Evening star., 1942-01-11
Officials Start Work
This Week on Draft
Registration Plans
$4,000 Between 20 and
IS to Be Enrolled
Here February Is
By THOMAS C. HARDMAN.

Washington selective service ON
cials, busily engaged In supplying
increasingly large numbers Of men
for wartime Army inductions, will
divert part Of their attention this
week to preliminary arrangements
for the February is registration Of
10000 men between the ages Of 20
and 46.
Conferences with school officials
will be scheduled within the next
few days to map plans for use Of so
school buildings Is registration CEN
ters.
Selective Service Director VII
liam E. Leahy has asked that public
school teachers serve Is registrars
to enable the personnel Of local
draft boards to continue uninter-
rupted their classification Of old
registrants to MI current quotas.
The number of teachers needed as
registrars and the amount of space
required in the designated schools
are major items to be discussed
with school oflcials.
Total Of 5000, 900 Expected.
Nationally, 5000 900 men are ex-
pected to be registered in the new
enrolment, and officials indicated
yesterday that In many sections Of
the country the registrations will
get under way before the designated
day for purposes Of convenience.
The hours from Z am. to 8 pm.
February l6 have been set by Presi-
dent Roosevelt as the time for reg
istration Of all men between the
ages of 20 and IS who have not
been registered prior to that time.
National headquarters spokesmen
explained that there was nothing
In the regulations to prevent reg
istrations before that date II such
q procedure suited local draft
boards, which have been charged
with final responsibility for the
registration.
This pre-date system probably
will be followed In many Of the
country's agricultural and industrial
areas, it was explained, to avoid
loss Of man hours In the defense
effort.
I'VE realize that every minute
counts for defense workers." one
official explained, "and we don't in
tend to take q single man away
from his Job II 1t is possible to reg
lister him otherwise"
Special Offices In Plants.
Registration facilities in many
instances literally will be taken to
potential registrants employed in
important war industries. it was
said, with special Offices being set
up within the confines Of arma-
ment plants.
This will be . decided contrast
to the first registration on October
16. 1910, when President Roosevelt
called on the Nations employers to
allow their employees sufficient time
of, If necessary, in which to regis
ter.
National headquarters, mean
while, has lifted the ban on publi-
cation of the names of registrants
about to be indicted into the Army.
Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey noti-
fied State directors yesterday that
the policy of restricting information
about procurement Of men for the
armed services had been altered to
this extent, but that no tnforma-
ton should be given out on the
number Of men covered by quotas
and calls. He said also that there
now was no objection to the public
posting Of names of men who have
entered the service from q COM
munity.
Present indications are that the
pool Of new registrants will not be
drawn to fill induction quotas until
the supply of class Ia men now
enrolled is exhausted, which means
that new men need not anticipate
their call to service for several
months after their registration in
most instances.
Million Await Induction.
Although many local boards have
been reported "scraping the bottom
of the barrel for available men,
officials have estimated that more
than 100000 class Ia men are
awaiting induction throughout the
country.
No estimates have been made as
to the number of potential Glass
Ia men expected to be made avail
able by the new registration, al
though it is generally agreed that
deferments will be extremely heavy
in the upper age brackets. The
principal reserve will be provided
in the 20 and 81 age groups. where
deferments for dependents, physical
defects and necessary occupations
naturally will be few.
Locally, an estimated $4,000 youths
will fall in the latter age categories.
Required to register on Febru-