Wetjen, Albert Richard "A Deal's a Deal"

Saturday Evening Post tag line (!): “The yellow dwarfs of Nippon should have known better than to pick on Captain Porpoise Bailey before he had finished drinking his breakfast.” Set in the waters around Papua New Guinea during the early days of World War 2. Schooner Captain Bailey and crew are captured by Japanese subterfuge and imprisoned below decks with arch-rival Captain Jed Tomkins and his crew aboard Tomkins’ ramshackle freighter KOOMALOO. Bailey soons hatches a plot to recapture the vessel from its Japanese captors (Wetjen’s description of same is blunt, coming as this story does at the height of Japanese hostilities). In short order, Porpoise regains control of the KOOMALOO and then forces Tomkins to agree to salvage Porpoise’s own schooner as well as pay 3 months worth of wages to Porpoise’s crew.