The Washington herald., 1918-06-06
.2,5l8 D. c. men q SINCE JUNE
LAST Enrol Led YESTERDAY;
MILLION REGISTER IN u. S.
Registrants of 1917 to Be
Called First; Then Those
Recorded Wednesday,
Crowder and Donovan
Pleased.

The class Of 1918 is ready for scrv-
ice. Two thousand. hve<hundred and
eighteen young men Of the District,
who had reached the age Of p since
June ) a year ago yesterday. register
ed themselves as being ready to fight
Americas battles when they are called
upon.
CoincidentaI with the registering OF
the new eligibles for military service
rame a call from Provost Marshal
General Crowder for 800 more men of
the District to go to Camp Meade dur
ing a period OF five days beginning
June "a Although the District now
has ISIS new men available for sery-
ice. they will not be called upon until
all those OF last years registration.
not in a deferred classification, have
been taken. There are left of this
latter class more than enough to fill
this latest call.
The Enrolment Process.
The ISIS men registered were divided
among the eleven boards as follows:
Board No. I. 3o2: Board No. 2. 26s;
Board No. 3. 226; Board No. 4. 242;
Board No. 5. 2sS: Board No. 6, 25S:
Board No. 7. 149; Board, No. S. 3os;
Board No. ., ISL; Board No. 10. eA. and
Board No. II. 12S.
During the early part of the morn
ing several young men appeared at
each of the registration centers. anx-
ious to be the first to register at that
particular station. The honors for
greatest promptness go to the follow
ing men:
Board No. 1.-Joseph MarceIlino, 41s
II street northwest. Board No. =
Morris Goidmand, 1los Firth street
northwest. and Cletus wickens. IlOe
Thirteenth street northwest, who tied
each other for first place. Board No.
3-LeRoy Jerome McCarty. 722 Twen-
ty-second street northwest. Board
, No. 4-Richard Ellis jenkins, E5 /
street northwest. Board No. 5.-James
John Brown. $50 Fourteenth street
southeast. Board No. 6-Thomas Mar
shall Spencer. Sic Massachusetts ave.
nue. northeast. Board No. 7-ElmeI
Louis Kayser. 1923 o street northwest.
Board No. SOscar A. Dodeck, 1876
Ninth streeI northwest. Board No. g.
Bryan hopkins. 1475 Florida avenue
northwest Board No. 10-George w
King. 10 Lamont street northwest, Al
the Park View School. and Marvin Il.
Clawson, 43 Girard street northeast,
at the Brookland School Board No.
1l-Henry Naylor. Kenilworth. d. c.
at the Wheatley School, and Louis
Joseph Wolfers, 1888 U street south
east, at .he Ketcham School.
Acting Adjt. Gen. Daniel J. Dono-
van last night expressed himself as
being highly satisfied with the whole
program of the registration.
In addition to the call yesterday
for 300 white men. the Adjutant
Generals office yesterday received
call for 500 negroes to go to Camr
Meade during a five-day period be-
ginning June 20 to 25.
In the Nation.
The registration was conducted
with remarkable smoothness and
precision in all parts of the United
States. according to reports to Pro.
vost Marshal General Crowder here
last night.
Gen. Crowder was confident thai
his estimates of more than a millior
registrants had been confirmed.
Owing to the great number oi
men subject to registration who
have enlisted in the army. navy. and
Marine Corps. not more than SOC. 900
| men available for firing line duty
now are counted upon in the new
class.
! The first call to colors for the mer
registered yesterday is scheduled fol
October, under present army plans
BY that time Class in the origina
registration will have been exhausted
May BE Earlier.
II shipping conditions permit oI
heavier shipments overseas than nov
are planned. the call may come earliei
than October.
The next registration of men whI
have become p in the interim is sched
uled for December.
Failure of the administration to ed
roll allen slackers' was severely cri |
icised today on the floor by RepreseI
tative John ]. Rogers, of Massachu
sets, Republican.
To-day we are enrolling a million oI
our young men," he said, and We
there are thousands of men born In
countries now allied with us who ar,
using the United States as a refuge
They will not fight in their old home:
nor In the armies Of Uncle Sam. Tht
million Of young men who are Ell
rolling today will fight to protect thi,
breed"
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