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= ern: sum emi ot Lane a Rta _—— Mr. Baughman .- Chief Cher’ ...---- Myr. Edwards ..... a : ‘ Mr. Foxworth ..... “on 19,98414 Gallons | ot Harbo : ~ | .Seized in Chicago Raids Mr. Joseph ..... —_ — , Mr. Keith .....-..- y : ‘ Many Others Assessed i Mr. Lester .......-. « — Mr. Quinn..... : $228,747 Is Sought From Le \3 Me. Beheide : a oo, . Con “Gt mer Mr. eee Gordon and Associates eee OLED sounder — ' _- "By The Associated Pres‘ (rr et by kee York Gina Mr. Tamm ......... . : WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Al Capone, - Mr. Tracy a H Chicago's acar-faned heer baron, and iss Gandy ........ ; s{ fourteen of his gangster cronies today meee ao | were billed for $120,000 Im unpaid tax ~ asseaaments ob Mlegal Hquor. ; . The assessment was another step in fA the Justice Department's fund-collect- ; - eo “a4 9 eC: ing drive against men charged with ost i w ’ Teaping large profite in the days be- t fore repeal. Others assessed previously included Irving (Waxey Gordon} Wez- ’ £ ler, Max Hessler and Morris Green- _ berg, and Heine Wainer, of Wisconsin, ‘who ‘s reputed to have battled Ca- » pone's “muscling in” along the North ; ' Shore and in the Wisconsin resort ae ene : * dis . The nesessment today against . ' pone—now tn Alcatraz prison in Call- , fornia—and other alleged members of ’ his Chicago-Cicero, I., syndicate, was sent to the Treasury for collection by ce Joseph Lawrence, administrator of the Justice Department's unit of taxes and penalties. . Assessments $5,000,000 we Lawrence’s unit, which bas assessed about $5,000,000 in tazes on iegal Uquor in the last year, devotes a ma- ‘jor portion of fits time to unsettled accounts of prohibition violators. _ Al Capone's lawyer, Michael J. . Ahearn, said in Chicago that Capone, nOw serving a sentence for income tax : evasion, was “supposed to be broke." ) But Lawrence retorted that the gov- ernment is free to collect the entire . tax from any ome of the syndicate ; . who has money. Tax authorities have ‘the right to seize the property of those who refuse to pay. Wexler, Hessler and Greenberg. . leaders of a New York-New Jersey syn- , dicate, were assessed §228,647 on 120,- | 4,970 proof-gallons of illegal alcohot ' {about two months ago, Lawrence said. Tax of §6 a Barrel sought The Capone assessment wes based on 10,984% barrels of Nquor known to jp have been handled by the gang be-. tween 1021 and 1032. Al) the barrels counted were reported in raids or seizures during the prohibition era, Lawrence seid. The tax was assessed at 66 a» barrel. Lawrence's men still have 60,000 prohibition cases remaining to be atudied, Nearly 1,000,000 such cases have passed through the Justice De- partment unit sinos prohibition started. Those named with Capone include | his brother, Balph Capone; Bert De- | laney, Augus® Dodd, Charles Puebr- ‘meyer, Jose Pusco, Jack eGeorge A. Howlett, Albert Johnson, “rank Juffrs, Olas J , Ayman vine, Mike Bopristi, Joho J. Nolan id Steve Swobods. . eno ee a