Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-26
D. T.. Men Jam
Draft Centers
To Get Numbers
All But One of ~
Local Boards
Post Listings
BULLETIN.
Draft Board Area No. 10, loaded


cards, the largest in the country,
will be subdivided into two areas
to be known as Nos Is and Is,
local selective headquarters an
nounced this afternoon. All reg
istration cards will be redis-
tributed according to boundaries
of the new areas, remembered,
reshuffled and relisted, officials
said All staff men at headquar-
tiers and at No. Is were recalled
Immediately, with view to COM
pleting the process by Monday
morning.
Thousands of Washington selec-
tive service regiStrants f1ocked to
their local boards today to learn
their serial numbers, first of two
figures that will determine the order
in which they will bs summoned for
possible military seAvice.
Long lists of names and numbers
were posted on bulletin boards in
% of "a local board headquarters
simultaneously at noon today. One
board-No. 13-had not completed
its lists, the longest yet reported
in the country. with 1851 names.
Draft officials Immediately con-
ferred to decide on how to divide
the registrants of this board area
in compliance with a suggestion by
national selective service head
quarters.
Some so or 60 registrants who
showed up at No Is headquarters
Henry Elementary School, Sew
enth and P streets N.W.-were dis
persed shortly after noon with the
announcement that the board area
was to be divided and that they
would have to wait until Monday
to obtain their serial numbers.
Police Guard Centers.
Policemen were ordered to duty
at each of the posting ccnters to
forestsll any difficulties in connec-
ton with the rush of registrants
to determine their serial numbers
officials emphasized two points:
/. Numbers posted today are not
order numbers. The latter are TO
be determined Tuesday in the ma
tional lottery, which will be based
on the serial numbers.
2 Ample time is available for all
registrantS to see their numbers
There is no necessity to rush the
posting centers. They will be open
until 8 O'Clock tonight. from noon
to pm. tomorrow and from 4 pm.
to pm. Monday, before the lottery,
and during similar hours after the
national drawing.
All serial numbers posted in the
District today will be matched in
capsules to be drawn from a bowl
Tuesday-when the second and final
chance number will be determined.
The national lottery will result In
the order in which the serial num-
bers finally appear for the purposes
of the draft.
Space for Order Number.
Numbers posted today have been
listed on the registrants' cards.
signed and turned over to local draft
boards last week On each card is
another space to be filled in with
an order number after the lottery.
The lists as posted are taking
up more than 1890 square feet
of bulletin board space in the
city. They average in excess of 200
sheets per draft board If the
sheets for all the board areas were
laid end to end they would extend
roughly, from the White House to
the Capitol.
As the lists are posted numer-
ically, not alphabetically. it was ex-
pected some time would be required
for a registrant to find his number.
Several boards. anticipating this
bottleneck, have prepared card in
dex files arranged alphabetically
from which the visiting registrants
will be advised of their numbers so
they can determine them officially
from the list almost Immediately.
In 10 elementary schools in use
as draft board headquarters, the
lists we're to be posted in corridors.
At Central, Calvin Coolidge, Lang
ley Junior and Anacostia Junior
Senior High School gymnasiums
were to be utilized, while at Eastern
High the armory was to be the
posting point.
Meanwhile, the condition of Clar-
ence Redman, IS, member of local
Draft Board No. 6, who collapsed
late yesterday at board headquar-
tiers in the Raymond Elementary
(See D. c. DRAFT, Page A-4D