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air at eight February tenth, nineteen fifty and this one
is the SS Malay Tradership.
Speaker 2: I'm now for Edmund O'Brien as yours truly, Johnny Dolla.
Speaker 3: Edmundon O'Brien and another of the adventures of the Man
with an Action tact. Expense account America's Fabulous Freeliance Insurance
Investigator Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 4: Expense Accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar to home
office Intercontinental Marine Insurance Company is Hotford, Connecticut. The following
is an accounting of my expenditures during my assignment aboard
the FX Melee Trader. The ship was no court of course.
Account Item one eighty dollars transportation from Hospital Savannah, Georgia,
where after pausing only to grow a bed and deck
myself out in Seamen's gob, I proceeded to the local
hiring hall of the Seamen's juniors, bound.
Speaker 5: For real detail. Heeds the mom on the ninety am.
Speaker 6: I call it the one Baker one category one commident
to eighties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, we'll put the call right
through right away. Yeah, what is it? The name is
dollars I'm standing on the Melee Trader ordinary streaming special permit. Wait,
let me stream?
Speaker 6: Oh yeah yeah here it is insurance dick.
Speaker 4: Huh. Well, I'm glad to go operate, though, thanks. Where
do I find the ship perid directly? I'll be here
on your island. Slip? What me hot cargo? Well maybe
when I find out, you can read about it in
the paper. Okay, so you're not talking. That's your business here,
you slip now.
Speaker 3: The best way to get there is to follow the
railroad tracks, plaice and wear an outfit.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 4: My new home when I found a was neither pretentious, comfortable,
or even seaworthy. She was a rusty old liberty ship
that probably had a war record, but hadn't had a
coat of paint in months. A winch's fallen aft were
busy feeding heavy ratman covered bales into a gaping holes.
A decks were alive with longshoremen, and set against all
that activity, a bulky gent wearing an officer's cat, loud
on a stool made ahead of the gangway, idling time
with fingernails and a penknife. Yeah, what's your business? I'm
signing on? Where do I find the chief out? Of it.
I found him. I'm off step let me see useless
Uh uh.
Speaker 7: Yeah, oh okay, Doland, you're on.
Speaker 4: The forty eight. Watch quarters of three. A just last thing, gotay?
Speaker 7: Then I have to stop and said start up here
to design later.
Speaker 4: Right, So far that my story meant its seemed to
be working. I was aboard the ship as a seamen,
and a few seconds later I was shaking hands with
a man who shared my quarter. Al wrote it on
a salary for four years because in the Continental's marine investigator,
I am, it's been a long time. How I'm fine.
I'm fine. It's going to be working a casey again. Hey, yeah,
they're all right to talking here. Yeah yeah, let's keep
it down. I've been on this sub since it left
Singapore and nobody's on to me yet. But play at
Cagy on deck. How much did I tell you in
jolly old Hartford. Well, they gave me just a basic
situation that that Intercontinental hued a bunch of crude rubber
from British melee before the evaluation of the British pounds
doing half that I understand burned and awares in Singapore.
Speaker 8: That's to the tune of over one hundred thousand insurance bucks.
I flew out there signs a larson, but no proof.
I follow the other half of the crop here at
the Savannah. Hey, this company that owns Melee Traders kind
of announced they a lot of angels, been up against
British customs a few times, never nailed. They own their ships,
and the branch here, headed by a mister Peela, imports
basic commodities like the rubber and minerals. Well, it is
that since this crude was insured before the British pound dropped,
they can bring in more loop destroying it than they
can filling it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I guess that too, and I take it to
policy covers until they do. So that's it.
Speaker 8: I thought we were getting rid of it here. They
packed it away in their warehouse, but then three days
ago they started loading it aboard again. That's why you
were sent down.
Speaker 4: That's a matter of how don't you think the company
trusts you?
Speaker 8: I guess they figure I need help and they're right.
Where do you think we're bound? Well, my papers at
Corpus Christy and the scuttle. But is that Corpus is
just a stop that we clear there from Mexico Vera
Cruz where arson investigation isn't what it could be. After
that operation in Singapore? What else would they do?
Speaker 7: Hell up? And yeah, I'll stop hip not to go
through the company office corner of the warehouse.
Speaker 4: Oh short time, okay, right away, sir.
Speaker 8: Nice tries say. Oh, and if you will take a
word of fatherly advice.
Speaker 4: Well practically anything you say, go ahead.
Speaker 8: That girl in the office, the Malaya in the half cast,
she's the boss's daughter.
Speaker 4: Am I am I that her appreciation or is it
her name? Both?
Speaker 8: But save your dreams. The chief, our friend hall staff
is as possessive as he's big. And you know something,
I don't blame him.
Speaker 4: I didn't blame Horseta either. After I saw am I,
you could tell she had enough accidental know how to
be proud of what the Oriental did to her. Look ah, my, indeed,
good afternoon. Hello, I'm here to find the article.
Speaker 5: Oh what please?
Speaker 4: Your name dollar, Johnny Dalla Dalla?
Speaker 5: Are you a very thrifty man, mister Dallah?
Speaker 4: Well hardly. My name is usually the only one I
have to my name.
Speaker 5: Yes, right here, I wish I was sailing with you.
What what did you say that I wish I were
sailing with you. I have begged with my father, but
he will not let me go with him.
Speaker 4: Your father's going with ushuh. I didn't know that I.
Speaker 5: Beg some more. Once again, right here, you have nice hands, mister.
Speaker 4: Dalla, nice hand. Now why did you say that?
Speaker 5: I see so many hands here on my desk? Now
I noticed that I'm a big and MP. I'm sure
I'm a dirty and it's too which you pride, mister
McLean from dishwatching.
Speaker 4: But holleringly you see, well, I'd better get back to
the shief.
Speaker 5: Thanks, thank you. We hope that conditions during your voyage
will meet with your approval, that you will accept employment
with me.
Speaker 4: And with those memorized words ringing in my ear, I
thanked the luscious Am I again and proceeded ship. Was
to take up my duties as a very ordinary freeman.
I hope that her interest in my landlover hands really
stem from her unusual hobby and not from suspicion. And
I wondered why mister Peeler, her father and the local
head of the suspect company, had decided to go with us.
Had his doctor ordered a sea voyage for his health,
or did he want to enjoy in person the odor
of burning rubber. The next afternoon, Chicrgo had all been
brought aboard, the ship was made ready to see, and
I had sustained, along with multiple cuts and bruises, the
ire of the bosom because I didn't know the difference
between a preventer and a topping lift. But by the
time night fell and the melee Trader was plunging down
the Atlantic coast, I knew one thing. The sailor's life
is not from me. How'd you make out?
Speaker 9: Al?
Speaker 8: Oh, nothing new.
Speaker 4: Scuttle Butter is still there a cruise, but.
Speaker 6: There's something screwy about it.
Speaker 8: Johnny, you developer knows after you've snooped as many ships
as I have, there's something wrong aboard.
Speaker 4: What besides my seamanship, the old man, Yeah.
Speaker 6: A lot of little things.
Speaker 8: Of course. We're on for Florida Strait. The readings on
the Dallas gauges, of course, the displacement ratio changes with
different oceans and water temperature.
Speaker 4: Look, look al, that's all Greek to me. Ballast gauges,
displacement ratio. What are these things that are about me? Well,
I don't know, just vague things that look come out
on the four deck with me, will you? Yeah? Sure,
probably just this overactive nose of mine.
Speaker 8: But I want to get a look in one of
these holes. Now there's a handstanding lookout, and if you'll
go up there and keep his attention, I'll slip into
the escape patch of number two. All I'll need is
about ten minutes. I'll meet you in the cabin.
Speaker 4: I made small talk with the lookout but ten minutes,
then started back towards the cabin. Suddenly I heard a
scuffle behind me. Yeah, is that you? And I heard
someone running and I started after the during figure, but
I didn't get very far. I stumbled over. Al rode
his body by the open hatch, and there was a
stamb wound in the back of his neck, just at
the top of the spine. It was small enough to
have been left there via ten knight. I didn't report
that the chiefs made or the captain. I went over
both their heads and I counted on the door of
the owner, mister Pillar.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, one moment.
Speaker 6: What does this mean?
Speaker 4: There's been a killing down on deck? My watchmate Al
rode it.
Speaker 6: But this release he captain or mister where are they
why do you come to me?
Speaker 4: Because because I think a request from you as an order,
I think sparked order Radio, the Coast Guard, the Sooners,
the that.
Speaker 6: Is kitting on my ship to believe it's from you.
Speaker 4: No, no, I do not, man over lord, mister Peeler.
A murder just turned into an accident.
Speaker 6: In just a moment.
Speaker 3: We returned to the second act of Johnny Dollar. But first,
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returned to the second act of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 9: Mister horse, has the horse has come here? Mistill horse? Yes,
horse has been Tobo.
Speaker 4: Yes, one of the crew all overboard.
Speaker 6: Then talk with this young man. He speaks of killing.
Speaker 7: Kelly Chill Dollar.
Speaker 4: That's his gup about Kelly hal Roder. He was stamped
in the back of the neck a small knight.
Speaker 7: This man is either drunk or crazy, mister Villa. Yes,
I just stepped out on deck to check the running wife.
Before I turned in saw the man leaning over the rail.
Speaker 4: He was sick.
Speaker 7: Ship rolled and he went over.
Speaker 4: I guess that was a life jacket. I stun below that.
What are you doing about the man overboard?
Speaker 7: I'll thank you to remember your place on this ship.
Speaker 4: I do, but I also remember al Roger doing what's
prescribed by maritime law. I'm changing my course to circle
and touch the area. Yeah, how about the coast guys,
I mean not I fight in your time.
Speaker 7: I'll either go to your quarters or get forward to
the rest of the crew and look for this guy
you're so worried about.
Speaker 4: Where are you going the radio room? Even I know
the coast guard gets first bid.
Speaker 7: You'll listen to me, dollar, I'll have you up before
a commission board. You'll never ship again if you don't
obey my order and the boilers you might have got
to your lifeboat station with the peeler.
Speaker 4: Every time an explosion lifted the Mela trader up off
the water lifted my make up with it. My heart
must have been counting tool because I felt that high
in my float and feeling that big sea going box
of steel plates and boats shuddering up my seat. I
painted sweat on my forehead and big sticking splashes and
real fear on my soul. This would be getting dead
the hard way. But finally the quivering of a ship
came to a stop, calming down my own vibrations. It faded,
then the tub started to list, giving me a new
reason for keeping my mind off of taking a cut
at horse Staff with the closest fire at the cool
got panicky is a bunch of kids in a burning school.
So while I tumbled with a light boat, I took
a last running look at number two holes. There were
still bloodstains on the decks where I found rotors, and
next to them, besides the open hatch, I found something
that horse Staff hadn't realized he lay or I hadn't
had time to look for his pen pearl shell handle
with an anchor, and bossed the slow I'd pulled back
the top further and moved a few of the sectional
hatch colors and got a look into the hole. There
was enough light to see the cargo. It enough smoke
curled out to tell me the explosion had not been
in the boilers. Yeah. I had a fine case, except
it was going down under my feet and I'd end
up with everything but proof. It was shortly after dawn
when the melee trader finally settled by the bow and
went into a final clung everybody in the light. Bull
turned lot to go, and the water quieted over her,
and the only traces left were the hatch colors i'd
pulled loom. There's a place miss as they'll.
Speaker 7: Do it.
Speaker 4: Hey, I keep it.
Speaker 6: Thanks. Oh are you.
Speaker 4: Page one and three, line twenty two Ship's articles You
remember dollar?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's newspaper if you're missing from shipwrecks.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The guy would have to be stupid or dead
to be lost in a thinking like that. Everything was
too convenient, plenty of time to get the boat law,
only four miles from shore. Yeah, they reported me missing
because I didn't take time to report myself among the livings.
You see, I couldn't wait to get back to Savannah,
get back to you. When the King's side scheme cooked
up in this office. I'm not promising anything, but a
quick signed statement might help you. I'll write a new sign.
Speaker 5: It you talk about scheme? What statement?
Speaker 4: You ah? Come on, stop it? Look use the old
sex pitch. Try to tell me that it'll be worth
my while, But but don't try to sell me in it.
Speaker 5: It's gony. You think I know about something, give me
what it.
Speaker 4: Look. If you're a bluffing, you can quit. I know
that explosion on the ship was staged. The next step
is to try to collect the insurance on the rubber
that was lost. And that's the step I'm supposed to start. Yeah,
it's my idea.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm not understand.
Speaker 6: You are a police.
Speaker 4: Yeah in a way. In a way, I'm the police,
and the real ones aren't far behind me, and you
do not like me. Look, I wouldn't have any reasons.
Speaker 5: I knew nothing upon it. I too do not lie.
Speaker 4: Why do you think your father was taking this trip?
Speaker 5: I did not question. You told me your business in corporate.
Speaker 4: Christians and whole staff ideas. The newspapers will tell you
why your father took the trip. Here look at this
important fleet on a narrowly escaped death and explosion about
his own ship. Who'd think of scuttling, with the aged
owner taking the risk himself.
Speaker 5: Huh, Scarlett in a few minutes too. Men, you love
to come and dis criminal. I am only two. I'm
not questioned my father. If he did this thing, he
did it with reason. Now, what would you have me
to do?
Speaker 4: Oh stopped looking at me as if I started at all.
I'm sorry, honestly, I am. It's clear to me now
that she wasn't buying to hide my embarrassment. I read
through the newspaper accounts of the sinking again. While she recovered.
There were air photographs of the huge oils like the
sinking ship had left on the surface. The only reminder
now that the hatch covers had drifted away. The lack
of wreckage was mentioned in the stories, and I remember
now wrote a worrying about ballast and displacement. I looked
up the number of a local chemist and I made
a phone call. At all. Listen, doc, this may sound
like a silly question, but it could be important. This
crude rubber floats crude rubber do you mean for yeah,
whatever you call it? Where it comes into the country
rapped in rattan will it floats?
Speaker 2: Obit?
Speaker 4: They wait? I think it decreases as the temperature arises.
You see, normally specific gravity is a little less than
they're a water. Yeah, it would float, Yeah, it floats
in the hold of a sunken ship with a hatch
partly opened, it would force its way out and come
to the surface. Yeah it floats, Yeah, but it didn't. Thanks,
am I. How many warehouses as may Traders have here
in Tavanna, here on the water, has anything moved out
of them? Last night after the ship left.
Speaker 5: No, nothing was moved. Do you know what does this mean?
Speaker 4: Am I? I want you to wait here in the
office for your father. When he comes. I want you
to tell him that I'll be waiting for him in
one of the warehouses, and that I know the truth.
The Melee Trader warehouses were closed for the day, but
my foot and a window opened them. Both were stack
high with imported goods, and I picked my way through
everything from leechy nut to ivory backstrashes. And the second one,
hidden behind the wall of cotton ceylon tea, I found
what I was looking for. They were unlabeled with traits.
I opened one and the resilience mass inside was crude
rubber still on dry land and still insured.
Speaker 10: All right, old white horse, there's nothing left to hold.
How are you made that for me?
Speaker 4: Everything is finished, wound up. Time for the laws unless
you can make another switch with that rubber before they
get that rubber and the right yeah, and here for
over a year. Come on, let's not waste time. You
and Teela and I know there wasn't any rubber in
Number two holes. You say that the sell after you
got paid off for losing it, and I'll let the
experts prove it. What ex oh they got all time?
You know one group is going to ail you for murder.
That's very funny, that's very funny. There's a pen knife
a funny murder weapons. But I found one on the
male trader on the deck me a number two holes.
You've got a night Yeah, a pearl handle and a
silver ranks are on it. You know, I get at
least one hundred seamen would testify you girls that it's yours.
I know, I will. I only wish I could be
fifteen people when you hit the courtroom, the jewelry, the
executing attorney that saw with misana sentencing judge, do you
want to.
Speaker 3: Save me in the court room?
Speaker 4: How did I execute down here and shallows? Let the
chair gas chamber? What come on? Tell me?
Speaker 7: How do I have to look it up? I have
to have more than I've got.
Speaker 4: They got plenty. All I have to do is match
up the weapon with a would look dollar right on?
Scare razy.
Speaker 7: I gotta make a confession.
Speaker 4: Without a body? What do you mean without a sid?
I gotta have a body. Anyone knows that you're getting
ahead of yourself. Did I say they didn't have a body?
You think those coach, god, helicopter and blim cruise are blind?
Keep gone? You think a guy who's been a marine
investigator as long as al Rooda had went around without
figuring how to do his job even after he was dead.
What do you think he wore around his middle a
money belt for a life belt that would keep him afloat?
Speaker 7: You're stupid.
Speaker 4: Give me the knife. It's not only a knife, it's
exhibit A and the prosecution will want it. Give me
the knife, Domar, you don't want to shoot me, horse cant.
How do you know I've got the knife with me?
How do you know I haven't left it someplace with
a note to the police that still I got your
hands up in the sky. Hold on that all right,
and not keep your hands still. I just turn around,
don't move. It wasn't time be Queen's very.
Speaker 10: Rude toast me.
Speaker 6: I used my feet.
Speaker 4: The first one landed on his shin, and I stayed
with you forward on my hands and kicked out with
those people into the solar Plexus would have stopped and order,
And after I gave him a couple more, the big
Chief's mate turned into just that an ordinary man. I
turned whole staff over to the police, along with the
murder weapon and the results of my blood. They took
it from there to a concession. The suppeelo was slit
of responsibility that our roads murders now being held on
conspiracy to the fraud. I hope since the policy on
the remaining cargo of Rubbick can now be canceled, Intercontinental
is minimizing the monetary loss of Singapore to you. The
loss is a little more than one hundred thousand dollars
and an offer, as I have lost a friend expense
account item two sixty three dollars getting my foot on
a bar and my chin off my chain while waiting
for a train to take me out of Savannah. I
had them three eighty dollars transportation Savannah at a hunt
had him four ten dollars public scenographer who took the
dictation on this expense account. I had them five entertainment
saint public stenographers who spent the evening proving that socially
she didn't take dictations, also that she was no good
at making me forget what I want so badly to
forget the state of old expense account totals e skip
if this one has done me, Yours Truly.
Speaker 3: Jenny Down, Yours Truly Johnny Dollars stars edmunds O'Brien in
the title roles and is written by Paul Dudley and
Gildalls with music by Leaps. Edmund O'Brien can currently be
seen Starry in Harriem Hopkins Unit his Artist Productions DA.
Featured in our cast were Lillian Bias, Mark and Yarborough,
William Conrad, Elliott Reid, and Robert Griffins. Yours Truly Johnny
Dollar is produced and directed by him del Bias. Join
us again next week when Edmund O'Brien returns in another
adventure of Truly j DLA, The Case of the Oblivious Angels,
a true story of manhunt in Tennessee and Georgia is
to be dramatized on Gangbusters this Saturday night. The story
will have narration by the Chief of Police, who directed
the successful search for the bandits. So for a half
hour of real adventure as experienced by our forces combating crimes,
listen in this Saturday on most of these same CBS
network stations to Gangbusters story the Case of the Oblivious Angels.
This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is CBS where yours truly,
Johnny Dollar meets adventure every Friday night the Columbia Broadcasting System.
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Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: An interesting note that they use the current currency situation
as a key plot point. Also, somebody did a lot
of research into nautical terms to give it a really
authentic feel. This one definitely does feel more like what
we will come to be listening to in the O'Brien era,
though it's not quite there. Yet, but definitely moving in
that direction and away from the Russell style. All right, well,
listener comments and feedback now, Bill writes in high att
of the episodes of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar that I've
heard have been from the Bob Bailey era forward, so
I've enjoyed hearing these episodes from the Charles Russell era.
I think Russell did a great job as Johnny and
enjoyed hearing about his later career. I look forward to
hearing Edmund O'Brien and John lenn and their take on
the role. Thanks well, thank you so much for the comment, Bill,
and I hope you're enjoying the start of the O'Brien
era so far. Well, I do want to go ahead
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