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DELIVERY SERVICE Call your Tribune boy dealer by telephone, if you miss your paper. If you cannot reach TE-6000 and everything Ijossible will be done to correct your service. It i 5 5 5 A 5 0 I A I I I WORLD, UNITEO HESS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIAlIUESDAYJAKUARY-4 8-1 944 NO. 18 8 Die As Plane Hits Home British Protest RussRumor Of Peace Talk London Press Calls Secret Parley Story 'Scandal' and 'Insult' i Oakland Residence Is Smashed, Others Set Atjre, as Army Transport Takes Dive; Residents of House Escape; Fireman Injured Eight persons four crewmen and four passengers were Killed at 0:10 a.m. today when a two-motored Army trans port plane crashed into a house at 38th Avenue and Mera Street.

it One of the passengers is believed to have been a Coast Guard officer, the others were all military personnel. "the plane had left the Oakland Airport only a short time before on what was to have LONDON, Jan. 18. UP) Tht British Foreign Office denial, of th authenticity of Pravda's "separata peace" story has been brought to the attention of the Soviet Government by the British charge d'affaires in Moscow, it was announced today. The British press minced no words today in expressing indignation over Pravda's publication of the' rumor, the London Daily Mall denouncing it as insulting' and the Manchester Guardian calling it a "slanderous accusation." The morning papers generally displayed the story on their front been a routine flight north, Identification of the victims, Service all of whose bodies were charred beyond recognition, was hampered by the fact that the Strikes transport was a transient ship which had merely stopped over at the pages, emphasizing that the: British.

local field. RESIDENCE DESTROYED Foreign Office had issued a flat denial of the truth of the report printed in Moscow by the Communist party organ. Not one London The crash caused a three-alarm 'Military Committee Of House Sidetrack Measure Indefinitely afternoon paper published the Moscow story yesterday, although thera fire which destroyed the one knocked an adjoining home from its foundation and partly burned it, and scotched several other dwellings. Although the" conflagration was was no censorship ban. In the absence of any official ex WASHINGTON, Jan.

18. (IP) President Roosevelt's recommends planation from Moscow, and in view of the wide circulation given the report yesterday by the Moscow radio, the Daily Mail said the -British Government "may deem it quelled within an hour and a half, the heat was so intense that it was more than an hour later before fire tion for national service legislation got a setback on Capitol Hill today and military authorities could reach the bodies and examine the wreck' age. when the House Military Committee voted to sidetrack It Indefinitely. In some legislative quarters, this essary in the near future to reassert in Commons their determination to abide by their agreements never to make a separate peace." Virtually the only part of the step just a week after the White DENIED IN MADRID House recommendation, was be plane remaining recognizable was one wing which sheared off by the force of the impact. In the tangled wreckage, five bodies were easily An Associated Press disoatdh from lieved to foretell the end of such legislation this session.

The action. Chairman May explained after a meeting Madrid said authorized Spanish sources denied last night Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Rib-bentrop had been in Spain and! termed Pravda's "Cairo rumor" thai behind closed doors, does not pre Ribbentrop had discussed peace with! elude future consideration of such legislation, under which the services visible. BIG BUILDING ESCAPES Authorities pointed out that even greater loss of life and major property damage might have resulted. Had the plane crashed in a slightly different position it would have struck athree-story structure, with high resultant loss of life, they of most men and women would be i.wu Diiusn omciais on the Pyre-1 nees Peninsula" as ridiculous. subject to Government call.

from Lisbon, an Associated Pr, We decided to hold it in abey Firemen March, through the rulu'of the East Oakland home where an Army transport plane crashed and burned tadjiX. Eight men died In the plane, but Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Jacobsen, who were In the house at the time, managed to escape.

(Page of pictures on Page Tribune photo. ance for the time being pending further developments," May told re- dispatch quoted British, Greek and Yugoslav sources as disclaiming any information of the rumored peace talks. Allied diplomats there recalled there was no substantiation Th flame Attracted hundreds of porters. Yank 'Black Gats' Sink Jap Churchill, Back on Job, Is ror previous rumors that Ribbentrop early defense plant workers and The Senate Military Committee, created a traffic jam throughout he explained, already has arranged the district for hearings on the legislation and Additional details of police were the House- group could' avail itself sent into the area and were aug- information gathered by that iiou ueen in ronugal. The Daily Mail commented that "the newspaper Pravda must be ra-markably ignorant of British national This is the only excuse we can find for It." "SLANDER" PROTESTED mented by large contingents of committee if It desires to consider military police and the naval shore the bill later.

Indications were, patrol. May "aid, that the House committee Ship in iNew Ireland NAZI BASTION av tneerea in Leramons The Navy sent lour amnuiancesn wouia can lor Hearings later to de- to the scene to remove bodies to termine the need for the legislation By HENRY C. CASSIDY San Anselmo as soon as they could MOSCOW, Jan. 18. P)-Troops of Gen.

Nikolai Vatutin's First. Two More Vessels in Convoy Set Afire; Nips Bomb New Guinea, Lose 17 Planes Sashes'into house M'ARTHUR WINS Ukrainian Army were reported clos. ing in today on Rovno (in old The two-motorea transport Prime Minister; Fully Recovered From Pneumonia, Promises Report on War By ROGER. GREENE Poland), key German communfea- crashed into the home "To the world at large the story carries its refutation on. its face," said the Manchester Guardian, "but what is not pleasant is that such slanderous accusation against an ally should be circulated among tht Russian people." Associated Press and Reuters dispatches from Moscow said none of today's Moscow newspapers printed the' "Cairo rumor" nor did any of them refer to the Brilinh Fnrfm i "5-ss NEW RANK 0F- Amr wrrn at ttt- tip a nrt a -nmnnn tions center no miles soutn or Mrs.

Arthur E. Jacobsen 38th at 6:10 am TT ATTT A 1 mi I jvyi v. uuiinil, oan ine INavy UiaCK VaiS. lamed lor forces on the northern edge-of the LONDON, "Jan. 18.

(P) Prime Minister Churchill re R. C. Williams, of 2019 38tn Ave- rr)ALirt 1m 1IA 4 BOND BUYER NO. 1 low losses and high enemy tolls, sank a 10,000 Japanese mer- frozen Pripet Marshes, chantmah and left two other cargo ships aflame in a six-ship FaI1 of Rovn. junction of the turned to London unexpectedly today, after convalescing from an attack of pneumonia in the Middle East, and told a on only one motor ana ran oui Dare- NEW Y0RKi Jan Doug convoy off Kavieng New Ireland, General MacAfthur's M-lfZJ cheering House of Commons that he expected to make a state Office denial.

Pravda does not oh Tuesdays. quarters reported today. ment on the war the near footed to warn residents. las MacArthur received a new rank The Jacobsens had escaped, so today. He was hailed as "bond he ran to an adjoining three-story buyer No.

1" by the leader of a house arid, with the help of Lieut, financial district team participating foreign diplomats In Moscow ex None of the Catalma patrol grip on a vast area of southern and southwestern Russia, already threatened by Vatutin's left wing driv future. Patrols Battle planes called Black Cats because of their sooty paint and night pressed more surprise over why tha Russians, published the rumor than over what the rumor reported. ing toward the Rumanian frontier. Joseph w. Mixseu, or tne Army the Fourth War Loan drive, The Prime'1 Minister, who looked slightly tired but happy, Air Forces, started awakening occu- Percy H.

Johnson, chairman of Vatutin's center, based on Novo- flying habits--was damaged, the U.S. Mediation Offer Delayed coming ever gets ito the Soviet cants. the Chemical Bank and Trust Com grad Volynski, 50 miles east of Rovno, was driving on the rail hub communique said. The convoy in Mrs. Gwendolyn Wright and her pany, announced that severaWWys press by accident, one high-ranking diplomat pointed out.

He said he asked the House that he be given "some latitude" about the actual date for discussing the war, thereby eluded four merchantmen and two On 'Gusfav Line' from the east, northeast and north, was perplexed as to Just why thia son Charles, 12, were in the bed- ago he received a cablegram from room of their home at 2000 38th MacArthur subscribing "a very sub-Avenue immediately adjoining the stantial amount to the fourth war warships, possibly cruisers, pilota constituting a triple threat which rumor was served up to the peopl made its early capture a possibility. One column moving in from the uui jusnion. returning from the Sunday night action stated. The two damaged ves i crash scene and Mrs. Wright was loan Hull Reveals Russia hurled from her bed and buried Johnson said that as captain of northeast already has occupied Tu indicating he planned a careful summary of events prelude to western invasion of Europe.

As for himself, when asked by a member what steps he was'taking sels still were aflame next day. French Forces Seize Cairo Censorship beneath it by the force of the the financial district team No. 7, chin, 13 miles away, and is steadily Had Not Received Note HEAVIEST JAP BLOW While Allied fliers battered en Sant' Elia; Canadians impact. he was entering the General's order beating down enemv res stance. Didn't Pass Story Shp mnnnffpd to extricate herself, as subscription No.

1 When Statement Russian communique said. emy bases at Rabaul, New Britain t-AIRO. Jan. 18. (jPI PrauHa'.

to relieve himself of some of his official duties to. conserve his brush ceiling plaster from her eyes He added that the cablegram was The Russian if offensive on the and along the northeast coast of Attack Nazis' Flankr By EDWARD KENNEDY By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER Leningrad front continued to roll and run with her son to safety. with others received from zj a it. MacArthur.

in previous war loan New Guinea, Japanese bombers Struck their heaviest blow at the Cairo-dated story on the rumored British-German separate peaca meeting "emphatically" was not passed by the Cairo censorshin. a health, Churchill replied amid laughter: "I am -obliged to you for vour WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. (ff) -l0ara wan occupation or i ye ALLIED HEADQUARTERS expanding American invasion wedge ecretary Hull said today the LMt Novosokolniki. a rail iunc- Algiers, Jan.

18.A-W) An American foundation, as was the Jacobsen campaigns home. Awakened by the crash, C. O. ConVICt Revolt at Saidor, New Guinea. The raid responsible source said today.

solicitude, but I have no changes to propose at present in my routine." American offer to seek a resump- tion on the lineonnecting Velikie- Jil I 1 1 anA DlflQ1 ItUa nlJ Tatulan patrol crossed the Rapido River UTie Cairo censorsh is RrMh- MVH Ul UlUlUlliatii; ClClblVIIB uoiWWll mis ouniree oi twti oin nvenue, did little damage and cost the Japanese 17 fighter planes and a dive bomber, with two other fighters north of Cassino and probed the controlled. Authorities in London had expressed doubt yesterday that the Communist paper's article had IT'S VERY, EARLY' Churchill again drew lauehter looked out to see a sheet of! flame Still in PfOdfCSC envelope the Jacobsen house and then heard an exDlosion as if am- WAUPUN, Wis Jan. Nazis' strong "Gustav Line" posl Poland and apparently did capital). not reach Moscow until Monday (The German high command said morning. the Russians were attacking north listed as probables.

Allied P-40 fighters which intercepted suffered only minor loss. tions, headquarters annminced I When he demurred pi Pdmii. munition were detonating. Renewed outbursts of. noise and an Aernrrllng In tho hrvi Information land northwent fit "Continued Page 2, Col.

4 Locker Lampson's proposal that oday. The patrol found the Ger- ta start a fire He removed hiawUeand-ihcirlatlempt last night here, Hull said, the dispatch contain- Lake Ilmen, south of Leningrad and we go off and drink this toast: The new Allied air blows in the mans entrenched in fortified post cell block were reported by two children. Russell and Jeaneli, in a ti iu 'Death to all dictators and lone ing the American Government's de- south of Oranienbaum, with "grow- auuuiwcnt x-auiiic, luiiuwjng re Wisconsin State prison officials to 6 months, to safety. cision to mak the offer was not ing intensity." Berlin broadcasts life to air liberators including the cent ground gains in both New tions 300 yards beyond the western bank of the and withdrew received In Moscow until Monday said the Red Army was using 250,000 prime minister. Guinea and New Britain, included: OTHERS RESCUED Among those who day as disturbances among the 800 convicts continued for the fifth day.

morn ne because of atmosDheric It is very early In the morning. across the river after a skirmish. were roused Arawe area of New Britain, where reonditions. Continued Page 2, Col. 3 Churchill chuckled.

87 tons of bombs' struck Japanese and rescued by Williams and his French forces advanced 1000 Prisoners In the north wing sup- The prime minister, 'back Jn This Implied that the offer could defenders battling American in yards to seize Sant' Elia, three miles Britain for the first time since his Quake Death Toll Of 3000 Expected BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 18. rV-Fears that the death toll would reach 3000 were expressed today by rescue workers who uncovered still more bodies in the Andean city of San. Juan-which was wrecked by an earthquake over the week-end. At least 1200 were known1 to be dead and over 5000 injured.

vasion forces. not have been brought to the atten- tion of the Russian Government by PreSS northeast of Cassino and also cap. epochal conferences with President THREE PLANES DOWNED tured the hamlet of Valvori, two Roosevelt and Premier Stalin in companion were residents of 2012 "ir.n 38th Avenue, including Mr. and 5effdJ.n iRmtin P.ol broken Mrs. Walter Wehmeyer! and their.

Papws aid Warden two children, Marcia, 9 onths, and Mu'bkl" Marlene, Mr. and Mrs. Byron C. extinguished without difficulty He prajj said the concrete-and-steel building Tir-n is "virtually fireproof." Win Jessup. 82, owner of the i i Ambassador Averell HrrimHn Ji, D-J until after the Russians had issued Banned Uligan supply area north of Ma- Teheran, reached London about miles farther northeast, as the Al lied arc tightened on Cassino, sentl dang, New Guinea, where' three of 10 a m.

(5 a.m. Eastern War Time) their strongly disapproving state- LONDON, Jan, 18. P) The ment on the Polish message which British War Office has reaffirmed nel of the valley pathway to Rome, 30 enemy, interceptors were shot afte a Journey from North Africa, down and one Allied plane lost. and went immediately to" the House requested British and American in- its refusal to accredit any corre Patrols were active elsewhere on the Fifth Army front, and the Allies continued consolidating recent 'Ti'lrf 1t week foUowed a meeting of or Commons, which reassembled Bogadjim, south of Madang, where many fires were started. Sio area, farther southeast, where i after Its holiday recess.

tervention In the dispute. spondent of the.Dally Worker, Brit- PARTIES AT ODDS ish Communist newspaper, to the r.i th. armed forces, War Secretary Sir jl, 'j1 ringleaders who had asked officials gains. Churchill looked the picture of additional privileges, Japanese escape barges were hit, neaun as he stepped from his train Hi.in. hrnnaht Ke Grigg disclosed today in re- Rob Snade.

22. a nharmacist'n mate WEATHER TALK By Earje Ennis Canadians supported by tanks launched an attack on the Adriatic flank on a 1000-yard front in the Rabaul, Japanese shipping center i i ij ply to a question in Commons, into the floodlighted station. ARRIVAL KEPT PRIVATE from Oak Knoll, who was walking Seattle Moulders on New Britain, where a night th. piich ommmt. r'S8 accreditation Vas re His arrival, terminating his long time raid (Friday) followed a heavy middayhammering thatcost the Tommaso area about a mile inland from the coast.

Despite stiff oppo said that he saw the stricken craft A SO Plantc Out come in horizontally and very lowt- wv WUI jection of Russia's offer to settle tT.ZifLfT' ss.k: aJ ftta intSVVnT-irn; est wartime absence from the coun sition from Germans holding high loc nine cnppiea The Weather Man came In briskly, flicking his bunions non try was, kept semi-private and was devoid of fanfare. Few Britons, ground, they made some gams I times some of its (Communist the world war. chalantly. from the northeast When it was SEATTLE, Jan. 18.

(War-directly behind the Jacobsen house, necessary foundry production is at he declared, the suddenly 8 standstill today in nearly 80 nosed over and crashed. plants of the Pacific Northwest as which included a foothold across Party's) members or adherents have indeed, were aware that the prime Russia's reaction to this country's niuaia 0 i cav null Cargo Ship Sunk In Marshall Raid "Good morning, everybody." ha 01 stream flowing into the sea. At minister's recovery was sufficiently last reports, the fighting was contin security said. "What's the status of tha weather?" Ha estimated that nnnrnximatpl picket lines appeared and some 8000 breach between Moscow and the advanced to permit his leaving the warm climate of North Africa to uing with satisfactory results. purposes of the organization." PEARL HARBOR, Jan.

18. a minute elapsed before the explei0re8n and Washington members of Follsn Government in exile is 'We had a full moon last nisht." Army and Navy bombers sank a return to Britain. sion occurred and fire started. ln mouioers ana foundry workers- awaited here today as a possible said Casey, the cat He appeared id 'top spirits and Unconfirmed was a report that union a.h.l..) struck in a demon way out of the most difficult pre. Wen, well.

I don't understand WAC WINS ADMIRATION OF BRAZILIAN smiled broadly as the small crowd i sua uon against Keeionai war dicament in which the leading that," said the Weather Man. "I don't understand that at all." small Japanese cargo ship and damaged three others in raids on the Marshall Islands of the Central Pacific January 19 and 16, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz said yesterday and Continued Page 2, Col. 6 at the station greeted him with a Labor Board wage ruling.

United Nations have yet found burst of cheering. themselves. Don't understand what asked It was noted, however, that he FLIERS WITH FLIGHT AT 25,000 FEET Operators in a statement had said an additional 4000 workers in shops at plants where the foundries oper Casey, puzzled. WASHINGTON OPTTMSITIC was not smoking his usual long DesDite Russia's evident deter. "About that moon," said the W.M.

"What don't you understand black cigar. the Japanese interception was the strongest yet encountered ove any single atoll there. eight-hour high altitude bombing mination to Dlav a lone hand in ORLANDO. Jan. IB.

an ate also would be idle. Neil Pardo. union secretary, said these shops are A great cheer went up as he about it?" asked Casey. settling her border m-oblems to the WAC Lieut Lillian Singer, 23, ex mission, ha thought his petite in WHERE TO FIND IT Classified Advertising 17 Comics 14 Crossword Pnzxle 9 Editorial and Columns 24 Finance 15 Gardens entered the House of Commons, One American bomber was lost to te picketed also, "How anything that gets only a west there is some oDtimism here deoartment store clerk of New terpreter would balk. But she members of both aides rising to but two of the 45 enemy fighters quarter a month can get full on it.

that the reolv to Secretary Hull's York, won the admiration of climbed aboard the Fortress with that rose to defend Maloelap Satur certainly can't. And shaking give vent to their enthusiasm as the prime minister took his seat offer, announced yesterday, will be I Brazilian fliers in training here out word, and spent eight hours R. Note to French day were believed shot down. Two favorable. when she piled into a Flying interpreting the mission to 'him head sadly, the W.M.

hung up "FAIR" forecast for the day. on the front bench beside Deputy Grraldine 1 This is based on the fact the Portress and soared 25,000 feet During four and a half hours of cargo ships niay have been sunk. Prime Minister Clement Attlee. 22 Forecasts Victory Llppmann the flight the Ninth Bombardment Group, which carried the mis Mackenzie 22 LONDON, Jan. 18.

Presi The confirmed sinking of a small American offer extends rply to the into the stratosphere with them, question of diplomatic relations Lieutenant Singer already has and presumes no intervention in the amazed the Brazilians, to whose ft Medina to Visit U.S. dent Roosevelt in a telegram to the cargo ship at Likiep atoll Saturday sion in Fortresses and Liberators, by Navy search planes brings to settlement of Poland's territorial squadron she is attached as inter' CARACAS, Venezuela. Jan. French consultative committee in North Africa said "1944 will be th flew above 25.000 feet The temperature five miles above dispute with Russia. On this point preter, by speaking five languages Radio Schedules 14 Rationing Timetable 13 Society and Clubs Sports IS Theaters, Wood Soanes 11 Uncle Wlcrlty Vital Statistics 21 year of victory," radio France of seven the total of enemy vessels sunk in the Marshalls thus far this month.

(Ph-President Gen. Isaias Medina left today for the United States. He plans to visit Miami, Washing alone, Uhe State Department obvi- and demonstrating Judo to them, ously believes, Moscow may be When Major Martinho C. Santas, central, Florida was 28 degrees below zero, and the party wore full high-altitude and oxygen equipment. 4 Algiers said tonight.

Roosevelt's telegram was in reply to one sent him by the Assembly. Another at Jaluit Saturday was ton, New York. Philadelphia and willing to aceept tha "good liaison officer, was called upon to of a third Nation. (accompany U.S. staff officers on an listed as probably sunk.

New Orleans, i.