May 11, 2025 • 28 mins
Follows the investigations of an insurance detective whose cases often involve intrigue and deception, blending elements of mystery and drama.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
The Columbia Broadcasting system prevents yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The
next half hour has its baggage packed to take a
trip with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. That
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insurance investigation is just an expert at making out his
expense account.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
He is an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Dollar to home office, Oriental West.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Cargo Bonding Company, San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my
investigation of delayed cargo aboard the S S. Shanghai Wayfair
or in the case of the slow boat farmb China
spens account Item one one hundred and eighty one dollars
and fifty two cents plane.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Fair from Hartford, Hartford.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
To San Francisco, an answer to your urgent call. Expense
account Item two three dollars lunch on Fisherman's Wark an
answer to my stomach's urgent called item three a dollar
twenty camp fare to your office.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Dollar.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
My name is Fundy.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before. I
mean I say it's a pleasure meeting you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's a rough trip, light.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's over over.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I just begun. Yeah, Dollar, this is your plane ticket
to Singapore.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Singapore, you know, Fundy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I had a choice to come to San Francisco to
see you, or to take a case in Boston. A
nice old lady on Beacon Hill clubbed their husband with
an early American dead woman. But no, rather than New
England Broyer lobster, I'd rather have San Francisco crank crab
now all of a sudden Singapore, and.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I asked why, Yes, we've bonded against the delay A one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars cargo over aw ten with
the Shanghai Wayfarer. The ship was due to sail from
Singapore three weeks ago. Still out there, tied up in
the ten jong tiguard.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Dot delay Gilderness mechanical or just playing mysterious.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I'm afraid of the little beach. We flew an expraditor
out there ten days ago to see what he could do.
All the satisfaction we've had from this man Harrison is
a report that since his arrival, the Wayfarer's main chaft
has burned out, her fresh water pumps have fouled up,
and as steering machinery has gone on the fridge.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You don't need an insurance investigator, you need a good plumber.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Well, maybe you're right, But anyhow, you'll find Arman Harrison
William Harrison at the Crown Colony Hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He'll fill in the details. Dollar.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You have only a matter of hours after you hit
Singapore to get the Shanghai Wayfarer started on its way.
I must impress upon you the fact that any delay
after that will cost this company twenty five hundred dollars
a day.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, all I can promise is the old college try
imes like this.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I wish I'd gone to college.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, anyway, I'm in the right town to make my
last night the States.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
A good one. He drinks for the right gall top
of the mark. You rare stakes at Alperas, a few
dances to Freddie Martin's music at the Saint Francis, a
few moments alone.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Neon Dollar, Huh, that sounds mighty good. But your plane
leaves in two hours.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Two hours. I guess I'll have to do without the
drinks and dinner and the dancing.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Spends a count at in four one twenty dollars lost
in the course of teaching fellow.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Passenger how to play poker.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
My mother warned me not never to play cards with
strangers on trains and steamships. I wish you'd included airplanes.
You would, implied Bundy that the situation smelled well. You
should have caught a whip of the city, especially the
native sections through which I had to pass on my
way to the Crown Colony Hotel. I found it on
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Anson Road. I found myself a rope. I also found
William Harrison's.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Room Harrison a Harrison, but I didn't find Harrison.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
All I found was a calling card from my old
friend Trouble. Whatever Harrison was, he didn't want to be,
and he left the trail of broken furniture and blood
To prove it. I searched the dresser shirt size fourteen
socks nine that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Meant Harrison was a small man.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I went through the bathroom, shaving brush and toothbrush still wet,
indicating that he'd been there not too many hours before
I arrived.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Then I tried the wastebasket.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
In addition to one large glob of used chewing them,
an empty cigarette package, and some old cleenex, I found
a swizzle stick with an amoe.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The Knya Ki bar.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
All that meant was that Harrison had a head coat.
I'm trying to cure it with Singapore slings.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But at least I knew where he'd been drinking more.
The Kano key bar looked out on the harbor. It
was dark and up inside.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
To give a man a good excuse for drinking nightcaps
at noon? Your pleasure?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So how are you going to mix strengths?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Mix strength?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Governor?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
If I don't know how to make him, I look
him up in the book. If they ain't in the book,
I fake them.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now what with me?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Straight bourbon? Right? Got it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Hey, bartender, are you buying a chance of player with
an American named Harrison Editing? Yeah, you arrived in Singapore
about ten days ago, small man of the cole, And
he said.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh very soon? Sure on him? Right enough?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He's been coming in every night with a chief engineer
from one of the ships in port.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh yeah, what ship is that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They Shanghai Wayfair. I think Shanghai Wayfair. What's this engineer's name?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
He now?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Old?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Oh, I ain't getting him into any trouble, am I.
He's it nice chef. He is a handsome piper. That's handsome,
I governor twenty American dollars?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Why and panty?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Who mister Frank Moore's down like type tasty?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
When have that f I don't it?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I let mister Frank Moore's name slip right now. My
missus is right, but little man, I've got a raady
large mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Expense account item five rickshaw.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Affair to the Tanjong Pagar docs ten cents chips a
pony boy one dollar.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The ships moored four and a half of.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
The Shanghai Wayfarer were busy stuffing the pungent treasures of
the East into their deep steel pockets. The only sign
of life aboard the Shanghai Wayfarer was the right hand
of the burly Gangway Watch. It was holding a knife
with a six inch blade and slicing thin slippers off
a plug that looked more.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Like tar than tobacco.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
As a Gangway watch he might have been fine, but
as a reception committee he was now elsa maxwell.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That's fine enough, mate.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
There's nobody and there's nobody coming aboard. It's all right
with me. All I wants a little information.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Where can I find your chief engineer, Frank Moore?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You come to the wrong place by the ice boxed
over at the Singapore Police.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
They fished him out of the harbor this morning, staffed
at death. Oh any idea? Who did it all?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
In some dame he's been playing around with. No, I
don't know her name.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Have they got anything else? Listen, mate, my job is
to guard the shift, not answer question.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay, okay, have it your way, A watch out for pirates.
The British Chief Inspectors Singapore Police gave me everything except
an invitation to tea, but unfortunately he never even heard
of Harrison.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
He took me into the morgue and I look at.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Frank Moore's body, told me nothing I didn't already know.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He'd been stabbed all right, and whoever had killed.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Him, it's sunk him with a hole in one.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
As for his personal effects, his maritime union card confirmed
the fact that he was indeed the chief engineer of
the Shanghai Wayfairer. A stack of this American twenty dollar
bills in his wallet made me wonder whether he hadn't
been picking up a little extra pin money for delaying
the departure of his ship. And finally, a photograph that
made me admire the late mister Moore's taste in women.
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Whoever it was has said never the twain shall meet
should have met her. She was half chaste, an all woman.
Her picture was inscribed to Frank Moore, yours forever Shandra.
From the inspector, I learned two more things, one the fact.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That the police had already questioned and released.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Her, and two her business address a wardlow bar on
Melee streets.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Mister you and like a mid nicety young girl.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No, the only girl I want to hear sing songs
is Dinah show go on be it with him to
the women?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Yes you are?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Where's Shandra?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
She got cross to pinounce Tonight you buy any drink?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Mistio did write? I thought you wouldn't be standing out one.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Night in your home complete with stabs. Now doubts why
you say that? Why you asked?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm a stranger in town. I can't find a local
champter of the Lonely Hearts Club?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So shall we.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Find a quiet table? I don't know you, no, but
you knew Frank Moore. That gives us something in common.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Over there is one.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
This doesn't sound like a very quiet table to me.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
In Singapore, you will learn whispers stand out in the quiet,
they disappear in the noise.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'll bow to the wisdom of a native guide. But
who shaid I have any secrets.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
You'll talk about Frank Moore? So I know if you
do not have secrets to give, there must be secrets
you like to learn. But I tell the police everything
I know, which is nothing. No what disappointed in me?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No? No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You make good scenery, and I'll bet there's quite a
story that goes with you.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
You'll find me in today.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Why do you come to me? Well, there with two
places I could go for what I'm after, and you're
much prettier than the SS Shanghai wayfair. I'm looking for
a lead on a man named Harris. You're murdered friend
Frank Moore than him.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So because you know him.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
You are wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I do not know him.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I do not even know you.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh that's soon fixed. My name is Johnny Dollar. Your
name is nice, especially the solid part.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You're a very droll.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
But I see when you make this joke. There is
no smile on your face. You are worried about your friend.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Maybe what lonely tonight. Maybe he does not want you
to find him.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, you certainly make me feel much better. How about
a drink?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I never drink before midnight? All right, and I'll wait.
We'll have one then, all right, Johny.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But we don't have it here. We go to my house.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
There it is cool, Honda River, and there it is quiet,
so we do not have to lisp.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Midnight must have been invented for Singapore, and her house
must have been invented for midnight. Only one thing looked
at a place up on the wall was a souvenir
of Shandra's war efforts, a real American baseball bat, A
Louisville Slugger banana was written, Remember the lows marines. Everything
else in the place was soft, the lights, cushions.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Shandra, it is nicer to drink here. No, I say,
it's might intoxicating without a drink.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But I wish the boys back in my high school
senior class could see me now. In the graduation annual,
they predicted I'd be a bookkeeper.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Oh, I do not understand you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And neither did the boys in my senior class.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Johnny, please take things I can understand.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I want to know you better. Maybe if I stopped
talking all together, you'll get to know me better. So
I stopped talking, but I didn't stop thinking. When I
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mentioned Harrison the Chandra earlier, she said maybe he was
lonely tonight if she didn't know him or anything about him.
I wondered how she knew that he was missing tonight
and not for a couple of days or maybe even longer. Besides,
the boyfriends of women like her don't keep secrets. I
still assumed that if Frank Moore had known Harrison, Chandra
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had known Harrison, I also assumed.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And she spidered me into her part.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Of her purposes other than social and that notion was.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Seconded soon after I had it, when somebody kicked the
door open, you, Jenny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
The two boys in the door were not from Western Union,
and ugly as they were.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Chandra left my side to join.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Them, which made ME think that maybe my senior class
had been right.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Looking at that trio, six.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Eyes and two guns glaring at me, I wish I
was a bookkeeper. In just a moment, we'll return to
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the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But first here it is almost the end of February.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All over the country people are thinking about their new car,
all but one man, and he remains quite content with
his old automobile and wearing apparel an ancient Maxwell and
a well worn to pay. For these reasons and for
several others named Mary Dennis Don phil and Rochester, he
now has the number one comedy show in America. All
over the country people think about him too. Every Sunday night.
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Here the Jack Benny Show with Claude Rains is Jack's
special guest next Sunday on all these same CBS Network stations.
Now back to yours, truly, Johnny dollar O. The men
with the guns, described from left to right were a
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fat man with three chins and a bald dome, and
with him a punk with a sneer and arms that
were too long for the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
A gun muscled me into a chair and started making
any much sense. We had at last face.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
To face with the fastidious trader Johnny.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Doller a don't kill a suspense and tell me.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
He knows why he came to the one no by
He knew about Frank More and he was looking for
the other one hereson.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's why you.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
It would seem then that this unfortunate chain of events?
Is dating the final link?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, this guy uses his head better than Harrison did.
I'm using my head right now then, so doing you
may well prevent heads his death as well as your
Oh well that's better than nothing. But is that all
you can offer?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Skip the bargaining? Rust Line takes too much time?
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Why corgy? The times when money is cheaper than the
results of your kind of plain violence, you do have
a price.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Take a tip from my last name. Start bidding. I
tell you you're not trust line.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You aren't sure he knows where it is?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
He must know he was looking for Henson.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
They both know.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Hundred pounds English dollar?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
At times like this, I keep my mouth shut and
my gears open. Seven hundred and fifty surely dollars?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
Since you vented the situation and it's such a late date,
that is property enough.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh, I'm a man of expensive taste.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I've always aspired.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
To such things as two hundred dollars a red lighters.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Go ahead, keep spitting out that wise talk, and you'll
be spitting our teeth.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
How would you like to go swimming with your hands
and feed time? I could bite my top.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yeah, keet cagging, my boy, this man is worth us.
Did perhaps, Dallie, we can induce you to talk in
much the same way as we could prepare a pet
it by.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Slitting the tongue and our rosalind your mother must have
been scared by Sidney Greenstreek.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Either.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
This guy is nuts, so he doesn't know anything. What
I know would fill a police blotter. Oh you know
nothing of psychology, my boy.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
But this man is attempting to pass off as a
show of bravery is based purely on the knowledge that
he is momentarily at least have some considerable value to us.
To lay no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
To be careful, or you'll make your.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Final decision bad.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
In mind, you've hurt our final offer?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That was what should it be? Oh the squirrel? The
spirrel said to the little.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Girl when she asked him, what do you wanted for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Nuts?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Did?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
He will never cooky? Thanks.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I finally came to in the dog trussed up like
a turkey, and the lay.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
There trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Obviously, the two rude dudes thought I knew something I
didn't know. But what I did know was but finding
Harrison and Zenda to a big fat headache, also that
I had accomplished exactly nothing towards.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Beating the SS Shanghai.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Weight there over the bounding made while I was companying
myself by repeating over and over that old insurance company
soother never say die, I discovered I wasn't alone.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Hello, huh, who are you?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You were here?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
First?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You tell me, well, my name is Harrison, Harrison.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, who are you?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm Johnny Dollar. I was sent out here by the
Oriental West Cargo Bonding.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Company Oriental West.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes, I was supposed to do with You couldn't get done.
And look at me now, gonna hit over the head
and duncan here.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Must be par for the course. How long you been here?
And why I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure
that out. Well, this little guest house, whatever we are,
I must only have one set of proprietors. I can
tell you who they are.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
These one of the names are using Tonight, Roslin and Corgy.
They offered me seven hundred and fifty English pounds to
tell them where something called the kit was.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What's the package? What's in it? I don't know. It
belonged to the chief engineer of the Shanghai Wayfair. Frank Moore.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
He was helping me try to get the ship on
its way, and I owed him a favor if he
asked me to.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Drop this package at a bar the war law by yeah, go, yeah,
that's right. I was supposed to give it to a
girl named Chandra. She wasn't there, so I got her
addressed and went out to work place.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You mean that package is at Shandra's house.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
When I got out there, the Chinese made let me in.
I waited as long as I could, and then, rather
than leave what might be a valuable package just lying
around loose, I I put it into the bottom drawer
of a dresser and left.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
All great for such things, I go around laying down
my life.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
It's obvious that these men will stop at nothing to
get their hands on that package.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And when they asked you, word was, why do you
tell them that neither one of us would be here?
That's more, I'm beginning to think the Sooners they get
the package as soon as our ship sails.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Frank Moore had been a good friend to me. If
you wanted Chander to have it, and I couldn't just
turn it over to.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Those two, I've got some news for you, and this
should make you really unhappy.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Those two happen to be in business with Syondra. We're
on the same team.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
She's one of them.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What an idiot I've been. Uh here we are all.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Roped up, you know, for a pair of guys who
came out here to speed a shipload of raw.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Tin on this way.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
We're doing just dandy. We're lucky forget this thing alive.
Off hand, I see our host probably murdered Frank Moore
trying to get that package. Maybe we're next, Oh maybe
right now, A being.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
From a powerful flashlight establishing the eyes.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
The sudden change from.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Too much dark to too much light.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Kept us blinded.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Well, look, Hoosy.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
At least the voy.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Behind the glare wasn't Roslin's, and I wasn't Corky's, but
I wasn't familiar voice one I'd heard and heard lately.
He walked in on us, the flash in one hand,
and then the other a knife.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
With a six inch blade.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
At first I wanted whether it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Was the one that had been buried in Frank Moore's bank,
and then I remembered when I'd seen it before. The
man bending over us was the burly gangway watch from
a Shanghai wayfairer.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And you told me to watch out for pirate.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
This situation is getting a little over trility. I didn't
think there was room for anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
You know what I want?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Dollar?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
The same thing.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Roslin and Korgiy are ripping your hotel room apart, poor
right now.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Now, don't tell me you're looking for it too. Two
things I know about that package, mister. The name is
rourk Okay Rock. One thing I know is that it's
dangerous company. The other is I want no part of it.
The only thing I'm interested in is getting a Shanghai
wayfarer out of port.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It won't be hard once I get that package. Where's it?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Dollar? Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'll traid the answer to that question for a little freedom.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay? Oh still nice? Harrison's next? I want him with us?
And Shakey's lying all right? Okay, Harrison, roll over.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
When Roth went over, Harrison I dropped, kicked the flashlight
out of his hand, ran across the darkened room through
the open door, and kept on running.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Sometimes the long.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Way around is the shortest way home.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So I headed for Shandra's house. I not only had some.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Getting even to do, but I had some curiosity to satisfy.
Somehow the Shanghai waiter has failure to sail on schedule
was tied up with a mysterious package. But how why
I decided I'd earned the right to see what was
in that package.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I didn't want you to be lonely. I heard your
playmates are.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Over making themselves at home in my room, so I
thought you and I could have a little chat. Maybe
I've got a surprise for good Johnny. I think I
know where that package is.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Joy you get that package. We both don't worry for
the rest of our life. But we must tell you
before Usland and Cookie come back.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We go. Now, okay, where's your bedroom, Jouney, what do
you need?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Come?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I show you.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, it didn't be all the time.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And now while I open this thing, you can go
and have yourself a nervous breakdown. Say this is more
fun than I'm wrapping Christmas pressures. And now let's take
off the cover. Wow, No, I know how the.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Winner feels on hit the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
The package was paper all the way through.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Brown wrapping on the outside and green spending on the inside.
Big bundles of fresh clean American twenties. Thousands of the
same kind of bills of the Singapore police had found
in the late Frank Moore's wallet. I would have taken
half of IY to count it, and I've wasted too
much time already.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
There's been no good to you without me.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Johnny.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
You have to know how to get rid of them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yes, they are made in China. Thank more from saying
I to Roslin to take to the Estates. But Roslin
was not here in Singapore. He was late, so Frank
had to make some accidents happened to.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
His ship to keep it from sailing.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But then he changed his mind.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
He decided he would give them money himself.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But Ugln caught up with him. I see he was
setting into you by way of Harrison, just before he
was knighted by Rosin.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Huh. Both chalked him into that. You buy any chance.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I could be very rich.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Johnny, you never give up to you. It's five hundred
thousand dollars there, mm.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hmm, yeah, I should buy about fifty years in jail.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I'm taking this down the customs, and you were with us.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
No, I do not think you do.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Uh huh. I'm a plan on the visiting team.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Come on, be Able, I know you went away. I
grabbed her, lashed her wrist with a court and the package,
and Fishy liked money so much.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I stucked him out with a fist.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Full of those tubbles and sway all bills. I locked
her and the rest of the loot into a closet
and dashed into the other room looking for a weapon.
And then I remember that Louisville slugger from the US Marines.
I was to land they to land it. I grabbed
it off the wall.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Got a toe hold in the carpet on the left side.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Of the door, wrapped my fingers around the bat, swung
on the back of my shoulder, and waited, und we
just can't help.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Two outs and one to god.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Who stop?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Three outs? And the side has retired. What a ball game?
First I take their guns, and now he's sit and
wait for you to wake up. I'll take over from
here on in dollar huh oh, I don't know about that, Rourke.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I happen to be the guy who has the gun.
Oh well, here take a look at this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Wants some your wallet and I want to look at
more hot twenties. I'm not taking my eyes off you rock. Okay,
I'll turn around with my hands up and then you
can look at it. Okay, fair enough, But have you
so much as move, I'll start shooting.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's the deal.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's a fine time to learn that he satisfied. John
Joseph Rourke, US Treasury Department.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Come on in.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I'm sorry I couldn't come out into the open before dollar,
but I was too close to the payoff of this
case to take any chances.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You know, I'm beginning to think that just being in
this town is taking chances that count.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
If it's been funneling through this port on its way
from China for month. We had more sticked out for
a long time, but this is the first shot we
had at the top.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's him lying there on the floor. Rod. Now I've
got him.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh you're bel Harrison told me where I can find
the only other thing I need That package of hot
money in the dress of drawer or it's now moved
into the bedroom closet along with a package of hot woman.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Well, then, dollars, it looks like my job out here's
just about done. Yeah, I guess so. Hey, wait a minute,
you're from a Treasury department.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yes, well, then if you get all these versions of
their cages, how about helping me make out my income tax.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Expends account out.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Of six hotel bill one night with Singapore five dollars,
Item seven one new outfit replacing mine which was ruined
in course of taking midnight dip in Singapore River.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Item eight twenty dollars bar checks for cheering up one
William Harrisson, your expediter whose innocence had him running errands
for the man who was holding.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Up a departure of your ship.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Item nine, three hundred and seventy five dollars spent while
killing time until a departure of my plane back to
the state after the Shanghai Wayfarer finally sailed. You see,
this time I had four hours on my hands instead
of the two you allowed me in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Expense account total fourteen and seven.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Dollars signed, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment,
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we'll tell you about next week Johnny Dollar Adventure. But
first tomorrow exciting drama in the mystery and adventure line.
Remember CBS two thrill Tach Saturday night shows The Adventures
of Philip Marlow and Gangbusters. Be sure to hear Philip
Marlow and Gangbusters tomorrow night on most of these same
CBS network stations. Next week, CBS will take you adventuring
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with Johnny Dollar, hitting the hot spots in Palm Beach
and the Orleans with a star of Hadies Diamonds on
a trip all Points South.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Charles Russell plays the role of Johnny. Our music is
composed
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And conducted by Mark warnow Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is
written by Paul Dudley and Gil DAWs and is produced
and directed by Richard Sandville for CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
System
The Columbia Broadcasting system prevents yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The
next half hour has its baggage packed to take a
trip with America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. That
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insurance investigation is just an expert at making out his
expense account.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
He is an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Expense accounts submitted by special Investigator Johnny.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Dollar to home office, Oriental West.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Cargo Bonding Company, San Francisco.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my
investigation of delayed cargo aboard the S S. Shanghai Wayfair
or in the case of the slow boat farmb China
spens account Item one one hundred and eighty one dollars
and fifty two cents plane.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Fair from Hartford, Hartford.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
To San Francisco, an answer to your urgent call. Expense
account Item two three dollars lunch on Fisherman's Wark an
answer to my stomach's urgent called item three a dollar
twenty camp fare to your office.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Dollar.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
My name is Fundy.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before. I
mean I say it's a pleasure meeting you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
It's a rough trip, light.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's over over.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
I just begun. Yeah, Dollar, this is your plane ticket
to Singapore.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Singapore, you know, Fundy.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I had a choice to come to San Francisco to
see you, or to take a case in Boston. A
nice old lady on Beacon Hill clubbed their husband with
an early American dead woman. But no, rather than New
England Broyer lobster, I'd rather have San Francisco crank crab
now all of a sudden Singapore, and.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
I asked why, Yes, we've bonded against the delay A one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars cargo over aw ten with
the Shanghai Wayfarer. The ship was due to sail from
Singapore three weeks ago. Still out there, tied up in
the ten jong tiguard.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Dot delay Gilderness mechanical or just playing mysterious.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
I'm afraid of the little beach. We flew an expraditor
out there ten days ago to see what he could do.
All the satisfaction we've had from this man Harrison is
a report that since his arrival, the Wayfarer's main chaft
has burned out, her fresh water pumps have fouled up,
and as steering machinery has gone on the fridge.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You don't need an insurance investigator, you need a good plumber.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Well, maybe you're right, But anyhow, you'll find Arman Harrison
William Harrison at the Crown Colony Hotel.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
He'll fill in the details. Dollar.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
You have only a matter of hours after you hit
Singapore to get the Shanghai Wayfarer started on its way.
I must impress upon you the fact that any delay
after that will cost this company twenty five hundred dollars
a day.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, all I can promise is the old college try
imes like this.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
I wish I'd gone to college.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, anyway, I'm in the right town to make my
last night the States.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
A good one. He drinks for the right gall top
of the mark. You rare stakes at Alperas, a few
dances to Freddie Martin's music at the Saint Francis, a
few moments alone.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Neon Dollar, Huh, that sounds mighty good. But your plane
leaves in two hours.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Two hours. I guess I'll have to do without the
drinks and dinner and the dancing.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Spends a count at in four one twenty dollars lost
in the course of teaching fellow.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
Passenger how to play poker.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
My mother warned me not never to play cards with
strangers on trains and steamships. I wish you'd included airplanes.
You would, implied Bundy that the situation smelled well. You
should have caught a whip of the city, especially the
native sections through which I had to pass on my
way to the Crown Colony Hotel. I found it on
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Anson Road. I found myself a rope. I also found
William Harrison's.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Room Harrison a Harrison, but I didn't find Harrison.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
All I found was a calling card from my old
friend Trouble. Whatever Harrison was, he didn't want to be,
and he left the trail of broken furniture and blood
To prove it. I searched the dresser shirt size fourteen
socks nine that.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Meant Harrison was a small man.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
I went through the bathroom, shaving brush and toothbrush still wet,
indicating that he'd been there not too many hours before
I arrived.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Then I tried the wastebasket.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
In addition to one large glob of used chewing them,
an empty cigarette package, and some old cleenex, I found
a swizzle stick with an amoe.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
The Knya Ki bar.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
All that meant was that Harrison had a head coat.
I'm trying to cure it with Singapore slings.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
But at least I knew where he'd been drinking more.
The Kano key bar looked out on the harbor. It
was dark and up inside.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
To give a man a good excuse for drinking nightcaps
at noon? Your pleasure?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
So how are you going to mix strengths?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Mix strength?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Governor?
Speaker 5 (05:12):
If I don't know how to make him, I look
him up in the book. If they ain't in the book,
I fake them.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Now what with me?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Straight bourbon? Right? Got it? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Hey, bartender, are you buying a chance of player with
an American named Harrison Editing? Yeah, you arrived in Singapore
about ten days ago, small man of the cole, And
he said.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh very soon? Sure on him? Right enough?
Speaker 5 (05:34):
He's been coming in every night with a chief engineer
from one of the ships in port.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Oh yeah, what ship is that? Oh?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They Shanghai Wayfair. I think Shanghai Wayfair. What's this engineer's name?
Speaker 6 (05:45):
He now?
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Old?
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Oh, I ain't getting him into any trouble, am I.
He's it nice chef. He is a handsome piper. That's handsome,
I governor twenty American dollars?
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Why and panty?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Who mister Frank Moore's down like type tasty?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
When have that f I don't it?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I let mister Frank Moore's name slip right now. My
missus is right, but little man, I've got a raady
large mouth.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Expense account item five rickshaw.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Affair to the Tanjong Pagar docs ten cents chips a
pony boy one dollar.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
The ships moored four and a half of.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
The Shanghai Wayfarer were busy stuffing the pungent treasures of
the East into their deep steel pockets. The only sign
of life aboard the Shanghai Wayfarer was the right hand
of the burly Gangway Watch. It was holding a knife
with a six inch blade and slicing thin slippers off
a plug that looked more.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Like tar than tobacco.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
As a Gangway watch he might have been fine, but
as a reception committee he was now elsa maxwell.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
That's fine enough, mate.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
There's nobody and there's nobody coming aboard. It's all right
with me. All I wants a little information.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Where can I find your chief engineer, Frank Moore?
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You come to the wrong place by the ice boxed
over at the Singapore Police.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
They fished him out of the harbor this morning, staffed
at death. Oh any idea? Who did it all?
Speaker 6 (07:17):
In some dame he's been playing around with. No, I
don't know her name.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Have they got anything else? Listen, mate, my job is
to guard the shift, not answer question.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Okay, okay, have it your way, A watch out for pirates.
The British Chief Inspectors Singapore Police gave me everything except
an invitation to tea, but unfortunately he never even heard
of Harrison.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
He took me into the morgue and I look at.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Frank Moore's body, told me nothing I didn't already know.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
He'd been stabbed all right, and whoever had killed.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Him, it's sunk him with a hole in one.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
As for his personal effects, his maritime union card confirmed
the fact that he was indeed the chief engineer of
the Shanghai Wayfairer. A stack of this American twenty dollar
bills in his wallet made me wonder whether he hadn't
been picking up a little extra pin money for delaying
the departure of his ship. And finally, a photograph that
made me admire the late mister Moore's taste in women.
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Whoever it was has said never the twain shall meet
should have met her. She was half chaste, an all woman.
Her picture was inscribed to Frank Moore, yours forever Shandra.
From the inspector, I learned two more things, one the fact.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
That the police had already questioned and released.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Her, and two her business address a wardlow bar on
Melee streets.
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Mister you and like a mid nicety young girl.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
No, the only girl I want to hear sing songs
is Dinah show go on be it with him to
the women?
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Yes you are?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Where's Shandra?
Speaker 8 (08:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:54):
She got cross to pinounce Tonight you buy any drink?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
Mistio did write? I thought you wouldn't be standing out one.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Night in your home complete with stabs. Now doubts why
you say that? Why you asked?
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I'm a stranger in town. I can't find a local
champter of the Lonely Hearts Club?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
So shall we.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Find a quiet table? I don't know you, no, but
you knew Frank Moore. That gives us something in common.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Over there is one.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
This doesn't sound like a very quiet table to me.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
In Singapore, you will learn whispers stand out in the quiet,
they disappear in the noise.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
I'll bow to the wisdom of a native guide. But
who shaid I have any secrets.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
You'll talk about Frank Moore? So I know if you
do not have secrets to give, there must be secrets
you like to learn. But I tell the police everything
I know, which is nothing. No what disappointed in me?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
No? No, not at all.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You make good scenery, and I'll bet there's quite a
story that goes with you.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
You'll find me in today.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm a man.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Why do you come to me? Well, there with two
places I could go for what I'm after, and you're
much prettier than the SS Shanghai wayfair. I'm looking for
a lead on a man named Harris. You're murdered friend
Frank Moore than him.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
So because you know him.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
You are wrong.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
I do not know him.
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I do not even know you.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Oh that's soon fixed. My name is Johnny Dollar. Your
name is nice, especially the solid part.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You're a very droll.
Speaker 7 (10:40):
But I see when you make this joke. There is
no smile on your face. You are worried about your friend.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (10:49):
Maybe what lonely tonight. Maybe he does not want you
to find him.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Yeah, you certainly make me feel much better. How about
a drink?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
I never drink before midnight? All right, and I'll wait.
We'll have one then, all right, Johny.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
But we don't have it here. We go to my house.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
There it is cool, Honda River, and there it is quiet,
so we do not have to lisp.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Midnight must have been invented for Singapore, and her house
must have been invented for midnight. Only one thing looked
at a place up on the wall was a souvenir
of Shandra's war efforts, a real American baseball bat, A
Louisville Slugger banana was written, Remember the lows marines. Everything
else in the place was soft, the lights, cushions.
Speaker 2 (11:48):
Shandra, it is nicer to drink here. No, I say,
it's might intoxicating without a drink.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
But I wish the boys back in my high school
senior class could see me now. In the graduation annual,
they predicted I'd be a bookkeeper.
Speaker 7 (12:03):
Oh, I do not understand you.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
And neither did the boys in my senior class.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Johnny, please take things I can understand.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I want to know you better. Maybe if I stopped
talking all together, you'll get to know me better. So
I stopped talking, but I didn't stop thinking. When I
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mentioned Harrison the Chandra earlier, she said maybe he was
lonely tonight if she didn't know him or anything about him.
I wondered how she knew that he was missing tonight
and not for a couple of days or maybe even longer. Besides,
the boyfriends of women like her don't keep secrets. I
still assumed that if Frank Moore had known Harrison, Chandra
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had known Harrison, I also assumed.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
And she spidered me into her part.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Of her purposes other than social and that notion was.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Seconded soon after I had it, when somebody kicked the
door open, you, Jenny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
The two boys in the door were not from Western Union,
and ugly as they were.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Chandra left my side to join.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Them, which made ME think that maybe my senior class
had been right.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Looking at that trio, six.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Eyes and two guns glaring at me, I wish I
was a bookkeeper. In just a moment, we'll return to
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the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
But first here it is almost the end of February.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
All over the country people are thinking about their new car,
all but one man, and he remains quite content with
his old automobile and wearing apparel an ancient Maxwell and
a well worn to pay. For these reasons and for
several others named Mary Dennis Don phil and Rochester, he
now has the number one comedy show in America. All
over the country people think about him too. Every Sunday night.
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Here the Jack Benny Show with Claude Rains is Jack's
special guest next Sunday on all these same CBS Network stations.
Now back to yours, truly, Johnny dollar O. The men
with the guns, described from left to right were a
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fat man with three chins and a bald dome, and
with him a punk with a sneer and arms that
were too long for the rest of them.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
A gun muscled me into a chair and started making
any much sense. We had at last face.
Speaker 8 (14:55):
To face with the fastidious trader Johnny.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Doller a don't kill a suspense and tell me.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
He knows why he came to the one no by
He knew about Frank More and he was looking for
the other one hereson.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
That's why you.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
It would seem then that this unfortunate chain of events?
Is dating the final link?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Yeah, this guy uses his head better than Harrison did.
I'm using my head right now then, so doing you
may well prevent heads his death as well as your
Oh well that's better than nothing. But is that all
you can offer?
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Skip the bargaining? Rust Line takes too much time?
Speaker 8 (15:30):
Why corgy? The times when money is cheaper than the
results of your kind of plain violence, you do have
a price.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Take a tip from my last name. Start bidding. I
tell you you're not trust line.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
You aren't sure he knows where it is?
Speaker 7 (15:46):
He must know he was looking for Henson.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
They both know.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Hundred pounds English dollar?
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Is it?
Speaker 2 (15:53):
At times like this, I keep my mouth shut and
my gears open. Seven hundred and fifty surely dollars?
Speaker 8 (15:58):
Since you vented the situation and it's such a late date,
that is property enough.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh, I'm a man of expensive taste.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
I've always aspired.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
To such things as two hundred dollars a red lighters.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Go ahead, keep spitting out that wise talk, and you'll
be spitting our teeth.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
How would you like to go swimming with your hands
and feed time? I could bite my top.
Speaker 8 (16:17):
Yeah, keet cagging, my boy, this man is worth us.
Did perhaps, Dallie, we can induce you to talk in
much the same way as we could prepare a pet
it by.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Slitting the tongue and our rosalind your mother must have
been scared by Sidney Greenstreek.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Either.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
This guy is nuts, so he doesn't know anything. What
I know would fill a police blotter. Oh you know
nothing of psychology, my boy.
Speaker 8 (16:42):
But this man is attempting to pass off as a
show of bravery is based purely on the knowledge that
he is momentarily at least have some considerable value to us.
To lay no doubt.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
To be careful, or you'll make your.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Final decision bad.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
In mind, you've hurt our final offer?
Speaker 2 (16:59):
That was what should it be? Oh the squirrel? The
spirrel said to the little.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Girl when she asked him, what do you wanted for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (17:05):
Nuts?
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Did?
Speaker 2 (17:07):
He will never cooky? Thanks.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
I finally came to in the dog trussed up like
a turkey, and the lay.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
There trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Obviously, the two rude dudes thought I knew something I
didn't know. But what I did know was but finding
Harrison and Zenda to a big fat headache, also that
I had accomplished exactly nothing towards.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Beating the SS Shanghai.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
Weight there over the bounding made while I was companying
myself by repeating over and over that old insurance company
soother never say die, I discovered I wasn't alone.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Hello, huh, who are you?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
You were here?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
First?
Speaker 1 (17:49):
You tell me, well, my name is Harrison, Harrison.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Yes, who are you?
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm Johnny Dollar. I was sent out here by the
Oriental West Cargo Bonding.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Company Oriental West.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Yes, I was supposed to do with You couldn't get done.
And look at me now, gonna hit over the head
and duncan here.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Must be par for the course. How long you been here?
And why I've been driving myself crazy trying to figure
that out. Well, this little guest house, whatever we are,
I must only have one set of proprietors. I can
tell you who they are.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
These one of the names are using Tonight, Roslin and Corgy.
They offered me seven hundred and fifty English pounds to
tell them where something called the kit was.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (18:25):
What's the package? What's in it? I don't know. It
belonged to the chief engineer of the Shanghai Wayfair. Frank Moore.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
He was helping me try to get the ship on
its way, and I owed him a favor if he
asked me to.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Drop this package at a bar the war law by yeah, go, yeah,
that's right. I was supposed to give it to a
girl named Chandra. She wasn't there, so I got her
addressed and went out to work place.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
You mean that package is at Shandra's house.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
When I got out there, the Chinese made let me in.
I waited as long as I could, and then, rather
than leave what might be a valuable package just lying
around loose, I I put it into the bottom drawer
of a dresser and left.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
All great for such things, I go around laying down
my life.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
It's obvious that these men will stop at nothing to
get their hands on that package.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
And when they asked you, word was, why do you
tell them that neither one of us would be here?
That's more, I'm beginning to think the Sooners they get
the package as soon as our ship sails.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Frank Moore had been a good friend to me. If
you wanted Chander to have it, and I couldn't just
turn it over to.
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Those two, I've got some news for you, and this
should make you really unhappy.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Those two happen to be in business with Syondra. We're
on the same team.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
She's one of them.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
What an idiot I've been. Uh here we are all.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
Roped up, you know, for a pair of guys who
came out here to speed a shipload of raw.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Tin on this way.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
We're doing just dandy. We're lucky forget this thing alive.
Off hand, I see our host probably murdered Frank Moore
trying to get that package. Maybe we're next, Oh maybe
right now, A being.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
From a powerful flashlight establishing the eyes.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
The sudden change from.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Too much dark to too much light.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Kept us blinded.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Well, look, Hoosy.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
At least the voy.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Behind the glare wasn't Roslin's, and I wasn't Corky's, but
I wasn't familiar voice one I'd heard and heard lately.
He walked in on us, the flash in one hand,
and then the other a knife.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
With a six inch blade.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
At first I wanted whether it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Was the one that had been buried in Frank Moore's bank,
and then I remembered when I'd seen it before. The
man bending over us was the burly gangway watch from
a Shanghai wayfairer.
Speaker 6 (20:25):
And you told me to watch out for pirate.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
This situation is getting a little over trility. I didn't
think there was room for anymore.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
What do you want?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
You know what I want?
Speaker 8 (20:34):
Dollar?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
The same thing.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
Roslin and Korgiy are ripping your hotel room apart, poor
right now.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Now, don't tell me you're looking for it too. Two
things I know about that package, mister. The name is
rourk Okay Rock. One thing I know is that it's
dangerous company. The other is I want no part of it.
The only thing I'm interested in is getting a Shanghai
wayfarer out of port.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
It won't be hard once I get that package. Where's it?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Dollar? Uh?
Speaker 1 (20:57):
I'll traid the answer to that question for a little freedom.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay? Oh still nice? Harrison's next? I want him with us?
And Shakey's lying all right? Okay, Harrison, roll over.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
When Roth went over, Harrison I dropped, kicked the flashlight
out of his hand, ran across the darkened room through
the open door, and kept on running.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Sometimes the long.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
Way around is the shortest way home.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
So I headed for Shandra's house. I not only had some.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Getting even to do, but I had some curiosity to satisfy.
Somehow the Shanghai waiter has failure to sail on schedule
was tied up with a mysterious package. But how why
I decided I'd earned the right to see what was
in that package.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I didn't want you to be lonely. I heard your
playmates are.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Over making themselves at home in my room, so I
thought you and I could have a little chat. Maybe
I've got a surprise for good Johnny. I think I
know where that package is.
Speaker 7 (22:03):
Joy you get that package. We both don't worry for
the rest of our life. But we must tell you
before Usland and Cookie come back.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
We go. Now, okay, where's your bedroom, Jouney, what do
you need?
Speaker 4 (22:19):
Come?
Speaker 7 (22:19):
I show you.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, it didn't be all the time.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
And now while I open this thing, you can go
and have yourself a nervous breakdown. Say this is more
fun than I'm wrapping Christmas pressures. And now let's take
off the cover. Wow, No, I know how the.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Winner feels on hit the jackpot.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
The package was paper all the way through.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Brown wrapping on the outside and green spending on the inside.
Big bundles of fresh clean American twenties. Thousands of the
same kind of bills of the Singapore police had found
in the late Frank Moore's wallet. I would have taken
half of IY to count it, and I've wasted too
much time already.
Speaker 7 (23:08):
There's been no good to you without me.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
Johnny.
Speaker 7 (23:10):
You have to know how to get rid of them.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Yes, they are made in China. Thank more from saying
I to Roslin to take to the Estates. But Roslin
was not here in Singapore. He was late, so Frank
had to make some accidents happened to.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
His ship to keep it from sailing.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
But then he changed his mind.
Speaker 7 (23:27):
He decided he would give them money himself.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
But Ugln caught up with him. I see he was
setting into you by way of Harrison, just before he
was knighted by Rosin.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
Huh. Both chalked him into that. You buy any chance.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I could be very rich.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Johnny, you never give up to you. It's five hundred
thousand dollars there, mm.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Hmm, yeah, I should buy about fifty years in jail.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
I'm taking this down the customs, and you were with us.
Speaker 7 (23:52):
No, I do not think you do.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Uh huh. I'm a plan on the visiting team.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Come on, be Able, I know you went away. I
grabbed her, lashed her wrist with a court and the package,
and Fishy liked money so much.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
I stucked him out with a fist.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Full of those tubbles and sway all bills. I locked
her and the rest of the loot into a closet
and dashed into the other room looking for a weapon.
And then I remember that Louisville slugger from the US Marines.
I was to land they to land it. I grabbed
it off the wall.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
Got a toe hold in the carpet on the left side.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Of the door, wrapped my fingers around the bat, swung
on the back of my shoulder, and waited, und we
just can't help.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Two outs and one to god.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Who stop?
Speaker 1 (24:41):
Three outs? And the side has retired. What a ball game?
First I take their guns, and now he's sit and
wait for you to wake up. I'll take over from
here on in dollar huh oh, I don't know about that, Rourke.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
I happen to be the guy who has the gun.
Oh well, here take a look at this.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Wants some your wallet and I want to look at
more hot twenties. I'm not taking my eyes off you rock. Okay,
I'll turn around with my hands up and then you
can look at it. Okay, fair enough, But have you
so much as move, I'll start shooting.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
That's the deal.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
It's a fine time to learn that he satisfied. John
Joseph Rourke, US Treasury Department.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Come on in.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
I'm sorry I couldn't come out into the open before dollar,
but I was too close to the payoff of this
case to take any chances.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
You know, I'm beginning to think that just being in
this town is taking chances that count.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
If it's been funneling through this port on its way
from China for month. We had more sticked out for
a long time, but this is the first shot we
had at the top.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
That's him lying there on the floor. Rod. Now I've
got him.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
Oh you're bel Harrison told me where I can find
the only other thing I need That package of hot
money in the dress of drawer or it's now moved
into the bedroom closet along with a package of hot woman.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Well, then, dollars, it looks like my job out here's
just about done. Yeah, I guess so. Hey, wait a minute,
you're from a Treasury department.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Yes, well, then if you get all these versions of
their cages, how about helping me make out my income tax.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Expends account out.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Of six hotel bill one night with Singapore five dollars,
Item seven one new outfit replacing mine which was ruined
in course of taking midnight dip in Singapore River.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Two hundred dollars.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Item eight twenty dollars bar checks for cheering up one
William Harrisson, your expediter whose innocence had him running errands
for the man who was holding.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Up a departure of your ship.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
Item nine, three hundred and seventy five dollars spent while
killing time until a departure of my plane back to
the state after the Shanghai Wayfarer finally sailed. You see,
this time I had four hours on my hands instead
of the two you allowed me in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Expense account total fourteen and seven.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Dollars signed, yours truly, Johnny Dollar. In just a moment,
(27:31):
we'll tell you about next week Johnny Dollar Adventure. But
first tomorrow exciting drama in the mystery and adventure line.
Remember CBS two thrill Tach Saturday night shows The Adventures
of Philip Marlow and Gangbusters. Be sure to hear Philip
Marlow and Gangbusters tomorrow night on most of these same
CBS network stations. Next week, CBS will take you adventuring
(27:54):
with Johnny Dollar, hitting the hot spots in Palm Beach
and the Orleans with a star of Hadies Diamonds on
a trip all Points South.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Charles Russell plays the role of Johnny. Our music is
composed
Speaker 1 (28:05):
And conducted by Mark warnow Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is
written by Paul Dudley and Gil DAWs and is produced
and directed by Richard Sandville for CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting
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