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Jack Benny — Part 2

40 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Jack Benny · 38 pages OCR'd
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NEW "YORK, ‘Aprft, 6=-Rasa|Mrs. La Weber, “a German ‘houseaid with} Albert :N aberau, hb gia ea ; ce bf fondness ‘for{:, ROS was verving the soup ‘anc some | degree of .: fondness _ for she got so angry. at what’ the Adolf Hitler, ,emerged today “as|diners were saying about the Ger. the only: individual winner in'divi-lman ‘leader that she put down her Bion of the smuggling jackpot into| tray and waded tight: into’: the which . George Burns. -and Jack! conversation. That.was the end of Benny, “screen “arid fadio. ‘stars,|Rosa’s soup-serving,career-at ‘the have _ tumbled alrhost $15,000, in! Lauers. and..thé beginning, of” a duties and penaltidg, ie cage headache" for” most-of. the . It was Rosa. wh¢ inset the. ap-| film. -colony.” arid ; the “ Broadway -Plecart and brought, the. federal crowd—people; Who never. _ had men on the run to open the smug- heard of Rosa.i,\* Paar ging probe w Involved Burns, nary pepe a Renny’ and’ others and “today she)’, . CONVICTED SMUGGLER °. ‘ atgod to collect as'‘much as $5,000]. Without a thoight of informer’s -irk the role of government in-,fees but: only ‘burned to a_ crisp former. ; _ because of the incident at her ‘The government pays’ tipstersemployer’s home, Rosa dashed who pass along. information: on}down™to the customs office and trpugglers, 25° per cent- of thelidentified Mrs. Lauer as a amug- duties and penalties ‘collected. as|gler:: Unfortunately: for Mrs. a-Fesult of the tip.and while Rosa|Lauer, she had been caught smug- hasn't received hers yet and no-[gling previously and had paid a body wants to talk.about it offi-|substantial fine so the customs of-! cially, she “is an off-the-recordjficers, after taking -an affidavit entry for a quarter of the cash|from Rosa, went up'to the justice’s! handed over by the screen stars!house.to have a look-see. | and by Mrs. Elma Lauer. ; From Rosa's complaint and that! . . 2 preliminary investigation stemm TALK OF HITLER _ * }the major smuggling probe which, Rosa never suspected when she, before it.ended with the sentene- foined in the. convérsation at theling of Burns and Benny on guilty home, of Mrs. Lauer, wife’ of. al|pleas and. the antl-climax sentenc- Supreme Court justice, that sheling-of Mrs.“Lauer and Chaperau— was laying the groundwork for alidentified: as .Shapiro—involved a yell x al fortune. _. __}eonsiderable -number ‘of : names! ‘The’ conversation on that event-|found more often in lights than: ful evening centered about Adolf'on grand jury records. FO en ae Lee R ESN naT EEE 4 ty
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