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Jack Benny — Part 2
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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
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