The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-15
and 32-36-Year
Men to Be First
Chosen in Draft.
A B OUT 100000
Definite Figures to Be
Available Monday
May Not Alter
Original Estimate.

Washington, Sept 14.-LigtnfnG
speed to put the man-power Of
the nation registered on Thurs
day into training and increase
the flow Of men to sup
port General Pershing and his
armies in their big drive is the
eno OF the provost marshal gen.
erals Office.
As n result Colonel Warren,
executive officer of the office In
the absence of General Crowder,
announced today that 1t might be
possible to hold the drawing for
the order numbers of he new
registration a. early as Septcm-
Der "a, GeneraI Crowder has
previously announced h tenta-
tive date AS october .
Figures on the registration are COM
ing in slowly and are not showing the
big increase Indicated in the earlier
estimates. The only hna1 report re-
ceived SO far Is for the District OF
Columbia. II was the big increase in
this figure which led the provost mar
registration s.s per sent in excess OF
the preliminary estimates.
Definite Figures Monday.
The registration Ia more likely to
be about what our preliminary esti-
mates showed said Colonel Warren
today. State estimates are changing
constantly n we will M
figures until the state reports are tn
| expect now to he able to give definite
figures on Monday"
preliminary estimates were for
about 1880. 900 men. These were
raised yesterday to 10000. 900 on the
basis of estimated figures from ten
states and the District Of Columbia
Washington is now Just like a
mining camp" said Colonel Warren.
There are thousands OF temporary
residents here and these were invited
TO register here"
Local boards are rushing the
work of assigning serial numbers
to Thursdays registrants. Notice
OF the serial number will be
enclosed to re~gtstrants of the
1920 n 31-36-year class with
the auestionnaires which now are
being mailed out Eighteen year
old boys and men 81 to As viii
not receive euestfonnaires at
once but are charged with dis
covering their serial numbers
WHICH Will De pFNteu at TeEIShh-
ton booths by the local boards.
Serial Numbers to An.
Serial numbers win be assigned all
reGistrants and all will be included In
the big drawing for the order mum
hers. The local boards win withdraw
the order numbers of the men from
81 TO As inclusive and boys OF 1s int
"a separate group and the district
boards will classify the men 1920 n
sass by classes on dependency or
occupation.
Then when ais made On the
local boards for men. the men in chas
/. in the order OF their order numbers.
within the age group Of 1890 and
1886 inclusive, hrst VIII be taken
After they are exhausted. II they shall
be class l men of 81 to IS years in
elusive and Is a Win be called IN
the order Of their numbers. The IS
Iyear-oid re~gistrants by such time. IN
most instances would be past - years.
1T at some indefinite future time
it should be necessary to 60 into the
deferred classinca4ions. class 3 OF the
earlier registrations viii Re exhausted
before class : OF the registration u
invaded" said Colonel Warren today.
The same VIII be true OF the more
deferred Consultations"
Continuous Reconsideration
The district boards win be contfn-
uously reclassffyinE mon Of the DE-
ferred classincations a. their status
changes in respect to dependencies or
occupations. Employers who secure
deferred classification for Fegtstrxn<s
on the grounds Of occupAtional neces-
sity are expected to notify the district
board when the occupattonal necessity
Is ended Employers expect this to
have a stAbiizing effect IN labor.
II imagine our men who arc given
o~ccupational d~efferencies VIII be more
likely to stick with US II thsy know
they will lose such deferred claafica-
tions when they lc1ve," EAid Chair