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Ned nei niacin anteaters nti he et a el aed aca i abe PN mls Prison Opens , | for Smuggler Chaperau Sentence Is Commuted: — ; Filwwre <= on. - NEW YORK, April 12.—()-—The. {United States Attorney’s Office here; was advised today that Presidept Roosevelt had commuted to t e| time already served the five-yegr sentence imposed -jast April tt N, Chaperau, central figuic in a widespread §) uggling plot. : Chaperau, a pseudo diplomat, was, |eonvicted as the carrier of smug-' gled goods which wound up in the: , ‘ hands of. such. notables. as Jack!- Benny and George Burns, the radio comedians, and Mrs. Edgar Lauer, wife of a-former New. York State Supreme Court justice. ; Chaperau’s sentence, while orig- inally put at five years, already had been cut by. Federal Judge Hulbert, on motion of the. prosecution, to two years minus the time served while awaiting. triai— which made ‘the actual. sentence about 18 a months. His unpaid $5,000 fine $1) reigjain in judgment against hint: Renny paid a $10,000 fine; Bu $8,800, Mrs. Lauer served ~a~ menth jail term. a meat re APRIL .2, 1940 sy- IT-A