Evening star., 1941-06-09
Home Defense
Registration
Plans Ready
Several Organizations
To List Members
In q Body :


for the opening at $3.50 p. m. to-
morrow of it's three day registration
of volunteer home defense workers,
last-minute plans brought the ma
tional emergency closer to the Cap
ital. Several civic and patriotic
organizations arranged to register
their members in body.
Among these was an organization
of rs former service men attached
to the Headquarters Detachment,
29th National Guard Division, who
are exempt from selective service.
Banded together for the last Is
years mainly for social purposes,
they will meet at the National
Guard Armory Thursday night and
will enroll in a group as volunteers.
Their treasurer, Victor Howard,
said they are men in good physical
condition, used to discipline. and
that they are ready to serve as fire.
men. special police, air raid war;
dens, or in any other capacity for
which they may be needed.
All Workers to Register.
Notice was repeated by Mrs. Harry
s. Bernton, chairman of the Com
mittee on Volunteer Service, that
all persons now working with the
home defense program, either as
entertainers in the training camps
or otherwise. will be expected to
register in the next three days. This
is required in order that record
may be had, she explained, and
does not mean that they will be
shifted to some other task.
Meanwhile, call went out for
dancers to entertain in nearby Army
camps and to take part in shows
for civilian defense workers in the
city proper
So immediate is the need for these
entertainers that a search will be
made available by the registration.
Miss Lucille E. Fine, public rela-
tions member of the District De-
fense Council, announced that try
outs for candidates will be held at
the Thompson School. Twelfth and
L street NV, from to $50 pm.
Wednesday.
Men and women of the District
having dancing ability of any type,
including ballroom, acrobatic, &C.
centric. tap and original dancing,
are urged to try out" Miss Fine
said
The dancers will be trained by an
expert teacher who has had expert
ence with leading shows on Broad
way, she added. Tryouts will be un-
der the direction of J. -Beryl Law
less, drama director of the Defense
Council.
Miss Fine said the Defense Coun-
ell wants as many dancers as it can
get, She explained that not only
will they be employed at the mill
tary camps, but that many of them
are needed to take part in a series
of shows to be given in Washington
for more than $1,000 civilian defense
workers employed here.
A large number of girls already
have volunteered for service of this
nature and are at work at present. |
Several hundred, employed in Gov
ernment Offices, will meet with Mrs. |
Stuart Rice, chairman of the Place
ment Committee of the council, at
the Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing Auditorium on Fourteenth street
tonight, to discuss other ways they
can help with the defense program.
Offers of Service Continue.
Calls and offers of service contin-
ued to come in at the Central Vol
unteer Bureau of the Defense oun-
Gil. located in the old District Arm
ory at Sixth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV. A class for more
than a dozen women who will have
charge OF the card files resulting
from the registration was held there
this morning.
Nearly 500 trained registrars, each
supplied with uniform registration
blanks, will take position at A local
schools tomorrow afternoon to help
register the 35 900 persons expected
to offer their services for home de-
fense. They will remain on duty
from $3.50 to $50 pm. daily, Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday.
The registration will bring Wash
ingtonians in direct touch with one
OF the immediate local activities
made possible by the United Service
Organization program. The Com
mittee on Volunteer Service will be
financed through the U. S. o. cam
paign.