Evening star., 1940-11-27
Nearby Draft Boards
Plan Sendoffs for
Men Tomorrow
Arlington SeIectees
Given Papers Today
Without Ceremony

While the first selectees reported
for duty in Washington today select
i've service officials in nearby Mary
land and Virginia completed ar
rangements for sending their quotas
of men to the Capital for induction
tomorrow.
The first selectees in Arlington
County, Va, were to receive their
induction papers this afternoon and
will report direct TO Washington to-
morrow.
No sendoff ceremonies were
planned in either Arlington or
Alexandria, although brief exercises
have been arranged for Fairfax.
All three draft boards IN Prince
Georges County, Md, and two or
three boards in Montgomery County
have announced plans for farewell
programs.
The Arlington selectees are Paul
Leslie Fox, who held order number
2 in Draft Board No. l area, and
Richard Goodwin, holder of order
number II in Draft Board No. 2
area.
Alexandra Calls Volunteer.
Mr.. Fox, who is an employe of
the Ross Federal Research Corp. in
Washington, is % years old and
lives at 1923 North oxford street.
Mr.. Goodwin is % and is Govern
ment clerk. He lives at 859 South
Ivy street.
Members of the Draft Board in
Alexandria, Va, have called John
Clinton Swank, jr.. 22-year-old VOL
unteer, to report at their Office in
the Post Office Building at 8 am.
tomorrow to receive his induction
papers. The Alexandria board has
seven other volunteers who will be
called prior to drawing from the
order lists for registrants.
There were three volunteers for
Board No. ! and one volunteer for
Board No. 2 in Arlington County,
but all were deferred from immedi-
ate service because of dental de-
fects.
Herbert o. Blunt, chairman of
the Fairfax Selective Service Board,
has asked Chairman G. Wallace
Carper of the Board of Supervisors,
other members of the board and
county officials to be present when
the two volunteers, Charles H. Gal
lagher, IS, of Wellington Villa and
Darnell John Pemberton, colored,
%, of Mclean, report tomorrow for
service.
First Name Removed.
The men are scheduled to leave
the courthouse at Gas and the
exercises, to be held in the head
quarters of the Selective Service
Board, will begin shortly after 8 am.
The two volunteers became first
in line when the local board re-
ceived a ruling that John S. Mehler,
former county librarian and first to
volunteer for service. could not go
from Fairfax County, but would
have to be sent from his home
county. Until the ruling was re-
ceived Mr.. Mehler had expected
to be the first volunteer from the
county.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Post,
American Legion, will present the
two selectees of Montgomery Board
No. with fountain pens at exer-
cises in the Bethesda Chevy Chase
Recreation Center at 7:30 am.
County officials and members Of
service clubs will attend. The men
will leave for Washington from the
Silver Spring Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Station at 8:22 am.
Joint ceremonies for the select
ees of boards and 3 in Prince
Georges will be held at Marlboro,
with Representative Sasscer, Demo-
crat, of Maryland; State Senator
Charles G. Marbury and draft Of
flcials In attendance. The program
will be sponsored by the American
Legion. The men will leave for
Washington on the $40 bus.
Details Of programs planned by
Prince Georges Board No. / at
Hyattsville and by Montgomery
Board No. 2 at Silver Spring pre-
yiOuSly have been announced.