Show harding estate value WIDOW IS beneficiary WILL WUL IS TO BE SOON washington aug 12 the lato late resident Peet Pes dent ident harding was worth about three quarters of a million dollars at the time of his death and anci most of this will go to mrs florence kling kilns harding his widow he ile made a new will shortly before ho he left washington last june for alaska and arranged all his personal affair affairs so that in event of his failure to return alive they would be in such soch shape as to five give his widow the least concern and worry after his death the harding t will Is not to be filed in washington for the very good reason that ho he owns no property here except personal effects at the white house and funds in tho the hank bank it la Is learned that the will Is to he be flick at marion ohio probably during the coming week and that it will be probated in the old courthouse at that place the will die dia poses of an estate worth it Is stated about and mrs harding Is the chief beneficiary she will not receive the entire estate as thoro there are some minor bequests to persons continued on page 4 column four NG VALUED AT continued from page a 1 column one mr hording harding wished to remember in thia this way in addition to being th tho 10 chief benefi beneficiary clary named in tho the will mrs harding arding li is already well to lo do in hor her own right she la Is not a rich woman hut but has a considerable cabato tate of 0 her own the principal item in tho the estate of the late president proal dont la Is hia his share in the proceeds of the recent sale of the marion star in which he owned a controlling interest until his recent ealo sale of that control shortly before hia his departure from washington for alaska tho the making of hie his now will the sale of his control in the marion star the doing away of hie his recently purchased farm near blooming grove ohio where he lived as a boy and tho the reorganization of hie his financial investments were all undertaken by mr harding just befaro ho he started for alaska as part of his plan for putting his amuse in order in anticipation of the possibility that ho might never return alive besides tho the proceeds of the sale bale of tho the marion star and of his house the president had financial investments and other property in fix ohio worth about he owned bank stock stock in the building and loan association at marion and it Is learned was identified as a director or otherwise with many of the leading enterprises in marion the names of the minor beneficiaries of the hording harding will could not be ascertained tribune |