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Abilene OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS ABILENE, TEXAS, I A FAIR, WINDY LXXI NO. 226 The "WITHOUT Associated Press (AP) Allies' Answer On New Plans Ready for Reds MUNSAN Friday, Feb. 8. (P)- The U.N. Command today told the Communists it was ready to give its answer to sweeping new Red proposals for peace in Korea and the Far East.

An Allied liaison officer carried a message to Panmunjom suggesting a plenary session tomorrow of the full armistice delegations. The delegations are discussing the final item on the Korean truce agenda-recommendations to the governments concerned. At the first meeting on this subJect Wednesday, the Reds proposed high level political conference within 90 days after an armistice to discuss withdrawal of foreign troops and peaceful settlement of the Korean and other Far Eastern problems. The United States was reported agreeable to such a conference but want to confine the meeting strictly to Korean matters. The Reds have said they wanted "simultaneous solution" of other Asiatic problems, presumably including Formosa and Red China's bid for a U.

N. seat. Staff officers made some progress Thursday without solving outstanding issues. denticers an abandoned exchange a former of dis- key placed Korean civilians in Red territory for an equal number of Allied-held military prisoners in South Korea. This meant that after an initial exchange of 11,550 Allied prisoners for an equal number of Reds, the Allies are willing to make a free trade of all prisoners and displaced civilians desiring to go home.

The Allies hold about 132,000 Red prisoners. The new Allied draft for exchanging prisoners insisted that prisoners and civilians must have the right of voluntary repatriation and free interview. A Communist concession Thursday eased restrictions on number of troops each side could rotate in any one month. The Reds proposed 25,000 men could be rotated monthly, exclusive of men on rest or recreation leaves. Previously the Reds wanted the leaves counted.

The Red rotation figure still has 15,000 under the U. minimum of 40,000 for rotation monthly. The Reds were reported showing signs of weakening on their Insistence that only three ports of entry be permitted for inspection by neutral truce teams. The Allies first wanted 12 inspection ports in North Korea and an equal number in South Korea, then reduced that figure to 10 each. Brace for Decisive Fighting, Reds Told SEOUL, Friday, Feb.

8 -Red Korean Premier Kim Il Sung yesterday called on Communist armies to "prepare for, decisive fighting with the enemy." The North Korean leader's cryptic order, came on one of the twilight quietest days. Only light patrol clashes broke the silence of the 155-mile battle front. In Washington, Secretary of Defense Lovett and Gen. Omar Bradley gave senators a highly secret report on progress of the truce. talks.

Chairman, Russell (D-Ga) of the Senate Armed Services Committee said the report was "so sensitive that I'm reluctant to even comment to this extent." Kennan Appointed Envoy to Moscow WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (AP) Scholarly George F. Kennan, a diplomat who can talk Stalin in his own language, wise nominated by President Truman Thursday to be ambassador to Moscow. Greece, Turkey Get Senate Okay As NATO Members WASHINGTON, Feb.

7. (P) The Senate approved the admission of Greece and Turkey into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Thursday, after an angry debate about President Truman's right to maneuver American troops in Europe. The debate found Democratic senators clashing with Senator Taft of Ohio, who quoted his father, President William Howard Taft, against presidential "usurpation" of power, It found Senator Millikin (R-Colo) siding against Taft point at issue. The vote welcoming Greece and Turkey into the Western European defense force was 73 to 2. It was the second time the Senate had voted in favor of admitting the two nations.

Only six senators were present when the first vote came last week. The Senate decided to take the question up again to get a more representative showing. The noted "Mr. of United States-Russian relations will sueceed retired Admiral Alan G. Kirk in the top diplomatic post behind the Iron Curtain.

Mr. Truman accepted Kirk's resignation, effective Wednesday. Kennan, 47, is a veteran of 25 years in the foreign service, and is perhaps best known outside the State Department as the author of the, policy of containment under which the United States, about five years ago, began to bulwark threatened countries to protect them against Communist conquest. Inside the department, he is recognized as a brilliant diplomat and scholarly thinker who believes in the possibility of eventual adjustments between the Communists and free world once the Allied nations have made themselves strong enough to negotiate with Russia on a basis of military strength. It is in this that the real significance of his appointment may lie.

The United States and its Allies are well embarked on the program of building up the power considered necessary to stabilize East-West relations, if they are every to be stabilized. Should the Kremlin show any tendency to adjust to this situation, Kennan will be in key position to spot the trend and explore the possibilities. A quiet, slender, youthful looking man, Kennan been a student of Russian affairs and the Russian language since the earliest years of his foreign service career. Dr. A.

P. Head, Pioneer Ovalo Doctor, Dies; Rites Saturday Feb. 7. (RNS) Dr. A.

OVALO P. Head, prominent country doctor of South Taylor County, died at 2:25 p.m. Thursday at Hendrick Memorial Hospital. He had been there since Monday, having suffered a heart attack at his home in Ovalo that afternoon. His death was attributed to pneumonia, which he contracted after suffering two more attacks at the hospital.

Funeral will be held at the Ovalo Methodist Church at 2 p. m. Saturday. The Rev. Travis B.

McNair, pastor, and the Rev. Raymond VanZandt of Andrews, former pastor here, will officiate. Burial will be at Elmwood Memorial Park with Fry Funeral Home of Tuscola in charge. Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Lota Clyde House.

San Antonio and Mrs. Janye Rose Irvin of Lubbock; one son, Koy M. Head of Livingston, three granddaughters, two great grandchildren, two brothers, W. S. Head of Fort Worth, and L.

D. Head Arkansas; two sisters, Mrs. T. A. Barton of Tyler and Mrs.

Lucy Cannon of Montrose, several nieces and nephews, Dr. Head had been a resident of Ovalo since 1917, practicing medicine in the South Taylor County area since that time. He was the only country doctor in the West Reporter -News MORNING OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOES' -Byron FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1952 -TWENTY FOUR PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 10c School Being Matron Says GAINESVILLE, Feb. 7. (P) The superintendent of the Gainesville School said Thursday she Girls, staff are "being crucified" by Houston newspaper accounts of conditions at the school.

Maxine Burlingham said a girl quoted by the Houston Chronicle as saying she had been whipped "actually was never touched and admitted that on the stand at Houston." "I have tried to be objective and do the right thing," Mrs. Burlingham told the. Gainesville Record. R. managing editor the 'Houston' Chronicle, said the facts did not bear out Mrs.

Burlingham's charge. Her statement came as three members of the Texas Youth Development Council, responsible for operations at the school, planned an inspection of the school Friday. Ike Silent On Coming Home Plans WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (P) Gen.

Eisenhower kept silent Thursday amid reports his friends were putting on pressure him to come home and campaign for the Republican nomination. GOP Candidate Harold E. Stassen said he believes Eisenhower is "not coming back" before the Republican nominating convention meets in Chicago, July 7. Stassen indicated he doesn't think Eisenhower can win the nomination unless the general comes home and fights for it. At Eisenhower's headquarters in France, an aide said: "The general just isn't saying anything." Supporters of Senator Taft (R- Ohio) made no secret of their belief that while the general remains silent, their man is fast making political hay.

Senator Brewster (R-Me), a Taft supporter, said if the present trend continues, Taft will have the GOP nomination "sewed up" within a few weeks. The parade of Democratic faithful to the White House went on apace and produced new but still indecisive forecasts for President Truman's intentions. Rep. Arthur G. Klein (D-NY) talked with the President and later said "I think he will run." said he told Truman he Klein, "beat any man, including General Eisenhower as well as Senator Taft," and he said the President "wasn't displeased to hear it." Lt.

Gov. James T. Blair, of Missouri said he told Truman: "You look fine and fit. What am I going to tell the folks back in Missouri about whether you are going to run?" Blair said Truman "just threw back his head and laughed and laughed and laughed." IRATE MAN SAYS Move That Train, I'm Hunting Fox LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE. Feb.

7 (R--Engineer Fred Weaver jammed on the brakes of his diesel locomotive Thursday when he realized the automobile at the grade crossing didn't intend to get off the tracks. The locomotive bumped the car lightly. Only then did W. E. Johnson of Fox Hill crawl from beneath the wheel of the auto.

"Didn't you see me sitting here?" he asked the surprised Weaver. And in the next breath he added irascibly: "Move that locomotive, I'm going fox P. -The locomotive moved. Johnson went. Grunewald Pays Taxes WASHINGTON, Feb.

7. -The Internal Revenue Bureau said Thursday that Henry W. (The Dutchman) Grunewald, a mystery figure in a House investigation of income tax scandals, had paid off $51,157 in back taxes and interest. The bureau had filed a lien in that amount. THE WEATHER U.

S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE WEATHER BUREAU ABILENE AND VICINITY: Fair, mid and windy, with winds shifting to northwesterly by afternoon or evening. Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. High today, 70, 75; low tonight 38, 40. High Saturday near 60.

NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS: Partly cloudy Friday and Saturday. northwest Saturday. WEST Clear to partly cloudy Friday and Saturday, Cooler Panhandle and South Plains Saturday. TEMPERATURES Thurs. A.M.

Thurs P.M. 1:30 69 35 2:30 70 34 3:30 71 33 4:30 69 36 5:30 34 6:30 63 36 7:30 58 42 8:30 58 51 9:30 56 60 10:30 11:30 64 Noon 66 High and low temperatures for hours ending at 9:30: 71 and 33. High and low temperatures same date last year: 56 and 27. Sunset last night 6:18: sunrise today sunset tonight 6:19. Barometer reading at 9:30: 28.22.

Relative humidity at 9:30: Plane Wreckage, Body Found Near Nugent Oil Pumper Discovers Death Scene (See page 2A another picture of crash) By BILL PEPPER Perry Marvin Singelton crashed to death last Saturday night about 12 miles from the Abilene Municipal Airport which would have given him haven from a raging dust storm. The college flier's body and the wreckage of his plane were found about 3 p. m. Thursday in a heavily wooded section about halfway between Hawley and Nugent northeast of Abilene. The discovery ended an intensive air search that had fanned out 1 in all directions from Abilene.

J. C. Rutledge, who lives near Hawley, a relief pumper on leases in the area, came upon the body and wreckage as he was driving down a narrow sand road. Singelton, a University of Colorado student enroute from Wichita Falls to Dallas in his own plane, had talked with the control tower at the Abilene airport for 20 minutes Saturday night. They picked up his distress signal as he strayed off course in the dust storm with little fuel left.

Suddenly at 10:20 p. m. his radio went silent and he was not heard from again. SINGLETON THROWN OUT Singleton's plane dug a hole about three feet deep where it first hit the ground. The fuselage, twisted into a mass in which only two tail sections remained intact, was 100 feet from the point of impact, Singleton's body, partially decomposed, was a full 250 feet from the point of impact.

Air Force Captain K. E. Shockley of Houston, in charge at the scene, said the plane was evidently on a southerly course when it hit the ground. He said the plane cartwheeled, and that Singleton was probably thrown out in the violent turning action. Doors, cushions, sections of wing, and other miscellaneous pieces of the plane were scattered over the area.

A piece of luggage, probably packed for the week end Singleton was to spend with his brother in Dallas, lay just outside the main part of the plane, intact, When Rutledge, 36, found the wreckage, he drove to the house of a friend, Mrs. N. W. Berry, wife of a pumper in the area. She called Civil Air Patrol Headquarters in Abilene, where the extensive search was being directed.

Naval Lt. E. G. Greene and Capt. Shockley flew to a point on the Nugent-Hawley Road, where Rutledge and several others were waiting in a pick-up truck.

Lt. Green set his plane down in a small field, and the party proceeded to the scene, about a half mile north of the Nugent road. 600 Hawlewounded Discovery of the plane by Rutledge ended a five day search in which over 600 flight hours were put in by CAP members from towns and cities as far away as Mar. shall, Olney, San Angelo and Austin. The area in which the plane was See FLIER, Pg.

2-A, Col. 3 TRAGEDY STRUCK J. C. side the wreckage of the light ton lost his life Saturday night. search by more than 50 Civil Brannan 'Not To Truman Says WASHINGTON, (P) President Truman defended Secretary Agriculture Brannan Thursday against any blame in the multi-million-dollar shortages in government grain reserves.

The shortages are under investigation. Mr. Truman brought up the subject at his news conference in commenting on reports that the government. may lose upwards of five million dollars in U. S.

grain diverted from commercial warehouses, mostly for speculative purposes. The President said this grain was stolen by these grain fellows and Brannon was not to blame for what the grain fellows have been doing. Brannan sought to dispel what he called "the cloud now improperly hanging over" the Agriculture Department in connection with the grain case. Brannan wrote Chairman Ellender (D-La) of the Senate Agriculture Committee, which is conducting the current inquiry, urging Congress to summon "known wrongdoers" and question them about the shortages. "Until the elevator operators and warehousemen who converted the grain to their own use are calied to explain their wrong doings, the full story will not be known to the public and there is real danger that the acts of a small number of unscrupulous businessmen will jeopardize public confidence in the career employees and service of this Department of Agriculture," Brannan said.

Brannan told the committee three weeks ago that although the grain losses were deplorable, they were relatively small in the overall picture of the government's huge grain reserves. He said they were no bigger than normal inventory losses in private business. Officials also said not all shortages were due to tion. Some were due to spoilage or other factors, they said. NEWS INDEX SECTION A Society Page 4 Oil Sports 10, 11 SECTION Funds Slow Highway Work Page Editorial 6 Comics Farm 11, 12 Rutledge, Hawley, stands beplane in which Perry SingleRutledge ended a five day Air Patrol fliers, when he found the wreckage in this for scrap metal.

Singleton's farther south, the direction (Staff photo by Clint Kapus). heavy shinnery while looking body was found about 150 feet in which Rutledge is looking. TO SUCCEED MIKE DISALLE Arnall Mum After President Nominates Him for Price Boss WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (P- -Ellis Gibbs Arnall, former governor of Georgia and strong administration supporter, was nominated by President Truman Thursday to be price stabilization chief.

Sources close to Arnall had said that if he accepted the appointment it indicated President would seek another term. The President still gave no hint of his intentions he announced the Arnall selection at a news conference. will succeed Michael V. DiSalle, who is quitting Feb. 15 to run for the Democratic senatorial nomination in Ohio.

had been described by a friends earArnall, now an Atlanta attorney, lier as unwilling to accept "an unpopular job" unless assured there was a good chance of Truman running again, One Capitol source had expressed a belief that if Arnall is confirmed and Truman should be re-elected the Georgian would be in line for a cabinet post--maybe attorney general. Roger L. Putnam, economic stabilization director, issued a statement saying he was delighted that Arnall had agreed to serve "in the tough job Mike DiSalle is leaving." DiSalle predicted Arnall would do a good job. He told newsmen he feels the basic structure of the price organization has been completed and that Arnall would have a foundation to work from. "He'll have some troubles, 13 Crewmen Killed As B-29 Crashes TOKYO, Friday, Feb.

8. UM Thirteen American crewmen and possibly five Japanese were killed last night in the explosive crash of a Superfort that leveled 15 houses about 40 miles west of Tokyo. The big bomber crashed in a snowstorm shortly after taking off from Yokota Air Base. Part of the plane's bomb load exploded and demolished the houses at a village five miles north of Yokota, Three and possibly five Japanese were killed. An area 100 to 150 yards in diameter was levelled.

The cause of the crash was unknown. Names of the crew were withheld. Acheson to Funeral WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. (A) President Truman said Thursday Secretary of State Acheson will represent him at the funeral of King George VI Feb.

15. though," DiSalle added. "Nobody can hold this job without having problems every day. I'll be very happy to turn It over to him." Asked if he would vote for Senator Russell (D-Ga) for President, Mr. Truman said at his news conference, smilingly of course, he would if Russell were the nominee.

1 "Is there much likelihood of that?" a newsman queried. The President asked not to be put on the spot. He said he will not campaign in New Hampshire where he is entered March 11 primary against Senator KeFauver (D- Tenn), but will let. the river take its course there and elsewhere. His answer, he added, covered the whole waterfront, indicating he would take no part in any preconvention campaign.

During an exchange over the origin of the phrase "let the river take its course," the President said he used it first in his 1934 campaign for the Senate. He said he altered it at times, putting few walls around the river and a few dams across it to change its course. "Are. you running for President this year?" he was asked. No comment, was the reply.

The President said his 000,000 budget for 1952-53 is staying just as it is. This was his comment on approval by the House GOP Policy Committee of a bill the budget calling on the President, to trim 000, the estimated revenue for next year. He laughed when he added the Republicans, were trying to get work on the budget. Texas area so far as is known. In recent years he was semiretired, but still treated 12 to 15 patients daily in his Ovalo drug store, and he made daytime calls up to the time of his death.

He had worked all day at his practice the day he was stricken. His motto was: "The weather is See HEAD, Pg. 2-A, Col. 1 DR. A.

P. HEAD LIKE A BOMB CRATER Young Lynn Roberts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Roberts Nugent, crouches in the three-foot hole made by Perry Singleton's plane. He hold a bit of the wing, which was torn off on impact.

Behind Lynn is the path made as the plane came in at about a 30 degree angle from the south. A dust storm with winds from the north measuring to gusts of 75 miles an hour was raging when Singleton was lost. (Staff photo by Clint Kapus)..