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Evening star., 1919-03-24
HUN DELEGATES SELECTED.
Understood All But Two Named
Warburg and Schuecking Decline.

LONDON, Saturday. March 22.-Max
Warburg. the banker, and Prof. w
NJ. A. Schuecking of Marburg Univer-
sity have declined to become mem
bers of the German delegation to the
peace conference. according,to a Co.
penhagen dispatch to the Exchange
Telegraph Comp
It now is u~~ ,od the German
delegates will .-..sist of Count vor
Brockdorff- -Rantzau. the foreign min
:ster; Dr. Edouard David, first presi-
dent of the national assembly: DR.
David Adolph Muller, Herr Geisberg
minister of posts and telegraph, and
probably Karl kautsky, with a finan-
cial man in place of Herr Warburg.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Complaint in Grocery Case.

Complaint was issued today by the
Federal Trade Commission against
the McKnight-keaton Grocery COM
pany, wholesale grocery house Of
Cairo. ILL.,; the Scudders-Gale Grocery
Company of st. Louis. with q branch
in Cairo, and Ray l.. Hosner and
Thomas w. Watson, co-partner gro
Gerry commission agents of Cairo.
The complaint states the commits
sion has reason to believe the con-
Germs are engaged unlawfully in a
conspiracy to hamper and obstruct a
certain competitor. 81
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Ex.Kaiser Is Threatened.

(by the Associated Press).-There was
state Of extreme alertness around
she Won Bentincke castle throughout
Ne night and this morning. in con-
sequence Of the receipt by the former
German emperor last evening of two
violently threatening letters. one
emanating from Amsterdam and the
other from the Belgian frontier. and
also telegram from 2 friend warning
him of menacing peril.
Evening star., 1919-03-24


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Evening star., 1919-03-24
THOUSANDS VIEW
BABY ELEPHANTS
Nearly 100000 Persons At
tracted to Zoo by
Newcomers.
CROWD MAKES RECORD

kechil and Hitam. the two new
ton Zoo, whose arrivel was announced
and whose pictures were published
in The Star yesterday, aided by the
wonderful day furnished by the
weather man. were responsible for
smashing the local Zoos attendance
record all to bits.
Mr. Hollister. superintendent of the
Geological Park. announces that yes
terday was the biggest single day in
the entire history of this popular
pleasure resort, the official attendance
figures being Il little more than
10000 That number. hoTever. does
not really represent the number OF
people who Travelled out to see the
new babies" but only those the men
d the gate We're able 10 count.
Big motor ears packed with people
whiZzed in So fast, and SO many pas
sengerS were crowded into the sight
seeing buses. that IL was impossible
to count with accuracy the number OF
occupants, although the gatemen
strained their eyes to do so. The gem
eral estimate is that not far from
100000 persons entered the park be-
tween the opening and closing hours.
Autos Come by Hundreds.
Usually the peak" of the crowd on
Sunday comes after lunchtime, says
Supt. HolliSter. Yesterday, however.
the people began pouring in, many OF
them carrying copies Of The Sunday
star, just about IS soon as the zoo
was opened, and they kept 1t up all
day. Automobiles were parked al
most at right angles to the cutters
tVaf -
the animal hospital. close to the Con-
necticut avenue gate. all the way
lown to the cross fodes at the foot of
the hill below the hon house. Never
were there so many automobiles In
the park in one day, it is stated. ?
1t was spienu.dly benaved crowd,
patient and merry, say the park Off
Gals. Owing to the danger OF drafts
both doors to Dunk's old house, where
the new babies are quartered, could not
be opened, and the throngs had to go
in and out of one door. They willingly
formed long moving line, entering on
one side Of the door and coming out the
other, and patiently waiting their turn
to see the cunning youngsters.
Peanut Rule Violated.
Sad to relate, however, a number OF
thoughtless people violated the urgent
published instructions of the Zoo author
titles that no peanuts or other oenca-
cies be fed kechil and Hitam.
Peanuts were thrown to them in a
number of instances, but SO innocent
are the newcomers of the delights of
the toothsome "goober" that, fortu-
nately, they didn't try to eat them.
Persons who, knowing better, will
do such thing, pointed out one spec
tator. are in the same class with those
who will wake sleeping child in or
der to stuff it with ice cream or cake,
or will give baby tea or coffee.
Washingtonians are asked to remem-
| ber that peanuts are distinctly bad
for elephants of such tender years.
and as yet unacclimated. When they
are older, and when their Keeper says
the word, they can have all the pea
nuts Washington wants to buy them,
but the rule now and for some time to
come is, 81 r7E -
Lay off the peanuts" F. -a.s 30
Evening star., 1919-03-24
FOUR D.. c. SOLDIERS
BACK FROM OVERSEAS
Lieuts. Raphael Semmes and W. ].
Hudson, Corp. Diggs and Pri-
vate McGhee Landed.

The transport Finland landed four
District of Columbia veterans of the
world war at Newport News Yester-
day.
First Lieut.. Raphael Semmes, air
service, whose residence is 649 South
Carolina avenue southeast, was born
and reared in Washington and attend
ed the local public schools. He is seq
ond vice president and treasurer OF
the Semmes Motor Company, Inc, and
due to the fact that he is an expert
in motor mechanics he was commits
air service. 1885 ..
Evening star., 1919-03-24

tration of Kerensky's peace plans. 1t
now has raised bolshevism in Hun
gary out Of the depths of its impo.
tence. If these two lessons should not
suffice. a third would carry terrible {.
consequences into the entente lands.
That the seizure of power by the
Hungarian communists is the result
of Russian bolshevik missionary work
and the financing OF the movement
with Russian rubles seems apparent
Bella Kun Cor kuhn). the new foreign
minister, who probably was the man
who formulated the communistic
proclamation. spent long time In
Russia as prisoner. and there MADE
the acquaintance of Nikolai Lenin and
Leon Trotsky. He was originally
chosen to organize the Spartacan-
bolshevik movement in Germany, but
went instead to Hungary.
The Hungarian socialists would have
nothing to do with Kun, and he there
upon founded the communist party.
of the other leaders of the commun-
list movement, Maj. Georgy, who is a
grandson Of the 1s48 revolutionary
Georgy, and Maj. Geizy, also member
Of an old Hungarian family. likewise
had been in Russian captivity and
there became infected with bolshe-
vism. They We're participants in the
plan to form communist army OF
10000 men in Hungary.
George fa DaSSy, also one VI tHc
leaders In the communist movement
was arrested last February, charged
with bringing 3O,000,000 rubles from
Russia to Hungary to be used in
forming a communist army. He and
other leaders are likewise accused of
receiving large sums from the RUS
sian Red Cross.
Before the war Bella Kun, the Hun
garian communist foreign minister.
was an instructor in the law school
of the Francis Joseph University at
klausenburg, Pennsylvania 1t was re-
ported erroneously from Budapest
during the disorders there late in
February that Kun had been lynched
by those opposed to his communist
doctrines.
'People Driven to Despair"
VIENNA, Sunday March 23.-Asked
what effect Hungarian events would
have on the political situation in Ger
man Austria. Herr Deutsche, secretary
for military affairs, said today:
'1f the entente treats us as it treats
no one can guarantee what will
happen. A people driven to despair
loses self control. The entente. by a
decision, might lose the bull
wark against bolshevism which German
really constitutes if no harm is
done the country economically and polit
ically."
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Foundations War Work.

NEW YORK, March 24.--Sixty-five
per cent of the Rockefeller .Founda-
TONS total expenditures during the
years 1917 and 1918 was devoted to
war work. the annual report just
made public shows. The total paid for
all purposes was s2s.509,710, and of
this sum $l7.042,1l0 went to alleviate
the misery induced by war.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
directors that reliable bank employees
would take up the direction of affairs.
Not Result of Entente Note.

BERLIN. March "a (by the Asso-
ciated Press).-Recent events at
Budapest were not the result of the
entente note outlining the new
boundary between Hungary and Ru-
mania, according to the Vossische
Ieitung, which says that the situa-
ton there was hopeless before the
/ note was delivered. Communists were
unemployed and have been ignored
J by the socialist ministers, according
to the newspapers.
Mass demonstrations began last
Wednesday, when demands were made
! that every employed person receive a
sum of 500 crowns for relief, besides
payments Of house rent and a reduc-
tion of food prices by one-half. The
newspaper declares that the revolu-
tion was impending when the entente
note arrived, and Count Michael
karolyi. the premier. seized the op-
portunity in his farewell proclama-
ton to represent himself as a friend
of the prOletariat
Evening star., 1919-03-24

Claude r. Zappone, prominent il
rowing circles throughout the Uniteo
States, died yesterday morning in his
apartments at Wardman Courts. He
had been chief of division in the
adjutant generals office for many
years and was well known in the
Royal Arcanum and many rowing or
ganiZations. He was an alumnus of
Georgetown University. where his
father was a member of the faculty
at one time.
Promoter of Rowing.
Mr. Zappone was prominently iden-
titled with the promotion of amateur
rowing in the United States, having
been a member of the executive COM
mittee of the National Association of
Amateur OarSmen for twenty-three
years, for one term its president and
treasurer for the last ten. He served
as athletic adviser to Georgetown
University and was the father of
rowing in that institution. He also
was president of the Potomac Boat
Club, where his activities gained him
country wide renown.
His wife. Sophia Augusta Zappone,
has been prominent in the entertain
ment of wounded soldiers and was
the founder of the entertainment
committee for wounded soldiers at
Walter Reed Hospital.
His Surviving Family.
Besides his wife. Mr.. Zappone is
survived by two sons. one Claude, jr.,
With the American forces in France
the other Ricardo. and a daughter
,.arguerite Zappone. His brother. AL
merico Zappone. is disbursing officer
of the Department of Agriculture, and
L sister. Miss Jefuina b. Zappone.
lives in New York.
Funera, services will be held at
Gawler's Chapel. Pennsylvania ave-
nue. between 18th and 18th streets. to-
morrow morning at 1890 o'clock.
Mgr. Mackin will officiate.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
New Daughter to Greet Hudson.
Remaining Members Of Party.

Corp. Frank Diggs, S08th Pioneer In
fantry, whose address Is 1151 I.ingers
court, returned on the Finland suffer
ing from illness, while the fourth man
is Private Walter McGhee. Battery G,
1l4th Field Artillery. whose address Is
not specified further than being on
7th street.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Final Rites for Mrs. M. E. Warwick

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary E.
Warwick. wife of Randolph T. War
wick, who died Saturday at Provi-
dence Hospital, will be conducted this
afternoon at o'clock at the home of
Thomas Adkins, 824 Park avenue,
Richmond, Va.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Steamer Oneida Aground.

The steamer Oneida Of the shipping
boards fleet is ashore on the rocks at
the government cut near Miami. Fla
The Navy Department announced to-
day that Navy vessels had been sent
from Key West to assist the steamer
Evening star., 1919-03-24
STREET R. R. CRISIS
ALARMS OFFICIALS
President May Authorize New
Commission to Prevent
Threatened Collapse.
US. OWNERSHIP WON'T Do

President Wilson may authorize the
creation of a federal public utilities
I commission to deal with the threat
ened collapse of the nations street
railway industry before he returns
from France.
Alarmed by the rate at which trac-
tion corporations all over the country
are going into receivership. govern
ment officials. it was disclosed today.
are in communication with the Pres
ident relative to the need of imme-
diately providing such commission.
The plan. already tentatively work
ed out by the Treasury Department
and the Department of Labor, pro-
videS. it is stated. for a commission of
five members or one represen. atiVe
each for the Treasury Department.
Department of Labor, Department Of
Commerce. the banks of the country
and the street railways.
Powers of the proposed commission
will be similar to those of the Ma
tional War Labor Board. The belief
was indicated in government circles
today that the electric railway situa-
ton has become so serious that the
creation of a federar body to deal
with it practically is h certainty.
Working Out a Plan.
Washington's street railway prob
lem particularly is Interesting the
government at this time. declared
Roger W. BabSon, director general of
information and education of the De-
partment Of Labor, who, with Eugene
Meyer. jr., managing director of the
War Finance Corporation, is endea-
voring to work out plan for govern
ment aid on a national scale.
The federal government" said Mr..
ence in helping other municipalitie
solve their transportation problems
unless the District of Columbia, for
which the federal government is di-
rectly responsible, solves it's own
problem"
He pointed out that 80 per cent of
the patrons of the Washington trac-
ton system are employees of the fed
eral government, whose efficiency is
directly affected by the transportation
system.
Mr.. Babson believes that govern
ment ownership of street railways is
the ultimate solution of the problem
but that it is not practical for the pres
ent emergency.
Three Solutions Possible.
Three remedies are in sight. said
the Department of Labor expert.
These are a seryice-at-cost plan, the
loaning of money to the companies
and the Currier method of sliding
fares and sliding dividends.
There is no city in the country
which has so direct an interest in hav-
ing its transportation problem solved
fairly and satisfactorily as has the
city of Washington" stated Mr.. Bah
son. "A great responsibility rests
upon the District Commissioners to
solve this problem speedily. All of
this is in addition to the self-evident
fact that the real estate. man.. 4ctur-
ing and merchandising interests of
Washington will soon be clogged up
unless arrangements are made, either
that the District take over the prop
critics or that sufficient income be
allowed the companies to attract pri-
vate capital.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
CARDINAL CAssETTA DEAD.
Bishop Of Frascati Was Librarian
of Holy Roman Church.

ROME, March 24.-Cardinal Cas-
setta, Bishop of Frascati and librar-
ian of the holy Roman Church, is dead
Evening star., 1919-03-24
,ts and that evon in c.eohosleva1.a

lists and that even in Cxeohoslev4llA
there are strong bolshevik Influences.
lie points out that experts agree there
is very grave danger of Bohemia fol-
lowing the example of Hungary. The
situation Is attributed by the cor
respondent to the failure Of tho peace
conference at Paris to recognize tho
seriousness Of the situation and occu-
py Budapest with entente troops. He
says the only way to save the situa-
tion is to send American or British
forces there, but adds:
Where q battalion would have suf-
feed formerly. brigade would be
necessary now"
"Shock to Peace Conference"
The proclamation of bolshevism in
Hungary, says the Pail Mail Gazette,
has given a shock to the peace con-
ference. which is precisely what it in
tended to do. The change in the gov
ernment of Budapest was effected, not
by violence, but by collusion. The
paper adds:
1T is a rehearsal of the tactics by
which Ebert and Scheidemann think
of greeting the terms of peace"
The Westminster Gazette. a strong
supporter of the league of nations.
says that knowledge of what has
taken place at the peace conference
ascertain it has been perpetually los
ing its way in thicket of details
and allowing its great decisions to be
postponed by differences on ques-
tions which though intrinsically of
great Importance are yet subordinate
TO the main issues.
"'C.nics and militariStS." it con-
tinues, ARE blaming President Will
son and the league of nations for an
unhappy state of things"
The paper argues that if the peace
conference had gone on in the old
fashioned way and imposed terms as
VictorS, the conference could not have
settled everything, but now the con-
ference. it adds, must remain in per-
manent session until it's duties are
taken over by the league of nations
Call It Warning to Entente.
BERLIN, Sunday, March % (by the
Associated Press).-The Berlin press,
from the extremely radical to the
most decidedly conservative. sees in
the events which are occurring in
Hungary terrible warning to the en-
tente. This is the view taken, for in
stance, by the two extreme examples
of Die Freiheit and the Tages Zeitung.
Entente imperialism" says the lat
ter newspaper, assisted bolshevism
into the saddle in Russia by the fruS-
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Attack Cairo Communications.

CAIRO, Sunday, March 23-There
were renewed attacks on communica-
tions here today, together with some
demonstrations throughout the city.
Airplane postal service has been eS-
tablished between Alexandria and
Suez and this city.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
War With Entente Rumord.

LONDON, March 23.-The Budapest
government is reported to be signing
a proclamation acknowledging a state
of war between Hungary and the en-
tente, says dispatch to the Exchange
Telegram from Vienna.
The dispatch adds that the Czecho-
slcvak government is preparing to
issue a mobilization order.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Against Radical Changes.

Through all the economic studies
issued by the Department of Labor
has been such evidence as clearly in
dicates the imprudence of any policy
contemplating radical changes in ex-
listing wage scales. Notwithstanding
this there are many in industry who
are urging wage reforms.
There has been enough of this agi-
tation, it is claimed, to create an un-
easiness in the ranks of labor and un-
certainty as to the future labor condi-
tions in the minds of prospective
builders and contractors.
In the opinion of the Labor Depart
ment wages scales have less to do with
construction and manufacturing costs
than efficiency of labor. Investigations
in this field suggest gradual improve
ment of efficiency of labor as the re-
adjustment progresses and industry
gets away from the high-speed, forced
time regime incident to war produc-
ton. ...ar
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Secretary Daniels Reaches France.

Secretary Daniels arrived yesterday
at Brest. France, and will go to Paris
! this evening. According to present
plans. the Secretary and his party will
visit Rome in company with Italian ad-
niralty officials before going to London.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Invites Workmen and Peasants.
Karolyi's Announcement.

COPENHAGEN. March % Oby the AS
sociated Press).-The proclamation by
Count karo!yi. announcing the resigna-
non OF the Hungarian cabinet, of which
ne was the head, after referring to the
decision of the peace conference at Paris
TO occupy Hungarian territory, says, ac-
cordlng TO u dispatch from Vienna:
The entente mission declared that it
intends to regard the demarcation line
as the political frontier. The aim of
further occupation of the country is
rnanifestly to make Hungary the jump
Ing-om ground and the region of opera
fions against the Russian soviet army
which is fighting on our frontier. The
land evacuated by US, however, is to be
the pay of the Czech troops, by means
OF whom the Russian soviet army is to
be overcome.
AS provisional president of the Hun
garian peoples republic, ] turn as
against the Paris peace conference to
The proletariat of the world for JUS
tce and support"
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Text of Liebold Letter.

Judging from the number of COM
mun!cations and kilograms we have
recently had relative to esta bIishing
a plant in your vicinity, it would ap-
pear that Washington is real desir-
Gus of having us with them
Il cannot tell you how much we
appreciate this genuine spirit of well
come. However. with US it means
that we must wait until our business
has reached such proportions as to
justify further expansion. It has been
announced, Of course, that this is our
policy. but it cannot be carried out
until our needs are ample to justify
more extensive facilities.
We are sure that with the splen-
did opportunities your city affords,
this would be sufficient for US to give
the matter due and liberal considera-
tion at the proper time"
Evening star., 1919-03-24
TREATIES OF 1915
BANE OF PARLEY

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Seat Pleasant Offers Site.

It was learned today that the Seat
Pleasant Volunteer Fire and Com
munity Welfare Association has OFFER
ed to the Ford Company. through F.
A. Van Reuth, a site of twenty acres
IN Seat Pleasant without cost il the
company will establish plant there.
Evening star., 1919-03-24
Becomes a Filler.

During an extensive tour of duty
in France he devoted his activities to
the mechanical end Of his chosen
branch, but also became a fiier, re-
ceiving his training at the hands OF
French aviators. He was attached to
the French army as soon as he landed.
Lieut.. Semmes is married and has two
children, and is a namesake and rela-
tive of the famous Capt. Raphael
Semmes Of the Confederate navy,
commanding officer Of the Alabama.
The date Of his discharge and Of the
OF his active connection
with his business here in Washington
has not yet been indicated.
New Daughter to Greet Hudson.
A little daughter. more than a year
old, whom he has never seen will
greet Lieut.. William J. Hudson, son
of Judge and Mrs. J. c. Hudson, 296
Upshur street northwest, when he
reaches this city from Newport News.
He has already talked with his family
by long-distance telephone. but he
will have to wait for opportunity to
deliver any messages to his new
daughter face to face. Lieut.. Hudson
is a graduate of Georgetown Univer-
sity Law School, and practiced his
profession in Arizona before he en-
tered the officers training camp at
Fort Sheridan, Ill. He served abroad
for fifteen months with the 115th Ma
chine Gun Battalion and suffered from
shell shock and illness during the CO.
operation of his unit with British
troops. He is twenty-four years Of
,ua and ia a ma alive of NahraSka