The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-06-27
SECRE TARY OF WAR.
bL|NOFOLDEO, TAKES
OUT FIRST NUMBER
Drawing Is Held in Conference
Room of Senate, Order Of Call
of 744,500 Youths Fixed by
Drawing.

nv AssociAvIJ PREss
Washington, Jane 2t- The draw
.uE of numbers fu determine the or.
dog m which youths ot tho GLASSES
ut l1Is W.ll ho called into military
service was conducted here tnduy
with much thc same ceremony which
marked the great drawing ut year
ago
Tins time. however. 10 Va~ much
smaller affair and u yioV ot the fact
that the classification system more
nearly determines the order Of SER
vice than does the actual numerical
order, Il WAS not surrounded with
such dramatic interest
The drawing was aclI u the great
conference room ut tho senate office
building wuh secretary Baker blind
folded taking the first Eclatino cap
sulc, with q number enclosed, from
the glHss bowl II was number 2i6.
Numbers ll6N aud SIS were the see
und and third, respectively and thus
the drawing continued tu tho end
Big blnckhuards .pr ,lco;ing the
record were placed against the wall
at the rear of tho room The num-
her~ were written ru the board ns
drawn ana then the board was pho
tugrtphcd tu malS" permanent. IN
conference.-the record
Historic events OF a lttlu less than
q year ago we're rcpcat ted az from
large glass bowl IN committee room
90 the senate office building we're
drawn the numbers representing tli.-
500 youths the majority ot whom
within a few months viii he enrolled
IN the forces fighting for democracy
and against rrussiguism
Secretary Baker. members ~ the
senate ANA house military committee
aud other high government officials
witnessed the drawing hy hhndfuld-
ed mcu OF the little capsules from
uIp howl. each uf the capsules con
tanning q muster number 10 be- ap-
piled in the t5UU registration dis,
tricts of th" country, according to
the total registration
Tho setting fuu the lottery was q
duplicate Of that of july 30 last when
the drawing ut ,U,,OU numbers de-
tcrmiuod the liability tor service of
approximatciy l0u0o, o0o men.
Today drawing was To determine
only the rclatiN" summoning To- the
cOiors OF the new registrants as fin-
ally classified hy the local boards.
All Of the youths whose numbers
were drawn today viii be assigned
10 the various five CLASSES The new
rcgistrnnts viii hc placed ~ the foot
uf tho list IN each class iu the order
in which their numbers are drawn
today.
Statements made recently hv Pro
vust Marshal General Cruwdcr aud
Secretary Baker Indicate that all OF
the new rrgistrants placed ia class
one will Toe called before the end of
the year
The first few numbers tu bo drawn
were taken from tnc bowl shortly
after $3.50 O'Clock boy secretary BakCr.
Later attaches of the office Of Pro.
yost Marshal General CruwGcr we're
blindfuided aud Withdrew the cap
sules. As the numbers were drawn,
they were announced nud written on
"a large blackboard, when the board
WAS filled, II was removed 10 be pho
tographod and another substituted
In comparison with tho $500
numbers required To- hc drawn "A year
ago, onls 200 numbers were drawn
today The district having the larg-
est number of men 80 register juno
=, reported somewhat less than 600
registrunts. To provide for late reg
istrants and emergencies It was de-
cided to draw Loo numbers
The 'maStor numbers" drawn to-
day amply to the number. on ;he
rcgistratiou cards Of the rcristrauts
In the drawing of It year ago serial
numbers were assigned hut this was
deemed unnecessary in the present
drawing because OF the fewer regis
trants
AFTER Sccrctar, Eak,r had taken
ont th, first capsule, senator cham
hcrlain aud Warren, Ecproscu, dives
Dent and KAHN Generals March,
'rowdcr, Colonies Charles y. Mdrrer
ana i :. Easily smith and Major -.
g. Kramer, in order stepped up TO
draw
Major Billy' Wcllhorn. woman
clerk M the provost marshal gen
oral's offico. then drew the eleventh
number and proceeded to draw al
the others, as tho tollors recorded
them
Draft number one came out In the
Giith capsule