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Show HcAdoo to Fight Pittock Will; Heirs ! 1 Ready for Contest j PORTLAND, Ore., April 15. Heirs j of the late Henry L. PittocS, j millionaire publisher of the Ore-gonian, Ore-gonian, who died here a few weeks ago, have retained W. G. McAdoo, ! former secretary of the treasury, as i associate counsel in a proposed at-tempt at-tempt to break the Pittock will, Fred F. "Pittock, a son, announced today. Mr. McAdoo is on his way back to New Tors after a conference with heirs of the estate, it was said today. to-day. The estate was valued by appraisers ap-praisers at nearly S3. 000.000. Legal i steps to break the will are to be taken shortly, attorneys for the family fam-ily stated. Under the terms of the will, the estate of the late publisher was to be ieft in trust for twenty years, during which time the heirs would derive a stipulated income from it. This and other features were unsatisfactory unsat-isfactory to the heirs, including Fred F. Pittock, a son. and Fred W. Lead-oetter, Lead-oetter, a scn-in-iaw of the deceased. . i |