900 Expected To Register For Army Draft Tuesday: Armory And City Hall At Ypsilanti Chosen For Work

900 Expected To Register For Army Draft Tuesday

Armory And City Hall At Ypsilanti Chosen For Work

Youths Who Have Reached 21 Since Oct. 16 To Be Recorded

Washtenaw county selective service boards Nos. 1 and 2, representing Ann Arbor and Washtenaw county, are prepared to register an estimated 900 men for possible army service tomorrow at the Ann Arbor armory and at the city hall in Ypsilanti.

Selective service board No. 1 will register an estimated 210 men who have reached the age of 21 since Oct. 16 of last year. Registration hours will be from 7 o'clock in the morning until 9 o'clock at night, and a staff of more than 20 volunteers has been called on to make registrations.

Board No. 2, representing the county, will register eligible men at both the armory and the Ypsilanti city hall.. Twelve persons have volunteered to assist in the Ann Arbor registration headquarters. Previously the board had planned to take registrations in the local headquarters, but the intense heat wave of the past week has driven the registrants to the armory.

Volunteers To Help

Local persons who have volunteered to assist with the registration of board No. 1 are George R. Kelly, Walter Garthe, Cornelius Tuomy, Catherine Tuomy, A. E. McColl, Miss Ruth Reimenschneider, Miss Edith Hoyle, Leonard Young, Miss Lillian Sodt, Fred Wuerth, George V. Stoll, Charles E. Rabideau, Russell Dobson, Mrs. Russell Dobson, Henry Morris, Ward Peterson, Eugene Sinke, Francis O'Brien, F. R. Forsythe, and Day Bird.

Those who will have the task of registering 600 to 700 Washtenaw county men are Mrs. D. H. Eidson, Mrs. W. G. Dow, Mrs. A. D. Moore, Mrs. G. E. Paul, Mrs. W. H. Worrell, Mrs. E. H. Gault, Mrs. L. J. Rouse, Miss Janet Rouse, Miss Margaret Rouse, Donald Notley, William Saunders, and Fred J. Heusel.

Last minute instructions for registration of all Michigan army candidates were issued today by Col. Egbert M. Rosecrans, selective service director.

The director’s own summary of requirements follows:

“1. Every male citizen and every male alien residing in Michigan, other than persons excepted by section 5 (A) of the selective training and service act of 1940 or by-section 208 of the coast guard auxiliary and reserve act of 1941, is required to and shall present himself for and submit to registration before a duly designated registration official or selective service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which he has his permanent home or in which he may happen to be on that day if—

Rules Enumerated

"A. Such persons on or before July 1, 1941, and subsequent to Oct. 16. 1940. has attained the twenty-first anniversary of the day of his birth.

“B. Such person on Oct. 16, 1940, had attained his twenty-first anniversary of the day of his birth and had not attained his thirty-sixth anniversary of the day of his birth, and has not heretofore been registered under the selective training and service act of 1940.

“2. Registration must be made .at the registration place of the local board area in which the registrant resides or happens to be between the hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. This registration place may be a local board office or other public place properly designated by the local board of the area in which the registrant resides or happens to be on registration day.

“3. Registrants must answer all questions asked by the registrar for notation on the registration card. It is particularly important that the registrant describe his place of residence in detail as well as to give full particulars as to the address at which he would most readily receive mail sent to him."