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" CONNECTICUT ASKS '™ » WEATHER. (0. & Weather Bureau Generally fair today a cooler tonight. Forecast ) nd tomorrov: Temperatures: High est, 87, at 3:00 p.m. yesterday; lowest. 64, at 6:00 a.m. yesterda Full report on page 5. No. 1,172— No. 30441 Entered as second el post office, Washing: ;A matt ton, D. C. he WASHI -THIRDS RULE IS OPPOSED BY DEMOCRATS IN U. §. POLL HSAFE” P RES'DENT, !National Committecmen Favor Selcction ‘ of Candidate by Majority of Conven- FAVORING HOOVER Lowden and Dawes Senti- ment Gains Little Headway in Yankee State. SMITH'S CANDIDACY MAY MAKE INROADS Governor Is Popular for Hold He Has on New York—Hughes Considered by G. 0. P. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. | (Staff Correspondent of The Star.) NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 3 —The Republicans of Connecticut | want a “safe and sane” President for | the next four years. If they cannot have Calvin Coolidge, and many of them have reached the conclusion they cannot, they like the idea of Herbert C. Hoover. This does not mean that sentiment generally has crystalized here, but Secretary Hoover has many friends who are ready to take their coats off and go to work for him. They figure that with Hoover at the head of the administration in Wash- ington they can go to bed at night and not fear to have things turned topsy turvey by the next morning. Indeed, they look to see the adminis. tration carry on along much the same lines as the Coolidge administration if Mr. Hoover becomes Preside 2. 1t is too early to make definite pre- dictions regarding the Connecticut delegation to the Republican national convention next year. The probabili- ties now are that the delegation will he unpledged to any candidate. Like the people of Massachusetts, the people of the Nutmeg State wish to be free to turn to President Coolidge if the convention gets into a snarl. But it is a safe bet to say that the delegation which will represent Con- necticut will be the selection of Henry J. Roraback, who in the final analysis is the Republican state boss. What Mr. Roraback says goes in Connecti-: cut. Lowden and Dawes in Shadows. | ‘Telegrams were addressed to 64 Special Dispatch to The Star | SW YORK, September 3.—A | areatly preponderating sentiment in | the Democratic national committee in | favor of picking the next Democratic randidate for President by majority vote is revealed in a survey of the committee just completed. | A substantial ®aajority of those re- sponding to Injuiry also recorded themselves in fa®or of abolishing the unit rule, which .nay hold to be a corollary of the two-thirds rule. Demo- cratic _conventions have operated under the latter since 1832, when the party, then calling itselt “Republi- can,” met _in Baltimore to pick Mar- tin Van Buren as its candidate for Vice President. Wide Demand for Change. members of the committee asking an expression of their personal views on both rules and also their opinion con- cerning the probable attitude of the 1928 convention, which alone will have the authority to make any changes in the historic method of | nominating. The replies were highly | significant in that they showed the | demand for a change is by no means | sectional or fractional, but has swept | almost the entire country. ‘Thirty-eighth of fifty-four committee- men responded. The poll showed the | following results: In favor of abolishing both the unit and two-thirds rules—19. In favor of abolishing the two- thirds rule but opposed to or non-com mittal on the wisdom of doing away with the unit regulation—8. In favor of ubolishing the unit rule and non-committal or opposed to abolishing the two-third rule—3. FLYERS GONTINUE DESPITE WEATHER 0id Glory Ready to Hop Off| Today—Fonck to Seek Series of Records. =~ | ‘There ittle or no sentiment evi- dent here for either former Gov. ¥rank O, Lowden or Vice President Dawes as the Republican .nominee. The McNary-Haugen farm relief bill and the accompanying equalization principle make no appeal to Con- necticut. There .is even a feeling that Mr. Lowden, in supporting the prineiples of that bill, has sown an inclination to safe eco- nomic policies, and some attribute it to his ambition to - dent. They look askance. too, at Gen. Dawes, because of his leaning toward the bill. If the Republican party must go ‘Weést for its candidate next year, Connecticut Republicans are asking .why not go all the way to the Pacific. Coast and take Mr. Hoover. Some of them have in the back of their heads a possible combination for the Republican national ticket A which - will give Connecticut a place in the limelight. Why not, they say, Hoover and Tilson? Representative John Q. Tilson is a thoroughgoing Republican. He is the majority lead- er of the House, and will be again in the next Congress. He embodies the Republican idea of Connecticut. He is a close personal friend of President Coolidge, and he was won for himself the regard of his colleagues in the House from all parts of the fcountry. ‘Whether the Connecticut delegation ‘will go to the convention next year ‘with the open and evident intention of placing Mr. Tilson in nomination for Vice President will have to be determined later. ‘West Put Coolidge Over. Tt is unlikely in the extreme that Mr. Tilson himself will make any | effort along this line. But if the de- | mand for Mr. Tilson should come | from the Pacific Coast, where he hag many friends and admirers, as well as in this part of the counfry, Repub- licans of Connecticut will not be slow to get behind the movement. It was Pacific Coast State which put ;rnldenl Coolidge across in 1920. Plans of some of the Republican lead- ers were all set for the nomination of former Senator Irvine G. Lenroot of Wisconsin for the vice presiden- tial nomination after the Harding compromise had been effected in Chi- cago. But Judge McCamant, an Oregon delegate, upset the applecart. He brought forward the name of the then Governor of Massachusetts, and the stampede was on, the one spon- taneous outburst of that convention. Of the other Republican presi- dential ssibilities, Charles Evans Hughes is likely to make a strong appeal to the Connecticut Repub- licans. Mr. Hughes is a near neigh- bor. He has the admiration of thou- sands of Republicans here. And he, too, is considered “safe” in a State where conservatism rises to the nth degree. Connecticut has no presi- dential preferential primary. Its delegates to the Republican national convention will be selected by the old convention system. The machine will dominate. have some friends here, but not suf- ficient to get him the delegation. Machine Is Efficient. The Republican organization in Connecticut is a_compact and efficient Speaker Longworth will | By the Associated Press. \ | Ignoring steadily increasing adverse odds and recent heavy casualties in their ranks, aviation pioneers con- tinued to drive forward as the week ended. Old Glory, the Fokker monoplane, was at Old Orchard, Me., today pre- paring for the long trail to Rome. The two-mile, storm-packed beach is expected to give a long enough run- way to avert further wait for the proper wind to raise the great ship and load. Capt. Rene Fonck, after thoroughly testing his new Sikorsky biplane, has announced a program of long distance and endurance flights, ed to shatter all existing records. He pro- poses first a flight to Paris “within a month. The Royal Windsor plans to take off from Portland, Me., today in con- tinuation of the flight to Windsor, England. Capt. Courtney in his Whale is at Corunna, Spain, where he was forced to land because of adverse winds bar- ring his passage to the Azores, but there was no hint that the project had been abandoned. The Columbia is at Cranwell, Eng- land, waiting only favorable weather for the hazardous “westward passage™ to America. The Sir John Carling is wind-bound at Caribou, Me., but only temporarily. Schlee and Brock, world navigators, are at Bunder Abbas, Persia, tuning up for an early start today for the next hop on their long tour. OLD GLORY AT MAINE COAST. Hill and Bertaud Plan to Start Rome | Flight Today. 0ld Orchard, Me., September 3 (P).; —Sliding out of the gathering dusk | into the glare of a fire engine search- | light and two hastily constructed bon- | fires, the monoplane Old Glory set- tled gracefully tonight on Old Orchard beach, a runway built by nature, from which J. 8. Hill and Lloyd Bertaud hope to hop off tomorrow on their long delayed flight to Rome. Five hundred persons were gather- ed on the sands when the roar of the motor heralded the giant plane's ap- proach. Barely discernible in the gathering gloom, the plane circled tion—Unit Rule Rapped. In favor of the two-thirds r In favor of the unit iule- Highly qualified or non-committal —5. Attitude of South. Thus the vote stood 27 1o a possible 11 in favor of majority rule at the next convention, and 22 to a possible 16 in favor of permitting the members of State delegations to vote as indi- viduals. With 16 members yet to be heard from and 5 non-committal, ex- actly half of the entire male member- ship of the coi ittee has expressed itself in favor of nominating the rex presidential candidate by maj vote. There seems little doubt the women will decide in the same proportion, The replies showed opposition to the abrogation of the two thirds rule confined mostly to the South, though this section is by no means unani- mous in the matter. For instance the national committeemen of hoth Texas and Arkansas expressed themselves in favor of nominating by majority. though J. Ed Adams of Texas wants to see his own State vote as a unit. This_position in the South is tra- ditional As the membership of the convention is now comprised, the Southern States almost have exactly one third the delegates; thus they are able to prevent nomination by a coalition of the North and West. But several of those replying from South- ern territory suggest that if the basis of representation were changed they would then be glad to acquiesce in majority control. . There was some difference of opin- ion as to the functions of the national committee in the matter. Senator Car- (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) LEAGUE MAY STEP INTO TACNA-ARICA Suggestion That Council Take Interest Outside Europe May Involve Latin America. By the Associated Press. GENEVA, Switzerland, September 3.—The outstanding topic of discus- sion in Geneva tonight was the state- ment of Enrique Villegas of Chile, president of the League Council, at today’s meeting, that he saw 1o rea- son why the League of Nations could not interest itself in political prob- lems outside of Europe. This is Interpreted here as an al- lusion to the possibility that the League Council may take up any future political problems affecting the Latin American states. Heretofore it has been understood in League cir- cles that the Latin American mem- bers preferred to settle among them- selves and by themselves any politi- cal disputes arising on the Ameri- can continent by the process of arb tration which the American nations have developed so strongly. May Try Tacna-Arica. If the views of President Villegas meet with the approval of Latin Americans generally it is thought possible that the League of Nations may take on new political force and prestige, perhaps even endeavoring to_settle the Tacna-Arica dispute. M. Paul-Boncour, official spokes- man of the French delegation—who incidentally remarked that if the dis- armament debate does not come up in the assembly, he himself will pro- voke it—manifested tonight absorb- ing interest in the possible activities of the League in Latin American matters. “The Latin American states have only to bring any questions before the council,” he said, ‘“and the council will be only too glad to interest itself in the amicable settlement of these.” Affect on America Pondered. The possible submission of any fu- ture Latin American problems to the League Council has created interest from another angle—that is, the effect of such development of the League on American public opinion, in view of the opinion prevailing in many quar- ters in Europe that the United States infinitely prefers to see political con- troversies involving American nations .;ell:;!d by the Amegican continent tself. over the beach three times before dropping onto the beach, hard pack- ed as a motor speedway from cen- turies of ceaseless pounding by the sea. Capt. Harry M. Jones, commercial flyer, near whose hangars the Old Glory landed, greeted Hill and Bertaud as they stepped from their plane, followed by their companions on their flight from Roosevelt Field, Ray Moorehouse, radio operator; Phil Payne, New York newspaper man, and Capt. Eric Denishan, motor expert and former member of the Royal Flying Corps. Hill and Bertaud Enthusiastic. Hill and Bertaud, who will make | the flizht to Rome alone, where en- | thusiastic over their plane’s perform- jance on the trip up from New York |and the huge natural runway from machine. Mr. Roraback, who heads it. is the head also of the great public utility corporation in the State. What he has said in the past regarding candidates for office or re- garding legislation has hbeen said with authority. It is said of him that he holds the politicians and the Legislature in one hand and the cor- porations in the other. His Demo eratic opponents denounce him and the organization he has developed, but some of these still express a cer- tain kind of admiration for both. While the Republicans of this State are still thinking of Coolidge with regret because he has declared himself out of the race and are be- ginning to turn to Hoover Hughes the Democrats have appar- ently but a single mind. They want Al Smith. It is_almost. as certain they will send a Smith delegation to the Democratic_national convention in 1928 as that New York Democracy will support Governor of the pire State. Only the other day the Demoerats of New Haven held a rally ostensibly having various hatchet. factions ~bury nt__ demon umn 6) est | and | for the purpose of the Before the evening was had_been turned into which they plan to hop off across the. | Atlantic_tomorrow afternoon. The_flight_from_New York _was | “(Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) The presidency of the assembly ap- pears to be sifting down to Count Von Mensdorf, of Austria, and Mineichiro Adachi, Japanese Ambassador to France, with the odds favoring the Austrian. Most of the afternoon was spent in conversations between the various delegates, having reference to the general work of the assembly which begins Monday. Following upon the recent Interna- tional Economic Conference, in which the American delegates took a prom- inent part, the League council adopted a policy today calculated to link the American people closer with the League and its development by ap- pointing Jeremiah Smith of Boston, former league commissioner for the financial rehabilitation of Hungary, as a member of the league’s permanent financial committee. Mr. Smith has accepted the appointment and will be the first American to serve on this committee, which plays an important r|n|p in European financial reconstrue- tion. |British Shy at Plan By the Associated Press, LEEDS, England, September 3. Suggestions of a mechanical engineer that the interior of the earth will fur- nish a central heating plant for the world if sufficiently urged has not yet aroused any great enthusiasm among Britis' householders. J. L. Hodgson this week presented a plan in a speech to the British As- sociation of Science to bore holes 30 miles into the earth to extract heat, but the popular consensu. seems to be that he has started something his neighbors have no wish to finish. His suggestion that men wearing | asbestos clothing might control the heat has caused facetious comment that the entire population might need asbestos suits if the interior of the “learthly planet be tampered with. The possibility that Yello e National to Heat Homes ! By Boring- 110135 in Earth; Prefer Coal Park and Iceland ice geysers, as well as Vesuvius, Etna and other famous voleanos, may have formidable rivals leaves even those who look at a dimin- ishing coal pile with keen regret sat- isfied to leave well enough alone. While coal is mussy and British cities would welcome a chance to rid themselves of the smoke nuisance, there is every indication that British dislike of central heatjng as imported from the United States is nothing as to try Hodgson's method of tapping the flery center of the earth. The Englishman wants his open fire in his home, where he can watch it, but he does not want to tamper with the forces of Nature. He wishes to be certain that he will not start a ‘fl’ro' he cannot put out if he gets tired of ity | Tomorrow. compared with British unwillingness | WITH DAILY EVENING EDITIUN FEDERAL EMPLOYES T0 LAUNCH ATTACK ON ACTS OF BOARD Method of Applying Classifi- | cation Law Causes Criti- cism by Workers. CONVENTION WILL STUDY EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS Ninth Annual Meeting of Fed- eration to Open in Texas Special Dispatch to The Star. | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., September 3.—The Personnel Classification Board will come in for sharp criticisnt at the ninth convention of the National Federation of Federal Employes open ing here Monday, according to indica- tions tonight. The whole question of classification will be thoroughly gone into by the conventions, leaders predicted here prior to the formal opening, but sev- eral other problems of vital interest to the welfare and remuneration of Federal workers in all parts of the country will come up for detailed con- sideration. Such topics will include salaries, hours of work, overtime com- pensation and similar phases of pup- lic employment. Will Map Out Program. The personnel classification board, according to leaders of the federa- tion, has administered the classifica- tion act to the exclusion of fairness for the individual or employe as a whole, and has worked hardship on | Government workers throughout the country by failing to extend classi- fication to the field services. The federation, however, it was indicated, will not stop at an indict- ment of the alleged indiscretions and incompetency of the board, but will formulate a definite program of ac- tion for presentation to the Seven- tieth Congress, through which they hope to obtain a new deal in so far as_classification is concerned. Federation support also is to be thrown behind a minimum salary of $1,500 annually for all full-time em- ployes. ‘The worker who receives considerably less than $100 a month still abounds in large number® in the service of the United States, and it is to give these employes a wage that will permit them to meet the per- manently higher cost of living as com- pared with prewar days that the or- ganization will plan a stiff battle in the forthcoming session of Congress, This question has its direct relation to classification in that it will require an amendment to the classification act to fix a higher minimum. Elim- ination of uncompensated overtime also looms as an important item on the convention program. While work- ers in private industry as a body have their hours shortened and the passing of the 12-hour day has been celebrated as a victory in this industry and that, the National Federation of Federal Employes points to the United States Government as the outstanding in- stance of one of the last remaining strongholds of the 12-hour working day. Instead of setting the example for private employment, leaders de- clare, the Government has continued to exact long hours trom its employes without compensating them either with extra pay or time off. Saturday Half Holiday: Directly related to this subject is the extension of the Saturday half holiday, which the organization con- vening here hopes to obtain for the entire year instead of for a few months as at present. A study of the present retirement law with a view to liberalizing the ex- isting $1,000 maximum also will be urged. The convention also is expected to indorse a proposal of 10 days’ sick leave as a matter of right instead of privilege as now constituted. -This also would have a provision for an accumulation of the leave until a total of 60 days is reached. Washington delegates are expected to be in San Antonio by tomorrow night, when the other 150-odd repre- sentatives of local unions throughout the country will have reached here. In the Washington group are Ilena Bailey, Maj. J. A. Braden, Ulrey Biller, J. R. Stansfield and Henry Holda, Local No. 2: Mrs. Mattie Bos- ton, Local No. 71; Belle A. Trouland, Rose Brennan, Mae Bergevin, Mar- garet Garry and Gertrude M. McNally, Tocal No. 105; J. E. Borland, Local No. 249; Lee R. Downs, Local No. 260; Williams S. Kinney, Local No. 261, ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 8) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—16 PAGES. General News—Local, National and Foreign. Schools and Colleges—Page 8. Radio News and Programs—Page 10. Fraternal News—Page 13. 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C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1927—SIXTY-EIGHT PAGES. > el 60 cents and service wi (#) Means Associated Pre: [ 4 'TOWN ENDS 150-YEAR BATTLE | WITH RIVER: MOVES TO BLUFF| First Home.in Columbus, Ky., Is Trans-| ferred and Preparations to Shift 39 | Others Are Under Way. By the Associated Press. | COLUMBUS, Ky., September 3.— | The town of Columbus is on the move. Taking all that is left of a century and a half of historic past, along with their *tangible property, the villagers today were moving to the bluffs half a mile from the turbulent Mississippi. The frame house of Charles Mays, on Kentucky street, was the first to be moved. Plans have been perfected for moving 39 others. Some will be razed, usable material salvaged and the dwellings reconstructed. | Surrendered conditionally to the river with which it has battled more or less successfully for 150 years, Co- lumbus was being removed to the bluffs as part of the rehabilitation program of the American Red Cross, which contributed $50,000 for the work here, Another $50,000 will be neces- sary to complete the removal. Levee Swept Aside. The beginning of the end came last April when the head waters of the great flood swept aside the private levee and put the town under from 10 to 15 feet of water. Ten houses were washed away. Subsequent swells re- YACHT WRECKAGE 1S WASHED ASHORE Mystery Surrounds Identity of Vessel Believed Lost in Recent Gale. By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Me., September 3.— While the sea continued today to give up fragments of wreckage, sailormen of this port and others today strove to reconstruct a mystery of the At- lantic in which, they believed, a large white-painted vessel perished in a re- cent gale. For the third day reports continued to be received here of pieces of wood being washed ashore or picked up by lighthouse men or fishermen. All these appeared to have come from o1e vessel, although no such craft had been reported missing in these waters. On Thursday several pleces of ma- hogany, apparently parts of the cabin fittings of a yacht, were found at Sequin, near the mouth of the Kenne- bec River. Yesterday a party of va- cationists, fishing near Half Way Rock, sighted several pieces of white- painted wood, believed to be parts of the hull, and also fragments of} paneling. Similar wreckage was re- ported by Everett Moore, keeper of the Half Way Rock light. The largest piece of wood was 15 feet long. Capt. - narles Blackburn, skipper of a fishing vessel, reported on arrival here today that he had passed several doors and other pieces of a wrecked vessel. A Long Island fisherman towed home what appeared to be a part of the deck of a vessel. Those who have examined the| flotsam expressed the belief that a large yacht was either driven ashore on the Maine coast or floundered nfl: shore in one of the fierce galcs of re-l cent weeks. WINDY CITY RAIDS PUT OFFICIAL IN GOOD HUMOR Commissioner Doran Comments an Arrest of 11 and Seizure of Big Stills. ! By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 3.—Chicago prohibition agents spurred on by the rrival today of Prohibition Commis- sioner J. M. Doran of Washington, and aided by an innocent fire squad, seized a $20,000 still, a liquor truck in tran- sit and arrested 11 men in raids on soft drink parlors and restaurants. The commissioner, after reviewing the day’s scenes of action, said he was highly pleased with the operation by a fire squad that ans alarm and found not only fire, but 2,000 gallons of alcohol in two 1,000- gallon stills in the Ohio Express and Storage Company building. Prohibi- tion officers could find no owner for | M ! “and Mrs.; High Lights of History. the liquor, Crazed Steel Worker Shoots | inundated the town and when the final flood had passed, the current| had changed and caused the banks | to cave in, carrying with them the old hotel and several houses. ‘With little prospect of replacing the broken dike, the decision to move was made. The Red Cross purchased 80 acres of land as the first section of the new site of Columbus. ‘This_property, according to F. M. Rust, Red Cross relief director, will be deeded to the city. Streets Built on Bluff. As residents evacuate the old Co- lumbus and their homes are moved or torn down, they deed their lots to the city with the stipulation that they are not to be used for residential pur- poses again. In lieu of the property surrendered, the city deeds a lot in the new town. Streets have been constructed on the bluff where ancestors of the pres- ent inhabitants had hoped to see the Capitol of the United States. A large spring supplies water pending com- pletion of an 8inch well that is being drilled. Sewers and water pipe lines have been planned for the new town and in time a modern town will have re: placed the fishing village of old. SEVEN ARE KILLED BY MAN 0UT OF 108 Wife and Six Children After Row. By the Associated Press. YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, September 3. —Tony Decapua, 42, steel worker, ap- parently crazed by brooding over lack of work, tonight shot and killed his wife, wounded his son's wife, and killed six children of the two families, including two infants. Police, answering a call from neigh- bors, found Decapua standing outside his home, and the man at once opened fire on them In the ensuing gun battle, Decapua, Patrolman Leo Tyrel and an unidentified pedestrian were wounded. ‘The dead: Tony's wife, 24. Junior, 14 months; May, 4 months, and Marie, 3 years, his grand- children, Anna, 6; Elizabeth, 11, and Catherine, 2 months, daughters of Tony Decapua. The Decapua home is located in a district of foreigners. Policemen at the scene reported to headquarters that they could find no one there who could speak English. « An hour after the riot call was turned in, the officers had been unable to learn the names of any of the vic- tims or to gain any clear idea of how the shooting started. Meager information gleaned by the police was that the shooting followed a violent quarrel between Decapua and his wife. Their children were drawn into the quarrel. Suddenly Decapua produced a re- volver, according to the police, and began firing wildly from an adjoining Mrs. Mary Decapua, 3,000 Realty Owners to Be | Follows this warning: “Owned by you DELINQUENT TAX NOTICES READY Warned Soon of Possible Loss in March. Plans for the distribution of notices to approximately 3,000 District tax- payers who are faced with the loss of deeds to their property unless cer- tificates of sale disposed of at the annual tax sale in March, 1926, are redeemed, were completed at a con- ference yesterday between Commis- sioner Sidney F. Taliaferro and Tax Assessor Willlam P. Richards. The 3,000 tax certificates were sold for non-payment of taxes, and under the law, the deed to the property can be issued to the purchasers two years after the date of the sale unless redeemed in the meantime. The major portion are held by men who make it a business to buy such cer- tificates and who were referred to in Congress several years ago as “tax title grabbers.” Special Form Prepared. A speclal form of notice, drawn up by Mr. Richards, was approved by Commissioner Taliaferro. The tax assessor announced that he would start mailing them out of his office sometime this week. Blank spaces are left on the notice for filling in the square and lot or parcel number of the property. Then was sold for taxes March 13, 1926, and must be redeemed before March 13, 1928, otherwise on or after that date, a deed for said property may be issued to the purchaser, under the act of Congress, approved July 1, 1902. For further information apply to arrears division of the assessor's office, room 123, District Building.” The mailing of such notices is the first step in special campaign inspired by Commissioner Taliaferro to obtain payment of delinquent taxes aud to prevent property owners from losing the title to their holdings by failure to pay. As soon as thess warnings have been distributed, Mr. Richards has planned to send notices 1o delin- quent tax payers, about 20,000 in num- ber, who failed to pay all or part of last year’s taxes. Property vwned by these 20,000 taxpayers will be adve; tised and sold for taxes unless pay- ment is made in time to prevent such action. To avoid the advertising charge, the delinquents should make payment on or before November 30. The tax sale will be héld the first week in January and at that time, tax certificates to all property on which taxes have not been paid by that time will be sold by Chatham M. Towers, collector of taxes. Only 60 Days Given. “During the last fiscal year the first payment of general taxes and personal taxes was required by law to be made in November,” said Mr. Richards in a memorandum to Com- missioner Taliaferro. “This year it is_September. This has allowed our office only 60 days in which to add up the cards nd compute the taxes, write 20 ledgers and prepare some- thing like 180,000 bills. Nevertheless, the work has been accomplished and bills are being given out. “Bills will be mailed on request cnly to any person so requesting by post card, giving, if possible, the square and lot number. This may be had at the counter in our office by those who call. “This has to do only with bills for the current year, namely, from July 1, 1927, to June 30, 1928. There re- main, of course, a great many overdue bills for the fiscal year 1926-1927, and hesides these, many cases of overdue taxes running back from 2 to 20 years. “The office is new engaged in check- ing accounts of payments from the auditor's coupons. It will require sev- eral_weeks to do_this_work, upon room into a room in which Mrs. De- capua and the children were. Wireless-Guided Boat Carries Whisky ] From Beyond Limit, By the Associated Press. . NORFOLK, Va., September 3.— Rum runners have adopted the most modern. methods of outwitting Coast Guard and other Government craft that are endeavoring to prevent them from landing their contraband car- goes, according to Capt. F. 8. Van- boskerck, commandant of the Norfolk division of the Coast Guard Service. It was reported recently that whisky, supposed to have been landed from a rum ship, had appeared on the Maryland coa: It was reported that a wireless-controlled boat—a small craft—had been used in transferring :;n‘a liquor ashore from the mother in. Coast Guard officials doubted the authenticity of this report, but they admit it-is possible. “I amMnclined to think the wire- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) Norfolk Rumors Say less-controlled boat story is not true, but I woyld not be surprised if it were true,” said Capt. Vanboskerck. “I know this particular rum ship used carrier pigeons to communicate with agents on shore. I do not be- lieve any liquors were landed from this craft. We kept watch over her too closely for anything like that to happen. We had her on our suspect- ed list and we knew all about her. “But I would not be surprised to learn of seemingly impossible stunts being resorted to by rum runners to “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evemng and Sunday morning to Washington homes at per month. Telephone Main Il start immediately. FIVE CENTS. LABOR OPTINUSTIC AS HOLIDAY NEARS * INCLEARHORON |Figures Show Fewer Workers and Cut in Average Total Wage Roll. 10,000,000 LESSER PAID NEED AID, DAVIS AVERS Secretary Sees Business Conduct on High Plane, Calling U. 8. Toiler Best Remunerated. From the viewpoint of Government and American Federation of Labor officials, the eve of Labor day finds the organized workers of the country at the threshold of an era unprece- dented in industrial peace and oppor- tunity. Only the Government statistician, who deals coldly in figures compiled from 54 seperate industries, detects a flaw in the otherwise roseate hues of the industrial rainbow during the first seven months of 1927. Despite fewer strikes than ever before in the history of organized labor, the tell- tale charts show a reduction of 2.1 per cent in the number of employed persons during this period, as com- pared with the average number in 1926 and a corresponding reduction of 1.6 per cent in the average total pay roll. While inclined always to accept such statistics for what they are worth, Secretary of Labor Davis is one of those who are encouraged by the recovery since post-war depres- sion to put faith in the belief that the 1926 slogan of a living wage will gradually bear the fruits of a ‘saving’ wage during 1927 and the years to come for the great mass of the 42,000,000 men, women and children gainfully employed in the United States. Hoover is Hopeful. Trends of trade in the field of American business during the first two-thirds of the year 1927, as depicted in Commerce Department reports and indices, convince Secretary Hoover that the outlook in the next few months is very fair. For the Asso- ciated Press yesterday, Mr. Hoover set down some of these bases: “This department does not engage in any opinion, it can merely make a of the currents now in progress,” the secretary said. “The first seven months of 1927 have dis- closed generally a higher state of business activity than was expected peak year of 1926. Railroads Near Record. “Loadings of railroad treight for the first seven months are but very slightly under the record loading vol- umes experienced in 1926. Pig iron production in the country has been but slightly less than 1926, but greater than 1925. There has been an unan- ticipated volume of construction kept up through the , and in spite of the heavy volu of bullding and construction generally undertaken in 1926 and previous years, the record of contracts let for the first seven months of 1927 are slightly greater than even 1926. Textiles and automo- biles have shown some decline under 1926. Exports of commodities on & quantity basis have shown an in- crease over 1926 including an increase in automobiles and textiles. Retail sales seem to be keeping pace with 1926, even increasing in certain lo- calities. “There has been some slight in- crease in stocks of goods with some decline in wholesale prices. There is a slight reduction in the number of factory workers industrially engaged during July as compared with July of 1926. However, our statistics deal only with factory workers, and we know there had been an increase in the number of people employed in service lines, from which regular re- ports are not customarily obtained. By service lines are meant such occu- pations as automobile service and rail- road operation, along with a number of other employments which do not lend themselves to regular classifica- tion and reporting. Money Rates Low. “Money rates are now low. The ef- fect of that condition is to maintain enterprise. The important factor of time deposits is distinctly stronger than this time last year. The agri- cultural outlook cannot be as yet de- termined. The price levels have im- proved. In the case of corn, one of the most important crops, we are still dependent a good deal upon the weather, but if fortune is favorable, through delay in early frcsts, a large part of the crop should come through. “On the whole we cannot complain nationally of the results during the present year, and so far as can be seen there are no disastrous economic currents about.” Workers’ Good Feeling. “American business as a whole has never been conducted on a higher plane,” Secretary Davis declared in a statement prepared with a view to the approach of Labor day. “The ranks of America’s workers have never been so filled with good feeling. They never have been more highly paid. For that matter, no worker in history has ever received such wages as those now paid in our country. “I see no reason,” he added, “why we cannot keep this condition with us_indefinitely.” The fact that a slightly fewer num- ber of persons were employed during the first half of 1927 in these index in- dustries, officials at the Department of Labor claimed yesterday, is of practically no significance. To offset the slight reduction in the total pay rolls, the point out that the cost of living has undergone a corresponding decrease during the last year. Industrial Horizon Clear. s Labor day dawns upon a pe: riod of unequaled prosperity for the country as a whole,” one official of the Department of Labor said yester- day, “there is nothing on the ind trial horizon that points to any un- usual strike or lockout. Except for the dispute involving 170,000 bitumi- nous coal miners in the central competi- tive fleld of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and western land their cargoes. “The fact that they have trained pigeons, just like those the Navy trains to carry messages, is proof that the business of rum smuggling has gotten down to a fine system and Pennsylvania, the industrial