Show Liberates 3 Vets I W Bomb A-Bomb Photo Case I f 10 TIb IMORE LORE NOV No 14 MB- MB James es K CulS Cul'S Cul- Cul S 'S charges dismissed Thursday three form former cr service servicemen men ant accused of ot atto at- at r ti I. I to peddle unauthorized tint of atomic bomb equip- equip t to hold the refusing n In I en federal grand Jury jury acid ac- ac f for or feel eel that suf- suf 1 a id he dId not lot evidence had been presents present present- nt s ante bate the charge todo to whether such I Ice do T not nOot t Know mow exists he declared The Kt ce may still take J vies rid c attorney to the grand Jury if it there N J cut ryse b 6 evidence e I will not frown n JUch ch a move J J. J Bernard iV I S. S S. S Dist Dit Atty Flynn said Immediately tely after the hearing he had no comment concerning concerning concerning con con- an any further government efforts to prosecute the case Offered to Sell Photos The men George Comer 23 and Miles Daubenheyer 26 of Bel Air Md and James Rike 26 Chattanooga Chattanooga Chattanooga Chatta Chatta- Tenn were arrested arrest d Oct 9 when they approached editors editor of ot the Baltimore Post News and offered to sell six pictures for The department of justice said in announcing the tho arrests the pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures were of at the atomic bomb but the army Ma attan project said later the photographs showed only related equipment The ar arrests ts were made on a tip from Post News editors who kept the three men engaged engage in conversation conver conver- conversation in the papers paper's n news ws depart depart- ment until the F FBI B I could be no no- no The technical charge was that they did unlawfully publish a photo photograph photograph pho pho- to aph of a piece of classified military military military mil mil- equipment without first obtaining obtaining obtaining ob ob- the of the commanding commanding commanding com com- manding officer of the army air forces based on Tinian Removed Bomb Cover Coer Comer in a statement attributed ed to him by the FBI and read rend to Cullen at the first formal hearing hearing hearing hear hear- ing Oct 23 said he and three other service ervice men removed the cover of at an atomic bomb and took pictures of ot it while they were stationed stationed sta sta- Honed on Tinian in August 1945 sta-I. sta Statements attributed by the F FBI B I to the three related they devised the plan to sell the pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures during an extended drinking party Daubenheyer a former ensign ensign ensign en en- sign in the navy and Rike an army reserve captain were not implicated implicated implicated im im- in the actual taking of the pictures The men had been free on bonds of 1000 each since shortly after their arrests I |