The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, May 12, 1919, Page 1

” BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA MON THIRTY-NINTH YEAR. N' DAY, MAY 12, 1919. _ PRICE. FIVE CENTS | TALY C INHUMAN PARENTS WHO BEAT THEIR LITTLE DAUGHTER TO DEATH ENTER STATE PRISON FOR 25-YEAR TERM Mr. and Mrs. Dan McDonnell of Courtenay Plead Guilty to Murder in First Degree and Are Sen- tenced to Quarter Century’s Imprisonment in| North Dakota Penitentiary—Show No Un- usual Emotion Upon Their Incarceration. | GET 25 YEARS Jamestown, May 12.—The McDonnells, charged with murder of their 14-year-old daughter, Etta, plead guilty to'a charge of murder in the second degree before Judge J, A. Coffey, in the district court, Saturday evening, and were sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary at Bismarck. They were taken to the penitentiary last evening. Showing no unusual: emotion, Mr.fl and Mrs, Dan McDonnell, who on Saturday ‘pleaded guilty to one of the foulest crimes ever committed in North Dakota, arrived in Bismarck in custody of | Seaman A. Smith,- transportation officer, shortly after midnight Monday morning to begin serving their 25-year. sentences. The couple who admitted’ in district ‘court. at Jamestown on Saturday that they had beaten to.death their 12-year-old daughter at their farm home near Courtenay, were transferred unnoticed to the prison bus which awaited them and. were quickly trans- ported to the state penitentiary, where, after the usual prelimi- naries, McDonnell was assigned to a cell in the men’s block; while Mrs, McDonnell joined the other two inmates .in the women’s department. oe 2 Today Dan McDonnell entered upon his 25 years’ servitude at hard labor as a coal passer in the engine room.: Mrs. McDonnell was assigned to.duties in the woman’s ward. * The Crime. The crime which was cqmmitted, af the slovenly,.Me¢Donnell, heme. near Coutenay on Friday morning, Maren 14, was descrihed: by the mother: in her confession, mage. shortly after she wis AN FORD-TRIBUNE LIBEL SUIT “Finally;, the serlousness of: what they arrested: and taken to:-Jamestown, “Dan hurled” her. trom, the couch where she was: lying ‘and kicked her about the head and hody for about five minutes,. He kicked her with all his might. ‘He wore ‘hob-ndiled “shoes.” ' “Btta’ erawled: to another ‘room, , -1|. followed her in there and took a.small | board a) 4 rover bidek.” > oa are S ee staggered fromi;the “honse.. One of “hex little ptockings caught.in.a hitge in,the.door, and: she felt. outstdé the doorway. She was teft lying there for some time. had done. impressing itself apon ‘this fiendish: pair, they cartied the little girl ingide; whore she lay without med-| ical attention until) she died, That was on ‘the following: Sunday, Then Mel 1 drove: into’ Courtenay and | - pecrpenereny aa tthe most noteworthy libel suits in the endeavored to’ buy @ cheap’ coffin.’ He | was advised he must have a’ death cer- tificate. He. applied: to a Courtenay physician for a certificate, and the Jatter insisted upon first’ examining the corpse. He found the body cov- ered with bruises.and abrasions, and Ne ordered the body held until a coro- ner’s inquest could*he held. Mc’Donnell Seeks Escape. When the coroner arrived at the farm, McDonnell had gone. He was {racked through the snow to Hann- ford, where he was rounded up by a posse of farmers. The finding of the coroner’s: jury resulted in the arrest | of McDonnell ‘and his wife. Mrs. Mc- Donnell, on her arrival in Jamestown, made a full confession, iu’ which she} implicated her ‘husband as’ well as her- self, Later she sought to assume all the blame, swearing that her husband had not touched the little girl. Sutur- day, on theirown motion, the two Me-! Ponnells appeared in circuit court and} entered pleas of guilty to murder in the first degree, They. were sentenced ; fo 25 years’ imprisonifient: at hard: la bor in the’ state, penitentiary. There are several’ other MeDonnell children, one of them, w-boy. crippled by neglect and ill treatment, who are in the chil- dren’s home at Fargo. STOKES APPEAL BEFORE COURT St. Paul, Minn.,. May 12.—Argu- ments on the appéal of Mrs. Rose Pas- tor Stokes. of New York, convicted at Kansas City in 1918 of violating the espionage act, were begun here today in the United States court of appeals. Mrs. Stokes faces a penitentiary sen- tence of 10 yeara. i HEAVY TERM OF COURT TO OPEN HERE TOMORROW An unusually heavy term of district court opens for Burleigh county Tues: day morning. There is some natural- ization business to be disposed of, and this with the call of the calendar will occupy the opening day. There are 21 criminal actions, probably a dozen of which will be tried at this term, and 60 civil cases, some of which are of more than ordinary im- portance. May 20. AMIDON BOY KICKED TO DEATH WHILE PLOWING Amidon, N. D., May 12—Peter Lar- 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Pp. M. Larson, residing ten miles west of this place, was: kicked to death by 2 ‘|Chicago Newspaper: Called De- The jury is called for! .. NOTEWORTHY: troit, Wanufacturer. An An- archist, During War. SUES. FOR ‘ONE’ MILLIO Caustic “Editorial on: Patriotism 16% the Trouble Mt. Clemens, Mich., May 12.—One of history of American jurisprudence, that of Henry Ford against the Chica- go Tribune for $1,000,000, was sched- uled to open before Circuit Judge Tucker here today. With the most of the preliminary battles already fought and decided in Illimois and Detroit: courts, it is anticipated the case will come to trial with little delay. $1,000,000) libel suit of Henry Ford against the Tribyné company, publish- ers of the Chicago Daily Tribune, was expected to consume comparatively little time, it was said. The alleged libel was published in the form of an editorial in, the Trib- une on June 23, 1916, when the sub- ject for preparedness. for war, by rea- son of American troubles on the Mex- ican border, and- the widespread be- lief that the United States would be being discussed by public speakers and drawn into the European conflict, was! in the newspapers. | Called Him Anarchist The editorial, which was headed, “Ford Is An Anarchist,” follows: “Inquiry at the Henry Ford offices in Detroit discloses the fact that em- ployes of Ford who are members of or recruits in the national guard will lose their places. No provision will be made for any one dependent on them. \Their wages. will stop, their ion possible, their positions will be and ‘apply for their jobs again they will be on the same footing as any other applicants. This is the rule for Ford employes everywhere. “Information was refused as to the number of American soldiers unfortu- nate enough to have Henry Ford as an employer at this time, but at the Detroit recruiting offices it was said that about 75 men will pay this price for their services to their country. “Mr. Ford thus proves that he does not believe in service to the\nation in the fashion a soldier must serve it. If his factory were on the southern and not the northern border we pre- sume he would feel the same way. We do not know precisely what he would do if a Villa band decided that the Ford strong boxes were worth open- ing, and that it would be pleasant to see’ the Ford factories burn. It is evident that it is possible for a mil- lionaire just south of the Canadian pens just north of the Mexican bor- der, “It Ford allows this rule of his shops to stand he will reveal himself not as merely an ignorant idealist but as an anarchistic enemy of the nation which protects him in his wealth. “A man so ignorant as Henry Ford may not understand the fundamentals of the government under which he lives. That government is permitted to take Henry Ford himself and com- mand his services as a soldier if necessary. It can tax his money for _ of Auto Magnate Starts! #4! Selection of a jury to try the families may get along in any fash-|thé couhtry hassever border to be indifferent to what hap-} HAFE AR eee eee AN BISMARCK YANK IS GIVEN CROIX - GUERRE BY FOCH Lievt: Herman.A. Brocopp, now ‘ gssistant postmaster at LeMans, ‘ormierly. with’ the. 263rd regi- ment,of- American. infantry,; “is, awaldéd “fie croix de. guerre by Marshal wag , commander in chief of the French armies of the. east, for acts of extraordinany herolam describéd in. general or- ders Nos 42, issued April 21, as follows: “Second Lieut, Herman A. Bro- copp,, Officer of great bravery. Shows, during. the operations pe- tween the Lys and the Escault, from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4, 1918, bril- liant military qualities and abso- lute heedlessness of danger, under heavy fire captured several ma- chine gun positions and an enemy battery.” i Herman Brocopp left Bismarck with Co. A, the pioneer capital city, unit of the First North Da- kota national guard. He was em- ployed prior to entering the serv- ice with the Murphy bottling works, and he has a host of proud friends in Bismarck, where he has made his home for years. BILLION BUSHEL WHEAT OROP WILL MBAN CONGESTION Government “Looking Forward to Problems Which Great 1919 Harvest Will Present With a wheat crop of over a bilion bushels in prospect in, the United States ‘this. sensoli—the lgreatest crop produced—the need for efforts by farmers and elev filled, and if they come back safely!tor companies to market and_ sto! the grain with, the least possible lo: ‘and congestion of traffi is impress by the bureau of markets of the United :| States department of agriculture. In culing attention to this great, market- ing problem the department says that every possible measure should be taken to insure the safe storage and handling of this enormous crop. Last year, with a crop of about 900,- 000,000 bushels, the rushing of | the grain to market immediately after hi yest caused. a congestion all the from the terminal markets to the farm, The wheat “backed up” after the ter- minal elevators were full | and con-, gested the railroads and all country elevators. The result was that em- bargoes were placed on further ship- qents until the terminals could -be -cleared. Fortunately, the winter was an open one-or the loss due to lack of. proper storage would have heen heavy. Attention is called by the bureau of markets to the situation that prevailed in North Dakota in the winter of 1915- 16, following a crop in that state of 150,000,000 bushels. Owing, to a eon- gestion of elevators at country tions, due to the inability of the ra roads to carry the wheat away a: p- idly as the farmers hauled it pate forms were built and hundreds, sands of bushels of wheat were piled up In the open, In ition “great quantities of wheat were stored in improvised bins. 7 One result of this that during the following | summer horse while plowing gn othe farm of WW. L, Reager, near Slope Genter. war purposes and will. It can com- (Continued on‘ page six) ai many farmers provided, themselves (Continued on page six) OTHER 0 EAN CROSSED * UNDER DELA ‘PRESIDENT WILSON REMAINS FIRM UPON THE FIUME SITUATION; GERMANS SEEK TO.DIVIDE ALLIES Would Draw Members of Entente Powers in Oral Discussions—Attack Upon‘Helsingfors Is Under Way (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The peace conference leaders have renewed their efforts to reach an understanding on the Italian question in view of the im- minenc of the arrival of the Austrian delegates. Consultations were begun today between Foreign Minister Sonnino of Italy and Colonel House. Meanwhile attempts are being made by German delegates at Versailles to draw representatives of the allies and associated auyermments into oral discussions, of the phases of the peace reaty. - The German cabinet, under direction of President Ebert, took up yesterday the question of counter proposals. to the peace terms, and a committee from the German national assembly -dis-; . cussed the peace terms. The national assembly will meet in Berlin today, and it is expected that Chancellor Schiedemann will give some.idea of the German reply to the allies. ___Allied forces are reported in a dispatch originating at Hel- singfors t obe preparing for an attack on Petrograd. It is said that 50,000 men will be engaged in the operation, and: -that;:Rrench cruisers are lying before Helsingfors;) presumably to take part in the attack. DISCONTENT GROWING Rome (Sunday), May 11.—The discontent and irritation of the people are growing, because of news from Paris that Italy is not likely to get what she claims on the eastern shore of the Adri- latic. The Messaggero says: ___ “President Wilson is obstinately obdurate in his views regard- ing Fiume, showing that he has not changed his mind.” Other reasons for disastisfaction are the Anglo-Franco-Ameri- can alliance, from which Italy was excluded; the asserted project that the former Austrian merchant marine will, be divided among the allies, altho it.is held it belongs entirely to Italian firms;.the clause in the treaty. with Germany saying the three principal powers were sufficient to ratify the treaty, thus it is alleged, again condition was; [BRINTON HAVING -/ TROUBLE WITH NEW FARM. PRESS GRAB BE PARENT 10. 6 Hits eipitaittaed™ at $25,000 Tn Will Not Enter Into Competition With ‘Private: Banking * f System NO WITHDRAWAL OF FUNDS Deposits of Public Moneys to Be Left in Banks as Under Old Regime — accuses of boycotting his paper and | whom he threatens with wholesale {mail order competition if they do. advertise with him. he Recorder ion, the preferred stock being offered ata fancy figure to the farmers, while | the promoters, it is alleged, retain the common. stock, with which goes the control, FOSTER COUNTY 10 HELP BUILD | MISSOURI SPAN Commissioners -Vote to Appro- | priate Portion of Federal Aid to Important Project Following the conference Monday between the industrial commission and a special committee of the State Bankers’ association, the general pol- icy of the bank of North Dakota was jgiven out in a statement by Secretary Morris. | It was decided that the state bank will work in complete harmony with jexisting institutions and seek to be a parent bank for the entire bank sys- a of. the state ind in ust way fe pO enter’ into .competition with or in- x 7 of vi fringe on existing banking institutions Reta OS eT or customs. 4 attendance at the meeting of the Fos- by the State Bank of North Dakota; !hefore the board. Foster county will] public money now in Weposit in state|yndertake an extensive program of jbanks will not be called into Bismarck. | yonq building and the commissioners |Municipal, and other public funds will | wuthorized an appropriation for 1919 remain where it.is now. ‘The Bank of 000; for 1920, of $20,000, and North Dakota will not do a commer- 921, of $20,000. The appropriation jcial banking business in competition | ¢o, 1921 may be cut to $10,000, in case with existing banks. It will not ac-/the federal aid appropriation for Fos- cept individual deposits from citizens) tey county is found necessary, to he of North Dakota, but it may accept’ diverted to the construction of «4 deposits from citizens who reside out-)}ridge across the. Missouri river he-| side of the state, State banks may/ tween Bismarck and Mandan. deposit their funds with it, however.) |oster county’s road plans include | The general program as adopted 18} the completion of the federal highway | |to use the bank primarily to stimulate | project known east’ and west lagriculture, commerce. and industry | through Car‘ H, stance of ten} ‘and to be helpful in any possible man-| miles and six miles uorth of Carring- ‘ner to any business within the state.jton. The appropriation above _ re- ili {ferred ta also includes money for the ‘ Stabilize Rates Fi ‘construction of a state highway n It will seek to stabilize interest pom Carrington to the county line rates and to base credit upon financial coutheagt to the Stutsman county line, lresponsibility rather than, upon Per-j thence east .ten miles; also the ex- sonality or political prestige. In the tension of the county roads east and; declaration of intention adopted Mon- | west from Carrington to the Grig; day, politics is to be ignored and fi- ang Wells county lines. With app nancial merit to be the sole. governing | priations heretofore made, and part of factor. It's to be the object of the| lias already been expended, bank. to mobilize the assets of the! j, will devote some $84,000 state and to furnish a clearing house | to highway construction ending in the for the banking business of the state. | three r period of 1921, The meeting was harmonious and [t is understood that the Stanley | the bankers attending showed an earn-' Brothers have a contract for a portion | est. desire to co-operate with the state: of the. new road in that county. in making the bank successful. | Aid for the construction of the Mis-) No Branches Some of the points which have been! souri river bridge is being solicited | distressing the state bankers were dis-/ from the counties along the Red’ Trail ‘posed’ of. The point, of competition ‘and several such inties with privately‘owned banks has been, re: worrying many bankers and the gen- | thei have al- 1 ‘ | Dickinson, No Dy May 13.3. W. : e AVE | Brinton, Who id said to have recently Be ne pi hae “forthe” Recorder-Post, hy baracraae shares. of $100 which are being offered |, . 1 the farmers, is firing weekly broad: | NED sides at Dickinson merchanfs whoni he Post is being promoted in typical fash: | agreed to divert 20 per cent of! was quota of federal aid to the bridge | soc! the protection of France. GERMAN PLEAS. Me Allies Lose, No Time in Replying} to Notes of.Count. Von Brockdorff-Rantzau DUTCH . ACCEPT DEMAND) Will Surrender Kaiser. London, May 10.—(By the As- sociated Press.)—The Dutch ‘goy- ernment has decided to surren- der the former German emperor to the Allied and associated pow: ers, according to a dispatch from The Hague to the National News, Paris, May 12.—The Allies can ad: mit no discussion’ of their right to in- sist upon the terms of the peace treaty substantially as drafted, This is the reply to Count von Brock- dorff-Rantzau, who’ submitted a note to Premier Clemenceau declaring that the peace treaty” contains demands which could be borne by no_ people, and many of them incapable of accom. plishment. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau has been informed, in answer to his com- plaint, that Germany was asked to sign the Allied plan for a league of nations, although not invited to enter it, that the admission of additionai states has not been overlooked, but has been provided for in the second paragraph of the article one of the covenant. Two Letters Sent. Two letters have been sent to the Allies, to which replies have been made, The first letter follows: “The German peace delegation has finished thei first perusal of the peace conditions which have been handed over to them. They have had to realize that on essential points the} basis of the peace of right agreed upon} between the belligerents has heen abandoned. “They were not prepared to find that the promise, explicitly given to the! German people, and the whole of man- kind, is ip this way to be rendered il- lustory i “The draft of the treaty contains de- | mands which no nation: could endure. Moreover, our experts hold that many of them could not possibly be carried out. “The German peace delegation will} substantiate these statements in de- tail and transmit to the Allied and as- sociated governments their observa: tions and their material continuously, | “(Signed) Brockdorff-Rantzau, Quick Answer Given. To the letter the following — reply y by the Allied and as- eral announcement of policy is expe: project. Among these counties ed to remove much of the opposition | Golden Valley, Billings, Burleigh, Mor-| to the Bank of North Dakota. |ton and others, — Barnes, Stutsman, | | IMPORTANT BUSINESS | Cass and Kidder counties will also he} i s Dh Feral aid allowance. to he diverted to| CHANGE MADE IN MOTT | tii. bridge project. | r The federal government has’ appro- —H. O. Burns, | priated North Dakota road con- ntile Co..! struction, $4,223,000 to be used within lin five year period ending in 1921, Of Mott, N. 1D., May president of the Burns Me has purchased the Boston Store build- ing, the second largest business stree- ture in the city, from Charles Mutchel-| sum the present year or about $1,- {asked to permit a portion of their fed-| ¢ that amount there will be spent a large | They can o fthe ied have re ed ‘tions of “the es to the draft the statement on obj German plenipotent nditions of peac “In reply they wish to remind the German delegation that they have formulated the terms of the | treaty with constant thought of the princi- ples on which the armistice and the ne- gotiations for peace right to i of the knaus, as a new home foy the Burns] 000,000. Half! million dollars have ‘company, (Continued ‘on Page Seven.) ‘ inmate excluding Italy, and the reported scheme to place Ethiopia under REDS HOLD DEMONSTRATION. Berlin. (Sunday), May ‘11.—Sparté- cans and independent socialists. are. cain active in central Gérmany.”. At enach yesterday they forced’ the ” mapor of the district and the district mbecter, fe Inarch atthe head ‘of. the parade ‘of ‘the radicals, cai red flags.” Afterwards tie “atliclewe beaten by the crowd. Gustaf Noske; minister, of defense, will id, govern; ment troops to restore dtder. The Thuryngian workmen’s council at’.Ey- furt, however, has threiitened .to bring about a general strike if the: troops come into the district and if those now there are not removed. The government forées at ymar have .been transferred to Leipaig, where the Spartacans are threatening an uprising on behalf of a council gov- ernment. EXPECTED WEDNESDAY. Paris (Saturday), May 10.—The Austrian peace delegation is expected ednesday, and work is being hastened on the quarters at St. Germaine, where the palace of Francis I is being put in order for the reception of the visitors, Two groups of nearby villas have been requisitioned for'the “Austrian and the Hungarian delegates. It is Proposed to conduct the negotiations separately, but if possible they wil he carried on ssystematically, FEATURE FOURTEEN POINTS, Berlin (Sunday), May 11.—By tho Associated Press. — “Germany has. unfurled a new banner on which are. inseribed President Wigon's. fourteen points, which the president’ apparently has deserted,” said Frederick Ebert, the German president, in a statement to the Associated Press today.’ Austrian Treaty Nearly Ready. Paris, May 12.—The peace. treaty with Austria is nearing completion and an official summary ts being pre- pared as was done in the case of the German treaty. Although it is not so stated in the treaty, the new Austrian frontier is the one designated by the secret tres§v of London, giving Italy all the strate- gic heights and defensive passages, ‘COUNCiL OF FOUR MEET. Paris, May 12—The council of four of the peace conference met, this morn- ing and took up consideration of the replies to be made to the latest Ger. man notes, those regarding labor mat- ters and prisoners of war. TRIUMPHAL MARCH JUNE 6. Paris, May 12.--A triumphal march of the allied armies through Parts will take place June 6, according to the presen understanding. VISIT BRUSSELS MAY 20.:. Brussels, May 12.—President Wilson will visit Brussels about May 20, ac- cording to the Independent Belge. which adds that his visit will “diksi- pate misunderstandings and establish the good will of the allies toward Bel- glum.” TO WITHDRAW TROOPS, Arechangel (Saturday), May 10— Tentative gemen: are being made to begin the withdrawal of American troops from north, Russia in June, These plans have been taken up because of the — public an- nouncement hy Secretary Baken, but no definite orders have as yet, been re- ceived. American troops have not heen engag a large scale In the ast month’s fighting. TO REACH PARIS WEDNESDAY Vienna, May 12.—The Austrian :| peace delegation will leave Vienna at 5:20 o’clock on a. special train. The peace iter tially as. drafted. | They Continued on” page six) delegation is due in Paris on Wed* nesday,