The Alaska daily empire., 1918-02-15
Order Numbers Will Be Taken from Master List and Called According
 to CIaSSificationS.
H U N ITS STATE M E N I
Draft Men from Alaska May Start Moving to Training Camps With-
 in Next 60 Days


 tration boards in Alaska were as- signed order numbers for draft from the master list prepared at Wash ington, before the questiOnaries have been sent out and the men registered given their proper classifications ac- cording to their returns. The ques- tion was today referred to Captain J. T. Hunt and he answered to the eff feet that although the order number was assigned, the men would still be called according to classifications Should a mans order number be among the ones to be called first, and should he come under one of the deferred classifications, when is suing their call the local boards would skip his number until all num- bers of preceding classifications had been exhausted.
 Captain Hunt said today that in his opinion the draft men from Al aska would start moving south with in the next sixty days, although there was nothing authentic about that. The draft quota from Alaska will amount to about $50. The orig inal quota was over seven hundred, but credit has been given for prac- tically 150 who have enlisted from Alaska, and whose cards are in the possession of the local boards. Men from the Interior and Nome sections, who may be certified for service will not be required to report for training until after the opening of navigation next year:
 The statement of Captain Hunt fol lows:
 "The Master List consists of a drawing of numbers from l to 1O,500 inclusive, which was made in Wash ington under the direction of the Sec retary of War, and in accordance with the rules and regulations pre- scribed by the President. A sched- ule of this list, containing all of such numbers, arranged in the ex- act order in which they were drawn, was prepared by the Provost Mar shal General The first number drawn was placed at the top of col umn one of the Master List, the sec ond number drawn was placed next below in such Master List, and this order was followed until all of the numbers drawn were compiled in the exact order in which they were irawn. Part II, page 199, Selective Service Regulations, provides as fol lows:
 "The Master List controls
 and determines the exact or
 der in which the persons whose
 registration cards are in the
 possession of the respective
 local boards or may hereafter
 be received by said local board
 are liable to be called by the To-
 cal board for military service.
 Immediately upon receipt
 of these regulations place
 check mark after every num-
 Der in the Master List which
 at the present time appears in
 the Serial Number column on
 Form 1922
 Thus, it is seen, the new Selec- i've Service Regulations presupposed he fact that the order numbers had been determined under the old regulations, as Form 102 is the of ticial form for listing the order num- bers as determined hereunder. But the order numbers having not been
 nf new regulations became effective. there was no course left open for he boards in the Territory except to determine the order numbers by comparison of the serial number list with the Master List, as provided in part II and sections 6S and 69 of the new regulations.
 "This assignment of numbers takes the place of the formal draw ing under the old regulations, the list compiled from the original draw ing held at Washington being deemed to be equivalent to general draw ing of all numbers corresponding herewith in the possession or every board throughout the United States. The order in which these numbers were drawn, together with the class number of the registrant, determines the order in which each man IS re- 1uired to report for military duty.
 By way of illustration, supposlng that the registrant who holds the first number drawn is classified when his questionable is returned in Class l. he will be the first man called by his board for military duty, and supposing that the second registrant whose number was drawn by the same board, being Order No. 2. is classified in Class 2 when ms questionaire is returned. the board would skip over him when 1t calls it's quota for service. and call the next number classified in Class l. In this way, all registrants in Class 1 will be called and examined as to their qualifications for military service. before any of the regis