Washington, Jan. 13.
Income-tax claims amounting }$617,000 were filed to-day by the [United States Treasury against Mr. Pierre Clu Pont, President of [clu Pont de Nemours and Compan well-known manufacturers o€" 0x-plosives, The claims ave based on stock transactions seven years ano between Mr. Clu Pont and Mr. John Taskob, Vice-President of the same concern.
'The Treasury alleges that the transjnetions created fetitious losses which appeared to reduce Mr. Clu Pont' Income by §2:097,000.
Mr. Raskob. who formerly [chairman of [cheap polities He declared that were perfeelly within the had not been questioned though the them for four ar five Mr. Clu Pont and Mr, Rasicob two of the most prominent members of the Liberty League, an anti-New Deal organization which President Roosevelt vigorously attacked uy Im= plication in his recent message 10 Congress.
Mr. Raskob's statement tends to ink the taxation claim with President Roosevelt's hostility to the Liberty League, but the "New York Times." "however, declares that Treasury lawyers had advised that the case was actionable on its merits apart altogether from politico' con
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