Evening star., 1941-07-10
DR.. Mc||waine Quits
As Chairman Of Draft
Board in Alexandra
Postor Says Church Work
Necessitutes Resignation
Classifying Nearly Done

The resignation of DR. William B.
McIlWaine as chairman of the Alex
andria Selective Service Board was
accepted yesterday by State head
quarters in Richmond, board Off
cials announced today.
DR.. McIlwaine sent his resigna-
tion to headquarters week ago,
declaring he felt he should devote
his energies more to his church
than to the selective service board.
He is pastor of the Second Presby-
terian Church.
In his letter of resignation DR..
McIlwaine declared:
1T has been a joy and a privilege
to be able to serve my country,
especially since I was unable to
serve during the last war"
The other members of the Alex
andria board, Elliott F. Hoffman and
Edmund F. Ticer, jr., learned of the
resignation yesterday at a meeting
Of the board in the city post office.
1t is expected State headquarters
will name a successor to DR.. Nc
Ilwaine next week.
Numbering Nearly Done.
Selective Service Board workers
In Arlington County and Alexandria
had virtually completed shuf1ing
and numbering the registration
cards of the 701 men who registered
July under the second registration.
The cards of 337 Arlington and
1854 Alexandria registrants were
shuffled and numbered at a late
hour last night in preparation for
the national lottery on July II.
Clerks in the draft boards today
were filling in prepared sheets for
posting in the Arlington County
Court House and the Alexandria
City Post Office, where 21-year- old
registrants must go to find their
serial numbers. On these sheets will
be listed, as in the first selective
service registration, the serial num-
bers, names. addresses and race of
the registrants. Registrants will be
unable to find out their order num-
bers on the day of the drawing
unless they first know their serial
numbers.
l to IL Ratio to Be Used.
A. Addison Slaymaker, chief clerk
OF the Alexandria board, said Alex
andria youths who registered July l
would probably be called in a ratio
Of l to II with old registrants.
These approximate odds are arrived
at, Mr.. Slaymaker said, by dividing
the number of new registrants (364)
into the number of old registrants
not yet either indicted or deferred.
So far 2,036 men out of Alexandria's
key number of 5,769 have been de-
ferred or inducted.
Under this setup, one new name
Will be inserted after the names of
every 18th old registrant from num-
Der 3,733 on up the list of order
numbers at the Selective Service
Board
1 to Is Ratio in Arlington.
Arlington Board No. said its
new registrants would be fitted into
the precedence list at a ratio of,
! to Is with old registrants. Clerks
at the board said 1855, the highest
number of registrants, minus 2.975.
the highest number of men either
deferred or indicted, left a kew
number of 1877. The board regis
tered 133 men on July / and this
figure divided into 1877 would cause
new registrants to be inserted on
precedence lists, roughly, between
every 18th and 18th man listed in
the first registration.
Arlington Board 2, which regis
Tered 204 on July !, will order up
their registrants rapidly, in a ratio
of about one new registrant to two
or three old. Of 5,OO5 old regis
trants, 4,4O0 have already been
either deferred or inducted, leaving
only sos old registrants yet unclas-
sif1ed.
Meanwhile, the Alexandria board |
announced the names of "a white |
men who will be inducted into the |
Army at Richmond next Monday.
This call, the 18th, originally asked |
Tor IS men. However, IL men were
found to be over % years of age
after the list had been completed
and were withdrawn.
Inductees Are Listed.
The men scheduled for induction