Must Serve Term for Sale Of Secrets to Japan Washngton, June 5.
The Supreme Court today denied the petition of former Naval Lieut.- Commander John S. Farnsworth for a review of the Lower Court dismissal of his plea for habeas corpus release from the four to twelve year prison sentence he is serving as a result of his conviction on espionage charges behalf of Japan in 1937.
The 45-year-old prematurely gray defendant has been in jail since his arrest July 13, 1936, at his former wife's apartment. "He was found guilty of delivering to Commander Yosiyuki Itimiya and Lieut.~Commander Orikd Yamaki, former naval at-teches of the Japanese Embassy in Washington, a highly confidential naval. pamphlet entitled "The Service of Information and Security."
The Japanese were indicted with him but both had returned to Japan months before Farnsworth's arrest.
The Government subsequently took the position that while they might be extraditable, they could claim diplomatic immunity and possibly forestall extradition for years—United Press, Washington, June 6. President Roosevelt sent three diplomatic nominations to the Senate yesterday in a rearrangement of re-Presentatives to South American countries.
Mr. Claude Bowers, former Ambassador to Spain. was nominated for Ambassador to Chile. Mr. Edwin G:
Wilson was named Minister to Uruguay. Mr. Douglas Jenkins was nominated Minister to Bolivia.—
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