Evening star., 1918-08-16

large registration Of men of the
ages to be decided on by Con-
gress.
Plans for the registration of men
in the District under the proposed
new draft law extending the draft to
include eighteen and forty-hre are
being pushed rapidly by the authors
ties here. Everything possible is
being done to have the registration
run on smoothly and promptly On the
day that is set. Maj. D. ]. Donovan.
in charge of the local draft and chair
man of the central registration COM
mittee appointed under authority of
the local boards. made public today a
list of fifteen advisory committees ap-
pointed by the central committee at q
meeting yesterday afternoon. He out
lined their duties.
Thee committees have been re-
mediately and get to work. They are
expected to make preliminary reports
to the central committee not later
than o'clock Tuesday morning.
Personnel of Committees.
The advisory committee on the al
lotment and stamping OF registrat tion
cards and certificates consists of N
Landon Burchell, E. H. Grove and
Samuel Riggs. This committee ! is
charged with the duty of preparine
and mimeographing, forms. fhcilttA-
ting distribution of cards and certff-
Gates and preparing. receipt .formsy
The advisory committee on high
schools consists Of DIR. W. A. Warfield
stephen Kramer and F. c. Daniel. This
will have charge OF assigning
high school cadets to the forty one
registration precincts.
The advisory committee in charge Of
consists of DR.. Charles r.
Ely. Rene Samson and Raymond F.
Crist. 1t will obtain the services of in
terpreters and assign them to work.
The advisory committee in charge Of
transportation consists of Melvin D.
Hazen. Thomas Bones and H. G. Todd.
and will make provision for automobiles
at tine various registration precincts. :.
Committee on Publicity.
The committee on publicity will con-
sist of Mai. D. J. Donovan. Ralph w.
Lee. John L. Martin, Harold Keets
and John E. Lathroy. It will provide
information and reading material for
the newspapers as means of educat-
ing the persons subject to the draft
as to their duties and of informing
them where they are to register.
school buildings as registration pre-
cincts consists of W. B. Hadley,
stephen E. kramer and Hugh NC
Queney. It must make provision for
the use of the forty school buildings
cult Company, at 513 Rhode Island
avenue, to be used on registration day.
Committee on Registrars.
The committee on the selection and
assignment of registrars Y composed
of Robert J. Jones. c. willard. Cana
lier. Henry A. Almond and Ralph L.
Hebbard. 1t will prepare q list of
officers and employees of the District
registrars and registrars. a list of
members of the Home Defense League
who may be willing to serve. and of
other persons who may volunteer. 1t
will assign one registrar on the basis
of every eighty persons to be regis
tered. In the assembly hall of the
Central High School a meeting Of
the chief registrars and others will
be held a day or two before the reg
istration day SO as to give them in
struction regarding their duties.
The committee on summarization of
registration returns consists Of DR..
Percival Hall, Alonzo ,Tweedale and
William Towers, and it will have
charge. of summarizing registration
returns. ..--E
Committee on Information.
The committee on signs and dissem.
ination of Information is composed of
A. j. Driscoll. Snowden Ashford.
Henry Storey and j. s. Garland. It
will obtain signs to be displayed at
registration stations, and it will also
get moving picture houses to throw
announcements on the screens caIIinr
attention to registration day and the
duty of all men to register within
the draft ages. It will provide for
etc.
The committee on registration Of
out-of-town registrants consists Of
Merritt o. Chance, Robert L. Williams.
Jesse B. K. Lee. Paul s. Myers and MI.
Ordnance Company. It will provids
for the appointment of special 'rerise
trars in the various government de-
the navy yard, the wash
ington Steel and Ordnance 'Couapany
and other places where large numbers
of men are employed In those cases
where. the registrants intend to Eend
their registration cards to local boarda
outside of the District. -.
To Direct Registrants. - .
The committee on advising r.v,.-
trants where they must register Is
composed Of Merritt o. Chance. m r.
Hazen and W. T. Sherwood. It wi:i
faries of each of the forty-one resSs.
tration precincts and will have prinfed
and distributed in all houses in the
District cards showing resistration
stations, where inmates must register.
The commitee on community centers
consists Of Clifford Lanham. Miss Cecil
r. Norton, J. T. McGrath, e. J.. Ward
and Mrs Walter S. Ufford and will
for the utilization OF com.
munity centers and civic forums and
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