The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 29, 1932, Page 3

ry xs < URES . ly ~~ % ff ® " UNCLE SAMS NEW TAXES WHERE THEY HIT YOU—AND HOW! EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fourth of 20 daily articles ex- Plaining the new federal taxes. By ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer Every time you buy a ticket to a movie, a theater, a baseball game, a swimming pool or any other place of ‘amusement where the admission price 4s over 40 cents, you are helping Uncle Sam raise an estimated $42,000,000 from this source toward balancing his budget with the 1932 tax bill. Tickets costing 40 cents or less are still tax free, but all tickets costing over 40 cents are now taxable at 1 cent on each 10 cents, or fraction thereof, on the whole proce of the ticket. The Jaw says the tax must be paid by the Purchaser. Under the old law the tax applied only to tickets costing more than $3, Thus, if @ man now takes his wife and two children to a movie where Seats cost 50 cents each, he pays an additional 20 cents for tax on the four admissions. If he does this once a week, or 52 times a year, he pays’ Uncle Sam $10.40. It makes no difference to Uncle Sam if the manager gives you a free Pass, since passes are taxable the same as paid admissions. Even dra- matic critics, baseball writers, news- ‘ ee TAX ON BASEBALL AND MOVIES, ETC. LOO ON TICKETS OVER 40 CENTS. vad USERS ALSO PAY | THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE vaper photographers must pay the tax. though admitted free. The tax law exempts only bona fide employes and municipal officers who attend in the course of their duty. There is, how- ever, a special exemption for children under 12 years of age when they are admitted free or at reduced rates. If you want a particularly good seat and you buy your ticket from a ticket broker who charges a commission in excess of the regular price, there is a tax of 10 per cent on this excess, ‘Thus, if you pay a ticket broker $4.50 for @ $3.85 musical comedy seat (ad- mission tax paid), there is an addi- tional 6% cents as tax on the broker's 65-cent commission. The admission tax likewise applies to box lessees and holders of season tickets, regardless of whether they at- tend the games or performances. Re- served seats and other special ac- commodations bear the same rate of tax as admissions, being included in the total price. The admissions tax applies’ to all Scholastic or club games (except high school athletic contests) unless all the Proceeds, not even excepting expenses, go to charity. Not even this exemp- tion is extended to wrestling matches or prize fights, which are taxable under any and all conditions. $9,900,000 PAID IN INSURANCE 10 N. D. CITIZENS LAST YEAR Bismarck Gets $124,000; State 44th in Payments, 38th in Population Life insurance companies paid North Dakota policyholders and beneficiaries $5,900,000 in 1931 ac- cording to the special “Life Pay- ments Localized” number ‘ssued Friday by The National Under-| writer, weekly insurance news- | Paper. North Dakota ranked 44th in life insurance payments while it is 38th in population among all states. If the payments had been divided equally among all people living in North Dakota in 1931 each would} have received $8.67. | Fargo led all North Dakota cities | with $355,000 in life insurance pay- ments compared to $518,000 the year before. Grand Forks was next with! 000 compared to $156,000 in! , followed by Bismarck with] 24,000; Minot, $96,000; Devils Lake, $85,000. The largest individual life insur- ance death payment paid in North Dakota in 1931 was on the life of a Person whose name was not given who lived in Grand Forks for $66,- 639. Other large payments were: Adolph I. Dokken, Kindred, $54,000; Edward Pehl, Ellendale, $40,000. The family of a Devils Lake man was paid $30,000. Life insurance policyholders and beneficiaries in the United States FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932 Missing Girl Fannie Turnbull, 19-year-old Vas- sar college student, disappeared from her wealthy home in Lake mily. (Associated Press Photo) ton L. Ames, Sr., Chicago publisher, left $1,100,000 each in life insurance. Philip A. Koehring of Milwaukee, Frank H. Reed of Kansas City, Mo., Henry C. Kahl, Chicago, and Eleanor F. Miniger of Perrysburg, 0., were the other million dollar policyholders who died in 1931, PHANTOM FIREBUG BUSY Minneapolis, July 29.—(#)— The phantom firebug, believed responsible for a dozen Northeast Minneapolis fires in the last two months, attempt- Wipes Bills from Books; Gets Cash Racine, Wis, July 29—(P)— Thursday night the cash register was tinkling in the grocery of Mike Brusha, and it was a melody not heard very often in the little store of late. Brusha is back on a cash basis, and the money is coming in be- cause Thursday he assured the community he isn’t expecting to be paid for $7,000 written down in his ledgers. In a newspaper ad- vertisement he announced: “Anyone owing us for groceries Please bring in the bill and we will mark it paid. We will appre- ciate the continuance of your Patronage on a cash basis.” The line of old customers reached all the way from his of- fice in the rear to the pickle jar, and before he closed for the eve- ning the beaming grocer had written off hundreds of dollars in small accounts. Grateful patrons thanksd him and most of them stayed to buy something for cash. Hence the melody of the register which Brusha had waited so long to hear. ° Highway Commission Is Letting Contracts Letting of contracts for highway construction to be carried out with federal emergency relief aid funds was in progress before the state high- way commission Friday. The work, consisting of 171 miles grading and graveling, is the first to be let since the recent enactment by congress of the relief bill under which nearly $2,000,000 federal aid funds are advanced to North Da- kota for road building. | |ed to burn the million-dollar building] Projects being let Friday included 113 miles gravel surfacing and 57.72 miles grading. | Forest, Ill, leaving a note saying she felt she was a burden on her and Canada received a grand total | Mart vat ‘ida! of $3,548,949,338 in life insurance | Cregeen ee vator early Friday. payments and loans in 1931. Of ; Little damage was done but oil-soaked Valley City Farmer Invites Hoover To Spend Vacation in North Dakota! Valley City, N. D., July 29.—() —An invitation to President and Mrs. Hoover to visit the Val- ley View Farm near Valley City during the election campaign was sent to the white house in a let- ter Thursday by Halvor Selman- son, manager of the farm and Mrs. Selmanson, They suggested that a stay at Valley View would be restful to the president during the strenu- ous activity of campaign year, would place him in closer contact with the farm situation and would convince farmers that he is interested in their problems, “Ours is just an old-fashioned farm overlooking the prairie,” Selmanson wrote to President Hoover. “Your coming here would help northwest farmers to understand you better and to see that you are interested in their problems. It is our belief that farmers need your protection from harmful legislation, that their interests require the main- tenance of yourself in the presi- dency and that your expression of good-will in coming here would be a tremondous factor in stim- ulating in the return of better farm conditions which already are appearing in the offing.” ipa tian climes | Atthe Movies | . * CAPITOL THEATRE Richard Dix, virile RKO Radio star, will be seen at the Capitol Theatre tonight in “Roar of the Dragon,” a stirring spectacle of the Far East, re- flecting a vivid panorama of the haz- ardous frontier with its stately parade of adventure-seekers. Appearing with Dix is Gwili Andre, famous Danish beauty from Copen- hagen, who makes her screen debut in the film. Miss Andre, about whom Hollywood has been building a legend of mystery and intrigue, is seen as a Russian noblewoman, one of the pa- thetic patricians who have haunted the frontier towns of northern China Truth About Manchuria A striking perspective insight into the Manchurian situation which has plastered the newspapers throughout the nation for months, is presented in “Roar of the Dragon.” Unfolding @ tale of the experiences of a group of Occidental refugees in a small town, the picture is as graphic as a newsreel in its details of the present chaotic condition in China. The love story, between Dix and the exotic newcomer, augmented by an appealing romance between Arline Judge, pert, vivacious ingenue of “Are These Our Children?” and Ed- ward Everett Horton who shares the comedy in the picture with ZaSu Pitts, is set against a background of war- torn China aimed for the ultimate in a new variety of action thrills in- terspersed with tense drama. PARAMOUNT THEATRE When some unknown girl answers the summons of the Goddess of Cinema Fame and goes to Hollywood to play the role of the Panther Wom- | an in H. G. Wells’ “Island of Lost | Souls,” she will be treading the same path that brought fame and fortune to many of filmdom’s most famous actresses, This was disclosed Friday by of- ficials of the Paramount Theater “Screen Opportunity Contest,” which is being conducted to select Bis- marck’s candidate for this nationai competition. Tallulah Bankhead, Nancy Carroll, Mary Brian, Clara Bow, Lois Wilson, Gertrude Olmstead and Florine Mc- Kinney are but a few of the film colony’s prominent personalities who achieved fame via the contest route. Paramount's contest to find a girl to portray the Panther Woman is in Many respects a more promising op- portunity than the ones which brought success to the others. Can- @|conducted throughout the country, | and a motion picture test of each will be sent to Hollywood. The fortunate girl will be given a contract for five weeks at $200 a week, her transportation to Holywood, and hotel accommodations, including meals, for the five-week period, Contest closes at 6 p. m., Saturday.} July 30. The entrance blanks of ai] contestants must be at the Para- mount Theatre at that time. Strange But True News Items of Day (By the Associated Press) Los Angeles—Many of the foreign athletes in Olympic Village don’t know much English, but they can all grin and say “O. K.” Four Argentines said they knew a great deal of Amer- ican. When asked to illustrate, they chorused: “O. K. Hot dog, you bet.” Nice, France.— Andre Spada, Corsican outlaw styled the “over- Jord of the brush,” is defiant. He sent letters to newspapers on the Riviera challenging the French government to come into the Maquis and get him. He said 100,000 Gardes Mobile couldn't catch him. Venice. — Premier Mussolini had time to read the letter of Milena Gu- tierrez, little Spanish girl. She is a student at an Italian school in Egypt and she wrote Il Duce saying she wanted to see Italy. So now she is spending a vacation in the Italian mountains. Rent the Spare Room Bring Results ———— TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY THE CALIFORNIA WAVE NOOK specializes in combination waves, spiral tops with ringlet ends. Com- plete, $3.75 and $5.00. 102 3rd St. Bismarck, N. Dak. Phone 782. HARRINGTON, ig ou Fredricks Vita Tonic, Frigidine Char-Me and other electric baked Processes of permanent waving, now in stock, at $3.00. quality of service. Have only a limited number. Phone 130. FOR RENT—Bismarck’s newest and all modern three and four room apartments. Equipped with new light fixtures, new Frigidaire, new gas stoves, private bath in each apartment and priced to rent at didates for this screen opportunity will be selected by contests now being atmosphere of this stately hotel with the redecoration of its interior now in Progress. On renowned Pennsylvania Avenue, facing beautiful parks, it is convenient to theater, shopping and of the White House and other points ©f historic mterest, and all govern- ment departments. Moderate rates. Excellent cuisine. Collee Shop sight. Call at Nicola’s Apartments 106 Main Ave. Popular-priced {this huge amount, death claims, ma-| tured endowme annuities and additional accidental death benefits Payments on totaled $1,316,337,731. premium savings and values totaled $1,589 ing a total of $2,905,853,076. This is an increase of 10 per cent over the 1930 total of $2,642,000,000, or an} increase of 66 per cent in five years. Policyholders received $643,096,262 | additional in policy loans in 1931,| bringing the total of payments and! loans up over the three and a half bitlion mark. Double indemnity and payments on life have increased sharp ew years. In 1931, ity payments were made, an ‘ease of 24 per cent over 1930 and 94 per cent over 1929. payments totaled $ k ing an increase of $12,756,000 i 931, Double indemnity payments total- ed $27,018,033 in 1931, showing an increase of 7 pet nt over the 1930 total of $25, 61, double indemnit; than twice as mj 60,768. ividual death claim in 1931 was on the life of Lawrence R. Ach of Cincinnati $1,516,500 in life i next three large clai on the li of pub’ Simmons Com- pany, business paper publishers, who Publishing left $1,301 A. Strong of C Zo, publisher of the | Chicago “Daily News,” and Knowl- | while Walter ) Phone 55 | Payments on} in 1931 were more | ch as in 1928, when | who carried | rags and paper were found. AUTO RACES 5 cars—10 miles between 3 and 4 p. m. Saturday at the A. D. McKinnon, chief highway commissioner, said he believes about 500 miles additional construction would be possible under the emer- gency funds, resulting in giving ap- proximately twice as many men em- Missouri Slope Fair, Mandan.|ployment as are now working on WRITE US @ We can help you if you find it hard to shave. Write us about it. Your case will receive individ- ual attention. Gillette Safety Razor Company, Boston, Massachusetts. of Our TOMORROW Is the Last Day SPECIAL TIRE | TRADE-IN-SALE Springfield Tires Up to $20 Allowed on Your Worn Out Tires Don’t try to get the last 500 miles out of old tires. It isn’t worth the trouble. We will make a liberal trade-in allowance for your worn tires and replace them with brand new extra quality Kel- ly-Springfields at so low a price that it will surprise you. Drive in today. Let us appraise your worn tires and tell you how little it will cost to equip with Kelly-Springfields, the finest, longest wearing tires on the market. Fleck Motor Sales, Inc. Buick — Oldsmobile — Pontiac — Cadillac—La Salle—G. M. C. Trucks Bismarck, N. Dak. Toads. About 3,200 men are at pres- ent employed in road building. Three Exhibits Added To Historical Museum Three exhibits have been added to North Dakota's museum of natura! history. The rooms which houses the mu- seum now displays an all-North Da- kota collection—animals not native to the state having been eliminated. The three most recent additions in- clude a trumpeter swan, an immense bird which formerly nested in suit- able localities in North Dakota but with the advance of civilization has become practically extinct, Superin- tendent Russell Reid said. The bird, one of the largest in America, was received from the Universtiy of Norta Dakota. The second is a great blue heron which had its habitat along the Heart river. It still is fairly common in suitable localities, Reed declared. A beaver is the third exhibit re- | cently added to the collection. Bring your old ones. 300 Fourth Street going on! Keep in touch with what’s Laugh at the Worry Wart with you on your Vacation FIRE HERE CAUSES DAMAGE OF $1,000 rived the fire had gained so much headway the building was ruined. The barn was used for storage. SAYS HUSBAND EXTRAVAGANT Chicago, July 29.—(#)—Charges that her husband has lost $2,200,000 in the last two years, most of it in night clubs, were included in a cross bill for Flames Destroy T. W. Asbridge | divorce filed Thursday by Mrs, Audrey Barn on Third St. Early Friday Morning Fire destroyed a barn and an ad- jacent garage at the rear of the T. W. Asbridge residence at 613 Third St. at 2:45 a, m. Friday. The loss was estimated at $1,000 by Harry A. Thompson, chief of the fire department. The Asbridge family was not in the city Friday and it could no be learned whether the Property was insured. The flames were discovered by a neighbor, who turned in the alarm. 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