Evening star., 1940-10-15
Draft Centers
Prepared for
Registration
200 Aides Are
Sworn and Specific
Instructions Given

Districts conscription machinery
occupied selective service officials to-
day-the eve of the first peacetime
registration for compulsory military
training in the Nations history.
The task of registering an esti-
mated $4,000 Washingtonians be-
tween the ages of 81 and SO will be
taken over by 1900 District school
teachers and volunteers, who re-
ceived specific instructions and were
sworn in at mass meetings yesterday
afternoon and last night.
Rooms in As schools were being
prepared today as registration GEN.
ters, and officials expected that by
nightfall all would be in readiness
to receive the first registrants at
7 IN. tomorrow
Meanwhile selective service spokes-
men said space in "a schools had
been offered as headquarters fol
local draft boards, which will begin
functioning after the registration
has been completed tomorrow.
Quarters in the schools for the
important work of the boards was
offered by the Board of Education
through Asst Supt. of Schools
Chester w. Holmes, and it was held
likely that the boards would accept
the suggested locations
Selective service regulations leave
choices of headquarters more or
less up to the boards themselves
with the recommendation that pub
lie buildings be utilized wherever
possible to avoid unnecessary ex-
| pense.
Schools Offered TO Board.
Schools offered for draft board
use are as follows:
/ Board Area No. l. Jackson Ele-
mentary School, Thirtieth and r
( streets NV.
| Board Area No. 2, Murch Ele-
/ Ellicott streets NV.
Board Area No 8. Mann Elemer-
/ tary School. Forty fifth and Newark
/ streets NV.
Board Area No 4, Calvin Coolidge
High School, Fifth and Tuckerman
streets NV.
/ Board Area No 5. Truesdell Ele-
mentary School. Eighth and Ingra-
ham streets NV
Board Area No. 6. Raymond
/ Elementary School. Tenth street
and Spring road NV.
/ Board Area No. 7. Bancroft Ele-
mentary School. Eighteenth and
Newton streets NV.
/ Board Area No. 8, Adams Ele-
mentary School. Nineteenth and
California streets NV.
Board Area No. 9. Weightman Ele-
mentary School, Twenty-third and
NJ streets NV.
Board Area No, 10, Cooke Ele-
mentary School. Seventeenth and
Euclid streets NV.
Central High Also Offered.
/ Board Area No II, Central High
School, Thirteenth and Clifton
streets NV.
Board Area No. u, Gage Ele-
mentary School. Second and U
streets NV.
Board Area No. l3. Henry Ele-
mentary School, Seventh and P
streets NV.
Board Area No. ID. Fairbrother
Elementary School, Tenth and E
streets S.W.
Board Area No. Is. Bowen Ele-
mentary School, Third and K
streets S.W.
Board Area No. l6 Lenox Ele-
mentary School, Fifth and G streets
Sc
Board Area No. II, Hilton Ele-
mentary School Sixth and B streets
NE
Board Area No 18, Hayes Ele-
mentary School, Fifth and K
streets NE.
Board Area No. 19, Gales Ele-
mentary School, First and G streets
NV.
Board Area No. 90 Brookland Ele-
mentary School, Tenth and Monroe
streets NE
Board Area No. 81 Langley Junior
High School, First and T streets
NE.
Board Area No. %. Langdon Ele-
mentary School, Twentieth and
Franklin streets NE.
Board Area No. %. Eastern High
School, Seventeenth and East Capt.
tol streets.
Board Area No. "a. Anacostia
Junior-Senior High School, Six
teenth and R streets Sc
Warn Against Confusion.
Officials emphasized that these
projected board locations are not
to be confused with registration
centers to be used tomorrow from 7
am. to pm.
Headquarters for the boards will
be utilized in a public capacity after
registration day. Later serial num-
bers of registrants and ultimately
their order numbers will be posted
at these locations and all business
of the local boards will be transacted
from them.
Many of the local boards already
have met for the first time to choose
chairmen and otherwise begin or
ganiZation.
National Selective Service head
quarters has issued a notice to all
Government departments asking
that draft age employees register at
centers serving their residential