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foot disappeared out of the cellar
l would have recognized enough Of
that foot to lead me to the murder
CT. But ! didn't and the murderer
escaped US for many weary hours.
The one little interruption in
Murphy's first examination of us IN
the studio-the II. Interruption when
DR.. Gray announced that Carpen-
ter had been found unconscious IN
the cellar-caused Murphy to walk
out Of the room with the clue of
the linen handkerchief in mis-
pocket. II DR.. Gray had been q few
moments later with his announce
ment. Murphy would have sprung
this clue and the owner of this
handkerchief would have broken
down then and the mystery of
Denny Dorn's murder would have
cccn solved in q few minutes.
But the luck was with the owner
# that teiltale handkerchief. Mug
DIV went DOWNSTAIRS and in the
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on which to base a solution.
We knew that we had several
powerful clues, but they in them
selves were almost as puzzling and
battling as the murder itself. The
round and uniluman footprints that
appeared everywhere the murderer
went seemed only the footprints OF
the linen handkerchief got us no
where. The hypo needle found up-
der the table might just as well
never have appeared for all the
help it gave us in the first stages
We had plenty Of clues, but we
didn't know what to do with them.
We didn't know until after the
mystery was solved that each Of
these clues might have ended the
mystery had not every possible
break been with the murderer.
The murder of Denny Dorm was
not in itself a battling mystery, as
later events proved. If Murphy had
got only one small break of luck in
those first hours of his investiga-
ton, the whole structure that the
guilty party had built up so care
fully would have fallen to the
ground in a second. But Murphy
wasn't lucky and the mystery sank
deeper and deeper into the m!re Of
conflicting clues.
AS I look back over those u.ueling
hours following Dorn's murder, It
seems to me almost humanity i'm
possible that luck could have f.
vored the guilty person so consist
emily. Time and again the very
solution OF the murder escaped our
hands by almost split seconds.
If I had looked up the smallest
part Of q second sooner when the
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Today Is the
Anniversary of
BOOKER WASHINGTONS BIRTH

BOOKER WASH1NGTONS B1KTH
On Nov. IA, 1858, Booker T. Wash
ington, American negro educator. was
born on a plantation near Hale's
Ford, Va, the son of a mulatto slave.
After the Civil War, he went to
Maiden, W.. Va, to work In a coal
mine. With the elementary educa-
ton he acquired at night schools the
young miner entered the Normal and
Agricultural Institute at Hampton,
Va. He later became an instructor.
In 1881, with a reputation estab-
lished for educational work among
Indians, Washington was appointed
to establish a colored normal school
at Tuskegee, Ala. He opened the
school in a dilapidated house and
church, with 30 students. and him
self the only teacher. but he left it
with many buildings, much land.
!, 500 students and 185 teachers.
He acquired nationwide attention
for his ability as an orator and his
work for the education and improve
ment Of his race. Harvard gave him
an honorary degree in 1896 as did
Dartmouth in 1901.
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The school room was decorated with
witches, owls, black cats and crepe
paper.
Viola Dorman is in the hospital
with appendicitis. We miss her and
hope she will be in school soon again.
For language Tuesday, the third
grade girls wrote letters to Viola Dor
man who is in the hospital.
Irene and Marie Malard were alb
sent from school Wednesday.
William Dorman hasn't been alb
sent or tardy this year.
At the schol board meeting they de-
cided to hold eight months of school
instead of seven. School will be out
November %.
Mrs. Robert Grantham visited our
school Thursday.
The third, fourth and fifth grades
are working on a health project. We
are correlating art with it by making
posters of heat giving foods, energy
foods, and vitaminS food.
For nature study we have made a
weather chart. Every day n pupil
is appointed to place the proper
weather flag and sentences about the
weather on the chart.
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Do You Remember?
New Salem JOurnaU

NEW Salem JOuTIaU
We often wonder how many of you "old- timers"
around New Salem can recall when we put our shirts
on over our head, when everybody could hitch up q
horse, when there were no such things as wrist watches
and a hired girl was lucky to get $3.50 a week. Or how
many remember when boys collected cigarette pictures,
when everybody had tonsils and kept EN-. when nobody
had appendicitis and most everybody kept the Sabbath.
Surely there must be a lot of folks around here who can
remember when they carried a lantern on the dashboard
OF the spring wagon and drove it through mud, loose rock
or dirt most of the time; when they slept on straw tick
and took a bath in the wash-tub in the kitchen only
on Saturday nights; or when women wore Mother
Hubbards, when a brick covered with crapet served as a
doorstep and when congress CATERS were the most
stylish of shoes.
But If you can remember any or all of these it isn't
a sign that you are getting old. It's just a sign of
a good memory.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

mind met Murphy's moves with an
cas- and brilliancy that started uS
chasing some clue that lay far, Tar
away from the real mystery. ~
And all the time poor old Henry
Carpenter lay on his bed downstairs
with the one great secret OF the
mystery locked behind his sealed
lips. We know that he suffered the
tortureS of a hundred souls in tor
ment as he lay there and gazed
wistfully at the ceiling with his
secret sealed behind his silent lips.
We know that he must have strug-
gled with all his ebbing strength for
the power to speak and to move
around. But strength did not come
to him and he lay helpless, with
only the power to see and hear
what passed before his eyes.
If he had had the power to speak
the outcome Of the night undou6t-i
eddy would have been different, but
he couldn't speak and we had sto
behind his lips-the thing thatshad
After Brandfcrd,s rather brazenl
announcement that Murphy had,
accused him OF the murder. every
Cx1ulk tOOA q oOO0C11 UOAk1 Vi 4O1Ct-!
ness. The whole night seemed ITO
each storm being a little grea5ArI
and each lul q little more painful.
Brandfosd remained as drunkysa sl
ever. and maintained his don't
care" attitude. I was busy trytQgfto;
The first concerned the visit of,Isf-i
eta Whipple to my apartmentsapd!
the theft Of my green portiere rope,
The second was the identity oft:thel
black mass that had appeared
twice. -
I. didn't get very far with the
first. I wanted to get q chance&to
talk to Loretta alone and ask her
about the visit of that afternoon,
but she never gave me a chancestO
talk to her alone. Several times I
caught her looking at me in4a
strange way and it was obvious that
she purposely evaded mt. Iabegan
to notice q decided change between
her and Gre:a.
They were no longer together.
There wasn't any outward display
Of hostility, but I SenSed that they
were not as friendly as during the
earlier part Of the evening. : !
I saw nothing of Murphy. after
he left me to question BrandfoId-
I stayed up in the studio. I Won
dered what he was doing down.
stairs, but didn't feel free to burst
IN on him without an invitation.
Jane Marsh did not leave \ hen
couch. Courtney stayed in the
| room.
Don't you think it's funny, that
they haven't done something about
tracing that hypo needle?" he said!
1T seems to me that is a very. i'm;
eyes. it's an important clue,".1I
replied. But there isn't much you|
can do about it. It was found un-|
der this table and that's aboutfalll
tina. we know about it."
I'VE know that it had brohenIoffI
the syringe. and that the SYRINGE
has not been found" Courtney
Grind that syringe and you have
the guilty, party" Loretta Whipple
said. There is something odd about
the fact that that needle was bro
ken off the syringe"
Sure, find the owner Of that
handkerchief, and the owner Of sew
eral other things around mere and
you have the murderer" I laughed.
The mention Of the handkerchief
caused Courtney to look to xthe'
floor, Jane Marsh turned on the
couch and looked at him.
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The Soviet on Parade

The rulers of Soviet Russia seem to know the value
of putting on a good show. Celebrating the 18th ami
versary OF the Revolution, they held a great parade in
Moscow. Fifteen thousand trained soldiers marched
past the Kremlin, with banners waving and guns gleam-
ing: then came no fewer than 100000 citizens, marching
together to show the might and power of the Commun-
list regime
It made an impressive spectacle-impressive to read
about, triply impressive, no doubt, to see. There is no
question that it stimulated the faith of such people in
Moscow as were beginning to get weary of Bolshevism.
Crowd enthusiasm is contagious. Moscow knows how to
propaganda among its own people.
There is something in it, too, that ought to make us do
. little thinking, even though Soviet Russia is literally
and spiritually thousands of miles removed from our
orbit.
AL Of us have read "the truth about Russia" so often
that our minds are in a whirl when it is mentioned. Most
Of us know definitely that, whatever is going on over
there. we don't like it, and let the matter rest there.
In our generally colossal ignorance of the subject. we
can ignore the Russian problem without difficulty, but
another generation may not be able to do so. Predic-
tons were being made five years ago that the Soviet
regime was doomed in the next few years-and today it
seems stronger than ever. Predictions are being made
now that the end of Red Russia is at hand, and most of
us are rather hopeful the prophecies will prove true. But
the history Of the next 10 years may give the lie to
prophets OF the present just as recent history has proved
that those Of yesterday were false.
~ otW oANu VI III pIcSCAlt rIuSSldu gov
eminent are such. and its history is so reprehcnsible. that
little sympathy or encouragement may be expected from
America. Nevertheless we cannot close our eyes to the
fact that they are managing to get along without our
encouragement and without recognition by the American
government.
Ralph Budd. president of the Great Northern railroad.
returns from an inspection OF Soviet railroads with word
that the new, young nation is making progress. Other
observers contend that Russia is starving herself in an
effort to speed up her mechanization.
We know Budd. at least by reputation, and are sure
that he is no Bolshevik. About many other persons who
have written on the Russian question we know little.
Il we believe Budd we shall have to assume that the
breakup in Russia is no nearer now than it was five
or 10 years ago.
The anniversary parade staged in Moscow was Russian
showmanship, designed to impress the natives. But it
also bears q significance for US. An industrial Russia, If
its possibilities are fully developed and its present polit-
ical Ideas maintained. might easily become the greatest
menace which the peace Of the world has known.
The time may come when our children will wish they
we're able to ignore Russia but will be unable to do so.
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New Light on Custer

Fred Sweetman, who died Tuesday at Red Lodge,
Mont, had two claims to fame which will be OF particu-
lar interest to Bismarck people.
One was the fact that he lived to be 100 years old and
the other that he was the first conductor employed by
the Northern Pacific railroad and once was Tired at the
demand of General George A. Custer.
II annears that in 1876 sweetman was conductor of a
train which was bringing General Custer, in his private
car. to Bismarck. Between Jamestown and Bismarck
the train encountered heavy snowdrifts and had to DUCK
them as best it could.
The general disliked this process and demanded that
his car be detached from the train until the bucking ,oo
was finished. His idea was that the train then would
back up, pick up the special car, and proceed on its
way.
Conductor sweetman refused, the general became in
dionant and when the train reached Bismarck he pro-
tested to the superintendent, who promptly changed
Sweetman's classification from that Of conductor to that
of a former employe of the railroad.
Somehow, this incident seems to hold the General up
to view as a petty man. The language and demeanor OF
MI. sweetman in refusing to accept the generals advice
as to how to run his train may have had something TO
do with the Custer heat. The language of the drawing
room was none too common on this frontier in those
days. But the mere fact that the general had the tener-
ity to ask that all else be subjugated to his comfort
might reasonably be taken as an indication that he was
lOU QO4VV WIG AASASN AAo~AS "~NA
be following his death on the Little Big Horn.
All of us can remember reading about General Custer
in the stories of the frontier and to many of us he was
a figure of epic proportions. Artists drew upon their
imagination to picture him, with flowing hair and fear
less mein, making his so-called last stand.
Bismarck historians have done a great deal to debunk
the general in recent years and they have been aided in
this work by other researches. Locally. at least, the pic
ture of Custer as a hero has been altered a trifle and in
its place has been presented a man who was rather
vainglorious and whose attitude toward the Indians of
this region certainly was none too humane.
No one denies that Custer, at the time of the so-called
massacre" was on a campaign against the Indians and
looking for trouble. The fact that he found more than
he could handle and was unable to find a way out has
long since been accepted as fact.
But the Sweetman incident, somehow, goes as far to-
ward debunking General Custer as a more extended re-
sumo of his career might do. In essence it presents him
as a selfish and petty man-and no real hero has those
qualities.
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DAILY

DAILY MENUS
DR.. McCoy'S menus suggested for
the week beginning Sunday, Novem-
Der 10th:
Breakfast: Orange juice before
crisp bacon, stewed peaches.
Lunch: Baked potato, spinach,
celery and ripe olives.
Dinner: Roast chicken or rabbit,
baked eggplant and tomatoes, salad
of shredded lettuce, ice cream.
Monday
French omelet, Melba toast, stewed
prunes.
Lunch: Noodle soup, string beans,
salad of sliced cucumbers.
Dinner: Roast beef, cooked beet
tops, turnips, salad of grated raw
beets and chopped cabbage, Jello or
Jell-well with whipped cream.
Tuesday
Breakfast: wholewheat mullins
with peanut butter, pear sauce.
Lunch: Cornbread, turnip green's.
mashed pumpkin.
Dinner: Celery soup, broi1ed lamb
chops, squash, salad Of minced vege-
tables nodded in gelatin, including
string beans cucumbers and tomatoes,
pineapple whip.
Wednesday
Breakfast: Coddled eggs, Melba
toast, stewed raisins.
Lunch: Potatoes boiled with the
Jackets on, combination salad Of cab
bage, beets and celery.
Dinner: Roast pork, carrots with
meat, string beans, salad Of raw Gel
cry, applesauce.
Thursday
Breakfast: Oatmeal with butter or
cream (no sugar..
Lunch: Cooked lettuce, carrots and
peas.
Dinner: vegetable soup, Salisbury
steak, stewed okra, escaIoped celery,
salad Of raw spinach, peanut butter
dressing, ice cream.
Friday
Breakfast: Grapefruit OF oranges
Gall desired, glass Of sweet milk.
Lunch: Buttered green peas, salad
of cucumber, egg, lettuce and cress.
Dinner: Broiled filet OF sole, spin
ach, baked eggplant, salad Of sliced
tomatoes on lettuce, nc dessert.
Saturday
Breakfast: Baked eggs, toasted
shredded wheat biscuit, stewed figs.
Lunch: Steamed rice, string beans,
salad of head lettuce with olive oil.
Dinner: Tomato bouillon, casserole
of mutton, baked grated beets, five
minute cabbage, salad of raw celery.
dish of berries Canned without
sugar..
vegetable soup: To make soup
stock use one pound Of ground beef
to two quarts of water. If any bone
is used, have your butcher break 1t up,
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II

As for that new black derby Al
Smith wore at the polls, the Demo-
Gratis are convinced it had q silver
lining.
A southern university proposes to
use the space under stadium seats
for claSSrooms. There's q concrete
example for study.
= 4 *
British Win Battery Duel With
Chinese" Headline. The boys seem
bound to have their innings.
Some churchmen z questioning
the act Of the late French poet who
preached his own eulogy from q
photograph record. There are. Of
course, two sides to the question.
The waitress may not make the
soup, says the cynical customer, but
she usually has a finger in it.
Copyright, 1880. NEA Service. 1nc.)
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Quotations

II am just q suffering girl."-Aimee
Semple Mcpherson.
= = =
ut is not a question Of inches in
length of material, but Of how the
garment Is worn. I have confidence
in the morals of French women
Cardinal Verdier, archbishop Of Paris,
in The Golden Book.
I'm New York, people live in a
world bound in by subways, high
buildings, ferry boats and noisy
whistles and roars."- Rudy Vallee,
crooner.
"Nearly all grief which followed in
the path Of early air line ventures
was traceable to incompetent execu-
tive and operations personnel."-Ma-
jor General James e. Fechet.
"At IL, I had never kissed q girl,
despite all my philanderings in their
direction. BUDDY Rogers, movie star.
= +
"The country is far better off to-
day than it was q year ago."-Henry
Ford.
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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Loose Joints

~OSSS
Question: H. j. L. asks: will you
kindly tell me why the bones in my
arms, also my ankles, seem to go right
out of their sockets when I walk or
when I throw my arms out quickly?
MY arms and legs seem to get out of
JOINT which is very painful. 1t does
mt last very long, but happens quite
often.'
Answer: Where the looseness OF
the joints is noticed all over the body
it is a sign of mineral starvation. You
need more foods containing the bone
building materials. These are found
in the n~on-starchy vegetables and
also in the whole grains.
Prunes
Question: Mrs. H. D. asks: do
prunes contain acid?"
Answer: Dried prunes do contain a
small amount of acid, but not as
much as the fresh plum.
Germs and Goitrc
Question: T. M. writes: Il have
been told that I have a goitre, but
my neck is not enlarged at all-you
cannot see a goitre as SO many people
have them. Could you tell me how
I could kill the germ before it takes
effect, and thus avoid having it be-
come larger in time?"
Answer: There is no evidence that
germs have any effect or producing
goitre. The exophthalmic goitre does
not show much except to make the
eyes protrude. You may suffer from
hyperthyroidism, the diagnosis OF
which must be accomplished mostly
by studying symptoms, as the gland
does not appear to change in shape in
most cases. All forms of goitre are
caused from the effect of bodily toX-
ms, and the cure depends upon the
elimination of these poisons.
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A DANGEROUS ARGUMENT 7

I heard Braudford's voice coming
up from the second floor halfway.
He was having an argument with
Mona Devore.
He was laughing and was still
drunk. He came up the steps and
when he entered the room, heI
swayed q little in the doorway. and
surveyed us with the silly drunken
grin on his face.
"Wh- ats-the mat-ter2" he asked.
"Wha:what's happened?"
Nothing. George. Loretta said.
Come in and sit down. We've been
discussing S.a ss. the hypo needle. 49,.
a chair.
."Wha-t-you-wa-nt to know
about the needle?" he asked Thick
WED like to know where the
said. 1.-THE person that murdered
Denny apparently. broke the needle
from the syringe tn the. dark. This
person stir has the syringe"
Sure they have" Bradford said,I
Jane Marsh suddenly sat up. Her
eyes were sad and tired. She looked
at us with a .wistful smile playing
around her white lips.
<A1lu - you !luO t00C syringe 90
you think you've found the mur1
derer?" she asked in q low voice.
I'VE ought to have q pretty good
Idea who did It," I answered.
You might as well give up tryinE
TO find out who murdered Dorn,1
she said. THAT is a secret you win
never discover"
Bradford laughed a little crude-l
~ and drunkenly
"May-be-we-won't," he slut.
tered" But-but-I-can show YOU
where that syringe is"
He got to his feet and walked out.
OF the room. He motioned for us
to follow him.
him. -
How did Brandford come upon
this important information? Read
tom0rrow's installment of this
gripping mystery detective story
! In this nanAr
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KYR
SATURDAY. Is
$50 kilOcycles-S4j.l Meters

On = y uLvu lTl Id
$50 kilOcycles-545.1 Meters
AM. -
7:00-Music.
7:1O-Weather report.
7:30-Special bulletins: u. S. depart
ment OF agriculture.
Rehabilitation period.
8:OO-ShOpperS' guide program.
9:OO-SunShine hour: Myron J. Ben.
nett, conductor.
10:Oo-Opening grain markets; wealth.
er report.
10:57-Arlington time signals.
markets.
11:3O-Organ program: Clara Morris,
markets; Bismarck Trib.
une news and weather; lunch.
Pm. con program.
1:15-ClasSical hour.
1:45-Grain markets.: high, low. and
close; Bismarck Tribune news.
weather, and st. Paul livestock.
2:0O-Musical matinee melodies.
2:3O-Siesta hour: Good News radio
magazine.
3:OO-MuSic.
5:oO-Twilight organ recital: Clara
Morris.
5:3O-StockS and bonds.
5:35-Bismarck Tribune sports items
5:45-WOrld Bookman.
5:50-Bismarck Tribune news
0O-Yo dinner hour music.
6:45-Newscasting.
1:OO-Studio program.
S:0O-Music.
s:oo-Dance program (remote).
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SYNOPSIS: During q gay party in his studio, Denny Dorm,
Greenwich Village artist. is found mysteriously murdered. Detective
Murphy is sure that one Of the guests has committed. the rhine.
Phantom screams and grOans and mysterious footsteps ring through
the house. Two OF the guests are struck down and seriously injured
by an unknown hend, who disappears into thin air. Palmer discovers
that Loretta Whfpple has visited his apartment while he was absent
on the afternoon before Dorm was murdered. Detective Murphy thinks
that she must have taken the green rope. unknown to Palmer. The
two men decide to investigate the mystery of the cellar. but they dis
cover little new, except that the ficnd is still there. Other details
further tangle the solution Of the murder.
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intervening time the owner Of this
handkerchief learned something
that bolstered a resolve to fight on
to the bitter end.
The split second which favored
the owner of that handkerchief to
steal that clue off the table right
under our eyes would have hap
pened only once in a thousand
times. We know now that this per-
son was desperate enough at that
period to do anything. We know
that the solution Of the murder Of
Denny Dorm was within our grasp
and that person took the one long
chance to snatch that solution away
from us and was successful.
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WsSO1nethinG
By E. V.tBURKHOLDER


Copyright. 1890 BY New York. Evening GRAPHIC) :
'TEHE greatest mystery about the murder of Denny Dorm
L was the uncanny manner in which the breaks during
that night favored the murderer. We didn't realize that
then. We were faced with a murder so battling that our
minds CROPPED hopelessly in the dark for some tangible clue
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DR.. Mccoy will gladly answer
personal questions on health and
diet addressed to him. care Of
The Tribune.
Enclose a stamped addressed
envelope for reply.