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Op=> TTEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 1012. U. S. CERTAIN Southern Drawl an Opera Asset +•+ +•+ •£•••!• *!*•*!• +•+ Alabama Singer Lauds Accent j +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Sees Fame for Dixie Song Birds Miss Neida Humphrey. 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, An*. iZ.—Su- premely confluent after the conviction of Maury I. Diggs, former State archi tect. the United Staten authorities, prosecuting the famous “white slave" cases, which at one time threatened to disrupt President Wilson'* Cabi net are using every energy to speed the trial and obtain a similar verdict against Drew Carnlnettl, who was Diggs' companion In the sensational flight to Reno*w1th Marsha. Warring ton and Lola Norris. Diggn will be sentenced September £. 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 was Introduced against Diggs will be introduced against Carnlnettl, leads the Government to believe that conviction Is certain. Diggs' attorneys have already an nounced they will carry the rase to the highest court In the land. Should Carnlnettl be convicted, he, too, doubt less would appeal. Diggs Gives $20 000 Ball. 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 former State architect. Carnlnettl is a son of the United States Commis sioner of Immigration. Both men are married and have families Both are of high social standing In Sacra mento. Both men are considerably older that the girls with whom they eloped. The undisputed evidence In the case was that the Intimate relations be tween Diggs and Miss Warrington and Carnlnettl and Miss Norris hud be come notorious in Sacramento Fam ilies of both the young men were pre 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 Girl* for Elopement. Both Miss Warrington and Miss Norris 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 rtnai appeal to the jury for con viction. "This defendant," said Roche, “did not deny on the stand the truth of the essential facts we have shown. And then he comes before you and asks acquittal. “Hides Behind Wife’s Skirts.” “The defendant in a criminal case usually bases defense on the presump tion 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 wife and child. “When these girls went to Reno their departure meant social oslra- clzement. Marsha Warrington went because she believed and trusted this man. She didn't desire money, dresses or presents. Her parents gave her these. But this man had prom ised her marriage, as Carnlnettl had promised Lola Norris. “Those promises were never in tended to be kept. What w as intend ed was to abandon the girls in Rena 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 wife. In seeking to establish that the trip W’as not premeditated and that the two girls had not been induced to take it by threats of scandal on (me hand and promises of marriage on the other, Diggs willingly testified to his own misconduct and the embarrass ments. domestic and business, into which 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 of the State for the purpose of accomplishing those things already accomplished. “Counsel may characterize him as they please, and I 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 white 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 were called willing accomplices in what evil had been done, and the wis dom of trusting a woman scorned when she bears witness against the lover who has discharged her was called into question. Hunnicutt Won in First Round +•+ +•+ +••!• +•+ +»+ Beat Bravo With Wooden Sword Miss Noida Humphrey, of Huntsville, Blames Laziness for Dearth of Divas. HUNTSVILLE, ALA., Aug. 23.— 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 has an even greater value In the world of art. So thinks Miss Neida Humphrey, of Huntsville, who has just returned home after a three-year course of voloe culture under Caruso in New York. Miss Humphrey, realizing the su preme demand for American prlma donnas on the operatic stage, not only In this country, but in every capital In Europe, thinks there Is a world 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 w'orld 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 Dweller in Desert Sees First Pine Tree Full Grown Woman Is Mystified by Foliage—Also Takes Moun tain Snow Bath. 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 I believe that the time is not far off when the Southern girl of talent will realize the life she is over looking and then I 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 remark 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 Stars and Bars. Has Charmed the President. She has already done things In music and 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 and 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 and was given an ovation. Miss Humphrey intends to return to New York in the full to complete her studies. She has already been assured of an operatic engagement and Huntsville believes that It will soon boast an operatic celebrity. Tents Only Shelter For Toledo Families CHICO. CAL., Aug. 23.—Miss Ilene 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 long In the desert southland, and was not only pleased but mystified at the foliage and the fact that she could reach the snow bound regions of the Sierra Nevadas Inside of an hour’s time. The party left here especially to give j Miss Locey an idea of the diversified climate of the Sacramento Valley and ja snow bath in the higher altitude. City Is Growing So Rapidly That Builders Can Not Construct Houses Demanded. TOLEDO, Aug. 23.—-Because the city has not enough houses to rent and build ers are not able to construct houses as rapidly as they are desired tents are be ing used as homes In Toledo. Two tent colonies have been estab lished in the city. In both districts oc cupants of the tents are owners of lots on which the temporary homes have been erected. The lots have been pur chased as home sites and tents are serving as temporary homes. The tent homes consist of living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens. Each has a flower and vegetable garden and one Is equipped with a chicken park, a stable and outbuildings Living rooms are convertible into bedrooms, and ham mocks. stretched in the open, are used day and night. Colonel Gailliard, of South Caro lina, Breaks Down Under Tremendous Task. More than any other section of the country, the South la 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 Bois 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 com> that. Colonel Wil liam L. Slbert, 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 nls work completed. Careers of Two Similar. The careers of Colonel Slbert and Colonel Gailliard have been remark ably similar Gailliard was bom In South Carolina; Slbert, 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 Wlllets 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. Slbert was put in charge of the work on the Atlantic side, which included the building of the Gatun Dam, while 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 was 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 Gaillard’s young son came with him and went with mm to Baltimore, where he will ent<m the John Hopkins Hospital. There he will b e 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 th e work in the Central Di vision. Those who talked with him at that time remember that he expressed a desire to get away from the Isthmus as soon as his work was finished, but. he added, with a touch of sadness in his soft Southern voice, “When I do leave it will be with deep and sincere regret.” Lieutenant 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' w'eeks ago Colonel William M. Black. Corps of Engineers, the chief of that branch of the service in this part of the United States, the officer who was head of the engineering board w’hich solved the problem of raising the old battleship Maine, was in Panama and was Gaillard’s guest. Close Friends for Years. The two officers have been inti mate friends for years. During his stay at Empire, 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. His work in the Canal Zone has been little short of marvelous. He laid out his plans in such a w'ay that he got the maximum out of everything, es pecially in the handling of the rail road part of the work, lie was also able 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 w’ere practically impossible.” Woman Given Job Of Cleaning Up State Success in Making Tacoma a Spot less Town Causes Promotion in Service. TACOMA, Aug. 23.—Because of her successful efforts to transform Tacoma Into a "Spotless Town," Miss Arizona B. Wimple, food and market Inspector, is to be 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 1t is said Miss Wimple is to he 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. Frequent inspections of bakeries and other food dispensing establishments were made and the score announced In the newspapers. Miss Wimple, 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 BURN I NcTaT 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. v Firemen extinguished the blaze. Detectives Shadowing Mail Thief Believed to Have Cached $40,- 000 After Robbery, OF FATHER LOST ICE 43 IK Miss Edith Randall, of Boston, Expects to Find Corpse on Glacier at Foot Mt. Blanc. KANSAS CITY. Aug. 23.—Charles Ravage, a negro mail 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 buried.” “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 Leaven worth this spring?” Savage was asked. “Yes, that’s queer. I don’t under stand,” he answered. “I read about that, and I figured it out that some person who lived in South Leaven worth had stolen that mail sack and hidden the money there, and the rain had washed away the dirt where It 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. How Atlanta’s Broadsword Champion Worsted French Fencing Master. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 23.—Under the provisions of an act passed by the Legislature, which Governor Ton 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. 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 siJlary 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 was 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 host, 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 cockflght- Ing and fencing for the gladiatorial features of their lives, and were sat isfied. And that time was not so very long ago. Calvin W. Hunnicutt, who D Atlanta’s oldest citizen, revived them in memory yesterday, when he fell to the young bloods turned to cockflght- 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, *yid 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 pleasant. But after a while politics began 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 Wilson, 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 mlliatry organization, and began to put these ideas into play. That made more dissatisfaction for no volunteer 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 ..nd 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 two wooden swords, or sticks. These were to be our wea pons. “Somehow thr tidings that there was to be a fight got abroad. At lanta was not as large as it is now, but it was a right smart town even then, and when the day for the fight 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 his body. If we had been fighting with real swords, my opponent would have been run through. “All Atlanta laughed. The French man had pretty generally advertis?d his ability to fight, and everybody was there. However, there were one or two person/ who didn’t like the way the fight came out, particularly the new captain of the dragoons and his ally. After the fight 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 ” BOSTON. Aug. 23.—Miss Edith Ran dall, of this city, has gone to Cham onix, Switzerland, one one 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 sjmmit. All told, two Americans, one Scotch man and eight guides ani porters died. Five of the bodies weTe recovered. It is expected by guides that the six oth/rs 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 tow r ard the valleys. Miss Randall's father, Tohn Ran dolph, a Boston banker, wan nftT-four when he lost his life In 1870. 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 qrick- 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 j by Wife Who Didn’t Like Wild West. CHICAGO. Aug. 23.—Geronimo and his wild hordes of Apaches, who ter rorized New Mexico in the eighties, were 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 tho Apache uprising was on. Mrs. Eaton, w’ho hailed from Pittsburg, did not enjoy the wild Western life her mar ried life entailed, and she deserted her husband. Common Laborer Strikes Big Gold Vein Ore Will Run $60,000 to Ton and Mine Is Largest in Southern Oregon. 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 I ore will run $60,000 to the ton, ac cording to assays of samples made here. Higginbotham had been a common laborer for 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- known 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 themselves. 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. 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