The daily Alaskan., 1918-02-20
ALASKANS WILL
 BE CALLED
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number drawn was placed at the top of column one of the Master List, and this order was followed unt'l all of the numbers drawn were CCmOiled in the exact order . D which they were drawn. Part Il, page 199. Selectiye Service Regulations, provides as follows:
 "Tne Master List controls
 and determines the exact or
 der iu which the persons whose
 registration cards are in the
 possession of the respective
 loc'l boards or may hereafter
 be received by said local board
 are liable to be called by the
 local board for military service.
 Immediately upon receipt
 of these regulations place a
 cnecT mark after every num-
 OCT in the Master List which
 at tEe present time appears in
 the Serial Number column on
 Form 1922
 Thus, it is seen, the new Selec- tive Service Regulations presuppos- ed the fact that the order numbers had Oeen determined under the old regulations, as Form 102 is the of ficial form for listing the order as determined hereunder. But the order numbers having not been assigned in Alaska, at the time the new regulations became effect i've. there was no course left open for the boards in the Territory eX- ceot to determine the order num- bers by comparison of the serial numner list with the Master List, as provided in part II and sections 6S and 69 of the new regulations.
 This assginment of numbers takes the place of the formal draw ings under the old regulations, the list c, implied from the original draw jbG held at Washington being deem- cd 10 be equivalent to a general drawing of all numbers correspond ir herewith in the possession of every board throughout the United States. The order in which these numbers were drawn, together with the class number of the registrant, determines the order in which each man $ required to report for mili- tary duty.
 "E ? way of illustration, supposing that he reg,strant who holds the . .'~st lumber drawn is classified, when his questionnaire is returned in Class l, he will be the first man called by his board for military iu-y, and supposing that the second rog!slrant whose number was drawn by the same board, being Order No.  2, is classified in Class 2 when his is returned, the board would skip over him when it calls its quota for service, and call the next number classified in Class 1. In his way, all registrants in Class 1 will be called and examined as .o their qualifications for military service, before any of the regis .raLts in Class ? are called. Then Ill Of the registrants in Glass 2 would be called in the order in vnicn their numbers appear on the orde~ number list, before those in Class 3 are called, and SO on, un- il Class is reached which Is deferred classification, being equivalent to permanent ex- or discharge.
 "IH other words the group of reg strants within the jurisdiction of each local board is taken to be the init 70 be classified. Within each ,lass inc order of liability is deter nlneH by the drawing, the order lumher being the distinguishing nar'r which identifies each regis ran. for service in the same classi- 'icaticn, while those of the lowest are called first and hose of the higher classifications allpd in the order in winch they Ire reached after all preceding lassigications are exhausted.-Em-