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EDITION FOR SOUTHWEST GEORGIA Sun f dav , A ! ’,fJr„ any ' ,im< ' ulty ,n buy 'nx Hear*', ClreutaflnS « Can a,iy "; h<;re In the South notify can Atlanta M G7 8er ' Uearsl ' 3 Sunday Amerl ‘ Copyright. 1913. by The Georgian Company ★★★ ATLANTA, «A„ SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1**1 H. PRICE FIVE CENTa —CP EXPECTED 10 STAND Friends of Slayer of Former Hus band and Young Bride Say She Will Reveal Story of Years of Most Cruel Suffering. Six Girls Are Kissed 10,000 Times at $1 A Smack for Charity I Prominent and Pretty Girls Receive Salutes of Line of Men a Block Long. SALEM, OHIO, Sept. 16.—All klss- * n 8f performances of record were eclipsed .here when 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- j 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. 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 ot a 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 warning. 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. Godbee 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 be 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, t^e families of both. Jury selection, then, will be difficult, certainly, for it is expected chat 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 ba^ed 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 is generally considered. Fascinated by Shooting. But the motive that prompted her to fire a shot int6 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- Continued on Page 4. Column 6. 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,. 000 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 Months May Elapse Before Legal Status of Matteawan Fugitive in Dominion Is Fixed. MOVE FOR BAIL NOW PLANNED Attorneys for Stanford White’s Slayer Believed to Have Played Masterful Legal Coup. OOATICOOK, QUEBEC, Sept, 6 — One year’s time may elapse before it is legally determined whether Harry K. Thaw, the fugitive from the Mat teawan (X. Y.) Asylum for the Crim inal Insane, is to be deported from Canada or is to receive the protec tion of its laws. Assurance to this effect was given to Thaw to-day by his counsel. Thaw is certain that he has won a long delay and immediately after breakfast began packing for the jour ney to Montreal, where he mu At he produced in the Supreme Court on September 15, when arguments will be delivered on the writ of habeas corpus secured by J. X. Greenshields and X. K. I^aFlamme from Justices Cross and Gervais in the Court* of Appeals. Minister of Justice Doherty, who is also acting Minister of the Interior, is reported to have said to-day at Ottawa that any appeal from the de cision of the Immigration Board in joined farmers’ wives along the pikes j Coaticook ordering the deportation of 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 slit 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 Ouly 32 Figures of American Medical Asso ciation Show Remarkable De crease in Number of Casualties. Harry K. Thaw will not be acted on until the proceedings instituted by Thaw’s lawyers yesterday are dis posed of. It was reported that Thaw would be taken to Montreal to-day. His lawyers will immediately file applica tion for Thaw’s liberation on bail. Coup a Legal Masterpiece. It had been supposed that Green- shields and LaFlamme had withdrawn from the case, seeing nothing but de feat, hut their retreat was only a masterly piece of strategy by which the doors-* may have been opened for a test of the constitutionality of the immigration law r governing deporta tion. Complications have been added to the general aspect of the Thaw case by the events subsequent to the ar rest of William Travers Jerome, ex- District Attorney of New York, on a charge of gambling. Mr. Jerome was to have been arraigned before Mag istrate McKee at 9:30 this morning, but Hector Verrett, acting for the New York lawyer, had the hearing postponed for a week. Meantime Mr. Jerome left Canada, going to Nortons Mills. Vt. In a sense. Mr. Jerome thus made of him self a fugiCve from justice, reversing the position of Thaw, who is a fugi tive 111 Canada. Influence has been brought to bear upon Crown Prosecutor A. C. Hanson to have the charge against Mr. Je rome, who is at liberty on bond, dropped. The crown prosecutor refused to do this. Says Jerome Set Bad Example. “I hdve received many complaints about the orpen gambling of Mr. Je rome and I consider it my duty :o push this case against him,” said the prosecutor. “He was setting a bad example. Every one could see him and his companions playing.” This is a sort of puritanical com munity and gambling is looked upon as a serious offense. Hot Springs Starts Work on Rebuilding Fire-Swept Section Conservative Estimate of Damage Is Now $8,000,000, With $4,000,000 of Insurance. HOT SPRINGS, Sept. 6. — Conserv ative estimates to-day place the loss from the great fire which swept Hot Springs last night at $8,000,000, with about $4,000,000 insurance. A mass meeting was held to-day to consider the advisability of appealing to the State for military and financial aid. and also to consider plans for re habilitating the city. The loss is twice as great as from the disastrous blaze which swept this city in 1905. The burned belt of 110 acres, embracing *0 blocks, Mretches from the southwestern por tion of the city straight through to the mountains on the noTth side. It will be 90 days befo^ street car serv ice can be resumed. The fire originated in a negro shanty near the Iron Mountain sta tion, burning that station and all rail way equipment in that section of the | city. Little Rock sent fire fighting equip- j ment on a special train. Governor ; Ilayes and Mayors of the principal j cities of the State, as well as busi ness organizations, are offering aid, and rebuilding plans will start at once. The Park Hotel will not be rebuilt. Mss Toiler U.S. Venus *•* Grand Duke Decides v-v •!•••! •;•••{• Fairest in the World Misg Marie Tailer ion tile left), whom the Grand Duke Alex j ander Michaelovitch, cousin of th« Czar, called “the handsomest girl I have met in America.” .S. GENERAL WILSON SEES jK WOULD RUNOF HUERTA 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 WdS reached only after a prolonged and bitter debate. “Roosevelt? Say, he’s u dead one now,” declared the ant.i-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 factional 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. No Spat for 25 Years; 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 »/r“ Then Wife Whips Him against 3.988 in 1903. j — — j ‘Don't Drink Again Until Golden Wedding Day,” Judge Tells Hus band Who Celebrated. CHICAGO, Sept. 6.—Joseph Bobber and his wife had been married for 25 years. As Joseph dressed to go to the church where he and his wife were to meet the priest who married them, he boasted of the perfect har mony that had existed in his house hold. The more he boasted the more toasts he drank. • When Mr. and Mrs. Bobber reached the church Joseph was not the steady, upright person he was when they stood before the priest 25 years ago. Mrs. Bobber was ashamed and hu miliated. When she got Joseph home she horsewhipped him. Then she had j him arrested. “I just celebrated my twenty-fifth ; wedding anniversary last week” said Judge Sabath as Joseph stood before 1 him. “I’ll discharge you. Go home | and don’t get drunk again until your ! golden wedding day.’’ 1 Spanking Inspector Appointed by Court Kansas City Probation Officer Sees That Truants’ Breeches Are Properly Warmed. 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 boy. Charles, Jr., has the habit of running away from home. He has been brought into court two or three times on the same charge. Bare Legs in Poster Stir Oregon Women Temperance Union Protests Against a Porto'a Festival Advertisement j 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- j tially bare in a dancing posture is an insult to womanhood and should not be allowed to represent any fes tivity on the Pacific (’oast. The union has addressed a protest to United States Senator Lane, to Governor West and to State unions throughout the West. N REPORTED OF ENEMYSORRENOER 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, besceohed her to marry him. Po liceman Morrissey heard the proposal. Judge Ellis suspended sentence. NEWPORT, Sept. 6.—Before wav ing his departure from the deck of an European bound liner to-day, Grand Duke Alexander Michaelevitch of Russia, selected his ideal of the modern Venus and he selected an American girl. The object of the ducal admiration is Miss Marie Taylor, of New York, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lee Taylor. The Grand Duke, who is considered a distinguished critic of' feminine beauty, not only termed Miss Taylor “the most beautiful woman in this country,” but he went farther and declared the American girls more beautiful than those any other na tion could boast Miss Taylor being the most beauti ful women in America in his estima tion therefore becomes the most beau tiful girl in all the world. According to the story that is told in Newport, the Grand Duke selected snapshots of the ladies he met here, particularly at tl:e Casino and Bailey’s Beach. He was particularly anxious to obtain a photograph of Miss Tay lor. to whom he openly awarded the crown of beauty. Champion Dancer at 71 Easily Keeps Title For Fifty-first Time John Tom Rog ers Displays Steps None Could Equal. OAK ORCHARD. DEL., Sept. 6.— Despite his 71 years John Tom Rog ers, of Shortley, easily won the danc ing championship of Sussex County for the fifty-first consecutive year by displaying steps that none of the other contestants could master. Although his years kept him from dancing as long at a time as the younger men, the crowd proclaimed him the vi<-or in buck and wing, jig and reel dancing. As a test the fid dlers broke from one dance to an other without his missing a step, and, tired hut happy, the old man still holds the title. Lady Constance Sails In ‘Biblical’ Costume Gown Worn Aboard Olympic by Dancer Is Striking Creation of Cloth of Gold. Special Cable to The American. SOUTHAMPTON, Sept. 6.—A star tling combination of the Oriental and the Biblical was worn to-day by Lady Constance Stewart-Richard.son, who sailed on the* Olympic to-day for New York. Her gown was of cloth-of-gold. with Oriental figures in deep greens and browns. Her wide elbow sleeves were faced with iridescent material in the two shades, and she wore gold thread stockings with gilt trim mings. A gold-embroidered brown turban had flowing gold chiffon veil. Lady Constance is < oming to Amer ica to tour the country in a theatrical combination with Gertrude Hoffman and Polaire. The trio will he seen at the Atlanta Theater this season. Rubber Doll Saves Life of au Infant Child Falls Into Water, but Toy Acts as Buoy Until Baby Is Rescued. HUNTINGTON, W. VA., Sept. 6. A rubber doll that It carried saved the infant child of Mrs. John Mathe- ny from drowning. The mother, with the child in her arms, fell from a boat, and the child went underneath a ferryboat, Mrs. Matheny being pulled out. In a short time the child was seen to emerge from the water at the oth er end of the boat, and was rescued. It still clutched tightly the rubber doll which acted as a buoy and kept the baby on the surface of the water. MIDGET WHIPS JAIL GIANT. st ].< >Uis. Sept 6 A | nt down fall was enacted in th»* Belleville jail when Mont** Mathewi-on, 6 feet J inches tall, held in awe by the other prisoner^, was vanquished hv Niek Manola, who measures onty 5 feet 1 inch. RIP VAN WINKLE GERMS BLAMED FOR EPIDEMIC ALLENTOWN. N. J., Sept. *».— Germs of hog • holera, which are believed to have remained inactive for three dec ades. are thought to have caused an epidemic which in two weeks has killed more than >0 pigs on the J. Carrol Burt is farm, near here. Experts are* confident they have traced the epidemic to a previous one on the I same farm when tin* place was owned b.\ flic father of the present proprietor j 30 years ago. I 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 unpreparedness for war is the opinion of Brigadier General Phillip A. Reade, l*. S. A., retired. Seen at his apartment this veter an of the Civil war. the Spanish- Amerioan war and numerous cam paigns against the Indians and Morns 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 and work up. “The citizen soldier, upon whom 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 achieved victory at Concord. But in later engagements our untrained troops did not show to such good ad vantage. General Washington found in several instances that the mili tiamen ran away under fire “During the Civil v*uir we had the same experience with untrained troops. They were willing enough to fight, but they lacked what a soldier should have—discipline. The aim of the soldier should be to shoot and hit the mark. He must be ready to sacrifice himself in order to shoot and hit the mark. If he shoots and misses in order that he may run away, he is of no use as a soldier. Indeed, he is a great hindrance, for he is apt to demoralize other untrained, undis ciplined men. History Would Repeat. “Our militia, in my opinion, has im proved greatly in the last ten years, and it will doubtless go on improving. But the militia belongs to the second line—to the reserve. Should necessity force us to place the citizen soldier, willing, but unschooled, in the first line, history would repeat itself. Be wildered by the fire, unaccustomed to obey as the trained soldier obeys, they run. “The best soldier is the good citi zen—the man who loves his home, j That is one reason why I don’t be- j l *« v ® in having aliens in the United I States Army. As a recruiting officer ; I got permission to accept no man ' for service who could not read and j write the English language. Short Enlistment Worthless. “The short-term enlistment has been tried out several times in the history of this country and has j proven itself worthless. Men enlist ed for 100 days are Just learning the I rudiments of soldiering when their I term of enlistment ends. The system of enlisting troops for the term of a war Is much to be preferred. “It must be remembered the ulti mate deciding factor of any war, properly so called, is the character of the troops participating. Bad arma ment. poor ammunition and lack of proper commissary facilities are things which dishearten, but which an able commander may be able to overcome. But poor, untrained, un disciplined men present a problem which no commander can solve. “It is the man. not the gun. that Is the strength of an army. The poor soldier couldn’t win a battle with the finest gun ever made. But give a well-trained trooper a flintlock and lie knows how to put up some sort of a fight.” ' Yes, i know that ii is the genera! opinion that the United States could ’lick’ anybody at any time. With proper preparation. I think she could. The answer is. ‘Preparedness, pre paredness, preparedness!* Washington Convinced That He Is Using Typical Latin-American Methods in Order to Hoodwink President as to Real Position, Gamboa Asserts He Has Received No Word That Trouble Maker Will Not Offer Himself as Can didate for Mexican Presidency. WASHINGTON, St?pt. 6.—Tho Mexican situ../ on to-day focused on tile declaration of Senor Gamboa, Mexican Minister of Foreign Af fairs, that President Huerta has tfiven no definite pledge not to be a candidate at the October election. Tills ha* been expected by Washing ton officials ever since President Wilson indicated he believed Huerta had given such a pledge. It makes clear to Washington of ticials that Huerta is playing Latin- American characteristics with tit ■ United States, and they can not be sure of the elimination of Huerla from the situation while he has any considerable following in Mexico. The White House still maintains silence regarding the coming of Senor Zamacona to Washington as a confi dential agent of President Huerta. Gamboa Denies Huerta’s Surrender. MEXICO CITY, sept. 6.—Senoi- Gamboa, Minister of Foreign Affairs in a statement last night, declared: "I have never given an assurance that President Huerta will not be a candidate for re-election. "Mexico's position toward the United States lias been defined ab solutely in the last note from this Government in the negotiations be gun by Mr. Lind. Nothing can be added to that note, which was a fuil statement of Mexico’s attitude, and this has not varied In the least since it was written." Correspondents endeavored to ob tain a statement from General Huer ta and from Senor Urrutia, Minister of the Interior, but both refused to discuss the matter. Mexican “Firebrand” Under Impeachment. Special Cable to The American. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6.—Impeach ment charges were to-day filed by Deputy Calero against Dr. Urrutia. Minister of Interior, and the fire brand of the Huerta Cabinet. Dr. Urrutia, who was responsible for the recent announcement that Huerta, had sent an ultimatum to Washing ton giving the United States twelve hours to recognize President Huerta, is charged with causing the arrest of Deputy Calero, whereas the Mexican Constitution exempts members of Congress from arrest. Senor Calero was locked up on the charge that h< was plotting with the Zapatista reb els. but later w T as released. Foreign Minister Gambol has is sued formal denial of published re ports that Manuel Zamacopa y ln- clan. who sailed Thursday for tho United States, is going to Washing ton as a special envoy. Rumor was current here that John Lind, the Special Envoy from Presi dent Wilson, may return to this citv to-morrow, but so far as could bo learned no steps have been taken to reopen negotiations between Mr. Lind and the Mexican Government. Sympathizers of the late Francisco I. Madero, who planned an anti-Gov- ernment demonstration for Septem ber 16, have been warned by t he Government not to try to carry n out. GIRL BABY, FOURTEENTH, TIPS SCALE AT 26 POUNDS PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Sept. 6.—'Th* home of Mr. and Mrs. William True man has been invaded for several days by women, chiefly mothers, to congrat ulate them and to get a look at the largest and handsomest baby In the city'. Minnie Louise is tho latest addition to the. family of the Truemans, and on the day of her birth she tipped the scales at pounds. She is the four-* teenth child to arrive in fgiiiiU.