Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-22
10000 Students
Go Back 10 Glasses
Here Tomorrow
Reopenine of Schools
Finds Emphasis on
Defense Cooperation

Washington's public schools to-
morrow morning will welcome more
than 10000 students back to edu-
cational programs emphasizing, this
year. mechanical skills and voca-
tional training to further the Ma
tons defense program.
School officials anticipate in
creases over last years enrolment
especially in the Southeast section
of the city School population
reached 9O,301 during the first week
last year, and the expanding de-
Tense program is expected to figure
in an enrolment boost this year.
Two new schools will open for the
first time tomorrow. They are the
81, 100000 Calvin Coolidge High
School at Fifth and Sheridan
streets NV. and the $500, 600
Thomas Jefferson Junior High
School between H and 1, Seventh
and Ninth streets S.W.
Other school construction during
the past year included an addition
to the Ketcham School. Fifteenth
and u streets Sc, part of which will
be ready for the opening tomorrow
and a 10-room addition to the Ran
dali Junior High School on I street,
between First and Half streets S.W.,
which is expected to be completed
in November.
Evening Glasses to Open.
All public school evening classes
will open tomorrow night, with reg
istrations after $50 pm. E. J. Lock-
wood is director of evening schools
for Divisions l to 9, and C. o. Lewis
for Divisions 10 to l3.
Vocational training facilities are
being used by hundreds of men from
the rolls of the Works Progress Ad-
ministration and the District EN-
ployment Centers who are being
trained for jobs essential to the de-
Tense program.
A full-time course is in operation
from midnight to 8 am. at Arm
strong and Mckinley Tech High
Schools. and the Abbot, Chamber
lain and Phelps Vacations Schools.
Coincident with the opening of night
schools tomorrow. supplementary
vocational training program for de-
Tense purposes will be inaugurated.
Designed to provide additional train
ing for persons already employed,
studies in this course will be con-
Quoted between 6 and 10 pm.
In the regular vocational train
ing program, two new courses will
be offered for the first time in
addition to the courses normally
available. One of these is course
in engine tune-up and front end
alignment" at the Abbot Vocational
Training School. Persons connected
with the automotive trade and
allied trades may apply for this
study. which includes 48 hours of
shop instruction and will be indie
pendent of classroom instruction.
Draft Day" Holiday.
The other course is architectural
drafting" which will be conducted
at Mckinley Tech by James E. Mil
Ter, who has held various archi-
tectural positions with the Federal
Government. including that of chief
of the division of plans and
service in the Bureau of Agricul-
tural Engineering. Registration for
both courses will take place to-
morrow at the two schools.
For the first time, pupils can
look forward to a one-day holiday
before they have been back in
classrooms month. They will be
given a day off October Is. the date
set for registration of men under
the selective service act. Normally,
the first holiday would be Armis-
tice Day, November II. Virtually all
principals and teachers will serve