INSURANCE ON STOLEN
GEMS IS FINALLY PAID
Mr*. Charlotte PtW Gate
IH.IM Alter Loaf, Hard
La«al Fight
New-York, Dm. 16.—The World
tkb rak carried tte following (tory
w ft ByiUfiooi |vui robbery Mttll
Whan the Fiteil Imruet com
pMy, No. I Seeth William street,
«te otter day $68,100 to John M.
Stoddard, attorney for Mr*. Char
totto Kbit Meter, tte fall amount
nla< for by Mm. Palmer* inaurance
policy againet theft, another chapter
waa written la ona of Now York**
■kmK MniAtkmil robbcriti.
It waa net tte final chapter, for
tte thierea who attacked Mrs. Pml
«aer and looted her tealdanco No. M
tart Mth at net, of 010,000 worth of
jewels on Nov. it, 1M0, are atlll at
laqe. Neither tea any of tte pha
dar teen race re red. Bat Mia. Patl
Mr ha* won her long fight to oh
tali tte fall aaaoaat of her in ru ranee |
elate and the company waa forced
te add a aubatantial aum In oooneel
The New Yoft police, antwtring a
telephone call early in tte morning
of the robbery, doubted the etory of;
tte 9110,000 robbery, told hy Mrs.
Palmer She aald that returning in
the early hour* of tte morning from
a theater and aupper party aha found
teraelf facing three method burglar*, I
who had bound and gagged the butler
and maid and hidden them In cloeeta.
I* trying to eecape, Mr*. Palmer
leaped down the firit landing of the
ataira, tore the heela from her ahoes,
broke both anklea and lay helpleaa
at the intruder'* mercy.
While the atlll writhed in agony
tte rtbbert carried her to her bath
room, bound, gagged tnd held her
prisoner while they looted her houae
<if about $810,000 worth of jewela.
The Federal Inaurance ' company,i
which on Feb. fi, 1920, had ittued to
Mr*. Palmer a policy for $68,100 in
tonate againat theft, either refuted
to patt upon her claim.
im. Mn. Palmer filed
county clerk'a office for
tte amonnt of her policy.
or neglected
asTing uvwii vmuivavcu, Mr*, i «i
«ir, who l( living at the Hotel La
Salle, No. 80 East 60th street, iayi
•he will tail next week for Nice. Her
return to permanent residence in this
country ia said to be very doubtful,
although it ia denied ihe ia to marry
soon after her arrival In Europe.
lira. Palmer's health luffered se
venty as a result of the sensational
robbery. For weeks she lay in bad
under the constant care of a physician
and a trained nurse, while bar broken
ankles slowly mended. After thia
episode she sold the 90th street house
and a villa in Long Beach, which *lao
waa robbed some time before the
jewel theft, and went to live with
her mother in No. 1 East 48th street.
Since then she has been to Cuba
and has made other tripa in an effort
to regain her * health. "She ia now
convalescing from a jninor ailment
Vut eagerly anticipating her stay at
Nice.
Before her marriage in 1910 to
Jamee C. Parrish, Jr., former Har
vard athlete, Mrs. Palmer waa, an
actress. She appeared aa Charlotte
Catharine Palmer with Lew Fields
aad with Ds Wolfe Hopper aad in
«*reral productions in London and
Mr. Parrish obtained a di
1918.
ibbery remains • aa much •
today aa H waa when de
first appeared on the scene,
the offer of rewarda aggro
WO,000 by Mr. Palmer and
company. The Federal
company In an aaaaaded
to Mrs. Palmer's an it, filed
f feh 26, 19tl, alleged that the theft,
by one of the
Thia charge waa
characterised at the time aa "awet
preposterous" by Mr. Stoddanl.
The insurance company also aet
forth oa "information and belief,"
that the Herns on which Mrs. Palmer
the insurance totalled lees
one-half the value of the policy,
and leea than one-twelfth of the 8810,
«00 at which ah* valued them.
ftws war* eleven
•tod to the dsairiptiua ff the i
a 18 or 18
ring, aet to plati
a 18 ar M
set to platinum; a
(two rows) aet to platinum;
whita dlamondu hiitmiimM by 100
brillianto. •
TWra *m ilw on diamond and
platinum wrlet watch with ribbon
band, with elaap of onyx and plati
num; om green (old maah bag with a
sapphirr rlaap; a necklace, conaiating
of S10 pcaria with • peari-ahapad
pear for elaap; oaa horaa-thoa pin
containing twenty-alx diamond*; a
diamond atudded (old platad clock
containing about sixteen diamonda
and a traveling clock.
Utter From Japan
Having alraady given tha readers
some of my plaaaant recollections of
Mount Airy, I will now gtoa you at
laaat two Inatancaa in my experience
connected with Mount Airy, oaa af
which waa not antiraly tacking la tha
humoroua, whlla both wan pathetic.
In IN6 whila on a vialt to Mount
A try a pair of my panto waa atolaa
from a praaaing club, aa wall aa
othar paopla'i clothing. Shortly
aftarward tha two thiavaa, who won
brothers, war* apprehended In Vir
ginia and brought bafora tha mayor,
Mr. Hadky, I baiiava, for trial oaa
Sunday afternoon. I waa a witnaaa,
and had ao troubla identifying my
panto among tha itolan things re
covered. Another witnaaa waa aak
ad to point out and identify hia
panto. Ha did ao by pointing to one
of tha prlaonara who had them on.
daid priaoner had just aaeapad from
the chain-gang In another county,
and had donned theae panto inata. ^
of hia stripped onea. My panto
wen- entirely too large for him.
During my recent vacation spent
in Mount Airy I accompanied the
editor of The Newa to the town lock
up to aee a young man who waa I
deserter from the army. In his talk
he juatified his deaertion on tha
ground that a Primitive Baptist
preacher had taught that It was
wrong to kill. Ye* in the same con
versation he said that he wished he
had killed the officers who' arrested
him. And I have it in mind, whether
mistaken or not, that this same man
was afterward killed in resisting or
trying to evade arrest. As I recall,
dafuMi Ma alxjm si tnt ai i Uwod
had learned tha art of blockading,
<>uv nwi iiuv u«wi mukiu w iww aim
itudy the Bible. The devil kmm
tares while the government slept
over the duty and need of compulsory
education, and while the church alept
over the privilege of eetabliahing
Sunday schools in the neglected sec
tiona. "Thy word U a lamp into my
feet, and a light unto my path." "The
entrance of thy worda giveth light;
li giveth understanding unto the
simple." How the children of the
hills aa well aa the children of the
town* need thia light, "the holy Scrip
ture* which are able to make the*
wiae unto aalvation through faith
which is In Christ Jeaus." Among
my boyhood associates a number be
came lawbreakers. With one ex
ception they were brought up with
out being sent Ao Sunday school. The
debts my father failed to collect dur
ing his life of ever aeventy yean
were owed by thoae who were taught
to tolerate blockading and to' look
with conUupt upon the Sunday
school. (Joint into' all the world and !
preaching the <*ospel to every crea-j
ture, as Jeaus cot mended, meant go-1
ing into the uttermost parts of Surry (
county just aa it mans going into
Asia or Africa. Christ wept over
the city right under His own eyes
hecauae her children would not allow (
themselves to be gathered under Hii
wings. These should naturally have
been the first fruits of His call to
repentance when the kingdom waa
proclaimed aa present. How can we
weep over the lost condition of the
heathen and care nothing for tboee
whom our eyes have seen?
Just ss Jesus and the Jewish rabbis,
habitually taagbt In the synagogues
on the Sabbath day, ao should devout
teacher* explain the Hoi; Scriptures I
In every community of Sorry county
and wateh the results. God's word
shall not return unto him void. It is
the sword of the Spirit. It will best
the revenue officer's pick in hacking
op blockade dktUlorie* and hnklsg
down bear standa. It enn take thoae
copper stills oat of the mountains
and tarn them into copper wiiee for
tat • big, harmonious family ef each
neighborhood. The Gospel must he
taught aa wall as preached.
In my nest letter I shall earry my
lemlnlaueinea further by referring to
eqe of Surry county's tragedies which
took place nearly a quarter of a cen
tury ago for the puipuee of eaastag
eeae halt In their MtffetuMe to the
rates ef the BJbie and the majesty of
the law J. W. Prank.
Uwajhaa, Mae Ken, Japaa, OsCtS.
PERSONALITY AND FAITH
OVERWHELMS CON
VENTION
Dr. Potest, PtmMmI of Wake
Foreat Col logo, CaptivatM
Baptist Gathering By State
ment oi Faitk
Winston-Salem. N. C., Dm. 14.—
charges that Dr. W. L. Potaat, presi
dent of Wake Porrnt College waa
untroa to Baptist faith, which charg
aa wara expected to ba takaa op at
the atata eon vast Ion at Winaton
Kalem, wara blown away whoa ha ad
tomiil the convention oa Wedneaday.
The victory for Waka Foreat was
negative, bat waa aa certain a* If It
had baaa affactad by formal raaahi
tlon. Dr. Poteat captivated hla audi
tnct ind held Umb spell IkmifhL
Disregarding tba moot quaation of
rrohrtba *n*pt by te plication, ba
dumfoonded hla erttlaa by a state
mant of hla Christianty, couched la
simple tornu, bat eloquent to aa un
uaual lum. At tba conclusion of
hla addreea, nona darad to rlaa to
crlUclaO| him and It la universally
Eade High Teaaiene
Dr. Patent's addraaa ended a feel
in* of high tension that haa prevail
ed throughout the convention. Hla
friend* and admireri have baaa In
tha Majority all the while, but now M
la felt that next whan ba la criticised
it will be by some one who did not
hoar him. Yielding nothing of hla
scientific beliefs, be gave an expoal
tion of hla belief In Chfistianty ao
convncing that there will hardly be
any suggestion here from any source
that any danger could lurk in tha
teachings of such a man.
Tha only formal vote taken waa
a request that the address be re
produced for publication and that ac
tion will probably stand as the only
one taken by the convention.
Dr. Potest was Introduced with a
high tribute aa an orator and Chria
tian by Dr. R. T. Vann, Secretary of
the Bonrd of Education.
"I want to read you a pasaago out
•f t Uttle book," he began. * I
have thia little book. I commend it
tr you. It U - or final authority for
faith and practice.
"I have yet many things to aay un
to, you. but you cannot hear them
now; howbett when the spirit of
truth Is come. Re shall guide you in
to the truth;" he read from the
eighteenth chapter of John continu
ing the account of Jesus' laat talk
li. J! i_i
The young thundering in upon the
old Is the hop* of the world and the
primary feet of life, dec'.ared Dr.
Poteat, singing into his theme. The
function of education la to take the
place of the old, he said. Declaring
that we had sbused the freedom of
war time* until it had become license.
Dr. Potest cited Socialism, Prussian
ism and education as proper methods
that are inadtquate. Dr. Poteat de
clared that w i must have anarchy
or have Christ.
"Christ never spoke one word
which has ever been discounted by
all the knowledge of progress sine*
his day," he said. Relating some of
hia own personal Christian experi
ences, Dr. Poteat declared that the
need of the world is not for 'new
schemes of government, bat new men,
and new man can b* mad* only by
Christ.
"But the yearning for the troth
is sccond only to the yearning for
God," be continued with hia plea for
the combination of the two in Chris
tian edueatin. >
"Science cannot discredit faith; its
apparatus is not adequate," said Dr.
Poteat. "And Christianity aiao de
mands a mating with science," ha
added.
"Eighty-eight years ago Wake For
est set up her banner and in the nam*
of Christ laid claim to all th* realms
of culture and ah* haa made her
claim good," he concluded.
The convention overwhelmingly
endorsed th* action of the Meredith
trustee* In th* selection of the
Tucker fans A ISO acres Just mt
of Raleigh as the site for Greater
Meredith." This action followed re
jection of a proposal of Dr. N. Paul
Bacfcy, paster of th* Wake Forest
Baptist church, that th* trustees of
Meredith and Waka Forest be in
structed to investigate mom plan for
• co-ordination of the twt institu
tions mad raport hack at ths next
MAYOR 19 NOT GUILTY
OP STEALING WHISKEY
J«4|« Twrtr Tkrowe Oiil
Of Court Cm* Again*) F. P.
Burton, Stuart, V*.
Danville, Va., Dec. IS.—Aililim re
ceived km Saturday Boning (M
the Iowa of Stuart brought word of a
aenaational developa»ent there follow
ing tha mysterious thofl of >0 gal
lon* of liquor, which eeverel waok*
■go waa placed In the office of Mayor
P. P. Burton aid which, on tha fol>
lowing day waa found to have bam
BtoUtl.
Judga Tuntar Clamant la oonvao
ing tha Patrick county Circuit court
chargad tha grand jury with a fall
inveetlgattoa of tha liquor theft, aa
aartlng that ho had raad ef the oe
curranca la tha pa para and that hi
Juatlea to tha stayer and othar afft
eara who have accaaa U thataayor'a
off lea tha matter ahould ha prohid.
Tha grand jury returned aa Indict
m«nt tyilwit myof Burton ud
atr' J B. P. PhlUipa charging thaai
with aiding and abattlng tha thaft
af tha splrita, Hun tar tano balng
chargad with tha actual thaft Re
port* ara that the grand jury aaaaion
waa a lively. one and that than waa
a dhrlaioa of eraflwent on tha Indict
monta.
Upon preaentation tha two offlciala
appeared in court and demanded trial.
They elected to place their caaa be
fore the court and not a Jury. Two
witne*ae* were being a worn againat
Burton and Philllpa, but ooold offer
nothing mora than hearsay evidence.
Judge Clement, after hearing them,
declined to 11a ten to any defer a* evi
dence and threw the caae out of
court. Ranee' caae waa eat for Janu
ary. The belief prevaila among cer
tain people of Stuart that the indict
menta were tha remit of ahameful
propaganda. Mayor Burton haa been
activn in recent montha in culling
bootlegging, performing the dual
teak of taking part in, or leading
raida and than hearing the caaea in
the capacity of mayor. The liquor
In queation waa aeited from Ban Hall,
In whoae home a aecret dosftt waa
found and <0 gallona of brandy aaid
to have been there for many year*.
The officera poured out 10 gallon*
and took tha reat of K to Stuart,
placing it in the mayor"* office. Dur
ing the night it waa atolen.
EXPECTS TO FLY
OVER NORTH POLE
Famous Explorer Reaches
Nome To Coramun ie a t •
With America And Europe
Atafai
None, Alaska, Dec. 17.—Capt.
Roald Amonrf-.<n, head of an Arctic
exploring expedition which left the
«tatea in June and who arrived here
Thursday by doff team from Wain
wright, said today he expected to
start in May in an attempt to fly
over the North pole. He explained
that he had come here to visit civili
sation and to communicate with per
sons in the United State* and Europe.
Amundser expressed cheerfulness
orer a message received at the wire
less station ot Noorvik stating that
the schooner Maud, in which he start
ed on the expedition, was about S00
miles northwest of Wsange) island.
This, he declared, was an ideal place
from which to begin a drift over the
pole and he predicted that the Maud
would malu the drift in four years
instead of Jthe five planned.
His plane, Captain Amundsen re
ported, was phnost entirely sssim
hled under cover at Wainwiighl. His
aviator Lieut. Oskar Omdahl, in
spects it daily for mat The machine
is to he equipped with hiefcosp ski
lite skids. The plane ia to take off
from the ice in Wainerright inlet,
or from the now.
Captain Amundsen is greatly re
duced In weight, bet ia In |ieihcl
health. He left Wainwright Novem
ber 19, going with a mail team to
Dee ring. At Peering he purchased
five dogs, with which ha mushed to
Nome Ha expects to remain here
tkmnaluMti IJ J.-t, rierlnJ rJt
iiiniufnoui in* com, ®rl piliuu ot
the winter.
tacked in some quartan, was given
at a luncheon at the Robert K. Lee
hotel today. Dr. K. W. Stkaa, presi
dent of Coker Collage, at Hartoville,
& C„ was applaeded to the echo
when he declared that the fenetion of
the president head of the collage
had bean to (tee a Christian Inter
pretation to the new dtetcvartes of
adseee and that Dr. Poteat had an
chered the MW truths to the rack *
I (Mm.
RANGER WILL LET ITS
DEAD SLEEP IN PEACE
With on Wwlla All Aiwrnl
€■■■>mry Offer ot Cold tU
tmMd By Baptists.
Ranger, Tim, Dae. 18.— Nestling
among oil dertricka amid the no la*
of (Molina pun pa on tha Staff Road,
about four milaa south of km, I* a
t»lqua UtUa brick church bouaa, mw
neariag completion. tha property of
tha Marrimaa Baptiat church. Tkart
ara few paapla la Teaaa who hava
not bawd tha atory of tha Merri
man church and Ita financial atrength,
dua to Ita two producing oil walla.
Four yeara ago thia church, like
thouaanda of othara ovar tha aouth,
waa etruggling In poTarty with only
occasional preaching aarricaa, and
finding H difficult to pay a clargy.
man for Um vary uncertain tima In
which ha Might aerve aa ahaphord.
Bat about »k|- tint oil waa dis
covered nuby, and although tha
unaltarably oppoaad to Um laaaing of
tha church lot fur oil, persistant
clamor oa tha part of thoaa desiring
tha laaao finally overcame tha oppoai
tion, and tha lot waa leaaed aad
drilling bagun. Practically all laaaa
contracta mada la tha oO fiolda pro
vida that a royalty of ono-alghth of
tha aala priea of oil ahall go to tha
ownar of tha land oa which tha walla
ara situated. During tha aarly boom
daya la tha Banger fiolda, thousands
of dollara an acre ware paid to own
ara of laad aa a bonus to aacure the
laaaa. Tha first wall on tha church
lot coma in for 1,800 barrels a day,
November, 1919.
Soon afterwards a second well
came in for 700 barrela. These wella
flowed for mora than eighteen
montha, and although the flush pro
duction decriaaed gradually, hun
drada of thousands of barrela camc
forth to enrich the owners of the
lease and the Ms mm an church.
Bfforta ware then put forth to in
duce the church to loaae Ha adjoin
ing cemetery lot, hut tha congrega
tion in aoletnn conference ateadfaat
ly refused to distal* tha *reattng
place of their dead. On ovary aide
of the little graveyard wella went
down aa if by magic, and practically
all became good producers.
On tha achool lot adjoining tha
cemetery to tha west, two walla mad*
for the school district nor* than
$8,000 in eighteen montha, and yet
the church remained firm in ita de
termination not to laaaa the little
cemetery. On a board nailed to the
fence near the gate are these warn
ing worda: "Respect the dead." It
ia significant that in a period of ex
citement and money madness her*
was a church whoa* membership waa
noi
The church thus enriched was a
mark for all person* wishing to raise
money for any worthy* cause, and it
gave away 86 per cent, keeping only
15 per cent, of its income. Especially
to the Baptist <76,000,000 campaign
was it liberal. While giving away
thousands it continued to worship in
a little shack on the rear of the
school lot, as the old church house
had been wrecked to make room for
the drilling of the wulla. Last year,
however, the church conference de
cided to build a little meeting house
and K is now nearing completion.
The tw<o wells are still producing,
although they hare been "on the
pump" for more than two years.
Every day has added from $80 to
$260 to the church's wealth.
Hundreds of mm in the oil fields
grew rich within six months after
the discovery of oil, but most of
these, through mm is* speculation,
lost all in the crash which followed.
This has not been the case with the
Merriman church. What it made it
saved by investing in charity, in
missions and in schools. In spite of
the wealth that hit poured into this
community for four years, the, people
are still the simple, home-loving
neighbors they used to be. Thsy are
free from the affectations and re
straints of artificial conventionality,
and yet there la a certain harrier of
KoeeaUy I drove oat to
oil seeuts to see a Mr. |
• farmer who
cemetery. W—sw«ss producing)
wells won on Mo Cans, aad hi* ht-j
painful <fcli
that he ww Mr Iww. f w Wt
tonlakad mm)
htm wky he
whan ha owned aa aaaay ofl
He climbed alowiy ap to bit
Mat and replied tn a alow
"Wan. I can't drink oO."
I want wKh Ub to Ma
liatanad to the atorjr of tka
of oil to tka little iwwNy, • i
told In
In thalr simplicity
■at I could aoa tka tall Mack 4m
tko little church, iwrtin and a
aratnat a aky of parpk aad raj
Aa I took my iapaitaii, tka i
la ckmb. and
of little electric Hfkta.
WOmm TwmT* !
New York, Dac.
Colby, aecretary of i
•1, at tka expiiatioa of
partnership
"la
to
lone Invited htm," Mr. Colby
no rtatemeat aa to Mr.
plan* for tka futura.
It waa announced tkat Mr. Oofey
would continue tka praetka of lav to
tkla city.
Waakinrton, Dac. 1L—■
Colby's announcement of tka <
tion of hia law partaerakip
Wood row Wilaon la not a impilae ta
Waaklagtop and la regarded aa aa
addad evidence tkat tka forme} Praat
dent la again turning hia attaatfaa
to polltlea. particularly tka huluaaa
of the Democratic party la 1984.
What degrae of leaderakiy Mr. WB
son may expect to aaatune la Mi
party la probably known only to kta
aelf at tkla time and It la doqMful if
even tka faw who ara
am jn^ hia confidaata can
apeak with any authority i
Since th« who I* queetioa of the for
mer President's political Klltilhl
depend* largely npon the uoitdttioa of
his health it may be said that Ma phy
sical condition la virtually the aaaae
aa it waa a year ago and thai mal
callers report hia mind aa acthra aa
it a*ar waa.
When he left the White Houaa,
far won* physical condition than
ia today, it was
tion to remain
Rut as the recent
he yielded to the
cioae about
by way of writing
introduced into the
various states. At
Mr. WUaon renewed
international affair*
keeping
Variona
in political