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Detectives dot net. But now, from May eighteenth, nineteen fifty eight,
here is the Ghost to Ghost Matter.
Speaker 2: From Hollywood at time now for Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3: Hi, Johnny, there's Dark Prize International Press Service.
Speaker 2: Oh holy small guard, what are you doing of at
this hour of the morning.
Speaker 3: I'm on the night desk and I'm sorry to have
to wake you up.
Speaker 2: Oh my listen, I'm just gonna call.
Speaker 4: A real franny one from a guy who insisted on
having your phone number.
Speaker 2: Well did you give it to him?
Speaker 4: He said, he's an insurance man about some insurance matter,
So yes, I did.
Speaker 2: Well why did he called you?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I thought it was me too, but he was so excited,
so well, so, Franny, Well, he'd probably called the first
person he could think of, and he said it was
a big emergency.
Speaker 2: Oh did he give you any details?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: And Johnny gets around my curiosity.
Speaker 2: Let me know what it's all about, will you? Okay?
I promise. Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the
Man with the Action fact Expensive Out, America's fabulous freelance
insurance investigator is truly Johnny Dollar. Expense account submitted by
a special investigator, Johnny Dollar, the State Unity Life Insurance
Company Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. Following is an account of
expenses incurred during my investigation of the ghost to ghost matter.
I'd no sooner rolled over in the hope of getting
back to sleep. When the phone beside my bed he
started jangling again. Oh nuts, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 3: This is oscar extremely mister Dollar trimely.
Speaker 4: I represent State Unity, live here in Lake City, New Jersey.
Speaker 2: Oh look, are you the man who called our price
over an international press service.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I did.
Speaker 3: Get your phone number right, and you knew he'd have it.
Speaker 4: You're being such a famous investigator and all that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well you could also have got it from Universal
Adjustment Bureau. Your insurance directory the long distance operator.
Speaker 3: Oh dear, I guess I've been so upset over this
whole thing that it never occurred to me. But can
you come down here to Lake City, mister Dollar right away?
Speaker 2: Well, it depends. What's it all about Ian mcandrew's. Ian
mc andrews.
Speaker 3: Oh, don't you know? He's the man who founded Lake City?
Speaker 2: So what's happened to him?
Speaker 4: He's dead, mister Dollar, or rather he isn't. Well, that
is to say, he died, mister Dollar, about five years ago,
and well, in due time, of course, we paid off
the claim on his life insurance policy fifty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Everything in order and perfectly all right?
Speaker 2: Well end, But now, oh oh.
Speaker 4: No, mister Dolly, you just won't believe it unless you
come here and see for yourself.
Speaker 2: Oh won't believe what.
Speaker 3: Ian mcandrew's has come back? Huh, either he or his
his ghost has come back here.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 4: It's absolutely true, Sir, Ian McAndrews is haunting Lake City.
Speaker 3: So please come as quickly as you can.
Speaker 2: I uh, I'll think about it.
Speaker 3: Oh dear, Is that the best answer you can give me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm afraid so until I see how things line
up for me these next couple of days. Goodbye, mister Timley.
Think about it. I can hardly wait to grab a train.
But I didn't want to ask a Trimley to all that,
because I had a strong suspicion that if you can
catch a ghost off guard, you'll be one up on him.
Expencer con I had have won the promise home called
the art price an international price? Are you kidding, Johnny, No,
I'm deadly serious, Little New Jersey. Yeah, yep, I'll keep
in touch. Then I remembered Nancy Nancy Turner, an old flame,
or rather a young old flame. She'd said something one
time about taking up investigation of the supernatural. So expense
a count item too another time for another call.
Speaker 3: You all, rascal, Johnny, you haven't called me an agent?
Speaker 2: Wow, you know how it is, Look Nancy, did you
ever go ahead with your study of psychic investigation psyching?
Speaker 4: Oh no, Johnny, I thought i'd have to read a
couple of hundred months the old books, so I.
Speaker 3: Gave it up.
Speaker 2: Oh well that's too bad. Oh why well, I've got
to run over to Jersey to investigate a haunted town.
Speaker 3: A haunted town.
Speaker 2: How thrilling accepted such a thing as impossible? Oh, it is, sure,
but I'd kind of thought that maybe you were still well.
I guess we better forget it.
Speaker 3: Forget it nothing. I'm going with you.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, wait, all excuses.
Speaker 3: I'll put on my face and another dress and be
waiting for the time you.
Speaker 2: Can get Yeah, but look, honey, I h okay, Nancy,
I'll pick yip. Had him three ten eighty five taxian
trained for two to New York. I had him four
fifty bucks deposit on a rental car. When we got
into Grand Central Station, we crossed over into Jersey and
hid Route twenty two for some of him in points
west and every mile of theway, Nancy chatted away like
a magpie. She kept holding some of the stuff she
had read on this subject. A lot of authorities who
decided that some of the reports on haunted towns and
houses and people things like that, had decided there was
something really supernatural about them. And you know, after a while,
I began to wonder, yep, I began to wonder Act
two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment, our
flag now numbers fifty stars and behind each star, there
stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states.
Speaker 5: Kansas state flag is dark blue, and in the center
is the state's seal surmounted by a large sunflower, the
official state flower. The seal reflects the history of Kansas.
The train of ox wagons going west for most of
the great roads passed through Kansas and Indian is depicted
chasing a herd of buffalo, recalling the words of the
official state song, Oh give me a home where the
buffalo roamed, for this truly was the home of the
buffalo and Indian. The east is represented by a rising sun,
and the promise of future prosperity is indicated by the
steamboat on the river and the farmer plowing the field.
Above a mountain range are thirty four stars, where Kansas
was the thirty fourth state admitted to the Union. Overall
is the state mottol odd ostra per aspera to the
Stars through Difficulties. Kansas state flag, the flag of the
thirty fourth state to enter the Union, was adopted on
March twenty third, nineteen twenty seven, and now Act two
of Yours Truly Johnny Dollar and the Ghost to Ghost Matter.
Speaker 2: Lake City nestling among the soft roaming North Jersey hills.
What kind of has been town? I saw the reason
for that in the abandoned mill, the all mcandrew's cotton
millo once side of the lake, the same old story.
I guess when a town's main industry closes down, it
kind of goes to put Nonetheless, it was a charming
little place, population all maybe four or five hundred. When
we finally located usc Eternley's insurance office, we found a
bit of a gathering there.
Speaker 6: And mister Dollar, that is miss Turner, and mister Dollar.
This is Charlie Reed. I'habited a posture and are Tony Gray.
We're sort of low businessman's club.
Speaker 2: Johnny, you know, okay, and let's get to the point.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Johnny. I thought over the phone that you
were turning us down.
Speaker 2: Well I changed my mind. And when I thought of
Nancy and her knowledge of the supernatural good, that's what
we need.
Speaker 7: Well, I am interested in the subject.
Speaker 8: We're all a little worried about it.
Speaker 7: Tony isn't kidding.
Speaker 8: I think we're a pretty level headed bunch. But well,
this thing has us scared.
Speaker 6: That's putting it in my little if it really is
his ghost that's plaguing.
Speaker 2: And you don't seriously believe in ghosts.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you this I never did before. But now,
well wait and you'll see.
Speaker 2: Gee, Johnny, Well, suppose you tell me what's going on?
Speaker 6: Well no, no, no, no, Johnny, You'll have to see
for yourself. I am here, yes, Charlie, and here, and
that means waiting until midnight.
Speaker 2: Midnight, sure, mister Donald, Well just why Bill?
Speaker 6: You will see, yes, And meantime you can look around. Say,
aren't you quite a fisherman, Johnny?
Speaker 2: Rather fish than eight now look at you.
Speaker 7: I love to fish too.
Speaker 6: Oh, the lake's full of nice bass, Charlie. You can
fix them up with a boat, can't you?
Speaker 7: Sure can't.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 6: But if I'm going to Tony, you arrange for a
place for miss Turner to stay overnight.
Speaker 8: Glad.
Speaker 6: Well, now, Johnny, you will stay at my home?
Speaker 9: All right?
Speaker 2: Fine?
Speaker 6: But no, no, I want you to see for yourself
at midnight. Meantime, good fishing. Right, I've got to get
back to the shop before missus Bisley starts screaming.
Speaker 8: About her high five see you later, yeah, and I'll
come back to the office and the rain somewhere for
miss Turner to stay.
Speaker 7: See you later, See you, Tony. Now, if you folks
will come over to the print shop with me, we'll
pick up the keys to my boat and some tackle,
and you can be on your way.
Speaker 2: Look, can't you at least give me some idea?
Speaker 6: Nope, not a thing until midnight. Oh and we'll all
have dinner together at the hotel.
Speaker 7: Mister Turnley, are you ready?
Speaker 2: You fellas are the boss? I guess fishing, Nancy.
Speaker 4: I'd love it.
Speaker 7: I'll even give you some of the fast strike hooks
I use.
Speaker 2: Okay, then let's go. There was something slightly school the
whole thing. And I don't mean just to talk about
ghost But when I go fishes and a company expence,
well who's to complain? So Nancy and I spent the
rest of the day on the lake. Matter of fact,
she caught the big one. By dinner time we were starved,
and the little hotel service not only excellent cocktails, but
a regular banquet, completely champagne.
Speaker 7: You enjoying it, Miss Turner? I love it? Only why
don't you call me? Nancy?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 9: Charlie?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you why? Tony, you stay out of this
trimely about this.
Speaker 6: This champagne you know, comes from the old Leland Stanford venue.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, and it's fine, I know, but it's time
we talk about your ghosts.
Speaker 9: Here you land any big ones out on the lake?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Belle Nancy got a four pounder.
Speaker 6: But now listen with you another thing about this? Fine
calisor didn't.
Speaker 7: I see you navigating the boat? An got one last year?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Six hallowells over here, you fellas? Ways, will you tell
me a little bit about all I want to know?
So I got nowhere. But then finally, after a lot
more food and wine and chatter, we drove off in
Tony's car.
Speaker 8: Now I'm stopping here in the middle of town, Johnny,
because it's the best place to be when things start popping, like.
Speaker 2: What one of you fellas gonna stop this run around
and started making sense.
Speaker 6: You'll see you.
Speaker 7: See, I'm all excited, lord, Johnny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Johnnie.
Speaker 7: You see the old tower clock almost midnight?
Speaker 2: So what about it?
Speaker 9: Old mc andrew's passed away at the stroke of midnight, Johnny. Personally,
I think that has something to.
Speaker 2: Do with this. You still haven't told me with what wait, listen,
there goes a tower clock.
Speaker 7: Oh midnight, count Johnny.
Speaker 3: That was four.
Speaker 8: Fine, And Johnny, see how all the lights are flickering
along the streets. That happens every night and no reason
for it.
Speaker 2: That h millions coming out of that cork car. Yeah, yeah,
I see him, but I don't what under the sun
is that?
Speaker 9: That's the ghost wailing?
Speaker 2: Oh now wait on that.
Speaker 9: Cream fills the air comes from everywhere the horrible time.
Speaker 6: Darny.
Speaker 7: No, listen. Didn't you hear that clock struck thirteen?
Speaker 9: Yes, Johnny, I yeah, he ask me.
Speaker 7: The devil's in old mcandrew's ghost. That's why it comes
out of his house every night. Out of his house, right, Johnny.
And wait, you see what's there?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Act three of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
Famous words of wisdom spoken by great men of thought,
never die, but are carried on through history by the
people who feel them and love them. When Benjamin Franklin said,
they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety, he was
speaking for all men in all countries. In May nineteen
forty five, when the first Marine Division was making an
assault in Okinawa, pharmacist's mate, William D. Halliburton, Junior, serving
with a Marine rifle company, left his place of safety
during a terrific counter attack by the enemy. In spite
of the deadly accuracy of the concentrated fire around him,
Haliburton unhesitatingly dashed across a draw and up a hill
into an open bombarded field to render first aid to
a fallen marine. When his patient was struck a second time,
Haliburton placed himself in the direct line of fire in
order that he might shield his patient and continue to
treat him. Though he could have sought safety until his
company advanced and covered him, his first thought was for
the wounded man. It was only when the slashing fury
of the shrapnel and bullets mortally wounded him that Halliburton
was unable to continue his duty. His unwavering coat of
conduct in the fight for liberty earned him his grateful
country's highest award, the Medal of Honor. Now act free
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the ghost to ghost.
Matter is the front door of this old house always
left wide open. Sure you want to go in?
Speaker 6: Sure, come along, Nancy, I'm coming.
Speaker 7: I He was more light around.
Speaker 2: Now Oh that's nice, slam right in our faces.
Speaker 9: I knew it.
Speaker 2: I'm life though. How do me have that flashlight? Tony?
Speaker 9: Mm?
Speaker 2: No sign of wires the strings on it? Come on, okay,
come on, pillas, Johnny.
Speaker 9: As you can see, there's just one big room upstairs.
Speaker 7: Here, Johnny, don't you see?
Speaker 2: Look, I admit this is all pretty strange. But a
ghost or what else? We've been over this house with
a fine tooth comb. Listen, you hear that.
Speaker 6: Somebody somebody's walking on the ceiling.
Speaker 9: Listen.
Speaker 7: Oh, that's the kind of stuff you hear.
Speaker 2: Old her guys, noisy spirits.
Speaker 9: You can hear them, but you can't see him.
Speaker 6: Don't you see, Johnny? It can't be anything normal natural?
Speaker 2: Is that the end?
Speaker 8: No, sir, the old ghost has a regular See hear
those shutters banging. There's no wind out there.
Speaker 7: Why why didn't you tell me it'd be like this, Johnny?
Speaker 2: Let's fuck here.
Speaker 9: Lights moving around somewhere outside.
Speaker 6: You can see the reflection in the trees.
Speaker 7: They're green, ghost like. And Johnny, look a rocking chair.
Speaker 8: It's rocky in front of the window where old McAndrews
used to sit and look out on the town before
he died.
Speaker 2: Give me the flashlight here. No strings or wires on
this either.
Speaker 6: Well, well, that's the end of it. The same crazy
routine every night. It's the ghost of being McAndrews. That's
all there is to it. Well, from what your fellas
have shown me the night, it kind of.
Speaker 2: Looks that way.
Speaker 7: It is, Johnny.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, I want to investigate these things in broad daylight.
I investigated all right, the old house, the clock tower,
everything I could find, and thanks to the help of
the boys, we covered a lot of ground results. No meantime,
I noticed that the town, a sleepy little town of
Lake City, was being mob people from all over streets
jam with cars. And as we sat down at lunch
at the hotel.
Speaker 6: Miss waitress, will you please bring me another company? Oh dear,
she didn't hear me.
Speaker 7: Wait, they all come.
Speaker 2: Yeah, business has certainly picked up around here. My yeares
i'd noticed that any idea? Why Bill uh not? The least?
I wonder if Tony couldn't be with us for lunch,
and Charlie's at his print shop getting out of extra Hey,
excuse me, excuse me, aren't you Johnny Dowlla the investigator, Yeah,
that's right, man, can I use you. I'll just let
me get a picture. Now wait, hold it, hold it,
hold it? Okay, Johnny, thanks thanks a lot. Hey that
photographers from one of the New York papers. O kidd
really listen if our price Aid International Press gave out
the word about this ghost story. Oh now, Johnny, okay,
answer you all finished an Oscar bill. We're gonna leave
the check with you and pull up. You mean leave town? Yep,
going back to Hi, Johnny. I've investigated. I've come up
with nothing, so there's no point in staying around any long.
Oh yeah, thanks a lot Fellas and Oscar. I'll send
you my expense account. Come on, Nancy, give up hardly. Sure,
Nancy and I hit the highway, but for only a
few miles. Then shortly after Doc we drove back and
for a couple of hours, for three or four hours.
Well anyhow, shortly before midnight, Nancy and I walked quietly
up on the porch of Oscar Trembley's insurance office.
Speaker 8: You mean you didn't leave a message in my office
to be here tonight?
Speaker 6: I certainly didn't. I found a message from Charlie.
Speaker 7: Are you kidding? Somebody left a message at my print
shop to be here, and I got one at my
radio shop.
Speaker 2: Now, I of course they couldn't know you're handwriting.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute, there's somebody outside.
Speaker 2: Huh, Johnny, good evening, gentlemen. Why I thought you'd left town, friend,
I wanted you to think so. Listen, the old tower
clock has started this strike midnight. Yeah, that's five sick
well as I suddenly realized that in all my investigation
this morning, I was being handicapped by what I thought
was help or do you being cappy? I had too
much help? Two or three of you were with me
every second.
Speaker 9: Oh, we wanted to be sure you wouldn't overlooking at it.
Speaker 2: You wanted to be sure I would overlook a few things. Huh.
Speaker 7: Oh wait, that's eleven twelve. Hey, you know it struck twelve.
Speaker 2: No ghostly whale tonight is there? I know, no, fellas, no,
because the ghost is no more.
Speaker 9: You found the ghost, Johnny.
Speaker 2: I found out that he's one of you, maybe all
of you, you alone. Without your careful guidance, I finally
located that sub seller in the old mccanderw's house. You did,
and that mess of complicated electrical stuff was making the
weird sound effects, the rocking chair, the banging shutters and
so on. Very clever your handiwork bill. Sure, sure, but
Johnny Fellas, it was a wonderful publicity stud especially after
international press was notified. But you did not only for
your radio and electronics shop bill, for your real estate business, Tony,
your print shop and newspaper Charlie, and your insurance business
as well. Now but a whole town. It's gonna put
Lake City on the map again, which is to say
the motive wasn't entirely selfish, No unfortun but okay, okay, man,
And because of that and then alone, I won't give
you away. Provided the ghost of Ian mcandre's never walks
the streets of Lake City again, well you can be that.
I don't know. I suppose I ought to really hit
you over the head with this expense account, but after all,
cause was a kind of worthy one, so I'll be
honest with it for a change. And it was fun
to have Nancy turneral expensive countt including management, the rental
car less deposit thirty one to fifty yours, Trulee, Johnny Dollar,
our star will return in just a moment.
Speaker 5: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.
North Dakota's state flag consists of a field of blue
bordered with a knotted yellow fringe. Centered is a bird
with outspread wings and with orphaned beak, the eagle, king
of birds, symbol of supreme authority, power, strength, and nobility.
The left talon of the eagle grasps a sheaf of arrows,
representing the Indians of North Dakota. The right foot grasps
an olive branch signifying peace. On the breast of the
eagle is a shield with seven red and six white stripes,
signifying protection by the Union of the States. A scroll
bearing the word epluribus unum one out of many passes
through the eagle's beak. Thirteen stars for the original thirteen
states are over the scroll. Above the stars is a
sunburst for the continual sunshine in the state. North Dakota's
state flag, the flag of the thirty ninth state to
enter the Union, was adopted on March twenty sixth, nineteen
twenty nine.
Speaker 2: Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story.
Next week, the most dangerous exciting incident in my whole career,
I break out in a cold sweat whenever I think
of it. So join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar?
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar is storrying. Bob Bailey originates in
Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who
also wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were Virginia Gregg,
Boris Lewis, Joseph Kern, Russell Thorson, Sam Edwards, and Bob Bruce.
Be sure to join us next week, same time and
station for another exciting story of Yours truly, Johnny Dollar.
This is Roy Rowan speaking. This is the United States
Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. I appreciated Johnny's overall initial instinct to surprise
the town with showing up. His big problem was that
they were all in on it and so kept him busy,
so they were able to get things set up. But
Johnny's overall instinct of stealth is actually what pays off
in the end. I did find Fancy's inclusion and her
insistence on a meet included with Fuddy Well. I was
calling you up because I wanted to see if you
decided to become an expert. Now, becoming an expert would
mean actually having to study up on the subject, so
I didn't decided not.
Speaker 3: To do it.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, there's a supernatural case. No you Well, then
I'm going, well, you don't actually know anything. Sure, I've
read a couple of booklets I picked up in gas stations.
Don't worry, You'll be fine. I've got some stuff to
tell you about what some authorities have said. But Johnny
liked having her around, so I can't complain too much
about that. And anyway that you get to hear Virginia
Gray Act is a good way listener comments and feedback,
and we turned to Facebook where a listener comments, the
very last place Johnny Dollar went was Little Rock, Arkansas.
Actually no, I will say that towards the end of
Bob Bailey's run, there is a case that is set
in Little Rock. But that's not even the last Bailey episode.
The last episode period had Johnny journeying to Weathersfield, Connecticut,
you know, after thee when he went to Bronxville, New York.
You know that, of course, is the error of the
program that we're looking forward to, where they realize that
the audience even though Johnny could technically go anywhere, you know,
if he just stays around New York, Connecticut and New Jersey,
that makes the research more convenient. All right, Well, now
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