Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-20
Plans Changed at Last Mo-
ment Because of IrreguIari-
ties in New Jersey and 9th
er States.
TEN TO TWELVE HOURS
REQUIRED FOR WORK
Greatest Possible Care Taken to
Avoid Injustice; 10,500
Numbers to Be Taken From
Bowl.

fsr nosH'sa IouRssL SPECIAL LEASED wIsst
Washington, July l9.-Plans for the
drawing which will be held tomorrow
to fix the order of military liability
for nearly 100000 registered men
throughout the country were mater.
tally changed late today and the intri-
cate method of double drawing work
ed out by officials to lessen the physi-
cal task was abandoned.
Instead of process requiring not
more than an hour and involving one
set of numbers from / to 1000 anu
another from 0 to 10. it will be neces-
sary to draw one at time at least
l0,2 263 numbers.
Probably to make certain that
every registrant in the largest district
is placed, 10000 drawings will be
made. 1t will require at least ten and
half hours, and officials in charge
believe it will take twelve. The pro-
cess will begin at $3.50 u. III.
Following Is Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder's explanation Of the sud-
den abandonment of the double draw
ing plan which it had taken weeks to
made public only few hours before
it was discarded:
The Explanation.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
issued this statement:
Advices received by long distance
telephone this afternoon indicate that
in certain areas the boards, in num-
bering registration cards, have kept
tricts and that serial numbers have
tricts and tn t serials numbers hav
been assigned to the whole group for
board, while the cards were thus
segregated. If the drawing is con-
Quoted as originally planned in
groups of 1000. The result will be
that considerable proportion of GER
tain election districts will be brought
for examination together.
This will result In drafting persons
from one locality within the jurisdic-
tion of board before any person is
drawn from another locality, within
the same jurisdiction.
For this reason 1t has been decided
to abandon the drawing by thousands
and to draw 10,500 numbers, which is
in excess of the highest number of
cards under the jurisdiction of any
board
"The only change in the plan will
be that there will be one drawing in
stead of two.
"The advantage will be greater sim
plicity. The disadvantage will be that
the drawing will require ten hours to
complete"
Stage Setting Unchanged.
The stage setting for the great lot
terry has NJ: been changed. 1t will
take place in the public hearing room
OF the senate office building. The in
vited guests, who will sit with Secre-
tary Baker of the war department and
watch the proceedings, will be men,
bers of the senate and house military
committees The only other persons
present, according TO plans tonight.
will be a limited number of newspa-
per correspondents, photographers to
take both sti views and motion pic
lures of the historic event, and the
officials OF General Crowder's office.
who will conduct the drawing.
The numbers will be publicly an
nouneed for telegraphing to the news
papers over the country as fast as they
are drawn. General Crowder at first
considered plan under which they
would have been held in confidence
for publication everywhere Saturday
morning, but that suggestion was
abandoned late tonight.
How 1t VIII Be Done.
In the drawing itself there will be
nine actors. The principals will be a
blindfolded man who constantly stirs
the 10, 500 black capsules in the great
glass bowl in which they are placed,
another blindfolded man who draws
the capsules from the bowl one at q
time and two announcers, one stand
ing at each side of the bowl and to
whom the capsules will be handed in
turn as they are drawn.
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 Off
cial in front of the bowl, who will
verify the announcer's report, and OH
his verification, another man sta
toned at great blackboard, will