Evening star., 1942-04-29
Big Sugar Users
Here Warned
To Register
Deudline at 9P.M.
For Rution Cords
To Business, Industry

To Business, Industry
Commercial users of sugar In
and nearby Maryland
and Virginia will be given their ANAL
opportunity today to register for
sugar purchase certificates under
the first Nation wide war food ra-
tioning program.
An estimated 5000 Washington
retailers, wholesalers and institu-
tional users of sugar still remained
to be signed up after the first days
registration yesterday brought only
2,297 dealers to the seven school
registration centers.
Deadline at PM.
Leonard P. Steuax. head of the
Sugar Rationing Board, warned
commercial users they would be "out
Of luck" if they fail to register be-
fore the deadline at pm. tonight.
They are required to do this, he
emphasized, if they wish to be
eligible for sugar allotments.
A similar warning came from
Lawson ]. Cantrell, assistant super
intendent of schools and District
rationing supervisor, who said it
would be wise for the distributors
to come in and register early" He
said the first days registration was
far below what we had expected"
Mr.. Steuart said he believed yes
terday's registration was slow partly
because many commercial users
came unprepared to supply the in
formation needed to determine how
much sugar they may obtain. He
explained they must file forms which
list the quantities of sugar they
used in previous months and then
they will receive sugar certificates
specifying how much sugar they
may obtain for May and June.
Registration Centers.
The registration centers will be
open from pm. to pm. and Mr..
Steuart said every one who Is inside
the designated schools by 8 pm. will
be accommodated. Registrants may
apply at any of the following build
ings:
Anacostia Junior Senior High
School, Sixteenth and r streets Sc:
Gordon Junior High, Thirty fifth
and r streets NV: Langley Junior
High, First and T streets NE;
Powell Junior High, Hiatt place and
Lamont street NV: Thomson Ele-
mentary School. Twelfth and L
streets NV; Cardozo High, Ninth
street and Rhode Island avenue
NV, and Francis Junior High.
Twenty fourth and N streets NV.
Eighty-eight commercial users
registered in Alexandria at the
George Washington High School IN
| the first day of enrolment, and
rationing officials estimated a total
OF 200 persons would be signed up.
The only rush came during the
| lunch hour when some OF the teach.
ers acting as registrants were on
duty.
Teachers Get Instructions.
Meanwhile, teachers In the white
elementary schools of Montgomery
County, Md, were to meet at 2 pm.
today at the Richard Montgomery
High School in Rockville to receive
final instructions prior to acting as
registrars in the four-day rationing
beginning Monday Of county resi-
dents for sugar rationing.
Instructors in the colored ele-
mentary schools of the county are
scheduled to meet at the same time
tomorrow at the Lincoln High
School in Rockville.
Registration will be held from
2 pm. to pm. at all county ele-
mentary schools as well as In the
combined elementary and high
school buildings at Poolesville,
Gaithersburg and Sandy Spring.
Only one member of each family
unit should register and apply for
ration books for the entire family.
provided such applicant is 18 years
of age or over. If the applicant Is
under 18, he or she must be mar
ried in order to apply for ration
books for the whole family.
A family unit has been defined as
a group of two or more individuals
consisting of all persons who are
living together in the same house,
hold and who are related by blood
or marriage"
A person who is member of a
family unit and who is temporarily
absent from his home during regis
| tration should not apply for his
own ration book separately. The
person applying for the other men,
bers of the family should also apply
for the absent member.
Those who are not members of
family units and who are tempo
rarily away from home during regis
tration may apply for their own
ration books wherever they may be.
If a person 18 years of age or
over has left home to attend col-
lege, he should apply for his own
ration book in the town where he
is now residing during the school
year. His father or mother must
not apply for him as member Of
their family unit.
A person Is entitled to a war
ration book even though he may eat
all his meals at a restaurant or
boarding house and has no inten-
ton of purchasing any sugar.
.Rationing Board officials ex-
planned that the ration book may
be used later for some other product
which may be rationed and the book
will be needed for that purpose.