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NOTICE
If you have any difficulty Tn buying Hear*t’s
Sunday American anywhere In the South notify
Circulation Manager. Hearst’s Sunday Ameri
can, Atlanta. Ga.
VOL. 1. NO. 24.
Copyright. 1313. by
The Georgian Company
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MRS.GODBEEC"»c«lati«k
By HER LIFE
IE
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.
Below if given the circulation fig
ure* 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
IN OPEN REVOLT
Ge orgi a Man Seeks Q eor gj a R] an pj ans () cean Flight
Job as ‘Diatoceff
Rockmart Applicant Writes Post-
office Department, but Letter
Goes to Secret Service.
*•+
+•+
+•+
+•+
+ •+
Proposes European Air Line
14-CENT COTTON AND
+•+
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+•+
+•+
+•+
Brother of Assassinated President
Leads Army of 1,500 Men
On Aguas Calientes.
FEDERALS AWAIT ATTACK
Mother of Slain Bride Expresses
Joy When She Hears of Convic
tion Without Death Penalty.
Dramatic Scene in Court.
The circulation of The
American follow*, from the
first publication, April 6, to
Sunday In August:
April 6
April 13
April 20
April 27
MILLEN, Sept. 13.—Stoical and
calm as she has ever been since she
fired the shots that ended the lives
of h«r former husband and his young
bride, Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee
Immediately began preparations for
her fight for a new trial as soon as
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.
Slain 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 1 did not want her
hanged. A woman of her type is
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
fident of an acquittal on a new trial.
Miss Sarah Godbee, the beautiful
daughter of Mrs. Godbee. collapsed as
the foreman of the Jury announced
the verdict. She has been a constant
companion of her mother during the
trial, and her own cheerfulness has
had much to do with the cheerfulness
of her mother.
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
guikty. Each man’s face was grave.
Her hand tightened over that of her
mother, and tears rolled down her
cheeks. As the foreman rose to an
nounce the verdict she leaned for
ward, the most intensely eager person
in the room.
Mrs. Godbee Not Moved.
As the dreaded worl "guilty'’ fell
from the lips of the jurymen Miss
Godbee shrieked and collapsed. In a
hush broken only by the sobs of the
daughter. Judge Hammond ordered
Mrs. Godbee to stand and receive the
sentence of the court. Gently disen
gaging the clinging hands of her
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 Mfe.
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
and whispered words of encourage
ment. As the Sheriff stepped forward
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 her 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 daughters hand, imprint
ed a last kiss upon her lips and rose
to her feet, gazing calmly at the jury.
“I 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 Millen society. As the gates
clanged behind her, her only words
were:
“I’ll ha irftftii in th* lone min.”
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25
1
May
May
May
May
June
June 8
June 15
June 22
June 29
July 6
July 18
July 20
July 27
August
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31
3
Sunday
date of
the last
87,828
80.612
79,300
77,307
77.729
78.061
78,379
76,914
74.353
76,107
80.683
85,309
82,478
87,599
85.851
86.175
86,864
88.836
95,827
95.841
101,259
102.487
CIRCULATION OF TH: GEORGIAN
FCR JUNE
June
June
June
June
June
June
June 9
June 10
June 11
June 12
June 13
June 14
June 16
June 17
June*18
June 19
June 20
June 21
June 23
June 24
June 25
June 26
June 27
June 28
June 80
49.725
52,609
53.494
62,692
51,311
49,114
48,862
4S.007
49,540
49,228
49.691
49,535
55,119
50.141
49.083
48,860
48,934
47,490
50,127
51.065
60,774
60,877
51,487
60.349
53,806
Government Force Has 2,000
Troops in Town—Dr. Urrutia
Refuses to Quit Office.
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 13.—Private
dispatches received here to-day an
nounce definitely that the family of
Francisco I. Madero, Jr., who war
assassinated after abdicating the
presidency of Mexico, has launched
a full-fledged revolution against the
regime of President Huerta.
Raoul 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
terior and wili be allowed to retain
that office.
CIRCULATION OF THE GEORGIAN
FCR JULY
July
July
July
iuly
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
July
.671
,401
,063
,988
.308
.956
326
,823
61
78
,948
,867
,077
,980
077
.419
.997
750
748
828
608
596
378
567
113
340
864
Americans' Absence
Stuns Hotel Keepers
August Is Disastrous to Both Boni
faces and Tradesmen in South
ern Germany.
Special Cable to The American.
I BERLIN, Sept. 13.—The hotel keep
ers and tradesmen In certain quar-
; ters of South Germany are dismayed
by the marked decrease In American
tourist traffic; August was almost
] disastrous to them.
The Munich hotel proprietors were
hit hardest, and are complaining
loudly. This loss of American pa
tronage is due largely, it is said, to
the agitation by certain Americans
in Munich against the systematic ex
ploitation to which travelers are sub
jected in that city. Experienced tour
ists, tired of paying double prices for |
everything, are shunning Munich and
going to Berlin and other North Ger
man cities.
Ambassador Wilson
To Take Platform
Former Diplomat Will Write Book
and Lecture on Experience
in Mexico.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.—What is
r “diatocefT?” This is a question
that is puzzling the Postoffice 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.
“Tour kind friend,
“Rockmart, Ga.”
The Postoffice Department thinks
that “diatocefT’ 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.
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
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’
are refusing to tell Its exact loca
tion.
It Is Admitted, however, that it is
on the fashionable Avenue of the
Presidents.
Poetess Enjoys
After-Dinner Cigar
Sitter of President Lowell, of Har
vard, Makes No Attempt to
Hide Smoking.
BOSTON, Sept. 13 —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
Inventor Sees Sure Success
Captain Matthew A. Batson, U. S. A. retired, of Savannah,
who is the inventor of a multiplane which he declares will make!
aerial commercial navigation possible.
ClnCULAT ON OF THE GEORGIA A
FOR AUGUST
August 1 64.397
August 2 65,453
August 4 74,244
August 5 74,857
August 6 76.297
August 7 75.002
August 8 77.387
August 9 73,523
August 11 73,742
August 12 72,743
August 13 73 455
August 14 70,709
August 15 72,1-9
August 16 71,534
August 18 75.623
August 19 74.669
August 20
August 21
August 22
75,403
76,208
77,306
August 23 79.372
August 25
August 26.
August 27
August 28
August 29
August 20
131,208
98,959
82.502
77 891
76.68!
74.761
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
REIGN OF PROSPERITY
Tl "
Fine
Yield of Corn, Oats and Hay,
With Top Prices for Staples By-
Products, Is Expected to Give the
State Its Banner Year.
FEELING OF OPTIMISM IS
EVIDENT IN ALL BUSINESS
Captain B:itson’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,
Parts of the book dealing with the these passengers say
situation across the Southern border | To new spaper men at the dock Miss
will be printed in a magazine. The j Lowel , admitted that she was inter-
lecture will deal with the Mexican
situation. Mr. Wilson declined yes
terday to comment on Mexican af
fairs.
Washington to Lose
Most Noted Beauty
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 newly 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 apd exclaimed:
“There is the most beautiful Ameri
can woman I have ever seen.” Mrs.
Cosby has a fragile, delicate beauty,
apd her arms and hands have been
pronounced by sculptors to be fault
less in proportion.
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,
Charleston’s New
Channel in Use
Affords Depth of 28 Feet at Low Wa
ter and Will Be Made
Deeper.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 18—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 made deeper In a
year or two. The new course was
laid out when the Atlantic fleet was
here last November, and since then 11
has been brought to perfection. It
greatly improves the port facilities
NEWPORT, R» I., Sept. 13.—Cor
nelius Vandervilt. 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 HvmlisialfiL
Commuter Travels
634,376 Miles
Championship Awarded New York
Clerk Who Has Done Dis
tance in 11 Years.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.—A man
wl.o 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 ami bis office in Now Yor.
Strict Economy Practiced by Farmers
Makes Margin of Profit Tremen
dous-Bankers Are Jubilant, While
Merchants Predict Great Season.
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 cottton, the greatest
! crop the historic State ever knew. It is the fashion to quote 1911
as the most wonderful year the State could expect. Unmistakablo
| 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
j 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 are 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 corn, 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 import
tant by-product of cottton, 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.
j Corn is selling at an abnormally high price—around 77 cents at
It is Captain Matthew A Batson, 0hj ca g o and St. Louis for the actual stuff
a retired army officer, who will make
Seventy-seven cent corn 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’
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.
this challenge to destiny. He has
been working for years toward this
end, and has perfected a unique type I
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 t)e successful that a concern has j I
be«-n organized, known as the Bat- 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
son Aero Company, incorporated un
der the laws of New Jersey, with a
capital sfock 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. the market. Already cotton seed is selling for $20 a ton and bet-
Captain Batson is president of the j j n §OUth 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
lor the lint—it makes one dizzy I
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 wagos*
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!
1,000,000 bales this year, as against 5,278,500 in 1911. Alabama
Hn<t trial fiiRhts in th.- direction of an( j Mississippi show severe deterioration through the combined
Wilmington Island. The tests of the
company. The line wll# 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
sembled, the flying section having
been fixed to the boat hull several
days ago.
It is the intention of Captain Bat
son to navigate the craft Into the
Wilmington River, and to mak** 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 Paue 4. Co’umn 5,
malevolence of bad weather and insects. Louisiana never has been
a factor in the cotton world since the boll weevil invaded the Cre
ole State. The Southeast will make, in proportion, the best 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 feed hi*