johnny?
Because if I ever smelled a believe me, it's now
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Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Packed Expense Account America's fabulous free lance insurance
investigator as true Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by a
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special investigator Johnny Dollar, the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office, Hertford, Connecticut,
following his an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the Wayward Trout matter expense account. I am one
one hundred and seventy four to fifty plain Fair Hertford
to Los Angeles and Los Angeles to Las Vegas, item
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two fifty bucks to posit On a car, I headed
south on Route ninety five of Mohave Desert, thousands of
square miles of sand, sun bleached gravel, and rock of cactus,
sage and jeshua trees, high flat maces, towering crags, countless
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trails leading off from the highway, long abandoned roads leading
up into the harsh bleak Mountains, with their promise of
infinite wealth to the prospectors who scratched away in the
hungry search for silver and gold. And who knows, perhaps
some of these were trails of the pioneers who beat
a tortuous path westward to the great Pacific, who with
their oxen and heavy wagons, were lucky if they made
six miles a day. Yet here I was cruising along
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on an easy sixty miles an hour, and above me
a jet plain lazily tearing off six hundred miles an hour. Yeah,
it made me think about the men who lived in
struggle here, the men who died of hunger and thirst,
following the same path I was taking, never knowing that
only a few miles away, beyond the mountains was the
might Colorado water, food and life for those lucky enough
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to find it. But let's to get the more practical
things like Davis Dam and huge Lake Mohabbi on the
east bank at the lower end Lake Mahabi Resort with
its clean modern cabins, boat house, doc and harbor everything
for a fisherman.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It was after nine pm when I pulled in. My
old friend Buster Favor was waiting for me. Bye, golly, Johnny, I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Glad this Yeah, same here, busy Hi, before you start
on why I am here? How's the fishing?
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Remember Ham Pratt general manager doo? How is he went
out three days in a row, got three limits five six.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Seven pounders and I have to come here on business.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, but as soon as you cleared up, you and
I are going to do some fishing.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Believe may be better. And now what's the problem.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh ahead, let me let me take your bags. You're
in number eight, okay, I'll put you right next to
mister Hatch Hatch, old time confidence man, Johnny and just
playing big time thief.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Oh, Gordon Hatch, that's the one you used to operate
up in San Francisco. Over in Reno. Dried Las veg
bugs too, but they ran him out. Sure, sure he
served things like that, but they can never nail him
for anything. Big. That's right, shut down, Yeah, what's he
doing here?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Ordinarily we'd give a man like that some excuse about
being full of something like that. I should think so,
but ha him and I decided if we let him
stay and with somebody like you here, well maybe we
could do a kind of public service.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Keep talking, Buster.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Well, Tuesday morning I got a call from some wealthy
folks from Los Angeles. They wanted the accommodations from themselves
and their wives beginning tonight. They're doing now. So Tuesday afternoon,
this Gordon Hatch came Barreling, and my wife Marilyn, not
knowing who he was, put him in number seven. What
are you getting at, Buster, Well, those folks from LA
have been here before. Johnny and the women always come
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with enough firs and jewelry fishing resort. Well, you see
every night they drive up to Vegas to gamble and
take in the fancy night spot.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Ah, what makes you think Hatch would come here just
because of them?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
One of them is a lawyer that got him sent
up for embezzlement once, and Hatch always swore that someday
he'd get even Oh well, now, I don't think he'd
try any rough stuff or anything like that. He is
the type. Well that's why I called Hartford.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Well, what's the insurance.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Hang on, there isn't any unless a lot of heavily
insured jewelry suddenly disappears from around here. And your man
in Hartford was willing to play along with that. Yeah,
I see, well so do I.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I see we have another guestbuster, How do you do?
My name is Gordon Hatch.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Mister Hatch, this is Johnny Dollar. He's come for a
few days fishing, the same as you.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Excellent, We must go out together, mister Dollar. I found
a couple of wonderful spots.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I understand you had pretty good luck.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Sir cod didn't hamp Pratt tell you about the big
one I got over in their sculpture rock nearly ten pounds.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
I'm keeping him in a.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Live box so I can take him back to Los
Angeles and have him stuffed.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Live box, Yes.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
A big sort of box made a heavy screen. Johnny.
You leave it in the water. It'll keep the fish
alive for a day.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why aren't you afraid somebody will walk off with them?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
All the nice people who come to this nice place,
of course not. And there's a fisherman. I'm sure you
know that even the worst crook in the world wouldn't
touch another man's catch.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Uh yeah, look, excuse me.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I hears some cars coming down the road. Must be
the folks I'm expect, of course, bus I'll see you later, Ryan.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Any plans for the evening, mister Dollar, Oh not particularly,
I'm a little tired. And then come along into my
cabin next door. I have some excellent scotch and plenty
of soda. Well, I've had a pretty long day.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
A book.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
We can relax and regale each other with tall tales
about the big fish we've caught here and there.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
After all, there isn't anything else to do out here
of an evening. I kind of thought i'd wander down
to the dock and see if ham Pratt is about.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
I'll save that for tomorrow. Now come along, mister Dollar.
I won't take no for an answer.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Actually, I was glad for the invitation. I wanted to
know more about this man. Sound him out if possible
reason for being here, because it turned always been a
very pleasant evening talking entirely about fishing. Only once, in
answer to a pretty direct question that he speak about
what I wanted him to.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
That is all water over the dam, mister dollon. If
it's possible to make amends for some of the shall
we say, questionable things I may have done in the past.
So I can only assure you that I'm sincerely trying
to make such amends.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Please, please don't embarrass me this way again.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Sorry. Now tomorrow we'll go fishing.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Well, I'll not only take you to one of the
hottest spots on the lake, but I'll show you the.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Beauties I have in the live box. You'll turn green
with n fish. I cap. Well, it's been a pretty
long day and I really should hit the sack, and
so should I.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
So here we go, bottoms up, and may tomorrow bring
us each a limit.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Then I will drink you.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
There we are, and I'll see you at the crack
of dawn.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Sleep well, right, right wrong.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
I'm sure I was tired. It had been a long day,
but not long enough to make me drop off to sleep.
Almost before I could get out of my clothes. That
nightcap had had a lot more than scotching it. Yeah,
I'd fallen for one of the oldest tricks in the world,
and until I woke up, anything could happen, act too,
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if yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
In the Democracy in which we live. The concept of
the medal of honor is something which goes beyond the
medal itself, something which goes beyond the deeds of valor.
The concept is not a material thing. It is an idea,
an ideal which springs from the deepest roots of all
that is best in humanity. It stands for the democratic
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tradition of freedom, of liberty, of the code of conduct
in which the citizens of the United States of America believed.
These ideals do not belong to any one race, creed,
or religion of Americans, but to all private first class. A.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Dao S.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Munamore of the one hundred Infantry Battalion of the United
States Army proved the validity of these ideals on April fifth,
nineteen forty five. Pinned down by enemy fire from artillery
and machine guns in the Hilly Cerreves, a section of
the Apennine Mountains, p F. C. Munamori found himself in
charge of his squad after the corporal had been killed
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during a lull in the shelling, the men advanced, but
were forced to take cover from machine gun fire.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Grabbing some hand grenades, p F C.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Munamori rushed forward and demolished the enemy machine gun nest. Again,
the men advanced, but another machine gun forced them to
take cover. Munamori continued his assault with grenades and destroyed
another machine gun. The enemy opened up with grenades. Munamori
crawl back from more ammunition to a shell crater that
shielded two of his men. As he reached the edge,
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an enemy grenade bounced off his helmet and into the crater.
He immediately drove into the crater and smothered the deadly
grenade blast. For saving two lives at the cost of
his own, Private First Class Saddal Munamori was awarded the
Medal of Honor devotion to his men and to his duty,
exemplified the highest ideals of the Code of Conduct and
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now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
Wayward Trout matter.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Ha, Oh, it's bluster.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
You're right in that, Johnny.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Ooh sure, sure, Samurai here? Holy what term is it anyway?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Almost nine o'clock? Oh look at those big red hats.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
You weren't kidding. I feel as though I where's Gordon.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Hatchout fishing at the crack? Had done? I said, you'd
promise to go with him, but he pounded on your
door and finally gave up. Johnny, you look like you wester.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The folks you were expecting in from Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, they came right after I left you and mister
Hatch last night, six of them. I figured you wanted
to be alone with Hats to sort of feel a.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
MoU Yeah I did. But is everything all right?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yes, so far as I know. The part is, did
you learn anything from mister Hatch last night?
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Only that he claims to have turned over a new leaf?
Is now the soul of integrity? Yeah? But I wonder
you say he's not fishing. That's right where he went.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Well, one of his favorite holes when I told him
about is in the big basin about ten miles up
the lake.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
What about the folks from LA They're still asleep.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
In their cabins. Look, Johnny, Like I told you, Hatch,
isn't the kind of trying to rough stuff even against
mister Fellows, a lawyer who sent him up one time,
and he's here with that party hen wanted organized it
made the Now Listen, Johnny, I may be all wrong
about fright of his threat to get even with Fellows.
I mean, maybe he's gone straight he well, he certainly
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acts like a nice enough guy.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
The only thing I could do was keep an eye
on him. If he makes a play, I'll nab him.
If he doesn't, well, my trip out here will have
been wasted.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Wasted. I thought you and I were going to do
some fishing.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Oh that's different. Oh, I better get some breakfast in me.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Sure, I'll tell Mary over at the cafe to have
it ready for you.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yeah, okay, Buster Sunny sided up with plenty of strong,
dark black coffee. My head felt like it might split
open any second, and I was more sure than ever
that Hatch had poured me a mickey last night, yet
he had expected me to go out on the lake
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with him this morning. It must have been nearly ten
am by the time I showered, shaved, dressed, and joined
Buster at the little cafe, already half a dozen early
wanting hangers to come back to boast about their catches
and the big ones I got away. Yeah, now do
to tell us old Buster or that big one Boster.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
He must have been.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Eight eight and a half pounds, Ye, shot was mister.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Well.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
The bridge I lost him was in the second coldest
side of the damn But the big Square Rock and
called this side of the damn. Did you say that's
right right next to the Big Square Ride, jem, I
know a great spot works ride after Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Oh, how do you tell us ho about that Spotbuster?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Mister good? Say Henry, Henry, I want to tell you
about a prince time.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Feeling any better? Johnny?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah much. Now listen, if Gordon Hatch is up here
after the money and jewelry of mister Fellows and his party,
or for any reason, it's all connected with that, I
think you and I had better hop into a boat.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Oh yes, miss Fellows, he good morning.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
He's come outside quickly on Johnny right.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Miss Fellows, this is Johnny Dollar, friend of mine, especially investigator.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Oh thank goodness you're here, mister boy buster.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
We've been robbed when missus Fellows sometime.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
During the night. All our jewelry, Missus Hockins, and missus
Peterson's mine. Why it must be hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth my diamond Bruchel Lowell. Yes, Ralph, Oh, this
is mister Dollar and he's some kind of an investigator.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Good have heard of you Dollar?
Speaker 5 (15:11):
I told him Ralph about the jewelry.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Well, whoever did it got our money too. Oh we
brought along the gamble in Vegas. Must be over twenty thousand.
Now he managed to sneak into our cabins.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
And without waking us too.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Of course we were pretty tired. Well, good boring, mister Pratt.
Oh what seems to be Jerremy glad to see you.
Oh you Ham, I got some bad news for you. Yeah, Ham,
it looks like he's done it. Oh, Gordon Hatch. Yeah,
I got to make a thorough search of his cabin.
Gordon Hatch. Oh no, I'm afraid so great, Scott so Ham.
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Look at his luggage, one of the mattresses, anywhere else
you can think of it?
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Right, mister Dollar, do you mean to say that Gordon
Hatch is here at this pub?
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Better? Look in his car too, Ham, under the car
and the upholstery. Look here now, mister Dollar. Sorry, mister Fellows,
I'll have to talk to you lady. Come on, Buster,
you and I are going for a boat ride, Act
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three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. In a moment, Our
flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star there
stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Pennsylvania's flag of dark blue carries a coat of arms
depicting their agricultural and maritime pursues. Her state motto is
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inscribed beneath it as the home of the Liberty Bell
and the Declaration of Independence. The motto is most befitting virtue,
Liberty and Independence. Pennsylvania state flag, the flag of the
second state to enter the Union, was adopted on June thirteenth,
nineteen oh.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Seven, No.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Act Three of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and the Wayward
Trout matter o Wlake Mohobby was calm as a mill
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pond must have made the spray wh as we had
it almost due north up toward the big basin, but
we didn't have to go that far. Musty, with the
sharpest eyes I have ever known, spot of the ripples
from the wake of a boat that had pulled into
a deep winding coal on the Arizona.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Side aon Johnny looks to me like hate boat went
in that goat.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
You mean to say, you can tell what boat made
that wake?
Speaker 2 (17:39):
Playing of the footprints in the sand. When the lake
is calm like this.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
The first thing I want to do is inspect that
boat of his.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Do you think he might have the jewelry and money
on board.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Ah, he's too smart to have left him around the
cabin or his car.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Look, that's his boat in there, all right, tied up,
that low rocky ledge that sticks out.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
What under the sun is he doing between his boat
and that ledge.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
It looks to me like you're trying to hide something
there in the water. We'll soon find out.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, it looks like you've caught me in the ax.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah. Yeah, it kind of looks that way, doesn't it. Hatch,
What were you so busy shoming down in the water
between your boat and that ledge when we pulled out?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well, I figured no one would find it here, mister Dollah. Yeah,
but I decided to move the live box into this
hidden cove when I first came out this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
The live box.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
After all, it.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Was you who warned me someone might try to steal
some of these beautiful fish I've caught, and I'm keeping
alive in it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But as long as you found me out from here.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
Take a look at his boot jam, Yeah, look at them.
Ever see such a nice mess of pass in your life?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah? They're beauties.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
And that croud on thee I got him way up
the lake yesterday morning.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Must be ten pounds at the one you plan to
have stuff, that's the one. Well you better have it
done pretty soon. He looks dead to me.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yes, it was this way when I came out this morning.
So when I'm through fishing today, I'll head back to
La with him to attack the dam.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Hatch. There's something I want to talk to you about.
Speaker 4 (19:18):
I know, Dollar, but it's your own faults. I pounded
on your door till I thought i'd wake the day.
Oh no, no, that isn't However, since you're here now, well.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Why not keep off fishing? Date now, mister Hatch? When
you gone it? Though, I don't have an extra rodden
my boat?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
Oh come on, Johnny, I'll give you one of my
boat rotten real.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Oh yeah, yeah, sure, okay, fall I'll take you to
fishing spots.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Even Butter doesn't know about it.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Not a sign of the jewels and stuff on his boat.
Johnny even went through his tackle box. Well maybe he's
hidden the stuff somewhere along the shore if he's the
one who took it.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
He looks and talks as a baby. So the only
thing I can do is keep an eye on him
and try to feel him out.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Oh boy, I'm a wasting here, Johnny. You try this
rod on precise.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, that looks good to me.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Here too long. A couple of these fast track mento hooks,
if anything, they'll get you big bass, they sure will, Yeah, or.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Maybe a trout like the one that mister.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
What's the matter, Jenny, Come, I must what what's the matter?
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, it's about time. What were you forgiving about over there?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Say hatch, I want another look in the live box
at that big trout.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I don't blame you a bit.
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Step into the boat now, raise the.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Top so you can really see it. No, I think
I'll pull a whole contraption up here on the ledge.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Better take the fish out of the water.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Why you said that trout was dead early this morning?
Then why is he on the bottom of this thing?
Why isn't he floating belly up here?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Now?
Speaker 3 (20:45):
I don't know, but I don't see what Wait, what
are you doing? All those beautiful fish in there die
like the trout. Oh, I just want a real close
look at that tround just a minute. These live ones
a hole still long.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Enough for me to fell out and put them back
in the water.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Here we are, oh ten pounds. Why this fish weighs
twenty pounds if he weighs an house, And no, wonder
the way you've got him stuff full him. How about
this a beautiful diamond brooch. I wonder you decided to
get back to LA and not to stuff this trout
(21:20):
but to unstuff him. And how about this bracelet? Emeralds,
aren't they? And look at these nice new one hundred
dollars bills A bit what perhaps you're holding more than
money and jewels in your hand. Dollar, I put that
thing away.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
I'm talking about your life, and I won't hesitate to
pull this trigger unless you trust.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
That money and those jewels into this boat.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
While I tossed this over acums hat put it on, Buster,
I'll shoot you too.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Tust me the jewels, Dollar, trust them, and.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
That's the the where you are.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
How about the whole trout, mister?
Speaker 2 (21:49):
All right?
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Drop rash boy Johnny Johnny you really clovered him.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Yeah, but oh Buster, if you hadn't thrown that or
and if you hadn't hit him in the face with
that wet fish, Johnny, you would have plugged it.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Yeah, Buster, I always did, like Tarty expens a count
total in putting boat and bait for five days of
really great fishing, cabin rental and meals, and tripped back
to Hydrid eight hundred and fifteen dollars even yours truly,
(22:31):
Johnny Dollar, Let's take.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
A moment to talk about something very vital to every
fighting man, to every man in the armed forces today.
That vital thing is a spread of core, or, as
we saved in English, team spirit. Between the few great
wars in which the United States has been involved, our
fighting men have had to settle small but deadly vicious
(23:06):
rebellions around the world to protect our citizens and other interests.
In those comparatively peaceful days. It took more than the
waving of the flag and the sound of martial music
to make boys grow into men in double quick time.
It took that spread de cor about which you've heard
so much. One instance when that team spirit came in
(23:27):
mighty handy in fashioning a code of conduct that helped
save men's lives took place on the morning of September
twenty fourth, nineteen eleven, in the Philippine Islands. A shore
party from the U s. S. Pampang was moving in
to capture the town of Mundang on the island of
Basilan during an uprising of native Morrows. Along the trail,
(23:48):
the small party came upon a group of native huts.
Hospital apprentice Fred McGuire was standing by in case he
was needed for treatment of wounds. Suddenly, the Morrow bandits
open fire from ambush in the huts and other concealed positions,
dropping the sailors like flies. McGuire, essentially a non combatant,
grabbed a rifle, charged the attackers, and after a furious fight,
(24:11):
routed the bandits. Although he was wounded in the bloody fight,
McGuire tirelessly tended to the wounds of the fallen sailors,
thereby saving their lives before he considered his own condition.
Fred McGuire's belief in Teen's spirit was exemplified by his
conduct and doing a job that had to be done,
(24:32):
a job which earned him the Medal of Honor.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood
and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
wrote Today's story. Heard in our cast were Eleanor Hadley,
Larry Dobkin, Barney Phillips, Edgar Barrier, Junius Matthews, Russell Thorson,
and Alan Reeve. These are join us next week, same
time and station for another exciting story of yours truly,
(25:05):
Johnny Dollars, This is Dan Cumberly speaking. This is the
(25:27):
United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
Welcome back. A good story with some fun moments. If
you hadn't hit him in the face with the fish
is one of those lines acting teachers don't really prepare
you for, but it was well delevered by Barney Phillips.
The only real question I had is that if you
need the money and jewels for your time in Vegas
(26:26):
and are going back and forth, why leave your valuables
at the resort. There would have been plenty of vaults
in Vegas because having them at the resort not only
meant the risk of it getting stolen there, but also
you know, when you're going back and forth along the highway,
you know significant amount of area to drive through. Well,
(26:49):
listener comments and feedback now, and we start on Spotify
with some pointed remarks to our hero regarding the episode
The Eastern Western Matter, Michael Wrights saved insurance company money
and herd owner ruin wife. The purp caught Jarny and
(27:11):
he said he's sorry for the owner. You should be
very sorry, you jerk walk away from it. Not that sorry, right, Johnny. Well,
I guess in regards to that, I will say that
it's not actually clear that he saved the insurance company
any money unless she was the co owner of the herd,
(27:35):
which would be kind of unusual. I mean, not just
for nineteen fifty eight, but in general, it'd be somewhat
unusual for her name to be on the herd as
an owner. And legally, in terms of the insurance payout,
the rancher was not responsible for his wife's actions. Now,
(27:58):
unless there's a clause in the policy that would not
be operative if it were done due to intentional mischief,
and there's no indication of that, then the rancher probably
got the money. What Johnny was sorry about is essentially, yeah,
(28:18):
the guy probably had his insurance money, but he didn't
have the cattle, and if he wanted to start again,
that would be a whole process. And it also was
a really painful betrayal by his wife in a way,
(28:39):
even though in that case it was dealing with the
father daughter betrayal, it was kind of like the Molly
Ky matter where Johnny felt sorry for the captain at
the end, even though the captain was fully remunerated. Insurance
tries to make you whole four win. Certain events happen,
(29:00):
but once the insurance company has paid money, there're certain
things that they just can't fix. As to Johnny walking
away from the case, I would remind you that the
wife tried to poison him, and that's a lot to
ask someone to walk away from. And of course you
(29:21):
know she'd be in trouble with the insurance company because
she committed attempted murder and insurance fraud, and they take
that whole insurance fraud thing rather seriously. So I am
on Johnny's side, as I usually am. And then I
have an email from Rich who writes, I've been a
listener for a short while now since a long time
(29:41):
friend hit me off to the podcast. It's been a
blast catching up with the series I wasn't familiar with,
as well as we acquainting myself with ones I haven't
heard in a long while. I was listening to the
recent Yours tru Lead Johnny Dollar episode you posted the
Eastern Western Matter when something caught my ear The Code
of Honor PSAs during the first and third break were
(30:04):
being narrated by someone whose voice sounded very familiar to me,
but for the life of me, I can't place it.
I have a vague memory that he also voiced some
cartoons from my youth late seventies early eighty ishies. Any
thoughts on who it might be? Thank you for your time, well,
thanks so much, Rich and welcome to listening to the podcast.
(30:27):
In terms of that, I'd always thought, particularly in the
post World War Two era, that you were dealing with
more more generic announcers than somebody who was or had
been or would end up being a star, which often
happened during World War Two. But when I read your email,
(30:48):
I initially thought him might be Frank Nelson and maybe
John Deaner. But listening to it, I can't really place
the voice. And it can be true, Ricky, because I
do think that certain actors tend to change the voice
in the way they read something if they're reading something serious,
(31:12):
as opposed to doing a cartoon or a radio program.
But if anyone has any idea as to who that
voice on the PSAs might be, please I feel free
to send me an email and I will share it
and I will learn and so well, Rich, thanks so
much for the email. And then finally we have a
(31:32):
comment from YouTube. This was on an older episode, but
it's actually an episode of Johnny Dowler that we posted
the first time through haven't posted yet, but there are
no spoilers in this comment. And he writes it takes
Quotsbud to put in your expense report that you're not
(31:53):
patting it this time like you normally would. It was
another time. You know, I miss the good old where
you could just confess to filing false reports and not
be a problem. In all seriousness, it could be interpreted
as a bit of humor, which it would be hard
to hold against someone in court, although the servicing side
(32:15):
of the insurance industry is generally not known for its humor.
But thanks so much. Appreciate that comment from Mechanic eight
six' eight. Two and again it's apropos to a lot
Of Johnny dollar episodes where he says things like. That all, Right,
well now it's time to thank our patreon supporter of.
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Yours Truly Johnny, dollar and join us back here On
monday for The adventures of The. Falcon but tomorrow we
will be bringing you the great adventurers of old time
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Ware this little dinner parties your Honor captain's. Content, HUH
i regret we have nothing better Than Wild rabbits.
Speaker 7 (33:23):
Store, well this is.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Swell quite a.
Speaker 7 (33:24):
Welcome headquarters didn't tell me to expect anything like. This
luset more wine for The captain. YEAR i will repay your.
Glass thank, you.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
And plus we say thank you this way.
Speaker 7 (33:41):
You man'm not kissing. You, no, no not at. ALL
i love Them elican.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Come help. ME i need you.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
Now she's a very great girl at lousette.
Speaker 6 (34:03):
And very, young, yeah only seventeen already she has seen
so much hiding like vision defiest sneaking back into The
German hill, village into the.
Speaker 7 (34:12):
Village we miss. Her many of our group work in
the village right into the noses of the. Enemy and
The germans do not know that they are members of THE.
McKee but they know you're.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Here, oh they, know they know that we're, here but
they do not there come near the, forest accepting big rating.
Fires they know very well that to one dead of,
ours there will be twelve dead of.
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