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Show CITIZENS ASSIST IN LIQUOR RAIDS i: KEP.SFIELD, Calif . Mar. 14. A number of Kern county citizens, headed head-ed by Stanley Abel, chairman of the county board of nupcrv isors, turned out as reinforcements for a group of federal prohibition officers and the Joint force raided n number of establishments estab-lishments in the western part of this county. Nine arrests were made. Mr. Abel aald it was feared Lhal j members or purported members of the , lvn Klux Klan would raid, the place j visited unless some action waa taken He arraigned the OOUnty'fl law enforcement enforce-ment officers severly on a staterntnl after the raid. The section where thi raids were I Conducted is that where night riders .garbed in regalls similar to that of jthe Ku Klnx Klan have been recently. |