National Affairs: In Canton

When underworldlings and a Canton policeman slew Don R. Mellett, crusading editor of the Canton, Ohio, Daily News (TIME, July 26, 1926, et seq.), Police Chief Seranus Lengel was tried for corruption, sentenced to prison. He got a new trial, an acquittal. Last week he was reinstated as Canton's police chief.

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