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JAMES IS CALLED ‘SATAN’S DISCIPLE’ BISTER OF ACCUSED WIFE KILLER THINKS HANG TOO GOOD BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 9 (TP) —As far as his sister is concerned, Robert S. James, accused Los Ange les wife-killer, is a *,Disciple of Satan.” The sister is Mrs. Lottie Wright Smith of Birmingham, who also is the mother of Lois Wright. James, who must stand trial for the rattle snake poisoning of his fifth wife, was recently convicted on morals charges involving the Wright girl, nis niece. Mrs. Smith was questioned by Bur ton Fitts, Los Angeles District Attor ney, and his assistant. Said she: ‘ Hanging is too good for Robert. He threatened to kill me a number of times. He built a duck pond just like the one he had in California, and he told me he was going to drown me in it. My children fell into the hands of Satan, and I couldn’t make them afraid of him. When I got afraid of him, I got away from him.” Samuel J. Silverman, defense at torney for James, is expected in Birmingham this week. It is thought that Mrs. Smith will testify at the trial in Los Angeles later this month. WORLD S RICHEST BABY TO HAVE NEW HOME LONDON, June 9 (TP)—The world’s richest baby is going to have a new home. Architects and engi neers started work today on the man sion which will be the home for Baby Lance Haugwitz Von Reventlow. The four-months-old baby is the son of the former Barbara Hutton and her Danish Count Von Reventlow. Countess Barbara’s newly pui’hased home is a country estate —right in the heart of London. She bought St. Dunstan’s lodge in Regent Park, de molished It and is having a mag nificent modem palace built in its place. Let Us SBS3||BHH| I Bring Back I the Hidden I || Lustre to I Your Rugs I YOU WILL BE ASTONISHED TO SEE HOW OUR I NEW SYSTEM RESTORES THE COLOR TO YOUR I I RUGS AND CARPETS THAT HAVE BECOME DULL I I AND DINGY. I I EXPERT WORKMANSHIP AND NO SHRINKAGE I I ON ORIENTALS AND DOMESTIC RUGS. OUR I I SYSTEM IS ALSO GUARANTEED NOT TO TAKE I I THE SIZE OUT OF YOUR RUGS AND LEAVE I I THEM LIFELESS AND FLIMSY. I I LET US CLEAN AND STORE YOUR RUGS FOR YOU I I THIS SUMMER I | Ask For an Estimate I ■ , - ♦ 1111 I on All Your Rugs I I HAVE YOUR SUIT OR DRESS GERM-FREE CLEANED | I THIS WEEK. THEY ARE NOT CLEAN UNTIL I I THEY ARE GERM-FREE I L“oWe I I PHONE 2-3168 LAUODRU UISPAULSEN ||| I SUCCESSOR TO HAMMOND CLEANERS 1 I SEND YOUR LAUNDRY WITH THE DRY CLEANING I Slew Teacher, Self '’ ». w 1 > 3 mi Fear that he would not be graduated with his class at Lehigh University. Bethlehem, Pa., is said by authori ties to have driven Wesley Clow, 23 (above), to the slaying of his Eng lish instructor, Charles Wesley Phy. Phy was shot and instantly killed. Clow turned the gun on himself and died within two hours. 'Central ALLEGED MURDERESS TO STAND TRIAL SOON PENSACOLA, Fla., June 9 (TP) Mrs. Liwie Vann will go to trial in Pensacola on July 15. She is charged with tampering with a railroad line, conspiracy and attempted murder of her husband. Mrs. Vann is the 45-year-old wife of a 70-year-old railroad engineer. The state contends that she arranged for FICTION HEROES ANSWER LAST CALL BELOVED CHARACTERS DIE IN SEPARATED PARTS OF WORLD GLOUCESTER, Mass., June 9 (TP) The men who served as inspiration for Richard Harding Davis’ short stories ‘‘Soldier’s of Fortune” and George Adfe’s comic opera ‘ The Sul tan of Sulu” are dead. Davis’ hero was the multi-million aire mining expert, John Hays Ham mond, Sr. Hammond died suddenly late yesterday at his home here. He was 81. Hammond started life as a poor boy but became the friend of presidents and empire builders. Miners knew him as ‘‘the man who could smell gold a thousand miles away.” He had an important part with Cecil Rhodes in the development of Rhodeshia. Later he worked at his profession in all parts of the world and was said, to be the highest paid engineer the world has ever known. He is reputed to have earned more than $1,000,000 a year. Ade’s inspiration was the real Sultan of Sulu, titular head of the Mahometans of the Sulu Archipelago. The Sultan died Sunday night but his death was not announced in Ma nila until late last night. The Sultan was famous through the Philippines for his life of ease, his costume of red bathrobe and. tennis shoes and his royal coach —a rickety Ford truck. Another colorful American, Colonel E. H. R. Green also died yesterday. He was the son of the famous Hetty Green, long known as the wealthiest woman in the world. two negroes bo pull spikes from the railroad track over which her hus band was piloting a train. The prose cution claims the negroes have admit ted their part in the affair. Leading in the defense of the ac cused woman is her husband. He steadfastly maintains she is innocent. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 9,1936 Hostess at Olympics ■ '■ gt * I zwi Barones* Johanna von Wangenheim Baroness Johanna von Wangen heim, nee Baroness von Spitzem berg, whose late husband was for many years German ambassador at Constantinople, has been chosen to be hostess to welcome and direct women competitors in the eleventh Olympics to be held in Berlin, August 1-16. The baroness will be in xommand of the newly erected "Comradeship House” on the Reich Sports field, scene' of Olympic activities. LADY SHACKLETON DIES LONDON, June 9 (TP)—The wid ow of the great Polar explorer. Sir Ernest Shackleton died today at her country home. The aged woman has lived in seclu sion since the death of her husband. 14 years ago. Shackleton made four trips to the Antarctic in the 1900 s. On one trip he came within 93 miles of the South Pole but was forced to turn back after severe hardships. AT THE THEATERS LUCAS — Today and Wednesday, ‘ The Unguarded Hour”, with Lor etta Young and Franchot Tone. BlJOU— Today; Screen, ‘‘Dan Fitch’s Dixiana Revue”; Screen, "Speed”, with Wendy Barrie and Joe Stewart. Wednesday, Thursday, Fri day and Saturday, ‘ Small Town Girl” with Janet Gay nor and Robert Taylor. ODEON— Today, "Absolute Quiet”, with Stuart Erwin and Ann Loring. Wednesday and Thursday, "Atlantic Adventure”, with Nancy Oarroll and Lloyd Nolan. FOLLY—Today, “The Case of the Lucky Legs”, with Warren William and Genevieve Tobin. WedneMlay and Thursday, "Her Master’s Voice”, with Edward Everett Horton. ARCADIA— Today, “I Married a Doc tor”, with Josephine Hutch inson and Pat O’Brien. Wednesday and Thursday, "Broadway Hostesss”, with Winifred Shaw and Lyle Talbot. SAVANNAH— Today and Wednesday, “Call of the Wild” with Clark Gable, Loretta Young, Jack Oakie and “Buck” the Wonder dog. WITH ANY OTHER BRAND OF YOU BE THE JU °GE LET YOUR OWN TASTE New York 1' 60 Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday AT 7:55 P. M. 29-Hour Straight Schedule No Change of Buses PAN-AMERICAN BUS LINES GOTTLIEB BROS. Service Tire Co. Dravton and Charleston Sts. PHONE 7615 COOKING COSTS CAGNEY HIS WIFE SCREEN “TOUGH MAN’’ TO LOSE WIFE TEMPOR ARILY CHILMARK. Marthas Vineyard, Mass., June (TP) —The tough man of the motion picture screen, James Cagney, awoke today to find, that his cooking had cost him his wife—tem porarily . Cagney, his wife and a couple of friends, including Denys Wortman, noted cartoonist, have been roughing it on Marthas Vineyard Island. Kim my had a hard time urging his wife to come along. He promised her she wouldn’t have to do a thing. Among (MWune d ’ i h i i •! Use Your Credit at Helmly’s DURING THE MONTH OF JUNE, HELMLY FURNITURE COMPANY WILL OFFER THE PUBLIC SOME OUTSTANDING VALUES See Our Display of New Spring Furniture for the June Brides “Now on Display” PRICES ARE LOWER THAN THEY HAVE EVER BEEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE FURNITURE INDUSTRY. I. C. HELMLY FURNITURE COMPANY YORK AND WHITAKER STREETS. Where Else Can As Much Be Had For So Little Money? As in INDUSTRIAL CITY GARDENS, “The Salaried Man’s Paradise,” where you may acquire not a city lot but a little country estate of one to twenty acres, or more, of fertile, well-drained land, on which we will build, and sell to you on terms like rent, a lovely frame or brick bungalow, with modern bath, running water, electric lights, telephone and street car facilities. On this property, you may not only enjoy city conveniences but all country advantages, in that you may have a profusion of flowers, an abundance of vegetables, fruits, poultry, a pony for your boy, your shooting dogs, etc., with the city only five minutes away. J Go out and see for yourself that it is not only a pleasant place to live, but a safe, sound and profitable place in which to invest, as the three hundred odd happy, thrifty, prosperous residents in INDUSTRIAL CITY GARDENS will testify. Also, in SILK HOPE FARMS (shortly to be offerei to the public), you may acquire, on or off the concrete, one to one hundred acres of as fine land as is to be found in the entire country; yet, only three miles from the city limits of Savannah, on terms as low as $5.00 cash and $5.00 per tract per month, with NO interest, NO taxes, and*your life insured for the first three years. When you will have paid' in as much as S3OO, we will either build for you or lend you the money with which to build a lovely frame or brick bungalow, with city conveniences, where all the joys of country life and pleasures of home ownership may be had, and where you may have the satisfaction of knowing that you can make a good living at home on your own land should you ever quit or lose your job. W hen you will have acquired and paid for such a lovely place, you may justly swell up with pride in that you invested your savings and the money you were paying for rent in such a place instead of sonan dering it. 4 L. H. Smith & Co 10 DRAYTON STREET TELEPHONE 7533 other things, he said he would do all the cooking. Cagney kept his promise. He cooked all the meals and did the choree. But finally after three days the petite Mrs. Cagney had her fill. Jimmy’s cooking was just too much for her, so she packed up her bag and boarded the first boat for New York. “When you get enough of this camping life,” she said, “I’ll see you at our New York hotel.” EX-MOVIE FILM STAR SETTLES OUT OF COURT LOS ANGELES, June 9 (TP) The one-time star of the silent films, Mary Miles Minter, has made an out-of-court settlement with the brok ers she sued for $750,000. Miss Minter charged that the brok ers, fiilythe and Company, of New York, were guilty of mismanagement in the loss of her $750,000 fortune. The money allegedly was embezzled by the brokers’ Los Angeles agent, Leslie Henry. Henry is now in prison for fraud. COSTS ARE FIGURED FOR LONG POWER LINE KNOXVILLE. Tenn., June 9 (TP) —Contractors and engineers are wear ing their pencils to nubs, figuring costs on a 70-mile transmission line for the Tennessee Valley authority. The line will extend between the Joe Wheeler and the Gunbrsvilhe Dams in northrn Alabama. Major construction involves 307 80-foot steel towers, hanging on insulators. Three cables and ground wires must be hung, the 154,000-volt line win fol low c'.OESly the course of the Tenn essee River. Bids will be opened on June 26th, PAGE FIVE ROBINSON MAY JOIN AL CAPONE LEAVENWORTH, Kan., June 9 (TP) —Kidnaper Thomas Robinson, Jr., may soon join Al Oapone, ma chine gun bates and other high rank ing public enemies in Alcatraz prison. Robinson is serving a life term tex the kdnap of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll of Louisville, Ky. He started his term at Atlanta, but now has been transfer red to Leavenworth. Officials said they were considering sending him to the “American Devil’s Island” in San Francisco bay. and will involve construction only. Materials will be furnished by the authority.