Show MOURN DEATH OF FLOWERS ATLANTA Nov 19 By By The As As- Associated Associated Press Tiger Tiger Flowers Flowen came back sack to a hung crepe-hung Decatur street last night to receive the adulation In Indea death dea th from a genuinely sorrowing pop pop- populace populace populace ulace that during his colorful career honored him as its hero Through the streets of the city where Tiger had ventured forth a afew afew afew few years ago to pugilistic fame tame and fortune the body was borne into At At- Atlanta's Atlanta's lantas lanta's to a funeral home that became at once a mecca for an endless line of mourning admirers both white and negro Several hundred negroes stood with bared heads when the body arrived here from from New York where the th Fighting Deacon took the final count Wednesday after a minor oper oper- operation Within a silver-colored silver copper cas- cas casket ket banked high with floral tributes from the great and near great of the body was shielded from the gaze of crowds at it lay alone In Ina a lit dimly y-It y room The little under under- undertaking undertaking taking shop was Vias thronged with those content merely to peer through a glass door at the several thousand dollar box that held tho the body of their idol idolFor For 12 hours Sunday the body will willlie He lie In state at Flowers Flowers' magnificent homo home here before the funeral Monday from the Negro Methodist church where he retained his post of deacon throughout his fighting days |