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Mayor asks FBI to help study of LAPD, Reds beat Pirates, August 16, 1938

August 16, 2008 |  5:10 am

 
Standard gas station service--check your tires--and there are always clean restrooms
FBI to join efficiency study of LAPD Dropcap_l_kiddo os Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw invites J. Edgar Hoover to join the city's efficiency study of the Police Department ... Donald Dodge, 21, heir to the automaker's fortune, drowns while being taken to a hospital after he was injured while examining a stick of dynamite. Dodge was lying in a speedboat and abruptly jumped into Georgian Bay ... Lupe Velez and Johnny Weissmuller are splitsville.

On the jump, Nazi Germany conducts war games ... And in sports, the Angels will play the Padres in the "World War" series.
Lupe Velez and Johnny Weissmuller get divorced Angels play the Padres

Los Angeles Mayor Frank Shaw invites J. Edgar Hoover to join the city's efficiency study of the Police Department ... Donald Dodge, 21, heir to the automaker's fortune, drowns while being taken to a hospital after he was injured while examining a stick of dynamite. Dodge was lying in a speedboat and abruptly jumped into Georgian Bay ... Lupe Velez and Johnny Weissmuller are splitsville.

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