Senate Hears Teacher; Funds Voted for Velde

An ex-Columbia University professor yesterday told the Senate sub-committee on Internal Security that he knows of Red activities at both Columbia and Queens College, N. Y.

Simultaneously, the House voted overwhelmingly to grant $300,000 to its Un-American Activities Committee investigations, including the current search for Communists on college campuses.

Both investigations were attacked by Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, member of the University Board of Preachers, as "jeopardizing out freedom and our faith."

William Withers, former professor of Economics at Columbia, testified to the Senate group that the Communist teachers he knew of were most dangerous outside the classroom and that they "had ruined" the lives of at least 30 students.

His testimony took issue with the Columbia University Board of Trustees, who had assured President Dwight D. Eisenhower they would not tolerate Communists on the faculty. In his farewell speech as President of Columbia, Eisenhower stated that he would not have accepted the presidency of the institution if he had not received this assurance.

Started in the Thirties

Withers claimed that he first discovered Communist activities at Columbia early in the '30's when he became interested in joining the party. He said he was primed for party membership but never actually enrolled.

Despite the approval of the investigation fund by a one-sided 315 to 2 vote, a heated debate preceded the appropriation for the committee.

The appropriation was challenged by Rep. Hollifield (D-Calif.), who expressed the fear that the committee would act indiscriminately in college probes. In reply, Rep. Jackson (R-Calif.) declared that the group was "not interested in textbooks" but was "after Communists."

Jackson advised the House that there is a difference between what the committee intends to do in education and what is attributed to it.