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Show MASKED BANDS UNDER INQUIRY Acts of Terrorism in Coast Oil Fields Probed By Federal Atorney FRESNO, CaL, Mar 4 Federal Investigation In-vestigation of a series of actions on the part of groups of masked and hooded men In the central California Califor-nia oil fields many of which Involved violence, has been commenced, it was announced by J. R. Dorsey, district attorney 01 Kern county. The federal I Inquiry commenced soon after warn-.iiiKn warn-.iiiKn of Impending attacks were sent through the malls Many warnings also have been delivered de-livered to many citizens in person. Virtually Vir-tually all of them have been on pages bcnrlmr the printed characters " K . K K." at the top. Some bore the print of a hand In lda k. In a few cases repudiations of the warnings haVs been sent out over the signature K. ' K.K." I Bli Andrews, a rent car driver of iTaft. has dropped out of sight He reported re-ported not long ;igo that be had been beaten by mashed mi n Dr. A. P Ma- 'son was beaten bv .'mother group, apparently, ap-parently, according to a physician who examined him. with a spiked club. George N. Bowman, a druggist, was j beaten and warned to leave town He left Wednesday, the last day of grace lifter disposing of his business in Maricopa, Mar-icopa, Some of those beaten were jcovered with tar, or oil and feathers afterward. 00 |