North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 0 Dkin, N. C, Thursday, Hay 22, 1010 No. 14 AARON WISEMAN HELD GUILTY HV A JURY FOR killing or iiennessee r .Sholhy, May 17.- Guilty of murder in tlni Ilit degree wa the verdict (if the jury in tli' Case of Aaron Wiseman, of , Avery county, tried here for the murder of lr. E, A. Jlciines.ac, Jit Glen Alpine on the night of January 31, J'JIH. Wiseman tv ccived tin- verdict with light emotion. Tlie jmy wan out an liour and 10 niinutes. With no signs of flinching, Aaron Wiseman heard hi.; death scntotre pronounced at 3:30 thi ; ftftcrtHKiii by Judge I!. 1". Ing. Notice of appeal was given by defendant counsel. When soli citor Huffman was notifnd by telephone at Mm canton that a Verdict of guilty had been r li dded, he a.-ked the court to await his arrival at 3 o'clock. The solicitor had gone home on account of sickness and the court waited half an hour aftei fLp'elock hut he was delayed on ,7hmt of heavy rain until after adjournment. June 20 is the date set for the electrocution. A singular thing in connection CTith the Ilennessce and Pitts af fair is that when Dr. Hcnncssec was tried six years ago for kill ing a I'itts, one of his children died. When the Pitts lnys who Ix-ing tried their grandmother died, and the day Wiseman was arrested his father died. Killing of Dr. Mennesee. The killing of Dr. Ilennessce occurred on the cveninjr of Jaii uary 31, l'JK as the doctor ' stepped from train No. 21 at (Hen Alpine. Dr. Ilennes.-ee had been to Grcenslmro on profes sional business, leaving that city for his home on the mid-day' train. When the train reached Aden Alpine Dr. Ilcnm.-ee alighted. He had gone hut a few steps from the train when their w;u a fusilade of shots and he fell mortally wounded. An ex amination of the l.dy showed that some 10 or 12 shots had taken effect. This led to the assumption that two men did the shooting. The following h' Garfield and Aaron Pitts rre arrested charged with the murder. They were tried for lhc crime and acquitted. At the trial of the Pitts I toys there va.s evidence that a man wear ing a long coat did the shooting. Subsequently Aaron Wiseman was arrested for the crime and at a preliminary hearing held for the grand jury. A true hill Lwas returned against him and 'Ijie rise set for trial at Morgan ton. When it came on for trial n motion to remove to some oth er county was made and the presiding judge ordered that the case he tried in Cleveland court- In the trial here the state relied principally on the le.-ti-niony of Fred Amos and Mr. Barney, of Statesville. Amos and Barney w ere I Kith passen gers on the train. They swore that when the shooting started fV looked through the coach window and saw one man with Tt revolver in each hand shot Dr. llennessee. They identified Wiseman as the man who did the shooting. Amos who didn't testify at the trial of the Pitts I toys, said that the rea son he failed to make it Known that Wiseman was re- sponsible for the death of llen nessee wits localise he was go ing to Chicago and did not want to 1m? held as a witness. Killing Created Incitement. The killing of Dr. llennessee more than a year ago created a great deal of excitement in Purkc county. Suspicion was di rected at once to the Pitts Ikvs by reason of the battle between the Pitts and Dr. llennessee some six or seven years ago M when a Pitts was killed by Dr. llennessee. At that time Dr. llennessee was terribly wound ed and for a time it was thought he would die. However, he recovered and was brought to trial and acquitted on the charge of murder. That bad feeling ex isted between the Pitts and llennessee was admitted on all sides. After the shooting of Dr. Ilennessce on the night of January 31, witnesses testified that one of the men present at the time went in the direction of the Pitts store near the Glen Alpine depot and that after he London interested IN I I ICHT OF SEAPLANES Ididun, May 17. This great city has been surcharged with .citemeiit all day, receiving re ports of the progress of the American navy seaplanes- over the Atlantic. This evening at the hotels Savoy and the Carl ton the buzz of conversation showed the deep interest among frequenters over "the coming of the bird Yanks." Extras put out by the evening newspapers telling of the stages in the ad vancement of the American along a libbon of destroyers equipped with st 'ir shells and Hares, :-(id like hot cakes on an excursion train. The whole affair is being treated as a big international -porting proposition. Kegrct is heard everywhere that wci'Oier conditions in the north Atlantic prevented the start of the Brit ish planes. Your correspondent supplied London's districts for the use of Columbia" in and around Grosvtnor gardens where are lo cated the embassy, the army, na vy, air, I Jed Cross and our other headquarters, with telephone bulletins of the saplanes' flight. Occasionally navy headquarters equ:pped with a wireless receiv ing apparatus atop of its build ing, obtained flashes from Wash ington which add-d zest to the concern over the flying navv men. Hear Admirals Knapp and IJohLon, Commander Sexton, Ambassador Davis, Counsellor P.utler Wright. General Riddle and other Americans residing in Iondon, pLn an enthusiastic re ception and d monstration fol lowing the ail men's expected ar rival in Kngland on Tuesday. Secrctaiy of State and Mrs. Lansing, on h aving for Fiance on an early Ui.it, regretted their departure befoie knowing the climax to the world's greatest air adventure. Nothing else is talked of by members of the American chamber of commerce, the American society, the Amer ican Luncheon club, the Angh- merican society, the English- SHaking union, and the various American Y. M. C. A. huts. Everybody is wildly agitated. tailing each other by telephone for the latest word. All this American pride and enthusiasm is f hown up on a background of British ardor over developing r.d binding together the two Englidi-speaking nations by heretofore uncharted air routes. hji:n( ii premier plans TO WRITE A COOK SOON. Paris, March 19. Premier Clemeuceati, too, will write a P.ook after the ponce conference is over. "As MH.n as the jn-ace prob lems have been solved," he said mcntly "and I have finished my task, I shall take n rest that, after CO years of politics. I think I have well earned. And, in my retirement, I shall write a lxok which pel haps no one will read, hut which I. "it all events, shall be glad to have written." It has been stated by those close Premier Clemenceau it was his earnest desire to finish his present task and retire. His vitality has been remarked up on recently as being extraordi nary and the virility and vigor of former days has been evident. entered the door was closed. Subsequently the light was put out. but a witness peeping through the window recognized one of the Pitts boys. All this was brought out loth at the trial of Aaron and Garfield Pitts and at the trial of Wiseman here this week. Wiseman is an Avery county man and was called as a witness at the trial of the Pitts lioys. He failed to appear, sending word that he was sick. An officer was sent to the man's home and it is alleged, as he approached Wise man was seen neap the . house but when the officer arrived the witness was found in bed. i i ' "1 - i ' I . . . " " " - - ' A:, mi - p Mi " if LL. 1 ItilUn olllcr nroiiMnjitliie mllwayi In lti Trnitlni il".tryr irliiK tli. ur. 2-i.'iirat MhiikIii, fommmiJer of the Kriah riny of o. rii,mi.in. r-vl.-wlnK hit u,v lu tiuiiifiT' ..u. n, Uxnimny. 8 AuxtrulUo Uoopi ptKliig A'jHlrulla !iuu In In(lni m Anzac liny. NAVAL AVIATOKS MADK (;OOD HICCOKI) OYKKSKAS Iondon. April 18. Thirty nine attacks upon submarines were made by the American na val air force in the war and 10 of them were considered in some manner successful, says a sum mary of American naval avia tion prepared at headquarters here. When the I'nited States en tered the war the nav- lwsted of only 30 officers who knew anything alnnit flying. When the armi.stiee was signed the force w as composed of 1,500 of ficers and 15.000 men, accord ing to the report. Trials and discouragements of the United States naval air force in the war a e enumerated at some length along with "occa sional" triumphs. Various causes are al igned for lack of clfectiveness, but many of the troubles are said to have been overcome and the service ready to execute what had been ex pected of it when the armistice intervened. The summary of actual operations is interspersed with accounts of the lack of trained pilots and the difficulty in training them, shortage of machines, stories of receipt of machines from the I'nited States without propellers, with out magnetos, defective parts and lastly of the fa'Iure of Ita lian machines for night liombing for which they were intended. The I'nited States had turned to Italy for planes when machines were not delivered from Ameri ca quickly enough. One of the biggest planes of the service was the "northern iHitnbing project," calling for the cooperation of Americans with the P.ritish in almost continuous bombing of sulmiai ilie bases on the Pelgian co;ust. A great many hindrances arose, some of them shown in the summary Uing: Lick of machines, lack of ma terial, lack of trained personnel, I ith pilots and enlisted men, necessity of complicated nego tiations with the royal air force in the matter of supplies of nil sorts and necessity of ferrying Italian machines from Milan, Italy, to the north of France. Neither the night nor the day wings were operating efficiently at the time of the armistice, in the opinion of those who com piled the summary. It was planned to have 12 squadrons, six day and six night. This, however, was reduced to eight when it was found that the United tSates army could not de liver the planes required. Amer ican machines with liliorty mo tors were to le used for the day work and a contract was made with the Italian government to deliver 30 000-horsepow er air planes for the night work. The Italian machines, it is stated, proved wholly unfit for night liombing work. What is considered by the American navy the, most suc cessful aviation operation result ed from the Killingholme pro ject. This was an agreement by which England was to fur nish 50 seaplanes and GO lighters and the United States was to provide -10 seaplanes and 30 lighters by March 1, 1918, for offensive work in Ilelligbland Fright. The British were suc i " rr : f r 4 -mt ...; i . - - p I. 1 1 1 . ' ; r y '. ; i j it - . i I cess fully doing siir.ilar work from their station at Felixstowe. Approximately 1,000 Americans were sent to Killingholme to tiMiu and as-ist the Pritish w hile awaiting the arrival of the American planes. J5y July 1, six American plain's were assem bled and the Pritish turned over the station to the Ameiicans. It was necessary to leave P.rit ish planes, however, "owing to the faults of the first American machines." It is reported that the American propellers wne faulty, radiators leaked, and that it was July 20 before the fir.st wholly American patrol was undertaken. Even under these handicaps, however, the American pilots kept after the submarines and the Killingholme station had several attacks credited to it. No case is recorded of where it was known a submarine was sunk, but even with its very ef ficient seaplane patrol the royal air force was given credit for sinking only one submarine dur ing the four years and a half of war. A verdict of "probably seriously damaged" was credited to American pilots of Killing holme bv the Pritish admiralty. PEACE CONFERENCE IS WAITING ON THE HUNS The pea'-p conference, while waiting for Germany 'o decide on her attitude toward the peace terms presented to her delega tion, rapidly is completing the treaties for Germany's former allies and is smoothing out the di (Terences between the allied and associated powers. Germany's 15 days in which to make written appeals on the peace conditions will expire Thursday. Three day.- have gone since the last German notes to the peace conference. Sub committees of the conference are at work on the answer, and it is probable they will be sent to Versailles well iK-fore Thursday. Peace terms for Austria are Hearing completion, it is indicat ed, and the Austrians will pre sent their credentials to repre sentatives of the allied jvvi as sociated powers Monday after noon. It is uiiderstKd that Austria wil be called upon to pay reparations to the amount of 0,000,000,(1(11) marks, or one- twentieth of the German pay ment. The council of four has agreed on most of the mandates for the former Turkish empire, and it is understood that the United States has been offered Ar menia and Constantinople, with Great Uritain getting Mesopota mia and Palestine, France being the mandatory for Syria and Cil icia, Italy for Adalia and Greece for Smyrna. The sultan of Tur key would be given territory in central Asia Minor, with a capi tal probably at l'rusa. Greek and Italian claims to the Dodocanese islands off Asia Minor have been adjusted by Italy agreeing to retire in favor of Greece. The islands, which are populated by Greeks, were occupied by Italy during the wai with Turkey and Tripoli. ; t ;-' .1 ' i , . ,t i ("tr' ' f m -' iv. i 'i 1 GERMANS AUK DIVIDED OVER ACTION TO TAKE Shaip differences have arisen among the members of the peace delegation over the peace treaty and Count von Proekdorir-IIant-z.iu, head of the Teutonic pleni potentiaries, may return to Ber lin to discuss with the Ebert government whether the terms presented by the allied and as- sK-iafed governments shall Ite signed. He has already reached Spa and conferred with techni cal experts. A majority of the delegates, including the financial experts, are asserted to be strongly against ,submi .sion to the terms, and so marked has become the division Ix-twecu the opposing factions that it is quite proba ble Count von Mrockdoi If-Kant-zati will not agiee to remain a paity to the negotiations. Unofficial advices from Spa are to the effect that the count already ha asked to be relieved of his aiduous task. The depar ture of the German delegation will not necessarily cause an in terruption of the negotiations, however, as these may be con ducted meantime by those mem bers of the party remaining at Versailles. The indcpciuhnt socialists of Germany are still in favor of signing the peace treaty in the face of strong position on the part of the non-socialist supiHir ters of the government. In thLs connection one memU'r of the German delegation, ranking as a councillor of legislation, is quot ed as Inn ing declared: "We will sign despite all. be cause we will be hacked to pieees if we return to Merlin without signing." The failure of the Hungarian delegates to arrive at St. Ger main and the uncertainty as to conditions in Hungary are hold ing up the presentation of the treaty to be offered the Austri ans for signature. It is expect ed now that the document will not be handed to the Austrian plenipotentiaries until late in the present week. Thus far the only business transacted by the Austrians at St. Germain has been with the inter-allied representatives in connection with the methods and details of the revictualling of Vienna and the remainder of Austiia as that state is consti tuted at present. Indications are that Italy will take a leading part in the negotiations with the Austrians, as the entente power most concerned in them. GERMANY SEALS HER DOOM 11Y TWO DEEDS London, May 17. P.y two deeds that she did in the earlier days of the war more than any that she did before or after, Ger many hurt herself with America These were the sinking oi a ship May 7, 1915, and the shoot ing of a woman Oct. 12, 1915. If ever there had been a possi bility that American sympathy might be bo divided as to hold us back from our duty and our salvation, that possibility was killed forever w hen Edith Cavell died for England. So it may very confidently be said that if Germany's doom was not scaled already, she sealed it herself by r rr-j v. 1 ii-, v-; P- i L 1 .". n V I BURLINGTON MAN WAS DECORATED IN FRANCE 1 1 i i . , ... ... . .". nmgion, .Mav i. i wo men of prominence in the south- ea I, w ho achieved unit: Ual re cord.; for valor on the French fight'i:;; front, were award, d the croi d.; git-no in Washington last niht in the liberty hut here. They were Ernest C. Butler, an oil man, of Chipley, Flu., 'and Depoy R. Fonville, of Burling ton, N. C. Both served as Y. M. C. A. sirretarie-, during th; war, j.dir.g over the top with the marines. A third croix de guer re wai awanh d to the Key. Dr. William II, Farmer, of Western Theoloj'ical hominary, Pitts burgh, another Y. M. C. A. man. So far 2 so V. M, C. A. men have been cited or decorated for distinguished service in the fighting a rears, 25 croix de guerres having been bestowed upon them by the French gov ernment, and six distinguished service crosses, along w ith other marks of valor including 172 ci tations for bravery. Gen. L Collardet, of the French embassy, gave high com pliment to the men as he pinned the medals ujMin them before an applauding crowd in the V. M. C. A. hut. Secretary of War Baker, in presenting the cita tions, also lauded the Y. M. C. A. men for their bravery under lire. Fonville lost the sight of one eye in the same battle when an other Y. M. C. A. man was killed. He was ten months in service with the Y. M. C. A., attached to the Sixth regiment of marines, first battalion, hi citation read ing. "From the 3rd of October until the 10th of October, neai St. Etienneaux-Anies, he has giv wi the U'st example of cour age and devotion in evacuating wounded under the most violent artillery lire." Fonville was ly ing in a trench in the Cham pagne sector under heavy fire. those two acts. In the hour of Edith Cavells funeral service Thursday as her Uidy approach ed Westminister Abley, but lie fore it had quite reached the en trance, the waiting people thought it was come and rose in silent respect. During that si lence very faintly from aUtve us as we sUntd, the clock struck lUKHi, As I counted the stixikes, these were my American thoughts: "This woman who died for her country died for more than that. The shots by which she fell kill ed what was left of the chance that we should stay out of the fight. They tore away what ever was left of the veil that hid German savagery from our eyes After that it was merely a ques tion of time when our Unites and our spirits should be equipped to join in defeating Gcmuny. This Edith Cavell did, and now here comes her IkmIj, and we all of many nations, but mostly of the British race rise to meet its approach, united in reverence and gratitude beneath this roof," Presently singing began and my thoughts went on: "These words from the Bible that I am hearing, these pray ers, this hymn, 'Abide With Me,' arc the corner stones of both my faith and my speech. The prase of the Bible is the foundation upon which rests my Ix-licf, my law and my manner of express ing them. This roof, where these words I have known by heart all my lut are being now uttered, is the shrine of my his tory. It belongs to me. It cannot be possible for any American however untravclled hitherto to enter here and lin ger awhile and learn what it holds not to be stirred to his depths. The place speaks to him of himself, his meaning, his past, the great race to which he belongs. "May the striking of that noon hour and the coming here of Edith Cavell's body mark the end of an era of misunderstand ing and the beginning of an era of understanding between Great Britain and America. ATTENTION OF AMERICA TURNS UPON CONGRESS. Washington, May 18.-Attention of America am th" world is turned upon the liew Con;;ie,.s the I'.Cth in American hi. loiy which is to convene at noon to morrow in extraordinary ses sion, called by President Wilson from Paris. All was in readiness tonight for the inauguration of the '.pecial session which is expected Lo open a new and important chapter in American and world history, with its long program of action, including considera tion of the peace treaty, the pro posed treaty for the military protection of France and in in .lllliler.ible and vital que: -tioni of domestic concern. The opening day as usual will be taken up with routine busi ness, including organization of senate and house by the Republi cans, who supplant the Demo crats in control for the first time in eight years. President Wilson's message, cabled from Paris w as being pre pared tonight for submission to the Congress, but is not schedu led for delivery tomorrow. Ii probably will be read to the hoibe on Tuesday and in the senate Thursday, adjournment of the latter lody being plan ned from tomorrow until Thurs day. Organization tomorrow bv the Republicans promises election ot Senator Cummins, of Iowa, a- president protempore of the sen ate and of Representative Gil let, of Massachusetts, as speaki i The Republicans have a majoii- ty of two in the senate and of alHUit 40 in the house, Mai-r house committees will U- oigani- zed tomorrow, prcpaialoty to beginning work immediately, but senate committee organiza tion will Ik; deferred. Work of Congress through out the session will be entwined for preparations for 1920 presi dential campaign. Congress expects to turn its attention ininntliately to the seven regular appropriation bill including the large army and navy measures, which died in the Republican filibuster la t Match. Passage of ther.c h.H.s will Ikj followed by consideration of revenue, railroad, shipping, woman suffrage, prohibition and other legislation. The peace treaty is exacted to be submitted next month, by President Wilson in person. Ra tification of the treaty, includ ing the league of nations, promi ses to develop into one of the most dramatic and hard fought contests in congressional his tory. Addresses on peace subjects are expected to U'gin scam in the senate. Before Congress will come problems of reconstruction and the nation's reversion to peace conditions entailing measures for stimulation ami extension of American commerce and indus try, provision against unemploy ment, aid for returned soldiers and sailors, and new army and navy policies. Numerous investigations are planned by the Republicans prin cipally into administrative acts during the war. Many commit tees, it is expected, .soon will IJ busy delving into affairs of po pular interest. Tomorrow's program as out lined tonight contemplated or ganization of lioth branches by the Republicans. No hitch in the house program was in pros pect, but senate Democrats wcr considering objections to tho Republican organization plans with possible blocking of them for the day at least, liecause of :nnrellation by the Republican,! of "pairs" for absent mem bers. Few leaders expect the ses sion opening tomorrow to end before the regular December session, which, it is believed, will continue until the national party conventions and possibly be resumed immediately there after to continue until the late fall of 1920.