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Show DESERET NEWS AND TELEGRAM,Soit Lake US:Staysiltlynt But Absolutely-Nol- l City,'Wednescloy, November 18, 1959 UMPHR On Nikita Boast Continued from First Page Waters;and--Jarnes---Row- NEW YORK (UPI)Twentyone men Wednesday sit in a double''roNN; of chairs before ,.a marbld wall in a federal court Their clothes are well tailored, their fingernails manlcured, their hair sleek, their faces Impassive. Among them Is ,a virtual board of directors' of the rackets in the United States. Some have records.. running , - - -- - : -- The Defense Department had a cold "no comment" on ovlet - Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev's boast that one Russian factory turned out 250 hydrogen warhead rockets in a year.' Military officials, following a usual practice, said Tuesday night that Moscow. reports on the claim were too sketchy to justify any immediate analysis here. They said Khrushchev apparently did not specifL. whether he referred to intercontinental ballistic missiles or meant various kinds of missiles. If Khrushchev referred to rockets of all ranges, his figure would not be too surprising. - to --frornnar- cotics whiter-sl- a ery, assault to ,suspicion of rnurdei. The government is trying to send them to prison for five years. It Is one of the biggest federal offensives against the underworld since the late Al Capone was bagged for income "tax evaskin: Abstract Offense And, as in that case, the 21 ' ? i ! ' o Nikita Waves bs, Rocket Might. - ; major felonies but with the moscow (UPI) Premier. abstract offense of "conspir1- Nildta S. Khrushchev said in Ing to obstruct justice." The 21 represent of a band of men surprised on Nov. 11, 1957, at home of the late Joseph Bar- arba Sr. , near Apalachin, N.Y. They took to the woods, their cashmer e, coats got caught on barbed wire fences, their fine leather shoes caked with. mud, their limousines caught in roadblocks that 'day as they sought to flee when d e-hilltop t t -- spotted-a-state pollee car, Remain Silent , The government charges they have steadfastlyand 'unanimously refused to disclose the purpose of that meeting two years ago. Their story is that they just happened to drop in on their ailing friend, Barbara. It was They quite a coincidence. in simultaneously dropped from such spots as Scranton, Dallas, Miami, Niagara Falls, Cleveland, San Gabriel, Calif., and Phoenix. Milton R. Wessel special assistant to the U.S. attorney general who heads the prosecabin, admitted at the outset that the government does not know what really happened. Successful Conspiracy "The conspiracy has been successful," he .told the jury. "I tell you frankly and fairly ; t , , ' . , - f i , , of-th- e be-- d he-wo- lighted. arrEffaTretrWitirtib71-v- one-thir- WASHINGTON Has the Army muzzled Dr. Wernher von Braun-- , the talkative missile master who usually makes good on his boasts? The Army denies it. But an Army spokesman also said Tuesday that Dr. Von Braun has been discouraged from taking on too many speaking engagements and personal, an arances lest it interfere with his missile-making- . Von Braun The German-borwas in Washingtononday attending the annual meeting American Rocket Society. He was asked to do a television Interview on tape for the National Broadcasting Co. In his ellow-well-me- t usual h a style,-be-sai-d- H-Bom- , . By WARREN ROGERS JR. N.Y. Herald Tribtma Service a speech made public Tuesday that the Soviet Union's stock. pile 'of rockets and hydrogen andatomicwarheads - could wipe "all our potential ene. mies" off the face of the earth. He told Soviet journalists that he visited one factory where 250 rockets with hydro. gen warheads were turned out "on an assembly Ifni basis within a year," Khrushchev's speech tost the n the Kremlin-lanewsmen-1Saturday was released by the official ,Soviet news agency Tass Tuesday right While stressing Ihe !ainvincit ble might" of the Soviet armed orces, Khrushch ev his appeal for total disarmament ' e "We are ready to sink all this in the sea in the interest of insuring peace on earth," he said. "Far from .destring war, we do not even want to have the means of waging war." Khrushchev said Soviet policy "is not a "'position of Strength' policy." He said that the Soviet Union did not want "to frighten anyone but we can tell the truth: namely, that now we have such a stock of rockets, such an amount of atomic and hydrogen warheads, that if they attack us we could raze our potential enemies off the face of the earth." On Way Home But when then time came tor e taping:M.-WiBt'ilin was on a commercial aircraft heading for Huntsville, Ala., home Ballistic Missile tf the Agency, where he works. As a result, a Soviet space s&ntist n a m a dLeonid I. Sedov, president of the International Astronautical Federation, appeared alone on the program, "Today," shown 'Tues. day. Army spokesmen said what happened was this: , Dr. Von Braun, after telephoned e Pentagorranclasked whetly er he had to, follow through. He was advised to suit himself. But the National Aeronautics and , Space Administration to whom Dr. Von Braun and rocket experts are being transferred, raised an objection. So Dr. Von Braun took off tor Huntsvaccepting-theinvi- tation-,-- (NA-SA)- Washington attorney and campaign adviser who squired the senator about his own native state of Montana. In Pocatello Tdesday night, Sen. Humphrey called upon America to "take the initiafive, with decisive action in meeting the Soviet challenge of economic, educational and pálitical warfare." He labeled the Eisenhower administration as a "no go, go slow, not now, Veto admin. istration" and 'said that "popularity is being substituted in our minds for leadership." works, and writes magazine at the rustle of a contract. .., , As recently as, Oct. 29, Dr. Von Braun hit the headlines by Joining with Roy 'VV. Johnston, retiring Pentagon missile chief, in a demand for $800,000)000 for the huge new Saturn rills- sile. They said the project would cost that mUch, and they called for $240 mil- Need leadership lion next year Instead of the He-sa- id the big.issue he is $140 million being considered trying to define for voters is for it "substitution of leadership for . showmanship," Made Threat Other major .issues, Sen. Earlier, Dr. Von Braun Humphrey stated, are Amerithreatened to go Into private can initiafive to reduce Soindustry if Saturn did not get viet propaganda victories, the a higher priority. He could lagging U.S. space program, command about $100,000 a year advancement of active interIn private rocketryi-againthe nationarexploration in foreign $21,500 he gets from the gov- - policy with a partnership proernment gram for other nations, and Dr. Von Braun first drew Wide public attention by declar- expansion "in order ing in late 1957 that he could to meet the Soviet challenge have beat the Soviet Sputnik I head on." into orbit If the Eisenhower adIntellectual Stoth ministration had let him. He "Russian leaders . do not get made good in his boast of caon international and in pability Jan, 31, 1958, when he briefed he said. and his team orbited Ex- ternal problems,' ' "This is intellectual laziness. plorer L Army spokesmen said he They study and work in depth. this would not have time to do his Our leaders should- do work if he accepted all the in- also." ' "My impression of Soviet vitations he gets. Since the Premier Khrushchev is a 24-first of the year, they said, he hour-a-daleader, tenacious has turned down 385 and in Ihe last accepted -us10-ye- at Standard Furniturp's "Holiday House 11 1 It ALUMINUM WATERLESS COOKWARE retail value pc. PHI LCO Deluxe ELECTRIC RANGEie ONLY st "Quick Chet" savss ys ths smo th chiming up to 40 en electricity OWN A PHILCO ELECTRIC POI AS ) 'Al ' Soviets Leading NASA's objection, it was understood, was that it was the better'part of valor to dusk any question-and-- a nswer session with a Soviet scientist at this imirticular time. With two Soviet moon shots recently and no particular American space activity, the Soviets Would sort of be holding cards and spades. Dr. Von Braun is no blushing violet in the publicity field. He submits cheerfully to interviews and speaks frankly, is having a movie of his life filmed,: has two books in the $)50 Ara A PHILCO 40951 these features Automatic Timer Clock Push Button Controls Master Oven Surface Units Riot Spud Plus all RANG" , , WEEK - I OTHER'THANKSOWINGRANGESPECIA14-,-,- -. s6T-mont- vre r e 32. 'All--3- 2 -- repeatedly-and-openly-t- - hat he is waging economic, educa cleared by the Army. Of the 32, the spokesman tional and scientific warfare said, five were at the request against us," he said of the Army. 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