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TAGS TWO Yank Heayies Pound Secret Weap on " ' LONDON, Aug. 4-(M-More than 1200 American hearr bomb era strongly protected by 1000 fighter carried: out - smashing attack - today on the ! Germans' 'secret weapon" experimental la boratories at Feenemunde, on the Baltic coast 100 miles i north of , 'Berlin;- -- v " v ' h Explosives were cascaded upon Mother military targets Inside Ger ; .inany along with the assault on the Peenemunde laboratories, ' 'where flying bombs, rockets and j at -propelled planes are devel oped. ; --'"i. Following up these raids nearly 750 RAP Lancaster tonight hit nazi oil storage depots at Paulllac and Becdambes, just north of '.Bordeaux. Fortresses and Liberators struck sharply I- at ' fighter; component plants and airfields at Anklan, 47 miles northwest of Stettin, air craft assembly plants at Rostock "on the Baltic coast 110 miles northeast of Berlin, port installa tions at Kiel and an oil refinery J,at Bremen. 1 . ', '" Oil refineries at Hamburg and Harburg, across the Elbe river ' from Hamburg, also, were bombed ..by the Americans. .- Some of the bomber formations ' had sharp clashes with enemy -fighters in the Hamburg area but -others saw no, German craft Flak 'was heavjr at Hamburg and Bre jBien. - " ' '' . ' , , American losses were 14 bomb ;ers and 16 fighters missing while 'the bomber escorts shot down a u total of 38 enemy planes. Quezon's Body Laid to Rest WASHINGTON, Aug. K.-iJPf The body of Manuel Quezon, first president of the Philippines who died at Saranac lake Tuesday, was placed in a mausoleum at Arling ton cemetery today. A 119-gun salute was fired as the flag-draped coffin entered the cemetery on a horse-drawn cais son. President Roosevelt was rep resented at the services by Adm. Ernest J. King and Gen. George C. Marshall, v Quezon's family, and his sue cesaor as president, Sergio Osme na, were among those attending a requiem mass at St. Matthew's ca thedral. The body will be returned to the Philippines for burial when the islands are liberated. "Odd?9 Couple Under Arrest t MARSHALL, Tex., Aug. 4-V ' Highway Patrolmen Earl Elliott and M. D. Rogers said tonight 1 they had arrested a 52-year-old Benton. Ark- man. and his 12 . year-old great niece to whom he . was married . and were holding the couple in Jefferson, Tex. 'V The arrest was made, they ! said, "at the request of Sheriff l Ross McDonal 4 of Benton . who they stated had a warrant for the vl couple. The nature of the charges i 4 was not revealed. .. - , - ine man and the gin -were ? married a week ago at a town ; i near Benton, the officers -stated. Mrs. Dixie- Johnson,: federal . court clerk at Jefferson, said no - federal charges will be filed ' against the couple. t . . - k.'.V-- I Pole Factions i To Negotiate MOSCOW. Aug. 4-WVNegoUa x- tions between Stanislaw Mikolajc- j zyk, premier of the Polish govern . merit in exile, and the Soviet-sup-1 ported Polish committee of na j tional liberation are expected to open tomorrow: with Polish unity ; the objective. v Mikolajczyk's two-and a - half 1 hour conference with Premier Sta ' lin last night left the unification ' problem to be settled, if possible, among the PoIes4 themselves. If the Polish negotiations make - harmonious nrosresx thre ! an indication that , the concluding i steps may be taken in Warsaw just as soon as that capital city is freed by the Red army and Polish corps fighting along the Vistula river. , i EXPENSIVE MEAL - LOS ANGELES HJPh The vi&it- ing farmer, just In from San Ber- nardinp county, told police ! he was leaving a cafe when two. men approached, told him they were , bouncers and accused him of not paying his check.' When" he pro- duced his wallet, he said, they v grabbed it and fled. It contained $700. ; .vt. - . Last Times Today Continvons From X P. M. . :anio!ph gcctL J1-., ;c Noah Beery Jr and , Alaa Curtis la ." .' tmmr--r'r- - .... I Te Far f Carlson's !:."- Tifprs oa 7" 2 i.b. J i-i LnS Possession Notices -Posted f IK I I" UE.W. Walton af Detroit. MlcK, of Pittsburgh, Pa- post in. s Fhiladelphl Transportation company trolley ear a notice (hat the army has takes possession of the ear as part of Its move to take aver the- city's paralysed transportation system, climaxing a three-day strike. (AP Wirephoto) , Sight Returns r -I Set. Forrest L. Vosler. winner of the coveted congressional medal of honor, Is shown enjoying ae cumulated mail at Valley Forge General hospital in Phoenix ville. Pa. The photo was taken en the hero's 1 1st birthday an niversary after bis sight was restored by- skilled - army sur aeons. The Now York boy had been blinded by gunfire la raid against Bremen last De cember. (International Sownd- photo) . . , PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT LONDON The average time taken to free people trapped in flying bomb incidents in Southern England has been reduced by more than half compared with the heavy raids of 1940-41. VJ.W. Victorj Qnb IflOEE Old Time Dancing Veterans Ilall Corner Hood and Chorea Streets Mnsle by . hie . 0deg0ii1mis Gub Members Only - Cont. From 1 r. M. - TOMORROW! A DOUBLE-rCN SHOW! - if tW-. V Oeft) watches Pvt.' Thomas Heskl Mead Inherits Truman's Job WASHINGTON, ' Aug; 4 rP) Sen. James M. Mead of New York took over the chairmanship of the senate war investigating commit tee today with a pledge to keep politics out of its activities. . Elected unanimously to succeed Sen. Harry i S. Truman, ; who led the committee through three and half years of inquiries into: all phases of the home front war pro gram, the New Yorker: told ire porters: r i 'It Is my Intention to carry on along the same non-partisan lines and with the same investigative policies as were established under the chairmanship of Senator Tru man. The committee has author ized me to say that they com pletely and unequivocably support this position 1 ',- ; , Sneli Asked to Uphold Decision of Judge PORTLAND,' Ore," Aug. 4-(JP)- Gov. Snelt was asked to uphold a 1943 ' opinion' of Federal Judge John C. Bowen of Seattle, who ruled the! Union" Mutual Fire In surance Co. was liable to i the Northwestern Mutual Fire Asso ciation to the extent of 26,897 in stead of about 839,000 claimed by Nortnwestern. The money was was part of the insurance on Ta- coma Narrows bridge..- E2 NOW SHOWING 0KILLTJSII was? - CO-FEATUKX M I u BTT lUftLI FitftftbV ' Ends Todart , Dorothy Lamour "THE FLEETS IN Barbara Stanwkk "GREAT MAN78 LADY" AtocDonolo Carey '" 2 . lobar r BoRcbloy 1 i - KOWLAEIOU3 C04HT! IIARTTIA . (Movtha) , DATE . . C9BDDDI3 Nation Epccopt J PaciffcCfiMt IsSwlieriig W mo Aiaociaiea n-M Three-fourths of the i nation sweltered jsterdayv , Texas had its twelfth consecu tive . day of temperatures above 100 degrees ... Phoenix, Ariz- had a maximum of 113 degrees. highest in ears i ..-West Vir- girria'i prolonged drought was called Mseri4ua . . . JFindlay, Ohio, has had no rain fort41'days' . j. . Crops and cattle In Centuky suf fered from heat and drought V L 1 Michigan's , highest temperature was in Detroit, 98 degrees i. New York Citr iet an all-time record for the dayof 86.S. j j ' ... ! h: From all fcorners Sof the? country came report of oppressive heat i l In the sauthwest-iNew; Mexico went through its eleventh dayjof temperatures ranging from 80 to 100. Memphis, Texaf, with 117, re? corded Thursday, - jwas! still hot, and Clarendon, also in the pan handle, had, 111. Oklahoma's tem peratures nan oeen above loo gen erally for three days. M i In the middle weit, the! temper ature range at Kansas City. Mo, was 81 to j 101. Chicago! had jits third day ox a neat wave witn no relief sighted. A week-long hot spell was general throughout wis conaia. -Minneapolis had a hlghj of 84 degrees Columbus reported a 95-degree maximum, two degrees under the city's all-time record for Aug. 4. (Indiana's temperatures averageu v uegrees; aooye nonmu. In the south, Baltimore had its hottest day of the; season as the mercury reached 99. Washington m'. . J . : i L . had clear jskies and a 94-degree top temperature; Alabama, with heavy raink, had temperatureSj in the eighties The paft three months have been j the driest in! the 53 year history of he ! Knoxvijle, Term., weather bureau, j. Atlanta was sultry with tbJunderahowers. -i H Injure EmbW UMATILLA, Ore., Aug. -Wf Two employes of the Umatilla ord nance aepot were mi ured in an explosion today a they were dn straying unserviceable ' ammiinl tion. Col. A. S. Buyers, commahd ing officer announced, j ' ! Daniel c Bartletj, 36, munitions inspector, buffered serious injuries and Robert Bailey, 30, minor burns. Both men live iri Hermis- ton. :ers! Wrocu4 aylioyd Bacon a wmor ' .. OKA. m COIlPflinOII FEATUuE - - t i - XV'A x " i v. i ON the HOME FR01IT It's an upset world, In - more ways than one. Navy men are liv ing in Lausanne hall; women's dor mitory, and now co-eds may be housed in the city YMCA1 V ' When the size of the navy V-U student body Is'cut next term, the feminine influeac on tho campus will be increased. Already 112 high school senior girls have made pre- enrollment arrangements with the ttgistrart, office. '"iZ ! .'' ifi Howeverafraemeni - hive not yet been- completed with the directori t of J the: niMen' Christian i association for use- of the dormitory- currently -occupied by gobs ot gobs, j . , We don't think the tone of the "TT will be lowered, one bit by the presence of the WU. co-eds (who are now living not only in houses formerly occupied by the fraterni ties but in boarding establishments and apartments near the campus. But we do understand the mascu line attitude enough to know what they will mean when they say, "One more reason t why we must get this war oyer-fand quick!" Treason Trial Set Monday DENVER, Aug. 4-(ff)-Twenty- two witnesses have been summon ed to testify In the trial, scheduled to start Monday, of three American-born Japanese sisters charged with treason in allegedly assist ing two German prisoners of war to escape, US District Attorney Thomas J. Morrissey said today. ' The defendants are Mrs. Tsu ruko Toots'' Wallace, 35: Mrs. Florence IToM Shivze Otani, 33, and Mrs. Billie Shitara Taigoshi, 32. They are accused of aiding in the escape of Corporals Heinrich Haider and Herman August Loescher, both 31, from the Trini dad internment camp last Octo ber 17. . ' 1 " . - . ' Assistant- District Attorney Ivor O. Wingren, who will handle the government's case,! said the-Nazis will, appear in court m full uni. form, wearing their campaign rib bons. - ' fm huiom ncturo v 1 I 9 m Wife Elated Over Exploits Of Pvt. McKay GRAND ISLAND, Neb, Aug. 4 ()- "When he left home last No vember, I told him to get Hitler, and it looks like he made a good start," Mrs. Marjorie McKay said tonight when she learned how her husband, Pvt. Donald M. McKay, termed the "Sergeant York", of Brittany, killed six Germans and captured 28 more in action near Rennet. ' ' Mrs. McKay, employed at the Grand'Island army air field sup ply office, did not learn- of her husband's exploit until she arriv ed home this evening to see the Associated" Press story on the front page of the newspaper. - "It just floored me when I read about it," Mrs.; McKay declared. X guess we don't recognize the qualities of people nearest to us.1 Mrs.- McKay said she had just mailed a letter, asking her bus-" band to "please tell what he i was doing.", - - i Dorothy Robinson W Yell Queen i' . v. v -- -: r it Dorothy Robinson, first - term sophomore from Portland, is new yell queen on the Willamette uni versity campus.' Jane Huston and Katie Griffiths, second and first term sophomores from Salem,! are her. assistants. The! trio will serve with Yell King Jack Watson, Jim Elliott, Ted Comstock and Jack Stein as the university rally squad. 2 Armed Men Fail In Robbery Attempt PORTLAND, Aug. 4-iP-PoHce Intensified their search for two armed men who, failed in an at tempt to steal $10,000 from the St John's cafe here, "and considered the possibility they, were the same men who robbed the Grand Ronde bank of $12,000 Wednesday. . The men bound the janitor and knocked the knob off the safe but were : frightened away before reaching the money. Mike Ga- dotte, the janitor, said the men were about 40 years old. ' Barry!. Ends Today! Preston Tletor Foster - ' McLarlen lOGER TOUHT, GANGSTER Aetna! Battle Film. - 'Aliach' Rii..L ! (Battle ef New Britain And Utd A r JTKCLCS . 0'KEEFE PATCJCK j : llha CSsfctto lei I C: i AWt.MEMWODD.IOWUAM J I i i-S f - k:::am . tisRi barxes I I t4 tit0U A fihw I I ThrCl-Pcickod CoTeoturo! Q ' " ' L -f Oa the rood to Berlin! r J3 Each Sdz mxf be fti - last as they live, love ',-"'1 sr s .- - - , jand fight beside their , f ; . :; GDQ0O" ! V( i AftNA STEflKENT S,yTH : ' N ; . ! I'Jral Fortcrytho Alkxani Oroaadt LATE IHTV7S nASHZC! naeahower tislis Konncmdy fronil Admirals Eng end IHIi inspect Sdpani Cunrifms perch thru Polandl Lew Lehr takes odd la Dlcper Derbyl " Police Seek Jacli Cooper, Three Others - - -j . v SOUTH BEND, Ind, Aug. 4P) -Prosecutor Arthur T, Scheer said that Actor Jackie Cooper, star of a recent juvenile delinquency film called 'Where Are Your Chil dren? was one "of four persons for whom arrest .warrants were issued late today . charging, con tribution to the delinquency i of nunors."' " ' . -. : . j Scheer said 'the warrants- cli maxed a ' two-week investigation of an "all-night party in three rooms of the LaSalle hotel here July 22. The warrants were issued by juvenile court' referee- Albert L.' Doyle, and based on affidavits sworn by Officer Levi Nulf of the police department.: ' To be arrested, Scheer said, are Cooper, 21, a navy V-12 student at the University of Notre Dame here since last November; George Bender, 21, of Sheffield, I1L, a fellow V-12 student; Miss Pauline Frederic, 19, of South Bend. Oregon Man Dies in Crash BRUNING, Neb; Aug. All 2S men aboard the C-47 trans port; ferrying 24 pilots to the Pi erre army air base, were killed Thursday night .. when ' the plane crashed near Naper, Neb, CoJL. D. D. McAllister, Bruning army air field commander,; announced. The flight began at Bruning. : The dead included: : " Second Lieut Jack L. Brown, husband of Mrs. Darlene M. Brown, 1938 Fourth avenue, Mil- ' Pertlacd Says: "ITS TOPS!" NUrhts at t; Son. Mats., 29 ICE-CAPADES OP i945 PtIcm: S1.M, SSJM, SZ.7S, S3, laclad taf tax. Areas . box efflco epra IS a. at.-lS p. m. Go4 stats avafl akl as tat aa showtime. BOX OFFICES AXSO AT i. K. GOJL mm KEDER'S, Vucnm. PORTLAND ICE ARENA N. W. 20th at Marshan CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY FROM 1 P.M. PI1EVIET7 TOIuTE AT-12 P. It mnuiuiw nsnling ; Gde ci nUariiy llus Is! waukje, Ore and Second Lieut La von Sehorn, son of J." E. Se bom, 3114 Laverne, Klamath Falls, Ore; Ends Today! . "j , '" Doug. Fairbanks ' ; "RULESS .of Cm . SEA ' - "' - ' . 7.' ' " f Zane Grey's "EEEITAGE of the DESERT? Cont from 1 F. M. TOMORROW! 9 r ' 3 CO-FEATUEE oa - i r Sr 1 DO, kjBSOf riali iwmwuuviii