By JOE CRANKSHAW Herald Staff Writer

Carlos Prio Socarras, last constitutionally elected president of Cuba, exile leader, once a wealthy, western hemisphere leader, left an estate of three sheets of paper and a lot of memories.

Filed according to law in Dade Probate Court, the Prio will contains no division of property, only a recognition of his three sons born out of wedlock and his three daughters born to his first and second wife.

Prio, who shot himself to death at his Miami Beach home April 5, said the document was "my ethical legacy."

The former Cuban president noted that he has recognized his three sons in legal documents years before. He named his daughters and then said he was making no provisions for any of them.

PRIO SAID he had no assets at the time of his death but that he knew each of his children and his wife, Marie Tarrero Prio, were being adequately cared for in other ways.

The new will, drawn by attorney Kurt Wellisch of Miami Beach, was signed only eight days before Prio pulled the trigger of a .38-caliber revolver ending his life.

Wellisch said he could discuss nothing about Prio until he had talked with the family, and that even then he would not discuss what happened to Prio's once sizeable financial and real estate holdings. "I have professional and personal reasons," the attorney said.

Prio was overthrown by Fulgencio Batista, a dictator whom Prio had allowed to return to Cuba, in March 1952. Prio fled to Florida and for the next seven years opposed Batista with words,  thousands of dollars and arms shipments to rebels; including Fidel Castro.

WHEN CASTRO overthrew Batista, Prio returned to Cuba in 1959, hoping that a new day had dawned for Cuba. It had. But the color of the day was Red, and Prio, opposed to Communism, returned once more to Florida to wage war for a free Cuba.

In Florida, Prio joined Batista exiles in opposition to Castro and scored his biggest diplomatic victory in 1974, when he led a delegation of exiles to an Organization of American States meeting to protest the lifting of sanctions on Cuba.

OAS members rejected the removal of the sanction and Prio returned to Miami to be met by a large cheering crowd of exiles. He was not to see another, the next large crowd escorted his casket to its grave the day after his death.

Informed sources say that Prio divested himself of his empire here and in Puerto Rico because he had sustained severe financial reverses and feared his family would be left penniless.