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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1930
Page
5
The Kiwanis district convention praised clubs for public service, noting the ton club chartered in 1917 led in giving over $1000 to welfare causes for crippled children and other good works. Dr. Thomas H. Wheeldon highlighted club doctors contributing time and skill under the Golden Rule.
Christian K Cagle and his wife, two years married, reunited in New York after his resignation from West Point. The former cadet and football star are believed hidden in a Times Square hotel, which denied their presence as court and attorney actions unfold during a belated honeymoon.
A colored servant in the Court of Winchester is certified in the Twenty fourth Virginia Cavalry and entitled to a state pension for Civil War service. The pension is payable by the state of Virginia for the service rendered.
Stock prices sank slowly in unusually calm seas as professional operators failed to provide buoyancy and the public remained apathetic. A few issues with only a third market broken sharply, but leading shares lost little more than two points. Call money stood at 3 percent. The closing was weak with about 2,600,000 shares traded.
Garland E. Groh Hagerstown lawyer was indicted for perjury in a foreclosure case tied to a real estate transaction in which he and others had an interest. He posted 1000 bail for a year at the Washington County Circuit Court. Judge Frank G. Waggaman presided and his ruling was later upheld by the Court of Appeals.
Prohibition agents raiding a Rockford home were fired on as a car drove by. Several bursts of machine gun fire were directed at the squad under Deputy Administrator Smith, who returned fire. The eight agents, all of Chicago, were part of the raid.
In London Prime Minister MacDonald praised the naval treaty as a foundation for disarmament while Churchill denounced it as accepting inferior sea power. American admirals Hillary Jones and William Pratt gave contrasting views at a Washington hearing, with Jones arguing Britain pressured eight inch cruisers and Pratt supporting the agreement.
Prohibition agents seized liquor valued at 8500 from eight packing cases in the hold of the steamship Betty Weems when it docked in Baltimore from southern Atlantic ports. The ship had called at Fort Pierce and Jacksonville, Florida, en route from Miami.
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