Evening star., 1940-10-02
300 Volunteer
To Aid Draft
Registration
Nominations Slated
Tomorrow for 24
District Boards

District school employees in register
ing the local draft eligibles October
Is were reported on record at the
Franklin School today as draft Of
ficials planned to submit nomina-
tionS for the "a three-man draft
boards to the Commissioners to-
morrow morning and to confer with
the chief registrars of the Al reg
iStration centers at Roosevelt High
School during the afternoon.
Asst. Supt of Schools Chester w.
Holmes. in charge of the draft de-
tails for the schools, said 298 of the
800 volunteers recorded in his Of
fee last night were firemen.
He said other municipal and Gov
ernment departments were at work
on the problem and he expects to
hear from them soon.
Another paid worker, Miss Dor
othy Jackson, has been added to
help out in the cataloguing of VOL
unteers and third employe is be-
Alb oOuSiil, ~ Wdo Sdlu
Nominations Scheduled.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox. local
draft chief. said he intends to sub
NIT his nomination for places on the
local draft boards to the city heads
at 10 am. tomorrow. Members of
these boards will decide deferment
questions in their areas for those
whose names are drawn for draft
duty.
At Roosevelt High School, begin
ming at $50 pm tomorrow, the
chief registrars will hear from DR..
Holmes plans for the operations of
the various shifts, the availability of
materials. the use of extra rooms
for overflow crowds and cafeteria
service for the workers. At 4 pm.
the group will hear from Gen. Cox,
who called the meeting, and prob
ably from Col c. A. bravo, assisting
Gen. Cox. 1t is hoped to have
sample copies of the actual draft
blank which the registrars will fill
out.
Each chief registrar will call
meetings of the registrars assigned
to his center at later dates to in
Struct them in procedure.
While approximately $500 VOL
unteer registrars will be needed to
supplement the work of the school
employees, DR.. Holmes said he
thought the offers were coming in
sufficiently fast at present to pro-
vide enough.
BallOu Appeals to Teachers.
Meanwhile. the school teachers
have been officially notified of their
participation in the draft registra-
ton in a circular from Supt. Frank
w. Ballou.
School employees he told them,
have established an enviable rec
ord in participating in every worthy
civic cause and the superintendent
believes that no employe in the pub
lie schools will impair that reputa-
ton by failure to perform such
duties as may be assigned him or
her in connection with the registra-
ton October 16."
Except for extraordinary reasons
teachers will be divided into two
shifts and assigned for duty in
their own buildings when such
buildings are to be used as regis
tration centers. Personnel at build
ings not to be so used, it was said,
will be assigned to shifts at the
centers. Emphasis was put on the
need for punctuality, the time for
reporting for the first shift being
6:45 am. and the second shift at
las pm.
Detail of school custodians to the
buildings being used is being ar
ranged by Asst. Supt. J. J. Crane,
but these employees will not be used
as registrars. School clerks and Of
ficers have been asked to indicate to
DR.. Holmes where they would like
to help out. DR.. Holmes empha-
sized, however, that he could not
guarantee them any particular as
signment.
Later instructions will be sent the
school employees by mail, telephone,
via their principals or through the
registrars.
Doctors to Meet.
A Strengthened Medical Resources
Committee of the District Medical
Society planned to meet tonight at 8
o'clock to make plans for its part
In the program. The committee Is
charged with providing physicians
for preliminary physical examina-
tion of regiStrants.
AS the draft registration prepara-
tions went ahead, little change was
in the number of applica-
tions for voluntary enlistment in
the Navy and Marine Corps recruit
ing stations. At the Navy recruiting
station, Seventeenth and F streets
NV. it was said that during
September Is out of PIT applicants
were taken in. as compared with
30 out of 100 in August and also in
July.
According to 1t. Comdr. R. W.
Hughes, in charge of the station,
this is due mainly to the fact that
the Navy, since the summer of 1899,
has accepted only six-year enlist
ments.
The marines had Is enlistments
in September, 18 in August and 81
in July. The enlistment is for four
years.
OF last months naval recruits, 13
were said to be from the District
while all the marine recruits were
listed as local residents. Five recruits
who enlisted in the Navy in July
were reported now enrolled in a
four month course of aviation ma
chinist training at the Naval Air
Station in Norfolk, Va. The first