The Oskaloosa herald., 1918-06-27
0RAFFT LOTTERY j.
FOR new GLASS
WILL BEtAELDsAT WA sHINeToN
FRIDAY MORNING.
100000 IOWA men IN ARMY
Gail sor 2seleetives To Report July
22'ereatly EhIarSes states Force
youths Just Registered Not
H. Affected by the Call. {

washington, June. 25.-The draft
lottery for the newly registered 21-
year-old men will be conducted in
the senate Office building beginning
jat nine o'clock on Friday morning,
Secretary Of War Baker announced
Officially today. The drawing will
be held with formal ceremony, like
that which fixed the order, of nearly
10,00Q,000 registrants year ago. The
plan is understood TO be modifiea-
ton Of the original scheme.
The law provides that the 1918
tregistrants shall be placed at the
bottom Of the classes to which they
may be assigned by the local boards
on the basis OF their missionaries.
A very large proportion of the nearly
100000 registrants are expected go
in Class,1.H =
Capsules Win Be Used.
All arrangements were completed
for the drawing late today APPROX
Mately one thousand two hundred
lottery numbers will be placed in
small capsules and drawn from huge
bowls in the conference room of the
Senate Office building.
The drawing win require about two
hours. .a.... ..
The frst' large call for, the ,draftees
for general military service. during
the month of July is expected to be
issued by Provost Marshal General
Crowder. 3'''5 u" vs. ." S. ~
SssI-.S q - -4y D. #wgE ,n4, Z hss8>N e.
- Many. Added to Glass One. ID.
From the, present indications about
three hundred thousand men will be
added, to Glass through the reclassi-
fication Of deferred classes by the
local boards it was unofflcially an.
rounced at the Provost Marshal
! Generals office here today. -.
Here in Washington alone from
fifteen hundred to three thousand
men have been added to Glass 1 by
The local boards out of approximate
ly population of four hundred
thousand ., ...'r... -. Nat
1t was stated that the same per.
centage would hold for the rest of
the nation.
az 10000 From Iowa.
Des Moines, June 25-lowa will have
more than 10000 men in the national
army service when the 1899 men
called on Saturday report for duty by
the end of the five days period start
ing July %.
Three thousand Iowans are report
ing at Camp Dodge this week under
the call known as 657 for men to re
port in the five-day period from June
"a to %. This contingent will swell the
total to more than $4,000, according to
unofficial estimates made at the ad-
jutant generals Office. The call made
Saturday for men to report in the
five day period starting July % will
place the total considerably beyond
the 10000 mark. ..... '.ss.
The adjutant generals office Is now
figuring out the quotas as required
under this call. 1t is thought most
probable that many districts will not
have a sufficient number Of men in
Class /, to meet this call, u the plan
followed heretofore is carried out 9th
or districts may be called on to make
up the deficit. .S|'...."
Recent Registrars Not included,
u The boys who registered on June 5
OF this year having become 81 years Of
age since. June 5, 1917, will of course
not be included in this call. These boys
have not all received their question
naires and have not vet been classified
and are not therefore officially, in the
draft lists.
The Iowans are being sent to the
southern training camps, 1t is thought,
because Camp Dodge is filed to ca.
pacity. 1t is understood Camp Dodge
is to be enlarged to care for 10000
more men. making 1t $4,000 camp in
stead OF a 10000, as It is at present,
but this has not yet been officially
ordered and II will require some time
for the building so that the new add
tion will probably not be, ready until
early in the fall. al f,
On June I, Iowa had approximately
24.064 men in Glass 1. The call fol
5000 to report this week reduced this
TO 21,OO00. There have also been mum
erous inductions during June thus fol
The reclassifications have added some
men to Glass /, while few have beer
rejected because of physical disquali
'fication or placed in the limited serv
ice class.