Early Contributions Arrive To Support Furry's Defense

First contributions to the Furry Legal Aid Committee "have been coming is steadily since Monday," Robert V. Pound, associate professor of Physics, and treasurer of the group, said last night.

Pound added, however, that no accurate point has as yet been made of the number of replies to the letter of appeal the committee sent out last Thursday to some 8,000 persons holding Corporation appointments, asking them to contribute money for the defense of Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics, under indictment for contempt of Congress.

Gifts for Leon J. Kamin '49, research assistant in Psychology at McGill University and former research assistant in Social Relations here, have also, "been coming along fine, about as well as could be expected," Richard L. Solomon, associate professor of Social Psychology, said last night.

"We have no exact idea how much money we have been receiving-we send it right along to Kamin," Solomon said, "but the response has encouraged us to hope we say be able to raine all the money necessary."

Members Discuss Motives

Two members of the group of 20 professors who signed the appeal for Furry last night said they had joined it "to see that he gets a fair trail," rather than out of sympathy with Furry's past activities.

Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, said "I feel there should be justice, what ever the results may be. I think we should help him, like any man, through a difficult time."

Gordon Allport '19, professor of Psychology, agreed that "It's an expensive business. I certainly have no sympathy with his past opinions."

Eugenc G. Rochow, professor of Chemistry, said, however, "This is certainly a matter which concerns all of us, a matter of solidarity on the issue as well as friendship. This, after all, could have come to any one of us."

Other signers of the letter, besides Edwin C. Kemble, chairman, Pound, treasurer, Ulich, Allport, and Rochow are: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Francis Birch '24. Percy W. Bridgman '04, Harvey Brooks, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., John T. Edsall '23, William C. Green '11, Arthur N. Holcombe '66, Mark DeWelfe Howard '28, Howard M. Jones, L. Den Lect, Archived MacLeish, Edward M. Purcell, Alfred S. Romer, and J. Curry Street.

Kemble declared Monday he did not expect a rush or replies to the fund raising letter. "We may get answers for a month or two," he said. "After all, people have to think out what they want to do in something like this, or any contribution, for that matter."