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PAGE FTVTC WENDEL RELATES D IN PARKER TRIAL irEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY. MAY 5, 1937, Governor Not Surprised by v. Comimssion's Opposition to Rate Authority Di v vision Confusion Seen -WASHINGTON. May 5. V-Tha federal power commission advlvd congress today It wanted either com- plete control or release from the re aponslbll'ty for power ratea at Bon neville dam. The commission expressed disfavor for the two Bonneville measures now pending. The commission's opinion had been sought by the house rivers and har bors committee on two administra tive measures Involving the project on the Columbia river between Ore gon and Washington. One, by Rep resentative Martin Smith of Hoqulam, Wash., the commission found unde sirable In that It divides the respon sibility for rate fixing. SALEM, May 6. (P) Governor Charles H. Martin, who just returned from Washington where he appeared before the rivers and harbors com mittee on the Bonneville power situ ation, said today a new bill will have to be drafted by the committee to meet the power situation on the Co lumbia river. Commenting upon the report of the federal power commission announced from the national capital today. Gov ernor Mertln In a statement to the Associated Press said: "I am not surprised at the position taken by the power commission (op posing division of rate authority). As I stated before the rivers and har bors committee, there are 35 bills in troduced on the Bonneville matter where there never should have been but one. On the rehash great con fusion has crept In, some of which la reflected in the opinion of the power commission. "I have felt for some time that the confusion which has arisen as the result of so many cooks interfering In the broth that the rivers and harbors committee, on which are so many sound and able men, will have to rewrite a bill of Its own after hearing the great mass of testimony. "I have complete confidence that the committees' bill will meet the en tire situation satisfactorily." WAYCROSS. Ga., May 6. (AP) A divorce blamed in part on the Puilt wr prize winning' novel, "Lamb In His Bosom, today separated Its au thor. Caroline Miller, from her edu cator husband. Will D. Miller. The Ware superior court Issued the final uncontested, decree yesterday. , - A cross-fire of petitions and de positions filed before Mrs. Miller waa granted her first decree and the cus tody of the three children disciosea the book widened the marital breach. Said the novelist: "He (Miller) complained inces santly and became nagging and un bearable" after the book waa pub lished, and won the prize In 1934. Said Miller: He- was a "faithful and affection ate husband and the couple got along well until his wife got pleasure mad after writing the book." NBWARK. N. J.. May 5. (AP) H. Wend-1 took the witness stand over defense objections In the federal court conspiracy trial of Ellis H. Par ker and his son. Ellis, Jr., today to tell his story of being abducted and forced to confess falsely to the Lind bergh kidnaping. Wendel, beginning the story of his abduction and "confession" to the Lindbergh kidnaping which delayed for three days the execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann for the crime, said he had known the elder ParTter, chief of Burlington county detectives, for many years. They first discussed the Lindbergh kidnaping on March 13, 1032, Wendel said, when Parker expressed a wish to contact someone In the under world concerning the case. Capone Mentioned. Wendel brought the name of Al Capone, Chicago gangster now in Al oatraz prison, into his testimony, saying that Wendel, Parker Senior and the latter's secretary, Mrs. Anna Badlng. went to see a relative of a secretary to Capone. The witness said Parker told him he had direct contact with washing' ton and assurance that Herbert Hoover, then president, would par don Capone If he aided In the Llnd. bergh case. He quoted Parker as saying he was In line for head of the state polloe or of a state bureau of Investigation and promised Wendel would be an undercover Investigator at 5.000 year. Tells of Abduction. Wendell then began relating the story of his own abduction and al leged torture. In front of hla Hew York hotel, he said, a man he later found was Mur ray Bleefeld, approached him the night of Feb. 14, 1936, and told him Jimmy De Louie, a Trenton detective, wanted to see him "at headquarters. Martin Schlossman, he said, was driving the car. Bleefeld, Weiss and Schlossman have pleaded guilty. Wendell described the ride to Brooklyn from Manhattan and said Weiss told him when they stopped "If Bruno burns, you burn." He told of the place he was held and described the instrument of tor ture which the government alleges was used to force htm to confess the Lindbergh kidnaping. He demanded an explanation, he said, and finally was told: "Some body In New jersey put the finger on you." "I asked who and he said a 'high police power in New Jersey ordered you picked up. He finally was told he was wanted for the Lindbergh kidnaping. "You can make a lot of money confessing to the Lindbergh kidnap ing," Wendel said he was told. "They kept suggesting," he said, "that I say I kidnaped the Lnld bergh baby for the purpose of get ting Bruno Hauptmann a new trial." Hula Pioneer Honored SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Mrs. A. T. Herrmann, who asserts she Intro duced the hula. hula dance into the United States, recently observed her 93d birthday. In the 1880's Mrs. Herr mann made a number of trips to Hawaii, learned the hula and danced It at a party In San Jose. IBURT JOURNEYED AFAR Richard Halliburton, who will lec ture on hli travels at aenlor high cbool auditorium Ma; It un der auspices of the Active club, has lived the life of an adventurer and a wanderer since he waa a boy In his 'teens. At 17 he left his home In Memphis. Tenn.. and went to New Orleans with dreams of tall ahlpa and far off landa. It wasn't easy for a boy, broke, hun gry and Inexperienced to obtain work on a ship, but by haunting the levee he finally landed a Job on a tramp steamer headed for Europe. That trip started Halliburton on his wanderings. He returned home, and bis parents persuaded him to fin ish school, but Immediately after graduation he set off again to collect material that eventually led to his first book. 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