Norwich bulletin., 1917-07-20
PLANS FOR THE DRAFT.
Which Will Commence This Morning
 and Continue Ten Hours.

drawing which will be held tomorrow to fix the order of military liability for nearly ten million registered men throughout the country were material ly changed late today and the intri- cate method Of double drawing work ed out by officials to lessen the phyEi- cal task was abandoned
 Instead of a process requiring uot more than an hour and involving one set of numbers from one to one thous- and and another from to 10. # will at least 1O263 numbers. Probably to make certain that every registrant in the larger district Is placed. 10.500 drawings will be made. IL will require ficials in charge believe + will take twelve. The process will begin al 9.30 a.. m.
 Stage Setting For Lottery.
 The stage setting for the great lot tery has not been changed. IT VIII take place in the public hearing room of the senate building The invited guests who will sit with Secretary Baker of the war department and watch the proceedings will be mem bers of the senate and house military committees The only other persons present. according to plans tonight. will be a limited number of newspaper correspondents. photographers and flee who will conduct the drawings.
 Nine Men Will Draw.
 Tn the drafting itself there will be nine actors. The principals will be a blindfolded man who constantly stirs the 10.500 blank capsules in the great glass bowl in which they have been placed, another blindfoded man who draws the capsules from the bowl one at a time, and two announcers. one standing at each side of the bowl. 10 whom the capsules will be handed in turn as they are drawn.
 The Modus Operandi
 The announcers will break the cap sules as they receive them. extract the tiny slip of paper on which number will be stamped and call the number to three tally clerks. The slip will then be handed to an official in front of the bowl who will verify the announcers report and on his verifca- tion, aonther man. stationed al a great blackboard. will write the number in it's order on the board.
 The board will hold 1000 numbers. When 1t is filled. it will be taken out of the room. photographed. cleaned off and returned, the drawing continuing meanwhile with a second board in use.
 Books For Boards.
 The official record of the drawing. which will be furnished tc the local exemption boards and in accordance with which they will call out the men to fill each district quota. will be made up into books of eleven pages. each page being photogra phic fac simiie of the blackboard. The exemption boards will take action toward summon ing their men until these books reach them through the mails.
 New Jerseys Error.
 The telephone message referred 70 by General Crowder In hiI statement came from the adputant-g general Of New Jersey. When that officer learn ed through publication of the system of double drawing announced earlier In the day, he saw immediately that a great injustice would be done in his state because of the way ip which the local boards had given serial numbers to the cards from the registration pre- cincts.
 shuffIing of the Cards.
 Each exemption district is composed of several election districts which were the registration precincts in the first revolution of the draft machinery. The registration cards were turned over TO the exemption boards with instructions 10 shuffie them before placing on each however, instead of the individual cards, it was packs of cards. ca ch rep resenting a complete registration pre- cinct that were shuffied. The first pack was opened then and the serial number one placed on the first card. Serial numbers were plac in rotation until the pack was exhausted. then continued with the next pack picked up.
 cuppOSlnB LitdL d Bdfh fOlLdlIEQ n thousand cards and was numbered from one to one thousand. then Y the enc thousand group happened 10 he the first drawn in the little lottery. registration district must have been called for service before his neiRhborg just across the street, but in an adio!n- ing precinct. were summoned.
 The Big Number is 1o.5oo.
 The drawing tomorrow was fixed at 10, 800 numbers because an exemption district in Lansing. Mich, has f0.2S3 district on record here. Seven states have failed thus far 10 report their maximum districts however. and 10 800 names will be drawn 10 take care of the improba bIe possibility that a larger district will show mp later.
 Much Office Work.
 The change in plan throws an eror- Crowders office which had 10 be com pleted tonight. Tn one room a score If clerks pounded away with number ng machines through the night max ng up the $500 additional key mum Ders necessary. Tn another room 51 men. girls and boys toiled over bowls If black capsules. rolling up the mum 5ered sips as they were received and them into the concealing gel ltin covering from which they viii be aken by the announcers tomorroT.
 In Alphabetical Order.
 Alabama first state on the roster 0f he union. reports it's IarPest exemption district as containing 6.9c5 reEistraufs. Then in the drawing tomorrow fhe numbers from 6.926 to 10 500. inclusive ,an be dsregarded so far as Alabama s concerned.
 By the same process Connecticut has 10 interest in numbers above ssIt. New York 4.696. Rhode Island 406s
 The states whose maximum districts Ire not yet reported Tn Washington are 5eorgfa. Louisiana. Massa ci1useTfq Mississippi. Missouri, Texas and Yer mont.
 Announcement Of Numbers.
 The numbers will he publicly am iounced for teiegraphinR to the news papers over the country as fast a they Ire drawn. General Crowder at frvf considered a plan under which they would have been held in confidence for