Superman - The North Star Mining Company

Presenting the transcription feature, Superman!

Up in the sky! Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!

And now, Superman, when we last saw Clark Kent, he was in the midst of a baffling mystery.

Waiting at the hospital to interview the girl he had saved in the nick of time from a burning building, he had heard a scream.

Two men, forcing as the girl's relatives, had visited her room, stabbed her, and suddenly vanished.

Today, as our story continues, some time has passed, the girl's injury proved not to be serious.

And she is now willing to give Clark Kent his interview, though nervous and upset.

As her story approaches its climax, she becomes more and more excited. Listen.

Mr. Kent, when I woke up here in the hospital, the first thing I saw, the very first thing with those two faces bending over my bed,

it was partly pampered and Joseph demeaned.

They're the ones who tried to kill you, but they're the head officers of the North Star mining company.

Of course they are, don't you understand? Mr. Kent, I was their office secretary.

About two months ago, I found out what they were doing. Mr. Kent, they weren't honest, they were swindlers.

They sold people stock in a mine out west, a mine with no gold in it.

Go on, Miss Anderson, if you're not too tired.

I found some letters and some secret diagrams and maps.

And then came the morning of the fire.

Yes, go on.

I got down to the office early that morning and began going through his desk.

I was in his office all alone.

I knew I had at least an hour before he got in.

I stood there opening and spring draws and all the time I didn't have any idea that there was somebody watching him in the closet.

Damn it.

Have you, by any chance, been investigating the activities of the North Star mine, Miss Anderson?

Have you?

All right. Since you've caught me, yes I have.

You've caught me and I caught you, you swindlers.

Oh, you wanted you.

Now look here, girl, what do you mean by calling a swindlers?

You realize you can go to jail for that?

Yeah, jail. You're a fine pair to be talking about jail.

That's where you're going. I've got written proof.

Oh, that's a lie, Miss Anderson. You have no proof.

No. What about that letter you wrote a month ago to Barker Out West?

What about the crooked figures? What about those records you were looking for just last week?

Well, what about them?

I have them, that's all. Every single one of them.

Where are they?

Where you'll never find them, Joseph Deneen.

Never in the world, not you or anybody else.

Are you sure of that, Miss Anderson?

Mr. Deneen and I are very clever at finding things.

You'll never find these papers. I'm the only one in the world who knows where they are.

They only were, huh? Well, how fortunate.

All right, grab it, Joseph. Shoulders all we need to know.

Get away. Don't you dare.

No one going to help us. Nobody here will be for another half hour.

And by that time, by that time, Miss Anderson, we'll be gone.

Gone for good, and you'll still be here.

Gone, Joe, catch her. Time for up.

Here, wait a minute, I'll give you a hand.

I guess I was a fool, all right, Mr. Kent.

I just didn't stop to think.

I shouldn't have told him I was the only person who knew.

Oh, Miss Anderson, those papers.

Why were they so anxious to keep anyone from finding them?

Mr. Kent, I don't know.

Must be something more than just proof of the spindle.

Miss Anderson, where did you hide them?

What did you do with those maps and diagrams?

My brother. He's the captain of a freight steamer, the Madison.

I gave him all the papers and a package,

and told him to put them in the ship's safe.

And that's what they are now? Does your brother know what they are?

No, I didn't tell him.

Well, Mr. Kent, I can just see those two faces standing over me.

I can't stand.

No, I didn't care. Please, Miss Anderson.

Don't. Look, here comes the nurse.

Mr. Kent, I just heard from an orderly.

Those men came in a car.

A car? What kind of a car?

A big black sedan.

Licensed 2, 4, 0, 6.

2, 4, 0, 6, so long, Miss Anderson.

Where are you going?

We find that car. Thanks, nurse.

Mr. Kent, it's still at the parking lot. They left it there.

Fine, that makes it easier. See you later.

2, 4, 0, 6.

Well, if that isn't a break, I never heard one.

Ah, here's the parking lot.

And there's the car.

Down.

Down.

Now to see what I can find.

Maybe an address, records, something to tell where they are.

Locked. I've got to get in.

Hope nobody's looking.

Now then, I'll just take a door off. That'll be quick.

Once more.

Now into the glove compartment.

Ah, nothing. Nothing but guns.

Two pistols.

Well, Superman can take care of those.

Hey, hey, what's that guy doing? Look.

They've seen me. Got to get out of here.

He's got the car. He's got the door off. Get him.

Come on.

Sorry, boys. Can't stay.

Gotta get back to my paper and write up this story as Clark Kent.

In a hideout near the waterfront, Bartley Pemberton and Joseph Denean stare grimly

at the black type that tells so much.

And is so silent on the one thing they want most to know,

whether their ex-secretary, June Anderson, has turned the incriminating papers

over to the police.

Pemberton decides to visit the daily planet office

and learn what he can.

Disguised to Dr. Ambrose, an investor in the North Star mining company,

he pays a call on Clark Kent.

Hey, no, Kent. Somebody wants to see you.

Ah, all right. Who is he?

Right this way. That's Mr. Kent.

Oh, thank you. Thank you so much.

Mr. Kent, Mr. Clark Kent, who wrote the story on the North Star.

I'm Clark Kent. What can I do for you?

Want you sit down?

Thanks. Mr. Kent, I'm a medical man.

Dr. Ambrose.

And every penny I possess is invested in the North Star mining company.

Oh, say, I'm terribly sorry, doctor.

Oh, Mr. Kent, you don't mean that.

I'm afraid I do.

Those fellows, Pemberton and Denean were out and out confidence men.

Swindlers.

They were? Why the crooks, the rascals?

Oh, sorry about your savings, doctor.

Mr. Kent, my loss is not half so serious as the fact

that men like that are still at large.

Oh, don't worry. They won't be long.

Oh, you'll catch them? You have proof?

Not yet. But we will have.

Not yet. I don't understand if you haven't the proof now.

Where is it?

Kent. Kent, man, I have been looking for you everywhere.

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you were busy.

Oh, Mr. White, I just got in.

Now, this is Dr. Ambrose.

He invested in the North Star mine.

Mr. White, doctor.

How do you do?

Yes, I should say I did invest.

It was great work on your part, Kent.

I just got a call from the district attorney's office.

And what did they say?

They checked the girl's story and it's true.

She has got a brother who's the captain of a tramp steamer.

And she did give him the package of papers just before he saved her.

Listen, you don't mean it.

Yes, isn't that something, doctor?

Where's the tramp steamer heading for, Mr. White?

Well, he asked us not to print it.

Which is the Madison running south from here to Charleston.

The Madison.

When will it arrive in Charleston?

The day after tomorrow.

And the minute she docks, one of the DA's men will step aboard

and pick up the package.

I guess that'll put those quotes behind the bars all right.

When they're caught.

Yes, indeed, Mr. Redditor. When they're caught.

Well, I'll not keep understanding you, gentlemen.

I won't say no. I didn't mean interrupt you in Kent.

And there's anything you want to know, doctor.

Another thing, Mr. Kent, I'll just run along.

My business, you know, it's been a pleasure.

A real pleasure.

Well, if you're sure there's nothing I can tell you.

No, no, nothing, whatever.

You told me all the reasons to tell.

Well, good day, gentlemen. Good day.

The old fighter.

Well, what do you make of him, Kent?

I can't imagine, Mr. White.

He's probably worried stiff over his money.

You can blame him for that.

Now, where are you going?

Back up to the hospital.

There's a whole lot more of that story.

I want to talk to that Anderson girl again.

See you later, Mr. White.

And you say you've heard from your brother?

I had a wireless message.

Huh?

The papers are all right.

And he'll turn them over to the police when he knocks at Charleston.

Ah, now all we have to do is find Deneen and Pemberton.

I feel safer when they're caught.

You and an old doctor that called him here a while ago.

Said he'd invested heavily in the North Star mining company.

Poor man. What was his name?

Why, uh, Ambrose, Dr. Ambrose.

I don't recall any investor by that name.

And all the time I was talking to Mr. White about the Anderson,

the doctor just said they're biting his lips

and tapping his index finger on the desk as though...

What?

Oh, what's the matter, Miss Anderson?

What did you say he did?

Did his lips and tap with his finger?

Oh, yes. What's so odd about that?

Nothing. Only.

Mr. Kent, this old doctor, do you remember how tall he was?

I'm sure about half a head shorter than I am.

And did his eyebrows meet in front in a straight line?

Why, yes, they did.

Mr. Kent, the finger that he tapped with,

was there a scar on the knuckle? Did you notice that?

Miss Anderson, you know him? Who was he?

Oh, Kent, your guess, Mr. Kent?

It was Bartley Pemberton, president of the North Star mining company.

And now he knows!

Bartley Pemberton?

Well, Miss Anderson, what if he does know?

Don't you see? Don't you understand?

He wants those papers.

You'll do anything to get him.

You'll take a plane or a fast boat.

You'll catch a steamer.

I'll show my brother.

Now we're really getting somewhere.

Take a boat, will he?

And catch the steamer and kill the captain.

I think not Pemberton.

Not this time.

And not while Superman is around.

Ah, there's Sandy Hook.

You've got a good start, Pemberton.

But you'll need a...

Paster! Paster!

Is that the Madison?

That big hook up there ahead.

That's our boss.

Hold up with her in good shape.

Watch out for this wave.

Bart, what are you going to do?

Hoist his stress signal. Shoot off the rocket.

Get that captain to take us aboard.

And what?

Well, then we'll see.

But whatever happens, we've got to have those papers.

Or make sure nobody else does.

Stand by, Joe. Here comes more water.

All right, sailor. Let go of the rockets.

Signal that freighter to heave to.

Kimmer the whistle.

What will happen on board the Madison?

When Pemberton and Deneen demand the papers from Captain Anderson's safe.

And when Superman comes freaking down from the northern sky in hot pursuit.

Tune in next time and follow the story.

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Superman!

Up in the sky!

Look!

It's a bird!

It's a plane!

It's Superman!

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