Evening star., 1949-02-24
|Curtiss- Wright Heads
Tax Refund LIST With .
5 Million Returned
BY the Associoted Press

The Curtiss- Wright Corp. ant
Movie Producer Daryl F. Zanucl
received the biggest of 32,000,00|
corporate and individual tax re-
funds during the last fiscal year
The s-Wright rebate
amounted to $35,123,401 on excess
profits taxes previously paid. Mr.
Zanuck's refund on income taxe'
was $174,973, the same amoun
refunded to Virginia Zanuck, hi!
wife.
In all, the Internal Revenue
Bureau reported to the House Ex'
penditures Committee today, $2,'
297, ,542 900 was refunded or cred
tied on future tax bills during thu
fiscal year, which ended last JUNE
30. Only the names of those wht
received $500 or more were llstee
in the bulky report.
The total includes $56.530,924 il
interest at the rate of 6 per cen
on overpayments. Unless Con
gress cuts the rate, Treasury ex
perts predicted, the interest bil
ON 1949 refunds will be abou
$82, 100000.
The report did not say whether
the overpayments were for taxe'
paid during the fiscal year OF
during previous years or whether
the various refunds were made II
cash or credited against future
taxes.
While the big corporations re-
ceived the largest refunds. the lis
was studded with the names o.
persons prominent in the fields o.
politics, literature and entertain
ment. Their refunds were com
paratively small.
Among them were: Vice Pres
ident Barkley, $2.019; Defens'
Secretary Forrestal, $l3.058; Pub
Usher Marshall Field. $l5,790
Actress Tallulah Bankhead, ST.
COG; Actress Dorothy Gish, 1898
Actress Gloria Swanson. $1,674
Kathleen Winsor, author OF For
ever Amber" $15,862; Band Lead
er Vincent Lopez, $l,949; Gov
Scott of North Carolina, $4,000
Gov. Browning of Tennessee
400; Gov. Bowles of Connecti
cut, S2,261.
The Hollywood contingent list
ed for refunds included these:
Preston Foster. $2,345; jun
Knight, $1.O0l; Sabu Dastagi1
$12O41; Charlotte Greenwood
$4,O62; Elsa Lancaster Laughton
S1l,19O; June Lockhart, $l,23l
Betty Cradle James, $2,S28; Fred
eric March, $753; Ann Miller
S4,O73; Thomas Mitchell, $l2,208
Alan Mowbray. 81 ,069; Jack Oakie
$2,235; June Preisser, $3.50; Roge
Pryor, 1884; Ginger Rogers, $23,
208; Lizbeth Scott. $5,1l5: Davi
o. Selznick, $529; Rita Haywortl
$16,464; Mae West, $2,90l; Loul
B. Mayer, s78,OO3; Margare
Mayer, S78,114; Floyd B. AM
'Jacqueline Cochran Odlum. Sl9.
235.
Pauley on List.
Edwin Pauley of Los Angeles
whom President Truman nomlna
ted to be Undersecretary of thu
Navy but whose nomination wa
not confirmed by the Senate, re-
ceived a $3.50 refund.
Herbert Hoover, jr.. was listet
for a $2,591 rebate.
The aviation companies farce
better than most other corpora
tions in the matter of refunds.
In addition to Curtiss-Wright
there were these in the aviation
field, most of them for overpay'
ment of excess profits taxes:
Douglas Aircraft Co., $13,753.'
377; Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Corp, S11,919,3 1868; North American
Aviation, Inc, S11,477,794; Glenr
L. Martin Co., S18,597 ,292; Bendi,
Aviation Co., S13022,381: Solar
Aircraft Co., $1,588,8O3; American
Airlines. $3.66O.445; Boeing Air
plane Co., $3.954,254; United All
Lines, $3,O92,815; Beech Aircraft
Corp, $3,224,100.
In the professional entertain
ment field were the Hialeah race
course, $192,360; the New York
Football Giants, Inc, $15,638;
Santa Anita Race Track and Los
Angeles Turf Club, $565,414;
Ringing Brothers. Barnum &
Bailey Combined Shows, Inc.
S285 O56.