Judge challenges mayor in election, Pirates win, August 10, 1938

 

This Oldsmobile got 30 mpg and hit 30 mph in a 4,600-mile cross-country jaunt.  But in 1938, this was a 34-year-old car, the same age as a 1974 Oldsmobile today.

uperior Court Judge Fletcher Bowron accepts the nomination bid to run against Mayor Frank Shaw in the upcoming recall election. Assemblyman Sam Yorty withdraws, ending a "draft Yorty" campaign, The Times says, calling him "the candidate of the left-wing labor element" of the Federation for Civic Betterment. In Korea, Soviet artillery pounds the Japanese front ... On the jump, a caravan leaves for Amarillo, Texas, to dedicate the Will Rogers Memorial Highway. In sports, the Hollywood Stars beat the L.A. Angels, 6-5, in the opener of the "Civil War" series.