Speaker 1: While your listening enjoyment. John London as Johnny Darling.
Speaker 2: This is Joe Benson. You call me.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Lieutenant, I am from federalad.
Speaker 2: Writers, flown away from Hentment. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They sent me to get a report in the National
Speaker 1: Savings alone.
Speaker 2: Hold up or see how's the watchman? Yeah, he died
Speaker 2: about a half hour ago. I'm sorry to hear that
Speaker 2: shut three times? Hardy had a chance. Did he ever
Speaker 2: regain consciousness?
Speaker 1: Yes, proud enough to give us a make on one
Speaker 1: of the four guys who hides to the police.
Speaker 2: Oh it's something.
Speaker 1: Look, if you want to report, you better come on
Speaker 1: down and get it first hand. I'll be there in
Speaker 1: ten minutes, lieutenant. You know many great men have attained
Speaker 1: the highest office in Ireland, the presidency of the United States.
Speaker 1: Can you guess the name of this man? He has
Speaker 1: been called the father of American docracy. As a young man,
Speaker 1: he was a scientific farmer, and his work as an
Speaker 1: outstanding architect had a marked influence on both American and
Speaker 1: English architecture.
Speaker 2: In eighteen hundred, he and Aaron.
Speaker 1: Burr received equal votes for President and the House of Representatives.
Speaker 1: Under the influence of Alexander Hamilton, voted.
Speaker 2: This man in. One of the most important.
Speaker 1: Acts of his administration was the Louisiana Purchase. As president,
Speaker 1: he also outlawed the dangerous Alien and Sedition Acts and
Speaker 1: encouraged the pioneering of the West. If you don't have
Speaker 1: his name by now here are two more clues. He
Speaker 1: devised the decimal system used in our coinage and invented
Speaker 1: the dumbwaiter elevator. Who was he Thomas Jefferson, third President
Speaker 1: of the United States. His life is part of your
Speaker 1: American heritage. Expense accounts submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Dollar
Speaker 1: to Federal Underwriters, Incorporated, two twenty three Spear Boulevard, Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 1: The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation
Speaker 1: of the Damaren matter. Spencer ac count out of won
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty dollars plain Fair and incidentals, Hartford
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. I arrived ten hours after the news
Speaker 1: of the National Savings Alone hold up reached the office.
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Benson was waiting.
Speaker 2: For me when I got the city hall. You're do
Speaker 2: some time, don them.
Speaker 1: My men picked up Bernie Manners a few minutes ago
Speaker 1: and down the hall Manners.
Speaker 2: He the one you got an identification of.
Speaker 1: Yes, the watchmen looked at some mugs we pulled from
Speaker 1: the farms and spotted him.
Speaker 2: Ran awaed said Manners was.
Speaker 1: One of the four men who did the gum.
Speaker 2: Uh it's quick work and shall we go on down? Yeah? Suh.
Speaker 1: What about this man's well, he's a two time loser,
Speaker 1: twenty five arrests on his card on the way from
Speaker 1: narcotics violation to armed robbering.
Speaker 2: We don't see what he has to say before we
Speaker 2: check out his mamachine.
Speaker 1: How they get up and when the watch one made
Speaker 1: him while we put out an APD, one of the
Speaker 1: units spotted him because he was going into a saloon
Speaker 1: in this way, I'll have any.
Speaker 2: Trouble and uh, they uh find anything? Two doune and
Speaker 2: poured his hands.
Speaker 1: No gun nothing, hum m you will, I'm gonna smoke.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, sure, I'm pressure. Yeah, here you go. No change.
Speaker 2: Well then you think about weather here?
Speaker 1: Oh pretty nice, pretty nice, we're still having snow.
Speaker 2: I haven't been east thirteen years. We got what it
Speaker 2: looks like. I don't know what you guys are talking about.
Speaker 2: I didn't have nothing to do with nothing. It's matters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sergey Freeman, Johnny Dollard. Hi, I hello, Bernie.
Speaker 2: Hello old town. Well let's have it. Aw what the
Speaker 2: story on the National Savings.
Speaker 1: And Loan job? I don't know what anything about the
Speaker 1: National Savants and a Lord job. Four men walked in
Speaker 1: there about midnight last night, shot the watchman, cracked the
Speaker 1: safs and got away with sixty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Now you know about it? I don't know anything. What
Speaker 2: are you guys trying to hang on me? Where were
Speaker 2: you last night? Bernie?
Speaker 1: When last night between ten o'clock and two o'clock I
Speaker 1: was in my room sleeping. You approve you were sleeping
Speaker 1: last night in your room?
Speaker 2: Both can't proved they were sleeping.
Speaker 1: And a lane ladies somebody like that. I don't love
Speaker 1: What do you know? Hi?
Speaker 2: About the National Savings? John Barton? I don't know nothing.
Speaker 1: Look, Bernie, you can make this thing a whole lot easier.
Speaker 1: I can now who worked it with you?
Speaker 2: Who were the other three men in on it?
Speaker 1: Come on, Bernie, you were always pretty good at talking.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna tell you anything. I don't have anything
Speaker 2: to tell you. How are you making a living these days?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 2: What do you do for fun. I've been driving a
Speaker 2: truck up the.
Speaker 3: Last week where coach trucking outfit?
Speaker 2: Did you quit? I was fired? Why I got the
Speaker 2: people for the pous chick in? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Canan Benson and Sergeant Treatman continued to question the suspect.
Speaker 1: He refused to admit any part in the burglary of
Speaker 1: the National Savings and Loan Company or to name any
Speaker 1: people who were connected with it.
Speaker 2: An hour went by, he still refused to talk. Two hours.
Speaker 1: Uh, I'm getting tired, so am I?
Speaker 4: All of us are tired, Bernie.
Speaker 3: Now look, why don't you open your face so we
Speaker 3: can get some rest.
Speaker 2: I told you I didn't have anything to say. Who's
Speaker 2: this joker?
Speaker 3: Name?
Speaker 1: My name is Dollar, Bernie. I'm from the insurance company.
Speaker 1: What's he doing here worrying about.
Speaker 2: You and your friends? You don't have to worry about
Speaker 2: many dollars? I'll try not to Why he thought? Man?
Speaker 3: He was a right?
Speaker 2: Do I get to see a lawyer? What do you
Speaker 2: want to see a lawyer for? To get out of here?
Speaker 1: That's why you aren't getting out of here, Bernie.
Speaker 2: You know they now tell us all about it.
Speaker 1: Come on, Bernie, you know what's all over, But we
Speaker 1: got enough to take in the court right now. Talk
Speaker 1: me's right?
Speaker 2: Don't you believe it? No? Hand me then? Yeah? Sure? Hey,
Speaker 2: you know what this is, Bernie.
Speaker 1: No, it's a notorious statement from the watchman that was killed.
Speaker 2: His name was Fuller. I talked to him just before
Speaker 2: he died. Do you know what this say is? It
Speaker 2: says that you.
Speaker 1: Were with the four men who robbed the National Savings
Speaker 1: and Loan Company last night.
Speaker 2: Listener, me, pre state your full name?
Speaker 1: Him Henry Fuller.
Speaker 2: Me where do you live? Him?
Speaker 1: Two thirty five twenty second avenue? Me. I understand that
Speaker 1: you are seriously hurt. Is that true? Him?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Mean do you believe that you are about to die
Speaker 1: from injuries you have received?
Speaker 2: Him? Yes?
Speaker 1: Me Have you any hope of recovery from the effects
Speaker 1: of these injuries?
Speaker 2: Him? No?
Speaker 1: Listen, I got up Barty and listen me. Who caused
Speaker 1: the injuries from which you are suffering?
Speaker 2: Him? One of the wrongers? Me?
Speaker 1: Is this a picture of one of the men who
Speaker 1: caused your injuries?
Speaker 2: Him? Yes, he was looking at a mug shot of you. Bernie.
Speaker 1: There were four witnesses in that hospital room when full
Speaker 1: Of made this statement. It's a positive identification on you.
Speaker 2: Well, can I have a glass? What it? Later? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Who were the other men? I don't know what you're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: Questioning When I asked, another hour passed. Everybody got pretty tired. Man,
Speaker 1: it's still admitted nothing. It was the usual method of interrogation,
Speaker 1: Hammer away, hammer away.
Speaker 2: Sooner or later it's still something important. Lieutenant Benson knew
Speaker 2: his job berns ware Bernie.
Speaker 3: Who were the other men?
Speaker 1: But the twentieth time there were no other man?
Speaker 2: There were four of you. Bernie. Why didn't we play bridge?
Speaker 1: Tell us what you did all day yesterday?
Speaker 2: What start with? From the time you got up? Try
Speaker 2: to live? Yeah, we're all interested. Well what is this?
Speaker 2: Go on, Bernie? Tell it what I got up about
Speaker 2: ten and four around all day and I got to
Speaker 2: bed early. Very nice. What do you want me to
Speaker 2: tell you? What you did all day?
Speaker 1: Who you were with?
Speaker 2: Wait? You went? Oh?
Speaker 1: And after you tell us that, you can tell us
Speaker 1: how you worked on the National savings and low morbage.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you nothing nothing, all right? What's your name?
Speaker 2: What's your name? Bernie?
Speaker 3: Malis you know?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: What are you left?
Speaker 2: I told tell us your address? What are you twenty armies.
Speaker 1: I worked with you, nobody, nobody just a minute bension, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, that'll do it. That was about you, Bernie.
Speaker 2: What about me? Lieutenant? What about me?
Speaker 1: Guess what the crime lab found tucked behind one of
Speaker 1: the cushions in the front seat of your car. Uh,
Speaker 1: twenty thousand dollars. Bernie, you didn't hide it very well.
Speaker 2: I didn't think if they're looking, did you use your car? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Who were the others?
Speaker 1: Eddie, Faye, Jack Ivers?
Speaker 2: One more? You like I was caught Chick. I didn't
Speaker 2: know chick one. Just check he figured the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Who contacted you?
Speaker 3: Edie?
Speaker 2: He put me in on but check wallet?
Speaker 1: Where can we get hold of Chick? I don't know
Speaker 1: what about ay? Kay, I don't know Jack Ivy.
Speaker 2: No, it won't do you any good to lie now.
Speaker 3: I'm not lying.
Speaker 2: I just don't know why you can get hold of
Speaker 2: any of them or what you do after the job.
Speaker 2: We all got my car fleeted I let him off
Speaker 2: near the Phermount, all three of them. That way you
Speaker 2: split the money. No, we did that before we left
Speaker 2: the lawn company. Look, I have gone tied one more thing?
Speaker 2: Who shot for him in his chick, Are you sure? Well,
Speaker 2: he was the only one who had a gun. Sure,
Speaker 2: I'm sure why they shoot him? I couldn't figure it
Speaker 2: out myself.
Speaker 1: Were leaving the place, watchman was all tied up and
Speaker 1: there was no trouble. Chick walked over, stuck the gun
Speaker 1: in his back, and let him have it.
Speaker 2: Money.
Speaker 1: Manners gave us a description of the man, not only
Speaker 1: as Chick, he was pretty much the same as the
Speaker 1: description given by the watchman. A check to the Moniker
Speaker 1: files reveal that possible twenty three persons who answered the
Speaker 1: general description and background of Chick.
Speaker 2: Manners was showing a picture.
Speaker 1: Of each one couldn't identify any of them. I went
Speaker 1: back to my hotel and went to bed. Next morning,
Speaker 1: I was going to Lieutenant Benson. They checked the sloogs
Speaker 1: taken from Fuller's body. Ay lock, Now, they came from
Speaker 1: a forty five automatic revolver and looks.
Speaker 2: Like it might be a cold Oh. I checked the
Speaker 2: foot maners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but nothing in our files on the gun itself.
Speaker 1: Manus is in the mudroom. Now, if this chick ever
Speaker 1: did time in any California prison, we don't.
Speaker 2: Have him on file.
Speaker 1: A highway huh. In case Gun's been killed.
Speaker 2: What about the other two?
Speaker 1: Page and Ivs. Ivers was released from San Quentin three
Speaker 1: months ago. Roll Office gave us an address for him
Speaker 1: on Turk Street, Quenland. Freeton went out there, but the
Speaker 1: people who run the rooming house say Ivers.
Speaker 2: Hasn't been around for two days. I've got the place
Speaker 2: staked down.
Speaker 1: I was here in sam Quentin for grand theft auto
Speaker 1: did four years the only time he fell. Page just
Speaker 1: had a little more experience. I mean's older than Manors Rivers.
Speaker 1: He's a two time loser, both convictions with farm robbery
Speaker 1: police Denver wanted for questioning two and he leaves on
Speaker 1: no local address. He has assists who lives in Eurekam.
Speaker 1: At least they are talking to him. Should be getting
Speaker 1: something pretty soon. Communication has been broadcasting this every thirty
Speaker 1: minutes on at Loan, I left Lieutenant Benson so I
Speaker 1: could talk with the auditors who had been working with
Speaker 1: the people at National Savings and Trust. By that time,
Speaker 1: they determined that sixty eight thousand dollars had been taken
Speaker 1: in the robbery. I spoke to the claims adjuster who
Speaker 1: had pulled in from Hartford, and the officials of the company.
Speaker 1: I explained the situation with the police and the recovery
Speaker 1: of twenty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Of the store of money.
Speaker 1: They agreed to to spend their claim pending the arrest
Speaker 1: of the other three suspects and the possible recovery of
Speaker 1: the entire look expense account at them too. Ten cents
Speaker 1: phone call. I checked with Lieutenant Benson about four o'clock. Hi,
Speaker 1: gotta lead on page.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, forty five Class Street I met.
Speaker 1: You have to find it right, expect to count adam
Speaker 1: three one dollars and thirty five cents cab fare to
Speaker 1: They addressed on class straight. Hi, Hi and there, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to be enormous, that's alright with you.
Speaker 2: I'm okay.
Speaker 1: Treatments covering back entrance. Quentin's in the lobby.
Speaker 2: I go, and how'd you got to Eureka? Police?
Speaker 1: Talked to Page your sister since you'd been writing him
Speaker 1: here under the name of Ernest Lawyers.
Speaker 2: Oh, I take it over there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what was there looking for?
Speaker 2: Mister Lawyers? You miss Lawyers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you want package? Oh well, it's uh,
Speaker 1: missus William reading in Eureka, California.
Speaker 3: I have to sign for it, Okay, see.
Speaker 1: I your loan page? Who are you police? Get your hat? One,
Speaker 1: let's go one.
Speaker 2: Take a look over there, Dollar, Yeah, what is this? Bunny?
Speaker 2: Man has spilled it? All? A got you've got a cut?
Speaker 2: Drops that page? Good, blame you? All right?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, come home and get up, put
Speaker 1: your hands out. All right, let's go page, and now
Speaker 1: with our star John Lund, we'll bring you a second
Speaker 1: act of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 2: Sergeants Quinlan and Treatment.
Speaker 1: Took the suspect that he paid downtown.
Speaker 2: I drove over to the emergency hospital with.
Speaker 1: Lieutenant Benson, where they patched up the cut in his
Speaker 1: temple where a page had slugged him with his gun.
Speaker 2: After that we returned to headquarters.
Speaker 1: Sergeant Freeman met us outside the interrogation room.
Speaker 2: How do you feel, chab no, HEYDI and went about
Speaker 2: him real quiet, so far fine? We went over the apartment.
Speaker 1: Now you'll be happy about this dollar more money fifteen
Speaker 1: thousand stuck.
Speaker 2: In a suitcase. Your insurance company is doing well so far?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And then they see about tough.
Speaker 1: Boy, remember me, I remember both of you.
Speaker 2: How's your head? Now, don't get over it? How's your chin?
Speaker 2: And I to get at you again, kind of like
Speaker 2: to get at you.
Speaker 1: That's always better, say, Ever since he landed, you're tied
Speaker 1: in with Bernie Manners and Jack Ivers on this thing,
Speaker 1: page am I yeah, and that's enough for us.
Speaker 2: I suppose you're gonna send me to prison. I suppose
Speaker 2: we are some talk whose chick chick?
Speaker 1: The other guy I don't know whereas Ivers?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Bernie had to stay in here six dollars.
Speaker 1: How long are you gonna take Page? As long as
Speaker 1: you like. We've got all the time in the world,
Speaker 1: so then you know we found your color of a
Speaker 1: job in your room. Bernie has already told us about you.
Speaker 4: You're not gonna admit anything, Huh, why should I man
Speaker 4: was killed on that job as a murder charge to
Speaker 4: go along with everything else. Do tell you can make
Speaker 4: it easy on yourself, paid easier for you.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's the way you.
Speaker 1: Want it, Ramond, Yeah, you and Quinland stay with his burden,
Speaker 1: stray whim if it takes all night and all day
Speaker 1: and all night, and I want to see how long
Speaker 1: he can law Okay, come on, Dlan.
Speaker 2: Oh now I'm hungry.
Speaker 1: Events got out him four six dollars and thirty percent
Speaker 1: drinks and dinner for Lieutenant Benson and myself.
Speaker 2: After eating, we.
Speaker 1: Returned to the interrogation room and the questioning of the
Speaker 1: suspect that he paid. Although he knew that there was
Speaker 1: enough evidence against him to make a burglary and homicide
Speaker 1: charge stick, he still refused to admit his part of
Speaker 1: the burglary, but to give us the full.
Speaker 2: Name of a man known simply as Chick.
Speaker 1: About ten o'clock that night, man who ran a bookstore.
Speaker 1: I'm Gary Street. Help upon that he thought he might
Speaker 1: have some information that would help.
Speaker 2: I drove over there with token of Benson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, doggy, yeah good a color?
Speaker 2: How did you mean? Can I help you? Please? And
Speaker 2: we like to talk to mister Smith. Ye oh you're
Speaker 2: the police.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm smooth and I'm Lieutenant Ben's ms Mster Dollar.
Speaker 2: And how do you do?
Speaker 1: He said you had something that might help mister Smithy
Speaker 1: need I do?
Speaker 2: Mister Dollar? What need I do?
Speaker 4: I read all about the burglary in the papers yesterday,
Speaker 4: and well I have this mm A bill rapper from
Speaker 4: National Savings alone.
Speaker 2: Yes, And where'd you get this, mister Smith?
Speaker 1: I found it on the floor right here in the store.
Speaker 2: You know who dropped it?
Speaker 1: Yes, I think so.
Speaker 2: Oh, well, a man who was in here earlier. I
Speaker 2: think he dropped it. What do you look like? Well?
Speaker 1: He was he was Paul.
Speaker 2: He was kind of husky old. He was about thirty
Speaker 2: five years old. I'd say.
Speaker 1: He wore kind of a dark hat and a trench coat.
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen him in here before? No? Yes, tonight?
Speaker 2: Why did he buy him, mister Smith? Quite a few things?
Speaker 1: More like what well, three bottles of scotch and some
Speaker 1: mixer and some ice and somes cigarettes.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, I see ye oh? When did you find
Speaker 2: the robber? Uh?
Speaker 1: Right after he paid me for the things? What size
Speaker 1: bill did he give him?
Speaker 2: It was a fifty US?
Speaker 1: Don't have it?
Speaker 2: Yes? And could we look at it please? For surely
Speaker 2: that's this way?
Speaker 1: H you are?
Speaker 2: Thanks? No? Huh round here? H Did you have to
Speaker 2: notice of you left in the car, mister Smith?
Speaker 1: No, he was on the foot when I found the
Speaker 1: rapper on the floor and didn't remember.
Speaker 2: The newspaper story.
Speaker 1: I ran outside to take a look to see which
Speaker 1: direction he went.
Speaker 2: He walked right across the street.
Speaker 1: Just we might possibly live around here, I think, so.
Speaker 1: Right there, you sink he went into the Alden Hotel.
Speaker 2: How long ago?
Speaker 1: He says, Oh my, that was not fifteen minutes ago.
Speaker 2: Hey, that's him, man, just coming out on the street.
Speaker 2: Get back. Can you see his face? Not yet, because
Speaker 2: he went with the men you're looking for, and I
Speaker 2: don't know it sounds like it, lieutenant.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take a look, Jack Diimers, let's go you yes, sir,
Speaker 4: I called downtown.
Speaker 2: Here. You hold it up just a minute. He's going
Speaker 2: for the alley.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he duck right in there.
Speaker 2: I think they are careful, Johnny. Okay, yeah, I'm okay,
Speaker 2: what the cone?
Speaker 3: Iivers.
Speaker 2: You don't have a chance down here. He's gotta try
Speaker 2: for that fence down there. Here, let's go. You can't see.
Speaker 2: It's in the shadow.
Speaker 1: When they made defense. Come on, see anything not too
Speaker 1: dark somewhere in here? Hey over there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh? Anything you know the apartment house? You run
Speaker 2: on the back guard.
Speaker 1: Get out, okay, okay, I verse, this is your last chance.
Speaker 2: Somebody will get hurt up. We don't stop.
Speaker 4: Him at the Uh.
Speaker 2: What you look like? Oh, he's done for him. A metaphonian.
Speaker 1: Jack Ivers, one of the suspects connected with the burglary
Speaker 1: of the National Savings and Loan office. Died instantly, was
Speaker 1: attempting to escape arrest.
Speaker 2: We waited for the corners men to arrive.
Speaker 1: We searched his body and found twelve thousand dollars of
Speaker 1: the stolen money concealed in a money belt around his waist.
Speaker 2: I accompanied Lieutenant Benson to the Alden hotel, where we
Speaker 2: learned from.
Speaker 1: The desk clerk that Ivers had checked in the previous
Speaker 1: day using the name of David Ward. The clerk said
Speaker 1: that he shared the room and a man who registered
Speaker 1: as Charles Daily Daily was still in the room.
Speaker 4: As far as the clerk knew. We went upstairs. Well
Speaker 4: there's a check. Should be a good day's work. Yeah,
Speaker 4: yeh too.
Speaker 2: Ten, Yeah, here we go. Could have sneaked out, let's
Speaker 2: find out.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll be druh as you can get.
Speaker 1: That's the way I like to pick him up quiet.
Speaker 1: The man passed out in the hotel room was identified
Speaker 1: as Chester Damn.
Speaker 2: Later Ohio. I check with the authorities.
Speaker 1: They really had a criminal record covering seventeen years. His
Speaker 1: nickname was Chick. Along with Eddie Page and Bernie Manors.
Speaker 2: He was invited on charges of bergleiam murder.
Speaker 1: The remainder of the stolen money was fought in his
Speaker 1: hotel room.
Speaker 2: All told, thirty nine one.
Speaker 1: Hundred percent of the loop was recovered, accepting what Ivers
Speaker 1: spent for whiskey, pretty good for pedal underwriters. Expense account
Speaker 1: had him five sixty three dollars and thirty cents miscellaneous out.
Speaker 2: In San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I hadem sick, same as one my plain fair and
Speaker 1: incidentals back to Hartford. Total expense account five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty one dollars and ten cents yours, Joe, Johnny Dollar.
Speaker 1: We returned to program in a moment, but first I'd
Speaker 1: like to talk to you about housekeeping. Recently, a woman
Speaker 1: was interviewing a prospective maid and.
Speaker 2: Asked her how she was on white housekeeping.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry, ma'am, said the young lady. I never
Speaker 1: kept a lighthouse. I admit that's an old joke, but
Speaker 1: it generally gets a lab However, housekeeping no joke. That's
Speaker 1: a job from which no one can escape, whether he
Speaker 1: lives in a house, an igloo of misitary barracks, or
Speaker 1: a governmental building. Yes, housekeeping is a very important job.
Speaker 1: Even in our government. Someone has to see that the
Speaker 1: plumbing doesn't bleak, that electricity, oil and coalbar tasted, that
Speaker 1: the garden is kept in good shape, that the animals
Speaker 1: are fed, and that the people have a place outdoors
Speaker 1: in which to enjoy themselves. Actually, all these governmental household
Speaker 1: tasks the work of the Department of the Interior, which
Speaker 1: at one time was called the Home Department. The biggest
Speaker 1: job of the department is conservation, the protection of the
Speaker 1: things that make our country a good place in which
Speaker 1: to live. The land, water, oil, coal, forests, minerals, fish
Speaker 1: and wildlife. These are our natural resources.
Speaker 2: If it weren't for.
Speaker 1: The conservation work of the Interior Department, before too long,
Speaker 1: all the farm and grazing lands would be washed or
Speaker 1: blown away, and all the wildlife would disappear from our
Speaker 1: fields and forests. Another important job of the department is
Speaker 1: to development new natural resources and the caring for our
Speaker 1: national parks where people.
Speaker 2: Are free to go sightseeing or set up camp.
Speaker 1: And during wartime, the Secretary of the Interior has a
Speaker 1: special job, namely making sure that sufficient oil and other
Speaker 1: fuels are available to our armed forces and defense industries. Yes,
Speaker 1: our governmental housekeeper, the Department of the Interior has a
Speaker 1: most important and vital job in maintaining the comfort and
Speaker 1: welfare of every citizen of the United States,