Evening star., 1941-06-29
Nation to Register 10000
Youths for Army Training
District Machinery Prepares to Handle
Enrolment of More Thon $500

Americas vast selective service
organization Tuesday will swing to
the task of enrolling the Nations
class of 2l-year-olds for prospective
service in the peacetime draft army.
More than 100000 youths who have
reached voting age since last Octo-
Der 16 are expected to visit the 5000
registration centers set up through
out the country, while in the Dis
trict of Columbia machinery will be
in operation to handle enrolment
of more than $500 newcomers.
Members of local boards, who, for
the most part, will have sole charge
of the new registration, will tackle
the one-day job with a pat on the
back from President Roosevelt.
1T is my conviction that you will
undertake this new task without
hesitancy-will achieve the gratify-
ing results the rest of us await"
the President has told the board
members. With this conviction in
mind, I commend you for past
performance and congratulate you
upon the success I know you will
attain
LegiOnnaires Will Aid.
In Washington, the American Le-
gion, many of whose members as
sisted in the first registration last
fall, has volunteered to aid in the
task Tuesday. Accordingly, more
than 400 registrars representing the
selective service system and the
Legion have been duly sworn in to
enroll registrants in the Nations
Capital.
From 7 am. to 8 pm. eligible
selectees will flock to registration
centers set up in the District in Is
schools, one for each local board
area. Out-of town visitors who
must register will be directed to
special center established at the
National Guard Armory, Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
NV.
AT the centers regiStrants will be
required to answer 10 simple ques-
tlonS and officials have estimated
not more than 10 minutes should
be required to enroll each newcomer.
While it is essential that the regis
tration be conducted as rapidly as
possible, all registrants have been
instructed to allow ample time to
each reglStrant so that every ques-
ton on the registration card will be
answered properly. No question
naires will be given new registrants
Tuesday, nor will they be given
physical examinations. These
duties will come later.
Questions to Be Answered.
Questions registrants must an
swer are contained on a 4-by-6-
inch filing card and include the
following: l. Name of registrant;
2. place of residence 3. mailing
address tif other than place of resi-
dence): 4. telephone; 5. age in years:
s. place of birth: T. occupation;
s. name and address of person who
will always know the registrants
address, 9. employers name and ad-
dress, and, 10. place of employment
or business.
After registrant has answered
the questions and signed his name
to his registration card, he will be
given registration certificate signed
by the registrar. This certificate
must be kept in the registrant's
personal possession at all times.
National Selective Service head
quarters was notified yesterday by
Brigadier Gen. Albert L. Cox, Dis
trict director of Selective Service,
that the Washington organization
was in readiness to handle the reg
iStration task.
Gen. Cox said the following Of
ficials have accepted invitations to
visit the local registration centers
Tuesday:
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. act
ing national director; Chairman
Overton of the Senate subcommittee
on District appropriations, Chair
man Reynolds of the Senate District
Committee and Brig. Gen. Charles
w. Kutz, District Commissioner.
New Cards Salmon Colored.
New registration cards will be
salmon colored in contrast to the
white ones used last October A
number of white cards will be dis
tributed to each registration center
for the enrolment of men who
should have registered in the first
draft, but who were prevented by
excusable circumstances.
Principal difference in the new
cards as compared with those used
last fall is the provision for both
residence and mailing addresses.
The residence address will deter
mine finally the local board having
jurisdiction over the registrant. This
factor is expected to affect large
number of Washington registrants
who maintain residences in their
home States.
Officials anticipate that rela-
lively large percentage of the Dis
trict regiStrants will be college STU
dents at home for summer vaca-
tions.
Prospective registrants were in
structed yesterday to register at
centers serving their residential
areas, rather than those nearest
their place of employment. This
move is designed to avoid undue
congestion at near-downtown regis
tration places.
The District Commissioners have
called on Washington employers to
allow selective service eligibles in
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