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Beaten in Congress, angry Arizona last week began in the U. S. Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional...
Arizona's filibuster could not beat the Boulder Dam bill in the Senate. Its pleas for a veto were ignored. Last week's suit released all its pent-up legalistic fury against what it considers a rape of its sovereign rights and resources...
...contention that the project would improve navigation is "a mere subterfuge and false pretense" because the Colorado is not navigable nor would a dam make...
...construction of a dam on its land without its permission is a violation of Arizona...
...Arizona would lose tax revenue on the power produced at the dam...