The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-17

priorities Of service for approx
mately 100000 young men reg
istered July ! who had become
FL years old after the first
draft registration last year.
Secretary of War Stimson had
been scheduled TO- take the first
capsuled number from the 500
in the big jar, but Selective
Service Officials said he would
be unable to attend and the
honor passed to Secretary Knox
with Robert p. Patterson, I'm
dersecretary, representing the
War Department and drawing
the second number.
The total of numbers in the
Jar was determined on the basis
of the highest number of regis
trants in any one of the nations
$500 Selective Service districts.
The record, 661, was set in the
Sparrows Point district near
Baltimore, Md.
SAFETY NUMBERS
In addition to the 66l Officials
decided 1879 safety numbers"
should be drawn to take care
of those Fl year olds who were
out Of the country on July l or
who for some other reason may
register late.
The serial numbers drawn to-
night will be apportioned
among those held by about g.
600, 900 of the 1910 registrants
still unclassified.
II the first number drawn is
81, each man holding registra-
ton number 81 will be assigned
Sequence No. 1" in his Selec-
tive Service district. All hold
ing the second number drawn
will be assigned "S-2" and so on
until all registrants in each dis
trict have sequence numbers.
The indignation with old regis
trants then will work this way:
PROCEDURE
If a district has 200 old reg
istrants and 20 new ones the
ratio will be ten to one. The
new registrant holding "Se-
quence No. 1" will be subject
to call only after 10 men Of the
1910 group are called. $50"
will 60 in after the second group
of ten old registrants, and fine
last man on the list will be 49,
TO-"
The ceremony tonight will be
public; that is, about 700 seats
will be available for those ar
irving first. Special cards of
admission were required last
October when the drawing last
ed Is hours and President
Roosevelt with great ceremony
pulled out the first number.
Capsules of melon pink to
correspond with the color of the
July ! registration cards will be
used. The are opaque, as were
last years blue ones, but unlike
last years they are .non-inflam-
mable and have metal screw
caps to keep the slips of paper
inside from falling out when the
capsules are stirred.
TAKE PRECAUTIONS
Special precautions have been
taken to guard against any miss
ing numbers. Last year half a
dozen were unaccountcd for at
the end of the 18-hour grind
and a second little lottery" had
to be held after the losses were
discovered.
The capsules. filled In assem-
bly, line fashion by five picked
young women Tuesday, were
thoroughly mixed by shaking
them in a tarpaulin and then
were placed under Special Sec
ret Service Guard at the Treas
ury. They were to be moved to
the auditorium today under
heavy guard.
Brig. Gen. Lewis b. Hershey,
Deputy Director of Selective
Service, will open tonisht's
ceremony with q two-minute
speech. Then, Col. Charles r.
Morris, retired Army officer Of
Elizabeth, N. J., who blindfold-
ed President Wilson for the
critical draw In the World War
draft, will cover the eyes OF
Secretary Knox.
After Undersecretary Patter
son draws the second number,
General George G. Marshall,
Army Chief of Staff, will take
out the third; Rear Admiral
Chester w. Nimitz, Chief Of the
Nays Bureau of Navigation,
the fourth; Major General
Thomas Holcomb, CQmmandant
of Marines, the fifth; Chairman
Reynolds (D-NC) Of the Senate
Military Committee, the sixth;
Chairman May (D-Ky) Of the
House Military Committee, the
seventh, and Rep. Wadsworth
(R-NY), an author Of the Selec-
tive Service Act, the eighth.
Then one representative each