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Evening star., 1919-04-01
YANKS MAKE HUNS WORK.
Requisition 300 to Help Construct
Army Supply Depots.

e COBLENZ Monday, March 81 1bv
the Associated Press)-Cnable to OBJ
tain Germans to work voluntarily on
several of the Sd Army supply de-
pots which are under construction
near Bendorf. American military au-
.horities today requisitioned 800 la
borers throuh the German civil Off
Gals. The men will be paid marks
per day. with the privilege of re-
ceiving half this amount in food. if
desired
Owing to the difficulties encounter
ed in obtaining volunteer workmen
and because of several minor labor
disturbances recently among civilians
employed under American supervi-
sion, Gen. Dickman, commander of
the American Army of occupation
today issued warning against
strikes. This proclamation, which ha
been circulated throughout the oc-
cupied area. says that all Iaborers en-
> gagged in work for Americans. or
working for the Army under requi-
sition or otherwise, are forbidden
to join in any conspiracy or plan to
attempt or carry out any scheme to
strike or abandon work" 1t an
nounces that ANY violation Of this
order will be punished by American
military tribunals"
Evening star., 1919-04-01
4CLAM ELECTION
AS CH|CAGO'S HEAD
Religious and Racial Hatreds
Result in Riotous Scenes,
Necessitating Police.
~ the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. April Men and wom-
en- balloted for mayor and other city
officers today after a campaign said
to have been the most bitter in the
history of the municipality. With six
candidates in the field for mayor,
partisan. religious and racial hatreds
famed high during the campaign
which ended last night with riotous
scenes in the central district, which
extra police details had difficulty in
controlling at times Each of the four
leading candidates ella inns his election
today. The candidates for mayor are
William Hale Thompson republican,.
incumbent; Robert H. SweitZer (demo-
crat). county clerk; Maclay Hoyne
independent democracy. states at
torney; John Fitzpatrick labor).
president Chicago Federation of La
Dor; John NJ Collins tsocialisD,
AdoIph s. Carm (socialist labor.
on the little ballot" accompanying
the mayoralty ballot is the proposition
Shall Chicago become anti-Saioon ter
ritory? This proposition was not al
lowed on the ballot at the preceding
election and the "drys" brought suit
against the election officials which
resulted in a decision of the supreme
court several weeks ago that prohibi-
tion should be submitted to the voters.
In view of the government ruling soon
to become effective and the adoption
of the amendment to the constitution
the "drys' decided 10 make no CAM
paign for adoption of the local pro-
hibitory proposition. The vets" how
ever. have conducted Il vigorous cam
paign against the proposition with
the slogan Let Congress hear your pro-
test"
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Feeling of Apprehension
Persists Among U. S. Men
Over Peace Treaty Delay

PARIS. March 81 tby the Associa ed
Press).-A feeling of apprehension
over the lack of progress on the peace
here. although it is stated in authori-
tative quarters that differences which
have arisen have not reached the
status of a deadlock. The principal
difficulty has been found in settling
upon reparations according to the
new method of payment suggested by
the French delegation. This plan was
presented on Saturday before the
council of four and covered twenty
typewritten pages. 1t is said that the
frontier question now turns on the
securing of military safety along the
Rhine.
President Wilson and the allied
premiers conferred throughout today
in the morning at the white house
and in the afternoon at the war office.
They went over the method for the
payment of reparations by Germany
with their financial advisers in the
morning and in the afternoon dis
cussed military questions with Mar
shal Foch. who presented the French
position regarding the left bank of
the Rhine. Later the foreign minis
ters OF the five great powers were called
in to discuss the situation resulting from
the Hungarian revolution.
PARIS. March 81 (Havas).-In
French conference circles there was
an impression this evening that the
situation is clearly satisfactory, al
though extreme caution is being OBJ
served in the proceedings of the con-
ference. The council of four heard
Paul Hymans. the Belgian foreign
minister. during the day and later re-
ceived a report from the interallied
commission which was sent to Tes-
chen to investigate the controversy
between the CZechs and the Poles.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
National Guard Units
Leave France for Home

Additional organizations of the Goth
(New England). 30th North Carolina,
South Carolina and Tennessee) and
10th California. Utah. Arizona, New
Mexico and Colorado) National Guard
divisions have sailed for home
The transport America, carrying the
101st Infantry complete. the 103d In
fantry. less Companies l. and NJ. Com
pany 6 of the 101st Engineers and the
51st Infantry Brigade Headquarters,
is due a Boston April g.
The transport Julia Luckenbach, due
at New York April Il. has the 157th
Infantry. complete. of the 10th Divis-
ion. and six civilian caSualS
The transport Powhatan is due at
Charleston, S. c.. April 10, with the
18th Supply Train. Sanitary Squad
1o7th. the 105th Field Signal Batta lion,
l2tth Infantry. a detachment of the
l2sth Infantry and caSuals.
ire transport Turria]ba sailed March
Is from. 81. NaZaire for New York
with deiachments of Evacuation Hos
Llt&i. No. 8: Base Hospital. Nos 81,
1l6, 2O2; detachments of hospital
units and five casual officers.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
ia PER CENT ALCOHOL
INTOXICATING" IN ARMY

So far as the Army is concerned. any
beverage containing 4 per cent of
alcohol will be considered 'intoxicat-
ing" This decision Of the judge ad-
vocate general was approved today by
Secretary Baker.
The official ruling was made in an
swer to requests from camp and or
gan Zation commanders for an inter-
probation of section II of the seIectiVe
service act governing the prohibition of
alcoholic liquors in or near military
camps. Vendors of dozens of brands or
near beers, so-called health beverages
and other drinks alleged to be nom
intoxicating are said to have taken ad-
vantage of the fact that no definite
line was drawn as to alcohol content.
to dispose Of their wares not only to
establishments within military reser-
vations. but even to the camp ex-
changes
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Aeronautica! Commission
Reports Action 20 Date

PARIS. April 1.-The aeronautical
commission of the peace conference
held a meeting Monday to receive and
consider reports from subcommittees
concerning military, legal. CONNER
cial and technical subjects. 1t was
found that the subcommittee had not
completed their work, but the COM
mission approved the temporary re-
ports submitted.
1t was agreed to put before the su-
preme council the proposals to be
finally submitted at the next meeting
by the joint military and legal sub
committee. Good progress has been
made in other directions. and sub
stantial agreement has been reached
on important points in connection
with the future of commercial avia-
ton.
The commission will hold it's next
meeting on April 4, when. it is ex-
pected. the general principles and
much Of the detail of the interallied
aerial convention may be settled
Evening star., 1919-04-01
BLOCKADE OF HUNGARY
CONTINUES IN EFFECT
German-Austria, However, Is Re-
lieved of Such Restric-
tionS.

LONDON, April 1.-Regarding a re-
port published in the morning news
papers that the blockade of the CEN
trail powers had been raised generally
last week, the blockade department
of the foreign Office explains that the
blockade was lifted from German :
Austria, but not Hungary.
In the case of the Adriatic. the al
lies raised the blockade some time
ago, but the Italian naval blockade
remained in force until a few days
ago.
As far as Germany is concerned, it
was added, the blockade has been
changed to the extent of sending food
surnlies there uMde: allied cOntr:!
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Fear of Bolshevism.

There is now no concealment tina /
the parting of the ways has been
reached at Paris. Either the allies
will come to an agreement this week
or cleavage will occur which VIII take
more time to reconcile than the differ
ences now pending.
Admittedly the delegation repre-
Senting France is this week the OBJ
stacle TO agreement. while last week
it was Italy. Both are proposing
claims which Great Britain and the
United States deem to be at variance
with the fourteen points on which
Germany was granted an armiStice
President Wilson is arguing for an
adherence to those points, not because
of any feeling for Germany. but be-
cause CT an apprehension that boil
shevism will enSue unless the peace
of Paris differs from the peace" of
Brest-Iitovsk. Might didn't right
then. he contends. and it will not do
so now
On the side OF France, it is argued
here that the American delegation
does not fully appreciate or under
stand the difficulties or plight of
France. and that the coal mines on
the left bank OF the Rhine are de-
sired as part payment OF the in
dennity. :
Evening star., 1919-04-01
PARABLE ILLUSTRATED
PARIS PEACE MIDDLE
BY PiII. SCOTT MOWRER.
Cablesram to The Evening star and
Chicago Daily News. COpyris hit. 1919.

Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1919.
PARIS. March 2s-There is
sometimes more truth in u brief
parable than in i lofig discourse.
At luncheon in the Hotel trlllon
l started to discuss the mudhle
which tie conference seems TO be
making of certain questions as to
frontiers with an American of con-
siderable eminence and wise in in
ternational experience. when he
interrupted me, saying;
Il will tell YOU an oriental
story. A certain hadji tpilgrim to
Mecca of great popularity in the
Moslem world. on arriving at
Samarcand went INTO the market
place. and when a crowd had gath
cred about inquired Of the Ieorle;
Are you familiar with fte subject
I intend to discuss today No
they answered Then said he,
how can / discuss it with YOU:
and went away. The next morn
ing when he Appeared in the mar
ket place and the crowd had gath
cred he cried. % people, are you
familiar with the subject ] Intend
to discuss today Yes they all
answered. Then said re, what
is the use of me trying to tell YOU
about it, and went away.
The, third morning when he
made the usual inquiry the people
answered, Some of us are familiar
with the subject and others are
not Then answered the hauji,
let trose of you who are familiar
with the subject impart their
knowledge to those who are not
and he went away.
From all of which ! gathered
that my distinguished American
acouaintance was as disgusted as
myself with the way the peace con-
ference seems to be fandiIng GER
tain questions Vt frontiers.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
PARIS HEARS PEACE
SIGNED ON APRIL l.

PARIS, April 1.-SOme body
started n story this morning
that Col. f.. NJ. House hnd an
nounced that the pjcacc treaty
had been signed. The report
rapidly spread over all Paris,
and the telephone wires to the
American headquarters in the
Hotel de triIlOn became hot
with inquiries aS to the truth
of the rumOr.
II did not take long. however.
for inquirerS to realize the
character of the report when
they were reminded that today
was April I.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Scope of Authority.

Under the authority OF the Lever
food control act, by which the food ad-
ministration had authority to put the
, packers under license. control was eX-
ercisei, in addition TO limiting margin
of profit. over unfair practices. waste
full practices. extortionat" charges and
boarding.
In general terms the margin Of
profits allowed amounted to per cent
on total annual business and per
cent On the turnover on meats. The
only remaining control over food COM
moditieS is on cotton seed and cotton
seed products. sugar and wheat and
Its products. These commodities come
under the supervision of the grain
corporation in New York
The enforcement division is being
maintained for the purpose of impos-
ing penalties should any become nee
essary while these commodities re-
main under license.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Men Returning From Italy.

The Italian consul general here an
nounced today that he had received
an official message from Rome stating
that the 332d Infantry. composed
largely of draft men from Ohio and
western Pennsylvania. now is on its
way home.
Most of the units of the regiment
will arrive here, the cable stated, on
the steamships Canopic and Duca
dAcata, due April IA and 15 1t is
probable that a third detachment will
be On board the steamship Dante Ali
ghieri The 332d Regiment. which
was part of the SD Depot Division,
fought with the Italian armies against
Austria in the closing months of the
war.
War Department officials said today
20 official information had been re-
;eived Of plans for bringing the s32d
Infantry Regiment home from Italy.
rhe last report from the commanding
officer said the regiment was concen-
trating at Genoa, but there has been
no notice of its being placed on pri-
ority for embarkation.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
PACKERS RELEASED
FROM SUPERVISION
President Issues Proc|ama-
ton AboIishing All Food Ad-
miniStration Restrictions.
NO LICENSES NOW NEEDED

All meat packers were released to-
day from food administratio ton control.
Under a proclamation signed by
President Wilson at Paris effective to-
LAY. ''all persons firms. corporations
or associations engaged in importing,
manufacturing. including packing.
storing or distributing fresh. canned
or cured beef, pork. mutton or lard.
are released from license hE the food
administration.
1t was stated at the food admins
4tration that the Presidents action re-
leased packers from supervision OF
every kind exercised by the food ad-
mipistration, including restrictions
upon margins of profit.
~ 4 cablegram from Herbert Hoover
at Paris notified food administration
eoffcials of the proclamation.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Restrictions Removal
Refers Only to Products
CHICAGO, April 1.

CHICAGO, April l.
At the United States bureau of mar
kets here, it was pointed out that the
removal of restrictions on packers
products today applied directly to
dealings in packing house products
and not directly to the purchase or
sale of livestock. All dealers in live
stock are still subject TO government
license. This license is from the bu
reau of markets of the United States
department of agriculture.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
FOCH AND HUNS READY
FOR DANZIG DISCUSSION

PARIS, April ! tHa Havas).-Marshal |
Foch will leave Paris tonight for Spa
to meet Matthias Erzberger to discuss
with him the allied demand that Polish
troops be permitted to use the port of
DanZig The marshal has received full
powers to negotiate with the German
representative He will. be in constan
communication with the council of
four.
The interallied shipping commission
has completed preparations to trans
port the po!is!. trc2ps "a E:::.=:S.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Paris Now on Trial,

Paris is on trial just now in set
tling the terms which shall be i'm
posed on yanquished enemy Friends
of the President say he will make q
full statement on his position within
few days unless France recedes
from her present position. Unques-
tionably Premier Clemenceau or For.
eign Minister Pichon would make an
swer. and the world would have the
opportunity it has longed for to know
just what has been at the bottom Of
the mix-up of the last two weeks at
Paris.
C"2vricht. 1919, by the y. Y. Evening Post. }
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Williams Heads Wabash Road.

NEW YORK, April 1.-William H.
Williams. chairman of the board of
directors of the Wabash railway, was
today also elected president. to sue
eeed the late Edward F. Kearny.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
FRANCES POSITION
PUZZLES AMERICA
League Theory on Trial as
"ImperiaIist" Fears Split
Conference.
PARIS CHAMPIONS FORCE
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

Hints and rumors of possibl" diScio-
sures. an u!tim2tum and a threatened
withdrawal of the American peace
delegation to America, with Premier
Lloyd George and President Wilson
absolutely opposed to the French de-
mand for the annexation of territory
all this from Paris, and statements
from Berlin that unless the fourteen
points are followed in the peace
treaty Germany will refuse to sign
the pact have. indeed. given ground
for anxiety here.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Legal Specialist With u. S.
Delegation Believes All
Changes Are Acceptable.
PRESIDENT ACCEPTS PART
OF PEACE DELAY BLAME
Foch Said to Have Authority -
Advance Troops if Huns
Turn Down Terms.
BY the Assoc lated Press

PARIS, April commenting on
the six amendments TO the covenant of
the league of nations suggested by
Elihu Root. il was stated today by one
Of the legal specialists associated with
the American peace conference delega-
tion that Ire believed all the amend
, ments were acceptable to the American
delegation.
! President Accepts Share of Blame
President Wilson today explained thai
he was willing to accept his share of re-
sponsibility Tor the peace conference
DELAYS.
slowness Of the negotiations was not
due to any single country or its repre-
sentativeS.
He declared emphaticaliy. however.
that the time for talk was virtually
finished and that now was the time to
show results.
1.-THE foregoing is the last section Of
dispatch to the Associated Press
from Paris marked add Wilson" the
previous section being missing The
section received does not make it
clear in what connection President
I.
in the peace conference or otherwise
President Wilson was again in at
tendance today at the meetings OF the
council of four dealing with peace prob
lens. Between the sessions OF the
council the President received the
Bishop of Spalato, representing Jugoslav
interests in the Dalmatian coast con-
troversy.
In the forenoon the President had
conference with Josephus Daniels. the
Secretary OF the Navy, shortly before
the latter's departure for Italy.
Conference Delay Criticised.
In a speech last night at a banquet
given by the Press Club to the peace
conference delegates from the British
dominions, Premier Hughes Of Australia
criticised the slow methods of the peace
conference. He insisted upon the ne.
eessity Of making peace which would
not allow Germany ever again to do
what she did in 1914.
Premier Borden OF Canada recalled
to the French hosts of the evening that
Canada still had many Inhabitants Of
French origin who continued firmly at
tached to the race from which they had
country of their birth.
Lloyd George to Remain in Paris.
(Havas).-Notwithst the de-
lay in reaching an agreement on the
preliminary peace treaty, Premier
Lloyd George, the Paris edition of the
London Daily Mail says. does not in
tend to return to England before the
questions are adjusted. in spite of his
desire to attend the closing meeting
of the British labor conference.
Threat for Huns in Report.
LONDON. March 81. - The Evening
News SAYS it understands that reliable
information has been received in Lon
don that in case the German delegates
refuse to sign the peace treaty Marshal
Foch has authority to order a general
advance of the allied armies along the
Rhine.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
No Intention of Signing.

Before the Budapest revolution we
had certain authentic Indications from
Germany that our enemy did not intend
/ to sign the treaty Of peace we were
| making. They were distrusted here, but
they were at least noted Ey contrast.
now that the Hungarian episode has oc-
CURED. one meets the absolute convic-
tion in Paris that Germany, following
the Hungarian example. will decline to
sign the treaty of peace here formu-
lated and will invite the allies to carry
out their will upon the passive body Of
! Germany, given over entirely to bolshe-
-,iSm
Will the allied powers care to risk the
bolshevizing of Europe as far as the
Rhine and the Alps to enforce their
terms upon Germany? Or will they. in
the presence of this new menace, modify
their terms" This is German strategy
this allied predcament
Bolshevism in Hungary has taken a
less aggravated form as yet than it
has acquired in Russia. Lenin. tele-
phoning to Bella Kun, the bolshevist
leader in Budapest advises him to
make the bolshevist program less
rough in his own country than it had
he en- in Russia. 1t is taking the form
of extreme communistic legislation
to be sure. but it has not yet become
hat autocracy of assassination which
prevails in Russia. and it has identi-
fed itself with the national aspira
tions of the Magyars rather than
with the international theories of the
Continued on Second Pace)
Evening star., 1919-04-01
BY FRANK II. SIMONDS.

| PARIS, March 29.-It is essential
! for Americans to understand at once
the full meaning of the Hungaria n
! episode Of the last few days. 1t in
! dicates that bolshevism has taken a
wholly new character and become in
| tiniteiy more dangerous than it was
before. Hitherto it has been unques-
tiona bly, directed at the destruction of
existing political and national bodies.
| seeking to place universal communism
! in the saddle in Europe.
| The Hungarian revolution was
something else. 1t was the first step
| toward nationaliZing bolsheviSm and
using it as a weapon for the defense
! of national aspirations, ambitions and
claims of the peoples. l am going to
| try to analyze this Hungarian epi-
sode at some length. so that 1t may
| be clearly understood, for 1t repre-
| sents the most formidable single event
since the armiStice.
Former Hungarian Kingdom.
The Hungarian kingdom as it ex-
listed at the moment when the Austro-
Hungarian empire collapsed consisted
y
of Italy, with population Of upwards
+, of 22, 900. 900, not more than 100000
of which at most were actually Hun
garianS; the rest were subject people,
! Runlanians, Serbs and Slovaks. Nor
did the Hungarians constitute solid
block. At least one million were scat
tered over the fringes and on the
edges of this territory.
The allies had alike by their dec
larations of principle and by their Sc
cret treaties of policy promised that
the subject races in this Hungarian
area. the Rumanians in Pennsylvania
and Banat. the Serbs and Croats in
western Banat. Croatia and Slavonia
on the southern edge Of the Hun
garian plain. together with the Slo-
vaks in the mountains northward.
should each have an Independent ex-
istence. based on the right of the self
determination of nations.
Effect of Program.
Such a program condemned Hungary
to conditions of a state of little more
than 10, 900, 900 of people. with an area
hardly larger than that of New York
and New Jersey. without defensible
frontiers, without an outlet on the
sea; alike militarily and economically
at the mercy of it's neighbors.
There was no injustice in this de-
cision of the powers. Since subject
people desired liberty, since some of
them at least had fought on the allied
side against the Hungarians, they
were entitled to it. but If one looks at
the map for moment one still sees
that a death sentence to the proud
people who had for hundreds of years
dominated the country between the
Drave and the Carpathians. and con-
sidered the territory as their own and
other races as intruders, was thus
pronounced.
Immediately after the collapse of Aus
tria the southern Slavs occupied west
ern Banat, and in general the line of
the Drave river. thus cutting off a
quarter Of Hungary. AT first the Ru-
manians occupied only half of Tran
sylvania. while the Slovaks promptly
seized the mountain regions between
the crest of the Carpathians and the
Hungarian plain.
Evening star., 1919-04-01
Union Label League to Meet.

All delegates whose unions produce
manufactured goods on which the
union label Of their trade is placed
were directed to send delegates to the
central body's union label league con-
vention that meets in Musicians Hall
tonight.
The committee of arrangements for
the welcome home" reception and
parade of organized labor to Samuel
Gompers and the labor commission OF
the American Federation of Labor,
which has been abroad since the peace
conference started in Paris, will meet
again Thursday night to complete the
details of the demonstration. The
date of the welcome home" has not
been determined upon. 1t is expected
that Mr.. Gompers and his party will
reach this country in a short time. 1t
is reported that he has sailed from
France. but the local committee ar
ranging the welcome has not been ad-
vised of that fact yet.