 From Hollywood it's time now for Johnny dollar that McCracken Johnny universal adjustment bureau oh hi pal what's on your mind at the moment you huh Johnny you've been working too hard oh this I've been convinced of for years Pat but I've never been able to convince anybody else especially you okay there's a nice vacation all expenses paid whoa Southern California is very nice this time I just came back from there look Pat thanks a lot but no thanks the last time you invited me to take one of your vacations I got hit over the head almost run down by a truck and kicked around by a guy seven feet tall but this one's different Johnny it's a real simple job oh they all are according to you all I want you to do is pick up something out in the coast and bring it back here that's all yeah what a hundred thousand dollars oh oh I'll be right over how Bailey in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expensive card America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator yours truly Johnny dollar expense account submitted by a special investigator Johnny dollar to the Universal Adjustment Bureau Hartford Connecticut following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the Johnson payroll matter expense account item one a dollar twenty five cab fare from my apartment at the office of Universal Adjustment Bureau and Pat McCracken thousand bucks made you pick up your ears Johnny you sit down okay Pat what's the deal you hear about the Johnson payroll robbery last week down in New York right about it there weren't too many details they got a hundred thousand and the payroll was insured by one of the companies we represent how many in on the robbery do you know we're not sure there were several one of them was fatally wounded was able to talk before he died yeah just enough to tell us the plan was to split up after the robbery meet another city to divvy up the loot and you think it's out in California now we also think one of the crooks may be trying to double across the others hiding out for them maybe that's the general idea we got a call from Los Angeles this morning fellow wouldn't give his name but he claimed he could give us a lead on the one who has the dough for a price of court oh so you're to meet him in LA and find out what he knows if anything what do you figure is Angeles Pat maybe several Johnny but I don't care what I do care about is getting the money back all right how do I contact this man in Los Angeles you don't he'll contact you at your hotel the nester the nester okay perhaps I'm on my way oh just one thing Johnny maybe it's a curtey maybe it hasn't there will be others looking for that money to the other guys involved in the robbery yeah of course if you can get there first I'll try oh and don't bother telling me to be sure to get back here in one piece hmm that I'll really try to do expense account item to $187 even air transportation and incidentals to Los Angeles I've been told to stay at the hotel nester so I took a cab that's item 3 550 from the airport was just getting dark as my cab pulled up in front of the place before I could get out somebody got in oh I'm sorry I didn't know this cab was occupied well that's okay welcome aboard here I'll get out and it's okay I've got you sorry I lost my balance I've got my you may be sorry but I'm not I can't think of a better way to arrive in a strange city than with a beautiful girl in your arms you'll let go of me oh yeah well he says thanks I'm sorry oh wait a minute you can have this care as soon as I get my stuff out oh that's all right I'm in a hurry I'll get another one good wait a second I mean after all oh well yeah that's the story of my life the best ones always seem to get away I went into the hotel lobby to register but found a message waiting for me from the informant who'd phone to Pat I was to drive to the little town of Colorado Beach down the coast and meet a man there first thing in the morning there was a map showing me the way to a small pier where the meeting was to take place hmm look like Los Angeles it suddenly got too hot for expense account item for $50 to rent a car I left word where I'd be drove to Colorado Beach and checked in at a motel then early next morning I went out to the little pier it was a ramshackle affair with a couple of beat-up boats tied to it and an old character fumbling with the door of a little bait shack I went over to him hi morning having trouble yeah some kids been mucking with this lock weren't some bait no no this is one trip I didn't come to fish how is it by the way fishing yeah fine oh just my luck no I'm supposed to meet somebody here oh must be that fellow out there he was already there when I got here oh where do you see that boat bottom side up on the pier near the end mean the man sitting beside it yeah got himself a fishing rod looks like could be want some bait I'll I'll walk out with you and see if you don't mind not at all so the fishing's been good huh what have they been catching oh quite a few bass last couple of days off the pier yeah some kelp beds in close brings me in around here buddy hmm your friend there you don't see me hey sleep I guess watch out he's sleeping but hey mister mister he he isn't sleeping that's right he's dead two of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment our flag now numbers 50 stars and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the 50 states Georgia State flag displays the state seal on a strip of blue the seal symbolizes the fact that constitutional government rests equally on the three major branches of government legislative executive and judicial and that all three must be guarded equally if a sound government is to be maintained the greater portion of Georgia's flag is crimson on it is superimposed the blue cross of st. Andrew bearing 13 white stars for the original 13 colonies this cross made in the form of saltier or X was adopted from the national flag of Scotland Georgia State flag the flag of the fourth state to enter the union was adopted in 1956 and now act two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the Johnson payroll matter I've flown 3,000 miles to meet a man only to find him dead at the end of a rickety little pier at Karate Beach a knife between his ribs I searched him while the old fellow with the bait shack went to call the police but I didn't find a thing on him to help me no identification even later talking to the police well they didn't have any line on him either my only lead on the payroll robbery was dead I waited around the motel most of the day hoping the police could turn up something on the dead man but it was no soap item five two dollars for drinks in the town's only bar while I tried to figure out my next move and my next move was to the phone booth in the corner to call Pat McCracken back in Hartford collect oh tough luck Johnny what are you sure the dead man is our informant there was no identification on him but he was right where he told me he'd be in the message he left for me in LA yeah I got him about an hour ago we're not sure if any of them are the ones or not and we don't have any line at all on the leader of the pilots you next move search me right now I'm right in the middle of nowhere I guess I wait a minute what's the matter maybe I'm not out of leads after all what do you mean Pat I'll call you later what pulled me off that phone in the hurry was a glimpse of somebody over near one end of the bar I slid out of the booth and went over well hi imagine meeting you here I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about you're the girl who got into my cab in Los Angeles I'm afraid you're confusing me with somebody else I'm sorry I have to go just a minute I'm beginning to think it wasn't just coincidence you got into my cab maybe we'd better have a little talk please go over my arm you've made a mistake and there's nothing to talk about you're annoying you lady I'll look bartender just fine he is annoying me take your hands off her buddy I'll look Joe I mean it and my name ain't Joe I got you outweighed by about 40 pounds buddy you don't understand just let go of her and we'll talk it over I okay okay thank you now just what is it I don't understand buddy skip it buddy so she got away from me I grabbed my top coat off a hook and stepped outside the bar I was damp and foggy out there I put on the coat and started looking around for her it was too late she was just playing gone then walking along with my hands and my coat pockets I realized there was something in one of key to a motel room but not mine then I remembered I'd had the coat beside me in the taxi when the girl climbed in back in Los Angeles yeah she could have slipped it in the coat pocket then why now that's what I wanted to find out I looked up the motel was about a mile down the highway from mine room seven here the key fit all right then as I opened the door I realized I had company right behind freeze dollar were you never mind inside move okay get that blind down okay a minute your face looks familiar yeah those mugshots McCragg and sent me you must be slattery right boy one of the guys they suspect of pulling the Johnson payroll job too bright for your own good dollar you must be the one who killed the man out on the pier the man who was going to tell me where the payroll door is a nice stall dollar but it won't work what do you mean slattery Blake killed him and you know it yeah always Blake you want to play coy on dollar okay we'll do it your way Blake's got the payroll door and you're working with him just how do you figure that Blake's girlfriend climbed in your taxi in Los Angeles I figure she slipped you the key to this room and look you got a few things all shut up and stand still gun as a habit of going off sometimes no kidding so where's the dough take it a leave it slattery I don't know well it better be in this room yeah and if it isn't you guess I don't think I need more than one if it isn't here I'm not leaving that the idea oh you leave all right it's just that you won't be walking out of here act three of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment over 150 years ago the Swiss poet Henri on yell wrote heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over fear heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage during the Korean campaign corporal Ronald Rosser was attached to the heavy mortar company of the 38th infantry 2nd Division United States Army Rosser a veteran of World War two rejoined the army and shipped to Korea when he heard that his brother had fallen in the winter assault of the Chinese communists one day Rosser's company moved into enemy territory at the time the corporal was a forward observer and carried a radio suddenly in the midst of an enemy attack Rosser handed his radio to a buddy slipped the safety off his carbine and filled his shirt with hand grenades he charged at the enemy through fierce mortar and artillery fire shooting from the hip straddling a bunker he riddled its occupants still advancing he accounted for two more of the enemy shooting one through the head and clubbing another to death continuing as one man charge he jumped into a trench full of enemy soldiers opened fire and forced his way relentlessly down the length of the trench killing right and left with grenades and carbine fire out of ammunition he returned to his company where he replenished his supply then he charged the enemy again and again finally he returned to his own area and taking the radio back from his friend he moved out with this company corporal Ronald Rosser was awarded the Medal of Honor for his action action which had shown the enemy that his personal code of conduct wouldn't let them push around either his kid brother or his country and now act three of yours truly Johnny dollar and the Johnson payroll matters flattery have torn this motel room completely apart obviously that payroll money isn't here that's right tell her so now you're gonna tell me where it is brother you take a lot of convincing I told you I don't know so why don't you put that gun away and listen you're the one takes the convincing dollars so I start convincing that's not gonna do you any good no well for sure it's not gonna do you any good so wait a minute look look I'll give you the whole story and I'm supposed to believe it huh staring down that gun barrel I'm not about to lie let's have it all right a guy called us from Los Angeles said he could give us a lead on who had the dough from the Johnson payroll job it was Hollis he was hoping you'd lead him to it Hollis yeah yeah the guy you found out in the pier dead and you said a man named Blake killed him you know Blake killed him you know Blake engineered to hold up and then ran out on Hollis and me to why sure because you're in with him I seen his girl getting your cab in Los Angeles okay so she got in my cab but I didn't know her I'd never seen her before she slipped you the key to this motel room didn't she and now I think I know why she was trying to sidetrack us lead us to think the dough was here so it would take the pressure off Blake and her that part of your story I don't buy dollar I think you know where that dough is and I want a look if you think I'm gonna take any more of this gun says that's exactly what you're gonna do until you decide to talk I roll with his next one and let my eyes droop when my knees sag he reached out to steady me and I gave my left foot in the stomach to flatten by the time he got to his feet I was out the door I drove behind some bushes down the road and I waited he pounded right on past me gun in hand I waited until he was out of sight then double back to my car apparently Slattery didn't know Blake's girl was around here somewhere one thing was sure I had to find her but fast there are only three motels in town the one I was staying at the one where Slattery had been playing patty cake on my jaw on a third off the highway near the beach I drove to that one and checked the register it showed our minor grant in number eight oh my no please get out sorry I have that talk right now I tell you you've made a mistake about me oh come on drop the act minor I know your Blake's girlfriend that just slipped that motel key in my coat pocket in LA to get me off the trailer that Johnson payroll money the what I also know that Blake masterminded the robbery and double cross this buddy held out on him I guess I knew it must be something like that what are you talking about Mr. Dollar up I haven't known Fred Blake very long a month maybe I didn't know what he did for a living and I didn't ask him two days ago he said he was in trouble and needed my help he wanted me to slip that key into your coat pocket in the taxi in Los Angeles that takes slattery off his trail then he told me to meet him here at the beach when I saw you in the bar a while ago I got panicky I didn't know what to do but that's all I know about it Mr. Dollar I didn't know Blake was a criminal honestly I didn't yeah and would you help me find him yes I will Mr. Dollar if I can the trouble is right now I don't know where he is any more than you do folks hey wait a minute buddy ain't you the one that was molesting this young lady an hour ago all Tarzan buddy my molesting days are over it's all right bartender I'm sorry I caused you the trouble no trouble ma'am just glad it turned out all right things have happened fast here at the beach I guess I don't suppose you've ever heard of a guy named Fred Blake have you not that I remember you're looking for yeah what do you look like medium height dark hair and brown eyes regular features that description that fit half the guys that come in here sure fishermen salesman vacations only that kind don't come in here anymore salesman no fishermen I thought the fishing was good here there no fishing around here for months huh the fella told me they were getting a lot of bass right off the pier it was pulling your leg buddy is a chemical plant nearby a lot of stuff got dumped into the water by accident a few months ago the fish haven't been back since wait a minute sure right under my nose all the time what do you mean Johnny I'll see you later I got in my car and headed for the pier as it turned off the highway I could see a car a couple hundred yards back following me with its lights off but I couldn't stop now I parked near the pier and headed for the bait shack the windows were still boarded over but I could see a crack a light between the boards I eased over to the shack I flattened against the wall as the door came open and Blake came out with a gun I hacked out of his hand alright hold it hold it Blake well the fisherman's friend huh look you killed that guy on the end of the pier just before I showed up this morning you didn't have time to leave so you're covered by making like your work here then it occurred to you this was a pretty good hideout does slattery get off your trail look maybe we can make a deal oh we're going to you turn the stolen money over to me and I turn you over to the police drop your gun dolly drop it okay see me look slattery I wasn't trying to cross you I was going to get in touch with you when things quieted down sure you were let's have the dough all right it's in the shack late half turned and I saw his hand slide into his coat a second gun he whipped it out but slattery had seen it too he got Blake but his eyes were off me for a lucky second I checked Blake he was still alive yeah they both keep for a long time item six a hundred seventy four dollars even air transportation and incidentals back home expense account total five hundred twenty six dollars fifty cents remarks the payroll money is back where it belongs slattery and Blake are back where they belong with Blake facing a murder raptor put funny I probably wouldn't have nailed him if he hadn't told me that phony story about the fish biting near the pier teaches me a lesson Pat I'm not going to tell any more fish stories they can kill you yours truly Johnny dollar our star will return in just a moment our flag now numbers fifty stars and behind each star there stands yet another flag representing one of the fifty states Ohio state flag is the only pen and shape flag or bird G as it is correctly called the Buckeye banner is the creation of an engineer who created a blue triangle for the hills and valleys red and white stripes for the roads and waterways of the state there are 13 stars for the original 13 colonies and four extra stars to indicate that Ohio was the 17th state admitted to the union a white circle with a red center represents the initial letter of Ohio and suggests its nickname the Buckeye state Ohio state flag the flag of the 17th state to enter the union was adopted on May 9th 1902 now here's our star to tell you about next week story next week a pair of common ordinary glasses solve a case for us the gruesome spectacle matter join us won't you yours truly Johnny doll yours truly Johnny dollars starring Bob Bailey originates in Hollywood and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone today's story was written by Robert Stanley heard in our cast were Virginia Greg Lawrence Dobkin Forrest Lewis Shepard Menken and Frank Gerstle be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar this is Roy Rowan speaking this is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service