Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-16
NEWLY REGISTERED MEN
WILL SOON Be |NDuCTED
Drawing for Order Numbers May BE
Held rs Early as Sep
TENDER "a.
EARLIER ESTIMATES TOO HIGH
Definite Figures of Registration
Likely to BE Available To-Day.
washington Like Mining Camp"
Says Colonel Warren.

ASKING N. September 10
lightning speed TO put the mnn-power
OF the nation registered on Thursday
into training and increase the flow
OF men overseas to support Genera
Pershing and his armies In their big
drive is the effort OF the provost
marshal-generars office.
AS a result Colonel Warren. exccu-
tive officer of the office In the absence
OF General Crowder. announced yes
terday that It might be possible to
hold the drawing for the order num-
bers OF the new registration as early
as September "a. General Crowder has
previously announced tho tentative
date as October ..
Figures on the registration are COM
Ing In slowly and are not showing
the big increase indicated In the
earlier estimates. The only nnni re
port received SO far Is for the Dis
trict OF Columbia. 1t was the big In
crease In this figure which led the
provost marshal general to estimate a
registration OF So per cent In excess
OF the preliminary estimates.
The registration is more likely to
be about what our preliminary esti-
mates showed" said Colonel Warren
yesterday. state estimates are chang
ing constantly and we will announce
no figures until the State reports are
in. expect now 10 be able to give
definite figures on Monday"
The preliminary estimates were FOR
about l2S0o000 men. These were
raised TO 100000 on the basis OF
estimated figures from ten States and
the District OF Columbia
washington Is now Just like a
mining camp" said Colonel warren
There are thousands or temporary
residents here and these were invited
to register here"
LOCAL BOARDS ASSIGNING
SERIAL NUMBERS
Local boards are rushing the WORK
OF ASSIGNING serial numbers TO Thurs
numbers will be Enclosed to regis
trants OF the ninetecn-twcnty-y year
and thirty-two- thirty six year class
win the questionnatreS which now are
being mailed out Eigntccn-year-old
boys and men thirty-scven to forty
five Will not receive qucstionnnircs at
their serial numbers which will be
posted at registration booths by the
local boards.
Serial numbers will De assigned all
reSistrants and all will be included
In the big drawing for the order num-
bcrs. The ocal boards Will then with
draw the order numbers or the men
from thirty-Sevcn TO forty-fivc inclu-
sive. and boys of eighteen into a sep
arate group and the district BOARDS
will classify the men nineteen-twen,y
dependency or occupation
Then when calls are made on the
local boards for men. the men In class
!, in the order 'of their order numbers.
within the age group OF nineteen.
twenty and thirty two thirty-six. in
elusive: first Will be taken. After they
are exhausted: IL they shall be. class
! men of thirty-seyen TO forty-nyc
inclusive, and eighteen years will be
called IN the order OF their order num-
bers The eightecn-year-o regis
trants by such time. in most instances,
would be past nineteen years
"lf At some indefinite future time I,
should be necessary TO go into the
deferred classifcations. class OF tho
t sar resistranls will be exhausted
invaded, said Colonel warren. THE
same Will be true OF the more deferred
classificati ons"
The district boards will he con,in,
ously reclassifying men OF the deferred
ciassif'cations as their status change,
IN respect TO dependencies or occupn-
c c,aasiec sm1pioyers who secure deferred
grounds OF occupational necessity arc
expected TO notify the district board
when the occupational necessity Is
ended Employers expect this to have
a stablizing effect on labor
Il imagine our men who ar. eiv.,,
occupational Differences will he more
likely TO stick with us II they know
cations when they leave" said Char
man Hurley, of the Shipping Board.
Inc provost marshal-senernl's office
OF British subjects or Canadians u;ho
registered should be put in senararo
group and that such registrants would
not be subject to call until OCTOBER
opportunity to volunteer for their OWL,
national armies. This affects Britisa
subjects from twenty to forty-rour
years, inclusive.