Evening star., 1942-04-28
77,2O3 Register
For Draft Here,
$1,000 Nearby
Is Million Sign Up
In Nation. Bringing :
TotoI to 40 Million

c0mbatant service.
Although registration reports In
nearby counties were not complete.
reports already In indicated a total
Of approximately 81 900 men.
Throughout the country. II was
estimated that $4,000. 900 Older men
registered yesterday, bringing the
selectivc service lists OF the country
TO 100000 names.
Cards Being Sorted.
The new registration cards we're
already In the hands of draft boards
which Immediately started sorting
them TO eliminate the out-of- AREA
and out-of-town cards which local
headquarters expects TO receive by
noon tomorrow.
BY next week the new cards will
be serial numbered by draft boards.
but there the similarity with former
registration ceases since these men
are not liable for military service.
There will be no lottery for this
group. Later they win receive oc-
cupationsl auestionnaires to deter
mine what skills they can contribute
to the wsr effort.
or the total registered In the
District. 7i.9A were enrolled In the
school registration centers: $50 In
the hospitals; seven at police
precincts; 242 In the Capitol ro-
tunda: Is at the Supreme Court and
<.437 at the Americanization School
where transients registered.
Busiest Centers.
The busiest registration centers in
the District according to early fig
ureS, were the Americanization
School, Thomson School, which re-
ported 1854 registrants, and Wood
row Wilson High School, with 3,437,
including a number OF prominent
residents living in the fashionable
area.
The peak crowd of registrants
visited the centers between and
TAO pm. with the idea of getting
the registration accomplished as
soon as they got to their home area
from work.
The transient center. at the Amer
icanization School for the first time,
reported more than double the num-
ber OF resistrants who enrolled In
previous registrations at the old
National Guard Armory, former
headquarters for local selective serv-
ice. Many of those who registered
there we're out-o -town businessmen
here on Government business.
1t was a busy day for James ..
Hayes. chairman of local board No.
.. During the morning he registered
President Roosevelt at the White
House and, at the same time, signed
UP Harry Hopkins, war supply ad-
wiser to the President; Judge Sam
uel Rosenman OF New York, conf
dental White House counselor:
Robert Sherwood. the playwright,
and William D. Hassett, a White
House secretary.
In the afternoon Mr.. Hayes was
again posing for photographers, this
time 1t the Social Security Building
once Of War Production Chief Dom
aid Nelson, who also was granted a
special registration.
Congress Members Register.
At the Capitol. where members of
Congress were registered. Vice Presi-
dent Wallace and Speaker Rayburn
signed together beneath the statue
of Abraham Lincoln in the rotunda.
Registered by American Legion
nsires at the Capitol were 46 Sem
ators and 1876 Representatives. Many
other members OF Congress required
to register this time were enrolled in
their home communities.
Special registrars were dispatched
from the Capitol to enroll Supreme
Court Justices Stanley Reed. Frank
Murphy, Robert Jackson, Felix
Frankfurter, James Byrnes. Hugo
Black and q number of court at
taches, including Charley Cropley,
clerk of the court.
At Woodrow Wilson High School.
where Paul v. McNutt, chairman of
the War Man Power Commission,
had registered a few hours earlier,
local Selective Service Director Will
liam E. Leahy was enrolled by A. j.
Driscon, chairman Of Local Board
No. 2. Earlier, Mr.. Leahy witnessed
the registration OF District Commits
sioners John Russell Young and Guy
Mason at the District Building.
Special registrars visited the Sol
diers' Home. registered scores of res
idents, At Mount Alto Hospital, the
veterans hospital, 1877 men were reg
istered as compared to Al men in
the February 10 registration, Walter
Reed Hospital contributed So regis
trants to this enrolment as COM
pared to 26 registrants on Feb
ruary l6.
Registrant Is Injured.
Because one prospective registrant
had little time on his hands last
Saturday and decided to visit a
friend. a special registrar had to be
summoned yesterday. James B.
Cunningham. $3.50 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, a 63-year-old L. C. C. off,
cial. filled in the time before a
oenusts appointment by visiting A
v. Vallsndingham, 46l5 Rodman
street NV.
The two men were exploring the
neighborhood when Mr.. Cunning
ham fell in ravine and hurt his
foot. He was still at Mr.. Vallan-
dingham's home yesterday when a
special registrar visited him.
II feel like the man who came te
dinner" he told the registrar
At Warren. Pa. the Associated
Press reported 10 brothers of the
Albaugh family, headed by 62-year.
old Joe, trooped In to the registra-
ton place. The eleventh brother
baby OF the family at a, registered
in February.
Churchill Downs racetrack al
Louisville, Ky. had its own registra'
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