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Evening star., 1928-02-18
30 TO 100 SWEPT FROM FERRY
Police and Rescuers Seek Missing San
Francisco Commuters.

Francisco Commuters.
SAN FRANCISCO, February Is Op).-
At least persons were missing today
when police and rescuers checked their
reports In an effort TO ascertain the
number of casualties in the accident
70 the ferryboat Peralta. from whose
decks an unknown number OF pas
sengers were swept into San Francisco
Bay.
Revised figures showed that per-
sons believed to have been on the boat
last night when her passenger laden
PROV dipped into the bay, today had
failed to return to their homes. The
number of passengers swept into the
water was undetermined and investi-
gators were without any means OF
checking. Estimates Of passengers were
that from 30 to 100 persons were
plunged overheard The official list
showed II had been rescued, Search
Of the bay up to daybreak failed TO
reveal any bodies.
What caused submerging of the for
ward part OF the boat as she sped
toward Oakland with heavy load Of
commuters during the evening rush
hour likewise remained undetermined.
Persons Reported Missing.
A revised list of persons believed miss
ing was compiled by the police today
as follows:
j. w Collins OF Oakland. Hugh Find
lay, trade journal editor of Berkeley:
--- Tyreil, Lewis Kean OF Oakland, w.
Sayre Of Oakland, Bert Langrer of Oak
land, Walter Foley of Oakland and an
unidentified negro woman,
The mate of the Hayward. whose
lifeboats figured in the rescue work, de-
clared he saw a small boy washed over
board and that the lad disappeared
quickly beneath the waves.
Loaded With Commuters.
The all-steel boat. almost city block
In length, equipped with all the modern
safety appliances and capable Of carry
ing 1000 persons. was headed for Oak
land with heavy load of East Bay
commuters during the rush hour last
night when the accident occurred.
Homeward bound after a days work. a
large number OF the passengers had
gathered in the forward section, anx-
ious TO be the first ashore and aboard
interurban trains waiting at the Oak
land mole
The Peralta passed Goat Island
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column a
Evening star., 1928-02-18

DUSSElIpoRF. Germany. February
Is t$9,~~Guido MeiSel. Americas, chem
!St OF Portsmouth. N, H.. today was sen
fenced Ia one years imprisonment ard
u Ilne Of 5000 marks on charseS " c,,.a-
megcial espionage Ill seeking IL obtain
German chemical and dye secrets
Evening star., 1928-02-18
Policy at Capitol on Taxes,
Farm Aid and Flood Con-
troll Assailed.
PRESIDENT OBJECTS
TO EQUALIZATION FEE
Believes Sections Affected Should
Bear Part Of Cost of Mis-
sissippi Program.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
President Coolidge is out Of sympathy
with the course Congress is pursuing in
respect to appropriations. farm relief
and food control, and ne believes the
chances for tax reduction now are crit
ically endangered.
He feels that the two houses have
been too liberal in appropriating Esd
eral funds and that as result tax re-
duction is correspondingly remote He
has noted that in addition to the s65.-
100000 increase in the proposed tag
curtailment voted By the House. Con-
gress has added $4,000, 900 to the Army
appropriation in excess of what he
thought necessary. and has doubled the
Shipping Board appropriation.
Tax Bill Dormant.
The tax bill is nov lying dormant IN
the Senate, where leaders have tucked
1t away 70 await additional revenue IL
formation with the March Is returns.
There have been administration warn
ings that too great reduction would ba
worse than none az all, and only recent
ly Representative Garner OF Texas.
ranking Democrat on the House wars
and means committee, predicted that
there would be no reduction this year.
The food control bill given 70 the
House by its food committee does net
meet the Presidents desires because Z
provides that the Government. bear the
entire expense OF protecting the Niss,s-
sippi Valley. Mr.. Coolidge clings to his
belief that communities concerned
snculd pay part. and he is cons:dsrin.
ceSisnation OF a special committee to-
determine just how much those cites
could contribute toward the cAs.. Il
Congress cannot obtain that ;rto.ra-
ton Itself
Bill Too Ambitious"
In the meantime. he thinks io.tsa,
appropriations should be made so ths.
lne Work can be begun, bu. be bei:eyes
mat the area 70 be controlled should in
ctuce only that affected by las. S0-lrv,s
food. The present House bil. he fasIs
Is too ambitious.
1ne farm relief bill recently approved
oy the Senate agricultural COMMITTEES
Win lis equalization fee. draws fr,,n
me President the same objection ,hst
prompted him 20 veto last wear the
McNary-Hauyen bill In his YEA r,es-
sage ne selected the fee as The r1ost o.
lect.onanle feature He has hea-S az
tne 1oakum farm relief plan now ,,rSe-
discussion here and has learned from
the Agricultural Department. thsc xnrs
tne proposal has some merit Il includes
oStef features regarded as cos teas.n,s.
Evening star., 1928-02-18
TO JUDGE
SHOW DISCREPANCY
Senate Body Holds Hearing
on Dismissal of Baking
Firm Complaint.


The :nadvertent fling of an unsent
letter is given by Abram r. Myers OF
the Federal Trade Commission. as the
reason the copy of a letter, which he
gave Senate judiciary committee diff
fers widely from one sent to Federal
Judge Morris A. Soper OF Baltimore. in
connection with the judges dismissal
OF q Clayton act complaint against the
Continental Baking Co.
AT a previous hearing of the sub
committee in its inquiry into entry of a
consent dissolution decree agains, the
Ward Food Products Co. Myers fled a
copy OF letter to support his conten-
ton that he had advised Judge Soper
that upon entry Of the decree. the COM
mission would dismiss its own complaint
against the Continental The COPY was
quite unlike the original presented YES
teroay by Judge Soper. who appeared
at MS own request 10 answer criticism
In the committees majority report Of
his handling Of the consent decree case
Carbon Copy Shown.
The carbon copy given the committee
BY Myers declared that In his presersa-
tlon or the case 70 Judge Soper in
court, he had informed him that when
the decree was entered and the Clay
ton act complaint against the CONT
mental, nled IN District Court as Balti-
more. vas dismissed. the commission
hen would dismiss its complaint against
the company. The letter presented YES
terday by Soper did not contain this
statement
The consent decree merely disrnisses
the complaint filed IN court in view OF
the similar complaint before the COM
mission. but makes no mention OF the
dismissal action which Myers said was
contemplated by the commission.
The discrepancy between the two
letters brought from Chairman Bcrsh
OF the committee the statement that
not only lying. but forgery" appeared
involved, He said Myers would be called
Before the committee next week and
that II his explanation was not salts
factory. the committee would act fur
.her but he did not so into details.
Rewrote His Letter.
Ina statement last night Myers explain-
ed that he had thought he had advised
Judge Soper III argument OF the case
that the Continental complaint was 70
De dismissed. and had 81 written him.
but later thought il probable thar he
had not reached that poinio in his ar
gument when the Judge took the case
out Of counSelS hands.
Myers said he then rewrote his letter
to Judge Soper and in his testimony
before the Senate committee. he said.
he fled a copy Of the first and unssut
letter, instead Of the rewritten letter.
This was done, he said. by sheer ac-
cident and NOT by design" He added
that he would Dc glad 10 appear be-
fore the committee next week prc,nis-
sng not To ''mince words In dealing with
its treatment Of men III connection with
this matter"
Evening star., 1928-02-18
Labor Lockout Threatened.

FRlEnRlCHSHAFEN. Germany, FEB
tuary IL tp.~~The ZSpYchn conevva
has notified its employees that q hNAou,
viii become effective February - II no
agreement Is reached III the METAL C\s,-
f'ict, The erder affects 800 employees
Evening star., 1928-02-18
Baroness Won Nathan Killed.

BERLIN. February 10 Nj.~Baroness
Anna Won Maitzan, a kinswoman Of the
late German Ambassador at Washing
ton. was killed by an automobile In Hcr-
lin Yesterday, She was n years old
Evening star., 1928-02-18

BELGRADE, Jugosiavia. February III
Ap. After five futile efforts within the
past fortnight to form cabinet. Jugo~
slavia SIN Is without government TO
succeed The Voukiteheviteh ministry.
IN political circles 1t generally Ii felt
that the only solution appears 10 be-
dissolution OF Parliament and new gem
erai elections.
Evening star., 1928-02-18
ARMY AlRMAN KILLED.
Adjutant of Kelly Field Dies as His
Plane Crashes.

GORMAN. Tex. February is tp,-~
Capt. w. NJ. Randolph, 3s. adjutant OF
Kelly Field. San Antonio. was instantly
killed near here last night when his
plane nose-diyed and crashed TO the
ground after take-off III high north
wind.
Randolph served as a second lieuten-
ant Of infantry during the war and en-
tered the air service III 1890. lie re-
turned from q tour of duty III Panama
six months ago ~ become adjutant Of
the Advanced Flying School at Kelly
Field. He is survived by widow and
three children.
Evening star., 1928-02-18
ANTI-U. S. MOVES SMOTF1ERED
IN HAVANA DELEGATES DEBATE
Attacks on COLOSSUS of North" Lose Force
Under Clever Defense of Hughes
and His Associates.

disputes, and calls for new quick
conference at Washington to frame a
treaty to embody this principle
But our so-called Root arbltratlon
treaties, which we have been signing tor
20 years, are already an embodiment OF
this principle" of the obligatory arol-
tration of ''juridical' disputes. that Is
of disputes of legal nature.
There Is no advance up to TINS point
The advance, if it ever comes. Will come
later. It will come possibly through the
one novelty in the accepted report-a
novelty devised by the deeply learned
and highly ingenious jurist Of Brazil: DR..
Raoul Fernandes, head Of the Brazilian
delegation. To the new arbitration
treaty to be formulated and adopted at
Washington there Is to be attached a
so-called protocol" to be entitled a
protocol of progressive arbltraton.
into this protocol, from time to time,
when the spirit moves and II .: moves.
each State will deposit the names OF
the additional topics on which it has
made up its mind that it is willing to
accept arbitration.
Remote Prospect Offered.
For this remote prospect. our Latin
CTlllCS III TIE COIiLclelilt SUI
rendered In silence all their immediate
plans for a Pan-American Court of In
Justice and all their imme-
date plans for obligatory arbitration
and not merely Of legal questions, but of
all questions. For this remote prospect
they accepted, without debate. and
without one word of resentment, the re-
norf fof the subcommittee on interven-
ton which said that no agreement on
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Evening star., 1928-02-18
WEATHER.

%. 3. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Cloudy and colder tonight: minimum
temperature about eighteen degrees:
tomorrow partly cloudy and colder.
Temperatures-Highe a. at 2 pm.
yesterday; lowest, SO. at 8 am. today.
Full report on page ?.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
HOOVER AGREES
TO RAISE TARIFF
Vies With Smith to
Serve Bosses

WASHINGTON, July 29.-Up-
ward revision of the tariff and still
further reduction of taxes in the in
terest of big business was yester-
day promised by republican Senator
Smoot, chairman of the finance COM
rittee, in the event that Hoover is
elected president.
Smoot, who is known to have
drafted the tariff plank in the re-
publican platform, indicated that the
republican party had made such a
promise to big business. GAS long
as profits keep up" Smoqt declared,
revenues will be more than ade-
quate and business and taxpayers
will be relieved as much as possible
of taxes imposed by the war debt"
The statement by Smoot is un-
derstood to be reply to one re-
Gently made by John j. Raskob, the
Morgan manager of the Al Smith
campaign, in which the General Mo-
tors executive declared that the
democrats would not disturb the
tariff. Hoover, it is believed, is
seeking to go Smith one better in
an attempt to prove that he will be
the better servant of big business.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
BILLINGS CALLS
FOR AID IN FIGHT
Workers Party to Hold
Demonstrations

Warren X. Billings, who, together
with Tom Mooney, has been impris-
oned for II years, after the famous
San Francisco frame-up, in a letter
recently sent to the International
Glass War Prisoners Aid, calls upon
the workers of England to fight for
the liberation of Mooney and him
self.
The letter follows:
"Represa, CAL, July 18, 1928.
international Class War Prisoners
Aid, London. England.
Dear Comrades and Fellow Work
ers:
81 have been asked by the Inter-
national Labor Defense of the
United States to write you letter
regarding my case and l presume
that what you desire most is brief
resume of the history of the case
along with some few words of ex-
PLANTATION as to who 1 am, and why
l have become a class war prisoner.
Active in Many Strikes.
'1 am a shoe worker by trade-a
member Of the Boot and Shoe Work
Continued on Page Four
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
MISLEADERS TO
ENDORSE Smith
A. F. L. Officials Meet
in Atlantic City

ATLANTIC CITY, July 29.--
Preparations for the expected en-
d3rscment of Tammany Hall and AL
Smith for the presidency was seen
here in the open statements by the
advance guard of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor leaders that Smith
would maze "an eminently satisfac-
tory" declaration on the injunction
issue.
The executive council of the fede-
ration is to meet here for its regu-
lar quarterly conference Tuesday,
and according to certain Of I've
leaders already here VIM. e. !,
president of the A. F. of L. already
has the assurance of the Tammany
governor that he will favor" the
demand of the federation leaders on
the subject of injunctions.
The executive council Of the fede-
ration will hear report of its So
called non-partisan political commit
tee which, it is understood will
recommend the endorsement of the
Tammany hypocrite nothwithstand-
ing the admittedly anti-labor plat
form adopted by the democrats and
the ring of open shoppers who are
managing the Smith campaign.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
Worker and Passenger
Hurt in Subway Fire

Michael Puscar, 38, of 1921
Spuyten Duyvil Road, trackwalk-
er employed by the Interborough
Rapid Transit, was seriously burn
ed yesterday when his steel-pcinted
paper spear touched the third rail
at the 96th st. station of the l. R.
7. subway.
Ruth Armstrong, a Negro wom-
an, was injured when she was
pushed from the platform by ex-
cited passengers who swa the squirt
of flame which burned Puscar,
which resulted in a blaze which
firemen fought for more than half
an hour.
Both Puscar and Miss Armstrong
were taken to the Knickerbocker
Hospital for treatment.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
Women Are Victims
of Nationality Laws

WASHINGTON, July 20 (FP)
Nationality of women and their
children, as affected by information
al marriages and residence, will be
the first subject to be studied by the
Inter American Commission of
Women.
"The subject of women's nation
ality is in completely chaotic con-
dition," according to Miss Doris
Stevens. "a woman may find her
self possessed of several nationali-
ties or none. In some countries of
our Western Hemisphere, a mar
ried woman takes the nationality of
her husband in all cases. In other
countries, as in Ecuador, she loses
her nationality on marrying a for
eigner only if she goes to her hus-
bands country to live and if that
country gives her his nationality.
In the Dominican Republic and
Costa Rica, she loses her national
ity on marrying a foreigner, pro-
vided that her husbands country
gives her his nationality.
"An Englishwoman, married to
an Argentine, ceases to enioy Brit
ish nationality according to British
law, but does not become Argentine
by Argentine law. Argentina gives
the woman her passport and diplo-
matte facilities, but she is beyond
the pale of nationality; cast off by
her own country and not accepted
by her husbands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
CHINESE TARIFF
TREATY A FARCE
Pravda Scores u. S.
Imperialism
Pravda Scores u. S.
Imperialism

SHANGHAI. July 29.-Shrouded
in secrecy and concluded fl haste.
the negotiations which have led to
the signing of treaty concluded
between the governments of the
United States and Marking have
resulted in widespread questionings
of American motives on the part Of
the British controlled and Japanese
press, and to suspicion on the part
of large sections of the Chinese
press, which is pointing out that
while the treaty appears to contain
favors to the Marking government
in the way of tariff autonomy, which
on the surface the treaty appears
to concede, it in reality involves no
concession on the part of the Ameri-
can state department. 1t is pointed
out that tariff autonomy is granted
on condition that there be no discrim-
ination against the other so that any
tariff increase on American goods
is made contingent upon the ability
of the Marking government to
secure the repeal of the existing
tariff arrangement with Great
Britain, the terms of which impose
maximum import duty of five
percent. Until the five percent
tariff fate is abolished with other
governments, the United States
government will be in a position to
claim discrimination if a higher duty
is placed on its goods under the pro-
visions of tariff autonomy.
1t is furthermore indicated that
the United States while standing to
lose nothing by the ambiguous
clause on tariff autonomy, has gained
signal advantages in the way of
securing the abolition of inter
provincial tariffs on American
goods.
The fact that extra-territoriality
finds no mention in the treaty is
already causing considerable resent
ment here.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
COMMUNISTS TO
H0L. D AN TI-W AR
De NJ MONSTRATION
Big D emons S trations
Thruout U. S. Aug. 4

On the fourteenth anniversary of
the World War, as the imperialists
are preparing their machinery of
death for another blood-bath, into
which millions of workers in all
lands will be thrown, the Workers
(Communist) Party will hold a Sc
ries of giant anti-war demonstra-
tions all over the United States, for
the purpose of calling to the atten-
ion of the workers the terrible dan
gers that confront them and to rally
them for the struggle against capi-
talist imperialism, the fountain
head of war and wars attendant
miseries.
In Union Square, New York, the
scene of many historic demonstra-
tions, a great anti-war rally will
be held on August 4, with Benjamin
Gitlow, Communist vice-presidential
candidate, as the principal speaker.
GAS the two Wall Street parties
settle down to contest over which
one of them shall serve imperialism
in the White House for the next
four years, signs are multiplying
that the increasing rivalry between
the imperialist powers will soon
bring on another bloody conflict"
reads statement issued today by
the National Election Campaign
Committee of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party from it's headquar-
ters at 43 East 125th ST., New York
City.
"The last war;" the statement
continues, "bloody tho it was, swal-
lowing up several millions of work
ing class lives and manning three
times as many, was only a Quaker
picnic compared to the next, the
imperialist butchers having learned
much in the art of murder since the
last cannon doomed out its last
message of death on the battlefields
of Europe in 1918.
while the imperialists prattle
words of peace, draw up fake treat
les to outlaw war, hold sessions of
that imposition on human credulity
called the League of Nations, and
Continued on Page Three
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
PORTERS READY
FOR STRIKE MOVE
Officials Still Hold
Men Back

Announcement that the Brother
hood of Pullman Porters would Join
the American Federation of Labor
ito get more power" was made last
night by A. Philip Randolph, or
ganizer Of the Negro Porters' Union,
in a statement in which he likewise
declared that the porters would be
ready to strike to secure their de-
mands against the Pullman Com
pany.
The speech, made at the st. James
Presbyterian Church, St. Nicholas
Ave. and 141st ST., before large
Negro audience by the labor Off
cials who recently called off the
strike Of the porters in the face of
a countrywide demand of the work.
ers for action, was similar in tone
to those previously made, in which
he has declared the organization
would rely on moderation and edu-
cation" rather than on the strength
of the workers themselves to win
their demands.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
AMERICANS WIN HEATS

All of the American sprinters en-
tered in the 100 metres won their
quarter final heats. Robert Meal
lister, erstwhile flying cop" and
Claude Bracey of Rice Institute,
Houston, Tex, won their heats in
10 as seconds and are paired with
Legg of South Africa, Houben of
Germany, Williams of Canada, and
Pima of Argentina in the first semi
final.
Frank Wykoff, Glendale (Calif)
high school boy, and Henry A Rus
sell, of Pennsylvania A. c., also won
their heats in 10 AS seconds and are
ps'.ed with Fitzpatrick, of Canada,
Corts of Germany, London of Eng
land, and hammers of Germany in
the semi. final.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-30
MEXICAN GOVERNOR
STOPS LABOR MEET

MEXICO CITY, July 90. - Evi-
dences that the Gales government is
moving to the right is seen here in
the virtual suppression during the
past two days of two labor conven-
tions.
One of these scheduled for yester-
day in the Saltillo district was called
off by its leaders just as another
convention scheduled several days
ago at Pechuca was stopped by the
governor Of the state of Hidalgo
with the apparent approval of the
federal government.
Right Presses Gales.
Reactionary agrarian forces under
the leadership of Soto y Cana
Manrique and Topete have beer
able, it is believed to exert pres
sure onk the Gales government
which is yielding to- these influences
The militant National Peasants
League as well as the Mexican Com
munist Party several days ago called
upon the workers and peasant masses
to organize for the struggle against
clerical and other reaction and has
likewise called for the formation of
a bloc of South, Central and North
American masses to fight imperial
ism.
Report on Assassination Tomorrow
Events are expected to crystalize
with the police report tomorrow or
the next day on the responsibility
for the assassination of Obregon by
General Antonio Rios Zertuche
chief of police who is investigating
the shooting.