1 00:00:28,519 --> 00:00:35,399 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho. 2 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:39,600 This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're 3 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:43,079 going to bring you this week's episode of yours truly 4 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:46,799 Johnny Dollar. But first I want to encourage you. If 5 00:00:46,799 --> 00:00:51,079 you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your favorite 6 00:00:51,119 --> 00:00:55,280 podcast software, and remember, when making your travel plans, check 7 00:00:55,320 --> 00:00:58,640 Johnny Dollar Air dot dot com first. Johnny Dollar Air 8 00:00:58,679 --> 00:01:02,039 dot com is a prie affiliate lane, so part of 9 00:01:02,079 --> 00:01:05,439 your purchase pros supports the Great Detectives of Old Time 10 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:09,319 Radio at no additional cost to you. So remember when 11 00:01:09,359 --> 00:01:13,159 making your travel plans check john't eadollar air dot com first. 12 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,640 Now from June the eighth, nineteen fifty eight, here is 13 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:19,640 the Wayward River manor. 14 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dellare Johnny. 15 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,439 Speaker 3: This is Lee Hawkins Continental Insurance and Trust. 16 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,840 Speaker 2: Company WAA, my old fishing fowl. You're still holding down 17 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,519 the Ohio branch at the company there in Columbus, Yes, John, 18 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,000 I am, but not looky brother, I never will forget 19 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:41,799 the great fishing you and I had over on Drby 20 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,719 Creek a couple of years back. Josh and a long 21 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:46,359 about this time every year, the aarage really gets to me. Hey, 22 00:01:46,359 --> 00:01:48,400 if the streams cleared that you had from the spring rains? 23 00:01:48,599 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 3: Oh, quite the contrary, as a matter of five. 24 00:01:50,799 --> 00:01:53,319 Speaker 2: By little Raccoon Creek down there, Jackson boy, I remember 25 00:01:53,359 --> 00:01:56,680 those big channel cats in the bast Johnny, you were listening. Oh, 26 00:01:56,719 --> 00:01:57,920 I'm sure, I'm all ears. 27 00:01:58,239 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 3: The big river has gone on a rampage again. Spring floods. 28 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: You mean the Ohio, yeas in every. 29 00:02:02,640 --> 00:02:05,359 Speaker 3: Other river of any size. The rings are still coming down. 30 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,759 I see old towns are being washed away by the floodwaters. 31 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:10,319 Death and destruction all over. 32 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: Oh, I'm sorry, Lee, I didn't mean to sound so well. 33 00:02:14,319 --> 00:02:16,159 You know, mentioned fishing, and I lose my head. 34 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 4: Look, Johnny, I need you out here. 35 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 5: Can you come right away? 36 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:19,159 Speaker 2: For sure? 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,159 Speaker 3: You see any fishing we do maybe for the bodies 38 00:02:24,159 --> 00:02:24,680 of people. 39 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:34,759 Speaker 6: Bob Bailey and the exciting adventures of the Man with 40 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:39,879 the action packed expensive out America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators. 41 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 2: Truly Johnny Dollar. Expense accounts ofitted by Special Investigator Johnny 42 00:02:56,360 --> 00:03:00,199 Dollar the Continental Insurance and Trust Company Columbus Ohio off us. 43 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:03,400 Following is a kount of expenses incurred during my investigation 44 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:09,120 of the Waywood River matter expense. A contad won forty 45 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,120 three dollars and a half transportation to New York in 46 00:03:11,159 --> 00:03:14,080 a flag ship to Columbus, Ohio. It was fine thirty 47 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:16,039 pm and raining hard when the big forrange and plane 48 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:18,560 sat down gently at Port Columbus Airport. I'm seven miles 49 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:21,120 out of town. My plan was to go into the 50 00:03:21,159 --> 00:03:23,560 Fort Hayes Hotel and call Lee Hawkins from there. So 51 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,319 after picking up my luggage, I headed for the door 52 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,319 in a taxi stamp. But Lee it singes had other ideas. Here, 53 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:29,360 let me help you with the bell. 54 00:03:29,439 --> 00:03:31,039 Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I said, I'm just looking for a text 55 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:34,120 day Lee. My car's right out here, Johnny. As soon 56 00:03:34,159 --> 00:03:36,840 as we get started, the bitter you know, right through 57 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:37,120 this door. 58 00:03:37,280 --> 00:03:37,479 Speaker 1: Yeah. 59 00:03:37,479 --> 00:03:39,439 Speaker 2: Well wait, as sooner we get started. Where where are 60 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:39,800 we going? 61 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 3: To the town of Conter at about one hundred miles 62 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:43,680 or so south. I'll come on if you want to 63 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:50,639 get so hey, come on whatever whatever you say, Come on, Hopkins. 64 00:03:52,719 --> 00:03:54,159 Speaker 2: Brother. True. 65 00:03:54,199 --> 00:03:55,719 Speaker 3: Why didn't you tell me to bring a ring up? 66 00:03:55,919 --> 00:03:57,039 Why don't you read the papers? 67 00:03:57,039 --> 00:03:58,159 Speaker 2: I'm writing like this for long? 68 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:01,759 Speaker 3: Walking on three or four weeks and they have a 69 00:04:01,759 --> 00:04:02,599 mean ride ahead of us. 70 00:04:03,039 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 2: Well, what's in all a valley. 71 00:04:04,639 --> 00:04:07,599 Speaker 3: Well, the floods along the Ohio and pretty severe this year, Johnny, 72 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:09,840 I've been somewhat. 73 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 4: Later than usual. 74 00:04:10,319 --> 00:04:10,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, that much. 75 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 3: I did read about half a dozen of the big 76 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:15,360 cities have been taking a real beating in spite of 77 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,000 all their preparations for the big runoff. No, that's been 78 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:20,639 through all over the country. What you don't read about 79 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,000 in the headlines, though, is the little places like Cotterret. 80 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,759 It's my old hometown, Johnny, and so a lot of 81 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,000 policies there, particularly to the local shopkeepers, you know, on 82 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:31,360 their stocks and merchandise. 83 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:33,120 Speaker 2: So there's been a lot of flood damage and your 84 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:35,120 company's having to pay up a lot of claim. 85 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 4: Not yet, so far, the town's been lucky. 86 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:39,800 Speaker 3: Most of the recent bad storms have been across the 87 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,160 state line up in Pennsylvania or over in West Virginia, 88 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:44,240 the same. 89 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:45,639 Speaker 4: As true last year and the year before. 90 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:50,279 Speaker 3: So the people gone around Cotaret farmers mostly haven't gone 91 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:52,439 ahead with their flood control project the way they should have. 92 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:54,040 Speaker 2: It's kind of red right on the Ohio. 93 00:04:54,439 --> 00:04:57,519 Speaker 4: No, it's in a valley a few miles north it's on. 94 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 3: The Crooked River, and parts of the town are actually 95 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:02,800 below the river bank. And you see what that means? 96 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:04,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, I sure can. 97 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:06,439 Speaker 4: Most of the year, it's a quiet. 98 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:09,600 Speaker 3: Lazy stream about fifty or sixty feet WIAT. But when 99 00:05:09,639 --> 00:05:12,319 the feeder streams up in the hill start pouring water 100 00:05:12,399 --> 00:05:15,360 down and never overflows, half a time will go with 101 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:17,519 it and swept right down into the Ohio. 102 00:05:17,879 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 2: We don't they know enough to prepare for this sort 103 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,040 of thing, Johnny. 104 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:24,879 Speaker 3: Like I say that in Lucky so far, this present 105 00:05:24,959 --> 00:05:27,399 storm has been bigger and longer than anything they've ever had. 106 00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,319 Speaker 2: Well, what about the State Flood Control Commission or whatever 107 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:31,800 it's called. Can't they do anything? 108 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:35,079 Speaker 3: Let's face it, Wat's a little bird like Carter RT 109 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,480 when there are a hundred bigger and more important towns 110 00:05:37,519 --> 00:05:38,240 in the same fixture. 111 00:05:38,319 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, I see what you mean. 112 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:42,680 Speaker 3: Before the lines went down, I got a call from 113 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:46,639 Fred Norlock, one of my bigger CONTs down there, big hardware. 114 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:49,959 Unless the river goes down, he's gonna lose the whole place. 115 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:52,319 That means over one hundred thousand dollars insurance clan. 116 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 2: But what can I possibly do, Lee? 117 00:05:55,319 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 4: I don't know, Johnny. I just don't know. 118 00:06:02,319 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 2: We were heading south on Aroute twenty three, and by 119 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,519 the time we reached Chilliconti, the rain had led up 120 00:06:06,519 --> 00:06:09,240 to a drizzle. By the time we reached Jackson, where 121 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,160 we left the main highway, it had led up entirely. 122 00:06:11,839 --> 00:06:14,040 But I noticed that every little stream we passed was 123 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:17,879 overflowing its banks. Finally, it must have been after midnight, 124 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,759 we pulled up on a low hill overlooking the town 125 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:22,680 of Catarat, and it started to rain again, to rain 126 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:28,480 high below, as the crooked river was a terrible, terrifying 127 00:06:28,519 --> 00:06:32,319 thing to wash. Power lines were out, but maybe hundreds 128 00:06:32,319 --> 00:06:35,079 of kerosene and gasoline land in its flashlights and lights 129 00:06:35,079 --> 00:06:38,639 fan cars showed only too plainly the perils the brown, rushing, 130 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:41,759 raging torrent, the threat of the town man stripped of 131 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,519 the waste, the banker and the ditchdiggers, side by side, 132 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:47,720 the farmer and the merchant toil frantically to reinforcement levee 133 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:50,759 with bags of sandstone, some men anything they could find, 134 00:06:51,199 --> 00:06:53,879 while the river lapped hungrily at their feet, trying to 135 00:06:53,959 --> 00:06:56,160 undermine the embankment as quickly as it was built up. 136 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 6: Back. 137 00:06:58,759 --> 00:07:01,279 Speaker 2: And then we're other filling the sand bags and bulldozing 138 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,360 additional strength with the levee, hauling crountloads of sand and 139 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:08,319 rock and gravel, digging, shoveling, filling anything they could do. 140 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:12,399 I'd never seen a more dedicated group of people, men, women, children, 141 00:07:12,480 --> 00:07:15,839 all working in the common cars, not just for themselves, 142 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:18,639 but for the survival of their neighbors, their town. And 143 00:07:18,720 --> 00:07:21,800 the ugly river was like a thing alive, pawing at them, 144 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:25,639 seeking to destroy them. Huge floating masses of debris flew 145 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,079 by an express train, speed whirling now and then to 146 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:30,439 strike out at the embanker fighting to break it down, 147 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,680 thousands of tongues of wreckage, plants of houses, chicken poops, 148 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:37,480 trees and brush, anything that would float. I stood there, 149 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:42,199 appall and almost overwhelmed by a feeling of utter helplessness. 150 00:07:43,199 --> 00:07:46,199 Speaker 3: Can't they see that they were up here on this hill, 151 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:48,959 they could see that they're losing ground, Johnny. The river's 152 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:50,040 rising faster than they can. 153 00:07:49,959 --> 00:07:50,639 Speaker 4: Fill up the levee. 154 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:52,079 Speaker 2: The it looks that way. 155 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,399 Speaker 4: What's the matter with you, guys? Haven't you see they 156 00:07:54,399 --> 00:07:55,240 need help down there? 157 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: Anybody doesn't help, Bobby Shot. 158 00:07:57,680 --> 00:07:58,439 Speaker 4: He's right, Johnny. 159 00:07:58,519 --> 00:07:59,839 Speaker 3: We ought to go down there and help for whatever 160 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,480 it's worthway at one section where they're all working, it's 161 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,720 right about the cut in the Perry Street. If the 162 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:07,759 levee goes there, it'll sweep the whole section down the 163 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:08,839 valley into the Ohio River. 164 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,839 Speaker 2: Luckily, look back there behind us. The reason why the 165 00:08:12,839 --> 00:08:15,879 water is planning up. Don't you see that old railroad bridge. 166 00:08:16,199 --> 00:08:18,879 The trees, the mud, the ruffle it's pile up against it. 167 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,759 That railroad trestle has become a regular dam. I think 168 00:08:21,759 --> 00:08:23,839 you're right, one of that degree panting up there. 169 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:25,839 Speaker 3: The stronger it gets, and the higher it gets too, 170 00:08:26,639 --> 00:08:28,040 with the water mounting up behind it. 171 00:08:28,079 --> 00:08:29,759 Speaker 4: That way, the levee over Perry Street will go in 172 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:30,439 a matter of a minute. 173 00:08:30,519 --> 00:08:33,320 Speaker 2: Right, But break that damn somehow and the water will 174 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,639 get through down the Trucket River into the Ohio. 175 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:38,919 Speaker 4: Yeah, break that dam and it'll save the town. 176 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:46,799 Speaker 2: Yes. But how Johnny, how yeah? How? 177 00:08:48,960 --> 00:08:57,399 Speaker 6: Act two of yours? Truly, Johnny Dollar? In a moment, 178 00:08:58,039 --> 00:08:59,000 our flag. 179 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:03,080 Speaker 5: Now numbers fifth the stars, and behind each star there 180 00:09:03,159 --> 00:09:05,799 stands yet another flag representing one of. 181 00:09:05,759 --> 00:09:06,639 Speaker 6: The fifty states. 182 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,279 Speaker 5: Indiana's state flag is dark blue with a golden torch 183 00:09:11,559 --> 00:09:15,960 for liberty and Enlightenment. The rays of the torch indicate 184 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,799 their far reaching influence. An outer circle of stars represents 185 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:24,919 the original thirteen states, an inner circle of stars the 186 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,240 next five states admitted to the Union, and a large 187 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:33,519 star above the torch represents Indiana itself. Indiana's state flag, 188 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,320 the flag of the nineteenth state to enter the Union, 189 00:09:36,759 --> 00:09:39,639 was adopted on May thirty first, nineteen hundred and seventeen. 190 00:09:40,080 --> 00:09:42,799 Speaker 6: And now Act two of yours truly, Johnny Dollar, and 191 00:09:42,919 --> 00:09:55,639 the wayward River matter from our vantage to point on 192 00:09:55,679 --> 00:09:57,600 the hill above the little town of Cariiterret, we could 193 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:00,240 see why the crooked river was rising so fast, and 194 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:01,120 go engulf the time. 195 00:10:01,519 --> 00:10:04,600 Speaker 3: You're right, Johnny, the debree against the old railroad Prestol 196 00:10:04,639 --> 00:10:05,200 has made. 197 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 2: A dam, and somehow we've got to break that dam. 198 00:10:07,519 --> 00:10:10,799 But how leave You know? Any stores down there, any 199 00:10:10,799 --> 00:10:12,080 of them carry dynamite? 200 00:10:12,519 --> 00:10:16,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, down there on Perry Street. Norlock Supply Company had 201 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:19,679 come on on nor Lock, one of my biggest clients. 202 00:10:20,519 --> 00:10:22,360 If the levee breaks, his place will take the front 203 00:10:22,399 --> 00:10:26,960 of the flood. Yeah you see down there. Yeah, it's 204 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:27,919 men and putting fanbag. 205 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:28,320 Speaker 7: You're on it. 206 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 2: They won't mean a thing. If the levee goes. Why 207 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:32,679 does he send those men back on up to the 208 00:10:32,759 --> 00:10:34,320 river's edge where they can do some foot. 209 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:35,639 Speaker 4: I'm not Johnny. 210 00:10:35,639 --> 00:10:38,720 Speaker 3: He's the only man in town looking after his personal property, 211 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:42,519 the only one's selfish enough to say listen. He's also 212 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,200 the man who's always a poorest doing something about this river. 213 00:10:45,279 --> 00:10:47,000 Speaker 2: Maybe at breath Lee, we've got to get down there 214 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:54,480 and get some dynamite. The groups we passed, still vainly 215 00:10:54,519 --> 00:10:56,159 trying to chick up holes in the levee, all but 216 00:10:56,279 --> 00:10:58,759 spat on us as we passed because we weren't working 217 00:10:58,759 --> 00:11:00,279 with them, trying to save their time on to the 218 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,600 raging crooked river, or so they thought. Finally we slogged 219 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:06,960 our way to the Norlock Supply Company on Perry Street North, 220 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:11,440 and fast days and getting around my place the way 221 00:11:11,639 --> 00:11:14,600 goes and logging down here my fan bag Moore, you're crazy, 222 00:11:14,639 --> 00:11:17,879 miess to nor Locke, you're wasting your time. Mister Harkins, 223 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:20,519 Why that levee goes? Nothing will save this place of yours. 224 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,720 He's right, nor luck gets him in on up to 225 00:11:23,759 --> 00:11:26,240 the levee where they'll do some good. God, then you've 226 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:28,159 had the inturns of my place and stept away. It 227 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,600 won't be If we save the town, we need dynamoe. 228 00:11:30,639 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 4: Who are you? Oh, this is Johnny donard In turns off. 229 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:34,759 That's bitter. What are you doing here? 230 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,919 Speaker 2: Look? Look, there's no time to stand around and talk. 231 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,120 We need dynamite, a lot of. 232 00:11:38,039 --> 00:11:40,039 Speaker 4: It for car of the records from up the river. 233 00:11:40,559 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 3: It's jammed against the old railroad trestle south of town, 234 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:44,559 and it's made a regular damn. 235 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:45,759 Speaker 4: That's what's backing up the water. 236 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:49,320 Speaker 2: I know I've seen you're gonna bull that up. That's right. Now. 237 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,120 Where's the dynamite? 238 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,639 Speaker 4: Any of it had gone on that pissure with a 239 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:52,759 pissure of the river against If. 240 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:55,279 Speaker 3: He's crazy, any part of that doors you'll go where 241 00:11:55,279 --> 00:11:56,000 it it'll be killed. 242 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 4: He's raking soon, he's suicide to go up there. 243 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,519 Speaker 2: Come on, let's have the dynamite. Then you went get 244 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,080 up above where you can help. You hold their truck 245 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:06,120 with all the bags you can, but get up there fast. 246 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:09,240 Pose here, what about my locked where's that dynamite? 247 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:11,799 Speaker 4: I won't give up to the hold. Listen, mister Norse. 248 00:12:12,279 --> 00:12:14,679 If he shows you go out on that railroad drims. 249 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:16,480 But if we don't the whole town will go. And 250 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:20,559 I tell you why it's a dollar. Are you threatening 251 00:12:20,559 --> 00:12:21,000 to shoot me? 252 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:21,919 Speaker 3: But not away? 253 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:24,559 Speaker 2: Johnny Witch handlessly? You're crazy? 254 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 4: Not up with that gun? 255 00:12:25,360 --> 00:12:25,639 Speaker 3: Away? 256 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:26,120 Speaker 4: All right? 257 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,799 Speaker 2: No, like it's up to you. What do you mean 258 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:30,200 unless you give us the dynamite, I'll blast the lock 259 00:12:30,279 --> 00:12:32,840 off this place of yours and get it myself. Well, 260 00:12:34,399 --> 00:12:40,240 all right, all right in here, But I tell you 261 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:47,039 you're mad, always no lockmad. I'll pick them with the 262 00:12:47,039 --> 00:12:48,879 panic that all too often seizes a man when the 263 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:52,159 going gets tough. But he did give us the dynamite then, 264 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:53,799 with two of his work. When Lee Hawkins and I 265 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:55,840 trudged through the mud and the night loader with cases 266 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:58,759 of dynamite back to the old Railroad Trust. And when 267 00:12:58,799 --> 00:13:00,679 we got there, I wanted if maybe no wasn't right 268 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,000 after all, if it wouldn't be suicide to go out 269 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:08,200 on it. The pile up of debris against it was huge, 270 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:10,399 and back of it, the deadly brown water swirled and 271 00:13:10,519 --> 00:13:15,200 Eddie throwing telegraph poles, railroad ties, huge trees pounding against 272 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,879 the battering at the old framework of the trustle if 273 00:13:17,919 --> 00:13:19,919 only they'd strike hard enough to break it down, break 274 00:13:19,919 --> 00:13:23,080 the dam perhaps they would. By that time, the town 275 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:25,879 of Cataret would be lost, as somebody had to do 276 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:34,320 this job, and it looked like I'd elected myself. I'm 277 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,919 not quite clear on what happened during that next twenty 278 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,120 or thirty minutes. They seemed like thirty years of nightmare. 279 00:13:40,919 --> 00:13:43,000 I edged my way out on that riggedy framework, a 280 00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,000 fuse case of dynomide under my arm. It was dark, 281 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,360 and I had to feel my way along over planks 282 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,480 and boards and trees that the force of the water 283 00:13:50,519 --> 00:13:53,320 had thrown up on the trustle. The wires leading back 284 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:55,200 to the plunger that would set off the charge would 285 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,080 catch and drag, But I knew I had to reach 286 00:13:58,159 --> 00:14:00,399 the first long span to make the expose of do 287 00:14:00,519 --> 00:14:03,559 its work. And all the while the old bridge creaked 288 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:05,600 and grown and shook from the impact of the wreckage 289 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:12,080 being thrown against it by the angry water. But then 290 00:14:12,279 --> 00:14:15,399 finally the job was done, and I felt my way 291 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:16,039 back to the play. 292 00:14:19,159 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 3: Hurry, Jna, hurry, eh, yeah, I'm coming here. 293 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:25,279 Speaker 2: Everything ready here. 294 00:14:25,919 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 3: Don't you see the levy above, it's going to go 295 00:14:29,919 --> 00:14:32,679 back over the town. There's a cat The water's rushing. 296 00:14:32,879 --> 00:14:36,799 Speaker 2: Okay, lay the plunger. He's all right, all right, all right, 297 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:38,120 then lie down, quick, get down. 298 00:14:38,320 --> 00:15:04,720 Speaker 6: There's she goes, Act three of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar. 299 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:07,519 In a moment, let me ask you a question. What 300 00:15:07,639 --> 00:15:09,799 is the most important thing to a fighting man? 301 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:10,879 Speaker 7: His gun? 302 00:15:10,919 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 6: You may answer, You might also answer the Code of 303 00:15:14,519 --> 00:15:16,799 Conduct of the men of the Armed Forces of the 304 00:15:16,879 --> 00:15:20,639 United States, because you know it is something just as 305 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,720 necessary to the fighting man as his gun. And just 306 00:15:23,799 --> 00:15:25,919 as he keeps his gun cleaned and oil because his 307 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,279 life may depend on it, so does he keep ever 308 00:15:28,399 --> 00:15:31,639 forward in his mind his code of conduct because his 309 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:36,919 life and honor depend on it. Part of the code reads, quote, 310 00:15:37,159 --> 00:15:39,799 I will never surrender of my own free will. If 311 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:42,600 in command, I will never surrender my men while they 312 00:15:42,639 --> 00:15:46,919 still have means to resist, unquote. During the bloody and 313 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:49,759 costly campaign on the Island of Saipan and World War Two, 314 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,639 the Code of the soldier meant something to the men, 315 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,879 and to one man in particular, essentially a quiet, peace 316 00:15:56,919 --> 00:16:00,000 loving man, Sergeant Thomas A. Baker, while with a hundred 317 00:16:00,039 --> 00:16:02,960 fifth Infantry Regiment of the United States Army, was up 318 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:05,679 against it one night in nineteen forty four, when the 319 00:16:05,759 --> 00:16:08,840 enemy launched an attack which called for them to die 320 00:16:08,879 --> 00:16:13,240 in honor. Sergeant Baker proved it could work both ways. 321 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:16,480 The enemy attack fell like a saber blow and continually 322 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:20,200 hurled Baker's company back with each savage thrust. During the 323 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:23,639 ensuing days of action, Baker wiped out an enemy position 324 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:26,720 with a besooka killed fourteen of the enemy in a 325 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:29,039 machine gun ambush using only his M one rifle and 326 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:32,080 a couple of grenades, and then killed six more a 327 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:35,919 little farther on in a last ditch stand. One night, 328 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:39,080 the company dug in to withstand the next furious assault 329 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:41,720 in the dark. As the enemy rolled over them in 330 00:16:41,759 --> 00:16:45,519 a thunderous attack of firepower, Sergeant Baker suffered a mangled 331 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,879 leg from a grenade. Shooting and clubbing the enemy with 332 00:16:48,879 --> 00:16:51,720 his rifle, he dragged himself out of the vauxhole. Three 333 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,519 of his men tried to give him maid. Two of 334 00:16:53,559 --> 00:16:56,600 them were shot from the third man. Baker got a 335 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,120 cigarette and the pistol and told him to leave. The 336 00:17:00,159 --> 00:17:03,360 rest of the company moved back. Baker propped himself against 337 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:07,000 a telephone pole, calmly puffed on his cigarette and blazed 338 00:17:07,039 --> 00:17:10,880 away with his automatic. He was later found in that position, 339 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,160 with eight of the enemy dead around him, one for 340 00:17:14,279 --> 00:17:17,160 each shot, and the empty gun in his lifeless hand, 341 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:21,880 Sergeant Baker didn't consider the medal of honor he might get. 342 00:17:22,279 --> 00:17:25,319 He considered the job that had to be done. His 343 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:30,039 honor was at stake. Surrender wasn't in his code of conduct, 344 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,440 and now at three of yours truly, Johnny Dollar and 345 00:17:33,519 --> 00:17:34,799 the Wayward River matter. 346 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,759 Speaker 2: The charge of dynamite on the old railroad bridge had 347 00:17:52,799 --> 00:17:55,279 broken the dam that the angry river had thrown up against. 348 00:17:55,319 --> 00:17:58,279 It had released the little town from the threat of 349 00:17:58,279 --> 00:18:01,680 being washed down the valley into the Ohio. The men 350 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,480 and women and children, spent from having struggled against the 351 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:06,599 raging water throughout the night and all the day before, 352 00:18:07,400 --> 00:18:10,480 went quietly back to their homes and farms to rest 353 00:18:10,519 --> 00:18:15,759 and sleep. And nature defeated and gave up. The rain stopped, 354 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:19,920 and the skies cleared. Even the charging yellow waters of 355 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:22,720 the crooked River seemed to diminish. In a sort of frustration, 356 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,160 what damage had been done to the town could wait 357 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:31,039 now until the people were arrest refreshed. As Lee Hawkins 358 00:18:31,079 --> 00:18:33,400 and I plodded wearily over to the village, and I 359 00:18:33,559 --> 00:18:37,480 noticed that the streets were deserted. Yeah, even as the 360 00:18:37,519 --> 00:18:39,880 long gray fingers of dawn reached up into the sky. 361 00:18:40,319 --> 00:18:45,119 The town exhausted slept unmindful of the rooster in someone's 362 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:48,319 backyard who sought to rouse it, Nor did we rouse 363 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:51,000 the innkeeper. But picked a couple of rooms and settled 364 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,839 down to arrest our wary rolls. But I couldn't sleep. 365 00:18:57,559 --> 00:18:59,519 Somewhere in the back of my brain, a little warry 366 00:18:59,559 --> 00:19:02,599 began to want to peck away at me. In all 367 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,079 of Conterret the night before, there'd been one man, and 368 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,440 one man only, who had ignored the common good to 369 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,400 look after his own selfish interests. I went into Lee's 370 00:19:10,440 --> 00:19:13,160 room and awakening, Oh. 371 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:19,599 Speaker 3: No, Johnny lady, So did I can go back to sleep? Now? 372 00:19:19,640 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 2: Come on, just a couple of questions. Lee, listen to me, 373 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:25,319 Oh I sleep over one hundred thousand insurance, you said. 374 00:19:26,319 --> 00:19:29,680 Speaker 4: Yeah, a hundred and I don't know. 375 00:19:29,759 --> 00:19:31,519 Speaker 2: Well, if you asked me, that's too much for a 376 00:19:31,559 --> 00:19:33,640 business of any kind in the town this size, much 377 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:34,119 too much. 378 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:37,680 Speaker 3: So maybe I gave him a break on his evaluation. Yeah, 379 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,039 you know, to help sign up some of the other merchants. 380 00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:43,240 Speaker 2: But one hundred thousand of insurance money would give him 381 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:45,880 enough to live on the rest of his life. Look, 382 00:19:46,599 --> 00:19:49,319 why don't you go back to bed, Johnny Lee. He 383 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,960 knew about that damn at the railroad pressol, and so 384 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,319 far as I could see, he was the only one 385 00:19:53,319 --> 00:19:55,960 who did well. Everybody else was so busy at the levee. 386 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,599 But did he try to do anything about it. No, Instead, 387 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,680 he went through the motions of trying to protect his property. 388 00:20:01,119 --> 00:20:03,759 But he knew that if that levee broke, nothing would safe. 389 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,079 Speaker 4: All right, all right, chalk it up to panic. 390 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,599 Speaker 2: Panic. He fought to keep us from getting that dynamite, 391 00:20:09,599 --> 00:20:11,960 the one thing that could save the town. He kept 392 00:20:11,960 --> 00:20:13,559 those workmen away from where they might have done some 393 00:20:13,599 --> 00:20:16,279 good at the levee. He alone wanted that levee to break. 394 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:18,839 But good heavens, Johnny, you what. 395 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:21,119 Speaker 4: You're right? 396 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,480 Speaker 2: You must be? Yeah, I'm right. I'm going out and 397 00:20:24,480 --> 00:20:27,880 look for mister fred Norlock. There is no soul out there, everybody, 398 00:20:28,839 --> 00:20:38,079 That's what I want to find out. I found fred 399 00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,039 nor Loach alone up on the inner bank, the river 400 00:20:41,079 --> 00:20:43,559 side of the levee or anyone down below couldn't see him, 401 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:46,839 and he was working with a shovel of crowbar beside 402 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:50,119 him was a pile of dynamite. I'd given him that idea, 403 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:56,359 all right, nor Lock laid down that shovel all the river. 404 00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:58,519 Didn't do it the way you planned last night? Did it? 405 00:20:58,759 --> 00:21:01,440 Speaker 4: Maybe not goes if you, But you're not gonna stop me. 406 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,680 Speaker 2: Now, and I'll put that thing down. 407 00:21:03,519 --> 00:21:05,119 Speaker 4: Now, kill you go if you got any closer. 408 00:21:05,759 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 3: And nobody will know, because there's nobody around house where. 409 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,599 Speaker 4: Your buddy in the river, nobody will ever knows. 410 00:21:09,759 --> 00:21:12,599 Speaker 2: Sure, set up a small charge enough to breach the levee. 411 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:15,440 That's right, it's already and you can't stop, and the 412 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:18,359 river will crash through, destroy that feeling business of yours 413 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:20,359 down there. I'll take with it the homes in the valley, 414 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:21,440 the livestock, maybe even. 415 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 4: The people keep your hand over from that buckete. 416 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,079 Speaker 2: So what's you or me? Huh? And if I go 417 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:29,039 to town, goes too, Yes, but if I can outdraw it. 418 00:21:29,319 --> 00:21:32,359 Speaker 4: Pistols aimed at George Chase. Now you walk straight ahead 419 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:45,279 to the edge of the river. Waw no, no, oh. Yes. 420 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,640 Speaker 2: The Rlanck's body was never recovered. He'd lived alone. He 421 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:15,680 died alone, a crooked man in the crooked river. Nor 422 00:22:15,799 --> 00:22:17,920 was he mourn in the little town he tried to 423 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:27,079 destroy expensive count toll, including transportation back to Hartford one 424 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:44,799 hundred dollars. Even yours, truly, Johnny Dollar, Our star will return. 425 00:22:44,519 --> 00:22:45,319 Speaker 6: In just a moment. 426 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,559 Speaker 7: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star 427 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:53,519 there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states. 428 00:22:54,079 --> 00:22:57,240 Montana's state flag is its great seal, set upon a 429 00:22:57,279 --> 00:23:00,640 field of blue. To the foreground, our apply now a 430 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:05,000 miner's pick and shovel, all set against Montana mountain scenery 431 00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,519 and the great falls of the Missouri River. The legend 432 00:23:08,519 --> 00:23:13,039 across the banner reads oral e Plata, gold and silver. 433 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,440 The Montana Volunteers carried this flag in the Philippines during 434 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:21,599 the Spanish American War of eighteen ninety eight. Montana's state flag, 435 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,640 the flag of the forty first state to enter the Union, 436 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:29,400 was adopted on February twenty seventh, nineteen oh five. Next week, 437 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,240 the delectable damsel matter. I hope you like it. I 438 00:23:34,279 --> 00:23:35,160 know I did. 439 00:23:37,079 --> 00:23:49,279 Speaker 2: Join us. Won't you yours truly, Johnny Dollar? Yours truly, 440 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:50,599 Johnny Dollar is storrying. 441 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:53,200 Speaker 6: Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood, and it's but It has 442 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,400 been directed by Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's stories. 443 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,200 Heard in our cast were Chet Strathman, Birstil, Bob Bruce, 444 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,799 and Parley Bear. Special sound patterns by Tom Henley and 445 00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:07,799 Bill James. Be sure to join us next week, same 446 00:24:07,839 --> 00:24:11,279 time and station for another exciting story of yours, truly, 447 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:12,240 Johnny Dollars. 448 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 7: This is Roy Rowan speaking. 449 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,880 Speaker 6: This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service. 450 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 1: Welcome back. Nice little scene at the Columbus Airport. At 451 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,920 the beginning, it's my wife's hometown, and I've been at 452 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,319 that airport a few times. This one, coming a couple 453 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:26,839 of weeks after The Midnight Sun Matter, felt like a 454 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,200 similar story at first, where we were dealing with an 455 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,559 adventure and not really a typical Johnny Dowler story. But 456 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:41,200 Johnny's detective skills were able to kick in at the 457 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,960 end once the initial danger was passed and he got 458 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,319 to save the town twice. And of course the story 459 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:56,160 overall reflected a very strong sentiment and moral about the 460 00:25:56,319 --> 00:26:00,759 idea of selfishness and looking out for your self even 461 00:26:00,839 --> 00:26:04,519 at the cost to others. And it's important to remember 462 00:26:04,799 --> 00:26:09,240 that the sort of values and ethos that was at 463 00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:12,200 the core of the country during the Second World War 464 00:26:12,759 --> 00:26:15,640 hadn't gone away entirely, certainly not in the heart of 465 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,839 Jack Johnstone. All right, listener comments and feedback now, and 466 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,559 we start out on Facebook and with comments on the 467 00:26:23,599 --> 00:26:28,359 Midnight Sun Matter. Skyla writes that was a crazy episode, 468 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:31,480 like just a random spot of derring do and not 469 00:26:31,599 --> 00:26:35,559 a dam in sight. Thanks for the comments, Skyline. Well, 470 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:39,519 the indication is that this was inspired by a true 471 00:26:39,559 --> 00:26:46,200 life story, and in the late nineteen fifties, when you're 472 00:26:46,279 --> 00:26:52,640 dealing with a cargo plane and air traffic control and 473 00:26:52,839 --> 00:26:56,599 a lead insurance agent, are not a lot of parts 474 00:26:56,599 --> 00:26:59,480 that women would have played in that particular story. The 475 00:26:59,599 --> 00:27:02,559 lack of women in this week's episode is honestly a 476 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:07,160 little bit more inexplicable because this was a small town. 477 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,000 You know, it was full of lots of people, and 478 00:27:11,319 --> 00:27:15,519 you know, including women, but we never actually hear from 479 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:19,599 any woman, and that's just that's just such an odd thing. Now, 480 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,640 it may have been an issue with availability. There really 481 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:28,799 was a sort of rep company set up with Jack 482 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,759 Johnstone on Johnny Dowler and the same actors and actresses 483 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,920 being called in multiple times. So it's just possible that 484 00:27:38,799 --> 00:27:43,279 none of the actresses that john Stone regularly worked with 485 00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:47,880 were available. But an interesting call on matt and Matthew 486 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:50,880 writes heard this one didn't like this. I liked the 487 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,440 show because of crime and mystery, but this should be 488 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,720 an episode of suspense instead. That's a fair point, Matt. 489 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:02,119 I am a bit sympathetic to Johnstone because he had 490 00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,680 to put out so many scripts on this series, oh 491 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,960 by himself at this point, and he had this script 492 00:28:09,039 --> 00:28:11,920 to work with. And when you're dealing with the need 493 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,799 to put out that volume of material, you do what 494 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:19,599 you gotta do. And I think it's fair to make 495 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,400 a little bit of an exception. I did find it entertaining, 496 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:28,559 which makes it a bit easier to forgive. And then 497 00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:33,480 overall on Spotify, Harrison riots regarding the episode, Hey Johnny, 498 00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:36,160 real quick, did you try jiggle leing the control switch 499 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:36,920 a few times? 500 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 2: Oh? 501 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,119 Speaker 1: You did five times? Okay, Well, we're still working on 502 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:44,720 the problem. I enjoyed the unique storytelling, but it would 503 00:28:44,759 --> 00:28:48,480 have been better as the first episodes in a serial, 504 00:28:49,079 --> 00:28:56,000 and that next episode teaser was spittake worthy. Well appreciate 505 00:28:56,079 --> 00:29:00,160 the comments, Harrison. In some ways, it seems like it's 506 00:29:00,279 --> 00:29:04,519 almost the opposite of the complaint of Matthew, but I 507 00:29:04,559 --> 00:29:08,519 think it's an interesting idea. Now, obviously by nineteen fifty 508 00:29:08,519 --> 00:29:13,759 eight they'd stopped doing serialized stories in the five part format. However, 509 00:29:13,839 --> 00:29:18,599 they were not overdoing a continued story every now and again, 510 00:29:18,799 --> 00:29:22,440 and this actually would have been a good one to do. 511 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:27,680 Rather than having it turn out that nothing had really 512 00:29:27,759 --> 00:29:33,119 gone wrong, have the episode end with Johnny learning after 513 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:37,039 the landing that there had been sabotaged and who did it, 514 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:41,720 and then have the next episode be the investigation. That 515 00:29:41,839 --> 00:29:44,960 might have been a more intriguing story, and it would 516 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:49,920 have worked overall, being consistent with typical Johnny Dowler. And then, 517 00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,920 of course Harrison had another comment, this one on our 518 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:57,440 forty eight hundredth episode special. I'd completely forgotten about the 519 00:29:57,519 --> 00:30:01,680 giant balloon animals. The otibus was worth it just for that. Well, 520 00:30:01,839 --> 00:30:06,440 thanks so much, Harrison. We actually just featured the balloon 521 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:11,039 animals ad in our old time radio snack Wagon ads 522 00:30:11,039 --> 00:30:15,240 sample or two last season, and of course you're going 523 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:18,240 to get at least one more of them when we 524 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:22,559 bring you the Henderson matter on us. And then I 525 00:30:22,559 --> 00:30:25,720 think we'll be done with the balloon animal ads for 526 00:30:27,039 --> 00:30:30,240 six or seven years, and I don't think I'll miss him. 527 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,839 Then we have a couple of comments regarding the Road 528 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,599 to the Valentine Manor. Nancy emails and I just adore 529 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:41,039 the Road to the Valentine Manor. This has always been 530 00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:44,400 my favorite cereal, and to see how it's been handled 531 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,559 in Recheep over the years, it's just great. I've listened 532 00:30:48,839 --> 00:30:52,440 almost from the beginning and loved every bit of it. 533 00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:56,480 Keep up the great job, Thanks so much, Nancy. And 534 00:30:56,519 --> 00:31:02,160 then over on YouTube, and then Kathy, she writes, this 535 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,799 is great. I listen to a lot of old time 536 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,559 radio detectives and sometimes here a story that I know 537 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,400 I've heard before, but surely with a different detective, or 538 00:31:10,599 --> 00:31:13,519 was it. It's great that you've done this quality work 539 00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:17,400 to bring this to us like this. Well, thanks so much, 540 00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:20,759 and it really is fun to do the twicele tales now. 541 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,519 Of course, in the interest of full disclosure, the work 542 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,400 of identifying these reuse scripts has gone on for some 543 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,279 times and certainly predates my efforts, But my idea has 544 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:40,079 really been just bringing you the episodes in a single 545 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:44,160 podcast so you can kind of hear the direct comparison. 546 00:31:44,519 --> 00:31:48,720 And so it's been fun to do these the road 547 00:31:48,799 --> 00:31:52,000 to the Valentine matter. It was, of course a lot 548 00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:55,799 more work and a longer episode than we typically do, 549 00:31:56,839 --> 00:32:00,720 and I think for the spring episode we will be 550 00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:04,920 back to just a sort of twict hold tale, but 551 00:32:06,079 --> 00:32:09,519 if people enjoyed the cereal, we might look into some 552 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,519 of the more complex cereals in the future and do 553 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:14,480 those again. 554 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 2: Again. 555 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,759 Speaker 1: Appreciate your feedback. Well, now it is time to thank 556 00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:23,000 our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to 557 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,160 thank Gary, Patreon supporter since August twenty sixteen, currently supporting 558 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,400 the podcast at the shawmus level of four dollars or 559 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,880 more per month. Thanks so much for your support and 560 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,839 that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the podcast, 561 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:40,799 please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be 562 00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:43,720 sure to rate and review the podcast wherever you download 563 00:32:43,759 --> 00:32:47,240 it from. We'll be back next Friday with another episode 564 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:51,160 of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, and we will be back 565 00:32:51,319 --> 00:32:56,519 on Sunday with our first normal Sunday Encore, and on 566 00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,960 Monday we return to our regular lineup with Danger with Grangers. 567 00:33:00,359 --> 00:33:04,079 But join us back here tomorrow as we give way 568 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,039 to the great adventurers of old time radio with Cloak 569 00:33:07,039 --> 00:33:08,200 and dagger, where. 570 00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:11,640 Speaker 8: All of a sudden the train gave a lunch. One 571 00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:14,039 of my suitcases took a flying dive to the floor. 572 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,480 There was a suitcase with a pen knife scar across 573 00:33:17,559 --> 00:33:19,960 the other handle, the one with the radio. 574 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:21,839 Speaker 7: I was glad. 575 00:33:21,839 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 8: I was long the next compartment. I couldn't wait to 576 00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,119 find out if that radio was all right. You see, 577 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,440 the case was lined with a false backy of boxes 578 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:32,039 of chocolates to hide the radio. I unfastened the backing 579 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,599 and there was the radio. It was okay, nothing was broken. 580 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,680 And then before I could refasten the backing, I heard 581 00:33:39,759 --> 00:33:45,839 voices outside the compartment door. I didn't have time to 582 00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:48,480 refasten the backing. I had just enough time to slam 583 00:33:48,519 --> 00:33:50,720 the case shut again, slide it back up in the rack, 584 00:33:50,759 --> 00:33:54,880 and get back in my seat. Major, what is this? 585 00:33:55,599 --> 00:33:57,759 Speaker 2: I was under the impression of this compartment was erft 586 00:33:57,759 --> 00:33:58,359 from me alone. 587 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,839 Speaker 4: There must be some mistake, Caffield, Musha. 588 00:34:02,519 --> 00:34:05,359 Speaker 8: There was a mistake, all right, my mistake in picking 589 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:07,400 the one compartment on the train that had been chosen 590 00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:08,000 for Field. 591 00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:10,199 Speaker 2: Marshall Ramar, I. 592 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:13,000 Speaker 1: Hope you'll be with us then in the meantime, send 593 00:34:13,039 --> 00:34:17,599 your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, 594 00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,199 Follow us on Twitter at Radio Detectives, and check us 595 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:28,079 out on Instagram, Instagram, dot com, slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. 596 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,800 This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.