Evening star., 1942-04-27
President and Other Officials
Lead Registration in District
5000 in CoptoI Expected to Enroll;
Mony Prefer Military Service

Continued From First Pase1
and Secretary of the Treasury
Morsenthau registered In Board
Area No. 9.
Before q battery of f1oodlights and
newsreel photographers. Paul v.
McNutt. chairman Of the War Man
Power Commission. which will ulti-
mately decide what role today's
registrants viii play in the war
effort, registered at woodrow VIII
son High School After signing his
registration card and taking" his
signature several times for the
benefit of cameramen, Mr.. McNutt
gave his autograph to pretty
young high school girl.
In a brief informal ceremony
shortly before 10 O'Clock, two Ameri-
can Legion registrars signed up
Commissioners Young and Mason in
Mr.. Young's ofiice at the District
Building.
william E. Leahy. director Of
District selective service, and other
selective service and District officials
were on hand for the ceremony.
Commissioner Young, who lives in
the same draft area as President
Roosevelt, was 60 years old recently
Commissioner Mason was 81 last
September.
The two registrars were Thomas
A. Costello and Henry S. Heine,
both of Costello Post of the Legion.
Seeks Funds for Ohices.
Mr. Leahy took the opportunity
to ask the Commissioners for funds
to make certain repairs and i'm
provements to the Weightman
School, which the city heads have
turned over as local selective service
headquarters. He estimated about
$500 would be necessary to do the
work and said he planned to invite
the Commissioners to inspect the
premises shortly.
Justice Oscar Luhring of District
Court registering at Deal Junior
High School, commented the en-
rollment was much less complicated
than when he went through 1t in
the World War. Other visitors at
the Deal registration center we're
Donald r. Richberg, one-time N.
r. A. administrator; Columnist
Raymond Clapper and Joe Judge,
Washington's famous former first
baseman.
1t was a day off for the school
children in the District, a big day
for their fathers and grandfathers.
Registration centers weer crowded
early, many of them opening ahead
of schedule to take care Of the men
who wanted to register before they
went to work.
Some of the registrants carried
Iunchboxes. Executives and their
chauffeurs arrived together and
registered side by side. Most Of the
men were gray-haired, some were
bald. Some bore the scars of the
World War and even the Spanish
American War.
Older Men Like to Talk.
At Adams School, so many men
were waiting outside the build
ing to register that the chief regis
trar, Mrs. Florence Cornell, ordered
the center opened Is minutes ahead
OF time. 1t was at that school later
that pretty young registrar said
the registration was proceeding
slowly. The older men, she COM
mented, liked to- talk about what
they we're doing .-u1ioss0 1sm1ol n.
Andrew X. Reynolds, 52-year-old
real estate broker, arrived at West
ern High School a half hour ahead
of the opening just to maintain the
record he established in the last
war. He carried with him a faded
clipping from The Star, dated June
5, 1917, which reported that he and
his three brothers headed the regis
trants in the first World War regis
tration He held the No. card for
being the first registrant in pre-
cinct No. IA in the first World
War draft.
Among the other early arrivals at
Western was DR.. Cloyd Heck Marvin,
president of George Washington
University, and the Rev. T. A. Ward,
assistant pastor of Holy Trinity
Church, who, when asked his age
by reporter, responded, "Just say
I'm old enough to vote"
Miners Chief Registers.
John L. Lewis, president OF the
United Mine Workers of America,
was registered at Gadsby's Tavern
in Alexandria by Miss Hilda Pull
man. The former G. I. o! chieftain
gave his age as 62, chatted with the
registrar about the hedge he had
planted around his Alexandria home
Ito sit in the garden in peace" and
thanked her for enrolling him.
Meanwhile Mr.. Lewis brother,
A. D. Lewis, So, was registering at
woodrow Wilson High School. Mr..
Lewis, who said he was with the
9th Engineers and served six
months overseas in the last war,
said he was anxious to get in this
one. Supt. of Schools Frank w.
Ballou also registered during the
morning at Woodrow Wilson.
Most of the schools reported un-
usually heavy registrations during
the morning. At the Americaniza-
ton School, where transients, IN
cluding out-of town businessmen,
were registered, 1,400 men were en-
rolled during the first four hours
Of the registration.
At Hine Junior High School, q
District fireman. Salvatore l.. Cleo
mano, of No. 8 Engine Company,
registered both his father, Philip
Cocimano, a restaurant owner, of
5o7 Eleventh street Sc, and his
| uncle, Vincent Cocimano, shoe
maker, of 901 x street Sc. The