The Brooklyn Grand Jury which indicted 17 Christian Front members on charges of sedition and theft of Government arms will be continued through March expressly to investigate the financial bankers and possible inciters of the Christian Front movement, the Department of Justice said today.
Earlier, at a press conference, Attorney General Robert H. Jackson revealed that he had not received from the Dies committee documents with which to conduct an investigation of the forged “Pelley letters” which were placed in the Congressional Record by Rep. Frank Hook. Jackson said that he had received Hook’s request for an investigation agent, would be asked of a grand jury here.
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