Evening star., 1946-02-04
Tax Refund LIST
Contains Many
District Names
Mrs. McCook's Estate
Gets S40,6l4; Drug
Firms Top U. S. Totals

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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 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 SIC, BOT 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 $1,000000.
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 s29,21o.
S7,804 on Taft Estate.
The Bell Cab Co., Inc, 1917 l.
street NV, got refund of s6.239
on unemployment taxes, while the
Bell Cab Association at the same
address received three different
refunds Of $l,062, $7,S76 and s5,77l
on employment taxes.
The estate of the late Mrs. Helen
Heron Taft, widow of former Pres
ldent and Chief Justice William
Howard Taft, received a refund of
estate taxes in the sum of s7,8o4,
with her son, Senator Taft, Repub-
llcan, 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 s5,740.
Other refunds of $4,000 or more
IN the area were:
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, s15,731 Gncome).
Arlington Co., Inc, Southern
Building, s7,54l Gncome).
A. w. Beam, care of Mrs. Carl
Reynolds, SAIL North Eleventh road,
Arlington, Va, Sl2,894.
Perry Belmont, care of A. Hard
ing Paul, 730 Munsey Building, S7,757
(income).
Colony House, Inc, 4244 Connecti-
cut avenue NV, s7,405 (excess prof.
it's.
Helen S. Devore, 401 Union Trust
Building, two refunds Of SIS, $50 and
| ~@tSSS N1AASS4A4CF.
Engineering and Research Corp,
Riverdale, Md, s5,512 (income).
Everett Flood, 59O6 Cedar park
way, Chevy Chase, Md, sH 1898.
Graham Remedy Co., II P street
NE, three refunds, $11,537, S8,2O5,
and s4,230 distilled spirits-nonbev-
erage).
Construction Firm Refund.
George Hyman Construction Co.,
1910 Vermont avenue NV, two re-
funds, s10,016 Gncome) and Sc ,223
(excess profits.
Estate of Lillian S. Kaufman, de-
ceased, Joel S., Edmund I. and Rob-
ert D. Kaufman, administrators
TOP H street NV, sl1,o22 (estate).
Norfolk & Washington, D. C.
Steamboat Co., 685 Maine avenue
S.W., $8,841 Qncome).
Frederick III. Pelzman, 1900
street NV, s10,87s (income).
Estate of James w. Hickey, de-
ceased, Lucy M, Hickey and George
Ashmun Morton, executors, 21Ol
! Connecticut avenue NV, $685.
(estate).
! Alfred H. Smith, Branchville, Md.
1924.
/ Mary E. Stewart, 401 Union Trust
Building, two income tax refunds
$13,038 and 1898.
! Trew Motor Co., 21o1 Fourteenth
street NV, s8,767 excess profits.
Valley Forge Distributing Co., 1915
South Capitol street, two exces,
profits tax refunds, 1882 and s3,.
TIT, and one income tax refund
s1,115.
Mutual Investors Corp, 33oe
Rhode Island avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md, SILL dncome).
Gets Biggest Refund.
The top refund nationally, s2,252..
254 for overpayment of nonbeverage
alcohol taxes, went to Eli Lilly &
Co., Indianapolis. The three other
drug companies, granted refunds on
the same form of tax, are Parke
Davis & Co., Detroit, s1,610,6l3; the
Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Mich.
$780, ,056, and Sharp & Dohme
Philadelphia, S1,856,114.
A gift tax refund of s1,375, ,0o0
went to Henry F. du Pont, Win
terthur, Del. A refund of ST 1,066, AIS
in excess profits tax was reported
Tor 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 Ell
lington, Mischa Elman, Oscar Ham,
merstein, Gloria Morgan Wander
bilt and John D. Rockefeller, jr.
Lost Mon Club Plans