Evening star., 1926-12-28
S1A,12O,177 TAX
REFUND PLANNED
Mellon Asks Congress for Au-
thority to Return Illegal
Collections.
By the Associated Press.

Congress was asked by Secretary
Mellon today to give the Treasury
authority to refund $174.120.177 ille-
gally collected in taxes for the fiscal
year 1927 and prior" years.
The money is to be refunded to
about $4,000 taxpayers, in amounts
| ranging from cent to hundreds Of
| thousands Of dollars.
| The Treasury previously had trans
| mitted to Congress a supplemental
estimate to cover the amount and
the Budget Bureau had announced the
| figure had been taken into considera-
| ton in estimating the Treasury sur
! plus for the present fiscal year.
| Secretary Mellon. in transmitting
| the request today to the House ways
| and means committee. sent a list of
names of those who will benefit under
/ the refund. Closely typed, they COW
cred 1880 sheets of foolscap paper.
/ A truck was required to haul the
| bundles.
Shared By Celebrities.
| Some of the Nations celebrities
shared in the tax refund:
| John d. Rockefeller, sr., received
a refund of $76,475, and William G..
McAdoo, $7,711.
Others on the list included Mary
Roberts Rinehart, $1,292. the estate
! of Florence King Harding, late
widow of President Harding, $1,276.
| Receiving refunds included:
! British American Tobacco Co..
New York City, $5.117,226; the New
! York Tribune, s895.795; Northern
Lumber Co., Cloquet. Mimi.
s253,2SS; Heyden Chemical Works,
| Garfield, n. j.. $3S3,739; c. Reiss Coal
Co, Sheboygan, Wis, s107.731; Ken
J lucky Tobacco Products Co, Louis
vile. KY, s140.702; New River and
Pocahontas Consolidated Coal Co,
Philadelphia, s133,SO7; estate of
Amos F. Emo, New York City, $241,-
| $247,224 Tiffany & Co, New York.
| s16O,711; the National Shawmut
Bank, Boston, s409,O75; Albers Broth
| ers' Milling Co, Portland, Greg,
! S101 ,080; Young, Smyth, Field & Co.,
! Philadelphia, ,135; Booth & Co,
| New York. $2.98S.01S; Louis Bam-
| berger, South Orange. N. j.. $103,035.
s321,5O for Fuel.
| Ohio Fuel Co, Pittsburgh, 1921 SOB;
the Centaur Co.. New York. $142,-
| S73; Equitable Illuminating Gas
/ Light Co., Philadelphia, S161,S5O;
! executors of George T. Fry, New
York, S156.74S; Midway Gas Co, Los
Douglass, jr.. New York. s160,S16;
Mrs. Robert Dun Douglass. New
York, s146,S93; Mrs. Lucy Workman
James. New York, S2O6,413; William
A. Douglass, Oak Park, ILL.,. S146,Ss3;
Akron Times Publishing Co., Akron,
Ohio, $1,831.
National Democratic Club, New
York, s17.347; the dinner Fare Reg
| lister Co, Dayton, $128, 144; Anita NJ.
Baldwin, Santa Ana, Calf. $13356O;
American Rolling Mil Co.. Middle
town, Ohio, s1o0. $50; John II: Meyer,
| New York, 1878 3,S47; Alfred I. Dupont,
Wilmington, Del, $2,o36,61S; Harley
Davidson Motor CO.. Milwaukee
| s18O,1O9; Dwight B. Heard, Phoenix.
| Ariz., 1885.
Kansas Citians Benefit.
| W. Laurence Dickey, Kansas City,
| S44. 100; Miss Catherine Dickey. Kan
sas City, 7.478; E. I. du Pont de
| Nemours, Wilmington, S6,790,2S3; du
Pont Fabrikoid Co, sS41,153; Aetna
Paper Co., Dayton. $140,S44; Corsica
Iron Co., Cleveland, S104,70s; Crete
| Mining Co., Cleveland, $2S7 ,444; Ohio
Fuel Supply Co., Pillsbury, $10s,417;
Mary Lily Flagler Bingham, Louis
| willie, $103,670; estate John c. Leslie.
New York, $532,801 Morgan Co. and
subsidiaries, Oshkosh, Wis. $122,037;
| London Guarantee and Accident Co.,
New York, $10S.657; A. Schrader's
Sons Co., Brooklyn. $225,04S; c. d.
Worsted Mills Co., Cleveland, $500 ,021:
! Van Raalte Co.. New York, $251, 1,1S0;
Continental Motors Corporation. De-
troit, $214, 4,494; Frank NJ. Heinrich,
| Hardin. Mont, $11S,118: Henry c.
Fish, Pittsburgh, $135, ,0O9; William
Hamm., ST. Paul, Mimi, $117,166;
| Temple Coal Co., Scranton, Pa, $291,-