McCarthy to Grill Furry at N.Y. Hearing

Wendell H. Furry, professor of Physics, will appear before Senator McCarthy in a public hearing tomorrow in the U.S. Courtroom in New York, his attorney, Osmond K. Fraenkel, announced last night.

The questioning will concern Furry's work in the Signal Corps Laboratories at Fort Monmouth, N. J. where McCarthy says he has discovered evidence of espionage.

Fraenkel admitted that the public hearings probably would be televised.

Furry has testified before the Velde Committee on Un-American Activities twice. At the second meeting on April 16, 1953, he claimed he has not been a member of the Communist Party since at least March 1, 1951.

On November 4, 1953, Furry appeared before the McCarthy Investigating Committee in a private hearing concerning alleged Communist Party activities when he worked with the Signal Corps laboratories. Furry denied at that time that he had ever been involved in any espionage work.

It was after this meeting with Furry that McCarthy attacked President Pusey for retaining the physics professor on the faculty. McCarthy telegraphed that Harvard was "a mess."

According to the Boston Herald, Hyam G. Yamins, a Newton scientist, will also be called by McCarthy's Senate subcommittee. Yamins, a civilian employee of the Signal Corps who served as liaison officer between M.I.T. and the Fort Monmouth laboratories, was suspended by the Army in October as a security risk.