Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-09-07
$1,000 FROM
D. EXPECTED
TO REGISTER
Not Expected New Regis
trants Will be Called
Before Nov. /.

Bismarck, N. D., Sept. Between
$500 and 5000 registrars are now
girding their loins in preparation for
the monumental task which con-
fronts them next Tuesday, when they
will be called Upon to sign up Is units
OF Uncle SANS man-power some ST..
900 North Dakotans. North Dakota
next Thursday 1t will endeavor to
provide a registrar for each so peo-
pie, which will mean two or more
registrars in a large number Of the
counties. In Burleigh, for instance,
there are 81 voting precincts. but
there will be IS registrars. Cass
county has GO registration precincts
Grand Forks, with 81 precincts, will
use 20 to rs registrars; Ward county,
with 76 precincts. probably will en-
ploy 80 registrars, and Williams, with
81 precincts, and Stutsman, with 68,
will provide registrars in proportion.
Registrars throughout the state
are to present themselves at their
voting precinct between the hours of
a. m. and 8 p. m. next Thursday,
September ~. Prospective regis
trants who will be away from home
person. Registrars who are now
out of the state and who will not re-
turn to. their home precincts on or
before September IL, may register
before the local board in the commu-
nifty in which they now chance to be.
provided that their registration certi-
ficate is mailed in time to reach the
not later than 9 p. M. September IL.
Unoer this clause two Philadel-
phians registered with the Burleigh
county board Thursday, and it is
probable hat 80 or 40 non-residents
nave b. this time filed their registra.
ton before local registrars in this
county.
warning that everyone Ser:s 's whof has
reached his 18th birthday and who
has not reached his 46th birthda,
must register under the new man.
power act. This includes men of AZ
and it also includes boys of 10. A
man who may be 46 on September 1:
is IN September IL within the pro
visions Of this act and must registe,
according as Of the age Of As.
Order numbers will be drawn b.
lottery at Washington as soc al
: General Crowder shall have deter
mined that every registrant has re
ceived his registration card and ser
ial number. The drawing probabl!
will be conducted as have the othel
draft lotteries, and numbers will b.
drawn from zone" to the highest ser
ial number reported by any count!
registration board. Men will b.
called for service in the order il
which their numbers are drawn a
Washington, as vas done in the frs
registration.
While there is no positive informa
ton available on the subject, it i
not regarded probable that any o
the new r~egistrants will be drafte'
before the first Of November at tn
earliest. There will be new calls tn
latter part of September and the frs
Of October, but it is the present opin
ion Of draft officials that these viii
be filled from r%egistrants of the las
three classes. 1t is possible, o
course, that voluntary Induction o
new registrants will be permitted i
some. of these calls.
Boards Must Make Complete
Reports. b
The provost marshal general ha
instructed this office that each boar
in North Dakota must make a com
plete report showing the classified
ton of the registrants of June
1918. and subsequent dates, an
nounced Adjutant General Erase
this morning. This report mus
show the total registration, the tots
in class one, subdivided into thre
groups. as follows: Physically qual
service group; and the total in class
es two, three, four and five, givin
total number placed in each subdi
vision Of each class.
This complete report must b