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In Wide Hunt | ona For Buchalter. : “Special Grand Jury : - Convenés to Wage [War on. Racketeers ah a : By ‘thie ‘Anociated. Prese ell “New York,: Aug. 7.—Federal. and o - city. authorities took three ‘long strides. today in. the campaign | of the: “public versus Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, fugitive industrial racket- eer accused of conducting a stealthy and deadly. war against his -erst- while gangster associates. _ The Federal Government .con- ‘vened an. extraordinary grand jury to collect and integrate information in..a national attack on crime, in which Lepke's capture. figured as one e specific objective, ' ~The police sent out an eight-State : , alarm for Isidore Zennreich, accused 7 Ce ae he a ee en ea a tos ne . + Lepke associate,.-coincident . with District Attorney Dewey’s disclosure that “Izzy”-and four others had been indicted with Lepke and his former top: “partner,. Jacob (Gurrah) - Sha- ‘piro,,as bakery gacketeers. With ' deliberatp fanfare, to “fn press upon the pliblic conscidusness ‘New York's urgiint desire forthe capture of Lepkea} the city board. of estimate posted a $25,000 d alive reward for _ the | saturnine “gangster. 7 +: fT J ury. Careful Chosen The board ‘also’ ‘offered a $5,000 re- ‘ward for the killers of Isadore Penn, la-quiet Bronx “householder, whose “recent ‘assassination © spurred: the search| for, Lepke. Penn, authorities the ‘mistaken notion he was a Dewey witness. of. Similar appearance.” The: :new Federal grand which: ‘the Government will use-as a- . national’ anti-crime clearing house, f was “selected with extraordinary ; | ; secréty, no. outsiders being. per- / ,) ! / ted when the court met. Its: per } 4 : 1 was likewise unusual; : the j i : its membership being studded | -witl¥fmen of far more than avefege 0) . busthess and professional “exper! 2 . including ‘a. half-dozen highly paid: industrial executives ieee