Spy from Michigan

The Finnish High Court last week passed sentence upon the spy ring of 28 men and women it had been trying behind locked doors for nine 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 years; to the others sentences ranging from the minimum two years to six years.

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