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Show SLOAN TOPS U. S, INCOMELISTIIIG WASHINGTON, Jkxg. 4 UP , Alfred P. Sloan Jr, chairman 'of General Motor corporation, ranked today aa the highest paid executive in 1934 among corporations reporting report-ing to the aecurltiea commission. He was paid IM1.J11, Including a 1411.1(1 bonus. From the available statistics. Publisher William Randolph, Hearst was Sloan' chief (alary competitor. competi-tor. The only Hearst alary listed I S500.000 from Hearst Consolidated Publieationa. Inc. but securities official of-ficial aaid he may have received ether pay check from the cor of other corporations that make up hla newspaper, magaiine, real estate es-tate and mining empire. Ford b Exempt Among the few large corporations which do not have to report to the SEC Is the Ford Motor company, because its securities are not traded n a national aecurities exchange. Walter P. Chrysler, another auto manufacturer, drew $200,700 from, Chrysler corporation. General Motor mad President William S. Knudaen a contender for top honor with $507,643 and reported re-ported 1353,755 for Vice President Charles F. Kettering. Nicholas M. Schenck, president of Loew'a, Inc., which control Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Picture, topped the Hollywood film colonv last vear With 1212,7, In other companies, actors usually usual-ly drew more than executives, including: in-cluding: Warner Baxter, $284,384; Gary Cooper, $263,454; George Raft, $202,666; Kay Francis, $227,500; Joe E. Brown, $208,562; Leslie Howard. (185.000; Ronald Colman. $162,900, and Irene Dunne, $102,777. Motion picture directors and producer pro-ducer also atood high on the salary sal-ary list Darryl F. Zanuck was listed list-ed at $260,000, Roy Del Ruth at $238,333, Frank Capra at $208,000 and Wesley Rugglea at $188,808. Many a business executive shared pay raises given employes of many companies laat year. Sloan'a pay, for instance, waa about $190,000 snore than in 1935. Some of the other conspicuous Increases included F. B. Davis Jr., president of U. S. Rubber company, from $125,220 to $227,260; Gerard Swope and Owen D. Young, president presi-dent and chairman of General Electric Elec-tric corporation, respectively, each from $96,000 to $146,500: L. B. Mc-Kitterick, Mc-Kitterick, prealdent of Philip Morris Mor-ris t Co, from $101,360 to $143,699, and H. W. Phelps, chairman of the American Can company, from $126,-S00 $126,-S00 to $152,100. Cut Also There Pay cuts, usually due to elimination elimi-nation or reduction In bonuses, also appeared on the list. Chairman Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel, for instance, waa listed at $203,332 in 1935 and $180,000 in 1936. Among other Industrialists in the $200,000 pay class were Walter S. Gifford, prealdent of American Telephone Telegraph company, $210,650; George W. Hill, president of American Tobacco company, $246,173, and Harry F. Sinclair, director di-rector of Consolidated Oil company, $200,659. Although its salaries did not range as high as some others, E. L du Pont de Nemours company ranked high for the number of well paid executives. Du Pont had 12 officials of-ficials earning more than $100,000 each last year. Among executives receiving more than $100,000 was D. C. Jackling, who waa paid $101,-610 $101,-610 by Kennecott Copper, of which he is a director. |