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Last month U. S. newsreaders had their 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...
Harry Thompson bought himself a Navy yeoman's uniform, went to work. Posing as a visitor from another crew, he would board warships at the San Pedro and San Diego bases. With the disarming air of an ambitious country boy he would then ask eager questions about gunnery data, technical innovations, maneuvers. He frequently managed to slip off by himself, filch code books, signal books, photographs, blueprints, plans, maps, models. He made friends easily, often took gunners and technicians out on parties. What he learned found its way to Toshio Miyazaki, who returned regular payments from his large account...
...present Oliver P. Field, visiting Professor of Government is taking Yeoman's place and conducting Government 19, American Constitutional Law. Field will return to the University of Minnesota for the academic year...
Uptown: "The Count of Monte Cristo"--excellent adaptation of Dumas' thrilling story of adventure, love, and revenge a la mode under the last of France's Bourbon monarchs. Robert Donat, who was last seen in "Henry the Eighth" does yeoman work in the leading role and is capably supported by Elissa Landi and Louis Alberni who is at his explosive best. Also, "La Cucaracha"--colorful short based upon the song of Villa's men--captivatingly sung and danced...
...Except for one innocent flutter toward Progressivism in his early days in the House, his Congressional career has been marked by the strictest party regularity. He thinks regular, talks regular, votes regular. As chairman of the Republican National Congressional Campaign Committee in 1918-'20-'22. he did yeoman service by helping rally heavy G. O. P. majorities in the House. For him no Republican can do wrong. Having frequently compared Warren Gamaliel Harding's "moral leadership" to Abraham Lincoln's, his maiden speech in the Senate was a spirited defense of the discredited President...