What happens
Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet, sends reporter Lois Lane to Freeville to look into an unusual drought affecting a new veterans farm community. Lois sends a series of puzzling telegrams, and then a warning arrives urging that she be ordered out of town. Clark Kent hurries to the town, where Lois has vanished after a telegraph operator with a walrus mustache refuses to talk. Superman's search for the missing reporter begins. The Adventures of Superman, a radio series, aired on January 21, 1947 as part of this episode. The transcript ends before the story's resolution.
Metropolis and the small town of Freeville, where a drought has struck a new veterans farm community.
Characters: Perry White, Lois Lane, Clark Kent, Superman, Mr. Sykes
Listen for: Clark Kent's arrival in Freeville and the hotel clerk's account of Lois Lane's disappearance.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.