Evening star., 1948-09-01
NextAgeGroup
To Begin Draft
Registration
Men Born in 1924 Sturt
Signing Up Tomorrow;
Army to Bar Reds


The new Selective Service ma
chinery moved smoothly today as "a
and Is year olds-men born in 1923
finished signing up at registration
centers
Men born in 1924 will line up TO-
morrow and Friday.
National headquarters said that
there was no way of estimating how
many have registered but in the
District Frank D. Norton, deputy
Selective Service director reported
that 4,428 registered on Monday
the first day-and that figure did
not include the totals from all regis
tration places.
Mr.. Norton said that indications
we're that the total in the District
would reach the $4,000 figure pre-
dicted earlier.
Screening Out of Reds Ordered.
Nationally, total of 95O0.OOO
men 18 through 25 years of age are
expected to register between August
80 and September 18 for possible
21-month bitches in the Army. No
reports will be made by the 1000
local boards to Washington until
September 20.
The Army, which will call for
10000 inductees in November, has
ordered its commanders to screen
out any Communists and fellow
travellers inducted.
Although registrants are not
asked whether they are Communists,
the Army reiterated that all officers
and enlisted personnel were subject
to loyalty checks and may be dis
charged if found to be members OF
a subversive organization.
Get List of Subversive Groups.
Gen. Bradley, chief of staff, fur
nished all Army commanders with
a list of organizations pronounced
subversive by Attorney General
Clark.
The Army said no individual
under investigation would be as
signed to sensitive" duties. Dis
affected personnel" who are not
necessarily Communists also can
not go to officer candidate schools
or have any connection with intelll-
gence work, radar, atomic energy,
codes, education or reorientation of
troops.
The Navy and Air Force, now get
ting a sufficient number of volun-
teers, do not anticipate calling for
any draftees. The Army expects to
increase it's original call for 10000
gradually to a possible high of 10000
after January l.
Filling in Form Takes 10 Minutes.
Most of the first draft call viii
come from regiStrantS who signed up
Monday, yesterday and today-men
"a and 25. Later calls will take men
from the lower age brackets.
Over the Nation about 10000 GEN.
ters handled the registration
smoothly In Washington the filling
out Of the postcard size question
naire was requiring an average Of
about 10 minutes.
Eighteen-year-o although re-
quired to register. are not subject
to induction until they reach 19.
Meanwhile. they may volunteer for
service in the armed forces in the
continental United States for one
year, to be followed by protracted
periods in the reserves. and thus
be exempt from induction
Secretary of Defense ForreStal, as
required by the Draft Act. has set
18-year-old national quotas and in
Washington this month 81 will be
accepted by the Navy, six by Marine
Corps and about 100 by the Army
and Air Force.
UNIT Passage Predicted.
The Navy Recruiting Office at
Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania
avenue NV. has sufficient applica-
tons on file to fill the quota. The
Marine Recruiting Office is at the
same address
Army and Air Force recruiting is
done at 403 Tenth street NV. and
officials said that applicants would
be accepted on a first come, first
serve basis
Meanwhile. universal military
training, which the Army still hopes
to obtain, came back to the fore
within prediction from Chairman
Gurney of the Senate Armed Serv-
ices Committee that Congress would
pass UNIT to take effect when the
draft law expires in 1850.
From 8 am. to pm. daily draft
eligible men may register at the
District Building. Municipal Center.
National Guard Armory. Dunbar
High School, any of the city's police
or fire stations, American Univer-
sitys Leonard Student Center at
Massachusetts, and Nebraska ave-
nues NV, and its School of Public
Affairs Building, Nineteenth and F.
streets NV These places, along
with private industries and gov
elnmental agencies which will reg
lister their own employees, give the
city more than 200 registration CEN
terS