Evening star., 1940-10-19
District Draft Lists
May Be Ready for
Posting Next Week
Announcement of Serial
Numbers Held Up Until
All Boards Finish Work

As the city's "a draft boards con-
tinued the task of asserting, shuff1ing
and numbering the mass of regis
tration cards, the Commissioners
expressed the hope today that serial
numbers for all District registrants
would be ready for posting by the
middle Of next week.
No actual deadline for the post
ing has been set. but the boards
have been asked to report to Brig.
Gen. Albert l.. Cox, selective Serv-
ice executive for the city, as soon as
their lists are ready. No numbers
are to be posted until the lists for
all "a boards are completed.
Cards Being Assorted.
officials pointed out today that
registrants should report to the
headquarters of boards in their re-
spective residential areas to learn
their serial numbers where they
are posted, and not necessarily to
boards in areas where they regis
tered. Many registrants signed up
in areas other than those in which
they live and these cards are being
forwarded to proper boards.
In order to facilitate redistribu-
ton OF cards to the proper areas,
Gen. Cox has asked each of the
boards to list alphabetically all
streets in their areas, noting the
lowest and highest block numbers.
Twenty-three copies of this data
were requested, one for each of the
other boards in the city
When all draft boards have re-
ported completion of the serial num-
bering, Gen. Cox will transmit the
information to the Commissioners,
who will then suggest" to the draft
boards that they post the lists.
Add Board Names.
To facilitate the handling Of the
114,34l registration cards now In
the hands of the draft boards, the
Commissioners late yesterday sent
to selective service headquarters II
names to fill the gaps on draft
boards created by ineligibility and
designations.
Affected particularly by this &C
ton is Draft Board No. IA, which
has delayed organization until it
expands from its present three to
five members. Although only three
members are required for a draft
board, No. IA has announced its
intention Of waiting to operate un-
I'll members are appointed to fill the
two vacancies
1t was pointed out that delay on
the part of one board would hold
up the posting of all the board lists.
Meanwhile, cards of District resi-
dents who registered in other States
are beginning to arrive at local
draft headquarters Among cards
received yesterday were more than
so from draft headquarters in Alex
andria, Va.
Late Registrants Signed.
Also swelling the local totals were
cards filled out by late registrants.
Since registration day, more than
80 draft age Washingtonians have
signed the registration forms at
draft headquarters in the Armory.
Each has had to write out an excuse
for late registration, which is duly
filed with the registration card. One
OF those who came to the Armory
yesterday was a seaman who had
Just reached port. Another late
registrant was sent over from Po-
lice Court accompanied by one of
the judges clerks His excuse was
that he had been drunk for three
days.
Completing the Advisory Board
for Registrants, the Commissioners
late yesterday appointed Charles
Frederic Wilson, an attorney, to fill
the vacancy created by the resigna-
ton OF Justice David A. Pine.
Spencer Gordon, a member of the
board which gives selective service
registrants advice and assistance,
was elevated to the Craftsmanship
which was left empty on the resig-
nation of Justice Pine. Other men,
bers Of the board are Stanley D.
Willis. Howard S. Leroy and Charles
H. Houston.