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Show 50 Million Await Reply By Black to KKK Charge Justice Prepares to Defend Self on Air Tonight Over National Networks OALKHBI RG. Ill, Oct. 1 (UP) Postmaster General Jam re A. Farley aald today that he believed Asaorlate Justice Huge Black of the supreme court may "admit K. K. K. membership and burn his bridges behind him," la his radio address tonight. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 TJP)-Justlce TJP)-Justlce Hugo U Black will deliver asasVttf'cW The combined facilities of the nation's broadcasting systems sys-tems his reply to charges he was a life member In the Ku Klux Klan when he swore to bis oath as an associats Justice of ths United States supreme court While Black worked In privacy over the text of hia precedent-shattering address, arrangements were completed for ths broadcast to be delivered at T:30 p. m. Salt Lake City time, over the facilities of the National, Columbia and Mutual networks. net-works. Black will speak from the Tennyson Ten-nyson street home of Claude E. Hamilton Jr., general counsel of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, corpo-ration, associate of Black's brother-In-law. Uilfard J.-Durr, also an KTC assistant counsel. Hamilton is an Alabaman and a close friend of Black's. Utmost cars was taken to present pre-sent any "leak" In the contents of Black's speech. Contrary to earlier indications, however, advance copies of the address will be. made available avail-able to newspaper men about S p. m shortly before the- Justice begins speaking. Capital observers, convinced that Black will give a direct answer to the charges published while he wss vacationing in Europe, agreed that, in effect, he would make one of three statements: 1. That he does belong to the klan by virtus of a Ufa membership member-ship -pass." "t. That hs does not belong now. and,tevsr did. r ' ' 1. That he does not belong now, but did at one time. These observers also believed that whichever answer Black made he also would cits his record in national na-tional affairs since election aa a senator In 124 to refute charges that he la unfit to serve as a member mem-ber of ths nation's court of last report. Irrespective of what Is ssid by ths ol-ysar-old Justice, around whom rsgss ons of tha most bitter controversies In ths umnlls'ai ties toryt radio BTTTMSTJ predicted that more radios would be tuned ia at the scheduled hour than for any .(CeetmiMS en Pmse Two) tCeiwian rivtl BLACK READIES . DEFENSE TALK r.n'lnu.1 from P.t O.i.t radio and thrn always a routine formal addreea. Meanwhile, it was denied that j Black had conferred with President: Roosevelt in the far west by telephone tele-phone before deciding to give his. answer la tha people by radio. Aa-j soclatea of Black and Marvin Mc Intyre. White Houae secretary, aaid i that tha president had not talked with Black since his return. j At Kansas City tha American Barj aaaociation rejected a proposal to I create a committee of lawyers tO investigate Black's eligibility ' 1 Opposition to the resolution developed de-veloped primarily amung thoae who held the altitude th.it it wiui too' lats for any sm h attmn because' Black already is a juatne. appar-j antly removable only by impeachment impeach-ment proceedings. , In Washington. Albert I-evltt for-1 mer special assistant to Attorney) General Homer S. Cumminga. was ready to press Ms petition challeng-tng challeng-tng Blark s eligibility under constitutional consti-tutional provisions barring aenators and representatives from being appointed ap-pointed to positions the emoluments emolu-ments of which have been increased diring their term In congress. Supreme court altachee revealed that Levitt expects to present hia petition to the court in person at the autumn term's first session next Monday. Because the petition is in the form of a request for permission permis-sion to fils an original suit for issuance is-suance of an order compelling Black to show cause why he should be seated on the bench, it must be read orally. Secretary of Interior Harold L Ickea aaid yesterday at hia press conference that former President Herbert U. Hoover was "the greatest great-est expert on the aubject of the Ku Klux klan" and accused new deal enemies of dragging "a red herring" across the appointment of Black. It waa the first statement by a '.member of the presidents cabinet on the controversy. |
