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FREEDOM OF INFORNIATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION

COVER SHEET

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Federal Customsagents have seizedclothing and jewelryowned by Mrs. James C.Ayer, socialite widow picturedalgove with Ernest Simpson, for-mler busband 0! tbe Duchess of Wind-sdr.! Agents received a tip from anI informer that the articles _ 1_ were smuggled. � ; /

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"1' playmates: gangsters who �rat� on°l-M!� 892�mmea_meet certain death at the

FM °f 3 °"¢"'1_92Y Biz But �squealers� whoinform the Qmled Customs officialsabout smuggling activities get ; bonug,

F" "W" '-|""1,19° 78818, the Treasury De-P�rgment has �p�ld such rewards to �squggl.ers. The practice of paying the 1-gw3,rd5__."93"? $109,000 in the past two months--aarted as ii bonus system to encourage in-W $222. At present, the amount of the re.�r? S "9 based l-92P°n the grand total of the

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Per cent of the entire sum, providing that thereward he not more than $50,000. ~

L�it�t to gamer the bounty ofthe govgm-men�; in a smuggling case was the pro-Na�mai . Ros;/�Web_er. who_ supplied Customs88¢�_l$_W1 the miormati n that led to theconviction of Mi-s._Elnia N.i�Lauer, wife of 5�-ppme Court Justice Edgar J.92Lauer, who re_Slz�ed from the bench; Jacl<{Benny and GeorgeBurns, radio comedians: and Albei-_t N,92Chap-%1;11'ge, °1'_ 92$hapiro! for smuggling. Misse r will eventually be handed a govern.merit voucher for a sum amounting to�gp.pt°x"imt°1Y 320-090 for her_ "services" insgesring out an affidavit and testifying to 1}�;Eh eel-$gi2atmMra. Lauer_had smuggled more1*" _ - .�'°T1h °f lewelry and personall ems into this country since 1933.

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Pam�! miiidiee on the part'of the in-former doesn't- make any difference to the FZwernrnent The fact that the "squealer" di-vulge: information to the Customs agents to" Ia .

rgshrdvegrogiiieil �Sit; p:;ec�:m' -pay???� �lg �:9- _ m is i oQ1? 865- Miss Weber was the Erueigs miiid?§§1=m;�§§:;;1*dZ �Jm'r�-Mrs. Loner with] malice

A G°""°" <11 {Hm Miss Weber was�servingdinner at the Lauer'a one, nightwheh some of the guests, includ-ing Chaperau, made remmarksthat the maid considered deroga-tory to Hitler. Interrupting themeal, Rose Weber shouted:

�I an a eitinn of the Father-land. l love Hitler and X won�!serve any more of this dinnerif you go on talking about him!"

; When former Justice Lauer im-f inegately discharged the girl, she

on : _�I'll get even with you all for

thin!� d �L ' �She iAnother disgruntled employee

who put her boss "on the spot�and collected "blood" money fromthe Treasury Department forsmuggling information was Chris-tine 92Drouadaine. She was em-ployed formerly in the stockrooms of exclusive'Marcel Rochaa,lnc., Parisian dress importers.At work, Christine saw the trunksof lovely models, who had justreturned from abroad, opened andemptied of smuggled, costlygowns.

Fired last year from her job,; C� dldh't know that this

country ys informers in smug-gling cases. Her whole attitude -was _one of pique against Guy

�ms-cqde Font-Joyeuse, managerof the dress importing �rm, whodischarged her. When dismissed,

Christine lost no time in tellingher story to agents of the U. S.Customs House. By furnishingagents and the United States At-torney's of�ce with names ofcustomers oi the shop she en-abled them to obtain all the evi-dence necessary for a conviction.

Duties owed by the dress �rmamounted to $30,000, the �nesimposed, $1,000; so Christine�: cut,figured at 25 per cent. amountedto approximately $7,750 forsquealing on her former em~i=L<>y¢r§-

THE top reward of $50,000 forinformation in a smuggling

case has been paid out by theTreasury Department only oncein recent years. That was in1937, when the sum paid to �MaryDoe." the �ctitious name behindwhich the "squealer" hid in adiamond~smuggl_ing- case. Theidentity of the iiiformer wasnever divulged by the Customsagents who arrested and caughtMrs. Pearltweinberg with $286,-346 worth oi smuggled diamondsas the Bronx housewife descendedthe gangplanli of the liner Not-mandie. _

Acting upon information gainedfrom the informant, SupervisingCustoms Agent John W. Robbertsstumbled against Mrs. Weinbbergas she walked down the gang-plank.- when he bumped into her,he knocked i-.�om under her arm

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an overnight bag, which fell,broke open and disclosed u faipebottom compartment wherein af-posed the smuggled diamonds. nless than three days, forty pes-sons connected with the sriiu -gling ring were arrested.

Only last month, another un-identi�ed �squealer" caused thepenthouse apartment 0! Mrs.James C./Ayer, wealthy socialitewidow oi the noted surgeon andpainter, to be searched. A squadof Customs agents trained to spota gown designed by Molyneauzwithout seeing the label rum-maged through the apartment andseized a large quantity of jewels.gowns and lingerie suspected of

ving been brought tron: abroadwithout payment oi duty. Theraid was made apparently on thetip on the informer, whose iden-tity has been carefully guarded.The search warrant wasbased ona detailed affidavit signed in asmall neat hand. The signaturewas merely �Mary Doe."

According to the affidavit, Mrs.Ayer's alleged contraband wastentatively assessed as _-worthbetween $20,000 and $;*_0.000.Thus, if Mrs. Ayer is convictedon a smuggling charge,~ hernemesis, the informer" who"squealed" to the Customs agents,stand: to receive at least $5,000, 1not insignificant sum for an actfrowned upon by children andouniahev� by gangsters.

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Three months� imprisonment and a fine.of $2,500 was the sen-tence on Mrs. Elma N. Laue: above with bet husband!; JudgeLauer, a former Supreme Court justice, resigned after a dis-

gruntled maid �squealed� to Customs agents.

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aul Chaperau above with bis wife!, hooked Mrs. Lauer, Jacklenny and George Burns into participating in smuggling. Helid the smuggling; they bought the articles sxiauggled. Chaperau

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Cgnfedian Jack Benny above with his wile, Mary I-vvelaq A1li=<>n92W=m=r MI. -bow-J and AnnL vmgslon!- received a suspended sentence of ; Nnylor Chalk were model: at the Marcel Rocha.y_=Xr and = day and had to pay 1 $10,000 �ne for Inc. Parisian sown shop in New York Ciry- The!h1|92.>9;;-1 in gmugglfng j¢wch*y� Gm;-gr gum, tenified that they didn't lmow the gowns they. *1 paid 1 total of $10,754 in fine: for = ~92{fr= mvdelihz had Mm =mua:1=<! into America

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Penitentiary at lewisburg, Pa., prequested that he be allowed, . - . ,to see an agent of this Bureau. e was interviewed, when he inforgied thathe had about seventy days longer to serve at the penitentiaryland his home ,is in New iork City. He stated he would like to be transfer"-jigd to"�New"�§£qik _Uity� immediately because his wife is ill. ' iczi 1; J,» �

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who was recently involved with .TACK"BE2iNY and uEORGIé.¬BUi<�Nbj.;-_in connectidhywithsmuggling activities; that he was of the opinion he possibly couldfassisjt inany further investigation being conducted in connection wii§h?'this individual,

�. He stated that �has beeméngaged in smugg1'in'g ac§_iviti_,esfor a considerable period of time; that he possibly could be of assistance inconnection with an investigation involving "LI1TI.n� NATEY" who handles narcotics

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in New Xork uounty in connection with stolen bonds and a detainer is presentlyfiled against him at the United States Penitentiary, Lewisburg, in connectionwith this matter; that he is of the opinion this indictment will be quashed atthe time oi� his release. "

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5:4- SJ» >24<2.�-» ,_ and his assistant make a rip toEurope every year about the month of Aprilmstensiblyto purchase jewelry. Sane time last spring,Mrs. Jack�g Bdnny,wif'e of the radio starmas supposed to have bro-ught to the Sunset store, a large valuable diamond est-ima

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�publishing t_he_case of the jewelry smu lin of Jack"-.f*Benny end°Burns. It is also known thatwas broughtjack jewelry from Paris and Nice, Fr.,but 0 not know2 whether he paid duty on 1� has not a good name Q with the Int. "Rev Bureau on tters. At this time

X; and altho business was making $50,000.- e yearmassigned his property and home in Santa Bax-bara,an aoontents,ae per Les Angeles County records. While in LosAngelee during the week_ days he stays at a house he former}owned and also assigned to at Whitely Heights.L.A.

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being a director and producer of shows, he advised me thatJACK BENNY, radio comedian, who, according to today's press,pled guilty to smuggling charges in New York City, has beenvery worried as to the outcome of the trial. �-arrangesthe program for BENNY and is intimately acquainted with him.BENNY and his sponsors were very much afraid that he would re-ceive a penitentiary sentence in connection with this case.

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who has recently made a number of public remarks relative tohis dislike for HITLER and things Genman in general, has haddifficulty with his sponsors, the American Tobacco Company,and the sponsor actually endeavored to cancel his contractafter a recent episode in Hollywood. They were not legallyable to break this contract and the comedian has eight or nine

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MEEOHANDUM FOR THE DIRECTOR _

Inspector Foxworth called and furnished the following developments�in '"c'onnect'ion withd in�the Jack Benny case;

�has told-Mr. Foxworth that he has been shakendown b-76-twelwfe thousand dollars by Morris Rosen; Oscar Moore

t thesedndividuale havingtknowledge of pastcriminal record. _'went to qwho runs a club inNew� ;York'"�C'It�_v�,"�andltoId _hé was no going to stand any moreshiak5__d°wn8.>.g,a.na;,waswgainggto report to the authorities. � told 'o7C

��tha�t;j"�_he, _;__;,and "John Edgar Hoover were ust ike that";enetjyeu lad �sat �et;r;1s table� �and - exhibited wasphot"o'gra'ph>from'you signed "To my friend"._states he didnothing further and that he is afraid oteveryoone.

�says that Gracie Allen was just as guilty in the smugglingcase as C;_eo__rgeBu'rn's; that in fact Gracie Allen jointly signed thechecks� with Burns; and that Mary Livingston is the real one involved Din the Jack� Benny case and that she had personally given him the ajewelry he was to bring over. Geo:-ge�Burns, according to _ 'deducted from his income tax the �amount he paid for the Jewelry. Alsothat"when the �Cu'stoms officials raided Burns andiAllen's apartment,

� certain nar�c�o�ti�cs were found." _ has been informed by anindividual, �presently in the Federal House of Detention from Alcatraz,that both Burns and Allen use narcotics and that this is the reasonGracie wears long sleeves all the time. The individual claims he has _

� sold"n'arc'o'ti�c�s' to_'Georg�e and �Gracie. .

�'al's_o'ment�ioned , a well-known bondsman in theSouthern 'Dis_tr1ct,' and stated is supposed to be a contact man Lof Assistant U: s.� Attorney Delaney. He also stated he had been told 1that if he 'made,;=dcertain payments to _ I11eIWl0l18<1 inthe Manton c�aa_e!ftnet_ would "take care oi� his case for him.The payments were not� made as he had a falling�out with�

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' �claims that he did pay them approx-» ~/ imately $12,000 and thereafter he contacted one* b-7C �*.Detective of the New York City Police Department, who made an in- �~�� _vestigation. according to _hereafter wanted to -J- _ K "know if he desired prosecution and he informed him that he did not gas the resulting publicity would undoubtedly ruin him. _-then claims to have prepared a statement in which he outlined exact- "ly what had happened so far as the individuals named above were ,concerned. after this had been done he approached�and told him that he had prepared such a statement and copies of it 5� 'were in his safety boxes both in Americaénd Europe and that ifanything hapnened to him the matter would immediately be known tothe public.

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�to1d him about being born on the lower best Side of New iorkand having lznown the recketeers all of his life for which reason ~

he could not "shake them".

The information furnished by_does notin any way indicate a violation of any rerierel Statute. The violation,if any, would be of the State Laws. It is noted that� saysthat a uetective of the New iork uity kolice uepartment has investigated �the matter and that he _ requested that there be no yrosecution.

In accordance with the Bureau's instructions,

I have called the facts in this matter to the attention cf� Mr. JohnT. Uahill, u. Attorney, riouthern District of New lork, telling himthat l was doing so at your request.

1-.s the State authorities are already aware ofthis infonnetion and as there is no indiceticn of any l"E!d&3�al violation,no further action whatever is being taken by the I-Jew lork vffice. 4

very truly yours ,

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Reference is made to your letter of April5, 1939 instructing that I personally furnished to UnitedSt-ates Kw»:-no John 'r Gahill

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hr. J. Edgar HooverWashington, D. C.

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Enclosed find copy of letter sent to Liberty Magazine, N.Y.

'!.1'!!1i 01¢Dear Sirs:

I expect that in a few moments this scrall will be relegated to thewaste basket. he I speak for the majority of my friends! feel thatJustice is not done with reference to the cases of Jack Benny &Geo. Burns.

The Judges and Sponsors of these people must think, we gullible public willstand for anything. To be sure we have let a great many similar casesgo by in the past. I suppose primarily because we thought we could donothing about it, even now we do not know just how to proceed, but weintend to try.

They the culprits would no doubt like us to forget it but myself andfriends think it is about time the general public began to take thingsinto their own hands.

We have a general manager in the person of J. Edgar Hoover who istrying diligently to out crime in this country, but whose hands andefforts are tied, unless the people do their part. I and about 25 or 30 ofmy friends can see very little difference between the acts of Benny andBurns and those of Fatty Arbuckle except in the latter case his actreacted against himself and the motion picture interests for which hepaid the penalty, while Burns and Benny committed e crime against theGovernment and as we the people are the government, we are going todo something about it.

We thought about chain letters throughout the country, kindly advise. Inthe meantime our radios are turned against any program upon which theyappear. You are at liberty to publish this letter, but I have very littlehopes of it.

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Q - TALK OF -_ .>_never suspected when she

joined in the-c�onv§1_-sation"a1� thehqngg oi Mrs. L§.ue;',' wife * of,a_Supreme Court Justlce, that she_ing~of'Mrs.1'I.'au'ev and Cbaperau-wlis; laying the gr0undwork_ for ' a fortune-. . .» .

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yvithoufn �thought of info:-mer�s,fée8_'=l_>92lt" only �burned to �abcrispnbecause of the incident _at her;employer�; home, _ Rosa dashed the customs otfice andidenti�ed Mrs. �Lauer as-a_ smug"-.'gleyn Unfortunately for_ Mrs.�Lauer, she had been caught smug-�gling previously end had paid nsubstantial fine so-the customs at-"�cers, after taking -an a�idavit;

house,to have a>look5see.�. , IFrom Rosa's�eomplalnt and that

preliminary investigation stemmed�themajor smuggling probe which,before it, ended with the sentenc-,

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igler, �who had--�been one .> or *_t_h'edinner Iguests'~,_ thereby� opening thetrail that led to Benny _and- Burns.' Mrs. Lauer, Ohaperau�. and l �the

two radio and screen comedians allpleaded gullty.»Ben:ny paid a $10,000�1'4.¢.._8-lid Bums $5t9991.. .In..eN!.dltion.$8;B16 worth of smuggled jewelsand clothing were con�scated.

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tor her role of infprmer by 25 per{cent of the total �nes and 25 perlcen� of the 100 per cent penaltyim ed on the -smuggled articles--0 25 per cent qt-~ithe grand totalof 26,816. I. * - >

I A dltional sums may �be farth-coming next 'I�uesclay when Cl ape-rau. and Mrs. Le921ex7~al�e~ sche luledto be.sentenced. U .

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_____Mr. E. A. Tamm _____Identification Div.

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92 .Director

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MQQOYDno County

At that time, ha was informed by _that- /* dwould be able to "fix" his case with the New York County euth-~ ties through an iaaaiotant District Attorney by the name orC fer the sun oi� $15,000. _t01d _t.hnt ,1/I v-as the contact to be used in "�xing" any zmgttera in '~*the office of the District Attorney of lien York County. While 5;

_d1¢1't recall the exact date of this ooc1_z1-zfenoe, he did 'remember, that it was prior to the time that �I�H<1U.b 1:. MEWEX tookQrrice as matrict Attorney. �was charged with gmnfa/larceny -

L He states that case was iI�1V88�b1g:81'-Cd by a no iceofficer by the name of Whoa he was arrested,bclaims that he felt great concern over tho fact that he might p08-siblyhebeaten up, and at that time talked to�1nanendeavor to dissuade him from taking any such action, and as aresultor him talk w1th_ho claim that he paid to him thosum or $1,000 in cam in order to unsure that he would raoaivoproper treatment from the police". that after hewas arreatad-anwmleaaed on bond, to him and adcodfor $7,500 to get the case of! the tmt he controlledtho prosecution. �1�urt.her stated that at the time oi� his an-reat, h a had $62,041! on depoatt in one oi� the New York banks, andthat that bank immodiataly notified the New York City Police ofthe money which he had on dpposit there, and it was for thia masonthat he had been appmachod with suggestions that he fix his case.929/l _said that he waolixmoqent

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him, and for this reason refused to make any payments to unycna,and the cmrges were subsequently diamssed.

He further mlated that as far as the request ofl92 / _ for $7,500 was ccncarnad, there were two persons,920 whose names he presently could not remember, operating a restau-

rant at �at Street and Bmadway,New York City, who could aub-stantiate his story. 92

The above information was secured from� during 1'-17¢ !an interviaw on anothar mtterr, and in beim autmitted to you for 92/7your information, and no action is being taken thereon. L

vexy -r,ru1;y yours,

P. E. Foxwaam,I1'l31JOGt01'n

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