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Output of Weapons Must Be Increased Sharply, WPB Warns By the Associated Press. Critical war production pro grams, already slowed by man power shortages and weather, piust be increased by June to as *®igh as 260 per cent over last ^December, WPB officials warned "By the second half of the year, when most of the current critical frograms reach their peaks, gains anging up to a high of 260 per cent above last December's levels must be registered, and in most cases, even these peaks are below the level of requirement,” a WPB report issued last night declared. The agency is particularly con cerned over manpower in the com ing months. The WPB report, which told of a 2 per cent drop in war production in January from plan bed schedule, had this to say about manpower: ‘‘Now, for the first time in several months, the manpower shortage is felt as a problem which affects war production in general. Heretofore it has been a problem only in cer tain specific parts of the production program." Aircraft Exceeds Schedules. In the major munitions categories, WPB said, only aircraft producers exceeded schedules. Ships, guns and Are "control and military ve hicles not only lagged behind goals but behind December output. Air craft and communications equip ment topped December records by 1 and 2 per cent, respectively, but missed schedules by 4 per cent each. The dozen critical programs— which are feeding direct battle-front demands—showed a 7 per cent over all gain above December because of Government coddling, but this was still 4 per cent behind WPB s goal. Most disappointing were tanks. 23 per cent behind December, and heavy trucks. 20 per cent behind The best gainers were truck and bus tires, up 30 per cent, and cotton duck for tents, up an astonishing 33 pier cent; both were 13 pier cent above goals and set a new all-time record. "The critical aircraft models"— superbombers, jet-propelled fighters, new pursuit ships and a few others —“were 13 per tent below the first - of-the-month schedule,” said the report prepared by Hiland G. Batch eller, WPB chief of operations. Plenty of Trouble Seen. "Critical mortars and artillery j Items missed schedule by 5 to 30 per, cent. Heavy and light weight trucks ■ were each 5 pier cent behind fore- j casts. Loking ahead. Mr. Batcheller saw plenty of trouble. . More important than the January loss of munitions, he said, is the potential threat for months ahead brought about by last month's slump (See PRODUCTION, Page A-2.) j In steel and materials production; caused by the worst weather since j 1918 and shortages of coal, gas, | labor and transportation. He reported that WPB has allot ted 16.900,000 tons of steel—slightly more than is actually in sight—to essential users for the April-May June quarter. He said, this Is only 85 per cent of what the Army, Navy and other claimants asked for. “If the war continues in both Europe and Asia, the deficit for the third quarter probably will be greater than that which we now, face for the second quarter,” the > WPB official said. With an eye to possible coal mine! shutdowns growing out of new wage! demands now being prepared by' John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers,! Mr. Batcheller reported that WPB' now is setting up a priority list of; Industries. This will be used to channel coal to the most urgent users if mining operations are in terrupted. ODI to Speed Boxcars To Canada to Return Paper The Office of Defense Transporta tion today worked out steps to help speed the return of Canadian box cars, after a request from newsprint interests of Canada for aid in send ing cars back to proper plants. The Canadians, it is understood, asked the War Production Board for assistance last week after bad weather slowed down freight traffic. The matter was referred to ODT. where a spokesman said speeding up the turn-about of freight cars oc cupies the angency's time around the clock. Some 10,000 American freight cars, the majority of them coal cars, are now in Canada, it was said. This country, it was estimated, has about 8.000 Canadian cars on various lines now. Manpower (Continued From First Page.) port from a substantial group of Democrats and Republicans. Leaders hope to pass the measure In some form by Wednesday, to make way for the nomination of Henry A. Wallace to be Secretary of Commerce, due to be taken up Thursday. Latest indication that the com mittee bill faces a stormy course in the Senate came today from Sena tor Taft, Republican, of Ohio, who questioned the wide discretion he said could be exercised over work ers by WMC Chairman McNutt. "As the bill is drawn.” said the Ohioan, "McNutt practically could institute a form of national service if he chooses.” Senator Taft was referring to the authority of the WMC to fix the number of persons any employer could hire, and to regulate the re hiring of workers forced out of non essential industry by low employ ment ceilings. Although the committee bill puts no criminal penalty on industrial workers who leave an essential job without permission or fail to take such employment, it carries heavy penalties for some farm workers, as well as employers. If a farm worker leaves agricul tural work after being found un acceptable by the Army, he could be fined $10,000 or imprisoned for five years. This is heavier than the penalty of $10,000 or one year, pro vided for employers who violate hiring regulations in industry. Senator Kilgore, Democrat, c West Virginia has given notice h will move to strike out both of the: penalties, on the theory they destre the principle on which the Sena bill was drafted. He probably wi win strong Republican support U •uch a move. A On the Roll of Honor— Pfc. Gorman (Killed) lirat. Small (Killed) Pvt. Arthur (Kitted i Radioman Thompson i Dr ad) Today's Casually Lists (Natisaai.) Army wounded .-.1,601 Army killed .-.1X44 Navy casualties _ 101 Thus far in this war 1,308 men from the District area have been reported killed. Killed Pfc. James R. Gorman, 22. son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Gorman, 2231 California street N.W., was killed in action November 20 in Ger many, the War department an nounced today. He previously was reported missing on that date. Pvt. Gorman was graduated from Philips Andover Academy and at tended Harvard University for one year before entering the Army in March. 1943. He trained with ASTP for one year at Hamilton College. N. Y.. then was transferred to the infantry and sent overseas last August. The Gormans moved here from Chicago in 1942. Mr. Gorman is employed by the War Production Board. Sergt. Charles (Buddy) Small, jr„ 38. member of an armored divi sion, was killed in action November 27 in France. He was the husband of Mrs. Myrtle Campbell Small. Bryant street N.E., and the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Small, 4829 Ninth street N.W. Sergt. Small attended Eastern High School and played sandlot baseball. He was superviser at the Embassy Dairy at the time he en tered the Army, April, 1942. He went overseas last October. Pvt. Alphus E. Arthur, 25, whose widow. Mrs. Avis L. Arthur, and two daughters, Jean, 6. and Caroline, 10 months, live at 414 East Glenside avenue. Alexandria, was killed in action November 20 in Germany. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Arthur. 218 East Oxford avenue, Alexandria. Pvt. Arthur previously was reported missing. He was wounded In Prance last November. A graduate of George Washing ton High School. Pvt. Arthur was manager of a Safeway Store in Al exandria. He entered the Army last April, and was sent overseas in Sep tember. Pvt. Joseph ?. Sprpuse, 33, broth? er-in-law of Joseph Marcey, 4MC North Third street, Arlington, was killed In action In Prance Novem ber 27. Pvt. Sprouse attended schools in Washington and Alexandria. He worked for the Smoot Coal Co. in Alexandria before entering the ser vice 11 months before his death. He went overseas in July. Serjrt. Edward R. Cahill, nephew of Mrs. Mary Ezzel, 142 R street was killefi in action in the ropean theater, the War Depart ment announced today. His aunt has moved from the city, leaving no forwarding address. Stories of the following men were carried in The Star soon after! next-of-kin were notified of their death: Pvt. John B. Barnes, jr., son of, Mrs. Ruth W. Barnes, 3825 Cath-1 edial avenue N.W. Pvt. Fred L. Hendrick, husband of Mrs Elsie E. Hendrick, 317 Thirty-fourth place N.E. Pvt. Charles R. McCutchen, hus band of Mrs. Alice P. McCutchen, 1119 Robinson street S.W. Tech. (Fifth Grade) Robert S. Nicely, son of Mrs. Maude M. Nicely, 609 Fourteenth street N.E. Pfc. William A. Roberts, jr., son of Mrs. Caro M. Roberts, 4440 Lowell street N.W. Lt. Comdr. James Paul Andrea, 31, captain of the destroyer Spence, whose widow and small daughter live at 3432 Martha Custis drive. Alexan dria. was reported dead by the Navy Department today. He previously was listed as missing. Comdr. Andrea was on the bridge of his ship and went down with it when a typhoon struck during the second battle of the Philippines De cember 18. according to Lt. A. S. Krauchunas. one of the few surviv ors. brought back by the Navy to give details of the sinking to rel atives of the men lost. Comdr. Andrea was graduated from the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1937. Thomas Naughton Thompson, radioman, second class. 21, son of Barney Thompson, 169 Thirty-sixth street N.E., was also reported dead by the Navy Department. A crew member of the Spence, he was first listed as missing. According to Lt. Krauchunas, Radioman Thompson was at his post below decks when the ship was bowled over by the typhoon. He was not among those seen in the water Ss the vessel sank. Wounded Pvt. Jacob L. Bauserman, 24, whose wife and two children live at the Jones Trailer Park, Berwyn, Md.. was slightly wounded in Luxembourg on January 23. Inducted into the Army last May, Pvt Bauserman was sent overseas in November and served with the 3rd Army until wounded. He is in a hos pital in England, his wife, Mrs. Mary Ethel Bauserman. said. Staff Sergt. Robert I. Beers, 30, husband of Mrs. Mildred A. Beers, 906 South Washington street, Alex andria, received shrapnel wounds in the back on January 26 while fight ing in Germany. Sergt. Beers was graduated from Boston University. He went into the Army in March, 194& and was sent overseas last November. Staff Sergt. Joe Mathis, whose mother, Mrs. Barbara Mathis, form erly lived in Brookeville, Md., was wdUnded in Europe, the War De partment announced. Sergt. Mathis, according to his aunt, Mrs. Emely Mathis of Brookeville, is about 23 ears old. Pvt. Stokes B. Bell, 22, who was ,rst wounded last July, was again ounded December 4 near Luxem burg, and is now home on a 30 ly convalescent furlough. His wife, nty Ann. and two daughters live 6511 Central avenue. Capital | eights, Md. I His brother, Ptd. Marshall Bell, Cemdr. Andrea i Killed) f / sr Ffe. Story (Wounded) 27, a tank corpsman, was wounded in January in Europe. Their par ents live in Atlanta, Ga. Pvt. Stokes Bell, a former con struction worker, suffered a back concussion from a mortar shell. He holds the Combat Infantryman Badge. Pvt. William H. Matched, whose brother, Robert Matched, was, listed by the War Department as living at 638 Newton place N.W., was wounded in Europe. Pfc. Paul B. Story. 26, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Sandy S. Story. 321 Eleventh street S.W.. was wounded in the left leg by a German sniper December 12 near Duren, according to a dispatch from a hospital in England, where he is recovering. Pvt. Story, whose wife, Iva Mae, and two children also live at the Eleventh street address, told how he took over the position of a rifle District Blood Donations Appointments Saturday -140 persons Appointments broken Saturday - 35 persons Appointments may be made with the Blood Donor Center in the Acacia Building, 51 Louisi ana avenue N.W.. by calling District 3300 between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. weekdays, and 9 am. to noon Saturdays. A broken appointment sac rifices time on the part of doctors and nurses that can not be replaced It may sac rifice the life of a man on a battlefield man wounded during an attack on a Hkzi stronghold. “I was pumping Qgrsts out of it as fast as I could «d»en a sniper got me in his sights." V*vt. Story attended Central High School here and schools In Tennes see. He worked at the Department of Agriculture before Induction In March and went overseas In Septem ber. Three brothers are also In the service: Pvt. James Wilbur Story, iminded in France last August*: Gftrpl. Byron Story, medical tecft i$Cian at Walter Reed Hospital, and SWkman First Class. Leland Storjri stationed in St. Louis, Mo. 'The Rev. Mr. Story, who has been active in mission work in Washing ton. is founder and director of the Wayside Service League. Prisoner Maj. Alfred G. Lambert, 27. Flving Fortress pilot, 2811 Holly street Alex andria. who was reported missing October 7, is prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 3, with his brother. Lt. H. Read Lambert, Liberator pilot. See story on this page. Mrs. Catherine Hough, 80, Dies After Long Illness Mrs, Catherine B. Hough, 80. of 5414 Second street N.W., died yes terday at Leland Memorial Hospital, Riverdale, Md., after an illness of several years. She was the widow of William I. Hough. Navy Yard mechanic, who died in 1928. Born in Washington, the daughter of Hester and George Dice, Mrs, Hough for many years made her home at 228 South Carolina avenue S.E. Recently she had lived with her daughter, Mrs. Helen S. Barry, at the Second street address. She was a member of Second Baptist Church. Also surviving are a son, Arthur O. Hough, Washington; a sister, Mrs. Halle Rogers, Alameda, Calif.; two brothers, James D. and George Hough, Washington, and a grand daughter Funeral services will be held at 2 pm. Wednesday at the Lee funeral home Burial will be In Congres sional Cemetery. Weather Report District of Columbia—Rain with moderate temperatures this after noon and tonight, ending early to morrow. Windy tomorrow, becom ing colder by night. Revert for Lest 48 Hoars. . Temperature. Saturday— Dearees 4 p.m. - $•> 8 P.m. _ 40 Mlcnitht ____ 43 Sunday— Jam. - 38 8 a m.- S3 Noon __ 48 2 P.m._ 53 J P.m. _58 * p m _ 49 Midntcht_ 44 Today— J » m. ___ 43 3 a.m. ___ 44 Noon _ _ 44 Reeoril for Last 24 Honrs. 'From noon yesterday to noon today.) Hlthest, 58. 4 p.m Year ato, 44. Lowest. 41. 1 :40 a m. Year ato. 86. Record Temperatures This Year. Highest, 83, on February 10. Lowtat, 12. on January 28. _ Humidity Report. Saturday. 2;30 p.m, * 50 per cent. Saturday. 8:30 p.m. .... . 49 per cent. Sunday. 2:30 a.m._ so per cent. Sunday, 8:30 p.m_ 49 per cent. Today. 2:30 a.m._ 58 per cent. Today. 8:30 a.m* . _ 70 per cent. _ Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) . Today. Tomorrow. Hleh - 8:49 a.m. 9:29 a.m. Low - 3:15 a.m. 3:56 a.m. Hi*h- 9:12 p.m. 9:48 p.m. Low - 3:34 p.m. 4:17 p.m. The Sup and Maun. „ Rises. Sets. Sun, today _ 7:45 6:67 fhui. tomorrow 7:44 6:58 Moon, today 6:43 p.m. 7:51a.m. Automoolle lights must be turned on one-naif hour after suntet. Precipitatlen. Monthly precipitation In inches in tha Capital (current month to date): Month. 1945 Averate. Record. January - 2.69 3.56 7.83 ’87 February 1.68 3.37 8.84 ’84 Maren _ 3.75 8.84 '91 April _ ___ 3.27 9.13 ’89 May - ___ 3.70 10.69 ’89 June _ ... 4.13 10.94 ’0(1 July - 4.71 10.63 ’86 Autust _ 4.01 14.41 SI ::: 1:12 l$R ft November _ A*. 2.37 7.18 '77 December _ TI- 8.38 7.56 '01 Terry Allen Leads More Night Fighters In Drive on Cologne By DON WHITEHEAD, AuocUted Presa War Correspondent. WITH THE UNITED STATES 1st ARMY IN GERMANY, Feb. 26.— Maj. Gen. Terry Allen, who once led the Fighting 1st Infantry Divi sion, has another red-hot division which now is winning combat lau rels. It's the 104th Infantry Divi sion, known as the Timberwolves. The dark-haired little general’s outfit is the talk of the 1st Army as Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges’ men drive toward Cologne after crossing the Roer River in one of the most spectacular night opera tions of the campaign. It’s a tough, disciplined outfit which has made a speciality of night fighting. It takes well-trained, dis ciplined, aggressive troops to fight successfully in darkness — troops with a lot of confidence in them selves and their division, and that is what Gen. Allen has achieved with his new command. Instills Confidence in Men. It isn’t a coincidence that the 104th has absorbed a lot of the fighting qualities of its slended leader. Gen. Allen has the knack of instilling confidence and fight into the men under him and making them proud of their unit—and the Timberwolves are being compared now with the veteran fighting 1st. Gen. Allen began specializing in night assaults in Tunisia, when his troops attacked at El Guettar in the darkness and routed the Germans During the Sicilian campaign, the 1st Division attacked almost solely at night in driving the Germans back toward Messina, and now Gen Allen has another pack of night prowlers In driving from Aachen to the Roer River, the Timberwolves made every major assault during dark and captured many difficult objectives with amazingly light losses. The 104th has probably the lowest casualty rate of any combat division. Crossed Roer at Night. The Roer River crossing was one of the division’s moonlight master pieces. They swarmed across the river in assault boats behind a ter rific artillery barrage and literally clawed their way through enemy po sitions and established a solid bridgehead alongside the 8th In fantry Division. Then guns, ammunition, equip ment and supplies flowed smoothly into the bridgehead with hardly a hitch. Another striking achievement has been Gen. Allen's training of re placements at combat school near the front lines. Youths who have had no combat experience get ac tual practice in their front line jobs under direction of veterans. When they join their units they know where they are going and what to do about it. New York to Give New Measles Preventive £t the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Feb. 26—Free dis tribution of a new measles prevent ive, gamma globulin, through hos pitals and physicians will be started by the New York City Health De partment Thursday. The substance was developed as a byproduct of the processing of plasma in the blood collection pro gram of the American Red Cross. Health Commissioner Ernest L. Stebbins said the globulin would be given to those children who had not had measles and who had been ex posed to the disease during the pre vious eight days. It protects most children for about three weeks. I _ . Western Front _ rContinued From First Page.) attack. Duesseldorf is on the east bank. The Germans are known to have an armored reserve west of the Rhine to guard the approaches to the Ruhr. This force is not yet willing—or able—to get into the fight. The Ruhr has been virtually indispensable to the German war machine, for as late as 1942, the British estimated that 75 per cent of the enemy's war industries were located in its packed area, smaller than the State of Delaware. Gen. Patton's 4th Armored Divi sion made three new crossings of the Pruem River in its 7-mile ad j vance north of the Moselle River. The division alone took 1,000 prison ers and seized large stores of booty, I including many tanks, artillery pieces and wagons. The speed of ; Maj. Gen. Hugh Gaffney’s tanks from New York and New Jersey caught the Germans before they could withdraw. Before crossing the Pruem anew, the 4th Armored Division captured Brecht, 4 miles west of Bitburg. and cleared Weidlngen, Altscheid, Kos busch and Hamm, all clustered 7 miles northwest of Bitburg. I Other 3d Army units, within 45 miles of Coblenz, advanced up to 3 miles beyond the long passed Sieg fried Line. The 5th (Red Diamond) Division captured Dockendorf, In gendorf and Bettingen, all 4 to 6 miles southwest of Bitburg. The 76th (Onaway) Division reached the Wolsfeld area, 5 miles southwest of Bitburg. The 5th and 76th Divisions widened original Pruem River bridgeheads to 4‘£ miles and deepened them to 2\2 miles. The 49th and 10th Armored Di visions repulsed a total of seven counterattacks in Saar River bridge heads north and south of Saarburg The largest counterthrust was by 400 to 500 tank-supported Germans 5 miles east of Saarburg. Prisoner identifications showed new units were appearing on the 3d Army front. East of Vianden, the 80th (Blue Ridge i Division captured five towns, Niehl, Olsdorf, Burg, Hissel and Berghausen. Gen. Patton had committed at least 10 of his divisions, close to 150,000 Americans, to the battle in the center. Four of the divisions were armored. Rescue Party Finds Two in Missing Plane Dead Near Tyrone, Pa. *. Floundering through deep snow and underbrush, a rescue party led by Pennsylvania State police today reached the bodies of a Washington pilot and passenger who were killed Wednesday when their Piper Cub crashed on Ta bletop Mountain, about 5 miles northwest of a Tyrone (Pa.) air port from which the plane had taken off that day. Killed in the crash were Leonard A. Shade, 33. of 5304 G street, Dil lon Park, Md., Congressional Air port flying instructor, and his pas senger, George Brackett, 35, a Capi tal Transit Co. bus driver of 4602 Kansas avenue N.W., owner of the plane. Police reported that the plane was demolished and one of the bodies had been thrown 50 feet from the wreckage. E. L. Sester, chief Congressional Airport pilot, said the wreckage was located from the air yesterday in the opposite direction from that taken by a plane heading for Washington. He said the pilot apparently had turned back after running into bad weather and had overshot the Ty rone airport. Tyrone is about 6 miles from Altoona. Mr. Sester said a searching party attempted to reach the wreckage after it had been located yesterday, but were unable to force their way up the mountain. Resuming their attempts, the party finally reached the plane early today. Congressional Airport officials said Mr. Shade had been an instructor } LEONARD A. SHADE. there since July. He formerly had been a civilian flight instructor with I the Navy. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ann Shade, and an 18 month-old daughter. Airport officials said Mrs. Brackett had gone to Altoona last week and was there when the plane wreckage was found. They said the pair had flown tq Tyrone Tuesday and had taken off at 11 a.m. Wednesday for the return flight. Mann Act 'Continued From First Page.> based on payment of taxicab fare for a four-block, ride, the dissenters said the decision "can only serve to subject residents of the District of Columbia to the evils of blackmail and persecution.” Justice Roberts did not take part in the case. "The Court of Appeals for the Dis trict set aside the conviction on the ground that the Mann Act was in applicable to transportation taking place wholly within the District,” the majority said. ‘‘That court found support for its conclusion in the numerous acts of Congress enacting local laws for the District, which make it a criminal offense for ‘any prostitute’ to invite or persuade any person to go with her to any building for the purpose of prostitution, or for any person to entice or force any woman to go to a place of assignation or for any person to Invite, induce or procure another to engage in prostitution or to go to any place for purposes of prostitution. Legislation I* Specific. "The-court thought that the addi tion of the prohibition of the Mann Act to this legislation, specifically applicable only in the District, was so useless and unnecessary to indi ■ cate that the Mann Act was not de signed to apply to the District of Columbia 'except in its interstate aspect.’ No other question was con sidered or decided below or dis cussed in the briefs and argument of counsel here, and we decided no other. "But none of these enactments of local amplication speak of ‘trans portation’ for immoral purposes, which is the act condemned by the Mann Act. The Mann Act not only penalizes such transportation in in terstate commerce, which is defined • * * as including any commerce into or out of the District, but it specifically and repeatedly includes in its prohibition, such transporta tion ‘in any territory or the District of Columbia.’ Congress' Purpose Analysed. ‘‘Congress, in enacting the Mann Act, made it perfectly plain by its committee reports on the proposed legislation that it was intended to apply to transportation taking place wholly in the District of Columbia.’’ Further on, the court said that Congress thus, "through the exer cise of its police power over the District, followed its usual policy of extending legislation based on the | commerce power to the same sub stantive acts taking place wholly within the District.” In reversing the Beach convic tion, the Court of Appeals, in a de COMPARISONS ••wt 9 mO^wICw •^•••^•y always Tarry at Tha Taftl MM MOMS, MVN MS RAMS HOTEL into kw». mor TAFT VOk NEW VOMCS L 1MH MMK AT MIN «n J >IW^ < »NG mANAQMHiNI j0T MEXICO CITY.—PARLEY ARRIVALS—Secretary of State Stet tinius and Assistant Secretary Nelson Rockefeller found them selves almost alone when they arrived on the dpt for a scheduled session of the Inter-American Conference here Fri day night. They waited patiently, however, until the other conferees arrived. — AP Wirephoto. cision by Chief Justice Groner, said the act of prostitution was so com pletely covered by local statutes "that about the only place in which the act can be done without running athwart of the local law is in an anchored balloon.” On this point the Supreme Court said: “Whether the District was adequately protected from the evils of prostitution without the added prohibition of transportation for that purpose was for Congress, not the courts, to decide. The prohibi tion was deliberately adopted by Congress, and it conflicts with no other legislation applicable in the District. Hence, the present re versal of the conviction for its violation was erroneous.” Background Discussed. The Murphy-Black dissent de clared that "the congressional de bates and committee reports on the legislation <Mann Actt make it plain that the act was designed and in tended solely to prevent ‘white slave’ traffic, and it should not be applied to the situation present in this case." The dissenters discussed the back ground of the act, declaring it stemmed from numerous investiga tions which "had disclosed the existence of a systematic, continuous international and interstate traffic in women and *rls, who were being forced against tneir will to practice prostitution." The dissenters added that "it was the pernicious white slave traffic that Congress had in mind when it enacted the transporting clause of the act.” and added the fact “that courts in the past have Ignored the plain congressional purpose arid have applied these statutory words in a literal sense, so as to punish any one transporting a woman for immoral purpose quite apart from any connection with white slavery, does not command us to continue such an erroneous construction and application of the act.” Local Laws Called Adequate. The dissenters agreed with the court to the extent that the Judg ment means that the act condemns white slave traffic solely within the District and then continued: "But the- application of the act to transportation solely within the District of Columbia to purposes quite unrelated to white slavery should not be sanctioned. The court does not pass upon that issue directly and, in its inspection, may ignore it. But the facts of this case sDeak out boldly and cannot be unheeded. To do so is to impose a criminal statute unfairly upon a citizen by disregarding its true in tent and purpose, thereby adding another instance of tortured and grotesque application to its already unhappy history.” The dissenters said that local la* a were adequate “to cope with the real evils present in this instance’1 and said the court’s decision “can only serve to subject residents ol the District of Columbia to the evils of blackmail and persecution and to punish unjustly those whooa immoral acts do not constitute white slavery.” In this instance the court said the act was applied not because white slavery is present, but oe cause acts of voluntary prostitution follow the payment for a four-block taxicab ride. Two Flying Brothers In Same Prison Camp The fortunes of war have seer the Lambert brothers of Alexandrii both shot down over German terri tory. both listed as missing an< finally imprisoned in the same camp Now Maj. Alfred G. Lambert, 27 Flying Fortress pilot, and First Lt H. Read Lambert, 22, Liberator pilot sons of Mr. and Mr*. A. G. Lambert 2811 Holly street, entertain prisoner) of Stalag Luft No. 3 with their sing ing and guitar playing. Their par ents learned this from a recentlj returned repatriate. They have hac no direct word from the brothers Maj. Lambert, who holds the Dis tinguished Flying Cross with Clustei and Air Medal with three Clusters was reported missing October 7. A graduate of Virginia Military In stitute, he was shot down near Leip zig on his 35th mission. Lt. Lam bert, a graduate of George Wash ington High School, was shot dowr near Munich on his 43d mission. MKMMMCMMMMIBaBIIK—MM—MM v a— nn-nrmmmnr — U. S. Believed Reedy To Back Proposal to Curb Aggression By GARNETT D. HORNER, •ter Mil CorTMpentant. MEXICO CITY, Feb. 30.—The United States delegation to the Inter-American Conference here was believed ready today to support a proposed agreement for joint use ol force by co-operating American republics to protect any one of them against aggression. Designed primarily to provide immediate assurance against any threat of aggressive action by the militaristic Farrell regime in Argen tina, such a regional collective se curity plan would have to be co ordinated later with the projected world security system. Differences Compromised. Conflicting views among advisers to Secretary of State Stettinius as to whether definite action on a re gional protective plan should be taken in advance of the San Fran cisco United Nations conference on the Dumbarton Oaks proposals ap peared to have been compromised in extensive discussions over the week end. Some advisers urged action at this conference. They contended the policy of not recognizing the Farrell regime because of its pro-Axis ac tivities are considered a threat to the peace of the hemisphere is un realistic unless it is accompanied by specific preparations to deal with possible Argentine aggression. Other advisers pointed out that any arrangement for collective use of force by the American republics on a purely regional basis would conflict with a provision in the Dumbarton Oaks proposals stipu lating that no enforcement action should be undertaken by regional agencies without authority of the 'United Nations Security Council. Could Be Modified Later. The compromise was understood to be based on support of a reso lution introduced by the Colombia delegation calling for collective use of force if essential to preserve the territorial integrity of any of the Americas, with the understanding that it would be modified if neces sary to conform with the world peace organization as finally ap proved. Some sentiment developed during the discussion within the American delegation for a change in the Dumbarton Oaks formula so as to permit the American republics to take whatever action they might consider necessary to settle dis putes in this hemisphere without reference to the World Security Council. It was pointed out that otherwise any of the Big Five powers whose 11 unanimous vote would be necessary l for Security Council approval of i enforcement action might block i effective inter-American measures 1. to deal with Argentina or other regional problems. House Votes to Extend D.C. Women's Work Hours The House today passed and sent ' to the Senate a bill to extend for the duration of the war and six months thereafter a modification of the Dis trict minimum wage law so as to permit women to be employed for longer than eight hours a day and up to 54 hours a week. 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