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tO Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Teh. 8, 1950
Inheriting $5 Million Fortune
Said 'Particularly Gratifying
New York, Feb. 8 W) Hollls Powers Gale felt today like a man
Who had Just been handed a $5,000,000 fortune that 172 other
people had been after.
Because that is just what happened.
And the sensation, says Gale, is "particularly arat!lylng"
Gale, a New York business-
man, was adjudged yesterday
the sole heir of the multi-million
dollar estate of the aged re
cluse, Mary Bullock Powers.
Miss Powers, who had lived
the last quarter century in a
strange shut- away- from- the
world solitude, died without a
Will 20 months ago, and set off
a transatlantic scramble for her
millions.
Men and women In this coun
try and abroad 173 of them
put In their bids for the money,
claiming various degrees of kin
ship. Two men claimed to be
Illegitimate sons.
After months of hearings, Sur
rogate (Judge) WiUiam T. Col
lins sorted through the claims,
finally eliminating all of them
except that of Gale, a first cousin
once removed.
His paternal grandmother was
the sister of Miss Powers' fath
er. None of the claimants, ruled
Collins "was equally or more
closely related" to Miss Powers
than Gale.
Miss Powers, who was 72
when she died, lived her last 26
years shut in a midtown hotel
room. She saw almost no one
except the waiter who delivered
her one meal a day, the hotel
manager who collected the rent
three times yearly and her phy
sician.
She had no radio, took no
newspapers, did her own laun
dry and room cleaning, and
dressed in the fashions of 1900.
Gal, a 58-year-old executive
of a carton company, comment
ed on learning of the court s
decision:
"This is particularly gratify
ing because she had always an
ticipated that after the death of
my father I would Inherit her
estate. He and she were first
cousins and were very fond of
each other. '
He said he knew Miss Powers
'would be pleased by this de
cision."
"She was a gentle and courte
ous woman if afraid of the
world," he added.
Gale's estimated Inheritance
tax will take at least $2,000,000
",....
Because 'of receiving the for
tune, he said, he intends to
"spend more time in what ways
I can to Improve our foreign relations."
He said he Is particularly in
terested in the Far East, where,
he said, "we have made a mess
of it" and where the tragedy is
that there appears to be no solu
tion.
Gale was a Red Cross director
at Hong Kong when war broke
out and was interned by the
Japanese. Returned here as an
exchange prisoner, he later serv
ed briefly with the United Na-
Officers Shifted
On Mighty 'Mo'
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 8 () The
mighty battleship Missouri
freed from the mud, her dam
aged bottom shipshape today
was bucking the waves of the
open sea.
She will race througti tne At
lantic for two days on a test run.
and return to the Norfolk naval
base Thursday. There she will
reload for her interrupted train
ing cruise to Guantanamo, Cuba
Meanwhile three of her top of
ficers serving aboard her when
she ran aground Jan. 17 will
stay behind to explain to a naval
court of inquiry. They have
been temporarily replaced by of
ficers who had the same posi
tions on the ship last summer.
Defendants are the ship's skip
per, Capt. William D. Brown,
her navigator, Lt. Comdr. Frank
G. Norris, and her operations of
ficer, Comdr. John R. Millett.
Millett was named a defendant
yesterday after he told the court
he had confused shallow water
buoys for deep water buoys Just
before the ship plowed aground
in Chesapeake bay.
Capt. H. P. Smith, who preced
ed Brown as skipper, was back
in command of the Missouri to
day. Comdr. Harold D. Fuller
is back as operations officer, re
placing Millett, and Lt. Comdr.
Harry W. Hall Is back as navi
gator in Morris place. Comdr.
George E. Peckham continues as
executive officer.
Tot Gets Cardboard
Box Oxygen Tent
Denver. Colo.. Feb. 8 U.B
Fourteen - months - old Ronald
Gene Syslo was kept alive by
oxygen fed into a cardboard box
while he was rushed 50 miles
to Children's hospital here.
The improvised oxygen tent
was rigged by ambulance driver
Robert Baxley after the infant
fought against efforts to fit him
with an .oxygen mask for the
emergency trip. Baxley cut a
tions relief and rehabilitation ad
ministration in China.
He and his wife have one
child, Mrs. Virginia Linderking
of Pasadena, Calif. The Gales
live in Queens.
Miss Powers had inherited
most of her money from her par
ents much of it in mining prop
erty and the rest piled up from
dividends she rarely cashed.
hole in the top and sealed cello
phane over it so the terrified
child could see out.
Suffering from bronchial
pneumonia, Ronald was still in
serious condition today.
Flag Etiquette Topic
Monmouth The regular
meeting of the American Le
gion and its auxiliary will be
held Thursday at 8 o'clock. In
recognition of Americanism
month the chairman. Mrs. Har
vey Young, will discuss flag eti
quette. Mrs. Lester Green has
appointed Mrs. Hal Snair chair
man, Mrs. Oscar Groves, Mrs.
Harvey Young and Mrs. Abel
Reid to preside as hostesses for
the regular meeting and social
night.
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