This is Your FBI: Merchants of Arson

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Tonight the Equitable Life Assurance Society is going to give you some facts about group insurance. a type of insurance that is important in the lives of 50 million Americans. How important? Well, take the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company.

Its president and chairman of the board of its marketing subsidiary, the American Oil Company, Mr. DJ Smith says, greatly as we regret the loss in the recent Texas City disaster of valued employees to the company and their families, it is comforting to know that group insurance provided for their families.

For further information on group insurance, showing just how it can benefit you, be sure to listen in about 14 minutes to a message from the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Tonight's FBI file, Merchants of Arson.

This is a nation of 140 million people. And in that number there are more than 50 million wage earners. Some earn their daily bread in normal ways, working with their hands and factories, driving trucks or killing the soil. Others manage to exist because they engage in some bizarre occupation like diving for thunges or riding with smoke in the sky. But of all the various

obtuse methods used to make money, perhaps the least understood is a method used by a certain breed of criminals. This perverse system of garnering a yearly income is managed by those criminals who fraudulently go through the process of bankruptcy. In other words, There are those who make their profit by having a court declare them penniless.