The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-09-14
PERSH|NG HEARS OF
NATIONS RESPONSE
Reports Show Registration Elk
ceeds Estimates of Number
Enrolled.
FIGURES ON CLASS ONE
Enough Men Available to Meet
Calls for Ten Months At
Present Rate of 100000
Every 30 Days.

Washington, Sept. i3.--The wireless
flashed the news to General Pershfng
today that America had again gone
( over the top" in her registration of
man power and that her armies would
be limit1ess to crush the German
hordes. Provost Marshal-G eral
Crowder sent this message to General
Pershing:
The nation responded yesterday
with an enrolment which promises to
exceed ali estimates thus assuring an
uninterrupted flow of man power to
the army under You"
General Crowder does not expect to
have any formal total estimate on the
registration until tomorrow night, but
preliminary estimates from eleven
states show "a registration of SIS per
cent in excess OF the preliminary dg-
ures made before the registration. II
this excess holds up throughout the
nation. the registration will run close
to 100000 instead Of the 12.s0o. 600
expected
The provost marshal-generars office
figures that II this proportion is main
tained in the various classes, the man
power of class of yesterdays regis
tration, which had previously been
estimated at s.5aSooo will exceed
2.soo,ao while that of the group from
thirty-two to tAirtysix years and
nineteen and twenty years within that
class and who are to be called TO the
colors beginning shortly after Octo-
Der !. will be in excess of 1.s2s.ton in
stead of the 1900 900 estimated
| With calls for men at the rate OF
$50, 600 & month, az is now the sched-
ule, this group will supply the calls
for six months. while the entire class
Of yesterdays registration will meet
the demands for ten months. when q
new registration of 100000 men be-
coming eighteen years Of age may be
ordered.
Estimated totals OF state rsgtstra-
ton were received today from pArkan-
sss, District of Column bia, Minnesota.
Mississippi, Oregon. Rhode Island
Tennessee. Vermont, Virginia and
Wisconsin.
Local boards in New York. Phila-
dslphia and the District of Columbia
view with each other for the honor of
making the 6rst complete report to
( General Crowders office. Local boards
40 and 40 OF Philadelphia and 1877 OF
New York sent messengers to the
capital with their figures. but local
board No 5 Of the District had beaten
them In.
II the local boards are able to keep
their schedule in sending out the
questionnatres to the first group of
registrsnts to be classified for call,
the dra probably will be held in
Washington on October ?. Plans for
IL are now being made. II Is TO be
made an inspiring patriotic ceremony.
ostmaster-General Rurieston today
authorized the telegraph and tele-
phone companies to fle claims for de-
! ferred classihcations for such en-
ployes as the division chiefs shall de-
tcrrnne are absolutely indispensable
to the operation OF the service"
The United states Emergency Fleet
I corporation announced that II would
not ask deferred classihcations for any
/ employe who would otherwise be
! placed in class ] except those abso-
| lutely essential in furthering the
/ production OF ships or equipment. but
| that II would ask deferred classiAca-
ton of some employees likely to be
| placed in class 2 or class II 1t re-
| CARDS these men essential to fur
! therinE its output
| 1t is appointing committees to deter
| mine what men will be regarded as
h, essential and will notify them of this
| determination The employees will be
asked to abide by the decision OF the
committees and to accept the deferred
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