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...weeks (TIME, April 9). To a 27-year-old graduate of the University of Michigan and onetime school teacher in a Detroit suburb, Arvid Werner Jacobsen, the judges gave a sentence of five years at hard labor. In Michigan his wife Sally said: "Arvid took a university fellowship in Finland and then found out he was expected to give dangerous information." The Finnish police charged that Arvid had been the ring's paymaster and the final link between the spies and the Soviet Legation in Finland. To the ringleader, a Mrs. Marie Louise Schul Martin, the judges gave eight...
Like most marathoners, Dave Komonen is a small man, 5 ft. 6 in. He weighed 131 Ib. at the start of last week's run, lost 6 Ib. along the way. Four years ago he came from Kakisalmi, Finland to Ontario, where he is a carpenter in the Frood Mine, at Sudbury. When he finished second last year in the Boston Marathon-hardest and oldest (37 years) in the U. S.- Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last...
...three War-born little states on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania-would hardly seem a menace to anybody. But they are close to the heart of Soviet Russia. Russia's door to the Baltic is a coast line on the Gulf of Finland only 300 mi. long, and the three little states overlook that channel down the Baltic. The least Russia can do is to be a little friendlier to them than anybody else is. Last week Maxim Litvinoff, roly-poly Commissar for Foreign Affairs, met in Moscow with the plenipotentiaries...
Through locked doors and a heavy screen of Finnish secrecy, it seemed last week that Finland, too, had scratched a U. S. citizen and found a spy. But Arvid Werner Jacobson. 27, onetime teacher in the Northville (Mich.) high school, had adopted a different technique from that of the Robert Gordon Switz's in Paris. Soon after his arrest by the Finnish political police last October on charges of high treason and espionage, the French Government let it be known that Jacobson and Switz were mixed up in the same far-flung spy ring...
Citizen Jacobson obligingly confessed everything. Yes, he knew the Switzes. Yes, Soviet agents in Manhattan had hired him and sent him to Finland. Yes, his ring was connected with groups operating in France, the U. S., Canada, Sweden...