Fire Fighters: Snuff Box Disappears

Stand by all station. Attention! That's it! The true-to-life story of our unsung heroes, who stand ready to ride by day or night against our most murderous enemy, the demon of fire!

In just a minute we'll join Chief Cody and his young friend Jimmy Collins at the headquarters station house, where the junior firefighters are storing the antiques, which they're collecting for their sale to raise money for the school organization.

It was Chief Cody's idea that the older man helped the youngsters, but even so, the boys themselves had gotten together quite a collection the first day, including one item that Jimmy now suspects to be a lot more valuable than anybody knew.

But that wasn't half the mystery, as you'll discover for yourself in just one minute. Let's go, firefighters! Let's go right into station headquarters just beyond the great red pumper in the Hooken ladder truck where an odd assortment of old furniture in boxes holding smaller items as piling up for the junior firefighter sale.

A moment ago, Jimmy Collins had been amazed when an eccentric old antique theater had wandered in with his dog and become briefly excited over a snuff box Jimmy had showed him as he tells Chief Cody excitedly.

He said his name was Lucius P. Darby and I couldn't help liking him Chief, but gosh was he a character. He acted like that thing was worth a million dollars. That's silly. You must have been mistaken Jimmy.

I want to show you that snuffbox. I've got it in the box right here. Mr. Darby didn't want me to know he was interested in it for some reason. He changed the subject and pretended to be interested in the fire trucks.