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Three months ago, five bullets whizzed from a thicket in a vacant lot in Canton, Ohio. One of them entered the vigorous brain of Editor Don R. Mellett of the Canton Daily News, as he was putting away his car for the night (TIME, July 26 et seq.). An employe of Newspaper-owner James M. Cox, thrice Governor of Ohio, Editor Mellett had built up circulation but incurred bitter enmities by bold-printed attacks on Canton's labyrinthine underworld, Canton's obviously corrupt police force, Canton's civic officials. Detectives swarmed to Canton. Newspapers all over Ohio succeeded in confusing...
Colonel Carmi Thompson, personal investigator for President Coolidge in the Philippines (TIME, July 19 et seq.), known among Filipinos as "the Big White Friend of the Big White President," traveled last week 1,400 miles in and down anarchy-torn China while its War Lords desisted from their battles to let pass his all-steel, U. S. built "Blue Express...
...coal miners and their heroic strike (TIME, May 10 et seq.), the policy of despairing resistance which they have adopted may be heroic but it is not war. . . . The coal miners are sightless Samsons groping to throw down the pillars of a temple the crashing of which may engulf this thing we call British civilization...
Carol. Rumanians scanned with closest interest last week not reports of Her Majesty's voyage or reception but accounts of her reconciliation just before she left Paris with her eldest son, the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Rumania (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). On the night before her departure Queen Marie secretly welcomed Carol to a family souper intime in her suite at the Ritz Hotel, Paris. Next morning Carol before scores of clicking cameras, and saw glistening a queenly tear. Premature reports that former Premier Bratiano was hurrying to Paris and would there deliver to Carol documents restoring...
Siege raised. The far city of Sianfu, capital of Shensi province, besieged by an itinerant mercenary army for some months (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante) allegedly compromised with its besiegers last week, and as a result the 31 foreign missionaries shut up there since mid-April were able to depart last week. All left the city save the Rev. C. J. Jensen and his wife, and a number of Roman Catholic missionaries, who announced their intention of remaining indefinitely...