Evening star., 1942-04-28
Fourth Draft
EnroIIs $1,000
Men in District
Boords Begin Tosk
Of Sorting New
Registration Cords

The names of approximately "a. .00t
men In the District and 81 600 mer
IN the nearby counties we're added
last night 10 the manpower lists oi
the Nation as the fourth rcgistra.
ton under selective service was COM
pletsd.
Although the figures from the 81
registration centers In the District
had not ali reached local headquar.
ters Of seiective service early today
local ofiicials reduced their pre-.
registration estimate OF $1,000 regis
trants In the IS through "a age
group In the light of the first re-
ports.
The new registration cards were
already I'm the hands of draft boards
which Immediately started sorting
them 10 eliminate the out-of -area
and out-of-town cards which local
headquarters expects 10 receive by
noon tomorrow
BY next week the new cards will
BE- serial numbered by draft boards,
but tsere the similarity with former
registration ceases since these men
are not liable for military service.
There win be no lottery for this
group. Later they win receive oc-
cupational auestionnaires to deter
mine what skills they can contribute
70 the war effort.
Busiest Centerx.
The busiest registration centers In
the District according to early fg-
ures, were the Americanization
-5chool, where 1900 transients regis
tered: Thomson School, which re-
ported 1884 registrants, and Wood
row Wilson High School, with 3,437.
including . number of prominent
residents living In the fashionable
area.
The peak crowd OF registrants
visited the centers between 6 and
7:30 pm, with the idea OF getting
the registration accomplished as
soon Is they got to their home area
from work.
The transient center, at the Amer
icanixation School for the first time.
reported more than double the num-
Der OF registrants who enrolled In
previous registrations at the old
National Guard Armory, former
headquarters for local selectiye serv-
Ice. Many of the 1900 who regis
tered there were out-of-town busi-
nessmefi here on Government busi-
noss.
It was = busy day for James D.
Hayes. chairman of local board No.
., During the morning he registered
President Roosevelt at the White
House and, ut the same time, signed
up Harry Hopkins. war supply ad-
wiser to the President, Judge Sam
nel Rosenman OF New York, conf
Dental White House counselor:
Robert Sherwood, the playwright.
and william D. Hassett, q White
H0use secretary.
In the afternoon Mr.. Hayes was
again posing for photographers. this
time ut the Social Security Building
once Of War Production Chief Dom
aid Nelson. who also was granted q
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
naires at the Capitol were IS Sem
ators and 1875 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 several court attaches,
including Charles Cropley, clerk OF
the court.
At Woodrow Wilson High School,
where Paul v. McNutt, chairman of
the War Man Power Commission,
had registered q few hours earlier,
local Se1ective Service Director Will
liam e. Leshy was enrolled by A. j
Driscoll, 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, 187 men were reg
istered as compared TO Al men in
the February Is registration. Walter
Reed Hospital contributed 50 regis
trants to this enrolment as COM
pared to rs registrants on Feb
ruary is.
Registrant Is Injured.
Because one prospective registrant
had little time on his hands last
Saturday and decided to visit a
friend, q special registrar had to be
summoned yesterday. James B.
Cunningham. $500 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV, a 63-year-old I. c. C. on
cial, filled In the time before a
dentists appointment by visiting A,
v. Vallandingham, 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.
dinghams home yesterday when q
special registrar visited him.
II feel like the man who came te
dinner he told the registrar.
Al 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 sT registered
In February.
Churchill Downs racetrack a
Louisville, Ky, had Its own registra'
ton. Tom Young. track superin.
tendent, signed them up -on Ioca.
tion'-wealthy horse owners, rac'
track oficials and stable boys whs
no longer are boys.
At Buffalo. N. Y, reeistrants of {
Snrnl draft hard visited Never Me.