Charlie Chan at the Olympics Page #2

Were plane and pilot

swallowed by the sea?

Or is their disappearance

a part of a daring spy plot?

Government agencies are making

every effort to solve the riddle...

...and expect to have

an answer at any moment.

- More later.

- Gee, Pop...

...they're having as hard a time finding

that plane as we are catching fish.

Fish in sea like flea on dog-

...always present

but difficult to catch.

Maybe we'll have better luck here.

I'll take a look around.

Hey, Pop, come here quick!

Hurry up!

Hurry up!

Right down there. Look.

[Chan]

"NC203R."

Undoubtedly the missing plane.

Run to nearest telephone

and notify authorities.

Okay, Pop.

Get a shot over there.

Stand out of the way.

Hey, kids, get down from there.

Will you come in

a minute, gentlemen?

There's our answer-

deliberate theft.

The ordinary mechanism is intact...

...but the most important part

of the device is missing.

And so is the pilot.

Yes, with an invention any foreign power

would pay millions to get.

Instrument could be duplicated

without aid of original plan?

Easily- By taking it apart

and copying it.

Edwards knew that.

That's why he stole it.

Well, he certainly took a long chance setting

the plane down on the edge of the water.

Oh, no, he didn't. Tell him what you found

in my fisherman's guidebook, Pop.

Fisherman's guidebook show

lowest tide of season...

...was Tuesday at 11:00 a.m.

Halfhour earlier same day,

plane disappear from Honolulu.

With tide out,

hard sand beach...

...make excellent landing field.

But unless there was an accident in landing,

how do you account for the fire?

Evidence that device

was carefully removed...

...prove fire started later.

Pilot Edwards wear flying suit

while testing plane?

[Hopkins]

No, just flannel shirt and trousers.

Here, Pop!

Tell him about this zipper we found.

Long zipper

of type used on flying suit...

...suggest that plane have other passenger

besides test pilot Edwards.

That's impossible. The plane

was inspected before it left the field.

No one besides Edwards

could've been aboard.

I'm no detective,

but it's apparent to me...

...the pilot stole the device and tried

to burn the plane to cover the theft.

He's right.

The man we want is Edwards.

In nearby lagoon have already

located murdered body...

...of unfortunate pilot Edwards.

Gee, Pop,

you never told me that!

The idea is ridiculous. No one could

possibly have hidden aboard the plane.

I inspected it myself

just before it took off.

There you are, Charlie.

- How soon before, please?

- Not more than five minutes.

- Any workmen in vicinity?

- A few.

Possible, then, for man to hide

in plane after inspection?

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