Evening star., 1948-07-29
Times-Herald
.Bequeathedt 10
i Top.Emp|oyes
Mrs. Patterson Leaves
$4,000 Annuity and
Realty to Daughter

Realty to Daughter
Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson
the late owner, editor and pub
Usher of the Washington Times
Herald, left the paper to sever
o. .fs' faran executives, hel
@ e a., . today.
ndIio i',4nx C. Waldrop anc
Louis G. Caldwell, attorney, released
copies of the will to the press at g
news conference a few minutes
after it was filed in District Court
Mrs. Patterson, who died Saturday
of a heart attack at her home in
Prince Georges County. willed all
her personal effects, substantial real
estate and $25,0O0 a year for life tc
her daughter, Felicia Gizycka, the
newspaper announced.
The bulk Of the remaining estate
will go to charities, the account
said.
Paper Left in Equal Shares.
The newspaper and it's building
was left in equal shares to the fol-
lowing executives
William C. Shelton, general man
ager; Frank C. Waldrop, editor-in-
chief: Edmund F. Jewell, advertis-
ing director: Michael w. Flynn, su-
pervising managing editor; H. A
Robinson, circulation director; J.
Irving Belt, mechanical superin-
tendent, and Mason S. Peters, night
managing editor.
Until the property actually is dis
trlbuted to the new owners, it was
said, the executors will have full
power to conduct the business, and
are authorized to form a corpora
ton if they consider it necessary
The distribution must be made
within three years.
The executors we're named as Mr.
Shelton, Mr.. Waldrop, Joseph Brook.
of the firm of Brooks and Kupillas,
insurance and investment broker.
of New York, and Rudolph H. ,Yeat.
man, ST., former attorney for the
mes-Herald, now deceased.
Burial Services In Chicago.
Burial services were held ir
Graceland Cemetery in Chicago yes
terday for Mrs. Patterson, who died
Saturday.
The brief services were attended
by her relatives and executives Of
the Times s-Herald, the Chicago Tri.
bune and the New York News, which
was founded by her brother, the
late Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson
The publisher left her home at Is
Dupont Circle, with certain furnish
ings, to the American Red Cross OF
Washington.
To her friend, Mrs. Lawrence
Wood Robert, went business proper
ties at 1909, 1911, 1917 and 1919 Con-
necticut avenue NV, as we'll as
Mrs. Patterson's famed black pear
earrings and necklace, and a sable
scarf.
Friend Gets Dover House.
The estate at Upper Marlboro,
Md, Dover House, with It's furnish
ings and farm and other equipment
and livestock there, was left to an
other friend, Mrs. Ann Bowie
Smith. Mrs. Smith, neighbor,
also received $25,000 in annual in
stallments of $4,000.
The annual payments will 60 to
Mrs. Smiths son, Darnell, for whom
Mrs Patterson was godmother. in
the event of Mrs. Smiths death.
All the publishers horses and
dogs go to Rhoda Christmas, COL
umnist for the Times-Herald, with
the provision that they never be
sold.
The animals include her French
poodle, Butch" and the circus
horse, War Chief"
, The will provided that if it should
become necessary for Mrs. Christ
mas to dispose of any of the dogs
and horses, "she have them put to
death painlessly."
Mrs. Pattersons secretary, Miss
Margaret Barney, was left $4,000.
Niece Inherits Ranch.
The will left ranch and other
real estate in wyoming to the pub
fishers niece. Josephine Patterson
Reeve Albright, daughter OF her
late brother, Joseph Medill Patter-
son, founder and publisher of the
New York News.
The charities specifically men.
toned to benefit under the terms
of the will include the Cradle So
ciety, Evanston, Ill: the Spence
Chaplin Adoption Service, New York;
the Illinois Children's Home and Aio
Society, Chicago, and the Florence
Crittenden Anchorage, Chicago.
The will gave the trustees discre.
ton to include other legally recog.
nized charities for the aid of chill.
dren, but provided that none be in.
cluded whose earnings go to the
benefit of any private stockholde'
or individual or toward attempting
to influence legislation.
The will also said Mrs. Patterson
would be pleased If son,e income
could go to an organization aiding
Polish refugee children OF Catholic
origin. within the stated boJnns.
In disposing of the newspaper
Mrs. Patterson's will actually left il
to eight men, but provided they
(See PATTERSON. Page A-4D