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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,
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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,
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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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
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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."