The Steamship - Adventures of Superman

The Steamship - Adventures of Superman

Episode Transcript

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Presenting the transcription feature Superman Up inthe sky. It's a bird, It's
a way. It's Superman, mysteriousvisitor from about the world who has appeared
on Earth as Champion of the Weekand the Oppress. When we last saw

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Superman in his character of Clark Kent, news reporter for the Daily Planet,
he had just learned that the twoswindlers, Bartley Pemberton and Joseph Denen,
were heading south in a high speedcruiser in order to catch up with the
freights deeper Madison on her way toCharleston. As our story continues to day,
Superman is winging his way down thecoast, straining his eyes for the

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first glimpse of the powerboat or thefreighter, but Pemberton and Deneen have caught
up with the Madison. Four sharpblasts of their whistle red rockets distress signals,
and the traper is motionless in theblack water, waiting for the smaller
boat to come alongside. On thedeck of the cruiser, Bartley Pemberton gives
a last quick order to the manat the wheel. Listen, pay attention

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to sailor. Okay, cat,I get fast part they're dropping a ladder
over the side. Hit her inthere, sailor, and get this.
I'm listening. We're going on boardthat fraizer to get something. You understand.
If we don't get it, theremay be trouble, big trouble.
So stick around to pick us up. We'll want to make a fast get
away, so stay cross. Readyto beat it. Get that pot.
What do we do now? Standby to grab that ladder? Joe,

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all right, Taylor? Oh hi, on that cruiser we're waiting for you.
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'swrong with those fellows? H I Ken
Anderson? Ah, Hi down there? What about the cruiser? What's wrong

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with it? Captain said? Twomen are coming up the ladder. They
want to see you, They wantto see me. Ask them what they
mean by sounding the stress signals?From there? They are cat'n. I'ming
over the rail. Now, whatdo you want done with it? Better
have a mighty good reason for stoppingus, mister Burns. If they have
not put them in irons. Ohright there, bring those two men up
to my cabin. Anybody else comingaboard? I'll further say that's all.

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Mister Burns, hold is steady,steady, yes, sir, let's keep
an eye on the weather. MisterBurns sticking up. Very good, sir,
sound your foghorn while we're hove too. Have mister Owlson bring those men
to my cabin. And a fewmoments later, Pemberton and Denin are utterered
to Captain Anderson's cabin. Come inhere they are, say the two men

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off the cruiser, come in,gentlemen. Oh captain? Am I addressing
Captain Vincent Anderson? Yes, sir, you are the captain. My friend
and I have followed your ship,the Madison, all the way down the
coast, hoping to catch up withyou. 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 asir, as it happens by carrying
munition, who are listened? Thata bit dangerous, Captain, don't worry

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transporting gun cotton and team tea.This isn't half as dangerous as giving false
signals of distress, as you'll findout. Just let us explain captain.
Captain Anderson, we've been sent byyour sister Jule. Before you say,
oh, she gave you a certainpackage of papers, didn't she sealed in
oil skin? What up? Arethey not safe there in the wall?
What business is it of yours?Sister told us to get them, so

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there isn't too much trouble, Captain. One moment, mister, I suppose
my sister gave you written instructions aletter. Well, no, as a
matter of fact, she didn't.She didn't have time. Oh she didn't
have time. Well, I'm sorry, gentlemen, but I don't believe No.
Look here I say, I don'tbelieve you. If this thing was
so all fired important, you'll followme down the coat, make use of

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fake distress signals to get me topick you up. You ought to be
able to prove what you say.Listen, Captain, we've got to have
those papers. You'll get them whenwe land at Charleston. And I've talked
with my sister be phone. Butnot until then. There's that true,
Captain Anderson, stand where your optiase? Why what do you mean putting a
gun? I mean business, Captain, keep your hands all right, Joe,
get after that ship. You'll landin PRIs this well, what about

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it, Joe? Nothing doing podat the blow? Didn't he say there
was soap in the hole. That'sright, carrying your missions, aren't you,
Captain? Show us how to getto the hold, find out,
I said, take us to thewhole, Captain, I'm not fooling.
Open the door, Joe. Nowlisten to me, Captain Anderson. You're
going to take us down along thedeck and into the hole. Now.
I'll be shut if I will,you'll be shut if you don't. They've

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come a long way, Captain,done a good deal to make sure of
those papers. And we won't stopnow, not even at murder. Get
going, go on, keep moving. I'm right prehend your captain with this
pistol in my pocket. If wemeet any of your crew, keep quiet,
all right. I'll move out ofthe captain's cabin along the deck and

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into the echoing stillness of the hold. All right, Just sit down now
and take it busy, captain,while mister danie much Joe, and you're
gonna do bad, carry some stuffback up to the cabin and blow the
same too much time. As longas those papers are destroyed, as long
as they're lost, but all right, and they don't get them out of

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the safe, they'll remain in thesafe, and the safe will remain on
the ship, and the ship willbe blown the pictures. What do you
mean, the dude? You fire? What I mean to do, Captain
thesons to remove everybody traced up youand your ship way, you'd never tear.
You're out of your mind. You'rea plain man. Then help let

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me just shoot them. It's toolaisy. They might curious. Listen,
they're really going to board the wholeboat. Why not quickly? Fighter right
down here, far enough off togive us time to cut ourselves and then
we'll beat it. Nobody will everknow. 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.

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That's the wady all right. Now, I'll make a little trade of over
to the door. When we camein, I'll come wait for build a
fire. It's time. He willbe called ourselves out like a light.
But he won't say that here.You won't Captain five minutes pas, all
right, I'll give you a hand. We're going to build a fire work
fast, a flickering glow in thedarkness of the hold, A thin spiral

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of smoke creeping up the companionway andcurling out above the hatch covers on deck.
Then sudden alarm, shouting and confusion, while ringing up alarm belts and
credit orders. Hey, where's thecaptain? Where's ma come? Come?
She's called gut power. We haven'tgot a chair wire This fire coming up

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onto the hatch, Christer park.What do we do? Holloway the salvag
boats. There's Captain Anderson, Hollowaystand by to abandon ship. All right,
all right, Joe that justice listenbot. 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. Come on, firereport the steamer Madison, loaded with high

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explosive shells and T and T boatsgo over the side full frantically for safety.
And meanwhile, high up in thenight skies, Superman sees a glow
on the sea and heads swiftly downward. What's that? Looks like a fire
on the water, and it lookslike the Madison too. Down we go

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down down. It is the Madison. She's a fire in the manifact of
the boats. I'll swing down andmake sure they're all right. They won't
see me in the fog. Comeon, ho ho ha s burns the

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captain. Where's Captain Madison? Ohia, and miss Dawson. Is the captain
in your boat? Oh? Ithought he was with you with me?
He's still on pug. We've gotto go back packed the captain. That
sir, look at it. You'llgo up any second. We can't go
back now. Captain still on board. Have to get him quick, gone

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along the hull. If he's beenon deca, they've seen him, must
be down below. I'll hang ontothe porthole and listen. Clinging to the
steep, slippery side of the Madison. Superman's keen hearing picks up sounds inside
the hull, pounding. Someone's poundinginside the hull. No time to go
up on deck. Down the hatchway. I'll drive my way in from here

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through the side. I wonder wherethey left the ship. Why they didn't
fight the fire? Almost him oncemore? Hey there? Who was pounding
here? After hole? Get meout there? He is looks like the

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captain night drove board. Get out, get out here, you'll be all
right. He's faded. Tnt huhnow once they abandoned ship. Hey,
that fire is getting mighty close.Come along, captain. One thing.
You can't see me. You'll befound floating in the water with a life
preserver and nobody'll ever know who savedyou. Out we go, quick,

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superman captains the unconscious form of CaptainAnderson wraps him in a life preserver,
drops him in the sea near thelifeboats, and streaks again for the doomed
ship. Touch and go. Nowthat stuff will explode any second. But
I've got to find the safe andget those papers. There's the bridge down

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down here we are. This isthe captain's cabin, all right, and
there's the safe. Well. Onesmash will open that up. And there's
the package. Must be wrapped anoil skin mark John Anderson, Pemberton.
This is the time you lose.Now out fast, no time for the

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stairs. Hunt the wall had away. 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 ofa quick holme on the side. It

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is the captain, I'll he getout here. Never mind that hoo hoo.
He goes the ship and then theyget clear. Outlined against a sheet
of sudden orange flame, the steamerMadison explodes with a crash of floor,

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fills the sky with screaming shells,scatters flaring embers on the face of the
sea. Do the boats get clear? What of Pemberton and Deneen? And
meanwhile, what will Superman do withthe precious while skin package of papers?
And what do the papers reveal?Tune in with us next time and follow

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the exciting transcription Superman up in thesky. Look, it's a word,
It's a fain, It's Superman.Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics magazine