The Washington herald., 1918-09-14
REGISTRATION
PROMISES TO
BE 14,0OO,O00
First Reports on New Draft
Exceed Gen. Crowder's
Estimates.
LIMITLESS MAN POWER
LIMITLESS MAN POWER
Pershing Assured Uninter,
rupted Flow Of Troops.
D. c. Reports First.

The wireless flashed the news
to Gen. Pershing yesterday that
America had again gone over the
top in her registration of man
power, and that her armies would
be limitless to crush the German
hordes. Gen. Crowder sent this
message to Gen. Pershing:
"The nation responded yester-
day with an enrolment which
promises to exceed all estimates,
thus assuring an uninterrupted
flow of man power to the army
under you"
Gen. Crowder does not expect
to have any formal total estimate
on the registration until tonight,
but preliminary estimates from
eleven States show a registration
S.s per cent in excess of the pre-
liminary figures made before the
registration. If this excess holds
up throughout the nation the reg
istratiop will run close TO IA ,ooo,-
600 instead Of the i2,Soo, 900 ex-
pected.
Expect Larger Class One.
The Provost Marshal Generals Of
flee figures that il this proportion is
maintained in the various classes the
man power Of Glass /. of Thursdays
registration. which had previously
been estimated at 2,3sSO00, will ex-.
ceed 100000. while that of the group
from % to 36 years and 10 and 20
years within that class, and who are
to be called to the colors beginning
shorty after October /, will be in
excess of 1,625.0oo instead of the l,5OO,-
900 estimated.
With calls for men at the rate of
$4,000 a month, as is now the
schedule. this group will supply the
calls for six months, while the entire
Class l, of Thursdays registration,
will meet the demands for ten months,
when a new registration of 100000
Of men becoming Is years of age may
be- ordered.
Several States Report.
Estimated totals Of State registra-
tions were received yesterday from
Arkansas, District Of Columbia,
Minnesota, Mississippi, Oregon, Rhode
Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia
and Wisconsin.
Local boards in New York. PhiIa-
delphia and the District of Columbia
ia
of making the first complete report
to Gen. Crowder's office. Local
boards 80 and 40 of PHILADELPHIA and
Isl of New York sent messengers to
the Capital with their figures, but
local board No. 3 of the District had
beaten them in.
II the local boards are able TO
keep their schedule in sending out
the questionnaires to the first group
of new registrants to be classified
for call. the drawing will probably
be held in Washington on October 2.
Plans for it are now being made. It
is to be made an inspiring patriotic
ceremony.
BurIeson Issues Order.
Postmaster General Burleson yes
terday authorized telephone and tele-
graph companies to file claim for de-
ferred classification for such en-
ployes as the division chiefs shall
determine are absolutely tndispen-
sable to the operation of the service"
The United States Emergency Fleet
Corporation announced that it would
not ask deferred classification for any
employe who would otherwise be
placed in Class 1. except those atso-
lutely essential in furthering the pro-
duction OF ships or equipment, but
that 1t would ask deferred classifica-
tior OF some employees likely to be
placed in Class 2 or Class 4 IL ii re-
CARDS these men as essential to fur
thering Its output
1t Is appointing committees to deter
mine what men will be regarded as
essential and will notify them of this
determination. These employees will
oe asked to abide by the decision of
the committees and to accept the de-
ferred classifications.