Show CANTON A mN POLICE CHIEF SU SUSPENDED Mayor Dissatisfied Over Unavailing Search for Slayer of Publisher Mellett CANTO CANTON 0 O. July 24 4 AP As AP-As As th the un unavailing v search for the as assassins assassins assassins as- as of Don R. R Mellett crusading crusading ing ng Canton publisher slain at the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of his garage July 16 lagged through the ninth day Mayor S S. S M M. Swartz dissatisfied with law en enforcement enforcement enforcement en- en in Canton late today ordered or ordered ordered or- or dered the suspension of S S. S A. A Lengel Lengel Lengel Len- Len gel chief of police Mayor Swartz said he suspended Lengel because the chief was lax In the enforcement of ot law and rendered rendered rendered ren ren- dered his department Inefficient be- be caus he had no control over his men TO HAVE HEARING Safety Director Earl Farl Hexamer was Wal appointed acting head of ot th the police pollee de department nt Lengel's suspension suspension sus BUS pension was vas effectively Immediate immediate- ly He will bo be given a hearing be beI before before be- be fore the civil CI service commission n. n I Lengel has been openly accused I of ot being in his search for tor the murderer and with failure to the thelast thelast clean up the city Within last few weeks he Was reinstated reinstate as police chief following a n hearing before the civil service commission on charges of corruptness made larg largely ly b by Mellett The e chief at present has a libel suit pending A against the Canton Dally Daily News New of which Mellett was resident publisher pub pub- lisher t. t NOTHING IN SIGHT Ora Slat Slater r Cincinnati detective who came carne Into the Investigation of ot the Mellett murder murder-a a to tonight tonight tonight to- to There is night r reported ported today nothing in sight Slater conductIng conduct- conduct Ing the official Stark county Investigation investigation and responsible to Prosecutor Prosecutor tor C C. C B. B McClintock is acting as pivot inan In the swirl of leads as they are along by other detectives in the tho case More than a score of detectives seventy Canton policemen and regular leg leg- ular and special Investigators grilling grilling grill grill- ing scores of underworld leaders here and elsewhere and traveling hundreds of miles In the tho dead of night and the glare of day to follow up vague leads In many directions have all proved unavailing in the hunt for the slayer Likewise a n. reward of nearly 30 30 promises of ot protection and a certain degree of Immunity to informants in informants in- in pleas to patriotism and Justice and hundreds of thousands of ot words of newspaper publicity have failed to unravel the mystery which surrounded the shooting of oC the publisher Theories have been woven around Individuals and gangs some times time with evidence that sounded promising promising prom prom- ising but co coUnd cund nd not be clinched Alleged Alleged Alleged Al Al- bootleg kings have been grilled women drug addicts have hav been questioned suspected higher ups have been Interviewed but hut a squealer has hall not been found |