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Show 1 1 j Octavus Roy Cohen y, j ' ' 4 ', ' '',fw wf", ' ' This talented southern author and lawyer has thrilled and entertained millions of American readers. His sturies are In demand In every magazine mag-azine In America. Mr. Cohen made his first success with his southern negro stories. They met with Instant popularity, and built circulation for the magazine maga-zine that carried them. But he is a versatile writer and has created ninny characters that are known to American readers. Among these Is Jim Hanvey, detective extraordinary, extraor-dinary, and It Is Jim Hanvey around which Is woven the action and the humor of "The May Day Mystery," one of the most popular of Mr. tX)hen"s stories. Mr. Cohen Is a native of the South of which he writes. He was born at Charleston, South Carolina, June 26, 1S91, and was educated at the Porter Military academy of that city, and at the Birmingham-Southern college at Birmingham, Ala. His first work was as a civil engineer. en-gineer. He quit that to engage In newspaper work and was employed in the editorial departments of such papers as the Birmingham Ledger, the Charleston News and Courier, the Bayonne (N. J.) Times and Newark (N. J.) Morning Star. He was admitted to the bar In South Carolina In 1013 and practiced for two years before devoting himself entirely to writing. During the war he served as a lieutenant In the navy. His story, "The May Day Mystery," Mys-tery," will run serially In these columns, col-umns, and every reader will en-Joy en-Joy It |