Sixteen members of the Ku Klux Klan who were taken into custody by the police on charges of participating in the attack upon a Jewish family named Milder, in Long Beach, Calif., will be indicted by the Grand Jury when it meets, according to indications from reliable sources in the office of the County Prosecutor.
At first all but four of the Klansmen were released by the police. Later a summons was issued requiring the sixteen who had been taken into custody to appear before the Grand Jury Investigation Committee.
The arrested declared that they had attacked the Jewish tailor and his family because they were Communists. This the family denied. Leo Gallagher, atorney for the American Civil Liberties League, is representing the Milder family and this is causing some speculation.
The Milder family was attacked on the night of November 16th by a group of fifty garbed in Klan regalia, who broke into the house after burning a cross on the lawn outside the home. The inmates of the household and several visitors were beaten up.
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