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The Fire Fighters Synopsis

Chapter 1 - For Life and Liberty -Fred Powers (Lafe McKee), a widower and member of the Danville Fire Department, wins enough money on the victory of the Danville Brrigade in the annual Fire Fighter's Tournament to build a home for his future wife, Mary Kent (Helen Ferguson.) Grant Stewart (Al Hart), who seeks to gain control of Fred's homestead, upon of which is located valuable water possibilities, has tried to throw the race to the rival town so that Fred's resulting poverty would force a sale. Failing in his scheme, Stewart's henchmen get Powers into a crooked gambling game in which he loses all his money and then gives Stewart a deed to his homestead as security for a loan which he also loses. Fred's son Jimmie is sent by Mary Kent to the Kentucky Club to look for his father. Fearing that the boy's entrance will stop the play, the henchmen send the boy upstairs. Powers loses his all but discovers club owner Fenton's crooked play and accuses him. Fenton draws a gun but Powers shoots first. Fenton falls. Powers runs out. The players try to stop him. In doing so a lamp is overturned and the Kentucky Club goes up in flames. Risking arrest, Powers returns to rescue his son who is calling from the upper window for help. To Be Continued in Chapter 2 - Paths of Peril.

Patria Synopsis

Serial about Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.