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Show Romance Hidden 23 Years Blooms in War Dispatch BALTIMORE, MD. For four months Eligah Powell and his son worked side by side at the Maryland Drydock without recognizing each other, and then an Associated Press dispatch from England brought them together. A chain of unusual events followed. Powell noticed in the story from England a familiar name Pvt. Paul Powell, his son. It mentioned that the soldier's sister, Mrs. Virginia Moreland, lived in Baltimore, and gave her address. Powell went to cal on her, discovered she was his daughter, one of the three children he hadn't seen since he and his wife separated 23 years ago. His daughter told him that the second sec-ond brother, Rupert, was employed by the drydock, in the paint department. depart-ment. Next day Powell introduced himself to his son. The father and his two children arranged a reunion with their mother, Mrs. Bertha Powell. Pow-ell. Both Powell and his wife had remarried and their spouses had died. They remarried within three weeks. |