◆ SpookStack

POST OFFICE BOX 1525 PITTSBURGH, PA, ' oe / Mr. Bcbilder __...__.. Mr. Tamm ..__...-_. Mr, Tracy ...... __.. Miss Gandy. ...__. : ot. Internal Revenue. «< - The Commissioner ruled that Ca- 'pone, back im the days when his gangsters’ guns protected a mo- opoly on bootleg beer sales in Ohi- | cago, had falled to pay tazes to the Government on 20,000 ‘barrels _ Of beer. | The fact thet it was illegal beer, ‘iven a high-pewered kick by doubtful methods, apparently didn’t interfere ¥ the necessity of pay- ing taxes. , U. 5. to Fight Although Capone is in s desolate prison in Ban Eyancisco Bay, the Government intends to go into court to try to collect the $120,000 by clyil suit. i _ The one-time gang leaders in- eome presumably has been cut off _since his canviction, but the Gov- emment indicated belief that the . Money might be available if it wins _ the civil action. — " apone’s organisation, despite the loss of Dis iron hand, supposedly eentinued to function after hie in- TONS Bo Lon Ser carceration. . There have been frequent reports .. that the beer czar provided for his- “eelf during the days when doth money and lives of “beer wunngre “were ‘cheap. As. a result, the ‘Department of Justice will renew a search for funds which Capone is believed to have hidden away before he gave himself up for trial—expecting at Mast a light sentence if not freedom instead of the 11 years to which be ree sar tan nn WES OVAL, Sérves Three Years ‘ The gevernment’s action today placed the first actual penalty on Capone for his alleged illegal Hquor profit. Capone hes served three years, three iInonths and 36 days, of the sentence for evading taxes on his gambilng income. He was sentenced in Chicago, Oct, 17, 1933. He began his sentence tn | | Atlanta, May 4, 1932, and was trans- ferred to Alcatraz Sept. 72, 1034. Included in the illegal liquor tax gesessment Were numerous un- Hamed members of a well organized ‘ Chicago crime syndicate which Ca- pone was alleged to have directed . during the prohibition era. i _, oe ee a pn gn i