Congress Committee Told of Wealthy Tax Dodgers Washington, June 29.
Treasury officials to-day told the joint Congressional committee investigating income-tax evasion and avoidance that Mr. Henry L. Doherty, public utilities magnate. had saved $160,000 in taxes in a single year by Operation of a personal holding company.
They said Mr. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr, President of General Motors Corporation, and his wife had similarly saved nearly $2,000,000 in three years.
The officials also named Mrs. John J. Raskob, wife of the former chair. man of the Democratic Nationa) Committee, Mrs. Wilhelmina DuPont and Mr. Charles McManus. President of the Crown Cork and Seal Ca. as persons who had escaped tax payment by establishment of personal holding companies—United Press.
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