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Evening star., 1945-02-26
Terry Allen Leads
More Night Fighters
lin Drive on Cologne
BY DON WHITEHEAD,

Associated Press War Correspondent.
WITH THE UNITED STATES
LIST 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-
res. It's the 104th Infantry Divi-
sion, known as the Timberwolves.
The dark haired little generals
outfit is the talk of the 1st Army
as 1t. 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. 1t 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.
InstilIs Confidence in Men.
1t isn't coincidence that the
104th has absorbed a lot of the
fighting qualities of it's 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
LIST 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 divisions moonlight MASTER
pieces. They swarmed across the
river in assault boats behind a ter
rife artillery barrage and literally
clawed their way through enemy po-
sitions and established a solid
bridgehead alongside the 9th 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. Aliens 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.
Evening star., 1945-02-26

27, tank corpsman, was wounded
in January in Europe. Their par
ents live in Atlanta, Ga.
Pvt. Stokes Bell, q former con-
struction worker, suffered a back
conclusion from q mortar shell. He
holds the Combat Infantryman
Badge.
Pvt. william H. Matchett, whose
brother, Robert Matchett, was listed
by the War Department as living
at 638 Newton place NV, was
wounded In Europe.
Pfc. Paul b. Story. 26, son of the
Rev. and Mrs. Sandy s. Story, 1921
Eleventh street S.W., was wounded
In, the left leg by a German sniper
December IL 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
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Mrs. Catherine Hough, 80
Dies After Iona Illness

Mrs. Catherine B. Hough, 30, Of
5414 Second street NV, 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
Sc. 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; q sister, Mrs.
Halle Rogers, Alameda, Calf: 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 Congress
sional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-02-26

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-
ton was deliberately adopted by
Congress, and 1t 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 Act) 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 1t
stemmed from numerous investiga-
tions which had disclosed the
existence of systematic. continuous
international and interstate traffic
in women and girls. who were being
forced against their will to practice
prostitution"
The dissenters added that lit 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 and
have applied these statutory words
in 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
10 transportation solely within the
Evening star., 1945-02-26

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 speak out boldly and cannot
be unheeded To do SO is to impose
a criminal statute unfairly upon q
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 laws
were adequate ito cope with the
real evils present in this instance"
and said the courts decision 'can
only serve to subject residents OF
the District OF Columbia to the
evils of blackmail and persecution
and to punish unjustly those whose
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.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Rescue Party Finds
| Two in Missing Plane
Dead Near Tyrone, Pa.

Floundering through deep snow
and underbrush, q 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 Ia
bletop Mountain, about 5 miles
northwest of a Tyrone (Pa.) air.
port from which the plane had
taken of that day.
Killed in the crash were Leonard
A. Shade, 33, Of 5304 G street, Dill
Ion Park, Md, Congressional Air
port flying instructor, and his pas
senger, George Bracket, IS, a Capt.
tai Transit Co. bus driver of 4601
Kansas avenue NV, owner of the
plane. Police reported that the plane
was demolished and one of the
bodies had been thrown so 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 hac
turned back after running into bad
weather and had overshot the Ty-
rome airport. Tyrone is about 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
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Western Front
Continued From First Page

attack. Dusseldorf 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 vet
willing-or able-to get into the
fight. The Ruhr has been virtually
indispensable to the German war
machine, for as late as 1912, the
British estimated that IS 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-
vance north of the Moselle River.
The division alone took 1000 prison.
ers and seized large stores of booty,
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 Weidingen. Altscheid, Kos
busch and Hamm. all clustered 7
miles northwest of Bitburg.
Other Sd Army units, within IS
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 8
miles southwest of Bitburg.
The 10th (Onaway) Division
reached the Wolsfeld area, miles
southwest of Bitburg. The 5th and
18th Divisions widened original
Pruem River bridgeheads to "A
miles and deepened them to 2h
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 Sd Army
front.
East of Vianden, the 80th (Blue
Ridge Division captured five towns,
Niehl, Olsdorf, Burg, Hissel and
Berghausen.
Gen. Patton had committed at
least 10 OF his divisions, close to
10000 Americans, to the battle in
the center. -Four of the divisions
were armored.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Two Flying Brothers
In Same Prison Camp

The fortunes of war have seen
the Lambert brothers of Alexandria
both shot down over German terri
tory, both listed as missing and
finally imprisoned in the same camp.
Now Maj. Alfred G. Lambert, n,
Flying Fortress pilot, and First 1t.
H. Read Lambert, 70, Liberator pilot,
sons of MIR. and Mrs. A. G. Lambert,
28l1 Holly street, entertain prisoners
of Stala2 Luft No. with their sing :
ing and guitar playing. Their par
ents learned this from a recently
returned repatriate. They have had
no direct word from the brothers.
Maj. Lambert, who holds the Dis
tinguished Flying Gross with Cluster
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. 1t. Lam
bert, a graduate Of George Wash
ington High School, was shot down
near Munich on his 43d mission.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
0DT 10 Speed Boxcars
To Canada 10 Return Paper

The Once of Defense Transporta-
ton 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 trafflc.
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 10000 American
freight cars. the majority of them
coal cars, are now in Canada, 1t was
said.
This country. it was estimated has
about 5000 Canadian cars on various
lines now.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
New York to Give New
Measles Preventive
ry the Assoc;ste6 prs,

Ey the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26-Free dis
'tribuIion Of new measles prevent
i've, gamma globulin, through hos
pitas 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.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
House Votes 10 Extend
DC. Women's S Work Hours

The House today passed and sent
to the Senate q bill to extend for the
duration OF the war and six months
thereafter modification Of the Dis
trict minimum wage law 50 rs to
permit women to be employed for
longer than eight hours a day and
up to 81 hours q week.
Extended hours may be permitted
only on certificate from the Mini
mum Wage Board that the extra
hours are essential to the war effort.
Make the good news better: Buy
more War Bonds,
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Monpower
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 VINO Chairman McNutt.
LAS the bill is drawn said the
Ohioan, "McNutt practically could
institute form of national service
If he chooses.
Senator Taft was referring to the
authority of the VINO to fix the
number of persons any employer
could hire, and to regulate the re-
hiring of workers forced out of nom
essential industry by low employ
n1ent 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 $4,000 or imprisoned for five
years. This is heavier than the
penalty Of $4,000 or one year. pro.
vided for employers who violat'
hiring regulations in industry.
Senator Kilgore, Democrat,
West Virginia has given notice h
will move to strike out both of the
penalties, on the theory they destrt
the principle on which the Sena
bill was drafted. He probably wi
win strong Republican support fe
oaach . move.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
u. 5. Believed Ready
To Back Proposal 10
Curb Aggression
.By GARNE1T D. HORNER,
atar ataR corrsspenlsnt.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 7s.-Ths
United States delegation TO the
Inter-Americap Conference here
was believed ready today to support
. proposed agreement for Joint use
OF force by cooperating 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 Sc
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 4 re-
gional protective plan should b.
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 ut 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 1t 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 4 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 q reso-
luton 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 1t would be modified II neces-
sary to conform with the world
peace organization as finally ap-
proved.
Some sentiment developed durins
the discussion within the American
delegation for 4 change In the
Dumbarton Oaks formula 50 rs to
permit the American republics to
take whatever action they misht
consider necessary to settle dis
putes in this hemisphere withou,
reference to the World securit,
Council.
1t was pointed out that otherwis,
any of the Big Five powers Whose
unanimous vote would be necessar,
for Security Council approval o.
enforcement action might bloch
effective nter-American measure.
to deal with Argentina or Other
regional problems.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Mann Act
Continued From First Page.)

based on payment Of taxicab fare
for 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 90
to 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 Is Specific.
The court thought that the addi-
ton 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 implication speak of trans
portation' for immoral purposes,
which is the act condemned by the
Mann Act. The Mann Act not only
penalties such transportation in in
terstate commerce, which is defined
as including ans commerce
into or out Of the District, but it
specifically and repeatedly includes
in its prohibition, such transporta-
ton 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 II, tho nistrict ,f CoI1,rahia -
Further on, the court said that
Congress thus, through the exer-
else of it's police power over the
District, followed it's 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-
ton, the Court OF Appeals, in Z de-
Evening star., 1945-02-26

there since July. He formerly had
been civilian flight instructor with
the Navy. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Ann Shade, and an 18-
month-old daughter.
Airport officials said Mrs. Bracket
had gone to Altoona last week and
was there when the plane wreckage
was found.
They said the pair had flown to
Tyrone Tuesday and had taken of
at ii am. Wednesday for the return
fight.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Report

District of Columbia-Rain with
moderate temperatures this after
noon and tonight, ending early to-
morrow. Windy tomorrow, becom-
ing colder by night.
Report for Last 80 Hoprs.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
District Blood Donotions
Appointments
Saturday - l4O persons
Appointments broken

Saturday -- IS persons
Appointments may be made
with the Blood Donor Center in
the Acacia Building. 81 Louisi-
ana avenue NV. by calling
District $500 between 9 q m. and
$50 pm. weekdays. and 8 am.
to noon Saturdays.
A broken appointment sac
rifces time on the part OF
doctors and nurses that can
not be replaced 1t may sac
rtfce the lite OF q man on q
battlefield.
Evening star., 1945-02-26

Record for Last "A Hours.
from noop yesterday to noon today }
Htehest, SO, pm. Year aso, a.
Lowest. Al. / 40 am. Year ago, SO.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 50, on February 10.
Lowest, IL, on January 25.
Evening star., 1945-02-26

man wounded during an attack on 4
Hazi stronghold. Il was pumping
Uursts out Of it as fast as I could
when q sniper got me in his sights.s. Z.
Pvt. 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-
Der. Three brothers are also in the
service: Pvt. James Wilbur Story,
TQunded in France last August...
Gnrpl. Byron Story, medical tech-.
1Gian at Walter Reed Hospital, and
SeAman, First Class, Leland Story,
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.
Evening star., 1945-02-26
Prisoner

Prisoner
Maj. Alfred G. Lambert, n, Flying
Fortress pilot, 2811 Holly street Alex
andria, who was reported missing
October 7, is prisoner of war in
Stalag Luft 3. with his brother
1t. H. Read Lambert, Liberator pilot
See story on this page.
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1945-12-14

SS!W '99ouBY STU 6uE4!s!A h4!o qua
Ethel Smith, 948 Bryant Ave. No.
Seaman Johnson just returned
from the Pacific region after
spending twenty-six months. While
in the city, he is the guest at the
home of Mrs. Dorothy Patrick, 706
Oak Lake Ave. No.
The w. ]. w. Club met Wednes-
day, Dec. s, at the Phyllis Wheat
ley House. Plans were made for
the Christmas party to be held De-
cember 20, and the group plans to
initiate four new members. Mem
bers present were: Mesdames
Katherine Harper, Ruth Bell, Betty
Strawder, ONEIDA Davis, Geraldine
Withers, Florence Mayes, Char
lotte Davis, and Mrs. M. Combs,
counsellor.
Mrs. Nettie Allen, 2737 Longfel-
low, returned home i'll Thursday,
Dec. 6, after spending eleven days
in Memphis, Tenn. Mrs. Allen was
a delegate to the annual convention
of the Church of God in Christ held
at Memphis.
Pfc. Donald J. Allen, 978 Bryant
Ave. No., returned Thursday, Dec.
with the armed forces. Pfc. Allen
spent twenty-six months overseas,
and received his discharge at Camp
Mccoy.
The Merry Maids met at the
home of Miss Mary Washington,
$50 Bryant Ave. No, Monday eve
ming, Dec. 10. The Christmas saw
ings share was divided among the
members, and games were played
The next Club meeting will be Jan
IA, at the home of Mrs. Ora Will
liams, 1044 Bryant Ave. No. The
Christmas party will be held Mon
day, Dec. II.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nathaniel Tucker
who have been making their home
with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy P. Hatchett