Yours Truly Johnny Dollar Radio
Johnny Dollar - The Berlin Matter AFRTS
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- Duration:
- 30m
- Broadcast on:
- 01 Jul 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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A couple of years ago, Harvey went to Berlin as consulting engineer for a machine to affirm. Six months ago, he upped his policy from 10 to 50,000. Good to have on his shoulders. Just left, huh? Also, he changed beneficiaries from his brother to a woman he married over there. Well, that's allowed, isn't it, Davey? Well, maybe, maybe not. Yesterday, we got a cable from Berlin, Police. Here, Sam Harvey is newly dead in the Rhineland. Well, Johnny? OK, Dave, you named it Berlin. How about taking a minute or so to talk about seals and fish that have some connection with the government of the United States? Now, that isn't as strange as it sounds. You take the matter of seals, for example. There are two types of seals that are the responsibility of the Secretary of State. First, there's the great seal of the United States, which is stamped on all official documents. The Secretary of State makes sure it's all of his own hand when it's needed. The other kind of seals he takes care of are the ones that swim in the ocean. They fit up to the Secretary to work out agreements with representatives of other countries and let them know how many seals can be caught in what is called international waters and when. The Secretary of State works out similar deals for the catching of fish and blobses because these agreements are actually treaties. Before they can be put into effect, they have to be approved by 2/3 of the Senate. As a matter of fact, any time our government wants to work out a deal with a foreign country on trade, mutual assistance, fish, seals, or lobsters, it's done by treaties. And all treaties are signed by the President. Though some of them aren't drawn up until after the Secretary of State has worked over the rough spot in order to pave the way for prompt ratification. So just remember, the Secretary of State is a mighty important wheel in the machinery of your United States government. [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Expense accounts submitted by special investigator Johnny Doddart to home office, Camden Life, and Fidelity Company Limited, Camden, New Jersey. The following is an accounting of expenditures during my investigation of the Berlin matter. Expense account item $1,546.73, airfare, and internationals to Berlin, via New York City. Item $2, $3.10, cab fare, temple harp airport, American zone to the Waldenstern Hotel. When I registered, sent my luggage to my room, then went on to the red granite pile called police headquarters under the Wilham structure. Here a sub lieutenant saw my credentials, listened to my story, and ushered me to the proper Oberle Lieutenant. [NON-ENGLISH SPEECH] I'm Johnny Doddart. When you wish to know the death of Sam Harvey, no? Everything you can tell me. So, well, Tuesday, the body of Air Harvey was found in the house, I guess. People he carried made possible his identification, and his being an American national therefore proper or properties were notified as well as proper information on proper forms as well as can I see these forms as we can. Of course. Here, as you see. Mm, thank you. Says here his body was found just north of Spandow. Where's Spandow, Lieutenant? Pretty soon. Oh, what would Sam Harvey be doing there? Please. Well, it says here, Sam was employed by conic machine tools, which it also says here is in the American zone. So I'd like to know, Lieutenant, if you have any idea what he was doing here. I better show you something. It's a missing piece, yeah. Good. Mapped for Berlin. French zone, British zone, American, Russian. Uh-huh. And here is Spandow on the harbor there, above it, north. French zone. So, my guess is your Sam Harvey died from there, and the French zone was thrown into the harbor of a river, which current carried him down to it here, to the harbor there, there he was found. But that's only a guess, one official. Official, if it would be written down, but it is not. Why do you make a guess like that, Lieutenant? You see, here, the suburb, here you go, and the French zone, this is practiced. What does that mean? Rough. Now, Sam Harvey is certainly not the first man to have dumped into the harbor river. Dump. Dump means murdered and pushed, Lieutenant. Murdered and pushed. OK, what else? You see, here, the file, positive identification, made by Paul Turner. Who is Paul Turner? That's when the pair Harvey, he claimed the bodies and buried it. Also, he took it upon himself to notify her Harvey's wife. Why does it say wife? No, there, but I recall that Turner said while Harvey was in Vienna, and that he would inform how to death of her husband. Now, I think that's real friendly, don't you? Please, never mind. Well, thanks, Lieutenant. Can I do something for you in return, a beer or something? [MUSIC PLAYING] Expense account item three, $0.90 for two rounds of brown beer with my newly found friend, Lieutenant Willie Meister, at the beer stuber across the street. Where I told him all I knew about Milwaukee and got in return a promise of continued cooperation. Expense account item four, $1.20, the number 15 tendon shots in the American zone, the address of Paul Turner. That's right, dollar, I identified him. Who killed him, Mr. Turner? No, now listen. Yeah? Don't get cagey with me and say who killed him and lean closer to me to see if I'm going to go to pieces. I don't even know he was killed. He was pushed into a river. Listen, there was a beer festival up in the French zone last week. Tag of a suburb, so you didn't figure it out. Sam got drunk and fell in the river, not pushed? That's the way I rated it. Did he ever say anything to you about all that insurance he carried? No, wouldn't. Tied a lot, huh? First, it was 10, and a while back, he up to 50. Thousands? That's right. Oh, she's worth it. Oh, Paul's wife? Worth every nickel on it. Which comes to a question? Well, you mean, where is she? I mean, where is she? She'll be here. Her husband's been dead for four days. Oh, she's in Vienna. I must take out of all the three hours flying time to get here from Vienna. Listen, dollar, I'm going to tell you something. Don't ask questions with raised eyebrows. Like everybody's lying or covering up. A guy named Sam Harvey died, and there's been a lot of tears on account of it. So gentle, you weigh around, and make the questions come out polite. You know, I'm going to try that. Good, good. What are you doing here, Berlin? I have a civilian job with the army, I interpret. Oh, how do you like it? Nice. See how we can get along, if we try? How come Paul's wife hasn't showed up for four days? Well, I have a wire here. Wait a minute. I'll read it to you. Well, the field has gone, arrived, Templehof Airport this evening, $18. Elsa. Let me see her. You're going to read German, Johnny? I know. Are you going to meet her? Right. She'll be glad to have you along, Johnny. It'll be nice. Fine. [MUSIC PLAYING] Expensive on item 5, $3.40, full tank of petrol for Paul Turner's Volkswagen. He had his hand trapped in his pants pocket. We had a little time before Elsa's plane landed at Templehof, so we rode around Berlin, a three zone. The fourth didn't encourage sightseers. At little before six, we got to Templehof. [MUSIC PLAYING] She's little ahead of schedule. Yeah. [MUSIC PLAYING] You'll know Mrs. Harvey when you're here? You know, you ask for light, but you don't listen for light, Johnny kid. I told you Sam's wife is worth every penny to 50 grand, you say he left you. Now, would I say a thing like that if I didn't know her when I saw him? Why do you haven't mentioned her? Before he married her, the three of us went around a bit in the end of them, then they married her. And Elsa stayed at me, and I haven't stayed at this six months. Why did she stay at it? Must be Elsa. She, black dress, heavy black veil, black gloves. Classy dresser that old. Yeah. Come on. [MUSIC PLAYING] Help us. [MUSIC PLAYING] Help. Is this? Paul Turner. Help, sir. Don't you remember? Oh, it's his sailors. So I will lift it. Oh, hello, Paul. It's been a long time since we were together. A long time. I'm sorry about that. Oh, you, my husband's close friend is Theo Francois. Now, Mrs. Harvey? Beat it? I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Johnny Dollar. Insurance investigator. Beat it? Insurance investigator means that I was sent here to investigate your husband's death for my company. Well, it means he's got $50,000 for you. So the person's got to ask. [INAUDIBLE] Mr. Gendriman speech. I'll have to ask you where you were when your husband died. In Vienna? Why did you live in Vienna, Mrs. Harvey, and your husband in Berlin? I have bought you Vienna. Work, I cannot leave. We go ahead with you, Commissioner. Sam had this breath here. We live there, as we wanted, and as we needed. Do you have to finish, Mr. Bello? Well, no, I'm not quite finished. Oh, please. You finished, Dollar. For now. Come on, Elsie. I'll get you through cut. [MUSIC PLAYING] Inspector, count item 6, $2.20. Cab, bear back to the vault and turn herself. Item 7, $1.50, suffer. Knockwurst and sour trout washed down with black bear, after which 10 hours sleep with no dream. [MUSIC PLAYING] Oh. [INAUDIBLE] [MUSIC PLAYING] [INAUDIBLE] Sir? Oh, yeah, yeah, this is Johnny Dollar. Good morning. Give it to your mind, sir. Oh, you're already willing. Goodbye, willing. Oh, do not speech me farewell, here, dollar. So? All right, Willie, you want a chat? Yeah, I would like you. However, this is official, or else I would apologize for awakening you. I have just received word from the police, the blinking saw. How about what? About a barge. A barge? Yes, a barge. The river barge bleeds well. On the harbor, they act. They touch and see a spell that spots out. You will cop. Wait a minute, Willie. I actually-- And if you don't care, we'll be outside your hotel. You will have ink, red, and cop. [MUSIC PLAYING] Here, here on the barge, dollar. Come here. Yeah, here, dollar. Well, only yesterday it was Willie and Johnny. What's happened? Here, sir, with the pilot's cabin. Here, dollar. Well, who is he? The man who is dead with a bullet in the name of his neck. Yeah, that one. Good postman, Captain Pilate of this barge. Observe what else, here, dollar. Why? On the death, under his arms, come to close with me. A letter, Sir Pilate's postman, has begun to write. It is of course in German. I will translate it. If you wish of them Harvey to know, come you to the barge. Now, I will move his arm. You see, through whom this letter is addressed. To me, to you, Johnny, dollar, what do you say to that? [MUSIC PLAYING] You know many great men have attained the highest office in our land, the presidency of the United States. Can you guess the name of this man? He was the second vice president to become president, the son of a poor family. He was indentured to a cloth maker as a president 15. And when he was 19, he bought his freedom for $30. As a congressman from New York in 1837, he opposed the entrance of Texas as a slave territory. During his administration, the country was strongly pro-slavery, and as a protest, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin. The anti-slavery group, in his party, strongly resented his signing a bill which penalized anyone who refused to return runaway slaves to their rightful owners. If you don't have his name by now, here's one more clue. His administration saw California's entrance into the union. Who was he? Millard Fillmore, 13th president of the United States. His life is part of your American heritage. [MUSIC PLAYING] And now, with our star, John Lund, we bring you the second act of yours truly Johnny Dollar. [MUSIC PLAYING] A dollar since you have arrived, you have talked with people, with me, with Paul Turner, and a temple of eardrums with a widow. What words did you speak to them, Johnny Dollar, that makes this man dead? Read it this way, Willie. I'm on a job, insurance investigation. I, to the dying of Sam Harvey-- Into the murder of Sam Harvey. $50,000 worth. So perhaps you have discovered the thing which I too should know of the death of Sam Harvey, which will explain this death, if that is so, then tell me. So far, I've found nothing. Nothing you don't know already, not one thing. Please. I tell you, I believe. I believe you. Well, you got away with you, Willie. She and the Duncan. You want to tell me things now? Happily, I do. There's Kurt Housman, who is he? Pilot of a river barge. What else? East, petty, also grand. What else? Before he grew out of it, the black market here. And after that, what? Smugler, on west to the east zone, also vice versa. The rich. And still, you let him get a-- please. Go ahead. Kurt Housman, besides what he was, was also an eel. You understand, a slippery eel, many times arrested, many times released, insufficient evidence and eel. And he's murdered on the Harvard River and found its foundow near the here, the French zone, where also was formed the body of Sam Harvey. You fare clean. Forgive me. Near the French zone, we're also was found the body of Sam Harvey. And he begins a letter to me saying, if I want to know about Sam Harvey-- Which will become an exhibit on the official file, which figures he knew something about Harvey's death. I would say so. When someone stopped him from getting the letter to me. I would say so. And that's all? No. Who to the friend, a beloved friend, where I marry Fuller? She came with a troop four years ago to entertain your occupation forces. She entertained them, then they left. She stayed. Until then, Lyndon was what she wanted. She says, where do I find her? Where do we find her? Yeah, you and me. Where? As real and all. There's a carnival there. A carnival? Yeah, Vex works, the hula dancers, night floors, where I marry, stands in front, and thickens so. Oh, we just better see this frow line, Willie. Yeah, after the ambulance has taken away the body of her house man. [MUSIC PLAYING] Yeah, there she is. [MUSIC PLAYING] There she is. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, you're going to go through right inside. We've got to make trouble, and we've got to-- Now, here's a Yankee doodle, if I ever saw one. And Andy. Hi, Andy. And look who you've got to be with. Red eye. Go away, Willie. I'm running a living. It is necessary to talk to you, Fred eye. You too. It'll be my pleasure. Duh. Something else happens, Fred eye, of course. What about him? He is dead. Fred eye, I'm sorry, sometimes it becomes necessary to me. There's a bench over there. He's a bomb, you know that, don't you? Sure, you know that. Fred eye, please, it's all right. Thank you, Willie. How did Kirk die, Willie? I have bullets in the back of the neck. Charles, will he die? He was writing a letter to me when he was shot. Oh. Why would he be doing a thing like that, Mary? Who are you? Johnny Dolly. I'm an insurance investigator. Why? I mean, why? Why are you here now talking to me in front of a tourist trap? And with Willie here, what's happening? Just take it easy. That's the latest word. Just take it easy. All right, OK. Brave smile. How is it? Fine. Great. Bestions for that eye. Whenever you're ready. Do you know who killed Kirk for an eye? No. Well, nine, five days ago, an American by the name of Sam Harvey was found in the harbor there. Brown. Did you know him? Oh, Sam? Oh, Sam Harvey? What about him? He was a thief. How? The barge on the river. Kirk's barge? Sam owned it with Kirk. Anything illegal, it could be done on the river. Smuggling black market, name it. Anything, some pots, them and up the canals all the way to Hamburg. It was illegal and could be carried by barge. My kids and good old Sam Harvey. I thought Sam was a machine tool engineer. Only when the barge business was slow. Did you know his wife? Practically. What does that mean? I was a shopper. Sam would give me money and say, bye for Elsa. Present. Silk stuff they make over in the French zone. Weathers in the British zone. Lots of these ceramic earrings. Do you like I'm wearing? Yeah, real nice. Just make them prepare steers. Sam showed a pair of them to Kirk. And Kirk made me piss my ears so I could wear them too. Yeah. Sam had got me to buy sweaters and woolens for her. Buy them and send them to her. To Vienna. Sure. One more thing. You know a lad named Paul Turner? No. You want me anymore, Willie? Thanks. Hey, my hair, for all I know. Come on in, now, come on in. We're going to speak now. We're going to speak now. I asked Willie to drop me off at Paul Turner's in the American zone. There, I asked Turner the address of Sam's widow, Elsa Harvey. He sent me to the Tiroil Hotel where on the third floor rear, Elsa opened the door to me. What do you wish here? To make an apology, Mrs. Harvey. Consider, you have done so. Good day, help, Anna. And to do another thing. To give you the papers you'll need to sign, so you can get that 50,000 insurance of your husband. Come in. Just send to me. Sure. Take your time about it, Mrs. Harvey. Read them over. I'll wait till you're finished. A messenger will bring them to you. Yeah, sure he will. Mrs. Harvey. Yes. You're a very beautiful woman. Thank you. Very beautiful. You always wear your hair like that. Long, falling to your shoulders. Do me a favor. Who, that? Put your hair up for me. Good night. I don't understand you. Oh, please. Let's see how you look. I've been wondering. Yeah. Yeah, like that. What's going on? Well, I've already said it. You're a very beautiful woman. You must go. Sure. Be today. Happy to sing hair, darling. [SIREN WAILING] Expense account item 8, $1.30. Cabs there to the small carnival in Zaylandorf. And a girl who stood there and dared people to come in. To ask her for an address, I guess she must know. She'd sent so many presents to it. Expense account item 9, $63.95 airfare and incidentals to Vienna. Expense account item 10, Cabs there, $1 even, to a red brick apartment building five stories high and a block square. How, Harvey? That's right. Mrs. Harvey is fit. When? Yesterday morning, early. Listen, did she get a wire from Berlin last Tuesday? Yeah, yes, she did. But of course, she could not wait it. I gave it to the other lady. What other lady? Her friend, who lived across the halls, who was kind to her and took care of her, who paid for her funeral. And who moved out right after it was over? Yes, but how did you know? [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Yeah? Oh, the widow, Harvey inside, Paul? Uh-huh. You answer a door for her now? Mm-hmm. So I have to get past you to speak to her, huh? Elsa? Yes, I am. It's Johnny Dollar. Good. Come on in. Hello, Harvey. Yeah, I'm just able to tell, dollar. I have signed him. Oh, fine. Thank you. What are you doing? Staring paper. You gone crazy, dollar. No, no. I always tear up policies this way, Paul. What is the meaning of this? What's your real name? My name. Cut it out, honey. This dollar is no slob. How much do you know, dollar? All of it. For instance. Well, I just got in from Vienna. A girl died there. Sam Harvey's wife. Mm-hmm. They, I told you, he wasn't any slob, honey. She was sick. Then she died. Her husband died. Why shouldn't I have the money in the policy? I took care of her, and-- That's not legal. That's all, honey. How could he know, Paul? How could he possibly know this? By a stupid little slip. Earrings for pure tears. Like Sam's wife had, and like you don't. Which made me go to Vienna to make sure. And I did, and I'm sure. OK, dollar. OK, what? You tore up the policy. Blow. Paul, you knew this girl was a phony right away at the airport. But you went along with her. I asked myself, why? He got an answer? You're trying to hide something, too. Murder? Yes, something's got to give, darling. Sam's murder? Carl? You know what you know, and I know what I know. One of us has got to go. Kill Sam because you want it in on the barge business. The smuggling, the black market. But Carl, why Carl, Paul? Why did you kill him? He didn't want me in. So bad, he didn't want me, and he threatened to get to you. He almost did. You almost got out of Germany, darling. But now I don't-- No! [INAUDIBLE] Mr. Della? Yeah? I heard no one. I took care of her when she was sick. Even when she died, I paid to bury her. I took a chance, and I lost Mr. Della. Who can't say I harmed anyone? And in Vienna, it's not very pleasant. Oh, please. It's not for me to say, for another fellow. Name of Willie. Nice man. Very nice. [MUSIC PLAYING] Expense account item 11, $67.70. Hotel, Bell, and Incinatal's while in Berlin and Vienna. Expense account total, $693.00 and $3.00. Cheers, Julie. Johnny Dollar. [MUSIC PLAYING] Yours truly, Johnny Dollar stars John Lund in the title role and was written by Morton Fine and David Frieden with music by Eddie Dunstetter. Featured in tonight's cast were Benny Rubin, Edgar Berrier, Jerry Gaylord, Hal March, and Virginia Gray. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, is produced and directed by Jaime Del Vai. This is Charles Wyam. Inviting you to join us again next week at the same time, one from Hollywood, John Lund returns as Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. [MUSIC PLAYING] Hey there, listeners. Are you ready to unlock a world of captivating stories, soothing sounds, and enlightening lectures? That's all good media. We believe in the power of audio to enrich your life. And now, we're offering you a chance to experience it all for free. 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