PROTESTS IN KERALA

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28939, 6 July 1959, Page 11

PROTESTS IN KERALA

Police Attack Demonstrators

(Rec. 10.25 p.m.) CALICUT (Kerala State, India), July 4. At least four persons were injured today when police carrying bamboo staves charged a crowd of anti-Communist demonstrators. The demonstrators were protesting against the arrest of volunteers who were picketing Government buildings as part of the opposition parties’ demand that the State’s Communist Government resign. Police said the crowd were ordered to disperse, but refused. Four of the demonstrators were taken to hospital A total of 107 plcketers were arrested, including Mr K. B. Menon, a Socialist member of the Indian Parliament. The death roll from yesterday’s clash in Cheriathura, where Police opened fire on demonstrators, rose to three today when ■ wounded man died in hospital. A man and woman were killed yesterday, and five men were taken to hospital. Yesterday’s firing was the fourth in the three-week campaign against the Communists. JUteen people have been killed. There have been more than •MOO arrests.

Incorporated in the satellite will be many of the space experiments the United States has attempted to perform with individual satellites in the first 18 months of space exploration. The satellite, like others to follow, will be launched with more powerful rocket boosters now becoming available. The new satellite, developed for thfe National Aeronautics and Space Administration by the Army Ballastic Missile Agency, was originally intended to be the grand climax to the International Geophysical Year, which ended last December.

The complexity of the payload has resulted in the launching being successfully postponed, but it is now scheduled for the middle of this month, from the Cape Canaveral launching site. The satellite will be launched by the Army’s Juno II Rocket—the rocket that launched a small payload into orbit around the sun in March. This rocket consists of a Juoiter intermediate range ballistic missile and three solidfuelled upper stages. The new satellite, on the basis of experience with earlier ones, will have a new shape designed to achieve stability in orbit. As it is launched, it will be set spinning. The resulting spin action, it is hoped, will keep it stable on its axis as it circles the earth.

The satellite will carry instruments to measure K-ray radiation intensity and Lyman-alpha ultraviolet radiation, particularly from the sun. Both of these radiations are believed to have an Important influence on the earth’s weather and the ionosphere. The satellite will also have a detector to measure the impact of heavy nuclear particles occasionally found in cosmic rays.

It will also have geiger counters to map further the dimensions and intensities of the newly-dis-covered radiation belts in space