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DAILY NEWS. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1943 4C fight Over (Carole Landis' Will Looms as Ma Seeks Control By FLORA BEL 3IUIR (Stuff CorrmiponJent of Tho Nmwt) Hollywood, July 7. A red-hot court fight over Carole Landis will appeared certain today when the screen glamor girl's mother served notice that she was determined to be named executrix of the estate. The 29-year-old bloiute film her- me. who commutes suiciue oy taking: an overdose of sleeping pills CAP OTQOW By JOHN O'DONNELL Washington, D.

July 7. The Democratic Party probably will be flat on its back next November, but we're not one of the group that already is predicting such a violent earthquake that the Democratic Party will pass out of existence. Things look pretty bad today. But not that bad. After all, th Democratic Party, oldest in the nation, is seemingly indestructible.

It was on the wrong side of the slavery issue and survived. It went for the free silver platform of Bryan and pulled through. The voters knocked it through the ropes in 1920 because they didn't like Woodrow Wilson, World War I or the League of Nations, and the party climbed back into the ring. It's going to get a terrific lambasting next but we think it will survive the punishment brought down on its head by Franklin. D.

Roosevelt, World War II and the United Nations and be doing business on the same old stand in 1952. Only 3 Dem Presidents Elected Since Civil War. The party that Thomas Jefferson founded in 1792 has elected only three Presidents since the Civil War Cleveland and Wilson twice and F. D. R.

four times. Now, sure as shooting, Harry Truman is taking it into one of those crushing defeats so complete and utter that the boys are donning the mourning garb and sending around the notes of political condolences. About the defeat there is no question. The COP standard bearers, Dewey and -Warren, are a couple of seasoned campaigners who can make mincemeat of any team now on the Democratic horizon. The one weapon which the Democrats were piously sharpening up for the cam two days ago, made a will lour jvars ago.

It turned up today in the files Bo Ross, who was her business manager when the will was dated in 1914. Ross was named executor. This development came as Ben H. Brown reported that examination of the actress' internal organs showed death resulted from a heavy dose of Seconal, and that analysis of her bran revealed a 12-point alcoholic content, three points less than is considered "very drunk." Couldn't Have Been Mother. Brown also reported that Carole, ho was wed five times to four men in her quest for the "perfect marriage," could not have become a mother.

The coroner also said that Rex Harrison, the British-born actor who found Carole's body and whose name had been linked by filmland gossip with Miss Landis, would be asked to make a deposition at the inquest. No date for a i Although she was married to him at the time. Carole Landis did not mention Major Thomas C. Wallace in her 1941 will. the inquest has been set.

Ross discovery of Carole's will halted futile searching that her mother, Mrs. Clara Landis. had conducting for 48 hours among her daughter's effects. After she heard of Ross' find. Mrs.

Landis phoned him, Roos said, demanding that he step down as executor and that she, the mother, be named in his place. Roos conferred with Jerry Gies-ler, Carole's most recent lawyer. Geisler told Roos to play it the way Carole wished remain as executor. Giesler said he would file the document for probate, perhaps in a day or two. Simple Will, lie Says.

The text of the will was not made public, but Roos said that it was a simple testament, bequeathing the actress' possessions to her mother with the admonition, "'take care of my sister, too." The sister is Mrs. Walter L. Ross of Long Beach. Whether it mentioned Carole's father Alfred Jtidste, 55, a railroad machinist who still retained the family name and hadn't seen his daughter since 1943 and her brother, Lawrence B. Ridste of San Bernardino, Roos would not say.

To Dearest Mommie. Carole, in the suicide note she left in her Brentwood home Monday and had addressed to "Dearest Mommie," wrote "Everything goes to you look in the files and there is a will which decrees everything." When Carole made the will, she was married to her third husband, Major Thomas C. Wallace, Army Air Force pilot, whom she divorced in 1945. Carole's mother said there would not be much left in her daughter's estate. "Carole was in deep financial trouble," she declared.

had sold her house, her car but things still piled up. She told me not long ago with bitterness, Marry a rich man and support yourself. Friends of the actress said Carole had been supporting her mother for years. Denies Financial Trouble. W.

Horace Schmidlapp, Carole's fourth husband, who flew in from Chicago for Carole's funeral which is set for tomorrow, said she was ''all right" financially. Miss Landis had sued Schmidlapp for divorce last March, and attorney Giesler said today that a financial arrangement had been agreed upon which wa "very satisfactory" to Carole. Schmidlapp said that since his marriage to Carole late in 1945, he had paid all the actress' household and- traveling expenses and kept her wardrobe constantly up to Hollywood snuff. The only time, he said, Carole spent her own money on herself was when she went to Europe last W'inter where, filmland gossip had it, she was squired constantly by Harrison. paign an attack on tne record oi ine eutn i ongress -iias ueeu wrenched from their hands by the Republican selection of two governors to head their ticket.

For better or worse, a Presidential campaign is a campaign of clashing personalities and neither the Governor of New York nor the Governor of California can be blamed personally for what the 80th CongTess did or didn't do. Best the bewildered Democrats have been able to come up with to date is to christen the GOP slate "House Dick and Nature Boy" a derisive tag which won't change many votes. On the eve of their Philadelphia convention, the Democrats find themselves in the same hopeless political position they were in when they suffered the crushing national defeats when Parker and Davis carried the banner in '04 and Cox and Roosevelt in '20. The Democratic situation on those two disastrous occasions parallels in many respects their gloomy prospects of today. Of the '04 canmaign in which the New York Judge Alton B.

Parker and his 80-year-old running mate, Gassoway Davis (picked solely because he promised a fat campaign contribution) opposed the dynamic Teddy Roosevelt, Frank Kent in his invaluable history of the Democratic Party writes: "Neither party had a program. The Democratic campaign denounced the Republicans, and the Republicans denounced the Democrats, but there were few ideas and no issues. The Democrats had the weaker candidates and a split party. The net result, was a crushing defeat. Roosevelt (T.

was elected by a popular plurality of more than two and a half million. He had 336 electoral votes to 140 for Parker. Democratic Party Reduced to Impotency. "The Democrats lost Missouri, carried only the 13 states of the South, nothing in the East, not a single state west of the Mississippi. It was a defeat more complete than any it had suffered since the reconstruction period immediately following the Civil War.

Again both branches of Congress were heavily Republican and the Democratic Party was reduced nationally to a state of complete impotency." But it may be noted that eight years after this defeat which, according to many predictions at the time meant the end of the Democratic Party, it bounced back to power in 1912 under Wilson and ruled until 1920. The Wilson victory in '12 came four years after Taft's defeat of Bryan, another battering of the seemingly indestructible party which had left the organization, in the words of Kent, "disheartened, dismayed, divided, defeated in debt and distress, without patronage, power, prestige or issues. This description of the Democrats of that era fits the New Dealers of today. In the 1920 campaign. Democratic standard bearer Cox of Ohio was to Woodrow WTilson of World War I what Harry Truman is today to Franklin Roosevelt of World War II.

As Kent writes in his history: "He fCox) never had a chance. From the start the odds were overwhelmingly against him. "The result was a smashing Democratic defeat, The Republicans were swept back into power after an absence of eight years by a popular plurality of unprecedented size seven million. Harding had 404 electoral votes to 127 for Cox. Except for the little state of Dela 712-Yr.

Big House Lease for Builder Charles E. iStrittniaiter, building contractor whose promises did not materialize into homes for his clients, yesterday was sentenced in Nassau County Court to 7U to 15 years V. 1 i (t Strittmatter, found guilty last June 11 on 21 larceny counts, was given concurrent terms of five to 10 years each on five counts of first degree grand larceny, plus corit-urrent terms of 2'a to five years each on seven counts of second degree larceny. The latter are to take effect after Strittmatter has done his time on the more serious offenses. Some Sentences Suspended.

Judge Henry J. A. Collins suspended sentence on nine counts of petty larceny. Strittmatter had been tried on 42 counts in all, but the jury tossed out the embezzlement counts and found him guilty only of larceny, involving misappropriation of given him by 21 customers for prefabricated homes that never got off the drawing boards. Strittmatter, 5C, tiow serving six months in Nassau County Jail, Mineola, on a bum check charge, will be taken to Sing Sing after he completes his Bentence on Aug.

14. ware, the Democrats carried literally nothing outside the South. 11 states in all. They lost again such normallv democratic stronghold states as Maryland, Missouri and Tennessee. They wore snowed under in every eastern state and carried nothing west of the Mississippi except Arkansas.

It was about as complete as it could be. In debt, defeated, discouraged, leaderless with neither issue nor man around' whom it could rally, the party was once more tint on its back, apparently not even formidable as opposition." Smith Lost, But He Boosted Party's Popular Vote. These lickings were the worst from the standpoint of political organization that the Democratic Party had received since the Civil War. Coolidge defeated John W. Davis in '24, but Davis carried Oklahoma and Tennessee which Cox had lost.

In '28 there was the furious religious battle which split the solid South, and Al Smith went down to a tremendous defeat in the Electoral College which is the payoff but boosted the Democratic popular vote from 8,365,000 ast for Davis in '24 to the astounding 15,016,000 for the Democratic ticket in '28. Smith got only 87 electoral votes to Hoover's 444 but, unlike the days after the Parker and Cox defeats, he left behind a strong party organization in every state, a functioning and well-heeled national committee on which F. D. R. cashed in in 1932.

Now the Demcorats are 09 the bottom broke, leaderless, dispirited and gloomy. They're in for a terrific trouncing but on the record we don't think it wilj be a fatal one. -A. I 'NEWS folo Drrnnaol Charles E. trif raalttr leading court after sentence.

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