. Once Belonged to Klu Klux Klan

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 9, 4 October 1937, Page 7

. Once Belonged to Klu Klux Klan

— Pres? Aiin,'

NEW U.S. JUDGE Roosevelt Appointee Makes Frank Admission PRESS INDIGNANT r •

(B| Telegraph

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f„ .WASHINGTO^ Oet, L } fMfctog itt a nation-wide fbioada&Kt, adxnittqd that fifteen year« «• iago he joined ti i« Klu Klux Klan, but 'Mt%i rqsigned and never r^-jQised it, !H« deacribod tb«s eamp&iga ag&inrt him «t aa attempt to "xe-infect our gocial and business iif» with the poiaon of religiou bigdtry." Sonxtor Black insisted that hia rocord myosi yeaie »go ia iha Swtate xhcwed him to b# free of all racial and Wligious intolerance. Ko numbared among bis'moai yalued frienda, Cathoiim and Jew*, Concluding, he intim•Wd m intention to remain in .the Supreme Court, Oomment from yarious parta of th« aountry, priacipally from Senatpra and Coagreismen, indicates jthat the *ddraas has nofc appreciably changed fho ppiniong of the opponents and pro-: poaent* of the appointment, save thati the opposition js .even more .condemaatory, The Kew Y.ork Herald-Tribune c&lla Black % humbug and coward and asks whai action Roosevelt is going to take. The Kew York ,Times paya it is a deplorablo thing that a man who has ever taken -ea oath of allegiance to a sinist«r, destructivo organisatioa should now take his plaee in the higheet court of justiee. The politics! and public zeaotions to Senator Black 'a admission dominate the front pages of the nation 'a Press. Editorials abnost unanimously consider the explanation inadequato and disappoinBng, but do not euggest the means tarift to prevent him. from taking his *eat> However, Hr. Black won the Empathy of many Hatepe?* owing t » e canaour, Aatagonistis demonstrations are expeoted to accompany his appearance at Ihe Supreme Court • on Monday, Ona organisatioa plana to distribnte outOide the Court blackbordered handbills f roclaiming October 4 " the blackesi iday in. the history of Ameriean jusllico." ' Mr. Aibsrt Levifct, a iorjner aesiflUat jAttornay-Gcneral, intends oa Monday [ta aak the Supreme Court for permi«jaioa to file a auit for the purpose of »njseating Mr. Black oa the grounda of a llegal technicality not xelated tq Rln 'Kl«x Klan. affiliations. ! Senator Black, who wai appointed to, the Supreme Court bench by Preeident Booeerelt quite xecently, has been the, j eubjeet of personal attacks, among the, ! allegationfl being an asjertion that he j waa a member of the Klu Ktux Klan. | Ona newspaper announced its intention \ oi revealing the ^'facta" ahout the » Seaatpr, and ia the mcantime it wes disooVered that he_ had secretly taken aa oath which automatically g&ve him the right to ascend the Supreme Court Beach without further forjnality, This added to the indignation of his opponeats, and he subseqaently stated hie intention. of making a public stateraent regarding the allegations made agninst :him, r, i . 4 .v. "" " " 1