Evening star., 1941-07-16
.21.Year-0|ds
To Be Inducted
In September
Top Numbers in New
Lottery Expected in
Quotes That Month

The first of the 21-year- -olds whose
numbers are drawn in the second
selective service lottery in the De-
partmental Auditorium tomorrow
night probably will be inducted into
the Army in September, local selec-
tive service officials disclosed today.
Although the Army already has
made clear its eagerness to get the
21-year -olds into uniform, the factor
of time is virtually insurmountable
obstacle to early induction of the
new men, selective service spokes-
man said.
Except for few men, the July call
from the District is complete and
men for the August call are already
taking their physical examination, it
was explained.
At the same time, the official
pointed out, certain amount of
time must be allowed before the
local boards will be able to call the
new men. Officials expect at least
weeks interval after the lottery
before the official master sequence
lists are sent out from the Govern
ment Printing ONCE.
Numbers to Be Integrated.
When the local boards get the
master lists, they must be given
time to eliminate the serial numbers
above the top numbers of the new
men in their boards. The new men
must then be integrated with the old
and their order numbers determined
Allowing five days more for the
missionaries to go out and be re-
turned and another few days for
classification, and figuring that three
weeks customarily elapse between
the time a man takes his physical
examination and induction. the
official figured it would be well into
August before the local boards had
any new men ready for induction.
The official disclosed. however,
that the September quotas prob
ably will be filled mainly by the
2l-year- This is due partially
to the fact that midnight June 80
was chosen as the freezing date"
from which to figure the number of
old registrants still available for
service.
The new men are to be inserted at
proportlonate intervals between all
the old registrants not inducted by
midnight June 30. Since a number
of the old registrants will have al
ready answered July and August
calls, the new men with low Sc
quence numbers will automatically
come to the top of the list, the
official explained.
Some Automatically Eliminated.
The order deferring men of % or
over as we'll as the request to re-
classify, if necessary, men with de-
pendents into a deferred status will
also automatically eliminate from
induction a number of the men with
whom the 21-year- -olds are being
integrated
Most of the 300 numbers drawn
in the lottery tomorrow night will
be taken out of the historic gold
fish bowl by selective service in
ductees who have earned their
stripes as non CONS"
Fifty of these non-commissioned
officers. seven of them from COL
ored regiments, will be brought to
Washington from six nearby Army
posts and will be entertained here
by patriotic and civic organizations.
The inductees will draw all the
numbers remaining after the first
ones have been drawn by cabinet
officers, members of Congress, War
and Navy Department officials and
representatives of veterans organ
izations.
The contingents of inductees will
be brought here from Fort Meade.
Md; Langley Field, Va; Fort Bel
voir, Va; Camp Lee, Va; Fort Story,
Va, and Fort Dix, N. j.
Committees to Receive.
They will be met by reception
committees of the American Legion.
Disabled American eVterans. Mill
tary Order of the Purple Heart,
Catholic War Veterans. Veterans of
Foreign Wars, Jewish War Veterans,
Irish War Veterans. Regular Veter-
ans Association and the Guard of
Honor.
At national selective service head
quarters they will be welcomed
by Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey.
deputy director of Selective Service,
who will give them instructions
about their participation IN the
lottery.
After dinners in their honor, the
inductees will go to the Depart
mental Auditorium where The lot
terry begins at 7 pm.
The goldfish bowl, used in the
World War draft lotteries and in
the first Selective Service lottery
last October, was to oe brought to
Washington this afternoon for use
in the lottery.
The bowl is on permanent exhi-
bition in Independence Hall, Phila-
delphia.