Evening Star, 25 July 1930, page A-2: Wide raids staged by Detroit police
Wide Raids Staged by Detroit Police
- Paper
- Evening Star (Washington, D.C.)
- Date
- 1930-07-25
- Page
- Page A-2
- Headline
- Wide Raids Staged by Detroit Police
- Rights
- A United States newspaper published in 1930 or earlier. Public domain in the United States. The Library of Congress serves the page from Chronicling America.
Page A-2 of the Washington Evening Star for Friday, 25 July 1930. At upper left is “Wide Raids Staged by Detroit Police,” with the deck “Nation-Wide Condolences Received by Family of Slain Radio Announcer,” credited to the Associated Press and datelined Detroit, July 25.
It reports that Detroit police raided saloons, race-track handbooks and beer flats after Commissioner Thomas C. Wilcox abolished the centralized vice squad, arresting 133 men and 40 women, and that 20,000 people filed past to pay tribute to Gerald E. (“Jerry”) Buckley, announcer for WMBC. It says police were trying to connect Buckley with racketeering.
The page reports police activity and a police theory; it records no finding about Buckley or his killing.