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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Successful Don't waste time waiting. Get what you want by advertising In the classified columns of this newspaper, others are sue cessful. You should be equally successful. . Medford Tftbune Forecast: Fair tonight and Friday ; little change In tem perature. Temperature; Highest yesterday S8 Lowest this morning 54 Full Associated Press c $1 United Press Tbirty-Third Year MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938. No. 121. Mima am KM V The Capital Parade By Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner Copyright 1937, by The North American News paper Alliance, Inc. DRIVE AGAIV8T SEN. GEORGE DEGENERATING INTO COMEDY MOST FEDERAL OFFICERS SUPPORT NEW DEAL FOE INDUSTRIALISTS ALSO FIGHT ADMINISTRATION CANDIDATE ONLY HARD FIGHT BV F. R. HELD LIKELY TO AID IMS MAN ATLANTA. Oa., Aug. 11. Down at Warm Springs today, the president lis taking stock of the Georgia situation. If he realy desires to destroy Senator Walter P. George, what he finds should make him hopping mid The great White House purge has de generated Into rather sordid slapstick comedy. One would suppose that ihe first step In the campaign against the hated George would have been to mobilize all federal employes behind his New Deal opponent, U.. 8. Dis trict Attorney Lawrence Camp. By Ineptitude and divided councils, this step has been bungled. Three-quarters of the boys on the New Deal payroll are. plugging for George. Working In mass formatlou behind renegade New Dealers are the util ities, the banks, railroads and the large Industries of Georgia. In fact, you have to look twice to tell this group of Senator George's support ers from the fat cats of Pennsylvania politics In the palmy Republican days. Against such a line-up, poor Camp, a decent, personable enough fellow, has got nowhere to date. And the only discernible threat to George comes from the brash, red gallused demagogue. Gene Talmadge, who once tried to make an Issue of Mrs. Roosevelt's disapproval of lynch ing. That Is the picture, as of today. It may be completely changed to morrow. If the president puts on his shining armor and rides into the fray with real enthusiasm. He can dragoon the federal' of flceholrters In to line. He can draw a clear Issue between himself and George. Above all, he can appeal to the voting meases of Georgia, who hold him In adoring respect. He may not win his (Continued on Page Eight.) ASK NMl IN BREMERTON FIRE BREMERTON, Wash. Aug. M(fP) Otto Jarstad, city watershed super intendent, appealed to the Puget Sound Navy Yard today for assist ance In fighting the forest fire which leaped out of control under a strong wind lest night after burning 3.000 acres of tlmberland in the past two and a half weeks. It was moving northeasterly about a mile an hour, seven miles west of here. The city sent 100 men into the ftrellne; the state furnished 30 more and 100 civilian conservation corpsmen were being rushed from Grays Harbor camps. Jarstad said the blaze swtpt 300 acres during the night. SIDE GLANCES .by TRIBUNE REPORTERS Hod W. Wilson going completely nuts over tbe arrival or 4 daughter, ha Buying up all night for the blessed event and fearing the weight would not be published correctly. Toppy Stocka feeling slightly under the weather on account of filling bla tummy with unripe apples. Business Manager Walter rrtverette smiling broadly at the flow of patrona Into the Shakespearean Pestlral the ater. Paul Jennings whipped around and about hla service station driving a tractor, he bumping Into almost everything In sight while grinning all the while. Maude Codding being to busy she waa late to where she waa going and running behind schedule wh!l- hlth ertng and thlthertng. Una B. Inch thinking colic.-', great fun agstn, he taking a dail dozen In the mill race when not Mudylng. $134,000 PROJECT HAS SANCTION OF I CITY, C. OF C HEADS $61,000 Grant From PW.A and $73,000 Bond Issue Favored Finance Needed Improvement City Streets Members of the board of directors of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and city officials, meeting In the Hotel Medford this noon, unanimously decided In favor of the city of Medford making application to the Public Works Administration for a grant of approximately $61 000 and for calling for r bond (lection Immediately to raise about $73,000 to finance additional rcp.ivlng of Medford street. Eugene Thorndike. president of the chamber, presided. The meeting followed directly on the, heels of a council dlscurslon yes terday afternoon with C. C. Hockley of Portland, regional director of the PWA. at which time the council de cided to make application for the grant and call for the bond election, withholding announcement pending the outcome of the chamber meeting today. i To Art at Once. With the wholehearted support of the Jackson'' County Chamber of Commerce, and Interested business men, now assured, the city council will undoubtedly file the 1'WA ap plication at once and call for the bond election as soon as possible. City Attorney Prank P. Farreli stated. The election authorizing .the sale of the bonds will probably be held early In September. Mr. Hockley yesterday assured the city council that the proposed re paving project would bo within ap proval of PWA, but that application would have to be filed Immediately and the bond election called at the earliest possible moment. He also explained that approval of the grant by PWA couldn't be had until the bond Issue was submitted to the public, and that therefore, the bond election would have to be submitted and carried before PWA could give approval. He also explained that such a bond Issue would have to be submitted with the understanding that. In tho event the application to PWA was not accepted, the bonds would not be Issued and sold by the city. It was pointed out at the meeting today that the saving to tho city by the completion of the plan under pwa would be approximately SO 1,000. the amount of the grant. In addition to this direct saving, there will be a substantial Indirect saving to the taxpayers by reason of the fact that many of the pavements are deterior ating very rapidly and will continue to do so during the course of the present reconstruction, It waa ex plained. This deterioration will . be stopped If the pavements are re constructed now. It was stated. C. P. School Wants Gym Also meeting with Mr. Hockley yes terday waa Principal H. P. Jewett of Central Point high school,' for dis cussion of a projected new gymna sium to cost 412,000. a grant of 40 per cent of the total will be asked, with general obligation bonds to provide the remainder, Mr. Hockley stated. Preliminary plana will be submitted by August ao by Clark and Keeney, Medford architects. School district 82, Evans Valley, discussed a tentative application for a grant for the construction of a Bchoolhousc and a three-bus garage. It la planned to hold an election authorizing the sale of warrants. Total coat of the project would be 5000, Mr. Hockley stated. The following resolution regarding the repair project was adopted by the chamber board of directors: Whereas, the people of Medford by their vote In 1937 authorized the city council of the city of Medford to issue bonds of the city of Med ford In the amount of 150,000 and in addition thereto, levy a 3 mill tax annually or approximately $16. 000 for five years for the purpose of reconstruction of the paved etreets or Medford, and "Whereas, the total estimated coat of reconstructing the streets of Med- rord Is approximately ,200. 000, and 'Whereas. It la believed that i PWA grant of (81.000 Is possible pro vided the city of Medford furnish 873.000, and "Whereas, the expenditure of these two sums together with the work now. being done would recondition and place in good condition the streets of Medford and would permit me aiscontinuance of the 3 mill tax levy fr reconstruction purposes, and "Wnerea. thl would result In a saving to the taxpayera of the city of Medford of the amount of the PWA grant, together with furnishing work to the people of Medford dur ing the next twelve months. -Now then be It further resolved, by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce that we believe the Issu ance of additional bonds to the amount of 173.000 and the attain ing of the PWA grant of 141,000 for Surprise Witness Ilu7.pl Tulliut (nbotc). a surprise state witness, testified she saw Fran cis M, Carroll, on trial at South Paris. Me., In the murder of Dr. .lames O. Llltlefleld, "In a parked car" an a road behind tne name or mil Diryrr the nljltt Dr. Minefield was strangled In the Dtvyer home, Site was among the last of the 38 witnesses to testify for the state. IRPLANE TO NEW YORK. Au. 11. f AF) Com pleting the first non-stop night be tween Berlin and New York westward over the north Atlantic ever attempt ed, the four-motored German -transport plane "Brandenburg" came to rest on Floyd Bennett airport today at 11:53 a. m. PJS.T. The 19-ton machine, which nor mally carries 24 passengers but car ried only a four-man crew on the 3.042-mlle trip from the German cap ital, had been In the air for exactly 25 hours. The official time of the flight was 24 hours, 54 minutes, however, be cause arrival was timed- by Its pas sage over the field administration building. The ahlp circled the field several times before landing Its takeoff unannounced, the Brandenburg was on Its way hours before the attempt became known generally. , It had averaged 170 miles an hour up to the time It reached Boston with Copt. Alfred Henke at , the controls. The offices of Deutsche Lufthansa said the flight waa purely expert mental, "to show the feasibility of commercial non-stup travel from Ger many to this country" California Will Grow Game Birds SUSANVTLLE, Calif., Aug. 11. JP) Creation of a bureau of game bird propagation of the division of fish and game, state department of nat ural resources, was announced here today at the conclusion of the monthly meeting of the fish and game commission. August Bade, who Is superinten dent of the California state game farm at Yountvllle. will be chief of the new bureau. The new division will supply game birds to 987 holding pens in north ern and southern California. Salt Creek Tunnel " Is Punched Through EUGENE, Ail?. U.(AP) Daylight can now be seen through the big tunnel being driven .hiough a solid rock ridge near Salt Creek falls on the new Willamette highway. It wis reported here today by P. M. Morse, county engineer. The tunnel Is one of Uie last main projects on the multi-million dollar highway which will speed traffic be tween the Willamette valley and cen tra) Oregon end California points. The tunnel, which is 875 Teet long. Is expected to be completed early this fall. street reconstruction purposes ts a sound business policy and would re sult In a saving and benefit to the people of Medford. and "Further resolve that we suggest that the Medford city council take such action as necewary to submit the matter of a bond Issue to the voters of the city of Medford at as early a date as possible and that application for a PWA grant be forthwith Wed." T FOR PARLEY OVER .DISPUTED BORDER Russia and Japan Agree to Hold Positions Occupied Yesterday Fundamental Issue Is Still Unsolved By the Associated Press A "cease firing' order on the em battled Siberian Manchoukuoan fron tier today ended, at least temporar ily, the danger of large scale Japanese-Russian hostilities. Both sides agreed to a truce after a peace parley In Moscow between Maxim LJtvinoff, Soviet Russian for eign commissar, and Mamoru Shlge mltsu. They areed: I 1. To cease military warfare at Changkureng; 2. To hold positions they occupied at midnight, Aug. 10. (7 a. m. PST yesterday.) The soviet communique, however, specifically stated "agreement had not been reached about the basis for work of the demarcation commis sion." Spark Remains Japan, apparently, refused to rec ognize maps attached to the Hunch un treaty of 18S8 between Russia and China which Moscow has Insisted must be a basts for determining the boundary. The spark that might kindle a new Incident still burned. Troops remain ed In the area and the fundamental Issue still waa unsolved. But the worst of a long series of Incidents along the far western frontier ap peared to be on the road to solution On the China front, . Japanese force thrust westward from Ktuklang toward Hankow. Chinese provisional capital 195 miles up the - Yangtze river. Chinese, however, said they killed 800 invaders in a counter-attack and forced them to withdraw, prolonging the deadlock on the Yangtze's marshy banks. Japanese air raiders heavily bomb ed industrial and waterfront areas In the trl-clty area of which Han kow is a, part. Across the river from the seat of government they dropped explosives on Hanyang and In Wu chang. Fires were started which burn ed rapidly and heavy casualties were feared. Spanish War Spreads Fighting In the Spanish warfare spread to three fronts. Insurgents launched an offensive against the Rio Almaden mining country In southwestern Spain. Tho government said its troops were widening a breach In Insurgent lines south of the Baleguer bridgehead. across the Serge river In western Cat alonia. In southern Catalonia, Insur gents reported they were beginning to put pressure on the Gandcsa pock et. HEPPNER BLAZE RAZES LAUNDRY HEPPNER. Ore.. Aug. 11. (UP) A blaze that threatened the town of Heppner and caused evacuation . of patients In the Morrow General Hos pital, was finally controlled here last night, after doing considerable dam age. The series of fires, four In num ber, started on a woodpile, spread to the Heppner steam laundry, which waa completely destroyed, and then toward the hospital. All patients were carried out, but the fire waa stop ped before It reached the building. Brands were carried by the wind two blocks down the street, where they set fire to an apartment house and then still another block fur ther, where they ignited the roof of a lumber company and several small buildings. DEFENSE RESTSCASE IN TRIAL OF CARROLL SOUTH PARIS, Me.. Aug. 11. (AP) The defense completed today the case upon which It hope to win acquittal for Francis M. Carroll, 43, charged with the brutal strangula tion of elderly Dr. Jamea O. Little- field, a crime for which Paul K. Dwyer, 10. now la serving a life term In prison. ' " The defense paraded 38 witnesses Including the Impassive defendant who. In five hours of testimony yes terday, denied any Implication In the killing and provided an alibi for his whereabouta when the doctor was killed last October 13. NESS RETURNING TO ROSEBURG FOR COPCO MARSHFTELD, Aug. 11. (AP) Clarence R. Cos, formerly of Tilla mook, has arrived here to succeed Thomas H. Ness as district manager of the Mountain States Power com pany. Ness will return to Row burg as district manager for the California-Oregon Power company. BASEBALL American Boston .. - 8 8 0 Philadelphia ........ 5 10 0 Grove, Mackaln, Having. Midklff and Desautels; Caster and Brucker. R. H. E. Washington B 17 2 New York ... 8 8 0 Krakauskas, Appleton, H o g s e 1 1 and R. Ferrell. Gutllanl; Gomes, Mur phy and Glenn. R. H. E. Detroit - 1 4 a Chicago 13 12 0 Lawson. Benton, Wade and York: Stratton and Rensa. (1st game) R. H. E. Cleveland 7 6 3 St. Louie 8 14 1 MUnar, Feller and Hemsley; New- som and T. Heath, Sullivan. Y REFUTES ARTICLE ON INCOME TAXES BOSTON. Aug. 11. P) The Eve ning American, In a copyrighted story, declares "Jamea Roosevelt's to tal taxable Income for the last five yeara waa $170,000." 'The Income figures," the article said, "were revealed to the American by a responsible authority In refu tation of the Saturday Evening Post article, 'Jlmmy'a got It,' which con tained an estimate of the James Roosevelt annual Income as from $300,000 to $3,000,000." The $170,000 figure, the paper as serted. Included the president's son's total from all sources, except bis $10,000 federal salary as secretary and aide to the president. Tho atory tabulated Jimmy's earn ings aa follows: . 033 $31. 000.. "Including .insurance fees, radio and writings."- ,. 1034 $49,000, "largest to data and -still considerably shy of the amount mentioned In the Saturday Evening Post." 1038 $33,000. 1038 $44,000. 1937 $33,000. "On December 38 of 1938." the ar ticle continues, "he resigned aa an official of Roosevelt and Sargent (his Insurance firm) to give hla full time to Washington duties and since then haa held no office In the Insurance firm "But he still retains his holdings In the firm and draws dividends." The paper did not disclose Its au thority but cited Income tax declara tion for the five yeara In question. "The actual declared Income of the president's oldest son was disclosed to this newspaper In refutation of the charge he received enormous in surance commissions. "Actuallly, James Roosevelt's re turned earnings In the last five years were less than the minimum estimat ed for one year In the weekly maga zine article that appeared July 3 " Jamea Roosevelt la convalescing from a stomach ailment at Campo bello, N. B. PORTLAND HOTELS ADOPT OPEN SHOP PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 11. (AP) The Hotel Association of Portland, Involved In a two-month strike with hotel unions, posted notices today to employes the association , members "will In the future operate on the open shop plan." "On and after this date It will not be necessary for any of our employee to maintain membership In any labor organlMtlon In order to hold their Jobs In our employ." the notices ssld. Earl Mclnnea, head of the organiza tion, eald the notices wera posted In all 18 hotels being .picketed. The unions elslmed the association broke Ita contract and refused to grant union recognition. The associ ation asserted that the unions never produced proof of having a major ity of employes. Ti SHASTA FIRES PLACED IN CONTROL SACRAMENTO. Aug 11. (AP) Two forest fires in Shasta count; were reported today by the state di vision of forestry to have been brought under control One west of Ingot covered 1.800 acres of brush. Another north of French gulch waa checked oy a crew of 110 men after It had burned 300 acre, of brush. Near Bull creek In Humbo.dt coun ty, a fire in thirty acre, of brush and scattered timber was introlled during the night, while a 700 acre brush and areas fire In Ke.n county near Woody UkewUe waa checked. P President Names Names in Vigorous Political Speech Also Explains Sup port for Senator Barkley BAHNESVILLE, Qa. Aug 11. (AP) President Roosevelt named namea In tho Georgia scnatrlal pri mary today, and made it completely clear he would not like to see Sen ator Walter p. George or former Gov ernor Eugene Talmaoge receive tho Democratic nomination, "I most assuredly would cast my ballot for Lawrence Camp," tho pres ident ssld, referrlrg to North Caro lina's new doal district attorney. . Speaking at a rural electrification celebration, the president did not mention the name of one candidate In the Georgia aenate race. William G. McRae. Townsond plan advocate. The chief executive, In one or the most vigorous political speeches of his career, said he knew George, Tal madge and Camp personally Mr., Roosevelt referred to George aa "my friend," but sold the sitting senator did not meet the test of liberalism which lsdcslrable In pres ent day government, ' Then, catling Talmadge'a name, the president said: "I have read so many of hla pro posals, so many of his promises, so many of hla panaceas, that I am very certain in my own mind his election would contribute little to practical government. . "That Is all I can say about him." The president referred to George by name several tlmea and said the 'Incumbent "Is beyond ' question a gentleman and a scholar." - At one point In his address, tho president explained why he had sup ported Sen. Alben W. Barkley for re nomlnatlon In Kentucky because of Berkley's experience, and was at the same time opposing George. "In Kentucky," Mr. Roosevelt said, "there was no clear cut Issue between a liberal on the one side and a dyed-ln-the-'tool aonaervative on the other." 1 TOLD BY ADMITTED OF GOONS LOS ANGELES. Ang. 11. (AP Strife within and without the A.P.L. Teamsters' union that waa the pic ture painted for jurors In the trial of nine officers and members of the organization today. Beatings were desorlbed by Paul McKnlght, who turned state's evl dence after pleading guilty shortly after the trial opened McKnlght ad mitted he was a member of the "goon aquad" of the union taking most of his orders from local presi dent, Dexter Lewis. On one occasion; he said, Lewis Instructed him to otn a (Ze'lerbach) Paper company warehouse picket line. When, on the third day a CJ.O picket line was established. McKnlght testified basoball pats were distrib uted and "31 carloads of us went dowt, to the plant." "There were two men running and pulling picket bands off their arms," he declared. "We knew they were C.I.O. men and I believe Da.t Broth ers and Russell Denning got those two." COURT DELAYS RULING ON $30 PENSION PLAN BAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. (UP The California state supreme court today reserved Immediate Judgment on the legality of the state's newest old age pension plan, the "30 every Thursday" proposal which the spon sors call "ham and eggs for Califor nia." Following Townsend'a old age re volving pension plan In some details, the new program would lower the age requirements from 60 to BO and would make the state paymaster ev ery Thursday in turning oven $30 In state warrants to the estimated BOO. 000 persons In California who would be eligible. July Business Surveyed PORTLAND, Aug. 11. Busl neaa Improvements of 8 per cent or more were found In only 43 cities of the United States for July over June, a national advertising concern's sur vey showed yesterday, Portland's bus f Iness Increased 4 per cent, but t raaUwrt 9 per cent below normal. HE Desperado to Cell .; . J V j I Charles Bird (above), and Ills wile, Barbara Selbert Bird, were trapped by Baltimore detectives, and the midwest desperado, the last member of his giing, was held for a scries of armed robberies In Baltimore, Bird. 26, had been sought since breaking Jail with his bank-robbing gang In Cleveland. Ohio, last year, He admitted his flight took him to the west const, to the eastern sea board and finally to Baltimore. Bird Is shown In his Baltimore Jail cell, ASKING PWA AID 1 ROSEBURG. Ore.. Aug. 11. ;p) Letters urging the Oregon state high way commission -to apply to the pub lic works administration for funds to be used In reconstruction of the Pa cific highway, between Roseburg and Grants Pass, and the Columbia River highway, between Portland and The Dalles, were sent out today by the Roseburg chamber of commerce. Tho letters were addressed to Governor Martin, state highway department of ficials and various chambers of com merce throughout the state. The letters propose that the high way commission Issue bonds to pro vide funds for the state's share of the cost of the estimated 20-mll-llon dollar project. Relocation and reconstruction of the Pacific highway between Rose burg and Grants Pas would cost an estimated 8-mllllon dollars, while similar work on the Columbia high way would ooet In the neighborhood of 13-mllUon dollars, the letter states. It Is declared that Increased travel over these two arterial highways wolud provide sufficient revenue from gasoline taxes to retire the bonds. IN BOISE. Idaho. Aug. 33. (AP) Scattered returns added today to the mounting lead of Rep. D. Worth Clark In his successful fight to un seat Sen. James P. Pope, but In creased uncertainty as to the out come of the Democratic second-district congressional race. Complete report from 713 of the 803 precincts in which votes wore cast in Idaho's Tuesday primary gave: Clark. 41,837; Pope, 38,133. Secretary of State Ira H. Masters narrowed former Atty. Gen. Bert H. Miller's margin for nomination as Democratic second district congress man, the post Clsrk will vacate. With 877 of the 418 precincts In the district reported complete. Miller had 9647 votes: Masters 0621, a margin of 136 votes. OF ASHLAND, Aug. 11, (Bpl.) All schools In the city system will re sume Tuesday, Sept. 6., Superinten dent Oeorge A. Brlscce announced to day. Some teachers meetings are scheduled for Labor day, Sept. 5, but no classes are set until the following morning. Registration for the 1938 fall term at Southern Oregon State Normal school will commence Monday morn ing. Sept. 19. with actual clssawork to begin within two days afterward. CANNERIES CEASE BARRETT BUYING IN LOCAIJIARKET Willamette Agents Say No More Purchases Unless Orders Received From Their Factory Offices Local buyers for Portland and Wil lamette valley canneries reported to day that the purchase of Bartletfe pears here had been completed and that no more would be bought unless new orders were received from the factories. It waa estimated that 1000 tons had been sold so far, at 817.50 for No. 1 Bartletts of two and three-eighths Inches In size and tlfi for SVi Inch or larger size. No purchases have been made yet by California canneries. ' Pinnacle Packing company plank No. 1 will start operations at 1 p. m. Monday and plant 8 at the same hour Tuesday. Some packing house have already started packing. It was reported that $8 had been offered for No. 3 Bartletts. Buying to date haa been by tho Reld Murdoch company of Salem, and the Stai Canning company of Portland, It was reported, A represen tative of the Barron Gray company of California arrived Wednesday but has made no purchases it was said. It was reported Wednesday eighty tons of Bartletts from the Axel Ander son orchard had been sold at the $17.50 figure, and the Bartletts on the Van Hoevenberg orchard near Gold Hill at the $lft price The cannery pears were expected, to be dispatched north. within the next two days by the Southern Pa clflo. Additional switching service tort the local yards wilt probably . be added within the next week when all the packing plants are operating. Picking haa started In the early orch ards and all will be picking by tha middle of next week, EUGENE, Aug. 11 (AP) Receiv ership for the Eugene Dally Newt was authorised by Circuit Judge Q. F. Sklpworth late Wednesday after noon, It was revealed here today. Richard B. Hill, a linotype operator employed by tho paper, was named temporary receiver and publication, will be continued pending efforts to , refinance or reorganize ,lt was an nounced. According to Wendell Gray, pres ident of the typographical union local here, the plan of receivership was worked out with the cooperation of the union. B. O. Immel, attorney for the pub Ushers, estimated the paper's total debts approximated 975,000 of which about 840,000 Is covered by mort gages on plant and equipment, tta rest In floating operating debts. Joseph H. Koke. of the Koke-Chap- man Printing company, and ons o? the founders of the paper tn 1930. Is principal mortgage holde accord ing to Immel. IN APPLEGATE MINE BIO APPLBOAT Aug. 11. (Spt.)' A gold nugget nearly as large aa hen egg and weighing 11 H ounce. waa taken from a Squaw creek placer mine a few days ago by Jerry Lovel. miner of the Upper Applegate aafl.: tlon. Other fine old waa sluiced at -the same time, and Mr. Lovel said h had mined about 1379 In the laat ten days. Tha nugget waa found near the Raymond Phillips reslA.noe. . Mr. Ixnel. who jxpeeta to ship the gold and receive $33 an ounce came here from Virginia, and has mined on Kenney creek for tha laat tw years. He expect, to won tn the Rogue river valley fruit industry this Insull'a Fortune $1,000 At Death rrMtranft. , Aut. 11 f API 8am- Tn.uii'a will disclosed today ha waa worth about $1000 when ha died July It In Paris. Th. man who built S $4,000,000.- 000 house of power and once had a fortune estimated at $100,000,000. left the paltry sum that constituted his estate, to the widow, Margaret. Attorney Floyd t. Thompson, for nun counsel for the dethrwd utili ties cur, said the document defi nitely scotched rumors Inauu had a bidden fortune, .