November 8, 2025 • 25 mins
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama which aired between 1949 and 1962. "The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Of the eight different actors who played Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey is likely considered the most popular. Bailey's interpretation presented a tough, streetwise character, but also sensitive and thoughtful. During it's time, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
From Hollywood. It's time now, Paul. Yeah, Johnny Daller, This.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is Peter Hanley at Western Maritime and Property Insurance.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Holy, look, do you always started making consent for a
mister Henley?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I had to fall clear across the countess to dollars
to find out that you're right here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And that's right the Beverly Hill not here in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But I've cleared up the case that brought me here,
So as soon as I have breakfast, if they serve
it at this unearthly hour, I'll pack up my bags
and go back down Hardred. Please don't, Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
One of our clans is the doctor present us with
a claim that I think you want to investigate as
long as you're right here?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, what's sort of a claim for.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The loss of his yacht?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
How much of a client.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Between one hundred and fifty and two hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Do you know where Malabo Beach is?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah? Sure, off the coast a few used to be
a famous movie colony, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And if you can pays some means of transportation, I'll
meet you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
At the Mala par on expensive comments to Hanley, I
can find anything on a claim that could run to
a quarter of a million. I'm sure you won't be Chinsey.
I'll see it's a malable pier.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the action packed expensive out America's fabulous freelance insurance.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now act one of Yours truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Western Maritime and Property in Ship's Company, Los Angeles, California.
Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the Malible Mystery Matter. Expense account. I had one
(02:23):
two and a quarter for a fancy breakfast in my
room at the Beverly Hilton. I had them two fifty
dollars deposit on the best looking rental car I could fine.
I drove out Santa Monica Bulevard at the Coast Highway,
then north along the edge of the Blue Pacific, some
twelve or thirteen miles to Malibule, where a long fishing
pier stuck out into the ocean. Cars were parked for
half a mile on either side of the pier entrance,
(02:45):
and I looked as though half the population of La
was crowded out on the peer itself. Thanks to an
ambulance to pull away from the curb and headed south Georgetown,
I found a parking space. Mister Dollars, Yeah, oh Highness
(03:11):
to Henley, come along out on the pier.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What's all the mobs so early in the morning. Apparently
word of an accident like this gets around quickly. What
kind of an accident? Don't you see the coast Guard
vessels circling around dain in this boat you were talking
about sync out there? That take us mister dollar one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars diesel yacht. What happened to her?
Apparently it just blew up. Survivors mister and missus Randolph
(03:42):
Merrill and the steward and Beckham managed to get into
the launch they used for attending, and we're picked up
by the coast Guard. Well, skipper went down with the
yacht at least no trade of his daughter's the towns.
And yet Captain Rowlands, what if people just have to
get back off of oh, miss Hanley O. This is
Johnny Toller, a special investigator from my insurance company, Captain
(04:04):
rawlins of the cook Guard dollar An if you found
anything out there, company, not a sign of the tatus,
mister Hanley. Yeah, it's mighty deep water, and I'm afraid that,
like mister Merrill and his wife told us, she just
blew herself to smithering. Yeah, even from here, I can
see some wreckage full of him. But they're all working
(04:25):
around the oil slick out there. So the grapples ought
to be able to find something down below, some traces
of a hull or machinery or something. When did it happen?
Oh two two and a half hours ago. One of
our craft got out there from Santa Monica Harbor, not
more than forty minutes after she went down. How'd you
(04:48):
find out about it? Phone call from somebody living along
the beach. tATu stood out there blowing the whistle and
fog going woke him up. Ti he got out of bed.
He said, it looked like the regular fireworks display about
a half mile off shore. Huh, you see what they
(05:08):
put a mocker? Boy, wouldn't the wind and current move?
That's slick and whatever wreckage there is no wind. That's
why there's still some fog out there and they're allowing
for drift. Don't worry. If there's anything left to the data,
those boys will find it. Now, I excuse you, would
you please? I got to keep a check on operation. Yeah, sure,
(05:29):
keptain see let Henley, you say, mister and missus Miller okay, yes,
if the Coast Guarden Santa Monica through with them, they're
probably back at their home in Westward. I think i'd
like to talk to them by all means. Oh, I
don't exactly see any particular reason for investigating the company
police units A dollar on any claim over one hundred pocks. Yeah,
but the claim can't have been made yet. I don't worry.
(05:52):
It will be win a minute one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars yachts. But you said the claim could go
as high as a quarter million. That's because of Missus
Merrill's jewelry, which you always took with her, always lost too.
I don't know. I haven't yet talked to her. Then
let's do it. Well, But I haven't been for a
friend of mine living up from the hill behind the beach,
who was also awakened and saw the explosion, I wouldn't
(06:14):
have known about it even mosson. Yeah, come on, let's
talk to the Marylands. Pete Hanley had his own car,
so I tailed him to the Marrow home in Westward.
It wasn't a nice but certainly not a fancy section.
I'd have thought a man with one hundred and fifty
thousand dollar yacht would live in the study bell Air
(06:35):
property the Brentwood Hills. But to be Bellisades one of
the sections that displayed a little more Well, however, mister
Merrill pretty well explained it, and quite frankly, when I
had to take such a loss in selling out my
plastics business, I decided to read better at Trench a bit.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And really, mister Dollar, I don't miss that lovely big
place we had in bel Air one bit. After all,
they just the two of us, and we don't do
a lot of entertaining coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, noh. A matter of fact, Dollar, I was thinking
of selling potatoes for well, to be frank about it,
for purely economic reasons. Oh, wouldn't it have been pretty
high to get your price for a boat like that? Possibly?
Quite frankly, the maintenance on it alone became quite a
burden after I lost my business. But no matter, Now
(07:21):
the insurance will pay for mister and missus Merrill. There
is one thing that I must find out. Yes, for Tammy,
this is Merrill's jewelry. No, thank Evans, No that's safe.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
A careful dear of the glass top on that table.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh sorry, no, you.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
See, mister Hanley, The jewels were the first thing I
thought of when the engine on the tATu started making
funny sounds.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And woke me up.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, I am glad of that.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Here they are all satan.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Sound is a little cast.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Did I keep them in?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Look at the mister Dollar, I see beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yes, very, But I suppose you tell tell me just
what happened out there on They said they'd been cruising
peacefully up the coast, all hands on board asleep except
for the skip at the wheel. Then the engine started
making strange sounds, shaking the whole yacht. The Marrows and
the crew jumped out of their beds and rushed on deck.
(08:19):
By then, the captain had discovered something wrong with a
fuel system, so he ordered them off from the tender
while he tried to operate the extinguisher system. Then, barely
minutes after they cleared a side came a series of explosions,
and that was the last they saw the tatus and
their captain. As for the merrels, they were humbly glad
they'd been lucky enough to escape. Lucky. Suddenly, sitting there,
(08:42):
I had been toying with the jewels. I discovered something
that Yeah, he believed me. This case did need investigation,
needed it back.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Back two off yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now for.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Another episode in the life of Sargent Donald's bell weather.
My husband, Hi, honey.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Depicts the windshield wipers A sure dead ramon. How's that?
How hry? You fixed something good for you, Donald? Thank
you right there? Well that's that now for the rains
were prepared for it.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I feel better now, Oh me too.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
A driver has to see the danger if he expects
to avoid it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's right, and also keeps the back and side wind
is clear and rain and snowy weather.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
That's right. Oh how about the horn?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The horn?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
The horn doesn't work, sergeant. Aren't you going to fix it?
He No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Uh frankly, Reba, I hate horns. Whenever there's a traffic jam.
Of first thing some guys do is bother horn which.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Does absolutely no good.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Of course, not all it does is jar everyone's nerves. No,
I I don't think all fakes though.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
But now wait a minute done.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Mm No.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Supposing we're driving along and and suddenly we see a
youngster on.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
His bicycle headed right out into the street, founding that
horn O warn't him and possibly avoid a tragic accident. Mm. Yes,
that's true.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Because supposing we're driving on the highway and just as
we're about to pass a car, that car decides to
pull out into or lane and pass.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
The car ahead a hymn.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
He obviously doesn't see it. We won't hear a shout,
but one little beef on that at horn, and he'll
automatically scoop back and avoid a collision.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Raby, you've convinced me, even though it can be a nuisance,
the automobile horn is a necessity. Then you're repaired immediately.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Oh that's my donald, that's my doll.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Now act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
Malavou mystery matter.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Remember when you were a kid and first found out
about how mercury would play a piece of gold make
it look like silver, And how you went around putting
it on everything made of gold that you could find.
And remember when you first learned that the diamond put
a scratch on glass, how you went around with your
mother's engagement ring, cutting grooves and window panes, glass tabletops
and so on. Okay, sitting there listening to the Marrals
(11:43):
tell about the explosion on their yacht, I toyed with
some of the beautiful jewelry Missus Merrill had been able
to save. Jewelry in short, were one hundred thousand dollars
absent Mindedly, I dragged the diamond in one of her
rings across the glass top of the coffee table a
couple of times, then again with pressure, and it did
not cut into the glass. I tried to cut the
(12:05):
other so called diamonds among our jewels, same results, no results,
and those highly insured jewels were paced. Oh, mister Dollar,
looks like we have the whole story now, Yeah, sure
looks that way. And mister Merrill, whenever you're ready, you
just file your claim and we'll take care of it,
(12:27):
all right, mister Hanley, And I'm quite frankly, well, why kid
about it? Now that I've lost my business, I can
well use the money. Oh, and I'm kind of surprised
you haven't sold some of these jewels. Dollar. There is
a thing called sentiment that even money can't buy.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Why, of course, mister Dollar, before I'd part with these jewels, Yes,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Shall we go, Hanley? You building was satisfied with the
Meryll's account of the wreck? Why go back to malib?
Did I say? I was perfectly satisfying, Henry. Look, wouldn't
you feel a lot better if that wreck could be located,
(13:11):
maybe brought up for examination? Yes, but you're certainly lucky missus.
Merrill said that fortune and jewelry? What jewelry? What are
you talking about? You saw it yourself, and I now
it's covered for one hundred thousand dollars that jewelry that
she showed me. What are you getting at, dollar? Look,
I take it Merrill's business came a cropper. I'm like, yes,
(13:32):
he simply bit off more than he could chew. You know,
overestimated his market over expanded. Matter of fact, than thankful
these past couple of years that I didn't follow for
his picture invest in it. Merlow is quite a promoter,
you know, I mean it crooked? Why I didn't see that? No,
his bill air of state where they used to live
is yeah, her jewelry, that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
They will all.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Impressed the people he got the financies venture A real
fast guy was somebody else's buck I guess you could
say that about us. So that's why you wanted me
to investigate this so called accident to a shot, No,
not a tornament. I've told you what do you mean
by soup called Hanley? You say a friend of yours
actually saw the explosion. That's how I learned of it,
(14:18):
almost as soon as the Coastguard. But not if you
know the address. That's where we're going. I told you
it lives up on a hill over looking Malibu Beach.
On the first we're going to stop at a centamonic,
a Coastguard station and pick up a charter or two.
Why also, if you know a good surveyor, will take
him along with us? Dog Yeah, Henny, I've got an
idea that may save your company a lot of money.
(14:43):
At the Coastguard station, we picked up a navigation chart
and the topographical map of the Malibu area. Then we
picked up a surveyor named Buckley, who dragged along one
of those tripods of baying instruments, then onto the house
of Hanley's friend up in the Malibu Hills, and from
him we got some information to be get to bear
out some of my suspicions. Yeah, that's right, that's right.
(15:03):
When I heard the yacht's whistle of the foghorn, I
hopped out of bed and I stood right here in
this doorway to the port, uh huh, leaning against it
the way you are right now, mister Duncan. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. Yeah. Because it was so dark, was so
foggy out there over the ocean, I was about to
go back to bed, and then boom the boat exploded where. Oh,
(15:24):
I can tell you exactly where from here that is?
What do you mean? Well, the flash the flash had
made it was red square between those two trees. All right,
mister Barkley, set up your transit and get a line
on that yep, and plot the line on this vent
right dollar alert you look, Kenley, see that, Michael boy,
(15:44):
where the coastguard boats are looking for the wreck. Well
the line mister Dupkin has given us, there's nowhere near that. Well, yeah,
mister Duncan, do you suppose any of your neighbors heard
the noise? And got up for a look. You, I
certainly would think, so, then we really have something to
work on. But they still don't. Under stew roll, mister Hanley,
you will plenty BacT.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Free if yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Times have changed, and so has the man. How often
do we hear the phrase, ah, those were the good
old days? But were they? Let's look at the record.
During the War of eighteen hundred and twelve, the man
who discharged the missile of destruction had a pretty simple job.
A lighted taper, a fuse, some gunpowder, a metal ball,
(16:37):
then an explosion, and the metal ball was propelled toward
its target located a few hundred yards away. Now go
back in time to the year thirteen hundred and twenty seven.
Again the operation was simple, the taper, the gunpowder, but
this time an enlarged arrow fitted into a block of metal.
(17:01):
A man and mail, a smoky explosion and the arrow
flies a few hundred feet. Now come up to the present.
Seated before a complicated control panel is another man ready
to discharge a missile. He, however, is a far cry
from that artillery man of eighteen twelve, or the Cannoneer
(17:22):
of thirteen twenty seven. This man is a skilled, tutored technician.
He knows his job. He pushes a button, and a sleek,
slim pointed missile blasts its way into the heavens. Its
trajectory has been predetermined by other men with modern day
technicological nohow. The missile lands not a few hundred feet
(17:47):
or yards from its launching sight, but three thousand, four thousand,
or five thousand miles away. Quite a difference, isn't it.
As times have changed, and so has the man.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And now Act three, the order is truly Johnny Dollar
and the Malibu Mystery matters.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Pete Hanley, the insurance man, and Barklay of the surveyor,
and I continued our interviews of people living along Malible Beach.
You'd seen the unexplored, yes.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Sir, I just rose right up in bed, and I
could see straight out my front window.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And you saw the actual explosion, Missus Green, I.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Certainly did wrap right out through there.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Good, thank you. Okay, mister Barkley, get a beat on
it with your surveying instrument and plod it on the map. Right,
that's right, sure.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
See the flash right the other startled.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Big uliander bush up there in the ard, and you
were standing right here, mister Pumps exactly, yes, sir, why
like lit up the old scot Okay, mister Barkley, all right,
why even through the fog, I could see just ten.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I'll say, Gee, you see he was having a little party,
and I just got in the.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Kitchen to make it some scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yes, well not just where it does have to being
up all night and having some drink. Well, where were
you standing?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Whistle started and the fog, Lord.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We came out here right where you're staying.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
A sudden bluey. Gee, me and my friends, we.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Thought it was the fourth of July all over again.
Answer you sure.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
So?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
According to our survey, Captain Rawlings, your boats have been
looking in the wrong area for that right, Yeah, miss Dollar.
According to this chart the surveyor made, the tatos went
down right on top of Calico rocks. That's a formation
only about thirty feet below the surface. That means that
our divers will have no trouble at all finding the right.
Then go to it, Captain. We'll be at the Beverly Hilton.
Let me know what you find. We'll do mister dollar
(19:54):
right them three five twenty five for some lunch. Then
we went up to my roll and waited. Finally, a
couple of hours later came the call from kept her own.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Almost didn't find a sign of her.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Not a sign of the tatus or any part of her.
But yes, Captain, we did.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Find a lot of well we looked like heavy cans
that it burst open, like maybe they'd contained some kind
of explosive exactly like that. And some heavy logs and
tight chain west into the rocks like an explosion of
driven them in a raft, maybe loaded with dynamite or
something to make the explosion.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Everybody saw exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
But what I don't understand is the oil slick we've
found wreck is floating around.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Captain.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I think that oil slick and the float somewhere planted
out there. Well, then listen, look check every port of
the Mexican coast, large or small for the tatus. I'll
talk to you later. Come on, Henny, we're going out
to see the marrows. On the way out to Westwood.
I wanted, I was satisfied. I was sure I knew
(20:53):
just how Merrill had pulled his little fraud. Little what's
little about a few hundred thousand bucks, but I need
more than that for the stake of the insurance company,
who would have to prosecute him. So when we got there,
I decided to try it, bluff comn with the dollar
the Hanley. I didn't expect to see you back here
at the phone. Yes, won't you gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Sit down?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh? I think you ought to know. The coast guard
finally found something out there off Malibu. Oh yeah, the
remains of your skipper on the Tatus. What that's impossible, Nancy,
also evidence that he'd been murdered, murdered, probably by you. Meryl.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
No, he's still alive.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
What wait, Fancy, can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Or would you rather have your husband charge with his murder?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
No, he's in Mexico with the yacht.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Nancy, be quiet. That's what I figured. At some remote
little port on the coast of Mexico, he and the
Tatus Dollar where the yacht can be completely gone over disguise. Meanwhile,
of course, you thought you'd collect the insurance on air
because of the completely phony wreck. You almost got away
thanks to the fog and the doctors, and then you
fool a could all right, how did you find out
(22:10):
and Dollar the all wife's phony jewels tipped me off
that you are not exactly paragons of virtue, pony mister
Donald haste Hanley and nothing else. And I'll lay odds
they'll sell the originals that they plan to carefully lose
the fakes. Why didn't they claim to lose them in
the wreck? All that would have been overplaying their hand.
Apparently having saved those jewels made the wreck with all
them more legitimate. But the really clever stunt was dumping
(22:33):
oil on the water and some odd bits of wreckage
away from the spot where they blew off the rat. Yeah,
it almost kept the coast guard from finding the cans
of explosives they've used for the little fireworks display. But Meryl,
the only thing around here that's been sunk is you Dollar.
I'll fight you and this this insurance company with every
(22:53):
legal trick in the book. You know something, mister maryn
I don't think you'll get the first base. Yeah, when
a krook tries to pull a fast one on an
honest insurance company, well you'll see what I mean when
the courts get through with Marylyn. His wife extens account
total including mileage on the Rental carn a couple of
(23:15):
extra days to Beverly Hilton one hundred and one fifty
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is calling.
(23:41):
Bob Bailey, written Nights in the Hollywood and has written
and produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our
cast were Paula Winslow, eleanor orby Jeene Tatum, Ben Wright,
Erry Bartel, will Wright, Lawrence Dobkin, then Barney Phillips.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Be sure to join us next week, same time and station.
Another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
This is Roy Rowan speaking Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar. Has
(24:51):
been a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio
and Television Service
From Hollywood. It's time now, Paul. Yeah, Johnny Daller, This.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Is Peter Hanley at Western Maritime and Property Insurance.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Holy, look, do you always started making consent for a
mister Henley?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I had to fall clear across the countess to dollars
to find out that you're right here in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And that's right the Beverly Hill not here in Beverly Hills.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Got it.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
But I've cleared up the case that brought me here,
So as soon as I have breakfast, if they serve
it at this unearthly hour, I'll pack up my bags
and go back down Hardred. Please don't, Oh, what's up?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
One of our clans is the doctor present us with
a claim that I think you want to investigate as
long as you're right here?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Yeah, what's sort of a claim for.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
The loss of his yacht?
Speaker 1 (00:51):
How much of a client.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Between one hundred and fifty and two hundred and fifty dollars?
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Wow?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Do you know where Malabo Beach is?
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Yeah? Sure, off the coast a few used to be
a famous movie colony, that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
And if you can pays some means of transportation, I'll
meet you.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
At the Mala par on expensive comments to Hanley, I
can find anything on a claim that could run to
a quarter of a million. I'm sure you won't be Chinsey.
I'll see it's a malable pier.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the action packed expensive out America's fabulous freelance insurance.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Now act one of Yours truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Expense account submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to the
Western Maritime and Property in Ship's Company, Los Angeles, California.
Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
of the Malible Mystery Matter. Expense account. I had one
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two and a quarter for a fancy breakfast in my
room at the Beverly Hilton. I had them two fifty
dollars deposit on the best looking rental car I could fine.
I drove out Santa Monica Bulevard at the Coast Highway,
then north along the edge of the Blue Pacific, some
twelve or thirteen miles to Malibule, where a long fishing
pier stuck out into the ocean. Cars were parked for
half a mile on either side of the pier entrance,
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and I looked as though half the population of La
was crowded out on the peer itself. Thanks to an
ambulance to pull away from the curb and headed south Georgetown,
I found a parking space. Mister Dollars, Yeah, oh Highness
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to Henley, come along out on the pier.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
All right?
Speaker 1 (03:18):
What's all the mobs so early in the morning. Apparently
word of an accident like this gets around quickly. What
kind of an accident? Don't you see the coast Guard
vessels circling around dain in this boat you were talking
about sync out there? That take us mister dollar one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars diesel yacht. What happened to her?
Apparently it just blew up. Survivors mister and missus Randolph
(03:42):
Merrill and the steward and Beckham managed to get into
the launch they used for attending, and we're picked up
by the coast Guard. Well, skipper went down with the
yacht at least no trade of his daughter's the towns.
And yet Captain Rowlands, what if people just have to
get back off of oh, miss Hanley O. This is
Johnny Toller, a special investigator from my insurance company, Captain
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rawlins of the cook Guard dollar An if you found
anything out there, company, not a sign of the tatus,
mister Hanley. Yeah, it's mighty deep water, and I'm afraid that,
like mister Merrill and his wife told us, she just
blew herself to smithering. Yeah, even from here, I can
see some wreckage full of him. But they're all working
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around the oil slick out there. So the grapples ought
to be able to find something down below, some traces
of a hull or machinery or something. When did it happen?
Oh two two and a half hours ago. One of
our craft got out there from Santa Monica Harbor, not
more than forty minutes after she went down. How'd you
(04:48):
find out about it? Phone call from somebody living along
the beach. tATu stood out there blowing the whistle and
fog going woke him up. Ti he got out of bed.
He said, it looked like the regular fireworks display about
a half mile off shore. Huh, you see what they
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put a mocker? Boy, wouldn't the wind and current move?
That's slick and whatever wreckage there is no wind. That's
why there's still some fog out there and they're allowing
for drift. Don't worry. If there's anything left to the data,
those boys will find it. Now, I excuse you, would
you please? I got to keep a check on operation. Yeah, sure,
(05:29):
keptain see let Henley, you say, mister and missus Miller okay, yes,
if the Coast Guarden Santa Monica through with them, they're
probably back at their home in Westward. I think i'd
like to talk to them by all means. Oh, I
don't exactly see any particular reason for investigating the company
police units A dollar on any claim over one hundred pocks. Yeah,
but the claim can't have been made yet. I don't worry.
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It will be win a minute one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars yachts. But you said the claim could go
as high as a quarter million. That's because of Missus
Merrill's jewelry, which you always took with her, always lost too.
I don't know. I haven't yet talked to her. Then
let's do it. Well, But I haven't been for a
friend of mine living up from the hill behind the beach,
who was also awakened and saw the explosion, I wouldn't
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have known about it even mosson. Yeah, come on, let's
talk to the Marylands. Pete Hanley had his own car,
so I tailed him to the Marrow home in Westward.
It wasn't a nice but certainly not a fancy section.
I'd have thought a man with one hundred and fifty
thousand dollar yacht would live in the study bell Air
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property the Brentwood Hills. But to be Bellisades one of
the sections that displayed a little more Well, however, mister
Merrill pretty well explained it, and quite frankly, when I
had to take such a loss in selling out my
plastics business, I decided to read better at Trench a bit.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And really, mister Dollar, I don't miss that lovely big
place we had in bel Air one bit. After all,
they just the two of us, and we don't do
a lot of entertaining coffee.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
No, noh. A matter of fact, Dollar, I was thinking
of selling potatoes for well, to be frank about it,
for purely economic reasons. Oh, wouldn't it have been pretty
high to get your price for a boat like that? Possibly?
Quite frankly, the maintenance on it alone became quite a
burden after I lost my business. But no matter, Now
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the insurance will pay for mister and missus Merrill. There
is one thing that I must find out. Yes, for Tammy,
this is Merrill's jewelry. No, thank Evans, No that's safe.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
A careful dear of the glass top on that table.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Oh sorry, no, you.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
See, mister Hanley, The jewels were the first thing I
thought of when the engine on the tATu started making
funny sounds.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
And woke me up.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Well, I am glad of that.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Here they are all satan.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Sound is a little cast.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
Did I keep them in?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (07:53):
Look at the mister Dollar, I see beautiful.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Yes, very, But I suppose you tell tell me just
what happened out there on They said they'd been cruising
peacefully up the coast, all hands on board asleep except
for the skip at the wheel. Then the engine started
making strange sounds, shaking the whole yacht. The Marrows and
the crew jumped out of their beds and rushed on deck.
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By then, the captain had discovered something wrong with a
fuel system, so he ordered them off from the tender
while he tried to operate the extinguisher system. Then, barely
minutes after they cleared a side came a series of explosions,
and that was the last they saw the tatus and
their captain. As for the merrels, they were humbly glad
they'd been lucky enough to escape. Lucky. Suddenly, sitting there,
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I had been toying with the jewels. I discovered something
that Yeah, he believed me. This case did need investigation,
needed it back.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Back two off yours truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now for.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Another episode in the life of Sargent Donald's bell weather.
My husband, Hi, honey.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Depicts the windshield wipers A sure dead ramon. How's that?
How hry? You fixed something good for you, Donald? Thank
you right there? Well that's that now for the rains
were prepared for it.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I feel better now, Oh me too.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
A driver has to see the danger if he expects
to avoid it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
That's right, and also keeps the back and side wind
is clear and rain and snowy weather.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
That's right. Oh how about the horn?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
The horn?
Speaker 5 (09:57):
The horn doesn't work, sergeant. Aren't you going to fix it?
He No, I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Uh frankly, Reba, I hate horns. Whenever there's a traffic jam.
Of first thing some guys do is bother horn which.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
Does absolutely no good.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Of course, not all it does is jar everyone's nerves. No,
I I don't think all fakes though.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
But now wait a minute done.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Mm No.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Supposing we're driving along and and suddenly we see a
youngster on.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
His bicycle headed right out into the street, founding that
horn O warn't him and possibly avoid a tragic accident. Mm. Yes,
that's true.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Because supposing we're driving on the highway and just as
we're about to pass a car, that car decides to
pull out into or lane and pass.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
The car ahead a hymn.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
He obviously doesn't see it. We won't hear a shout,
but one little beef on that at horn, and he'll
automatically scoop back and avoid a collision.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Raby, you've convinced me, even though it can be a nuisance,
the automobile horn is a necessity. Then you're repaired immediately.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Oh that's my donald, that's my doll.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Now act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the
Malavou mystery matter.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Remember when you were a kid and first found out
about how mercury would play a piece of gold make
it look like silver, And how you went around putting
it on everything made of gold that you could find.
And remember when you first learned that the diamond put
a scratch on glass, how you went around with your
mother's engagement ring, cutting grooves and window panes, glass tabletops
and so on. Okay, sitting there listening to the Marrals
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tell about the explosion on their yacht, I toyed with
some of the beautiful jewelry Missus Merrill had been able
to save. Jewelry in short, were one hundred thousand dollars
absent Mindedly, I dragged the diamond in one of her
rings across the glass top of the coffee table a
couple of times, then again with pressure, and it did
not cut into the glass. I tried to cut the
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other so called diamonds among our jewels, same results, no results,
and those highly insured jewels were paced. Oh, mister Dollar,
looks like we have the whole story now, Yeah, sure
looks that way. And mister Merrill, whenever you're ready, you
just file your claim and we'll take care of it,
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all right, mister Hanley, And I'm quite frankly, well, why kid
about it? Now that I've lost my business, I can
well use the money. Oh, and I'm kind of surprised
you haven't sold some of these jewels. Dollar. There is
a thing called sentiment that even money can't buy.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Why, of course, mister Dollar, before I'd part with these jewels, Yes,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Shall we go, Hanley? You building was satisfied with the
Meryll's account of the wreck? Why go back to malib?
Did I say? I was perfectly satisfying, Henry. Look, wouldn't
you feel a lot better if that wreck could be located,
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maybe brought up for examination? Yes, but you're certainly lucky missus.
Merrill said that fortune and jewelry? What jewelry? What are
you talking about? You saw it yourself, and I now
it's covered for one hundred thousand dollars that jewelry that
she showed me. What are you getting at, dollar? Look,
I take it Merrill's business came a cropper. I'm like, yes,
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he simply bit off more than he could chew. You know,
overestimated his market over expanded. Matter of fact, than thankful
these past couple of years that I didn't follow for
his picture invest in it. Merlow is quite a promoter,
you know, I mean it crooked? Why I didn't see that? No,
his bill air of state where they used to live
is yeah, her jewelry, that sort of thing.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
They will all.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Impressed the people he got the financies venture A real
fast guy was somebody else's buck I guess you could
say that about us. So that's why you wanted me
to investigate this so called accident to a shot, No,
not a tornament. I've told you what do you mean
by soup called Hanley? You say a friend of yours
actually saw the explosion. That's how I learned of it,
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almost as soon as the Coastguard. But not if you
know the address. That's where we're going. I told you
it lives up on a hill over looking Malibu Beach.
On the first we're going to stop at a centamonic,
a Coastguard station and pick up a charter or two.
Why also, if you know a good surveyor, will take
him along with us? Dog Yeah, Henny, I've got an
idea that may save your company a lot of money.
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At the Coastguard station, we picked up a navigation chart
and the topographical map of the Malibu area. Then we
picked up a surveyor named Buckley, who dragged along one
of those tripods of baying instruments, then onto the house
of Hanley's friend up in the Malibu Hills, and from
him we got some information to be get to bear
out some of my suspicions. Yeah, that's right, that's right.
(15:03):
When I heard the yacht's whistle of the foghorn, I
hopped out of bed and I stood right here in
this doorway to the port, uh huh, leaning against it
the way you are right now, mister Duncan. Yeah, yeah,
that's right. Yeah. Because it was so dark, was so
foggy out there over the ocean, I was about to
go back to bed, and then boom the boat exploded where. Oh,
(15:24):
I can tell you exactly where from here that is?
What do you mean? Well, the flash the flash had
made it was red square between those two trees. All right,
mister Barkley, set up your transit and get a line
on that yep, and plot the line on this vent
right dollar alert you look, Kenley, see that, Michael boy,
(15:44):
where the coastguard boats are looking for the wreck. Well
the line mister Dupkin has given us, there's nowhere near that. Well, yeah,
mister Duncan, do you suppose any of your neighbors heard
the noise? And got up for a look. You, I
certainly would think, so, then we really have something to
work on. But they still don't. Under stew roll, mister Hanley,
you will plenty BacT.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Free if yours truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Times have changed, and so has the man. How often
do we hear the phrase, ah, those were the good
old days? But were they? Let's look at the record.
During the War of eighteen hundred and twelve, the man
who discharged the missile of destruction had a pretty simple job.
A lighted taper, a fuse, some gunpowder, a metal ball,
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then an explosion, and the metal ball was propelled toward
its target located a few hundred yards away. Now go
back in time to the year thirteen hundred and twenty seven.
Again the operation was simple, the taper, the gunpowder, but
this time an enlarged arrow fitted into a block of metal.
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A man and mail, a smoky explosion and the arrow
flies a few hundred feet. Now come up to the present.
Seated before a complicated control panel is another man ready
to discharge a missile. He, however, is a far cry
from that artillery man of eighteen twelve, or the Cannoneer
(17:22):
of thirteen twenty seven. This man is a skilled, tutored technician.
He knows his job. He pushes a button, and a sleek,
slim pointed missile blasts its way into the heavens. Its
trajectory has been predetermined by other men with modern day
technicological nohow. The missile lands not a few hundred feet
(17:47):
or yards from its launching sight, but three thousand, four thousand,
or five thousand miles away. Quite a difference, isn't it.
As times have changed, and so has the man.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
And now Act three, the order is truly Johnny Dollar
and the Malibu Mystery matters.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Pete Hanley, the insurance man, and Barklay of the surveyor,
and I continued our interviews of people living along Malible Beach.
You'd seen the unexplored, yes.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Sir, I just rose right up in bed, and I
could see straight out my front window.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
And you saw the actual explosion, Missus Green, I.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
Certainly did wrap right out through there.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Good, thank you. Okay, mister Barkley, get a beat on
it with your surveying instrument and plod it on the map. Right,
that's right, sure.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
See the flash right the other startled.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
Big uliander bush up there in the ard, and you
were standing right here, mister Pumps exactly, yes, sir, why
like lit up the old scot Okay, mister Barkley, all right,
why even through the fog, I could see just ten.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
I'll say, Gee, you see he was having a little party,
and I just got in the.
Speaker 5 (19:03):
Kitchen to make it some scrambled eggs.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
Yes, well not just where it does have to being
up all night and having some drink. Well, where were
you standing?
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Whistle started and the fog, Lord.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
We came out here right where you're staying.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
A sudden bluey. Gee, me and my friends, we.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Thought it was the fourth of July all over again.
Answer you sure.
Speaker 5 (19:29):
So?
Speaker 1 (19:29):
According to our survey, Captain Rawlings, your boats have been
looking in the wrong area for that right, Yeah, miss Dollar.
According to this chart the surveyor made, the tatos went
down right on top of Calico rocks. That's a formation
only about thirty feet below the surface. That means that
our divers will have no trouble at all finding the right.
Then go to it, Captain. We'll be at the Beverly Hilton.
Let me know what you find. We'll do mister dollar
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right them three five twenty five for some lunch. Then
we went up to my roll and waited. Finally, a
couple of hours later came the call from kept her own.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Almost didn't find a sign of her.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Not a sign of the tatus or any part of her.
But yes, Captain, we did.
Speaker 6 (20:11):
Find a lot of well we looked like heavy cans
that it burst open, like maybe they'd contained some kind
of explosive exactly like that. And some heavy logs and
tight chain west into the rocks like an explosion of
driven them in a raft, maybe loaded with dynamite or
something to make the explosion.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Everybody saw exactly.
Speaker 6 (20:28):
But what I don't understand is the oil slick we've
found wreck is floating around.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Captain.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
I think that oil slick and the float somewhere planted
out there. Well, then listen, look check every port of
the Mexican coast, large or small for the tatus. I'll
talk to you later. Come on, Henny, we're going out
to see the marrows. On the way out to Westwood.
I wanted, I was satisfied. I was sure I knew
(20:53):
just how Merrill had pulled his little fraud. Little what's
little about a few hundred thousand bucks, but I need
more than that for the stake of the insurance company,
who would have to prosecute him. So when we got there,
I decided to try it, bluff comn with the dollar
the Hanley. I didn't expect to see you back here
at the phone. Yes, won't you gentlemen?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Sit down?
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh? I think you ought to know. The coast guard
finally found something out there off Malibu. Oh yeah, the
remains of your skipper on the Tatus. What that's impossible, Nancy,
also evidence that he'd been murdered, murdered, probably by you. Meryl.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
No, he's still alive.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
What wait, Fancy, can you prove it?
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Or would you rather have your husband charge with his murder?
Speaker 4 (21:41):
No, he's in Mexico with the yacht.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Nancy, be quiet. That's what I figured. At some remote
little port on the coast of Mexico, he and the
Tatus Dollar where the yacht can be completely gone over disguise. Meanwhile,
of course, you thought you'd collect the insurance on air
because of the completely phony wreck. You almost got away
thanks to the fog and the doctors, and then you
fool a could all right, how did you find out
(22:10):
and Dollar the all wife's phony jewels tipped me off
that you are not exactly paragons of virtue, pony mister
Donald haste Hanley and nothing else. And I'll lay odds
they'll sell the originals that they plan to carefully lose
the fakes. Why didn't they claim to lose them in
the wreck? All that would have been overplaying their hand.
Apparently having saved those jewels made the wreck with all
them more legitimate. But the really clever stunt was dumping
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oil on the water and some odd bits of wreckage
away from the spot where they blew off the rat. Yeah,
it almost kept the coast guard from finding the cans
of explosives they've used for the little fireworks display. But Meryl,
the only thing around here that's been sunk is you Dollar.
I'll fight you and this this insurance company with every
(22:53):
legal trick in the book. You know something, mister maryn
I don't think you'll get the first base. Yeah, when
a krook tries to pull a fast one on an
honest insurance company, well you'll see what I mean when
the courts get through with Marylyn. His wife extens account
total including mileage on the Rental carn a couple of
(23:15):
extra days to Beverly Hilton one hundred and one fifty
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar is calling.
(23:41):
Bob Bailey, written Nights in the Hollywood and has written
and produced and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard in our
cast were Paula Winslow, eleanor orby Jeene Tatum, Ben Wright,
Erry Bartel, will Wright, Lawrence Dobkin, then Barney Phillips.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
Be sure to join us next week, same time and station.
Another exciting story of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollars.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
This is Roy Rowan speaking Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar. Has
(24:51):
been a presentation of the United States Armed Forces Radio
and Television Service
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