Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-07-22
SELECTION UP TO
LOCAL BOARD NOW
Certified Lists of Drawing to
Be in Hands of Exemption
Officials This Week.
SINGLE MISTAKE IN DRAWING
One Blank Discovered; Slight
Errors Creep Into Reports
in Transmission.

WASHINGTON. July 2l.-Despite
the fact that officers and clerks OF
Provost Marshal General Crowder's
office worked all last night to com
plete the drawing that fixed the or
der of military liability OF ten mil
lion registrants, the tally sheets had
been compared and corrected before
dark tonight and the master list was
I'm the hands of the printer Copies
will be mailed to local exemption
boards beginning not later than Tues
day. and the summoning OF the first
draft Of $4,000 men can begin.
General Crowder tonight issued the
following statement
Satisfied With Drawing.
'The drawing is complete and is
apparently successful. The official
tallies have been compared sent to
the printer and the proof is being re-
ceived. Final copies will be ready for
distribution not later than Tuesday.
The next step will be the certifi-
cation OF the results of the drawing
to 4,557 local boards and the applica-
ton by each board of its chart to its
serially numbered list. This need con-
sumo but little time, and when done
the order of priority of the nearly
ttH IlllllpH W IfDOll IOI
examination will be revealed. Such
additional drafts as may be ordered
by the president will be filled by call
ing men in the order of this estab-
lished priority and no further draw
ing will ever be necessary. Each
local board upon receipt of its chart
and upon notification by the governor
of the quota to be raised by II may
proceed at once, under regulations al
ready promulgated. to summon men
for examination.
Race to Swiftcst Now.
I'VE have now passed the stage in
the execution of the selective service
act when we must have concert of
action by the states. In raising state
contlngents the race is to the swiftest.
cannot let this opportunity pass
without adverting to the Very great
value of the assistance which was
been so earnestly and efficiently rend-
cred by the press.
without the systematic campaign
of public information that prepared
the country for the registration, the
enrolment Of ten million men on the
fifth day of June would have been
impossible. The generous support of
the newspapers thru the period since
registration day is appreciated and
only the most thoro efficiency could
have placed upon the streets within
few hours after the first number
was drawn. lists for each registration
district. showing the names OF the
persons who would be summoned for
examination on the first call of the
local boards"
General Crowder also made public
the text of the regulations for their
application, which will accompany
the master lists. The only new fea-
ture shown Is the plan for handling
cards that are found to have dupli-
cate numbers or are otherwise con
fused and also of dealing with those
received July 10. when the local
boards closed their list to begin num-
bering.
BY the plan worked out these addi-
tional cards will be given an order of
their own by lot and then will be
added to the lists of the districts from
which they came and be affected by
the drawing precisely as tho they nad
been received and numbered before
|, the board lists closed. Where several
cards bear the same serial number,
one will be drawn from the group and
retain the duplicated number, while
the others will be regarded as un-
numbered and the process of adding
them to the list be followed.
Another step accomplished during
the day was the appointment of the
district boards of 80 Of the states
District exemption boards an
nounced tonight include:
Oklahoma-Eastern district, divls-
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