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...Ralph Nicholson bought the rundown Item for a song. The roof leaked so badly that the city editor kept a bucket on his desk in wet weather. Publisher Nicholson spent $350,000 in a new plant and equipment, boosted salaries, hired as editor Reporter Clayton Fritchey, who had won a Pulitzer citation for the Cleveland Press by sending six grafting police officers to prison. Under Editor Fritchey, the Item became the best-dressed newspaper in New Orleans with its short, snappy stories and eye-catching pictures. Circulation climbed from 67,000 to 97,000. This week 45-year-old Editor...
Names Make News. In Cleveland, Barbara Fritchey, county war-bond committeewoman, telephoned one John Paul Jones, announced that her boss, Daniel Boone, had scheduled as speakers for a meeting Underwriter Paul Whiteman and the Urban League's George Washington...
...Fritchey set out to expose a flourishing racket in cemetery lots. Smooth-tongued promoters had turned pastures into graveyards, sold enough space to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come, grifted $2,000,000 a year in sales, resales, commissions...
Questioning hundreds of victims, Fritchey came across the name of a sucker named "Dacek" who had sunk $83,000 in 4,400 grave sites. Fritchey's hunch: that "Dacek" was Louis J. Cadek, a big-bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
...Later, a Fritchey exposé sent to prison two Cleveland unionists who had sold merchants protection against window-breaking with one hand, collected bribes from painting and glazing contractors with the other...