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E war plao be setting up a tax ote. le wailiion dol- agents of are effective their work in fave con- that the Goveroment al- ways gets its man, even If be be a king of gangdom. ‘The work of those men scared mearly a million dollars in delinquent taxes out of racketeers in Chicago alone last Fear. ‘Those sleuths, who operated in Chicago, were led, incidentally, by » man who called Baltimore his home for the last four years. He is Frank J.{Wilsoo, 6008 Gover road, who probably rs to bis neighbors more like an insurance agent or salesman built. . - ad ° ’ mis ts A heretofore untold story of a vast web of evidence woven by many agents and Many agencies until it stretched into far cor- ners of the land; of bow they “built a lot of heat” around Capone; of -a maper-rack- eteer fighting back, struggling to sever each strand of evidence as it tangied about him; of tervified witnesses and of big-time gam- blers unprofessionally addicted to bridge; of Scarface Al's “big mistake”; of an impocent- looking book covered with five years’ dust, and, lastly, of the difference between a man’s pen and pencil writing that dramatically solved the riddle of the book and sealed the web into an unshatterable whole. Mr. Wilson, who, until the World War changed the course of his life, was # Buffalo seal estale agent, is feticent about his part im the Capone case, but quick to elaborate the results the case is expected to effect. For example, explaining that men who have filed imadequate returns or none at all in the past may escape prosecution by voluntarily filing “delinquent” or “amended” returns and ac- cepting the proportional fines and interest thereon, Mr. Wilson said: “One big gambler who bad not made any return for several years has come through with a payment of over $300,000. He con- fessed that he had been scared by the Capone case. ‘Delinquent’ returns in Chicago during the investigations last year were almost double those of the previous year, increas- ing vearly $1,000,000, and we know that we scared most of it im. . . Me i " “some prorLe say,” be continued, “that the Government shouldn't accept taxes on crimi- ~ pal incomes, that it’s ‘tainted meney.’ Well, ff we didn’t go after them and make them pay up, we'd not only be helping them con- . Yince themselves they’te above ali law, we'd ve, STiminating against “Recently indictments have been, secpred against a number of men whose names have ‘tbe effective and determined work of the rep- reseplatives of several cooperating agencies. ‘The Bureau of Internal ‘Revenue takes a matural pride in its part of this accomplish- Ment, not because of the matoriety of the men involved, byt because # is a forward compelling step ia the’ Gisintegration of Yend the law. . “T've read that ofbers are ‘aspiring te the ‘vacant thrones.’ Speaking for one branch ef the Federal service, my only observation is ‘that the imcome-tax laws still are on the geace Unit, and Commissioner Burnet, but also the Degartment’ of Justice, the Post- fice’ , tke Commissione- of Nar- ““cotica, the Bureau of Immigration, semi-pub- Be) ti more Jun March 20 (962