SS 26. Horace Morton's Weather Predictions (Parts 5 & 6)

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Shh host a speedy horse.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Motives able to leave tall buildings in a single bound.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Guy's Superman. Yes, it's Superman.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Strange visitor from another world who came to Earth with
power and abilities far beyond those of martle Man. Superman
who can change the course of mighty rivers, then stealing
his bare hands, and who disguised as bartk and mild
Manner reporter for a great better publican newspaper write the
never ending magical book to Justice and the American Way.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Well, Greenland's folks, while welcome back to Old Time Radio Mystery,
suspense and horror, and welcome back to Superman Saturdays. Today
we get into the final two episodes of the Horace
Morton's Weather Prediction storyline. So we will wrap up this
storyline today. As always, if you have any comments, you

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Old Time Radio Comedy. All right, so let's go ahead
and get into Horace Morton's Weather Predictions Part five. This

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one air June nineteenth of nineteen forty.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Enjoy presenting the friendscription feature Superman Superman now Superman, Champion
of the week and the oppress valliant fighter for truth

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and justice, stronger than a locomotive, faster than an airplane,
who came to Earth from the planet Krypton, and walks
about among men disguised as Miles Clark, Kent, news reporter
for the Daily Planet. Kent and Leis Lane have discovered
that doctor Morton Lois Uncle, actually created the weather.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
He forecats that a mysterious group headed.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
By a man named Colin was using him for its
own evil end. When we last saw them, Kent and
Leis Lane had come to the jail to bring about
the doctor's release, only to find that Colins had been
ahead of them, blown in the jail walls and vanished
with the old scientist in his power. And our story
continues today. Some time has passed, the desperate search for
the missing doctor Morton has produced nothing, and meanwhile a

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new danger threatens listens well right in the narrowest part
of the valley.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
The radium plants right there ahead. That's the gate.

Speaker 5 (03:05):
Why when mister can the radium plants right against the
steepest part of the mountain, it's.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Right under it, exactly so that little settlement workers' houses
mostly I tell you, miss Lane Music mountain is actually moving,
and if it comes down any further an, there's going
to be a real panic.

Speaker 6 (03:21):
But but I don't understand we're doing it.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, look up you see all that slope of loose rock.
Well it's moving, that's all. It's on the way down. Yes,
but why search me? Maybe it's because of all that
rain got things loosened up. Say look, I'm beginning to
get people moved out already.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
Look at those trucks. And isn't that a big busload
of kids there?

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Poor flard, Those poor people, they must be breaded.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I guess they are all right, They're in a mighty
dangerous spot.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow, we've got to get going.

Speaker 6 (04:00):
Who's this man going to see?

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Milo Fails. He's the acting head of the radium refinery.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
Oh I didn't know they found radium down here.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well they don't, but they send the pitch plandover down
here to be refined. Remember what your uncle said that
night they arrested him.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
I wasn't there.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
He said he'd been doing some work for Fales, trying
to find a simpler refining process, And I just happened
to remember it myself. What do you mean loss We've
tried everything and we've come up against a blank wall,
not a single lead. Your uncle's just vanished. Well, this
is our last chance. Fails may know something or remember something.
Let's go down and have a talk with him. It's

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worth to try, say I I.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Beg your pardon. Keep out of the way, please, you can't.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
What's it all about?

Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's like like a mare, young lady.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
You gotta get this whole plant lean out and packed
in the truck before that mountain comes down on top
of it. Sof you don't mind, I'm looking for mister
Faals Milo Fails, I'm fail.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
What for your mind? Only make it fat or mister
fa I'm Clark Kent, reporter for the Daily Plant. There
ain't no time with the paper. You have to excuse me.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Hey, my fight not bat one, get vacation, pack up
bur mister Fayles, We don't want an interview. This lady
is miss Lane, Leis Lane, and she's a niece of
doctor Horace Morseless.

Speaker 1 (05:13):
What's that niece of Morton?

Speaker 5 (05:15):
We don't want to bother you, mister Fales, but if
you could tell it anything, he come.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
In my office. Much noise out here, You can't hear yourself.
Faith tell then, uh, how much do you know?

Speaker 6 (05:26):
Well, chassy's a trump, mister fail.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
We don't know anything, absolutely not a thing, and we
can't find out anything. What made you come here because
on the last night we saw doctor Morton that he
was brought down to New Birmingham. He said he was
working on a pitch planning process connected with the radium refinery.
He said he was doing it for you. Oh, I see,
that's the way it is.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
Em mister can't just remembered to mister Fayles. He thought
I'd rather We hoped you might costibly be able to
shed a little light on what's happened to my uncle.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
I know it's just a shot in the dark, but
believe me, we've tried everything else. That's what brings you here.
Ham Well, all I can say is I'm sorry.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
Oh you can't tell us a thing, Miss Lane.

Speaker 1 (06:05):
I only wish I could you say. You haven't any
idea at all where your uncle is now.

Speaker 6 (06:09):
Mister Bale dives don't even know if he's alive.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
Oh yes, he's a libel. I mean he must be,
but you don't know anything more about him.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Mister Ken that the name wasn't just My connection with
doctor Morton was really nothing more than casual.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Less than that he was interested in chemistry. He thought
he might be able to help.

Speaker 6 (06:27):
Us help your harm.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Mister Dale, Well, we refine radium, very difficult process, over
thirty five different steps. Dr Morton thought he might be
able to find a simpler process.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
Radium very valuable, isn't it valuable?

Speaker 1 (06:40):
Look here, young lady, let's look out this window. See
those trucks.

Speaker 6 (06:45):
Yeah, what about?

Speaker 2 (06:47):
They're filed with pitch glendor about a quarter of fine.
Can you imagine what that stuff is worth, just as
it is, the.

Speaker 1 (06:54):
Pitch plandor as it stands on the trucks, as it
stands on the trucks, twenty five tons of it. That
stuff is.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Worth refined down as it is right now, about thirteen
thousand dollars a time. Great Scott, if you see now
where we're breaking our next to get it out before
that mountain comes down and buries the whole work.

Speaker 5 (07:12):
Oh, my goodness, mister Fails. You will go right on
about whatever you were doing this lane.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
If I could do anything to help you find your uncle,
I talk all day, but I can't. I can only
say I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (07:25):
Hello Fale speaking, Yes, yes, I know. Well this isn't
raining now, is it all right? All right?

Speaker 2 (07:37):
I know just as fast as we can. Well, I
can't work miracles. Keep your eye on it.

Speaker 1 (07:44):
Let me know.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
That's our engineer up on the mountain. He says, there's
not much time, so I said, it comes sliding down
some more.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
Well, mister fails, what's doing it?

Speaker 1 (07:52):
What is it's lane? We can lay it all to
the weather. The more it rains, the faster music mountain slides.
Right now, it's only fifty feet from our rear wall.
How fast is it coming now? So far? About twenty
feet a day. But if it rains much more, but
it didn't raining. Now I'm not here put up on
the mountain and it's raining. Cat some doors.

Speaker 6 (08:08):
Oh those poor people in the settlement. What will happen
to them?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Nothing if they keep moving, if they stay where they are, well,
oh it's dreadful, mister Ken.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Isn't there anything we can do?

Speaker 2 (08:19):
We just slain.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
We're newspaper people. All we can do is write it up.

Speaker 6 (08:22):
Well, I'm going to help them.

Speaker 5 (08:24):
I don't care if you think I can just sit
back and find about it. Mister phils, Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
Thanks for nothing.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Am sorry, miss rain Or you got quicker for that
side door.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I'm gonna stay here a.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Minute, Joe, don't make it fat you let and ready
to go. Oh, I'm sorry, miss Lame. I thought maybe
we're gonna lead on your uncle.

Speaker 6 (08:47):
It wasn't your fault we did. Come on, I do
want to see what's happening the poor people who are
trying to.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Move out of this story said, golly, look at those trucks.

Speaker 1 (08:57):
That stuff's really worth. But he said it's covers.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Ain't do you realize it's value over three quarters of
a million dollars? What that blackstone right there in front
of you, if anything happened to.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
It, Well, what's the matter? Why are you standing there
like that? Mister Ken?

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Of course, Chislaine did it? Did it seem to you
that mister Fails the manager. Well, did it strike you
that he was worried when we first came in?

Speaker 6 (09:22):
Worried? Yes, Cozy was worried. The mountain comes down.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
No, no, I didn't mean that he was worried about us,
and then later on he seemed to think everything was
all right.

Speaker 6 (09:32):
Worried about us? What do you mean I.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
Don't know it. It just flashed on me.

Speaker 2 (09:36):
I look, look, will you look at those women?

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Of course things, mister Kett, I'm going down to help him.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
Come on, no, you you go on, I'll I'll stay
here a minute. I want to think. Go ahead, well,
what are you going to do? Nothing?

Speaker 2 (09:49):
Just stand right here, you go on. I'll join you
in a minute. I just want to work something out.

Speaker 6 (09:54):
Pr Cat. I believe you're losing your mind. You're acting burgling.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Now go on, go ahead, please, Ms Lane see if
you can give us to lift. Look at the kids
running around in circles?

Speaker 6 (10:04):
Well call me? Were you ready to ride that yourself?

Speaker 1 (10:06):
All right? Thank Kevin? She left? Doesn't think she does?

Speaker 7 (10:15):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (10:15):
I didn't just think of something, miss Lane.

Speaker 2 (10:17):
I heard something with Superman's sensitive hearing. I heard voices,
voices traveling over telephone wires. There they are, they come
right out of the brick wall. Yeare the wires leading
from Piale's office. He's still talking and I'm going to listen.

Speaker 8 (10:40):
Never mind, I tell you they came here. They only
just left and looking for old man Mark. Find him?
Thank anything?

Speaker 1 (10:53):
Oh, I don't think so.

Speaker 8 (10:54):
Why did they come to you on account?

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Of the radio.

Speaker 8 (10:57):
Seems that you mentioned that cownces has he got it.
He found out a new way of refining. I told
you i'd take care of that, didn't I. Well, I
have Fails. It's in the bay. If you can work
it right from your end, we'll make a fortune. What
about the truck loaded?

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Ready to go? But listen, what about the mountain? I
just gotta report from the engineer. Listen, there's more rain.
It won't come down.

Speaker 8 (11:21):
I don't worry. There'll be more rain. When's the medtime?
Send the trucks out. Make it ten o'clock tonight, ten o'clock. Okay, Fails.
At ten o'clock, there'll be the biggest drain storm you
ever saw. Corns. What's the scheme? Halt workouts, have those
trucks at the right place on the road, and trust me.
From the rain, we'll block him off in the mountain
and raise a whole lot of them. Okay, Fails, that's all, Okay, Collins.

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Remember ten o'clock Tonight's the.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Time the devil's that fellow Fails is working hand in glove.
When the group has taken Morton and Morton himself. I
can't believe it. Yeah, I don't know, can't.

Speaker 6 (12:02):
Honestly, there is something wrong with you. You looks if.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
You've seen a gun, seen a ghost. Oh no, not exactly, Lois.
I've just been thinking. I've been working things.

Speaker 6 (12:13):
Off, working what things down, things.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
That are happening, Miss Lane. Don't ask me how I know,
Just take my word for it. There's a plot Hoorn
to steal that radium more and direct this whole settlement
to make it look pausible.

Speaker 5 (12:24):
This very nice, What mister can how do you know
it can't be what it is?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
I'll tell you something else too, Your uncle Horace, doctor
Morton is right in the thick of it. Now, then
let's figure out.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
What to do.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
How much can Superman and the person of Park can't
really tell Lois Lane without giving away his secret?

Speaker 1 (12:49):
And will she believe what he tells it?

Speaker 2 (12:51):
And even so, what can they do to prevent the
climax past approaching when music Mountain comes rolling down on
the settlement. Tune in and follow the story. I'm Superman.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Up at the time in the Pain and Superman.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics Magazine.

Speaker 9 (13:19):
All right, everybody, so just a few comments. Here we
see that Clark and Lois go talk to this man
Fails or Fails or whatever his name is, and at
first feels seems like he's uneasy, like he's afraid they

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know something they shouldn't know. But then when he finds
out that Clark and Lewis really don't know that much,
he relaxes and is a lot more at ease. Clark
suspects that something is up, obviously, and it turns out
that Fails is in with the bad guys. There is
a plot to steal the Radium war. I love that

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part where Clark as Superman uses his superhering to hear
the conversation over the telephone, and I just love it
because so much of the time we see Superman, you know,
throwing his weight around, throwing his muscles around, and it's
nice to see some of these other superpowers. There was

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one part when Clark and Lewis were finishing up their
conversation with Fels. There was one part where Lois says
they're leaving or says thanks or something, and Fels is like,
thanks for nothing, Hey like a smart elechi, And that
kind of confused me because it didn't sound like to

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me that Lois was trying to have an attitude. Maybe
I'm just mishearing something, or maybe something got distorted throughout time.
As far as you know, something happened to the audio file.
I don't know, but that that part confused me a
little bit.

Speaker 6 (15:05):
Well, I'm going to help them.

Speaker 5 (15:06):
I don't care if you think I just sit back
and find about it. This pails, Thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
Thanks for nothing, Gay, Sorry, quick side or I'm gonna
stay here in that.

Speaker 9 (15:18):
So we only have one episode left in this storyline.
So we'll Superman be able to stop Collins and Fell's
and rescue Morton. Well, I guess we'll have to wait
till the next episode to find out. All right, everybody,
we are going to take a quick break and then

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we'll be right back with Part six of Horace Morton's
Weather Predictions. Okay, everybody, welcome back. Let's go ahead and
get into Part six of Horace Morton's Weather Predictions. This
one aired June twenty first of nineteen forty Enjoy.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Presenting the transcription feature Superman.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Look that's the plague. It's Superman.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
And now Superman Balliant, Fighter for Truth and Justice, Mighty,
Champion of the Week and the oppressed, who came to
Earth from the planet Krypton, and who walks about among
men disguised as Miles Clark, Kent news reporter for the
Daily Planet. Flopes of music mountains softened by heavy rains
have advanced on the town of New Birmingham, and particularly

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on that part surrounding the plant where precious radium is
refined from the ores of black pitch plend While Lois
Lane helps freanding women pack up their belongings and get
children safely on buses, Kett has found the truckloads of
pitch plend Or worth thousands of dollars are being moved
from the refinery that night, and that the mysterious group,
which works through doctor Horace Morton, plans to bring on

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a violent storm that will make it thundering easy.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
Not knowing how or where they planned to strike.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Not being able to tell Lois how much he knows,
Ken works on assisting the desperately hurrying families. Not much
time to go, he knows the record planned to strike
at ten o'clock. So far Lois refuses to believe him.

Speaker 6 (17:16):
Listen, Oh, miss lad, I don't know what to do.

Speaker 5 (17:20):
Way Jimmy and Southay now missus snackmare, everything go all right.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Your husband's gone ahead with the fin it's your children,
Miss Laying, I can't leave.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
The children will be all right. Throw on the bush
around the bus.

Speaker 6 (17:30):
But I don't know.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (17:34):
Listen joy.

Speaker 5 (17:35):
That's beyond since not Sunday, missus snackmar at a.

Speaker 1 (17:40):
Remember what I said, the sorm coming up.

Speaker 6 (17:42):
Don't bother me about that. Now, go ahead, Miss Smacmary.
You'll get on that book too. It's the last one.
Go on, miss Lene. It's a pleasant angel. You really
helping us like you come to know. I'll be all right.
We've got a car. Everybody on, go ahead, rider gone well,

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Thank heavens, we got them all. Whatever happens now, they
won't be caught here.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
Lois his thing. I just thought of something else, Mint.

Speaker 6 (18:12):
They can't. It's no use.

Speaker 5 (18:13):
I just won't believe my uncle Hart is mixed up
with any gang of criminals.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
You can talk until you're blue in the faith unless
you've got something ready to go on in a hunch.
I'm not going to.

Speaker 1 (18:21):
I look here.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
You admit it can control the weather. You told me
that much yourself.

Speaker 1 (18:24):
I know. Well, then you also know that he's with
the gang.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
Now, what if the gang.

Speaker 1 (18:28):
Is making him do it? What if they plan to
bring down the mountain and.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
Block those trucks maybe tonight, guess and all those people
on their buses too, and the kids.

Speaker 6 (18:35):
Car They wouldn't do that, They couldn't.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
They might And if they were, what could we do
about it?

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Oh, it's too terrible? What could we do?

Speaker 1 (18:44):
Os? I've had an idea.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
If there is anything in this, If your uncle is
back of all his rain, where would he be working from?

Speaker 6 (18:50):
Oh? How should I know?

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (18:52):
Nobody knows, But we can guess. All his equipment is
back up at the observatory. Isn't it right on the
mountain itself?

Speaker 6 (18:58):
But Clark, he couldn't be there. They had guard up
there every since he disappears.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
Oh I know, I know. But gods can fall asleep,
can't they.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
Anyway, we don't really know where his scientific stuff is
or how he works. It might be somewhere out in
the woods. Even if the guard's right on the job.
The place is locked and he's on the outside. What
if there's a secret entrance. It's not impossible.

Speaker 6 (19:17):
It might be. Oh, I don't know. What do you
think we ought to do?

Speaker 1 (19:22):
What's the time?

Speaker 6 (19:23):
Wait? Quarter past nine and I'm pulling it off at ten?
What what do you say?

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Nothing? Look, he mus Lane? Are you gaming for something?
You know?

Speaker 2 (19:34):
I am?

Speaker 1 (19:34):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (19:35):
I want to go up to that observatory right now
and look it over. You never can tell. We might
find something, But what if we don't know where it's off?

Speaker 1 (19:42):
Are we? Come on back to the car and let's go.
We can make it in half an hour.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Storm or no?

Speaker 1 (19:46):
Stormy?

Speaker 6 (19:51):
There is a storm? S r.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Else it's the mountain starting another slide.

Speaker 1 (19:55):
Come on, here's the car.

Speaker 6 (20:00):
Oh well, he's all back again. Find anything on your side?

Speaker 1 (20:09):
Quiet? I think I saw a light?

Speaker 6 (20:11):
Did you where?

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I'm not sure? Look here, I'm going to try and
break him. Maybe I can pry open a window.

Speaker 6 (20:18):
Do you think it's say?

Speaker 1 (20:19):
I won't be if the guards catches you. Go back
to the road and keep an eye off.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
Hurry all right. If I see anything, I'll eat a
WHINTI will come back. Be careful, please.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
There she goes the girl plenty of grit.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
I don't want her around when it's time for Superman
to act.

Speaker 1 (20:38):
Did I see something? I'll say I did. Got to
get around the corner. There's a light in the cellar.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
I didn't notice that window before, it was hidden behind
the bush. Here we are, ah, let's see. Great Scott
Collins is down there, the gang leader with a gun. Yes,
there he is, the devil standing right back of Morton.
Morton's working in his equipment. And there's the police card
tied up in the corner. Well, my friend, you won't

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be carrying your plans much further. I'll get down where
you are, right through the wall in one crash.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Here goes out for the light, don't you dot gun? Colins?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Don't do it? I warned you, all right, take it now,
then wear that lamp. Oh, never mind, I can see
all right.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Doctor Martin, Doctor Martin? What is it? What's happen? Doctor Martin?

Speaker 2 (21:28):
It's me Clark Kent. I guess there was an explosion.
The whole world went out.

Speaker 1 (21:33):
How are you? Are you hurt? Collins? Watch out, Collins,
don't worry, he's out like a light. Lor What happened?

Speaker 6 (21:41):
I heard the crowds.

Speaker 2 (21:42):
Lewis right down here, down that hole. It's all right,
bring your flash light.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Norse Lors, Oh back heaven? Who come quich huncle horse?

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Are you all right, oh Clark, what's happened?

Speaker 10 (21:54):
They carried me off, made me work, made me create
red weather, nors the criminals, and that man Collins is
the head. Cluckly, quick, don't wait, doctor Martin, What do
you mean?

Speaker 1 (22:08):
The final storm? Ten o'clock, ten o'clock to.

Speaker 6 (22:11):
Nurse on behrre In ten o'clock.

Speaker 1 (22:14):
Now trucks, trucks sloaded with radium. They're going to bring
down the mountain. I'm called up a storm.

Speaker 6 (22:23):
It's coming here, not only the truck, the burnt all,
the children. Oh on the stop it then.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
That, doctor Martin, stop the storm.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
I can't.

Speaker 1 (22:34):
It's gone too far. If you come five minutes.

Speaker 6 (22:37):
So there, hard it's coming.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
You did, doctor Martin?

Speaker 2 (22:42):
Where is it going to happen?

Speaker 1 (22:44):
Where are they going to catch the trucks? Quick? Now quick?
Maybe I can head them off.

Speaker 7 (22:47):
The farest who passed beyond the refinery Hoest Hill pass
But you.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Cast up unto late.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
The whole side of the stip is loose, the block
the trucks and steal everything. Loris, you stay here, your
uncle untied debbling there in the corner.

Speaker 1 (23:02):
Then have him tie up columns.

Speaker 6 (23:03):
Clark, hurry, hurry, you maybe in time. All the children.

Speaker 2 (23:07):
I'll hurry all I can out the way I came
in there.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Out we go, Barras Hill Pass.

Speaker 2 (23:16):
Eh, Superman against the mountain. Not much time, got to hurry.
I'll get up.

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Down the wind faster than an airplane.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Superman streaks toward a narrow cup known as Barras Hill Pass,
and you make it in time. Already the line of
trucks creeps up the slope behind them, the swaying, rocking bus,
brightly lighted, eager boys and girls, knowing nothing of the
treacherous massive rock and earth poised on the heights above.

Speaker 6 (23:46):
Now you keep quiet, Oh, why declare? It's morning? I
can stand. Shut your noise on up you. Oh look
where we are. Look out the windows, even just in
Forest Hill Pass. Oh, children will be safe out of
here before we know.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
Oh.

Speaker 6 (24:01):
Look, it's starting to rain again.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
There are the trucks right in the past. There's the
school bus right behind them. Great heavens, look at that
rain coming down in sheets. And there comes the mountain.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's moving.

Speaker 2 (24:25):
Not to get there down now those men of the
trucks they've stopped. They're running away. Well I can use
those trucks myself. If I can stop that slide just
for a minute, the bus.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
Can get through.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
Down, down, God's coming. If I can fling the trucks
in the way, make a barrier. Too bad about the
radio arm. I'll love that. Maybe I can hold them
out and long enough for the buses to get by.

Speaker 7 (24:53):
Now, now.

Speaker 1 (24:56):
There goes one truck. Another Maybe I can make it.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yet, still coming down, and here's the bus for the
children in it. Oh, quick, quick, with another truck.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I don't have to do it. Hurry, hurry, stop for
a second. Keep that thing going, keep that bus going.
You'll make it. Hurry. Ah made it. That's safe. The
bus for the children got through. They're all right. They
got through. Okay, if you'd the mountain, come ahead and
do your worst. You can't hurt anybody.

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Now, another cup of tea, No, thank you, lad.

Speaker 1 (25:38):
I'm getting much better now, What about you, mister Kim.

Speaker 7 (25:41):
I'm doing fine. Splendid attempt you made, and I mean
to get down the mountain last night.

Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well, as it turned out, I didn't have to warn them.

Speaker 2 (25:50):
The trucks were wrecked, but the children got through, and
after all, that was the main thing.

Speaker 6 (25:53):
Very strange about the trucks wasn't it. They looked as
if someone had just picked them up.

Speaker 7 (25:57):
And thrown them right at the mountain, right so being
considered enough to dump them Catholey first, how do you
explain is Kent?

Speaker 8 (26:05):
Me?

Speaker 2 (26:05):
Gosh, I don't explain it. I can, But what about you,
doctor Morton? What about the Morton's system of weather control?
I don't forget Lewis, and I want a good long
interview about that for next Sunday's paper.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
How about starting talking right now? No, I think not,
mister Kent. I'm sorry, but I think not. Why Uncle
hoy Is, what do you mean, Lewis?

Speaker 7 (26:20):
I've made up my mind. I think the weather is
best left to nature. When we try to interfere with
nature's way of doing things, we may.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
All need trouble.

Speaker 7 (26:28):
But doctor look here we Sorry, mister Kent. I realize
I owe you much, but I owe humanity more. My
secret is one that is better left unknown. The Morton
system is dead. Pok destroyed. My story, I'm afraid, is
one which will never be printed.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
So ends the adventure of doctor Horace Martin, the man
who made the weather. Canon laws are disappointed that they
will have no story for editor White, but another assignment
is clothed in hand. Even more thrilling, more dramatic Junian
next time, and follow the story of Superman.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Up at the time. It's your Pain and Superman.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
Superman is a copyrighted feature appearing in Action Comics Magazine.

Speaker 9 (27:20):
All right, so I just want to make a few
brief comments and then we will wrap up today. I
don't really have a lot to say about this particular episode.
I feel like it was pretty straightforward. We had a
nice rescue there at the end. Unfortunately, and this is
just maybe one of the drawbacks of an audio only program,

(27:45):
but I feel like just the audio alone really didn't
do the scene justice there at the end, where you
have the mountain coming down and you have Superman throwing
these trucks at the mountain to stop it, and you know,
making way for the buses with the children on them

(28:08):
to get through. Unfortunately, it's just a little bit difficult,
I think, to appreciate such a huge scene in an
audio only form. Nevertheless, you know, it was good for
what it was, so just a few thoughts about the storyline. Overall,

(28:29):
really enjoyed it. This hasn't been one of my favorite storylines,
but it's still been a very enjoyable storyline. I love
how we started out with all the mystery and suspicions
surrounding Lois's uncle, and then of course later we find

(28:49):
out that he's not in with the bad guys, that
the bad guys are using him, and so you know,
it's always good that Lois's uncle turns out not to
be a bad guy. I feel like they were featuring
a topic that was very much ahead of its time,
this idea of actually making the weather happen, and this

(29:12):
was all the way back in nineteen forty and they're
already thinking about these sort of very sci fi type,
you know things. I just found that very interesting. All Right,
everybody that is going to be a rap for today,
hope you enjoyed the storyline. Please please please send me

(29:34):
emails and tell me what you thought about this storyline. Again,
you can send them to otr msh at gmail dot com.
I would love to hear from you if you like
the show. Want to invite you to head on over
to the iTunes Apple Podcast reviews and leave a FIP
star rating if you like the show, I would much
appreciate that. All Right, everybody that is going to be

(29:56):
a rap. Thank you so much for listening, and I'll
catch