Speaker 1: Presenting the transcription feature Superman Up in the sky. It's
a bird, It's a way.
Speaker 2: It's Superman, mysterious visitor from about the world who has
appeared on Earth as Champion of the Week and the Oppress.
When we last saw Superman in his character of Clark Kent,
news reporter for the Daily Planet, he had just learned
that the two swindlers, Bartley Pemberton and Joseph Denen, were
heading south in a high speed cruiser in order to
catch up with the freights deeper Madison on her way
to Charleston.
Speaker 1: As our story continues to.
Speaker 2: Day, Superman is winging his way down the coast, straining
his eyes for the first glimpse of the powerboat or
the freighter, but Pemberton and Deneen have caught up with
the Madison. Four sharp blasts of their whistle red rockets
distress signals, and the traper is motionless in the black water,
waiting for the smaller boat to come alongside. On the
deck of the cruiser, Bartley Pemberton gives a last quick
order to the man at the wheel.
Speaker 1: Listen, pay attention to sailor. Okay, cat, I get fast
part they're dropping a ladder over the side. Hit her
in there, sailor, and get this. I'm listening. We're going
on board that fraizer to get something.
Speaker 3: You understand. If we don't get it, there may be trouble,
big trouble. So stick around to pick us up. We'll
want to make a fast get away, so stay cross.
Speaker 1: Ready to beat it. Get that pot. What do we
do now? Stand by to grab that ladder? Joe, all right, Taylor?
Speaker 4: Oh hi, on that cruiser we're waiting for you.
Speaker 1: Don't worry. You won't wait long. Go ahead, Taylor, Edge
in toward that ladder. All right, mister Burns, hold her
under a dead slow bell. We see what's wrong with
those fellows? H I Ken Anderson?
Speaker 4: Ah, Hi down there?
Speaker 1: What about the cruiser? What's wrong with it? Captain said?
Two men are coming up the ladder.
Speaker 5: They want to.
Speaker 4: See you, They want to see me. Ask them what
they mean by sounding the stress signals?
Speaker 1: From there? They are cat'n. I'ming over the rail. Now,
what do you want done with it?
Speaker 4: Better have a mighty good reason for stopping us, mister Burns.
Speaker 1: If they have not put them in irons.
Speaker 4: Oh right there, bring those two men up to my cabin.
Anybody else coming aboard?
Speaker 1: I'll further say that's all.
Speaker 4: Mister Burns, hold is steady, steady, yes, sir, let's keep
an eye on the weather.
Speaker 1: Mister Burns sticking up. Very good, sir, sound your foghorn
while we're hove too. Have mister Owlson bring those men.
Speaker 3: To my cabin.
Speaker 2: And a few moments later, Pemberton and Denin are utterered
to Captain Anderson's cabin.
Speaker 1: Come in here they are, say the two men off
the cruiser, come in, gentlemen. Oh captain? Am I addressing
Captain Vincent Anderson? Yes, sir, you are the captain.
Speaker 3: My friend and I have followed your ship, the Madison,
all the way down the coast, hoping to catch.
Speaker 1: Up with you. Do you know you've stopped a vessel
and government spils government service? I thought this with the
freighter a tramp. Thank you for your description of a sir,
as it happens by carrying munition, who are listened? That
a bit dangerous, Captain.
Speaker 4: Don't worry transporting gun cotton and team tea. This isn't
half as dangerous as giving false signals of distress, as
you'll find out.
Speaker 3: Just let us explain captain. Captain Anderson, we've been sent
by your sister Jule. Before you say, oh, she gave
you a certain package of papers, didn't she sealed.
Speaker 1: In oil skin? What up? Are they not safe there
in the wall? What business is it of yours? Sister
told us to get them, so there isn't too much trouble, Captain.
Speaker 4: One moment, mister, I suppose my sister gave you written
instructions a letter.
Speaker 1: Well, no, as a matter of fact, she didn't. She
didn't have time.
Speaker 4: Oh she didn't have time. Well, I'm sorry, gentlemen, but
I don't believe No. Look here I say, I don't
believe you. If this thing was so all fired important,
you'll follow me down the coat, make use of fake
distress signals to get me to pick you up.
Speaker 1: You ought to be able to prove what you say. Listen, Captain,
we've got to have those papers.
Speaker 4: You'll get them when we land at Charleston. And I've
talked with my sister be phone. But not until then.
Speaker 1: There's that true, Captain Anderson, stand where your optiase? Why
what do you mean putting a gun?
Speaker 3: I mean business, Captain, keep your hands all right, Joe,
get after that ship.
Speaker 1: You'll land in PRIs this well, what about it, Joe?
Nothing doing pod at the blow? Didn't he say there
was soap in the hole. That's right, carrying your missions,
aren't you, Captain?
Speaker 3: Show us how to get to the hold, find out,
I said, take us to the whole, Captain, I'm not fooling.
Speaker 1: Open the door, Joe. Now listen to me, Captain Anderson.
You're going to take us down along the deck and
into the hole. Now. I'll be shut if I will,
you'll be shut if you don't.
Speaker 3: They've come a long way, Captain, done a good deal
to make sure of those papers. And we won't stop now,
not even at murder. Get going, go on, keep moving.
I'm right prehend your captain with this pistol in my pocket.
If we meet any of your crew, keep quiet, all right.
Speaker 1: I'll move.
Speaker 2: Out of the captain's cabin along the deck and into
the echoing stillness of the hold.
Speaker 1: All right, Just sit down now and take it busy, captain,
while mister danie.
Speaker 4: Much Joe, and you're gonna do bad, carry some stuff
back up to the cabin and blow the.
Speaker 1: Same too much time. As long as those papers.
Speaker 3: Are destroyed, as long as they're lost, but all right,
and they don't get them out of the safe, they'll
remain in the safe, and the safe will remain on
the ship, and the ship will.
Speaker 1: Be blown the pictures.
Speaker 4: What do you mean, the dude?
Speaker 1: You fire?
Speaker 2: What I mean to do, Captain thesons to remove everybody traced.
Speaker 1: Up you and your ship way, you'd never tear. You're
out of your mind. You're a plain man. Then help
let me just shoot them. It's too laisy. They might curious.
Speaker 4: Listen, they're really going to board the whole boat.
Speaker 1: Why not quickly? Fighter right down here, far enough off
to give us time to cut ourselves and then we'll
beat it.
Speaker 4: Nobody will ever know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, help me break into this case. It's more dangerous.
Keep away from fire. It's all right right, I rip
open these sacks, spread it all around the floor. That's
the wady all right. Now, I'll make a little trade
of over to the door. When we came in, I'll
come wait for build a fire. It's time.
Speaker 3: He will be called ourselves out like a light.
Speaker 1: But he won't say that here. You won't Captain five
minutes pas, all right, I'll give you a hand.
Speaker 2: We're going to build a fire work fast, a flickering
glow in the darkness of the hold, A thin spiral
of smoke creeping up the companionway and curling out above
the hatch covers on deck. Then sudden alarm, shouting and confusion,
while ringing up alarm belts and credit orders.
Speaker 1: Hey, where's the captain? Where's ma come?
Speaker 2: Come?
Speaker 1: She's called gut power. We haven't got a chair wire
This fire.
Speaker 5: Coming up onto the hatch.
Speaker 1: Christer park. What do we do? Holloway the salvag boats.
There's Captain Anderson, Holloway stand by to abandon ship. All right,
all right, Joe that justice listen bot. We'd better be
getting out of here. That's a light. Preserve a hare.
Here's the cruise that comes from the park. Come on, Joe,
over the rail for it to swim.
Speaker 2: Come on, fire report the steamer Madison, loaded with high
explosive shells and T and T boats go over the
side full frantically for safety. And meanwhile, high up in
the night skies, Superman sees a glow on the sea and.
Speaker 1: Heads swiftly downward. What's that? Looks like a fire on
the water, and it looks like the Madison too. Down
we go down down.
Speaker 5: It is the Madison. She's a fire in the manifact
of the boats. I'll swing down and make sure they're
all right. They won't see me in the fog.
Speaker 1: Come on, ho ho ha s burns the captain. Where's
Captain Madison?
Speaker 4: Ohia, and miss Dawson.
Speaker 1: Is the captain in your boat? Oh? I thought he
was with you with me? He's still on pug. We've
got to go back packed the captain. That sir, look
at it. You'll go up any second. We can't go
back now.
Speaker 5: Captain still on board. Have to get him quick, gone
along the hull. If he's been on deca, they've seen him,
must be down below. I'll hang onto the porthole and listen.
Speaker 2: Clinging to the steep, slippery side of the Madison. Superman's
keen hearing picks up sounds inside the.
Speaker 5: Hull, pounding. Someone's pounding inside the hull. No time to
go up on deck. Down the hatchway. I'll drive my
way in from here through the side. I wonder where
they left the ship. Why they didn't fight the fire?
Speaker 1: Almost him once more?
Speaker 5: Hey there?
Speaker 1: Who was pounding here? After hole?
Speaker 4: Get me out.
Speaker 5: There?
Speaker 1: He is looks like the captain night drove board. Get out,
get out here, you'll be all right. He's faded. Tnt
huh now once they abandoned ship. Hey, that fire is
getting mighty close. Come along, captain. One thing. You can't
see me.
Speaker 5: You'll be found floating in the water with a life
preserver and nobody'll ever know who saved you.
Speaker 2: Out we go, quick, superman captains the unconscious form of
Captain Anderson wraps him in a life preserver, drops him
in the sea near the lifeboats, and streaks again for
the doomed ship.
Speaker 1: Touch and go. Now that stuff will explode any second.
But I've got to find the safe and get those papers.
There's the bridge down down here we are. This is
the captain's cabin, all right, and there's the safe. Well.
Speaker 5: One smash will open that up. And there's the package.
Must be wrapped an oil skin mark John Anderson, Pemberton.
Speaker 1: This is the time you lose. Now out fast, no
time for the stairs. Hunt the wall.
Speaker 5: Had away.
Speaker 1: Hey, mister Burns, it's up. There's a man volting in
the light. Observer. It's the captain. It's captain, and get
him of a quick holme on the side. It is
the captain, I'll he get out here. Never mind that
hoo hoo.
Speaker 4: He goes the ship and then they get clear.
Speaker 2: Outlined against a sheet of sudden orange flame, the steamer
Madison explodes with a crash of floor, fills the sky
with screaming shells, scatters flaring embers on the face of
the sea.
Speaker 1: Do the boats get clear?
Speaker 2: What of Pemberton and Deneen? And meanwhile, what will Superman
do with the precious while skin package of papers? And
what do the papers reveal? Tune in with us next
time and follow the exciting transcription Superman.
Speaker 1: Up in the sky. Look, it's a word, it's a faint,
It's Superman.
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