Evening star., 1942-06-29
Prince Georges
Begins Enrolling
1870 SeIectees
10000 in District
Expected to Sign
Tomorrow

The Nations military manpower
pool will be larger by about 5000 900
youths by tomorrow night when the
NTH Selective Service registration
the 1920 age group-is 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
$500 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 country's
manpower. are eligible for imme-
oiate 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 a change in the law max
ing boys in their late teens eligible
Prince Georges Enrolls Today.
Registration started today in
nearby Prince Georges County, with
three Selective Service Boards plan
ming to be open between 8 am. and
pm. for advance listing of the
18-20-year group. County schools
will assist in the registration when
1t continues tomorrow
To facilitate tomorrow's District
registration, it has been urged that
registrants whose names begin with
A to H, inclusive, appear at regis
tration centers between 7 and IL 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-of-town are expected to
enroll at the most convenient
center.
Washington youths who are away
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.
IWenty-year- -olds born on or before
December 81, 1921, registered last
February.
The major deviation from pre-
vious procedure is that there will be
no lottery to determine the positions
OF the names of the new 2O-vear-
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 20-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
IA class.
When tomorrow's registration is
completed, the Government will
have a record of every man in the
country between 18 and IS years old,
about 100000 in all.