Evening star., 1946-02-04
Tax Refund List
Contains Many
District Names
Mrs. McCook's Estate
Gets $40. .614; Drug
Firms Top U. S. Totals

The estate of Mrs. Hettie B. Nc
Cook, who died here several years
ago, received two refunds amounting
to $40,614 on estate taxes during
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1945,
according to a report released today
by the House Committee on Ex-
penditures in the Executive Depart
ments. The figures were furnished
by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
These refunds amounted to the
largest payment in the long list for
this Metropolitan area. The report
listed one refund of $20,307 to the
Union Trust Co., Mrs. Katherine
McCook Knox, daughter, of 3259 N
street, and Richard H. Wilmer, as
trustees of the estate, and a second
refund of an equal amount to Mrs.
Knox as residuary legatee.
Nationally, four drug companies
were among six corporations and in
dividuals who received refunds in
excess of $1,0O0,0O0.
Edwin w. Pauley, Los Angeles, was
listed as receiving a refund of un-
der $4,000.
In other listings from this area
the Yellow Cab Co., 1901 New
York avenue NE, received two tax
refunds on the Federal unemploy-
ment tax, totaling $29,210.
S7,S04 on Taft Estate.
The Bell Cab Co., Inc, 1917 L
street NV, got refund of $6,239
on unemployment taxes, while the
Bell Cab Association at the same
address received three different
refunds of $1,062, $7,876 and S5,77l
on employment taxes.
The estate of the late Mrs. Helen
Heron Taft, widow of former Pres
ident and Chief Justice William
Howard Taft, received a refund of
estate taxes in the sum of S7,804,
with her son, Senator Taft, Repub-
lican, of Ohio, listed as admin
istrator
Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt,
attorney, of 745 Shoreham Building
former Assistant Attorney General
Of the United States received an in
come tax refund of $5,740.
Other refunds of 5000 or more
in the area we're:
S15,731 Refund.
Estate of William Hayes Ackland
American Security & Trust Co., and
Edison B. Olds, jr., executors, Fiji
teenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV, S15,73l dncome).
Arlington Co. Inc, Southern
Building, s7,541 dncome).
A. w. Beam, care of Mrs. Carl
Reynolds, SAIL North Eleventh road
Arlington, Va, S12,894
Perry Belmont, care of A. Hard
ing Paul, 730 Munsey Building, s7,757
Gncome).
Colony House, Inc, 4244 Connecti-
cut avenue NV, $7,405 excess prof
itsl.f az r4.tea- - uso
Helen s. Devoreg 4ol Union Trust
Building. tive, refunds of sl5, $50 and
S2,823 dncome) .aa1,s t~
Engineering and Research Corp,
Riverdale, Md, s5,512 dncome).
Everett Flood, 59O6 Cedar park
way, Chevy Chase, Md, s11,398.
Graham Remedy Co., II P street
NE, three refunds, S11537, S8,2O5
and 1920 distilled spirits-nonbev-
erage).
Construction Firm Refund.
George Hyman Construction Co.,
1910 Vermont avenue NV, two re-
funds, s10,016 dncome) and s6,223
excess profits.
Estate of Lillian S. kaufman, de-
ceased, Joel S., Edmund I. and Rob-
ert D. Kaufman, administrators,
702 H street NV, S11,022 (estate).
Norfolk & Washington, D. c.,
Steamboat Co., 685 Maine avenue
S,W., S8,841 Gncome).
Frederick M. Pelzman, 1900 F
street NV, s10,879 dncome).
Estate of James w. Hickey, de-
ceased, Lucy M. Hickey and George
Ashmun Morton, executors, 2lOl
Connecticut avenue NV, $6987
(estate).
Alfred H. Smith, Branchville, Md,
1924.
Mary E. Stewart, 401 Union Trust
Building, two income tax refunds,
$13,038 and $593.
Trew Motor Co., 2101 Fourteenth
street NV, $8,767 excess profits.
Valley Forge Distributing Co., 1915
South Capitol street, two excess
profits tax refunds, 1882 and So
TT, and one income tax refund,
s1.115.
Mutual Investors Corp, $500
Rhode Island avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md, SILL Gncome).
Gets Biggest Refund.
The top refund nationally, S2.252,-
254 for overpayment of nonbeverage
alcohol taxes, went to Eli Lilly g.
Co., Indianapolis. The three other
drug companies, granted refunds on
the same form of tax, are Parke,
Davis & Co., Detroit, Sl,610,613; the
Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Mich,
$1,139,056, and Sharp & Dohme,
Philadelphia, s1,856,114.
A gift tax refund of $1,375 900
went to Henry F. du Pont, Win
terthur, Del. A refund of 1,066, ,478
in excess profits tax was reported
for Talon. Inc, Meadville, Pa.
big names" on the list-all for
refunds under $4,000 included
Jackie Cooper, Marlene Dietrich
Sieber, Douglas Fairbanks Estate,
Canada Lee, Mary Livingston, Sir
Thomas Beecham, Irving Berlin,
Eric Blore, Villa Gather, Duke FL
lington, Mischa Elman, Oscar Ham,
merstein, Gloria Morgan Wander
bilt and John D. Rockefeller, jr.
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