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Four TV Heroes Investigate The Case Of The Kidnaped Guide Honest, folks, this didn’t happen—not even on TV. It’s just an observ¬ er’s idea of how four TV sleuths would act if a girl disappeared. Joe Friday was listening to his part¬ ner, Frank Smith, complain of a toothache when he got the word from his boss, Captain Didian. The missing girl was Susan Schmidt, 15, an average girl from an average family. Joe and Frank questioned her father, Sam, 63, proprietor of a tap- room; her mother, Hilda, 60; her brothers, Fritz, 28, Herman, 26, Henry, 24, Wilbur, 22 and George, 20; and her sisters, Mathilde, 13, Gertrude, 11, Marie, 9, Geraldine, 7 and Rita, 2. They visited the neighbors, brown¬ haired Dorothy Wilson, 28; grey- haired Irene Ward, “over 21” and bald Henry Croveny, 55. When asked, “Is anything wrong?” Joe said, “We just want to ask a few questions.” They talked to the missing girl’s school chum, Mary Tomack, 15, who said, “I sure hope you find her; she’s wearing my best sweater.” They put a stake-out on Susan’s home. They sent an APB on TT, with her description and a report she was the victim of a 1252 (Kidnaping), a 959 (Murder) or a 23 (Skidoo). In the afternoon, the Tomack girl called to report Susan and her boy friend, John Wallace, 17, had planned to cut school and decorate their club- room with Eddie Tisher (the name has been changed to protect the inno¬ cent) pictures. Joe and Frank hurried to a nearby store. They found Susan and John buying equipment: “We just want to get the tacks, ma’am.” The pair was booked on a 12B (Hookey). Frank’s tooth still hurt. Michael Powers was in the Associated News office in Bodonia, smoking his pipe and leaning against the tense background of present-day Europe when news came that Suzanne von Schmidt, beautiful daughter of the Minister of State, had been kidnaped. Powers donned his fur-collared coat (Robert Cannon made off with the last trench coat when he left the show) and went to the minister’s imposing home. Powers sneaked around to the side. Suddenly, a bullet whizzed past his head. This aroused his curiosity. He sneaked around to the back of the house, where he spotted three sinister men stowing a wriggling bundle in the trunk of a sinister sports car. They wore dark hats pulled down over their faces but Powers recognized them as Wertzhartz, Flauerhartz and Bleidinghartz, of fire underground. The sinister group got into the sinis¬ ter sports car and drove off. Powers jumped into his own sports car and gave chase over a narrow, twisting road to a farm. Two of the sinister men entered; one stood guard. Powers sneaked behind a hedge and raced through the snow to the car. He threw his coat over the guard’s head, shoved a pipe in his back like a gun and disarmed him. Powers, using the car’s gasoline in¬ take pipe as a speaking tube, then conducted a trunkside interview with Suzanne. Then he drove the car to town, keeping her in the trunk so the story would be exclusive. 18