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ANYTHING WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? X X X x ^ .-t ^y.r—-ri-r-iiimiomMi—BUM— Star-News readers coking at this picture are helping to make history. Someday, this photograph may appear on tne cover of the Journal of the American Medical association as the first picture test of a human s mental stability. If you look at this picture and see nothing but an ordinary At lantic Coast Line Kaiiroad company trestle at Maco station, 14 miles west of Wilmington, you do pot believe in ghosts. 11, however, you see a hciadless train conductor walking along the trestle in the picture—web. yon reL , ® a host of other New Hanover and Brunswick county citizens who attest to the fact that Joe Baldwin's Ghost Light” is a fact and not a myth. Pete Knight, Star-News photo grapher who snapped the picture, didn’t see the headless conductor when he clicked his shutter. But when he developed the negative, there was the hunk of ectoplasm as big as life. At night, the legend goes, Joe Baldwin, a conductor killed in an accident near Maco about 1867, carries his eerie lantern across the trestle as he looks for his head; obviously, since this picture was taken in day light, Joe didn t need his lantern. legend Of Headless Trainman Grows With Passing Of Years --M— -— It was in 1889 and the president ial train bearing Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, paused near Maco station, 14 miles west of Wilmington on the Atlantic Coast Line railroad, to let the train, a wood-burner, take on wood. The day was balmy, so Presi dent Cleveland alighted from his coach to take a stroll along the tracks. While walking along, he saw a train signalman with a red and a green lantern "Tell me,” said the President, “what is the purpose of carrying two signal lanterns?” Before the presidential train be gan rolling toward Wilmington again, President Cleveland had the full story of “Joe Baldwin’s Ghost Light.” He also found out that the two lanterns were used at Maco station so that ACL engineers would not be deceived by the ghostly weaving of the Joe Bald win light. B. M. Jones, of the auditing de partment of ACL, was on the scene when the presidential train stop ped. He was a small, barefooted boy, but he remembers well hpine hoisted up so affable President Cleveland could shake his hand. He also remembers the Joe Bald win light. “One night I was in a group of boys who were walking along the track,' Jones says, “when we saw the light. It seemed to be weaving along, directly over the tracks at a height of about five feet. Then the light described an arc and landed in a swamp beside the track." The legend of the Joe Baldwin ghost light was born in 1867. In , that year, a section of the ACL track near Maco station was re built. During that primitive era of railroading, rail cars were joined by pins and couplers. Joe Baldwin, the legend has it, was a conductor or a car that became uncoupled and crashed into another car, kill ing him at the trestle, first Appearance Shortly after the fatal accident, he mysterious light appeared. cores °f witnesses say it still ap pears. A popular explanation for * is that Conductor Baldwin, de capitated in the accident, is taking e nocternal trips in search of his lead. And in 1873, railroad men th5, a se.con<f light appeared and , e two iights, shining with the ii^ness of a 25-watt electric 6. bulb, would meet one another *>°mg in opposite directions. took an earthquake to stop Joe aidwin’s nightly jaunt. For a Z . . after the ’quake of 1886, , hghts disappeared. Soon entf68 i’ however, weaving sil twcti 3 ong the tracks near the i. ' e’ they reappeared. Folks ’t'en that Joe Baldwin was k. "? In search of his head; may • Mey ^peculated, the other light tody 06 S kead *n search of his ghost light story gained in:(„nct, enough to cause a Wash m n’ D- C., investigator to visit 6?Caand try to explain the thing for Really. But Joe was too fast vin^1!-' He saw enough to con not e..hln?’ he said> the lights were caller)^3iCk odanterns’” °r. as he ied ft. “ignis fatuus.” Fort1^^116"81111 detachment from Mar! , gg encamped briefly in or at t° *ry t° solve the mystery, neither St perforate iL They did era! ff'Ll operations official, vet J?* 40 years of railroading, has » seen the light from the in,t J a locomotive. He knows of stances when the trains stopped ” ““t of it. On at least one oc whom v,he and the engineer with for ,! h.e. was riding began to stop tu e when it disappeared, the ,,CLACL employes have seen ter6 ,ght. recently. J. R. Blinn, af deri Wing n from the south, cir north an.'?T( looked at it from the lighth: , 11 definitely is not car l0np because the light lasts too says Blinn. “It also rises BARDEN TO SPEAK ON DUKE PROGRAM • DURHAM, Feb. 23.—(B>)—Princi pal speaker at Duke University’s commencement exercises to br held at Page auditorium Monday morning, 11 o’clock, will be Con gressman Graham A. Barden, from the Third district, chairman of the house committee on education. Dr. Wyatt A. Smart, professor of Biblical theology at Emory Uni versity, will deliver the com mencement sermon in Duke Uni versity Chapel, 11 o’clock tomor row morning, as a part of the graduation program. Degrees at Monday’s exercises will be conferred by Dr. Rober L. Flowers, president of the uni versity and commissions will be presented by Capt. A. N. Kowal zyk, Jr., USN, in charge of the Duke unit. Forty-five candidates will be eligible for graduation at the mid winter commencement Monday Thirty-eight are to receive com missions as ensigns. Men to be commissioned have been trained ir the ROTC unit at Duke; seven will be graduated under the V-12 pro gram, which include commission ing at graduation. Fifteen men are candidates for the degree of A. B25 men and two women are candidates for the degree of B. S.; and three men are candidates for the degree of B. S M. E. It is estimated that before the war, one-third of the U. S. fami lies had incomes under $1,000 a year. and falls, being visible for five minutes at a time before it disap pears.” A. B. Love has seen the ghost light, says he knows the explana tion for it lies in the realm of na tural phenomena, but that he can’t explain it. Miss Frankie Murphy is another witness. “Sometimes,” Miss Murphy says, “it (ghost light) is so bright that you can read by its light. It rises up from the side of the track, comes toward you and disappears. You can see the reflection along the rails.” Recently some heedless young sters have adopted the dangerous habit of parking across the Maco railroad tracks for a better view of the lights Unless the practice is stopped, say ACL officials, Joe Baldwin is going to have company. Negro Stab Victim’s Condition Is Termed “Fair” At Hospital Luke D. Dargon, Negro, 167 Wood street, who was seriously wounded in a fight at Del Morroco club Friday remains in a “fair” condi. tion in Community hospital, accord ing to hospital attaches. Dargon is sufferring from stab wounds in the right side and should er, lips and minor lacerations of the body. Junior Johnson, Negro, 1218 S. 12th street, is being held in jail under $1,000 bond for appearance in Recorder’s court March 1, on charges of assualt with a deadly weapon with attempt to kill in connection with the incident. 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Lost Colony Re-Opening To Be Planned At Parley _ --- - Trustees Of Roanoke Island 1 Association Meet In Raleigh Tuesday RALEIGH, Feb. 23.—(AV-The board of trustees of the Ronaoke Island Historical association will 1 meet here Tuesday to lay final 3 plans for the reopening this sum- 3 mer of the pageant-drama, the f Lost Colony, in Ronaoke island’s 1 outdoor theatre. s Former Governor J. M. Brough ton, chairman of the board, said c plans would be laid to raise a fund c of approximately $75,000 needed to 1 rebuild the theatre, and for initiat- l ing a mation-iwde publicity cam paign. 1 Samuel Seiden of Chapel Hill, 1 head of the Carolina Playmakers 1 and director of the Lost Colony production, which was written by Paul Green, native author and play write, will report on plans for re- 1 vising the play and assembling a , cast. » \ Albert Q. Bell of Manteo, who is < in charge of reconstructing the theatre on the site of Old Fort y Raleigh, also will report at the \ board meeting. Broughton said many islanders ] would be used in the new cast as ( they were in the past, and several ( Carolina playmakers probably will be assigned roles. During previous performances of the drama, the islanders and playmakers made up , the largest part of the cost, but j several major roles were taken by c actors from the WPA’s New York : stage. These no longer are avail able. Broughten said he had received word from Green, who is now in Hollywood, that he had completed the revision script for the new pro duction. However, Green will not be here for Tuesday’s meeting but < probably will return from the west j coast in time to assist with pre- : liminary tasks. j While a definite date for reopen- c ing the drama has not been, set, e Broughton said the date had been tentatively set for July 1. VISITOR RECALLS TOUR HERE IN ’18 J. C. Larmondra, Derry, New lampshire, returned to Wilmington esterday after an absence of 28 ears to see if he could renew riendships formed in the first Vorld War period when he spent ! everal months in the city. Time has erased from Larmon ra’s memory names of his ac uaintences of 1918, but "he does emember that Wilmington “is an nusually good town.” “I had some fine times here,” e said. “One of my best friends— can’t recall his name—was a :ontractor of German descent. We ased to sit for hours in the Elks dub here playing pinochle.’’ Larmondra came to Wilmington Dct. 10, 1918, to recruit candidates or an officers’ training school in !amp Freemont, Calif. He stayed ere until after the Armistice was igned. En route to his New Hampshire j ome from Jacksonville, Fla., diere he had been to visit his son,’ .armondra visited the Elks club ast night in a effort to pick up lues as to the whereabouts of his ild friends. He still had a courtesy nembership card to the Elks club liven to him during his 1918 visit. “I would certainly like to see ome of the fellows I knew then,” ,armondra said wistfully. “We had ome fun together.” Bronchial Coughs Bronchia! Irritations Due To Colds Sufferers will find Buckley’s brings luick relief from persistent, nasty, rritating coughs, or bronchial irri ations due to colds. But be sure ou get Buckley’s CANADIOL Mix ure — made in U. S. A. — by far the irgest selling cough medicine in old, wintry Canada. 45c-S5c—At ruggists everywhere. FGTRETTE’S PHARMACT LANE’S BROOKLYN PHARMACY H. L. GREEN CO. New Arrivals for THE HOME 7 -in Our Gift Department PASTRY CLOTH AND ROLLING PIN COVERS 1-00 Specially treated mildew resistant, odorless and water proof cloth that dough will not stick to—makes pie crusts thinner. - ■*» ALUMINUM ROASTER 650 Oval aluminum roaster—just the shape for a 10 to 14 pound fowl and a. 12 pound ham. Self basting top with handle on cover. 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The training in this area will be conducted by Mrs. Myrtle Watters who will train personnel in Lum berton, Feb. 26-27, Fayetteville Feb. 28-March 1, March 7-8 and March 12-13. I " - THE COLONEL IS TRIGGER HAPPY FORT OGLETHORPE, Ga.—(ff) Col. John A. Hoag, commanding officer of Fort Oglethorpe, not ,only is an ardent collector of fire jarms but from the models on his _FIVE-A shelves he designs his own gum and tailors them to his shooting tastes. Until about 100 years ago, books were usually bound in wooden boards or temporary covers. 3* Drs. Palmer and Reynolds (optometrists , PHONE 4004 t Syes Sxamined—Q lasses Sfit fed UPSTAIRS OVER H & W CAFETERIA ! ./ '* *; • ' * 120 Princess St. -- l THOUSAND of YARDS!! Beautiful SUP COVERS and DRAPERY MATERIAL Per Yard - - -*4 36 INCH AND 50 INCH WIDTHS Stripes! Solids! Florals! 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