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EVENING PUBEra liEDGEI-PHIIIADBLPHIA", THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921
and" tho Wallworth bill' Is their solu
John J. Trcacy, of Jersey City,
Democrat, member of tho utility board
In 1013, is being mentioned for acorn
mlsslonershlp ngnln. 80 Is County
Judgo John W. Kates, of Camden, u
Republican.
The New Jersey Stato League of Mu
nicipalities has begun open warfare on
the Alien railway valuation law of
1020 under which an engineering firm s
valuing the property of the Public
Service Hallway Co. Ip New Jersey.
The leaguo Is carrying on a campaign to
securo amendment of tho law so that
the valuation report will not be maiidii-
offered a bill
to permit the valuitu
in tinder tho JuflsB''
lint on cnmmf..li!?1AU?-
MAIDS OF NIPPON STUDY SILK MAKING
determined upon
tion, uettunlng appointment n 111c
governor, concessions aro exacted from
him in preventing dismissals.
Must Withdraw Names
Tim povernor will be faced with the
of tho state vnlunti
sfitv nti lAftin?if In niltlM ... V H
upon which trolley rntcs shall be fiiil1
DETAILS OF FIRES
I
Plot to Blow Up Legion Bulldln.
A I.. t .. f-.t. -I.V.I. I. . I
possible embarrassment of withdrawing
two nnd imsslblv ilvo of the nomina
tions to a now utility board. Tho Wall-
tempt to dynamite the American Lp,!.
l,ll,tl,,tf linrn Inxr. nl..l,f ..... i'l.'f'1'!
worth reorganisation bill calls for thrco
building hero last night was frustrl!!
bv Ilenrv O. Lancaster, n iu.:"
nrebug, n Confession, Tolls
How Ho Terrorized Wholo DJ3-
' trlct Gots Long Torm
BURNED THIRTY BUILDINGS
Walkor Backs Rowland's
for Two Additional
Vlco Chancellors
Bill
nominees. An executive veto may await
the bill) but the Kcpubllcaus unvo tho
votes to toko caro of n veto. Rejection
or withdrawal of ponding nominations
would leave tho governor n frco hand to
who discovered tho Kmoklng fuSe ..''
packngo of dynamite planted Icntm
n corner of the building nud stamped
;
select men for tho new thrco-man board.
rnea. Henntor Parry, of Ksscx, has out.
PLAN NEW UTILITY BODY
NF
INC
ENDIARY
GIVES
NEW JUDGES URGED
FOR JERSEY COUR
Unlontown, 1, Feb. 3. Exnct dp
tnilg ns how he flrcil or nttomptcd to .
net Ore to thirty biilltllnfc.nro contained
In n written confession of Albert Smith,
who hns bepn sentenced to the Western
Penitentiary for n virtual life term. The
confess!. n ins jti.it been mndo public
by Thomns G. llynn, chief fire inspector
of the Ntotc police. Interpreted, with n
ftw Muesttnn, it follows:
"My first fire was on October CS,
1020, when I net fire to tho Mnrion'
school house. I tfot a piece of oily wnite
from the Pittsburgh Steel Co. plant at
MonesKen and, after llRhtine It. I placed
It in room No. 7. The building una en
tirely destroyed. My next fire was the
"Wiuns dnnce hall. I set that on lire by
using a potato sack with oil on it. I
got tho potato sack In our cellnr nnd the ,
oil from one of our lamps. 1 started tho
blnzo under tho front steps of the dance,
hall.
"At Charles Lynn's barn I piled
straw up against the door nnd set a
match to it. At Ilrsznell I set fire to a
school house by using oil rags and the
window blind. I don't know whether or
not it burned down. At Andrew Ilrown's '
barn I used a pile of straw nnd a match
to start the blnzc, which burned the
building. Then I set a house on tire up i
on the hill nearby. Hut just as I Mt
Brown's bnm I yelled fire. Hut at tho
whito house which I fired after the barn,
I used carbon oil, a pint of which I car
ried iu a bottle. There were rags hang
ing on the clothes lino atul I used them
with the oil to start the blaze. I think
family by the name of Lutes lived
there.
Tlirew Gravestono Into Church
"Then came tho little red church : I
guess it's the Hedstonc Church. I threw
a gravestoue through u window, tore up
a song book, saturated a rag with oil and
applied n match. They say tho church
didn't burn, but I started a pretty nlc
Are there. At the Albert Smith house
nearby, I took two brooms, put them to
gether nnd with a bundle of pnpers I
placed up against the house I started the
blaze.
"There was n bench on the back porch
of the John Jane house, under which
thcro were shoes and a sack. I lit the
sack and put it over the shoes. I guess
there wasn't much damage there. Be
fore going homo, that night I took nn
oily dower out of u vase ond with n
candle I sot tho whole business on fire.
With rags, carpet and a broom I started
another fire in n house nearby. I took
paper out of a toilet, got n sack from a
coal house nnd fired another house close
there. I had no oil then.
Matches nnd Hay Kire Barn
"Then I set fire to tho barn with plain
matches and hay. Just ns I stnrted this
Are I saw n little red brick house near- to the
by, which I marked -nd tried to set it on
Sfi1 ??&." Sl?'S BIG EMERALD REACHES N. Y.
Grant T took n sack, put carbon oil on
it, got a board, put that on tho end of , Uncut Stone Weighs 630 Carats and
t lt.fr l'hnto Sorlco.
These dainty llttlo ladies presented themselves at the School of Industrial Art yesterday and announced they
wanted to .seo liow Mill was made in America. They saw. They can't spcali a word of Kngllsh, hut through an
interpreter they told an lntcnicwer they lilted American dollies nnd American dancing. The young women aro
(reading from left to right) tho Misses T. XiU.aznni.i, Y. Xahada, K. Yoshiolia nnd S. Ooml
FRESHMAN HELD FOR THEFT ,$150,000 FOR CHILDISH CRY
Wesleyan University Student Said
to Have Robbed Phlladelphlan
Mlddlctowu, Conn., 'Feb. H. Sey
mour V. I'l, of Vonkers, a freshman
in 'Wileynn 1'niversity, was arrested
in the Middlesex Hospital yesterday
charged with theft of ifllO from V. It.
Stocker. of South Philadelphia, Pa.,
also a freshman in the university. Dr.
Edgar Pinner, of the college faculty,
and Captain Robert T. Hurley, of the
Btato police, announced that Ely hnd
confessed ttiat he cnmmitted a dozen or
more thefts in a Wesleyan dormitory.
A score of thefts from Wesleyan
students since Inst fall were under in
vestigation, when Ely was found Inst
Thursday night unconscious in his dor
mitory room. An hour later he re
gained cons, lousness at the hospital,
nnd told members of tho faculty that he
had been nttai lied by a robber in his
room. Tuesday night Ely admitted
he had assaulted himself, using a paddle
to render himself insensible niter he
had disarranged the furniture nnd lnc
erntcd his face with a razor blade.
Ely wns bundled into the police pa
trol yesterday in his pajamna und taken
police station.
Bequest Follows Warning of Danger
Twenty Years Ago
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 2. A child
ish cry that warned Mr. Anna Potter
of impending danger from a toppling
chimney during a windstorm twenty
yearn ago, has resulted in Mrs.
Ella Potter Jones inheriting the entire
estate of the lato Eli Potter, insurance
man. The estate is vulucd nt $150,000.
The will of Mr. Potter, which waa
filed Tuesday for probate, contains
this paragraph :
"Twenty years ngo n little girl
named Ella Dry-dale probably saved
the life of my wife when sac was
threatened by u tottering chimney. The
childish cry resulted in our wing this
little girl, who was known until her
marriugc as Ella Potte". In considern-
1 timi of this service it is mj desire that
I she inherit all my property except the
sum of $."0, which I bequeath to my
sister, Eliza Huls."
PHONES WITH HANDS BOUND
Woman, Victim of Robbers, Uses
Her Teeth to Lift Receiver
Now York Feb. .'!. Bound nnd
gagged by two robbers who entered her
brother's house, in Kearny, N. J., yes
terday, while slio waa alone, Mrs. Paul
Hart, of California, displaced the gag
by rubbing her head against a stair
post, crawled to a telephone nnd lifting
tho receiver off with her teeth sent a
cnll for help over the wlro that brought
polico to her rescue.
When Mrs. Hart, who was nlone in
the house, answered the doorbell the
rnhhers. nt. the nolnt of .n revolver.
backed Mrs. Hnrt into the kitchen,!
whero they gagged her with n towel.
Then they dragged her to n bedroom,
tore a sheet into strips nnd bound her
wrists and nnkles. Then they started
a search of the house but found noth
ing mid disappeared.
When tho police arrived they found
the doors locked. They broke in and
released Mrs. Hart.
Special Dispatch to Evening TiiMlo Ledger
Trenton, Feb. .!. Chnnccllor
Walker, bend of the Court of Chancery,
is authority for the statement thnt thcro
lssrenl need for tho appointment oi two
additional vice chancellors, making ten
nssIstnntR for tho stnte's equity court.
Provision for the appointment of the
two extra vice chancellors is mauo in
tho bill by Assemblyman T. Harry
Bowland, of Camden, offered in the
Legislature this week.
Lawycm and litigants realize tho vol
umo of work piling up In tho Court of
Chancery. Vice chancellors are com
pelled to hold open court at lead five
nays a wcclc, the sixth day being given
over to reference worK. south Jersey
lawyers, other than thoso in Camden.
are subjected to most inconvenience by
reason or having only one vlco chan
cellor, Edmund B. Learning.
Mention Atlantic City Man
Political equilibrium of the equity
court is maintained. The eight vice
chancellors wero selected because, of nl-
legianco to cither one of the mnior
political parties. Creation of two new
jurists will involvo tho selection nroba
bly of a Republican from South Jersey
nnd a Democrat from the northern tier
of counties, whero tho stato'B legal
business is heaviest.
Gcorgo Bourgeois, of Atlantic Citv.
is mentioned in connection with one of
the appointments. William B. Gourley,
oi I'atcrson, is spoKen o hero ns a
possible appointee from North Jersey.
Adoption by the Senate of the Wall-
worth bill to reorganize the Public
Utility Uouimlssion raises a fair pre
sumption that tho measure will be sup
ported by the Republican House, irre
spective of whether the Court of Er.
rors and Appeals sustains or reverses
(lorcrnor Edwards' action in dismiss
ing tho old board,
Camden county representatives nre
credited with tho move to bring about
a new deal in public utility regulation
r RESIST RUST'S RUSH
with a Vnndcrhorchcn Canvas
uover. ioais mue win save much.
Vnluublo machinery uncovered a
lime Biorm gooa-Dye
contractor's profits.
. F.Vnnderherchen'i Sons ,
I 1 X. Wntrr "sfrect. Thlln.
it ond placed it under the pirch I got ,
Was Mined In South America
tho sack I used there and the part of a .
sack nnd paper I used to set ilro to' New York. Feb. II. An uncut vmer
'Jack's' store in mv own cellnr. At the ald of 030 carats, one of the largest in
store I placed the fire back of a window i the world, has arrived in this country
screen. 1 placed oil in a bucket and et from the Oliver mine, in Columbia
it on fira under steps at the home of Al-i Tim emerald, which is said to be the
bcrt Montgomery. I took oily waste
from a railiond cnr. placed it up against
n door of the Favettc City Lumber Co.'s
plant and applied a match."
Similar methods were followed in a
score of the fires. Questioned as to his
motives, the youth could give no rea
son, except an lmpulso to burn. It
venge for fancied wrongs nKo plnyed a
part in the destruction of property.
JURY RELIES ON PRAYER
,
Kansas City Clergyman Has Vision
of Prisoner's Innocence
Kansas City, Feb. .". A jury
In Circuit Court yesteruay prujeq and
then returned a verdict acquitmg W. V.
Spencer of a charge of murder. Spen
cer killed Elmer Penneti durmg n light
in a rooming house. His ple.i wns self
defense. Later the foreman of the jury, J.
E. Foulkes, un ordained minr'er, ex
plained that ns he prayed, the principals
of the killing appeared before him in n
vision. Spencer, he knid, wns -ur-rounded
with a bright glow while Pen
netl appeared in a darkness,
"Then it was I decided that dark
ness" was not the truth," said l-Vulkeq.
The vision appeared to him. FP'i'.k'-b
taid, after the first ballot. Win ti t e
etcond ballot was taken, he said, th
verdict was for acquittal.
best grade in color. Is owned by the
Colombia Emerald Syndicate, of SX)
Wet street. The stono is more than
two nnd a half inches in length.
The value of tho stouo is uncertain
It seems likely that it will be divided
into smaller stones, since it is too large
to be m.irk'-tnble in its present size
The big emerald is .surpassed bv another
1 htone of 1OO0 carats, now in Bogota.
I To Wed Girl He Met In Poland
, Harrlshurg. Feb. .1. T'ie en
gagement i f Dr. Ooigc It. Mofiltt, for
mer city Nieterlolngjst. and Miss Lil
lian J. .'"' i ston, Spokane, Wnh., was
nnnout.' (I i -terd'n . Dr Mo flit was a
major ! ,ru g the lato war and was sent
to I'olvnl , ii tvphus service. There he
met Mi" Johnston. Both recently rc
t lried America.
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Of Life Insurance
The year 1920 witnessed a continuance of the great forward movement of
life insurance. This was the experience of virtually all companies. It reflects
a growing realization that human lives are more valuable than buildings and
machinery, that the death of the breadwinner represents a greater loss than
the burning of the home. With
thinking men it is no longer a
question of being insured,
but of being adequately and
properly protected.
THE FIDELITY MUTUAL
LIFE last year had an increase of
28 1-3 per cent, in new business,
compared with 1919.
This success is largely due to
the part FIDELITY has played in
broadening the service life insur
ance renders.
FIDELITY is the
ORIGINATOR of the Income for
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An Income for Retirement
An Income if totally and per
manently disabled
Protection for Dependents at
Death
ORIGINATOR of tho Total and Permanent
Disability provision In modern life insur
ance. ORIGINATOR of the Double Benefit feature,
providing Double Death Dencfita antf
Doublo Disability Benefits In event of acci
dental cause.
That thla servlco is winning- public ap
preciation and confidence is evidenced by tho
growing business of this growing institution.
The Fidelity Mutual Life
Insurance Company
Philadelphia
WALTER LE MAR TALBOT, Present
F. X. Qulnn, Vice President.
Clirltt C. Hodge, Secretary.
Samuel J. Steele. Trenturer.
J. RumcII Syket, Comptroller and Ast. Treurer.
J. D. Franks, Actuary.
H. C. Hurd, Assistant Actuary.
George H. Wilson, General Attorney.
C J. It. Sproule, Assistant Secretary.
Frank II. Sykes, Manager ol Agencies.
Dr. Win, Ii. E. Wehner, Medical Director.
Df. C A. Vandervoort, AssU Medical Director,
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Alfred E. Uurk
Nathan T. Folwell
Lewis R. Dick
T, Comly Hunter
F. X. Qulnn
Wm. T. D, Roberts
Ceorge W. Roydhouss
Thomas Shallcross, Jr.
Samuel J, Steele
Walter Le Mar Talbot
Irn Jewell Williams
Fidelity Finances
Forty-Second Annual Statement, December 31, 1920
The Fidelity increased its insurance in force
to $203,980,056.
The Fidelity's new paid business in 1920
amounted to $43,803,360.
ASSETS
First Mortgages on Real Estate $16,093,079.43
U. S. Liberty Loan Bonds (Amortized
.. .YaIVe)- :; 4,896,138.49
Municipal, Railroad and Corporation
Bonds (Authorized Value) 10,961,463.59
Real Estate Owned 1,675,081.83
Loans on Policies , 7,113,757.31
Loons on Collateral. 106,000.00
Bank and other Stocks (Market Value
December 31, 1920) 164,592.54
t-asn m banks and in Office , 41 g 307.35
Premiums in Course of Collection. '. . . . 1,306'772.63
Interest and Rents Due and Accrued. . . 56177o!33
$43299630
LIABILITIES
Reserve to Mature Policy Contracts $38,016,445 57
Reserve for Policy Claim,, Awni:.,. ' ,W,i57
Proof
Reserve for Premium
1921
Reserve for Deferred
Policies
Reserve for Apportioned Surplus'llcft
on Deposit at Interest
Premiums and Interest Prepaid '.
Federal and State Taxes Accrued but not
Miscellaneous 'Liabilities' '. '. '. '.'.'. . 1 qq'S??
Reserve for Contingencies (SurplusJ,?
$43,294-963750
Paid toassKirihee orani2ation'
PaldtotoK
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,, Head Office
112-114.116 North Broad Street
Philadelphia
Reductions for
Distribution
171,158.37
1,169,326.16
1,660,633.02
310,234.65
258,792.74
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