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Discovery of identity Card Adds To Mystery of Marine; ‘Ghost’RIPLEY, Teen.. Ian. 28 (UP)— The mystery of the resurrected marine. Pvt William Langston Jr.. deepened after the finding on the screen door of a pool kail here yesterday an identification card bearing his name.Whether this was uist another step in ;a hoax, invented to torture his wife, who has since rewed. or actually had some connection with i the wanderings of a '‘ghost” who I claims he is the marine reported | kilted on Iwo Jiina, could not be; determined.Local authorities said no one* resembling the Arkansas marine ihad been seen here. .His trail vanished several days ago near For; Smith, Ark., after his mother, Mr«. Naomi Hendricks, of Jonesboro, Ark., received a letter bearing her son’s name, which she believed ft genuine signature.A letter postmarked “Conway, Ark..” and the card found here bore Langs ton's penciled name and also that of his mother.Langston was reported seen 'yy “friends” at New Port. Ark., twu weeks after his wife. Linda, married former marine CpL Joseph Ossignair at S', Joseph. Mich.
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Altdorf, Bavaria, DE

Tue, Jan 29, 1946

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