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Show PROBE ALLEGED PROTECTION OFJESORTS Police Sergeant Is Called Before Los Angeles Grand Jury. Us ANGELES, April 26.-u.es-tions that certain resorts enjoyed official of-ficial protection resulted today in tbe summoning of Police Sergeant Beorge Martmeyer as a witness beforo tbe grand jury. Chief of Police Cbarles Sebastian said that be would summon llartmeyer befors him also. Another witness today was Kred W. Lloyd, a private detective, said to have been employed by suspected persons, who was with Katharine Phillips just before (.be vanished. Miss Phillips was the girl woo started the white slavery investigation after ahe had been arrested for alleged blackmail at the instance of Beorge H. Btxby, the Long Beach banker. Bixby is still missing. A state wide search is now being conducted for him, but friends asserted today that he would i -capped r within twenty-four hours. Subpoenas were issued commanding the presence of his son, Richard Bixby. before the grand jury, bnt when of-fleers of-fleers were sent to Long Beach to serve the summons they could not find the young man. Young Bixby 's testi-' mony was desired because it was 1 thought he would be able to disclose his rather ' whereabouts. |