Evening star., 1942-04-27

Lorraine Lee. and the laundry work
er was registered at his home.
At woodrow Wilson High School
Charles Henri Leon Benoit, one of
the five attaches of the French EN-
bassy who resigned recently In pro-
test against Laval's return TO power.
was registered by Mrs. Cstharine
Gardner, French instructor at
Wilson Teachers College.
VIII Seek Citixenship.
Registrar and registrant chatted
happily in French for . few minutes
before settling down TO business,
during which the former attache
revealed that he was going to take
out American citizenship papers.
Draft board members were regis
tering all over town and In Silver
Spring three members of Montgom-
cry County Local Board No. .
registered ut board headquarters.
They were Stephen James, chair
man: H. Z. Allanson and w. II.
Reynolds.
Despite the flying squadrons Of
special registrars, some handicapped
registrants chose to visit registration
centers. A blind man was driven
to Eastern High School and was
registered without getting out of
his car. A man on crutches, both
of his legs cut OF In q train accident,
arrived at Langdon School to regis
ter
Gustave G. Hoff, e3, of 26 Evarts
NE, is confined to his home by
illness most of the time but he
was afraid the registrars would for
get him so his son-in law took him
to the Taft Junior High School,
leaning heavily on cane. Mr.
Hoff enlisted in the Spanish -Ameri-
can War at the Age Of 10, was kept
out Of the frst World War because
his eyes had been affected by what
he called white rock glare" in Cuba
during the earlier war.
Wants 10 Use Machine Gun.
c. G. Broy OF the State Depart.
ment told the registrar at Gordon
Junior High School that he was
just learning to walk again with
the benefit of two canes. Mr.. Broy
was injured in 1910 while q consul
at Brussels In q train accident that
killed q fellow-consul.
A businessman with a neat, white
mustache registered at the Amer.
icanization School, although he wal
50 years old. He told the registrar
he was "a, but admitted In the next
breath that he was born In 1873
The busy registrar proceeded to fin'
ish enrolling him without stopping
to do d little subtracting. Later
the registrant confided to q. reporter
that he would like to work with Q
machine gun.
With registration in many States
spread over three days, as 1t wa,
in nearby communities, the enroll.
ment brought q number Of promi.
nent figures to registration center
before Washington opened It's regis
tration this morning.
Early registrants in New Yorl
were Wendell Willkie, 1910 Repub.
lican presidential candidate: Mayo
La Guardia, former Postmastel
General Farley and 1t. Coll Eddi.
Rickenbacker, World War ace.
An idea of the rate at which
men were registering in Mont
gomery County, Nd, Saturday anc
yesterday was given when a checl
Of the polling places In the area oi
Eelective Service Board No. wa,
made this morning. Approximately
1900 registrants had been accounted
for out Of an estimated $500 to 4.0ot
for the area.
This is the, first registration that
viii not, bs followed by a ldttery
since these men are not liable fol
! military service. They viii be giver
serial numbers and later win re-
ceive the occupational question.
naires that will determine nwhai
contribution they can make with
their minds or their hands to ths
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