The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • Page 738

LOS ANGELES TIMES VC SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1992 uQiiiBAEicr saws 1 Man in Photo Is Not MIA, Officials Say NEARLY NEW OFFICE EQUIPMENT PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY SAVINGS LOANS AND OTHER HAILED COMPANIES. THEIR LOSS IS YOUR GAIN! WORK STATIONS. DRAFTING EQUIPMENT, RECEPTION FURNITURE. WORK BENCHES, COMPUTER TABLES, OFFICE MACHINES, STEEL SHELVING. BOOKCASES PLUS MANY THOUSANDS OF OTHER ITEMS! two photos possessed by Bailey and recalled they had been taken three years earlier.

"Mr. Dittrich stated he knew nothing about the photo being linked to Capt. Carr or Jack Bailey. When told of the investigation, he wrote a note to the family of Capt. Carr expressing his concern for their anguish," a Pentagon statement said.

Pentagon officials said the Carr family was notified of their findings before they released the news publicly. Bailey accused Pentagon officials and ABC of conspiring to embarrass him. "The whole thing was a setup," Bailey charged. "They want to shoot any messenger involved in this issue." QUAKES: Swarm of Tiny Temblors Hits Owens Valley Continued from A3 No harmonic tremors have been detected in the last two weeks near Coso Junction. Volcanic activity has occurred within the past several hundred years on the eastern side of the Sierra, but more than 100 miles north of the present swarm, in the Mammoth Lakes area.

Through Friday, scientists said, there have been more than 750 quakes registering higher than magnitude 1.0 near Coso Junction. A 1.0 quake is not detectable except by instruments. Thousands of other quakes were less than 1.0. The strongest quake in the present swarm registered 4.0 on Feb. 19 and was felt at the nearby China Lake Naval Weapons Center.

and other POW sleuths. "They want a scapegoat. They want to discredit anyone and everyone, and they're doing a great job of it," Bailey said. The photograph of a grinning middle-aged man who Bailey claimed was Carr was publicized last summer during a flurry of renewed interest in questions concerning more than 2,200 Americans who vanished during the Vietnam War. The photo was considered especially intriguing because of the quality of the print and the striking resemblance to photos of the young Carr.

Bailey said that his Laotian contact who took the photo had told him the man's name was "Gar" months before he located photographs of Carr. A technical comparison of photographs by a forensic expert sympathetic to the POW-MIA cause concluded that the images were of the same man at different stages of life. Some of Carr's relatives reached the same conclusion. Investigators with the Defense Intelligence Agency traveled with Bailey to Laos in an effort to determine the identity of the man in the photograph. But evidence mounted that the photo depicted a German national who often lived in Laos.

In recent news broadcasts, an ABC News team that accompanied Bailey on his journeys identified the man as Dittrich. When it was suggested that his evidence was bogus, Bailey shoved a village woman and punched the ABC correspondent. Air Force Capt. Sam Grizzle said Thursday that Pentagon officials found Dittrich in a German prison. Dittrich who reportedly was convicted of smuggling exotic birds-identified himself as the man in Inquiries: The Pentagon asserts that the widely publicized image is that of a German national, not Donald Gene Carr Jr.

By SCOTT HARRIS TIMES STAFF WRITER A lengthy Pentagon investigation into a widely publicized photograph that purportedly proved an American serviceman who disappeared in Laos during the Vietnam War is alive has determined that the man in the photo is a German national, officials confirmed Thursday. Pentagon officials said they will cooperate with the Justice Department, which is conducting an investigation into possible criminal wrongdoing by Jack Bailey, the POW-MIA hunter who produced the photograph. Bailey's photograph, which was reputed to show Donald Gene Carr an Army Special Forces officer who vanished in combat July 6, 1971, is Gunther Dittrich, a German national who lived in Laos and is an inmate in Germany's Hanau Prison. In an interview, Bailey, 68, a retired Air Force flier from Garden Grove, vowed to continue his search for Carr and other missing Americans and denied 'that he knowingly participated in a fraud. Long a controversial figure in the POW-MIA crusade, Bailey had raised more than $3.3 million for his cause over eight years before focusing on the Carr case.

Suspicions about Bailey's photograph, as well as other purported POW-MIA evidence, had prompted some members of Congress and families of some MIAs to call for a criminal investigation of Bailey A.B.E. CORPORATION 3400 N. PECK RO. EL MONTE. CALIFORNIA (800) (213) Mother Held in Kidnaping of Daughter Custody: Woman and accomplice are arrested four years after judge rejected accusations that ex-husband was abusing the girl.

From Associated Press A California woman was captured in Rochester, N.Y., four years after she kidnaped her daughter and became a fugitive when a judge rejected accusations that the girl's father sexually abused the child, the FBI said. April Robyn Curtis, 30, was arrested Friday at the home she shared with her two children and new husband, Christopher Meyer, FBI Agent Dale Anderson said. Meyer, who married Curtis last ear. was not charged. Curtis evaded authorities by raveling and using false names, vith help from an "underground ailroad" of people dedicated to ielping parents who make such charges against ex-spouses, An-erson said.

Agents also arrested Kenneth Joore Brewster, 43, an alleged iccomplice. Both were held with-tut bail on federal fugitive war-ants. Curtis took her daughter, Aman-la, in 1988 after losing a child battle with the girl's Taller, Brian Otter of Yucaipa, Calif. The 8-year-old girl is under care until she can be returned to Otter. "It's been four years.

I'm so -elieved that they've found them ind that my daughter is safe," Otter said Friday. "It's going to be i happy reunion for us." California authorities said Curtis, vith Brewster's help, fled San Jcinardino County with Amanda avoid returning the girl after a isit. The FBI says they traveled icross the nation, sleeping in cars and staying with clandestine groups that give shelter and new identities to parents who believe that their children were molested by ex-spouses. Curtis had appeared on nationally syndicated television talk shows before she fled. The FBI found Amanda after jetting a tip through the National -enter for Missing and Exploited Children in Virginia.

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