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j ■ '• St •' Si . i'. NOTICE If you have any difficulty In buying: Hearers Sunday American anywhere in the South notify Circulation Manager. Hearst’s Sunday Ameri can. Atlanta, Ga. H 1ARST s FLORIDA m XTRA VOL. L NO. 23. Copyright, 1918, by The Georgian Company. ★ ★ 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. Continued on Page 2, Column 6. 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 +•*!• 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. r Ga* M cU " 1 (f\A&AAy/r\AA(y**je. oCt/ln#c/jlavO (Jv&L* 1/CiCt fyUSJL n'> I * * r- jvU4*U+vU I4**ur&e*«/D . j+i K, 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 Continued on Page 4, Column 4. 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-