Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-05-27
Registration
Centers Named
ByDraft Board
Quick Action Taken
After President Makes
July Date for Call

Acting quickly after President
Roosevelt's proclamation yesterday
designating July l as the day for
the new draft registration, District
selective service officials today re-
leased a tentative list of Is schools
as centers for enrolment of WASH
ingtonians affected by the procla-
nation.
The President asked for regis
tration of all male residents of the
United States who have reached the
age of 81 since october 16-date Of
the last egistration-and all males
between the ages of 81 and So in
Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico,
excepting those exempted by law.
Locally, 366 registrars will be used
to enroll between 5000 and 5000
District youths, estimated to have
reached 81 since the draft program
was begun.
Meanwhile, 1t. Col. A. c. GRAY,
medical director of District selective
service, announced that approXi-
mately 1000 Washington registrants
will be given physical examinations
next month.
Facilities at six hospitals will be
used to examine 500 men each night
Of June S, IL, 10 and 81.
Legion Will Aid.
Present plans call for the registra-
ton personnel for July1 to be set up
by the defense committees of the
District posts of the American Lee
gion. Representatives of the COM
mittees, headed by 1t. Comdr. w. A.
Corley, U. S. NJ. retired. are sched-
uled to meet at s o'clock tonight at
the National Guard Armory, Sixth
street and Pennsylvania avenue
N. W., to discuss registration plans.
Officials are contemplating setting
up special registration center for
out-of-town residents who may be
in Washington on the new regis
tration day. One of the principal
problems confronting registration
personnel last October was the
heavy influx of transients at the
near downtown centers.
Registrars assigned to the various
schools July will work in two shifts.
from am. to pm. and from 2
pm. to 9 pm. Two rooms will be
used in each of the schools listed
today, with one exception, Alice
Deal Junior High, where the regis
tration is expected to be compar-
atively light.
Believe 1,000,00 to Register.
National officials have estimated
that approximately 100000 Ameri-
cans will be registered on the new
day. One spokesman said they prob
ably would be rated according to
priority for military service in a
new national lottery similar to the
one held last year after the first
registration of 16,5o0,00o men.
According to present tentative
plans, the new registrants in each
of the local draft board areas then
would be added at the bottom of
the present list of men who are
prospective selectees.
Some authorities believe that
many of the young men to be regis
tered in midsummer may be sum-
moned to the Army within a few
months despite the fact that men
registered last year will come ahead
of them on the local draft list.
Few in Essential Industry.
This view is based on the fact
that last years registration included
so many millions of men employed
in essential industries or the heads
of families, whereas a compare
lively small percentage of this years
group will have such reasons for
deferment.
In his proclamation President
Roosevelt called upon the Com
missioners of the District and the
Governors of the States and Terri
tories to handle the work of the
second registration and urged en-
ployers to allow time off for en-
ployes affected by its provisions.
Exempted by law from registra-
ton are officers and enlisted men
of the Regular Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, Coast Guard, Coast and
Geodetic Survey, Public Health
Service the federally recognized
National Guard, the Officers Reserve
Corps, the Regular Army Reserve,
the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the
Naval Reserve. the Marine Corps
Reserve, the Coast Guard Reserve,
cadets of the United States Mill
tary Academy and the Coast Guard
Academy and midshipmen of the
Naval Academy, as well as diplo-
matte and consular representatives
of foreign countries.