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Well, now let's get into 10 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:18,680 this week's episode of Dangerous Assignment. The original air date January twenty first, 11 00:01:18,799 --> 00:01:37,079 nineteen fifty three, and the title is Leak of Strategic Materials Dangerous Assignment. 12 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:59,239 Transcribers Dying Brian donas Deve myjo. Yeah, Introo is my assignment. I 13 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:00,840 get sent to a lot of places I can't even pronounce. They all spell 14 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:05,120 the same thing, though trouble, But when I walk into the Commissioner's office, 15 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,439 I don't realize that this assignment's going to prove that you can sometimes pook 16 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:20,120 the biggest fish of all right in the middle of a freight train. Morning, 17 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,400 Commissioner, you sent for me, Steve. Ever been on the road 18 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:24,439 to Mandalay? Oh many times? Vocally? That is used to be the 19 00:02:24,439 --> 00:02:29,680 theme song of our jolly fellows clam digging and marching society. Well, this 20 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,919 time you're actually going to travel that road, Steve, on your way to 21 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:36,599 meet an American newspaper man named Forrest. What's it all about, Commissioner. 22 00:02:36,639 --> 00:02:39,639 Lately we've been concerned over the leak of strategic materials and equipment from the US. 23 00:02:39,879 --> 00:02:45,439 Materials originally intended for our allies in Indo, China Malaya. You mean 24 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:49,159 some of that shipman isn't getting there right, It's winding up in Burma then 25 00:02:49,199 --> 00:02:52,080 being shipped on through the back door of China. So, oh, how 26 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,639 does this newspaperman fit into the picture? Chris Forrester and knows the Orient been 27 00:02:54,719 --> 00:02:58,960 there for years as many contexts. He got in touch with us last night, 28 00:02:59,039 --> 00:03:01,159 so he had certain infant which might help us plug up that leak of 29 00:03:01,159 --> 00:03:05,000 supply. Okay, commission get over that, Steve. Talk with faster, 30 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:07,800 get to the organization behind all this and smash it. That's it, You've 31 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:28,280 got your assignment. Good luck. A National Broadcasting Company is presenting Dangerous Assignment, 32 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:31,240 starring Brian don Levy and the role of Steve Mitchell, colorful two fisted 33 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,520 government agent. At all those places of the world where danger and intrigue walk 34 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,039 hand in hand. There you will find Steve Mitchell on another dangerous assignment. 35 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,960 One of the most important functions of a radio network is the quick dissemination of 36 00:03:46,039 --> 00:03:50,400 news. When you listen to the NBC Radio network, you can depend upon 37 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:54,800 expert news reporters, analysts and commentators to bring you all the important news whenever 38 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:00,159 and wherever it happens. And you can depend upon NBC for full of all 39 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:05,400 major news events. Yes, at home and overseas. MBC employees reporters in 40 00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:11,080 all of the important news making cities of the world, and via the worldwide 41 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,839 facilities of major news gathering agencies, NBC can give you important news splashes as 42 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:20,920 soon as they're received. So when you want the best radio news coverage, 43 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:33,199 be sure to set your radio dial to this MBC station. Cheer, I've 44 00:04:33,199 --> 00:04:36,360 got my assignment. Hit the road to mand Lay check with a foreign correspondent 45 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:40,839 there named Chris Forrester, and hope the information he has will help us plug 46 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:45,519 up the leak of strategic US materials and the equipment. It's late Friday evening 47 00:04:45,560 --> 00:04:48,360 when my plane settles down and Rangoon. I checked the hotel Blair, but 48 00:04:48,399 --> 00:04:54,120 Forester hasn't arrived. Seems the late train from Mandalay is overdue. I head 49 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,319 for the depot and that's when I spot the gent in the white suit tailing 50 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,879 me, the same gent who is standing at the hotel desk when I asked 51 00:05:00,879 --> 00:05:04,279 about Forrester. I try a fast maneuver to shake him, clever ruse number 52 00:05:04,319 --> 00:05:09,680 thirty seven B, and it works. I wind up on the main drag 53 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:14,800 again and hale an approaching cab, and as I opened the door, I 54 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:17,160 realized, clever Ruse number thirty seven D isn't so clever. The gentle in 55 00:05:17,199 --> 00:05:19,600 the white suit is sitting in the back seat of the cab, and somehow 56 00:05:19,639 --> 00:05:23,759 I feel it wouldn't be smart to turn down his invitation. Do you get 57 00:05:23,759 --> 00:05:28,639 in, mister Mitchell? Okay, buster pretty fast on your feet, aren't 58 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:33,360 you, I think so? Or a driver ah, I'd like to have 59 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,240 a little talk, could you, mister Mitchell. Friendly talk, But of 60 00:05:36,319 --> 00:05:40,480 course I might believe it if you took that hand of yours out of your 61 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:44,199 coat pocket. Well that's what you want with Chris Forrester, you may only 62 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,240 I don't think you're going to get an answer in that case. Your identification 63 00:05:47,439 --> 00:05:53,240 papers please come come, mister Mitchell. Uh, here you are, thank 64 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,759 you. Oh I see my apologies, mister Michell. What's this all about? 65 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,879 You'd better have a look at my credentials. Yeah, Ben Grayson, 66 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:09,480 Chief Investigators, South East India Insurance Company, Melbourne. You see, mister 67 00:06:09,519 --> 00:06:13,199 Mitchell, my company is interested in for us to too the work he's doing. 68 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:15,199 We wouldn't want anything to happen to him. We're counting on in for 69 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,000 some very valuable information. Oh then we're willing to pay for it. Matter 70 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:21,879 of fact, I'll have a check in my pocket for him two thousand pounds 71 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:27,759 small bonus. And this information is in regard to why jacking of freight insured 72 00:06:27,759 --> 00:06:30,160 by our company. We handle a good many firms in this area, mister 73 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:33,199 Mitchell, and the company is taking an awful bleating in the past six months. 74 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,399 The buses have been on my neck wanting me to do something about the 75 00:06:36,399 --> 00:06:40,800 situation. A job hanging by a thread. No, no, no, 76 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:43,639 not exactly. But he does make a chap look bad, isn't it? 77 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,319 Oh, I've had some. I've picked up a few operators, small Frye, 78 00:06:46,319 --> 00:06:49,079 Bush League, Pirates and the like. Horrist it seems to be on 79 00:06:49,079 --> 00:06:53,600 the right trail. Now he's after the big wheel, probably behind a gigantic 80 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,879 organization operating in the area. That's why I'm here, Grayson. Well, 81 00:06:56,879 --> 00:07:09,319 as I say, I'm glad to have you bought. Ten minutes later, 82 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:12,879 we pull up at the railroad station. While Grayson goes off to inquire about 83 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,199 Farmer's train, I take a quick stroll around the depot. It seems to 84 00:07:16,199 --> 00:07:18,959 be an awful lot of activity about for this time of night. A lot 85 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,560 of people milling around, workmen mostly, and two platoons of government troops are 86 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:29,199 headed along the loading platform. I watch as they pile aboard the waiting train. 87 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:32,800 See, yes, what is the table? Plenty of it? And 88 00:07:32,839 --> 00:07:35,279 I trained remain delight. One for us to was on. What about it? 89 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,000 Gerrilla attack at thirty miles out of same town? Derived it? What 90 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:43,000 rubbed the passengers in the fields and dead? Oh? Great? Before didn't 91 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,920 say who they were. Do you think one of them could be Forester? 92 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:48,560 Let's find out this. I take it as the relief train, Yes, 93 00:07:48,720 --> 00:08:00,680 leaving in a few minutes. Okay, let's latch on gras Ire aboard. 94 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:03,399 As the relief train pulls out of the depot, picks up speed, and 95 00:08:03,519 --> 00:08:09,000 rolls northward on the mand lay. Hours later, we watched the dawn come 96 00:08:09,079 --> 00:08:13,720 up, not like thunder but quietly hot, sticky, And then finally we 97 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,920 arrive at the scene of the wreck. The locomotive, looking like a wounded 98 00:08:16,959 --> 00:08:20,720 bull elephant, lies sprawled across the tracks. Behind the two passenger cars form 99 00:08:20,759 --> 00:08:26,680 a neat pyramid. First we checked the cashuliers. Two of them are natives, 100 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:30,439 the third is the engineer. Gracing and I split up start checking the 101 00:08:30,439 --> 00:08:33,159 passengers lined up on both sides of the train. Now sign a Forester. 102 00:08:33,639 --> 00:08:37,759 No one seems to remember him, that is until I reach a short, 103 00:08:37,799 --> 00:08:43,679 heavy set gent sporting an expensive though badly wrinkled tan Gaberdine suit American champion side 104 00:08:43,879 --> 00:08:46,919 tall gray about the temples. Oh yes, yes, yes, we were 105 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:50,360 in the same cars. I spoke with him briefly. When did you see 106 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,159 him last? Some time ago? Before the attack, that is, I 107 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:58,840 gotten a small conversation with him regarding bicycles. I represent the Birmingham Thunderboat. 108 00:08:58,879 --> 00:09:01,080 It's an excellent wheels, a stout little machine. All that. I am 109 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:07,120 sure, thanks boy. One moment, sir, Oh Tarva, would you 110 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,240 pop over a moment please, that she might be able to help you. 111 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:13,279 Sir, she's a lovely girl. Oh, lovely and from Singapore. I 112 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,879 don't know what she does, but what he RETI is doing? Well? 113 00:09:18,039 --> 00:09:20,799 Yes, what is it? Mister perrym my dear, this gentleman. I 114 00:09:20,799 --> 00:09:24,159 didn't get the name, Sir, Steve Mitchell Tarva. Mister Mitchell, my 115 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:28,919 name is Perryman amos J. How do you do mister Mitchell? He's looking 116 00:09:28,919 --> 00:09:31,159 for a chat friend of his. Forester, Oh, yes, the newspaper 117 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,000 right here. Yeah, you were with him when the guerrillas attacked the train. 118 00:09:35,279 --> 00:09:37,879 Yes, we heard shots and then the train stopped. Suddenly there was 119 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,840 great confusion, Forester. What happened to him? I don't know. In 120 00:09:41,919 --> 00:09:46,080 all the excitement, he just vanished. He could have gotten off the train, 121 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:48,879 you think, yes, I thought of doing the same, started to 122 00:09:50,519 --> 00:09:54,200 but the rebels suddenly appeared and forced us to remain in the car. Ghastly 123 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,039 lot. They were I know a smattering of the Karen dialect. I managed 124 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:01,679 to catch part of their conversation. I got the impasion they were looking for 125 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:13,879 someone in Hard Kong. Yeah, could be mister Harryman, could be Thanks, 126 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:20,279 Hey, like I see Grayson. Hey, I've been looking for you. 127 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:20,799 Oh, I haven't had a bit of luck. How about you. 128 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:24,320 I've been talking with a couple of passengers who were in forced his car. 129 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,440 I've got a hunch he skipped out. What Yeah, I think he figured 130 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,240 it with something more than just the raid to grab supplies. That the gorillas 131 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:35,519 were after him too. Now, assuming it fun as the ductor office train, 132 00:10:35,759 --> 00:10:37,879 he's probably out there somewhere, hiding in the jungle, or if the 133 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:50,600 village nearby, he might be headed for it. Let's find out. We 134 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:52,879 do some fast checking. We find out there is a village not too far 135 00:10:52,919 --> 00:10:56,080 away. We also find a native who lead me through the jungle to it. 136 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:58,679 Grayson stays on at the scene of the train wreck. In the event 137 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:05,080 that Orrester Double's back, I follow my native guide into the jungle. We 138 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:11,559 don't get very far before we run into someone else on the trail good money. 139 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:18,600 You lost lost? No, no, I was your style for a 140 00:11:18,639 --> 00:11:22,759 stroll. I understand it will be quite some time before the train is ready 141 00:11:22,799 --> 00:11:24,840 to take us on to go. That's right, you were one of the 142 00:11:24,879 --> 00:11:31,120 passengers. Yeah, my name is Hairstyle, August Hairstarted. I was about 143 00:11:31,159 --> 00:11:33,759 to return to the trail. Shall we go back together? No, my 144 00:11:33,879 --> 00:11:37,320 friend and I have pushed on a little further. We're the caution, gentlemen, 145 00:11:37,639 --> 00:11:41,360 do not venture too far. The jungle is treacherous. Thanks for the 146 00:11:41,399 --> 00:11:54,679 advisors. Doll will be careful. With a slight dove from the waist turs 147 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:58,360 Doll turns, walks down the trail and disappears from you. The guide and 148 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:03,200 I mush on the jungle slicker and the going rougher. Finally I call a 149 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:07,879 halt. I think there's somebody else on the trail. You keep going straight 150 00:12:07,879 --> 00:12:11,320 ahead and make some noise about it. I'll wait here. Okay, you 151 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:18,799 bus. I ease off the trail and wait. I can hear the guide 152 00:12:18,879 --> 00:12:22,360 moving up ahead in the jungle, and then it's quiet. Five minutes go 153 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,960 by, ten nothing happens. I slip out of my hiding place and take 154 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,279 off after the guide. I find him about two hundred yards down the trail. 155 00:12:31,159 --> 00:12:35,559 He's dangling from the branch of a tree with a noose of vines around 156 00:12:35,600 --> 00:12:50,919 his neck. Steve Mitchell will continue his dangerous assignment in just a moment. 157 00:12:52,799 --> 00:12:56,080 Throughout our nation, driving conditions are dangerous and every motorists should revise his driving 158 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:01,039 habits to conform to winter's rain, snow, and slippery high while the National 159 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:05,799 Safety Council warns that winter driving conditions present more hazards than at any other time 160 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:09,679 of the year. Too many times when roads are wet and slippery, the 161 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:15,279 posted speed limits are not the safe speed limits, So remember the safe speed 162 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:20,720 for your driving is the speed that matches road conditions. America's professional truck drivers, 163 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:22,960 the men who drive for a living, are taught that now more than 164 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,240 ever, they must drive ahead of themselves. By watching the changing road and 165 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:31,159 traffic conditions on the highway ahead, you can avoid accidents before they happen. 166 00:13:31,799 --> 00:13:35,039 When you see an accident threaten on the road ahead, you'll have time to 167 00:13:35,159 --> 00:13:41,320 keep it from happening. Remember the current campaign against speed, the number one 168 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:45,320 killer on the highways. Drive as slowly as the road conditions demand, and 169 00:13:45,399 --> 00:13:48,919 you will be doing your part. In this campaign, and remember the life 170 00:13:48,960 --> 00:14:03,879 you save may be your own. Now back to Dangerous Assignment and Brian Don 171 00:14:03,960 --> 00:14:13,879 Lavelle Steve Mitchell. I cut the guide's body down from the noose of vines 172 00:14:13,879 --> 00:14:16,679 and bend over him. As it turns out, I bend just in time, 173 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:20,679 this slug whistles over my back. I dive into the brush and hug 174 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,840 the ground. There's no sign of the sniper anywhere, and that's just the 175 00:14:24,840 --> 00:14:28,679 way I want to keep it. I circle on all fours towards the trail, 176 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:31,600 finally reach it and take off in the direction the guide had told me 177 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:35,559 the village was. Half an hour later I reached the river. I start 178 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,720 along the bank and then I spot somebody kneeling by the edge. I ease 179 00:14:39,919 --> 00:14:46,039 up quietly. Oh, sorry to startle you. I wasn't sure who it 180 00:14:46,159 --> 00:14:52,320 was doing the weekly washing. Yes, look, miss, maybe you can 181 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,960 help me Ian. Have you seen a tall American around here lately? His 182 00:14:56,120 --> 00:15:00,919 name is Forrester. No, there has been no American. Some gorillas passed 183 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:05,039 by here, gorillas how long ago? Only a short great which waves the 184 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:13,559 village from here that way. Okay, I'll what is it? Nothing? 185 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:26,720 Thanks for the information. I walk out of her sight. Then I stop. 186 00:15:26,799 --> 00:15:31,759 Anan has given me more information than she realizes. In her pile of 187 00:15:31,919 --> 00:15:35,279 washing, I spot the cup of a man's white shirt and it doesn't look 188 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,720 like the native type. I wait. Pretty soon she comes along the trail, 189 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,120 looking back to see if she's followed. I keep in the brush on 190 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,120 one side of the trail and stay with her. She leads me to a 191 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:50,000 hot half hidden in the underbrush and disappears inside. I pop in after a 192 00:15:50,159 --> 00:15:54,039 tall blonde guy is stretched out on a mat and he sits up fast. 193 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:56,240 Hey who are you? Steve Mitchell? The guy who was supposed to meet 194 00:15:56,279 --> 00:16:00,759 you? Here are my credentials forrest? Oh brother, I glad to see 195 00:16:00,799 --> 00:16:03,200 you. How'd you find me? Spotted your shirt and the girls washing and 196 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,559 she was too tired to get the blood out of a shoulder wound. Yeah, 197 00:16:07,679 --> 00:16:11,159 it's not bad from the gorillas. Uh huh. They jumped the train. 198 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:14,360 They followed me, but the girl here hid me and patched me up 199 00:16:14,639 --> 00:16:17,000 because she thought you were after me too. Oh, I did not know 200 00:16:17,039 --> 00:16:21,320 who you were, sure orister. Those people who got friendly with you on 201 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,320 the train, Paaramount and the girl Tava. I figured either one of them 202 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:27,320 could have been planted there to put the finger on you for the gorillas, 203 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:32,080 or it might have been hers doll who I ran into him in the jungle 204 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:34,000 near the train. Said he was one of the passengers out for a walk. 205 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,279 Remember meeting him on the train. Oh well, one thing, sure, 206 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,840 We've got to get you out of here and back to the train fast. 207 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,639 In the village, one of the men had a small boat. I 208 00:16:44,639 --> 00:16:47,679 will go and talk to him. I'm certain you will help. We head 209 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:49,720 down the river away and then double over to the train. Huh, yes, 210 00:16:51,519 --> 00:16:53,440 you remember the place at the river where I was washing clothes. Mister 211 00:16:53,519 --> 00:17:07,559 Mitchell, wait for me. There there's the spot I need wants us to 212 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,480 wait for us. Good didn't come any too soon. Just in case we 213 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:15,279 get separated. You'd better give me what information you have on this hijacking record 214 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:19,480 right now. The head man is a guy the natives call Lokai, but 215 00:17:19,559 --> 00:17:22,960 he's a white man. And you know who Lokai is. Three nights ago 216 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:26,720 I got a quick glimpse of him, and Mandolay had a payoff. They 217 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:29,599 spotted me and I had to get away fast, but I'd recognize him if 218 00:17:29,599 --> 00:17:32,119 I ever saw him again. No, wonder he's trying his best to have 219 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,440 you knocked off. How does the racket work? Now? The hijack supplies 220 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,599 and munitions are recreated and reshipped a dummy address seas on the West coast and 221 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,359 sailed across Bermitda Mandalay and then flown by charted plain into China. He has 222 00:17:45,400 --> 00:17:48,559 no trouble with the local rebels because he pays them off and they leave his 223 00:17:48,599 --> 00:17:51,799 ship and saloon. Sounds like that to take a lot of dough. Loki 224 00:17:51,799 --> 00:17:55,799 doesn't use money, pays them off in food stuffs that the turn causes a 225 00:17:55,799 --> 00:17:57,559 food shortage in the big cities, and then he runs a black market. 226 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,319 He works Allly Goes, doesn't he sure? For instance, two weeks ago, 227 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:06,200 when the rebels blew up the water pipes with supply Rangoon Low Gui's boys 228 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,200 moved in Fasten did a big business selling water at ten cents a buck. 229 00:18:08,319 --> 00:18:11,680 This is one sweet guy. We're talking about her. Well, at least 230 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,640 when we get back to the relief train. You can trade your information for 231 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:19,720 two thousand pounds. That insurance investigator Grayson, Yeah, I talked to him 232 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:22,960 a couple of times last week in Mandalay. Guess he's on a spot with 233 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:26,640 his company until his thing's cleared up. And I can sure you used the 234 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:33,960 though hold it on the river just coming around the bend a small boat. 235 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:38,519 It's on aina going men's clothes. Yeah, so it is. I wonder 236 00:18:38,559 --> 00:18:45,640 what happened to the boatman the next plus attack can come to the back. 237 00:18:45,920 --> 00:18:52,839 Okay, let's go. Yeah, where's the boatman on en? He was 238 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:56,319 sick, so he told me to take the boat. I see here. 239 00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:02,039 Of course, I'll give you a handleboard, all right, fash, Okay, 240 00:19:03,240 --> 00:19:07,880 you had better get under the top of than near the boat right stand 241 00:19:07,880 --> 00:19:15,119 to cover. There are many grillas in the area right well, the light 242 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:21,359 we can see out of this torn place forrester. Yeah, she sure seem 243 00:19:21,400 --> 00:19:25,039 as co operative. Yeah, maybe a little too much. So if the 244 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:26,759 price on your head is as high as I think it is, she may 245 00:19:26,759 --> 00:19:30,440 be trying to collect it herself. Yeah. Maybe by taking us to the 246 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,000 local gorilla chief. Twe co just the same. I figured we'd better play 247 00:19:34,039 --> 00:19:37,440 along to the time being. This boat's are the best chance of getting out 248 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:42,680 of here. Yeah. They get down boat over there near the other side 249 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:51,799 of the bank. Three natives and the gorillas have I loved that. What 250 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,680 oh? Right? Do you understand any of it enough to tell me who 251 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:59,480 our friend on e is? Oh? I told you the local gorilla chief 252 00:19:59,519 --> 00:20:04,000 was twe Well, she's his sister. What well? And other boats out 253 00:20:04,039 --> 00:20:07,599 of sight. Let's get out of here, Steve, up ahead that native 254 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:11,920 bridge across the river. Yeah, three guys perched up there with tommy guns 255 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,960 and those boats on the bank. I think we're being taken to gorilla headquarters. 256 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:19,759 Yeah, it looks like we've drifted right into a nice little trap. 257 00:20:19,839 --> 00:20:22,759 I start to crawl out from under the top so I can grab the helm, 258 00:20:22,799 --> 00:20:26,440 But just as I stick my head out, something very hard gets me 259 00:20:26,519 --> 00:20:41,599 over the ear and I pulled Steve. Steve, okay, oh forested? 260 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,599 Hey? Where are we safely down the stream almost to the place where we 261 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:48,599 get off? Hey, what happened the last I remember? You got hit 262 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,039 on the head. I mean you better fill him in. I saw you 263 00:20:52,079 --> 00:20:55,480 start to crawl out from under the top. Role in, mister Mitchell. 264 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:59,000 I was afraid you would do something rush, so I hit you with this 265 00:20:59,079 --> 00:21:02,279 wrench to prevent them. We've seen you you sure, I mean wallop? 266 00:21:02,839 --> 00:21:06,759 Then you weren't going to turn us into the gorillas. No, it is 267 00:21:06,799 --> 00:21:10,480 true my brother is their leader, but it is also try and oppose to 268 00:21:10,519 --> 00:21:14,359 what he's doing. I too wish freedom for my country, but not his 269 00:21:14,519 --> 00:21:19,039 way, not when it means kidnapping Americas. I remember the last war, 270 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:25,640 there were many of you fighting here for us. You've got a good memory, 271 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:37,920 I mean, a lot better than most these days. Thanks. A 272 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,599 couple of minutes later, she pulls the boat over to the bank and lets 273 00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:42,640 us out. We head through the brush in the direction of the train and 274 00:21:42,839 --> 00:21:51,400 Grayson, I can't be faster. Pretty soon we spotted they poked the passenger 275 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,240 cars on behind the relief train. Then I see Perryman, Tava and herz 276 00:21:55,279 --> 00:21:57,720 Doll climb aboard one of the cars. We stay out of their sight. 277 00:21:59,039 --> 00:22:02,839 Any one of them could be the one who put the finger on forrester heads 278 00:22:02,839 --> 00:22:06,799 starting up. We try to hurry. The forester's room slows them down. 279 00:22:06,839 --> 00:22:10,319 I put him across my shoulders and the fireman's carry and take off after the 280 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,039 train and I spot Grayson on a flat car on which a crane is mounted 281 00:22:15,279 --> 00:22:18,799 high a te I come up beside the flat car rolled a forest aronto it. 282 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,400 Ny guy of a board quite for a minute. Grayson, I thought, 283 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:29,119 well, hey, why the gun, Mitchell, Mitchell, don't you 284 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:30,880 know who this is? Sure it's Grayson, Now, this is Loki. 285 00:22:32,319 --> 00:22:34,640 This is the force of the hijacking, right, cried ride. Look, 286 00:22:34,759 --> 00:22:37,720 borister, you told me you'd talked to Grayson a couple of times last week. 287 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:41,079 How come you didn't recognize him as low Kai? Then, well, 288 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,079 I only talked to him on the phone. Oh great, great, is 289 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,880 right. I'm quite indebted to you, Mitchell for dropping Forest to ride into 290 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,519 my lap. Now I can get both of you out of my hat at 291 00:22:49,559 --> 00:22:55,039 the same time. My eyes click up at the train and then at the 292 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:57,400 cable, which leads down to a big book resting on a box behind me 293 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:02,480 about waist high. It's why only chance. Just as Grayson raises his gun, 294 00:23:02,519 --> 00:23:03,599 I grabbed the book and yank and then jump to one side. It 295 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:11,559 swings past me right at Grayson. What brother out like a light. That 296 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,359 hook really creased it, Yeah, sort to put him out of business in 297 00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,680 more ways than one. It was quite an act he was putting on the 298 00:23:18,839 --> 00:23:22,599 hard working insurance of us. Yeah, it was quite an act until it 299 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:41,039 got broken up, or rather until he got the hook our star Brian Donaldave. 300 00:23:41,039 --> 00:23:45,440 They will return in just a moment. Daytime programming here at the NBC 301 00:23:45,559 --> 00:23:48,519 spot on your radio dialis tops and listening enjoyment. You'll hear Bob Hope, 302 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:52,160 Dave Gaway, Murdith Wilson, Bob and Ray, Warrenhull, Burt Parks, 303 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:57,079 and Tommy Bartlett every day Monday through Friday, So chase away your housework blues 304 00:23:57,079 --> 00:24:02,279 by setting your dial to the NBC Radio Work During the day, Bob Hope 305 00:24:02,279 --> 00:24:06,720 presents the finest in comedy listening as he teams with Bill Goodwin. Dave Garaway 306 00:24:06,799 --> 00:24:10,319 is sure to please with his bits of philosophy and the interesting records that he 307 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,000 plays. And when it's time for Bob and Ray, you'll hear radio being 308 00:24:14,079 --> 00:24:18,640 kidded by those two boys from Boston who won last year's Peabody Award for Comedy. 309 00:24:18,319 --> 00:24:22,319 Warren Hull presides over the show with the heart strike it rich and Burt 310 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,480 Parks is the master of ceremonies on double or Nothing. So all in all, 311 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,640 it's a day filled with the finest radio entertainment, So be sure to 312 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:36,400 hear Bob Hope, Dave Gerway, Bob and Ray, Warren Hull, Meredith 313 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:42,000 Wilson, Burt Parks, and Tommy Bartlett over most NBC stations every day Monday 314 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:56,839 through Friday. Next week Mexico City, Moonlight and Murder, and that will 315 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:12,519 be Steve Mitchell's Dangerous Assignment next week. Included and tonight's cast were Ben Wright, 316 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:17,480 Ramsey Hill, v v Janis, Alice Bacchus, and Paul Freese. 317 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:27,000 This is John Storm Speaking Dangerous Assignment starring Brian don Levy as Steve Mitchell, 318 00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:32,039 the Herb Butterfield as the Commissioner, is written by Bob Ryf and Adrian John 319 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:36,519 Doe and is directed by Bill carn Be with us again next week at the 320 00:25:36,599 --> 00:25:40,200 same time when Brian don Levy, starring in the role of Steve Mitchell, 321 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:55,400 will embark on another transcribed dangerous assignment tomorrow. Here are both Father Knows Best 322 00:25:55,440 --> 00:26:11,759 and Truther Consequences on MBC Welcome Back and interesting case and I think the only 323 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,599 time Steve has been knocked out for his own good. The episode also provides 324 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:22,640 a bit of an education on how relief supplies can often be stolen or misappropriated 325 00:26:22,759 --> 00:26:26,680 and sold on the Black Mark. And they did it in a way that 326 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:32,000 was short but still got across the point of how it worked. All right. 327 00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:36,000 Well, now we turn to listener comments and feedback, and we have 328 00:26:36,079 --> 00:26:41,799 a couple of comments from YouTube and Ryin Sar writes in regarding the Streetcar seventeen 329 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:47,480 episode, the announcement at the end of this episode about the Cotton Bowl broadcast 330 00:26:47,519 --> 00:26:52,799 tickled me. Lendsey Nelson and Bob Murphy later became two thirds of the longest 331 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:59,000 running three man broadcast team in the history of the genre. Ralph Kiner joined 332 00:26:59,039 --> 00:27:03,359 the Dynamic duo nineteen sixty two, and they proceeded to broadcast every inning of 333 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:08,160 the New York Mets into the very late seventies. Lindsey left the Mats after 334 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:12,480 the nineteen seventy seventh season, but Bob and Ralph continued to be the voice 335 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:17,359 of the team into the nineteen nineties. Well, thanks for the comment. 336 00:27:17,559 --> 00:27:22,400 I'm not a big football guy, but I definitely recognized Ralph Connor because before 337 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:29,160 he got behind the microphone, he was a baseball player and a really good 338 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,839 one and had this just amazing seven year run where he led the league in 339 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:41,000 homers the National League every year, including two fifty home run seasons, and 340 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:45,599 his career got cut short due to a back injury, had to retired age 341 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:51,680 thirty two, but still made an impact. I used to collect baseball cards 342 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:57,079 when I was a kid, and he showed up in this collection that he 343 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:03,799 got through Cereal. Where was the all time greats? Those sort of cards? 344 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:07,359 Not really who knows what he would have achieved with, you know, 345 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:11,920 the sort of medical care we have today. Then he went on and he 346 00:28:11,039 --> 00:28:17,559 became a broadcaster. And not only did he and Bob Murphy continue to do 347 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:22,200 games into the nineties, but Kinder continued to be a broadcaster till the year 348 00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:30,119 he passed away in two thousand and fourteen. The really an interesting connection that 349 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:33,559 we kind of went down there. And then finally we have this comment from 350 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:38,839 Maureene. I love the New Year's Eve ad. My folks were newlyweds in 351 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,640 nineteen fifty two. Well, thanks so much, Marine, great all the 352 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:49,240 connections that a lot of these little ads and public service announcements bring to people's 353 00:28:49,279 --> 00:28:53,079 minds. Thanks so much for sharing. Appreciate your comment. Now it's time 354 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,519 to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want to go ahead 355 00:28:56,559 --> 00:29:03,079 and think Jeff. Jeff has been one of our Patreon supporters since October of 356 00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:08,359 twenty fifteen, currently supporting the program at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars 357 00:29:08,359 --> 00:29:12,279 and fourteen cents or more per month. Thank you so much for your support, 358 00:29:12,359 --> 00:29:15,960 Jeff, and that will do it for today. If you're enjoying the 359 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:22,599 podcast, please follow us using your favorite podcast software and be sure to rate 360 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,240 and review the podcast wherever you download it from. We will be back next 361 00:29:26,279 --> 00:29:32,759 Wednesday with another episode of Dangerous Assignment. But join us back here tomorrow for 362 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:37,559 mister Chameleon. Where uh the facts of these? Comedian Herbert Martin, according 363 00:29:37,559 --> 00:29:41,759 to his doctor's report, was poisoned at dinner. Now down to the poison 364 00:29:41,799 --> 00:29:44,920 who symptoms are the same as till main poisoning, isn't it, iti Commissioner. 365 00:29:45,519 --> 00:29:47,680 Yes, that's it all right, comedian, But who told you? 366 00:29:47,839 --> 00:29:49,640 Let's call it a good guests commissioner? There? Go at? Then let 367 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:55,440 me addresses three three four four Burton Street. I'm on my way. Oh 368 00:29:55,599 --> 00:29:59,200 there you are to take this side? Donald, get out a squad cock 369 00:29:59,359 --> 00:30:00,880 quick watch up, mister com I hope you'll be with us. Then, 370 00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:07,240 in the meantime, do you send your comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives 371 00:30:07,319 --> 00:30:12,519 dot net. Follow us on Instagram, Instagram, dot com slash Great detectives 372 00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:18,759 from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.