The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-07-25
FOR GREAT NATIONAL
ARMY TO FIX ORDER OF MILITARY
LIABILITY HELD IN WASHINGTON
Method of Double Drawing Substituted at Last
Moment for Single Drawing of 10000
Numbers-First Call for 6S7, 900.

Washington, July 2O-Plans for the draw uh;o.
throughout tbs ~ mnaly liability for nearly 100000 registered men
metn0 o. double drawing worked out by officials to 1esn + lux m "ns
was abandoned. "N@%n 'e physical
u"oI VII" DC publicly announced for tehgraphine to tn nenv-
p"peis wei te country as fast as they are drawn. Gen. Croudsr 49, s.
s!oere a plan under which they would have been held in consdo."..
doned late last night. '' "a' suggestion was aban-
instead # a process requiring not more than a hour n invon1nu
~ s0 = n a"@H iron l to 1000 and another from o to 10, it will be neces.
|'ary 70 oraw IN at a time at least II, 1868 times.
Probably to make certain that every eaistr,.nt in +o ou.. 49,,
pNS &c io'0oo oraw1ng will be made. 1t will require at least ter and !.
|hlf hours and officials in charge believe it will take twelve Tha su q
begun at $3.50 (. M. ' ID process
WHY PLAN WAS DROPPED. -%~1.g
r0no"lng is Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder's explanation Of tbe sudaon
W. h da+sn ~, 'e a0uoe drawing plan which it had taken weeks to work
discarded: x" "ous oet0re 1t was
m , Aaeees received by long distance telephone this evening indicates that
IN certain areas the boards, in numbering registration cards h.uo LS4 10
eaiuSs segregated Dy election districts and that serial numbers have been 90
signed to tn whole group for a board while the cards were thus segregated
- me drawing is conducted as originally planned, in groups of 1000 the
will be that a considerable proportion of certain election d;u:o.s
VII be brought up for examination together.
TO DRAW 10000 NUMBERS.
a;. iS WIN result drafting persons from n locality within the jufs-
upc"oh OF a ooard before any person is drawn from another locality within
the same Jurisdiction. For this reason, it has been decided to abandon tho
craving by thousands and to draw 10000 numbers, which is in excess of
the highest number of cards under the jurisdiction of anv board.
only change in the plan will be that there will be one DRAWING IN.
stead of two. D"""e IL
"The advantage will be greater and simpler. The dhadvantase uuu h. =
that the drawing will reqire ten hours to complete"
" WHERE 1T WILL BE HELD.
The stage setting for the great lottery has not been changed. It will take
pace IN I'M public hearing room of the Senate Office building. The invited
guests who will sit with Secretary Baker, of the War Department and watch
the proceeding will be members of the enate and House military commit
tees. The only other persons present, according to plans tonight, will be a
limited number of newspaper correspondents, phpotoerapbers % take stn
views and motion picture photographers to take views of the historic event
and Gen. Crowders office who will conduct the drawing. '
TWO BLIND FOLDED MEN. .'.
In the drawing itself there will be nine actors. The PRINCIPALS will he
a blind folded mar who constantly sMs the TO- 500 back capsules in the
great glass bowl in which they have been placed, another blind folded man
who draw the capsules from the bowl ne at a time and two announcers,
one standing at each side Of the bowl and to whom the capsules will be
handed in turn as they r. drawn.
The announcers will break the capsules Is they receive them, extract
the tiny slip of paper on which a number will be stamped and call the num-
Der to three tally clerks. The slip will then be handed to a official in front
of the bowl who viii verify the announcer's report and on his verifcation
another man, stationed at a great blackboard will write the number in it's
order IN the o the board. .