October 15, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This you can really call a fish story, and I
was a live base.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar. At Insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar is
only an expert at making out his expense account. He's
an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Expense account. Submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar two Intercontinental
Marine Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting
of my expenditures during assignment in San Pedro, California, investigating
a loss of two pieces of property insured by you.
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Or the tuna were running and so was everybody else,
or I caught a fishing boat, but you should have
seen the one that got away. Spends A count at
him one one hundred and seventy six dollars and eighty
seven cents airfare from home base in hardbrid to off
base in California. Spencer count at him two ten dollars
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Camp Fair, Los Angeles Municipal Airport or the waterfront office
to the Pacific Deep Sea Canning Company in San Diego.
There was perfume in the air channel number five inside.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
The name on the door said Walton.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's who I wanted to see, so I walked in.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well who are you?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm here to follow up the claim you made to
win the Continental Marine Insurance Company. My name is Johnny Dollar.
Oh how did you bring the money? And I need boats?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Tuna runner?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Oh, mister Walton, I didn't bring any money. All I
brought is a suspicious nature and an inquisitive mind. The
devil you mean by that crack? I don't get your
fish in. As to mister Walton, this is standard procedure.
No insurance company is going to sholl out four hundred
thousand dollars without first making a long lingering. Look, well,
there's not much to look at. Yeah, so I understand.
According to your claim, two of your boats, the uh
(02:08):
oh here, the Frank Walton and the Nancy Walton left
port Monday afternoon and headed out in a southerly course.
When you tried to establish radio contact Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Morning, you couldn't raise them.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Piece of wreckage, and the bodies of two men were
found Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Into getting that both boats were lost.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's the story. What made you so sure that both
boats went down?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Because of those two men whose bodies were found one
hill in the Nancy Walton, the other sailed in the
Frank Walton.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
What more do you people want?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Just enough time to check everything thoroughly. You know this
wouldn't be the first time a shipwreck has been faked
to collect insurance's see what you mean?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I guess the faster, I guess you satisfied.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The faster, I'll sellect my money. Sorry, I lost my temper.
I'll do everything I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Send Captain Carpo in.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Copples my fleet, Captain Dollard, he can give you all
the details, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Telling you they aren't anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, one thing for sure, mister Walton, we can't blame
on the Pacific Ocean. Calling to my report, those boats
sailed in fine weather. That's right, call me boss. Yes, George,
this is mister Dollar from the insurance company. He's here
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to investigate the sinking. So I'm happy to meet you too.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Captain, what do you walk first?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I want you serious to what could have happened?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't know. I wasn't there may be they run.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Into each other.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
As fleet captain, he will hire the hands for the boats,
don't you That's right? Are you the kind of man
who would hire the kind of skippers who run into
each other in clear weather.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
They were good skippers.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now you listen to me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I've been captain of this fleet for five years. First
time we ever lose a part, to lose a mant.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You think we like this idea? No, I don't, Captain Coppo.
I don't think you'll like it any better. The insurance
company likes the idea of losing four hundred thousand dollars. Well,
at least if I find I was sunk in boats,
that'll be salvage. No, mister Dola, that'll be miracle. The
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meeting busted up without me getting busted up, which was
unusual in itself, and I hitched myself a ride out
to an outfit who knows more about salt water than
a Coney Island tappe maker the US Coast Guard and
closed find the statement or the commander of the station,
Lieutenant Senior grade Miles p Endicott, Junior.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We made through patrols using both air and surface ups.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The bodies of the men recovered show signs the leaders
to believe that they were blown clear of the lost
ships by violent explosions.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All the lieutenant needed to say to make my life
his light up with that one word explosion, because in
a marine insurance investigator's book, the word explosion sets off
another word scuttling, a widely used, wet variety of fraud,
in other words, blowing up your own ship to collect
the insurance.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
And continuing this.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Chain reaction, I follow the best available lead, the man
in charge of the vessels involved, Captain George Carpo.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I found him at.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Eleven that night, at a Commish restaurant bar named after
the oriental fishing bird, the carmarant. As I looked in
through the greasy window, an interesting site greeted me. Captain
Carpo slipping into a booth already occupied by an olive
skin brunette who was good enough looking but obviously less
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than a queen. Carpo stuck his vase in hers, said
a few words at her that I couldn't hear, shook
his sledgehammer, fisted her, and stopped out through her back door.
I gave the front do us some business, and, trying
to look like I belonged to the place, stroll to
the bar, bought myself a blast and walked it over
to the ladies.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Boots Well, who sent for you?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
See your mine?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I haven't got anything to lose a few haven't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
If those are your own teeth, maybe you don't want
to lose them.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh, Carpo's is a jealous time.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Huh, you don't believe in Sharon?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
No, wilt are you? Carpo's girl?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Got time? Who are you?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well? Captain Carpo comes back? He'll tell you anyway. Tell.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The name is Dollar, Johnny Dollar. I'm an insurance.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Investigator investigating what marine life?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Huh, marine death.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
There's two sinkings in the Walden Fleets company that sent
me here insure the boats.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Sounds to me like you got yourself a tough job.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
We're even ask questions. They've been reported over all hands blush.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Who knows? Maybe I'll bump into a tucker seagull. Maybe
if I'm lucky.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You're talking to girl?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
What have you got to make a girl talk atius?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Mister well discounting my natural beauty and charm. I have money,
not too much money, but money keep coming.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I know enough not to talk before I'd give what
I want.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, it makes it the Mexican stand off. I know
enough not to play for something I haven't heard yet,
let's start out with an inexpensive question like what's your name?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You can have that for free, Anita Vargas.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
How long you're on, Carpo?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
If you're putting the expression on and off for the
last six.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Months, how's even money? Is he turned into a big
spender recently?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Instead of two drinks tonight is now buying before? Carpo
will never be a big spender.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Where's he living?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Fourteen twenty three Provid Streets?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
How far is that from here? It's here he lives upstairs.
That called for a change of scene.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I didn't know whether any of our gays really had
any to sell or not, but I didn't want what
was left of our set to be interrupted by a
violent rearrival of the mighty Captain Carpo. So expenser god
him three four dollars picking up a tax It had
them four six bits picking up a taxi, which dropped
this at another bar, slightly less oriental, but definitely more obnoxious.
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They grabbed ourselves at table with a view a view
of the sawdust on the floor, and waited for a waiter.
He didn't come, but somebody else did. The owner of
the lost fishing boats mister Roscoe.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Walton, you're doing with this character?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I met him in college lost, so now beat it?
Since one have you been getting drunk?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Don't tell me he's your boyfriend too?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Uh huh part time.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Maybe i'd better get lost. I'll call you later. Yeah,
maybe you better get lost. Stay that way, told me
you better go well? Uh happy hangover, mister Walton look
like no college for to me. I was no professor
of mathematics either, but I could add this much up.
(09:05):
If those tuna clippers had gone down by explosion, somebody
had to buy some explosives, maybe locally. That problem I
took to the local police, who went to work looking.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Up names in the dynamite register.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And since those explosives would have been planted while the
boat's run the care and supervision of Captain Carpo, that
problem I decided to take to him. It was one
thirty in the morning when I got back to the
front of the Cormoran Restaurant and Bar. The grease joint
was dark, but a light was burning on a second
and top floor. I got halfway up the front stairs
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to ask my leading suspect a few questions about explosions
when I heard something. Carpo was still moving when I
got up there, but not for long. The back door
was as open as a captain's life was closed. I
looked on the back flight of stairs. It was either
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too dark, well, there wasn't anybody there, and I wasn't
going down to look.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That's been over the body, just to make sure. Oh,
first they beat him half to death.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I wonder wanted him finish him that way?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Where sir?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Perhaps it would be best if you were to remain
where you are, at least my pistol seems to recommend it. Well, well,
you seem to have done inestimable damage to my good friend,
Captain Copple.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The poor fellow seems to be definitely dead.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Johnny Dollar. But first, you might be interested
to know that CBS has acquired a couple of blocks
of wood. You're not interested, Well, would you be interested
if you knew that those blocks of wood had been
carved into certain figures?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, then let's try this.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Would you be interested if you knew that those carved
blocks of wood could talk? Now you're beginning to sit
up and take notice. Well, we might as well come
out and tell you that these talking blocks of wood
are named Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snurd, That then a
lively fellow named Edgar Bergan will be making their first
appearance over most of these same CBS stations this Sunday evening,
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that you'll be able to hear them every Sunday thereafter.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Now, with our star Charles Russell.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We returned to the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
There I was again, always the suspect, but never the tribe,
with a dead body at my feet and a pistol
at my head.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
A man holding it.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Was neither small nor large Thomas Mitchell type.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
His frame was fighting as.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Scenes of a sloppy tweed suit, and his couchy face
was fighting the alcoholic content of his blood.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Well, what you have to say, sir, Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Don't be ridiculous. I came to talk to this man.
Killing him would hardly be the way to kick off
a conversation.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
How about you?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What are you doing here at one thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
In the morning?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Most amusing, most two cute men, each of them judging
the other. Haha, who is a dead man for a jurist?
All right it, that's for my tiss for it. My
name is Cricket.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I was on my way to discuss with the good
Captain copper matter possible neutral profits. Naturally, when I heard
the shots from the street, I hastened to his assistance.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I want to ask you how you knew Carpo was
getting shot instead of doing the shooting.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
My name is Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm an insurance investigator from Hertford, Connecticut. I was sent
out here to look into two sinkings in the captain's fleet.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh, then you and I share common interest. My business
is ships out.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
It's obvious that I should put up this pistol and
replace it with a shake of a hand.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Ha, how do you do, sir?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
In my business you'll never know? How do you do?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
This is indeed the most portunate meeting.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
A pity that this should take place upon the very
threshold of trade.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Poor poor couple.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
His face seems to have enjoyed the worst of an
encounter with a monkey's fist.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
However, a monkey's fist, I mean, what's that way?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
A monkey's fist, sir, is a highly complicated knot oven
about a slug of lead to thend weight ordinary ladies
intended for use at the end of a heaving line. However,
it is sometimes used by seamen and the forecastle in
the administering of tortures speakings.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What humans of that, well, we can take the order
of the centuries for it. Torture suggests the violence seeking
of information that.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Would indeed seemed to be the cache.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
From the looks of this room, a monkey's fist or
any other kind of knot wooden behind to lay your
hands on. What's that one on the wall there?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, that is a miniature, but not a ship's fender.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
S fenders.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
There's a device for cushioning the shop between a ship
and the wharf the vessel. In modern ceiling this type
has largely been replaced by the commercial cork variety. Oh,
somebody evidently heard the shots and notify the police.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Cet, I feel like shocking, but not to the police.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Yes, credit happ Think you would be kind enough to
join me in a nightcap at my porter.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'll lead me throw it. Mister Cricket's porter turned out
to be afloat and more to a dock. It was
a pet boat ex Navy.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It feels uncomfortable that nightcap yo voter and a bottle
of bro ah.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And now if you do the honors, I will invite
the London Symphony to play behind our jass Tzikowski the
pathetic who are to live?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Beautiful?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Wow, sweet phonograph records, soft lights and high liquers. This
is the kind of stuff I enjoy my time off
which this doesn't happen to be.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Hey there we are now now to business, mister Dada.
I assume that the insurance company that.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Sent you out here is not as satisfied with the
story of the thinking.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Of the two vessels, Frank and Nancy Walters.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I assume whether if you have been authorized to spend
any necessary money is to not only view the evidence firsthand,
but also is that evidence proves a criminal intent to
be able to retrieve it from the ocean.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Floor for use in costs? Are my assumptions correct?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
They are?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But it can't be as simple as you make it sound.
The first job seems to be the toughest. Finding a
spot where those clippers went down.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Ahh. I would venture to.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Say that with my special equipment I could detect the
presence of the fillings in Davy Jones teeth.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Ah It is.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Fantastic, And about your price, is that fantastic too?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
My proposition is it a flat price.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Of five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
And in the event that criminal intent has proved the
possession of the recovered hulks.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I assume this five thousand is only playable if you
succeed in locating the boats.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Let us substitute the term returnable for the word payable.
I will need five thousand dollars in events, and our
contract shall state that in the unlikely event of failure,
you shall get your money back less my necessary expenses.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Agreed, Agreed, I'll have your money for you in the morning.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I trust I shall have your vote for you in
the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I couldn't yet about his fantastic sonic sounding device, but
otherwise mister Cricket was well equipped. If I shipped to
show a telephone, he ordered me a taxi, which I
ordered to a corner near Roscoe Walton's specific deep sea
Canning company. Carpo's death made me want to get a
good look at Carpo's office. Something about the way he
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died kept baiting up the thought that there was something
fishier about this case than just plain old fashioned insurance brought.
The only thing that without a place in the place
was under a rug under Carpo's desk, a wall stape
sunk in the floor that proved easy to open a
poker hand with free aces.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I lifted the heavy steel door.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The first thing I saw was an oblong package brown paper.
Stuck one hand in to lift it out, and I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I used two on my back, as heavy as lead.
But when I tore off the wrapping, I saw that
it was as valuable as gold, because that's what it was,
a gold ingot. I didn't need have time to wonder
because the subject suddenly changed from lead, the gold, the
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cold steel.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And his voice and in his hands, hold it's there.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's a little late to be canning fish, isn't it, Walton?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It seems to be just right for breaking and entering.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
What are you doing here entering the last phase of
this investigation, Walton? And breaking the back of your little racket?
Or I should say, big, what do you mean? Tell me?
It looks like your boats have been bringing in more
than fish from the Mexican coast. This heavy, little handful
makes it look like they've been hauling in Mexican gold.
Know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I'm not gonna stand here and be a cue.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's all right, You're not gonna stand there, not unloas
you mean. Are you take this shower? Are you kidding?
You'll let me like a living being a fight referee.
I am what is commonly known as the wanna Johnny.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Do you really believe what you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Said is true? Well about smuggling in Mexican gold, Listen
to when you find a private citizen with a goldeningits,
he is not using it for a watch fob. The
only thing I learned after that was that two hours
in the sack does not constitute a good night's sleep.
By ten in the morning, one phone call east and
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one telegram west delivered five thousand dollars into my hands
from a local bank, and I, after a quick call
of the coast Guard to cover a few final details,
placed myself into the hands of mister Cricket each sea
guide extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Joelting.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Hours later, a bucking bronco with a briny head a
crash into the swell somewhere off the island of sand
for Many, which is somewhere some sixty miles off the
coast of southern California.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Wherea my boy enjoying the vide.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, I'm kna easy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You want to say that.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Would call roughly? You want to get it?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I only hope my breakfast does.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Oh he's nothing. Why I recall one time off the
Spanish pooler. Yes, a man on my wading out there,
Lord God, reduce sore off here now now dot now
prepare to be.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
A mean.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Mister Cricket had good reason, but chirp up at one thing.
He's sure know his business.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
An hour later, the hoax had been located.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We were riding on a mushroom ancher.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
A diver ha been put over the side, but fuck
award top side by a table on a wind Ah, No, okay,
where jees he does it?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
He's a quickly quickly Now get you tumb it off?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Now, got us with your with you.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
For five thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm gonna have to see where.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Right he knock?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
We hit it right on the nose. They're both down there.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Through the yard park.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Where are you satisfied?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Just about ninety percent, miss Cricket.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Oh and ten percent.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh look it's this way, mister Cricket. If this case
gets any place, I'll probably have to testify in court.
So far everything I've got his second hand that isn't
worth much in court.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I've got to see those boats.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
What what good hips man? You You mean you want
to go over the side.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't particularly want to, but it seems to be
part of this job. Many times before in my career
I thought I had a heavy weight on my shoulders.
But that divers hell must set the new record, and
those lead shoes and that rubber eyed canvas suit didn't
feel exactly zoos. The temperature of the water outside felt
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much cooler than that swarming on my brows.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
This was a steam bath beer tight.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Eight days later, in my mind, at least my lead
widgies grop to a foothold on a slimy bot and
I had arrived ship side. Because I had no immediate
way of determining the sex of a sunken ship, I
couldn't tell it from a bath of beam whether I
was looking at the frank or the Nancy Walton. About
then a passing current grabbed me and invited me out
to dance along the ocean floor.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I grabbed out brinding for support.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It turned out to be a rope hanging from the
clippers gut hole from a drip passed on at all
I had a chance to take a closer look at
what I was hanging on to.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
The line was secured from a woven.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Or ship's fender, which mister Cricket had not so long
before told me was fashioned about a brilliant core of cork.
But this one felt heavy enough to be loaded with
count Clark. And as for buoyancy, this is about as
brilliant as a lead balloon.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was resting on the bottom and heavy to lift.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The next cracket swept over me was mentally I called
the shark knights out of the diving two felt start
hacking at the woven rope, then threw a thin layer
of canvas. And that's as far as I gotta.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Is this poon system operating here? Are you there? This
ain't the tree?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Little fishies? Yeah they're here all right?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Are you satisfied that they exposure?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
They blasted in all directions?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
And I have earned my five thousand dollars, and I
must fit you farewell.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
What what are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
All but lost in a diving accident?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh ho yourself?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
What luck?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Get your indisposing of you?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Sir, I am confident that as well as pocketing your
five thousand dollars, I will also go away with the
middling of.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The your charge company.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You see, when my divers out to recover your unfortunate body,
you will continue our search for the goal.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh well, I've got news for you, pal. You evidently
didn't knock the hiding place had a carpod before you
kill them. But I was lucky.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Not only have I already found that goal.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I have sasted no dollar. You're bluffing if you think so.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Turn off my air.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
So you do know about it, Dalla, tell me honestly,
are you open to terms?
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Well, uh, I'll think about it all away.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The trip up would flowing and the trip down, which
was luck for me.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
The first thing I heard when I broke to the
surface was muffled by the helmet, but unmistakably gunfire. The
Morgans had the Lenner, but by George the Coastguards tayful
I had, and I had a grandstand seat for the
whole affair.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
My wishman was busy lucking bullock, and the wench just
didn't decide to stop on its own hook. So I
went riding skywood until I was stopped by the tip
of the boom.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There I was hanging on his own hook.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
He spent it over the deck, looking through my helmet
glass at the racing battle below. Cricket directly below me
was pumping a high power in Rock's right and between shots,
shouting Kerson and whoever had opened fire on the US government.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
When I'd seen a grave miles.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
To the ending contors and fill a ruder against the
sky on the flying.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Ridge of the coast shot cutter, I looked down twenty
feet between my tangling left, pointed the piece of stuck
quick and taking care of the lame on his ration.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
But once again I grabbed my race the wrecked shark knife,
stuck it under the copper rim of my breastplates, and
ripped with the canvas and founds away my weight to.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
The rest Spencer count Item five cab fair to the
San Pedro Police headquarters, where I made my state and
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heard mister Crickets badly damaged mister Crickets.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
During a short.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Stay in Cleveland, it was brought to my attention in
every city in the country was suffering an epidemic of
small time gold robberies. Dentist offices, punch hops and so forth.
Stand you shouldn't keep my curiosity.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yes, well, there's my love for money. And I studied
the situation more closely to my imagement. I learned the
gold was being melted down facing and dants sent off
somewhere to the orients. We're using the gold and done
smuggling traffic.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
You courage me if I could intercept the gold immediate
day after it's dispatched and the guidance of Captain Copple
to a largership he made achieved by his tune of clippers,
and I could realize for myself tidy prophet.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Expense accounts Item six seven and fifty cents five pound
box of chocolate from US anid of our Gaye address,
San Pedro Municipal Jail. It seems that the police sometimes
classify a part time girlfriend as an all time accomplice.
Expense account Item seven airfare Los Angeles the Heart for
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one hundred and seventy six dollars and eighty seven cents
and being Friday, what do you think they stirred for
dinner on the plane? What else? Tunafish salad expense account
total twelve and sixty four dollars and twenty eight cents
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Gordon C.
Hughes and stars Charles Russell, stripped by Paul Dudley and
Gil Dows. Featured the cast were Willard Waterman, Junius Matthews,
Edmund McDonald, Georgia Ellis, Larry Dobkin, and Paul Dubars. The
special music is written and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Be sure and be with us at.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
The same time next week when another unusual expense account
is handed.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
In by Yours Truly Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Every fall, the ladies like.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
To go out and get some new fall clothes.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, CBS has gone out and gotten some new fall shows.
One of the gayest of these new programs is the
Red Skeleton Show, which makes it bow over most of
these same CBS stations this Sunday Night. There's no one
quite like Red Skeleton, as you will find out when
you tune in tomorrow. The Red Skeleton Show is a
part of the CBS Great Sunday.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Night Last Lineup.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Don't miss it now, stay tuned for Von Monroe, who
follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations, Wall
Masterson speaking, This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System,
This you can really call a fish story, and I
was a live base.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is another in the adventures of America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar. At Insurance Investigation, Johnny Dollar is
only an expert at making out his expense account. He's
an absolute genius.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Expense account. Submitted by special Investigator Johnny Dollar two Intercontinental
Marine Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut. The following is an accounting
of my expenditures during assignment in San Pedro, California, investigating
a loss of two pieces of property insured by you.
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Or the tuna were running and so was everybody else,
or I caught a fishing boat, but you should have
seen the one that got away. Spends A count at
him one one hundred and seventy six dollars and eighty
seven cents airfare from home base in hardbrid to off
base in California. Spencer count at him two ten dollars
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Camp Fair, Los Angeles Municipal Airport or the waterfront office
to the Pacific Deep Sea Canning Company in San Diego.
There was perfume in the air channel number five inside.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
The name on the door said Walton.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
That's who I wanted to see, so I walked in.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well who are you?
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I'm here to follow up the claim you made to
win the Continental Marine Insurance Company. My name is Johnny Dollar.
Oh how did you bring the money? And I need boats?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Tuna runner?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Oh, mister Walton, I didn't bring any money. All I
brought is a suspicious nature and an inquisitive mind. The
devil you mean by that crack? I don't get your
fish in. As to mister Walton, this is standard procedure.
No insurance company is going to sholl out four hundred
thousand dollars without first making a long lingering. Look, well,
there's not much to look at. Yeah, so I understand.
According to your claim, two of your boats, the uh
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oh here, the Frank Walton and the Nancy Walton left
port Monday afternoon and headed out in a southerly course.
When you tried to establish radio contact Tuesday.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Morning, you couldn't raise them.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Piece of wreckage, and the bodies of two men were
found Tuesday night.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Into getting that both boats were lost.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
That's the story. What made you so sure that both
boats went down?
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Because of those two men whose bodies were found one
hill in the Nancy Walton, the other sailed in the
Frank Walton.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
What more do you people want?
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Just enough time to check everything thoroughly. You know this
wouldn't be the first time a shipwreck has been faked
to collect insurance's see what you mean?
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I guess the faster, I guess you satisfied.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
The faster, I'll sellect my money. Sorry, I lost my temper.
I'll do everything I can't.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Send Captain Carpo in.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Copples my fleet, Captain Dollard, he can give you all
the details, but I'm.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Telling you they aren't anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
Well, one thing for sure, mister Walton, we can't blame
on the Pacific Ocean. Calling to my report, those boats
sailed in fine weather. That's right, call me boss. Yes, George,
this is mister Dollar from the insurance company. He's here
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to investigate the sinking. So I'm happy to meet you too.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Captain, what do you walk first?
Speaker 1 (03:35):
I want you serious to what could have happened?
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't know. I wasn't there may be they run.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Into each other.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
As fleet captain, he will hire the hands for the boats,
don't you That's right? Are you the kind of man
who would hire the kind of skippers who run into
each other in clear weather.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
They were good skippers.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Now you listen to me.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
I've been captain of this fleet for five years. First
time we ever lose a part, to lose a mant.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
You think we like this idea? No, I don't, Captain Coppo.
I don't think you'll like it any better. The insurance
company likes the idea of losing four hundred thousand dollars. Well,
at least if I find I was sunk in boats,
that'll be salvage. No, mister Dola, that'll be miracle. The
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meeting busted up without me getting busted up, which was
unusual in itself, and I hitched myself a ride out
to an outfit who knows more about salt water than
a Coney Island tappe maker the US Coast Guard and
closed find the statement or the commander of the station,
Lieutenant Senior grade Miles p Endicott, Junior.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
We made through patrols using both air and surface ups.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
The bodies of the men recovered show signs the leaders
to believe that they were blown clear of the lost
ships by violent explosions.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
All the lieutenant needed to say to make my life
his light up with that one word explosion, because in
a marine insurance investigator's book, the word explosion sets off
another word scuttling, a widely used, wet variety of fraud,
in other words, blowing up your own ship to collect
the insurance.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
And continuing this.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Chain reaction, I follow the best available lead, the man
in charge of the vessels involved, Captain George Carpo.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I found him at.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Eleven that night, at a Commish restaurant bar named after
the oriental fishing bird, the carmarant. As I looked in
through the greasy window, an interesting site greeted me. Captain
Carpo slipping into a booth already occupied by an olive
skin brunette who was good enough looking but obviously less
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than a queen. Carpo stuck his vase in hers, said
a few words at her that I couldn't hear, shook
his sledgehammer, fisted her, and stopped out through her back door.
I gave the front do us some business, and, trying
to look like I belonged to the place, stroll to
the bar, bought myself a blast and walked it over
to the ladies.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Boots Well, who sent for you?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
See your mine?
Speaker 5 (06:15):
I haven't got anything to lose a few haven't.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
If those are your own teeth, maybe you don't want
to lose them.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Oh, Carpo's is a jealous time.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Huh, you don't believe in Sharon?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
No, wilt are you? Carpo's girl?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Got time? Who are you?
Speaker 1 (06:31):
Well? Captain Carpo comes back? He'll tell you anyway. Tell.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The name is Dollar, Johnny Dollar. I'm an insurance.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
Investigator investigating what marine life?
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Huh, marine death.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
There's two sinkings in the Walden Fleets company that sent
me here insure the boats.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Sounds to me like you got yourself a tough job.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Why, Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
We're even ask questions. They've been reported over all hands blush.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Who knows? Maybe I'll bump into a tucker seagull. Maybe
if I'm lucky.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You're talking to girl?
Speaker 5 (07:04):
What have you got to make a girl talk atius?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Mister well discounting my natural beauty and charm. I have money,
not too much money, but money keep coming.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
I know enough not to talk before I'd give what
I want.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Well, it makes it the Mexican stand off. I know
enough not to play for something I haven't heard yet,
let's start out with an inexpensive question like what's your name?
Speaker 5 (07:26):
You can have that for free, Anita Vargas.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
How long you're on, Carpo?
Speaker 5 (07:31):
If you're putting the expression on and off for the
last six.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Months, how's even money? Is he turned into a big
spender recently?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Instead of two drinks tonight is now buying before? Carpo
will never be a big spender.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Where's he living?
Speaker 5 (07:45):
Fourteen twenty three Provid Streets?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
How far is that from here? It's here he lives upstairs.
That called for a change of scene.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I didn't know whether any of our gays really had
any to sell or not, but I didn't want what
was left of our set to be interrupted by a
violent rearrival of the mighty Captain Carpo. So expenser god
him three four dollars picking up a tax It had
them four six bits picking up a taxi, which dropped
this at another bar, slightly less oriental, but definitely more obnoxious.
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They grabbed ourselves at table with a view a view
of the sawdust on the floor, and waited for a waiter.
He didn't come, but somebody else did. The owner of
the lost fishing boats mister Roscoe.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Walton, you're doing with this character?
Speaker 5 (08:36):
I met him in college lost, so now beat it?
Since one have you been getting drunk?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Don't tell me he's your boyfriend too?
Speaker 5 (08:42):
Uh huh part time.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
Maybe i'd better get lost. I'll call you later. Yeah,
maybe you better get lost. Stay that way, told me
you better go well? Uh happy hangover, mister Walton look
like no college for to me. I was no professor
of mathematics either, but I could add this much up.
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If those tuna clippers had gone down by explosion, somebody
had to buy some explosives, maybe locally. That problem I
took to the local police, who went to work looking.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Up names in the dynamite register.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
And since those explosives would have been planted while the
boat's run the care and supervision of Captain Carpo, that
problem I decided to take to him. It was one
thirty in the morning when I got back to the
front of the Cormoran Restaurant and Bar. The grease joint
was dark, but a light was burning on a second
and top floor. I got halfway up the front stairs
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to ask my leading suspect a few questions about explosions
when I heard something. Carpo was still moving when I
got up there, but not for long. The back door
was as open as a captain's life was closed. I
looked on the back flight of stairs. It was either
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too dark, well, there wasn't anybody there, and I wasn't
going down to look.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
That's been over the body, just to make sure. Oh,
first they beat him half to death.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I wonder wanted him finish him that way?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Huh?
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Where sir?
Speaker 6 (10:26):
Perhaps it would be best if you were to remain
where you are, at least my pistol seems to recommend it. Well, well,
you seem to have done inestimable damage to my good friend,
Captain Copple.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The poor fellow seems to be definitely dead.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
In just a moment, we will return to the second
act of Johnny Dollar. But first, you might be interested
to know that CBS has acquired a couple of blocks
of wood. You're not interested, Well, would you be interested
if you knew that those blocks of wood had been
carved into certain figures?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, then let's try this.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Would you be interested if you knew that those carved
blocks of wood could talk? Now you're beginning to sit
up and take notice. Well, we might as well come
out and tell you that these talking blocks of wood
are named Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snurd, That then a
lively fellow named Edgar Bergan will be making their first
appearance over most of these same CBS stations this Sunday evening,
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that you'll be able to hear them every Sunday thereafter.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Now, with our star Charles Russell.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
We returned to the second act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
There I was again, always the suspect, but never the tribe,
with a dead body at my feet and a pistol
at my head.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
A man holding it.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Was neither small nor large Thomas Mitchell type.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
His frame was fighting as.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Scenes of a sloppy tweed suit, and his couchy face
was fighting the alcoholic content of his blood.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Well, what you have to say, sir, Oh.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Don't be ridiculous. I came to talk to this man.
Killing him would hardly be the way to kick off
a conversation.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
How about you?
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What are you doing here at one thirty.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
In the morning?
Speaker 4 (12:32):
Most amusing, most two cute men, each of them judging
the other. Haha, who is a dead man for a jurist?
All right it, that's for my tiss for it. My
name is Cricket.
Speaker 6 (12:42):
I was on my way to discuss with the good
Captain copper matter possible neutral profits. Naturally, when I heard
the shots from the street, I hastened to his assistance.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I want to ask you how you knew Carpo was
getting shot instead of doing the shooting.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
My name is Dollar.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I'm an insurance investigator from Hertford, Connecticut. I was sent
out here to look into two sinkings in the captain's fleet.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh, then you and I share common interest. My business
is ships out.
Speaker 6 (13:08):
It's obvious that I should put up this pistol and
replace it with a shake of a hand.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Ha, how do you do, sir?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
In my business you'll never know? How do you do?
Speaker 4 (13:18):
This is indeed the most portunate meeting.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
A pity that this should take place upon the very
threshold of trade.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
Poor poor couple.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
His face seems to have enjoyed the worst of an
encounter with a monkey's fist.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
However, a monkey's fist, I mean, what's that way?
Speaker 6 (13:36):
A monkey's fist, sir, is a highly complicated knot oven
about a slug of lead to thend weight ordinary ladies
intended for use at the end of a heaving line. However,
it is sometimes used by seamen and the forecastle in
the administering of tortures speakings.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
What humans of that, well, we can take the order
of the centuries for it. Torture suggests the violence seeking
of information that.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Would indeed seemed to be the cache.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
From the looks of this room, a monkey's fist or
any other kind of knot wooden behind to lay your
hands on. What's that one on the wall there?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Yeah, that is a miniature, but not a ship's fender.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
S fenders.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
There's a device for cushioning the shop between a ship
and the wharf the vessel. In modern ceiling this type
has largely been replaced by the commercial cork variety. Oh,
somebody evidently heard the shots and notify the police.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Cet, I feel like shocking, but not to the police.
Speaker 6 (14:32):
Yes, credit happ Think you would be kind enough to
join me in a nightcap at my porter.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
I'll lead me throw it. Mister Cricket's porter turned out
to be afloat and more to a dock. It was
a pet boat ex Navy.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
It feels uncomfortable that nightcap yo voter and a bottle
of bro ah.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
And now if you do the honors, I will invite
the London Symphony to play behind our jass Tzikowski the
pathetic who are to live?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Beautiful?
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Wow, sweet phonograph records, soft lights and high liquers. This
is the kind of stuff I enjoy my time off
which this doesn't happen to be.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Hey there we are now now to business, mister Dada.
I assume that the insurance company that.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Sent you out here is not as satisfied with the
story of the thinking.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Of the two vessels, Frank and Nancy Walters.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
I assume whether if you have been authorized to spend
any necessary money is to not only view the evidence firsthand,
but also is that evidence proves a criminal intent to
be able to retrieve it from the ocean.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Floor for use in costs? Are my assumptions correct?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
They are?
Speaker 1 (15:55):
But it can't be as simple as you make it sound.
The first job seems to be the toughest. Finding a
spot where those clippers went down.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Ahh. I would venture to.
Speaker 6 (16:04):
Say that with my special equipment I could detect the
presence of the fillings in Davy Jones teeth.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Ah It is.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Fantastic, And about your price, is that fantastic too?
Speaker 6 (16:17):
My proposition is it a flat price.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Of five thousand dollars.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
And in the event that criminal intent has proved the
possession of the recovered hulks.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I assume this five thousand is only playable if you
succeed in locating the boats.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Let us substitute the term returnable for the word payable.
I will need five thousand dollars in events, and our
contract shall state that in the unlikely event of failure,
you shall get your money back less my necessary expenses.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Agreed, Agreed, I'll have your money for you in the morning.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I trust I shall have your vote for you in
the afternoon.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I couldn't yet about his fantastic sonic sounding device, but
otherwise mister Cricket was well equipped. If I shipped to
show a telephone, he ordered me a taxi, which I
ordered to a corner near Roscoe Walton's specific deep sea
Canning company. Carpo's death made me want to get a
good look at Carpo's office. Something about the way he
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died kept baiting up the thought that there was something
fishier about this case than just plain old fashioned insurance brought.
The only thing that without a place in the place
was under a rug under Carpo's desk, a wall stape
sunk in the floor that proved easy to open a
poker hand with free aces.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
I lifted the heavy steel door.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
The first thing I saw was an oblong package brown paper.
Stuck one hand in to lift it out, and I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I used two on my back, as heavy as lead.
But when I tore off the wrapping, I saw that
it was as valuable as gold, because that's what it was,
a gold ingot. I didn't need have time to wonder
because the subject suddenly changed from lead, the gold, the
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cold steel.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And his voice and in his hands, hold it's there.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
It's a little late to be canning fish, isn't it, Walton?
Speaker 4 (18:22):
It seems to be just right for breaking and entering.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
What are you doing here entering the last phase of
this investigation, Walton? And breaking the back of your little racket?
Or I should say, big, what do you mean? Tell me?
It looks like your boats have been bringing in more
than fish from the Mexican coast. This heavy, little handful
makes it look like they've been hauling in Mexican gold.
Know what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I'm not gonna stand here and be a cue.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It's all right, You're not gonna stand there, not unloas
you mean. Are you take this shower? Are you kidding?
You'll let me like a living being a fight referee.
I am what is commonly known as the wanna Johnny.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Do you really believe what you.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Said is true? Well about smuggling in Mexican gold, Listen
to when you find a private citizen with a goldeningits,
he is not using it for a watch fob. The
only thing I learned after that was that two hours
in the sack does not constitute a good night's sleep.
By ten in the morning, one phone call east and
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one telegram west delivered five thousand dollars into my hands
from a local bank, and I, after a quick call
of the coast Guard to cover a few final details,
placed myself into the hands of mister Cricket each sea
guide extraordinary.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Joelting.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Hours later, a bucking bronco with a briny head a
crash into the swell somewhere off the island of sand
for Many, which is somewhere some sixty miles off the
coast of southern California.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Wherea my boy enjoying the vide.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, I'm kna easy.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
You want to say that.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Would call roughly? You want to get it?
Speaker 3 (20:08):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I only hope my breakfast does.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Oh he's nothing. Why I recall one time off the
Spanish pooler. Yes, a man on my wading out there,
Lord God, reduce sore off here now now dot now
prepare to be.
Speaker 5 (20:28):
A mean.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Mister Cricket had good reason, but chirp up at one thing.
He's sure know his business.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
An hour later, the hoax had been located.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
We were riding on a mushroom ancher.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
A diver ha been put over the side, but fuck
award top side by a table on a wind Ah, No, okay,
where jees he does it?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
He's a quickly quickly Now get you tumb it off?
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Now, got us with your with you.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
For five thousand bucks.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm gonna have to see where.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Right he knock?
Speaker 1 (21:21):
We hit it right on the nose. They're both down there.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Through the yard park.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Where are you satisfied?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Just about ninety percent, miss Cricket.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Oh and ten percent.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Oh look it's this way, mister Cricket. If this case
gets any place, I'll probably have to testify in court.
So far everything I've got his second hand that isn't
worth much in court.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I've got to see those boats.
Speaker 4 (21:43):
What what good hips man? You You mean you want
to go over the side.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
I don't particularly want to, but it seems to be
part of this job. Many times before in my career
I thought I had a heavy weight on my shoulders.
But that divers hell must set the new record, and
those lead shoes and that rubber eyed canvas suit didn't
feel exactly zoos. The temperature of the water outside felt
(22:18):
much cooler than that swarming on my brows.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
This was a steam bath beer tight.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Eight days later, in my mind, at least my lead
widgies grop to a foothold on a slimy bot and
I had arrived ship side. Because I had no immediate
way of determining the sex of a sunken ship, I
couldn't tell it from a bath of beam whether I
was looking at the frank or the Nancy Walton. About
then a passing current grabbed me and invited me out
to dance along the ocean floor.
Speaker 7 (22:46):
I grabbed out brinding for support.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
It turned out to be a rope hanging from the
clippers gut hole from a drip passed on at all
I had a chance to take a closer look at
what I was hanging on to.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
The line was secured from a woven.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Or ship's fender, which mister Cricket had not so long
before told me was fashioned about a brilliant core of cork.
But this one felt heavy enough to be loaded with
count Clark. And as for buoyancy, this is about as
brilliant as a lead balloon.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
I was resting on the bottom and heavy to lift.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
The next cracket swept over me was mentally I called
the shark knights out of the diving two felt start
hacking at the woven rope, then threw a thin layer
of canvas. And that's as far as I gotta.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Is this poon system operating here? Are you there? This
ain't the tree?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Little fishies? Yeah they're here all right?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
Are you satisfied that they exposure?
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yep?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
They blasted in all directions?
Speaker 6 (23:51):
And I have earned my five thousand dollars, and I
must fit you farewell.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
What what are you talking about?
Speaker 6 (24:00):
All but lost in a diving accident?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Oh ho yourself?
Speaker 3 (24:05):
What luck?
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Get your indisposing of you?
Speaker 6 (24:07):
Sir, I am confident that as well as pocketing your
five thousand dollars, I will also go away with the
middling of.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
The your charge company.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
You see, when my divers out to recover your unfortunate body,
you will continue our search for the goal.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Oh well, I've got news for you, pal. You evidently
didn't knock the hiding place had a carpod before you
kill them. But I was lucky.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
Not only have I already found that goal.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
I have sasted no dollar. You're bluffing if you think so.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
Turn off my air.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
So you do know about it, Dalla, tell me honestly,
are you open to terms?
Speaker 7 (24:49):
Well, uh, I'll think about it all away.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
The trip up would flowing and the trip down, which
was luck for me.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
The first thing I heard when I broke to the
surface was muffled by the helmet, but unmistakably gunfire. The
Morgans had the Lenner, but by George the Coastguards tayful
I had, and I had a grandstand seat for the
whole affair.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
My wishman was busy lucking bullock, and the wench just
didn't decide to stop on its own hook. So I
went riding skywood until I was stopped by the tip
of the boom.
Speaker 1 (25:26):
There I was hanging on his own hook.
Speaker 7 (25:28):
He spent it over the deck, looking through my helmet
glass at the racing battle below. Cricket directly below me
was pumping a high power in Rock's right and between shots,
shouting Kerson and whoever had opened fire on the US government.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
When I'd seen a grave miles.
Speaker 4 (25:43):
To the ending contors and fill a ruder against the
sky on the flying.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Ridge of the coast shot cutter, I looked down twenty
feet between my tangling left, pointed the piece of stuck
quick and taking care of the lame on his ration.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
But once again I grabbed my race the wrecked shark knife,
stuck it under the copper rim of my breastplates, and
ripped with the canvas and founds away my weight to.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
The rest Spencer count Item five cab fair to the
San Pedro Police headquarters, where I made my state and
(26:23):
heard mister Crickets badly damaged mister Crickets.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
During a short.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Stay in Cleveland, it was brought to my attention in
every city in the country was suffering an epidemic of
small time gold robberies. Dentist offices, punch hops and so forth.
Stand you shouldn't keep my curiosity.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
Yes, well, there's my love for money. And I studied
the situation more closely to my imagement. I learned the
gold was being melted down facing and dants sent off
somewhere to the orients. We're using the gold and done
smuggling traffic.
Speaker 6 (27:05):
You courage me if I could intercept the gold immediate
day after it's dispatched and the guidance of Captain Copple
to a largership he made achieved by his tune of clippers,
and I could realize for myself tidy prophet.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Expense accounts Item six seven and fifty cents five pound
box of chocolate from US anid of our Gaye address,
San Pedro Municipal Jail. It seems that the police sometimes
classify a part time girlfriend as an all time accomplice.
Expense account Item seven airfare Los Angeles the Heart for
(27:53):
one hundred and seventy six dollars and eighty seven cents
and being Friday, what do you think they stirred for
dinner on the plane? What else? Tunafish salad expense account
total twelve and sixty four dollars and twenty eight cents
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yours Truly Johnny Dollar is produced and directed by Gordon C.
Hughes and stars Charles Russell, stripped by Paul Dudley and
Gil Dows. Featured the cast were Willard Waterman, Junius Matthews,
Edmund McDonald, Georgia Ellis, Larry Dobkin, and Paul Dubars. The
special music is written and conducted by Wilbur Hatch.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Be sure and be with us at.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
The same time next week when another unusual expense account
is handed.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
In by Yours Truly Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Every fall, the ladies like.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
To go out and get some new fall clothes.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Well, CBS has gone out and gotten some new fall shows.
One of the gayest of these new programs is the
Red Skeleton Show, which makes it bow over most of
these same CBS stations this Sunday Night. There's no one
quite like Red Skeleton, as you will find out when
you tune in tomorrow. The Red Skeleton Show is a
part of the CBS Great Sunday.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
Night Last Lineup.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Don't miss it now, stay tuned for Von Monroe, who
follows immediately over most of these same CBS stations, Wall
Masterson speaking, This is CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System,
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