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French newshawks spent a great deal of time last week trying to connect the late Alexandre Stavisky and the great "international spy ring" about which the French police were growing so eloquent following the confessions of U. S. Citizen Robert Gordon Switz & wife. The pay is too small and the risks too great for a swindler like Sacha Stavisky to bother with international espionage. But one connection between the two stories was obvious. Both the Paris police and the Sûreté Générale were under orders to play the Switz spy scare...
...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...
Robert Gordon Switz was born in East Orange 30 years ago, the son of Theodore Switz, a naturalized Russian. His brother Paul was a star footballer, Yale 1929. Brother Theodore is a chemical economist, employed until recently by Lehman Corp., an investment trust sponsored by the New York banking firm from which Herbert H. Lehman resigned when he became Governor of New York. Robert attended Mercersburg Academy, did not go to college. In 1922 he shipped as a seaman on the S. S. St. Paul in a pair of white linen knickerbockers with $5 in cash. Landing in Hamburg...
...Paul's Sanger, S. 28 End 23 166 5-10 Peddie Saunders, O.A. 28 Back 22 169 5-11 Andover Scott, S.P. 28 End 20 180 6-1 Mercersburg Spiel, R.E. 29 Guard 21 200 5-8 Andover Stone, K.D. 28 Back 20 180 6 Andover Switz, P.F. 29 Back 21 165 5-6 Cartaret Tweedy, L. 28 Tackle 24 198 6-1 Andover Webster, W.A. 28 Guard 24 200 6 Hotchkiss