Counsel Says Committee Plans No Hearings Here

Chief Counsel Robert Morris of the Jenner Senate Internal Security Sub-committee yesterday flatly denied Friday's report that the committee plans to come to Boston soon for an investigation of subversives in New England colleges and universities.

But an informed Washington source yesterday told the CRIMSON that the committee definitely will be here "in late March or early April" and intends to question professors at M.I.T. and Wellesley. He said the committee was trying to keep its plans very "hush-hush."

Friday's report stated the investigators would call "six or seven" suspected communists, but that none of them would be from Harvard.

Based on Dodd

The source said the group would base much of its investigation on testimony given last year by ex-Communist Bella Dodd. In her testimony, Mrs. Dodd declared there were red professors on the faculties of Harvard, Columbia, Long Island University, Vassar, Smith, New York University, Michigan, Chicago, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Howard, besides M.I.T. and Wellesley.

Morris told the CRIMSON that although there has been no decision to come to Boston, the committee had discussed the possibility of taking the investigation on the road to certain "focal cities," including Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston.

Dirk J. Struik, suspended professor of Mathematics at M.I.T., who was indicted in 1951 for advocating "the violent overthrow of the Commonwealth," yesterday said he had received no notice from the committee asking him to appear.