The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-19
Atom Energy Count Denied ByDr. Moy
British Scientist
 Held Without Boil For Trial April 13
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By OOUGLAH HACnhNCE Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 London, March 19-(UP) --Dr. Alan Mum May plead ed innocent today to charges of giving atomic energy secrets to unknown persons and was held without bail for trial in old Bailey criminal court ct the session open- ing April i3.
 May, youthful and balding Brit fish scientist who worked on atom bomb development in Canada, was , arraigned for the second time in Bow Street Police Court. He was accused specifically of violating Britain's official Secrets Act. Ball Plea Rejected
 Magistrate Harold McKenna dee fled defense Attorney Gerald Oar. diners plea fer bail on grounds of public policy. Detective Inspector William whitehead told the court that Scotland Yard would object very strongly if this man were granted ball"
 "EIe is appearing on Q very serious charge, and furthermore he IS m : possession of vital information" |" Whitehead said
 Russia was mentioned In court for the first time in connection with the case, but vaguely and by indi' rectlon. The chief witness was Sir t Wallace Akers, director of Imperial Chemical Industries and wartime chief of tube alloy research"-the code name for atomic energy--i1 the department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
 Gardiner, in croSs-examining Ak CTS, asked:
 Tn February of last year Russia was a gallant ally, was 1t not9"
 Magistrate McKenna intervened with the statement:
 "It is largely Q matter of opinion on which e chemist is not necessar- fly an expert. I don't think it IS . matter on which Sir Wallace can be asked"
 Treasury Counsel Anthony Hawke interposed:
 q do not understand why Rus. sia has been introduced at all. l have not referred to Russia, Amer |. lea or any other country"
 The magistrate then ruled out the question.
 Hawke charged that May submit : ted Q written report on atomic energy development to Q person not ' legally entitled to know the con- tents. He said May did 90 while he was in Canada as a senior melll- Der of the British atomic mission and director e the missions Tluclear physics department.
 Refused Identities
 At his first hearing May was rep. resented as having given informal tion to persons he refused to iden- tify.
 Akers testified today that May. as senior member of the mission, mad access to secret reports, saw nlin- utes of the mission exchanged be. tween Britain and Canada, and was well informed on at least one meth cd of production and use of uraIi- um."
 While May was in charge Of the nuclear physics department of the mission, Akers said, "he was con- suited on all other matters which the mission was concerned with"
 Akers produced statement signed by May in l942 when he left his Cambridge University teaching post to serve on the Cavendish lab- oratory tube alloy" team. It sead he fully understood that all the work and information was officially secret, and was not to be published or communicated by him except to certain authorized persons"
 When May went to Canada in January, l943, Akers said, May again made formal recognizance of the 1911 Secrets Act in connection with his work.