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VOL. 1. NO. 24.
Copyright. IHIJ. by
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ATLANTA, GA.. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1013.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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.
[[CIRCULATIOK
Growth of The Georgian
and Hearst’s Sunday
American.
Below is given the circulation fig
ure* of Hearst’s Sunday American
and Atlanta Georgian so that read
ers may tee 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 79JJ00
April 27 77,306
MUD Fill
Georgia Man Seeks
Job
as
DiaToceff' Ge0r S ia Man PlanS ° Cean F % ht U-CFNT
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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
mmediately began preparations for
her fight for a new trial as soon as
the heard the jury pronounce her
i'uilty and the court fix her punish
ment at life imprisonment.
Colonel F. A. Saffold, senior coun- !
J i for Mrs. Godbee, announced this j
afternoon that a skeleton motion for j
a new trial would be filed at once, j
iccording to statutory regulations.
Slain Bride's Mother Giad.
fi am glad Mrs. Godbee was given !
life sentence," was the comment
jf Mrs. M. G. Boyer, mother of the i
.lain girl, after Judge Hammond had
jet the penalty. "She deserved pun
ishment, although I did not want her
hanged. A woman of her type is
Mrs. Godbee would not see report-
mngerous at large.”
•rs, but it was reported by friends
who visited her cell that she was
.leerful and optimistic, and was con
fident of an acquittal on a new trial.
Miss Sarah Godbee, the beautiful
laughter of Mrs. Godbee, collapsed as
the foreman of the jury announced
he verdict. She has been a constani
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
heeks. As the foreman rose to an- j
uounce the verdict she leaned for- [
yard, the most intensely eager person
n the riom.
Mrs. Godbee Not Moved.
As the dreaded wor i “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 life.
Mrs. Godbee s daughter, young and
oeautiful, presented a pitiful specta
cle that brought tears to the eyes of
every person in the courtroom. She
.-lung 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
ol* 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 Expect* 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 waa
followed to the Jail by a number of
her friends, many of them prominent
jn Millen society. As the gates
langed behind her, her only words
were:
“I'll be freed in the long run.'
4
11
18
25
1
8
May
May
May
May
June
June
June 15 ..
June 22 ..
June 29
July 6 ...
July 13 .. .
July 20 ...
July 27 ..
August 3
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31
77.729
78,061
78.379
76,914
74.353
76,f07
80.683
85.309
82,478
87,599
85,851
86,175
86,864
88,836
95,827
95,841
101,259
102,487
Brother of Assassinated President
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.
Rockmart Applicant Writes Post-
office Department, hut Letter
Goes to Secret Service.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—What is
a "diatoceffV This is a question
that is puzzling the Postoffioe 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 diatoceff.
You writ soon to me. I sure wont a
Job with you,all. My age Is 25 1-2
years old.
"Tour kind friend,
Proposes European Air Line
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Inventor Sees Sure Success
Captain Matthew A. Batson. IT. S. A. retired, of Savannah, J
who is the inventor of a multiplane which he declares will make
aerial commercial navigation possible.
CIRCULATION OF TH: GEORGIAN
FOR JUNE
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
49,725
52.609
53,494
52.692
51,311
49,114
48,862
48.007
49,540
49,228
49,691
49,535
65,119
50,141
49,083
48,860
48,934
47,490
50,127
51,066
50,774
50,877
51,487
50.349
53,806
CIRCULATION OF THF GEORGIAN
FOR JULY
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.
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.
Hr. Urrutia has refused to give up
the portfolio of Minister of the In
terior and will be allowed to retain
that office.
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-
i ers and tradesmen in certain quar
ters of South Germany are dismayed
j by the marked decrease in American
tourist traffic: August was almost
j disastrous to them.
The Munich hotel proprietors were
[ bit hardest and are complaining
j loudly. This loss of American pa-
tronage is due largely, it i3 said, to
| the agitation by certain Americans
| in Munich against the systematic ex- I
, ploitation to which travelers p.re sub-
I jected in that city. Experienced tour-
j ists, tired of paying double prices for j
( everything, are shunning Munich and
; going to Berlin and other North Ger-
, man cities.
"Rockmart. Ga.”
The Postofflce Department thinks
that "diatoceff’’ may be Georgian for
detective. Tf 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
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 1
are refusing to tell its exact loca
tion.
It is admitted, however, that it is
on the fashionable Avenue of the
Presidents.
July
July
July
• uly
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
,761
,778
,948
867
,077
980
077
419
997
750
748
828
608
596
378
567
113
340
864
CIRCIILAT ON OF THE GEORGIA,!
FOR AUGUST
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
i Ambassador to Mexico, is writing a
j 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
1 was forwarded from Mexico City.
The book will deal with Mr. Wil-
i 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.
August
August
August
August
August
August
A wguJ=tt
August
August 11
August 12
64.397
65,453
74,244
74,857
76.297
75,002
77,387
73,523
73,742
72,743
August. 13 73,455
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 25 131,208
Auguf»t 26 98,950
August 27 82,502
August 28 77.831
August 29 76,681
\uguat 30 .... ,. 74,761
Washington to Lose
Most Noted Beauty
Mrs. Spencer Cosby Accompanies
Husband to New Post as
Military Attache.
Special Cable to The American.
WASHINGTON, S3pt. 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 I have ever seen.” Mrs.
Cosby has a fragile, delicate beauty,
and her arfns and hands have been
pronounced by sculptors to be fault
less in proportion
EIGS OF PROSPERITY
THROUGHOUT
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. 13.—That Miss Amy
Lowell, poetess, suiter- 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
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Captain But son 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
Charleston's New
Channel in Use
Affords Depth of 28 Feet at Low Wa
ter and Wjll Be Made
Deeper.
I CHARLESTON, Wept. 13—Mari-
I 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 nigh water a depth of 33 feet,
and which wiii be made deeper in a
year or two. The new course was
laid out when the Atlantic ileet was
here last November, and since then il
has been brought to perfection, li
greatly improves the port facilities
Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. P Morgan
and Others Join Forces in CoinmUtef TfaVelS
Constructing Yacht.
NEWPORT. R. I., Sept. 13.—Cor
nelius Vandervilt, J. P. Morgan, Hen
ry Walters, Frederick G. Bourne, Ar
thur Curtis JanrM»a 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.
684,376 Miles
Championship Awarded New York
Clerk Who Has Done Dis
tance in 11 Years.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 13.—A rnan
who has traveled 684.376 miles to and
from work during the past eleven
years has been discovered by the De
partment <»f Commerce and promptly
awarded all honors for long distance
commuting. He is J. .1. Maroney, of
Hartford, Conn. Maroney hus made
1,414 trips between bis home in Hart
ford and his office in New Yor
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-
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, who 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 be successful that a concern hfcs
been organized, known as the Bat
son Aero Company, incorporated un
der the laws of New Jersey, with a
c apital stock of $300,000, "to operate
between Savannah, Ga., and Liver
pool England, a line ot 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 he 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 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 muke
the trip to the resort tn see the big
machine as it takes to me air.
Of a size to permit the carrying of
C-AotinueH on Paae 4. Cc'ymn 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 ha*
enjoyed when the cotton crop is moving in earnest this fall—b.v
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 allow 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 hales 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 erop. 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 impor
taut, by-product of cottton, cotton seed.
SHORT CORN CROP INEVITABLE.
Uonsider the last first, because it has been overlooked gen
e rally.
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
Chicago and St. Louis for the actual stuff.
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’
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
lor 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. 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, as 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 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 srot for corn, hay and oats to feed hie
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