Evening star., 1925-09-01

Montgomery Flagg, the artist, paid
s4,3sf.
Taxes paid by eight Vanderbilt an
dividuals and estates totaled $275,92S,
compared with s3i9,487 the previous
year. The estate OF Cornelius Wander
bilt. which paid si6.Ss4 In 1923, made
payments of Si6,869 for 1924. Regt-
maid @. Vanderbilt, who paid s5%,ss8
in 1928. paid $4,000 last year. The
estate OF the late William X. Wander
bilt paid S402, zoe for 1924, with no
figures given for 1923.
Thomas w. Lamont. partner in the
firm of J. p. Morgan, paid SASo,7 al
for 1924. and Mrs. Lamont paid $751;
$50. Max D. Steuer, lawyer. paid
Sl98, 455, and Simon Guggenhetm $751;
600. The Ffeischmann Yeast Co.'s
tax was $1,3So,166.
Ryan Pays $7ei ,s5i.
Mary L. Barbee. a woman broker
in Wall street. paid s111 $50.
James Stillman Rockefelier's pay
ment was $6.751 and William A.
Rockefeller's was $6i78. Waldorf
Astor's payment was $40 POI, and that
Of Il. r. Bedford, chairman of the
board of directors of the Standard OIL
Co.. was s236,39o.
Other payments were: Payne Whit
ney, s1,678,626; Mortimer L. Schifr,
s459,410; Delaware. Lackawanna and
Western Railroad, 2,000 ,868; National
Biscuit Co, s2.04s,807; Ed wynn
actor, s1.285; Al Jolson, comedian.
33,744; William III. Hardness, SlSA.
l2s; John Jacob Astor, s70,20f; Lionel
Atwill, actor, $i,l68.
Thomas r. Ryan, s7s1,s51; Vincent
Astor, ss42, 900; Frederick w. Wander
bilt, sTS2 ,sss; Henry W. Taft. sos pos;
p. A. s. Franklin, steamship man, $50
Ss4: estate of the late Charles #. Muir
phy, Tammany leader, s7l7.
United States Steel Corporation
! paid $11, ,005 .2ia; Union Pacific Rail
| road, ss,53o,755; Standard on 60. OF
New York and affiliated companies,
| 81, ,336, ,436: Western Union Telegraph
Co, 81 ,494, Sol; George r. Baker, tr.,
S7S3 ,zO6; George r. Baker, sr., s7s2. .07e;
| William Randolph Hearst, SA2 .z5s
| United States Polo Association, xl2.-
l4s: Vincent Lopez, composer. s4ls;
Anna Pavlova, dancer. $s1S; George
w. Wickershanl, s47.3lo; Bernard Ba-
ruch, s26s,l42; John Phillip Sousa,
ban6mas ster, Sl1, 1872 Princess Ance
Obolensky, $6s, ,ss2.
Stillman's Tax, s52,45S.
The bonding firm of Sinnott s. Canty.
Inc, whose accounts have figured In
the political news of New York s
nayoralty campaign, paid s4.i76.
Clarence II. Mackay of the Com
mercial Cable Co., S520,44s; James A.
! Stillnnan. s52 ,46s: Felix Warburg, s47,-
4o4, New York Life Insurance Co, 81
| 523.233: Fox Film Corporation. s2l5,-
| III: American Railway Express, S246,-
| 1856; All America Cables, s4s5.52S.
Ford's Total ce.ooo, 900
DETROIT, September oP).-Henry
| Ford and Edsel Ford, his son, together
with the Ford Motor CO., paid the
/ largest income tax on 1924 earnings In
! the first Michigan district, figures
| made public today revealed.
Henry Ford paid So SOS. .sos.s5, Edsei
Ford paid s2,l5s,e56.ss and the Ford
Motor Co. paid SIG ,4s3,iSo.si.
! Coolidge Tax Increases.
BOSTON, September 1 F).-Presi-
| dent Coolidge paid income tax amount
| ing TO sI4,0eI.S6 for the year 1924.
! figures made public today at the or
! fce of the collector OF internal reve-
| nue. here showed The tax paid by the
President for the preceding year was
| $6,643.01.
MELONS Return.
PITTSBURGH, September i CP).-
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W.
! Mellon paid Federal income taxes of
| s1.Ss2, ,60O.25 for 1924, it was disclosed
| today when the tax lists we're made
public Secretary Melons income tax
| was the largest recorded in the Pitts
burgh district. That of his brother,
r. B. Mellon. was s1,iso, ,0ss.s4, and
| was the next largest.
/ Senator Binghasn's Tax S4.ai.
! HARTFORD. Conn, September I
| CP.-Federal income tax returns
made public here today show pay
ments by United States Senator Hiram
Bingham, s4.91: Mrs. Hiram Bingham,
$40, ,O66.93: United States Senator
George P. Mclean, sl4,0sS.4i; Edward
]. Pearson. president Of the New
Haven Railroad, s13, ,426.02; Gov. John
II. Trumbull, s4,65S.1i.
Returns i'm Ohio,
COLUMBUS, Ohio. September C<9.
Two Ohio individuals paid taxes OF
more than $500, 900 each on their last
years personal incomes. and two cor
porations paid in excess of s75o,oOo
| each.
The individual list was led by H.
Foster, Cleveland. president Of the
Gabriel Snubber Co. He paid a tax of
s5se,s ,ss4.7o. II. H. Timken. Canton,
| president of the Timken Roller Bear
| ing Co, was second with s540,3Ss.4s.
! The Cleveland Electric Illuminating z
Co. paid the highest corporation tax
is7s4,424.2s. The Timken Co. paid
sT76,230.2s.
Seventeen of the largest independent
steel companies paid a total OF S5.014.-
| 341.46, and IL of the largest rubber
companies paid s2,31s,216.17.
Duke Reniits S641,.50.
| NEWARK. N. J., September [Ao).
james B. Duke, former president of
| the American Tobacco Co, paid s64i :
! $50 in taxes for 1924; Doris Duke,
| s252, All, and NanaIine III. Duke, $751;
s73, according to Federal returns made
public here today.
| Arbuckle's Tax, $S,i16.
LOS ANGELES, September 1 C#).-
| A motion picture comedian and a
| former movie comedian provided
| readers of published Federal income
tax lists with one of the biggest sur
| prises today.
Charles Spencer Chaplin. believed
| by many to have one of the largest
| incomes In the world, paid a S345
personal income tax, while Roscoe c.
| Arbuckle, generally regarded as
nearly broke, paid s6,116.
Others who trailed ArbucIsie in
| cluded Rodolph Valentino, Wallace
Beery, Monte Blue. Lon Chaney,
Hobart Bosworth, Reginald Denny,
Buster Keaton, Barbara LAMAR,
Ramon Novarro, Charles Ray and a
score of directors and producers prom
inent in f1lmdonl.
Chaplin Trails Tnrpin.
| Chaplin's showing on the list was
| strengthened somewhat by the 1894
tax paid by the Chaplin Studio. Inc.
4 but even with that he was we'll be-