The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-08
REPEAL OF INCOME
PUBLICITY URGED:
HIGH PAY IS Barred
William Randolph Hearst
Heads Procession With
$500,00o Figure.
$3.50, 1855 TO MAE WEST
Schwab Earns S250,000,
Clifford S210,05O, Pay
Records Reveal.
By United Press

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By United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. g.
A bill was introduced in the
Senate today to repeal the
salary report provision of the
1884 income tax act, under
which the House Ways and
Means Committee made public
salaries and other sums paid
to 10000 persons for personal
services.
The bill was offered by Senator
Royal s. Copeland 3D. N. ". Sen
ator Copeland said that he urged
its passage as my constituents fee
that the publicity section is an i'm
position on privacy without bringing
any advantage except to give salts
faction to some persons idle curl
osity. l am going to do what I can
to get the section repealed"
Senator Kenneth McKeller Cd
TENN, sponsor of the original
amendment, said he would fight for
retention of the publicity provision
Secrecy in salaries in the past
has caused considerable tax eva
sion," he said. Il believe in the pub
Lefty provision and will try to de-
feat all efforts to knock it OUT
Market Probe Outgrowth
The provision was added to the
bill on Aril IL, 1884, after it reached
the Senate. Only a few words were
spoken regarding it, Chairman Pat
Harrison of the Senate finance COM
mittee supporting the proposal. No
record vote was taken and the House
accepted the amendment.
It requires the secretary of the
treasury to submit IAN annual re-
port to Congress" compiled from
corporation tax data and contain
ing "the names Of, and amounts
paid to, each such officer and en-
ploye Geceiving more than $4,000
and the name of the paying cor
poration."
Mr.. Mcclellan said today that the
amendment was an outgrowth OF
Senate stock market inquiry testi-
mony showing that various corpora
tions had paid large salaries CT
bonuses to officers but no dividends
The list, reported to Congress by
the Treasury under provisions OF
the 1884 tax law, revealed several
thousand persons received $4,000 or
more income from corporations in
that year.
One of the highest paid corpora
ton executives was B. D. Miller
New York, president of the F. w
Woolworth Co., who received S337,-
479, only $4,000 less than Mae West
movie actress.
Edsel Ford Gets S90.036
The list included such diverse
items as:
The S90,03696 which the Ford
Motor Co. reported it had turned
over to its president, Edsel B. Ford
for heading one of the worlds gi-
gantic business concerns. The list
ing for Fords vice president, P. E
Martin, was SLOT ,34126.
The $4,000 for Mrs. Franklin D.
Roosevelt as contributing editor
to a publishing company
The $780, which went to Gordon
Mickey Cochrane for guiding the
Detroit baseball team into world
championship.
Hearst Drew 100000
William Randolph Hearst, 100000
from the Hearst Consolidated Pub
locations, Inc; c. w. Guttzeit, $685.
3532s as president and sales man.
ager of the Latrobe Electric Steel
Co.. all as commissions; Charles NJ
Schwab. S250,000 as chairman of
Bethlehem Steel; Arthur Brisbane.
S265,000 from the New York Evening
: Journal; DR.. c. H. Mayo and DR.. w
j, Mayo of the Mayo Clinic. $4,000
each; George G. Crawford, director,
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.
SPAS, 999 96.
Motion picture stars and authors
figured almost as prominently as
business leaders.
Film Stars Are Listed
They included Gary Cooper, $780,
667,7o; Marlene Dietrich, sl45,000;
w. c. Fields, S155.083.33; Charles
Chaplin. $4,000; Constance Ben
nett, s176,1S816; Walt Disney. $79,-
900 from two companies: George
Burns and Oracle Allen. sos, 791 sc
Max Baer, S16,666.65; Mary ooland
$50 1884; Claudette Colbert, $685.
416.62; Bing Crosby. s104, 499. 9S; j.
P. McAvoy, 500. $685. 3; Sylvia Sidney
Sll0,583.33: Jack Oakie, $50, 666.68;
Zane Grey, $780,
Other Hollywood executives or
directors: Emanuel Cohen. 1885,
Il