Fire Fighters: Cotton Seeds Causing Mattress Fire Hazard

Five bells stand by all sessions. Attention! All districts! A five-hour empire! Five bells move in immediately! That's it! Let's roll! Let's go! 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 Partham's store, but they hope 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 unexplainably 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 to the bustling confusion of Clemens de Parfenstor to that quiet, remote fact, 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 in the plane, 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 inductive 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 the homes?