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All OF these Will 60 into the Army
because the Navy and Air Force ex-
pect to need no draftees during the
fiscal year ending next June 80, Sec
retary Of Defense Forrestal said.
Eventually the draft calls will be
for about 10000 q month.
Selective Service officials believe
the bulk of inductees will come from
the l9-through-22 age groups. Lo-
cal draft boards in the District and
elsewhere, however, will begin mail
ing detailed questionnaires this
week to the single, non-father and
non-veteran registrants in the IS
and 24-year-old groups.
Questionnaires will 60 first to the
25-year-olds and then to the others
by age groups from "a through 10.
Under the law the boards must
begin sending the questionnaires
before next Tuesday. This will con-
tinue until September go
Questionnaires must be mailed
back within 10 days. They will
be the basis for classification OF
the men in five main categories.
Before they can send out ques-
tionnaires, draft boards must get
registration cards not only from all
registration centers here, but also
from many other parts of the coun-
try where Washington residents
may register if away from home
during the 17-day period.
Two New Centers Open.
Opening day registration cards
were brought to District headquar-
tiers last night or this morning by
chief registrars but the job of an
alyzing the records according to
veterans, nonveterans, married and
single, and others was still under
way.
District Selective Service Direc-
tor william E. Leahy and Mr.. Nor
ton reported that 353 men registered
yesterday at the District Building.
psf at the Municipal Center, 180
at the National Guard Armory, and
14l at Dunbar High School. OF the
sl3 total, 152 were nonveterans.
Two additional registration CEN
ters opened today. Both are at
American University, but will be
available for nonstudents as we'll as
students. One is the Leonard Stu
dent Center, Massachusetts, and Ne
braska avenues NV, with Stafford
H. Cassell as chief registrar. The
other is at the School of Public
Affairs, Nineteenth and F. streets
NV. where DR.. Donald Derby is
chief registrar.
Fire Drills Suspended.
The Districts "a fire stations were
among the most popular registra-
ton places. Director Leahy said Fire
Chief Clement Murphy had cleared
the way" SO that firemen will be
available at practically all times
and all stations during the am. to
S pm. daily registration period. The
only thing that will interfere with
their registration activities Will be
actual fire fighting. Fire drills have
been suspended.
approximately 100000 men in the
25-year-old age bracket registered
throughout the country. The first
day task of some 1000 volunteer
registrars here. and those at 10000
other registration places throughout
the United States, was comparative
ly smooth.
More than 1000 900 men are ex-
pected to register today and tomor-
row throughout the Nation. Draft
officials estimate that $780, 900 men,
1s through Is, will register by Sep
tember 1S.
While the registration procedure
here encountered only two or three
bugs" at the opening hour, there
were scattered reports Of snall-scale
picketing or other protest demon
strations elsewhere. One picket line
formed in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Draft officials said the pickets were
members of the Peace and Concilia-
ton Fraternity, with headquarters
in New York.
In Virginia, where an estimated
240, 900 men will register by the Sep
tember Is deadline, Col. Mills F.
Neal, State Selective Service direc-
tor, said the first day registration
did not reach an expected total of
$4,000. Only about 1000 registered
in Richmond.
Maryland registration centers also
reported a comparative "trickle" of
registrants. Officials explained that
the number was relatively small be-
cause the opening day registrants
were Is year-old men whose 26th
birthdays come between August 80
and December 81 of this year.
New York reported a tentative
total of 1920 registered yesterday
Estimates from other cities included
1000 in Philadelphia. 10000 to $4,000
in Chicago and $4,000 in Los An
seles.
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