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ROS ANGELES EXAMINER DATED 2-79- 4g GITY ASKS FBI ADIWSONG) eee a-chief ot local Jaw énfor'ceriienit, Entry of the: FBI- wr the PBlack._.Dahlia’ < .|soin forces ‘with. police -in. ‘the, investigation. ot ‘Normally ied men; ate involved in: offer i md ee Request Follows Ho Horrall: Meeting! : 5 + With Bowron on Slayings FBI aid.in solving mutila-| tion slayings of the: “Black! Dahlia” and the “«piying| Nurse” was asked ‘yestérday. Police Chief C.:B..Horrall made the request during a long coh- ference with Richard B, “Hood, Los: Angeles chief of the Federal]. ‘Bureau of Investigation, Action followed a meeting of Horrall with Mayor Fletcher’ ‘Bowron. The Mayor ‘was under-| stood’ to have givén unqualified! approval to enlistment of Federal: aid in the currentyyave of crimes against. women. < ~ TWO KILLINGS-— i Two ghastly ‘killirigs occurred Within a period’ of 26 days. : Last January 15 the-nude-bady! of Betty Short, 22, called ‘the’ “Blacie Dahlia,” was-‘flung into, a: Vacant lot” in the: 3800 block of Norton* avenue. ‘She: had been, bludgeoned and-her body severed lat_the waist. : February 10° brought discovery lof the body of Mis, Jeanne Ax-! fore nch, 45, ac ‘actress, : ‘aviatrix| and” nurse, in’ a field’ off the| 8200 block of Grand View -bou- levard, West Los Angeles. + She had been clubbed, then! stamped to death by a nidn’s; teet. Her nude body was:ohscein ly inscribed with Jipstick—ran- printable phrase and. the letter ‘BDF suBkesting “Ble DAT Nurse”. cases would: "bring eine vast resources‘ of Federal ‘crime laboratories, crirniial-record ‘tiles| land highly skilled operatives ‘to; ;bear on the crimes. It was expectéd that FBI men Would immediately ‘begin..a:check lof, investigations. completed: or. in” progress:-by.; city detectives, Authofities” emphasized, “how- ever, that enlistment. of. FBI aid lwas not intended. to disparage. efforts of Los Angeles: homicide; officers, who. have heen. working night and day on the: cases, On the contrary, ‘the ‘purpose of the moye, is to’ give them eve ossible assistance, it was sald Befetlly. fone! ' —