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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
Friends of Slayer of Former Hus
band and Young Bride Say She
Will Reveal Story of Years of
Most Cruel Suffering.
Difficulties Will Be Experienced
in Getting Jury in Jenkins, as
Family Is Widely Intermarried.
Emotional Insanity Plea.
MILLEN, Sept. 5.—As the time
draws near for the trial of Mrs. Edna
Perkins Godbee on the charge of kill
ing her divorced husband and his
young bride, her successor in his af
fections, there are indications a-
plenty that the story to be told will
be lifted out of the commonplace and
sordid setting of jealousy, out of the
flimsy plea of emotional Insanity and
will become the human document of
b woman wronged and neglected for
more than twenty years.
Many people in Southeast Georgia
believe that the woman on trial for
her life will have a story to tell that
will quicken pulses and grip hearts
and excite sympathy, and the trial Is
anticipated with a breathless eager
ness.
The Grand Jury of Jenkins County
will assemble Monday to consider the
case of Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee,
who, less than a month ago, met her
former husband in the Millen post-
office, arm in arm with his laughing
young bride, and who shot them to
death with hardly a word of wafning.
The trial of the case will proceed al
most Immediately, it Is expected, be
fore Judge Henry C. Hammond.
Awaiting trial, Mrs. Godbee remains
in a comfortably appointed cell In the
Jenkins County jail. She is a woman
of pleasant appearance, hardly look
ing the fact that she Is a grandmother
and the mother of a daughter who is
known widely for her beauty. Mrs.
Godhee is. undisturbed, It seems, almost
cheerful, and ready to talk on any
subject except that of herself and her
case.
Hard to Find Jurors.
Considerable difficulty, it is expect
ed, will he attached to the selection
of a jury. Either Mrs. Godbee or
her slain husband Is kin to every
third man, woman or child in Jenkins
County, and everybody knows, to the
degree of intimacy, the families of
both. Jury selection, then, will be
difficult, certainly, for it is expected
that the veniremen who are not re
lated by blood or marriage to one or
the other may have fixed opinions
which will eliminate them. As it is,
the case is on the lips of every one,
common subject for speculation in ev
ery household.
Common speculation also hinges
about Mrs. Godbee’s probable motive
in.killing Judge Godbee and his wife.
. Although It has been stated she will
plead emotional insanity, there are
few who believe her defense will be
based altogether on that plea. Those
who know her declare that her actions
of a lifetime contradict the argument
of lack of balance. Her self-posses
sion before the crime and since the
crime has been remarkable, it is said.
The fact that she had the revolver
in her handbag the morning of the
tragedy leads to the certain conclusion
that the killing was premeditated. No
other motive would have influenced
her to go about armed, It i« generally
considered.
Fascinated by Shooting.
But the motive that prompted her
to fire a shot into the brain of the
youthful bride is shrouded with mys
tery. Mrs. Godbee the first had no
grudge against Mrs. Godbee the sec
ond. except the natural grievance that
comes with jealousy. It is considered
that in the excitement of the moment,
after she had begun to work the
trigger rapidly, fascinated by the
sound of shots and the thrill of shoot
ing, she almost involuntarily turned
the revolver on the woman.
The most common anticipation con
cerning the defense is that Mrs. God
bee will charge her former husband
with brutal treatment and neglect,
beginning even in the years of their
early married life, 25 years ago.
For many years she stood the ill-
treatment. it is expected she will tell
the jury, for the sake of her children,
until there came a day when she
could bear it no longer. The God-
bees separated several times, but were
reunited, much against the advice of
the woman’s friends. Finally came
the separation that divorce made per
manent.
Mrs. Godbee has claimed, time and
again, that her husband had usurped
the fortune inherited by her from
her father, and that on the wealth
thus taken from her, he lived in af-
Six Girls Are Kissed
10,000 Times at $1
A Smack for Charity
Prominent and Pretty Girls Receive
Salutes of Line of Men a
Block Long.
SALEM, OHIO, Sept. 16.—All kiss
ing performances of record were
eclipsed here w r hen a pretty girl
member of a prominent family, was
kissed 1,688 times—and not by one
man, either. At the same time five
other .girls, equally pretty and promi
nent, received the same number of
kisses, on an average.
The girls disposed of ten thousand
kisses at $1 each to aid the endow
ment of Salem Hospital, which has
just been completed.. The osculatory
bombardment lasted two hours, and
at times there was a line of men,
young and old, a block long waiting
to fire salutes.
All Arkansas Turns
Out to Work Roads
Governor Hays Dons Hickory Shirt
and Seizes Shovel to Aid
in Movement.
LITTLE ROCK, Sept. 6.—Fully 75..
OOO men, with picks, shovels and road
machinery and togged in overalls and
hickory shirts, turned out Thursday
and Friday all over Arkansas to work
roads, following a proclamation of
Governor George W. Hays, setting
September 3 and 4 as "Good Roads”
days. Many cities practically sus
pended business and everybody from
officeboy to banker helped "pike Ar
kansas."
Governor Major of Missouri Joined
Governor Hays in a good roads pa
rade here.
Both Governors were clad in regu
lation road-working uniforms, as
were other State officials and Mayor
Charles E. Taylor. Boy Scouts served
as water carriers. Society women
Joined farmers’ wives along the pikes
in serving dinner.
Marshall Lays Sins
Of Youth to Parents
Vice President Says Mothers and
Fathers Are Responsible for
Tango and Slit Skirt.
■WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—Vice
President Marshall’s personal phil
osophy on all things, from slit skirts
to religion, was expounded to a huge
audience at Great Falls. Va., to-day,
where he played the role of "preach
er” to a camp meeting. Here follow
some of the comments of Mr. Mar
shall:
“You wonder why are the tango,
turkey trot and silt skirt; and I say
It is because the mothers of the coun
try are not Interested in training
their children.
"If I were a higher critic there is
only one commandment I should
change, and for the sake of justice
I would reverse that to read, ’The
sins of the children shall be visited
upon their parents.’ ”
Fourth of July’s
Death Total Only 32
Figures of American Medical Asso
ciation Show Remarkable De
crease in Number of Casualties.
CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Thirty-two
persons died in Fourth of July cele
brations this year, fewer than in any
year since statisticians began record
ing the death toll of fireworks.
Figures gathered by the Journal of
the American Medical Association
compared this total to that of 466 in
1903, the first year the association
counted the victims.
Of this year’s victims, thirteen,
most of them little girls, were burned
to death when their clothing caught
fire. Two of these accidents were
caused by supposedly harmless
"snapper" matches. The non-fatal
injuries this year were 1,311, as
against 3,983 in 1903.
Spanking Inspector
Appointed by Court
Kansas City Probation Officer Sees
That Truants’ Breeches Are
Properly Warmed.
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KANSAS CITY, Sept. 6.—Edward
Hicks, a probation officer, was ap
pointed special master of spanking
by Judge Seehorn in the Juvenile
Court today. Mr. Hicks, in pursu
ance of his duties, went to the home
of Charles Lyle, and witnessed a
spanking, in which Charles Lyle was
the spanker and Charles Lyle, Jr.,
the spanked.
Judge Seehorn created the new-
office after hearing the story as told
by Mr. Lyle and the hoy. Charles,
Jr., has the habit of running away
from home. He has been brought
into court two or three times on the
earns charge.
CARREL TAKES
STEP NEARER TO
Connective Tissue Preserved Per
manently in Condition of Ac- •
tive Life by Scientist.
GROWTH IS UNDER CONTROL
Constant Relation Found to Ex
ist Between Cells and Me
dium of Preservation.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—The earlier
experiments upon the preservation of
life In animal tissues after removal
from the gross organism have set Dr.
Alexin Carrel at the Rockefeller In
stitute at the threshold of a yet more
Important discovery. These experir
ments established the facts that hot
only could connective tissue be pre
served permanently in a condition of
active life, but that under certain eas
ily controlled conditions growth could
take place.
In Dr. Carrel’-s laboratory cells have
been proliferating rapidly for more
than sixteen months after their re
moval from the organism of which
they had formed a part. Hitherto all
tissue when removed from the ani
mal organism has been meat; these
researches establish the fact that such
tissue may continue to.grow indefi
nitely.
As this discovery became more fa
miliar to the investigator it was dis
covered that a constant relation ex
isted between the ratfr'of growth of
the cell and the composition of the
medium in which it is preserved. This
fact, Dr. Carrel now announces in
The Journal of Experimental Medi
cine, indicated that certain cell phe
nomena of the higher animals, such as
multiplication, growth and senility,
might now be investigated profitably.
At first blocked by lack of proper
method, this investigation has now
become possible through the discovery
of a technique which permits strains
of connective tissue to multiply in
definitely in the test tubes, like micro
organisms.
May Postpone Death.
A distinct character of the progress
reports which Dr. Carrel presents is
simplicity and directness. How each
successive item of this investigation
may be adjusted to the scheme of life
in general is nowhere set forth; it is
left entirely to inference; It is entire
ly a matter of interpretation of some
obscure hint.
In the report now issued it may be
taken that the mention of senility is
intended to foreshadow an ultimate
object of this line of profound study.
That would seem to mean that this re
search is advancing toward the dis
covery of some means of postponing
the approach of old age.
But Dr. Carrel says nothing of the
sort. He confines himself to a rigidly
detailed statement of this series of
experiments. He describes in terms
of absolute accuracy the source of
the cells upon which his research has
been based; he describes the medium
in which they have been pre?erved;
he gives working directions which will
enable other students to repeat the
treatment to which the specimens
have been subjected. All this detail
is very recondite; it is information
which will interest only those stu
dents of higher physiology who mav
seek to check this experiment by con
trol tests performed Independently
The results of this series of re
searches have the interest that thev
prove conclusively that Dr. Carrel
has taken yet one more step toward
the goal of his inquiry. His earlier
reports established the suffich*ntlv
startling fact that the death of the
gross organism by no means entailed
the simultaneous death of the com
ponent parts. In effect his earlier
conclusion was that the animal migiit
die, but the cells of which the animal
\aos composed died in a • C| econdary
sense only bv the failure to supplv the
culture medium which supported their
individual life. The first conclusion
reached was the proof of life after
death, the survival of the cell.
Time Has No Effect.
The later investigation has estab
lished a knowledge of the character
istics of the growth of connective tis
sue. This has led to a new result, the
indefinite proliferation of a strain of
connective tissue cells outside of the
organism. The strain of connective
tissue originally obtained from a
fragment of chicken embryo heart,
which had been pulsating in the test
tube for 104 days, was still actively
alive after sixteen months of inde
pendent life and more than 190 pas
sages. The rate of proliferation of the
connective tissue sixteen months old
equalled and even exceeded that of
fresh connective tissue taken from
an eight-day-old embryo.
“It appears, therefore.” Dr. Carrel
reports in summation, “that time has
no effect on the tbwues isolated from
the organism and preserved by means
of the technique described. During
the sixteenth month of life in vitro
the cells increased rapidly in numb**i
and were able in a short time to pro
duce a large quantity of new tissue.
This fact, therefore, definitely dem
onstrates that the tissues were not in
a state of survival, as was the case
in certain earlier experiments, but in
a condition of real life, since the eell.j
of which they were composed, like
micro-organisms, multiplied indefi
nitely in the culture medium.”
T. R, Called Dead One;
Troop Drops Name
Milwaukee Hebrew Military Organi
zation Changes Title by Vote
of 20 to 1.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 6.—The Mil
waukee Roosevelt Guards have
changed their name to the Milwaukee
Hebrew guards, but the decision was
reached only after a prolonged and
bitter debate.
“Roosevelt? Say, he’s a dead one
now,” declared the anti-Roosevelt
members, and then they proceeded to
argue that it was all right to name
the guards for him when he was
President,- but after his retirement
to private life it was making a po
litical and facttqnal organization of
the'only Hebrew military company in
the West to retain the name.
The vote was about 20 to 1, but the
minority made a gallant fight.
Bare Legs in Poster
Stir Oregon Women
Temperance Union Protests Against
a Portola Festival Advertisement
Depicting Half-Nude Dancer.
PORTLAND. OREG.. Sept. 6.—The
Oregon Woman’s Christian Temper
ance Union is up in arms against
the Portola poster that is being sent
broadcast over the country to adver
tise the festival to be held in San
Francisco.
Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, State
president, contends that a poster de
picting a woman with the legs par
tially bare in a dancing posture is
an insult to womanhood and should
not be allowed to represent any’ fes
tivity on the Pacific Coast.
The union has addressed a protest
to United States Senator Lane, to
Governor West and to State unions
throughout the West.
New Harry Thaw Is Evolved
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Becomes Just Petulant Child
Letter in French written by Harry Thaw to a reporter on
“La Patrie,” a French newspaper published in Sherbrooke, in
which he thanks the paper for an editorial on “Fair Play.”
Harry Thaw in court at Sherbro oke, is shown below. This pic
ture was taken just before the spectators started a noisy demon
stration in his behalf.
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Veteran of Civil and Spanish-
American Wars Says National
Guard Could Not Be Depended
On in Strife With Great Power.
Citizen Soldiers, He Asserts, Are
Brave Enough, but It Requires
Time and Experience to Develop
Warriors to Fill the Bill To-day.
BOSTON, Sept. 6.—That the United
States has not thoroughly digested the
lessons taught by wars of the past
and that its refusal to digest such
lessons is the cause of the present
state of nnpreparedness for war is
the opinion of Brigadier General
Phillip A. Reade, U. 8. A., retired.
Seen at his apartment this veter
an of the Civil war, the Spanish-
American war and numerous cam
paigns against the Indians and Moros
said:
"The test of an army is the charac
ter of its men. The good soldier
makes a good citizen, and the good
citizen can be trained to be a per
fect soldier. But soldiering is an art
—it can not be learned in a minute.
A man can not put on a uniform and
become a general. He must begin at
the bottom ai^work up.
“The citizen soldier, upon whom
Thaw’s Nemesis, William ravers Jerome, former District
Attorney of New York, who is relentless in his efforts to have
Thaw sent back to Matteawan
Proposes Too Loudly
And He Is Arrested
Suitor Returns to Find Affianced
Pledged to Another and
Pleadings Bring Police.
NEW YORK, Sept. 6.—Because he
proposed marriage in tones too loud,
John Flynn was parted from his
sweetheart In Yonkers yesterday and
arrested.
Flynn was the fiance of Elizabeth
Foley, a maid In the household of
Samuel Hubbard, Jr., a cotton broker,
of No. 643 Palisade avenue, Yonkers.
Returning unexpectedly after two
years, he found she had forsaken him
for a rival. He came back after mid
night. and, standing beneath a win
dow, beseec’md her to marry him. Po-
licemLn Morrissey heard the proposal.
Judge Ellis suspended sentence.
BABY DROWNS IN VINEGAR.
TERRE HAUTE. IND.. Sept. 6.—
Lester, the 2-year-old son of Mrs.
Geoige David, was drowned in an
eight-gallon jar of vinegar. He feil
head first lulu it.
Mother Comes to Aid of Million
aire, Who Begins Last Fight
Against Deportation.
COATICOOK, QUEBEC, Sept. 6 —
A new Harry Thaw Is evolved out of
the legal squabble that followed his
wild dash from Matteawan. Not
Harry Thaw the slayer, nor Harry
Thaw the lunatlce, nor Harry Thaw
the millionaire is the figure that is
being made out by the men who are
trying to get him back to the State*
and to Matteawan, but Harry Thaw, a
willful child, who Is to be taken in
hand and, if necessary, spanked
soundly and taken home.
Captain John Lanyon, a private de
tective, w’ho is armed with a handful
of warrants for Thaw’s arrest, told
to-day of the attitude observed by
mo£t of the authorities toward the
wealthy fugitive.
“We would have no scruples toward
hustling him in an automobile and
taking him back to Now York, just as
we would an intractable child,’’ said
the captain. Thaw, in the disgusted
opinion of most of the detectives, is
not entitled to all that is being done
for him.
And there is another person who
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under present conditions we would
be forced to reply in case of war, is
not a trained soldier. I do not mean
that the militiamen, as we call them
in this State, are not brave men,
courageous men. But they are not
disciplined men. And in war bravery
without discipline avails nothing.
“It is true that in the Revolution
ary war a handful of citizen soldiers
Continued on Page 2, Column 6.
Fiery Mexican Sees Great Light
Overnight and Gives Wilson As
surance He Will Not Be Can
didate in the Next Election
Special Envoy Hurried to Wash
ington To Make a Last Effort
in Behalf of Present Regime
in the Southern Republic
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6—Arbitrary
Mr. Victoriano Huerta, it seems, is
going to listen to reason at last. As
surances that he will not be a candi
date for re-election, that he will keep
good faith with the United States in
all his promises, that he will give
every effort at his command toward
the safety of American citizens in
Mexico, have gone out from the Mexi
can capital to Washington.
All this embodies a complete change
of front overnight. Only a day or
two ago Huerta seemed recalcitrant,
defying the authority of the United
States, even to announcing his inten
tion of running for President in Oc
tober. This announcement was made
In direct contravention of the wishes
of the American Government, which
has been insistent that he be not a
candidate. Huerta and any govern
ment that smack of Huerta, according
to the message borne from Washing
ton, is not acceptable to the United
States.
But now Huerta has begun to make
overtures. Manuel de Zamacona,
former Ambassador from Mexico to
the United States, is on his way to
Washington, where he will serve as
the personal representative of Provi
sional Presideht Huerta, much as John
Lind Is the personal representative of
President Wilson. Thus would
Huerta try to make his peace with the
powers of the northern republic.
Huerta at Last Awake*.
Feeling certain that President Wil
son is opposed to his government.
Huerta is endeavoring to plead for
himself. The United States stead
fastly has refused to recognize the
Huerta regime, but Special Envoy
de Zamacona is invested with the
mission of urging the necessity of
recognition, in order that the best in
terests of both Governments be con
served.
It is believed here in the capita!
that President Huerta is beginning at
last to see the value of American good
will.
Americans will be safe in Mexico,
is the announcement which went out
from his offices yesterday. Even in
case of American intervention, he
promised, Americans and American
property would be safe if efforts of
the Mexican Government could render
them safe. Those Americans who de
sire to leave may have special trains
to the ports, and those without money
will be supplied the difference be
tween the cost of passage in the steer
age and in any other class of travel
to which they aspire. President Hu
erta becomes gracious.
Good Will Is Assured.
Nelson O’Shaughnessy, Charge
d’Affaires of the American Embassy,
has received a number of oral assur
ances of the good will of the Mexi
can Government, and the prospect is
held out that peace in Mexico is not
far away. It is believed here that the
officials in Washington are looking
forward to an early negotiation of an
armistice by the Mexican factions and
the early holding of a constitutional
election. This fair and safe election
President Huerta also has promised.
However, in spite of all these pa
cific declarations and friendly over
tures, many Americans are suspicious.
Mexican newspapers have frankly
launched a boom for Huerta’s candi
dacy, and there are many who be
lieve Huerta soon will resign as Pro
visional President in favor of General
Trevino, that he may be eligible to
run for re-election in October. The
suspicions are confined mostly to a
minority of American residents in
Mexico, most of them, together with
the Government at Washington, be
ing ready to accept as genuine the
assurances that come officially from
the Mexican capital.
Refugees Crowd Vera Cruz.
With all the tangled web of poli
tics, the human element In the stormy
situation remains. American men and
women in Mexico are torn between
fear and a courageous, almost fool-