Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1953 — Page 9

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Bing Forced To Sell To Pay Up On Taxes Forced Sole To Pay On Inheritance Tax HOLLYWOOD, UPi Bing Crosby is having to sell his?race horses, two estates, stocks and possibly some cattle to scrape together enough cash to pay a million dollar inheritance tax. i The crooner is one of the Richest potentates of the plaster city, hut his fortune is tied up in properties. When it comes to collecting dollars, he’s as strapped as many a less well-heeled citizen. The tax came due after the

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death last fall of his wife. Dixie. ! ji 7 • ’ Under California community property iffws. half of thefir wealth was hers. She left it to Bing and their four bovfi. In order to keep half, they have to pay a,n inheritance tax that ‘is elpie to a million dollars.” brother Larry Crosby revealed t< day. ,• "Bing 4tas t 1 liquidate some of ’ his holdings,” Larty explained. I '*Hes already fjold komje stocks .'and bonds. I "They've been making estimates I of the value of j his properties be- , fore taxes. Yofi can’ti get so much ’ when you have these targe es- ; tales and are forced to sell in a hurry. The government has given j him only so inuch time to meet this tax.” , I The world's most famous singer

has put on the fnarket his Holmby Hills mansion, in VVest Los Angeles, for $300,00(1. So far, no takers. You ■ have to have five permanent servants for the Vast place Just to keep the door open. A citizen with a fat bankroll also has a chance to buy the Crosby estate at Pebble Beach, Calif., south of San Brancisco. The Crosby clan spent many a summer there, hard by Bing’s favorite Pebble Beach golf course. "He won’t have to sell his Elko Nev., ranch, but he might stell some of the cattle,” Larry added. Sixty-five race horses owned by Bing and sportsman Lin Hovftird go on sale Thursday at Hollywood Park race track and Friday at their stables at suburban Moorpark, / V

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 23, 1953.

Rough Riders Plan I I I Reunion In August 97 Are Still Listed On Official Roster Washington, up 4-let’s lift a brimming cup in honor of a group of old-timers who aye planning a reunion at Las V£gas, N. .VL, August 7-9. Their ranks now are tHih, and most of them creak in this bones from age. But their spirits still are high and all of those who are left have fond memories. I speak of Roosevelt’s Rough Riders. As of now thei-e remain

97 names on the official roster of the riders. \ , ' Some of them wmn’t be to make it to lais Vegas, but a Jot of others will from the four corners of the country. Some, bf them claiim they still are spry enough to get a leg up on a cow pony and say they are prepared to prove it. Those whoi can't will whoop and holler ft up l •n other manners of the Old West. The riders are the survivors of Teddy Rposevelt’s rough and tumble command in the SpanishAmerican War. These reunions started a year after the fighting stopped. They met first at Las Vegas. Teddy himself showed up and was the life of the party as the boysi sat around the fire qnd chewed over tiheir experiences

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and renewed acquaintances. That year they solemnly vowed j to -continue to,-meet Until death , did them all in. Across the years, the old fight- ' ets dropped off one by one, but at I least ,40 or stt are expected to show up this year. President of the Rough Riders; is old Billy McGinty. He is bent ■ with age now’, but he still wearsj fire in his eyes. He once Was a bronc rider for Buffalo Bill Cody’s | wild wesH sho>v. ? lie will be boosted aboard aj horse to ride at the head of the re-! union parade. At his side, hoisting the flag of the Riders will be Jess i Langdon of New York, chairman of the reunion committee. Stringing behind in the little procession will He the survivors: who can make it up to the stirrup. Trade in a Good Town—Decatur

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