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Show AMERICAN HEIRESS WANTS TAXES EXEMPT PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5. Whether titled ti-tled American heiresses living abroad and having sources of income ln this country are exempt from the obligations of the federal income tax sLatute was a point of law raised by Countess Emily R. De Gan-dv Gan-dv of Paris, daughter of the late John Jacob Rldgway of this city, in the United States district court here today, through counsel. Judge Dickinson reserved decision. de-cision. The countess contends that as a French subject by virtue of her marriage, and a resident of France, she is exempt from the assessment. Assistant United States District Ator-ncy Ator-ncy Sterrett said that the securities from which the countess derived the income and on which a tax of $1,776.62 was paid under protest in 1913, have been continuously contin-uously in the possession of the trustee and that the countess's income nas oeen paid fn American money. |