Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-13
Youths Registering
Tomorrow Face Call
Late in February
= School Work Will Defer
Some Of Those Under 20
From Service Until June

from DEVICE Until June
The Districts 1S-year -olds who
start registering for the draft
tomorrow at Is public schools will
not be called into the armed forces
until late in February, a draft
spokesman said yesterday.
Scheduled to register tomorrow
are the boys who became 18 years
old in July and August of this year.
A week from tomorrow those who
turned 18 in September and o.
tober will register at the same
schools
Those who became 10 in the last
two months of this year can register
on either of the earlier registration
dates or at their local boards be-
tween December &c and 81.
Registration Of youths in nearby
areas opened Friday with compare
lively few l8-year -olds reporting at
the various draft board offices.
$500 Nearby Affected.
Approximately $500 youths in
nearby Maryland and Virginia are
affected by the new registration.
Youths OF l3 and 10, who regis
tered on June 30, will begin going
into the armed forces sometime in
January but the mechanical pro-
Cesses involved in handling a new
registration and getting the youths
ready for induction are expected to
postpone induction of the newest
registrants until late February at
the earliest
This will mean that number of
District youths who register between
now and the end of the year will
actually remain out of the Army
Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard
until June, 1o43, since boys under
20 who are in the last half OF their
high school term at the time their
induction comes up can request that
their induction be postponed until
the end Of the term
AS in the June 80 registration,
these youths will not get their order
numbers through a lottery They
will go at the end of the list of 10
and l9-vear-olds in the order of
their birth date. with the oldest
youths being called first.
Approximately $500 youths are
expected to register in the District
before the end of the year That
number may be cut down, however.
by enlistments.
Setup for Transients.
There will be no central registra-
ton point for transients. Since.
under the Presidents proclamation
for the registration, each registra-
ton period is week long, transient
Youths who are in the District dur
ing the week they are supposed to
register. but are not here on one
OF the fixed registration days. may
register at any local draft board.
The boards. however. have been
told to advise transient youths to
wait until they reach their home
communities to register if they
would get there before the end of
the week in which they were sup
posed to register.
Under the national arrangement
the three-Weeklong registration
periods began December II and con-
tlnue until December 81. with the
boys born in July and August regis
torirg the first week. those born in
September and October the second
week and those born in November
and December the third week.
In all the schools ARRANGEMENTS
have been made to register stu
dents at the schools in their home
rooms" extending the first school
period a half hour to complete the
registration. Provision has been
made on school stages and in GYM
haslums for the registra ton of those
who are not students in the schools
designated as registration points.
Registration Centers.
The IS schools which will conduct
registrations from 9 am. to 7 pm
on December "a and q. with the
chief registra ton officer of each
school, follow
Cardozo High School. Ninth street
and Rhode Island avenue NV. r.
N. Mattingly.
Dunbar High School. First and N
elTSelS IN. w. w. L.. smith,
Central High School, Thirteenth
and Clifton streets NV, L. G.
Hoover.
Calvin Coolidge High School. Fifth
and TuC'lerman streets NV. J. F.
Brougher
Eastern High School, Seventeenth
and East Capitol streets, Charles
Hart.
Mckinley High School, Second
and T streets NE. F. C. Daniel.
Roosevelt Hich School. Thirteenth
and Upshur streets NV Miss M. P.
Bradshaw.
Western High School, Thirty fifth
and R streets NV. N. A. Danowsky.
Woodrow Wilson High School.
Nebraska avenue and Chesapeake
street NV, N. J. Nelson.
Anacostia High School, Sixteenth
and r streets Sc, Mrs. Opal H.
Cookery.
Banneker Junior High School,
Euclid street. between Georgia and
Sherman avenues NV, Mrs. o. M.
Walker.
Browne Junior High School,
Twenty-fourth street and Benning
road NE, w. B. Stinson.
Francis Junior High School.
Twentyfourth and N streets NV.
Mrs. NJ H. Plummer.
Garnet-Patterson Junior High
School, Tenth and U streets NV,
w. l.. Savoy.
Randall Junior High School, First
and streets S.W., Mrs. G. T. Peter
son.