Evening star., 1940-10-16
Sideights on Registration
Three Youths Stoy Up All Night
To Sign Up at Eastern High
A. P. Photo.

Eighteenth street NV. He Is taxi
driver. owning his own cab, and op-
Grating. he said, from pm. to 4
m He worked last night. but in
stead of going to bed when he got
through, he waited until he could
register
A feature of registration at Jeffer-
son Junior High was group of five
young girl students, on duty as in
terpreters. They included Anna
Renjlilion, IS. 4125 River road NV.
who speaks four languages fluently
and is studying French. She was
interpreter for Turkish, Armenian
and Greek. Other interpreters in
cluded Christini Callas. IA, of 4l3
Third street NV, Greek: Beatrice
Dorsch, 13, COG Fourth street S.W.,
Jewish and German: Rose Enrieo,
Is. of 4llla Seventh street SW,
Italian; and Angelina Hamasian,
IA, of 1927 L street NV. Armenian.
Angelina is also studying -Frcnch.-
Some lame men were brought To
Paul Junior High in cars and regis
tered outside the school, T. F.. Ferry,
chief registrar, said. q
Mr.. Ferry said also he found
many naturalized citizens were puz-
Zled about what to say about the
country of their birth. Many of
these countries have disappeared.
Mr.. Ferry ruled that since the
United States does not recognize
the change in status of most of these
countries. the registrants should
put down Poland" if Poland was
their birthplace, etc.
William T. Craigo. N. B. c. an
nouncer, broadcast his own regis
tration over Citation WRC from
Western High School. Registrar
Irene Daniels questions were aired
along with his answers.
Willkie-admiring registrants at
Western got a laugh. Over the
auditorium door was a placard read
ing, Beat Roosevelt" 1t referred
to "a forthcoming football game.
By noon. however, the sign had
been removed.
BY pm. Union Station informa-
ton clerks had received several dozen
inquiries from draft age men as to
the nearest registration point All
were directed to nearby Stuart
Junior High School. Visitors from
other cities are allowed to register
here and have their registration
cards sent to their home States.
Powell Junior High School Engi-
neer William Bland, when he ar
rived to turn on the heat at 5:45
am, found two registrants rolled
up in a blanket before the locked
door of the school. They had an
old alarm clock hung on the door
knob. Mr.. Bland took them to the
furnace room to keep warm. They
told him they had decided to spend
the night on the school steps and be
the first to register in that area
Registration officials gave their
names at Alton T. Etheridge, 14l7
Park road NV, and Carl F. r. Will
son, 1928 Harvard street NV.
Two colored brothers insisted al
most too strenuously on being regis
tered together at Randall Junior
High School so they could "be to-
gether in this Army" 1t took po-
liceman and a register to convince
them that their status in the Army
was in no way dependent on the
manner in which they were regis
tered.
Something of a speed record was
hung up by one man who telephoned
Franklin School Headquarters only
a few minutes after he had reg
istered at the Stuart Junior High
School to report that he had lost
his registration certificate.
Just as the Anacostia registering
place reached the 1000 mark at
10 am. today, three truck loads of
Civilian Conservation Corps bands
men pulled up to the front of the
Anacostia Senior-Junior High School
and began playing martial and pa
triotic airs.
Special arrangements were made
to register six paralyzed patients of
draft-age at Blue Plains. An OFF,
cial of the home was to be sworn in
as deputy registrar and furnished
with blanks enabling him to obtain
the necessary data from the patients
at the place of their confinement.
Chief Registrar Hugh Smith at
the Jefferson Junior High School
was reported forced to send around
the corner to a Chinese laundry for
an interpreter to help register a
japanese. According to last reports.
the pair was getting along famously.