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* IPrison Opens for Smuggler Chaperau Sentence Is Commuted NEW YORK, April 12.—~(4)—The ' J United States Attorney's Office here; was advised today that Presidept Roosevelt had commuted to the; time already served the five-ye§r sentence imposed - last April nj - rt N. Chaperau, central figut} in a widesprea Smuggling plot. : | Chaperau, a pseudo diplomat, was) convicted 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 trial—-which made the actual sentence about 18 months. His unpaid $5,000 fine wil) reigain in judgment against hi Benny paid a $10,000 fine; Bu $8,P00, Mrs. Lauer served -a-{3- menth jail term. Pe ere