Speaker 1: From Hollywood.
Speaker 2: It's time now for John Lund as Johnny Dollar al.
Speaker 3: Harford, Corinthian, Johnny, I have a case here. He won't like,
Speaker 3: but the commission will be good if we beat it.
Speaker 1: How big is the policy?
Speaker 3: Two hundred thousand dollars? I'm afraid to tell you the rest.
Speaker 1: Why it's in Hong Kong? You have to travel. You
Speaker 1: haven't scared me yet. Is there something you're leaving out?
Speaker 3: Policy holders are people we've had trouble with before. Remember
Speaker 3: the Transpacific Import Export outfit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I sent flowers to the widow. Transpacific was in Shanghai.
Speaker 1: Then this is their Hong Kong place.
Speaker 3: I want to take a crack at it.
Speaker 1: No, but I will al Yeah, I'm scared.
Speaker 2: Now tonight and every weekday night, John Lund in the
Speaker 2: Transcribed Adventures of a Man with the Action Packed Expense
Speaker 2: account America's Fabulous freelance insurance Investigator, Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2: Expense Accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dallar to
Speaker 2: Home Office, Corinthian Liability and Risk, Carford, Connecticut. The following
Speaker 2: is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the
Speaker 2: Trans Pacific matter. I found Hong Kong to be a
Speaker 2: city without simplicity, burdened with the tragic complexities of war.
Speaker 2: To fill the smallest one is a difficult and almost
Speaker 2: always expensive task, as a shortage of everything food, water
Speaker 2: helped places to live. Both the island and the city
Speaker 2: of Colown and the mainland burst with thousands of refugees
Speaker 2: who have moved from the interior. Over the bobbing head
Speaker 2: of my boy, I watched many of them lining the streets,
Speaker 2: wailing for arms as we made our way to the
Speaker 2: offices of the American Consulate.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is true. Life is very difficult here.
Speaker 1: Where are they all going?
Speaker 4: Many of them do not know? Where is it for
Speaker 4: him to go?
Speaker 1: What do they do? How do they stay alive?
Speaker 4: Many of them do not. It is not like this
Speaker 4: in your America.
Speaker 1: No, had it ever been well?
Speaker 2: There was a civil war once. The books I've read
Speaker 2: say that at times it was pretty.
Speaker 1: Bad, but not like this.
Speaker 2: Never.
Speaker 1: Yes, mister Grover, Louisa, mister Dollard, step in.
Speaker 4: Mister Grover is ready to speak with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks Ah, artwork Connecticut. It sounds for it, I suppose
Speaker 2: it would. It's a pleasure. Mister Dollar. Same here mister
Speaker 2: Grover s Don Insurance investigation. Now, yes, well, now what
Speaker 2: your errand and what can this office.
Speaker 1: Do for you?
Speaker 2: I'm here to investigate a claim filed by the Transpecific
Speaker 2: Import Export Company. Oh yes, yes, of course will Meadows
Speaker 2: from destroyed by fire last month one hundred percent or
Speaker 2: two hundred thousand dollars worth to my company.
Speaker 1: Do you know this William Meadow, mister.
Speaker 2: Grober Maddiam at the American Club. No, no, that's about
Speaker 2: all hey. Insurance investigators are hired when the company isn't
Speaker 2: satisfied with something about the claim.
Speaker 1: On this one, the fire was blamed on vandalism.
Speaker 2: Well, vandalism has become quite a popular pastime across and
Speaker 2: Cologne especially. Do you suspect some sort of fraud? Frankly,
Speaker 2: we do, mister Grover. Transpacific once had a branch in Shanghai.
Speaker 2: When the war closed in on them up there, their
Speaker 2: warehouse burnt to the ground, just like this one here
Speaker 2: I see, And it occurred to a number of people
Speaker 2: in my home office that Transpecific did much better by
Speaker 2: collecting on the insurance at that time than by going
Speaker 2: through the expense of liquidating mm hmm. I suppose coincidence
Speaker 2: won't quite do it with it. Well, now, how can
Speaker 2: I help the Well, i'd appreciate some phone calls or
Speaker 2: letters that would give me some support from the fire
Speaker 2: department the police. I don't suppose my problem seems very
Speaker 2: important out here, just thinking that very thing. It's always
Speaker 2: the case, mister Dollar, on the fringe of war, very
Speaker 2: few individual problems seem very important, nor are the individuals themselves.
Speaker 2: In the end, I trust you'll keep that in mind
Speaker 2: as you conduct your investigation here.
Speaker 4: Huh.
Speaker 2: I'll try to getting help even time from the police
Speaker 2: or fire brigade is one of those individual problems. But
Speaker 2: I'll do what I can for well, anything will help,
Speaker 2: mister Gilmer, I won't take up any more of your time. Eh.
Speaker 2: Elections must have been quite exciting back home. Oh yes
Speaker 2: they were. I missed that part of home very much. Oh,
Speaker 2: be sure to leave your number with my girl. I'll
Speaker 2: let you know about the official assistance. Well, I came
Speaker 2: right here from the airport. I don't have a number yet.
Speaker 2: Oh well, pretty tough. She as a matter of fact,
Speaker 2: almost impossible. The occidental places are always failed. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you speak with my receptionist miss vaders Vaderus. Yes, her
Speaker 2: fathers have Portuguese. He might have accommodations. She's a charming
Speaker 2: girl and nice people. Oh good, I'll ask her and
Speaker 2: thanks again, Oh, mister dollar.
Speaker 1: Just a matter of ventures.
Speaker 2: Yes, the case of the trans specific import in Shanghai.
Speaker 2: You say your company was forced to meet the claim there,
Speaker 2: that's right. Was it investigated? The investigator they sent over
Speaker 2: was killed before he could build a case. They blamed
Speaker 2: his death on war conditions too. They said he was
Speaker 2: robbed a knife by starving refugees. Nobody had time to
Speaker 2: dig up the truth. Msvadris arranged for accommodations at her
Speaker 2: father's place on a street called sing Long, a hill
Speaker 2: of steps that climbs from the waterfront to the plush
Speaker 2: European residences on the top of Victoria Peak. I had
Speaker 2: a room that looked out on an alley. There was
Speaker 2: an iron bed, a chair, and a pitcher of water
Speaker 2: on a bamboo table. There were no other non orientals
Speaker 2: in the building, but I seem to be the only
Speaker 2: one that noticed it. The first night there, I was
Speaker 2: suffering from a combination of claustrophobia and loneliness, feelings which
Speaker 2: at first made me glad to learn that it was
Speaker 2: she who to my door.
Speaker 4: Hello, miss Vaders, mister Grover contacted a man named Harrison.
Speaker 4: He's at a fire control office here. Oh, mister Grover
Speaker 4: asked me to tell you that mister Harrison will see
Speaker 4: you tomorrow morning.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good. Won't you come in?
Speaker 4: Are you comfortable? Oh?
Speaker 1: Thank you?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am a business fine, I uh, I don't
Speaker 2: have much to offer you cigarette.
Speaker 4: No, no, thank you. I am very curious about what
Speaker 4: why you are here business?
Speaker 1: If that's what you mean, it's a better kept confidential.
Speaker 1: Right now?
Speaker 4: Is the danger in this business?
Speaker 1: Why do you ask that?
Speaker 4: Because you are followed here and you are being watched.
Speaker 4: How do you know, se mong Street. I have seen
Speaker 4: this man, but not here.
Speaker 1: Where is he?
Speaker 4: Perhaps you can see him from the window.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, you tell me where he is.
Speaker 4: I'll look the shop on the other side, the boxes
Speaker 4: pie the door.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you say you've seen him where I kind.
Speaker 4: Of remember that I have just seen him.
Speaker 1: Well, no need to worry. There won't be any trouble here.
Speaker 4: You seem sure of that.
Speaker 2: I have the advantage right now. He doesn't know that
Speaker 2: I know he's there. Well, thanks for telling me about him.
Speaker 4: Perhaps you know who he is.
Speaker 1: No, I didn't think anybody knew I was in town.
Speaker 4: You will let this go on the watching.
Speaker 1: Not much choice. But let's talk about something else. Huh.
Speaker 1: What's that music? Oh?
Speaker 4: That is love song? Too many people who meet a
Speaker 4: new river.
Speaker 1: Oh, in America, the songs are different.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I know I like them.
Speaker 1: Do you know many Americans?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, at the consulate office, I see them all
Speaker 4: the time. I want to marry one.
Speaker 1: Well, i'd say he was a very lucky American.
Speaker 4: You misunderstand. I do not mean there's only one. I
Speaker 4: want to marry an American who would take me from China.
Speaker 4: There is no other way.
Speaker 1: You hate it that much.
Speaker 4: There is nothing else to do but hate it. There's
Speaker 4: no good here, always trouble. But Chinese are patient people.
Speaker 4: But I'm not all Chinese, and I cannot make myself
Speaker 4: be patient any longer. I want to go to America,
Speaker 4: where people thrive on impatiency. You know, I would think
Speaker 4: from what I've seen of them, the Americans are the
Speaker 4: most impatient people in the world.
Speaker 1: They say, we kill ourselves that way, heart and stomach.
Speaker 4: Still you live longer and better.
Speaker 1: What about your Portuguese people.
Speaker 4: Oh, dear gone, Hugh think I'm bad to be this way?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, I didn't say that.
Speaker 4: I'm not bad.
Speaker 2: I hope you find your American mewsuaders. Hugh want me
Speaker 2: to go now, well, I think you'd better. I'll see
Speaker 2: you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Yes, good night.
Speaker 2: Three things interfered with sleep that night. The pleading in
Speaker 2: the eyes of the girl, the smells and sounds that
Speaker 2: drifted into my room from the restless, crowded city, and
Speaker 2: the watcher who was still at this station across the
Speaker 2: street when I turned out my light. The toughest part
Speaker 2: of the case was that failure in Shanghai. At the
Speaker 2: age of had been killed. There was a sobering memory,
Speaker 2: and for that reason, every face on sing Wong Street
Speaker 2: was a suspicious one in every group of Hong Kong Chinese,
Speaker 2: a potential assassin. With my watcher the first to be
Speaker 2: reckoned with gun in hand, eyes on the street, I
Speaker 2: fell asleep that night watching him. The next morning there
Speaker 2: was a different man in his place. I was followed
Speaker 2: to the office of Harrison, the chief of the fire brigade,
Speaker 2: who had developed couldn't see me after all, So with
Speaker 2: the morning on my hands. I decided to talk to
Speaker 2: William Meadow, the head of Trans Pacific. Oh yes, home,
Speaker 2: mister Meadow at home.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, you give name please?
Speaker 2: Oh, gentlemen, my name is Dollar, mister Meadow. I'm from
Speaker 2: Corinthian Liability, Hertford office, all away from the stage. That's right,
Speaker 2: we mean, Oh, you'll come in please. Would't you say
Speaker 2: your name was Dollar? They weren't submited with that company anyway.
Speaker 2: This doesn't have to be on it there in Hartford
Speaker 2: with nothing to worry about but Sunday's golf game. They
Speaker 2: don't know anything about the conditions we're working under. They
Speaker 2: do know that you're a fire here pretty much follows
Speaker 2: the pattern of the one in Shanghai, and of.
Speaker 1: Course it does.
Speaker 2: The conditions are the same, including the starving refugees that
Speaker 2: kill and rob the investigator. I tell you this now,
Speaker 2: careless people are dying here every day. It can happen
Speaker 2: pretty easy. Now, I don't say what you have to
Speaker 2: say to me, and get out of here. It's very little,
Speaker 2: mister Meadow. I came here mainly to get my reaction
Speaker 2: to you. I have you jumped to the conclusion that
Speaker 2: you were under suspicion before I got through that door.
Speaker 1: You're on the defensive, so you must have a reason
Speaker 1: to be sure him out. Will you'll come now, mister
Speaker 1: doll wait.
Speaker 2: More important, you're having me followed, so you must be
Speaker 2: afraid of reason.
Speaker 1: It's a dollar hold on.
Speaker 5: I'm not afraid of your dollar or what you can
Speaker 5: find or what you might try to do. Corinthian liability
Speaker 5: means no more to me than a bill I authorize
Speaker 5: payment on. At the beginning of the year, my firm
Speaker 5: burned down here, and that dandy little company of yours
Speaker 5: is going to pay the claim.
Speaker 1: True.
Speaker 5: I don't like you snooping around. I don't like you
Speaker 5: coming here to my house like this, and you know it,
Speaker 5: no man would. That's the biggest parcel of information you'll
Speaker 5: ever get from me, that I'll go elsewhere. Good idea.
Speaker 5: Have your dreams, donar, but have them someplace else. Go
Speaker 5: snoop through the ashes, they're cold. Mainly, just get out.
Speaker 2: Of you, and how mister doll or players I can
Speaker 2: find the door. Two things came out of that conversation
Speaker 2: with William Meadow. One reasonable platform to build a suspicion too,
Speaker 2: a veiled threat.
Speaker 1: In his reference to the agent who had been killed
Speaker 1: in Shanghai. Let me elaborate on that.
Speaker 2: Most all of what Meadows was saying to me was
Speaker 2: this is my town, and I run things. Anybody who
Speaker 2: gets in my way can get hurt.
Speaker 1: Hm.
Speaker 2: It was a real nice situation, all right. I'd been
Speaker 2: threatened and I was being followed. Expense account item two
Speaker 2: seven dollars for Scotch. I rickshawed back to my hotel,
Speaker 2: locked myself in and took up my vigil by the window.
Speaker 2: Same watcher, same kind of night in the city where
Speaker 2: life was supposedly so cheap mine began to grow expensive.
Speaker 2: Be sure to hear tomorrow's episode of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar,
Speaker 2: starring John Lund, who can currently be seen in the
Speaker 2: Universal International picture Just Across the Street. Yours Truly Johnny
Speaker 2: Dollar is written by E Jack Newman with music by
Speaker 2: Eddie Dunsteader, and is transcribed in Hollywood by Heimi del Vaie.
Speaker 1: This is Dan Cumberly.
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