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...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...
Last month onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer ("Dodo") Farnsworth, dishonorably discharged from the U. S. Navy in 1927, was arrested by the Department of Justice, accused of betraying Navy secrets to Japan (TIME, July 27). The District of Columbia's Grand Jury shortly indicted this jittery alcoholic on the charge that he sold to the Japanese a confidential Naval document entitled The Service of Information and Security. Last week the Grand Jury indicted Farnsworth on the more serious charge of conspiracy. Named were two of Farnsworth's clients: Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya, assistant Naval attaché at the Japanese...
...Class of 1915 at the U. S. Naval Academy "Dodo," "Si," "Charlie,"; "Mayevski" and "Johnny" all meant happy-go-lucky, good-natured John Semer Farnsworth of Cincinnati. Appointed on recommendation of Representative Nicholas Longworth, long before that T. R. son-in-law became Speaker of the House, Midshipman Farnsworth won a certain notoriety for his bibulous escapades, was recognized by classmates as an able scholar and tactician. Few years after graduation he took up aviation, studied hard and long, became a Lieutenant Commander in 1925. Two years later his Naval career ended dismally when a court-martial dismissed him from...
...interest in spies aroused when in Los Angeles a onetime Navy yeoman named Harry Thomas Thompson was tried, convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for selling U. S. Fleet secrets to a Japanese agent (TIME, July 6). Last week the name and face of onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer Farnsworth suddenly appeared on the front pages of the nation's Press when the Department of Justice accused him of betraying Naval secrets to Japan...