Evening star., 1918-06-05
Boards Engaged Today in
Enrolling Those Who Lately
Reached Draft Age.
FIGURES GIVEN OF TOTAL
RECORDED UP TO NOON
Estimated That Number of Regis
trations Throughout Country Will
Approximate One Million.

Young men of the District who are
twenty-one years old are registering in
the draft today at thirteen registration
places throughout the city.
BY noon more than 1900 men had
registered.
The registration places at the
schoolhouses opened at Z o'clock this
morning. but there were no long
lines of applicants waiting this time,
as there were last June 5. The schools
will be open until 9 o'clock tonight.
The registration is being conducted
at the following schools: Franklin,
Thomson. Grant. Jefferson. Eastern
High School, Peabody, Western High
School. Business High School. Henry
d. Cooke. Park View. Brookland,
Wheatley and Ketcham schools.
Within the first hour no registra-
tion place had registered more than
fifty men, and It was soon seen that
there was to be no rush on this
registration day.
Gen. Crowder Visits Boards.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
was a visitor today at several of the
schoolhouses where the registration
is going on. The head of the
son School, where the local board for
division No. 2 is located, and was
there shown the registry list by A
J. Driscoll, chairman of the board.
Gen. Crowder later visited board No
!. at Franklin School, and board No.
High school cadets detailed to
handle registrants as they came in
found that they had a comparatively
easy time of 1t, as there was no rush
in any sense of the word. One OF
trars: Either the number Of men
twenty-one years old in the District
would not reach the six-thousand hg-
ure predicted, or most OF the men
were planning to register this after
evening, some time before o'clock.
when the registration places close
throughout the city.
Men Who Registered Early.
The "early birds Of 1s1s"-the first
men to register in Washington to-
Board No. 1-Joseph Marcellino. 41s
Il street northwest.
Board No. morris Goldmand. HOB
9TH street northwest, and Cletus
Wickens. 11o9 18th street northwest.
These men tiled" for first in this d.
vision.
: Board No. s-Leroy Jerome Nc
Carly, 722 22d street northwest
Board No. Richard Ellis jenkins,
ass I street northwest.
Board No. 5-James John Brown,
$50 14th street southeast.
Board No. 6-Thomas Marshall Spen-
Ger, s16 Massachusetts avenue north
Board No. 7-Elmer Louis Kayser,
1929 o street northwest -
Board No. S-Oscar A. Dodeck. 1S55
9Th street northwest.
Board No. 9-Bryan Popkins. 1475
Florida avenue northwest.
Board No. 10-George w. King. TO
Lamont street northwest. at the Park
View School. and Marvin 2. Clawson.
43 Girard street northeast, at the
Board No. 11-Henry Naylor. Kenil-
worth, D. c., at the Wheatley School.
and Louis Joseph Wolfers, 1889 U
street southeast, at the Ketcham
School.
Holds Position at G. W. q.
Mr.. Kayser, who won the honors for
being first to register at the Western
High School this morning. is recorder
OF George Washington University
and will be secretary next September.
Being but twenty-one years old. he Is
university ever had.
Both boards No. 1 and II are reg
lstering men at two schools today
The nine other boards have but one
school. Each board has three board
members acting as chief registrars
fUa ro0ig-
trars. The latter are employees of the
District building. which was closed
all day.
Daniel J. Donovan, acting adJutant
general for the District, was pleased
this afternoon at the way the regis
iieved there would be a big jump in
before 9 o'clock tonight.
One young man barely eighteen
years old presented himself at one OF
the registration places this morning
and declared that he wanted to reg
years old. and that, lack
ing that age, he could not be regis
tered, he seemed to be hurt and kept
on insisting that he be registered.
Registrations Up to Noon.
Registrations reported for the
eleven local board divisions of the
city until noon were as follows: No.
/, l25; No. 2, 130; No. 5, 100; No. 4, 116;
No. S, 1874; No. 6. 1876; No. Z. IS; No. 8,
1870; No. 9, 100; No. 10. 116; No. II. so.
Total. 1.211.
Nations Total Probably a Million.
Throughout the nation today sim
liar scenes were enacted in the regis
tratton Of young men by the re-
spective local boards. It has been
estimated that In the, neighborhood
of 100000 men will be registered
today.
age have been included in the war
population" which has come to Wash
local board for division No. IL, which
handles most of the transfer cases.
has to date returned more than 1000
completed physical examinations to
the home town boards concerned.
Acting Adjutant General Donovan an
nounced today.
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