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of the largest dam in the nations history in the Colorado river near Boulder canyon
 The house had approved both the Boulder dam bill and the naval bill last session and it's assent was quickly given to the minor changes made in those measures by the Senate.
 Agreement was reached to give the Kellogg treaty, pledging the nations of the world to renounce war, priority over the naval bill but even after that understanding, the Senate spent two weeks quarrelling over the pact before ratifying it with only, one vote in opposition that of Senator Blaine, Republican, Wisconsin.
 Chairman Borah or the foreign relations committee piloted the treaty to it's successful conclusion. He was faced with a determined demand at first for an accompany ing resolution of reservation but after days of maneuvering, the op- position accepted a report by the foreign relations committee as suf- ficient interpretation of the pact.
 Nations Self-Defense
 That report, drafted by Senator Borah, incorporated the previously expressed views of the Chairman Shat the treaty did not infringe up- on the nations right of self de- fense. It further stated that Americas Monroe doctrine was a part of the nations system of self defense.
 Chairman Hale of the naval com mittee then brought before the Senate the bill for construction of fifteen cruisers and an airplane carrier. It excited days of de- bate and the threat of a fiibuster but finally vert through without material change with only 12 votes in opposition.
 As in the house last year, Presi- dent Coolidge was overwhelmingly denied his request to be given com plete control over the naval pro- gram. The Senate stood by the provision stipulated that the ships should be laid down on specified three-year program, beginning ir1.- mediately.
 Negotiations
 At the instance of Borah, and O. Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, how ever, the Senate added to the bill a provision requesting negotiation of treaties re-stating the rights of belligerents and neutrals at sea in time of war Such action is op- tional with the President.
 The special committee named by the Senate last spring to investi gate expenditures in the Presiden- tial campaign submitted a report declaring all the expenses of the 15 candidates of the two parties in the primary were justified. It then turned to the exhaustive examine ton of expense accounts filed by the national parties and other pc litical organizations in the Presi- dential campaign.
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STEEL CHOSEN
 PRESIDENT OF
 ALASkASENATE
Ninth Alaska Legislature Convenes at Noon
 Senate Organizes
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jamin, for President. Senator A. J. Dimond then nominated Senator John W. Dunn, senior member from the Fourth.
 The first ballot resulted in no election, Steel receiving four and Dunn two votes. Neither of the two candidates voted On a second ballot, Senator Steel received five Anderson, Benjamin, Frame, Sund- quist and Steel-and Dunn receiv- ing the votes of Dimond, Hess and himself.
 Kerr Is Defeated
 On similar division, Mir. Cole was elected Secretary, defeating Lawrence Kerr. Cole was put in nomination by Sundquist and And erson, both Second Division mem bers.
 Mrs. Adsit was elected by vote of seven to one, Senator Dimond casting his vote for Mrs Mildred Hermann whom he had placed in nomination. M. J. Sullivan was elected Sergeant -at-Arms five to three, defeating Harry Coulter.
 Other employees of the Senate elected this afternoon were: Mes senger, Harry Coulter; Watchman, Miss M. Kiloh; Doorkeeper, Miss FL Sic Foster; Engrossing Clerk, Larry Sullivan; Enrolling Clerk, Mrs. IIogins.
 Rev. Henry Young, pastor of the local Methodist Episcopal Church, nominated by Senator Dimond, was unanimously elected Chaplain.
 Senator Steel, on taking the chair, made a short talk, reading from prepared manuscript, urging members to give the President their cordial cooperation in expediting the business of the session. He forecast busy session and one that will be called on to deal with a great deal of important legislation.
 House Session Brief
 The House session was brief. It was called to order by Secretary Theile, and oaths administered by Judge Boyle Rev. Aashevarof de- livered the invocation.
 After electing Representative Murray to be Speaker pro-tem, and Harold Stabler to be temporary Clerk, adjournment was taken until tomorrow afternoon when it is ex- pected the permanent organization will be perfected.
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ed to the stand by U. s. Attorney H. D. Stabler, denied most of the allegations in Paul's petition.
 Paul ApoIogized
 Paul then apologized and asked permission to file an amended pe- tition, which was granted. Judge Harding took the whole matter un- der consideration.
 The affidavit of prejudice filed against Judge Harding on last Wednesday caused considerable comment and created a situation unique in Alaskan courts. The af- fidavit revealed that the Alaskan Native Brotherhood, of which Paul is Grand President, passed reso- lution that was filed with the Sen ate Judiciary Committee last Mo- vember then considering the Hard ing nomination for the position he now holds.
 Paul charged in the affidavit that Judge Harding in a recent conversation had referred to the and for the Brotherhood's attitude and told Paul that he held him responsible for it. The reso- lution was based on five cases of illegal fishing, of which one was the Dalton case.
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SHORT SESSION ENDS COOLIDGE
 GREAT PROGRAM
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start the Swing Johnson Boulder dam bill, the Kellogg treaty re- nouncing war and the controver- sial naval construction measure.
 Senator Curtis, of Kansas, the vice president-elect, stuck to his post as Republican leader to help unmesh the tangled situation and he was successful.
 Boulder Bill
 Under the driving leadership of Senator Johnson of California, CO., author of the Boulder bill, the Sen- ate approved this long pending measure before the Christmas re- cess. It authorizes construction
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ALASKA
 IS CHRISTENED

NEW YORK, March Az ern. Naylor, of Portland yesterday chris tened the $29,o00 amphibian plane Alaska, owned by the Gorst Air Transport Company which expects to make bid for the air service between Seattle and Juneau, Alas ka.
 The survey trial will be made about the middle of this month. The plane carries eight passengers. two pilots, baggage and mail
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Tico Armed, Unmasked Robbers Nuke Haul,
 $75,OO0 in JetUelry

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, March A. Two heavily armed unmaslzed rob- bers held up the Maynard Jewelry Company today and escaped with
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Albert Brown, travelling man with neadqu~I-ers .l~ce, $ back in Ju neau after several days absence, the towns of the South east Division.
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eos STOCKS REACu soo

NEW YORK, March 4.-More stocks are now selling above S2o0 level than at any time in the his- tory Of the New York Stock ex
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{ Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Graves re- turned from Petersburg on the Queen. He is Territorial Vetenin- iarian, and has been working among the fox farmers in the Petersburg district for about six weeks.
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jewelry estimated wort h S75. .00O The police with riot guns have talk en up the trail of the robbers.
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change. Altogether eos issues have reached this level in the past half century.
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B. c. Delzelle, local broker, was a passenger for Juneau on the Queen.
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New, select line ef visiting cards at The Empire.
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Old papers tor safe al The Empire.
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k. K. Stewart, Territorial Pre- datory Animal Hunter, has return ed to his headquarters in Junear. MT. Stewart has been working in the southern end of the Division Tor sevral weeks trapping wolves and other predatory animals and also cooperating with the trappers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Prosecution Witness S1UeQns
Mooney, Billings Framed Ub

SAN FRANCISCO, March 20
Estelle Smith, whose testimony sent
Warren K. Billings and Thomas
Mooney to prison for life, today
again admitted the story she told on
the witness stand during the pre-
paredness parade bombing trial was
false.
She said in an affidavit today
that her Identification of Billings as
the man who threw the bomb was
not true and that she never was
sure about the matter.
The statement, made voluntarily
gives the lie to former District At
torney Charles M. Fickert, who, il
has been proved over and over again
framed" the pair.
A desire for "fair play" prompted
Miss Smith in issuing today's state
ment, she said.
Evidence Smashed Long Age.
Evidence appeared nearly ter
years ago that Estelle Smith and
other witnesses used by the prosecu,
tion were bribed in some instances
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our propagandists gave an intense
impression of unity and force' An
excellent homage to our young Com
munist Party"
"In spite of the fact that the
'Etincelle' found the workers in the
Zoreti district 'unsympathetic' to-
ward me, more than 1,700 socialist
workers there voted for me. | have
also learned that the young work.
ers and the working women were
very enthusiastic"
Asked by Doriot what he thought
of the plan to start a campaign for
his liberation from prison, Marty
declared that he did not have very
much confidence in the result, but
that did not matter since the workers
Of Puteaux-Suresnes- Nanterre de-
manded more. "It is the liberation
Of all class-war prisoners, of those
143 comrades who had been SEN
fenced to 933 years of prison, that
they demand"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
Gov. JOHNSTON
FOUND GUILTY
Oklahoma Legislature
Rules He's Corrupt

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 90
Henry S. Johnston, seventh COVER
nor of the state of Oklahoma, was
ousted from office by the state SEN
ate today on impeachment charges of
incompetence and corruption.
The vote was 35 to 9. Other
charges were dropped.
Ten charges of incompetency and
corruption were made against john
stone, vote on any one of which
would have meant his renewal.
The chief counts were general in
competency" based upon the alleged
{ Gminance of his office by Mrs. Ham,
monds, and his clemency acts, and
illegal issuance of deficiency GER
tificates."
A charge of excessive use" of
power, founded on Johnston's break
ing up of an incipient special ses-
sion against him in January, 1925
by use of troops, was dropped.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21
MILITIA PATROLS
ROADS IN STRIKE
Rayon Bosses Prepare
to Import Scabs

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn, March
20.-With the swearing in of the
two companies of state troops quar-
tered here for the use of the rayon
barons against the strikers, an
nouncement was made by the two
rayon companies involved, the CLAM
stoff and the Bemberg Corporations,
that immediate efforts would be
made to resume production.
This means that in the next day
or two strikebreakers recruited else
where will be conveyed into town,
if the strikers, keep quiet. And that
they will not welcome with hosan-
nahs, scabs (should efforts prove
successful in recruiting them) is
known from the bitterness permeat-
ing the ranks of the strikers. This
despite attempts of the A. F. of L
agents here to breed passivity, as
can be seen by the Bemberg walk
out against the advice of the agents.
Confess Success of Strike.
The mill bosses have dropped all
pretenses about still operating. Their
order for complete closure confessed
this yesterday and now they frankly
state they will resume operations
as soon as scabs can be brought in.
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MARTY ON HIS ELECTION
Victory; Fights for Class War Polihcals

PARIS (By aiD.-Delegated by
the Communist fraction in the
French Chambers, Jacques Doriot,
Communist deputy, went to see
Andre Marty, revolutionary leader,
who had recently been elected to the
chamber by the workers of Puteaux,
industrial suburb of Paris, and asked
him what he thought of the cleo
tions.
The following is the account that
Doriot gives Of Martyrs conversa-
ton:
ut was a considerable moral sue
cess for our Party, all the more
so since the workers showed them.
selves fully class-conscious. Un-
doubtedly, this result is due to the
intense activity of our Party COM
rades and sympathizers in the fac
tories and shops.
II have already read even in the
bourgeois press that the activity Of
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SHOE union IN
5 SHOP STRIKES
Bosses Wilt as Entire
Crews Join Walkout

The Independent Shoe Work
ers Union yesterday resolved to
strengthen existing strikes 100 per
cent. Another strike against a
Brooklyn firm was declared. +
Since this decision the union re-
ported that several employers asked
for conferences with a view to an
early settlement.
The new shop to be tied up by a
strike is the Falco Shoe Company
in Brownsville, employing approx
mately 40 workers. Negotiations
were entered into with the Phillip
son Lockwood Shoe Co., employing
over $50, in Long Island City, and
the Kados Shoe Co., of Brooklyn.
The strikes against the Arthur
Bender Co., employing 200 and
against the Real Art Co., with a
crew Of about 175, were intensified
when every worker in both plants
Joined their striking fellow workers.
The Real Art Co. had been con-
injunction restraints, but
have as yet not done Sc
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z DIE in OIL
REFINERY fire
5 More Badly Injured;
Speed-up the Cause

MARCUS HOOK, Pa, March 20.
Two workers were burned to death,
eight more were badly injured and
twenty burned less seriously today
when an oil distillery exploded and
started fierce fire among the. oil
tanks of the Sun Oil Company plant
here.
The cause of the fire is laid to the
scompany's policy of "rationaliza-
t.on," forcing one worker to do the
llbor of two or more, and to the
resulting speed up, and lack of OPP
Iportunity for taking precautions and
watching for leaks, etc.
Caught in Blast.
James McAbee, Jr., the still op-
ecator where the first explosion
came, was on the "catwalk," a mar
row footway over the top of the oil
still, where crude oil was being heat
ed to take off the more volatile gaso-
line benzine, and kerosene before
turning the rest into asphalt, tar,
etc.
A leak by which highly inflam-
mable vapors of gasolene came into
contact with heated surfaces and
air, is thought to have caused the
whole upper part of the still to ex-
Iplode, and sheet of flame to shoot
up, burning McAbee to a crisp. His
charred body was found, hanging
from the "catwalk" after the fire
burned itself out.
McAbee had a wife and five chill
dren. He was only 25 years old. His
father, James McAbee, Sr., was
among the other workers burned.
The other man killed was Joseph
G. Bennett, company fireman, 35
years of age.
Besides McAbee, Sr., James Urian,
10, Raymond Roden, 20, and Victor
Bird, IS, were badly burned. Names
of the others could not be learned
last night.
The refinery workers here are un-
organized, many young workers are
employed, and wages and conditions
are bad.
The fire destroyed II stills and
caused hundred thousand dollars
damage.
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have to agree to change in its
statutes. 1t will require a great deal
of diplomatic pressure to compel
some of the Latin American states
to agree, as they resent the pro-
vision for allowing the U. S. to with
draw and wreck the court if the lat
ter attempts to try any case involv-
ing the Monroe doctrine.
Senate Divided
On the other hand, the court can
be scrapped any time two-thirds of
the signatories, aside from the U.
s. desire to withdraw their assent
to the protocol"
Opposition is certain to develop
in the senate, because of the change
in the Root plan by the English
delegates, Hurst, apparently intend
ed | deprive the U. S. of the privil-
eyed position demanded for it by
Senate reservation No. 5, which
specified that no question affecting
the interests of U. S. should be con-
sidered by the court, though the U.
S. judges would sit on other coun-
trys' cases. The Hurst amendments,
adopted by the League Council of
Jurists yesterday, make U. S. OBJ
lection the signal for breaking up
the court.
Jocky For War Position.
Opponents of the Court, in the
Continued on Page Three)
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NANKINC,HANK0W
WAR STARTS AS.
MEETING SPLITS.
Many Killed in Human
Battle; Call for New
Government
Feng Resigns Ministry
Saws He's Sick Because
Chang Gives Orders

SHANGHAI, China, March 90
Defying the futile orders of the
rapidly disintegrating Kuomintang
to withdraw from Human, General
Yeh Chi (Hankow) yesterday
routed the forces of Lu Tipping, de-
posed governor of Human.
Five hundred prisoners were cap
tured and nearly a thousand rifles,
together with several field pieces,
fell into the hands of Yeh Chi. The
engagement took place east of
Chang-teh, a small town on the
Yuan-kiang river in NORTH ern
Human.
This is the most important battle
to date in the opening hostilities be-
tween Marking and Hankow and the
victory of the latter has given a
new impetus to recruiting which, to-
gether with impressment, has swell
ed the Hanko,y forces by 5000 men
in a few days.
The big Hanyang arsenal at
Hankow is working at top speed and
producing quantities of ammunition.
AS a prelude to it's attack from
the south, Marking is massing its
forces at Ping-hsien, the terminal of
the railroad which beginning in this
town in the extreme western noun
tains of Kiangsi, runs north thru
important city of Chang-sha, thru
Hankow and northern Hupeh and
Honan provinces to Peking. 1t is
expected that Marking will order
general advance alone this rail-
road within a few days.
At the same time, the Nanking
forces have to cover Tzuli and
Tayung, now threatened by the
victorious forces of Yeh Chi.
3
Yu Yu-jen Bolts Congress
SHANGHAI, March 20.-General
Y. Yu-jen, member of the Kwangsi
group and leader of powerful fol-
lowing, yesterday bolted the con-
gress of the Kuomintang at Nan
king and took refuge in this city.
He is announcing that he will go to
Canton to call a new Kuomintang
congress will delegates properly
elected" With them he will establish
a illegal government" he states.
Chang Kai-shek has sent two rep
resentatives here to reach a compro-
mise with Yu Yu-jen. In the mean
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IN
GENERAL DRIVE
ON COMMUNISTS
3 Left Wing Leaders in
Jail; Labor Fights to
Stop Arrests
Unrest Is Nationwide
Puppet Parliament Has
Anti-Communism Bill

DELHI, India, March 20.-Under
warrants issued by the district
judges of Beirut, United Province,
the Anglo-Indian government today
made wholesale raids upon Commu-
nists and other workers organiza-
tions in Calcutta, Bombay, Poona,
and other cities. When news of the
arrests spread, 10000 workers in
the Tata Steel works, the second
largest industrial enterprise in In
dia, walked out on strike.
Virtual martial law has again
been clamped down upon Bombay,
where the recent street fighting be-
tween workers and the British
troops and police cost over 100 lives
of strikers.
Machine Gun Nests.
Machine gun nests have again
been posted at all street intersec-
tions, sandbag barricades have been
thrown up by the government, while
troops and police are patrolling the
streets.
Three left wing trade union lead
ers, whose names could not be
learned, were arrested in Bombay,
while arrests of others are reported
from Calcutta, Lucknow, Poona and
other towns in the concerted gov
ernment raid,
The main brunt of the offensive
seems to- have been directed against
the Youth League where many ar
rests were made in all the cities in
volved.
Latest reports state that numer-
Gus arrests were also mede in ALA
habad.
Quantities of literature were
seized by the Anglo-Indian govern
ment raiders in many places.
Over 120 warrants are said 20
have been issued and the prisoners
will be charged with "waging war
against the King"
Nationwide unrest is forecast to
result of the raids, the action of
Continued on Page Three
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WEISBORD
ARRESTED
BULLETIN.

BULLETIN.
HAVERHILL, Mass, March 20.
Albert Weisbord, national sec
retary of the National Textile
Workers Union, was arrested
upon entering the hall of the Shoe
Workers Union, where he was to
speak at the invitation of Local
9 of the Shoe Workers Protective
Union. He was Immediately spir-
tied away to New Bedford.
1t was impossible to learn why
the authorities had jailed him, be-
cause he had just arrived here
from New Bedford and had there
addressed a public meeting. He
is not yet free from charges aris-
ing out of the huge New Bedford
textile strike, but the police there
knew of his presence when he was
in town.
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india STEEL STRIKE OF 10000 FOLLOWS RED RAIDS

The floods in the~
South haze killed
hundreds OF Negro
croppers and "poor
Whites," ring
other t hou s a n d S
homeless, aOith all
their property and
huts d e stroyed.
Above some of the
refugees after losing
their homes in the
flood. The State of
Alabama made prac-
ticalIy no proOision
to preue,at floods,
and is doing little to
assist the Victims.
What relief there as
goes to the White
Inhabitants, Leaving
the much more num-
erous Negro Victifns
aOitholtt assistance.
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ANU Z
Krassin. Similar bombastic speeches
were made by Police Commissioner
Whalen, the Swedish consul and the
Italian consul in New York.
The name of Mobile was avoided
as far as possible by the speakers,
iwho discussed only traditions" of
Sweden and Italy. Colonel Lind
bergh, too, is of Swedish descent" +"
declared Walker.
No applause whatever greeted the
speech of the Italian fascist consul.
Captain Lundborg took refuge be-
hind his ignorance of the English
language, and had nothing to say
about his share in the cowardly de-
sertion of the Italia crew, or about
his own record in the service of re-
action. He has fought in both the
Finnish and Esthonian white guard,
participating in the murder of thou
sands of workers.
The small crowd gave an unusually
cold reception to the fascists. Many
lept their hats on when the Swedish
national anthem was played, and
Ilany other hats remained on during
the playing of the "Star Spangled
] amer"
Captain Lundborg, in official press
Interviews, stated that he is in the
United States for the purpose of
studying American developments in
aviation. He indicated that Sweden
wishes to take lessons from Amer
i,an imperialism.
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Il KILLED IN
CANADA Wreck
Five Injured in Train
Crash in Montreal

MONTREAL, Canada, March 20.
--latest reports of the train wreck
on the Canadian National Railways
at Dorcourt places the number of
dead at 81, including Conductor Bar
sted, Brakeman Ferguson, Brake
man White and News Agent Filler.
Members of the crew among the in
jured were Engineer Gauverau,
Fireman Smith, Brakeman Travers
and Baggageman McRoberts.
The identified dead are Conduct
or Borstead and Brakeman Fergu-
son.
The crash was between the Van
couver bound and the Toronto bound
Nationals, two of the fastest pas
senger trains in the service.
Three emergency trains, bearing
doctors and nurses, started from
Toronto, Sudbury and Parry Sound
as soon as word of the wreck had
been received.
The two trains which collided
were the East and West bound "Na-
tional," the fast trains between To-
ronto and Winnipeg. According to
a statement this afternoon the west
bound train was to meet the east
bound train at Dorcourt.
In rush, however, on this single
track road, the instructions were
and the eastbound
flyer did not stop at Dorcourt and
collided outside the city with the
fast moving westbound train. One
engine and two cars of the west
bound train were tossed from the
track.