 It's time now for Well, hi at George. I've been wondering when you were gonna come up with another while one for me That is not the case John. Tell me how is your Well, have you had a security clearance lately? Well, sure in connection with that rocket fuel case I handled but you know, what's this all about? Well, I can hardly discuss it with you over the phone. Oh top secret, huh? Top secret okay George. I'll run over and see you in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed Expensive cars America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. It's truly shiny dollar Join it less try camels More people smoke camels than any other cigarette and he filled her and he came any regular The camel blend of costy tobaccos has never been equal for rich flavor and easy-going mildness The best tobacco makes the best smoke Johnny dollars Florence of England North American office Hartford, Connecticut Following is an account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the missing missile matter When George Reed starts calling me John well, it must be pretty important So expense account item one a buck in a quarter for a taxi over to the square on the office of Floyd's of England We'll use this rather isolated office in the back so as not to be disturbed. Yeah, okay or overheard Now if I seem to be somewhat vague about this whole thing, I assure you it's only because of my own rather limited knowledge of well Well, sit down Well, you can hardly expect me to investigate something unless I know what it's all about well, John I was on the west coast. Oh, come off this John stuff. We're here. I'm sorry Johnny but now listen. Yes, shoot out near Los Angeles in North Hollywood to be exact is a small plant That operates as the Smithwick paint remover company. Oh, that's so all-fired mysterious about that Not one drop of anything even faintly resembling paint remover has ever been put out by them Actually, that name is only a blind a cover up Yeah, for what an outfit that might better be called the Smithwick missile development company Government stuff, huh Johnny they have no official connection with our government whatsoever, but unofficially that's the sort of question We never ask So far as anyone knows our government simply doesn't recognize them gives them no support financial or otherwise so far as anyone Which means they receive no protection from Uncle Sam either so Floyd's of England writes the insurance precisely Under orders from our top branch. Well, what's happened out there? What's the trouble Johnny? It appears from what Smithwick told me on the phone that one of their missiles is missing. Oh, well, then What? Yes, oh Look George. I heard of a guy who mislaid of these drum once and somebody who had an element stolen Johnny One of those missiles. Oh wait Hey, maybe he was talking about one. They got lost and out of space, but then why send for me They have nothing whatsoever to do with the firing of those things, but aren't you a Small plan out there. Did you say yes? That's simply doesn't make sense. That's your Johnny. All I know is what Dr. Smithwick told me over the phone I agreed to have you go out there immediately. He'll be waiting for you there whenever you get there Well Okay Now Columbia stereo life like Magnifica There is such a big difference in stereo phonographs With most all you get is a couple of speakers shooting in different directions But with Columbia Ombré you get fantastic stereo projection What he does is to send circles of sound sweeping through every inch of a room You are surrounded with life sound life feeling life Ask your Columbia phonograph dealer to demonstrate stereo one by Columbia Right to start as low as 39 95 for portables 129 95 for And now act two of yours truly Johnny dollar and the missing missile matter Expensive count and I'm two eight dollars for a plane to New York item three one seventy six in a quarter for a 707 of Los Angeles I arrived about 60 ampers every time item four fifty dollars to partisan a rental car and I drove to North Hollywood To the so-called Smithwick paper remover company As I walked into the reception room at the front a good-looking blonde hurriedly closed the door and back of her that led to a Huge room full of desks and drawing boards, but no people Oh, my name is dollars Johnny dollar My name is Gloria Johnny Gloria snowden snowden. Will you just call me Gloria, huh? Why not? But look I've come to see Dr. Smithwick. He What well he laughed very suddenly late this morning for Washington at some place I guess That's funny after asking for me to be sure and stay here until you came and Was really gonna be here Johnny. He just said Mr. Dye would be arriving up But anyhow when he makes these sudden trips, he's always back your first thing in the morning, and I'm sure he wants to see you Oh my Funny though, what? What Well, I suppose I'd better get something to eat and find myself a place to sleep I'm hungry too, and it's all your fault Johnny because I had the way around for you Well, then the least I could do is take you out to dinner. Okay? Yeah, and I'm Free all evening to Jen great. We'll do the town Now is there a hotel or a motel around here where I can hang my head? Oh, yeah, I don't Well, there's a paradise motel over on North German way kind of a smallish place I'm not sure I'm an 1131 Then just let me drop off my luggage shower and shave, and I'll pick you up. What do you live Laurie? Oh, I'll just wait here for you. I have a couple of things. I ought to do before I leave. Okay, whatever you say Are you kidding big emergency all this hurry the man who'd sent for me was off somewhere else I Shouldn't have asked for directions because it was over half an hour before I finally found the paradise motel It was highly the place. I would have picked. Oh, well, Mr. Dollar number seven. Okay. It'd be satisfactory Yeah, yeah, sir, but if it ain't I got other vacancies none on this be all right Anything you want I'll be in the office. Well, I could sure use a few ice cubes What's your own jug? Shirts will go in here That's about the fastest service I ever heard of Let's do you certainly no waste any Mm-hmm somebody out here looking for trouble trying to sing with a bad cold So I always take four-way cold tablets to relieve cold miseries fast Good idea Test of all the leading cold tablets proved four-way fastest acting Four-way starts in minutes to relieve muscular pains headache reduce fever calm upset stomach also Overcomes irregularity when you catch cold try my way take four-way cold tablets Fast way to relieve cold distress and feel better quickly Four-way only 29 cents now Here's a word about another fine product of global laboratories to get rid of embarrassing dandruff in three minutes change to fit Dandruff remove shampoo Three minutes of fetch regularly is guaranteed to keep on slightly dandruff away forever Apply fits before wetting hair rub in one minute add water rather one minute then rinse one minute Every trace of dandruff goes down the drain Three minutes with fetch and embarrassing dandruff's gone at the same time Fitch can brighten hair up to 35% yet fetch dandruff remove a shampoo today And now act three of yours truly Johnny dollars We've you've been hurt Then that was shots. I heard Mr. Dollard Whenever Friday was a pretty lousy shot thank heaven. Oh, then you're okay. You mean he missed you Oh, how do you know that wasn't just a backfire you heard back from yeah from some passing car Well, don't you tell me that any back when I went he did you say? Well, yeah, well, did you see him get a look at? Oh, no I was in back at the ice machine. We could have gone into the office to look up my room number I heard the noise and that car pulling the way and I just come running and that car must have been waiting around the other side of this Motel I look mr.. What'd you say your name is? Barnwell dead barnwell and mr. Dollar. I'm going to call a police. No, don't Well, I realize you're a special investigator some kind of that's right And I don't want you to call a police in on this not yet, but now look that's a letter You've got the authority not only that but look I want to run another rung from you Oh, you mean you'll you'll pay for both of them. That's right. You have another vacancy Hope you want the truth. You're the only guest I got tonight. I understand that so you take care of whichever unit you want And I'll sign you into no just let my name appear on the register for this one Then you toggle off to bed and forget about me. Well, I'm here Here's a fire spot by getting me the key to the one next door number eight. Oh, yes, sir Yes, sir, whatever you say Mr. Dollar and you will still want them ice-cube brother. I sure do I left one hand bag in its contents in number seven Then I sat quietly in the darkness of my own room and wait But I suddenly remembered my dinner date with Gloria Snow so I jumped into my car and drove back to the missile development plant The place was dark I drove to a corner drugstore to a phone book and look for Gloria's name in the directory. It wasn't So back to the motel And number seven the room registered to my name the door was still locked I went back to number eight and sat there trying to think this thing out I doubt the light hold my gun out of the holster and sneak quietly to one side of the door Mr. Dollar, I saw your right card. I hate to disturb you at this time of night. Yeah Who was it? My name is Bob McKenney McKenney. That's right Sounds familiar. Well, I used to work for CBS radio and Well, I used to handle that program dramatizing your insurance case. Oh, I Want to talk to you can work Hi, come in Bob Hey, what's in that box? It's a tape recorder kind of a special one When old Jed Barnwell, he's the kind of a Gabby old guy sure as well when he told me you were staying here Well, Johnny, I figured I'd better get to you and tell you about about what? Signals I have here on tape pick them up about an hour ago Morris code signals. Yeah international code It's like this Johnny. I had my own emitter license W6 vfg and I put around a lot of high-frequency experiments. Oh Well, I got a couple of wires crossed on my receiver. It took me to a frequency that doesn't even supposed to be on the air anywhere Yeah, I started hearing what I thought was a high whistle You know, so I was barely audible like like an oscillator. No the continuous Squeal only it broke off now and then well now Bob and spite upon a key myself a long time ago I'm afraid this is a little I've also been experimenting with this tape recorder Running the tape and recording at about five feet a second instead of seven and a half inches a second. Yeah, well Please okay, I recorded that squeak Running the tape real fast, and then I played it back slowly You know what it was Johnny? All right It was ultra high-speed transmission code transmission oh And when I played it back as slowly as I could so I could read it Will you listen to it? I've got a variable speed on this. Can you read international code? Go ahead Bob. Yeah Listen to that. That's what I mean Johnny. It's legitimate code. All right only We'll have you any idea what language that is I certainly have Well, what whatever that message is well, I wasn't intended for anybody this Saturday. I'm curtain and Did you understand just well, maybe a couple of words? Yeah Now look have you any way of telling where that signal comes from? Well, it was mighty powerful like it was real near but near by High-speed transmission and on the frequency that nobody in the world supposed to be using Bob if there was some way to spot that Transmitter if we could only make minus what if I can rig that direction finder Kenny's to my receiver when it's ready to catch this thing do it get hold of McManus and his direction finder and trace down The source of that signal meantime leave this tape recorder with me. I'm gonna round me up an interpreter Then then you caught those two familiar words in that message my name That's right. They were Johnny dollar Act four of yours truly Johnny dollar in a moment And now here's a message from the watchmakers of Switzerland Fabulous vacation for two in beautiful Switzerland enter the Swiss vacation contest It's easy nothing to buy pick up a free entry blank at a jewelry store or other store that sells quality watches Then in 25 words or less complete this statement a quality watch is the best value because There are 1000 prizes First prize a 21-day vacation for two in Switzerland you fly deluxe with air both ways Visit many colorful places all expenses paid for two people plus $500 extra spending money second third and fourth prizes 15 day Swiss vacations for two also four mink stoles eight bolex movie cameras and projectors 12 Hermes typewriters 160 hundred dollar watches 812 gala assortments of Tobler Swiss chocolate enter the Swiss vacation contest today Free entry blanks at your jewelry store And now act four of yours truly Johnny dollars Familiar words and then high-speed code message that Bob McKinney hinted at separate So high-speed it sounded like a continuous squeal until we played back to recording slowly and recognized it for what it really was a Secret message in that foreign language Those two words were my own name Johnny dollar My one good police contact here in the West Coast was Lieutenant Harry Golden of the homicide squad Sure was out of his line. It was the middle of the night But he rounded up Alan or loft and interpreters sent him over to see me It was nearly 8 a.m. By the time I transcribed the code message and then when our law finished translating it Mr. Dollar do you see what this means I certainly do a lot but not only the threat against you sir Because you are working on this very I know I know but the standard of this message has somehow got hold of secret plans for a Missile a space to a lot has copied those plans is holding them for an agent of this Disorder government to pick them up later on today, which means that somehow I've got to locate the sender of that message And it must be done immediately before the contact with each other Yeah, what was it Bob McKinney? What's your motto Johnny had secret transmitters right here in North Hollywood It's been working ever since I talked with you up until just about an hour ago Here Here's the address in the name of the person who owns the house God Only the antenna must be set up in the attic or something. What do you mean? There's no outside antenna to show there's a transmitter working there And of course using that frequency that nobody will ordinarily be able to pick up In mid for my dumb luck in receiving an ultra high-speed transmission. Did you record any further messages? I got them right here on tape on this recorder court and while you transcribe and so mr. Orloff can translate them. I'm going to the address you have on this Kind of figured the name of that sender might surprise you Surprise, huh? That is the end of statement of the week I'm going over to that missile development outfits and I hope and pray dr. Smithwick is there now Mr. Dollar after all I'm a scientist not a file clerk But I was certain the plans for that missile were missing from the vault just before I was hurriedly called to Washington Dr. Smithwick contrary to our usual policy I asked the government to send some men here to investigate They'll probably arrive here shortly doctor yet now on my return I find the plans intact in their proper place All those plans were stolen all right and for the benefit of one of the big foreign powers what? But that that could only mean that someone here in this organization right You mind if I call in your receptionist Gloria Snowden I want her in on what I have to say You mean to say you tell that stupid little girl about this you think I need to Well dollar it's because of her lack of intelligence that it's safe to have her about any bets Come in here, please Hi doctor no mr. Dollar doctor Gloria was the only one beside yourself who knew I was out here who could have arranged or carried out the attack on me last night More important She's the last one you'd suspect of being able to gain access to your vault of taking the plans having them copied and preparing to turn them over to a Well, it sounds corny, but To a foreign agent However having intercepted a radio message sent out from a transmitter hidden away in her home Well this doctor is a slowed down intelligible tape recording of that message Well, I don't know what well Gloria or whatever your real name is Very well, darling And of course neither of you gentlemen can be allowed to leave this office Gloria that that gun that's right Many famous last words You You know Gloria this tape recording is the only real evidence. I have against you what so what so here Maybe you'd like Yeah, maybe those G-men you sent for will keep the date she made with their contact The ones supposed to pick up those plans from her More than glad to take over and I hope they can find some way to reward Bob McKenney who really saw this case Expensive out total including the trip back to you Wait a minute forget it in so good a cause. It was the least I could do yours truly Johnny dollar and just a moment 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 Laxative should be effective Gentle as close to natural acting as possible and the 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 gentle next morning. It gives you the closest thing to natural action And 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 is X-Lax in your medicine cabinet Now here's our star to tell you about next week's story next week the most beautiful and Dangerous girl I've ever known Join us. Won't you yours truly? Johnny dollar and directed by Jack Johnstone Her to our cast were Virginia Greg G Stanley Jones Boris Lewis Harry Bartell Don Diamond and Bartlett Robinson Be sure to join us next week same time and station for another exciting story of yours truly Johnny dollar This is Dan cover Lee speaking This is the CBS radio network radio 59 WROW