 WROW in Albany, New York Johnny Deller well it looks like one of our important clients is in pretty serious trouble oh who I don't know you're what nope haven't the least idea well what kind of trouble I don't know oh now wait a minute I don't know who what where when or why but Earl better come on out here and give me a hand somebody better well no look here early time table you can get down to New York just about in time to make a 630 jet but unless I know what it's all about your plane at the airport here now look huh Earl hello okay baby you're paying for it CBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigators truly Johnny Deller expense account submitted by special investigator Johnny Deller to the tri-state life and casualty insurance company Los Angeles office following as the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the what goes matter expense account item won 183 dollars and forty cents cab to Bradley Field a plane to New York and one of the jet flights to Los Angeles the flight was good all the way we made the last the transcontinental part of the trip in a shade under five hours and man that's traveling at LA international as I climbed down the steps out of the plane I could see Earl Paulman waiting for me over behind the steel fence that separates the main building from the field itself and then walking up the long covered ramp along with the other passengers but I didn't remember having seen this particular man on board sorry but yeah that's okay very clumsy of you though I apologize for not watching throughout say are you Mr. Johnny dollar maybe no no tell me are you Johnny dollar well now look are you please please tell me oh yeah yeah but who are you come on Mr. Dollar come along with me yeah where and why this this is hardly the place to talk what about just come along please oh hi your own yeah right now listen mister who are you I am clumsy and I'm afraid my timing but just a minute hey later later yeah right over here Johnny now we'll clear your baggage and hop into my car and be on our marriage how are you boy and well all right I guess yeah fine I'm fine you don't look it what's the matter Johnny well I just want to be sure I still have my wallet I don't get it well I'm sure I don't come out of the ramp Earl the well-known Joss Joss the old pickpockets trick bump into your sauce to divert your attention while he is somebody else lifts your wallet all nothing's missing maybe whoever it was did just accidentally bumping I might believe that if he didn't stop and if he didn't what Johnny and what's all the big mystery well I wish I knew but now what's this big mysterious trouble of yours well this is hardly the place to talk that's what he said what nothing don't worry about it okay anyhow we'll pick up your luggage and I'll tell you what I know or rather what I don't know on the way in we love it out here Johnny bought ourselves a nice new home out on Bundy Drive in West LA actually Brent yeah but what my office is right nearby Westwood it's really another section of West LA so tell me what of course Mike said to tell you that she'll expect you to park yourself in our guest room unless you have other plans well it depends it depends on what it is you've called me out here for well I really don't know Johnny I got this phone call early this afternoon now he wouldn't give me his name but he swore by all that's good and holy that he's a client about he said that we wrote his life insurance policy that was before I came out here of course for a third of a million dollars oh yes and he was so sincere and so worried about something that I was sure it wasn't just a gag well I guess that's pretty obvious since I wasted no time in calling you and asking you to come all the way out yeah well what else did he tell you a cigarette I know thanks I have some of my own oh here here smoke one of these oh okay thanks light here you are but now what else did he say only if only that if I didn't send for you immediately have you come out here and see him we might very shortly lose you mean he expects to die I mean be killed by somebody well what do you think that's all he'd say and he he wouldn't tell you who he was now I wonder why and if he expects me to go to him maybe of course he plans to contact you some way now that you're here in that man back at the house but look if his life is in danger something like that well what if I hadn't come or what if I'd come too late look what goes early just doesn't make any sense okay so maybe it was a gag maybe I did fall for a guy well it's not a very likely sort of a gag and if that man at the airport I mean if whoever this client is does know that I've come here why and yet if he isn't danger I mean if he was the man who called you wait a minute the minute he saw you there to meet me the way he bumped into me again and then got lost in the Johnny but he didn't take my wallet or anything else that I can you're not making any sense you know yeah I know but as I said before what goes yeah more important what do you do what else wait and see what happens for your children going to dress up this Halloween as clowns ballet dancers skeletons hobos cowboys whatever their costumes may be be sure you snapped their picture before they go out as well as when they're making their rounds through the neighborhood but be sure you have lots of sylvania blue dot flash bulbs on hand because only with flash can you catch all the fun color and excitement of Halloween only with flash both inside and outdoors even after dark can you get all the sharp clear details then to flash bulbs work with any film any time anywhere with any camera pick up several packs of sylvania blue dot flash bulbs the world's largest selling brand today also ask your dealer for sylvania's lavishly illustrated 32-page flash guidebook that's yours free with the purchase of just one pack of blue dots but hurry the big night to howl is next Monday have your camera and sylvania blue dot flash bulbs ready and waiting now act two of yours truly johnny dollar Earl and his wife Mike that's right Mike have a money nice little house there on Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles as usual with the poor ones I felt completely at home especially after cocktails conversation and late but very good dinner but I still wondered if I'd come out here on a wild goose chase what goes yeah well now wait a minute johnny you mean that you think I made all this up just to get you out here to see us well I wouldn't put it beyond you either of you well if he did he certainly didn't tell me but if he did Mike so help me I'll hand him an expense account that'll stagger no really johnny I swear to you and listen yeah if this this unknown client of ours actually is in some kind of trouble yeah well why didn't he tell you on the phone and why didn't he give you his name why insist that the only I get on the job I don't know but now listen I'm listening if somebody is out to kill him well maybe that man who bumped you out at the airport who tried to get you to go along until he spotted you in the crowd when you called to me but if he's one of your own clients look I haven't met one tenth of our clients since I took over the office out here and besides what I'm trying to say is that maybe the man you saw out there isn't isn't what here isn't the one who called me on the phone oh what if he's the one who's out to get our client who somehow knows you've come here to protect him whose first job then will be to get you out of his way Johnny if that's true brother what an imagination Johnny it is a possibility you too Mike well all I have to say is I hope you got a good look at that man out there well I did because if he is gunning for you I'll get it excuse me I'm perfectly serious John well don't bring what who is it what huh well yes just I said yes yes he isn't is that for me just just hold on a minute who is it Mike well it's for you Johnny okay but it's the funniest like it's trying to disguise his boy Johnny dollar what that you're really Johnny dollar you swear it well sure of course I'm sure all right I'll have to chance it what listen please well now let's get one thing straight mister are you the one the man the man who bumped you into at the airport and I'm the one who called poor man and begged him to have you come out here who are you must promise me that you won't tell him why because he doesn't know me he doesn't know about me and if he calls the police well now why would he do that because of my connection with the no listen there isn't time oh wait look look I thought that you'd be over here to see me before now yeah yes well you mind telling me how when I have a the least idea who you are or where you are but when I that you might be met by someone that I wouldn't have time to tell you why you or when I bumped you that second time just before leaving you you mean you haven't moved hello hello what is it Johnny yeah what those just doesn't make any sense at all oh maybe it does huh he didn't hang up that phone it didn't sound like an ordinary disconnect if those wires were cut yeah and you thought I was kidding you well and did he tell you who he is same one of phones you same one I met there at the airport I mean his name Johnny don't you think we ought to call a police that's the one thing he doesn't want he doesn't want the police in on this this whatever it is the idea is Johnny I mean about where to go from here well how can I when I don't even give me a cigarette sure oh no wait I have some in the pocket of my top coach oh here here smoke please okay thanks hey oh yeah there's something very wrong here because if that phone line was cut well I have a hunch that that mysterious client of yours unless we can somehow get to him first isn't going to be long for this world how to find out who he is well look let's go on down to your office go through your files on people who carry a lot of life insurance there may be hundreds of them Johnny well if you do wear your top coat Johnny I'll get it for you yes thanks you said a third of a minion Earl well that's what he told me also in spite of the fact you didn't write the policy he was apparently afraid you might know him or at least his name who he is so so he was afraid you might call the police but if he is in danger now well come on let's get to your office so he went and I poured through the fire finally finished up about two in the morning and there was nearly a dozen of Earl's clients in the third of a million dollar policy class and the only way to find out which of them was in danger needed protection was to call them up rouse them out of bed if they were at home and talk to them you know something we could have saved a lot of time maybe kept a killer from doing his work if only I'd realized I've been carrying the clue to our man's identity all the way from the airport and if only I'd stop bombing cigarettes from Earl Pullman yeah figure that one maybe you're about to hit the jackpot maybe you're on the point of inheriting half a million or finding oil chances are though that none of these lovely things will happen chances are if you want a bonanza in the future you'll have to save for it now there are a number of ways to do that some people stuff their mattresses stash their cash behind a loose brick in the fireplace or slip it under a floorboard none of these methods make sense because that kind of money isn't making a cent for you not only that it may get lost or stolen wouldn't you like your savings to make more money for you wouldn't you like to have them theft proof lost proof in every way of course you would and you can the United States savings bond way through the payroll savings plan where you work or the bond a month plan where you bank three dollars will get you for on maturity every time nicest thing of all it's literally impossible to lose your money if baby tears your bonds into confetti and drops them out the window you can recover your cash plus interest in United States savings bonds now act three of yours truly Johnny dollar and the what goes matter no answer Johnny no I guess not a little either the brand for it's not at home or they're too sleepy to get an answer to J Morton brand for that who you're trying to call yeah yeah I should have remembered they're always in Florida this time of year all right and that leaves just one more on this list of big policy holders I made I was afraid this wouldn't get us anywhere see like to annoy a lot of our rather than what you say but not see like Barney see like a Barney the bum Barney the who alias Barney the butcher alias sea legs brown alias half a dozen other things let me see that you know him who he is the one all right Johnny the cops have been trying for months to locate this man no kidding yes in connection with a lot of narcotics running over the Mexican border so if he's our man wanting protection just forget him if somebody's out to knock him off it'll be the greatest public service why yeah yeah it looks as though your predecessor handed him insurance for three hundred and twenty thousand he must have been crazy ensuring a man like that and and for that amount and look look only about six months ago yeah you'd rather see him dead and let the company pay off what you're darned right I did well no no of course not we've got to find him Johnny and somehow we've got to but how and where now wait wait wait wait yeah lieutenant sporting Jim Spaulding what he's an old pal of mine narcotics squad here let me have that phone by the time they got Jim Spaulding out of bed and put him on through the switchboard a lot of precious time had been wasted but that just couldn't be helped right Johnny and listen Barney Seeliger tried to call me earlier in the day only I was down near the he tried calling you well nobody knows it at least of all the regular police that's the reason he didn't want Earl Pullman to know we don't dare take a chance on any leaks but wait look Barney is a more help to us in this narcotics racket than any man alive if somebody's trying to knock him off look did he give you his present address no no I'll have to dig it up oh when you do give it to me huh one of the boys call you back after I'm away okay then over here is hello hello just how does he know where to call me back I heard all that Johnny and if he swung to the side of the law it's more important than ever that we can now you can give me a cigarette you've smoked all my side pocket on my top coat there okay let me see if I can get lieutenant Spaulding back oh what's the matter well there's card in your pocket with the cigarettes card what card this he addresses some blonde or redhead you plan to call him on Bundy Drive to just half a dozen blocks north of where we are oh look don't you see he told me that when he bumped into me the second time don't you see your pal Barney slipped this into my pocket in case he 12124 north Bundy Drive okay you call headquarters haven't tell the lieutenant I'm on my way to this address well now Johnny car 12124 north Bundy was a small solid looking house almost hidden by the remains of a neglected orange grove there were no lights on but I went up to the front door and knocked no answer and of course it was possible that Barney Seliga had called me from somewhere else but this was the address he'd been so careful to slip into my pocket and I noticed where the power and telephone lines led over to a service box at a rear corner of the house that's right now don't move so who's moving so I cut the phone line so he couldn't call for help in case he's seen what I was gun thanks maybe I can use an extra one maybe on you so who are you oh I am I'm just out for a moonlight stroll you care to join me why is guys keep them hands up over your head I sure sure sure you're a copper huh I asked oh maybe you are maybe I'll give you the same treatment that Stoolies get inside there you want to see you want to see what you got coming after I'm sure he's dead and just walk then front of me yeah the corner window there and he showed me one of the most ingenious and diabolical instruments of murder I've ever seen and the window was a small compact air conditioner but instead of pumping air in through it he blocked it off except for a small aperture and leading to this was a piece of pipe pipe connected to a gas line so instead of taking in there it was pumping raw gas into that room that's right he's sound asleep the other window I've seen him take a couple of sleeping pills like he always does when he's scared when he's dead I disconnect this line and nobody knows the difference no no the air conditioner cleans out the air and by the time they find that Stoolies dead body nobody knows how it happened to him locked up there inside his own oh no you don't try baby I'll kill you should have known better yeah well you just listen yeah because now I'm going to kill you with your own gun now Johnny dollar it's all it's okay look too many oh what goes Johnny you know I was coming up here why didn't you watch this yeah you better shut off that gas and hope that your pal Barney in there is still with us yeah Barney was still alive but barely which is more than you can say for his would be assassin one of the lieutenants bullets had caught him square in the head so that is that expensive out total including incidentals in the trip home to Hartford 368 50 yours truly Johnny dollar constipation is something people don't talk about much but it can be a problem for anyone even doctors and when constipation occurs it's interesting to see just what doctors consider important about a laxative they might use or recommend well a majority of the doctors we heard from had this to say a laxative should be effective gentle close to natural acting a medicine that can be used with complete confidence now x-lax has been popular with many doctors and millions of people over the years because pleasant tasting chocolate at x-lax is effective overnight it helps you toward your normal regularity x-lax is so gentle so close to natural acting there's no upset that's why many doctors and millions of people use x-lax with complete confidence x-lax the laxative that helps you toward your normal regularity gently overnight now here is our star to tell you about next week story next week a super salesman selling death but he's not the only one doing a selling job you've heard the expression it takes a crook to catch a crook well I'm afraid that's exactly what gets me into trouble on this one I mean on account of in order to catch him I try a little selling myself I mean after all when the potential customers are beautiful blonde who wouldn't that is until a killer comes in then trouble and nothing else but so join us won't you yours truly Johnny dollars truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is written produced and directed by Jack Johnstone heard in our cast were Virginia Greg Vic Perron Forrest Lewis Frank Gerstle and Chet Stratton be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollars this is John wall speaking next to taught drama of Hollywood homicide as suspense follows on the CBS radio network WROW in Albany New York