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im JFrantiiica Examiner 3 PE1IG PARTY RUINS 5 HOIS mm iiil "'Mil I I if I Actor Denies Love Led To Carole Landis Death Rex Harrison Tells Police Probers 'We Were Just Good Friends' on pagt 20) By RUTH BRIGHAM Staff Correspondent International News Service HOLLYWOOD, July 6. The police probe into the mystery of the sleeping pill suicide of Carole Landis today brought forth a denial of romance by Actor Rex Harrison. The suave British leading man expressed belief that the beautiful blonde had taken her life because of worry over that is, no sign of foul play or physical injury. A year old petting party in the lonely hills above Oakland pro vided the fuse for the explosive near-destruction of five East Bay families, police said yesterday. Climax was the arrest of Janice Sharon Smith, 18, of 1533 Eightieth Avenue, and Mark Anthony Smith, 20, of 1939 Thirty-sixth Avenue, for Investigation of an attack with a deadly weapon.

The Smiths, unrelated and un married, freely admit they are the potential parents of a baby to be born in six months. START OF STORY Oakland Police Officers Robert Bell and Edward Bauer said they found Miss Smith and Harold Hudson, 20, of 1236 Seminary Avenue, embracing in the Oak land hills a year ago. Later the Smith girl and Hud son testified cell and Bauer forced the girl to submit to crimi nal attacks on threats of turning her over to juvenile authorities. Yesterday, in the Oakland city jail, Miss Smith said she turned violently against Hudson, de termined to revenge herself for being implicated in the police men's trial by "driving him out of town." She enlisted Mark Anthony Smith'! help. 'POISON PEN' First they wrote anonymous letters to Hudson's neighbors, accusing him of being "a dangerous sex maniac." tney decided on more strenuous measures.

For three nights running they fired caliber bullets through the liv-ingroom window of his home. Monday night they were caught. Police added it all up: Bell and Bauer are in prison, their family relations ruined. Hudson has been forced to move to Los Angeles. Smith, married and the father PAIR ACCUSED Janice Sharon Smith, left, and Mark Anthony Smith, 20, (not her companion, related to her) who were arretted by Oakland police on charges of firing rifle bullets into the home of the girl's former boy friend.

Ban Francisco Examiner photos W.d., July 7. 1948 CCCC CADDEL OFTEN I Wordy battles between high State officials over activities of Wiley "Buck" Caddel as 'under. cover man for State Attorney General Fred N. Houser were a regular feature of Caddel's career before announcement of his rcsig. nation yesterday.

Warren Olney III, counsel for Governor Warren's commission on organized crime, has fre quently clashed with Howser over Caddel. Their initial row stemmed from a Palm Springs bookie investiga tion, made separately by How ser's office and the crime com mission. Howser's investigators, one of whom was Caddel, were unable to find any bookmaking activity. But Olney's investigator, John Hanson, did. Howser's chief investigator.

Lentz, admitted that the attorney general's office original report on the investigation failed to carry Caddel name, although he was one of the investigators. Lentz took full responsibility. He said he left out Caddel's name because Caddel had been "subject to a great deal of abuse." Caddel's name again figured in an investigation only last week the sudden death in a San Francisco hotel of Leo (Duke) Bolger, Los Angeles political figure. Caddel was registered at the hotel where Bolger's body was found. Meanwhile, the coroner's office closed ijs books on Bolger's death yesterday, attributing it to na-tural causes.

But District Attorney Edmund G. Brown said he is continuing investigating curcumstances sur-rounding Bolger's death. i fourteenth CENTER "general financial problems." Harrison, who found the clad body of Miss Landis sprawling on a golden rug in her bathroom Monday, told questioning officers: "Carole Landis was not In love with me! "We were just good friends. "My wife and I were not estranged. I intended joining her in New York this week.

"Miss Landis, as a friend, told me of her financial difficulties Sunday night." SUPPER FOR TWO It was that last twosome supper which police hoped would clear up the mystery of the suicide of the vivacious blonde whose last professional appearance told the world of the gaiety of Hollywood. That was during a two minute movie star recording last Friday. Her mother, Mrs. Clara Landis, agreed with Harrison that her daughter's death might have been prompted by money difficulties. She sobbed to police: "Carole was in financial trouble.

She had sold her house, her car, but things still piled up. She married a rich man, Horace Schmidlapp, but she told me: 'Marry a rich man and support yourself. Schmidlapp, who flew from Cincinnati today, said he could give no reasons for her death. REFUSES TO TALK Asked about Rex Harrison, he replied: "I will not talk about him." The 31 year old star's attorney, Jerry Giesler, repudiated suggestions that she had been worried over finances. He said: "Ridiculous! Miss Landis was in sound financial condition." And Detective Captain Emmett Jones revealed that the actress had sold her luxurious beach home for $65,000 and that the money was now in escrow.

Meanwhile, the bereaved family hoped that funeral plans could be completed this week or whenever the body is released for burial. Authorities said that whether or not there will be an inquest Into Miss Landis' death will de pend upon results of the autopsy and laboratory analysis of medicines and sleeping potions found in the actress' bathroom cabinet. Earlier, Harrison had announced that if an inquest were held, he would be willing to testify. He had said: "I am not afraid to answer questions." NO FOUL PLAY On the orders of the coroner, Autopsy Surgeon Irving Madoff has been working constantly ever since the body of the curvaceous glamour girl was taken to a Santa Monica undertaking parlor. Doctor Madoff's autopsy dis closed that there was no trauma QUITS-Wiley Caddel, un- dercorer agent for State Attor ney General Fred N.

Howser, who yesterday resigned his position, San Francisco Examiner photo of a five month old son, is under arrest for the shooting, and faces an additional charge of criminal assault on the strength of his admission that he lived with Miss Smith before she turned 18. Janice Smith faces a jail term, not to mention the imminent birth of her child. Wednesday, July The surgeon also revealed one other startling fact. He reported that Carole Landis could never have had a baby. Coroner Ben Brown, after con ferring with Doctor Madoff, said: "This was not a surgical con dition.

It was a peculiar natural condition which Carole Landis herself might never have known about. She could never have become a mother." Investigators revealed that eight containers of drugs and medicine were found at the Landis home near the body. One was a British "sleep-killer" preparation, with marks indicating she had obtained it in London. WILL NOT FOUND The will, mentioned by the actress in the pathetic farewell note to her mother, had not been found tonight after methodical searching. The family and two attorneys tore through all the files in the house, through drawers and closets.

But the will was Police continued probing re lentlessly into every angle to learn why the actress killed herself, leaving only the poignant note to her mother which gave no reason for suicide. Arms Queen Held Here Japs Offered $250,000 For Her in China War Theresa Irxmaier, the myste- rious munitions queen of the Orient, was detained by immigra- tion authorities on orders from Washington, upon her arrival here on the SS President Cleve land, yesterday. Mrs. Irxmaier, on whose head the Japs placed a price of $250 000 ten years ago, was placed with twenty Chinese immigrants in detention quarters at the Appraisers Building. Whether she will be released to obtain the medical treatment for which she came to this country, or whether she will be returned to Shanghai, will not be deter mined for several days or a much longer period, immigration officials said last night.

In 1939, she was described as a millionaire originally from Vienna, and an intimate of kings and statemen. She traveled wide ly in private planes, attended by bodyguards and a retinue of secretaries. It was chiefly through her efforts, it was said, that China received much of the muni tions needed to continue the fight against Japan. For the past several years she has operated a financial venture in Shanghai. An injury to her spine, it was Veported, brought her to this country for a delicate operation and medical treatment.

there's only one way to go and that's down." Carole then was in New York, rehearsing for her first and only appearance on the Broadway stage, in the lead role of a Shu- bert musical called "The Lady Says Yes." She was, at the time, on the downgrade in Hollywood and the Broadway appearance was aimed at rebuilding her prestige and reputation. It was a flop. Carole, a gay butterfly to her friends and public, was adept at concealing her feelings, and covering her heartbreak. Carole told me she wanted a rich husband. She said she was living beyond her means.

This conversation took place in a luxurious Park Avenue apartment which Carole had sublet fcr the season. A week later, during the Philadelphia tryout of her show. I introduced her to Horace Schmidlapp, scion of a Cincinnati brewery fortune, who was dabbling as a Broadway producer. Shortly after her marriage to Schmidlapp, Carole interrupted the honeymoon to return to Hollywood for a film assignment. For long periods she and Schmidlapp were seldom together.

Then came the rumors about them breaking up, until the recent announcement she was finally di -1 ij Carole Often Toyed With Idea We announce ivith Pride the Opening of the Of Suicide, She Told Writer By LEE MORTIMER Broadway Editor of of the New York Dally Mirror. XJist rlbutecl bv Interiitli uiai Nw Served he Ritz Beauty Salon Charles of on mmmmsmmBmm Another complete Magnin service -for your beauty and convenience -v Xt-'XttfX X-XXX'XX highly skilled Charles of the Ritz staff assures you thoughtful care and consideration NEW YORK, July often thought of committing suicide," Carole Landis told me in December, 1944. The glamorous film star, who today was found dead in her Hollywood home from an overdose of sleeping pills, and I were discussing the tragic demise of Lupe Velez, fiery Mexican actress, who had ended her life that way. "I know just how she felt," Carole said. "You go just so far, and then what have you got tofare? You begin to worry about being washed up.

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