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Newspaper Page TextWeather Subscribers FORECAST: Continued filr through Saturday except aft- . ernoon and evening thunder storms over southern moun tains. Low tonight (4. High Saturday 92-9J. Temp. HI Clint Yesterday .-. 95 Lowest this Morning tS 47th Year Editor Ruhl's Comment (Editor's note: Here is the running comment of Editor R. W. Ruhl as telegraphed to The Mail Tribune from the GOP conven tion press gallery just preceding, and during the exciting moments of the ballot.) By R. W. RUHL Chicago When this dog-fight started it was anything to beat Taft! This is "der tag" and now it is anything to beat Eisenhower! Rumors are as thick as flies on the adjoining stockyards dump heap, but your correspondent crawls out on a limb to predict: Eisenhower is too far in front to stop. How long it will take for him to reach the finish line, at this moment is the $64 question. Chicago It came sooner than switch and then the deluge. - The Oregon delegation is celebrating. Congressman Ellsworth, isn't.. After the bandwagon rush the vote for Eisenhower was made unanimous, at the request of Senator Taft himself. There was a tremendous ovation for the Ohio senator who appeared better in defeat than he had when expecting and predicting victory. "Bob's a good loser," was heard on all sides." Body of Missing Pilot Found Near Roseburg The demolished airplane and decomposed body of a student llier who left the Medford air port four years ago was appar ently found.' yesterday near Report on Dunkin Believed in Error A report that George Baker Dunkin, wanted for the slaying of Police Officer Phil B. Lowd, had been seen west of Prospect early Thursday, was discounted by state police. Police Captain Paul Parson said that, after thorough check ing Thursday, officers' were skeptical. A woods worker re ported that he thought he had seen Dunkin in the Whetstone peak area 12 to 15 miles from Prospect. Dunkin, a woods wise miner and trapper, has been sought since June 24 for the shooting of Lowd near the miner's cab In the the upper Elk creek area of northern Jackson county. BLOOD APPOINTMENTS Appointments are now being taken by the Jackson county Red Cross office for the visit of the bloodmobile unit on Wednes day, July 16, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Elks temple, accord ing to the county blood commit tee. The phone number is Med ford 3-3813. Mrs. Clarice Nye, Pioneer Of Rogue Valley, Dies Here Mrs. Clarice Nye, pioneer county resident, passed away at her home, 1913 Hazel street, yesterday. She was born in St. Clair, Wise, May 22, 1879. She moved to Grants Pass as a child of 10 when the West was still wild, and she recalled being frighten ed by cowboys riding down the street firing their six-shooters in the air. When she was fifteen, the family moved to Prospect, where she met and two years later married Nelson Nye, son of Chauncey Nye, one of the earliest pioneers in the county Jn a log cabin on the Nye home stead she began her married life and bore her first of eight chil dren at a time when a trip to Medford required five days, and doctors were an almost un known rarity that distance from town. Took Actire Part The job of rearing eight chil dren did not prevent Clarice Nye from taking an active part in the planning and work on the 260-acre homestead. In 1912, she was instrumental in plan ning and completing the Nye ir rigation ditch, which now pro vides water for many farms in the Prospect area. With her growing family, the original cabin was replaced by larger houses, and her home be came the locale of many dances and other community activities. When her oldest children were old enough for high school, none existed, so she helped organize the Laurelhurst high school, and later the Prospect high school, United Press Full Leased Wire 16 Pages fn v expected. Stassen did it with his Roseburg, the state police said. CircusR. Doyle, a commercial flying student from Tacoma, Wash., took off from the Med ford airport at 7 a. m. Septem ber 15, 1948. He was bound for Tacoma. He was seen some time later, over Grants Pass, heading into banks of low clouds and fog. He was never seen again un til yesterday when Herb Smith, a Roseburg timber cruiser, spot ted his crashed plane about 22 miles east of Roseburg. The plane was found one mile north west of Red Butte. The pilot's body had been thrown about 30 feet from the plane. Not Identified The body , had not yet been identified but officials of the Civil Aeronautics administration said this morning that the air craft number of the wrecked plane MC44088 was the same as that of the light red and black plane that was flown from here by Doyle in 1948. An extensive search was con ducted then for the missing plane. Three air force search and rescue planes a C82 Fly ing Boxcar, a B17 bomber and a PBY amphibian took part in the search between Grants Pass and Roseburg. The student pilot was on a solo cross-country flight. He did not file a flight plan with the Medford airport, but it was thought that he expected to land next in Salem or Eugene. where her husband served on the first school board along with Ed Hollenbeck, Tracey Boothby, and Jim Grieves. Grew Native Flowers Although she had never plan ned a career outside the family circle, a disabling accident to her husband led her at the age of 48 to begin a career as a wild flower florist. She grew native species, and also wild flowers from all over the world. She was commissioned by the Royal Botanical Gardens of England to look for ' new species, and is credited with several. Her con tacts covered all the states and many foreign countries. This career continued to her last days. Moved to Medford After the death of her hus band in 1.945, she moved to Med ford, where she personally su pervised construction of the multiple dwelling unit which re mained her home. In Medford she took a deep interest in church work, and was a member of the Methodist church. Mrs. Nye is survived by six children and fourteen grand children. Daughters are Mrs. Dee Hedgpeth, Prospect; - Mrs. Marian Bean, Medford, and Mrs. Stanley Jantzer, Azalea. Her sons are Waldo Nye, Prospect; Emery Nye, Prospect, and Ivan Nye, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania. Conger-Morris funeral home is in charge of funeral arrange ments. Services will be held at the Nelson Nye home at Pros pect, Saturday at 6 p.m. Friends are welcome, n SWEET VICTORY POSE Dwight D. Eisen hower with his two grandchildren in a victory pose following an earlier win over the forces of Sen. Robert A. Taft in the battle for the Allies Confront Kremlin Willi Plan For German Peace Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States, Britain . and France Friday confronted the remlin with a direct offer to start work ing toward ...-a.., German peace treaty without any Red veto. The offer of four-power talks on appointment of an impartial, veto-free commission to study the possibility of holding all German elections was- the key point in the latest Big Three notes to Moscow on the crucial German issue. Split Charged . In identical notes, the1 three Western powers Thursday night charged the Russians with tight ening the Iron Curtain and split ting Eastern and Western Ger many while paying lip service to expressions of hope for Ger man unity. These "unjustified . . . meas ures aggravate the arbitrary di vision of Germany," the Allies said. This was a barbed refer ence to recent Communist moves to barricade Eastern Ger many by digging trenches, mov ing houses, posting heavy guards, and attempting to intim idate the West. The Western offer to meet with the Soviets to select an election inquiry group left no room for the Russians to bid for a major conference on Germany at this time. -. Communists Renew Prisoner Squabble Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) The Chinese Reds told the Unit ed Nations Friday to stop "bar gaining with the lives of prison ers" and accept the Communist demand for forcible repatriation of all captives. "An armistice will result with out delay if the American dele gates let all Chinese prisoners and all Korean prisoners whose homes are in North Korea return home to lead peaceful lives," the Chinese radio at Peiping said in a propaganda broadcast directed at the U.N. It came as U.N. and Commu nist delegates met for the eighth straight day under a news black out in an 'attenipt to break the deadlock over forced vs. volun tary repatriation of war prison- The meeting lasted only 26 minutes. Another secret session will be held at 1 1a.m. Saturday LUMBERMAN DIES John B. Cox, 515 West Jack son street, well-known Jackson county lumberman, died yester day. Mr. Cox was employed here by Timber Products company. Perl Funeral home is in charge of arrangements. , . . Astoria (U.PJ Veterans of Foreign Wars of Oregon Friday considered . a resolution asking that the state's Korean veterans be given the Oregon bonus. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1952 Great UN Air Strike Smashes Pyongyang In Day light Assault Seoul, Korea (U.R) The United Nations, mounting its biggest alr offensive.jf the war, hurled.-: JB50 planes . F r i d a y against ; Pyongyang;""battered capital of North Korea, in a mas sive ; daylong assault against Communist supply concentra tions. , Three waves of Allied planes Fire Danger High Here Despite Some Humidity Increase A slight rise in humidity was forecast today but the Medford office of the weather bureau warned that fire danger wil re main great because of lightning and thunderstorms in the moun tains. The weather prediction is for continued fair and the bureau reported that the possibility of 100-de,gree temperatures appears past for awhile. Highs of 92 to 95 for both this afternoon and Saturday are foreseen. .Temperatures are expected to be above normal here in the next five-day period." UNITED PRESS Oregonians Friday were prom ised cooler weather for the wek end with a few scattered show ers or thundershowers in wide ly scattered parts of the state. ; Pendleton and Ontario with 1Q1 degrees were- Oregon's hot spots Thursday. Other readings included La Grande 96, Medford 95, Baker, Burns and Bend 93, The Dalles 92, Roseburg 91 and Portland 89. t Highway Commission Delay Decision on Gold Hill Land : Portland (U.R) The State Highway commission Friday opened bids on a project for grading and paving 5.1 miles of the Rock Point-Blackwell hill section of the Pacific high way near Gold Hill. The Cen tral . Heating company and F. L. Somers, Eugene, sub mitted th low bid of $704,746. The state highway commission Thursday withheld decision on a request from the Gold Hill city council that the state pur chase more land for a city-owned park from which land was deeded to the state as right-of-way for a new highway, it was announced today in Portland. The council transferred .two small areas in . the Ben Hur Lampman . park .- to the State Highway department about three weeks ago. The land is to be used for a section of a new lim ited access free way to be built in Republican presidential nomination. Eisenhower received the nomination on the first ballot to day at Chicago. roared over Pyongyang begin ning at 10 a.m. sending, bombs, napalm, rockets14 and : machine gun bullets. crashJng .linto- the Red supply center, leaving it in ashes. ' Bombed Strategic Road The Allied planes also bomb ed the strategic Sariwon-Hwang-ju road south of the North Kor ean capital, near Korea's West coast. By 5:30 p.m., when the third wave attacked, the U.N. war planes had flown more than 1,850 sorties. - , Hundreds of planes from the 5th Air Force, American and British aircraft carriers, South African Air Force, Royal Aus tralian Air Force and Republic of Korea Air Force swept the target in relays. Picked Targets . The planes picked out rubber factories, ammunition factories and dumps, truck and tank re pair shops, military headquar ters of both the North Koreans and the Chinese, supply installa tions and troop billets. The raid followed the Allied pattern Set earlier in the war of letting the Communists pile up supplies unhampered, then knocking them off in "a gigantic hammer blow delivered -without warning. Selective Service To Draft Doctors Washington (U.R) selec tive Service has been asked to draft 355 physicians and gO den tists during September. The Defense Department said 180 physicians will be assigned to the Army and 175 to the Air Force. All dentists will be assigned to the Air Force. . across the river from Gold Hill. State Wanted Land The state offered to build an access road to the remaining part of the park if the city would, in return, allow the state to have two small .portions of the park. The council then authorized the city recorder to write the highway department, asking that the park be made a state-maintained park and that an ad joining piece of land, supposed ly made useless by building of the highway, be added to the park by the state. W: G. Stuntz, right-of-way agent for the State Highway Commission, said present plans include the building of an ac cess road along the entire north side of the new highway, from the Dardanelles to Rock Point bridge. This . would mean the park can be reached from either direction nn RIBUNE CALIFORNIA'S .HIX0H ueved w erac Chicago (UP) Senator Richard Nixon of California has been agreed upon as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate, Repub lican leaders said Friday. Convention Hall, Chicago (UP) Gen. Dwight D. .1.1 1 1 ? 1 . 1 . 1 ..1 turea me nepuDucan presidential nomination rriaay witn a tory over Sen. Robert A. Taft. The 61 -year-old general, who started his campaign late and lagged behind the senator in all pre-convention delegate counts, rode to triumph on a band wagon that really got rolling only a few days ago. The 62-year-old Taft went down to defeat despite desperate stop-Ike ef forts in which his camp tried at the 11th -hour to turn the Eisenhower band wagon into a hearse. It was Taft's third and, he has said, his last unsuccessful try for the nomination. He lost in 1940 to the late Wendell L. Willkie and four years ago to Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. The nomination came when Minnesota obtained recognition after the roll call vote and announced it was casting its entire 28 votes for Ike, giving him 19 more. That put Ike over with the following totals: Taft 500, Ike 614, Warren Gen. Eisenhower Calls on Sen. Taft Following Victory "Chicago (U.R) A shaken Gen? Dwight D. Eisenhower, his eyes brimming with tears, received the Republican presidential nomination Friday and promptly called on his defeated rival, Sen. Robert A. Taft, in an unusual harmony move. Eisenhower rallied from a moment of rhoked emotion aft er he won on the first ballot and strode across the street from his Blackstone Hotel headquar ters to the Taft camp at the Conrad Hilton. There the two met side by side, surrounded by a pressing throng and facing television, newsreel and still cameras. By now Eisenhower was smil ing broadly and so was Taft. The defeated Ohio senator congratulated Eisenhower on his victory and promised to "do ev erything possible" to help win the election in the fall. Eisenhower told the crowd he had come to make "a call of friendship on a very great Amer ican." . - Cooperation Essential "This readiness to cooperate is essential to the success of the campaign and the attainment of the program," Ike said. The two shook hands firmly to the cheers of the crowd. When Eisenhower first ap peared he went into Taft's suite and the two were closeted for a time. Outside dejected Taft work ers accepted the reality of-defeat - and some of the women cried softly. . "I want to congratulate Gen eral Eisenhower," Taft said. "I shall do everything possible in the campaign to secure his elec tion and in his administration." Taft assured Ike that "You'll win the election." Site of Sunday's Derby Is Changed The Rogue Valley Soap Box derby site has been changed to Queen Anne avenue, according to derby officials. The race next Sunday will be on a course run ning down Queen Anne from Academy place. Some 90 boys are expected to take part in the race. A pa rade, of the contestants will be gin at 12:30 p. m. Sunday along the race track. The track for the Soap Box derby will run 900 feet (three blocks) .from Academy- place. There will be a safety factor of 500 feet between the end of the- race and traffic on Crater Lake avenue. . Mayor Diamond L. Flynn to day proclaimed next Sunday as Medford Soap Box Derby day He invited all Medford citizens to view the event and extended best wishes to all the Medford boys participating in "this won derful program." United Press Full Leased Wire 81, Stassen 1, Mac 10. Ike's Victory Climaxes Party's Bitterest Fight Ike's victory climaxed the national convention, leaving the gates only the anti-climactic task of picking a Vice presidential nominee. This convention's angry Taft-Ike struggle, climaxed by Eisen hower's victory on Wednesday in the battle for "stolen" Southern Delegates, left deep scars which the party must try to heal if it hopes to win their campaign to unseat the Democrats in November. Ike's victory was foreshadowed days before the balloting started. Harold E. Stassen was the hero of the Eisenhower convention blitz. He had no chance to be nominated himself, but the one-time boy governor of Minnesota packed a wallop if he could only find the right time to deliver it. That time came within a few I 9 for Ike on the regular call. seconds today after 11:44 a.m. C5T. ine roil can was enaea General Ike long since had Convention Hall, Chicago (U.R) Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., chairman of the Republi can convention, said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower will de liver his presidential nomin ation acceptance speech to the convention at 5 p. m. PST Friday. passed the senator and was inch ing up to the 604 votes needed to put him over on the first call. But not quite. From 30 to 20 to 10 votes fell the margin which so narrowly separated Eisenhower from a first ballot, victory. The little pocket borough territories and the District of Columbia which come last on the call after the roll of the States, stood for the most part steadily for Taft. Any pair or ' maybe three of them could have ganged up right there and made Eisenhower the man. But they were pledged to the sen ator and that was that. Then came a Minnesota vote switch and more delegations fol lowed. After the vote switches, many of them unanimous for Ike, the official count was: Eisenhower 845; Taft 280; MacArthur 4. , Chairman Joseph W. Martin Jr: kept his eye on Minnesota at the end of the roll call which indicated Ike had not made it. Delegation Recognized In a break in the noise the chairman shouted that he recog nized the Minnesota delegate. That was Stassen's chance. Min nesota had gone 19 for Sta'ssen, Minnesota Delegation Made Decision for Ike Earlier Convention Hall,. Chicago (U.R) Minnesota's delegation, which pushed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidential nom ination over the hump, decided its strategy four hours earlier "with a prayer that we were right." The historic maneuver was ex ecuted .at the end of the first ballot but before the official re sult was announced. At that point, Ike had 595 votes ine short of the 604 needed to win the nomination. Ike Already Had Nine - Nine of Minnesota's 28 ballots had gone to the general on the first call. The other 19 went to Stassen. Then, Sen. Edward J. Thye, co-chairman of the delegation, made the move that apparently To report Improper ornon-dc "t ery of The Mail Tribune phone 3-6141 before 4S p.m. daUy and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice, thus eliminating special mes senger service. No. 96 u Eisenhower cap- first-ballot vie- Republicans 25th and bitterest wearied and wound-licking dele Now Stassen threw his puncft. Minnesota desires to change its vote," boomed the man who had waited long for this opportu nity. "Minnesota casts a unani mous vote for Eisenhower." Medford Man Gains Post on Republican National Committee Chicago (U.R) Robert El liott of Medford will automatical ly become a member of the Republican national committee under a rule change adopted Thursday by the national conven tion by a vote of 683 to 513. The Oregon delegation di vided evenly, 9-9, in its vote on the controversial measure. The change, as outlined by its supporters, was to reduce the disproportionate strength of southern states in party affairs. Rule Explained Under the new rule, a state's Republcan central committee chairman becomes a member of the national committee if the state either casts its vote for the Republican presidential nominee, has a Republican governor, or has a majority of Republicans in its congressional delegation. Elliott, Oregon's central com mittee chairman, thus will join Jess Gard, Portland, national committeeman - elect, on the group. Elliott made one of the four speeches seconding the nomina tion of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen; hower for president Thursday night. will forever keep Sen. -Robert A. Taft from the White House and may put Eisenhower into the big white mansion on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Thye asked for recognition, got it and announced that Min nesota's 19 Stassen votes were switching to Ike. That djd it. Gave General 614 The switch gave Eisenhower 614 votes 10 more than neces sary to win the nomination. The decision was made at a secret morning caucus in a suite of the Conrad Hilton Hotel. It was done with the knowledge of Stassen, who told the delegation it was "at liberty to change whenever you will.it." Thye said the decision involv ed "no deals and no commitments."