Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1931, Page 28

GASOLINE TAX WAR ON EVADERS OPNS Midwest States Move to Get Bootleggers as Losses Total Millions. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHICAGO, August 15.—Gasoline Wins High Honor WASHINGTON BOY GETS SCHOLARSHIP. | bootleggers have arisen in numbers to | plague revenue-hungry State govern- ments throughout the Middle West. By dodging the few regular inspectors, fly-by-night distributors are iound to have been unloading millions of barrels of gasoline, which later went into dis- tribution through cut-price stations sell- ing the gas without paylng the State tax Tnvestigations in the Chicago area | within the past few days revealed ta: ing on a scale equal to nearly $1, 000,000 & month for the entire State. similar situation was shown in Indiana where officials estimate that $6,000,000 a year is being lost by the gas boot- legging operations. Use Dummy Companies. A simple method of operation, through dummy companies, without State distributing licenses, and with storage facilities in out-of-the-way loca- tions, provide the set-up. Gasoline is supplied in one important instance by a nationally known producing company, and irt other cases by independent re- finers seeking an outlet for their prod- uct. Huge profits result in the local mar- ket, judging by the revelations of inves- tigators. widely used palm-greasing methods, successful in liquor bootlegging opera- tions, had had a similar effect on the gasoline situation. Court cases lag when distributers - ere caught, and even the threat of punishment under laws mak- ing evasion of taxes a felony fails to dampen the ardor of the bootleg con- | cerns. When the scope of the operations was shown to extend over many of the States of the Middle West, with unfor- tunate consequences both for large oil companies and for the taxpayers, things sta to move. Now in both Indiana and Illinois established companies and the State government are organizing to put an end to bootlegging. Cargo Trucks Hi-jacked. #h most States gasoline taxes are col- lected from the wholesaler of gasoline. With few inspectors, much depends upon the honesty of the distributing company in reporting the volume of sales to retall Ystributors. Some un- scrupulous operators found that they | could truck into metropolitan areas in ‘There are indications that ° | | i | | FREDERIC S. LAISE, | Seventeen-year-old honor graduate of Western High School and son of Mr and Mrs. J. Fred Laise, 3835 Miiitary road, who is one of nine successful | candidates chosen from a list of 500 applicints for a scholarship appoint- ment to the Deep Springs School, Deep Springs, Colo., by the Telluride A ciation. There are 20 boys atten: the school at a time, selected from | parts of the United States, and there | were nine vacancies to be filled t | this year. 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