Singer Stands Trial; Chairman of Indicting Group Speaks Here

With the trial of Marcus Singer, the Cornell professor indicted for not answering the House Un-American Activities Committee, scheduled for Monday, the chairman of that committee, Harold H. Velde, will speak in Emerson D tonight. His topic is "Conceived in Liberty."

Singer, an ex-Harvard instructor, and now a zoology professor at Cornell, was indicted in November of 1954 for refusing to tell Velde the names of other members of a "Marxist Study Group" organized here during the war.

In May, 1953, when he was questioned by Velde, Singer spoke freely of his own association with the group, but when asked to name others, he refused to continue. He said it was a matter of "honor and conscience" not to mention or implicate others.

Singer's attorney, Daniel Pollitt, advised him to use the Fifth Amendment.