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r NOTBCE If you tiave any difficulty in buying Htant'i Sunday American anywhere In the South notify Circulation Manager. Hearst's Sunday Ameri can. Atlanta. Ga. EDITION FOR AUGUSTA Q-rld VOL. 1. NO. 24. Copyright. 1^13. by The Georgian Company ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. nRFFCIRCULATIOK|lDER0FMLr BY HER LIFE Convicted Woman Immediately Begins Fight for New Trial. Declares She Will Surely Be Freed in Long Run. Growth of The Georgian and Hearst's Sunday American. Belov} is given the circulation fig ures of Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian so that read ers may see the remarkable growth of the two leading newspapers of the South. Circulation of The Sunday American Brother of Assassinated President Leads Army of 1,500 Men On Aguas Calientes. FEDERALS AWAIT ATTACK Tho circulation of The Sunday American follows, from the date of first publication. April 6. to the last Sunday In Augu»t; Mother of Slain Bride Expresses April 6 g7, 82S * April 13 80.612 April 20 79,300 April 27 77,306 May 4 77.729 May 11 ... J 78.061 Government Force Has 2,000 Troops in Town—Dr, Urrutia Refuses to Quit Office. Joy When She Hears of Convic tion Without Death Penalty. Dramatic Scene in Court. May 18 ’ May 25 MILLEN, g eptf —Stoical and ' June 1 calm as she has ever been since she , *^ une 8 fired the shots that ended the lives i June 15 . „ June 22 of her former husband and his young | j une 29 bride, Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee | July 6 immediately began preparations for j July 13 . her fight for a new trial as soon as 20 • July 27 August 8 August 10 August 17 August 24 August 31 June June June June June June June June 10 June 11 June 12 June 13 June 14 June 16 June 17 she heard the jury pronounce her guilty and the court fix her punish ment at life imprisonment. Colonel F. A. Saffold, senior coun sel for Mrs. Godbee, announced this afternoon that a skeleton motion for a new trial would be filed at once, according to statutory regulations. 91aln Bride’s Mother Glad. ‘ I am glad Mrs. Godbee was given a life sentence,” was the comment of Mrs. M. G. Boyer, mother of the slain girl, after Judge Hammond had set the penalty. "She deserved pun ishment, although I did not want, her hanged. A woman of her typr /'.§ Mrs. Godbee would not see report- dangerous at large.” ers, but It was reported by friends who visited her cell that she was cheerful and optimistic, and was con- | » ne 18 fident of an acquittal on a new trial. : June 19 Miss Sarah Godbee, the beautiful June 20 June 21 daughter of Mrs. Godbee, collapsed as j une 23 the foreman of the Jury announced I June 24 the verdict. She has been a constani I June 25 companion of her mother during the ; June 26 trial, and her own cheerfulness has I June 27 had much to do with the cheerfulness June 28 of her mother. June 30 She held her mother’s hand in hers as the Jury filed slowly into the court room. Eagerly she scanned the faces of each man, hoping for a sign that they would declare Mrs. Godbee not guilty. Each man’s face was grave. July Her hand tightened over that of her July mother, and tears rolled down her July cheeks. As the foreman rose to an- July nounce the verdict she leaned for- July ward, the most intensely eager person July In the room. July Mrs. Godbee Not Moved. .July As the dreaded worl “guilty” fell I July 10 from the lips of the jurymen Miss July 11 Godbee shrieked and collapsed. In a July 12 hush broken only by the sobs of the July 14 daughter, Judge Hammond ordered July 15 Mrs. Godbee to stand and receive the July 16 sentence of the court. Gently disen- July 17 gaging the clinging hands of her July 18 daughter. Mrs. Godbee rose and stood without a tremor while the court or dered that she be confined in the pen itentiary the remainder of her natu ral life. Mrs. Godbee s daughter, young and beautiful, presented a pitiful specta cle that brought tears to the eyes of every person in the courtroom. She clung to Mrs. Godbee’s neck, while the mother gently patted her head 78.379 76,914 74,353 76,107 80,683 86,309 82.478 87,599 85,851 86.175 86,864 88,836 95,827 MEXICO CITY, Sept. 13.—Private dispatches received here to-day an nounce definitely that the family of Francisco I. Madero, Jr., who was assassinated after abdicating the presidency of Mexico, has launched a full-fledged revolution against the regime of President Huerta. Haoul Madero. a brother of the late President, is reported to be leading an army of 1,500 rebels against the city of Aguas Calientes, capital of the State of the same name. The city is defended by a Federal army of | 2,000. Dr. Urrutia has refused to give up ' the portfolio of Minister of the In* Georgia Man Seeks Job as ‘Diatoceff Rockmart Applicant Writes Post- office Department, but Letter Goes to Secret Service. WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.—What is a "diatoceff7” This is a question that is puzzling the Postoffloe Depart ment. To-day the following letter from a Georgia man applying for a Job was received: "Postmaster General: "Dear Sir—I wont a job with you all. Say, I wont a Job of diatocefT. You writ soon to me. I sure wont a job with you all. My age is 25 1-2 years old. "Your kind friend, "Rockmart, Ga." The Postofflce Department thinks that "diatoceff’’ may be Georgian for detective. If it is discovered the Rockmart youth is afflicted with "Sherlock Holmesitis," the application will be turned over to the Secret Service Bureau. Georgia Man +•+ +•+ Proposes European Air Line + •+ +•+ Inventor Sees Sure Success Captain Matthew A. Batson, U. S. A. retired, of Savannah, who is the inventor of a multiplane which he declarer will muke aerial commercial navigation possible. 101 ”79 ! terior and will be allowed to retain 102.487 i that offlce - CIRCULATION OFJH: GEORGIAN Americans’ Absence Stuns Hotel Keepers FCR JUNE Marshall at Last Finds $2,000 House Vice President Keeps Location Se cret Fearing a Raise in Rent by Landlord. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.--After long months of weary house hunting, Vice President and Mrs. Marshall I have found a house which comes well within the $2,000 the Vice President feels he can afford for house rent out of his $12,000 salary. Lest some envious person see their house and try to raise the bid on it, the Vice President and Mrs. Marshal 1 are refusing to tell its exact loca tion. It is admitted, however, that it is on the fashionable Avenue of the Presidents. 49.725 52.609 63,494 52,692 51,311 | 49.114 | 48,862 | 48,007 i August Is Disastrous to Both Boni faces and Tradesmen in South ern Germany. Special Cable to The American. BERLIN, Sept. 13.—The hotel keep- 49,540 ers and tradesmen in certain quar- I ters * of South Germany are dismayed • b y the marked decrease in American j tourist traffic; August was almost i disastrous to them. The Munich hotel proprietors were 1 hit hardest and are complaining j loudly. This loss of American pa- I tronage is due largely, it is said, to | the agitation by certain Americans 51,065 i in Munich against the systematic ex- 50,774 | ploltation to which travelers are sub- 50,877 j jected in that city. Experienced tour- 51,487 |ists, tired of paying double prices for ( 50,349 ( everything, are shunning Munich and 49,228 49.691 49,535 55,119 50,141 49,083 48,860 48,934 47,490 50,127 53,806 CIRCULATION OF THE GE1RGI/.N FOR JULY 1 51.671 2 51,401 8 51,063 4 49.988 6 51.308 going to Berlin and other North Ger- man cities. 49,956 01,386 50,823 62,761 50,778 50,948 51,867 54,077 51,980 52,077 51,419 FOR AUGUST 1 64.397 2 65,453 4 74,244 July 19 50.997 Ju>y 21 52.750 July 22 53,748 July 23 52.828 July 24 t 51,608 July 25 54.596 July 26 . 54.378 July 28 64,567 July 29 .V 63,113 July 30 64,340 July 31 63,864 and whispered words of encourage men,. As the Sheriff stepped forward j CIRCULAT ON OF THE GEORGIA I and placed his hand on Mrs. God- bee’s shoulder to lead her away to prison the young daughter broke down completely. She pillowed her head on iier mother's breast, tears streaming down her face, her sobs audible in every part of the court room. As the hand of the Sheriff fell upon her shoulder, opening wide the gates of the prison. Mrs. Godbee disen gaged her daughter’s hand, imprint ed a last kiss upon her lips and rose to her feet, gazing calmly at the jury. ”1 am ready," she said. Still Expects Liberty. Silence fell over the crowded court room as the convicted woman was led to the doors. The crowd outside, sensing the dramatic touch given to the trial was as silent as the grave while Mrs. Godbee entered an auto mobile that was waiting. She was followed to the jail by a number of her friends, many of them prominent in Mtllen society. As the gates clanged behind her, her only words were: “I’ll be freed in the long run.” Ambassador Wilson To Take Platform Former Diplomat Will Write Book and Lecture on Experience in Mexico. NEW YORK, Sept. 13.—Henry Lane Wilson, who has resigned as Ambassador to Mexico, Is writing a book and is getting ready to make a lecture tour with a lyceum bureau. Mr, Wilson has arrived at the Wal dorf from his home in Indiana to receive his household furniture, which was forwarded from Mexico City. The book will deal with Mr, Wil son’s seventeen years in the diploma tic service, including his work in Mexico and events of a recent date Parts of the book dealing with the situation across the Southern border will be pointed in a magazine. The lecture will deal with the Mexican situation.. Mr. Wilson declined yes terday to comment on Mexican af fairs. August August August August 5 August 6 August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 _ Washington to Lose Most Noted Beauty 74.857 76 297 75,002 77,387 73,523 73,742 August 12 72,743 August 13 73455 August 14 70,709 August 15 72,139 August 16 71,534 August 18 75.623 August 19 74.669 August 20 75.403 August 21 76,208 August 22 77,306 August 23 79,372 August 25 131.203 August 26. . 1{ 98.95”) August 27 82.502 August 28 77 831 August 29 76.681 August 30 74,761 Mrs. Spencer Cosby Accompanies Husband to New Post as Military Attache. Special Cable to The American. WASHINGTON, S^pt. 13.—Wash ington will soon lose ‘its most beau tiful woman,” for Mrs. Spencer Cos by, wife of the new’ly appointed mil itary attache of the American Em bassy in Paris will accompany her husband to the French capital in a few days. Prince Christian of Prussia, during his recent American visit, saw Mrs. Cosby in Washington and exclaimed: "There is the most beautiful Ameri can woman 1 have ever seen.” Mrs. Cosby has a fragile, delicate beauty, and her arms and hands have .been pronounced by sculptors to be fault less in proportion. 4 REIGN OF PROSPERITY Tl Fine Yield of Corn, Oats and Hay, With Top Prices for Staple’s By- Products, Is Expected to Give the State Its Banner Year. FEELING OF OPTIMISM IS EVIDENT IN ALL BUSINESS Strict Economy Practiced by Farmers Makes Margin of Profit Tremen dous-Bankers Are Jubilant, While Merchants Predict Great Season. Poetess Enjoys After-Dinner Cigar Sister of President Lowell, of Har vard, Makes No Attempt to Hide Smoking. BOSTON, Sept. 18.—‘That Miss Amy Lowell, poetess, sister of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard University, made a regular habit of smoking an after-dinner cigar on the deck of the Cunarder Laconia, was Captain Batson’s multiplane, in which he plans to fly across the Atlantic from Savannah to England. the assertion made by her fellow pas sengers on the vessel, which arrived Wednesday from Liverpool. No attempt to conceal her penchant for cigars was made by Miss Lowell, these passengers say. To newspaper men at the dock Miss Lowell admitted that she was inter ested in suffrage, though she denied any sympathy with the militants and insisted that she supported them very "mildly.” Miss Lowell’s age, a mat ter of some discussion among her fellow passengers, is understood to be about 45. Syndicate Formed To Build Defender Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P. Morgan and Others Join Forces in Constructing Yacht. NEWPORT, R. I., Sept. 13.—Cor nelius Vandervllt, J. P. Morgan, Hen ry Walters, Frederick G. Bourne, Ar thur Curtis James and George F. Baker comprise the syndicate which will build the first of the yachts to strive for the honor of defending the America's cup. Other syndicates may be formed for building other yachts and all will be given try-outs in Narragansett Bay next spring. The Herreshoff order for the cup defender has come from the Vander bilt syndicate. Charleston’s New Channel in Use Affords Depth of 23 Feet at Low Wa ter and Will Be Made Deeper. CHARLESTON, Sept. 13— Mari ners entering and leaving this port hereafter will use the new straight channel Just opened, which, at low water, affords a depth of 28 feet, and at high water a depth of 33 feet, and which will be marie deeper in a year or two. The new course was laid out when the Atlantic fleet was here last November, and since then it has been brought to perfection. II greatly Improves the port facilities Commuter Travels 684,376 Miles Championship Awarded New York Clerk Who Has Done Dis tance in 11 Years. WASHINGTON, Sept. 13—A man who has traveled 684,376 miles to and from work during the past eleven years has been discovered by the De partment of Commerce and promptly awarded all honors for long distance commuting. He is J. J. Maroney, of Hartford, Conn. Maroney has made 1,414 trips between his home in Hart ford and his offlee in Now Yor. Multiplane Intended to Carry Pas sengers Across Ocean Is Being Built in Savannah. SAVANNAH, Sept. IS.—A Georgia man, with ambitious vision, is plan ning an aeroplane trip across the At- lantc Ocean The time for the ven ture is not far distant, and the busy hammering and filing that can be heard in the workshop near Savannah tells that every preparation is being made. It is Captain Matthew A Batson, a retired army officer, w’ho will make this challenge to destiny. He has been working for years toward this end, and has perfected a unique type of flying machine that is popularly known as the Batson hydro-aero plane. So certain are Captain Batson and his friends that the daring venture will he successful that a concern has been organized, known as the Bat son Aero Company, incorporated un der the laws of New Jersey, with a capital stock of $300,000, "to operate between Savannah, Ga., and Liver pool England, a line of passenger- carrying air craft,” according to the words of the charter. Captain Batson is president of the company. The line will not be es tablished for little more than a year, but there will be trial flights a-plenty before that time, as the plans state, at Thunderbolt, Brickyard Island, on the Wilmington River, where the plant is located. Models Fly Faithfully. The first flight of the hydro-aero plane will be made early The mod els of the machine have flown faith fully. The entire machine Is now as s' rnbled, the flying section having been fixed to the boat hull several days ugo. It is the intention of Captain Bat son to navigate the craft into the Wilmington River, and to make the first trial flights in the direction of Wilmington Island. The tests of the airship will be visible from the Casi no, Thunderbolt, and it is expected that thousands of people will make the trip to the resort t« see the big machine as it takes to me air. Of a size to permit the carrying of Continued on Page 4, Column 5. By M. A. ROSE. Georgia, the whole Southeast, and Atlanta—because it is the commercial and financial center of the Southeast—will enter upon one of the most prosperous eras any section of the nation ever has enjoyed when the cotton crop is moving in earnest this fall—by October 1 at the latest. In 1911, all seasons put their heads together in kindly con spiracy, and Georgia grew 2,768,627 bales of eottton, the greatest crop the historic State ever knew. It is the fashion to quote 1911 as the most wonderful year the State could expect. Unmistakable signs show .1913 will overtop 1911. Here is the proof: In 1911 Georgia grew, or let us say gathered—for it grew thousands of bales which never were ginned or even picked— 2,768,627 bales of cotton. But the whole South grew 15,622,701 bales, excluding linters. Prices were correspondingly low. Georgia got about $124,500,000 for its 1911 crop. Almost ready for the gins to-day are 2,250,000 bales. Indica tions ar- that this crop will bring Georgia $155,500,000, for 14- cent middling cotton is a probability, not a possibility. Of this $155,000,000 a much greater proportion will be profit than accrued from the banner crop. Four reasons are apparent* This is a yield produced at less cost than any previous crop; drouth in the West will make the total yield short of the world’s actual needs, particularly as the left over supply Is abnormally small) Georgia will spend less for com, hay and oats than ever before, having record-breaking crops of all three food stuffs; the shortage of corn, hay and oats will mean good prices for that most impor* tant by-product of eottton, cotton seed. SHORT CORN CROP INEVITABLE. Consider the last first, because it has been overlooked gen> erally Drouth in Kansas and the other great agricultural States of the West and Southwest makes a short crop of corn inevitable. Corn is selling at an abnormally high price—around 77 cents all Chicago and St. Louis for the actual stuff. Seventy-seven cent com means high beef and pork. It’s pret ty expensive to fatten hogs or cattle for market on that sort of diet. High pork spells high lard. High lard means greater de mand for cotton seed oil products, so much so that the cotton seed oil speculator watches the lard market as closely as he does the oil quotations. Expensive feed, too, means a shortage of cattle for slaughter and a shortage of blood and bone fertilizer, the packers' by-product, which is just where cotton seed meal fertilizers may reap a harvest. Expensive corn, again, insures greater demand lor cotton seed hulls as cattle feed. No one wants to go on record as saying that cotton seed will sell at a record price. But it is evident it will not be a drug on the market. Already cotton seed is selling for $20 a ton and bet ter in South Georgia. Crushers say Georgia will send 900,000 tons of seed to oil mills this fall. At $20 a ton that is $180,000,000. Add that to $155,000,000 for the lint—it makes one dizzy 1 Back to the first reason for Georgia’s enormous prospective profits. Everyone recognizes that economy has been the watch word for the year. The farmer has bought as little as possible at the store. He has borrowed as little money as possible. He has cut down his supply of fertilizer. The old harness, the old wagon, the same old mule, the same overalls, have served another season. Small expense and good selling price make excellent profits, LITTLE COTTON IN WEST. Texas and Oklahoma, experts say, will produce not more than 4,000,000 bales this year, aR against 5,278,500 in 1911. Alabama and Mississippi show severe deterioration through the combined malevolence of bad weather and insects. Louisiana never has been a factor in the cotton world since the boll weevil invaded the Cra- ole State. The Southeast will make, in proportion, the beat crop of all the belt. All this would be of little avail if the Georgia farmer had to spend all the money he got for com, hay and oats to f^rd his