November 9, 2025 • 24 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 (00:00):
From Hollywood. It's time now for.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Johnny Dallon Peter Hanley at Western Maritime and Property.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh yeah, mister Hanley, I found.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
This message to call you. You're still in town at
the Beverly Hilton.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I thought you'd be back in Hartford by.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Now when I can enjoy a spot like this on
expensive count What this California weather?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The swimming pool here at the hotel? Wait?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
No, no, wait, you say, on expense account?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Why sure, doll it.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You cleared up that mata forse. You proved conclusively that
Randall Merrill did not lose his yacht and the explosion
of the sinking were fake.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And incidentally, as you anticipated, the yacht was found in
a small Mexican seaport, all ready to be rebuilt and
repainted to thoroughly disguise.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Now, mister Hanley.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Oh, by the way, in spite of his earlier vindicted,
miss Merrill has decided to plead guilty and threw himself
on the mercy of.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
The court as he signed a confession. Well no, then
I'll bet he changes his tune by the time he
goes to trial. Oh sure, that's an old trick. To
slow things up gain time. Are you having Missus Merrill
hell as an accessory?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The Meryl is made and signed a statement completely carrying
is so hold her now would only complicate matters.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Henley, Either you haven't yet read my expensive convery or
I forgot to or I forgot to tell you what
tipped me off? That that bear was trying to pull
something on us? What for jewels that you'd ensure it
for one hundred thousand dollars? Oh no, oh, yes, Hanley,
that jewelry Missus Merrill showed us was fake paste.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You still think I how to go back to Hartford?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
No, no, no, no, not until you found out where
the real jewels are. Can you come down to the office,
mister Dollar right away?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Sure if you like?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
No, no, no, no, I'll drive there to your.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Hotel whatever you say.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yes, I'll be there right away.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Scotch and so to be all right? What you suddenly
sound as though you could use it?
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Drink while Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man
with the Action Packed Expenser out, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Was truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny dollar the Western
Maritime and Property Insurance Company in Los Angeles, California. Following
is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the Wayward Diamonds matter. Expense account out of one two
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dollars and a quarter for drinks in my room at
the Beverly Hilton by the time room service had delivered them,
collected the tip and left. Peter Hanley arrived. Yeah, come in, I.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Make no bones about it, mister Donna. I had completely
forgotten about those jewels of Missus Merrill.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Well, I can't say that I blame you. We were
so intent on exposing the so called singing in that
yacht exactly. All right, all right, relax here, come on now,
sit down and relax while we map out a plan
of action.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Thank you. After you hung up, I suddenly remember that
you have mentioned the fact that those jewels were fake
to missus Merrill herself. Yeah, that's right, all right. Well, well,
how did you know that they were fakes?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Mister Donna?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You remember when we sat in their living room out
in Westwood while they gave us that cock and bull
story about the yacht going down.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, yes, I remember, all right. She handed me the
jewels to look at.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I kind of absent mindedly drag one of the so
called diamonds across the glass top of the coffee table
and realized it didn't scratch it. Now did any of
the others, which proved they weren't diamonds at all, but
some kind of imitations. Look, why kid about it, Hanley.
Up to that point, they'd had me believing their story
about losing that yacht.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
You weren't alone, Dollar, you weren't alone. But now I
sup we'd better call in the police about that jewelry.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Why the police to see if they can find the
original Now, look, look, the Merrills are a clever pair.
They've proved that when they almost got away with one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars claim against you for a
boat that didn't sink after all.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Very true, Dollar, very true. So you can be.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Pretty sure they didn't take the diamonds out of that
jewelry in just hand them over to some fence around here.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Yes, you're right. Later, I suppose she figured to lose
the fakes, have them stolen, and then claim the insurance.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Probably, if we hadn't have the old man for the
yacht fraud. You say she hasn't been held.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
No, but I see now that she should have been,
in spite of her husband's statement that she was completely
innocent of any complicity in the whole scheme.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, I think she should have.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You know, it's going to take a lot of money
to defend him, and with him in the clink, she's
the logicale.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
To raise it.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
With the diamonds, the real diamond that's my guess. Very well,
then I'll go over to the police headquarters right away,
charge it with fraud, you know, because of the diamonds,
and see that she is held untois she tells us
where we can recover them.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Hadn't you better get evidence of fraud first?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Mere fact that she's substituted paste for the real diamonds
in their door.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Well, a lot of people do that, never wear the
real stuff in public unless they have a lot of
guards around.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, even so, no, Henley, you've got.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
To prove that she's actually got rid of the real
ones or tries to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You see, I don't think she's had a chance to yet.
Why not?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
No, No, listen, I'm running of a nice fat item
for you on my expense account.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
What kind of an item.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, so far it only amounts to one hundred and
one hundred and fifty dollars what for fee to a
private detective agency, somebody at the tailor twenty four hours
a day in.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
The hope of finding out what she's doing with the
genuine stones.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
More important to find out how she'll try to dispose
of them.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
But you may have done that sometime agoin on it.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Why it's only recently they've needed do Granted they had
two plans, the phony singing of the yacht and later,
if that worked, a phony loss of their phony diamonds.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
But why later run.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Them both together? It looks suspicious.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
What's more, apparently saving the jewels made the accident look legitimate.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yes, I suppose sure, I remember this.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
She made a big thing of having saved her jewelry.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
When we still believed the wreck was legitimate.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
She made a big point of displaying those phonies to
us because she wanted to be sure we'd not only
see them, but believe they were the originals, that we'd
be witnessed of the fact she still had them.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Yes, I see, but she must recall that you finally
recognized them as peace.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, like you, and I almost forgot about it, simply
because they had nothing directly to do with the matters
at hand.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
And she may think that we have forgotten.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean, I doubt it.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
The point is now she needs money. He saw to
it that she stayed free to raise it.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
And the diamonds are probably her only way of getting.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It, which is why I put a detective on her.
Oh excuse me, Johnny Dower.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
How did Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, look, I'll be right over. Oh the detective I
was talking about. It is just law.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
This job I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
He just came too, came too. Yeah, the home of
missus Merrill. He's in her home, yes, but she isn't.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
She's gone Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
a moment.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there's
a good sound reason for it. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising, the battle
was a furiously fought affair. Army Private Robert H. Von Schlick,
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serving with Company C of the ninth United States Infantry Division,
was in the thick of the Phrakus. Although he had
been wounded previously while carrying a wounded comrade to a
place of safety, he rejoined his command, which partly occupied
an exposed position on a dike. Private Pon Schlick remained
there after his company had been withdrawn, and, in spite
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of the hail of bullets around him, single handedly continued
to fire into the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the fact
that he was a conspicuous target, he refused to leave
the fight until he was literally shot off his position
by the enemy. Private Robert von Schlick earned the Medal
of Honor for valiant devotion to duty and added heroic
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background to the Code of Conduct of American Fighting Men.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Wayward Diamonds.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Matter in separate cars.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I still have my rattle Jobete the insurance man, and
I drove out to Westwood, just beyond Beverly Hills.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Yeah, sure that detective was here at the Mellow home
when he called.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well that's what he said.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
But if he was supposed to simply tell you.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah, that's right, and I take it just sam Benji,
Holy smoke, what happened to you?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Where's missus Merrill?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Well, like I told you on a phoneus the dollars,
she's gone, and the idea of where.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
He You mind?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
If I said, I don't feel so good? No, no,
go ahead, go on? So all right, Chelse said, Now
what happened? Well, I was walking up and down the street. Huh.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
You know, real casual So it's not the Rosmalds.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You've been walking up and down in front of this
house all morning morning.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
But like I say, real casuals.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Why don't you ever learn to be a detective? Some
correspondence courses A love dollar.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You shouldn't talk like that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I resented, okay, all right, go ahead and resent it.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
But prowling up and down in front of the house,
it was a very good Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And if you didn't think I was a good operator,
if he wouldn't, all right, what happened?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Well, I see it come out the back door, you know,
missus Merlin. Wow, And I said, go out, and she
opens up the garage. How are you my good luck?
I just happened to be in front of the driveway
about then, so real casual. I lean over and I
start tying up my shoe lace, you know, so she
won't get suspicious.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Me go on, go on.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Well, she gets in the car and she gives me
a look.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But that's all so I figures me being a casual lull.
She's not wise to what I'm doing around here.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I bet she wasn't. But that's where you're wrong, dollar, because.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Somehow she must have figured it out, even with me
being a casual.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, all right, what happened?
Speaker 10 (10:38):
Well, dollars, she comes bown out of garage so fast,
I didn't have hard.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
And she casually ran you down, So it was casual
about it.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
By the time picked myself up. In the final I
gotta bust the bone. She's down the street and around
the corner.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
What kind of a car was she driving? What was
a license number? I don't know, You don't know. Well,
little howell happens? So whoever has signed you to this job?
You my brother? Don't you will say anything about my
brother if you get into this house. My order said, if.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
She made me move, I was to phone you. I
figured nearest phones in here. How did you get in well,
I looked a honest you want to back windows?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Have any authority to enter this house? A warrant? Maybe?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
No, but I have.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
My orders to phone you just as soon as I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Like I said, have figured the nearest boat. You want
to see my owners? No I don't. We'll look see here.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You look, you can take those back to your office
and shove them in your darling brother's face.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't forget to tell him your fire.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Aw Now, look, dollar, anybody can make one of the
mistake you asked me.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You made them all. Now go on, get out of
that chair and get out of here.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I suppose that car that's parked right across the street,
I suppose that's yours.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
So that she made a move, I could follow without
wasting no time, real casual, so she wouldn't know you
were following her of car.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I go on, get out all You.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Wasn't really serious about.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You being fired? You bet I was.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
And you can tell your brother he and his agency are.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, go on, I'll settle with him.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Lay.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Look, I'm used to be like this, Oh brother, Well, Hanny,
it looks like I called in the wrong detective agents.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yes, Sorr, I'm.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Afraid so, and I suppose you and I have no
more right to be in this house than that idiot had.
So perhaps we better leap.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, sure, but not until you get on the phone
and call the Department of Motive Vehicles. Oh, find out
from then the year making model of missus Nancy Merrill's car.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
No better, still, I can I can call my office.
Your office, Yes, we issued the insurance on that car.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh good.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Meantime, Rather than just sit here and twiddle my thumbs,
I'm gonna have a look around. But dalla, if I
were simply being here as illegal, would you stop worrying
about it and get on that phone. In the bedroom
I found the jewel box, all right, but no sign
of the jewels. However, in a desk I did find
a receipt, A receided bill has a work done by
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a jeweler in Westwood Village. The amount of the bill, yeah,
it was more than enough to cover the substituting phonies
for the diamonds in the actual rate.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So when Handley got the.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Description Nancy Merrill's car, I sent them over to West
La Police headquarters. They have my pals over there, put
out an APB on it. Then I hopped into my
own car and headed for the jewelry store of Westwood.
You know something, if I'd had any idea of what
was waiting for me there, Believe me, I'd never have
gone along.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Act Free of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Kentucky's state flag is dark blue, with the seal of
the Commonwealth and circled by a wreath of golden rod,
the state flower. Within the seal, two friends embrace. They're right,
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hands clasped. They're left resting on each other's shoulder, their
feet on the verge of a precipice, which illustrates the
motto beneath them united we stand, Divided, we fall. Kentucky
state flag, the flag of the fifteenth state to enter
the Union, was adopted on March twenty sixth, nineteen, one
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hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
And now Act Free of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Wayward Diamonds matter.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Howard's Hillcrest Jewelry is a small but very exclusive shop
on Wayvern Avenue in the Westwood village section of Los Angeles. There,
with a help of receipt I'd found at Nancy Merrill's desk,
I hope to get on the track of the missing diamonds.
I entered the snooty little shop and asked for the owner.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
I'm sorry, my good man, but mister Hard Howard is
engaged with one of our important clients.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well, I'm here on rather important business.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Will let you care to leave your name? And he
wishes to see you. Perhaps we shall call you.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm missus Smitheka.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Look, how delightful to see say and he liked the
jewel caller is selected for him. She's just a lovely puppy,
you know.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He's the favorite of all my dogy friends.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Just is your my favorite?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
For this?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Howard, my son, this is my penworth.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
You have no idea I would brighten the data and.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
You drop in Oops, no, no, please, Nancy, Nancy, my dear, yes,
my pet.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
When I removed the genuine diamonds from your.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Various pieces and replaced them with paste, it was with
the distinct understand.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
I know, dear, I know, but now I have to
have the real stones put back.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Why, as I understood, it was in order to have
the fake gem stolen so that you could collect one.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
Of course, it was, of course Howard our planned to
claim that the yacht exploded failed. Randolph was in jail.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He didn't involve you in that, guy, must say, rather
foolish plot.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Oh no, but I have to go through the motions
of getting in legal help.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Excellent, my dear, I hope they keeping me.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Howard Randolph has stood in the way of our romance.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Too long, my.
Speaker 12 (16:04):
Bead, Howard, please listen. Because of the yacht, they send
an insurance investigator out here. Investigator, yes, a mister Johnny
Dollar Galla good heavens you know him.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I know about him. I don't like this.
Speaker 12 (16:18):
And he found that these jewels I have now are paced.
Now you've got to put the original stones back so
that when he sees them again, you'll think he was mistaken.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Impossible.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
I've already disposed of them through various connections.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Why did you show him those fates?
Speaker 12 (16:32):
Well, I thought I thought you thought wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You're stupid, wench.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Whow don't you see you may have opened the door
to investigation of some of the other favors I've been
doing you and other customers to beat your insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But oh, of course you didn't. But if Dola ever connects.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Me with those imitations, oh dear, how I know?
Speaker 12 (16:51):
And if they ever find out that the lost you
fake here in the store that you collected so much
on see, if.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
They ever discover that that was faked, I'll go up
well life thanks to you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh no, I could kill you for being.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Such a don I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I didn't really don't know anything.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Howard, please, Oh shut up, but.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There's anything anything I can said?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Shut up?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Howard?
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Will you be quiet?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I got to think this thing out.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I knew from the beginning of that stupid trick with
the yacht wouldn't work on I told.
Speaker 12 (17:23):
You so, But it fooled the police and the coast guard.
How are we to know the insurance company would send
that Johnny Dollar out here?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You just stop talking about him. We've got to figure
our way out of this. Miss Who else besides Dollar
knows about the phony jewels I made.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Up for, you know?
Speaker 12 (17:38):
And Howard except my husband of color?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
How could they know? What if your husband talks?
Speaker 12 (17:43):
Oh he doesn't, dare don't you see he's the one
who sent me here to get the stones back, so
the Dollar can't prove he saw the imitation.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
And I tell you I can't get them back.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
They're probably scan it all over the country by now.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
But don't you see, unless we can show them to him,
the ones, I mean, show them to this Johnny Dollard.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
No, it's impossible.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So that means only one thing.
Speaker 12 (18:08):
Nancy, replacing the fakes with some other genuine story.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
No, No, that would take months, don't Nancy. It means
that I have to get rid of this man Dollar.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
The gun, that's right, You kill.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Him, Yes, Nancy, I'll kill him if I can find him.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I'll save you the trouble of looking for me. How Dollar,
And is that the gun you plan to kill me with?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Yes, that's right, and I think i'd better kill you
right now.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Please, I'll put that thing down, Howard. You're not gonna
shoot with customers out fry.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Private vault is just outside this back door of my office.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Dollar, and it's open in there.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
The sound of a shock won't be heard out front.
No kidding, no kidding, all right, out that little door.
What you don't really leave me much choice to you?
I'll open it carefully. No tricks, tricks, put a gun
on my back. All right, open the door, go ahead.
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It seems stuck. Maybe you'd better open it. I said,
no tricks.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You open it?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
What you do?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You bet?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I do?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Go ahead, dolla.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You may be sorry for this, you know?
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Will you quit sauling and open it?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Go I tell them I'm not to be disturbed.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'll see them in a few minutes.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Go on.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
The police, bless Peter, Yes, I do, Dona.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
No shots?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Johnny? Hi, Peter?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Oh, thank heavens, thank heaven.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Yeah, it looks like he's okay.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Mister Hanley a dollar one under the sun.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Did you do to our friend Howard here?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Well, we had a little argument, Sageant. I'll tell you all
about it, and then you can haul him.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Off to the Clinton.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Oh hey, listen, if you've got something on Howard Howard,
you'll be our friend for.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Life, Sageant. I've got plenty good.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Because, brother, we've been trying to catch up with him
for years.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Coincidentally, have you got to sell for missus merrill? To you?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Bet?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We have.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Expense account had him two fifteen dollars in legal fees
to make a deposition, so I won't have to hang
around for a trial or two or three. And I
have a sneaking suspicion that Howard and Marilyn, his wife,
are going to have a long, long time to think
things over. Expense account total including additional mileage on my
rental car and the trip back to Hartford two hundred
and eighteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Even yours, truly, shohiny.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Dollar, our star will return in just a moment.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
There are some men who, after being practically pushed into
the service, find their element and commit heroic deeds. Frank
Luke was that sort of young man. Soon after the
United States entered World War I, Luke was taunted by
his patriotic family into joining up. He was commissioned a
second lieutenant after completing his flight training with the Signal
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Corps Air Service, that small beginning of to day's Mighty
Air Force. Lieutenant Luke found it difficult to accept the
discipline so necessary in the military. When he got to
France and was assigned to the English SPADs, his attitude
worried is commanding officer, but Luke's performance in the air didn't.
In less than two months in aerial combat, he accounted
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for seven enemy aircraft and earned himself the nickname of
balloon Buster for knocking down eleven or twelve of those
menaces to the ground troops the observation balloon. For his
gallant action in the face of great danger and overwhelming odds,
he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and the Medal
of Honor. Shortly before the end of the war, Lieutenant
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Frank Luke made his last heroic combat flight. After having
just returned from a sizzling air battle, he refueled his
spad and took off on an extra duty mission. Pursued
by eight enemy planes, he shot down three balloons. He
was wounded, and his plane was so badly damaged in
the action that he had to make a forced landing
in a German cemetery. Perhaps the irony of it struck
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him at the time. When called upon to surrender, he
preferred to open fire with his automatic and fight to
the death. Though he was only twenty one years of age.
Lieutenant Frank Luke may have had trouble adjusting to the
military life, but when he did, he was a gallant
fighter and a credit to his country.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Next week, a quiet little fishing fear on the coast
of California. Only they call it the Peer of Death.
Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood
and has written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard
in our cast were Paula Winslow, then right, Jack Pushan,
Jack Edwards, Marvin Miller, and Joseph Curns.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Be sure to join us next week, same time and station, or.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the United States
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Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
From Hollywood. It's time now for.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Johnny Dallon Peter Hanley at Western Maritime and Property.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Oh yeah, mister Hanley, I found.
Speaker 4 (00:13):
This message to call you. You're still in town at
the Beverly Hilton.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Yes, that's right.
Speaker 4 (00:17):
I thought you'd be back in Hartford by.
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Now when I can enjoy a spot like this on
expensive count What this California weather?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The swimming pool here at the hotel? Wait?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
No, no, wait, you say, on expense account?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Why sure, doll it.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You cleared up that mata forse. You proved conclusively that
Randall Merrill did not lose his yacht and the explosion
of the sinking were fake.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
And incidentally, as you anticipated, the yacht was found in
a small Mexican seaport, all ready to be rebuilt and
repainted to thoroughly disguise.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Now, mister Hanley.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Oh, by the way, in spite of his earlier vindicted,
miss Merrill has decided to plead guilty and threw himself
on the mercy of.
Speaker 5 (00:55):
The court as he signed a confession. Well no, then
I'll bet he changes his tune by the time he
goes to trial. Oh sure, that's an old trick. To
slow things up gain time. Are you having Missus Merrill
hell as an accessory?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
The Meryl is made and signed a statement completely carrying
is so hold her now would only complicate matters.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Henley, Either you haven't yet read my expensive convery or
I forgot to or I forgot to tell you what
tipped me off? That that bear was trying to pull
something on us? What for jewels that you'd ensure it
for one hundred thousand dollars? Oh no, oh, yes, Hanley,
that jewelry Missus Merrill showed us was fake paste.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
You still think I how to go back to Hartford?
Speaker 4 (01:41):
No, no, no, no, not until you found out where
the real jewels are. Can you come down to the office,
mister Dollar right away?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
Sure if you like?
Speaker 4 (01:47):
No, no, no, no, I'll drive there to your.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Hotel whatever you say.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yes, I'll be there right away.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Scotch and so to be all right? What you suddenly
sound as though you could use it?
Speaker 6 (01:57):
Drink while Bailey in The Exciting Adventures of the Man
with the Action Packed Expenser out, America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Was truly Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny dollar the Western
Maritime and Property Insurance Company in Los Angeles, California. Following
is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of
the Wayward Diamonds matter. Expense account out of one two
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dollars and a quarter for drinks in my room at
the Beverly Hilton by the time room service had delivered them,
collected the tip and left. Peter Hanley arrived. Yeah, come in, I.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Make no bones about it, mister Donna. I had completely
forgotten about those jewels of Missus Merrill.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
Well, I can't say that I blame you. We were
so intent on exposing the so called singing in that
yacht exactly. All right, all right, relax here, come on now,
sit down and relax while we map out a plan
of action.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
Thank you. After you hung up, I suddenly remember that
you have mentioned the fact that those jewels were fake
to missus Merrill herself. Yeah, that's right, all right. Well, well,
how did you know that they were fakes?
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Mister Donna?
Speaker 5 (03:29):
You remember when we sat in their living room out
in Westwood while they gave us that cock and bull
story about the yacht going down.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Yes, yes, I remember, all right. She handed me the
jewels to look at.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I kind of absent mindedly drag one of the so
called diamonds across the glass top of the coffee table
and realized it didn't scratch it. Now did any of
the others, which proved they weren't diamonds at all, but
some kind of imitations. Look, why kid about it, Hanley.
Up to that point, they'd had me believing their story
about losing that yacht.
Speaker 7 (03:56):
You weren't alone, Dollar, you weren't alone. But now I
sup we'd better call in the police about that jewelry.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
Why the police to see if they can find the
original Now, look, look, the Merrills are a clever pair.
They've proved that when they almost got away with one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars claim against you for a
boat that didn't sink after all.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
Very true, Dollar, very true. So you can be.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Pretty sure they didn't take the diamonds out of that
jewelry in just hand them over to some fence around here.
Speaker 7 (04:22):
Yes, you're right. Later, I suppose she figured to lose
the fakes, have them stolen, and then claim the insurance.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Probably, if we hadn't have the old man for the
yacht fraud. You say she hasn't been held.
Speaker 7 (04:35):
No, but I see now that she should have been,
in spite of her husband's statement that she was completely
innocent of any complicity in the whole scheme.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Yeah, I think she should have.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
You know, it's going to take a lot of money
to defend him, and with him in the clink, she's
the logicale.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
To raise it.
Speaker 7 (04:51):
With the diamonds, the real diamond that's my guess. Very well,
then I'll go over to the police headquarters right away,
charge it with fraud, you know, because of the diamonds,
and see that she is held untois she tells us
where we can recover them.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Hadn't you better get evidence of fraud first?
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Mere fact that she's substituted paste for the real diamonds
in their door.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Well, a lot of people do that, never wear the
real stuff in public unless they have a lot of
guards around.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Well, even so, no, Henley, you've got.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
To prove that she's actually got rid of the real
ones or tries to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
You see, I don't think she's had a chance to yet.
Why not?
Speaker 5 (05:23):
No, No, listen, I'm running of a nice fat item
for you on my expense account.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
What kind of an item.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Well, so far it only amounts to one hundred and
one hundred and fifty dollars what for fee to a
private detective agency, somebody at the tailor twenty four hours
a day in.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
The hope of finding out what she's doing with the
genuine stones.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
More important to find out how she'll try to dispose
of them.
Speaker 7 (05:42):
But you may have done that sometime agoin on it.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Why it's only recently they've needed do Granted they had
two plans, the phony singing of the yacht and later,
if that worked, a phony loss of their phony diamonds.
Speaker 7 (05:54):
But why later run.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Them both together? It looks suspicious.
Speaker 5 (05:58):
What's more, apparently saving the jewels made the accident look legitimate.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Yes, I suppose sure, I remember this.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
She made a big thing of having saved her jewelry.
Speaker 7 (06:07):
When we still believed the wreck was legitimate.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
She made a big point of displaying those phonies to
us because she wanted to be sure we'd not only
see them, but believe they were the originals, that we'd
be witnessed of the fact she still had them.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Yes, I see, but she must recall that you finally
recognized them as peace.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, like you, and I almost forgot about it, simply
because they had nothing directly to do with the matters
at hand.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
And she may think that we have forgotten.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I mean, I doubt it.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
The point is now she needs money. He saw to
it that she stayed free to raise it.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
And the diamonds are probably her only way of getting.
Speaker 5 (06:40):
It, which is why I put a detective on her.
Oh excuse me, Johnny Dower.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, what.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Well?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
How did Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, look, I'll be right over. Oh the detective I
was talking about. It is just law.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
This job I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
He just came too, came too. Yeah, the home of
missus Merrill. He's in her home, yes, but she isn't.
Speaker 8 (07:09):
She's gone Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in
a moment.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Although most men by nature don't feel in a combat
mood much of the time, there are some who just
can't get enough of a good fight, particularly if there's
a good sound reason for it. In July nineteen hundred,
when American fighting men were protecting the rights and liberty
of their fellow countrymen during the Boxer Uprising, the battle
was a furiously fought affair. Army Private Robert H. Von Schlick,
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serving with Company C of the ninth United States Infantry Division,
was in the thick of the Phrakus. Although he had
been wounded previously while carrying a wounded comrade to a
place of safety, he rejoined his command, which partly occupied
an exposed position on a dike. Private Pon Schlick remained
there after his company had been withdrawn, and, in spite
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of the hail of bullets around him, single handedly continued
to fire into the enemy ranks. Oblivious to the fact
that he was a conspicuous target, he refused to leave
the fight until he was literally shot off his position
by the enemy. Private Robert von Schlick earned the Medal
of Honor for valiant devotion to duty and added heroic
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background to the Code of Conduct of American Fighting Men.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
And now Act two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Wayward Diamonds.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Matter in separate cars.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I still have my rattle Jobete the insurance man, and
I drove out to Westwood, just beyond Beverly Hills.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Yeah, sure that detective was here at the Mellow home
when he called.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Well that's what he said.
Speaker 7 (09:10):
But if he was supposed to simply tell you.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Yeah, that's right, and I take it just sam Benji,
Holy smoke, what happened to you?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Where's missus Merrill?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Well, like I told you on a phoneus the dollars,
she's gone, and the idea of where.
Speaker 8 (09:29):
He You mind?
Speaker 3 (09:30):
If I said, I don't feel so good? No, no,
go ahead, go on? So all right, Chelse said, Now
what happened? Well, I was walking up and down the street. Huh.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
You know, real casual So it's not the Rosmalds.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
You've been walking up and down in front of this
house all morning morning.
Speaker 10 (09:46):
But like I say, real casuals.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
Why don't you ever learn to be a detective? Some
correspondence courses A love dollar.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You shouldn't talk like that.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
I resented, okay, all right, go ahead and resent it.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
But prowling up and down in front of the house,
it was a very good Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
And if you didn't think I was a good operator,
if he wouldn't, all right, what happened?
Speaker 10 (10:04):
Well, I see it come out the back door, you know,
missus Merlin. Wow, And I said, go out, and she
opens up the garage. How are you my good luck?
I just happened to be in front of the driveway
about then, so real casual. I lean over and I
start tying up my shoe lace, you know, so she
won't get suspicious.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Me go on, go on.
Speaker 10 (10:21):
Well, she gets in the car and she gives me
a look.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
But that's all so I figures me being a casual lull.
She's not wise to what I'm doing around here.
Speaker 9 (10:29):
You know.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
I bet she wasn't. But that's where you're wrong, dollar, because.
Speaker 10 (10:32):
Somehow she must have figured it out, even with me
being a casual.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, all right, what happened?
Speaker 10 (10:38):
Well, dollars, she comes bown out of garage so fast,
I didn't have hard.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
And she casually ran you down, So it was casual
about it.
Speaker 10 (10:46):
By the time picked myself up. In the final I
gotta bust the bone. She's down the street and around
the corner.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
What kind of a car was she driving? What was
a license number? I don't know, You don't know. Well,
little howell happens? So whoever has signed you to this job?
You my brother? Don't you will say anything about my
brother if you get into this house. My order said, if.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
She made me move, I was to phone you. I
figured nearest phones in here. How did you get in well,
I looked a honest you want to back windows?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Have any authority to enter this house? A warrant? Maybe?
Speaker 7 (11:14):
No, but I have.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
My orders to phone you just as soon as I couldn't.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Like I said, have figured the nearest boat. You want
to see my owners? No I don't. We'll look see here.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
You look, you can take those back to your office
and shove them in your darling brother's face.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
I don't forget to tell him your fire.
Speaker 10 (11:29):
Aw Now, look, dollar, anybody can make one of the
mistake you asked me.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
You made them all. Now go on, get out of
that chair and get out of here.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I suppose that car that's parked right across the street,
I suppose that's yours.
Speaker 10 (11:43):
So that she made a move, I could follow without
wasting no time, real casual, so she wouldn't know you
were following her of car.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
I go on, get out all You.
Speaker 10 (11:52):
Wasn't really serious about.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
You being fired? You bet I was.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
And you can tell your brother he and his agency are.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Oh, go on, I'll settle with him.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Lay.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Look, I'm used to be like this, Oh brother, Well, Hanny,
it looks like I called in the wrong detective agents.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Yes, Sorr, I'm.
Speaker 7 (12:08):
Afraid so, and I suppose you and I have no
more right to be in this house than that idiot had.
So perhaps we better leap.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
Yeah, sure, but not until you get on the phone
and call the Department of Motive Vehicles. Oh, find out
from then the year making model of missus Nancy Merrill's car.
Speaker 7 (12:22):
No better, still, I can I can call my office.
Your office, Yes, we issued the insurance on that car.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Oh good.
Speaker 5 (12:27):
Meantime, Rather than just sit here and twiddle my thumbs,
I'm gonna have a look around. But dalla, if I
were simply being here as illegal, would you stop worrying
about it and get on that phone. In the bedroom
I found the jewel box, all right, but no sign
of the jewels. However, in a desk I did find
a receipt, A receided bill has a work done by
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a jeweler in Westwood Village. The amount of the bill, yeah,
it was more than enough to cover the substituting phonies
for the diamonds in the actual rate.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
So when Handley got the.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Description Nancy Merrill's car, I sent them over to West
La Police headquarters. They have my pals over there, put
out an APB on it. Then I hopped into my
own car and headed for the jewelry store of Westwood.
You know something, if I'd had any idea of what
was waiting for me there, Believe me, I'd never have
gone along.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Act Free of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Kentucky's state flag is dark blue, with the seal of
the Commonwealth and circled by a wreath of golden rod,
the state flower. Within the seal, two friends embrace. They're right,
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hands clasped. They're left resting on each other's shoulder, their
feet on the verge of a precipice, which illustrates the
motto beneath them united we stand, Divided, we fall. Kentucky
state flag, the flag of the fifteenth state to enter
the Union, was adopted on March twenty sixth, nineteen, one
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hundred and eighteen.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
And now Act Free of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar and
the Wayward Diamonds matter.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Howard's Hillcrest Jewelry is a small but very exclusive shop
on Wayvern Avenue in the Westwood village section of Los Angeles. There,
with a help of receipt I'd found at Nancy Merrill's desk,
I hope to get on the track of the missing diamonds.
I entered the snooty little shop and asked for the owner.
Speaker 9 (14:36):
I'm sorry, my good man, but mister Hard Howard is
engaged with one of our important clients.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Well, I'm here on rather important business.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Will let you care to leave your name? And he
wishes to see you. Perhaps we shall call you.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm missus Smitheka.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Look, how delightful to see say and he liked the
jewel caller is selected for him. She's just a lovely puppy,
you know.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
He's the favorite of all my dogy friends.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Just is your my favorite?
Speaker 7 (15:02):
For this?
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Howard, my son, this is my penworth.
Speaker 10 (15:04):
You have no idea I would brighten the data and.
Speaker 11 (15:06):
You drop in Oops, no, no, please, Nancy, Nancy, my dear, yes,
my pet.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
When I removed the genuine diamonds from your.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Various pieces and replaced them with paste, it was with
the distinct understand.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
I know, dear, I know, but now I have to
have the real stones put back.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Why, as I understood, it was in order to have
the fake gem stolen so that you could collect one.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
Of course, it was, of course Howard our planned to
claim that the yacht exploded failed. Randolph was in jail.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He didn't involve you in that, guy, must say, rather
foolish plot.
Speaker 12 (15:54):
Oh no, but I have to go through the motions
of getting in legal help.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Excellent, my dear, I hope they keeping me.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Howard Randolph has stood in the way of our romance.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Too long, my.
Speaker 12 (16:04):
Bead, Howard, please listen. Because of the yacht, they send
an insurance investigator out here. Investigator, yes, a mister Johnny
Dollar Galla good heavens you know him.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
I know about him. I don't like this.
Speaker 12 (16:18):
And he found that these jewels I have now are paced.
Now you've got to put the original stones back so
that when he sees them again, you'll think he was mistaken.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
Impossible.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
I've already disposed of them through various connections.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Why did you show him those fates?
Speaker 12 (16:32):
Well, I thought I thought you thought wrong.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
You're stupid, wench.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Whow don't you see you may have opened the door
to investigation of some of the other favors I've been
doing you and other customers to beat your insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
But oh, of course you didn't. But if Dola ever connects.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Me with those imitations, oh dear, how I know?
Speaker 12 (16:51):
And if they ever find out that the lost you
fake here in the store that you collected so much
on see, if.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
They ever discover that that was faked, I'll go up
well life thanks to you.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Oh no, I could kill you for being.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Such a don I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I didn't really don't know anything.
Speaker 7 (17:07):
Howard, please, Oh shut up, but.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
There's anything anything I can said?
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Shut up?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Howard?
Speaker 12 (17:16):
Will you be quiet?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
I got to think this thing out.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
I knew from the beginning of that stupid trick with
the yacht wouldn't work on I told.
Speaker 12 (17:23):
You so, But it fooled the police and the coast guard.
How are we to know the insurance company would send
that Johnny Dollar out here?
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You just stop talking about him. We've got to figure
our way out of this. Miss Who else besides Dollar
knows about the phony jewels I made.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Up for, you know?
Speaker 12 (17:38):
And Howard except my husband of color?
Speaker 1 (17:40):
Are you sure?
Speaker 3 (17:41):
How could they know? What if your husband talks?
Speaker 12 (17:43):
Oh he doesn't, dare don't you see he's the one
who sent me here to get the stones back, so
the Dollar can't prove he saw the imitation.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
And I tell you I can't get them back.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
They're probably scan it all over the country by now.
Speaker 12 (17:56):
But don't you see, unless we can show them to him,
the ones, I mean, show them to this Johnny Dollard.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
No, it's impossible.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
So that means only one thing.
Speaker 12 (18:08):
Nancy, replacing the fakes with some other genuine story.
Speaker 3 (18:12):
No, No, that would take months, don't Nancy. It means
that I have to get rid of this man Dollar.
Speaker 7 (18:23):
The gun, that's right, You kill.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
Him, Yes, Nancy, I'll kill him if I can find him.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I'll save you the trouble of looking for me. How Dollar,
And is that the gun you plan to kill me with?
Speaker 7 (18:40):
Yes, that's right, and I think i'd better kill you
right now.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Please, I'll put that thing down, Howard. You're not gonna
shoot with customers out fry.
Speaker 7 (18:49):
Private vault is just outside this back door of my office.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Dollar, and it's open in there.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
The sound of a shock won't be heard out front.
No kidding, no kidding, all right, out that little door.
What you don't really leave me much choice to you?
I'll open it carefully. No tricks, tricks, put a gun
on my back. All right, open the door, go ahead.
(19:16):
It seems stuck. Maybe you'd better open it. I said,
no tricks.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You open it?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
What you do?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You bet?
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I do?
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Go ahead, dolla.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You may be sorry for this, you know?
Speaker 10 (19:27):
Will you quit sauling and open it?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
No?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Go I tell them I'm not to be disturbed.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
I'll see them in a few minutes.
Speaker 10 (19:39):
Go on.
Speaker 5 (19:43):
The police, bless Peter, Yes, I do, Dona.
Speaker 8 (19:52):
Are you all right?
Speaker 1 (19:53):
No shots?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Johnny? Hi, Peter?
Speaker 7 (19:56):
Oh, thank heavens, thank heaven.
Speaker 10 (19:59):
Yeah, it looks like he's okay.
Speaker 7 (20:01):
Mister Hanley a dollar one under the sun.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Did you do to our friend Howard here?
Speaker 5 (20:05):
Well, we had a little argument, Sageant. I'll tell you all
about it, and then you can haul him.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Off to the Clinton.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Oh hey, listen, if you've got something on Howard Howard,
you'll be our friend for.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Life, Sageant. I've got plenty good.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Because, brother, we've been trying to catch up with him
for years.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Coincidentally, have you got to sell for missus merrill? To you?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Bet?
Speaker 3 (20:24):
We have.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Expense account had him two fifteen dollars in legal fees
to make a deposition, so I won't have to hang
around for a trial or two or three. And I
have a sneaking suspicion that Howard and Marilyn, his wife,
are going to have a long, long time to think
things over. Expense account total including additional mileage on my
rental car and the trip back to Hartford two hundred
and eighteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
Even yours, truly, shohiny.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Dollar, our star will return in just a moment.
Speaker 9 (21:07):
There are some men who, after being practically pushed into
the service, find their element and commit heroic deeds. Frank
Luke was that sort of young man. Soon after the
United States entered World War I, Luke was taunted by
his patriotic family into joining up. He was commissioned a
second lieutenant after completing his flight training with the Signal
(21:28):
Corps Air Service, that small beginning of to day's Mighty
Air Force. Lieutenant Luke found it difficult to accept the
discipline so necessary in the military. When he got to
France and was assigned to the English SPADs, his attitude
worried is commanding officer, but Luke's performance in the air didn't.
In less than two months in aerial combat, he accounted
(21:50):
for seven enemy aircraft and earned himself the nickname of
balloon Buster for knocking down eleven or twelve of those
menaces to the ground troops the observation balloon. For his
gallant action in the face of great danger and overwhelming odds,
he was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses and the Medal
of Honor. Shortly before the end of the war, Lieutenant
(22:12):
Frank Luke made his last heroic combat flight. After having
just returned from a sizzling air battle, he refueled his
spad and took off on an extra duty mission. Pursued
by eight enemy planes, he shot down three balloons. He
was wounded, and his plane was so badly damaged in
the action that he had to make a forced landing
in a German cemetery. Perhaps the irony of it struck
(22:35):
him at the time. When called upon to surrender, he
preferred to open fire with his automatic and fight to
the death. Though he was only twenty one years of age.
Lieutenant Frank Luke may have had trouble adjusting to the
military life, but when he did, he was a gallant
fighter and a credit to his country.
Speaker 6 (22:55):
Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
Next week, a quiet little fishing fear on the coast
of California. Only they call it the Peer of Death.
Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
Speaker 6 (23:13):
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Starrying Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood
and has written, produced, and directed by Jack Johnstone. Heard
in our cast were Paula Winslow, then right, Jack Pushan,
Jack Edwards, Marvin Miller, and Joseph Curns.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
Be sure to join us next week, same time and station, or.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
Another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the United States
(24:03):
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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