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Show ''- kit nJEnei Y OUT OTJILLIOIIS -PRODUCERS OF OLEOMARQARINE HAVE BEEN PERSISTENT VIO-Ife- LATOR8 OF THE LAW. Charge Made by Secretary McAdoo That Uncle Sam is $27,000,000 Out of Pocket as Result of Evasion of Taxes. Washington.-r-IIow violators of the oleomargarine law have defrauded the federal government out of at least $27,000,000 due In stamp and special taxes, was rovcalod Sunday by Secre-i tary McAdoo in a statement based upon a preliminary report on a sweeping sweep-ing investigation conducted by Commissioner Com-missioner Osborno of tho Internal rov-enue rov-enue bureau. Frauds committed as long ago as 1902, immediately after tho enactment of tho law, havo been uncovered by tho commissioner. Ho began hid inquiry in-quiry some months ago, but until lato ly no Inkling had been given of tho wide scopo of tho Investigation or or Its results. Unpaid taxes aggregating $851,000 havo been recovered and deposited in tho treasury "with the prospect of further fur-ther very heavy collections." Forty-two violators of tho law havo been convicted since the first of January, Janu-ary, and twcnty-nlno of these havo been given prison sentences. Fines aggregating $148,000, havu been assessed in addition to tho recoveries recov-eries actually mndo and tho announce mont declares that "while fraudulent practices of this sort probably have been checked, tho investigation will bo conducted and every law breaker brought to Justice." Tho announcement shows that slnco 1902 moro than 200,000,000 pounds ot colored oleomargarine havo been man-l ufacturcd and fraudulently sold as un-colored un-colored olen. |