 I'm now for Edmund O'Brien as yours truly Johnny Dallas Edmund and O'Brien in another The Adventures of the Man with an Action-Packed Expense Account America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance Investigator, Johnny Duller Expense Accounts, submitted by Special Investigator Johnny Duller to Home Office Intercontinental Marine Insurance Company, Hartford, Connecticut The following is an accounting of my expenditures during my assignment about the SS melee freighter The ship with no port of call Expense Account, Item 1, $80 Transportation from Hartford to Savannah, Georgia Where, after pausing only to grow a beard and deck myself out in Siemens' garb I proceeded to the local hiring hall of the Siemens Union Yes, okay. All right, we'll put the call right through, right away Sam, what is it? The name is Dallas. I'm signing on the melee freighter, ordinary Siemens special permit Special, huh? Well, let me see now. Oh, yeah, here it is Insurance deck, huh? Adam's had to cooperate, dawg. Thanks. Where do I find the ship? Here it is. The directions will all be here on your assignment slip Uh, what's it be, a hot cargo? Well, maybe. When I find out, you can read about it in the paper Okay, so you're not talking. That's your business. Here's your slip Now, the best way to get there is to follow the railroad tracks past the warehouse. That's what it says My new home, when I found her, looked neither pretentious, comfortable, or even seaworthy She was a rusty old Liberty ship that probably had a war record, but hadn't had a coat of paint in months Her winches for an ass were busy feeding heavy rat-hand-covered bales into a gaping hole A deck for a live with longshoremen and set against all that activity, a bulky gent wearing an ostracist Caps lulled on a stool made ahead of the gangway, idling time with fingernails and a pen knife Yeah What's your business? I'm signing on. Where do I find the chief ostracist? You found him. I'm off, sir Let me see your slip. Oh, okay, darling You're on the 48 watch quarters of 3a just past the galley than a half starboard set Start up your day Time later, right? So far, the five-story method seemed to be working. I was aboard the ship as a seamen and a few seconds later I was shaking hands with a man who shared my quarters, Al Rota, on a salary for four years As in the Continental Marine Investigator Fine, fine. It's good to be working at Casey again. Hey, uh, is it all right to talk in here? Yeah, yeah, let's keep it down I've been on this tub since it left Singapore and nobody's on to me yet But play at KG on deck How much did I tell you in jolly old Hartford? Well, they gave me just the basic situation that That intercontinental ensured a bunch of crude rubber from British malaise before the devaluation of the british pound sterling Half that I understand burned in a warehouse in Singapore. I bet to the tune of over a hundred thousand insurance bucks I flew out there Signs of arson, but no proof I followed the other half of the crop here at a savannah Hey, uh, this company that owns the melee trade is kind of an outfit The odd angels Been up against british customs a few times never nailed They own their ships and the branch here headed by a mr. Pila Imports basic commodities like the rubber and minerals Well, the point is that since this crude was insured before the british pound dropped They can bring in more loot destroying it than they can filling it. Yeah, I guess that's a And I take it the policy covers until they do sell. That's it I thought we were getting rid of it here. They packed it away in their warehouse But then three days ago they started loading it aboard again That's why you were sent down What's the matter, Al? Don't you think the company trusts you? Uh, I guess they figure I need help and they're right What do you think we're bound jenny? Well, my papers at corpus christi The scuttlebutt is that corpus is just a stop that we clear there for mexico veracruz Where arson investigation isn't what it could be After that operation in singapore, what else would they hold up? Hold it You and them ships out it goes through the company office corner of the warehouse Go ashore sign them. Yeah, okay right away. Uh, sir Nice try sailor Oh, and uh, if you'll take a word of fatherly advice Well practically anything you say go ahead that uh that girl in the office the malea and half-calf She's the boss's daughter Amai Amai That's for appreciation or is it her name both? But savior dreams The chief our front horse that is as possessive as he's big and you know something I don't blame him I didn't blame horse that either after I saw our mind You could tell she had enough accidental know-how to be proud of what the oriental did to her look Amai indeed Good afternoon. Hello. I'm here to sign the article on the malea trader Oh, what please your name dollar johnny dollar Dollar Are you a very thrifty man mr. Dollar? Well hardly My name is usually the only one I have to my name Yes, and it's right here. I wish I was sailing with you. What? What did you say that I wish I was sailing with you? I have bad with my father But he will not let me go with him Oh Your father's going with us, huh? I didn't know that I would beg some more Once again, please your name I see You have nice hands mr. Dollar nice hands Now why'd you say that? I see so many hands here on my desk. So I notice them Some are big and lumpy Some are short some are dirty And it's to its department some are clean from dishwashing, but Halloween please Well, I'd better get back to the ship. Thanks. Thank you We hope that conditions during your voyage will meet with your approval and that you will accept employment with melee traders again And with those memorized words ringing in my ear I thank the luscious am I again and proceeded shipward to take up my duties as a very ordinary seaman I hope that her interest in my landlubber hand Really stemmed from her unusual hobby and not from suspicion And I wondered why mr. Peeler her father and the local head of the suspect company had decided to go with us Had his doctor ordered a sea voyage for his health Or did he want to enjoy in person the odor of burning rubber? The next afternoon the cargo had all been brought aboard the ship was made ready to sea And I had sustained along with multiple cuts and bruises The ire of the boson because I didn't know the difference between a preventer and a topping lift But by the time night fell and the melee trader was plunging down the atlantic coast I knew one thing The sailor's life is not for me How'd you make out al Well, nothing new Scuttle but it's still very cruised, but there's something screwy about it. Johnny You develop a nose after you've snooped as many ships as I have There's something wrong aboard. What besides my seaman ship the old man Yeah, a lot of little things Of course, we're on for florida straight the readings on the ballast gauges Of course the displacement ratio changes with different oceans and water temperatures. Look, look al That's that's all greek to me ballast gauges displacement ratio Just what are these things that are bothering? Well, I don't know just vague things that Look come out on the foredeck with me. We are here to shoot It's probably just this overactive nose of mine, but I want to get a look in one of these holes Now there's a hand standing look out And if you'll go up there and keep his attention, I'll slip into the escape hatch of number two All I'll need is about 10 minutes I need you in the cabin I need small talk with the lookout for 10 minutes then started back towards the cabin Suddenly I heard a scuffle behind me, but I didn't get very far I stumbled over alroda's body by the open hatch And there was a stab wound in the back of his neck just at the top of the spine It was small enough to have been left there by a 10 night I didn't report to the chief's maid or the captain I went over both their heads and I counted on the door of the owner mr. Pila What does this mean there's been a killing down on deck What do you say killing my watchmate alroda, but this I will not believe The captain or mr. Halstaff, where are they? Why do you come to me because because I think a request from you is in order I think sparks or the radio the coast guard the sooner the better but the killing on my ship To believe it's from you. No. No, I do not An overboard mr. Pila A murder it just been turned into an accident In just a moment we return to the second act of johnny dollar, but first Kitty callan will join vaughnman rose caravan along most of these same cbs stations this saturday night And on the cbs gene artery show the king of the cowboys will bring you remona When the bloom is on the sage and many another western favors The vaughnman row caravan and the gene artery show are heard every saturday night Hear them tomorrow night in an hour of top pop and sage brush symphonies Now with our star edmund o' bryan, we return to the second act of yours truly johnny dollar Mr. Horsesack Mr. Horsesack Please come here mr. Horsesack Mr. Horsesack There has been trouble. Yes, sir one of the crew fell overboard, sir Then talk with this young man He speaks of killing killing Now it's you dollar That's this gup about killing al rhoda. He was stabbed in the back of the neck with a small knife This man is either drunk or crazy mr. Pila. Yes, mr. Gene I just stepped out on deck to check the running lights before I turned in Saw the man leaning over the rail. He was sick The ship rolled me went over I guess that was a life jacket. I stumbled over, huh? What are you doing about the man overboard? I'll thank you to remember your place on this ship. I do but I also remember al rhoda Doing what's prescribed by maritime law. I'm changing my course to circle and search the area Yeah, how about the coast guard? I'll be notified in due time I'll either go to your quarters or get forward with the rest of the crew and look for this guy You're so worried about where you're going the radio room Even I know the coast guard gets first bid you'll listen to me dollar I'll have you up before a commission board. You'll never ship again if you don't obey my order As a boiler, you better get to your lifeboat station, mr. Pila Every time an explosion lifted the melee trader up off the water it lifted my stomach up with it My heart must have been pounding too because I felt it high in my throat And feeling that big sea going box of steel plates and boats Shuddering up my feet painted sweat on my forehead and big sticky slashes a real fear on my soul This would be getting dead the hard way finally the quivering of the ship came to a stop Calming down my own vibrations Then the tub started to lift giving me a new reason for keeping my mind open taking a cut at hold staff with the closest fire action The crew got panicky as a bunch of kids in a burning school While they troubled with the lifeboat I took a last running look at number two holes. There were still blood stains on the deck where I found rhoda And next to them Besides the open hatch I found something that whole staff hadn't realized he'd lost or hadn't had time to look for His pen a girl shall handle with an anchor on boston's shoulders I pulled back the top further moved a few of the sectional hatch colors and got a look into the hole There was enough light to see the cargo and enough smoke curled out to tell me the explosion had not been in the boilers Yeah, I had a fine case Except it was going down under my feet And I'd end up with everything but proof It was shortly after dawn when the melee trader finally settled by the bow and went into a final plunge Everybody in the lifeboat turned lots to go The water quieted over her The only traces left for the hatch colors. I pulled loose The placement as that uh that'll be uh 280. Yeah. Hey, I'll keep it. Oh, thank you page one and three line 22 Ship's articles. You remember Dollar I'd have to be stupid or dead to be lost on a sinking like that Everything was too convenient plenty of time to get the boats long only four miles from shore Yeah, they reported me missing because I didn't take time to report myself among the living You see I couldn't wait to get back to savannah get back to you and the king's eye scheme cooked up in this office Now i'm not promising anything but a quick sign statement might help you I'll write it and you sign it What statement is this? Oh come on stop it Look use the old sex page Try to sell me that it'll be worth my while but but don't try to sell me innocent The garlic you think I know about something Tell me what it is. Look if you're bluffing you can quit. I know that explosion on the ship was staged Now the next step is to try to collect the insurance on the rubber that was lost That's the step. I'm supposed to start here Here's my i.d You are a police yeah in a way in a way i'm the police and the real ones aren't far behind me And you do not lie to me. Look I wouldn't have any reason to Cool. I knew nothing about it I too do not lie. Why'd you think your father was taking this trip? I did not question Meals told me he had a business in corpus christius and hall staff lied here The newspapers will tell you why your father took the trip here. Look at this Importer and fleet owner narrowly escaped death and explosion aboard his own ship Now who'd think of scuttling with the age of donor taking the risk himself, huh? Darling Very difficult when in a few minutes too many you love to come Suddenly criminal I am only daughter I'm not questioned my father If he did this thing he did it with reason Now what would you have me to do? Oh First stop looking at me as if I started at all. I'm sorry Honestly, I am but it's clear to me now that she wasn't lying To hide my embarrassment. I read through the newspaper accounts of the thinking again while she recovered There were air photographs of the huge oils like the sinking ship had left on the surface The only reminder now that the hatch colors had drifted away The lack of wreckage was mentioned in the stories And I remember Al wrote a worrying about balance and displacement I looked up the number of a local chemist and I made a phone call This may sound like a silly question, but it could be important This crude rubber float whatever you call it the way it comes into the country wrapped in return. Will it float? Your rises you see normally Specific gravity is a little less than it would float. Yeah, it floats In the hold of a sunken ship with a hatch partly open it would force its way out and come to the surface Yeah, it floats. Yeah, but it didn't thanks Am I How many warehouses as melee traders have here in savannah? Here on the waterfront, huh Is anything moved out of them last night after the ship left? No, nothing was moved The dollar what does this mean? Am I I want you to wait here in the office for your father When he comes I want you to tell him that I'll be waiting for him in one of the warehouses And that I know the truth The melee trader warehouses were closed for the day, but my foot and a window opened them Both were stacked high with imported goods And I picked my way through everything from leeching us to ivory backscrashes In the second one hidden behind a wall of carton selan tea I found what I was looking for They were unlabeled wood crates I opened one And the resilience mass inside was crude rubber still on dry land and still insured All right, old white horse that There's nothing left to hold That for me everything is finished wound up Time for the law Unless you can make another switch with that rubber before they get me that rubber on the crate. Yeah Then help her over a year. Oh, come on. Let's not waste time You and pila and I know there wasn't any rubber in number two holes You saved it to sell after you got paid off for losing it And I'll let the experts prove it Oh, they got all kinds You know one group is going to nail you for murder That's very funny. So the penknife a funny murder weapon But I found one on the melee trader on the deck near number two holes You've got a penknife, huh? Yeah With a pearl handle and a silver anchor on it You know, I guess at least a hundred seamen would testify under oath that it's yours I know I will I only wish I could be 15 people when you hit the courtroom The jury the prosecuting attorney the star witness and the sentencing judge Well, you won't see me in a courtroom. How do they execute down here? Huh gallows electric chair gas chamber watt. Come on. Tell me. What do I have to look it up? You'll have to have more than they've got They got plenty all I have to do is match up the weapon with a wound Look, darlin, I don't scare easy I could make a confession And it still wouldn't hold without a body What do you mean without a body? I gotta have a body You're getting ahead of yourself, old man Did I say they didn't have a body? Do you think those coast guard helicopter and blimp crews are blind? Keep going, darlin You think a guy who's been a marine investigator as long as our road ahead Went around without figuring how to do his job even after he was dead What are you talking about? What do you think he wore around his middle? A money belt or a light belt that would keep him afloat? You're a stupid, horseman. It's exhibit A And the prosecution will want it Give me the knife, darlin You want to shoot me, horseman? How do you know I've got the knife with me? How do you know I haven't left it someplace with a note to the police? Stand still. Start to the side. Now hold on there. All right, now keep your hands still It wasn't time for Queen'sbury rules to disclose to me I used my feet. The first one landed on his shin And the same evening I fell forward on my hands and kicked out with both feet Into the solar plexus would have stopped an ordinary man And after I gave him a couple more The big chief's mate turned into just that An ordinary man to the police along with the murder weapon and the results of my blood They took it from there into a confession Mr. Peele was cleared of responsibility for our road as murder Is now being held on conspiracy to the fraud I hope since the policy on the remaining cargo of rubber can now be canceled Intercontinental is minimizing the monetary loss in singapore To you the loss is a little more than one hundred thousand dollars And an offer it is I have lost a friend expense account item two sixty three dollars Getting my foot on a bar and my chin off my chest While waiting for a train to take me out of savannah Item three eighty dollars transportation savannah to huts Item four ten dollars Public stenographer who took the dictation on this expense account Item five entertainment same public stenographer Who spent the evening proving that socially She didn't take dictation Also that she was no good at making me forget what I want so badly to forget The face of our road Expense account total Uh, give us this one is on me You're truly johnny dolly johnny dolly stars edmund do bryan in the title role And is written by paul dudley and gill dowd with music by leith steven Edmund do bryan can currently be seen starring in harry m popkins united artists production doa Featured in our cast were lily and bias martin yarborough William conrad elliott reid and robert griffin Your truly johnny dolly is produced and directed by heimey del vai Join us again next week when edmund do bryan returns in another adventure of truly johnny dolly The case of the oblivious angels A true story of manhunt in pennsy in georgia is to be dramatized on gang busters this saturday night The story will have narration by the chief of police who directed the successful search for the bandit So for a half hour of real adventure as experienced by our forces combating crime Listen in this saturday on most of the same cbs network stations to gang busters story The case of the oblivious angels This is roi roe speaking This is cbs where yours truly johnny dolly meets adventure every friday night the columbia broadcasting system