Speaker 1: The Blue Beetle leaping down upon the underworld with Nash Gangman, a.
Speaker 2: Friend of the unfortunate.
Speaker 3: Enemy of criminals, and this period is all powerful character,
a problem to the police, but a blue state of
a law. In reality, Dan Garrett a rookie patrolman, loved
by everyone but suspected by none of being the Blue Beetle.
As the Blue Beetle, he hides behind a strange mask
in a suit of intelligible blue chain armor, flexible as
silk but scorer than still.
Speaker 2: Today's episode of The.
Speaker 3: Blue Beetle has entitled death Strikes from the East. In
the city's Chinatown under the Orient are restless, uneasy. The
police department expects war between rivals tongues to break out
at any moment, and is prepared. What is behind this uneasiness?
Is it something that concerns only the Chinese? Or is
there an occidental hand at works pulling the strings like
a phantom puppeteer And that surely opened the Croman. Dan Garrett,
who in secret is the Blue Beetle, discusses the situation
with his friend and competent doctor Franz.
Speaker 2: In his Little Apothecary shot in.
Speaker 3: About leaning here, in this candle, it's hard to realize
that you and I are only a few city blocks
away from the Orient. You're referring to Chinatown. Yeah, I
wish I knew what was going on down there. Do
you think rival tongs were about to war on each other?
Speaker 4: Don't? Then? What do you think is comping this?
Speaker 3: Unless the newspaper speak of the land, resentment, resentment of
sum of us?
Speaker 4: You mean the police, no, a white way.
Speaker 3: But what have we done do that? We don't know
less than now? It isn't that I think there's some
sort of a racket going on down there. Are you
going to do anything about this? Well, I'm going to
ask the chief to assign me to upbeat in Chinatown. Uh.
He said to be careful, Dannay. You could disappear down
there and no one would ever find you. Oh, I'll
be careful, all right. I've got a friend down there,
a Chinese, Yeah, the rest gun keeper ling Wan culture gentlemen.
I've paid his life one and he's never forgotten that.
I can imagine he could be very helpful. Well, I've
got to run down the headquarters now. Maybe Manigan and
I can both get a sign of that district well.
Speaker 2: Good luck to you, Danny boy. Thanks Doc along the polman.
Speaker 3: Dan Garrett is headed for the audience. You know what
down he is so wonder to me.
Speaker 2: There's more big.
Speaker 3: Fires all here in China, tous find all.
Speaker 2: Everything's so completed.
Speaker 3: I was a fire and you're never going to get
through here. Well, I'd be willing to bets it. If
I should found the siren on this car, we'd have
a clear track ahead almost immediately.
Speaker 2: Are them both in? Certainly? Chap in a hurry?
Speaker 3: Hey?
Speaker 2: What's that dog hunt.
Speaker 3: Flashing up that Chinese restaurant? Come on Mann again, that
looks like we want way?
Speaker 5: Hey, hey, are you here?
Speaker 2: They offer last year? All right?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Quite dogs? Where's the guy who's done this?
Speaker 3: Stop water when I stuck?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 6: No, it's what stop.
Speaker 3: Water when the goa? Hey? What kind of talk is that?
Speaker 2: World would be?
Speaker 3: I it was a the whole of rolling one.
Speaker 6: Ah, my friend, the honor about Garret afaid, the whortle.
When the fate of a sun up here the spread
light up on a bark and very eighteen.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid the face of the sun has appeared too
late to be of any healthier ling one.
Speaker 6: That's what happened is done.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with you the law, and we want to know
who done it.
Speaker 3: Holding one, this is my friend and brother, Officer Mike Mannigan.
Speaker 6: But that a stake on which is mine is found
out about the president of a friend of the brave
and honored about it. Dan Garet, Well, no, we'd let's
take up the facts in this case.
Speaker 3: Uh I suppose you let me talk with Ringan Mennigan
or you make a report on this.
Speaker 2: I've had a hunt something.
Speaker 7: Like this was happening frequently here in Chinatown.
Speaker 3: You say, one one, if the merchant's refusals to pay
tribute on they to the one you call the purple Dragon,
but by his merchandise to them.
Speaker 2: The sharp is rect cause.
Speaker 6: Yours was just more that they, through my friend the
Purple Dragon consoled. But come as up Chinatown.
Speaker 3: But what happens if the merchant still refuses to deal
with a purple dragon that's through his place of businesses ret.
Speaker 6: Some member of the family that's up there. If that
there's an elder son he meets the hacketman in some
dark streets. If a younger son he has found tangles,
if the merchant has on their doctors, one of them
is kidnapped and offered does a human sacrifice so peas
that they that can't ark God that you.
Speaker 3: Need to say that they're actually sacrificed.
Speaker 6: Killed that if the ceremony is conducted by the purple Dragon,
which includes human taprifi before the satimony, however, their victant's
hair is cut off and sent to her patents. If
that sufficient amount of money is fat the victim, if they.
Speaker 3: Least good Lord long one, why do the police get
informed of this?
Speaker 6: One? Does not seek something that immediately? Say that proper
dragon spies out every fire, A.
Speaker 3: Little one, you're taking a great risk and having me
in your home, but I will show you something will
be done immediately in this state of affairs? Who is
this purple dragon?
Speaker 4: Has he any idea?
Speaker 3: Must be a pout oriental that.
Speaker 6: Is a throwing suspicion that that purple dragon is not
our allays, our of yours what a white man. I
am sorry to say it to my friend about if
they saw.
Speaker 3: Well, then Garrett is going to do something about that,
and he's starting right now. Or swore him to uphold
the law the third justice, to drive every crooked racket
here from this city.
Speaker 2: This extortion racket must be smashed.
Speaker 3: Dark, I've never heard of such a fiendish method of
extracting money from honest businessman. And you say ling Wan
believes the Purple Dragon to be a white man, that's right,
he must be a.
Speaker 4: Very rich man.
Speaker 3: Yes, I imagine there are very few who refuse to
pay tribute that has purchased their supplies through that cook will.
So far as you know what, the Purple Dragon has
confined his extortion activities.
Speaker 4: To Chinese tion.
Speaker 3: Yes, I feel certain that it's his operations extended beyond
the confined with China towns. The police would have heard it.
Speaker 4: I wonder what the ex is about?
Speaker 3: Or just a minute, dark, I'll buy a paper, read
all about all the commission of Warren's there.
Speaker 2: The kids napp got life?
Speaker 1: Yes, thank you, the d.
Speaker 2: Well what do you know about this?
Speaker 4: Doctor? What is it? Danny?
Speaker 3: Commissioner Warren's daughter was kidnapped last night and she left
her dance at the casino commissioner warrant, Yes, the commissioner
of markets. Oh, when the work's back of that. The
kidnappers can't expect to get much money out of Warren.
Speaker 4: He's not one thing.
Speaker 3: Oh and he's one of our most efficient officials, says,
you don't think what is it, Danny, I'm going over
to the Commissioner of Warren's house and make.
Speaker 4: A little investigation.
Speaker 3: He he wants that if someone just threw stones through
the store window or here.
Speaker 2: It is, there's a note tied to it.
Speaker 3: Well, what does it say, Danny, there's the devastating tornado
descend upon honorable place of business. If inquisitive patrolman Garrett
extend nose into Chinatown and they signed the Purple Dragons,
let me see that note. Yeah, we're currently written with
a brush at the Chinese US. Yeah. Yeah, but uh,
but it wasn't written by a Chinese. But he need
the Chinese writing is distinctive. The technique of Chinese brush
writing is such that even if the Chinese were writing
in English, Steve brushmarks would be distinctively Chinese.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: This note was written by a man who at one
time might have lettered addresses on shipping cases. Uh. A
shipping clerk. I would say, you know, that's very interesting.
Docs I the Purple Dragon, or whoever writes his notes
for him, is a white fan. When the doctor's note
spikes my gun, I can't endanger you and your business
or don't be silly. Then don't be silly. Your duty
comes first. I can take care of things here and
just let somebody start something. There are things in my
laboratory back there that will make them wish they'd stay
the way. Well, I gotta be going.
Speaker 4: Docs.
Speaker 3: Take care now, and don't worry. I'm not going to
Chinatown my next ca. Well, it's in the opposite direction,
uh Er, Commissioner Warren, I've I've been assigned by the
police commissioner to do a little investigating in this case.
Speaker 4: I'm glad you have my boy.
Speaker 3: I'd appreciate any information you could give me. Commissioner, I'll
give you what I can have you. Uh, have you
any enemies, Yes, plenty of them. In my positions are
bound to be individuals and groups who resent my interference
with their attempts to extort money from the firms that
do business with the city. Oh, there isn't extortion like it. Well, yes,
at least I'm convinced that many merchants are paying out
money to protect their goods and places of business from
destruction in uh in Chinatown, for instance. Well, yes, Well,
did you know I have a friend in Chinatown.
Speaker 4: M let's see.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll can be training with you or I've been
conducting a quiet invests stigation down there. You think your
daughter is kidnappings in retaliation? I un certain it is
fire this note he received it about an hour ago.
You know, read it and Tibetan Earth goddess is angry
you were interfering with her plans. Unless you seize your efforts,
you will never see your daughter again. Sign the Purple Dragon. HM.
This note was written by a white man, also the Biggarton.
Speaker 2: What did you say?
Speaker 4: Is? Oh? I? Uh?
Speaker 3: I said?
Speaker 4: This note? Was it? Y?
Speaker 3: I still?
Speaker 4: Please?
Speaker 3: Let joy package for and about Commissioner. Thank ring child
who was a link child?
Speaker 8: No say lesson jaw push button boke package time do stop?
Speaker 3: Run away?
Speaker 4: Oh right, ring child?
Speaker 3: You may go. Uh better not open that commissioner might
be a time bomb of some pack of thin funnel
machine that'll explode when open.
Speaker 2: It doesn't feel heavy enough, and he sound a taking
nothing n I can hear.
Speaker 3: How let me have that package all open it you
stand over there.
Speaker 2: I'll be careful. Garris four cared off to those.
Speaker 3: Men like you, you know, Thanks, Commissioner. Well here goes hm,
what is it? A block full of golden hair?
Speaker 4: My daughter, her hair is like color.
Speaker 3: You don't please O Now, She's not dead yet, but
something will have to be done quickly, and I'm going
to do it. What are you gonna do, Dan, I've
got a hunch and I'm going to play it. What
can I do to help? Call up the Income Tax
Bureau and find out, if you can, which two or
three persons in the city showed the greatest increase of
income last year. Also find out anything else you can
about them. When you get the information, phone into doctors
Frans want to me at his shop. I'm certain that
none of these persons will prove to be the Purple Dragon.
Speaker 2: What does Dan Garrett plan to do next?
Speaker 3: Will his activities go down upon his good friend doctor
Franz the wrath of the Purple Dragon? What will happen
when the Blue Beetle faces the Purple Dragon. Meanwhile, in
the room adjoining the auditorium of a little Chinese theater,
deep within the confines of Chinatown, a group of hard
face men are receiving instructions from their chiefs. I want
your men to get that straight. I must be no
slip up eleven thirty to night. You will have Commissioner
Warrant in this theater or ralse. I don't care how
you get him here.
Speaker 4: What get him here?
Speaker 6: Boys, we'll get him.
Speaker 3: Bring him in the back way, put him in one
of the boxes to the left of.
Speaker 2: The state back there.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you two men stay with him him.
Speaker 3: If he makes them moved to escape, he'll see his
daughter alive again.
Speaker 4: He got that straight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we get that straight well, and you'll leave.
Speaker 4: The less of a Purple Dragon.
Speaker 3: In doctor Farren's laboratory, Dan Garrett is donningha math and
blue chain armor of the Blue Beetles. Oh where Danny?
Commissioner Warren called just before you was I? Oh, what
did the commissioners have to say?
Speaker 4: He said?
Speaker 3: The two most financially successful name last year? Well, Roger Gillespie,
the contractor, and a fellow by the name of Anthony Rondo's.
Gillespie seems to have made a fortune during the building
boom last year, and Rondo's apparently made a great success
of the importing business. Rondo's as iron man, I'm sure
of it. Where he lived, Warren Gray, Yes, he recently
bought the home. M I know that point yes, Janny,
I know. I remember he visited the house secretly one
night while you were making an investigation the Bank of
Ridley Strange deaths on the operating table.
Speaker 4: That's the place.
Speaker 3: Well, that'll be the beat Blue Beetles first call the
night along that.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is rob Us.
Speaker 7: What that.
Speaker 2: All this?
Speaker 4: Maybe I won't be able to see you the night.
Speaker 3: I'm going with some of the boys to a show,
a Chinese masquerade. Why why I'm going as a purple dragon?
Speaker 4: Yeah's that something?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was Goodbye.
Speaker 3: I gotta get going.
Speaker 2: A yes with the purple dragon.
Speaker 3: He has plenty of round the extorsionist and black name
the bele h your wise to my racket, Ask some one,
I'm going to end your racket tonight, That's what you'll think.
But no one is going to win my racket tonight
or any other night. I have no father to shoot
your bullets. Can't piss this chain armor. I'm wedding the
Blue Beetle is Oh my good work? Whine how all
the silken cord tighter around the Blue Beatle's necks?
Speaker 4: And that's enough. He's gone under Let him drop.
Speaker 3: He's the Blue Beats day. I don't know, but tie
him up and throw him in the ball downstairs.
Speaker 4: Oh here, here's a hundred bucks. Fire yourself in the
open pipe.
Speaker 3: I'm going down to China Town. I'll deal with the
blue beetle later. I demand to know where you're taking
me to see your daughter, Commissioner one, Where is she?
Speaker 4: Where have you hidden her?
Speaker 3: If you've hung the head of her head out? Worry
commission Uh, she ain't yet yet. Her hands are the
short since the pebble dragon cut it off, But that
was necessary.
Speaker 4: But the part she's playing, then part? What part?
Speaker 3: He is playing?
Speaker 4: A part in the Chinese play?
Speaker 3: What sort of a game is this?
Speaker 4: My daughter's not an act.
Speaker 3: Let's be out of here, at commissioner, if you wanna
see your daughter again alive?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 4: What is it you want?
Speaker 3: A pebble Dagon wants you to resign his commissioner of market?
Speaker 4: What never where?
Speaker 2: It's sworn to protect the merchants of the.
Speaker 3: City against the doors and luggage, and I intend to
do it better think it of a commissioner. This part
your daughter's play, and there's awful danger is gem on?
Commissioners is a place?
Speaker 4: Then you go? Maybe you'll change your mind time when
you see the play.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, in his laboratory, doctor friends that is working on
some of his interesting experiments.
Speaker 4: Hm hm h.
Speaker 3: Now let's see four ccs was number seventeen and m
someone out fronting the store. Uh uh conning you all
the same doctor plans.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I haven't got the friends. Uh.
Speaker 3: What can I do for you?
Speaker 4: Only how I look in this Chinese concert? What can
compress my soul? You know?
Speaker 3: You know, for a minute, I I thought Confucius himself
that entered my shock. That might DISKI was birl with
excellent Danny, excellent e. But why is the blue beetles
dressed with the Chinese coolie? Well, the blue Beetle is
attending a theater party, and the old Chinese theater tonight
is an uninvited guest. And I think that when the
party is over a purple dragon in his extortion.
Speaker 4: Rack, it'll be a thing of the past. Anything I
can do to help, yes, I uh?
Speaker 3: Few among your collection of churio it's a ugly Chinese
warrior's mask.
Speaker 4: I'd like to borrow it for the night. When he
says to me, Danny says to me, I I'll get
it for you.
Speaker 3: It's in his chest over there, gonna very scared into
some wheel as well as fight Chinese tonight. Yeah, it's
the Hey, what an ugly mask?
Speaker 4: Hey, let me put it on? Uh anyway, huh uh?
How do I look? Oh? Get in the fighting?
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 3: The stage is set and the audience is waiting.
Speaker 1: Good night.
Speaker 3: Doc Blue Beetle is playing a huge ball tonight.
Speaker 2: In a dimly lit auditorium.
Speaker 3: A hushed group of Chinese merchants await the performance. They
have been ordered to attend in a box at the
left of the stage fit the man, apparently the only
occidental presence. Beside him, sit two grim looking individuals in
Chinese costumes. A strange power seems to hold the audience
hypnotize as the curtain begins to ascend and reveals a
large altar in the center of the stage, surrounded by
lighted candles. Upon the altar is stretched the bound figure
of a white girl, shorn of her hair and clad
in a white silk camoo embroidered with a large purple dragon.
Before the older stands a gigantic Chinese, his head covered
with a golden helmet and his face hidden behind a
cruel hideous mass up raised hands clutched, a two headed
story back of him, A group a dozen tents muscles
Chinese likewise mass Suddenly.
Speaker 8: My p hip a cudin God out angry the white
infidel I spied all will go hipper to God out
must be a peas you money Papa pies must be
made upon the alfire.
Speaker 7: No, that's my.
Speaker 8: Hip tongue God, I speak again our white saying death
white made.
Speaker 4: On no no anything. What do you think to go bad?
Speaker 8: I into the indus here with clean hit a ton
talk god he and pella Comedy's not tell to with
ol pigres I he blad, I'm be mound yon found farm,
I up go.
Speaker 4: I want today. This is the record you on your.
Speaker 8: Heng o, I about I.
Speaker 3: Oh go big if that's all right?
Speaker 8: Made them on the h B M up found up
our fill well up.
Speaker 5: He's off about.
Speaker 2: The blue deals.
Speaker 3: Yes, the blue people re incarnate Labonian put the final counchman.
Speaker 5: It's a blue bell that pretty mess competitive here to
pay the real blue peoples in the pot of my
home when putting.
Speaker 3: Now, Oh, I won't in pot com a all f fire,
oh off down house.
Speaker 4: I can't go y'all's or west heard signatic.
Speaker 2: Grave, Oh bogle, give me.
Speaker 6: The come off three pop.
Speaker 5: Off, give it a kill like funny than the one
buy around. All of you aren't fight.
Speaker 2: I can handle your walk when.
Speaker 5: You mustays there go go man up dragons and here
you go.
Speaker 2: And here comes the police.
Speaker 4: Pick up the people. They come on and get out here,
I say, oh you don't.
Speaker 7: He'll be room for you and the wagon.
Speaker 3: We can like.
Speaker 2: Tiny's before, don't take care of you.
Speaker 4: Hes tiny as seven. Thus far thanks coming to a warning.
Speaker 2: Here you merchant selling audio.
Speaker 3: Here's your church.
Speaker 2: Clean up your own wagond oh joy not lean up.
Speaker 3: The rats living and testing up the no more than
the purple dragon. If it takes the or the human
sycophytes over your head, he has been unlathed wired a.
Speaker 4: Blue people of fool. People's work is silent.
Speaker 3: And so the Blue Beetles smashed another racket.
Speaker 4: And regained for his fellow citizens the.
Speaker 3: Admiration and respect of a grateful people. Later that night,
the Troman Dan Garrett, no longer in the costume of
the Blue Beetle, sit in doctor Frann's laboratory discussing the
case with doctor Flo.
Speaker 4: Well Denny, what gave you your first clue?
Speaker 3: The package of hair, the commissioner.
Speaker 4: The thief. M mmm. And to think that such things
can be.
Speaker 3: Why didn't some of those Chinese merchants report this racket
to the police.
Speaker 2: They're of vengeance.
Speaker 3: You know that here is the.
Speaker 4: Greatest enemy of man.
Speaker 3: Tis back of every hatred, every failure, every book.
Speaker 4: And human relationship.
Speaker 3: That study true, Danny quarbuck Well alone, now gonna get
some splints sometimes that's true.
Speaker 4: Patrolman Dan Garrett has two rests. If the Blue Beetle
wants to fly, Good.
Speaker 3: Night, Doc, I'll go up in tomorrow and see how
you're coming along with that new potable television sets you're building.
So Doctor Franz is working on affordable television set. Will
it be successful? How can the Blue Beetle use it
to run down criminals? What will be the Blue beatles
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