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i 14 A rrEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA. CA„ SUNDAY, AUGUST 24. 1212. II Q pCDTAjM Southern Drawl an Opera Asset U. u. ULliInlli +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ WILL SHARE DIGGS’ FATE Government Bends Every Effort to Speed Trial of Federal Immi gration Commissioner’s Son on the Charge of “White Slavery.” Former California State Architect, Facing Four to Twenty Years in Prison, Plans Appeal—Compan ion to Follow Suit if Convicted. SAN FRANCISCO, Au*. 28.—Su- prswnely confident after the conviction of Maury I Diggs, former fltate archi tect. the United Statca authorities, prosecuting the famous “white slave" cases, which at one time threatened to disrupt President Wilson's Cabi net are using 1 every energy to speed the trial and obtain a similar verdict against Drew Caminettl, who was Diggs’ companion in the sensational flight to Reno with Marsha Warring ton and Lola Norris. Diggs will be sentenced September 2. Under the verdict of the Jury, the Judge can fix the penalty at from four to twenty years, and owing to the fact that virtually the same evidence that w r as Introduced against Diggs will be Introduced against Caminettl, leads the Government to believe that conviction Is certain Diggs’ attorneys have already an nounced they will carry the case to the highest court in the land. Should Caminettl be convicted, he. too, doubt less would appeal. Diggs Gives $20 000 Bail. Ball in the sum of $20,000 was read ily furnished by Diggs’ relatives when the amount was fixed by the court and was accepted by the United States Commissioner The case was one of the most spec tacular ever tried in California. Diggs is a forntsi State architect. Caminettl _ / is a son of the Cnited States Com mis l.^/ sloner of Immigration. Roth men ar* •bf' 11 u of high social standing In Sacra mento. Both men are considerably oldei that the girls with whom they eloped The undisputed evidence In the ca^e l was that the intimate relations be tween Diggs and Miss Warrington and I Caminettl and Miss Norris had be | come notorious in Sacramento. Fam ilies of both the voting men were pro. paring to start criminal action against them to break these relations. Then they and the girls disappeared They were traced to Reno, where the two couples were living as men and wives in a rented bungalow. The men were charged with violations of the Mann anti-white slave act. Blames Girls for Elopement. Both Miss Warrington and Miss Norria charged that the men had threatened, cajoled and coerced them into making the trip to Reno They declared that they had promised to obtain divorces from their wives In order to wed them. Diggs, in his defense, pleaded that the girls were the persons responsible for the flight, that they had induced them to fly to Reno. It was this attitude of hiding behind a woman’s skirt that caused the most severe condemnation of Diggs. Great stress was laid on it by Theodore Roche, attorney for the Government. In his final appeal to the jury for con viction. “This defendant.” said Roche, "did not deny on the stand the tru*h of the essential facts we have showm. And then he comes before you and asks acquittal. “Hides Behind Wife’s Skirts.” **Tbe defendant in a criminal case usually bases defense on the presump tlon of innocence, but this defendant relies on his own depravity. He comes Into court covered with his own shame and hides behind the skirts of his wdfe and child. "When these girls went to Reno their departure meant social ostra- oizement Marsha Warrington went because she believed and trusted this man. She didn’t desire money dresses or presents. Her parents gave ht*r those. Rut this man bad prom ised her marriage, as Caminettl had promised Lola Norris. "Those promises were never In tended to be kept. What was intend ed w r as to abandon the girls in Reno. They never could have returned to Sacramento—and you know what that meant. But the* alluring promise of marriage had been held out to them.’’ Scores Conduct in Home. Attorney Roche was particularly severe with Diggs for the misconduct in his own home to which he testi fied yesterday. He had not been con tent. said Roche, with making an as signation house out of his office, but he was similarly to degrade the pri vacy of a home he shared with a virtuous and loving w'ife. In seeking to establish that the trip i was not premeditated and that the two girls had not been induced to take it by threats of scandal on one hand and promises of marriage on the other, Diggs willingly testified to his own misconduct and the embarrass ments. domestic and business. Into •v'uLli it had led him. His counsel in summing up the evi dence did not palliate these acts "Paint this defendant as you will— a monster if you please,’’ argued Rob ert Devlin, his senior counsel, "but tell me what motive h* would have had in going out <f the State for the purpose of accomplishing those things already accomplished. “Counsel may characterize him as they please, and 1 may not differ with them. They say his act was shame less, and I may feel the same way about it. but it isn't w’hite slavery '' This was the whole argumentative substance of the defense. There re mained the rhetorical and the emo tional appeals and, of course, they were not neglected. The girls were blamed for tempting the men. They w'ere called willing accomplices in w hat evil had been done, and the wis dom of trusting a woman scorned •n she bears witness against ihe ^r who has discharged her was ad into question. Sees Fame for Dixie Song Birds in is pm » [CUING iN ;) Hunnicutt Won in First ' +•+ 4* *4* +•+ +••*• Round LOOK FOR BDDY lEflyy TILL FOR 1 111 BENEFITS 1 ID STOLL 111 p ID A FIRM Beat Bravo With Wooden Sword Ur r xja^iiNic (TIE! LOST 43 TEARS Miss Neida Humphrey. M iss Neida Humphrey, of Huntsville, Blames Laziness for Dearth of Divas. HUNTSVILLE, ALA., Aug. 22.— 1 not a smattering of musical educa tion. The trouble is It’s only a smat tering. When they reached the point where singing meant real work they retired gracefully to other fields. “But l believe that the time is not far off when the Southern girl of talent will realize the lift; she is over looking and then l am certain that there will be girls of Dixie whose names will be just as famous os those of Farrar, Suzanne Adams and Louise Homer, all American born. Miss Humphrey is very young and she Is very, very’ pretty, but that is not all. She has a voice of r?mark- able power and dramatic quality, but withal she holds'In It that soft sweet ness that declares her home as plain ly as It would be declared were she to walk on the stage waving the Su.rs und Bars. Has Charmed the President. She has already done things in music ami she intends to do more. In New York she has sung before the most critical audiences in concert and has won their high approbation. It was she who charmed President Wilson nnd a distinguished gathering in New York recently at a concert. In Chattanooga last May, during the reunion of the Confederate Vete rans. she sang before the old soldiers ami was given an ovation. Miss Humphrey intends to return to New York in the fall to complete her studies. She has already been assured of an operatic engagement and Huntsville believes that it will soon boiust an operatic celebrity. The soft, musical voice of Southern women, which poets have raved about, others have envied, and the comic papers have made subject of satire, has a value in dollars, and it haB an even greater value In the world of art. So thinks Miss Neida Humphrey, of Huntsville, w’ho has just returned home after a three-year course of voice culture under Caruso in New York. Miss Humphrey, realizing the su preme demand for American primu donnas on the operatic stage, not only In this country, but in every capital in Europe, thinks there is a w’orld of opportunity for the young women of her own section In this field. “The Southern woman’s voice," says Miss Humphrey, “possesses more natural musical qualities than the voices of any other women In the world. With proper cultivation that quality should make them the great est opera stars. The world has long known of this quality, but the South ern women of talent have just refus ed to grasp their opportunities. Blames Indolence in Part. “And I guess the laziness so gen erally attributed to our people may have a great deal to do with it. Sing ing. I mean serious singing, is the hardest sort of work. "There Is hardly a girl of social position in the Southland who has Colonel Gailliard, of South Caro lina, Breaks Down Under Tremendous Task. More than any other section of the country, the South is expected \ to realize in prosperity and develop ment by the opening of the Panama Canal. But the South is to pay its toll and pay for it dearly. Just when the canal was an as sured fact, Senator John T. Morgan, of Alabama, father of the Isthmian Waterway Idea, died as a result of his years of ceaseless labor Impress ing the necessity of rthe canal on Congress. Nok Lieutenant Colonel David Du Bols Gailliard, of South Carolina, the army engineer who dug the Culebra Cut, has had to abandon the scene of his triumph and return to the United States to give his nervous system shattered by his work, a rest which It has needed for months. And that Is not all. From the zone the advices come that Colonel Wil liam L. Sibert, of Alabama, the army engineer In charge of the work on the great Gatun Dam, is on the point of a breakdown and it is extremely doubtful if he will be strong enough to stay in the zone to see his work completed. Careers of Two Similar. The careers of Colonel Sibert and I <'olonel Gailliard have been remark ably similar. Gaillard was born In South Carolina; Sibert. in Alabama. They entered West Point the same year and both graduated in 1884 among the first five men in their | class. After their graduation, both were sent to Willets Point and in 1908. when the canal work was put in the hands of the army engineers, Colonel Goethals immediately picked the two Southerners as his chief aides. Sibert was put In charge of the w r ork on the Atlantic side, which Included the building of the Gatun Dam, w hile Gailliard was in charge of the work in the Interior of the zone. That Lieutenant Colonel Gaillard had suffered a. nervous breakdown was known only to a few of his inti mate friends in the army. A few weeks ago when his condition be came serious the matter wmls brought to the attention of General Bixby. the chief engineer in Washington, and by General Bixby called to the at tention of Secretary of War Garrison, | who immediately granted the strick en engineer a long leave of absence. Lieutenant Colonel Charles F. Ma son, Medical Corps, U. S. A., the di rector of the Ancon Hospital, in the Canal Zone; Mrs. Gaillard and Lieu tenant Colonel Gaiilard’s young son came with him and went with him to Baltimore, where he will enter the John Hopkins Hospital. There he will be under the care of some of the most eminent specialists in nervous disorders in this country. Leave Did Not Aid Him. Colonel Gaillard was in New York less than two months ago after a six weeks’ leave of absence that he had taken in the hope that the rest would benefit his health to the extent that he would be able to remain in the Canal Zone* He sailed from New York on June 27 last, again to take charge of the work in the Central Di vision. Those whb talked with him at that time remember that he expressed a desire to net away from the Isthmus as soon as his work was finished, but, he added, with a touch of sadness in tils soft Southern voice. “When I do leave it will he with deep and sincere regret." I.leutenant Colonel Gaillard is the first of the famous army engineers employed in the construction O- the Panama Canal to be stricken as a result of his work. A few weeks ago Colonel William M. Black, Corps of engineers, the chief of that branch of the service in this part of the Pnited States, the officer who was head of the engineering hoard which solved the problem of raising the old battleship Maine, was in Panama and was Gtiillard's guest. Close Friends for Years. The two officers have been inti mate friends for years. During hts stay at Kmptre. the headquarters of Colonel Gaillard, Colonel Black noted and realized that the builder of Cu- lebra Cut needed a long and complete rest. "Gaillard,” said Colonel Black last night, “is one of the most wonderful organizers the army has developed. Hts work in the Canal Zone has been little short of marvelous. He laid out hts plans in such a way that he got the maximum out of everything, es pecially in the handling of the rail road part of the work. He was also ahle within, a few months after he took charge at Empire to double the work accomplished in a specified time. Some of the things that he did experienced railroad men had said were practically impossible." Woman Given Job Of Cleaning Up State Success in Making Tacoma a Spot less Town Causes Promotion in Service. Detectives Shadowing Mail Thief Believed to Have Cached $40,- 000 After Robbery. KANSAS C1TT Aug. 23.—Charles Savage, a negro maii robber, released from the penitentiary in Leavenworth, is being shadowed by three detectives. He will be kept under watch con stantly because somewhere Is hidden $40,000 of the $50,000 in currency he stole five years ago from a registered mail pouch, and nobody except Sav age knows where It is. When Savage was released he was met at the door by his mother and a young woman to whom he was en gaged before he was sent to prison. They came at once to Kansas City to see an uncle, who is dying. "They needn’t watch me,” he said. "If they think I’m going to dig up $40,000 they’re mistaken. I wish I knew where there was $40,000 burled.” "Isn’t It queer that $2,000 in $20 gold certificates of the same series as stolen from the mail sack were found blowing around In the wind near your mother’s home in South Leavenworth this spring?” Savage was asked. “Yes, that’s queer. I don’t under stand,” he answered. “I read abou f that, and I figured It out that some person who Mved in South Leaven worth had stolen that mail sack and hidden the money there, and the rain had washed away the dirt where 1 T was buried, and the wind got at it and blew it away.” - Employees’ Pension Measure Approved Pennsylvania Cities Are Permitted to Establish Fund for Faithful Municipal Workers. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.—Under the provisions of an act passed by the Legislature, which Governor Tell er has approved, this city is given au thority to establish a municipal pen sion fund for employees. The act ap plies to all city employees who have given twenty years of service to the city. The act provides that In the event of the creating of the fund every em ployee will be compelled to pay into the fund 1 per cent of his yearly salary. The pension to be allowed the bene ficiary will be equal to one-half of the average yearly salary received by him during the last two years before his retirement. K. How Atlanta’s Broadsword Champion Worsted French Fencing Master. Dweller in Desert Tents Only Shelter Sees First Pine Tree Full Grown Woman Is Mystified by Foliage—Also Takes Moun tain Snow Bath. in the de CHICO, CAL.. Aug. 23.—Miss Bene Locey, of Visalia, cousin of Frank M. Moore, of this city, a grown wom an, saw her first pine tree when she went with the Moores for an auto trip to the mountains. She has resided lor southland, and was n but mystified at the fact that she could reach the snow bound regions of the Sierra NVvadas inside of an hour’s time. e especially to give t of the diversified amento Valley and higher altitude. Lo now bath in the For Toledo Families College Professor Seeks Laborer’s Pay Unable to Make Both Ends Meet, Teacher Resigns Chair in University. BERKELEY, CAL., Aug 23.—Un able to make both ends meet on a salary of $900 paid him by the Uni versity of California, Paul Boehncke. an instructor in the German depart ment, has withdrawn from the fac ulty and is seeking a position in which he can support himself and family of two children. During the last few summers Boeh ncke has managed to augment his meager salary by working as a plas terer at from $5 to $7 a day, or near ly twice the amount he w r as paid by the university. Time was when the prize fight was not au fait, when in the best fami lies, and even in the second best, and maybe in the third, they frowned down upon the pugilistic art as bru tal and degenerate. Then it was that the youn bloods turned to cockfight ing and fencing for the gladiatorial features of tneir lives, and were sat isfied. And that time was not so very long ago. Calvin W; Hunnicutt, w’ho is Atlanta’s oldest citizen, revived them In memory yesterday, when he fell to the young bloeds turned to cockfight- between Charley White and Frank Whitney, with the remark that things were not like this of yore. Of course, he had a dueling story of his own to tell, and he told it— of how’ he fought an arrogant French fencing master in a combat with wooden swords, and how all Atlanta looked on and cheered him as its champion. It occurred before the war, when all good things, it seems, occurred. It occurred just at the beginning of the war, and had its effect in keeping Mr. Hunnicutt out of that conflict. “There had been talk of war, war, war pretty generally,” he said. The trouble clouds were thick and black, and we organized here in Atlanta a cavalry troop that we called the Ful ton Dragoons. Captain Wilson was our officer, I was first lieutenant, and C. B. Whaley, my best friend,’ was first sergeant. "All went well at first, and things were peasant. But after a wiflle politics oegan to leak in, as Inevitably it will with all volunteer military bodies. Everybody knows everybody else so well, you see that very natur ally Jealousy comes in. Anyhow, when the time came for the election of a captain for a new term, Whaley and I, backing Wiison, lost out, be cause the other man promised horses to all members of the troop. Then dissatisfaction grew and the organiza tion loosened. "The new' captain and his great ally. Second Lieutenant Williams, were full of ideas as to how to run a millatry organization, and began lu put these ideas into play. That made more dissatisfaction for no volunteei soldier likes to be driven by men who were their friends and associates. “One of their ideas was the im portation of a fencing teacher to in struct the men in broadsword use. Now Whaley and I had practiced considerably with the broadsword, and were rather expert In its use, but we said nothing of it to the captain and his friends. “Well, the fencing master came, a Frenchman from Mobile. He was a flourishing, affected sort of fellow, and considerable of a boaster. Not long after he was here, he broke off teaching and began to talk about his own great skill and to show It off. “One day he challenged all of us. “ ‘Nobody here can touch me with his sword,’ he announced. ‘I don’t fear to let any of you try.’ And he flourished his sword. "Whaley and I decided to take him on, and I went to him. He laughed at me. But I insisted, and the date was set for our combat. That there should be no bloodshed—because we were go ing to do some furious fencing it seemed—I put a negro of mine to work making tw r o wooden swords, or sticks. These were to be our wea pons. "Somehow the tidings that there was to be a flght got abroad. At lanta was not large as it is now, but it was a right smart town even then, and when the day for the flght came, everybody turned out. “We had planned to have the duel in a theater, owned in the days of old Atlanta by a man named Wil liams. The place was packed, and I began to be a little nervous over the public nature of the affair. “We squared off, and the crowd settled back in the seats for a long and Interesting fight. But it wasn’t for long. The Frenchman came at me with a flourish, and I had a flour ish to match his. Thence I made a thrust at him, the thrust that we know technically as the point tierce. It went through his guard, and to ht& body. If we had been fighting with real swords, my opponent would l»4ve been run through. “All Atlanta laughed. The French man had pretty generally advertif'#d his ability to fight, and every jvas there. However, there werl „<ie or two persons who didn't like the way the fight came out, particularly the new captain of the dragoons and his ally. After the flght they be gan working to get me to resign. The duel, they claimed everywhere, might have an effect in breaking up dis cipline. And so, with their dissatis faction showing plain, I resigned. "The Frenchman we didn’t see aft er the half minute duel. If the dragoons learned broadsword fencing, they learned it from somebody else. "It’s a pity the art of fencing does not survive in the popular fancy. It is clean, beneficial and interesting. But this prize fighting ” Miss Edith Randall, of Boston, Expects to Find Corpse on Glacier at Foot Mt. Blanc. BOSTON, Aug. 23.—Miss Edith Ran dall, of this city, has gone to Cham onix, Switzerland, on© on© of the strangest errands known. She hopes to find In the glacier there the body of her father, who lost his life climb ing on Mont Blanc forty-three years ago. Ten others were lost with him in a snowstorm near the summit. All told, two Americans, one Scotch man and eight guides and porters died. . Five of the bodies were recovered. It is expected by guides that the six others will be delivered up by the glacier this year. Scientists are Interested as It may supply evidence to prove their theo ries on the speed of the annual march of glaciers toward the valleys. Miss Randail's father, John Ran dolph, a Boston banker, was fifty-four when he lost his life in 1370. Last year Miss Randall came to Chamonix, as the ice axe and several small articles relonging to Mr. Ran dall had been found by guides at the foot of the Glacier des Bossons. Many Americans and English Al pinists, as well as guides, joined in the search for the body, but without re sult. All hope for better luck this summer. “Back on the Job” again and very q”ick- ly, too, if you will only let Hostetter’s Stom ach Bitters help the digestion to become normal, keep the liver active and the bowels free from constipation. These are absolutely necessary in order to maintain health. Try it to-day but be sure it’s HOSTETTER’S Stomach Bitters Apache War in ’80’s Is Cause of Divorce Husband Deserted Thirty Years Ago by Wife Who Didn’t Like Wild West. CHIGAGO. Aug. 23.—Geronimo and his wild hordes of Apaches, who ter rorized New Mexico in the eighties, w r ere the direct cause of a divorce suit which Allen L. Eaton begun yester day in the Superior Court against Zuma E. Eaton. The Eatons were married in Silver City. N. Mex.. in 1886, when thu Apache uprising was on. Mrs. Platon who hailed from Pittsburg, did not enjoy the wild Western life her mar ried life entailed, and she deserted her husband. im Common Laborer Strikes Big Gold Vein Ore Will Run $60,000 to Ton and Mine Is Largest In Southern Oregon. City Is Growing So Rapidly That Builders Can Not Construct Houses Demanded. TOLEDO. Aug 23.—Because the city has not enough houses to rent anil build ers are not able to construct houses as rapidly as they are desired tents ure being used as homes in Toledo. Two tent colonies have been estab lished In the city, in b|>th districts oc cupants of the tents are owners of lots on which the temporary homes have been erected The lots have been pur- ebased as home sites and tents are serving as temporary homes. The tent homes , insist of living I rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. Each | has a flower and vegetable garden and i one is equipped w rh a chicken park, a! stable and outbuildings Living rooms 1 arc convertible into bedrooms, and ham- nu’CKs, stretched in the open, arc used day and night. j TACOMA, Aug. 23.—Because of her successful efforts to transform Taeojna into a "Spotless Town," Miss Arizona B. Wimple, food and market inspector, is to bo rewarded with a bigger job— the cleaning up of the State of Wash ington. This was the advice received here to day from the Governor’s office in Olym pia. where It is said Miss Wimple is to be appointed State bakery and sanitary inspector. Her methods in cleaning up Tacoma were simple and direct and included publicity as an aid in bringing about the desired reforms. P’requent inspections of bakeries and other food dispensing establishments were made and the score announced in the newspapers. Miss W imp ! e, who is young and pret ty. will receive $4,000 a year from the State. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan. CANDLES BURNING AT WAKE SET HOUSE AFIRE CALGARY. ALBERTA. Aug 23—A fire which started from candles set about a coffin at a wake, at the house of .1 Selar. here burned the hair and eyebrows off the body of an aged wom an Portions of the face were charred. Firemen extinguished the blaze. MEDFORD. OREG., Aug. 23.—What is reported as the biggest gold strike made in Southern Oregon has been been reported by Elmer Higginboth am on the mine owned by him and M. G. Womack on Kane's Creek. The ore will run $60,000 to the ton, ac cording to assays of samples made here. Higginbotham had been a common laborer fur many years until Womack offered to “grub-stake” him on a prospecting trip up Kane’s Creek. BERI BERI CAUSED BY RICE DIET, SAYS EXPERT Special Cable to The American. BERLIN, Aug. 23.—The Berlin Med ical Association reports that the well - know'll investigator of beri beri. Dr. Max Moszkowski, finds, after a re markable experiment, that the disease is caused by the use of rice. Dr. Moszkowski for 138 days sub sisted almost entirely upon rice. All the symptoms of beri beri manifested ihemselv es. At the close of the experiment an injection of serum containing an ex tract of rice resulted in a complete recovery. 25% DISCOUNT On All BUCK’S Gas Stoves and Ranges Buck’s—the most conven iently arranged, the most sanitary, and certainly the most economical gas user made—comes in for a tremendous discount this week. They are here—anything from the small stove to the most elaborate range —and all are carrying the same big dis count. Discard your old, worn, smok ing, fuel-consuming cooking machine to-morrow, and let us replace it with one of these modern stoves or ranges. The savings of your fuel bill will soon pay for any BUCK’S you may se- ConnectionsFree-$l a Week Buys Your Choice That’s fair enough, isn’t it? We will actually put it in your kitchen—ready to turn on the gas—and you can pay the bill at one dollar per week. Come in to-morrow and take your choice. See our big Mitchell street window display. 103-5-7-9-11 Whitehall Street, Corner Mitchell