Soviet Weather Balloon
Picked Up in Japan
ASAHIGAWA, Japan, UPV—A
Soviet weather balloon with a
pressure gauge, a thermometer,
and a transmitter was picked up
today in central Hokkaido, Japan’s
northrenmost island, the Japanese
Meteorological Observatory said.
The balloon was about 10 feet
across and apparently had been
launched from around Vladivostok
or Khabarovsk in Siberia.
Three-Story Barge Tips,
Drowning Three of Crew
HOUSTON, Uh—A new, 250
foot oyster shell dredge, buffeted
by rough waters, overturned in
Galveston Bay 40 miles southeast
of Houston yesterday. Three of its
23 crewmen drowned.
The three-story superstructure
was dredging shell and loading
barges on either side when it cap
sized in 15 feet of water.
The barge was valued at a mil
lion dollars.
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Navy Plane Crashes Into Thickly
Settled Resort, Taking Four Lives
And Demolishing Three Cottages
NORFOLK, Va. iff)—A Navy pa
trol plane, struggling for a land
ing with one of its two engines
dead, crashed into a thickly set
tled seashore resort area Monday
with the loss of four lives.
Eight of the plane’s 12 crewmen
survived when the Mercator air
craft careened into a group of cot
tages. Injured in the crash were
three occupants of the houses.
Three of the cottages were de
molished and three others dam
aged when the plane skidded into
the oceanfront settlement at near
by Ocean View. The plane and
one of the houses burned.
Cmdr. Clyde Curley, 41, pilot of
the plane, told Navy officials his
aircraft had entered its pattern
for a landing at the Norfolk Naval
Air Station when its port propel
lor engine suddenly lost power.
Curley said when he was un
able to start his two jet engines,
he turned toward the water to
avoid crashing into a populated
area. The plane, however, came
down just short of the bay, plow
ing into two automobiles and
striking five houses before slam
ming headlong into the sixth.
None of the surviving crewmen
was hurt badly.
Montgomery Ward
Employes Strike
For Wage Boost
CHICAGO, Wt—Employes Mon
day walked out at three of Mont
gomery Ward’s 565 retail stores
and set up pickets at various oth
er company stores to support de
mands for a wage boost.
The strike was called by the
Retail Clerks International Assn.
Company and union officials said
no new negotiations are planned.
Union demands include' a 10<'
an-hour wage boost, the union
shop, and a 40-hour week with
time-and-a-half after eight hours
a day.
Walkouts were reported at
Wards stores at Whittier, Calif.;
Kansas City, Kan., and Fulton,
N.Y. Monday.
The retail clerks, with about
4,000 members, claim bargaining
representation in 62 Wards stores.
The company said that in most
Ward stores sales employes do not
belong to any union.
Wards said the union has re
fused to bargain in good faith.
An unfair labor practice charge
was filed by Wards last week with
the NLRB, contending the union
refused to discuss terms on a
store-to-store basis.
The union, said a Ward spokes
man, demands a company-wide
contract rather than a contract
i based on varying regional condi
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