 Johnny dollar this is George Caldwell mr. Dollar Caldwell that's right. I'm in charge of the office of amalgamated life Association here in meridian, Mississippi. Oh, I see yes, sir, and I'm certainly glad to caught you What can I do for you, Mr. Caldwell? Well, I understand that you've been given top security clearance That's right sir. I have good our client was certain you have and that's why he asked that you be called in on this This problem of his who is the client his name is dr. Emmett Melcher Yes, yes, he is head of the Melcher Laboratories here in meridian He does a great deal of work for the government I see and he's most anxious that you lose no time in getting down here to see him sounds pretty important I'm certain it is. What's it all about mr. Caldwell? I don't know Why the only thing I'm sure of is that whatever it is It's top-secret. I'll get there as quickly as possible CBS radio network brings you Mandel Kramer in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-pact expense account America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar and accounts admitted by special investigator Johnny dollar to amalgamated life association meridian office Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Philadelphia Miss matter It's a count item one eighty one sixty cab to Bradley field and playing fair to meridian, Mississippi Making connections wasn't as easy as I'd hoped I had a stopover in New York another in Atlanta, Georgia So it was nearly 7 p.m. by the time I landed in the busy railroad and manufacturing center with its stockyards and Business in cotton tobacco fruit poultry lumber and hopes that Caldwell might still be waiting for me in his office I grabbed a taxi that's item two a buck eighty five You know the address of the amalgamated life building are you kidding party? I know it's down like the back of my hand. Would you say you want to go amalgamated life association? Say it again. I just want small Amalgamated life. I know it. I know it the minute you open a yeah for yours. Hi, Johnny Johnny's yeah, I don't get it. I'm afraid not you can't I drove you halfway all over New York City one night When I was waking up there. Oh, I see it was a couple years ago You was chasing some crook from all the way down appear 27 all the way up to the Bronx That's my old home sound sure you're Johnny dollar remember remember how much help I was helping you run down that crook that time My name is Bernard York. It just called me buddy. All right, Bernie Yeah, boy, I sure remember that big fat sip you give me that night Hey kept me eating steak for a week and are you listening Johnny? Yes, Bernie You need any more help. I mean down here. You just give me the buzz and I do that Johnny all right Yeah, I mean I talked to good Johnny But when it comes to using the old noodle a New York boy like me has it all over the yoke There's from any other part of country and that's a fact. So what kind of case you got down here, huh? I haven't the least idea. Oh, I don't give me that John. Oh, it's back Okay, okay, you keep it a secret if you want I don't blame me I guess it's part of your business But I try and keep an eye on you Johnny and when you need my help you just let me know, okay? Okay, Bernie, okay? Office and we got to the point right away. Yes, I checked the airline schedule, mr. Dollar found out how late you would arrive and did I have better stay around Well, tell me have you found out any more about what's bothering this dr. Melture well I phoned the laboratories to tell him you were on your way But it seems he was suddenly called to Washington and may not be back until quite late tonight However, his secretary a miss Mona little wolf said that she would wait for her little wool. Yes, sir She's a Philadelphia girl part Indian. I understand. Oh, I see Well, I suppose I better grab a taxi and get on out to the laboratories. I would think it advisable I Man behind the wheel of the taxi that just happened to be waiting out from my pal Bernie again Maltier laboratory must be real important Johnny. I wouldn't know I like to and they got more government secrets going on at that place You know man and space and all that caper. Oh, hey, is that what you come down here to investigate something like that Bernie? I told you I wouldn't know okay, okay? But when you need me Johnny, you just holler I'll be around. I'm sure you will That secretary Mona little wolf Was worth the trip to meridian About five three or four with jet-black hair and an olive complexion that was out of this world Dark eyes. It didn't miss a thing, but then plenty And when you talk about two people who click on the spot brother, this was it It was first names right off the bat and I felt perfectly willing to forget about dr. Meltzer and all his problems and give my time to her and He kind of gave me a reason I think she felt the same Now stop Later, huh? Well, how do you keep that beautiful tan sitting around in an office all day? I told you I'm part Indian One of the few 1,000 percent Americans left around That explains the last name little wolf mm-hmm And you're sure your name isn't really Johnny big world oh Mona you cut me to the quick Tell me when we're back to mouth should be back With his last wire it came in about an hour ago said not until morning that I should tell you to wait for you You know what it is that he wants to see me about You know something what I am his own private Personal secretary, but I don't even know what goes on around this place what he's developing or working on or anything The eerie is thing working here and not knowing what it's all about. Well, I'm sorry. I had to keep you waiting then I'm not Johnny You know something I'm not either Good The only trouble is I'm going on a vacation tomorrow. I'm gonna be tied down here with your boss. Oh, no Look as long as I have until morning before he gets back while the cats away. Why not? Must be all sorts of ways to spend a pleasant evening here in meridian with you along Why not? I fully expected pal Bernie and his taxi was still waiting outside and After some tight comments on how fast I work and how well I pick him. He drove us back to town. I Dropped her off at her apartment then registered at the Lamar hotel Showered shaved then picked her up and we proceeded to do the town This time by some miracle without Bernie around There's something after three o'clock in the morning by the time one and I helped close up the last nightclub on her list Then went out to the nearly vacant street to look for a cab What a wonderful evening Johnny darling Mona, have you looked it's morning? Morning's wonderful Everything is wonderful Mona. Are you sure you want to go away on that vacation? But I'm afraid Why? Truth Johnny the truth you I Better kind of get away and think about you In the morning of a day or two you want to talk to you, mister Oh, yeah sure didn't want to disturb you and the lady, but he asked him all right. Thank you Yes, get away. Mr. I'll help her in wait a minute Just a minute and stay in there and shut up No, you don't know And just to make sure mister a Number of years ago It was said that in spite of the large population of this planet men and women remain the most inaccessible things on it Today we see this lack of understanding among peoples of the world reflected in headline stories But it isn't because the people of the world are enemies all people want to be friends Long before the termination of World War two Reverend Eugene Wood the Methodist minister from Oceanside, California Went into a Scottsdale, Arizona camp where German prisoners of war were interned and offered his services to the imprisoned men Among other things Reverend Wood taught the men English and he taught them about the United States of America During the following years after the men had been repatriated to their native Germany Nearly half of the internees corresponded frequently with Reverend Wood Those men expressed a unique understanding of the people and the country of the United States of America This great feeling of friendship and understanding prompted the minister to make a pilgrimage to Europe to seek out the men He had befriended in the prisoner of war camp in Arizona This gesture on Reverend Wood's part gained him a fantastic welcome everywhere. He went in all the places He visited he spread the gospel of love and friendship and had it returned to him There were no enemies Only men with the love of freedom the right of all men everywhere I came to in my own bed at the Mar Hotel Working over me with a wet towel in one hand and a bottle of bourbon in the other Was Bernie the campy Johnny Coming around all okay Hey, you want another slug. I've seen up waving. Oh, no, thanks, Bernie. I thought you was gonna need my help around this big boy Sure lucky. I was cruising around late last night. I've seen you laying there front of that fancy saloon boy Was you are cold like a fish Bernie? What time is it? It's almost 9 a.m. In the morning now you lay still I'll call us some breakfast brung up. No, no, I know some good strong coffee boy You let me have that phone. No, listen Johnny, but you better just relax. Hello operator Johnny operator The call was to Mona's apartment. No answer But why that attack on us? And the kidnapping of Mona the few nice jewels you've been wearing Hardly I asked Bernie if he'd seen the taxi. Well, I seen a car pulling away Johnny for no taxi Well, now that you mentioned it maybe it wasn't a sure tore up the street getting away too and Johnny It looks to me like somebody got wise to your being here Whatever kind of a job you're working on and they figured they better stop your clock You may be right, but why carry off Mona because they maybe thought she was working with you And now they know you don't dare make a move if you don't want her getting hide That makes sense I guess so maybe I better call up the police. Oh, wait a minute. He's in our Johnny You just lay there and let me open it. You've got a gun. Yeah Okay, you keep me covered Ready ready Yeah Who are you? Wait a minute, Bernie. Are you Mr. Dollar? That's right. Oh, thank goodness. I am Dr. Meltzer. Oh Say doc, I'm sorry, but what is going on here? Well, that's exactly what I'd like to know doctor What has happened you Mr. Dollar Bernie? Yeah, Johnny don't call in the police not yet anything you say Johnny See if you can find somehow what happened to the girl what happened to Mona Mona if anything really did Check with all your driver pals all over town if anybody's likely to have seen her they are you're right Johnny a hockey is better than all the cops in town when it comes right now Go ahead circulate around put it on your meter and I'll pay the bill If I get a lead on us should I bring her here? No Don't even let her know just call me if I'm not here. I'll be at the doctor's laboratory Now go ahead. Yes, sir. Johnny you leave it to me. All right now doctor Tell me what it is that you wanted me down here, but it is too late. It has already been stolen Stolen what has I'll tell you what I can about it. You see it is highly classified I'll tell you in a moment. What are you saying the point is that for some days now I've suspected that someone was trying to get hold of it. Yes, it's the vault a Temperature-controlled vault in which I've kept it. You see no one else has worked at this formula what me formula for what I found the vault had been tampered with I didn't dare to call the police because of the secrecy involved But but perhaps I should have called in the FBI But I sent for you because I knew that you you hope that you are too late now, Mr. Dollar when I got back from Washington I I got there this morning. It was gone The formula no no no no no the product itself and unless it is found Within two or three days at the most But now I suppose I I'd better tell you what it is. Yes, doctor. I think maybe you'd better Dr. Meltzer told me is classified. I Can only tell you what has to do with? Well a sort of experimental fuel he's been working on what's more, Mr. Dollar this Substance is not only very powerful but extremely unstable and thus carefully controlled temperature and pressure are maintained constantly Supposing that something like that a most devastating explosion would take place Not when it is perfected you understand that that is why what I am working on but in its present form the form in which it was stolen Why would it be stolen? Full knowledge of it could be worth million you mean to a foreign power to anyone anyone working in this field But don't you see whoever stole it does not know the sample he took is incomplete is imperfect is terribly terribly dangerous Within a matter of the day or two You simply got to find it. Mr. Dollar listen. Did you tell anyone that I was coming here? No, no one Except of course, mr. Colbert that the insurance company but no one else no one That's absolutely no one she told me she had orders to wait around for me. Yes, Mona, but which I so obviously the attack on her Was only a fake a cover-up. Oh, no, mr. Dollar. I have a sneaking suspicion that when we find her we'll find this What we're looking for I can't believe it You said it's worth a million dollars didn't you millions all right? She knew I was coming because Caldwell phoned your office yesterday, and she must have figured out why That girl's got a brain doctor. She knew then that she'd have to act fast She and whoever's working where they're like the man who tried to kill me last night right to kill you Yes, it was her idea to go to that particular nightclub. It was a rendezvous with that goon now at all Hello Bernie I got it from one of the drivers waste the depot a bus station. Yes, but I'm always known that day for years Yes, Bernie. Go on. I mean he's seen her around. He's had her for a fair. So there's no mistake about where is she took off on a bus What a heavy suitcase with it took off to where water tickets are for Delphia. Delphia. That's right, but not journey. All right, Bernie Thanks Caldwell said she came here Doctor, I'll see you later. Well, where are you going mr. Dollar the airport airport. That's right But I'm afraid I don't look but you must understand the danger mr. Dollar if that substance is not found No time to talk about it doctor. I've got to get out to that airport and fast Democracy that has always provided the greatest opportunity for every man to have an equal chance To work where he wishes doing the kind of work he can do best There is opportunity in a democracy for every man if he wants to work hard enough to advance professionally and socially in Many facets of a complex and interesting life There is also opportunity in a democracy for every man to worship his God in his own way Democracy is opportunity and free opportunity in a democracy gives mankind its greatest legacy of freedom Expense account item for $2 for a cab not Bernie's couldn't wait for him a cab to the airport item 5 3045 plane ticket to Philadelphia PA But before taking off I called the office of the bus line talked to the manager and gave him specific instructions about a Chuck up on all passengers who cleared for the city of brotherly love that morning about where and how to contact me Then I jumped aboard the plane we took off When I got to the Delphia, I enlisted the aid of my old pal lieutenant Harry Langley of the police department He went to work immediately, but then nearly 24 hours later nothing Johnny Nothing I checked that bus line from stem to stern at every station between Riddian miss and here Well, it's the Philadelphia miss. I'm interested in and don't forget when that bus line manager called you here He said he had no record of any long-trip ticket and he moaned a little wolf to begin with Well, then she must use another name. Yeah, when he said the only proof ticket to here was bought by a man Well, maybe by that henchman of hers a cab driver back there meant the ticket was bought for her and Johnny I've had good men at the railroad stations in the airport to adjust in case all of them were the perfect description of her I don't think she's coming here Lieutenant, can you think of a better place to hide out than a big city like this? Hmm, some out of the way small town Yeah, I suppose so Of course, the tickets Of course, Philadelphia was pretty small when I was born in it You know, only a couple of hundred people What's a gag? No gag When I was born in Philadelphia, that's exactly what the population was about 200 What? That was in Philadelphia, Indiana What'd you say? Sure, my old home town, Philly, Indiana Wait a minute, man You didn't think that right here in PA was the only Philadelphia, did you? Lieutenant, if there's one more Philadelphia, maybe there's more than one more I wouldn't know Come on, get me a handful of maps and atlas, anything Philadelphia in these United States Not 40 miles north of where I'd started from north of Meridian, Mississippi And that's where Mona had gone with that deadly explosive with her Airfare back to Meridian, 3045 Then 50 bucks deposit there on a rental car I raced north and west on Route 19 up in the Chauva County Hard of Mississippi's Indian country Where Mona Liverpool could be sure of finding protection among her friends On a side road a couple miles short of Philadelphia Parked 100 yards in front of what was apparently an abandoned farmhouse Bernie slumped down, sound asleep behind the wheel of his taxi Bernie, wake up, wake up What goes on here? Johnny, holy mother, what took you so long? What are you doing here? I told you, didn't I? My posseena buy a bus ticket up here to Philadelphia Where you been? Don't ask But listen, when you didn't show, I come on up here myself Good boy And I found out that her and that goon, his name is Willie Picktooth He's a bad one They're inside of this busted down old farmhouse See it? They're inside Yeah, yeah, and me, I've been sitting here watching it So they couldn't make a break until you got here But it's solid day over, Johnny When I'm taking potshots at me now I'm not going to go to jail I mean, when I'm taking potshots at me now You see what I mean? Come on, get around the other side of the cab No, I ain't kidding, but I'm glad he's a lousy shot He or she Mona Yours truly Johnny Dollar Produced and directed by Bruno Zirato Jr. Musical supervision by Ethel Huber Johnny Dollar is played by Mandel Kramer Also featured in our cast where Mason Adams is Bernie Martha Cole as Dr. Melcher Rita Lloyd as Mona Little-Walt Martin Blaine as Lt. Langley Be sure to join us next week, same time, same station For another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar This is Stuart Metz speaking It has come to you through the worldwide Vestilities of the United States Armed Forces Radio and television service