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Yours Truly Johnny Dollar: The Carson Arson Matter (EP1651) · Great Detectives of Old Time Radio Volume 2|Mystery Audio Dramas

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  Speaker 2: First.
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  Speaker 1: Well, now it's time for today's episode of Yours Truly
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Dollar. The original air date May fourth of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty eight and the title is The Carson Arson Matter.
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  Speaker 2: From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. This is
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  Speaker 2: Jim Parrison Worldwide Mutual. Don't tell me, Jim, let me
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  Speaker 2: guess what are you talking about the reason you call me.
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  Speaker 2: I can smell a smoke all the way over here
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  Speaker 2: at my apartment. Also, I heard something about the fire
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  Speaker 2: on a news broadcast a few minutes ago. Yeah, somewhere
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  Speaker 2: out on Albany Avenue. He said, Yes, it's.
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  Speaker 3: The cash and Same market over the other side, out
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  Speaker 3: of town.
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  Speaker 2: And since your company ensured it, you want me to
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  Speaker 2: go over and take a look, A good look, Johnny?
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  Speaker 2: You're thinking if possible? Arson? I am okay.
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  Speaker 3: Why that store is just one of a chain Hartford, Boston, Providence, Springfield.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I see, But how does that make it?
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  Speaker 3: Arson? This is the fourth one to go up in
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  Speaker 3: as many weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, the outfit that owns them having financial troubles. The
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  Speaker 2: outfit that owns them is one man, Oh, John Wakefield.
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  Speaker 3: Carson.
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  Speaker 2: Then I repeat my.
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  Speaker 3: Question, Johnny, if he is burning up his own markets,
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  Speaker 3: if you can prove it, you can save our company
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: That might cost you a lot of money. Jim, what
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  Speaker 2: do you mean? Wait, do you see my expense account? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Bob Bailey in the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
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  Speaker 2: the Action Packed Expense Account, America's Fabulous Freelance Insurance investigators
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  Speaker 2: truly Johnny Dollar expense account submitted by special Investigator Johnny
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  Speaker 2: Dollar that the Worldwide Mutual Insurance Company home office, Hartford, Connecticut,
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  Speaker 2: following as an account of expenses incurred during my investigation
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  Speaker 2: of the Carson Arson matter. Expense account had a one
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  Speaker 2: a dollar and a quarter for a taxi from my
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  Speaker 2: apartment to the offices of Worldwide, where I hope Jim
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  Speaker 2: Perris could give me a little more to go on.
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  Speaker 2: He did very little.
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  Speaker 3: First loss four and a half weeks ago was the
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  Speaker 3: market up in Thompsonville. How much loss in Thompsonville forty
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  Speaker 3: one two hundred and four dollars. That was the smallest
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  Speaker 3: one in the chain. The following week the one over
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  Speaker 3: and four River burned to the ground, and the claim
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  Speaker 3: on that some fifty eight thousand dollars dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing odd about that much, though.
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  Speaker 3: The loss in Lowell was a bit over sixty fourth.
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  Speaker 3: How much the claim would be on this one here
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  Speaker 3: in Hartford remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: How much coverage does he have on it?
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  Speaker 3: Around one hundred thousand, I believe, yes, one hundred and
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  Speaker 3: six thousand, and.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably what he's gonna claim. Look, you can still
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  Speaker 2: see the smoke out there.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, And the telephone report I just got says it
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  Speaker 3: looks like a total loss. Will you go over and
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  Speaker 3: take a look at it? Sean Wakefield curse that's right.
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  Speaker 3: His office is up in Boston. That's where his newest,
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  Speaker 3: biggest market is.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. How much insurance on that one?
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  Speaker 3: Nearly half a million. It's one of the largest, most modern.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm better get over and see.
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  Speaker 2: Him in a hurry. You want me to get there
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  Speaker 2: before that one goes up? Don't you expense accunt item
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  Speaker 2: two four point fifty for a cab to the scene
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  Speaker 2: of the fire. Way out on Albany Row. Three or
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  Speaker 2: four fire companies were hard at it, but it was
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  Speaker 2: easy to see there wasn't a chance of saving much.
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  Speaker 2: It struck me that this location and part of a
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  Speaker 2: brand new residential area, was about his fire and established
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  Speaker 2: fire companies that could be. I wondered for a moment
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  Speaker 2: if this was deliberate. I finally ran down Hal Gibbons,
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  Speaker 2: an old palell and one of the best men a
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  Speaker 2: Narson squad ever had. Take your nose up in the air,
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  Speaker 2: take it deep. When Johnny you smell it, well, it's
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  Speaker 2: not kerosene. Howe, I don't think it's cancelinge either. No,
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  Speaker 2: but it's something highly implammable. The boys of that chemical
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  Speaker 2: truck could get it out, might learn something first. These
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  Speaker 2: stores always stuck a lot of cleaning flots stuff like that,
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  Speaker 2: and lost of them are not implammable. Well, how much
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  Speaker 2: honey look out? Yeah? Hey, hey, we better move back away? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Must he get a pretty big start on the farm.
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  Speaker 2: And Howe jo because it's so far out. It's like
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  Speaker 2: the markets and Thompsonville and Paul River Lowell too. Oh
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  Speaker 2: gonna makes you wonder, doesn't it. At this point, I'm
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  Speaker 2: more than just wondering, Johnny, have you come up with anything?
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  Speaker 2: Those other towns are out of my bailey, Rick, But
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  Speaker 2: I know all the boys in the departments. Have they
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  Speaker 2: come up with anything? No? And that's why I feel
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  Speaker 2: I've got to get the first lead, if there is
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  Speaker 2: one right here. As old man Carson showed up, No,
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  Speaker 2: not doing any of the fires. He just sits calmly
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  Speaker 2: in his office in Boston, mutters something philosophical about the
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  Speaker 2: Virgaria's of fortune. Lets you go at that, and files
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  Speaker 2: a big fan of insurance claim. I think I want
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  Speaker 2: to see that guy, Carson. I don't think it'll do
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  Speaker 2: you any good, but go to it. Know anything about
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  Speaker 2: his financial situation. He's loaded multi millionaire? And boy what
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  Speaker 2: I quail one? What's that meaning? A regular nut? Always
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  Speaker 2: quote in Shakespeare, the Bible poetry. But a good business
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  Speaker 2: man is sure he hasn't got some big investments something
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  Speaker 2: like that that went bad on him recently. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: there has to be. Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you. You gotta stay back of the lot.
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  Speaker 2: I want to keep your job. You tell your chief.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here, and I want to know why they fired
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  Speaker 2: that out of hair. Oh who's that?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Look, mass I got order chalk on them. It's all right, Jerry.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take care of her. Whatever you're say, mister Gibbons,
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  Speaker 2: but I got order. Okay, Oh miss Casson, it looks
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  Speaker 2: like you're losing another market, the fourth one, the fourth
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  Speaker 2: one in a little over up. Hey, don't I know you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid I haven't had the pleasure. It's Margaret Carson.
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  Speaker 2: This is Johnny Dollar, the insurance investigators. Good now, maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll get somewhere. Oh this is Walter Walter. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 2: Margaret Walter Smith written Hello all old mister Gibbon. Well,
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  Speaker 2: the handles the legal end of things for Dad. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I see next, president of the company water, I in
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  Speaker 2: the grocery business. Oh no, no, sir, thank you. The
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  Speaker 2: legal end is enough for me. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: about these fires for in a row? And well, if
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  Speaker 2: I were you, mister Dollar, I'd suspect Urson's water someone
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  Speaker 2: trying to put mister Carson out of business, something like
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  Speaker 2: that father out of business with a couple of fires.
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  Speaker 2: Mis Carson Man Walder. We've seen all. We need to
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  Speaker 2: make the final report to Dad to buy mister Dollar now, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I see you like a motive Johnny and Waller character.
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  Speaker 2: If he marries Margaret Casson and he doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 2: like the grocery business, yeah, but if he could get
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  Speaker 2: the money from it. Yeah, I see what you mean.
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  Speaker 2: Fact two of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
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  Speaker 2: And now Act two of Yours Truly. Johnny Dollar and
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  Speaker 2: the Carson Arson Matter Expense con adem three to twenty cents.
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  Speaker 2: Phone call from a booth near the scene of the fire.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted more information from Jim Paris at Worldwide Mutual
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  Speaker 2: Information about the policies covering the thirteen cash and Save markets,
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  Speaker 2: four of which had recently gone up in flames. I
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  Speaker 2: wait in the phone booth until Jim call me back. Johnny, Dilly,
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy here, Oh good, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the list of markets, Johnny, and the order of
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  Speaker 3: insurance coverage, starting with the smallest demand go ahead, Thompsonville,
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  Speaker 3: Faur River, Lowell, Hartford.
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  Speaker 2: That's the same order in which they burned exactly, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: which remaining store has the next biggest coverage, Salem. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I'll start with Salem. What are you thinking of, Johnny,
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  Speaker 2: It's just to Hunts Jim. But well, i'll call you lady.
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  Speaker 2: I had them four or five dollars in a quarter
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  Speaker 2: for camp back to my apartment. I had them five
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  Speaker 2: twenty one dollars even manage in my own car Hertford
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  Speaker 2: to Salem, mass Despite bringing up the highway, it was
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  Speaker 2: almost dark when I pulled out. The Salem was well
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  Speaker 2: after dark when I finally located the Cash and Save
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  Speaker 2: market again. The store was far outside of town and
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  Speaker 2: it was a long way the nearest firehouse. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know exactly why I went there instead of the main
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  Speaker 2: office in Boston. After all, it was the same day
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  Speaker 2: as the Heartfred fire, and the others had all been
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  Speaker 2: about a week apart. As I said before, colored a hunch.
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  Speaker 2: But as I pulled up in front of the place,
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  Speaker 2: I saw the shadow of a man darve furtively around
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  Speaker 2: the back of the building. As I reached the far
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  Speaker 2: corner the building, I stopped, but with only the sliver
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  Speaker 2: of a crescent moon, I could see no one Somewhere
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  Speaker 2: ahead of me. I heard a door open, then silence again,
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  Speaker 2: but somebody had entered that building. Slowly, cautiously, I felt
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  Speaker 2: my way along the wall, and then I came to it,
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  Speaker 2: an open door storeroom, but inside it was pitch black.
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  Speaker 2: I drew my gun and carefully quietly fell around for
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  Speaker 2: a light switch. After stumbling gently against a big packing case,
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  Speaker 2: I found it. I hunched down behind the case, inflicted on.
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 2: Where I.
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  Speaker 3: I heard you?
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  Speaker 2: I saw you come in here. Now look, I got
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  Speaker 2: a gun, so I don't try it ain't funny.
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  Speaker 3: You'll hear me? Where are you?
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  Speaker 2: Right over your head? I must have been on a
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  Speaker 2: long time. I came too, lying on a cot in
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  Speaker 2: the back room of single police headquarters. A couple of
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  Speaker 2: gallon jars?
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  Speaker 3: Can you hear me? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can hear you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was a couple of big gallon jars of
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  Speaker 2: kosher pickles that he dropped on top of your head.
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  Speaker 2: He officer, I'd like to split your head open. So
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  Speaker 2: he brought you in here to headquarters and had the
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  Speaker 2: doc look you over. He's now. Doc says no permanent
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  Speaker 2: harm done, and give you a shot to make you
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  Speaker 2: sleep and rest.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how about this cup of hot coffee? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, about a dozen half friends. My head feels like
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  Speaker 2: here you are nice, But you you said he according
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  Speaker 2: to Ham, you left yourself wide open when you sneaked
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  Speaker 2: in there after him and then to turn on the lights. Son,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a lot to learn. Okay, So I pulled
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  Speaker 2: a boo. But do you know who it was? It'
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  Speaker 2: slugly of course, son? He brought you here? Who owner
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  Speaker 2: of the market? What mister John Wakefield Carson? I am
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  Speaker 2: six two dollars more knowledge on my car, this time
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  Speaker 2: down to Boston and the main office of Cash and
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  Speaker 2: Save Markets, to the private office of John Wakefield Carson.
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  Speaker 2: Please be calm of mind, all passion spent, mister dollar.
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  Speaker 2: What that's from Milton?
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  Speaker 3: He said?
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  Speaker 2: Now, look, mister Carson, about last night ad Off placed
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  Speaker 2: tricks upon us. All he did zone bringing us together
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  Speaker 2: last night. How did you know I was going to
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  Speaker 2: investigate that market of yours up in Salem. I didn't, no,
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  Speaker 2: But look you young man. Yeah, the fires which destroyed
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  Speaker 2: those four markets did so and order their value to me.
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  Speaker 2: So I found out possibly then the next to go
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  Speaker 2: would be the store in Salem. Well, that indeed is
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  Speaker 2: next in order of value. It figures or perhaps twas
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  Speaker 2: mere coincidence. Those accidents occurred in that order accidents. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: coincidence breeds further coincidence. That's a quotation from Bresco. Now
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  Speaker 2: listen to me, mister Carson. So that reason I decided
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  Speaker 2: to inspect the Salem store. Myself inspected, and to make
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  Speaker 2: sure there'd be no possibility of spontaneous combustion there. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get one thing straight right now, mister Carson. I think
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  Speaker 2: those fires were set, and if you'll come down to earth, possible.
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: I suppose it Shakespeare who said fire answers fire through
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  Speaker 2: their palely flames, each seized the other's unbu face. Listen
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  Speaker 2: to me, will you?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Of course, I think you set those fires, or had
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  Speaker 2: them set. I think you were going to burn down
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  Speaker 2: the store and Salem until I came along. When I
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  Speaker 2: I saw you there, I thought that was surant. Oh sure, sure,
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  Speaker 2: all right? Tell me this, what are you planning to
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  Speaker 2: do with the insurance money if you get it? Rebuild
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  Speaker 2: bigger and better stores where the old ones stood? No,
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  Speaker 2: or did you find out you hadn't made them big
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  Speaker 2: and modern enough for those real estate developments where they
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  Speaker 2: were located? And decided the cheapest way for you know,
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  Speaker 2: no to build again with tragic dealt the faith. I
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  Speaker 2: guess the fancy quotes and answer my questions. Said you
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  Speaker 2: tread upon my patience, sir. Look, it's most enough to
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  Speaker 2: make a deacon swear, answered by James Russell. It's to Carson,
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  Speaker 2: what disposition of the funds I choose to make is
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  Speaker 2: mine alone to settle? And from my heart, Canson, enough,
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  Speaker 2: I've had enough of this and I'll be on your way.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, gone, Dollar and dirt me. No,
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  Speaker 2: no more, you wait from your heart you said, Now
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  Speaker 2: I have said enough. Henceforth my lips are seen. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but you know something I think you've told me who
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  Speaker 2: might have set those fires? And if you'll answer me
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  Speaker 2: just one more question now? Okay, we'll see act three
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  Speaker 2: of yours, truly Johnny Dollar in a moment.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: Sometimes we may wonder why a football team doesn't quit
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  Speaker 5: playing and walk off the field when it finds itself
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  Speaker 5: fifty points behind with only a few minutes of play
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  Speaker 5: to go. What is that indomitable spirit that fills men
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  Speaker 5: with hope and keeps them going in spite of terrific gods?
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Keeps them going just to play the game according to
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  Speaker 5: the rules, just to get the job done as well
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: as they know how. This kind of spirit pervaded the
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  Speaker 5: feelings of heavy bomber crews of the Night There Force
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: on that day of Glory August first, nineteen forty three,
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  Speaker 5: the day of one of the most secretly planned surprise
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  Speaker 5: bombing missions of World War Two. Up the day of
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  Speaker 5: the low level attack on the Romanian oil refineries at Roeshte,
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  Speaker 5: more than one hundred seventy be twenty four heavily loaded
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  Speaker 5: bombers took off in a swirl of red dust from Benghazi, Libya,
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  Speaker 5: to bomb a highly defended priority target. The element of
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  Speaker 5: surprise in the low level attack was to be one
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  Speaker 5: of their greatest weapons, but things went wrong from the start.
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  Speaker 5: Three planes exploded during takeoff operations, eleven more aborted due
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  Speaker 5: to engine trouble. Of those that reached the target area,
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  Speaker 5: less than one third returned to home base. The leaders
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: of the mission encountered navigation difficulties and difficulty in identifying
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  Speaker 5: the specific targets, and due to the loss of that
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: elemental hope surprise, they also encountered devastating enemy firepower from
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  Speaker 5: flak and fighters. The mission was partially successful, but a
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  Speaker 5: horrifying experience. Five medals of Honor were awarded to the
• 17:54
  Speaker 5: heroes of the ployche To Raid for valorous action above
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: and beyond the call of duty. Anytime the men would
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  Speaker 5: have been justified in turning back, but they had a
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  Speaker 5: code of conduct that made them want to see the
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  Speaker 5: unequal game through to the end. It was a job
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  Speaker 5: that had to be done. A charge of the light
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: brigade in the air as they flew down the valley
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  Speaker 5: of death to glory and no act three of yours truly,
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  Speaker 5: Johnny Dollar and the Carson Arson Matter.
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  Speaker 2: Expense account. I hadem seven eighty cents phone called the
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  Speaker 2: hell Gibbons and the Arson squad back in Hartford.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Johnny, I finally found plenty in the remains of
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  Speaker 6: that fire, and it was arson by some rank amateur.
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  Speaker 3: That's where it was hard to spot.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean when a pro sense of blaze,
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  Speaker 2: we know what to look for. I see what about
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  Speaker 2: the other three fires?
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  Speaker 6: I call the boys in those cities. Immediately heard back
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  Speaker 6: from them this morning, same story.
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  Speaker 2: All right, have you checked on Waller what's his name?
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  Speaker 2: The fiance of Carson's daughter. Your main stepdaughter, stepdaughter I have,
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  Speaker 2: and that's what stops me alibis huh perfect?
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  Speaker 6: Walter Smitton couldn't possibly have started those fires.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think so. Now that boy may call himself
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: a lawyer, how but he just hasn't the nerve, the gumption.
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  Speaker 6: But who else he stuns the benefit if he marries
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  Speaker 6: Margaret Carson? Surely you don't think Carson himself.
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  Speaker 2: Call a Boston police. Will you have to meet me
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  Speaker 2: at Carson's office? What far? Maybe to make an arrest?
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  Speaker 3: Do that for me? Will you.
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  Speaker 2: Munch? Maybe it was more than a munch now. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: I know there was no real clues in the case,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe for once I could get along without them.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I went back to Carson's office, and I must confess
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: tried a little bluff court. You'd hailed me into court.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: That's right, unless you open up and tell me what
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  Speaker 2: I want to know. Very well, speak to me as
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: to thy thinkings, as thou dost, and you can forget
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  Speaker 2: the quotations. Walace Smitten is your lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't he a.
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  Speaker 2: Timid but an eager lad who saved me many a fall?
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  Speaker 2: You'll like him like a son? Why would he wear
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: my son? Or, as the Bible says, a wise son
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  Speaker 2: maketh a hide all right, h yes, yes you have
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  Speaker 2: a stepdaughter, Margaret alas I have. Okay, Now, who is
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: to get the insurance money? You may collect? All that
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: there is none of your concern. You're going to talk now,
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  Speaker 2: mister Carson, and family matter. Who gets it?
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  Speaker 3: Hi?
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  Speaker 2: I pledged my wife before she died, Margaret would have
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  Speaker 2: all money is from any profit, any monetary gain of
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  Speaker 2: any kind of any of my ventures, that would include
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: the insurance money. I see that, mister Dollar, was my pledge.
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  Speaker 2: You know how I have rut it. Why do you
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  Speaker 2: say that she's not of my blood, mister Dollar? She
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: has no soul for art of poetry, and since she's
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: come of age, she's made so many man's upon me
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Monday Monday money. That's all she thinks of. Unlike water,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: She's so bold, aggressive, headstrong. Were it not for Walter,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I'd mistrust her every move. But if he's in love
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: with her, because she demands, he'd be and why so
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  Speaker 2: she can use his legal guidance in her fight to
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: take this business away from me. All right, mister Carson,
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: I haven't notified the authorities yet, but I've found proof
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: that Margaret is the one who started those fires. You what,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and you just told me why because the money would
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: go to her. Oh, mister, I'm glad I've suspected. Yes,
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: but because of family honor. No, no, no, I'm glad
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you have proof long last. It will take her. Take
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: this millstone from about my neck proof? Mark, Well, allah,
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: you'll never live to tell the authorities that gun. Unless
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: you'd like to make a deal, Johnny, it'd be with
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: a lot of money to you. I'd even promise not
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: to set anymore. Oh, you are right, mister dollar. Unless
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'm mistaken Margaret. The man who just came in what
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you heard your little confession is from the police department.
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  Speaker 6: You're trying to make me look around so you can
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  Speaker 6: grab for this gun.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, Bak remains. He's standing right in the back
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  Speaker 2: of you.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: No, Oh, my head, my hand, how shopper than a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: serpent's tooth. Is an ungrateful child. Yeah, the company won't
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: have to pay on those four markets, and the courts
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: will have to take care of market. I'm sure they will.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And next time we'll give me something clean to work on.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: I hate this kind of stuff expensive count total including
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the trip home fifty six dollars ninety cents. Yours, truly,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Johnny Dollar. Our star will return in just a moment.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Our flag now numbers fifty stars, and behind each star
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: there stands yet another flag, representing one of the fifty states.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma's state flag depicts an osage warrior's circular buckskin shield
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: from which hang seven eagle feathers. Across the shield is
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: the Indian's calumet or pithe of peace, crossed with a
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: white man's peace symbol. The olive branch. On the shield
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: are small crosses the Indians graphics sign for stars, indicating
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: lofty ideals or a purpose for high endeavor. The background of.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: The flag is a field of blue, the blue of
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: the Oklahoma sky, signifying loyalty and devotion. The important symbols, however,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: are the calumet and the olive branch. The override the
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: shield the symbol of war, and we speak a predominant
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: love of peace by a United people. Oklahoma state flag,
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: the flag of the forty sixth state to enter the Union,
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: was adopted on April second, nineteen twenty five. Now here's
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: our star to tell you about next week's story.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Next week the Rolling Stone Matter. Remember that old saying
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: about a rolling stone while that applies here with a vengeance,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: join us, won't you? Yours Truly Johnny Dollar.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: Yours Truly Johnny Dollar, starring Bob Bailey, originates in Hollywood
• 24:49
  Speaker 7: and is produced and directed by Jack Johnstone, who also
• 24:52
  Speaker 7: wrote today's story. Heard in our cast were Virginia, greg
• 24:56
  Speaker 7: byron Kin, Harry Bartel, Jack Edwards, Joe Kearns, and for
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: us Lewis. Be sure to join us next week, same
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  Speaker 7: time and station for another exciting story of Yours Truly,
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  Speaker 7: Johnny Dollar.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.
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  Speaker 8: the great detectives of old time Radio with Adam Graham
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: and now let's get back into the show.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Welcome back. I have to give Jack Johnstone credit. Too
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: often in the past, he's in it inexplicable policeman showing
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: up in the nick of time. This time he firmly
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: established that there'll be a policeman there, so that's all good.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I was taken in by the commercials the public service
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: announcement for South Dakota, particularly the reference to it as
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the Sunshine State, because I typically apply that to Florida,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but researching it, that was a big thing in South Dakota.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: How about nineteen ninety two when their flag changed to
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: reflect it as the Rushmore State. The state motto had
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: actually changed the Rushmore State in nineteen eighty three, but
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: the state flag lagged for several years. Actually, the flag
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: does give us a little bit of a clue as
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: to win. This program was rebroadcast because we know that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the original commercial broadcast of this episode of Johnny Dollar
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: was over CBS. But when was this broadcast the recording
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: we're listening to sent out over the Armed Forces Radio
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and Television Service, Well, it was sometime after nineteen sixty three.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Because the changes to the flag that they described occurred
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty three, and this may be another part
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of the reason of what makes Johnny Dollar so popular.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Is it finished airing in the US in the United
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: States on civilian radio in nineteen sixty two, but it
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: continued to air overseas on military installations through the Armed
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Forces Radio and Television Service for many years after that
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: into the even the nineteen seventies. But at any rate,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: we do turn to some listener comments and feedback. Have
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a comment from Rebecca who writes, I love the Johnny
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Dollar episodes. My seven year old listens to them with
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: me all the time. Well, it's great to be able
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to offer us program that people can listen to with
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: their children. Thanks so much for listening out there, Rebecca
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and child. And then we do have a comment from Donald,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: who writes, I listened to the second app extra from
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: August twenty thirteen last night. It was the story of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Basil Izzy, who floated in a raft for eighty three
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: days after being torpedoed in World War Two. I googled
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Basil Izzy and found a bridge dedication to him in
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: mate of this year. It takes quite a while for
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: some people to be recognized well, thanks so much. I'm
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: glad you enjoyed the app extra, Donald, And in one way,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I'm glad when I hear of something being dedicated to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a war World War two hero, even if they're no
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: longer around to enjoy it. It's a sign that people
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I still remember, and I think that one thing that
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: concerns me is just losing that history. I will say
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: that app extras were kind of part of my impetus
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and foundation of doing the war, because when I do
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the extras for the app and for the premium sit
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I generally will go out and pick out programs in
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: which the leak characters in our detective programs appear in
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: some other role. And I think long Clark appeared in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: that lawn Clark also appeared and Death Comes to Adolf Hitler,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: which was the only probably one of my favorite ghost stars,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: and I don't care for him much, but I could
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: definitely understand the appeal, particularly during World War Two. And
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: if you do enjoy World War Two stories, I do
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: encourage listeners check out The War the War dot Great
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Detectives dot net. It's two hundred and seventy six episodes
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of wartime programs. The News speeches, dramas, comedies, music, We
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: try and capture a little bit of everything. Was a
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: special limited series we ran from November of two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and thirteen to August of twenty fourteen so that people
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: can listen to and remember that great era. So I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: do encourage you. If you're interested in that era, or
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: if you have a kid you want to teach about
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: that era, check out the war dot Great Detectives dot net.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: All right, well, that will do it for today. Join
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  Speaker 1: us back here tomorrow for Dragnet and then next Friday
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: another episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. In the meantime,
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