The Washington herald., 1918-06-26
DRAFT LOTTERY.
TOMORROW FOR
21-YEAR-OLDS.
Second Drawing to Decide
Service Time for
800,0 900.

1OInOIIOW VIII pC thS AoN
the second great draft lottery to
determine the draft order Of near.
Iy 100000 American men who regis
tered for military service on June
5. The War Department agreed on
this date. yesterday. after 1t had
been set earlier in the day for Fri
day.
The drawing will begin at $3.50
o'clock tomorrow morning. in the
conference room of the Senate ONCE
building. in the presence of Sec
rotary Baker, Provost Marshal Gem
cral Cfowder and members of the
Senate and House Military Affairs
Committee. The numbers this time
will run from / to 1900. instead of
from to 1880. as were used last
year.
A few hours after this date was
agreed upon. the Provost Marshal
Generals office announced that
s2O,0 additional men have been
called to the colors.
Entrainment will take place from
July % to July 25, inclusive. The
District of Columbia will furnish
459 men who will be trained at Camp
Meade; Maryland 1000. who will
also go to Meade, and Virginia
$500, who will be trained at Camp
Lee.
Three hundred white registrants
from the District will leave today
contingent called to the colors last
week. The drafted men met at
the city postoffice last night to be
formally ipduptad fpto the ,arvjna
The Method.
Tomorow's lottery will probably
be concluded within three hours, 1t
was said by officials at the War De-
partment. The same system that
obtained last year. with the draw
ing of capsules containing the num-
bers. from a large bowl. will be
used.
Draft officials sent out the first
batch of questionnaires to register
ed men of the new class yesterday.
When the registrants have filled
them out and returned them to the
boards, the order numbers which
will have been drawn tomorrow will
be filled in. The order numbers
drawn from the bowl will super
sede the numbers of convenience
given to registered men last year.
If DO. 25S, which was the first
drawn last year. should be the first
number drawn tomorrow. then every
registrant throughout the nation
who holds the number of conveni.
ence 25S will get the order No. l.
All OF the new registrants will be
placed at the foot of their respective
classes and will not be called until
the men OF 1917 have been used up,
draft officials state.
Baker to Draw First.
Secretary of War Baker has been
asked to draw the first capsule, and
it Is probable he will do SO, in COM
pany with Provost Marshal General
Crowder and staff and members of
the Senate and House.
But the honor of making the real
drawing Is to fall on Major" w.
Wellborn. This young woman. whose
title is bestowed unanimously by all
the officers of the provost marshal
office. will be actually the
one to decide the fate OF the regis
trants. 1t will be her cropping fingers
that will call some men at once and
leave others at the bottom Of the list.
She is chief clerk of the bureau of in
formation OF the provost marshal gen.
erals office. and comes from Atlanta,
Ga Her modesty draws a shy cloak
over anything more than that.
ID. c. Men to Class 1.
Coincident with the announcement
of the date of drawing of the new
by the War Department it
was officially stated at the provost
generals office that between
900 and 5000 men Of Washington who
were in deferred classes OF the draft
have been placed in Class /. This was
done through the process of reclassi-
fication by local boards.
1t was explained by officials that
this percentage of reclassification was
maintained throughout the country,
SO that the number of men available
by the new classification will be- close
to 100000
This will allow heavier drains on the
first class. and from now on the calls
will be larger and larger. it was
stated.