The chronicle-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1920-1941, 1940-11-01
THE NUMBER "15S- NOW
BECOMES HISTORICAL
PART OF U. S. DEFENSE
First Number Called In selecsive Service Lottcry Completed
In Washington Wednesday. Floyd Hatten Of
Moss Point Gets II

, Latest un0ffNMs i~rgurrantsNn
states Ehaf aksoxS 40 rnen viii b.
drafted into service from each cls-
9at waneh means that npgw0x-
nse9 no 1AckSsn Coznty regis
uants VIII be called
Tnn& Esen viii BE- caiiea between
o std June / when tne quota
for Tire first draft Is exfectcd 70
have reached 8o0a0a ClfAclAlE in
Washington fn the face q . threat
erred delay because az tannl tests due
- TIRE los q SIX q the bus eaYNu1es
containing the draft Numbers con
tusue 70 make plans for the nrxt
cali Substitutes were pat Ia and
= second b3txgy drawn. Included
IL ue lost numbers was 1855. held
br Roylee Taylor. vancleave. In
jackson County.
While officials arr going ahead
70 cal the frs draft IN spite Of the
threatened court PROCEEDINGS. n Is
generally believed that there VIZ BE-
sufficient volunteers and enlist
uenu 70 take care az the initial
call
There we're 1000 numbers drawn
although there were less than s6O0
men allotted TO each district A DIS
Uirt IN Baltimore. Nd. had the
largeE number OF men. hsting 1900
Plans are to have 10000 IN uni-
form hy February Is
The National Selective Service lot
terry was completed "Wednesday
morning IN Washington and 27os
young men IN jackson County Tcg
await their Consultations In the Ma
uons greatest peace time draft.
With the opening OF the national
lottery. which method WA used IA
selecting the drafteeS, sifnultRne-
os16ly. the number -i6s" became 8
historical number, as Il waS con-
tanned in the first capsule and desiR-
mated the first 6i7S men throughout
the nation vino were the first to be
called 70 Servtre. This number Was
selected b. President Franklin ID
Roosevelt who opened the lottery
following impressive ceremonies.
Those listening TO the proceedings
we're somewhat startled when the
first number was called as Mrs.
Harry S Bell who was IN the audi
boriuHn IN Washington. tugoluntzxiiy
screamed Is her son. Robert who
vas q years old the day following
the draft order. "a number one Of
those holding Eumber si58."
Floyd Eatten OF Moss Point was
among those holding the number
~lss. He could not be reached Tor
q statement as about two weeks
$50 he m0pe6 from there and left
Arkansas 10 seek work. accord
~ to 1ezgnborS. HIS wife and
- are vaasaE@ reAatives in Wig
gins
4 Is said in Washington that
those holding the first $50 numbers
called will be called for service first
In the number there are III from
Jackson County.
Felix Edward KittreIl Of Big
Point was the second jackson C0un-
lan whose number was called, and
the third was Edgar Vernon Shields
Of Kreole KitueIl held number
Is2 and Shields. los. Others from
the county whose numbers were
among the first selected were Crab
mel William Walker (col) 1913
Market street Pascagoula. No 244i,
4ths Vernon McLemore. 40 Church
Street, Ocean Springs. No. 1858. 5th:
Joseph Malcolm Iennep. Escatawpa,
No i68. 9th; Vidiman A. Small, n.
Pascagoulz St. PaScagouIa. No. 40,
7th. Win Hayes Hinton. Harleston
No 2670. 9Th; Alfred Eugene Hurd.
Orange Grove. No 245i. 9th; Sol
onon Reddlx tcol). vancleave, No
2698. 10th. Calvin L. Han. Gun
Hills. Ocean Springs toolJ, No. S4s,
iith: and Wiley Thomson, Kreole
fcoil. No. 16f. 18th
Should any OF these be rejected
for service II excused. requirements
will be filled from succeeding num-
bers.
A complete unofficial list Of the
numbers and the jackson County
registrants and the order In which
their name were called viii be
found In todays issue Of the Chron-
Icie-Star.