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\ 1 liiiAi.l txi-.oi.it>!— x .A ,A..\ jL< *\ i- i> o t L j-iJLiV, .’li g, id]; ‘V Continued From Page 1. l.asi night, shortly after midnight, me officers went to the place. Bowen an ew ored a knock at his room door. an< : then straightened himself and looked directly at the officers. Holds Knife in Hand. "Who are you fellows and what do \nu want here?" he asked. The officers answered thot^ they wanted to talk to him apd he then In vited them into his room. He kept a distance from them, however, and he'd an open knife in hi* right hand. Bow- n appeared nervous throughout th:« . nnversation of perhaps fifteen min utes, but replied to all querlc* promptly and to the point. When one of them told him to "con sider yourself under arrest" he coolly answered. "That’s all right, but you’ve got the wrong man" Bowen closed his knife and handed 1t to an officer and sat on the wide of the bed. To one officer he pointed out his trunk and suitcase—a small affair In the nature of a traveling man’s grip. As the officers opened the trunk they lifted out clothes—some nice ones that Indicated a well-dressed man—and these, with letters, post cards and pictures, were piled on the floor. if I had a gun you never would go through that trunk.” said Bowen. "The things in there are mine, and not yours I don’t know anything about this affair and you'll have to show mo strong." Stoutly Denies Crime. Officers talked to him for more than an hour at the police station, but p.owen stoutly denied any knowledge ■r the killing of the young girl. He ontinued to show nervousness, ‘though, and frequently inquired of the detectives why he should be treat ed the way they were doing him. if I had the least suspicion that this would happen to me, 1 would not have been in Houston this long," he said. "1 would have left here Sunday night." Bowen was taken from the room ing house to the police station and was pla ed in a cell across the hall from the Chief of Detectives' offices. He slept but little and did not undress to lie down. This morning he was at the cell door early and looked hag gard . Bowen complained of being hungry. He declared that he was tired—al most worn out. lie walked the floor nervously, then sat down on the side of his cot. Next he stepped to the grating and Inquired If he whs going to be allowed to starve to death or would he be given some breakfast. About 9 o’clock he was taken into a private office with Chief of Detec tives Peyton and Detective Andrew F. Shelly. He admitted that he lived In Atlanta and had come from that city to Houston, but stoutly denied that he even knew Mary Phagan. Only Interested, He Says. When shown the pictures in his trunk and grip, he pointed out a num ber of persons, including several young women, though he declared that none of them was "Mary Phagan or any of her kinfolk ” Bowen Well Educ&tod. Bowen is 22 years of age and has light hair. He is well dressed and well educated. He has been a book keeper and stenographer, and claimed ihat he worked in Atlanta for the Morrow Transfer Company. He gave his home address as 108 Ivy Street. He‘Claimed this was his first visit TDEGULARcare AV 0 f the teeth is taught in thou sands of schools— because it is worth while. That has been proved. Introduce the “Good Teeth—Good Health” idea into your family today—every one will profit by it, not only in better looks, but also in better health. But be sure you select a dentifrice that has no in soluble grit to scratch. Be sure also that it is antiseptic, to check decay, yet not over - medicated. Be sure it is delicious in flavor to make its use pleasant and therefore reg ular. Such a dentifrice is COLGATE'S RIBBON “*** DENTftL CREDM Consult your dentist about it — ask him for a copy of the booklet “Oral Hygiene.” pub lished by Colgate £& Company to Houston He declined to talk to officers or to tell anything about his kinspeopl* or any of his business connections except as given above. Bowen is slight of build, perhaps B feet 6 or 7 Inches In height. He weighs about 126 pounds and appears brisk and energetic. He admitted to officers that he had lived In Atlanta nearly till his life. He denied, however, that lie knows anything about the National Pencil Factory, Leo Frank, the manager, or nny persons connected with or em ployed In the factory. He talked freely about some mut ters and evasively about others, /ef forts to corner the young man In every Instance proved futile. Letter Signed "M. J. P." A hundred pictures In his trunk show auto rides and picnic parties, individual pictures and groups and couples. When shown them he mere ly laughed and made a Jocular re- | mark about some girl "being pretty.” There are batches of letters and 1 postcards. The letters were nearly all from young women, some of them were endearing ones. A few were from young men friends. Man\ of the letters are signe 1 “Mary," but none is signed "Mary Phagan." The signature to one let - j ter is merely the Initials, “M. J. P.” This Is believed by the Houston po lice to have been written by the Pha- ! gan girl. Woman’s Bloodstained Vest. Hanging from the window of room ■214 in the St. .lean Hotel was found a ! woman’s bloodstained undervest. It was of small size, as If for u girl from 14 to 16 years of age. The discovery | of the trader vest was made yesterday morning. A guest at the hotel saw' U fluttering from the window and ad vised an attache of the place. It was wrapped In a paper and sent to the police station. It is believed that an effort was made to throw the vest out of the window and that it caught on the ledge. It was not seen there before Monday morning, and two guests at the hotel declared that It was not there Sunday night. The vest wan bloodstained toward the top of the I breast and about halfway down the ! front. The vest Is being held In con nection with other properties by the | detectives. towen told the officers again an<T I again that he had never heard of the ! girl, but admitted that he knew the I place where she had worked. Bowen failed to explain the newspaper clip pings containing accounts of the mur der. He was shown them and por tions of them were read to him. He admitted that he Is familiar with the story of the crime, through reading the papers, and said his Interest was simply because Atlanta is his home. Bowen came to Houston Sunday night, presumably Tom New Orleans, although this has not been deter mined. as the prisoner declined to talk about his arrival as freely as In did other matters. He went directly to the St. Jean Hotel and asked for a dollar room. "Sorry, sir, but we haven’t got any thing less than dollar-flfty,’’ said the clerk Bowen turned and walked to the door with his grip In his hand. The clerk called him, but he did not heed it and started out. The clerk ran to the door and explained that he had Just discovered a dollar room va cant. The young man returned and registered. On the book he wrote "Paul P. Bowen, Atlanta, Ha.." boldly. There was no effort to conceal his identity or the city from whence he came The young man went to his room and a few minutes later went out for supper. He had registered at 7:45 o’clock. Before 9 o’clock he was In his room. He did not retire at that hour, though Opening his grip, it developed, Bowen read and reread some letters. Most of them were from young women. He wept and then threw aside the missives. Picking from among the contents of the grip a number of newspaper clippings, he pored over them as If eager to get every word of every sentence. Then he moaned aloud: "Oh, If I hadn’t done that! Whut did I do it for?" A youth named Paul A. Bowen lived at the Atlanta V. M. C A. until Feb ruary of 191:5, when he left for Hous ton. Texas, according to Secretary J. <' Bell, of the Atlanta association Mr Bell said Bowen was an ideal young man and stood high in the esti mation of the Y. M. C. A workers of Atlanta. He was a cleric at the* Inman Yards of me Southern Railway. Mr. Bell said that to the best of his knowledge Bowen had not been in At lanta since he left in 1912. Bowen ’ms living at the Y. M C A. when Secretary Be’! took up his duties there and lie din not know how long Bowen ; had been in Atlanta. — Defends Bowen. Charles Kimball, a clerk in the I master mechanic’s office at the South j ern Railway shops and a close per- sonal triend of Paul P. Bowen's, said | this morning, when seen by a Geor gian reporter, that he did not be- I lieve his friend could be in any way ; implicated in the murder of little i Mary Phagan. I have Just come back from the i detectives' office, where I went to car- , rv a letter which 1 received from Paul on Sunday morning. April 27* | he said. "There is nothing unusual about the letter. It is simplv a per sonal letter about affairs in which we were both interested, and my onlv idea of showing it to the detectives at all is that it bears a postmark which might serve to divert sus picion from him. The letter is dated ( and postmarked Lufkin. Texas. April ; 23. I gave the letter to Detectives Black and Harry Scott i As for Bowen, personally, he had a great many friends here in Atlanta, and I am sure that they do not take any stock in the theory that he had anything to do with the murder or was even in Atlanta at the time. "He left here in the early part of last spring and went to El Dorado. *“ where he was employed in the a OF TRAGEDY Factory Superintendent Explains Every Hour of the Saturday Phagan Girl Was Slain. Here Is told how Frank passed the whole day of the Saturday when Mary Phagan was killed. The following is taken from Frank’* testimony: 7 o'clock a. m.—Arose and dressed H home. —Left home for factory. 8:20—Arrived at factory. 8:50 or 9 M D. Darie.v and other- entered there. 10— Went over to office of Sig Montag, factory manager, on Nelson Street. 11— Went ba<% to the factory office. 12— Stenographer and office boy left him alone In office. 12:10 p. m. Mary Phagan came for her pay; got It and left He heard her footstep* die away, aild went on with hi* work, thinking no more about her. When she left he thought he heard her voice In til© outer of fice. 12:15 or 12:20 Lonnie Quinn, fore man of the department where Mary worked, came in. 12:25—Quinn left. 1 —Left the factory. 1:20—Arrived home. 1:40—Finished lunch with his father- in-law. 2— Left home for factory. 2:40 Spoke to Miss Rebecca ('arson, forewoman in his factory, in front of Rich’s store on Whitehall Street. 3— Arrived again at the* factory. 3:10—White and Denham left; he re mained entirely alone in the factory. 3:20 -Latched the street door behind them. 3:45—Night Watc hman Newt Lee, ne gro, came, lie let negro go away again. 5:30—Finished work on the financial sheet. —Finished balancing cash; night watchman came hack Frank wash ed his handy, and left factory, leav ing night watchman with J. M Gantt. 6:25— Arrived home 6:30—Wife and mother-in-law came in just as he was telephoning to the factory. Got no answer there. 7—Telephoned again. Night watch man told him everything was all right. He ate supper. 9:30— After smoking and reading since supper, he went upstairs and lit the gas heater. 10:30—Bathed. 11—Went to bed. Sunday, April 27. 7:30 a. m.—Awakened by the phon Informed of the tragedy. Went to undertaker’s shop and identities Mary Phagan’s body as that of th girl whom lie had paid the afternoon before, ATLANTA MAN TO WED GIRL IN PHILADELPHIA PHILADELPHIA, May 6 A mar- rlage license has been issued here to Harry Weinberg, an optician, of 18-A West Mitchell Street, Atlanta, to Miss Pearl Arcovit, 2859 Janney Street, Philadelphia. Me is 30 years old and she Is 24. They will be married here to-day. TURKEY FASTS 24 DAYS. WHITE OWL. S. I).. May 6 Mil, Carney, a farmer, has just uncovered a turkey from a snow hank Which drifted over it 24 days ago. The tur. fcey was emaciated but very much alive. H UGH DORSEY, Solicitor General of Fulton Superior Court, now bending every effort toward the solution of the Pha gan mystery. He is following every clew, and in every way exerting all his powers and ability in clearing the baffling case. , v m m \ 'Mi £ : . ... Solicitor General Hugh Dorsey. Phagan Case and the Solicitor Gen eral’s Power Under Law—Dorsey Hasn’t Encroached on Coroner. I A j* mm t I offices ot the Rock island lines a* 1 clerk. He later became private sec retary to the superintendent of the St. Louis and Southwestern line. an1 spent a great deal of his time travel ing over the lines in the superintend ent's private car. “1 have been in correspondence with him almost continually since ho left here and have received letters from him from a great many points out West." All the local authorities were in clined to belittle the Importance of the Bowen arrest. Innocent, Says Lanford. Chief of Detectives Lanford de clared his belief in the innocence of Paul Bowen Tuesday. He said that the detectives of his department had been tracing the movements of Bowen since he left Atlanta about a year ago after he had left the em ploy of the Morrow Transfer Com pany. of which he was secretary. In all this time, said the cnief of d' tectives, they were unable to find that he had returned to Atlanta. On the contrary, Bowen had writ ten to friends in Atlanta from va rious points and hail never suggest ed returning home. "Bowen didn’t know the girl." said the chief. "He didn’t know' the girl’s family. It is preposterous to think that he would niake a hurried and secret trip into the city from Lufkin, Texas, where he was heard from in a letter hearing the date of April 23, and then make his way back to Hous ton, where he was captured. “Our disbelief in his guilt, however, does not mean that we are going to overlook any possibility that he might have been concerned. Me is being held for us" Another Defends Him. (Marence Duncan, a student at the Atlanta Dental College, and Bowen’s room mate at the Young Men’s Chris- tlon Association, declared Tuesday afternoon that Bowen had not been In Atlanta, to his knowledge, sinc^ last June. Brother Declares Bowen Left Georgia in August. NEW NAN. GA. May 6.—Paul P. Bowen, arrested in Houston, Texas, on suspicion of complicity in the mur der of Mary Phagan. could not have been connected w ith the Atlanta mys- I tery, according to members of his j family here. Albert Bowen, a brother, said Paulj Bow en hap been in the Wes*t since I last August, when he went to Ar kansas to work for the Rock Island Railroad. He has never been back to Georgia since, he declared, but lias spent the time in Arkansas, Okla homa and Texas. On April 21. Albert Bowen declared, he received a letter from Paul, writ ten at Alto. Texas, April 17 and mailed at Tyler. T* \as. April 18, in which he mentioned having been to Lufkin a few days before. Another letter, he said, was written from El Reno, Okla., April 4. and one was re ceived juvt previous to that from Warren. Ark. The Bowen family stands well here, the brother. Albert, and father being connected with fiiercantile establish ments here in responsible positions. Friends of the family declare their belief in Paul Bowen's innocence. By A GEORGIA LAWYER. li is absurd to say, as some peo ple have been saying in Atlanta of late, that Solicitor General Dorsey “has taken the Phagan case from the Coroner," or has "butted in" on the Coroner’s business in some way. It would be equally sensible to say that the commanding general in a battle had "butted In" on a cap tain’s business, when, as the battle progressed, the general gave dire •- tions of one sort and another to the captain as to its conduct. The truth of the matter is, Solicitor General Dorsey has been in charge of the* Mary Phagan case ever since it was brought to light. Murder is a crime against the sov ereign State, and not particularly against either the city of Atlanta or the county of Fulton, save in so far as they are a part of the State. A murder in Atlanta is as mu h Savannah’s business as It is Atlanta' \ so far as the violation of the laws of Georgia are concerned. Solicitor Dorsey is a State official, and not specifically an Atlanta offi cial. nor yet a Fulton County offi cial. Office Useless in Main. For certain purposes a Coroner's inquest sometimes is permitted under the law prior to Grand Jury Inves tigation. Many lawyers hold, and rightly, that the office of Coroner Is useless in the main, and ought to be abolished. It Is a relic of old English procedure, instituted before the days of newspapers, telephones, telegrams, fast mails and other quick methods of communication. In the absence of eyewitnesses to an apparent murder, however, a Coro ner's inquest sometimes may serve an immediate purpose, and. perhaps, the Phagan case is a case in point with regard to that. The Coroner Is "an officer entire y and definitely subordinate to the So licitor General, and does not exercise any authority except such as he may exercise under the Solicitor. The Solicitor assembles*, in his dis cretion. the evidence against the ac cused, from it makes out a case for the Grand Jury, advises and instructs the Grand Jury as to its duty and rights in the matter, prepares an in dictment for the Grand Jury’s consid eration. which, if found true, must t>e depended upon to set forth the case against the defendant to be sum moned to bar in such exact terms that- it may be guaranteed to withstand all attacks of opposing counsel in the trial of the case. Ha s Full Responsibility. The initial and the final responsi bility for the State's case Is in the hand* of the Solicitor General. There never is a minute from the time a murder is committed until a verdict is recorded that the State’s •*uuse is not in the hands of the So licitor General, over and above all other officials. . He can not take a murder cast “from out the hands of a Coroner," because there never was a point of time in am murder case’s history that it was not more In the hands of the Solicitor than it possibly could have been In the hands of the Cor oner. No man may be put in jeopardy of his life a second time in Georgia (save of his own motion) in criminal pro cecdings, but the "verdict” of a Cor oner’s jury can not be pleaded as for mer jeopardy. Policemen, Coroners, Sheriffs are all peace officers, and have their direct and indirect duties to perform in tire presence of crime against the State, but never is there a time when any one of them is equal in dignity or au thority to the Solicitor General. There is but one trial, upon motion of the State, of a criminal case in Georgia, and that is in the court house, under the direction of the So licitor. If a defendant be acquitted, that ends the matter. If he be convicted, he may move for another trial or ap peal to a competent court of review. The State has no appeal. Therefore, the law very properly provides that Coroners’ findings, com mittal hearings and Grand Jury re turn;-? shall be merely parts of the process employed, or permitted, by the Solicitor, in whole or in part, prior to the actual trial of a case in the court house, before the judge and the trial jury. There never is any question of the Solicitor General’s supreme prosecut ing status in the progress of a crim inal investigation. Within the wide and sometimes arbitrary scope of his office he stands first in responsibility as the State’s accredited representa tive and agent in the prosecution. To be sure, there arc Constitutional and statutory curbs and restrictions upon a Solicitor General, but none of them may be invoked by a Coroner. MAN TEACHER SUSPENDED FOR WHIPPING GIRL PUPIL ANNISTON, ALA., May 6.—Pro- fessor Palmer L. Williams, associate principal of the Oxford High School, has been suspended by the board of trustees and formally charged with assault and battery as a result of severe thrashing lie is alleged to have administered to Miss Alma Wflkerson, daughter of T. W. Wilkerson, a dairy man who lives in South Anniston. ACTIVELY URGED Councilmen and Officials Advo-i cate Fund for Concerts Dur ing Summer Months. i I Music in Grant and Piedmont Parks I at least four times a week through the summer is the plan actively urged ov park officials and a number of Coun cilmen. Councilman Claude L. Ashley Monday Introduced a resolution in Council appropriating $5,000 for the purpose. To-day his mqve is backed by strong support. "The meager music we have had in the parks in the past has attracted thousands," said Councilman Ashley. "It Is what the people want. This city, especially the parks, Is for the people, and It is our duty to give them the amusement and recreation they crave." Councilman Ashley said that with an additional gift from the Georgia Railway and Power Company it would be possible to have music in both parks every evening and Sunday aft ernoon. "The Park Board is heartily in fa vor of Councilman Ashley’s plan," said J. O. Cochran, president. Dan Carey. General Manager of Parks, is a strong advocate of park music. Labor Expert Denies Low Pay Means Vice Declares Statement That Immorality Is Related to Small Wages Unjust to Girls. CHICAGO, May 6.—"The statement that low wages is the cause of most of the immorality and that immor ality is necessary or usualy is re lated to the girl working for small wages is cruelly unjust. Wages should not be accepted as a basis of assurance of virtue or character.” This statement was made to-day by Harry T. Powers, State Labor Com missioner of Michigan, here to attend the annual convention of the State bureaus of labor and fac tory inspec tion. The convention was opened to-day by A. L. Garrett, of Texas, first vice president of the organization. Wireless Calls for Police From Mid-Lake Aerograms Cause Arrest of Gem Salesmen Who Caused Reign of Terror on Boat. DETROIT. MICH., May 6.—Charged with "assault on the high seas,’ which carries a penalty of fifteen years’ imprisonment in a Federal prison, Robert Allan and George A. Schurtz, diamond salesmen of New' York City, were taken off the steam er Western States to-day and held for the Federal authorities. A wireless call, sent while the boat was far out in the lake, brought de tectives to the dock. Both had small fortunes in gems. The men battled nearly all night with officers on the boat, after in dulging In liquor, breaking glassware and starting fights with passengers. 5 CHILDREN BURNED. 1 DYING. MUNCIE, 1ND.. May 6.—Five little children were burned, one fatally, w hen a kettle of boiling tar was upset at a factory here. Geneva Venable, covered with the fluid, was plunged into cold water and became incased in a hard cake of tar. ENTRIES DUCKTOWN COPPER FUME SUIT BEFORE U. S. COURT CHATTANOOGA. TENN, May 6. The case of J. H. and J. 'P. Vestal, of Ellljay, Ga.. against the Ducktown Sulphur, Copper and Iron Company will be concluded in Federal Court to day. The plaintiffs are suing for $35,000 damages for timber alleged to have been injured by copper fumes. AT PIMLICO. FIRST—Three-year-old mares, 6 fur longs: Royal Message 110, Sandvale 106, Orowoc 106, Trifier 106, Hester Prynne 106, Law r suit 108. SECOND—Selling, three-year-olds and up, mile: Hans Creek 96, Madrigalian 119. Dorothy T. Ill, Stelcliff 113, Rock Fish 96. Mollie Kearney 106, Eddie Gra- ney 114. Tactics 113, Arran 95, Moon light 108,- Hammon Pass 111, Jim Ray 108. • THIRD— 1 The Severen purse, three- year-olds and up, mile: Captain Swan son H3, Mollie S. 114, Cat 109, Golden Castle 116, Sand Hog 91, Irene Gummell 106, St. .Joseph 111, Crania 109, Moltke 116, Battery 96. Ben Prior 111, H. M. Sabath 111. FOURTH —Electric Park steeplechase, four-year-olds and up, two miles: Tom Cat 140, Lampblack 140, Bello 147, Young Morpheus 145. Waterway 135, Guncotton 149, Jesuit 145, Golden 149. FIFTH - Three-year-olds and up. 6 furlongs: Yorkville 100, Herron 100, Scallywag 97, Early Light 100. Merry Task 115. Besom 112. Cadeau 95, Alde- baran 117. Stentor 115, Joe Knight 112. SIXTH Selling, handicap, three-year- olds and up, mile and 60 yards: Spell bound 105, Working Lad 105. Rook Fish 90, Oakhurst 102, Pardner 106, El Oro 109. Woodcraft 99, Henry Hutchison 106. Weather clear; track fast. \ AT LEXINGTON. FIRST—Selling. 3-year-olds and up, 1 1-1.6 miles: Kinmundy 97, Imen 93, Bon ne Chance 105, Shawnee 107. Apiaster 108, Bit of Fortune 1ta. Judge Kern 93, Moisant 103. Tom King 105, Mark A. Mayer 108. Rash 109, Howdy Howdy' 113. SECOND—Purse, 2-year-old maiden fillies furlongs: Hinata 110, Honey Mine 110, Woof 110, .lumelia 110. Bronze Wing 110, First Cherry 110. Martha Mc Kee 110. Theoridata HO. Louis Grice 110, Ovation 110. THIRD—Selling. 3-year-olds and up. 6 furlongs Transport 95. Benanet 98, .lust Red 102. Green 108. Automatic 107, Lady Lightning 109, Gilpy 110. Back Bar 112. Merrick 113. Amoret 114. Fourth—Three-year-olds and up. Brewers selling stakes, mile: Marshon 89. Flying Tom 103. Praetorian 106. Clubs 107. James Dockery 108, xSleeth DO. xMockler 114, Flying Feet 110. Bell Horse 114. FIFTH—Selling. 2-vear-olds. 4V 2 fur longs: Parcel Post 105. Ada 105. Rose Ring 105. Irish Ann 107. Korfhage 107. Maria Mac 110, Ticktok HO. Buzzaround 111. Frances M 113, Ruby Hyams 111, Meshash 112. SIXTH—Selling, fillies and mares, 3- year-olds and up. mile: Katrine 89. Old Proverb 93 Stamps 105. Ursula Emma 105. Helen Burnett 109. Floral Day 109. Supple 109. Oriental Heart 109. Startler 109. Rose of Jeddah 109. xR. C. Oahn entry. Weather cloudy; track fast. If you have anything to sell, adver tise in The Sunday American. Larg est circulation of any Sunday news paper in the South. The American-Georgian Pony Contest Vote Coupons GIRL FLEES FROM OLD GUARD TO GIVE Emily Douglas, of Daytona, Fla., Arrested Here, Says Mother Tried to Force Marriage. A story of flight to escape marriage with a man she did not love was- told to the police Tuesday morning by Miss Emily Douglas, a pretty 18- year-old girl from Daytona, Fla., after she had been arrested at the Terminal station as she alighted from the Cin cinnati and Florida Limited from Jacksonville, Fla. According to the story the girl told Police Captain Mayo, her mother, Mrs. M. H. Douglas, had tried to force her to marry a man who lives in Chicago. Ill. The would-be bridegroom, Miss Douglas says*, is many years older than she. "I told mama I did not love him," the girl said, "and she said I had to marry him anyway. She said he would make me a good husband. But * wouldn’t marry a man I didn’t love, so I ran away. I don’t want to get mar ried. anyway. I’m too young. I want to have some fun, and I never heard of a married woman having any fun." The girl left her home early yester day afternoon. An hour later her dis appearance was noticed, and F. W. Haskell, w'ho says he is engaged to marry the girl’s siPter. left Daytona on her trail. He arrived in Atlanta on the next train, several hours after she had been placed under arrest. Haskell has volunteered to take her back to Daytona, but the police are holding her until they hear from her mother. Sister Leads Posse In Hunt for Slayers Fifty Men Search Kentucky Moun tains for Moonshiners Who Killed Revenue Officers. PIKEVILLEr KT„ May 6.—A posse of 50 men started to-day through the mountains searching for John Hall, Dave Hall and Torn Riddle, who killed two revenue men in a battle Sunday. The posse is led by Ada Hall, sister of the two moonshiners, whom she betrayed. Families of the moonshiners are re ported to be arming to defend them. A feud is feared. NAVAL STORES MEN PLAN NEW SYSTEM OF SELLING SAVANNAH, GA., May 6.—Nava! stores factors from Savannah, Jack sonville, Pensacola and Brunswick are in session in Savannah to-day to formulate a plan Which will revolu tionize the sales end of the industry. The main idea of the plan is to establish one handling agency at each port interested, and then place all buyers on an equal footing through selling by grades instead of by lots. The plan has been explained to the Department of Justice at Washing ton by a committee representing the factors, and it is said the Govern ment approves it. BOXERS WILL STAGE BOUTS FOR ILLINOIS LEGISLATORS SPRINGFIELD, ILL., May 6.- Boxing enthusiasts from all parts of the State are gatherin'- here to-day for to-night’s boxing exhibition, staged for the benefit of those legisla tors who are dubious about approving any of the various pending boxing bills. Childhood Friends Will Present Bouquet From Yard in Rome on Trip to Washington. A huge bouquet of red roses picked from the lawn where Mrs. Woodrow Wilson lived as a girl at Rome, Ga., .will be carried to Washington and presented to the President’s wife Ma. 20 by the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard. Mrs. Wilson was a Georgia girl, a daughter of Rev. Mr. Axson, a well known Presbyterian minister. Sue spent a great part of her girlhood a: Rome and knew jpersonalij some the members of the Old Guard, as i( was reorganized after the war. The Old Guard will visit Washing ton. Baltimore. Philadelphia, New York, Boston and other points to re new the friendships that were made at the time of the historic mission of peace in 1879. The organization will call on President and Mrs. Wilson al the White House, and the presentation of the flowers will be made at that time. The Guard will leave Atlanta Mon day morning. They will spend Tues day in the Capital City. According to present plans, about a dozen Georgia women, wives and daughters of the members of the Old Guard, will accompany them on the trip North. Between 50 and 6(1 mem bers of the Old Guard have already signified their intention of going. They will travel by special train, coming back by water via Savannah. PROSECUTION RESTS IN SHEDD TRIAL AT AUGUSTA AUGUSTA, GA„ May 6.—The State has rested its case in the Shedd mur der trial and the defense is expected to consume the remainder of the day presenting witnesses. It is believed the defense will rely on a probable statement by Shedd that the shooting of “Sonny” Collins was accidental. Next Week, Beautiful Bedding Plants, 3c each. Atlanta Floral Co., 555 E. Fair Street. ATLANTA THEATER AIL THIS WEEK/1 Except Wednedsay Night Miss BILLY LONG Company In The Girl From Out Yonder NEXT Y/EEK—“Are You a Mason?" Ssais—Wednesday P, M FOR5YTH Wat - To-day rwr ‘* 3 1 1 ® 1 To-night at 8:30 Here for the First Time BUS EDWARDS K>C KASARET Wlih 15 Joliy Singing Kids NEXT WEEK PAUL DICKEY Famous Foot ball Star in a Sketch BELLE STORY, Singing Star Williams. Thompson & Copeland Hart's Six Steppers, Riesner and Gores, and others REAL COMEDIANS AND GOOD CHORUS AT BONITA. A tabloid musical comedy with a real plot and good actors and actresses to handle it is the innovation at the Bonita Theater this week. Being a new Company, it was an agreeable surprise that was sprung on the patrons of the house Monday, but there has al ways been something good at the Bonita, and this time the only difference was it was some thing better. White City Park Now Open Vacation days will soon be here. Your vacation won’t be complete unless you have a KODAK. m has them in all sizes and at prices to fit every pock- etbook. $.1 to $100 WE DEVELOP YOUR * FILMS FREE. Expert in charge of our Kodak department. Elkin Drug Co. At Five Points. OPEN ALL NIGHT. Have You Joined the Camera Club?