Spy Sentenced

ARMY & NAVY

"Had we been at war," said a U. S. district judge in Washington last week to the only U. S. Naval officer ever accused of turning spy, "your acts would have been treason, punishable by the extreme penalty."

To charges that he had conspired with two attaches of the Japanese Embassy to sell U. S. Navy secrets (TIME, July 27 et seq.), bibulous onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer ("Dodo") Farnsworth last fortnight pleaded nolo contendere, throwing himself on the court's mercy. Few days later he tried vainly to change his plea. Last week, grey and broken at 43, the temperamental Annapolis graduate who was cashiered from the Navy ten years ago appeared in court, paled as he heard the return he would have to make for the $20,000 he was paid to betray his country: ". . . not less than four years nor more than twelve years in prison."

Relieved of the diplomatic embarrassment of a public trial, the U. S. State Department and the Japanese Foreign Office were further gratified when the judge avoided all mention of Spy Farnsworth's purchasers.

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