V '* i ^ ' The Lancaster News 1 68TH YEAR. NO. 59. SEMI-WEEKLY. LANCASTER, S. CH TUESDAY, |IAY 20, 1919. ctnwnm?mA? METHODISTS OPEN \ CENTENARY DRIVE _,7 ^ - Huenro of Campaign Begun Sunday to * , Manui Raise $2,000,000 in South ? Carolina. New Orleans, cret meeting her representing 4 0( MAKE SYSTEMATIC DRIVE ton producing l Cotton Growers' _ _ , . ized, designed tc Sum of $.!;>,000,000 to Be Raised .... . . .? .. m ne a By Methodist Episcopal brought to boar Church, South, in Period of of cotton broker manufacturers, Lijfht Days. of the conferenc* consider the orgt ? . . . ...... 000,000 fexports The centenary drive of the Meth.. . ,, , , _ A committee > odist bpiscopal Church. South, , . . . '. . , . , . . posed of A. Alan opened Sunday to continue for eight .. ? . . . " Ala.; George B. days, closing next Sunday. The ? w * enormous sum of $35,000,000 Is to " , ? . ' . . . . . ... , , Work. Houston, be raised by the church for mission- _ . ... Fair, Montgomer ary purposes. A preliminary cam- . ... . . . to work out pin paign extending over a period of , , ... _ . , " w . . leged "influence.1 several weeks has been waged in . ..... ... . Announcement every church of the denomination in . . . . .. .. . , .. . had organized w the south and all is in readiness for , , .... ... . . the members of the drive beginning today. - . ., ? . .. _ .. pressed the beli The allotment for the.Upper South , ? . . _ . , ... knell of the spec Carolina conference is approximately . $1,000,000. The allotment of the Producing world ? o ... ^ .. . . I sounded, by the bower South Carolina conference is also approximately $1,000,000. eague. L. L. Hardin of Columbia is treasurer for the Upper South Caro- REPUBLIC AN ...... i"N.cinn,T. 1.. I-. mill is or MAKE ! Greenville, is director for the Upper South Carolina conference and Iceland Moore of Charleston is director To Probe A dm I of the Lower South Carolina confer- a|||j |cx,,eiHj| enee; Rev. J. C. Roper is secretary for the Upper South Carolina con ginning ference and Rev. A J. Cauthen is dl- ? rector for the Lower South Carolina Washington. conference. . , . . . .. . , can members of \haeh church has been thoroughly , . .. . . , convening of ct organized for the movement and in , . . . . _ . , , institute "such I each church Sunday morning the , , . , . ministration acti pastors preached on the movement. _. , ...?. .. tures since the b The workers will first call upon ... . . .. .... . .. .. . as will fully infi the members of their own individual , . ... . .. serve the publl church. Thev will then vIrU those , , . . . . item was added who aTe members of some other , .... ... . ... . lative program ti Methodist church but who are away , , . ^.? ..I Ucans at a con from home at the time. They will .... . ... . ., devoid or factio next solicit subscriptions from those i .. i . . it. T,u* conferenc regular attendants at the public ser... . . . . . " . cord as favoring vices of the church but who are not . . . . . . legislation outlir members of any church whatsoever.! in i ... i. tary policy; of In no case will subscriptions be ...... . ... . for early return i solicited from members of other de... . . ., .. from overseas; o nominations although contributions lands legislation. to the fund will he gratefully aci , , , . .. . . promote water p knowledged from the general public. ~~ In soliciting thts fund from Its THE JEWS ( membership the Methodist church qj," MASS/ feels that it Is hut filling the obligation which has been cast upon it by reason of the noble Ideals for the Declare :i(t Ynut future of the world, which caused so Were Slain t many heroic men to water the battle scarred fields of France with Jewish their life blood.. ? The great need which the world ... , . , .. ... , Stockholm, M row feels for reconstruction and . . _ , , ish Press bureau fnr n rpnpwni nf I Inna a'nrfi the war has stopped, also calls for r"r np a (? the utmost in service from the e 'roni membe church and all other organizations ' at 1 !l which nim for the betterment of '(' * 4 lecent mankind. youths of P,nsk' To meet these pressing demands ?" slcnnting. The division made is as ?" 'e of the follows: wh,ch asse't?d < received from i Regular income $10,000,000 re:lu tluit 56 Jew General work, foreign n program at Pir department 7,870,000 General work, home de- REIJCAHK RXKI partment 2,8 50,000 WHEN' TI Annual conference mission 2.500,000 Chattanooga, ' Hoard of church exten- finite announcer slon 2,140,000 ceived at Port Wn^n's work, foreign Washington thai department 3.000.00? barracks, where woman b worn, nome uepnrtment 1.290.0001 a,,en8 are ,ntern War work fund 5,250,000 a"d th? prisoner w 1 . wise disposed < Total $25,000,000 peace treaty Is si ?- ^ Among the pi CRE7W OK NC-I ARItlVKS AT the barracks an IIORTA HIT PLWK IS M?ST Kunwnld. w I.ondon. May 19.?Lloyds reports son of their cot that the steamer Ionia with the crew oal organization* of the American seaplane NC-1 of Interned (Ser aboard, arrived at Morta Sunday civilians arreste< and that the Nf'-l sank 120 miles off j tlons of the con the Island of Flore* | violation of the m ykiw SALVATION ARM\ ^ Alleged DESERVING SUPP Brokers and v torturers. Funds Will Be Used to On an Elaborate Ho May 19.?At a se- Service Work. e of cotton growers _____ ),000 acres of cot- _ an,I. the American GREAT WORK IH'lUNG league was organ ) combat what was ? .. , , . ? Organization Kenedered strong Influence ** by representatives able Aid. (toing I)OWl ? and New England the Trenches and SI on the proceedings s assembled here to Every Danger, inization of a $100, corporation. Atlanta. Ga.. May 19.?1 vas appointed, com YounR clarke> campaign dire Breen. Baymlnette. |he 80Ulhern dlvl8lon of the Haskins, Mobile, (j()n ariny konie service fund, 'lie, Atlanta, W. h. tho f0uOW|nR statement: Tex., and Justin "Upon our entrance Into th y, Ala., empowered worjd war> the Salvation arr ,ns to meet the al- army across the seas wl American soldiers. These that the growers workprB wpn, as made bv one of .. . w 7 . the trenches, sharing every committee, who ex- . . .. . . and by their every-day exar ef that "the death ... . . .. putting into practice the i ulator In the cotton . . . . .01 . taught by our Savior while 01 may ave een rendered a most valuable ai? organization o t ie a(jnijnjR|PrP(j n,e physical, as the spiritual, comfort of ou thev spent the dollars ungru IS MEAN TO that it had taken vears to co NVESTIGATION smn" Change, and. upon th turn to the homeland to c this work among the dischari nistrntlon Activities diers and helping ttie help tu res Since lie- ho",e- thov fmlnd their 1 empty: and. at a glance, saw of the War. was necessary to come bef< public and ask for funds to c; their rescue work. Therefc May 19.?Republi- , ,, . ,, , ginning Monday, May 19, ai the house upon the , , . .. . tinuing one week, the Americ ingrass propose to ... . . , , pie will be given an opportu investigation of ad- . . . .. i. , ,, contribute to the home servl< Ivities and expendi- . ... and express their appreciatl eginning of the war , , . , the work of the Salvation a orm the people and ....... ... .. behalf of the nations saib ic interest. This ... . .. . . soldiers in the great war am to the party s legis- ... . . . them to prosecute their war iv the house Repub- . America against sorrow, pove ference apparently ^ nal differences ' I have no question but t e also went on re- . . , ... . American people will give mo early passage of , . ? , ... the amount asked for by thr ling a definite mill- .. . . tion army, and I am sure t measures providing ... south will measure up to of American soldiers . , ... ? . ..... , share of this fund, f public oil and coal and of measures to "In ,akinK tho d?rectlon lower development.' Salvation army campaign south. I was compelled t Vfl most Important business-pla 1.jA1IN lINlf personally sacrifice several tCRE AT PINSK sand dollars. But, for man] I have known the Salvation and to know them is to lovi lis, Not llolsbcv Hts, amj {n j)0 to serve th< o Intimidate the an honor that I could not re Population. "For 40 years ,he Salratlo has been fighting battles aga and poverty in the big cltl ay 19.?The Jew- they have worked so humt announces that ac- quietly that the people had n mmunication recelv- aware of its magnitude an rs of the inquiry ciency. Unfortunately man ask. who investlgat- looked upon the Salvatloi program there. 36 simply as a street preaching who were in no way izatlon, when, as a matter i he bolshevist move- the smallest part of Its wr ed. The massacre, been Its meetings on the stn occurred during a "The Salvation army has was organizing for turned down a call for hel of American food any human being anywhere, e youths were shot time, and to know of the rei thout court martial, of the army It Is only neces Ion added that the inquire at the big city hospit e to a desire to in- at police stations, to have th wish population. you of the vast number of n rom London May 1, women that are rescued eac ent from the central many of whom come from th Zionist association towns and country and fln?] hat word had been selves unequal to the strug ts Copenhagen bu- existence in the big cities, s had been killed In "The Salvation army will 18k.) the fund to whlrh von enntrl this campaign to save thmm VIY AlilKXH Just such people who have fa IKATY IS SICiXHD to the paths of sorrow, pove renn.. Muy 19.?De vice They .will place them . v...? road that leads to hope and ri nent has been rehllitv to which every human I Oglethorpe from entitlft(1 If you should coi t the war prison (o th,? fu nd, many a shlverlr about 3,000 enemy and poorly clad mother, this ed. is to be closed, winter, will have Are. fo s released or other- "othing. I am sure there Is American citizen or a loyal hi af as soon as the pRtr|ot who wjn n(jf n Ikned. when he is asked to subscri risoners confined at Thp Salvation army home ? Professors Much ttas the heartv appr Idely known by rea President Wilson. When ap mection with inusi- i onresentatlves of 'he others are crew* t?,,p nrniv iin?l askofl for ,1 man steamers ana nmnt of commendation, lie I In various see- ,,ft(,rt hu hat an(j 8nj(,. < T ntry on charges of espionage act. (Continued on rage 4 ill only throe days. Thursday altere great noon Mrs. Thaoker found him unny sent conscious in his study and his con- r*li,rt Ith our dltion at once was not considered soearnest rious. He failed, however, to im vn Into prove and a day later began to grow *PV a danger, worse and this continued until the nple of end came Sunday morning. He was Hm' religion about 55 years old. His body was ,raini 1 earth, shipped Sunday afternoon to St. c I. They Mathews where the funeral services as well were held yesterday. 0,10 ' r boys; Thaoker came to Lancaster in , 1 r* 1 tn? 81 agtngiy December, this being his first year lleot in Its pastor of the church here. His pQ|f icir re- general health was not good and a ontinue month ftg() his daughter. Miss Jimmy ' :ed sol-, Thaoker, died in a hospital in less at Columbia. The loss of this daughter p,.,,],, reasury js thought to have weakened his that it physical resistance to disease and jre the pftrhaps hastened his death. ?rr> on Surviving him ate wife and the >re. be- ... . ... ioiiowing cntldron: Carlisle 1C ">t1 Thacker, Coke Thaeker, Miss Annie YVu an peo Tharker, Mrs. Stackhouse, Mrs. tatlve nIty Rayaer. the U Re fun(i izatio ?n f?r HALF DO/iRN K an.i . # .u pleasure trip to Washington, L). C., >1111 " i c count hat the am* included among a ntynher of re than aouvenira which slie secured while 'n< s , SalVa- there 's a dozen eggs. These epps ors' hnt the the voting woman $2.50 a piece, hi" speak its full 80 sh? says, and were secured from * tli" "eeg man" of the Capital City.' nia< e of the vvh" she learned later, only plyed h's "M a' ,? trade during heavy traffic davs The 1 ' ' ' in the i?p t . . voting woman says she boarded a o delay l > as w . crowded street car and had itist sems and garv ., cuied a seat when a man approach thou-| ... ?n? oil Her and asked if she would hold v"" r years, iilont a dozen eggs for him tiy the ear i army. made the next stop. Placing her e them. short purse in her lap she reached for the pra was f-eed hap: of eggs, but when the ear stopped both the man and her purse ' n army |ia(j disappeared. inst sin * m "bur es. hut nAKR|{ PKMKS AKMY MKAT to " rly and Is SOIJ> To MAKK PRICES llltai ot been ? ? Th Wash in ut on. Mav 19.?Secretary ... id otti- a d' I . Raker denied there was anv relation iy have _ exbci between ar.v attempt to support the n army * ... due: prices of meat supplies in this conn organ- v ^ Atnet , . . try and the tentative arrangement of fact. J m'y . . reached by representatives of the , >rk has ... path* ;e<8 war department and the packing in- } ^ dustry for the disposal abroad ot Tipvpr f cr^u 250.ono.ooo pounds of canned1 . n from State v meats. The department announc at anv the r ed a few days ago that this sto< k. l 1 nr I* If amounting to the normal output of Rvpi s n r v (11 ' American packing companies for T als and ^ wo vears would not he placed on ,, iPill t pi' INP ' the American market. ,. , len and the f h vear ? seinb n year. \ M | K|(' \ \ CAST\l,TIES lURINC , .. p mi\nil . | in Ih e sinnn XVAH rkaCII TOTAL OF UM?l.04-t.' I them- south gle for Washington. May 19.?Revised whlc| figures made public by the. war de a ro, partment showed that the total eas cjimii, I snend simin ualties of the American expedition- sr,mi) but< in af.y forros during the war was 286.- xTnite finds of Rattle deaths numbered 4 8.- #hr. , lien tn- 1 909, and the total of wounded was wAlicl rty nnd placed at 237.135, with the explana- ,,on ?n lion that this represented a dupll- th Fstiecta- cat|on 0f at,out 7,00ft l?y reason of ^erst being Is fact ty,a( many men were wound- f4>,i~r itribute . .. , ,. . ed more than once. ?p m ig child r coming " 9 od and UIi'?' uthern Now Orleans, May 1!?.?Following KM I te limit an address iiy Governor W. F. G. he." Harding, of the federal reserve Fa service hoard, in which he urged cotton in- ures oval of t?re?ts in the southern helt to "get tion i proach- together" and support the forma*lor. | fuse Rnlva- ?f ft $ 1 urt.nnn.ooo cotton exports co | indict i state- poratioo, delegates : ssembled h"r? Marsl s'ntply '> consider plans for such an or" in I lthini 'he love if-atlon, were told that a proposi 11 such charter for the concern, would be! wy ) submitted to them. | not s ??? i , ' IS REV.XH. THACKER "1 CRT DIED HERE MONDAY \ Carry Pastor of Lancaster Methodist me Church Was 111 Only ) Three Days. Toi \ the h WAR \FUNERAL AT ST. MATHEWS ilojp away. Valu- Mr. Thacker Was Taken Sud- 7 of th< i Into denly III Thursday After- side s tiaring noon Beinp Found Uncon- 01 peotal scions. R(1 t0 ^ Mond Edward Rev. J. H. Thaeker, pastor of the 's lin ctor of Lancaster Methodist church, died at n Salva- "the parsonage on Gay street Sunday r,u') issued morninir at six n'rlncw' tin >nger. Half a dozen prospe spots wpvp inspect pel, but tl particularly favored is locat? [in u m oc bay a limit a tnile fro to of the a^cna. EIGN HORN RESENT CONTEMPT OF NATIVE res America Has Much I [ arn in Making Citizens of Aliens. isnington. May 19.- Ueprese is of foreign born residents nlted States told the America n conference of the interior d lent that native Americai much to learn in attempting citizens of aliens. Sharp crii of the contempt exhibited I persons toward foreigners ai e general ignorance in th ry of European racial diff< was expressed by the spea irning was given by sever ;ers that no attempt should to force American citizensh \ alien, for that would lead hi lieve this country was atteinr o submerge minor national ti as attempted in Austria-llu and other despotic countrh t Matnaty, of Pittsburgh, prr of the Slovak League of Ann salil those who come to the 's of tlrt-ir own choice, seeki: oin from oppression. east made citizens, but not if th rero grouped disdainfully kies" or "dagoes" or relegat tferiority collectively as pla igners." e same belief was expressed terent way by Nathan Pevs< itive director of the New Yo itional alliance, who sa Ionization could lie advanc f tiiere was a sound and syi ti" ui do standing of the ps gv of the various nat'on >s which come to the Pnit s. their ideals, religions at eason they sought a new hon >KT ON ruriW'H IN ION HF IXTEKKSTIN(J FF.ATll w Orleans, May 19 -One eatures of the 59th general a ly of the Presbyterian chur e United States known as tl lern Presbyterian churo 1 is in session, is the report mmlttee of conference with ?r committee of the general r ly of the Presbyterian churc d States of America, known northern Presbyterian churo l considered plans for feder and union of the two branch ie church. This report is u ood to recommend a plan al union, but the plan will n ade known until published 1 fated clerks of the two asset I SF.NT TO IIK ICKAOV FOIt TION IF HI'NS DON'T Sl< ris. May 19. Immediate m? tending to the further subjup of Germany if its delegates r to sign the peace treaty we ited by the announcement th tial Fo h had been sent to t [> by the council of four to t i action as may become nec< in the event that the treaty igned. junv Iiirnv;i> ?Z.lfU A I EAH j AARON WISEMAN IS SENTENCED TO DIE Convicted at Shelby of Murder of Dr. Hennessee in Jan:h uary, 1918. t- J DEATH IN ELECTRIC CHAIR _____ Climax to Feud Existing for ?> Years Hetween Hennessees ,(x and Pittses in Western North rs Carolina. ts Shelby, N. ('., May 19.?Guilty of 1C .. murder in the first degree was the ?u verdict of> the jury in the case of eAaron Wiseman, of Avery county, tried here for the murder of I)r. E. ))( A. Hennessee, at Glen Alpine on th8 night of January 31, 1918. Wiseman received the verdict with slight emotion. The jury was out an hour and 10 minutes, and it is reported that on the first ballot nine were for ^ acquittal and three for conviction, on tlu' second. 11 to one. Two cfriends of Dr. Hennessee went to the j box and shook hands with the jurors. j With no sign of flinching. Aaron Wiseman heard his death sentence pronounced at 3:30 Saturday afternoon by Judge It. P. Long. Notice ^ of appeal was given by defendant's counsel. When Solicitor Huffman v a? notified by telephone at Morgantoti that a verdict of guilty had been rendered, he asked tho court to await his arrival at J o'clock. The solicitor had cone home on account of sickness and the court n- waited half an hour after 3 o'clock, of but he was delayed on account of n- heavy rain until after adjournment, e- June 20 is the date for the electrons cution. to A singular thing in connection ti- with the Ilennessee and Pitts affair by is that when I>r. ilennessee was id tried six years ago for killing a Pitts lis one of his children died. When the r- Pitts boys were being tried their k- grandmother died, and the day | Wiseman was arrested his father ui died. l>e Killing of l?r. Ilennessee. ip The killing of Dr. Ilennessee octn curred on the evening of January it- 31. 1??18. as the doctor stepped from es train No. 21 at CJlen Alpine. Dr. n- Ilennessee had been to Greensboro 's. on professional business, leaving is- that city for bis home on the mid?r day train When the train reached se Glen Alpine Dr Ilennessee alighted. ni no nan gone hut a few stops from lly the train when there was a fusilade ey of shots and ho fell mortally woundas ed An examination of the body ?d showed that some 10 or 12 shots ir. had taken effect. This led to the assumption that two men did the in shooting. The following day Gar*r. field and Aaron Pitts were arrested rk charged with the murder. They iid were tried for the crime and acquited ted At the trial of the Pitts boys Tt there was evidence that a man weariy jng a long coat did the shooting, a! Aaron Wiseman was arrested for the ed crime and at a nreliminarv lunrimr ad h?dd for the grand jury. A true bili ip was returned against him and the case for trial at Morganton. When it catne on for trial a motion to remove to some other county was of made and the prcs'ding judg orderis ed that the case he tried in Clevech land county. he In the trial hero the state relied h. principally on the testimony of Fred of Amos and Mr Ramsey, of Statesa vllle. Amos and Ramsey were both is- passengers on the train They h. swore that when the shooting startas ed they looked through the coach h, windows and saw one man with a a- revolver in each hand shoot Dr. es Hennessee They identified Wisen j man as the man who did the shootof ing. Amos, who didn't testify at. ot the trial of the Pitts hoys, said that by the reason he failed to make it tn- known that Wiseman was responsible for the death of Hennessee was because he was going to Chicago and did not want to be held as a witness. Kilting Created K\cltement. ,a" The killing of Dr. Hennessee more than a year ago created a e- great deal of excitement in Purke rp county. Suspicion was directed at ftl I once to the P tts boys by reason o! hp' the buttle between the Pittses and k* ' Dr. Hennessee some six or seven years ago when a Pitts was killed by is . ?. (Continued on Page Four.) I "UALLY ALL OF THE *60 TICKETS ARE SOLI er of *?o, or Choice King^c! at*. Limited (o 2,r>ers to the contest, th a party of friends, Dem nd Manager Jack Kearns m along the shores of Lake Er Maumee hay in search of ng camp for the heavvweigl