The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-09-30
Kluxers Helped To
 Elect tHerbert Hoover
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(Continued him. He accepted their support, Nobody criticized him."
 "You are not intimating he may be a member of the klan?" Q news man asked.
 Not Intimating Anything
 T am not intimating anything" Ickes said. T know how felt about the XXX about the time they put on nightiees and pillow-cases in sup- port of Herbert Hoover. My reac- ton was such that voted for Al Smith just on that issue"
 Justice Black, who arrived from Europe yesterday was believed to be in the privacy of the isolated home of his wife's sister, Mrs, Clif- ford J. Durr in Alexandria Vir- ginia suburb of Washington.
 Some doubt as to this developed today however when Mrs. Durr told reporters that she didn't know where MT. Black was" and hadn't seen him since 10 p. m. last night"
 Mrs. Durr declared that the jus- tice had made no decision on his plans as yet and that there would be plenty of warnoing when he makes up his mind."
 Black VIII Make Statement
 ''Mr. Black will make @ state nent of his plans when he decides upon them" she said. "In the mean- time he will mot submit to inter- rogations by reporters or picture taking by calneramen."
 Officials of the National Broad casting company, which offered its facilities to the justice for any statement he desired to make, said they had received no word from Justice Black as to whether he would accept the offer. The Colum- bia Broadcasting company had also offered It's facilities but without response from Black.
 Reporters stationed outside the Durr home on Q wooded, little travelled road observed no sign of activity. No visitors entered the green-shuttered, white-frame semi- colonial. 12-room house. The only person to emerge before noon was Mrs. Durr who conferred with re- porters on the sidewalk, 160 feet from the house.
 Despite her statement that she didn't know where Black was" she for newspapermen and photogra- had chairs brought to the sidewalk phers.
 There was no direct confirmation that Black would use the radio to reply formally to the charges pub lished while he and Mrs. Black were vacationing in Europe. To of- ficials of the National Broadcasting Company, who offered him the chains facilities tonight, tomorrow or Saturday night, Black replied:
 "Thanks for your offer. Will in- form you if I desire to avail myself of It."
 Has Not Decided
 Clifford J. Durr, Mrs. Blacks brother -in-law .at whose home in Alexandria, Va, the Blacks spent the night, said that the Justice had not decided to make @ radio address. He indicated, however, that Black probably would say more than he said yesterday upon his arrival ct Norfolk, Va.
 At that time he refused to answer whether he was e member of the Klan, but told the 60 newspapermen who met him, that when he had any sta cement to make he would make 1t In Q way that cannot be nisquot- ed and so the public can hear It. He added that "soine parts of the press might fail to publish what l said" when asked If he meant he would reply by radio.
 No Positive Assurance
 There was no positive assurance from Black that he would reply to the charge that he was @ member of the Ku Klux Klan when he sub- scribed to the oath as an associte justice of the supreme court, SC there still was possibility that he would take his place Monday with out making Q statement.
 President Roosevelt, whose only statement on the allegation was that any comment would be deferred un- til Blacks return from Europe, will not return to the capital until sev- eral days after the courts opening session.
 In some quarters 1t was believed that because of this Black would withhold any answer until after he had had chance to confer with the man who appointed him to fill the place made vacant by the re- tirement of Willis Van Devanter. NewSpapermen On Trail
 At dawn today, newspapermen gathered outside the house in Alexandria where Black sought see clusion yesterday. They will stay there until Black decided whether he will make Q public statement.
 Despite insistent urgings by rec porters yesterday, the question oi Blacks alleged utilization with. the Ku Klux Klan remained unsettled and there was increased interest in the opening session of the court.
 On the docket for immediate con- sideration is Q petition filed by Albert Levitt, former Special As- sistarlt Attorney General, asking the court to direct Black to show cause why he Is not ineligible. It Is based on the grounds that the "emolti- ments" of the office were increased while he was in the Senate and that there Is no vacancy.