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I want both personally as one holding Dr. Ewing in very high regard, and as Director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, to thank you most sincerely for the very intelligent, succinct, accurate and safe publicity which you have given to the fight against cancer in your recent issue of TIME. I know of no single item of voluntary publicity appearing in a periodical that has made quite such a definite appeal to me. The question is such a difficult one and requires so much repetition of facts in order to educate the public that the service which you have rendered cannot, I think, be overestimated. It is another instance where TIME has caught itself by the forelock.
C. C. LITTLE Bar Harbor, Me.
Tribune v. Brothers Sirs:
Your issue of Jan. 19, at p. 13, makes a false charge that Leo V. Brothers was being "framed" for the murder of Alfred Lingle as a means of winding up the mystery. You expressly charge that Brothers was being "framed" by the Chicago Tribune; when considered with your other state- ments concerning this investigation, the charge necessarily also applies to Patrick Roche, Chief Investigator of the State's Attorney, and Charles F. Rathbun and James E. McShane, Assistant State's Attorneys, all of whom have been directly responsible for the conduct of the case.
We are requested by The Tribune Co. publisher of the Chicago Tribune, and by Mr. Roche, Mr. Rathbun and Mr. McShane to demand that you publish in the next issue of your magazine a retraction of this false and defamatory imputation. . . .
WEYMOUTH KIRKLAND
Kirkland, Fleming, Green & Martin, Chicago, Ill.
TIME gladly prints this authoritative denial of a suspicion current in Chicago. In reporting the story originally, TIME said: "Offsetting the 'frame-up' theory was the fact that nine unnamed witnesses of the murder had 'positively identified' Brothers as the 'big wavy-haired man with a glint in his blue eye' who had shot Lin-gle." Last week, one month after his arrest, Leo V. Brothers had his first hearing in open court, mumbled "On the advice of my attorneys I stand mute." Under the law the judge thereupon directed that a plea of "Not Guilty" be entered on behalf of Brothers.—ED.
Bishop & Babcock's Bean
Sirs: We refer you to article in TIME, Dec. 29, in which you state, p. 33, that the new White Motor Co. President is Ashton G. Bean, previously president of Bishop & Babcock.
Mr. Ashton G. Bean was and still is President of the Bishop & Babcock Manufacturing Co. . . .
W. C. LINEHAM, Treasurer
The Bishop & Babcock Mfg. Co.
Cleveland, Ohio