through chemistry good evening ladies and gentlemen this is the cavalcade of america sponsored by the du pont company tonight we present a new radio play the diary of a saboteur written by Peter Lyon especially for cavalcade a play that might be taking place in your own hometown starring joseph schiltkraut as the nazi secret agent and mildred natwick as a new england shopkeeper in diary of a saboteur on the cavalcade of america uh... the logistus laboratory the psychological laboratory of the nazi third right without the that left the process commanded by general hans from port imagine it is nineteen thirty nine and then an agent named carl ritter is summoned to the office of general from force their conversation would have gone somewhat along these lines carl ritter reporting sir hi rittler hi rittler captain ritter you may stay with us thank you miss ann yes general bring me the ritter file have a seat ritter thank you you may smoke if you wish thank you sir here is the ritter file sir that's all for the moment carl ritter correct correct who used special study of the psychological laboratory doesn't look like a little bit psychoanalysis personality study national psychology and propaganda techniques with the causes emphasized who are the usual subsidiary work in social organization how about oratory i mean uh... platform technology of course six months because i took the preliminary basic year of chemistry code properly radio microphotography and i think that you're a medical citizenship i hope and i think that's the moment you have to concentrate on our general directors of the moment and that's a little of course you don't have to do some of the most of what you've been the red devils last week and you know i don't know i'm fine i don't need to tell you the special at the end of the possibility of playing on the theme of white supremacy or the new growth text on the president of utilization of our various organizations in america all our usual not the tactics or can i get a list of those of our people that i'm to see speak to the cells about it on the way out and she has some money for you and the usual credentials automobile license social security card and the specific instructions you're getting a ticket to montreal first we can hope that the fb i will make you that way second because i wanted to get some information almost immediately even before you get to new york on your way from montreal to new york i wanted to stop off in new england in that city to be precise we have learned of a tremendous new factory being built there for some entirely new weapon this of course inconceivable that these americans have developed a weapon which we have not already in our arsenal of cost nevertheless i want to investigate not only the sector but it's product in new york you'll get in touch with the courier appointed to you and he will transmit your findings understood and but i mean you know you will do everything in your power to ensure american neutrality when the war breaks out particularly set the bundesk right this is a vital importance we'll get all the money you need for the work must be incessant and effective and when all other if i am unable to continue that sort of work you will decide about that when the occasion arises developed team Italy about but remember that occurs assignment is a Sana satire at that time does i like top had problem I believe that in New York, imperative New York check and launch description unavailable. Good morning sir. Good morning. What can I do for you? I'm looking for a special cigar, man, the kind that I rather like the... What's the name of them? The name...oh, right there, they're in this box. That box? There ain't nothing special about this cigar. I reckon every cigar store in New City carries this cigar. How many do you want, mister? Oh, half a dozen will do. Thank you. A lot of activity down the street, isn't there? Yeah. Looks like a new factory going up. Yeah. One of them...one of them defense factories, I take it. Yeah. Well, I guess the city feels pretty good about getting this new business. Means you sell more papers and cigars too, doesn't it? Like that. Tell me, what are they going to be making in that factory? They ain't taken me into their confidence on that point yet, mister. Well, well, well, man, you don't need to bite my head off. Don't make me sound as if I were a spy or something. You can't be too sure these days, can you? You thinking of getting a job there? Well, no, not exactly. You see, I'm a salesman. I was just curious to find out if this factory there is going to be the kind that would need some of my product, maybe. Well, if it's the kind of goods to help make tank busters, you've got a client. Tank busters, is it? That's what they say. Well, I guess I'd better look up the plant manager right away. Thank you. Good afternoon. Mr. Evans. Yes, sir. I should like a corner suite, please, on about the 10th floor. Yes. I expect to be here indefinitely. Here's my card, I can see it. You can attend to any financial questions through my bankers, the export mercantile on Wall Street. I shall want an extra private telephone put in my sitting room. Can you attend to that for me? Oh, yes, indeed, Mr. Jensen. Shall I register you under your business address in Stockholm, sir? Yes, if you please. Yes, sir. Boy, one room, 1033. Come in. Mr. Jensen? Yes. I come for greetings from Brantzau, Berlin, and Hamburg. Brantzau, Berlin, Hamburg. Oh, good, I was expecting. Ah, and Captain Ritter. Hi, Hitler. My name is, of course, known to you. Well, your arrival is most welcome. Tell me the news, I'm all eagerness. You heard of our work back in the day, didn't you? Yes, sir. Yes, we've heard of it. Ah, yes, yes. Things progress. You don't need to worry about us. We are justly proud of our work, I can tell you. I'm afraid you're alone in your pride, sir. What? Shut up. Listen to me. And take both that foolish smile and that fraudulent look of consternation off your face. Your tactics have been wrong, all wrong. From now on, and I want this instruction to be transmitted to all our organizations, when a speaker gets up on an American platform, he's to forget Germany. When a pamphlet comes out, it is to ignore Germany. Ignore Germany? Exactly, you heard me, just that. From now on, in public, you are no longer Germans, understand? You're Americans. Similarly, when you attack something, you attack it as un-American, alien, Jewish, Bolshevist. From now on, you're an American patriot, understood? Un-American. Right, yeah, I think I understand, Captain Widow. Anyway, so much for form, now as for content. Oh, by the way, you'd better take some note on all these things. Oh, of course, of course, Captain. If I may just borrow your fountain pen here. Put that pen down. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be... Here, here's a pencil. Just let me have that fountain pen, please. Yes, sure, I'm sure I didn't mean to... That's all right, never mind. What was I saying? Oh, yes, the content of your propaganda. Everything your speakers say, every printed word you get out, all must focus on one thing, American neutrality. Implement this general directive with every means at your command. All our energies are to be thrown behind keeping America out of the war until Germany is ready. What are we to do if such work becomes illegal? If we fail and America goes to war? Then, my friend, the form of our work changes, but it does not stop. Changes? Yes. You see this fountain pen, the one you almost were foolish enough to use a moment ago? Yes. Very well. It contains a very interesting chemical arrangement. I have several fountain pens like this one. Oh, yes. Yes, I have heard about them. It's a thermite bomb, no? It will burn. Never fear for me, my friend. And now get on about your work. I wish to see results immediately in every sidewalk auditor, every mothers' organization, every trade union, even from church pulpits, even from the floor of Congress itself. We are being dragged into war by a government that has been taken over by radicals and aliens. I tell you the truth. Mothers, we must stand together. Our sons are to be brooded on foreign fields for the profits of Jewish bankers. My friends, if this keeps up, there won't be any election in November. You can bet on that. Yes, sir, you bet. Listen, pal, Germany will never attack us, and Japan is bogged down in China. We're safe now, and we're safe for years to come. December 7, 1941. Gentlemen, order. Captain Ritter has the floor. Gentlemen, as a few of us have known for some weeks now, our work has got to undergo an immediate change. From now on, the emphasis will be all on splitting the United States from Russia and England. All right, everybody, you must take no chances. This meeting will have to break up immediately. At any moment, the FBI may be on our trail. You will know how to get in touch with me at Mill City if you need to. Remember, from now on, we are soldiers of the Third Reich on enemy soil. Our Fuhrer looks to us to fulfill our national socialist destiny. Today, gentlemen, we own Germany. To model the world. Heidl! Heidl! Yes, sir? Hello, Mrs. Abbott. Well, well, well, I guess you don't remember me. I came here about a year ago. Oh, I'm afraid I don't. Oh, now we chatted about that factory, don't you remember? Oh, well. I'm sorry. Well, no matter. My name is William Miller. I work now at that same factory. Do you now? Yeah. Well, welcome to Mill City. Thanks. This is my daughter, Priscilla, Mr. Miller. She works in the big factory, too. Hello. Oh, how do you do? You work in that factory, too, huh? Oh, sure. I'm on the assembly line, the machine shop. Where? And this is Clem Hall. He's Priscilla's intended. Glad to see you, Mr. Miller. How are you? Congratulations to you both. You work in that big factory, too, do you? Yeah, that's right. Well, that's great. Perhaps we can all walk to the plant together this morning, huh? No, I'm afraid not, Mr. Miller. Priscilla and I are working on the swing shift this week. We aren't going to the plant until tonight. Oh, I see. Well, that's too bad. Well, some other time. Mrs. Abbott, I make it a point to buy all my newspapers and cigarettes right here. No more than that. Come on. So long, Mrs. Abbott. So long, Mrs. Abbott. Well, Mr. Miller, haven't seen you in the dog's age. Oh, Mrs. Abbott. I've been working pretty hard, I guess. Keeping you busy, are they? How are things at the plant? Not so good. I must say, Mr. Miller, you don't sound so tricky these days. Well, a lot of us are beginning to ask ourselves, what are we working so hard for? We didn't ask for this. What did we work so hard for? No, that's right, we didn't. No? Lots of folks don't ask to catch cold, either. That's right. Wake up on a Sunday morning and sneeze once or twice. There they are, with fever and snuffles. That's right. The war isn't going any too well for us either, Mrs. Abbott. Don't kid yourself. Say, any of your friends got suns in the Navy? My dick? He's in it all right. That's so. Men in our family have been going to sea for six generations. Lots of folks around here are the same. Why? Well, I wouldn't want to worry you all then, for that matter. It's probably nothing. By what? What is it? Well, you see, Mrs. Abbott, I got a sister down in Savannah, Georgia. And she wrote me that the three ships have put in at the harbor. They're all loaded with coffins. Coffins? Yes, they say we've suffered a terrible neighbor disaster in the North Atlantic, Mrs. Abbott. I guess the government in Washington is trying to hush it up. Well, I suppose that's why they had those ships put in at Savannah, not in Boston or New York. Well, I imagine the government knows best. But it does seem a little bit funny, doesn't it? Coffins. My dick was on Atlantic patrol. Well, I tell you, I wouldn't tell your friends about it, Mrs. Abbott. They just want to know. Oh, hi there, Millie. Hi there, Clem. For someone around? Afraid not, Clem. But she said she was going to meet you here at eight to go to the movies. Yeah, that's the trouble. I have to break the date. I've got to go to a safety committee meeting tonight at the plant. Well, I'll tell her. I'd like to leave her a note. Can I borrow a pencil? Oh, oh, pencil. Oh, I'm sorry, Clem. I lost mine. I was looking for it just a minute ago. Coffins. That's terrible. Why? What's that about coffins? Oh, nothing, nothing. It's just a rumor, Clem. I wouldn't spread it. Oh, a rumor. Oh, say, Millie, you have a pen there. May I borrow it to write or sell a note? Well, I'll miss terrible. Yeah, but I... Oh, I won't hurt it. I just want to write a little note. Well, it's this way, Clem. You see, I'm left-handed, and the point of this pen is delicate. You don't mind, do you? It's a peculiar idea of mine. Oh, all right. Never mind, Clem. I'll give Priscilla your message. Oh, you'll excuse me, please. I'm late for an appointment. So long, Clem. So long as you're happy. So long. He's a funny guy. It was a terrible, shocking thing he told me just before you came. Terrible, shocking thing. You're listening to Joseph Schillkraut as the Nazi agent and Mildred Natwick as a New England shopkeeper in Diary of a Saboteur on the cavalcade of America, sponsored by DuPont. It is some weeks after Pearl Harbor, and Carl Ritter, ace Nazi agent carrying out orders from Berlin, has gotten a job at the war plant in Mill City. And now as our play continues, he is planning with his associates to carry out his work of sabotage. Why, you coming? Good evening, Charlie. Sorry to be late for the meeting. I was over at the Sagasta. Max and Fred are both here. Hello, how are you? Hello, how are you? Everything by shortwave? Berlin wants specifications on the tank buster. Oh, they do. Something easier. It's almost time for another shortwave, Captain, right? Radio's turning in. Want the earphones? I'd love them by plug-in to speaker. Maybe something for all of us. OK. This is Berlin calling. Yeah, they are. Berlin calling North America. In just a moment, we will bring you the news. Hey, Richard, I've got to work. Shut up. But first, we present a musical instrument to you. What is it? A radio. A radio. A radio. A radio. A radio. First, we present a musical interlude from the G minor sonata of Van Quaert. G minor. It is amazing. All right. We bring you the first movement marked Andante. That's it, Andante. Something important, huh? Listen. Are you ready, Max? Yes. Go on, listen. That's enough. Turn it off. Well, did you get it, Max? Yes. Well, come on. Come on. Decode it. What's it say? All right. Well? Now I have it. The note of the plant must be destroyed. Oh. This could change our plan. No, it won't. Our plans are all made. I made them. What are they? Oh. This little pen here. I almost had an embarrassing time with it a half hour ago. The boy in the cigar store wanted to borrow it to write a note to his sweetheart. But who would have planned to pen you? No, even that I planned. I have the perfect dupe to take this little pen in for us. When? On our way to the plant tomorrow night. Well, Clem. Oh, hello, Milly. Going to work? Yep. Thought I'd look in first, Mrs. Abbott, for a cigar. Oh, good enough. I'll go with you. I'm going to have my hands full tonight. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Foreman asked me to tell the machine crew the new safety rules. Well, I guess there's work for all of us these days. Boy, you're not kidding, are you? Now, here we are. Go ahead. Thanks, Clem. Well, hello. Hello. Howdy, Mrs. Abbott. Didn't Priscilla get here yet? Oh, she'll be here in a minute. Well, Mrs. Abbott, I believe I've rolled up quite a bit. At your store the last two or three weeks. Oh, don't bother, Mr. Miller. Of course, if you do have a little cash with you, I can always use it. Well, I have no cash, Mrs. Abbott. I'll write you a check. How much does it come to? Papers, magazines, cigar, you know. Well, it's right here in my account book. Let's see, L.M. There you are. Four sixty-two. Four sixty-two. There you are. I think you'll find it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. I'll go and get it. In the bank. In the bank. I'll buy two But. Oh it's not important. To. So I. I claim that man Miller just hollered at me that he's left his pen here. Sure has a dropsy tonight Andy he was running for the but he wants you to bring it to him at the plant plan OK. But you know you look worried I'm all right I just don't like that guy don't like him something I don't know why I'll forget him yeah that's what I'll do they'll forget me if you want to don't forget his pain. And. That's the. diffusion. Series imposed. It comes out frame. Don't think it was taking a chance on my going back to my cost not you idiot this way they can you know suspicion of this is what they if they couldn't pan out a trolley that kind of burned the pen so. How old even be a trace here. Why don't we get a fire engine. Ten minutes late already how long a delay did you put in the time that can it was to go off it and I was working on the night shift this week better that way in the fire will have a chance to get really going and I've chance to get to the turpentine barrels next the locker room and after that. That mechanism went off fully ten minutes ago where that is a fire which is by now well under way gone Johnny got any minutes ago you want to go yeah you look. Open the door. That smoke in the sky can be a good come on little bit of her happy the Americans they think they can fight a war against them and this I can't let us write my heart but I thought I did. Why what's this about I said what you're hurting but the fire at her is it just as a killer or that neither keep your hands away from your pocket you there. Just keep holding our suitcases I don't know what you're talking about either you do you want to tell him this is that but oh good morning this is that what are you doing there so I know where these men just some gentleman from the FBI Mr what's your name that's right written to the. Long brother of yours took a little time Miller but we caught up with you. But at least I've carried out the orders of my fear it'll be some time before you Americans will build any more like busters and that beautiful plan to you know you're you're I guess lady get the last word go ahead with that oh yes Ritter we had a little fire in town tonight some old newspapers in my backyard why you are lying my pencil fire with a plan oh no it didn't you should know better than to make out your check with your right hand when you told clan and me you are left handed. Thank you Joseph Schiltrout and Mildred Natwick before we tell you about our play and star for next week we have some news that all DuPont workers are proud of Ted Jewett of the cavalcade is just returned from a DuPont plant on the Delaware River where he witnessed the presentation of still another army Navy E to a DuPont plant I'm going to ask him to tell you what it's like to attend an E ceremony behind the guarded gates of a chemical plant making materials for war yes I was there and I can tell you a little of what I saw this DuPont plant among the latest to receive the E is called the dye works because more perhaps than any other plant of the country it helped to give the United States a dye industry after the last war but in this war it isn't making dyes alone it's making more than a thousand products going either directly or indirectly to the fighting forces it's grown so that it has its own railroad line about 25 miles of track within the plant's many acres that was the thing that excited me in my tour of the plant a feeling of production on an intensive scale a feeling that products were literally pouring out of this plant by the train road we need production to win the war this is production as only Americans can produce major general Clifford L Corbin of the US Army Quartermaster Corps presented the award and he said in part I quote the output for the military as well as the civilians of hundreds of textile plants is absolutely dependent upon the production of this plant the management and the employees of this company are producing materials that are just as essential for the war effort as our guns and airplanes our meeting today is a tribute to your record just as a soldier of the battlefield is decorated for valor and outstanding performance so you collectively today are being decorated unquote the award was accepted for DuPont by dr. William Kirk the plant manager and WW weather be the president of the plant's collective bargaining agency now standing beside me in the studio is a man from the dye works who was a member of the employees committee to receive the army Navy E pins mr. Al Brown mr. Brown has been with a DuPont company for 43 years Al how do you feel about this award I feel proud basically when I remember that 25 years ago the place where the dye works now stands was just small paint wash marshland and the one big building I worked in 1917 has become 700 buildings today by change in the last quarter of a century 1920 we shipped 14 million pounds of various dyes this just became 168 million pounds of various finished products in 1940 we began by making dyes today we're making not only dyes but hundreds of different products to serve American industry in its fight for victory we're producing all right day and night that's all I have to say except that by doing everything in our power to back up the fighting men on the fighting fronts we approve that we deserve this army Navy E by doing our jobs just a little bit better thank you Al Brown and Ted Jewish ladies and gentlemen the army Navy E about which we've told you tonight is one of many awarded to DuPont plants across the nation this is a continued story that will run on for the duration part of the story of the wartime work of the plants producing DuPont peacetime better things for better living through chemistry in the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service all of us thrilled with that citation heard so often today but there's one man who would fill more than any of us could he hear it he is John Paul Jones founder of our Navy it is his story that cavalcade brings you next week with Ralph Bellamy as our star be with us next week when DuPont again sponsors the cavalcade of America our star will be Ralph Bellamy our play called the 18th captain is the exciting ever-timely story of our Navy's rise to glory cavalcade is pleased to remind its listeners that Joseph Schiltrout heard on tonight's program is now starring in Uncle Harry and that miss Mildred Natwick is co-starring in Noel Coward's flight spirit both plays currently Broadway successes tonight's play written by Peter Lyon was based on original material by Michael Sayers and Albert Kahn authors of the recent best-seller sabotage the orchestra and musical score for tonight's program were under the direction of Don Burey this is Clayton Collier sending best wishes from DuPont
