 Johnny dollar at McCracken Johnny Universal Adjustment Bureau. Well dear Santa Claus All I want for Christmas is a million bucks and they'll convertible up. Have you beautiful blondes to redhead I'm glad you're talking to Santa Claus instead of me. What's your problem, but plain old-fashioned greed greed Plus are no good Samaritan. I want to go to work on it I uh What's the fee look like on this one? I can always use a few extra bucks this time of year as who can't but you know What's that when you find out what this is all about Johnny well, believe it or not Even you may suddenly decide to make like one of Santa's help. Oh, now wait a minute if that means no fee Come on over. Let's talk about it. Yeah, I think I'd better CBS radio brings you Bob Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-backed expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator is truly Johnny dollar Talk about best-selling records. 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No wonder Winston tastes good like cigarette should Smoke Winston and now act one of yours truly Johnny dollar expense account submitted by special investigated Johnny dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Home Office Hartford, Connecticut Following as the kind of expenses incurred during my investigation of the sudden wealth matter That McCracken trying to chisel me out of a fee well I was one way to find out Expense account item won a dollar even for a cab to his office on second thought just in case Let's call it a buck and a half When I got there Pat got straight to the Johnny as you know We adjust insurance claims to a lot of other services for a lot of small companies Oh, well a good many of them cater to the farming communities not only home and property insurance But they push endowment the retirement type of policies companies like Oh amalgamated life Trinity mutual new Britain mutual so on I think I've worked for all of them Well, and you know the sort of clientele they cater to so what's happened the two years ago out in South Dakota and a big Cultural order just a few days before Christmas. Wow now listen We suddenly got noticed that a lot of people in the town near Sioux Falls were cashing in their insurance Well, well then a little over a year ago The same thing happened at a farming section near Fayetteville, Tennessee And about six months ago at a small town near Macon, Georgia And these people are not only cashing in their policies But they were borrowing on their land hocking their furniture raising cash any way they possibly could for what purpose To invest in the stock market. Oh, well, maybe you can't blame them Johnny on a few shares myself some 18 You buy those blue chips and through a legitimate broker. What doesn't everybody not these people They were handing their dough over to some guy who moved into town and promised to double any money They gave him inside of three oh No, that old racket that old racket they'd give them a hundred bucks to invest for them in three weeks later He'd return them 200. Yes, and when the word got around everybody in town would start handing him his life savings Yes, and out of the money coming in he'd pay off the early songs pay them two for one So they and all the rest of the pigeons would keep handing him more and more and then of course Oh sure sure soon as he got a really big bundle in his hands. He disappeared exactly Brother one of the oldest dirty as meanest rackets in the world and the poor greedy people are still falling for it and getting burned And the authorities haven't been able to catch up with this guy at the time they have he's been gone Now the latest series of policy cancellation started coming in only a few weeks ago Huh from a town called Enterprise New Jersey. Well, then Pat there may be time to never I hope so But why aren't the local authorities doing something about the man is still paying off Johnny? You know the early investors you can't nab them for that Oh, well what he's really doing though is setting up the later suckers for a big killing of course But isn't anybody wise to what he's up to who knows maybe there are a few who are smart enough to get into the beginning during the big buildup Yeah, but they'll get their money back. I sure doubled But then what he gets enough new money What are the police wise to them suppose they are Johnny? What can they do as long as he keeps paying off as promised brother? Of all the dirty Well, you want to go look I sure do Pat you can pay my expense account, but that's all you know Want to kind of Christmas or something. I kind of thought you'd feel that way about it. 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I Drove south on 47 into the farm country through Vineland then Billville and finally to the little town of Enterprise It had a main street a few blocks long that looked a bit run down at the seams There was a food clothing in a variety store a drugstore a movie in a couple of gas stations There was a railroad station for shipping out the farm produce But the lot around it was overgrown with weeds a block east of the station was the Well, I was an old Somewhat nondescript sort of building but over the front door was a weather wooden sign that told the world it was a city hall Inside at the end of a corridor. I found a door that bore the legend police headquarters Police headquarters, that's right son. I'm the chief of police chief Walters. Yeah, what'd you say your name is? Well, I didn't but it's Johnny dollar. Well pull up a chair and set mr. Dollar. Thanks. Yeah Now what can I do for you chief Walters? I'm an insurance investigator, huh? Oh Sure Johnny, sure. I know all about you. I hear all about them cases you investigate on the radio Yeah, I catch it on WCA you and Philadelphia good. Well, now listen, I only Say I hope you didn't bother coming down here just on account. I took some cash out of my policy You did well tell you the truth Johnny a lot of people did oh, you know how it is something special comes along You can use some extra cash it all but now don't you give it a second thought Oh, why'd he say that well a few more weeks from now the folks in this time will be buying up more insurance than ever They'll be buying more of everything. Uh-huh. You buying telling me why well because we all have a lot more money That's why in spite of what mr. Lowry says. Oh, it's mr. Lowry. Oh, he runs that pidlin paper You know the gazette. Oh what he says about what chief? Well, I'll tell you this Johnny He puts any of them things that he says about mr. Morgan in his paper the folks won't buy it anymore Morgan John D. Morgan Yeah, he's a man that's putting this town on his feet again now that the farmers dropped off John D. Morgan One of his grandpappy's relatives on his mother's side was a Rockefeller and another one was a Morgan big finance here Just like he did see he belongs to that New York Stock Exchange. He told you that that he did son Well, and I have a sneaking suspicion. He's the man. I came down here to see I would I would if I was you Why Johnny when he come here Jerry Chisholm give him $20 to invest for him three weeks, and he give Jerry back 40 Yeah, I've heard about the man and they with her posquely give him 25 so three weeks later He gave her 50 back. Yes, sir. So now she's going to dig up some more to invest Well, just like everybody else in town including me As he told you why he's being so good to you folks here sure as and it's a mighty fine thing Why well because it was right here that one of his ancestors got his start Name was Joe Dyer Morgan Joe Dyer Morgan. Yes, sir back in 18 1800 something I see so he's come here to show his gratitude for the town that give his family a start That's what oh, yeah, so Johnny you just invest everything you can with him, and you'll be glad you did Well, I find this John D. Morgan over at the Parker house Johnny he made old man Parker turn the whole thord floor into a suit for him and keep the hotel safe up there to keep our Money in yeah, and you know what he spends with that suit of rules $100 every week Okay, chief. Thanks very much. Oh, of course sure you being from out of town though Well, are you on pretty good terms with him? Oh, sure am I probably sent him more folks with their money than anybody Oh, well, and maybe you can do me a favor then Johnny sure or anything you say. Well, look the chief call him up Tell him you'll send me over tell him my mother, you know one of the hometown boys who made good in Well and then selling on the road and that I've come back here for the holidays. Yes, all right All right, and I'm sure you'll let you in yeah Just like he tells us Johnny the more money he can get a hold of the more he can make for all of all Sure, only Why is it you you don't want him to know what you really do? Well, you know personal reasons and he might think I Don't need the extra money. Oh, okay, Johnny anything you say. Yeah, good the meantime. I'll call on mr. Lowry at the Gazette. Yes. Well, now, don't you believe him Johnny? That's this vicious old crackpot Don't know what he's talking about all he is trying to do is to make up a lot of scandal for that lousy paper Yeah, yeah, sir. We'll see Act three of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment meet star Stuart Irwin Nothing's worse for an actor than a nasty cold to feel better quickly I take wonderful four-way cold tablets the fast way to relieve coldest stress, right? 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Dollar, but they won't listen to me If I print something about that shyster in my paper, they won't buy it It's unbelievable all they do is keep handing over more of their hard-earned money talk Oh, sure, but they're getting it back. Aren't they mr. Lowry plus a handsome prophet Those who gave him money over three weeks ago So what do they do then they go out and beg and borrow some more and give that to you can't Just can't raise so he keeps taking in more than he's paying out ten times as much every day But as soon as he's that hold of every cent these people can cough up for him You know If only I could get some action around here get him locked up in jail Yeah, but how can you as long as he's paying out on the original investments you have no case against him He'd sue for false arrest and have you over a barrel Suckers would rally to his side and you couldn't prove a thing on him You simply can't touch you mr. Lowry until he makes a break for us But who knows when he'll try it if he's clever enough to do what he's doing and with the stupid one-man police force in Yes, there's one way of knowing when he'll try to duck out of here How by giving him the necessary encouragement the only encouragement you could give to a man like him would be in the form Of money, that's right. Well, look, I got a plan mr. Lowry It'll take your complete cooperation and it may take the use of some of your money my money It's a chance, but the one chance we have now now that's kind things a little too far Hey, look are you on my side or his well, well, you know the answer to that okay Then our job right now is to convince him that we're on his side What yeah, sure the only thing that'll make this John D. Morgan pack up and leave is more money Of course when he gets all he can out of the people listen to me, please I want you to do two things now. I hear the press running back there Yes, I started the run of today's paper just for you can't stop the press Yes, set up a new front page an apology for your previous attitude toward him You know now that you've seen with your own eyes. What a good Samaritan It really is what he's done for these people what he'll continue to do for them I'm gonna call in every kid in town if you have to but get that paper and circulation then you call on Morgan Oh, yeah with every penny you can scrape up give it to him to invest for you. Yes, the local banks still open It will be in a couple for a couple of hours, but now look here, Mr. Donnell And I'll try to get hold of some money myself to give to that crook you Don't you see what you think you'll hang around once he's got his hands on a real bundle It don't you understand mr. Lowry? well Why Yes, yes, of course. Sure. That's the only way to make him try to leave town with it It's it's a chance. Oh, mr. Don. Have you got a better idea? Well, mr. Lowry set up a new front page and got the paper back on the press. I went over to the city hall Under protest chief Walters went through the old town records And when he found no record of any Jodiah Morgan, he kind of changed his mind about John D Then I spent out of three a buck and a half recalled of the Securities and Exchange Commission in New York They'd never even heard of our Scheister friend Chief all this protest then was because I wouldn't let him go straight to the hotel and slap the cuffs on John D. Morgan And he is a crook. Lowry over at the Gazette was right. Well, sure Of course he was but look if you try to arrest Morgan now, you'll only make trouble for yourself Until we get proof they have banged that dirty crooked What can I do John I got a plan going chief? I'll tell you about it on the way to the bank Oh, what kind of a plan did you phone Morgan? I'd be over to invest with him Yes, sir. Good and when I said your name well, he made me repeat it for him, but I didn't tell him who you really are I mean what you do good now you can help some more by taking everything you have out of the bank Huh sure to invest with John D. Morgan. What come on? I'll tell you what it's all about At the bank I laid the whole thing out to the president a dignified old man with the name of Peterson He too agreed to cooperate item four then two and a quarter for a call to Pat McCracken back in Hartford $10,000 yeah wire to my account right here at this bank now Pat immediately That's right. It's a chance. We got a take Pat. Well at a boy No, mr. Peterson. Mr. Dollar my own wife has just gone to see Morgan with $5,000 for oh and if that doesn't well I guess flush him out. Yeah good and and yet I wonder yes Well, I I just hope we aren't overdoing this thing now enough to make him smell a rat I mean no of course not Johnny ain't you seen the afternoon is that precisely with the paper now supporting instead of fighting him More people than ever have gone there to give him money. Yeah, but if he does get suspicious I think I'd better go over there and see him. Whatever you say, but until Pat wears me that $10,000 Oh here mr. Dollar. Here's a thousand in cash from my own personal account and if you need more no, no Thanks, but this ought to be enough to convince him. I'm sold on him I'm not too late. Well, then let's see what to find out who you really are. Come on chief. Let's Hey, yes, mr. Dollar. How does Morgan get around Johnny? You mean you ain't seen that beautiful limousine that brand-new where does he keep it? We rent the garage back a miss Goodwin's house on Wood Street a couple of blocks west of the hotel Okay, chief, then I'll meet you at Morgan's hotel room. Okay, and don't don't for heaven's sake tip him off about this I'll go along with the chief. Yeah do that I Found the Goodwin house in Wood Street. I found the garage and back There were no keys and the limousine inside of it rather than lose time breaking open the trunk possibly to find nothing Well, I remembered an old trick. I'd use once before Then over to the hotel and up to the third floor But instead of John D. Morgan, I found half the population of enterprise smelling around it I had to force my way through to where chief Walters in the bank of mr. Peterson We're standing in front of an old-fashioned open safe too late, mr. Dollar. We got here too late What don't you see Johnny? He's skipped. He's already skipped out on us must have got wise to you I had the chief order mr. Parker to open the safe and look look at what everybody who came in here thought the bundles of money They're money in it's wads of paper with bills on the outside to make them look Listen to me. Yeah, mr. Laurie. These people feel that you were responsible for this me and after making me give my last Friendly to him a while ago dollar. I can't help wondering myself. Oh now look use your head listen to me listen. All right I'm listening Well, doesn't anybody know where he went? He must have went out the window in the back room when he seen me and mr. Petersen come at the back window, huh? okay The very eagerness of that crowd to stop me was the only thing that let me get away and safely down the fire escape But they jam so tightly into that back room into the window itself that it was a long precious second before the slow Clumsy old police chief could start down after I tore on over to the garage again And they're sitting in the car was John Dean Morgan one hand on the starter key the other with a cold 38 level of my head You are I might have known you've done something to my car when I saw you leaving this garage for the hotel a few minutes ago That's right Morgan. I took the rotor off the distributor and put it back quickly or so help me down Sorry, oh man. It stays right here in my pocket. You give me no choice. I'll have to kill you and take it away Wait a minute Morgan look out there on the street That's right And I don't think they like you anymore. You see their faces Not very pleasant looking at a no, no, no, let me oh help me. Help me. They'll kill me. Maybe you had that money for him But yes, yes, it's in the trunk of this car all of it You'd better open it up and be ready to give it back. Yes. Yes. Tell him I will I'll give it all back All of it after you let me have that gun. Come on I'd hate to think of what they might do if they saw you waving that thing around here here take it Please okay now get out and open up that trunk for Mob slowly menacing me moving in on us was something I won't forget for a long long time Matter of fact, it was Morgan tossing out the money shrieking at a confession Promising to pay them all back that saved me from them And now of course you'll be taken care of by the courts. Yeah 20 Expense account total list the 50 dollars deposit on my rental car 3825 Yours truly shiny dollar Our star will return in just a moment As your Christmas shopping coming not leaving everything for the last minute we hope Remember as a practical gift hunting matter the best selections usually go to the earliest shoppers Another thing last-minute men compete with the biggest crowds in the stores and streets and face greater accident danger CBS radio suggests shop early and safely for a healthy happy holiday season And here's a suggestion for Christmas buying. That's really giving the best For her and a ray of all new yard league at the dollar 50 to 13 50 A yardly red roses spray mist and soap set three dollars and 50 cents all prices plus times Yardly give him give her a gift set by yard league Now here is our star to tell you about next week's story next week the strangest disappearance I've ever been called on to investigate join us. 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