Norwich bulletin., 1918-10-01
THlRTY-TWo IN FIRST
 HUNDRED HIT NORWICH


 HUNDRED HIT NORWICH Washington, Sept So.-The drawing l Of numbers for the thirteen miIilon draft registrants enrolled Sept. 12 was started today by President Wilson. Blndfolded, the president groped in to the great glass lottery bowl and drew out one of 1000 capsules. It contained a slip numbered S22, thus giving men holding that serial num- Der first place in their respective classes after regfstrants already classi-
 fled under previous registrations The \ number was low enough to touch the
 list of every local draft board in the
 country except ore or two of the very
 smallest.
 Vice President Marshall drew the
 second number, and was followed by l sixteen other notables who had been invited to participate in the formal
 ceremony of opening tue drawing. When it was over. officers ana enAst- ed. men of the Senly, assisted by
 corps of telfers. settled down to the l task of emptying the bowl Two thousand numbers had been drawn
 and recorded before four o'f'oek in
 the afternoon. indicating that probably
 3G hours would be required to com plete the work. The readers and tell CTS worked in relays. so the drawing teentfhaed almost without Interruption through the night. Provost Marshal General Crowder hoped to finish eaflE tomorrow evening.
 Only the first one hundred 1umbe were flashed to the country by teIe- graph. Because of the impractibility
 Of tetegraphing all of the 17,030. the
 press had been asked to refrain from sending more than leo numbers. The complete master lists will be mailed I az soon as the drawing is over to dis
 trict draft boards throughout the country, to be made public by them. The drawing is taking place in one , Of the large caucus rooms of the sem
 ate office building. There was an if-
 terested crowd to witness the opening 1 ceremony, but the interest was rather in the participants than in the draw , ing itself, for the classification sys- tenn which determines the status ol the regiStrants has made the order numbers relatively unimportant The first hundred capsules were hardly out of the bowl before the audience began to drift away.
 The president, with Mrs Wilson reached the caucus room just before
 noon, and joined group including tn. . vice president, Speaker Clark, tht : chairman of the senate and house mil ban16lS : Acting Secretary CroweH Of the wal
 department, General March, chief O l staff of the army, Admiral Benson, th' e chief of naval operations, and other . who were to take part v All was in readiness fo!' the draw D ing, including a battery Of camera
 that reached across the room directl,
 before the bowl. This bow. the onf a used in the original draft lottery, hat = been brought from it's place at Inde ', pendence Hall, Philadelphia, for tn ; occasion.
 Before making his explanator
 statement, Provost Marshal Genera s Crowder whispered to the presiden Q that in his case the blindfold, alway U worn by those drawing numbers ' would be dispensed with. Mir Wilso n said he thought it would be better t y make no exception in his case, so tn
 biindfold, made from slip of ;clot s. that covered a chair used in the sign o ing of the Declaration of Independ is ence, was adjusted as the presideh e approached the bowl.
 Is The crowd appiauded as Number 32 = was announced and the president re
 turned to his seat to watch the re ;e mainder of the opening ceremony Il Out of the first 100 names draw 10 there were 32 that applied in the Noa l. w!ch division, These were the fol l. lowing:
 Ss2-John Houle, R. F. D. No. 6. # lso7-Henry j. Caroi1, North 4th Av n 1ea7-Teofil Puza, 422 No. Main. a 2TSl-Antonio Antoneili, 232 F'ranklil Iee 4Ss- Stephen A%ezec, PAP Yantic. m 904v-John Sinino. 62 Norwich Ave ,a Taftville.
 " 1523+Andrew -Dudel< 225 Yantie
 3f4S-John s. Jsezorowski, 146 Cliff. ss 38GS-John Miller, 27 Main. lo 1e04-Henry B; Dayignon, Occun1 ..t' ls07-Joseph F. Campien. 37 Goldel .s Se73-Irying E. Doolittle, 16 Laur 'q Hill Ave. Id 2o-Daniel F. Leary, 125 Sachem. ID 1255-Apostolos S. Petrides Yantic.
 @132-Wolenty Cimuchowski ey Roosevelt
 7n S235-Archiles Yiogis, 46 Thames to I3s-John H. Haden, 4S Mowry. " 5S5-Reuben Shapiro, S23 Frankli sll 21s-Wificehty Fora, 22e So. Thame ed '6g5-Delphis s. IaPre, 44 Summer 1, .12-Chas. M. F. Hubner. 29 Grove.
 Ss2-Forest 4. Johnson, 152 Sachem a 964-James Reynolds, Yantic. o- 2Ss7-Herbert W. Lucas, 4S Broadwa he S505-Halsey A. Gallup, 23 Grove. as S4S-Sam Donat, R. F. D, No. 1. ce 4-Joseph Lantagne, IS So. Fror Taftville.
 nt 19s1--Anthony Demetry, ss High.
 134-Rudolph A. Kfohh, Tyler. i Ss5-Jar1es Ibbison, Whittingte m s57-Joseph Christian, 10 Boswell A, rre s5S1-Johh H. Toomey. 29O Bosw, ills menocciampcHboaptsl Ma2wld. su