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fF ~~? yr." . + Tee ee rad “ee SAVIN PALS ae HIDDEN FORTUNE Pr al PADNN Aur AL CAPOR : Es : laa *% Soe ore ee WD.S.Charges Gangster ailed " Te Pay Tax en 20. 000 7 oe Barrels of. Beer ; By The United Press . WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—The ~ Government set out today to find | amd seize some of the fabulous for- ‘fune Al Capone was reputed to ‘ have hidden away before he was | shuffled off to Alcatraz -Prizon to : l gerve 11 years. « i The ecar-faced gangster who ‘ guled a rich underworid domain in “prohibition days but who escaped ‘“gll severe penalties of the Jay un- ti) he was convicted of evading in- + pOme tax payments was -assessed * $120,000 today by the Commissioner * of. Internal Revanue. The Commissioner ruied that Ca- pone, back in the days when his gangsters’ guns protected’ a mo- nopoly on bootteg beer sales tn Chi- eago, had fatled to pay taxes to the Government on 20,000 ‘parrels _ Of beer. The iact that it was illegal beer, given a high-pewered kick by apparently didn't the weceastty of pay- U. &. eo Fight Although Capone is in a desolate Prison in San neisco Bay, the - Government ds to go into court to try to collect the $120,000 by clyil sult. The one-time gang ieader's in- come presumably hes been cut off j wince his cenviction, but the Gov- *wnment indicated belief that the ; Money might be available if it wins ¥. the civil ection. ;oee ot iron hand, su i. | a ~ ee ct Es hak Racked eee wt ee iter ave uae i OF bir a rerult, the ‘Department of Justice’ will renew @ search tor | funds which Capone is believed to have hidden away before he gave himself up for trial—-expecting at Heast a light sentence if not freedom instead of the 11 years to which he was sentenced. ‘ gerves Three Years ‘The government's action “today | i N \ wn August 50, 193 aN en ee yo so to ' ; a" 4 Coffey ......- Edwards .._ Egan ........— . ' t . ; ‘