09 Feb 1950
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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1950
Page
1
Two unions representing 250000 trainmen and conductors voted 95 percent to strike if needed over wage and hour rules. No strike date set yet as mediation continues.
Mild temperatures and warm rains spark a light spring runoff in Arizona as Verde River flows peak then drop. Forecasts show limited gains for Salt and Verde reservoirs with about 3,000 acre feet of storage, while snow cover remains thin.
Twelve miners sleeping in a workers dormitory on the slope of Alpe d Huez in Grenoble were killed early today as tons of snow slid down a mountainside. The wreckage was set afire by stoves overturned in the blaze.
President Truman's Fact-Finding Board ended its coal dispute hearings and moved to prepare a report for the White House. The panel may ask Attorney General McGrath to seek a court order to reinstate about 370,000 striking coal miners.
J Edward Jacobson assistant state attorney general woke at 4 30 am to a warm electric blanket that suddenly caught fire flames leaped three feet high he leaped from bed and neighbors and a garden hose brigade fought the blaze Rural Fire Department responded to his bachelor quarters at 2332 East Liberty Street the bed and room were badly damaged the blanket short circuited.
Police grilled four men and a woman over a paper bag containing 37150 in cash amid a probe into possible links to the Brink's robbery in Boston. The five were arrested in Detroit, with $28000 in hundreds and 9150 in fifties found in the car. Authorities pursued connections to recent eastern robberies and a Boston heist.
A second Arizona robbery report followed the Douglas bank heist as Martin Garcia of Waddell Ranch was robbed of 700 dollars in a cotton field near Litchfield Park. Police and FBI traced suspects described as a Negro about 32 and a possible Spanish-American accomplice, with a $1000 reward offered. Investigators doubt one robber’s race and note the pair fled in an old Dodge.
In Washington on February 9 AP reports the House approved a postal rate hike to generate about 130 million dollars annually. The bill increases nonfirst class rates while leaving the three cent letter rate intact, and faces Senate approval. Debates highlighted effects on small papers and rural residents versus big-city papers and large mailers.
A tall, dark haired longshoreman seized a southbound Broadway bus at 44th Street in Times Square, drove it through midtown streets, then fled. Police pursued, wrestled him to the ground at 47th Street station. The driver Manion described the incident. man gave names John Maione and Russo, no charges filed yet.
Arizona Governor Dan E. Garvey flew to Washington at the request of the congressional delegation to advocate for the Central Arizona Project Bill now before the Senate. He joined Sen. Ernest McFarland Sen. Carl Hayden Rep. John R. Murdock and Rep. Harold Patten in strategy talks as pressure mounts for a Feb. 21 vote amid slowed Senate attendance.
State Land Commissioner W. W. Lane disclosed that renewal of grazing leases for over 800000 acres held by 140 cattlemen is delayed pending clarifications of Arizona law. A Maricopa County court ruling requires an appraisal by a Land Board, a process not previously used, while Lane favors moving appraisals to the Land Department and tying values to beef market prices. Governor Garvey has not yet given final approval for a new appraisal method.
The Special Legislative Committee on State Operations completed initial draft phases of its recommendations for state government reorganization. A three day session begins next week to continue work. The panel follows Griffenhagen and Associates survey. details await a special session. A Sunday meeting with the State Institutions for Juveniles directors discusses ouster of Fort Grant Boys Industrial School’s Jack Wilson. The panel also reviews the 12 000 old age assistance recipients.
Rescue parties rushed to the Tulua Hills after witnesses sighted a plane believed to be the Colombian C-47 transport missing since Monday with four men aboard.
Spencer Thompson, former state Veterans Service officer, named director of the Arizona Institutional and On-The-Job Training Program after Benjamin F. Payton was discharged by the council. Thompson assumed the post Jan 19. the council moved Jan 1. Governor Garvey previously replaced Thompson with Curtis R. Williams.
Three people a widow and her two young acquaintances were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in a Stockton area house off Highway 99. Victims were Mrs. Thomas Kostas 60, her son Paul Kostas 18 and James Poynor 18. Faulty gas heater caused the oxygen depletion and the fatalities.
International News Service reports a mix of views on restraint and peace. Carlos Romulo praises advocates of peaceful settlement, Winston Churchill brands communism a crime and socialism a mental disease, while Dean Acheson cautions that agreement with Russia may be unlikely after years of effort.
Ten Arctic-trained soldiers trudged through deep snow toward a 7000-foot ledge where 10 airmen crash landed while searching for a missing C-54 transport. Fourty-four people aboard the C-54 disappeared 14 days ago. The rescue party from Camp Carson and the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was flown to Pan Lake near the scene.
Dr. Vannevar Bush warned there is no defense against a bomb itself and urged preventing bombs from reaching targets or factories. In Washington, President Truman backed a Congressional probe into alleged monopolistic practices across steel, newsprint, chemicals, soap, airline, and theater firms, with House Judiciary Chairman Emanuel Celler confirming approval.
The item lists the Hollywood Robb radio program and related classified comic notes across pages 24 to 27, noting a financial year angle and sports mentions in the surrounding section. It reads like a scanned newspaper index entry with terse references to entertainment and radio listings.
Los Angeles police say remnants of Detroit's Purple Gang may be moving into LA rackets to harass or kill Mickey Cohen. Two men, Martin Fenster and James Modica, are jailed on suspicion of assault with intent to murder after Cohen’s home was dynamited. Police report guns and ammo found at their homes and note prior ties to gang leadership and the Sherry shooting.
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