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Newspaper
Phoenix Gazette
Location
Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1950
Page
3
FBI agents joined a man hunt for a bandit gang that robbed Brink’s in Boston. $1.5 million taken, including $500,000 in checks, with seven gunmen wearing masks and Navy jackets. Eight suspects held, motive linked to a master key access across doors. Police warned to pursue all leads across the East Coast.
A northwestern Humboldt County community was five feet under water as rain and melting snow caused flash flooding. About 700 residents sought upper floors, with thousands fleeing homes as floods threatened the Mississippi Ohio and other rivers. Army engineers monitored danger points and weighed breaching the floodway barrier near Cairo.
The Sky Harbor station recorded temperatures at multiple early morning times with readings ranging from the low to mid forties. Notable lows include 4 degrees at 2:30 am and 3:30 am, while early morning hours showed temperatures around 42 to 44 degrees and a 30-degree reading at 9:30 am.
A wind driven brush fire from Camp Carson southwest of Colorado Springs killed one soldier and seriously burned 27 others, destroying 39 buildings and threatening Fountain. Camp Carson evacuated hundreds of dependents as the blaze raged across hills and cabins near Cheyenne Mountain.
Boston report notes Brink’s trucking robbery of 1.5 million is the largest cash heist on record yet far behind major loot from securities and jewels. History cites a 1921 Broadway mail truck robbery in New York with 2.4 million mostly securities, three men captured and Gerald Chapman later executed for police murder. Other incidents include 1930 Lincoln bank heist with 2.268 million, and a 1924 Rondout mail train robbery of 2.05 million in currency securities and jewelry. all perpetrators convicted.
Washington January 18 congress and the Atomic Energy Committee hear Gen Omar Bradley testify on hydrogen bomb potential. debate centers on whether to pursue a weapon far deadlier than the A bomb and the moral and strategic implications amid international control questions.
Phoenix and the Valley of the Sun collected 41613.31 in one evening during the Mothers’ March on Polio. R L Fitzpatrick, Maricopa County fund-raising director, expected the total to top 50000. PHOENIX alone contributed 35108.63, including 5076.82 by school children.
International News Service reports statements from Gen Omar N Bradley and Senator Robert A Taft along with Maj Gen Maxwell S Taylor. Bradley champions educational opportunity as essential to freedom, Taft criticizes appeasement of communism, and Taylor discusses a blockade by German puppets without Soviet troops.
In a downtown Phoenix hotel dormitory at 8 AM, manager Robert J. Mahnert and guest Boyd Charles Weir exchanged 12 shots over a dispute about gun searches. Weir suffered a head wound and was hospitalized. Mahnert escaped injuries. Police arrest Weir and Joseph Van Alst at gunpoint after they fled.
The United Auto Workers handed Chrysler a seven day strike notice after rejecting a proposed pension plan of 100 dollars a month plus Social Security benefits. UAW director Norman Matthews called the offer unsound and inadequate and noted the total benefits amounted to about five cents an hour. The union represents 89,000 hourly workers and negotiations continue with the current contract expiring in August.
Clouds and dense fog spread over the Los Angeles region with the heaviest conditions in the San Fernando Valley and harbor areas. The fog caused minor accidents and delayed early morning commutes from nearby communities including Burban’s and Glendale.
Jim Smith a Graham County rancher and Arizona Democrat announced his bid for the gubernatorial nomination at a September primary meeting with about 100 supporters. He said a formal announcement would come later and warned the campaign would be hard fought. He favored a possible runoff and government reorganization, noting his 1948 candidacy and stance against long tenure.
Mrs. Dorothy Meyer, 39, wife of Edgar H. Meyer of Ingraham Manufacturing, was bitten and trampled by brood sows on Indian School grounds while rescuing her 10 year old Doberman Ricky. She drove home for hospital treatment and remains under care.
An explosion and fire leveled a two story frame house in Slabtown near Mount Savage Maryland killing Mrs Hannah McKenzie and her year old granddaughter Linda Hubbard. Three other children were hospitalized with injuries. The blast origin remains unexplained.
Arizona's 1950 Championship Golden Gloves begins tonight in Phoenix at 118 North Seventh Avenue. About 65 entries vie for eight weight crowns with eliminations tonight and Thursday and finals Friday. Proceeds fund youth programs while prizes include trips to Los Angeles Times and team trophies. Tonight's 8:30 pm first bout schedule, weigh‑in 2–4 pm, pairings drawn at 7. Tickets from The Republic Gazette offices or Garden box office.
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