Weekly journal-miner., 1918-09-18
REGISTRATION IN CITY EXCEEDS
 1000 MARK
MANY RECRUITS ADDED
 TO LISTS OF THOSE ELI GIBLE FOR MILIT AIRY
 DUTY; LACK OF SUP PLIES MAKES TROUBLE.
firm EridaY-s DailYl


 More than 1000 men registered for military service in this city yester- day, the exact number being l,076 Because of the fact that the registra- ton officials ran out of supplies dur ing the afternoon, the issuance of the small blue registration cards had to be suspended and the men who regis tered thereafter and did not get these cards will receive them later by mail after the adjutant general has fur nished a new supply to the local board. Nearly 800 of these cards win have to be mailed during the next few weeks.
 Divided by races, the registrants yesterday were as follows: White, lO04: negro, 40; Mexican (aliens) l45: oriental, Y: Indian. H. The Indians who registered will be eligible for draft by reason of the fact that they are chased as citizen Indians be- cause of their having held govern ment land and having gone through some sort of a naturalization process. Practically all of the Mexicans who signed up did so as aliens and did not wish to join the army.
 The registration places in the city did a rushing business during the morning hours. The number of regis trants between the ages of IS and Zl was comparatively small, the bulk or the list being composed of the older men. Ii is understood that the authorities already have their eye. on a number of men who did not regis ter. and local stacker drive will be instituted immediately.
 It is believed that the lack Of blue registration cards is going to ser. iouslv delay the selection of the first contingent of the new draftees in this county. It will be several days before the cards will be in the hands of the local board. and after they arc received. they will have to be filled out and then mailed to the men who should have received them yesterday Then the drawing will come and after that each registrant will have to be assigned an order number along with his serial designation. Then the auestionnaires will have to be mailed out and a space of seven days allow ed for their return to the local board. When these are all back, the board will have the job of sorting them out as respects the various claims for deferred exemptions. and those in touch with the situation are wonder ing how all of these steps can be sDccdcd up so as to allow the first shipment of men to be made carly in October as per the present plan or the war department.
 The re9istrants, numbered accord ing to their ages. were as follows: IS, B: lo. g: 2O, 54: 2l. 10: 2, s. B :: 24. /: g. i: 26 3: ?, ?: 2S, ?: g. :: 30. 3: 3l. ;: B. 40; B, 9o: 34, g: B. @: 36, 4S: g, 6o: 3S, 7S: 39, 54: 4N 65: Il, 5: 42, g: 43, 4; A, O: 4. 63.
 It will be noted that there were number of rcgistrants between the ages of 21 and 3l who apparently should have been listed at previous registrations, but Chief of Police Bloom explains this by saying that with one or two exceptions the men of these ages who registered ycster- day were Mcxicans who had arrived in the United States since the date of the last general registration. One or two of the number were slackcrs, and their cases will be taken up by the authorities later.
 The full list of the names of those who registered for service yesterday will be printed in the Journal Miner as soon as the records arc avlilable.