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volunteers that will occupy most
of the time of District selective
service officials during the next
eight days.
Centers for the registration will
be set up in 25 board areas. The
schools were designated Friday by
organization officials. Registrars,
chief registrars and supervisors will
be on duty at each Of the centers
during the 14-hOur period.
Provisions for Out -Towners.
Out-of-toWners who happen to
be visiting in Washington on July l
and who are eligible for registra-
ton will be signed up at special
center to be operated at the Ma
tional Guard Armory, Sixth street
and Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Washington residents have been
asked by officials to register at GEN.
ters serving their residential areas,
If it is possible for them to do so
within the time limit. Otherwise.
they will be allowed to register at
any of the regular centers.
The District Commissioners, by
proclamation, have called on all
District employers to allow Selectiye
Service eligibleS in their charge
sufficient time off July l in which
to perform their registration duty.
Although local board chairmen
and clerical personnel will be in
direct charge of the registration,
American Legion officials have vol
unteered to assist in organization
of registrar personnel. Brig Gen.
Albert L. Cox, director of District
Selective Service, has appointed Will
liam H. Hargrave, department COM
mander of the local Legion, as chief
registrar for the District. Mr.. Har-
graves assistants will be 1t Comdr.
w. A. Corley, U. S. N, retired;
Raymond Saunders and Donald G.
Stanley.
Automobiles will be on hand at
each registration center to take
registrars to homes of incapacitated
prospective registrants who have
no means of visiting the centers in
person. An emergency mobile unit
of eight cars will be stationed at
the National Guard Armory to an
sWer any trouble calls which may
come in from time to time from
the various centers.
New Cards Salmon -COl0red.
New salmon -Colored registration
cards will be used for the 21-year-
olds as a contrast to the white
blanks filled in for the 21-to-36-
year-olds last October. A few white
cards will be distributed to each
of the centers for use in cases of
men who should have registered last
fall but who have been prevented by
unavoidable circumstances from so
doing since that time.
Several changes are noted on the
new cards, the most important of
which is place of residence" line
giving registrant who may have
more than one place of residence
a choice in the local board which
will handle his permanent record.
Line of the new card will de-
termine the local board jurisdiction
of the registrant, while Line 3 will
be used as his mailing address. For
example, Washington Government
worker who came here two years
ago from Peoria, Ill, may wish to
be classified and inducted as a
selectee from his home town. He,
accordingly, will ask the registrar
to place his Peoria address on line
q His Washington residence, how
ever, will be given as the mailing
address, line 3.
Only one address line was given
on the old cards, thereby making
the address given by the registrant
his permanent selective service loca-
ton. Changes of address requested
later by registrants had to be denied.
Lottery to Determine Order.
Following registration, the cards
will be turned over to local boards
for shuff1ing and numbering serially.
They then will await second ma
tional lottery to determine their
order in relation to each other.
The position of the new regis
trants on order lists in relation to
those already on selective service
rolls has not been determined, al
though national officials announced
several days ago that a tentative
plan of placing them at the bot
tom of current lists had been def
nitely abandoned at the informal
request of Congress. A system OF
migrating the new cards with the
old will be devised, a spokesman said.
Approximately 100000 youths
throughout the Nation will be regis
tered July l and prospects are that
several thousand of them will be in
uniform before the year ends.
In the first place, the Army is ask
ing for Younger men, and. secondly,