Evening star., 1940-10-16

NE, dIllFeu dI MChlllley nigh
School in Area 81 shortly after
6 am. on his way home from work
at a bakery, where he was dis
missed at $50 am. With a wife
and child to support, he said he
thought the Army might still take
him. L have had over two years
of National Guard experience and
besides, the Army may want to eat
some good pies
A distant relative of DR.. Mudd,
the physician who treated John
Booth after Lincoln's assassination,
was the first to register at the
Buchanan School, Thirteenth and
E streets Sc. He was Harvey V.
Mudd. 81, of 1911 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc, a painter.
Thirty-four out of 80 members
of White House Police are within
registration age limit and are being
allowed time today to register in
their proper districts.
About so of the 1876 Capitol Police
are of draft age and without
dependents, an official of the force
declared today, and could be called
to military duty for one year. Most
of the draft age members on the
force, however, are students at uni
versities in the District and there
fore will be deferred by their local
boards from military duty during
the academic year ending June
30, 194l.
Taft Junior High School, in the
section where Catholic institutions
are centered, witnessed a procession
of young men of religious orders
garbed in flowing gowns. The Fran
ciscan House of Studies provided
120 registrants from among its resi-
dents; the Franciscan Fathers,
Third Order Regular, about %, the
Franciscan Monastery, only about
Is because most of its residents are
over draft age, and few more
from the Franciscan Friary.
A contrast to these were men,
bers of the Catholic University foot
ball squad. About 25 gridiron war
riors piled out of a bus at Taft at
10 am. to sign up. They were led by
Capt. Henry BroSteck, who said he
is thinking of entering the air serv-
ice at the end of the school year.
The stage manager of the Gayety
Theater showed up at Langley Junior
High at an early hour, unshaven,
anxious to know what he should
do with a troupe of burlesque per-
formers currently at his theater.
Mr.. Baker hastily consulted the
draft registration map placed at his
disposal and informed the burlesque
manager that the theater was in
Area IA and the performers should
report to the new Jefferson Junior
High School at Eighth and H streets
S.W.
Three eager but chilled selectees
we're the first to register at Eastern
High School in Area %, where they
had waited on the front steps since
4 am. Daniel Crevensten, %, of
1725 Twenty ninth street Sc, said
the waiting wasn't so bad, but that
it got little cold around $50
o'clock.
"As a matter of fact" he said,
1--WE didn't 60 to bed last night
at ALL"
His companions on the patriotic
vigil we're James P. Molyneaux, 81,
1725 29th street Sc, and Thomas
Cave, jr, 81, of 1880 D street NE.
The local selective service head
quarters began answering telephone
inquiries at the rate of about two
minute this morning beginning
at 7:30 o'clock. One of those calling
in was Thomas L. Worrell, %, of
1404 Florida avenue, Silver Spring,
Md. Worrell said he signed up in
the Navy about two days ago, but
has not yet taken the oath. He
wanted to know whether he should
register and was advised to do so.
Placards offering free inStruc-
tions in the use of firearms greeted
men of draft age as they appeared
at registration centers in Arlington
County today.
The course is offered by the Ar
lington County Rifle and Pistol
Club, an affiliate of the National
Rifle Association, which has range
in Fairfax County. The club is a
new organization which grew out
of the Arlington County Committee
to Defend America by Aiding the
Allies.
The first man to register at Cooks
School said he had stayed up all
night to do 1t. He gave his name
as Joseph Salvatore Nesta, 24l3