Fire Fighters: A Snuff Box Is Missing

Stand by all stations. Attention! Oh, the six! That's it! Let's fire fighters! 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!

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

was cheap Cody's idea that the older men 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 hook and ladder truck. For an odd assortment of old furniture, boxes holding smaller items is piling up for the junior firefighter's sales.

A moment ago, Jimmy Collins had been amazed when an eccentric old antique dealer had wandered in with his dog and become briefly excited over a spliff box Jimmy had showed him. As he tells Chief Cody excitedly, he said his name was Losius B. Darby and I couldn't help liking him, Chief, but I sure see a

character. He acted like that thing was worth a million dollars. Well, that's chilly. You must have been mistaken, Jimmy. I want to show you that's not boxer. 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, pretended to be interested in a fire truck. Only he didn't know a dog on thing about him.