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TTIE ATLANT \ (iK<)K<JI .AN AND MAYS TLESDAl. MAS <i. 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. "Oil'll t inf Continued From Page 1. ft;rough that trunk,” said Bowen. "The things in there are mine, and not vours I don’t know anything about this affair and you’ll have to show me strong.” Stoutly Denies Crime. < iffieers talked to him for more than an hour at the police station, but Bowen stoutly denied any knowledge of the killing of the young girl. Ho continued 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, “i would have left here Sunday night.” Bowen whs taken from the room ing house to the police station and j was placed In a cell across the hall from the Chief of Detectives’ offices, j He slept but little and did not undress , tg lie down. This morning he was at • the cell door early and looked hag- j gard Bowen complained of being hungry. ! He declared that he was tired—al- ! most worn out. He walked the floor nervously, then sat down on the side of his cot. Next he stepped to the i grating and inquired if he w as 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 j 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 lectures in his trunk and grip, he pointed out a num ber of persons,* including several young women, though he declared that J none of them was "Mary Phagan or : any of her kinfolk ” Bowen Well Educated. Bowen Is 22 years of age; and has ■ • light hair. He is well dressed and .Well educated. He lias been a book-! 'keeper and stenographer, and claimed > that he worked in Atlunta for the Morrow Transfer Company. He gave! "bln homo address as 108 Ivy Street. ^ He claimed this was his first visit ' to Houston. He declined to talk to j ItjiRcers or to tell anything about his I kinsjK-oplc or any of his business connections except as given above. Bowen is slight of build, perhaps 5 I . feet 6 ol 7 inches in height. He weighs about 125 pounds and appears brisk and energetic. He admitted to officers that he had •lived in Atlanta nearly all Ills life, .lie denied, however, that he knows any tiling about the National Pencil ‘'Factory, Leo Frank, the manager, or any persons connected with or em ployed in the factory, 1 He talked freely about some mat ters and evasively about others. Rf- forts to corner tlie young man in every instance proved futile. Letter Signed “M. J. P.” A hyndred 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 postcards. The letters were nearly all from young women; some of them were endearing ones. A few were from young men friends. Many of the letters are signed “Mary.” but none is signed “Mary Phagan.” The signature to one let 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 114 in the St. .lean Hotel was found a of d undervest. It if for a girl from The discovery made yesterday the hotel saw it window and ad- TDEGULARcare ■Lv of 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 lpoks, 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 — RIBBON — DEWTBL CREftM Conhult your dentist about it — ask him for a copy of the booklet “Oral Hygiene,” pub lished by Colgate CL Company 14 to Hi yearn of i of the undervest v morning. A gunat fluttering from th vised an attachee 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 vent out of tie window and that It caught on tin ledge. It was not Been there before Monday morning, and two gjeftt* at the hotel declared that it was not there Sunday night. The vest wav bloodstained toward the top of the. breast and about halfway down the front Tin- Vest is being held In con nection with other properties by the detectives. Bowen told the officers again and again that he had never heard of th<* girl, but admitted that he knew the place where she had worked. Bow'-n failed to explain the newspaper clip ping.* containing accounts of the mur der. II*- was shown them and po - tions of them were rend to him. He admitted that he is familiar with the story of the crime, through reading the papers, and said hix interest was simply because Atlanta js hi» home. Bowen came to Houston Sunday night, presumably from New Orleans, although this has not been deter mined, as the prisoner declined to talk about his arrival as freely as he did other matters. He went direc tly to tho'St. Jean Hotel and asked for a dollar room. “Sorry, sir, tjut wt* haven't got any thing less than dollar-fifty,” said the clerk. Bowen turned and walked t<. 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, (3a..” boldly. There was no effort to ’conceal his identity or the city from whence he came. Thy young man went to his room and a few minutes later went out for supper. He had registered ut 7:45 o'clock. Before 4 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 dippings, he pored over them as if eager to get every word of every sentence. Then he moaned aloud: “Oh, If 1 hadn't done that! What did 1 do it for?” A youth named Paul A. Bowen lived nt the Atlanta Y. M. <\ A. until Feb ruary of 1912, 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 clerk at the Inman Yards of ihe Southern Hallway. Mr. Bell said that to the best of h»s knowledge Bowen had not been in At lanta since he l^eft in 1912. Bowen was living at the Y. M. (\ A. when Secretary Bell took up his duties there and he did not know how long Bowen hud been in Atlanta. Defends Bowen. Charles Kimball, a clerk in the master mechanic’s office at the South ern Railway shops and a close per sonal friend of Paul P. Bowen’s, said this morning, when seen by a Geor gian reporter, thut he did not be lieve his friend could be in any way Implicated in the murder of little Mary Phagan. “1 have Just, come back from the detectives’ office, where I went to car ry a letter which 1 received from Paul on Sunday morning. April 27.” he said. “There is nothing unusual about the letter. It is simply u per sonal letter about affairs in which we were both interested, and my only idea of showing it L> the detectives at all is that it b^trs 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. "As for Bowen,’personally, he had a great many friends hero 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 >f last spring and went to Kl Dorado, Ark., where he was employed in the offices of the Rock Island lines as a clerk. He later btfame private sec retary to the superintendent of the St. Louis and Southwestern line, an 1 spent a great deal of his time travel ing over the lines in,the superintend ent*® private car. ”1 have been in correspondence with him ulmost continually since hi* left here and' ijavc received letters from him from a great many points out West." All the local authorities were in clined to belittle the importance of the fcBowen arrest Innocent, Says Lanford. Chief «>f Detectives Lanford de clared his belief in the innocence of Paul Bowen Tuesday. He said that tic detectives of his department had been gracing tin* movements of Bowen since he left Atlanta about year ago after he had left the em ploy of the Morrow Transfer Com pany. of which he was secretary. In ail this time, said the chief of de tectives. they were unable to find that he had returned to Atlanta. On the contrary. Bowen had writ- 'cn to friends in Atlunta from va rious points and had never suggest 'd returning home. "In •wen didn’t know the girl.” said the chief. "He didn’t know the girl’s iimlly. It is preposterous to think ttujt he would make a hurried and Solicitor (tenoral Hugh Dorsey. Phagan Case and the Solicitor Gen eral’s Power Under Law—Dorsey Hasn’t Encroached on Coroner. he da' l from in April 23. back to Hous- guilt. however, e icrc going to ilitv that he corned, lie is By A GEORGIA LAWYER. It is absurd to say, as some peo ple have been saying in Atlanta of late, that Solicitor General Dorsey "has taken th< Phagan case from the Coroner,” nr 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 direc 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 nnr'h Savannah’s business as It Is Atlanta’*, so far as the violation of thq 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 anti 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 entirely 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 be depended upon to set forth the case against the defendant to bo sum moned to bar !n such exact terms that it may be guaranteed to withstand all attacks of opposing counsel in the trial of the cast*. Ha^ Fuli Responsibility. vfce initial arid the final respond* “from out the hands of a Coroner,” because there never was a point of time in any murder case’s history that it was not more fh 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 o£ his Mfe a second time in Georgia (save of his own motion) in criminal pro ceedings. 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 the presence of crime against the State, but nev< r is there a dime 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 Siatf*. of a criminal case in Georgia, amt that is in the court house, under the direction of the So licitor. If a defendant be acquitted, that ends tlu- matter. If he be convicted, he may move for another trial or ap peal to a competent court of review. Tin* 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 tin* 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 he invoked by a Coroner. Wireless Calls for Police From Mid-Lake Aerograms Cause Arrest of Gem Salesmen Who Caused Reign of Terror on Boat. DETROIT, MICH.. May 6.—Chaiged with “assault on the high seas," which carries a penalty of fifteen years' imprisonment in a Federal prison. Robert Allan and George A. Sciuirt/.. 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 gents. The men battled nearly all night with officers on the boat, after in dulging in liquor, breaking glassware and starting fights with passengers. I Am I * now in charge of the men’s ’ art men t of the Fred S. Stew- 10 LIFT VEIL OF MYSTERY! t Factory Superintendent’s Statements on the \\ itness Stand Considered Distinctly Favorable to Him. Leo M. Frank’s testimony before the Coroner’s inquest threw no new light upon the Phagan case. Indeed, if it did anything it strengthened the belief in the minds of many persons that the mystery is far from solved. Frank's testimony was distinctly favorable to him. He was on the wit ness stand for several hours. He answered every question in a straight-forward manner. He was not more nervous than any other man in the room. He never halted for a word to make reply. The impression made upon those present was good. The bringing into the case of an other man not heretofore mentioned as having been in the factory on the day of Mary Phagan’s death does not seem to have in any way helped to clear the mystery. Quinn Talks Freely. Lemmie Quinn, foreman, whose name was mentioned by Frank, ap parently had nothing to conceal either! for he talked with the de tectives and police without reserve, and gave a clear statement of his work in the factory. His testimony did more, if anything, than the tes timony of any ’other person to shift tiie suspicion that has been attached to Frank. Close reading of the testimony leads to the opinion that the police have not yet solved the great mystery. Frank is in the Tower to-day. He will be heard again on Thursday. Tbe police may have some important questions to a-k him. but if they have, they gave nothing to indicate it at the inquest on Monday. Solicitor Dorsey, now in active charge of the case, feels certain that the mystery soon will be solved. All the officials are reticent. They re fuse to discuss the tragedy with re porters. Following Every Ciew. Many baseless rumors are in circu lation on the street:-, and the public clew presented to them. The police and detectives are work ing diligently and following every clew preseneed to them. It is too early to forecast what the authorities have in store in the way of additional evidence, but that brought out yesterday pointed the finger of suspicion at no one at alL ll was simply negative. It involved the witness no more than suspicion already had involved him, and was not at all damaging to Lee, who is being held with Frank in connection with the mystery. Quinn was examined by Lanford and Scott, of the Pinkertons. He corroborated Frank’s story in detail. H#* wds permitted to return to his home' at 31-B Pulliam Street. Quinn was foreman of the depart ment in which the victim worked. He had known her ever since she first was employed with the concern. A stormy scene is said to have'en sued during the interrogation to which he was subjected at headquar ters. To a reporter he declared that Scott and Solicitor Dorsey charged him with having accepted a bribe. He says he retorted to the charge: “Show me the man that says I took a bribe, and I’ll whip him on the * pot.” Quinn was asked if Frank’s state ment were true, and he replied: "Yes; it’s true. I left my house Saturday morning about ?1:45 o’clock. ()n the way uptown I stopped into Wolfsheimers and bought an order of fancy groceries. I stopped at an other place and bought a cigar. “Then I went to the factory. I wanted to see Frank and tell him ‘Howdy do.’ I knew he would be in the place. He is always there on Saturdays. It was about 12:15 or 12:30 when 1 arrived at the building. 1 saw no one in front or as 1 went upstairs to the office. “Frank was at his desk. He appeared very busy. I stepped in and said: Well, I see you work even on holidays. You can’t keep me from coming around the build- in on Saturdays, either. How do you feel?’ “He said he was feeling good. He didn’t appear agitated or nervous. I didn’t want to dis turb him, so I left. 1 wasn’t in the plant for more -than two min utes. As I came downstairs on the way out, I saw someone In the rear of the first lioor—a person whom I would have no grounds whatever to suspect. v Believes Frank Innocent. "No! I won’t divulge his name. I'M tell the detectives in time. I’m glad Frank told tin* Coroner o‘f my visit. It was I who refreshed his memory of the incident. He apparently had forgotten it. 1 have not been keeping it secret. I told the detective Satur day of the visit. • I have known Mr, Frank for years and I know he is not guilty.” Quinn declared that he was in the building about two minutes. He said that he did not see Mary Phagan. He is outraged at the treatment he alleges was accorded him by the de tectives. ‘ They were insulting and seemed to doubt my statement," he said. “In an insinuating manner Chief Lanford plied the question: ‘So you put your self there about the time the Phagan flrl left the factory, eh?’" Quinn was an ardent admirer of the murdered child. He says she was one of his most industrious em ployees. He is married and has one child. His connection with the National Pencil Company dates back sev eral years. 0 Quinn said that it was he who re^ freshed Frank’s memory of his pres ence in the building shortly after noon of the day on which the girl is sup posed to have been slain. “I called upon Frank at the jail.” he said. "The moment I reminded him of my visit, he recollected it. He apparently had forgotten it.” The inquest was adjourned at 7:18 o’clock. It will be resumed at 9:30 Thursday morning. The two-day postponement* is to permit detectives to garner evidence they announce available. Tells Actions in Detail. In detailing every move on the day ,!ai v Phagan was killed. Frank said jio rose about 7 o’clock Saturday morning and was at the office by 8:20. About 9 o'clock Foreman M. D. Dar- lev and others entered his office and tujked business matters with him. DSY 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’s testimony: 7 o’clock a. m.—Arose and dressed at home. 8—Left home for factory. 8:20—Arrived at factory. 3:50 or 9 M. D. Darley and others entered there. 10— {Went over to office of Sig Montag, factory manager, on Kelson Street, 11— Went back 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 footsteps die away, and went on with 'his work, thinking no more about her. When she left he thought he heard her voice in the outer of fice. 12:15 or 12:20—Lennie 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 Parson, 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; lie re mained entirely alone in the factory. 3:20 Latched the street door behind them. 3:45—Night Watchman Newt Lee, ne gro. came. He let negro go away again. 5:30-r-Finishjed work on the financial sheet. 6— Finished balancing cash: night watchman came back. Frank wash ed his hands’, 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 phone. Informed of the tragedy. Went to undertaker’s shop and identified Mary Phagan’s body as that of the girl whom he had paid the afternoon before. ADJUDGED DEAD, COMES BACK AFTER EIGHT YEARS The American-Georgian Pony Contest Vote Coupons Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONY CONTEST VOTE COUPON, TUESDAY. MAY 6, 1913 GOOD FOR 5 VOTES Voted for '. Address Voted by.’ CARRIERS' AND AGENTS’ BALLOT. Hearst’s Sunday American and Atlanta Georgian PONY CONTEST VOTE COUPON, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1913 GOOD FOR 5 VOTES Voted for Address Voted by SCHOOL BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ BALLOT. Cl FLEES FROM ILi 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 EmUy Douglas, a pretty 18- year-old girl from Daytona, Fla., after she had beep arrested at tfie Terminal station as she alighted fr$m 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 saye, is many years older than she. “I told mama I did not love him.” the girl said, “and she said 1 had to marry him anyway. She said he would make me a good husband. But I wouldn't marry a man I dinn't-love, so 1 ran away. I don’t want tb get mar ried. anyway. I’m f6o young. 1 want to have some fun, and I never heard of a married woman having any fun.” The girl left her homefearly yester day afternoon. An hour later her dis appearance was noticed, and F. W. Haskell, who says he is engaged to marry the girl’s shier, 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. I TOPEKA. KAN’S., May 6.-W. H. Caldwell, who was adjudged legally dead by the Kansas Supreme Court in a .‘•'uit by his wife for his life insur ance, has returned to Topeka after an absence of eight years. He left Kansas on account of his domestic trouble, he says. The judgment for the insurance probably will be set aside. Frank testified he went to the office of Sig Montag, factory manager, on Nelson Street, at 10 o’clock, and re mained there for nearly an hour. He returned at 11 o’clock and an hour later the stenographer and the office boy left him alone, Darley and the others having departed. He thought it was about ten minutes aft er noon that Mary Phagan came in to got her pay envelope and after re ceiving it started out of the door, stopping only to ask if an expected shipment of metal had arrived. He heard her voice as she seemed to be talking with another girl outside. He heard the footsteps die away and be lieves Mary Phagan left the building, he testified. Visited by Lemmie Quinn. Lemmie Quinn, foreman of the tipping department, came into the factory at 12:15 or 12:20, just after the Phagan girl had left. Frank said that th e foreman merely greeted him and conversed for five or ten minutes and then left. Frank said that he himself left the factory at 1 o’clock and went home for luncheon with his father-in-law, Emil Selig. He left home to return to the factory at 2 o’clock, arriving there about 3 o’cock, and speaking to sev eral acquaintances on his way*. At 3:10 o’clock Harry Denham and Arthur'White, two employees who had been doing some work on the holiday, punched tiie clock, stopped to talk a few minutes with Frank and then quit the building, leaving Frank there alone. Sees Watchman and Gantt. Newt Lee. the night watchman, came at 3:45, but was told by Frank that he might go away until 6 o’clock. The watchman returned at 6 o’clock and a few minutes later J. M. Gantt appeared at the factory and asked permission to get a pair of shoes he had left in the shipping room. Frank left before Gantt had obtained his shoes. Frank said that he arrived home at 6:25 and that his wife and mother- in-law entered as he was calling Newt Lee to see if Gantt had left the factory. Lee did not answer at this time, but answered when Frank call ed at 7 o’clock. Frank testified that he remained in the house from this time until he went to l\ed at 11 o’clock. He was awakened at 7:30 o’clock the next morning by the tele phone call which told him of the tragedy. Sister Leads Posse In Hunt for Slayers Fifty Men Search Kentucky Moun tains for Moonshiners Who Killed Revenue Officers. PIKEVILLE, KY., May 6.—A posse of 50 men started to-day through the mountains searching for John Hall, Dave Hall and Tom 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.. Muy 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 fooling 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 SPRING FIELD, 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. 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 gpod at the Bonita, amf'this time the only difference was it was some thing better. 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 May 20 by the Old Guard of the Gate City Guard. Mrs. Wilson was a Georgia girl, a daughter of Rev. Mr. Ax^on, a well known Presbyterian minister. She spent a great part of her girlhood at Rome and knew personally some of the members of the Old Guard, as it 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 t.he J me of the historic mission of peace in 1879. The organization will call on President and Mrs. Wilson at the White House, and the presentation of the flowers will be made at that time. The Guard wifi 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(L*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. Men Learn to Cook As Women Ask Vote Nine Don Aprons and Enter Kitcher of Cornell University Domestic Science Department. ITHACA, May 6.—Cornell student are preparing for the role which ma; be man’s when women have the bal lot. Some of them have already be gun to fit themselves to take thei Place at the head of the kitchen. Nine male students haye this vea registered in the domestic scienc. department of tbe College of Agricul lure. Among them are Watson, o t tie varsity baseball team, and L. c \\ hitney, of Rochester, a- member u the Glee Club. 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