How Draft Registration Will Be
Conducted January 22 Explained
Men from 21 to 35 whether eiti
a ns of the United States or not,
are required to register Wednes
day, January 22.
Data Required
Information which men of 21
to 35 must furnish at the time
of registration includes first, mid
die and last name; address; tele
phone number; age in years, date
of birth; place of birth; country
of citizenship; name of persons
who will always know of regis
trant’s address; address of that
person; employer’s name; place
of employment or business; race;
height; color of eyes; weight;
color of hair; complexion; other
obvious physical characteristics
that will aid in identification.
The registrant must sign the
statement: “I affirm that I have
verified the above answers and
that they an, true.” The registra
tion clerk must sign the state
ment: “I certify that my answers
are true; that the person regis
tered has read or has had read to
him his own answers; that I have
witnessed his signature or mark
and that all of his answers of
which I have knowledge are true
except as follows:”
Serial and Order Numbers
There is a place on tne regis
tration card for a serial numb r
after registration is complete and
ell cards have been shuffled in
random or chance order by the
local Draft Board. There is also
a place for the "order numbi.r”
which starting in each Draft
Board area with one, will show
the order in which registrant?
will be ca led up for *ervi"3.
This order is determined by
! nvaidl'.nigi the s 'rial numbers
| with the master serial list drawn
in Washington. For instance the
first registrant who happens to
obtain the serial number 158 in
the shuffling will have order
number oni: and will be the first
called up for s rvice unless ex
cused for cause by the Draft
Board.
At time of registration, each
j registrant will be given a small
l registration certificate which
shows he has complied with the
registration requirement. He
| must carry this card with him
! at all times.
1
Exceptions
| Those persons serving in the
Army, Navy, Marine Corps,
j Coast Guard, Coast and Geo
.1. tic Survey, Army Reserve,
| Navy R serve, Marine Corps Re
serve, or National Guard, are not
i required to register.
A1 registration boards have
■ been advised that if the forms
.: registration do not arrive by
| he 22nd of January, they are to
i.cgis.ir the men as soon aftei
[ as 22nd as is passible.
The Governor and the Director
of Selective Service request that
! .,11 persons cooperate as fully as
! J U 1 ble on Registration Day, in
; jr i r to make the registration as
j complete as is possible.
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WASHINGTON —The most im
jp riant question discussed in in
; nor Administration circles be
' fore thi President made his re
i cent defense speech was that of
using American warships to con
: voy supplies across the Atlantic
j to Irish or British waters. This
i question probably was in the
! President’s mind also when he
i wrote the speech.
The problem has been debat
; ed among some of Roosevelt’s
close advisers ever since British
| emissaries brought word that
while England could withstand
| airplan, bombardment it could
not withstand the continued sink
:ng of its merchant vessels. The
British also made it clear that
more over-age U. S. destroyers
, would not do the trick because
the Royal Navy was running
short of trained crews.
So far, the President has shied
! away from any such drastic step
I as using American naval vessels
to guard supply ships across the
Atlantic. S me of his advisers
have leaned toward the idea but
I Roo ( veil has argued against it.
| He maintains, first, that it would
.be in violation of the Neutrality
j Act and could not be done with
ut an act of Congress, second,
hat if an American vessel were
! sunk it would mean war.
Some of Roosevelt's advisers
contend that the last thing Holier
wants is to bring til: United
Sta'es into the war; that the ef
fect on the German people (who
remember how the United States
,ipp: d the scales in the last war)
would h devastating. However,
the President hasn’t fallen for the
i lea yet, though he is watching
car. fu ly the effect of his speech
on public opinion.
NOTE: One of the British (-mis
series who put American entry
into th,: war bluntly up to Roo
sev. t was the Duke of Windsor.
However, the President replied
that he had given a firm pledge
to the American people not to
tak, them into war and he did
not intend to be another Wood
row Wilson.
EDISON ECONOMY
If Charles Edison, new Gover
nor of New Jersey, is as parsim
onious with New Jersey funds as
his wife is with heT houseke p
ing money, the state ought to
set a new record for economy.
Visiting in a Washington hotel
not long ago, where Edison once
lived while serving as S eretary
of the Navy, Mrs. Edison tele
phoned Mrs. Chip "Evie” Robert
who lives in the same hotel:
"I v ■ 'o order a bottle of
milk” tined Mr*. Edison,
"and I wonder d wherher you
and Chip ordered yours from the
drug store across the street or
from the room service, where it’s
for expensive.”
“I usually have it suit up
from the drug store.” replied
Mrs. Robert, who although Wash
ingt; n's No. 1 g’amour girl, has
a frugal turn of mind hers-If.
"But in that case.” decided
Mrs. Ed: : n, "you have to tip the
be1! buy f r bringing up the
melk, so I gue-s I’ll buy it n the
Associated Press Calendar
Of Year’s Historic Events i
. <
Q P piJ1 TP TUf D P D Signing by Germany, Italy and Japan of a 10-year military,
I £m Ul IJ+J ±\ political pact was big news Sept. 27. Ambassador Saburo
Kuril mu (left) signed for Japan, Ciano (center) for Italy, and von Rihbentrop for Ger
many. Hitler (right) attended. Rumanians rebelled Sept. 5, 6 over Axis-dictated cession
of Transylvania area to Hungary; King Carol abdicated, was succeeded by son, Mihai.
s~\ rp /~\ D 17 D Inrecorded are thoughts of Pe
v w i D X* Xl |ain (left), hero of Verdun and
premier of Vieliy government, as he met Hitler, con
queror of France, Oct. 24. Britain reopened the Burma
road in mid-Octoher, and Italy invaded Greece on Oct. 28.
FIRE REPORTED AT
PITCH HARBOR
JUNEAU — Brief word was re
eeived here today saying that
fire had destroyed materials at
Dutch Harbor and that orders
for men there would be stopp d
until further notice. No further
particulars were available.
hotel.-’
HOTTEST ISSUE
To Congressional insiders the
hottest immediate Issue of the
new session is not the war, aid
to Britain, defense taxes or any
of the other bg national ques
tions. It is hiring s ven vacan
cies on the Labor Committee.
Tiiis committee has long been
i the most liberal in the House.
In the last Congress, it held off
i a furious drive by powerful Old
; Guard leaders to scuttle the Na
tional Labor Relations Act thus
1 enabling the equally liberal Sen
ate Labor Committee to pigeon
hole the amendments.
Now with labor’s role in the de
f, nse program certain to be a
battleground during the session
control of the House committee
is of key importance. Behind tile
scenes a sharp tussle already is
.i progress.
Of liie seven vacancies, three
i j th_ result of Republican
election casualties — Bruce Bar
ion of New York, Gross of Penn
tvlvania and Routzohn of Ohio.
They were hostile to the New
Deal labor laws and GOP let '1
«rs are certain to replace th. rn
with equally hostile members. So
.vhat happens on the oth. r four
Democratic opening is the cru
:if the situation.
These seats were held by four
• aunch New Dealers —Dunn of
Pennsylvania. Fries and Keller of
Illinois and Wood of Missouri.
Fr quently they were the bal
ance of power. If they are re
placed with Oid Guarders the
.vhole complexion of the commit
tee will be changed with possible
far-reaching effect on th. NLRB
and other labor laws.
Under House rules the Ways
and Means Committee fills com
mittee vacancies. But in actual
practice selections are made by
th party chiefs: GOP Leader
Joe Martin and his lieutenants
making up the Republican list;
a , h Speaker Ssm Rayburn,
F. or Leader J hn McCormack
.,n 1 Ways and Means Chaim.an
Daughlon picking the Democratic
slate.
What these three generals im
n-- do to th Lab r Commit: e
will largely foreshadow it- r c
c-d fee --iiis Congress. If four
m v. liberals are nnrr.*ed the com
mittee will remain liberal; if
oiit rs are appointed the labor
1 ivvs are in for a pummeling.
In an fifort to capitalize on this
opportunity the anti-labor bloc,
: i by Virginia's high-co lared
R presentative II -ward Smith
author of the Senate-ditched bill
hamstring the NLRB 3rd Geo
rgia’s Representative Gene Cox,
harps!;oot;rg fo of the wage
a ur law hava been putting
vy undercover pressure on
H yb n. McCarmaok and Dough
in : 1 .d up the committee
!th antis.
»r/-\ rr n 71jf|J J7 D Only a shell of historic ca
iV U Ir Cm i'i *5 ^ Cl thedral at Coventry. Eng
land, remained after fierce Nazi raid Nov. 14. At least 69
persons were slain about Nov. 26 by Rumanian Iron
[ Cuardists avenging 1938 death of their leader, Coilreanu.
M— - -. -- - - »*’
D rrr 71/f Ti'F 7? Petain's dismissal Dec. It of pro-Nazi Pierre Laval (left) as \iee premier, and retreat of
-Lt £m 1*1 JD Ajt XI invalJins Italians—out of Greeee where they met knife-bearing warriors, and out of Lgypt
where British soldiers (right) pushed them into Libya—added up as Axis reverses. Britain lost ships to Nazi sul»,
naked LI. S. for replacements. Hiller's Dee. 10 speech called German capacity for work “our gold, said with thin gold
I defeat any oilier power in the world.” Yiscount Halifax became Ambassador to l'. S., succeeding the late Lord Lothian.