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Metropolitan newspapermen sent out to Canton, Ohio, to cover the now national Mellett murder case (TIME, July 26, POLITICAL NOTES), last week discovered and described just such an automobile, in the garage of one James ("Jumbo") Crowley, gigantic onetime monarch of the Canton underworld. There were five cars in this Crowley's garage, but of the five the reporters noted specially the vehicle whispered of by timorous Cantonese as "Jumbo's Box Car." It would readily hold nine men, and considerable tools or luggage be- sides. It had extra high gears. It was battered, dented and per- forated...
Publisher Don Mellett of the Canton Daily News fought Canton vice and police corruption fearlessly, openly. He was shot dead after midnight in his own backyard by two patient, coldblooded, doubtless well paid slaves to crime, who aimed their rifles from behind a rosebush and made their getaway in a waiting automobile with a Canton license. The incident has led the nation to picture Canton, an ugly enough industrial town at best, as one of the largest stagnant backwaters of the Midwest's underground currents. This it may or may not be. There is a broad-beaten route between...
Nevertheless, many agencies have rushed investigators to Canton. Last week the Pittsburgh police held one "George the Greek" Psialias, alleged "reindeer," who was shown to have been near Canton at the hour of the shooting, but who eluded detention before Canton's sleuths could pin direct suspicion upon him. Canton's citizenry, abashed by their own past political indifference and by a week of unproductive sleuthing, forced the suspension of their local police chief, Seranus Lengel, who had been one of Mellett's prominent targets. There was even talk of changing Canton's form of city...
...murderers remained at large and newsgatherers had nothing better to do than enlarge upon Jumbo Crowley and the Canton "Jungle," for local color. Jungle gangsters had their heads together, muttering. Jungle women were pawning their trinkets and leaving town, shrewd rats leaving a wreck...
Cyrus Stephen Eaton, Nova Scotian, now of Cleveland, worked last week on the $80,000,000 merger of the Central Steel Co. of Massillon, Ohio, and the United Alloy Steel Corp. of Canton, Ohio. Their combined ingot capacity will Approximate 1,400,000 yearly. They will be the sixth largest steel corporation in the U. S., the very largest specializing in alloy steels...