The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-12-27
TREASURY PAYS
S19O,727,007 IN
TAX REFUNDS
f. u. S. Steel Will Be Largest
Beneficiary, Receiving
S25,847,250.
BY HERBERT LITTLE
United Press stan Correspondent


United Press stan Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27-Twenty-
five tax refunds of more than
100000 each, including one Of
SOS ,847, 259, which is believed to be
the largest ever made, were made
by the treasury in the fiscal year
1929.
The treasury reported to the house
committee on executive expenditures
all refunds of over $500 and the
committee made these refunds pub
lie today. The total refunds for the
year were $3.50, 727887, several mil
lions more than 1928.
The largest refund went to the
United States Steel Corporation, on
behalf of taxes paid by its sub
sidiary, the Carnegie Steel Company
New Jersey. The tax was paid
in the Pittsburgh district. No eX-
PLANTATION of the refund was given by
tn treasury.
The next largest was S6456829
paid back to the William Waldorf
Astor trust. New York, mostly for
estate taxes.
Other Big Refunds
The other refunds of more than
100000 each were:
w. r. Grace 81 Co.. New York
Subsidiary of Bethlehem SteeD,
$3,51O,449.
Mrs. Alice G. Kales, Detroit, So
143 ,780: Prudential Assurance Com
pany, Newark, N. j., 1913, 1913; Stan
dard Oil of Kentucky, $2,614,522;
Northwestern Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, Milwaukee, $2,461,-
1876; Ohio Oil Company, Columbus,
o. $1.789, $40; American Window
Glass Company, Pittsburgh, $780,
215; Westinghouse Air Brake Com
pany, Pittsburgh, $1,729,436; West
inghouse Electric and Manufacture
ing Company, Pittsburgh. s1,59O,574.
p. Lorillard Company, New York,
81 ,627. Sol; Carl Duisburg. care alien
property custodian, S1,087 ,422; Chris
tan Hess. care alien property Gus
todian, $1,087422; Rudolph Mann,
care alien property custodian, ST.
O87, 422: estate of Mary T. Hill. st.
Paul, Mimi. 1921 1858; estate Of
William P. Clyde, Brooklyn, 81, 404,-
$50; youngstown Sheet and Tube
Company, youngstown. o., $1234,-
1856; Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Boston, $1,117,347 Botany
Worsted Mills, Passaic, N. j., $1007,-
TO; Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Company, Newark, N. j.. $1073, 042;
estate of James w. Cannon, Con-
cord, N. c.. $1,081 $50; Central
Leather Company, New York, ST.
104,849; Maine Securities Company,
Evanston, Ill, $1054, 295; National
Life Insurance Company, Mont
pelier. VT, $1,0O0,578.
Refunds Over Half Million
Refunds of more than $500 900
included:
Senator James Couzens. Detroit,
1898, 1888; Estate of John j. Emery,
Philadelphia, $656,742; Penn Mu-
tual Life Insurance Company, Phila-
delphia, $904,907; Philadelphia Stor-
age Battery Company, Philadelphia,
$668,901; John B. Semple g. Co.,
Pittsburgh, $633,338; estate of
Charles Deering, Chicago (paid in
Florida, $728O90; Crimmins &
Pierce Company, Boston, S783, 106;
estate of Helen c. Bostwick, New
York, $675 ,218; American Locomo-
tive Company, New York, $925,698;
Atlantic and Pacific Steamship
Company, New York, $5lA678; At
lantic Transport Company of West
Virginia, $788,373; Equitable Life
Assurance Company, New York
$575,611; Mutual Life Insurance
Company, New York. $813,O48; Mu
tual Chemical Company of America
New York, $3.50, 900; New York Life
Insurance Company. New York,
$530621; Mortimer L. Schifr, New
York, $506, 302; Visayan Refining
Company, New York, 1862 446;
Kelly-Springfield Tire Company
New York, 1899, 406; United States
Industrial Alcohol Company. New
York, 1910, 1874; estate of Ambrose
y Mcneil, New York, STOP, 1888; Maude
M. Mcneil, New York, STOP, 1888;
Standard Gas and Electric Com
pany, Chicago, $901,722; Schmidt
sche Heissdampf Gesellschaft, care
alien property custodian, $556,S45.
Many clubs obtained smaller re-
funds of sales taxes paid. The
Chicago Tribune and the New York
Times obtained stable refunds, anc
the countess of Donoughmore, {
New York taxpayer, received $31, $50
Mary Pickford Gets S147.9O
D. w. Griffith, Inc, Mamaroueck
N. Y, got s55,588, and Sir Harry
Lauder, also a New York taXpay-
er, $1,454. D. w. Griffith, Douglas
Fairbanks. Mary Pickford anc
Charles Chaplin. each obtained
~s14790. apparently from some
transaction of a company in which
they were partners. Mary, as
Mrs. Mary Pickford Fairbanks
trustee for the estate Of Mrs
Charlotte Pickford Smith," re-
ceived $10,214 in another item. Anr
Pennington received 1897 and Mrs
Bessie Lasky, SS,10l.
Martin j. insult of Chicago got
S9,8S4, Senator Deneen, S1,33Si
Congressional Ruth Hanna Nc
Cormick, S3,082, and Mrs. Florence
Pullman Lowden, wife of the for
mer Illinois Governor, $3,085. Mrs
Gamma Walska Mccormick, the
singer, received sI7,286. Senator
Kendrick Of Wyoming received
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