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Show 5 and 10 Heiress. Renounces -U.S.-Citizensh ip,-A voids Levy : : NEW YORK, Dec IT (UP) Countess Haugwlts - Reventlow, the foemer Barbara Hutton. erected a barrier today to the collection of estate taxee by the United States on her 145,000,000 soar of the Wooiworth 6 and 10-cent 10-cent store fortune. Between her arrival from En-gland En-gland on TThaHner Europa Tues day and her departure early yesterday yes-terday on the same ship, the countess appeared before Federal Judge William Bondy and renounced re-nounced her American citizen--ship. She became a Dane, the nationality of her husband. Count Kurt Haugwits-Reventlow. Her lawyers, Graham Mattlson and Henry Man nix, explained that "various legal complications" had developed as the result of the countess' dual nationality, her marriage having made her a Dan in Denmark, though she remained an American In the United States. The attorney would not discuss dis-cuss the "various legal complication," complica-tion," but tax expert pointed out that a barrier now ha been erected to the collection of estate taxes by this government which would take about two-thirds of the countess estate when it passed "V4stf'M-y'geaskrvv 4O0lf-BriA4fc9Of-epJl' - waa born in London and declared Dan by hi father. The countess did not explain the reason for her abrupt departure. de-parture. When she arrived ah said that ah waa here for the Christmas holidays. It required less than five minute min-ute for the countess to renounce her American citizenship. After algning the necessary document aha repeated "I swear" as George Vollmer, deputy clerk, read the renunciation: "I hereby absolutely and entirely en-tirely renounce my United States citizenship and all right and privileges thereunto aDDertainine- ' ) . j : . ) I .-r- s s - - i v $ Baas'. wMLmmmLLwmmmmmmmmmmm. enMamaaaaaaei COUNTESS HAUCWITZ-REVENTLOW She swore away her dual nationality and abjure all allegiance and fidelity fi-delity to th United Statea of America." It was recalled that figures published pub-lished last year, during one of the countess' disputes with Income In-come tax collectors, showed that 132.000.000 of her fortune waa in United Bute government securities. securi-ties. Her lawyer refused to speculate on whether she would sell them and take the proceed to Denmark. Tax experta pointed out, how ver, that since th Interest on government bond la exempt from income tax, there would be no necemity of disposing of them if th change In her citizenship put them beyond the reach of estate taxes. The countess poaseased dual citizenship during her first marriageto mar-riageto Prince Alexia Mdivani, "the man without a country" but apparently it caused no "unsatisfactory "unsatis-factory situation" then. |