Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-16
DISTRICT AGAIN
LEADS THE NATION
Typewriter Lists. Of Draft
Registrants Today Delivered
to Gen. Crowder.
ELEVEN BOARDS REPORT

Again lead1ng the nation, the Dls-
,trict Of Columbia today presented to
Provost Marshal General Crowder
typewritten lists OF, all men register
ed in the draft here last Thursday.
together with the serial. number Of
each man. .-.... s-~-e
Today saw the completion of the
ltsss .bxtHe ;iast esah4 slsxsn; local Z I.
boards Of the. city. It Is confidently
a51eaassd .thet. the Nafl6na1 Capital is
4hTs nrst poutpts ste
,sifxxEce 3urisdiction' TO turn IN Its
entire list, Of names with serial NUM-
bers attached. -
) Local board for division No., 3. n.
o.. Chance, chairman, turned In Its
lit ON registration, night, beating the
country by many hours. Local board
for. division o. 3, A. j.: Drscol,
chairman, was the second board to
complete dts list. finishing this task
Saturday. - - ~ !,
colored, Registrants Called.
j Provost Pptt,i Marshal 4 General .crowder
todayscalIed upon the District ito; ZEN
train 437 37}'colored regtstrants- qualified
Tor general military service for Camp
DIX. between. September 70 ana ~.
cali tor s,o1s colored mem made on
thirty-one states and the District, to
be entrained for various camps during
ths same period It st is most i, prHoae1e Ss ene
trained sin one group. The ,437 men
WILL constitute the, first local men to
gol to Camp Dix.
ngT 2f to ali
the eleven loca+Sboards Of the, city will
cause reyision Of the figures of regis
tration here, Maj. Donovan. director
cial. fgures Of the men actually regis
Thursday showed 2.751 registrants:
AS scores Of cards come In this hg-
ure will be raised to more than $4,000,
in all probability. All absentee regis
trants were supposed to get their
cards into their local board by regis
tration day. It was inevitable. how
ever, fof{icials say, that many persons
would get their cards in late. In any
proposition Of the magnitude OF reg
istration Of man power, they say, per-
SONS who invariably do things late
must be reekoned with.
The registration cards as they come
in are gone over and names at
tached to the list of registrants of the
b0aTO., 1uSy are .ASSlS SllEO SCElAl mum .
bers Immediately following on the list.
District Ready for Drawing.
, AS far as the District Of Columbia
is concerned, the drawing for order
numbers. could proceed at once. since
its lists OF registrants, with their
serial numbers are completed for all
local boards and in the hands Of the
provost marshal general.
AS date for the drawing by Gen.
Crowder, Wednesday. October 2, is
regarded as likely, although the Sc
lection. Of the date for the great lot
terry will depend largely upon the
speed the local boards Of the nation
make in turning in the results Of
registration.
6Iestionnaires will go out to ap-
proximatSly $1,000 District regis
trants some time this week. It il ex-
pected. Local boards have been sent
their supply Of. .questionnaires, and
are awaiting oficiaT Instructions be-
foro going through their list Of new
registrsnts and picking out the nine
teen and twenty year old men and
mon between thirty-two and thirty
six years, inclusive, to whom to send
the documents.