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'V f fill/ |i . NOTICE If you have any difficulty In buying Hearefs Sunday American anywhere In the South notify Circulation Manager, Hearst’s Sunday Ameri can. Atlanta. Ga. VOL. 1. MO. 24. Copyright. 1313. by Tlie Georgian Company ■kirk ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1013. PRICE FIVE CENTS. MRS,GODBEE CIRCOLATI °™o™« " IN SPIN BIT BY HER LIFE "IE Convicted Woman Immediately Begins Fight for New Trial. Declares She Will Surely Be Freed in Long Run. Mother of Slain Bride Expresses Joy When She Hears of Convic tion Without Death Penalty. Dramatic Scene in Court. Growth of The Georgian and Hearst’s Sunday American. Below is given (hr circulation fig ures of Hear 8 Vs 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 The circulation of The Sunday American follows, from the date of first publication, April 6, to the last Sunday in August: April 6 87.828 April 13 80.612 April 20 79,300 April 27 77,30a MILLEN, Sept. 13—-Stoical and calm as she has ever been since she fired the shots that ended the lives of her former husband and his young bride, Mrs. Edna Perkins Godbee Immediately began preparations for August 3 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 June 18 June 19 June 20 June 21 June 23 June 24 June 25 June 26 June 27 June 28 June 30 her fight for a new trial as soon as ! July 20 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 I did not want her hanged. A woman of her type is dangerous at large.” Mrs. Godbee would not see report 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 guilty. Each man’s face was grave. Her hand tightened over that of her ; mother, and tears rolled down her j cheeks. As the foreman rose to an- . nounce the verdict she leaned for- i ward, the most intensely eager person in the room. Mrs. Godbee Not Moved. As the dreaded wor 1 ‘‘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- j 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 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 daughter’s 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 j August 20 the trial was as silent as the grave August 21 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 May 4 77,729 May 11 78.061 May 18 78.379 May 25 76.914 June 1 74,353 June 8 76,107 June 15 80.683 June 22 85,309 June 29 82,478 July 6 87.599 July 13 85.851 86.175 July 27 86,864 88,836 95,827 95.841 101,259 102,487 | BOSTON, Sept. 13.—That Miss Amy Lowell, poetess, sister of President - - - Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard University, made a regular habit of D . r A , j n • i nmoklng an after-dinner cigar on the Brother of ASSSSSineted I resident deck of the Cunarder Laconia, was 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. P ° After-Dinner Cigar Ge0r S ia Man PLlnS 0c£an F % ht 11R f N T Proposes European Air Line +•+ + • + + + *-h flf +•+ Inventor Sees Sure Success Sister of President Lowell, of Har vard, Makes No Attempt to Hide Smoking. Leads Army of 1,500 Men On Aguas Calientes. ; FEDERALS AWAIT ATTACK 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 wan 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 ;.‘i defended by a Federal army of 2,000. Lr. I rrutia has refused to give up the portfolio of Minister of the In terior and wdll be allowed to retain that office. CIRCULATION OF TH: GEORGIAN i Americans’ Absence Stuns Hotel Keepers FOR JUNE Captain Matthew A. Batson, ! S. A. retired, of Savannah, ! who is the inventor of a multiplane which he declares will make; aerial commercial navigation possible. Injured in Joy Ride; Sues for Damages Birmingham Girl Claims Car Was Negligently Driven, Which Caused Accident. BIRMINGHAM. Sept. 13.—As a re sult of a joy ride on the night of Julv 26, Daisy Gibson to-day entered suit In the City Court against C. M. Bind er, asking for $10,000, claiming that the automobile was negligently driven and caused to run into a tree or pole and the plaintiff was painfully in jured. This is the second case of the kind made. 2 49.725 52.609 53,494 52.692 51,311 49,114 48,862 48,007 49,540 49,228 49,691 | 49,535 I 55,119 ' August Is Disastrous to Both Boni faces and Tradesmen in South ern Germany. Special Cable to The American. 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 CIRCULATION OF THE GE1RCIAN FOR JULY 50,141 disastrous to them/ 49,083 | The Munich hotel proprietors were 48,860 I hit hardest and are complaining 48,934 I loudly. This loss of American pa- 47.490 I tronage is due largely, it is said, to 60,127 j the agitation by certain Americans 51,065 J in Munich against the systematic ex- 50,774 | ploitation to which travelers are sub- 60,877 j jeeted in that city. Experienced tour- 51,487 I ists. tired of paying double prices for 60.349 j everything, are shunning Munich and 63,806 j going to Berlin and other North Ger man cities. GOVERNOR DENIES NEGRO CHILD SLAYER A PARDON Will Varner, a negro, of Newton County, must go to the gallows in spite of the appeal made to Governor Slaton. Varner shot and killed his young stepchild while trying to shoot his wife because she refused to re turn to him. SIXTEEN DIVORCE SUITS FOR WEEK IN BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM. Hept. 13. -Sixteen suits for divorce were filed in the Chancery Court here this week, and Assistant Register Freeman an nounced that business was a little off for the week. ( >7 !• V July 1 July 2 July 3 July 4 ! July 6 July 7 i July 8 | July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 14 July 15 61.671 61,401 51,063 49.988 ■ 51,308 49.956 61,326 50 823 52,761 50,778 50,948 51,867 54,077 July 61.980 July 17 52,077 July 18 51.419 July 19 60,997 July 21 62.760 July 22 63,748 July 23 62.828 July 24 61.608 July 25 64,596 July 26 54,378 July 28 64,567 July 29 63,113 July 30 64.340 July 31 63,864 CIRCULATE OF THE GEORGIA* FOR AUGUST REIGN OF PROSPERITY 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. 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 r. ■. mm . I m i , • IT The book win deal with Mr wii- Saloon loo Close to ! Charleston s New 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 printed in a magazine. The lecture will deal with the Mexican situation. Mr. Wilson declined yes terday to comment on Mexican af fairs. Multiplane Intended to Carry Pas sengers Across Ocean Is Being Built in Savannah. SAVANNAH, Sept. 13.—A Georgia man, with ambitious vision, is plan ning an aeroplane trip across the At- j lantc Ocean. The time for the ven- j 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 August August August August August August 7 August 8 August 9 August 11 August 12 August 13 August 14 August 15 August 16 August 18 August 19 were ••i’ll be treed in the Iona run." August 22 August 23 August 25 August 26. August 27 August 28 August 29 August 30 64.397 65,453 74,244 74.857 76 297 75.002 77.387 73.523 73.742 72.743 73 455 70,709 72,139 71,534 75.623 74,669 75,403 76,208 77,306 79.372 131.208 98,95') 82,502 77,831 76.681 74,761 Washington to Lose Most Noted Beauty Mrs. Spencer Cosby Accompanies Husband to New Post as M ilitary 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 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 fuuit- t.Jb in proportion. Captain Batson’s multiplane, in which he plans to fly across the Atlantic from Savannah to England. # Birmingham Church Channel in Use 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. 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 hales, 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 coru, hay and oats will mean good prices for that most impor 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. | Corn is selling at an abnormally high price—around 77 cents at uatson, Chi ca g 0 ant i gt Louis for the a retired army officer, who will make j Seventy-seven cent corn means nigh beef and pork Dealer Is Placed Under Bond of $200 for Alleged Violation of Law. BIRMINGHAM, Sept 13.—W L. Dellheim, saloonkeeper, against whom a warrant was issued a few days ago , charging him with conducting a sa loon within 300 feet «f a church, was placed under a $200 bond to-day. The case will be heard in the Crim- , inal Court in October. Affords Depth of 23 Feet at Low Wa ter and Will Be Made Deeper. 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 b d on it. ; the Vice President and Mrs. Marshal 1 j are refusing to tell its exact loca- I tion. It is admitted, however, that it is j on the fashionable Avenue of the , 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 made deeper In a >ear or two. The new course was laid out when the Atlantic fleet was here last November, and since then if has been brought to perfection. II greatly improves the port facilities NICKEL IN SLOT MACHINE PLANNED FOR STREET CARS Admission to street cars in Atlanta hereafter will he attained only when the passenger drops a nickel in a slot machine at the entrance, if the offl- ! rials adopt a contrivance which they : inspected Saturday. The machine is ■ the invention of C. J. Beauchamp, of j Marietta. By the arrangement, the insertion j of a 5-cent piece in the slot starts ; ;n operation a small electric motor, which, releasing a clutch on a re volving door, allowing it to open and Presideoia. admit the uu-hh^. laer actual stuff. this challenge to destiny. h« has j seventy-seven cent corn means high beef and pork. It’s pret- been working for years toward this 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- end, and has perfected a unique type of flying machine that is popularly j known as the Batson hydro-aero plane. So certain arc t’aptnin Batson and his friends that the daring venture will be successful that a concern has j 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 liaison Is president of the | ter j n y ou th Georgia, 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- 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! 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. lie 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. sembled, the (lying section having i ,, -. been fixed to the boat hull several i Small expense and good selling price make excellent profits. days ago. LITTLE COTTON IN WEST It is the intention of Captain Bat- i rrt , ... , , . son to navigate u.e craft into the | un,] Oklahoma, experts say, will produce not more than Wilmington River, and to make the j 4,000,000 bales this year, as against 5,278,500 in 1911. Alabama 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 to see the big machine as it takes to me air. Of a size to permit the carrying of Continued on Pane 4. Co'umn 5* ami 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 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 htk got for corn., hay and oats to i£ed tu«