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Show Was This Hugo L Black's- Klan Passport? 1 3CnwKis at the ICulvlux Mail r J .. RCAL.M OF ALABAMA - " ' TO ALTTEXALTED CYCLOPStGREE.TlMGSrr the 66ARER.KU. :PlfUf &.&?&uzr:, "rii IS A Crizr;N OF THE 1MVl$IBteCMTRe ANO TOHfH ISCtvCN tiv That he may travel unmolested throughout our bcnkficiitnt oomatn and &hant-and ptcewt the fervent -fellowship of. L A N lt E t! ' ' ' "" t " ' BY THIS ATHORtTV YOU Wit L PAS5 Hi M THROUGHOUT THE PORTA LV OF YOUR KtAVERN TO MEET WIT.H KLANSflEN IN fCONKLAVE AEM8LED 5WEO AND 5C ALCO TH$ ' THE; 2. DAY OP.'. SYV? I ... GRAND KNO 8 PTALH OF ALABAMA--; ff j EX-GOVERNOR KII.BY OF ALABAMA PRODUCED THIS PURPORTED COPY A place on tb U, S. euprama bench m ay b loit by an answer (o thia question Attorney Asks Supreme Court Probe Of Black on Ku Klux Klan Charges WASHINGTON. Sept. IT (UP) Patrick Henry Kelly, a Beaton lawyer, law-yer, proposed ta Chief Justice Charlee Evan Hughe today that the supreme court appoint a committee com-mittee of lawyer to Investigate and determine the right of Juetlce Hugo L, Black ta Uke hi seat an the high tribunal. Kelly euggested that Black be advised ad-vised ta poet pone any attempt to It on the bench until after th court had determined hi atatu. Kelly move waa the eecond Investigation In-vestigation proposal within 11 hour. Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D., Mont.) laet night demanded that Prealdent Rooeevelt appoint an Impartial Im-partial board to Inquire Into Black and th Ku Klux klan charge. Wheeler aaid that If Mr. Rooeevelt failed to act th eenate should authorise au-thorise It own Inquiry. Camming oa Letter Kelly Utter, which was also sent to Attorney General Homer 8. Cum-mlngs, Cum-mlngs, but which haa no legal status before the court, said that It was I "not surprising that th supporters of former Senator Black's confirmation. confirma-tion. Intoxicated byjlje obecure Implication Im-plication drawn from the maudlin entimentality of sanatoria! cour-teay, cour-teay, found It more prudent to Ignore Ig-nore and sidestep" the chargee brought by Senator William E. Borah than to attsmpt to refute them. Borah had contended before the senate that, due to faulty drafting draft-ing of the supreme court retirement act, no vacancy -had beea created by th retirement of Justice Willi van Devanter. ' Kelly's communication pointed out that Black already was a ds facto justice, but asserted that the aassnt of th supreme court was neceeeary before his de Jure title could be prfctd. His claim to th aat, th letter recalled, waa challenged in the eenate een-ate and "it I th inexorable duty of the court to Inveatlgate and de termine bis claim to ths title before he is permitted to sit in th October seeaion." Th letter suggsated that Black be notified to defer any attempt to be Inducted Into office until action is taken by the court. WASHINGTON. Sept. IT (INS House Investigation of the charge that Juatlc Hugo L Black of th supreme court holds a lifs membership mem-bership In the Ku Klux klan appeared ap-peared probable today. As reverberations continued ever th justice's allegsd connection with the hooded order. Senator William H. King (D., Utah) declared that Black's nomination would hav been rejected by the senate If It had been known that he waa a klan member. Inveatlgatlon of house precedents already haa convinced aeveral members mem-bers that an Inquiry could be ataged If Juatlc Black failed to successfully success-fully answer th charge or voluntarily volun-tarily resign from the court. Power Defined Th houi. whll having no voice in the confirmation of fdral Judges, this power being confined to th (enate. haa repeatedly author-issd author-issd Invsstigations to determine whether or not Impeachment proceeding pro-ceeding should be instituted against federal Jurists. Senator King, one of those who oppoaed Blark'a confirmation, x-preased x-preased belief that the senate would overwhelmingly opposs ths nomination nomina-tion ta the suprsms court of a former for-mer klansman. "I believe that If evidence had been placed before the asnats showing show-ing Justice Black had been at any time a member of the klan, even though he later reelgned. he would not have been confirmed," said King. .King Is Outspoken And It It had been mads certain that he was a member of the klan at the time the vote waa taken, he would have been overwhelmingly rejected. re-jected. "Personally. I believe moat of my eolleaguee chare my feeling. I would not vote to put on the supreme su-preme court any man who had ever been a member of the klan, because that organisation waa so bigoted, so Intolerant and so un-American." I |