Evening star., 1942-09-17
Louis B. Mayer Leads
1reasuY's Salary
LIST With $704,425
Thomas Watson, Highest
Paid industrial Chief,
Is Second With $546,2e4
By the Associated Press.


year, topped the Treasury list an
nounced last night.
In second place was Thomas J.
Watson, president of International
Business Machines Corp. with q
$4,000 salary and "other compen-
sations" of $446, ,294.2e.
Eugene C. Grace had a $3.50, 900
salary and $298,l44 bonus as presi-
dent Of Bethlehem Steel Co.; George
w. Hill, $120, 900 salary and 1885,
41536 bonus as president Of the
American Tobacco Co.. and Francis
A. Countway, a $4,000 salary and
$406. .778.70 bonus as president Of
Lever Bros. Co. The reports for
Mr.. Watson, Mr.. Grace and Mr..
Hill covered the 1910 calendar year
and for Mr.. Countway the firms
l941 fiscal year.
Jeffers Paid $75,725.
William M. Jeffers, newly ap-
pointed rubber "czar," received $75,-
TBS as president of the Union Pa
cifc Railroad for 1910. William S.
Knudson, now a lieutenant general,
received $2l9055.25, of which S62,-
500 was salary, from General
Motors in 1910.
Included in the list were C. B.
Dulcan. sr,, of the Hecht Co., Balti-
more, with salary Of $4,000 and
bonus of $67,304.78 for l941, and
William Montgomery, president of
the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance
Co. here, $4,000 salary and 5000 in
other compensation.
The list which the Treasury Is
required by law to publish shows
only incomes of more than $4,000
from corporation salaries, bonuses
and commissions. Largest incomes
are from other sources. chiefly from
investments. For example, A per-
sons paid income taxes last year on
1910 net incomes in excess Of ST.
O00, 900 and those A averaged ST.
s77,0oo each. In addition, 104 rer-
sons paid taxes on net incomes
averaging $66o,ooo.
Bing Crosby Leads Film Stars.
The highest paid movie star was
Bing Crosby. who was paid $302,-
314sl by Paramount Pictures, Inc,
and $l50,o0o by Universal Pictures,
Co., Inc.
Among those who exchanged high
salaries for military pay was Clark
Gable. He was raised from $685.
54473 in 1910 TO $357,500 last year
by Loew's. AS a corporal. he's get
ting $66 month now from the
Army.
Actress Irene Dunno appeared in
the list three times with salaries
totaling $362, ,500.03. She collected
$137 500 from Universal Pictures,
$135, ,000.03 from Columbia Pictures
and $4,000 from RKO-Radio Pic
lures. ~ r
Loew's, Inc, listed 80 persons
who received $4,000 and up In
the l941 fiscal year and SIS others.
previously unreported, who got that
much and more in 1910. Other
corporations having numerous high
paid employees included General Mo-
tors Corp. with 81; Warner Bros
Pictures, 80; Universal Pictures, %;
Paramount Pictures, %; Columbia
Pictures, 10; E. I. du Pont de Ne
mours Co. and 20th Century Fox
Film Corp, II each.
Beery Gets $251,s5o.
Loew's report showed Jeannette
MacDonald's salary dropped from
100000 in 1910 to SITE, 1893 "a in 1941.
Some others who like Gable were
paid in six figures also receive mill
tary pay now. Among them are
the Navy's Robert Montgomery,
who was paid $211,416.66 by Loews
last year and $191,250 the year
before, and the marines Tyrone
Power, whose checks from Twen-
tieth- Century Fox in 1910 added up
to $i69,009.
Among the movie stars who col
lected 5000, 900 or more in the last
reported year were Gary Cooper,
S287,671 from Samuel Goldwyn,
Inc; Wallace Beery, $251,25 down
$27 500 from 1940); Joan Crawford,
$266, $3.50 down $51 ,82729); Greta
Garbo, $203, ,33333; William Powell,
1885, $50 (down $11 ,250), and Spencer
Tracy, $247 ,383.33 Cup $39, ,383.33) all
from Loew's; Fred MacMurray
$248,333.33 from Paramount; Gin
ger Rogers, 1854, 4,416.65 from RKO:
Charles Boyer, $220,833.34, and
Edna Mae (Deanna) Durbin, $203.-
1866 tdown $6.666.70), both from
Universal; James Cagney, $362. 500: !:
Bette Davis. $27l 083.27, and Enrol
Flynn, $4,000, all from Warner
Bros. =,
Best paid of the Marx Brothers
vas Chico, who got s83,14l82 from
Eoews last year. That was 8 cents
more than Loew's paid non-talkine
Harpo and rs cents higher than
Groucho's salary.
That noisy combination with Uni
sersal, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
split 1921 ,9o55s last year, but the re-
port doesn't show how.
W. c. Fields Salary Drops.
among those on whom hard
times" descended was Universars
w. G. Fields, whose $4,000 salary
last year was cut of S115, 900 from
"iO AoHV pay. SdIy 1Td0L received
$13l ,250 from Columbia Pictures in
194l, drop of 5000, but he
showed up on Loew's 194l payroll
for $125,000. Myrna Logs pay from
LoeW's last year was $l38,166.69. a
drop of s22, ,499 SO.
Charles Chaplin Film Corp. paio
Charles Chaplin sl63 600. ano
Skippy, Inc, paid Percy L. Crosby
the cartoonist, $96 900.
Running the Chicago Stock Yards
got a fiat 100000 for Frederick II
Prince in 1910. The $1,000 salary
paid to A. Obici by Planters Nut &
Chocolate Co. was supplemented by
a $218,4l6.76 bonus. Charles E. vii.
son was paid $256,506.25 by Genera
Motors, while Charles E. Wilson wa.
paid $135,000 by General Electric.
Edsel B. Ford was on the Fore
Motor Co.'S 1910 payroll for S144..
619,64, but his father was not listed
Two other Ford executives got more
than Edsel-P. E. Martin with $17s..
258 and c. E. Sorensen with $177,.
00494.