The Midnight Sun Matter - Johnny Dollar | 05/25/1958 (Ep590)
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar was a radio drama which aired between 1949 and 1962. "The man with the action-packed expense account, America’s fabulous freelance insurance investigator, Johnny Dollar". Of the eight different actors who played Johnny Dollar, Bob Bailey is likely considered the most popular. Bailey's interpretation presented a tough, streetwise character, but also sensitive and thoughtful. During it's time, Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar attracted some of the best writers in Hollywood, including Jack Johnstone, E. Jack Neuman, Robert Ryf, and Les Crutchfield.
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Speaker 1: From Hollywood. It's time now for Johnny Dollar. Isn't Bill
Keadwick North Surety? Guny, Honey Bell Horrd. Things in Seattle?
Speaker 2: Not bad, Judy, not bad?
Speaker 1: You kill me? Have you have a fallen hostility? Yukon?
What are you trying to do? Tell me some mining stock? No,
but there's a mine. I'd like to have you take
a look at prop of the Yukon. Well, actually it's
across the border in Alaska. It's a gold mine, a
big one, sitting on top of a rich vein. Why
don't you fly on out here?
Speaker 3: Let me take you about.
Speaker 1: Why not? Shall I bring my own figure and shovel? No? No,
Johnny huh, just be sure you bring your gun.
Speaker 3: Bob Bailey and the Exciting Adventures of the Man with
the Action Pact expense of God America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator,
Yours truly, Johnny Dollar, No one of yours truly Johnny Dollar.
Expense accounts of ented by a special investigator Johnny Dollar
to the Northwest Shorety Company, Seattle, Washington office following us
the kound of expenses incurred during my investigation of the
Midnight Sun matter. I don't want one hundred and sixty
four to thirty five transportation in New York don a
mainlineer through Chicago Seattle. The pilot gave us a beautiful
view of Pond Ranier and Puget Sound before we sat down.
And at four pm I was in Bill Chadwick's office
at Second Avenue in Yes, their way.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see you, Johnny. It's been a long time. Hi. Yeah,
you sit out? Okay?
Speaker 3: How alw was that crack over the phone about bringing
along a gun?
Speaker 1: Hell?
Speaker 3: The men who moil for gold are a pretty tough punch, Johnny.
And sometimes it even goes for the management of a
big mining operation like what, for instance, like Universal Consolidated
Mining Corporation. Or is that it's north and east of Fairbanks, Alaska, Yes, even.
Speaker 1: North of fort Yukon. That means above the Arctic Circle.
And what's happened up there? The whole thing sits at
the foot of a big glacier.
Speaker 3: Ah, no problem until recently now, through some freak of nature,
that glacier is changing its course, no kidding.
Speaker 1: And from the look of things, maybe a couple of months,
maybe a couple of years, or even ten years.
Speaker 3: Anyhow, they seem to think that glacier is going to
sweep down over the mines, the town, everything I see,
in which case our company would have to pay for
the whole loss and all coverage policy. Huh yeah, And
it's occurred to me, Johnny, suppose they've suddenly run out
of that rich vein they found up there. I mean,
it's somehow they deliberately caused that glacier to destroy the
whole operation. It's a possibility, isn't it. Oh pretty far,
fretch one. If he's me change the course of a
glacier a few sticks.
Speaker 1: Of dynamite carefully play, I'll come off at Phil, Did
you ever see a glacier?
Speaker 4: Well, why should one that's been following this theme path
for thousands of years suddenly decided to head for a
few million dollars worth of well insured property?
Speaker 5: And look?
Speaker 1: Go up there and take a look, will you? Okay,
how do I get there? One of the company's.
Speaker 3: Planes is taking off from here tomorrow morning?
Speaker 1: They have their own airplane.
Speaker 3: Oh sure, a lot of them, big two engine speedcraft transports.
Speaker 1: How else do you think they get million supplies up there? Anyway?
You can go along with it? Okay, okay, why not.
Speaker 3: Who knows, Maybe I'll strike it rich come back a
load of with nuggets. I am two thirty one bucks
even for my room as a Benjamin Franklin and the
night on the town the following morning, Well, I suppose
I should have wondered why a big cargo plane should
take off from a tiny airport far out of the
town with only.
Speaker 1: The pilot and me on board. Yeah, I should have wondered.
Speaker 3: BacT two of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar in a moment,
and now.
Speaker 6: For another episode in the life of Sergeant Donald's Bellweather,
my husband.
Speaker 1: Good morning, missus Bellweather.
Speaker 5: Would my lady prefer to have her breakfast in bed
this morning?
Speaker 1: Oh? What a perfect husband.
Speaker 6: Thank you, darling.
Speaker 5: Ah, here's the play with the coffee, the toast and
the art. Oh fine, I forgot the orange juice, the
hold training.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back to what happened throwing the corner
of the pressure.
Speaker 6: All the National Safety cover was right, none of the
last night I read something in a National Safety Concil pamphlet.
Speaker 5: Oh, Rena, how can you sit there talking about a
tampler when I'm dying a slow torture as.
Speaker 1: Over here, Darling, I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: All right, Now, what's this about the National Safety Council?
Did they predict that would stubbed my toad this morning?
Speaker 6: There was definitely, It's just a coincidence. Only last night
I read the statistics that proved that more home accidents
occur in the bedroom. Of all places, em not the
bathroom with the kitchen or the home workshop. The bedroom.
Speaker 5: Okay, from from now on, when I walk around the bedroom,
I'm gonna wear my combat boots instead of these open
toad arches.
Speaker 6: Well, that might help you, but what everyone should be
most careful of is taking medicine in the darkness.
Speaker 5: Okay, my Living Safety Encyclopedia, I will now fetch your orange.
Speaker 1: Oh you're sweet.
Speaker 6: And it's just too bad that you knights men are
so prone to accidents in the home. And the reason
is because you brave men usually tackle the house at
the jobs around the house.
Speaker 5: Hey, I'll remember those kind words that I slowly limped
back to the k.
Speaker 6: One thing in your favor, though, sarge, Married men stand
a better chance of avoiding fatal accidents in the home.
Speaker 1: Is that a friend you know?
Speaker 6: In one state, seventy five percent of the men involved
in home mishaps were unmarried. Well, I'm sure glad I'm
married because the accident algeget.
Speaker 5: You know, because I like my wife even when she
first wakes up in the morning.
Speaker 3: That's my donald, that's my dog. Now Act two of yours, truly,
Johnny Dollar and the Midnight Sun met her. But then
a few minutes after I met him at the airport
part used to town. The next morning, Cliff Murray had
the big twin eche of feetcraft airborne and we were
head north.
Speaker 1: And in case you're injured, the Dollar, you're the cool
pilot on this run. Oh are you kidding?
Speaker 3: The only things I've stating around the skies as the
war have been piper cups small to us, you know
nothing when you get onto them. These babies are not
only just as easy to fly a whole lot of paper.
Speaker 1: I want to take over for a while. Well maybe later. Hey,
how come you didn't take this big chip off at
the Sattle to.
Speaker 3: Come International emport Because of the cargo we have on
board pass hope squicker and easier to get clearance. We're
trying to make time on this tip. Boys up the
minor pretty worried hunts these days.
Speaker 1: Oh why now does make glacier on one side of
the property.
Speaker 3: All flows down to make the Kanakai River when it
gets warm enough. A couple of months in the year
to melt, I saw, but there have been a couple
of big ice quakes this spring, just like earthquakes, only
its ice. Now that glaciers heading for the property, No kidding,
that's gonna wipe out the airport, everything, unless they can
do something about it, like what to hurt the course
of a glacier.
Speaker 1: The engineers up there say they can do it, and
we've got the stuff for them right here, this cargo
we're toting. What do you mean, quot didn't you know
no what? But we got enough TNT aboard. It was
a dozen glaciers.
Speaker 3: Speaking of sitting on a product jake, and this one
had wings. But then after the first shock of realization
wore off well. I even took up Cliffy on his
offer to handle controls for a while, and he was right.
A big plane behaved like a dog by the time
he reached anchorage to pick up mainland food, where I
was all set to make the landing myself. However, with
a cargo of TNT aboard, I was perfectly.
Speaker 1: Content to let Cliffs set her down. What you did, beautiful.
Then within the hour we headed north again over so
the wildless country of every state, beautiful old Johnny in
its own way.
Speaker 3: And I never realized there were so many lakes and
streams up in this country, Cliff.
Speaker 1: Most of them are low little fish too, get shirts.
Speaker 2: Oh what is it?
Speaker 1: I said? They just fishing in this man world? This
right down there blows. Now what's your language? Brother, I'll
have a stab on a choot. Leave you to make
the rest of the drip along a fixture. Man, Yeah,
you aren't kidding. That one of my favorite spots, right, Hey,
what's the marry? Nothing? Just a little twitch in my
side my belly, Doc.
Speaker 3: Said, was appenda side this last time, but he didn't
want to operate, Holy free because.
Speaker 1: It's a shark. Won't Cliff anything I can do? No,
it's coming now, I sure, hope, so sure. I just
came on kind of sudden. So Pete's time to call
up glads as the mind.
Speaker 3: To be ready for How big is the airport up there?
Eleven thousand footprint?
Speaker 1: Me? Really sure?
Speaker 3: The only way to get stuff in for minds one
hundred miles around Pete draft two three one Collin consolidated, go.
Speaker 1: Ahead, placed somebody on duty there at all times. Twenty
four We're over Fairbanks on the hour, Charley Roger clip
over Fairbanks.
Speaker 4: Fourteen dolls and roll.
Speaker 1: Out the carpet. We'll sit down between fourteen forty five
and fifty Roderick click, will be ready for it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's bad, and let's four johnnyick quick, Johnny, take
over shark.
Speaker 1: Never been this bad before.
Speaker 4: Now listen, No, you wisten well, no matter what happens,
take it, take it easy.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you exactly what you want. You can do it, Johnny,
you can do it now. Listen.
Speaker 3: Fact three, if yours truly Johnny Dollar, in a moment,
with your permission, there's something I'd like to talk about
for a minute. You know, too many times people try
to escape from their responsibilities by having.
Speaker 1: Someone else take them over. That was Milestone.
Speaker 3: For example, he was much too busy to ask Priscilla
to marry him, so he sent John Alden to pop
the question for him.
Speaker 1: You know what happened. John ended up marrying the girl himself.
Speaker 3: Of course, if John had had a face like a
flat tire instead of being the handsome guy he was.
Maybe Miles Standish would have married Priscilla instead. Well, actually,
I don't know what got me started on this subject,
and unless it was my thinking about people who represent
somebody else. Take our State Department, for example, being a
representative is one of his biggest jobs through the Foreign Service.
It helps the Justice and Treasury departments handle immigration, narcotic
and quarantine problems, and the Secretaries of Agriculture and Commerce
look to the Secretary of State to help keep their
fingers on the pulse of foreign markets so they can
keep the business firms and farmers of America informed on matters.
Speaker 1: Of import and exports.
Speaker 3: I guess the only connection between these facts and the
courtship of Miles stand issue is that, like John Olden,
our State Department speaks for itself and now at three
of yours, truly, Johnny Dollar and the Midnight Sun matter.
The rest of this report will have to come to
you from the records of the airport there at Universal
Consolidated Mining Corporation, far above the Arctic Circle, aboard the
big cargo planet, with TNT the pilot crippled with pain.
I was a little too busy to make notes discrible
any fancy dialogue. Here then is the story as recorded
at the power of the airport.
Speaker 7: The time.
Speaker 3: As the boss displaying to pick up his gone in
pradnant Jermy clip about two with two three one, and
you said he set down, I mean.
Speaker 1: Cramp there he was caly conlidated. Is that Cliff cramp? Shoot?
Every one probably consolidated. It doesn't sound like him, he Cliff.
Tell it to Johnny Dollar Dollar, Yeah, yeah, it's just
a passenger.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, Johnny, Look I had it take over for him.
Speaker 1: Hey, okay, you will give me whatever turg name right.
Speaker 4: Are you sure you can make it, Johnny Charny, Jenny Cliff,
Go ahead, Cliff, Johnny you'd make it.
Speaker 7: Well?
Speaker 4: What about that that cargo that TNT?
Speaker 2: Can you dump it right down a minute?
Speaker 1: Johnny control?
Speaker 4: Okay then Johnny will We'll give you all the help
we can from here. Hey, Charlie, have you passed the
Snake River marker in about foot minutes?
Speaker 1: Right? Thy? Okay?
Speaker 4: Now just remember your letdown is on a heading of
zero three five degrees from that marker.
Speaker 2: The A three five agrees for the Stake River marker.
Speaker 1: Roger and well not just take it easy. Journey we'll
get you down here.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, Charley.
Speaker 1: All it looks like we may have a problem on it.
Speaker 2: It and listen.
Speaker 3: If cles says Dollar can bring it down, he can.
Speaker 1: Just you take it easy when you talk with it, Shirley,
if you did an engineer down there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, sure, journey stand by, let's take it, Paul.
Speaker 1: Johnny, this is Paul Poster.
Speaker 4: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Oh we're having getting your landing here now. I'm I'm
gonna make you seep banks. I'm trying to get it
down by center goo four. Yeah, got you. You might
get in the crown for a stand by though. If
we can't get the gear down that way, I guess
we're gonna have to make a pairy landing gear up. Okay, Johnny,
I got that. How much fuel have you got on board? Johnny?
This is Charlie again.
Speaker 4: No, listen, Johnny, I saw you make your past. It
appears the landing gear doors partially open, which may indicate
it's jammed any cogestion?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 1: Paul again Johnny.
Speaker 3: The only thing I can think of is try to
snap the gear out by a sharp pull up to
give it to centrifugal force. All right, then, before we
consider you coming in for a belly landing with all
that TNT aboard. I'd like to use up some of
that fuel. Maybe some of our brains down here can
think of something that will help you out.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, we'll go ahead with the regular procedures. Then
where else we can think of it. Don't give you
a call? Okay, Johnny, time.
Speaker 2: Kill or do you want.
Speaker 3: Johnny?
Speaker 2: Johnny, this is Paul again.
Speaker 1: Have you tried to uh to shear the.
Speaker 3: Lock pin on that landing gear?
Speaker 1: Go ahead, No, we haven't tried that yet. Pete. I
want to make sure the doors were not jam personally
pulls the gear up again. You know what we do?
Speaker 2: Have to make a billy landing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Johnny, have you got full hydraulic pressure?
Speaker 1: Okay? Now the crew chief is not.
Speaker 3: Here at the moment, but I'll ask him to come up.
Speaker 1: And he can discustuate it. Johnny.
Speaker 3: If it does become necessary to make a belly landing
because of the setup they have for handling accidents, you
might be better off to do it as Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: If you thought about that.
Speaker 6: They want us to try it with.
Speaker 4: Well wheel radio Truman c.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, if anybody comes up with any idea, I'll we'll pass.
Speaker 1: It on to you right away.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, the time he is.
Speaker 1: You know, Johnny, John Wilkins, our.
Speaker 2: Chief engineer like to talk to you.
Speaker 1: I'll put him on the horn.
Speaker 2: Johnny, this is Don Wilcome.
Speaker 4: Have you tried the landing gear handle up and down
quite a few times.
Speaker 1: To see if it extends any further at any time? Times?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think I'd tried as many times as possible, Johnny.
Speaker 7: There could be something binding that made break loose.
Speaker 1: There's something on it there when it comes off, the
gear door latches all right, so it isn't the latch.
I'll try it a few more times. The time is.
Speaker 2: Free, Oh, com exactly, Johnny, This is Paul.
Speaker 1: How's your feel a situations? Backing up? Now? Anything?
Speaker 6: Well?
Speaker 3: For your information, Fairbanks have advised that they can't take
the airplane there because they're jams up and couldn't clear
the field in time.
Speaker 2: Look like.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Johnny is Don welcomes again?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 3: If you feather the number two engines and then just
as you unfeathered slammed the gear handled down, well maybe
the additional torsion.
Speaker 1: That you get made free the gear Okay, we've already
tried that. We came up negative night. I think we're
stuck with that belly landing. Johnny, This is Paul.
Speaker 3: We'll get everything ready for you.
Speaker 2: Are you being at part in this vicinity?
Speaker 1: You know under visual flight?
Speaker 2: Rolls yafirmative, Johnny.
Speaker 1: There's one more thing we'd like to.
Speaker 4: Have you try it, and that is completely unload your
hydraulic system and then try it keep holding your landing gear.
Speaker 1: Did you get that? I get that twice and then
no luck with it again? All right, Johnny? Fine, the
time is three twenty eight.
Speaker 3: Johnny, we're going ahead with preparations for a belly landing
down here. I see you buzz the field a couple
of times, so you know how much.
Speaker 2: Room you've got. Yeah, you look like you're up here
now now lesson, we're gonna on the runway for you.
Speaker 3: You let me put foam on it. We're joining it
down and I will kill some of the friction and
if we can get enough fun it will help against
fire if you have any trouble. Window there. It saws
about three miles an hour, just light, brave.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't done.
Speaker 1: Jesus think flight up at one side or the other. Right,
I do would have run down any of the other airplanes.
I can feet out of there if we can help it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Johnny, take the run directly over the runway and
get the feel of it. The time in.
Speaker 1: Thirty want Johnny.
Speaker 3: We don't want to see him in a position here
of telling you all your business. But I guess we've
got to try everything anyone can think of.
Speaker 2: Go ahead on this gear handled business up and down.
Speaker 3: Throw it in the up position, just leave it there
for a second and then slam it down. I'll leave
it down for old say, thirty second deck.
Speaker 1: You put it down and get that. We'll see, we'll
do that. We ain't to be.
Speaker 3: Giving you all this intelligence all the time, but if
anybody he gets an idea.
Speaker 1: We pass it on to you for what it's worth.
But you've got to be the judge the time here
three are you hick, Johnny? How's your fuel?
Speaker 7: Now? All right, they're laying poem on the runway like crazy,
But that poem is only gonna last about twenty five minutes. Now,
assuming they started laying the poem at thirty, you should
land not later than fifty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, OK, we're gonna.
Speaker 1: Make one a little bad. You take a look at everything. Okay, Roger,
I got your remarks the time here. Three do you want.
Speaker 5: Hi, Johnny?
Speaker 1: I I just wondered how you are and how things
look to you. Okay, you do take care of clip. Sure,
sure everything's ready for you. One comment.
Speaker 3: Listen, do not repeat, Do not settle the engines when
you set out.
Speaker 1: Okay, Johnny, Okay, time we're gonna make a pregnant the
wheels prior to the fin landing.
Speaker 3: Okay, Johnny, I won't be talking to you anymore. Paul
will take over on your.
Speaker 1: Approach and get you down. We have we're all set
for you when you arrived. Good luck. Yeah, okay?
Speaker 3: Three four, one minute forty eight seconds later we made
a wheels up landing. Cliff, the company doctor tells me
has happendect to me, was a complete success. I'm heart bitten.
Speaker 1: Bunch of miners. Did you say, listen, those boys.
Speaker 3: Up in that lonely out posted the thought of the
earth and as we're trying to pull something on your
insurance company or you should have seen how just one
good load of TNT put that glacier back in his course.
Yeher I hope the vein of gold never on top
of those boys expend to count total, including gifts for
the lads who really brought that plane down six hundred
dollars even yours, Julie, Johnny Dawe, yours truly Johnny Dollar
is sorrying Bob Dailey, a Rich Nathan Hollywood, and it's
produced and directed.
Speaker 1: By Jack Johnstone, who also wrote today's.
Speaker 3: Story Hergin Arcas where Gene Tatum, Frank Nelson, Bufal Course,
Barney Phillips, Harry Bartel and Port Lewis.
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