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Show Citizen Charged As Agent Of Japanese Mrs. Velvalee Dickinson, fifty years old, has been sentenced to serve ten years in prison by a federal fed-eral judge in New York upon her plea of guilty to a charge of violating vio-lating the censorship law. The government charged that she was an agent through whom the Japs were to secure naval information, in-formation, that she was paid "over $60,000" by the Japanese and that as late as Thanksgiving, 1941, she "could have given our government incontestable proof that the Japanese Japa-nese were expecting to be at war with the United States in a few days." It seems almost impossible to believe that a woman, a citizen of willing to serve the Japanese at the expense of her country. While she pleaded guilty to violating the censorship law, the government govern-ment dismissed an espionage charge ecause the evidence could not be brought out in open court without endangering the national security. |