VOL, 9 20, N O. @TUDAY, FEBRUARY 17 Pacific RIBUNE VANCOUVER, B. eel 1961 = Loseow'—Venus, sister pl ‘ey te facts.and phenomena never known before. Indeed, E xpl ay when man will realize his dream of visiting and Aue other planets is drawing ever nearer. Aay cae step toward that Soviet 8 taken last week when SPutnj Scientists launched a cae which, upon going in- bit, launched a rocket inter - planetary Mikhailov, director of Pulkovo Observatory: Le: that in the second half ay the rocket. will be Ose to Venus, “This Possible that this brief = Of time will yield- more Mation about this —planet n pe entire previous history Vestigations,” he -says. a Academician iss Sedov: Astro Of the International eM autical aecenation, says (STORIA PEACE BBY MARCH 1 Blogan. eee Lobby around the Out tof ‘Keep Nuclear Arms ’ Canada” will descend og: on ~March: Ist. Pea ed by the B.C. i ‘tig “€. Council, ‘the delega- Nwillleavé Vancouver on 1251 day evening, February eace An. invitation for ‘all hin fighters’ to participate | Ms: delegation - ‘is extend- y the Peace Council.‘ ai ils Phone 05 and .de- phone MU.5- 9958. After , AS Bp : ae Pe : “Exploration of other ‘Planets drawing near” -vading the unknown.” _vatory, -points . out. that _ the during which time the labora- tory will be subjected to most | laboratory, especially -due -to that the difficulties involved anet. of the earth, will soon that Venus, “this mysterious planet of our solar system,’ will become an object of direct investigation by means of. “physical ‘instruments and rockets. “Man is boldly, confidently, and in a business-like way in- He emphasizes that the solu- tion of such a difficult techni- cal problem as the flight to planets has become | possible thanks. to the existence - of powerful -Soviet-made rockets guided with: utmost precision. A. Severny, -director .of, the Crimean. Astrophysics. -.Obser- flight. to Venus, .even -in the most favorable - conditions __of its junction with -the — earth, will-take over. three. months, diverse effects such as meteors, cosmic. -rays energy - particles - body: . The ‘problem. of the. lengthy effect -of radiation on the the activity of-the-sun and the radiation /of some solar- flares, is-therefore of great scientific and practical: importance.. ~' ‘Significant. also -is. the fact ,} over to the and other - high ee its | _.Mass_ demonstrations _all province. Earlier the. world was shock- ed by the announcement from officials, in Katanga that Lum- umba and his aides had been slain. This , announcement came after.one declaring that Lumumba had “escaped.” Even before the statement of his death was announced most of the world’s press re- ported that the “escape” ‘ready been killed. More than- a-week before, -the British Daily. Worker in a front page - editorial . warned that -Lumumba’s :life -was--in danger. Pointing to the world- wide . pressure- for Lumumba’s release,. the -growing .demand that he be-included in a new government, plus the fact that he had already been handed Belgian puppet government -at. Katanga, - the editorial warned that the col- onialists may act to remove him Ray: from the pic- ture. DEA H STIRS | ROTESTS over the world this week protested the cold .blooded-and brutal murder of. Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba and two of his aides in Katanga | This,-apparently. is what the eolonialist- .gang with. their stooges in. the Congo and the U.N. have done. Proof of their guilt is shown by the fact that Katanga au- thorities have declared that Lumumba and his aides have | been buried in secret graves and the location will not be re- . an- ' vealed. ‘nouncement was a cover-up, ‘and that Lumumba had al- Meanwhile, the Soviet Un- ion this week denounced in the strongest terms the action of Belgium in the Congo and the role _of Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N: force. Speaking before the Security - Council Soviet Ambassador Zorin said the Soviet Union would refuse to recognize Hammarskjold as an official of the United -Na- , tions. He further demanded: @ That sanctions be levell- ed against Belgium for its ag- gression in the Congo. @-Disarming of the armed gangs organized by the colon- ialists. os onthe subject: “The Coiay Rally Sunday Latest events in the Congo will be the subject of a public forum being held .this coming Sunday, at 2 p.m. in the Fishermen’s Hall, 1388 E. Cordova. St. Tom McEwen,. editor of the Pacific Tribune, will Lumumba?” Fhe-meeting- is sponsored by the. Vancou- ver Committee, Communist Party of Canada. Congo—Who Killed Patrice in’ pufting’ a ‘space ship into “—€¥ 8-9429.-- ‘such a: complicated orbit’ have, | been overcome: ary-of the new Cuba.- Murdered . . . because he would not sell his country to the colonialists ® Withdrawal of U.N. fore- es from the Congo. Also this week the Soviet Union and other Asian and African states announced their support for the vice-premier of the Congo, Antoine Gizen- ga, who heads the pro-Lumum- ba government in Northern Congo. Speaking to India’s parlia- ment Tuesday. Prime Ministér Nehru condemned the murder of Lumumba and. threatened to withdraw India’s troops from. the: U.N. force unless the Belgian’s are: forced to leave. (See story on page.3 for re port. of . Vancouver protest demonstration). 4 JOBLESS IN B.C. AT NEW HIGH British. Columbia’s unem- ployment ~shows the sharp- est rise in Canada in figures released Wednesday by the Dominion Bureau of Statis- tics. At mid - January there were 77,000 jobless, or 13.3 |}per cent of the labor force of 580,000. incu iiaicnn in Canada: Photo shows units: of the Cuban revolutionary army./now stands at 693,000, the marching in the recent celebration of the second annivers- | highest for any month in the last 15 years.