1 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:34,640 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:37,840 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:41,119 going to bring you this week's episode of Yours Truly 4 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,520 Johnny Dollar. But first I do want to encourage you 5 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:47,880 as you're making your travel plans. Remember Johnny Dollar Air 6 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:51,119 dot com. Johnny Dollar air dot Com is a Priceline 7 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:53,960 affiliate link, so part of your purchase prize benefits the 8 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,799 great Detectives of Old Time Radio at no additional cost 9 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,880 to you. So remember when making your travel plans, think 10 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,960 Johnnydollar Air dot Com. 11 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:03,679 Speaker 2: First. 12 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:07,400 Speaker 1: Well, now we've got something really special for you, and 13 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:13,200 it is a recently unearthed Johnny Dollar episode. This was 14 00:01:13,239 --> 00:01:17,200 discovered by the Old Time Radio researchers as part of 15 00:01:17,239 --> 00:01:22,079 their Florida reels, and this was uncovered in the collection 16 00:01:22,879 --> 00:01:27,560 of collectors who were active between the nineteen sixties and 17 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,519 the nineteen nineties. This is one of three Yours Truly 18 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:35,560 Johnny Dollar episodes that were uncovered. The other two were 19 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,439 gonna hear much later since they feature Mandel. I've known 20 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,280 about these episodes for a few months, but I decided 21 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:47,159 to wait until after the run of episodes without any gap. 22 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,480 So we're going to go back now to May the twelfth, 23 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,239 nineteen fifty seven. Here now is the Glacier Ghost Matter 24 00:01:55,959 --> 00:01:56,879 from Hollywood. 25 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 2: That's time now for Johnny Dollar. 26 00:02:04,239 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 3: This is Walter Bascom. Mister Dollar. Ask him try Western 27 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:08,719 Life and Casualty. 28 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:11,000 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, Hawrey, it's. 29 00:02:10,879 --> 00:02:13,479 Speaker 3: Fine, it's fine, But I have a problem with one 30 00:02:13,520 --> 00:02:16,240 hundred thousand dollars claim. 31 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:17,280 Speaker 2: The big one. Huh, who's the villain this time? 32 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 3: Let's just dip. This is a claim I want to pay, but. 33 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 2: Can Oh that's a switch. But how can I help Dollar? 34 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:27,520 Speaker 3: I hope that you can find the body. 35 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:38,199 Speaker 4: Oh Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of a Man 36 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:42,000 with the action packed expense a Car America's fabulous freelance 37 00:02:42,039 --> 00:02:51,639 insurance investigator. It's truly Johnny Dollar. Now act one of 38 00:02:51,960 --> 00:03:10,039 your truly Johnny Dollars expense accounts. Spressional investigator Johnny Dollars 39 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,879 to the trial Western Wife and Pasual the insurance company 40 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:16,680 locked Angela's office following as an account of expenses incurred 41 00:03:16,719 --> 00:03:25,800 during my investigation of the Glacier Ghost Matter. Expense account 42 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,360 out of one one hundred dollars twenty five cents air 43 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:35,280 transportation Hartford to Los Angeles, California. It was late when 44 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,680 the big orangine plane circled slowly the land. In the 45 00:03:38,719 --> 00:03:41,120 clear night air. The myriad multicolored lights of the city 46 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,800 of Angels made it sparkle like some tremendous field of 47 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,319 precious stones. IDEM two for any taxi into the Ambassador Hotel, 48 00:03:49,439 --> 00:03:51,960 which is just a stone for all from Western's offices 49 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:56,159 on Wilshire Boulevards. I immediately hit the sack IDEM three 50 00:03:56,199 --> 00:03:59,039 two dollars even for breakfast the following morning, after which 51 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:03,080 I walked over the water, asking, as you got here 52 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:04,439 a lot sooner than I expected. 53 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 2: Thanks all. 54 00:04:08,719 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 4: Now, whose body am I supposed to dig up? Where 55 00:04:11,479 --> 00:04:12,199 I'll give it to you? 56 00:04:12,199 --> 00:04:15,360 Speaker 2: In a nutshell? The policy is straight light one hundred 57 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:16,560 thousand dollars. 58 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:19,920 Speaker 4: No double indemnity or special closet. And the insurance Raymond R. Sheldon, 59 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,160 partner in RYE. Coff Sheldon Plastics Company here in La 60 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:28,839 beneficiary his wife's glory. That's the section of town just 61 00:04:28,879 --> 00:04:31,720 out beyond Beverly Hills. Can I've had every bit of 62 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:34,439 Sheldon's insurance for some fifteen years, and his planned as 63 00:04:34,439 --> 00:04:38,519 well as household personal property, automobile and everything. It's been 64 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:41,240 a very profitable account I've handled myself. 65 00:04:41,560 --> 00:04:42,319 Speaker 2: So what's happened? 66 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 4: Both Sheldon and his business partner out at Rykoff were 67 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:48,199 in better at hunters and fishing in real normal follow 68 00:04:48,439 --> 00:04:50,839 spent all the time they could poking around up in 69 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:55,160 the high Sierras. Great shout company, I hear, yes. A 70 00:04:55,199 --> 00:04:57,920 two weeks ago one Friday afternoon, they took off to 71 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,439 do some exploring to locate if they could, a little 72 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:04,839 lake somewhere north of the Palisade Glacier, California. 73 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,480 Speaker 2: The Pallisade is the southernmost glacier in the country. So 74 00:05:08,519 --> 00:05:11,279 what happened? Or so, they packed in from the station 75 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:12,519 near the town of Big Pine. 76 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,199 Speaker 4: That's a couple of hundred miles north of here, in 77 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,240 the Mount Whitney area Whitney highest mountain in the United States. 78 00:05:17,519 --> 00:05:18,680 You know, there are a lot of high peaks in 79 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,959 that area, and I wanted it. You know, something never 80 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,199 melts at any rate. They found their lake only with 81 00:05:25,279 --> 00:05:27,439 a big one just below another glacier the other side 82 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:29,600 of Pallisade. The glacier they had to skirt in order 83 00:05:29,639 --> 00:05:32,920 to get back to the pack station. Well, that's where 84 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:37,279 it happened. Lone horse glacier blizzard came up. They had 85 00:05:37,319 --> 00:05:41,399 trouble finding their route and foolishly drifted apart big ice 86 00:05:41,480 --> 00:05:44,279 ledge broke off and plunged Sheldon down into a tremendous 87 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:46,079 deep crevass. 88 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,040 Speaker 2: What about his partner, Ranco? 89 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:51,959 Speaker 4: Two days later, half starved and barely alive, he crawled 90 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,399 into the backstation. You say both of them knew that 91 00:05:55,480 --> 00:06:01,360 country pretty well. Now, what was this crank on the 92 00:06:01,399 --> 00:06:05,680 phone about finding a body? Sheldons to establish legal proof 93 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,160 of this death. It's still somewhere up in that glacier ice. 94 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:10,480 Or did the search parties go on for as soon 95 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,920 as the storm cleared and they found where the break 96 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:15,519 in the ice shell procurred, we could see no sign of. 97 00:06:15,519 --> 00:06:17,959 Speaker 2: The body at the bottom. Well, that easily understandable. 98 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 4: But if a bunch of natives to that part of 99 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:23,199 the country couldn't find anything, how do you expect me 100 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:27,959 to I don't know, but I hope you'll try. Otherwise 101 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:30,680 the provision for a fifty two week wait have to apply. 102 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,959 I got it was seven years when no, I'm talking 103 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,480 about the standard disappearance following accidents in our policies. Why 104 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,279 are you so anxious to pay off this claim in 105 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:47,240 such a hurry? We know what happened to Ray Sheldon, 106 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:51,639 and according to his partner, right, yes, even if Sheldon 107 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,800 had survived the avalanche or whatever you want to call it, 108 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:56,639 he couldn't have lived more than a few hours up 109 00:06:56,639 --> 00:07:00,439 in that cold and much less ever, get back alone, soul. 110 00:07:01,439 --> 00:07:08,879 Why drag the whole thing out? His wife need the money, yes, yes, 111 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:15,360 very badly, and I take it to you know, Yes, 112 00:07:16,959 --> 00:07:21,120 it's very well done her. You see, I'm in love 113 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:27,839 with her. I let that one pass, although I was 114 00:07:27,879 --> 00:07:31,439 sure we'll know exactly what I must be taking. I 115 00:07:31,639 --> 00:07:33,199 M four a couple of bucks for a taxi out 116 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,759 of the Ry Cough Sheldon Plastics company on Washington Boulevard. 117 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:38,959 Amurry Cough turned out to be a tall, good looking, 118 00:07:39,040 --> 00:07:41,800 well built fellow in his late ferry, and, except for 119 00:07:41,839 --> 00:07:44,560 going into a bit more detail, gave me virtually. 120 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 2: The same story walk past. I wondered out loud just 121 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:49,959 how much the loss of his partner meant to him? 122 00:07:50,879 --> 00:07:51,800 Are you kidding? Dollar? 123 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 4: Ray was like a brother to me, but we were 124 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,600 closer than brothers, with a perfect partnership. 125 00:07:57,959 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 2: But hadn't been for Ray Sheldon, I wouldn't. 126 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,120 Speaker 4: Get the of this business, you mean because of his 127 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:04,879 death dollar before I came in here with him five 128 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,319 years ago. He built this plant up single handed. 129 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:09,759 Speaker 2: He was the one who struggled through all of its. 130 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:13,199 Speaker 4: Growing pains, financing, developing, the dying, and casting machines that 131 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:16,959 have finally got us the fat government contracts. That No, 132 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,000 wait a minute, yeah, you said I'm on top now 133 00:08:21,040 --> 00:08:24,519 because of his death that if you are thinking what 134 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:26,600 I think you want, what's play our cards on the table? 135 00:08:27,199 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 2: To whom does this business go at? That Sheldon has been. 136 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:35,279 Speaker 4: To me on the basis of our partnership agreement. 137 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:37,279 Speaker 2: Now look here, Dollard, make it easy, right yess. But 138 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,000 if you're trying to. 139 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,720 Speaker 4: Apply, trying to imply anything, I'm just trying to get 140 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,399 the whole picture, that's all. I've been sent out here 141 00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:45,360 to see if I can find Sheldon's body so that 142 00:08:45,399 --> 00:08:45,840 the life. 143 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,000 Speaker 2: Insurance claim to be paid. 144 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:49,120 Speaker 4: I came to see you and I hope you might 145 00:08:49,159 --> 00:08:51,039 be able to help me find this body. 146 00:08:51,759 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I guess this whole thing has me. I'm sorry. 147 00:08:59,039 --> 00:09:03,120 I'll help you anyway I can. Do you intend going 148 00:09:03,159 --> 00:09:05,480 up to the years, Yes, and i'd like you to 149 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:06,120 come along with me. 150 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,159 Speaker 4: I will gladly all right, but I don't see how 151 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:10,960 I can possibly get away from here for a couple 152 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,360 of days at least. If you can wait, we can 153 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:16,080 fly up there in my own plane. Well, no, I 154 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:18,399 don't want to just sit around here doing nothing for 155 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:21,639 two days. So I'll go ahead. You meet me up 156 00:09:21,639 --> 00:09:23,000 there as soon as you can get away. 157 00:09:23,159 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 2: Do you know where to go? 158 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:30,360 Speaker 4: Give me directions and I'll leave now. I am five 159 00:09:30,399 --> 00:09:32,279 a dollar seventy text me at the home of Ray 160 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:35,440 Sheldon's widow on Pandora Avenue out in Westwood. It was 161 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,279 a small but attracted place, and I was middling a 162 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:41,159 good neighborhood. Mister Sheldon barely turned forty. I'd say, we're 163 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:42,879 also small and attractor. 164 00:09:43,039 --> 00:09:47,279 Speaker 6: I didn't realize it would be necessary for an investigator 165 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:47,879 to come all. 166 00:09:47,759 --> 00:09:49,039 Speaker 7: The way out from the well. 167 00:09:49,039 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 2: It's only because of water. Bad's going a request to 168 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,000 set on your insurance claim so quickly. 169 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,200 Speaker 7: Well, in no time. If I move the money journey, 170 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:57,320 please call me, Gloria. 171 00:09:58,759 --> 00:10:00,840 Speaker 2: Why sure? 172 00:10:00,519 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 6: If you see Ray kept putting all his money back 173 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:06,320 in the bin. There was something about having to expand 174 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:08,679 the plant to handle some important government work. 175 00:10:08,799 --> 00:10:11,120 Speaker 4: Yes, I understand the contracts for it have come through. 176 00:10:11,519 --> 00:10:12,639 Speaker 7: Only a month or so ago. 177 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 6: Now raise you here to see his labors their fruit, 178 00:10:18,279 --> 00:10:23,000 sixteen long, depriving himself, working so hard. 179 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:28,159 Speaker 7: No want me to end up burying the snow. And 180 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:35,240 if the country he up so much, I'm sorry, Tully. 181 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,159 Speaker 4: Well, he seems to have provided pretty well for you. 182 00:10:40,159 --> 00:10:41,279 It's nice home. 183 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 6: Insurance kind of kind of a reward, I guess you 184 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:51,320 can reward during the different times. You see, we were 185 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:52,200 never really. 186 00:10:52,039 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 7: Very close together. Ten in life. Ray was thirteen years 187 00:10:56,679 --> 00:11:00,240 older than me. I guess I married him because I. 188 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 6: Expected and admired him the way he studied and worked 189 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,200 his way up from nothing, no family, no formal education. 190 00:11:09,399 --> 00:11:12,080 And you see, it was my social contact that enabled 191 00:11:12,159 --> 00:11:14,240 him to finance the plastic business. 192 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:16,320 Speaker 7: Even Albert didn't. 193 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:21,039 Speaker 2: Oh, oh, Gloria, Well, we were. 194 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 7: Perfectly honest about it as. 195 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:24,399 Speaker 3: Well. 196 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:25,399 Speaker 7: Was in love with you. 197 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,759 Speaker 6: I've met him in Florida, where Ray sent me run winter, 198 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:33,679 and I've done wonderfully together. I was almost becoming wonder 199 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:38,039 of defend Is he still in love with him? 200 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:38,759 Speaker 2: Right? 201 00:11:39,559 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 7: I don't know. Well, he's too nice to show it. 202 00:11:43,879 --> 00:11:48,159 If he is, well, of course I am. 203 00:11:48,639 --> 00:11:50,799 Speaker 6: You seem to forget that he and Ray were very close. 204 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:52,720 What kind of a person would he feed him in 205 00:11:52,799 --> 00:11:54,039 love to his best friend's wife. 206 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 4: I don't think what you're going Are you in love 207 00:11:58,039 --> 00:11:58,679 with al right Cot? 208 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,039 Speaker 2: After all, he's in love with you as. 209 00:12:01,879 --> 00:12:12,519 Speaker 6: Me, mister Dallas, Well, yes, because you couldn't see what 210 00:12:12,639 --> 00:12:14,559 it really is. I don't think I like it, not 211 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:18,080 a bit. It's almost as though you suspected somebody of 212 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:19,240 murdering race and is. 213 00:12:19,240 --> 00:12:23,159 Speaker 4: The possibility isn't of course not who? Several people might 214 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:25,320 finish it like you for him? This is the fifty 215 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:28,559 years of a half faked marriage and struggling along. How 216 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,679 you can call wondering in Florida's struggle, I don't know. 217 00:12:30,759 --> 00:12:33,480 I told you he tried to make at right call. 218 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 2: Who now owns the business? 219 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:38,759 Speaker 4: Now that it's suddenly begin to process fact that any 220 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:41,039 might still care for you can look pretty suspicious. 221 00:12:41,039 --> 00:12:42,879 Speaker 7: Good, you don't know what you're talking about. 222 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:43,879 Speaker 2: How about Walfascom. 223 00:12:44,279 --> 00:12:46,799 Speaker 4: It's pretty unusual when an insurance man it's so anxious 224 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,720 to spend the company's money. But then if he has 225 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:51,919 intentions towards the beneficiary of the policy. 226 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:56,159 Speaker 6: Also, this is terrible. You're saying I won't let you, 227 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:57,399 I won't send for this. 228 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:02,960 Speaker 2: Well, oh, now come on, put that thing down right cough. 229 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,039 Speaker 4: I thought you'd come here instead of going up to 230 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,240 the mountain. You know, everything you said was possible, dollar possible, 231 00:13:09,279 --> 00:13:12,039 but not through. And I won't stand for you or 232 00:13:12,080 --> 00:13:15,399 anyone else tormenting this this way. She's been through more 233 00:13:15,399 --> 00:13:17,799 than she deserves as it is, and I'm not gonna 234 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:20,360 stand still while some stupid insurance dick makes her tear 235 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:23,240 her heart on right cough and put that thing away 236 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:25,440 and you get out of here. Just put yourself at 237 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:25,840 my foot. 238 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 3: I have. 239 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 4: That's why I said, all those wild theories of yours 240 00:13:29,159 --> 00:13:31,600 are possible, all of them, All three of us have 241 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:34,279 plenty again with Ray Sheldon out of the way, especially me, 242 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,720 because in the long run, I stand the benefit most 243 00:13:37,039 --> 00:13:39,120 and I'd be number one suspect, wouldn't I because I 244 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:41,000 was the last one to see Ray, the only one 245 00:13:41,039 --> 00:13:43,039 who was with him when he died, the only one 246 00:13:43,039 --> 00:13:45,279 who could have murdered him. But and this is the 247 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,279 big butt dollar, I had killed Ray Sheldon, either you 248 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:52,840 nor anybody else would ever be able to prove it. 249 00:13:53,600 --> 00:14:19,720 Remember that get out. He took some fast thinking and 250 00:14:19,759 --> 00:14:21,879 a lot of careful deliverate talking to calm down Al 251 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,679 Raikoff partner Raymond Sheldon, who had allegedly died in a 252 00:14:24,679 --> 00:14:28,799 mountain climbing accident. If Sheldon had been murdered, rykof was 253 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:32,200 a natural suspect, one of three, that is. But unless 254 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:34,639 I could find Sheldon's body buried somewhere in the age 255 00:14:34,639 --> 00:14:36,320 of this ice and snows of a glacier high in 256 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:39,679 the Sierra Country, Al was right, they couldn't possibly be 257 00:14:39,759 --> 00:14:43,440 proof that Sheldon's death was an accidental. Al finally became 258 00:14:43,519 --> 00:14:45,600 convinced that an attack on me would only add to 259 00:14:45,639 --> 00:14:48,519 any suspicions that he might have murdered Sheldon, that his 260 00:14:48,559 --> 00:14:50,559 only defense would be to help me all he could. 261 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:53,639 He freely admitted still being in love with Gloria Sheldon, 262 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,279 and he repeated that his reason for bursting in on 263 00:14:56,360 --> 00:14:58,679 us was to protect her from further heartache over all 264 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,039 that had happened, And who knows, maybe he was telling 265 00:15:02,039 --> 00:15:05,840 the truth And any event, we took off about an 266 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:07,960 hour later, and his two engine plane headed almost to 267 00:15:08,120 --> 00:15:10,240 north and by three pm we're cruising along through the 268 00:15:10,279 --> 00:15:12,519 high thin air over the tall peaks of the Sierra Nevada. 269 00:15:14,799 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 2: Over there to the right a little town. 270 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:19,519 Speaker 4: You see his big climb at your base of operation 271 00:15:19,639 --> 00:15:21,159 when you and Sheldon came up here looking for the 272 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:25,320 mountain lake. Now that's Forest Lewis's backstation directly ahead there 273 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:26,759 where you see that long clear space. 274 00:15:27,120 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 3: That's where we'll spend the night. 275 00:15:28,759 --> 00:15:30,840 Speaker 2: It's like he has the landing field. The guy has 276 00:15:31,679 --> 00:15:32,559 some of the lakes up here. 277 00:15:32,559 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 3: It does. 278 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:34,559 Speaker 4: Of them have to be blown into unless you want 279 00:15:34,559 --> 00:15:38,639 to pack in on horseback for several days. There's Palisite 280 00:15:38,639 --> 00:15:41,279 glacier over there you left. That's not the one where 281 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:46,879 Shelldon was trapped. No, it was lone horse glacier other 282 00:15:46,919 --> 00:15:52,320 side of that next peak. A small plane labor in 283 00:15:52,399 --> 00:15:54,679 the high altitude, but managed to carry us clear of 284 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:57,879 the twelve down to foote and then below us we 285 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,000 saw the lake horse clear and blue, and all the 286 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:05,759 surrounded by snow coming rocks. Al It took a lot 287 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:08,120 of guts to pack up here. No, we were just 288 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:12,000 crazy to do it so early. Like other fishy pools. 289 00:16:12,039 --> 00:16:14,399 We were determined to have a place all to ourselves. 290 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:17,399 I look ahead, they're do north on the far rim 291 00:16:17,399 --> 00:16:17,759 of the lake. 292 00:16:21,039 --> 00:16:22,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, Loan Horse Glacier. 293 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:27,360 Speaker 4: That's the big crevass just above the ice of the lake. 294 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:31,480 Speaker 2: But well that's where the ice lids broke off. 295 00:16:32,559 --> 00:16:35,639 Speaker 4: Yeah, and I can see how the bottom of that 296 00:16:35,639 --> 00:16:39,600 crevass would be impossible to get to. Yeah, yeah, take 297 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:44,039 these glasses while to make it turn. She got warm 298 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:46,440 up ter rain up here one day last week wash 299 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:46,960 away some of. 300 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,320 Speaker 3: The fresh snow at the spot where he. 301 00:16:48,399 --> 00:16:51,360 Speaker 4: Fell right came up and flew over it like we're 302 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,159 doing now. So so look down directly down. 303 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:03,519 Speaker 2: You see it's a party. But it's a party down there. 304 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,319 It's a raised body. 305 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:10,680 Speaker 4: What positive identification from up here is impossible. That's as 306 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:15,279 impossible as ever recovery. Yeah, I can see that. And 307 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:19,319 you too, were absolutely alone. I doubt if anyone else 308 00:17:19,319 --> 00:17:21,160 has ever been crazy enough to climb this buck. 309 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,880 Speaker 2: Yeah. Well I'll what I see is proven up from me, 310 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:30,160 so a dollar. 311 00:17:31,559 --> 00:17:35,559 Speaker 4: I'm sorry if I acted like a fool there, glorious house. Look, 312 00:17:35,559 --> 00:17:37,160 I swear all I was trying to do was I 313 00:17:37,200 --> 00:17:42,400 think I understand. Now let's go back to the packstation. Yeah, 314 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:50,319 and thanks dollar. There was nothing fancy about Boris Lewis's packstation, 315 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:53,000 and he was full up with early season fishermen. Someone 316 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,200 who chose to go up into their favorite spots buck factrain, 317 00:17:55,680 --> 00:17:57,480 others who could afford to be thrown into their pact 318 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:00,920 camping spots over a plane, but high the evening on 319 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,319 the log building the forest called his lodge, and idea 320 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:05,680 slowly began to form in the back of my head. 321 00:18:06,200 --> 00:18:09,079 One of my flyboys spotted Sheldon's body there too, right 322 00:18:09,079 --> 00:18:09,480 after that. 323 00:18:09,519 --> 00:18:11,039 Speaker 2: Rain we had last week, that song. 324 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:13,720 Speaker 4: Before that, we'd hunted around on the trails up there 325 00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,400 for day. We couldn't find nothing. Were you think there's 326 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:19,799 any chance of recovering, It's not a chance. Impossible even 327 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:22,480 with a helio copper. That chasm where he fell in 328 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:24,880 is too deep rugged the helicop would ever make that 329 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,319 attitude Johnny much. Let's fight the air pocket to get 330 00:18:27,319 --> 00:18:30,480 close enough. Yeah. I reached it by train either because 331 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:33,000 of that chasm just north of it, chasm that opened 332 00:18:33,079 --> 00:18:35,960 up when the ice ledge busted off, swatch even deeper 333 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,960 than the one Sheldon's body's in. You try climbing around 334 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,279 on the narrow ridge it's left and ewing the ridge 335 00:18:41,279 --> 00:18:43,720 and everything else is go cracking down in the Lone 336 00:18:43,759 --> 00:18:44,279 Horse Lake. 337 00:18:44,839 --> 00:18:47,640 Speaker 2: Oh that's that. Yeah, I see that. 338 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,640 Speaker 4: Body is just half laid there at the end of time, 339 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,240 observed with the cold and the ice and it soon 340 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:55,240 surround it. And yet it's a fitting tomb for a 341 00:18:55,279 --> 00:18:56,920 man who loved this country so much. 342 00:18:57,519 --> 00:18:59,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, mighty nice man too. 343 00:19:01,559 --> 00:19:03,200 Speaker 4: Well, as long as you fellows are up here, why 344 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:03,799 don't you stay. 345 00:19:03,680 --> 00:19:04,519 Speaker 2: A couple of extra days? 346 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:06,920 Speaker 4: Do some facing a lot of mighty fine goldens being 347 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:08,799 took out of some of the small high lakes up there, 348 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:11,720 how about of its right? Oh? I'd like to for you, 349 00:19:11,759 --> 00:19:13,640 but I'm afraid i'd better get back to Los Angeles. 350 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,279 Speaker 2: You turned out a chance to fee, so I can't 351 00:19:16,279 --> 00:19:16,759 believe it. 352 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,839 Speaker 4: I tell you the truth. I'm afraid I've kind of 353 00:19:20,839 --> 00:19:24,759 lost my desire to fish up here after well. Oh yeah, 354 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:28,480 sure son, I'm sorry I should have realed. Sure, well, 355 00:19:28,519 --> 00:19:30,279 I'm going to take you up on that offer. Forrest 356 00:19:30,759 --> 00:19:33,160 my cracks. A golden trailer too few and far between, 357 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:35,400 what's more, come to think of it, I'm on an 358 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:42,119 expense account, so why not. But I had an entirely 359 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,319 different kind of fishing in line and the following morning 360 00:19:45,359 --> 00:19:47,839 immediately after, al Raikoff hopped into his plane and took 361 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:48,759 off for Los Angeles. 362 00:19:48,839 --> 00:19:51,319 Speaker 2: I got going from forty Lewis. 363 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 4: I got hold of a couple of six of dynamite, 364 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,079 and with his help and a handful of thirty thirty cartridges, 365 00:19:56,519 --> 00:19:58,920 I divined a couple of impact qs, a trick I'd 366 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:00,880 learned a long time ago pal on the New York 367 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,839 Arsen squad. Just to make sure, Fory and I rigged 368 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,720 up one of them with a small charge and dropped 369 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:07,599 it into a deep rock stream crevice near the edge 370 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:13,000 of his property. Thet's see if it works, great? Oh so, fire, 371 00:20:13,079 --> 00:20:17,359 Johnny Holstand works now even with a drop of only 372 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:19,759 forty or fifty feet. What are you going to do now? 373 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:22,039 You still haven't told me what is it all about? Well, 374 00:20:22,079 --> 00:20:24,079 didn't I notice a set of pontoons on one of 375 00:20:24,079 --> 00:20:26,400 the planes tied down on your landing strips we use 376 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:29,799 and pontoons that Joe Gracie's plane and Joe's he can 377 00:20:29,839 --> 00:20:31,759 drop the customers down on the lake where they want 378 00:20:31,759 --> 00:20:34,039 a camp on the edge of Then Joe's my boy 379 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:37,160 walked to fifty dollars a trip. That'll be okay, man, 380 00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:39,200 If you're going after Golden's you'll know where to take 381 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:41,119 you fory how much dynam might have you got there. 382 00:20:40,960 --> 00:20:41,960 Speaker 2: In your worship? Oh? 383 00:20:42,039 --> 00:20:44,279 Speaker 4: A couple of cases or two? You know, case I 384 00:20:44,279 --> 00:20:47,920 eitherside to put up another building needs some more rock us. Hey, 385 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,559 wait a minute. Your idea of fishing ain't the dynamite 386 00:20:51,559 --> 00:20:54,480 the lake? Oh hardly, But I'll need about a case 387 00:20:54,480 --> 00:21:03,160 of the stuff. Come on, let's get at it. I 388 00:21:03,319 --> 00:21:05,759 him six twenty four to fifty dynamites, and I threatened 389 00:21:05,759 --> 00:21:08,039 forty Lewis with mayhem if he told the pilot that's 390 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:12,759 end of seven, with away fifty dollars eating Joe Gracie 391 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:14,880 didn't even ask about the boxing what it was his playing, 392 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:16,799 probably thought it was a city dude's idea of a 393 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:21,680 tackle bun. Joe could fly all right. He seemed to 394 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,759 know every up and down draft and every mountain pass 395 00:21:23,799 --> 00:21:26,880 in the area and be ready for us. And none 396 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:29,119 of them are pretty wicked, mister Donald, Oh brother, I 397 00:21:29,119 --> 00:21:31,440 can see that all right. None of these jagged peaks 398 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,759 around he look pretty wicked too. I don't think there 399 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,880 with them, I hope. So okay, Now that's lone horse 400 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:39,079 glacier on the left, isn't it? 401 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:40,680 Speaker 3: Jack and the. 402 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,599 Speaker 4: First crevass that from the edge of the lake is 403 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,839 the one with Sheldon's body. That's right. I was the 404 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,119 first one to spot it last week. All right, I 405 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,519 want you to fly as close as possible down toward 406 00:21:50,519 --> 00:21:52,920 that second crevass, the DP one, the one back of 407 00:21:52,960 --> 00:22:01,599 the one with the body. That's right, Jack, Now, what 408 00:22:02,279 --> 00:22:05,119 be prepared for the surplies of your life? Well, i'll 409 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,640 uh look for you paying the chatter and give them 410 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:09,200 the orders and all. I didn't want to say anything, 411 00:22:09,240 --> 00:22:11,079 but if you want to like it as a lot 412 00:22:11,079 --> 00:22:14,079 of gold outdoors, your lord, just as close to that 413 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:19,640 second hands them as your tare ye the boss. Easy, 414 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:24,720 Now lower still and parallel it. That's what we're doing, right, Redder, 415 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:27,039 just the hare Uh look over the left and a 416 00:22:27,039 --> 00:22:29,359 couple of seconds and you'll see Jellen's body and at 417 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,640 other rests you'll look at it here now, hey, cut 418 00:22:33,680 --> 00:22:38,000 that door. What are you doing? Dollar gain all to 419 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:38,599 your fan? 420 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,599 Speaker 8: What you grow out? What are you up to? 421 00:22:40,759 --> 00:22:41,079 Speaker 1: Dinah? 422 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:45,359 Speaker 8: I too, riches clear in the lake, Nolla, hang on. 423 00:22:48,759 --> 00:22:51,920 Speaker 4: Great shock wave rock that tiny plane, and below we 424 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,720 can see tall plumes of shattered ice snow reach upward 425 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,559 into the thin, cold air. Or a light glistening cloud, 426 00:22:57,599 --> 00:23:00,000 and finally slowly settled down toward the mountains the light. 427 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:02,799 Two high ridges of ice had been pushed over into 428 00:23:02,839 --> 00:23:04,920 the lake there's though, by some giant hand, and they 429 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:09,119 were floating. Then when the lake settled down, we landed 430 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:12,279 on it. By this time I'd given Joe some idea 431 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:14,400 of my purpose, or you might have thrown me out, 432 00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,960 and I tailed back to the pack station along a word, 433 00:23:17,039 --> 00:23:20,519 mister Della. I see it floating there straight ahead. That's 434 00:23:20,559 --> 00:23:24,000 it all right, heldon's body. Yeah, I'll take it easy, Joe. 435 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,680 I'm gonna climb down on the pond tooon and try. 436 00:23:26,519 --> 00:23:27,000 Speaker 2: To pick it up. 437 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 8: And you gotta be money, can't. 438 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 4: Oh, I'll worry, brother, I will bull him. 439 00:23:31,759 --> 00:23:32,400 Speaker 8: An ice water. 440 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,039 Speaker 4: You wouldn't last half a minute, A little bit to 441 00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:39,079 the right, just as slow as you can now, heck. 442 00:23:41,279 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 2: Not that easy? 443 00:23:42,519 --> 00:23:42,880 Speaker 5: Now? 444 00:23:43,759 --> 00:23:44,920 Speaker 2: Easy? Does it? 445 00:23:45,039 --> 00:23:45,400 Speaker 9: Easy? 446 00:23:47,279 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 8: Here? 447 00:23:49,039 --> 00:23:49,079 Speaker 7: You? 448 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,519 Speaker 4: Okay, okay, cut your engine and help me get him aboard. 449 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,519 Speaker 9: He had a boy, You guys, buddies deserved perfect by 450 00:23:57,559 --> 00:23:58,039 the cold. 451 00:23:58,279 --> 00:24:00,640 Speaker 2: Help me use sure you can. 452 00:24:00,599 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 4: Just yeah, I guess it's just about what I expected 453 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:12,519 to find. This Law and al Raikoff were a Loan 454 00:24:12,599 --> 00:24:16,079 up there. So they had happened, and before Sheldon fell 455 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:19,759 into that creviss, he was carefully repeatedly shut in. 456 00:24:19,799 --> 00:24:22,039 Speaker 2: The back good Law. 457 00:24:31,599 --> 00:24:33,680 Speaker 4: At eleven thousand feet him with the extra load. To 458 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,319 take off from Loan Horse Lake wasn't easy, but we 459 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,519 finally made it and started back toward the packstation. Sure 460 00:24:39,599 --> 00:24:41,839 is an awful thing what some people will do. Sometimes 461 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,680 this is all, yeah, Joe, but sooner or later they 462 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:47,200 get caught up with I think Sheldon's body full of 463 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:49,039 poat of holes is enough to end it on this guy, 464 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:51,400 right Coff. By his own admission, he was the only 465 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,160 one up there when Sheldon died. And I bet if 466 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,000 he'd known what you were up to here, he'd never 467 00:24:56,079 --> 00:24:59,680 have gone home. That surprises me too, now that we 468 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:00,640 know he was the killer. 469 00:25:01,839 --> 00:25:02,039 Speaker 2: Joe. 470 00:25:02,839 --> 00:25:03,039 Speaker 7: Huh. 471 00:25:03,599 --> 00:25:05,200 Speaker 2: How one are your planes coming toward us? 472 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,319 Speaker 4: Yeah? The same When I seen when we were landing 473 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:10,559 on the lake, the sun was against it. Those I 474 00:25:10,559 --> 00:25:14,039 couldn't be waiting. That's right, cost plane, what I'm sure 475 00:25:14,079 --> 00:25:14,200 of it. 476 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,799 Speaker 2: He must have seen what we've been up to him. 477 00:25:15,799 --> 00:25:16,400 Look out for him. 478 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 4: Look out for him. 479 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:17,559 Speaker 3: He's coming at his. 480 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 4: Head on, crazy fool, look out stop going out. It's 481 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:28,000 down at the window and I run him this old 482 00:25:28,079 --> 00:25:37,440 single engine. Never what y'all he's coming around again to 483 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:38,759 get on our tail, like he's. 484 00:25:38,599 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 3: Gonna try to rabbits. 485 00:25:40,079 --> 00:25:44,400 Speaker 8: Trial ends up tight. I'm gonna tad, we can't get Yes, 486 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:53,720 yes we can. Anko pasts, Anchor pasts back to long 487 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:58,440 Han wain't no peak? Well, Megan, he won? What do 488 00:25:58,519 --> 00:26:02,839 you mean now? Drying a bad down draft? Let you know, man, 489 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:03,400 your dad? 490 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,839 Speaker 9: Are you sure we can make it? Mean that we've 491 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,160 got to make it? Hold John amow he's coming up 492 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:24,920 on his bad Here we go. Huh yeah, we're okay. 493 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:33,400 Speaker 2: I was della yeah, oh brother, good flying show, good boy, but. 494 00:26:33,519 --> 00:26:34,519 Speaker 3: Not right, Hugh. 495 00:26:36,039 --> 00:26:36,519 Speaker 2: Look back. 496 00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:39,799 Speaker 4: He crashed within a couple of hundred yards of where 497 00:26:39,799 --> 00:26:45,359 he thought he'd buried his path. I guess maybe you'd 498 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:56,200 call that justice, Yeah, Joe, Yeah, yes, it's Stuart said 499 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,000 justice was done and one of its own strange boys. 500 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:01,759 Speaker 2: And I suspect Walt Baskin. 501 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,920 Speaker 4: Will hesitate the next time he gets a request for 502 00:27:04,039 --> 00:27:07,480 such fast action on acquaint. However, I see no reason 503 00:27:07,519 --> 00:27:11,200 why this one should be paid in for expense account 504 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,839 total including incidentals and transportation back to Harfrid Oh and 505 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,160 a couple of days fishing for golden trout there at 506 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:18,279 Forrest Lewis's place. 507 00:27:18,799 --> 00:27:19,319 Speaker 2: I needed it. 508 00:27:20,079 --> 00:27:23,039 Speaker 4: Expense account total four hundred and thirty dollars sixty cents. 509 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:39,240 Yours truly, Johnny doll now here is our star to 510 00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:41,720 tell you about next week's story. Next week all woil 511 00:27:41,799 --> 00:27:44,279 of a story about at whale and if you ever 512 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,720 started hunting for a missing whale, well join us, won't you? 513 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 2: Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. 514 00:27:52,599 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 4: Yours truly, Johnny Dollars, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood. 515 00:27:56,759 --> 00:27:59,400 It is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also 516 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:03,240 wrote tonight story. Heard in our cast were Virginia Craig Herbellus, 517 00:28:03,319 --> 00:28:05,640 Boris Lewis, James Mcallian, and John Dayer. 518 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,240 Speaker 2: Musical supervision is by A. Marigo Marino. 519 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 4: Be sure to join us next week, same time and 520 00:28:11,279 --> 00:28:15,079 station for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollars. 521 00:28:15,559 --> 00:28:17,039 Speaker 2: This is Dan coverly speaking. 522 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:30,640 Speaker 4: Johnny Dollar has come to you through the worldwide facilities 523 00:28:30,759 --> 00:28:34,200 of the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 524 00:29:05,519 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 1: Welcome back. As I mentioned, this episode has been a 525 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,880 little heard for the last fifty eight years, and I'm 526 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,839 so glad this is back, because this is one of 527 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:18,559 the most glorious, unhinged bits of daring dow during Johnny 528 00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:22,880 Doller's entire run, and I would venture to say most 529 00:29:23,039 --> 00:29:26,680 any other hero. With a few exceptions I've heard during 530 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:31,880 the Golden As Radio, I have to admire Johnny Shuspa 531 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:36,480 to call Al Roykoff a crazy fool after jury rigging 532 00:29:36,799 --> 00:29:42,119 homemade impacts uses loading up downa mite and dropping explosives 533 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,759 on a glacier from a moving plane in hopes of 534 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,279 blowing apart two ridges. I've mentioned on other episodes that 535 00:29:50,519 --> 00:29:56,359 writer Jack john Stone's career in radio really began back 536 00:29:56,759 --> 00:30:00,880 in his work on Buck Rogers and Soon, and it 537 00:30:01,079 --> 00:30:04,519 shows here in those sort of worlds you can get 538 00:30:04,599 --> 00:30:10,359 away with being as outlandish and improbable as possible. It's 539 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,640 not really something you'd expect on a detective program for 540 00:30:14,759 --> 00:30:18,519 adults in the late nineteen fifties. I still enjoyed it 541 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,119 because they fully committed to the bit, and also, as 542 00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,160 a child of the nineteen eighties, I appreciate it because 543 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,480 it cold in my mind the sort of outrageous jury 544 00:30:28,599 --> 00:30:32,599 rigged solutions that you saw in Macgiver. Now, of course 545 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,960 Macgiver wouldn't have used a gun, and he probably would 546 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:40,240 have stayed away from something as loud and obvious as explosives. 547 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:44,039 He'd probably have gotten the body out using a pocket mirror, 548 00:30:44,079 --> 00:30:47,880 a piece of twine, and used chewing gum. Nevertheless, this 549 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,880 story is probably as close to a Golden Age of 550 00:30:51,119 --> 00:30:55,680 radio ancestor of Macgiver as you will find. In a way, 551 00:30:55,880 --> 00:31:00,720 I feel like Johnny's solution practically blunts any other criticism 552 00:31:00,839 --> 00:31:03,960 you could make of the episodes, Like I would typically 553 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:11,599 criticize Ryckoff hanging around just in case, like it's stealth mode, 554 00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:15,960 just in case Johnny decides to do something other than fishy. 555 00:31:16,359 --> 00:31:19,839 But it's hard to complain about much when you have 556 00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:25,240 dynamite used on a glacier. Well, now we do turn 557 00:31:25,359 --> 00:31:28,720 to listener comments and feedback now, and we start out 558 00:31:28,799 --> 00:31:33,839 with Dawn, who writes regarding the two face matter, Bob 559 00:31:34,039 --> 00:31:37,599 Bailey really doesn't have the same expense count game of 560 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,200 his predecessors. They would throw in a raincoat or lavish 561 00:31:41,319 --> 00:31:46,319 meal just because mechanic sixty six points out true, But 562 00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:48,680 he got a lot of benefits from some of the 563 00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:53,200 people he helped, including bonuses as large as ten thousand dollars, 564 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,640 and I think that's true. And to be fair, I 565 00:31:56,799 --> 00:32:01,480 think that the whole gimmick of Johnny, you know, going 566 00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:06,839 over the top in patting his expense account really was 567 00:32:07,079 --> 00:32:09,720 something that was a Charles Russell thing, a little bit 568 00:32:09,799 --> 00:32:13,400 of Edmint O'Brien era, but mostly Charles Russell. And it 569 00:32:13,559 --> 00:32:16,720 really did get died back. That doesn't mean that it 570 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:22,400 never happens. Indeed, you'll hear Bob Bailey say things like 571 00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:28,119 and all of the incidentals I could manage, but it's 572 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:33,640 just not quite as flagrant and pronounced. And I think 573 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,839 Mechanics sixty six does hit on a key reason for that. 574 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,680 When you can collect big fees and big tips for 575 00:32:41,559 --> 00:32:46,440 you know, putting out an exceptional job, you know, trying 576 00:32:46,559 --> 00:32:50,640 to done the company on the expense account, that's just 577 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:55,240 not a really effective approach. A Mechanic sixty six comments 578 00:32:55,279 --> 00:32:59,359 a little bit further, the insurance companies would never even 579 00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,480 bother and investigating, let alone paying off without a police report. 580 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:08,519 Insurance companies must have either directly or indirectly sponsored this show. 581 00:33:09,079 --> 00:33:11,880 And I can get kind of where he's coming from 582 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:16,200 because most of us. When we deal with insurance companies, 583 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:22,599 we are dealing with these sort of large major companies 584 00:33:22,799 --> 00:33:26,519 out there, you know, you know the names All State 585 00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:34,440 and Goico and Nationwide, these sort of national chains with 586 00:33:35,079 --> 00:33:41,839 big headquarters and big organizations. That's not really who Johnny 587 00:33:42,599 --> 00:33:45,640 served for the most part. For the most part, Johnny 588 00:33:45,799 --> 00:33:51,119 is called in by regional companies. Even someone like Universal 589 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:58,240 Adjustments is effectively a reinsure of a lot of smaller companies, 590 00:33:58,559 --> 00:34:04,000 and so there would be some flexibility. And with many 591 00:34:04,079 --> 00:34:09,320 of these companies, a key portion of their business isn't 592 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:15,000 just enforcing the rules. It is relationship building, not just 593 00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:20,559 necessarily with the people who are insured, but through the 594 00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:24,599 broader network. And you know, you think about in this 595 00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:30,559 small town ensuring this one factory, Well, that's a key 596 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:36,159 opportunity because most likely you didn't just sell them insurance 597 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:40,480 on the business. You sold them other insurance. Now, obviously, 598 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,480 because of the nature of the employees, you didn't sell 599 00:34:43,519 --> 00:34:48,280 them auto insurance, but you sold them homeowners insurance and 600 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,840 life insurance, and you sold them annuities. Because more people 601 00:34:54,079 --> 00:34:58,920 tended to turn to insurance companies for investments, and as 602 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:02,719 this sort of region company trying to maintain a presence 603 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:06,760 in a small town. That sort of contract would be 604 00:35:07,039 --> 00:35:10,119 a big deal for you. So could you turn around 605 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:17,800 and insist on a strictly business way of handling this? Yes, 606 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:21,559 would it be good business, particularly if it ended up 607 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,079 costing you all those other policies you got it from 608 00:35:25,159 --> 00:35:27,360 the plan? Probably not. 609 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 4: Now. 610 00:35:28,039 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: I'm not saying this thing happened all the time or 611 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,519 all insurance companies were like that, but I do think 612 00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:37,840 that the business model of the type of insurance companies 613 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:42,639 that tended to hire Johnny really did lean in that direction. Well, 614 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:46,239 now it's time to think our Patreon supporter of the day, 615 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,800 and I want to thank old time radio man Patreon 616 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:53,400 supporter since September twenty twenty three, currently supporting the podcast 617 00:35:53,519 --> 00:35:56,440 at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen 618 00:35:56,519 --> 00:35:58,480 cents or more per month. Thanks so much for your 619 00:35:58,559 --> 00:36:01,920 support and that will actually do it for today. If 620 00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:05,480 you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 621 00:36:05,519 --> 00:36:09,000 podcast software and be sure to rate and review the 622 00:36:09,079 --> 00:36:12,719 podcast wherever you download it from. We'll be back next 623 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,320 Friday with another episode of Yours Truly Johnny Doller, but 624 00:36:16,519 --> 00:36:20,519 join us back here tomorrow for the Great Adventures of 625 00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:25,280 Old Time Radio and the final episode of Cloak and Dagger, where. 626 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,960 Speaker 2: So you're up here blowing a million francs Aslan. 627 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,239 Speaker 10: No, not exactly. Didn't last long enough to blow. Week 628 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,519 after I wanted the Germans march into Paris and my 629 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,480 money wasn't worth a thin dinon, I got away and 630 00:36:38,599 --> 00:36:41,519 landed up here at Wamma, and I'm waiting ever since, 631 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,920 waiting for what I for someone to win this war? 632 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,119 Of course, someone anyone you mean? Oh, I'm not too particular, 633 00:36:49,159 --> 00:36:51,800 mister hay Wooden. Like I say, I don't play sides. 634 00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:54,800 I'm what they call a neutral, I guess. 635 00:36:55,119 --> 00:36:56,559 Speaker 2: A neutral American. 636 00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:58,840 Speaker 10: Well, it's been a long time since I was in America. 637 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,719 I just want them to get the war over with somehow, 638 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:04,199 so Jen and I can get out of here. Jen, 639 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,320 my girl iNTS to hey when she's one of the 640 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,400 skiing instructors here at the lodge. When I go, she's 641 00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:10,880 promised to. 642 00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 4: Go with me. I actually I'll go see if I 643 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:14,280 rules ready. 644 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:15,800 Speaker 10: Oh wait a minute, how about another drink? O? 645 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:16,159 Speaker 3: Thanks? 646 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,320 Speaker 10: Well, look, if you're not doing anything tonight and you're 647 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,280 like a little game of study, thanks, just got away 648 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,599 as any to pass the evening up here. 649 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,679 Speaker 4: Maybe, but I'm rather particular about the kind of men 650 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:29,639 I gamble with, Slade, especially the kind of Americans. 651 00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:32,280 Speaker 1: I hope you'll be with us then. In the meantime, 652 00:37:32,639 --> 00:37:37,440 send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot knit, 653 00:37:38,079 --> 00:37:41,639 follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectors, and check us 654 00:37:41,679 --> 00:37:47,159 out on Instagram, Instagram dot com, slash Great Detectives from 655 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,079 Boise Altohol. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.