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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.
Since then he has written four
other books that have amazed a crit
ical world with their audacity and
strange happenings.
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