New Britain herald., 1925-09-01
Mellon Assessed Over a Million - Chicago Reports Show Big Payments Presi- dents Tax S14,OOO.
COOLIDGE CONVINCED
 PUBLICITY DISLIKED

New York. Sept. 1 Rt--John D. Rockefeller, Jr, paid income taxes of S6,277.669 for 1924, it became known today when the tax lists were made public. This was the largest amount paid by an individual in the downtown Manhattan district, which includes Wall street, MT. Rockefel- Ter paid income taxes of $7,435,16s for 1928.
 John D. Rockefeller. sr., paid taxes of $12s,420. J. Pierpont Mor- gan's tax was s574,S7s, E. H. Gary's. $S22,6S0 and Charles E. Hughes S1,554.
 John W. Davis, democratic presi- dential candidate in the last election. paid taxes of s4s,5Ss.
 John D. Rockefeller. sr.is pay ment this year was over $4,ooo less than the previous year, while J. P. Morgan's tax took big jump. Tho latter's tax in 1923 was sss,643. Barthelmess Pays $24,80O
 Richard Barthelmess. movie acter, paid s24,sos.a3: Charles scribner, publisher. s53,662.O2; Charles E. Mitchell, banker. $1sf,02o.74. Otto H. Kahn paid s391,77s for last year. compared with s1s4,ss3 for 1928. Frank D. Waterman, re- publican candidate for mayor of New York in the coming election, paid s7,SS5 for 1924. F. W. Wool- worth company's taxes for 1924 were s2,63s,943. James Montgomery Flagg, the artist, paid $4,362. Thomas w. Lamont, partner in the firm of J. P, Morgan, paid s4se,- TAI for 1924. and Mrs. Lamont paid ss1,6so. Max D. steuer, lawyer paid s19S.455 and Simon Guggen. helm. $231,0o0. The Fleischmann Yeast compans's ta:; wag s1,sso,1ss.
 Woman Brokers Tax
 Mary L. Barbee, a woman broker in Wall street. paid s1l1,030.
 James Stillman Roekefeller's pay. ment was $6.751, and William A. Rockefoller'sj was s5,17s. Waldorf Astor's payment was $7o,2oI and that of E, T. Bedford, chairman ot the board of directors of the Stand ard oil company (New Jersey. was S2S5.S90.
 Taxes paid by eight Vanderbilt individuals and estates totaled S27G,- 939, compared with s31a.4S7 the previous year. The estate of Cor nelius Vanderbilt, which paid $16.- S94 In 1923, made payments of $16,- S69 for 1924. Reginald G. Wander bilt, who paid s54,s9S for 1928. paid s44,oo6 for last year. The estate of the late William K. Vanderbilt paid s402,20s for 1924, with no figures given for 1923.
 Other payments were: Payne Whitney s1.676,626: Mortimer H. schiff, s45s.41O; Clarence Dillon. broker, sS7,6S4: J. H. Wiggin. bank CT, $2o4,013: Delaware, LackawannA & Western railroad. s2,000,s6s: Ma tional Biscuit company s2.o4s,sef; Ed. Wynn. actor, s1,235; Al Jolson. comedian, sS3,744; William H. Hardness, s134,126.
 John Jacob Astor, s7o,2of; Lionel Atwill, actor, s1,16S; George ". Pynchon, broker, $196,s37.
 Thomas F. Ryan, $7sl,s51: Vim cent Astor, s642,600; Frederick ". Vanderbilt, s7s2,sS6; Henry W. Taft s5s,506: P. A. s. Franklin, steam ship man. sso,Ss4; estate of the late Charles F. Murphy. Tammany lead CT. sT17.
 Jack Dempsey, heavyweight cham. pion, paid s2s7. and his manager, Jack Kearns, s52.
 Chauncey M. Depew paid st25,sse and United States Senator Copeland. s1.27S.
 Fannie Hurst, novelist. sTTos Alexander Smith Cochran. carpen manufacturer, s271.54s; The Press Publishing company. ss6,s72; Julis lMarlowe Sothern, actress, s1,sss.
 United States Steel corporation paid s11, ,oo5.21a: Standard oil conn pany of New York and affiliated companies. s2.sss.4SO: William Ram dolph Hearst s42,2ss; Vincent Lc- peg, composer. s4is; Anna Pavlcus. dancer, $S1s: Bernard Baruch. s26s,142; John Philip Sousa. band master. s11.SS2.