 the national broadcasting company presents counter spy parting counters by calling washington especially appointed to investigate and both at home these counter spy reports to the american people are brought to you each week at this time now the case of the invisible insurrectionist maria the baby is crying again she does not sleep and the doctor says it is sleep that she needs i know maria it is no good for her here in the city of new york it is no good here for all of us one we should go back to Puerto rica we will go back soon maria now please try to make her stop please my maria see i will try salinas my friend come in menard i came as soon as i could on the telephone you sounded troubled what is it salinas we have been cheated cheated i do not understand the man who promised to give us jobs in the mill in new jersey you do not mean mr franklin see mr franklin the man to whom we all gave fifty dollars the man who promised us jobs for that money the man with whom we signed that contract salinas he is a cheat this mr franklin menard how do you know this i have been there today in new jersey you went to the mill mill there is no mill my friend it is all untrue no mill no job my fifty dollars gone yours and mine and all our friends who have come here from Puerto Rico for work we must go to the police salinas no but this man franklin must be punished first we will go to this man franklin i know where his office is we will get what is rightfully ours in our own way that's quite an interesting story manard has just told us hello sure is mr franklin you have cheated us all me salinas and and the others who have come here from puerto rico i want my money back mr franklin so you want your money back manard and you salinas you don't feel the same way about it i salinas see he does tell him salinas huh no harm will come to menard you promised mr franklin salinas you were smart to bring him here salinas i do not understand you promise you will not harm menard mr franklin always keeps his word that's correct louis i'll just see the manard gets back to Puerto Rico with what he knows now to be unwise to allow him to remain here salinas you are this man's accomplice you have helped him steal from me and your other friends it had to be done menard to take money from people who have sold it was not for the money i am not a thief it was for the good of our nation Puerto Rico our nation Puerto Rico see for its liberation we must throw off the yoke of united states tyranny then then you are with the nationalists they have made you betray your friends oh no the cause you do not understand when i understand you have been deceived by the real enemies of freedom it is they who would impose tyranny upon us salinas listen before it is too late salinas understands that all sacrifices must be made for the good of the cause is that not correct salinas yes i'll be all salinas you may leave cannot believe this sir salinas all our lives we were such friends louis manard is shocked you suppose you give him some shock treatment sure mr franklin what now mr franklin take him down the back way and load him into the car okay and louis yeah mr franklin bring your gun with you you'll need it heartings office brave and this is harry peters phoning from counters by patrol boat 41 i just received word that mr heartings been trying to contact me yes mr hearting late department building at 11 the conference will be over by then better got it brayden i'll be there madam's first stop my house what's at this time chief here peter regis bulletin came in early this morning my new york feel of it how does this concern us a one manard the man who was found shot to death is one of an undetermined number of porta rickens who were taken in by a job placement racket only the jobs didn't exist is that it that's it after my talk with the port oregon affairs division i'm convinced that the racket is more political and financial you mean in view of what's been happening in port orico yes peter we've come across all types of sabotage espionage enemy propaganda this is probably the most subtle plan ever conceived of creating anti united states feeling among porta regans chief you mean these people come here from port orico with the promise of work they're defrauded and they go back to port orico with stories of how they were taken over by some yankee swindler yes that's right and one manard's murder could be the strongest propaganda point of all you can understand now it's not just another murder case it has overtones of insurrection attached to it we've got a big job ahead of us anything specific to go on mr hunting only a vague description of two men connected with the job placement racket okay chief when do i pack now you've got just enough time to stick a toothbrush in your pocket we're flying to new york within half an hour can i do something for you we're looking for mrs one manard i'm david harding of the counterspies this is agent harry peters oh i'm mrs gladus milford winter gentlemen come in you kill mrs manard is out to have a drug prescription filled it's for the youngest of the children the baby i take it you're here concerning her husband yes that's right are you a friend of both so and sense i'm with the welfare league we give family counseling and aid in such neighborhoods as this you've known the manards for long mrs milford since they arrived here several months ago i arranged for the two older children to go to day nursery the moment i'm looking after the infant in the next room i see well is there anything you could tell us about one manard i knew little about mr manard we met only once this has been a terrible blow to his wife we're doing everything for her we possibly can did the baby cry mrs maria these men are from the counterspies counterspies they want to ask you questions about your husband about my one my name is harding this is mr peters we won't stay long mrs manard just a few questions and then we'll leave why did they kill my one he was a good man he did not hurt anybody well mrs manard do you remember your husband ever mentioning the name of the man to whom he gave money for a job he did not tell me the name of this man oh the baby i must take care of her maria give me the medicine see now you do what you can to help mr harding gracias mrs milford gracias now mrs manard who were the other men who gave money to this person please i i do not want to talk about it one is dead you cannot bring him back no mrs manard but we can bring his murderer to justice justice there is no justice in this place we should have never come my one would still be alive mrs manard your husband was sacrificed to an evil political cause i do not know about politics i only know that we came here and my husband was killed i only know that it is bad here that the people here are bad that we cannot listen to me that's exactly what certain people want all portoregans to believe now if we don't find your husband's murderer if you don't help us there'll be other murders more than that there'll be possibly a great deal of bloodshed in your homeland now you wouldn't want other wives and other families to to suffer as you have needlessly would you would you mrs manard no no i would not want that then who were the other men who gave money for john's well when pedro salinas told them about it they all gave pedro salinas see salinas and juan have been friends for many years where can we get in touch with salinas i do not know where he lives he he was here with juan the night that he left the house with one that night mrs manard see and you don't know where we can find salinas the girl he has lola maybe she knows you have her address no but she works at a restaurant on 110th street they scold them the toro i see you you will find the one who killed my juan we're going to try mrs manard and we'll start looking with pedro salinas girlfriend lola so your counter spies so what so we'd like to ask you a few questions lola well about what your friend pedro salinas where is he i don't know where he is or where does he live that is when you do know where he is he never told me ever told you funny kind of a boyfriend yeah funny kind when you see him last last week where what's the difference don't make it rough girly it's better answering questions here than in a jail cell my place okay which is where 106th street 785 east one flight up not twice you didn't see him after that or hear from him no phone calls letters postcards anything sure you haven't heard from him since one manard was found in that alley shot to death who's one manard if you didn't know you should act like i'm a book of knowledge or something look you got me more questions i make my living here the warfare gets sore if he sees me wasting any more time no no more questions lola just a word of advice like what stay here in town where we can get in touch with you i ain't going any place all right come on peter lola's the lulu of alaya mr honey you're telling me could have taken her in for questioning we may do better this way which way when we get out to the patrol car radio the field office to have a stake out for a lola's apartment i think that may offer us the shortest distance between us and Pedro selena selena where have you been why haven't you called me since the other night explain that later i wanted to bring me to contract the one you've been persuading your friends to sign you still have it don't you yes all right bring it to me and now that the office here i'll be at the warehouse near mod street you know where hey get there soon you can i'll be waiting for you all right selena's i'll take that contract now mr franklin you promised it no harm would come to one manard he was my friend what has become of your feelings for the cause that should be far above personal consideration selena's you promised me it couldn't be helped he made things difficult for lois isn't that correct lois that's right mr franklin you lied to me both of you you wanted one debt you're trying my patience selena's you'll give me the paper with the signatures do like mr franklin says i do not have them what i did not bring them with me where are they selena's i will not tell lois okay my arm my arm i'll break it off the paper no no no no no i will not tell i will come on stop please please stop stop i can't stand the paper in the house of one manard he's out on his feet now lois will visit mrs manard we'll leave selena's here that way mr franklin no lois not that way this way you are listening to the case of the invisible insurrectionist on counter spy tonight there's another broadcast of nbc's sunday evening extravaganza the big show to lula bankhead will preside as usual and tonight stars are bob hope dean martin and jerry lois loyam strong rosalyn russell darothy maguire frankie lane and meredith wilson with his orchestra and chorus and sunday over most of these nbc stations also means another visit with the mischievous harris family frankie julius and all their friends on the phil harris alice face show the chimes are your invitation every sunday to the big show and the phil harris alice face show now back to counter spy new york counters by field of his hearting speaking yes i certainly do go ahead yes i have that well thank you very much is of course i'll let you know what happens and goodbye peter's order a car to be ready for us out front immediately what's up chief that was lola selenus told her to call us in case of trouble she know what we can locate selenus yes peter's if we're not too late laria you must try to rest oh you are very kind mrs milford there are some people here in the city of new york who are so good like you and some are so bad were you expecting anyone no i didn't know you stay right where you are i'll see who it is back inside lady you're not a peep out of you who are you close the door louis shut your mouth lady and no one gets hurt mrs milford who are these men what do they want i don't know maria so very simple ladies one manard had in his possession of paper i want that paper mrs manard i do not understand the work contract contract i do not know what you mean oh perhaps you don't louis commence searching okay this is unlawful isn't it you can't expect to get away with a thing like this but i intend to madam really any luck louis no not yet be seated ladies please thank you i'll just wander around myself and help louis yeah it's not much of a view from this window is there or is there come on louis come on what about the paper the car just pulled up downstairs two men got out and entered this building and they certainly don't look like tenants maybe cops we'll take no chance in finding out let's go i want you ladies stay right where you are come on come on let's get going they're coming up to this floor we're trapped no we can get up to the roof come on now this will slow them up keep going they got away over the roofs well they're locked won't hold out peter's will get plenty of blood stains on the stairs leading to the roof one of them is hurt you'll have to get to a doctor sometime everything all right here in the manor department no damage just woke up the baby mrs milford's inside helping mrs manard did your men catch the mr hardy no mrs milford this has been terribly upsetting for maria yes that poor woman's had plenty of trouble they said they wanted a paper a contract of some kind yes we knew that from Pedro selenus you found selenus just a few moments before he died in a warehouse he was shot by a man named franklin there was also another man called lewis selenus told us to get here fast well did those two find the paper i don't think so good all right peter you get started on that other matter while i take up where those two left off harding go ahead peter jeep i checked on franklin at the address selenus gave us and if you get any leads from anybody in the building all right peter you may as welcome back here to the field office you had no luck either i fared much better you want but yes i sent the paper down to the lab for analysis at the time you get back here we should have a report on it get out of here mr franklin easy lowest would be picked up in a minute if we left here i i gotta get to a doctor my my whole arm now is burning like it was on fire you mustn't complain we were lucky to find this empty barge to hide in i i can't stand it honest you'll survive i'm sure yeah you can talk you you ain't got a slug in you i i don't want to die if i if i stay here i'll die believe me i sympathize with you but you have the counter spies to thank for your pain not me i'm getting to a doctor wait a minute like all you crazy you'll be caught i'm giving up i'll wind up in one piece that way get back down oh my arm you're not giving up i'm not letting you that that gun ain't gonna help you franklin you you fire one shot and coppers will be swarming all over the spot i'm not going to use it for firing louis i'm going to use the butt in for another purpose report on that paper mr hearting i was on the way in when parker handed it to me did you look it over for you quickly it's an expensive type bomb and uh here's a list of retailers in the city who handle it that's quite a long list should i sign squads this time investigation yes right away okay we'll do and peter's wait just a minute come in brayden the body of our harbor patrol go ahead brayden it was found in an empty barge report indicates the link shows him to be louis troye all right brayden thank you the man called louis mhm the chief that leaves one to go franklin yes well i'll get to work on that list of paper dealers we'll see where that leads us this is franklin i have to see you tonight tonight please i'll need money i'd better leave the country all right then the swamp over in new jersey all right i'll be there at 10 tonight so late i thought you weren't coming i was unavoidably detained franklin you brought the money for me mr milford i brought exactly what you need franklin you fumble badly you ordered me to get rid of one man that was your idea it wasn't my idea that his body should be found that was louis fault it was your fault for choosing such an inefficient lieutenant was it louis's fault that you permitted that contract to get out of your hands so that you had to come to the manard apartment while i was there how did i know you were there i had to act quickly so quickly you were almost caught by harding franklin your stupidity has put the entire cause in jeopardy i and the others worked for months years to gain a solid foothold in where we could threaten the snug bourgeois safety of the united states but i tell you be quiet it took me years to place myself in a position in new york where i could help with the eventual overthrow of the capitalistic enemy and you almost spoiled everything you haven't been exposed mrs milford you can still operate safely through no help of yours you've put our schedule for the coup and portarico at least six months behind we've waited so long we can wait that much longer perhaps we can but you can't oh what do you mean by that you can no longer be trusted now wait i have been put in charge of this phase of our work and it is my opinion that for the good of the cause you should be liquidated don't move but as they say franklin he who lives by the sword shall die by the sword or in this case the gun you you and there's a matter of fact franklin this is the only cause i dare take now oh wait please this meeting place you chose makes it very convenient for me and for me too mrs milford dropping drop that gun can we walk franklin i'm not moving how did you get here simple we followed you mrs milford followed me through that contract paper we thought the tracing of that type paper would lead us to franklin but it led us straight to your phony charity front and on the way out in the car my agents radioed me that they found some very interesting case histories in your files with names and addresses of people here and in Puerto Rico involved in this plot had a nice setup didn't you mrs milford passing yourself off as a welfare worker in the Puerto Rican district in new york you were a welfare worker all right the welfare of the enemies of this country in Puerto Rico take them away peter it gives me great pleasure to introduce a statement to counterspy from the man who probably knows as much as anyone in the united states about the Puerto Rican people and their welfare problems here the honorable Raymond M. Hilliard commissioner of welfare city of new york here is commissioner hilliard statement today's counter spy story has its basis in actual fact i can well believe that many Puerto ricans living here have been the victims of cruel and crooked exploitation and i am convinced that communist saboteurs have deliberately stirred up trouble and have tried to wreck the unity of the citizens of this city and of the nation i know that there was a time when communists had achieved a strong hold among those engaged in welfare work in this city but it has been my task during the past two and a half years to break their power to throw out the communists and to return welfare work to its proper place as an instrument of lawful government we have found the Puerto rican residents of new york city a decent and friendly people who hold that this government is their government we are proud of them and we know that they will not be deceived by those who would try to destroy us thank you commissioner hilliard tune in every week same time same station to counter spy listen next week for the exciting case of the pretty plant a gracious guest brings her hospitable hostess a most unusual gift and your counter spies are started on their way to the breaking up of an international spiring how a drugstore led to the disaster when treason had the fragrance of hyacinth will be revealed for the first time next week in case of the pretty plant on counter spy tonight's counter spy program originated in new york was directed by marx below dramatized by edward j adamson and featured don mcglucklin and mandel kramer vinyl rico speaking counter spy is a philips h lord production three chimes mean good times on nbc want to know who's on the big show tonight bob hope dean martin and jerry louis rosslyn russell frankie lane darith emigre louis armstrong meredith wilson and the glamorous and predictable to lula no wonder it's the big show and sunday evening also means another outstanding production by theater guild on the air tonight it's boomerang starring kirk douglas joined to lula and her wonderful guests on the big show later on nbc