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Presenting the transcription feature Superman.
I'm in the sky, look, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!
And now Superman.
When we last saw him, Superman as Clark Kent
had come to the town of Dyerville with lowest lane
to save it from the grim designs of the yellow mask
who had threatened to destroy it unless the city paid him the huge sum
of a million dollars within 36 hours.
Kent has discovered that the mask intends
to wipe out the mighty hearty dam above the city
and sweep away every living thing in the resulting flood.
But how the mask plans to break the dam
guarded as it is by heavily armed police is still a mystery.
Today as our story continues,
sudden terror has seized a small group standing on top of the dam.
Less than 12 hours ago before the end of the time limit set by the hill of mask,
but already strange rumbling shocks far below the surface of the water
sound the warnings of disaster.
Kent, lowest lane, the city commissioner of Dyerville
caught on the roadway of the dam,
raced wildly for the shore.
Hey, what's that, the slave?
Hey, man!
Come on, come on!
Don't stop to look back!
Okay, it's all right now!
No, I don't think so.
Take it easy, Commissioner.
I've had noise whenever it was.
It's all over now.
Kent, I'd give you my word, I thought it was all over right
in ten minutes.
What was it?
What happened?
I can't imagine.
Felt like an earthquake shock.
Yes, or an explosion,
way down under the water.
Explosion, Kent.
Say, it might have been at that.
But why?
Even if the mask is going to blow out the dam,
we've still got ten hours by his own words.
Yeah, that's right.
Till midnight tonight.
Well, I'm not so sure about that.
Look, here's why I followed you out here.
This letter came just after you left my office.
What is it?
Sir, no, don't ask me how it came because I don't know.
All I know is that I've hollered on my desk.
I'd have sworn the head and mid-asshole in the room.
You're really, Kent.
What?
To the city commission.
The secret empire is becoming impatient.
I am not pleased with the way Dyerville meets my demands.
Let there be more speed or I may change my mind.
Sign the yellow mask.
More speed may change his mind.
And what do you mean by that?
Commissioner, the mask may be fooling us.
It's not like him to give such a plain warning.
Mr. Kent, I don't understand.
Well, I mean just this.
What if the mask doesn't mean to blow up the dam at all?
What if he's got some other scheme?
We can't.
Why do you think that?
Well, he's let us know too much.
Almost looks as if he wanted us all up here
while he worked out another plan somewhere else.
Is that the case?
What can we do?
I love us.
I mean, Miss Lane.
You'll go back to town with the commissioner.
Back to the meeting.
Isn't that your car right over there?
Yes, it is.
Are you sure that's the best thing to do?
I'm not sure.
I'd now know but he can be sure of anything.
I'll take your word for it, Kent.
Come along, Miss Lane.
It was out of Peter's.
We're going back.
Mr. Kent, what are you going to do?
Oh, stay around.
Keep my eyes open.
My ears.
All right.
Get in, Miss Lane.
That's it.
And Kent, whatever happens, try and get back to the meeting.
I'll do that, commissioner.
That's a promise.
Don't forget.
And good luck to you.
Not only to me.
Good luck to all of us.
Luck, eh?
We'll need a little luck.
Now that they're gone, I think it's time
Clark Kent get way to Superman.
Need those policemen watching?
No.
I think I'll have a look under water.
Find out where those explosions came from.
Here I go.
Here, here's something.
Looks like a piece of polished metal.
And right up against the dam, too, where the crack is.
I can get it loose through the bottom.
Now that got it, right it loose.
Now up, up in the air.
And over the shore to see what it is.
In the shelter of a group of pine trees,
Superman examines the curious object.
He is taken from the bottom of Harley Lake.
Amazement shows in his eyes.
He leaps again into the sky and streaks for the eating chamber
in the council hall of Diarville, where
fierce trick and citizens look at each other
with pale, drawn faces.
I don't know what we're going to do.
Oh, there's no question.
Don't you know better than to call me out now?
Who is it?
There he is, Commissioner.
Said you knew him.
Oh, Kent.
Well, quick man, there's anything happened.
Commissioner, where's Miss Lane?
She's all right, she's waiting in my office.
And what about the mask?
Commissioner, I've found the reason for that explosion
we felt this afternoon.
Yes.
It was a torpedo.
Oh, a torpedo.
That's what I said.
And underwater torpedo fired from somewhere
up the lake at the face of the Harley Dam.
No wonder it shook.
Here's what, but why?
The time hadn't expired.
What was the reason?
Number one, to terrify us.
Number two, to show us what he could do.
Commissioner, when the time comes,
the yellow mask can blow that dam into a thousand bits.
Where is he?
Can we find him and stop him?
Well, we might if we had time.
Right now, he could be anywhere on Harley Lake.
And it's getting dark.
No time for that, Commissioner.
What's the meeting doing?
Oh, nothing.
Talking it over, arguing back and forth.
We have a radio in there in case the mask sends another message.
And the proceedings are being broadcast,
so that everyone in the devil will know what's going on.
Oh, will they pay the money?
I don't know.
Do you think?
Look at Commissioner.
Yes.
Tell me quickly.
If the dam does go, how does the water come down the city?
Billions of gallons can't.
Well, there wouldn't be a chance.
No, no, that's not what I mean.
What's its course?
Which way does it go?
Down through the Jefferson gorge, and then into the valley.
And the iron mills right in the way.
Who's a gorge?
Commissioner, if you could block that gorge, what would happen?
Well, I don't know.
Yes, I do, too.
The flood would go down the old riverbed.
And miss the city?
Miss it entirely.
Enjoy the river again two miles below Darwin.
Commissioner, could you dynamite that gorge?
Block it up?
Well, I don't know.
But no, no, no.
We couldn't nut in the time we had.
Well, try it.
Call in the army.
Have their engineers get right out there and set charges.
It's your own chance.
It can be, if you think.
Well, if that's the only way.
Listen, they're calling for a vote.
I'm going to go back in there, Kent.
You'd better come to them.
Make a final decision.
Come along.
All right.
All right.
Well, gentlemen, are you ready for the question, gentlemen?
Yes.
What a tough one.
Leave me to my mind.
They can't let me lose.
Gentlemen, it has been moved and seconded.
That no further action be taken in the matter of the demands
made on Diabelle, by the figure known as the Edelmask.
All those in favor?
Aye.
Country minded?
It is so bold.
Gentlemen, you have made your decision.
And I think your wise one, the people of this city cannot
yield to the threat of fear.
Very well, gentlemen.
You have made your decision.
And I have made my own decision.
Where is the commission?
It's clearing over the radio.
I shall not wait until midnight.
I shall destroy your city now at once.
And others may know what it means to defy the will of the Edelmask.
Run for your lives, you fools.
Save them if you can.
I want to see you again.
I want to see another French man.
Yes.
I have released my torpedoes.
The flood is already on its way.
What is on the way?
What is on the way?
Order, order, gentlemen.
He can't meet it.
That was just a threat.
He can't do it.
Now keep your seats.
Come in, sir.
Whose voice was that broadcast?
Are you heard it on the radio yesterday?
You know who it was.
But I don't believe him.
Where's that news reporter?
Where's Clark Kent?
Where is the reporter?
Give us a minute.
Where's the commissioner?
Where's the commissioner?
Here's Mr. Lam.
What's the matter?
Quiet.
All of you.
Listen.
A phone call just came in commissioner.
The day.
It's been blown to pieces.
Paulie Dan is destroyed.
The flood is coming down on diabetes.
I will.
I will.
I will.
I will.
I will.
I will.
I will.
I will.
And meanwhile, where is Clark Kent?
Vanished from the scene, changed into twinkling to the flying form of Superman.
Hustard and an airplane.
Redpokes streaming in the wind.
He rushes back up the valley to meet the boiling, roaring flood of Harley Lake,
pouring down toward the narrow gorge of the Jefferson River.
I have a work fest.
This has got to be the time.
First to see if that depth was telling the truth.
Then the block of the gorge.
It's one chance in a thousand.
Even Superman can't hold back a flood.
Lord, won't hurt me.
I can't drown.
But I can kill every living soul in the direville.
Faster.
Faster.
Ah, there it is.
So you did it after all, Mask.
Well, let's see if it's still time to stop you.
Back to the Jefferson Gorge.
Raising ahead of the flood, Superman swoops down to the only place where it can be turned from the doom city.
The narrow bend of the man-made gorge.
Rocky cliffs rise a hundred feet on either side.
Downs under the towering wall of angry water.
There it is.
Can't get there ahead of the water, but maybe I can block it off.
Down.
Down.
Terrying at the granite walls, blood waters raging on every hand.
Superman rips into the living rock, sends great masses lunging to the foot of the gorge.
But war is needed, and yet more, the water is thundering through.
A great point of stone hangs high overhead.
One last chance.
If I can rip that loose, crash it down there in the middle.
There it goes.
Not much time.
What's more?
It's cracking.
It's starting to go.
Now.
It's down.
It's done it.
It's not the gorge.
But what?
The flood's going down the old channel.
It'll miss Fireville by half a mile.
In the last second of time, Superman tears down the hierarchy walls of Jefferson Gorge.
Turns aside the mainstream of the flood, sends it down its old harmless channel, saves the city of Fireville.
And two hours later, in a telegraph office on the city's main street.
All right, here comes another sheet. Same address.
Paracquite, daily planet.
Well, Mr. Ken Fancy meeting you here.
Hello, Lewis.
Tell me it's all over.
The flood missed Fireville.
And once again, do you mind telling me where you've been all the time?
Oh, I don't know, out and around.
Well, one thing, certainly.
This time, it's my story and not yours.
Your story, you bet it is.
You're cowardly running away, cut you right out of it.
I've said, Mr. White, a complete account of how Fireville would save from the flood.
This is one time, Mr. Clark Kent, when you were in on it.
Hiding a smile Kent turns away.
Then the smile abruptly fades.
Fireville is saved as Lewis says.
But what of the yellow mask?
Suddenly Kent realizes that the mad menace is still large.
And who can tell where his next blow will strike?
So be with us again next time and follow the exciting story of Superman.
And remember, be sure to tune in the next thrilling installment of the amazing transcription feature, Superman.
Up in the sky.
Look, it's a bird.
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