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Show ' GRAND JURY IS SUMMONED FOR KU KLUXJPRQBE Activities of Klan in Lot Angeles County to Be Investigated In-vestigated and Wholesale Indictments Are Expected I LOS ANGELES, April 2 (By A. P.. w -Impaneling of a grand Jury to in-" in-" -- vestigate activities of the Ku Klux Klan In Los Angeles county was sched-jV sched-jV tiled to take place here today. I 1 Official steps toward the selection I ' of nineteen cltixens to take up thin I work went to he taken thin mornlne in Judge F. W. Houser's department ot the superior court. Whether Judge Houser, who hss been 111, will be able to preside whs not known early today, but it wax officially of-ficially stated that If Illness still confined con-fined him to his home. J it dire Frank R. Willis, presiding Judge, would act. Attaches of the district attorney and the sheriff still are busy examining the documents seised In a raid here Wednesday on the headquarters of W. B. Coburn, grand goblin. Pacific do-ma do-ma fn. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. They said the "huge task" of reading read-ing the correspondence, said to Involve members In the six Western states In - - he "PaeiiHr domwin.M antt in eeftfn g h aside Important bits of evidence was far from completed. They slso are conducting a check f on the thousands of names of members In Los Antceles county and in other part-, of the state. The order Instructing the Impaneling of the grand Jury called for "all rea-j rea-j aonabte speed." It la believed that the , body will be sworn, organlxed and at work within five days. It is said that literally hundreds. If i hot thousands, of persons will be sub-poenaed sub-poenaed to testify and that the asking -rw of the grand Jury to return "wholesale indictment" Is expected. . |