ti: ae sa: ae renee ‘"NOAH’S ARK’ IN SPACE Soviets list achievements | ~ COPENHAGEN The Soviet Union has already carried out experiments with space ships carrying animal passengers. She may be ready before the United States with earth-girdling satellites — perhaps in two years. And the first Soviet ship is likely to be much bigger than the American ‘‘flying football.” This latest news in the space- travel drama was given last week to an enthralled press conference in Copenhagen by leading Soviet astro-physicist Professor Leonid Sedov. Prof. Sedov is president of the Soviet Commission for Interplanet- ary Communication and is leading a delegation from his country to the sixth conference of the Inter- national Astronautical Federation. He said: “The realization of the Soviet satellite project is to be expected in the near future, but I). will not name the exact date.” For an hour Professor Sedov answered questions from a packed room of correspondents at the So- viet legation in Copenhagen. Many delegates to the astronautical con- ference left the session to hear his answers. Here are some of his replies: Collaboration with U.S.: Coopera- tion between the USSR and US., onthe satellite project was “quite possible” he thought under the favorable conditions now being created. “We shall have to talk together,” he added. The Soviet delegation had learn- ed with interest that the federation had cabled its congratulations to President Eisenhower. “We join and approve in the ideas express- ed to President Eisenhower from the congress,” he said. What’s the purpose?: Professor Sedov said the common task of Eastern and Western astro-physi- cists was to “turn the military po- tentialities of the rocket to -those of peaceful aims and pursuits.” Their united efforts could “great- ly contribute to the cause of peace and the ending of the cold war.” When?: “In our opinion it is quite possible to launch a satellite within two years. . . . It depends only on expenditure.” He - revealed. that Professor Kapitza, famous Soviet physicist who. is also a Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society, is a member of So- viet Union’s space’ travel commis- sion. And he declared: “There are no German scientists in rocket tech- niques in the Soviet Union.” On the moon?: Sedov shook with laughter when asked: When will the Russians land on the moon? There were many cases of peo- ple making statement that had not been confirmed by reality, he said. “T do not want to make any more.” A broadcast over Moscow Radio Satelloid’ for Venus? COPENHAGEN A “satelloid” for Venus was propsed by Kraft Ehricke, member of the German team that developed V2 rockets at Peenemunde, at the congress of the International As- troriautical Federation here. Ehricke, now working for a U.S. company, said the satelloid would have a power unit which would operate when the vehicle had reached a height of between 75 and 95 miles and would enable it to approach other planets. ‘was difficult because of the mist normally surrounding this planet, but the powered satelloid would travel near, make exhausive re- search and pave the way to inter- planetary journeys by humans. there are dangers in interplanet- ary travel, enthusiasts were warn- ed by Fred A. Hitchcock, of Ohio “State University. For instance, above 63,000 feet blood and other body fluids li- terally boil. . He suggested that if an aircraft were damaged the pilot ‘should be ejected from it in a sealed cap- sule. Dr. J. Eugster, lecturer at Zurich University, said seeds had been exposed to cosmic rays at an altitude of over 90,000 feet in New Mexico and had after- wards developed stunted growths. Fish eggs suffered fatal results. . ° The effects of cosmic rays on human beings could only be judg- ed from dyed gelatine plates. Great physical changes had been brought about on the plates. Distant observation of Venus] Burchett was first to visit stricken city ‘| remember Hiroshima ‘| When Wilfred Burchett, first correspondent to reach the stricken city, entered Hiroshima 10 years ago, he saw these tragic victims of the atom-blast filling the makeshift hospitals. templated by British scientists. last week in a statement issued by Cooperating: with the British Mi- nistry of Supply, scientists of sthe Royal Society have launched a pro- gram which aims at having avail- able within two years rockets able to carry 100 pounds of scientific instruments to a height of 120 miles. last week carried Dr. Kiril Stang Professor D. R. Bates, of Queen’s yukovich’s warning that accumu- lated dust on the surface of the moon might present a problem in space travel. There was a danger that space ships might sink in the moon’s dust. Quoting details of Soviet research supplied by Dr. Stanyukovich, the broadcast said that for all prac- tical purposes the moon had no atmosphere and itS surface was constantly bombarded by meteors. This had pulversized the moon’s surface and only certain mountain ranges had not been broken down. The question now was: what was the depth of the dust layer on the! moon? University, Belfast, one of the group working on the rocket pro- gram, said he has propsed the re- lease of sodium vapor from a rock- et at a height of 60 miles. Sodium vapor is used for street lighting in many cities. “If my ideas are correct, a few pounds of sodium vapor would create a yellow light which would be most spectacular,” he said. “The best effects would prob- ably be obtained at twilight when the sodium would produce as much light as a full moon.” He thought the would produce much information | about the winds at extreme experiment |" ‘And at about the same height they are going to look for the Royal Society. . Artificial moonlight 60 miles up aim of British, U.S. experiments LONDON Creation of artificial moonlight 60 miles up in the atmosphere is one of the experiments con- light and dust, they announced heights, the temperature of the atmosphere and the chemical re- tions there. The experiment was being con- sidered as part of Britain’s rocket research program, but it would probably be tried first by the U-S. on September 6 or 7. at New Mexi- co. They ‘might release a grenade from a rocket which on exploding would vaporise the metal and re- lease sodium vapor. ° The light’ for which the scien- tists will be looking with their instrument-filled ‘rockets is the air-glow, 60 miles. up, that has long excited interest. The dust is in the region where meteors, rushing through space, disintegrate. The scientists are searching for very fine meteor dust below the 60-mile level. The design, development and fir- ing of the rockets will be carried out by the British government. British farm delegation e ee. .¢e Oi e will visit Soviet Union LONDON A group of British farm ex- perts has been invited to visit Moscow, Jacob Malik, Soviet am- bassador to Britain, said last week at London Airport. The offer has been .accepted. He was seeing off the 15-strong delegation of Soviet farm experts, headed by Ivan Benediktov, minis- ter of state farms, who have spent a month in Britain. e ° Communists gain seat TEL AVIV Final official results of last month’s national elections in Israel show that the Communist party has increased its seats from five to bre aa Mapai (Labor) is the — largest party with 40 seats. . PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 12, 1955 — ; he dyi their P eyes of the dying on ' their. By WILFRED BURCHETT I remember Hiroshima. - - e It is almost ten years simt€ stood. in an improvised hospi on its outskirts, and for the fir time in my life felt bitter sham at being a Westerner. ae Around me on the floor of ae first ward I visited were SVUee men, women and children 1 met ing stages of physical decompor tion. a There were no nurses: ~— 4). had all been killed in the Wie hot blast which destroyed ae shima at 820 a.m. on AugUS oe a little over three weeks my visit. é og From every corner of the wee black eyes in silent faces ae at me with accusing glances: stad straw mats, the eyes © ped mothers, wives, husbands grou silently, hopelessly round t en. I was the first visitor from ja0" outside world, the first non aftel anese to enter Hiroshima the bomb exploded. I was the only corresp A visit this hospital before the | ericans hurriedly, guiltily rem a it and its inmates far from eyes of the press. of Outside there was the flatnes® powdered rubble and nothing ©) as far as one could see, S87 9g bare skeletons of a few st el of concrete buildings. A. cit death, destruction and silence ‘Inside, a doctor whispered re me: “If a patient is brought his relatives must come ea give food, change dressing> bi do the washing and Clee After the patient dies they sick one by one and dié .? until the whole family is 9°” The first patient I approwt ost was a woman, Her hair had 4 ike completely fallen out and Jay a black halo round her head. Ad There were stains of phere round her mouth and nose. ace was horror and hatred in Be |, cusing eyes and the eyes * de, daughter squatting at her 5” I came near. yet The next one I saw was 4 eke or eight-year-old: child with 4 65 as big as my fist burned thr the the skin layers into the flest, a whole wound putrescent terrible odor. 2 sisb Others had dark PM, patches, swollen necks a? h nd oozing from their eyes, mouths noses. . Back in Tokyo 1 went %., press conference, where ave spokesman for a group of ste - scientists dressed up 25 DS diers and colonels of the 55 Army. denied that anyone mic sick, dying or dead of radiation at Hiroshima. My questions, based 0? had seen at Hiroshima, Wel? aie ed aside as those of 4 correspondent who had fa Japanese nda. ‘ panese propaga aiately ondent 10 Hiroshima was imme out of bounds for corresPO? sted and by the time the ban WS pee? the sick and dying ae. te spirited away somewhere erica? come guinea pigs for the nose scientists in uniform. The ~~ tal no longer existed. 4pis U.S. attempts to cover P crime and to. present ee ne bomb as merely a. more 1 pow? variant of the convention@, 4 have long since been eXP/0" “snis Not least of the credit cae exposure belongs to the Z ese people who have Wed e t0 courageous, stubborn strU9 ic expose the full horrors ° +t bombing and fo ensure ie world and other peoples in | ocic will be saved from SU ties in the future by forcement of a ban oF lear weapons.