Evening star., 1942-06-29
Draft 10 Enroll
10000 Here in
18,20AgeGroup
New Registration
Already Begunin
Prince Georges

The Nations military manpoWer
pool will be larger by about 100000
youths by tomorrow night when the
fifth Selective Service registration
the 1920 age groups completed.
In the District approximately 20
600 are expected to enroll through
out the city.
Washington school teachers again
demonstrated their patriotism in
serving as registrars, more than
1000 of them volunteering to re-
main and do the work, although
their vacations had begun.
Only the 20-year-old members
of the group, considered by many
military authorities as the fight
INCEST" portion of the countrys
manpoWer, are eligible for imme-
diate military service under the
present law. Those 18 and 19 will
be listed and will be eligible for the
Army when they reach the age of
20, unless the President asks for
and gets change in the law maxi
ing boys in their late teens eligible.
Some COllegians Exempt.
Certain college students are ex-
empt from registration, it was ex-
planned. They include youths who
have taken oathS as members Of the
Army, Navy or marine enlisted re-
serves and who thus are members Of
the armed forces although they
probably will not be called for duty
until graduation. If oathS have not
actually been administered TO them.
however the men who expect to be
IN such forces must register.
In addition, men who are in ad-
vanced courses of the ROTC at
Georgetown, Maryland or Howard
Universities, as we'll as some other
ROTC units throughout the Nation.
need not register. Those in the first
two years of training must do so.
Prince Georges EnrolIs Today.
Registration started today in
nearby Prince Georges County, with
three Selective Service Boards plan
ming to be open between 9 am. and
5 pm. for advance listing of the
l8-20-year group. County schools
will assist in the registration when
it continues tomorrow.
To facilitate tomorrow's District
registration, it has been urged that
reglStrantS whose names begin with
A to H, inclusive, appear at regis
tration centers between and II 80
am; those whose names begin
with letters through M register
/ between 1l:30 and Ais pm. and
/ the remainder between AIS and 9
( pm.
/ 1t Col Walter S. Welsh of draft
headquarters urged that the young
men register in their home areas,
/ so calculations as to the number of
/ registrars needed at each center Will
not be upset.
President Roosevelt has requested
that Government agencies and pri-
vate employers give their employees
sufficient time" to register.
No transient registration center
has been established in the District
as in previous registrations, and men
from out are expected to
enroll at the most convenient
center
Washington youths who are awav
from the city tomorrow are to regis
ter wherever they happen to be.
No Lottery for New Group.
Those who must register tomorrow
are young men born between jan
uary l, 1922, and June 30. 1924. in
elusive. those born on or before June
80 1922, being in the group which
may be called in the near future.
| TWenty-year-olds born on or before
December 81. 1921, registered last
February.
The major deviation from pre-
vlouS procedure is that there will be
no lottery to determine the positions
OF the names of the new 2O-year-
olds in the draft. Instead. local
boards will arrange order numbers
of the new registrants by birth dates,
calling the oldest first and arrang-
ing them alphabetically in case of
tie.
Selective service officials could not
say how soon the 2O-year- -olds might
be called, the speed with which they
are absorbed into the Army depend
ing entirely on the War Depart
ment's manpower needs. 1t is eX-
pected, however, that a large per-
centage of them, lacking wives and
children, will find themselves in the
| la class.
When tomorrow's registration is
completed, the Government vii!
| have record of every man in the
country between 18 and IS years old,
about $4,000 900 in all.