What happens
Clark Kent, a reporter at the Daily Planet, learns that his colleague Jim Olsen has been arrested on a serious federal charge. Editor Perry White is trying to reach Kent, and Beanie Martin, a copy boy, goes searching for him. Meanwhile, Kent has just returned from helping rescue Batman, Robin, and Mr. Grayson from the sea, and the aftermath of the yacht sinking is still being reported. The Adventures of Superman is the radio series in which Superman comes to the aid of his friends, and this installment is part fifteen of The Dead Voice storyline, first broadcast on October 16, 1946.
Metropolis, at the Daily Planet offices and police headquarters, with an earlier scene at sea off the coast.
Characters: Clark Kent, Perry White, Beanie Martin, Mary Hennig, Jim Olsen, Batman, Robin, Mr. Grayson
Listen for: Perry White's call to Clark Kent about Jim Olsen's arrest on a federal charge, and the news that Paul Marsh and Captain Skinner are in custody.
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.