 Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. These hallmark cards bring you an unusual true story from the life of Captain Thomas Catesby-Jones, starring Mr. Van Heflin on the hallmark host, Mr. Lionel Barrymore. Of Thomas Catesby-Jones, Captain United States Navy. A man who sailed to the Hawaiian Islands many, many years ago. In so doing, he was perhaps one of the men most responsible for an event taking shape even today in the Congress of the United States. Statehood for Hawaii. Our star, Mr. Van Heflin, and our exciting story in just a moment. Now, here is Frank Goss. A hallmark card not only says what you want to say, the way you want to say it, it also tells your friends something about you. It shows that you're a thoughtful person. That you go to a fine store and personally select the right card. A hallmark card testifies that you demand good taste, good design. And the hallmark and crown on the back of the card shows that you carry enough to send the very best. Lionel Barrymore appears by arrangement with MGM, producers of Executive Suite, starring William Holden, June Allison, Barbara Stanwyck, Frederick March, Walter Pigeon, Shelly Winters, Paul Douglas, and Louis Calhurt. And now, Mr. Barrymore brings you a transcribed tonight's exciting story starring Mr. Van Heflin on the hallmark hall of fame. We have it to this place of the world, the spoils of the island. And so it was in 1823, the United States government ordered this specific squadron into the waters of the Sandwich Islands, as Hawaii was called. This command recently given to a young man, Captain Thomas Catsby-Jones. Mr. Calhurt, call the reading. Yes, sir, Captain Sir. I hold him good. You heard the call, the depth of the channel is becoming shallow. I know the waters of Mamalabe, Captain Sir, as baby I knew them. That is why Queen Kahumanu chose me to pilot you safe to landfall. Yes, Travis, what is it? This fellow, sir, this native. To let such a man fall, sir. A queen sent him to us, Travis. Surely a man is... And who knows of the queen, sir? Queen of an island festering with pirates and cutthroats. A woman who has... A woman whose island is filled with unrest and fear. Our missionaries have been beseeching Washington for help. And Travis... Yes, sir. Is my fervent prayer and wish as it must be yours. That this is what we bring to them. That a squadron of the United States Navy can sail peacefully into an uncharted harbor and bring with it French. Captain Sir. Sounding is now fore, Makua. Yes, I heard. Listen to me, Makua. Steer this ship with care. Steer her with great care, Rocky. The distress ensues, Mr. Travis. Yes, sir. And signal the captains of my squadron not to enter this channel. Drop sail at the harbor's entrance. Lower anchor and await further orders. Yes, sir. Mr. Aye aye, Captain. What damage, Mr. What damage to our hull? Little, sir. Not enough to make her bleed. Good. Then I'll give orders to... Lower batteries, Travis, firing across to bow. And the Queen's banner waved high. I'll signal the squadron to move it in line and return fire. No, you will not. But, sir, to run us aground, then to fire upon us. This is an act of war. You will run up the flag of truce, Mr. Travis. Because we've come in peace. That's in order, Mr. Travis. Sir. What? You see it, sir? The walker knew that approaches us from shore. Yes, I see it. We run the white flag and into another trek, sir. We will wait for them and mean why we will fly the flag of truce. Move to it, Mr. There are vessels of war that had you not unfurled the flag of truce, our cannon would have splintered your fleet and your men also. And this is the word of welcome you bring from your Queen. And this other word, that on the coral reefs of our island and in its waters is the staining of many bloods, and Her Majesty wishes not the spilling of yours or your men. My mission here is one of peace to all of us. Her Majesty commands you to immediate audience, and I have come to bring you to it. And for that you needed a war canoe and 40 warriors with battle lances? The commander for majesty of the islands, Queen Kahahumanu. I wait upon you. I will come. And alone. Alone then? Captain. Yes, Travis? It's an evil and vicious trick, sir. You believe this man. You believe he will deliver you unharmed to his queen. My dress soared, Lieutenant Travis. Will you bring it to me, please? And the gifts. Unarmed you will come, commander. And the gift only of your kneeling to Her Majesty. Captain, I beg you. We can treat on our own terms. Seize this man. Our Queen's command, Travis. To Ula. Yes. A great palace of stone at the foot of the mountain there. The Queen's? Yes. It is where I shall take you. Lieutenant Travis, give this command to the fleet. To hold under line and to train ship's cannon on that palace of stone. And if I'm not back by nightfall, assume command and give the order to fire. Come to Ula. Now, what's your service? American Navy. That is correct, Your Majesty. Mighty warriors. But I have explained that. We're here on the mission of peace. We do not come as warriors. But only to negotiate a trade treaty. Yes. Then, sir, I must ask you this. Good captain of the American Navy who comes not as warrior. Why then, sir, as I watched it, are your ship's guns trained upon this palace? Your Majesty, it was not I who began the treachery. Silence. Stranger to this place. You come in war boats. You speak the word treachery. By what moral right? Your Majesty, one of your people steered my flagship onto a sandbar. Then I was fired on. Listen to me. A few years ago, the ships of another Navy sailed into our harbor and held out the hand of friendship which I took. They stayed six months and left their bounty, cholera, wasted villages, and disease. I know, Your Majesty, but what of the Spanish pirates? Our missionaries report it is they who destroy your land. Yes. They say that your people worship the old gods again and perform blood sacrifice. Yes. They tell how Christianity and morality they've brought have been. Sailor, warrior, listen to me. It is as you say. The Spanish pirates and the corruption they heap on my people have done it. The words of your missionaries are forgotten. Then there's a thing that I promise you. What's the... The end of corruption, the end of piracy. War, then. Killing to be done. Killing to be done. They say. They say upon the island of Molokai there is a priest and he labors to put the words of your Bible into the language of my people. It is good. We must stop the return of the old gods and the old ways. And when the fighting is done, teachers and doctors will come from my land to yours and bring peace and friendship and brotherhood. Captain, warrior captain, did these islands of the evil men and what you have come for, this treaty you seek, it shall be yours. Moana. Your Majesty, Kowahumanu. The audience is over. Escort the captain to wherever he wishes. Captain. To my ship, please. Your Majesty. God be your right hand. Captain. Yes. I have been told you must understand, I serve. So is my position. Why, what are you trying to say? I have been told when you have finished audience with Queen to tell you of another audience. With whom? There is a room at the end of this turning. It is my room and he waits for you there. Who? His name I do not know yet I have been paid to arrange that you speak to him. You do not ask what manner of man he is. So I will tell you. Spanish and a sailor. And a pirate? The room is there. Speak to him or do not, as you wish it. Enter. Enter, Captain. The American Navy is welcome to Hawaii and you, dear Captain, eminently so. Oh, forgive me. Sebastian Epandro de Vaca. Emissary. Man with a mission. Even as you. However, since the invitation for this meeting was mine, therefore I make the explanation of much beauty these islands and wealth, the population, children. Consider them beautiful islands, people by beautiful children eager to give up a treasure for beads and trinkets. Join us and lend us your ships, Captain. And wealth can be yours such as... Now up. Get up. They will destroy you. Now up again and listen. And remember what I'm going to say to you, each word because your life depends on that. Piracy is done. It's over, dead. Then the American Navy will hunt you down into every atoll behind every reef in the South Pacific and necessary. Sink you, destroy you. Do you understand? Will you remember that? Take that back to your others. Tell them. Let them know. Just a moment, we return to the second act of the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This is the wonderful week when spring seems to burst out in full. You see it flowering in the bushes. 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The symbol that says, you carry enough to send the very best. And now Lionel Barrymore brings you the second act of our true story of Captain Thomas Catesby Jones starring Mr. Van Heflin. In the southern waters of the Pacific seas, the squadron of the United States Navy under the command of Captain Thomas Jones against the pirate Armadas. And for this, to restore to an island its dignity, to relieve it of pillage, and to bring it once more into the ways of progress and peace. There was a final battle to be fought. The pirate fleet driven now, clustered and bristling into heel-baked and aboard a United States flagship, the strategy to be shaped. Your attention, gentlemen. Mr. Travis, yes, sir. The charter has prepared. Will you hold it please? An orientation, gentlemen. The enemy position here. North and east of us, riding anchor at Hilo Bay, waiting for us. Teasing us into a pirate trap they've set for us. Thank you, Mr. Travis. Sir? Yes. We could outweigh them, hover in the sea about them and out of range, and taunt the cutthroats to us, and destroy them. The pirates have been here a long time, Travis, and they feed on the land and on the corruption they've ceded. No. There's another way. Yes, sir. This way, mister. A man of war to be rode by cover of night into the mouth of Hilo Bay, and there set with charges and at a pre-arranged time scuttle and blocked the pirates from exit. Cornered them and choked them from the open seas. And for this, I will have a volunteer. Gentlemen, you've been brave captains with me and fought nobly. And I will have a volunteer at your service, sir. Thank you, Bencroft. Your orders are these, then. Assign yourself, a skeleton crew, detach your ship, the Mercedes from our squadron, and a cover of darkness take her into the mouth of Hilo Bay. There set your explosive charges and at the first ray of sunrise, kindle your explosives, scuttle your ship. Understand, sir? Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Bencroft. And for the rest of us is another task. Will you hold that chart again, please, Mr. Travis? Note this position, gentlemen. Raleigh Point. It's a hill that looks down into the throat of Hilo Bay. And 300 feet above looks under the decks and the guns of the pirate fleet. Thank you, Mr. Travis. And your orders, gentlemen, just strip your vessels of their cannons. Yes, sir. Exactly, gentlemen. We will abandon our vessels here, transport our cannon by Oberlin to Raleigh Point. The 12 pounders, sir. The 12 pounders, mister. But each of them weighs a ton. Yes, mister. Nothing, sir. But how? We will lay bindings of logs across our long boats, make graphs and barges of them float the 12 pounders to Capoho just south of Hilo and out of sight of the enemy. There we will disembark, transport the cannon overland, and ascend Raleigh Point to the crest and place the batteries and destroy the pirate fleet. But, sir, the task alone of lifting the 12 pounders for our vessel is with scugs and cables and the muscles of our men and ourselves. This is what we'll do, gentlemen. A downpour of hot shot to burn their fleet, destroy their rule of lust and corruption. Not your orders, gentlemen. That'll be all. Getting them 12 pounders on a raft is one thing, captain. Pushing them on top of hill and setting them and destroying a pirate's float till is another thing. We'll do it, mister. Captain. Yes. You'll do it indeed, sir. All right. Here we go. I heard you gave the order to light the torches, captain. Surely the enemy will see us climbing up the mountain side. I didn't think there were natives on a torchlet night. I hope it. What are the timber cutters ahead, mister? The logs are felled near to the top. A road of logs, sir. Good. Mister? I'm thinking the 12 pounders will ride the road to the very top, I think that. And I'm thinking too that this night's a pride for the United States Navy. Carry on, Mr. Chavez. Your gun is ready? Yes, sir. Push out a cannon anchor to dry us the truth, sir. That curve of sky there. A new day will look over it soon. A moment ago I thought I saw the outline of the Mercedes against the bay. See there? Yes. I have a glass, sir. Thank you. Often his volunteers are pulling from it. If he set those charges right, we'll... Well, we'll wait. What are your crew, Lieutenant? Aye, sir. Gun crew! All in! The Mercedes will be the stopper. They'll bottle them tight in that bay. Not to it, sir. Let's see you fire your cannon so you'll burn them to the sea. Captain of war and captain of peace, that I may touch your hands. The hands that held out friendship to me and to my people. I touch them, these hands, that held sword and fire. Worn and hard they are and with scarings. And yet within them the rush and flow of gentleness. Your Majesty. Yes? We have been ordered to return. Our mission is complete. And you will leave us then? Yes. And in your wake, in aftermath of battle and bloodshed, what then for my people? What I've told you, teachers and doctors are the men of humanity and a peace will come. I will be grateful and my people will be grateful and the memory of you will stay long and fast within our hearts. Captain. Yes, Majesty. I am a queen. Yes. And my realm is wealth and places of paradise. And you have but to name a desire. And as I am queen. Your Majesty. Name it then, Captain of peace. No more than was asked at the beginning. A treaty with my government, a treaty of trade, treaty of brotherhood. Write it then, Captain. And with the gentleness that is in you. And I will put seal to it. And it will become the law of my people. I'm honored. Majesty. Yes? A gift I've brought to you. One that I couldn't give you before. It's finished now. Please take it. A book. That is fruit of a sweet labor. A labor of a priest. The island of Molokai. The Bible. It is finished then. Yes. In your language. In the language of your people. A translation of the New Testament. My gift to a queen. I will cherish it. And I will abide by it. And on each leaf. A memory of you. I have your leave then, Majesty. Yes. I know her. Those told the queen what happened did happen. There came to Hawaii the ministers and the farmers and the surgeons and the tradesmen. Each in his own way giving to the lush land a thing it had starved for. Good and the single climate in which to prosper in which to grow. So today the Hawaiian islands has reached maturity and stands ready to be welcomed by our community of states. The 49th, the new star in our flag. The Hallmark May baskets mothers and teachers are talking about all over the country. They're pretty colorful baskets the youngsters can put together themselves without the aid of scissors or glue. Once they're made Hallmark May baskets are ready to fill with a few candies and flowers and to leave on the doorsteps of friends. Just as children have done for years ever since the pilgrims first brought the custom to America. It's a wonderful way to celebrate the fine old custom of May day and to teach little folks thoughtfulness at the same time. And here's a suggestion for this coming week. These Hallmark May baskets will add a delightful flower touch to your Easter table or mantel. To they make thoughtful and unusual Easter gifts. They cost just 50 cents for a package of five different designs. So look for Hallmark May baskets when you stop at a fine store where Hallmark cards are sold. You'll recognize them instantly by the Hallmark and crown on the package. The symbol you always look for when you'll carry enough to send the very best. And now here again is Lionel Barrymore. Very nice. It was a great pleasure to have you on the Hallmark Hall of Fame tonight. Thank you for being with us. Well I enjoyed being here Lionel. It was interesting to learn something of the early history of the people in that beautiful land of Hawaii. Too often I believe we've thought of it only as a sort of a glorified sunshine spot loaded with flowers and it's good to realize that there always has been and continues to be a strong core of character coming from both the land and the people. That's one reason I enjoy the stories you have on Hallmark Hall of Fame Lionel. You always end up feeling that you've learned something. Well now it's nice to hear you say that man. Because we feel about our stories pretty much as we feel about Hallmark cards that they should be entertaining and true leave a good feeling around the heart. I'd say you and the makers of Hallmark cards have succeeded admirably with those standards Lionel. Whose story are you going to tell next week? The next week van is Easter Sunday and we'll present the unknown story of a businesswoman in early Greece who played a dramatic role in the establishment of Christianity. It's an exciting story and we're especially proud to have as our star truly one of the great ladies of the American theater Miss Helen Hayes. Now that sounds like an outstanding program Lionel and I'll certainly be listening. Good night van Haefen until next week then this is Lionel Barrymore saying good night. Family and stores that have been carefully selected to give you expert and friendly service. Remember a Hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best. Our producer director is William Frew. Mr. van Haefen can currently be seen in the George Stevens production Shane. Our transcribers script tonight by David Friedkin and Mort Farr. Featured in our cast were Paula Winslow, Betty Harford, William Conrad, Tom Brown, Jack Prussian, Fred MacKay and Lou Krugman. Listen to the Hallmark Hall of Fame on television Easter Sunday when we present one of the most beautiful and moving stories from the Bible the story of Ruth with Maria Riva, Faye Bainter and Margaret Hayes. This is Frank Goss saying good night to you until next week at the same time when we'll present the story of Lydia starring Miss Helen Hayes in the weeks to follow a true and moving story of the world's greatest violin maker Stradivarius and also a true incident in the life of Miller Huggins starring Joe DiMaggio on the Hallmark Hall of Fame. This is the CBS Radio Network. This is KMBC, Kansas City, Missouri.