Evening star., 1940-09-26
D. Lawyers
Prepare 10 Aid
Draft Work
Committee Head to
Recommend Names
For Advisory Posts

Participation of Washington law
yers in the selective service machin-
cry of the District by voluntary work
with the registration staf1s was
shaping up today.
Jerome F. Barnard, chairman of
the District Bar Associations Com
mittee on Preparedness. was to sub
NIT to Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox,
executive officer in charge of Dis
trict registration, the names of asso-
citation members who will serve in
advisory capacities in the various
registration areas as needed.
Gen. Cox yesterday asked men,
bers of the committee, at a meeting
at the Mayf1ower Hotel, to present
the name of a member-preferably
a judge-aS a candidate for the
Craftsmanship of the Registrants
Advisory Committee. He also asked
them to nominate lawyer to serve
on the seven-member Appeals Board.
Functions Outlined.
Plans call for the registration
board in each of the "a areas to
include three civilians and doctor,
with one attorney designated to
serve in an advisory capacity for
men of selective service age and an
other lawyer to act as a Government
agent, on the purely voluntary basis,
Gen. Cox explained.
He outlined the workings of the
selective service machinery as 1t is
to be set up in the District. After
the registration of each man within
the age limits of 81 to IS. inclusive.
the cards will be numbered and
classified If man feels that his
classification is not correct, he may
appeal, he said.
The function of the lawyers in
the advisory capacities. Gen. Cox
said. will be to explain registrants'
rights and to assist in the classical
ton or appeal.
Committee Numbers 60 or 10.
Mr.. Barnard said his committee
now numbers go or 10 men. Efforts
will be made to assign men to areas
in which they live, he asserted. He
emphasized that men falling within
the selective service age limits
would not be asked to serve on the
registration stats
Uniformed high school cadets will
serve as messengers during regis
tration day, it was announced after
conference yesterday between DR..
Chester w. Holmes, assistant super
intendent of schools. and military
instructors Of high schools.
The instructors are determining
how many will have uniforms at
that time. Use of arm bands or
some insignia for cadets without
uniforms is being considered.
DR.. Holmes said some seniors in
clerical courses might be used in
the central Office to address letters
and otherwise aid the registrars.
Girl Is Given Job.
Miss Constance Molesky, believed
to be the first paid civilian girl en-
ploye in the local draft setup. is
assisting DR.. Holmes. who Is draw
ing up qualifications for volunteer
registrars.
Heaviest registration is antici-
pated at Eliot Junior High, where
an estimated 4,523 are expected to
sign. The lightest load is looked for
at Eastern High School, about 2,83l
Meanwhile other plans for regis
tration day we're moving forward
with consideration being given to
the designation of school principals
to be chief registrars in local draft
registration centers. Also under
consideration was a plan regarding
the testing of conscripts' blood for
venereal disease.
Submission to the tests by the
draftees would be voluntary, and
would be done if approved only after
the men had passed through the
registration machinery on October Is.