Fire Fighters: Cotton Seeds Answer to Mattress Fires

Stand by all session. Attention! All districts! A private armed fire! Five bells move in immediately! That's it! That's it! Presenting Firefighters! 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 moment, we'll join Chief Cody, rookie fireman Tim Collins, and his young brother Jimmy at Clemensta Parken's store, where they hoped to find the answer to the mysterious mattress fires. You'll recall that Tim had been given a special assignment by the Chief to investigate a series of unexplained and seemingly unrelated blazes—seemingly because Tim and Jimmy had found the one thing

they all had in common. They had all started in apparently normal mattresses, and in each case the mattress had come from the same store. Now, close as they are to solving this puzzle, there was still one more tense moment ahead, as you'll see right after the following message.

Let's go, firefighters! Let's move through the bustling confusion of Clemens' department store to that quiet room out back, where a group of men stand in tense excitement around a simple, everyday object, a common household mattress.

Harmless enough, you might think. And yet in the past few days in widely separated places, one mattress after another is burst into flame, endangering life and property. As Chief Cody said to both Tim and Jimmy Collins, plain, ordinary cotton filling doesn't do that. Yet he can't believe any fire-setting device had been inserted, or he wouldn't have called in the famous industrial chemist, Dr. Curtis, who has just

cut open the sample mattress and examined the contents carefully. But now the firefighters are quiet. As Dr. Curtis looks up and shoots a question at the owner of the store. Mr Clement, how many of these mattresses have you delivered to your customers, to their homes?