Evening star., 1944-04-23

1t will be baseball night begin
ming at 6 pm. Wednesday at the
Mayflower Hotel with the Traffic
Club of Washington playing host
to the Nationals, Red Sox and the
sports writers of the Capital.
Clark Griffith and most of his
baseballers and Joe Cronin and his
apple e-tossers from Boston have &C
cepted the invitation for the dinner
at which Arch Mcdonald will be
master of ceremonies and Nick Al
trock will supply the comedy touch.
1t will be a memorable meeting
for the Traffic Club with the newly
elected officers presiding over the
affair. These include: President
Charles A. Miller of the Chicago g.
Northwestern Railway, Vice Presi-
dents Rowland E. Dobbins of the
Food Distribution Administration
and Gaylord F. Allen of the Union
Pacific Railway, Secretary Treas
urer Charles E. Milford of the
Finance Office, United States Army
Board of Governors includes Wal
ter w. Coe, junior administrative
officer, Marine Corps; G. N. Smull,
Navy transportation specialist; 1t
Col. I. c. Olsen, War Department
transportation; Arden w. Lloyd
Wheeling g. Lake Erie Railway Co.
and C.. A. Cromwell, Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railway Co.
Gaylord F. Allen, general agent
for the Union Pacific, was given a
party here last week by 200 of his
associates and friends in Govern
ment services. Mr.. Allen has been
transferred to San Francisco, where
he takes over the post of general
freight agent. F. S. Payne, from
the railroad company's general of :
fees in Omaha, takes over Mr.. AL
lens post.
The fence which property owners
put around the famous footprints
of Bath in Beaufort County, N. c.,
has been removed and attempts to
capitalize on the legend given up,
at least for the duration. But the
footprints are there and belief in
North Carolina's ghost story per-
siSts.
In 1913, according to the legend,
a profane man, named Jesse Ell
lott, and some wayward COM
panions were racing their horses of
a Sabbath morning. Elliott fell
behind in the race and, spurring
his steed madly, shouted to the
animal to take him in winner or
take him to hell.
Whereupon the obliging animal
is said to have dug its hoofs In
the soft earth in two mighty leaps
and hurled the rider against q
nearby tree, killing him instantly
Ever since the prints made by the
horses hoofs have resisted eradi-
cation and awed natives think
Elliott was riding Old Harry him
self when he got his neck broken.
If you don't believe in tall tales
you have to believe in the prints
There are eight slight depressions
in the soft earth, so spaced they
suggest horses hoofs. The tracks
no larger or smaller-persist in the
face of the elements. Oldest in
habitants say that when they were
children they would fill the pits
with dirt and, on returning later
would find the tracks fresh again
One practical observer suggests
the pits persist because they are
vents for some. underground pocket
of water. or air, or are the. result
of salt veins.
Bath is fitting setting for such
a tale. Oldest town in North Caro-
lima, 1t once was a. rendezvous for
Blackboard the pirate, who there
met and reputedly trafficked with
Tobias Knight, Secretary of State
The village never grew, moreover
and this also is said to be due to
Divine intervention In 1889 George
Whitfield, evangelist, wrote from