"[1] Chief James E. Davis of the Los Angeles Police Department was the host of Calling All Cars,[3] and Charles Frederick Lindsey, professor of speech education at Occidental College, was the narrator.
[3] The company augmented the radio broadcasts with the monthly publication Calling All Cars News, which was available free from service stations that sold Rio Grande products.
After filling out a form obtained from a dealer and sending it in, a youngster received a metal badge with "Junior Police Safety Department" on the front.
In January 1939, Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. began sponsoring the program on stations in Detroit, Michigan, and St. Louis, Missouri, advertising Twenty Grand cigarettes.
[10] On December 21, 1938, Calling All Cars received the Institute of Audible Arts Trophy for "the most consistently excellent program broadcast in western United States during 1938".