Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1941-06-01
Capital Will Enroll
Volunteers for Home
Defense June 1912
Commissioners Call on
All Citizens Over Is
To Register

claimed June 10, II and IL as the
dates for registration of volunteers
for civilian defense duty and called
on all persons over is years of age
to register for service.
The city-wide registration will be
conducted during those three days
in IS school buildings by the Com
mittee on Volunteer Service OF the
District of Columbia Defense Coun-
Gil. Every citizen willing to volun-
teer for whatever service he may be
called on to perform under Presi-
dent Roosevelt's proclamation of an
unlimited national emergency will
be asked to register. Volunteers will
be registered from $3.50 to $3.50 pm.
each day.
Commissioners Proclamation.
The proclamation issued by the
Commissioners said:
Whereas. the registration for
volunteer service in the defense
program under the Council of De-
Tense will take place on June 10, II
and IL, 194l, in the public schools
of the District of Columbia; and
Whereas, it is important that
each and every citizen who has time
to give participate in an important
national defense activity;
Now, therefore, we. the Com
misSioners of the District of CO.
lumbia call upon and urge all per-
sons over Is years of age to regis
ter during this period for volun-
teer civilian defense duty"
! Washington. one. of the first cit
/ les in the country to organize for
civilian defense, has immediate
need for several thousand volun-
| teers and for a reserve of many
more who may be required later,
Mrs. Harry S. Benton, chairman
of the committee, emphasized yes
terday.
About 80 per cent of the work of
the Defense Council must be done
by volunteers, she pointed out The
health, welfare and recreation agen-
cies of the city already are heavily
taxed to provide services for the
sharply increased population, she
explained.
Men and Women Needed.
Both men and women are needed
for volunteer work. and virtually
every talent can be utilized, Mrs.
Benton said.
I'VE must be prepared for any
emergency" she added. Not one
of us has any idea what the future
may bring. For this reason. We
cannot urge too strongly that every
man and woman register. Only in
this way can We know the poIen-
tial volunteer strength of the COM
munity."
All registration will take place in
the District. though residents of
nearby counties may register here
II they choose. Volunteer placement
bureaus are open in Rockville for
Montgomery County, Md, and in
Alexandria for Arlington County,
Va.
Some of the volunteer Jobs which
must be filled Immediately are typ
list. switchboard operator, laboratory
technician, nurses aide, orderly.
nursery school worker, club leader,
hostess, information booth attend
ant, canteen worker, receptionist,
interviewer, athletic coach, motor
service worker and kindergarten
teacher. Many of these services are
designed to aid visiting men in
uniform.
Booths to Be Set I'm.
The Central Volunteer Bureau is
at 80l Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Special registration booths will be
set up at the following schools:
White schools-Shepherd. Four
teenth and Kalmia streets NV;
Paul, Eighth and Oglethorpe streets
NV: Mcfarland, Iowa avenue and
Webster street NV; La Fayette.
Northampton street and Broad
Branch road NV; Wilson, Ne
braska avenue and Chesapeake
street NV; Hearst, Tilden and
Thirty seventh streets NV; Eaton,
Thirty-fourth and Lowell streets
NV. Mann, Newark and Forty
fourth streets NV: Key. Hurst
terrace and Dana place NV: Hardy,
Foxhall road and Volta place NV:
Gordon, Thirty fifth and T streets
NV: Western, Thirty fifth and r
streets NV; Powell, Hiatt place and
Park road NV: Central. Thir-
tenth and Clifton streets NV:
Cooke, Seventeenth and Euclid
streets NV: Adams, Nineteenth
anl oHforv,ia cf
l740 Massachusetts, avenue NV;
Grant, G and Twenty-second
streets NV; Thomson. Twelfth
and L streets NV; Keene, Rock
Greek Church and Riggs roads NE:
Taft, Eighteenth and Perry streets
NE: Langdon, Twentieth and
Franklin streets NE; Langley, First
and T streets NE; Stuart, Fourth
and streets NE; Eliot. Eighteenth
and B streets NE: Hine, Seventh
and C streets Sc: Jefferson. Eighth
and H streets S.W.: Anacostia, Six
tenth and r streets Sc; Stanton,
Hamilton and Good Hope roads Sc;
Kenilworth, Kenilworth avenue and
Ord street NE; Benning, Minnesota
avenue and Benning road NE.
Colored schools-Morgan, v and
Eighteenth streets NV: Francis,
Twenty-fourth and N streets NV:
Garnet Patterson. Tenth and U
streets NV: Mott, Fourth and w
streets NV; Cardozo, Ninth street
and Rhode Island avenue NV;
Dunbar, First and N streets NV;
Logan, Third and G streets Me-;
Randall, First and 1 streets S.W.:
Browne, Twenty-fourth street and
Benning road NE; Giddings, Third
and G streets Sc: Syphax, Half and
N streets S.W.; Birney, Nichols ave-
nue. and Howard street Sc; Smoth-
ers, Forty fourth street and WASH
ington place NE; 3urrville, Division
avenue and Hayes street NE; Ban
neker, Georgia avenue and Euclid
street NV.
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