Evening star., 1937-08-04
SL0AN'S $561,311
TOPS PAY LIST
S. <. C. Figures for 1896
j.. Show Warner Baxter
Best Paid Actor.

$56l,3ll, including a SAIL, l61 bonus.
From the available statistics, Pub
Usher William Randolph Hearst was
6loan's chief salary competitor.
The only Hearst salary listed is
65OO,000 from Hearst Consolidated
Publications, Inc. but securities Off
Gals said he may have received other
pay checks from the score of other
corpora tons that make up his news
paper, magazine, real estate and min
ing empire.
Among the few large corporations
which do not have to report to the
s E. c. is the Ford Motor Co., because
its securities are not traded on ma
tional securities exchange.
Walter P Chrysler, another auto
manufacturer drew s200,700 from
Chrysler Corp.
S507,645 for Knudsen.
General Motors made President Will
ham S. Knudsen a contender for top
honors with s5o7,645 and reported
S353.755 for Vice President Charles F.
kettering.
Nicholas M. Schenck, president of
Loews Inc, which controls Metro
GOODWIN Mayer Pictures, topped the
Hollywood film colony last year with
$3l2,785.
In other companies, actors usually
drew more than executives, including:
Warner Baxter, $284,3 ,384; Gary Cooper,
s265 .454; George Raft. $202,666; Kay
Francis, S227,500: Joe E. Brown. S20l,-
562; Leslie Howard, Sl85,00O; Ronald
Colman s162,500, and Irene Dunno,
Sl02,777
Motion picture directors ard pro-
ducers also stood high on the salary
list Darryl F. Zanuck was listed at
s26OO0 Roy del Ruth at s238,333,
Frank Capra at s208OOO and Wesley
Ruggles at s188808.
SIoan's Pay Advanced.
Many business executive shared
pay raises given employees of many
companies last year. Sloan's pay, for
instance, was about Sl90,000 more
than in 1885.
Some of the other conspicuous in
creases included: F B. Davis, jr., pres
ident of United States Rubber Co.,
from Sl25,220 to 1927 .260; Gerard
Swope and Owen D. Young, president
and chairman of General Electric
Corp, respectively, each from $4,000
to Sl46,500: L. B. McKitterick. presi-
dent of Philip Morris & Co, from
slOl $50 to S143, 500 and H w Phelps,
chairman of the American Can Co.,
from S126,800 to S152 100
Schwab's Remuneration Cut.
Pay cuts, usually due to elimination
or reduction in bonuses, also appeared
on the list Chairman Charles M,
Schwab of Bethlehem Steel, for in
stance. was listed at s2O3,332 in 1885
and Sl80,000 in 1886.
Among other industrialists in the
100000 pay class were we're: Walter
S. Clifford, president of American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Co., s2l0,650;
George w. Hill, president of American
Tobacco Co., S246173, and Harry F.
Sinclair, director of Consolidated Oil
Co., s2OO,659.
Although its salaries did not range
as high as some others, E. I. du Pont
de Nemours Co. ranked high for the
number of Well-paid executives. Du
Pont had IL officials earning more
than 100000 each last year. led by
the Sl555 545 of w. S. Carpenter, jr.,
and including only one bearer of the
Du Pont name, Lammont du Pont,
who as president received Sl29, 406,
Here is a list of corporations with
executives or employees not previously
mentioned who earned over 100000
In 1896:
c. E. Adams, Air Reduction, $780,
1853; c. F. Netley, American Tobacco,
s125,692; Paul M Hahn. American
Tobacco, Sl25,742: c. F. Kelley, Ana
conda Copper, s167,263; R. H. Cabell,
Armour & Co., S104,120
Eugene G. Grace, Bethlehem Steel,
100000; K. T. Keller, Chrysler Corp,
$l00,500; r. w. Woodruff, Coca-Cola,
S1o8,633; H. r. Gallagher, Consoli-
dated Oil, s111,68e; E. w. Sinclair,
Consolidated Oil, s1o1,1l9; w. A.
Fairbun, Diamond Match, 100000
T. S. Grasseli, Du Pont de Nemours,
$l44,228; j. Thompson Brown, Du
Pont de Nemours, s137,785; Lammont
du Pont, Du Pont de Nemours, s12e,-
400; Frank w. Lovejoy, Eastman Ko-
dak, sl08,473; Simon Lazarus, Fed
Grated Stores, s100,680; Fred Lazarus,
jr., Federated Stores, S100,O75.
j. j. Schumann, jr., General Mo-
tors Acceptance, S119,462; D. c. Jack
ling, Kennecott Copper, $1O1,5lO; c.
B. Van Dusen, S. S. Kresge Stores,
$119,000; c. B. Tuttle, S. S. Kresge
Stores, $4,000; R. r. Williams, s.
s. Kresge Stores, $4,000.
David Bernstein, LoeW's, Inc, $213,-
857; Arthur M. LoeW, Loew's, Inc
$205,544; Percy S. Straus, r. H. Macy
& Co., 500, ,420; Edwin I. Marks, r. H
Macy & Co., $102,075; T. N. McCarter,
Public Service of New Jersey
$4,000; T. M. Girdler, Republic
Steel, s1749s9; Joseph Wiltshire
Standard Brands, S155,473.
K. r. Kingsbury, Standard Oil OF
California, s150,075; E. G. Seubert
Standard Oil of Indiana, s1O5.399;
w. c, Teagle, Standard Oil of New
Jersey, Sl22,500; w. S. Parish Stand.
ard Oil of New Jersey, 1922, 500; W
de Kraft, United States Rubber
$121. 400.
Myron c. Taylor, United State.
Steel, sl66,862; w. A. Irwin, United
States Steel, $130,3lO; James Whale
Universal Pictures, s1o5,0OO; G. w
Deyo, F. w. Woolworth, s216,443
w. ]. Rand, jr, F. w. Woolworth
$123,059