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Still shaken by the Harry Dexter White scandal, the Democratic National Committee last week counterattacked. The White Case, said Deputy Chairman Clayton Fritchey, was nothing but a diversionary effort to cover up assorted Republican sins, including "a serious situation within the Justice Department itself." Part of that serious situation, Fritchey charged, was that the Department of Justice had 1) "tied the hands of the FBI in the investigation of an extremely big crime syndicate," 2) immediately fired the U.S. attorney when he busted up the syndicate anyway...
...Fritchey's diversionary attack concerned the Smaldone brothers. Eugene ("Checkers") and Clyde ("Flip Flop"), whose Colorado gambling empire netted them $1,000,000 yearly. Checkers was charged with income-tax evasion, but the first jury could not reach a verdict. While a second jury was being assembled, both brothers were caught trying to bribe prospective jurymen. Federal Judge Willis W. Ritter* sentenced them each to 60 years, then remarked indignantly from the bench, "I don't understand why the U.S. Department of Justice . . . should refuse to assist [in the case] . . . but they did." U.S. Attorney Charles S. Vigil...
Attorney General Brownell had ignored the rumors and judicial ad libs, but Fritchey's double diversion provoked a blast of devastating statements from his department...
...Justice Department did plead guilty to Fritchey's other charge, that it had fired Vigil. It said that Vigil originally agreed to turn his office over to his Republican successor (as 67 other holdover U.S. attorneys have done) but changed his mind after he had won the Smaldone case and refused to resign. Then Washington fired...
When the Democratic National Committee put out the first issue of its Democratic Digest last week (TIME, July 13), Editor Clayton Fritchey explained that one of its main objectives was to help "redress the imbalance of ... the one-party editorial pages" in the U.S. press. No sooner had the first issue hit the stands than the Christian Science Monitor's Washington Bureau Chief Roscoe Drummond made a revealing discovery. Wrote Correspondent Drummond: "What one-party press is Fritchey talking about? More than half the cartoons [criticizing the Administration] and the clear majority of the editorial quotations . . . are from Republican...