Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-07-21
200 Per Cent Of Quota VIII
Be Drawn to Cover
Exemptions
If THESE NOT ENOUGH
MORE WILL BE CALLED
No Men VIII Be Sent Abroad
Before Spring Says
Secretary

tUnited EFess staff correspondent
Washington, July 2l.-With the loca-
tion today Of missing number in the
great draft lottery, Provost Marshal
General Crowder. notified Secretary az
War Baker that the first step. toward
organizing Americas armies is COM
pletc.
The missing number, ,0d4--wa. as
signed to the 10,004th place in the draw
ing--the point at which blank ha3
been picked from the urn.
Crowder's report TO Secretary Baker
follows:
We closed the DRAWING between .
and . o clock this morning. We found
precisely 10000 capsules in the urn and
the only mishap was that one of tho
capsules contained no number. When
the fact was discovered threw the
capsule back into the urn to await de-
velopments We drew it out and assiQn-
ed II the last number on the list. y
As the numbers are verified they
will be listed on an official sheet ana
duplicates of this sheet win be. sent
broadcast to every local board.
Lists By Next Friday.
The farthest local board should have
It's official list by next Thursday or
Friday, at the latest.
Then the work Of selecting tha fit
and the unexenipted, will proceed. Local
boards will send cut word to those who
must answer the first call, though the
individual himself is responsible for
really knowing whether be Is in the
first call
As the men are notified, they must
present themselves for physical examin-
ation They will be noted as accepted
or rejected. Then, if they have a claim
for exemption they must present il to
their exemption boards, who viii pass
on it quickly.
The first call of men consists of two
per cent Of the actual quota of
the particular city or two. Thus. if a
town must furnish two thousand men,
four thousand names will be called at
first. IL these do not furnish the first
quota, a fresh levy must respond.
Those first called are those first ON
the list in their respective districts.
The Time Of Call
1t will be September 5, or later, be-
fore the actual physical work of sorting
out the new army is accomplished As
soon as this is done the government will
$4,000 to the coloTs, to com
pose the new national army and fill
gaps in the regular army and national
guard
These men win then be sent TO con-
onment camps--if they are ready--and
lrilled intensively for some months be-
'ore going to France.
Letters of Secretary of War Baker TO
senator's today intimated the admins
ration does not propose to send either
rational guard or new army troops
lbroad before spring, although original
1lans contemplated guardsmen abroad
before snow flies.
The provost marshal general notified
Ill governors in slow going states today
hat they must establish their city and
own quotas at once. Meantime the
urgeon general notified examining
physicians to be especially strict in
,assing on drafted men. No fake dis
bilities will be allowed 10 escape.
cit is important, said Surgeon
ieneral Gorgas, "that the examiners
ealize there win be proportion Of
nen who will seek exemption by dis
varying from exaggeFation
t condition of downright malinger-
ng We are proposed to protect the
government against such attempts at de-
option"