The Nome nugget., 1942-03-16
Third Selectiye Service Lottery Is
 Held Today In Washington, D. C.

The third national Selectve Service lottery will be held in Washington March IT when order numbers for the regstrants who enrolled this month to swell this Nations vast pool of potential manpower will be de- termined National Headquarters, Selective Service System announced today.
 In all probability approximately eight or nine thou sand capsules will be drawn in this first wartime lot tery since 1918 and the third since enactment of the Seectve Training and Service Act of 1940
 Under present plans, the order numbers of the reg istrants who enrolled of February Is, will not be integrated in the old master lists the order numbers of the men who registered on July l, 1941 in the second Selective Service Registration Conse quenty it is not expected that any of the February regstrants will be induced in the mediate future.
 It is contemplated that registrants in the third reg israOn will not be called until they have answered their questionnares and have been classified, which, probably will not be before May according to expect ations of National Headquarters Prior to May, all War Department quotas necessarily must be filled from 21 to 35, inclusive who registered in l940 and Al
 1f while the February regisrants are being classi fled, the War Department requests men In age groups from 21 to 35 years, the quotas will from the 1940 and 1941 regsrants If the request for of the 3rd registration the calls will be filled by the February, 1922, regstrans.
 Serial numbers issued to the registrants by the local boards in the prescribed by SelectiVe Service Regulations, will be marked IT, T-2, and so on to designate the Third Registration enrolees and the numbers in the capsules drawn in the third lottery on March F will begin with the number 10,00l This beginning with the 10,00l number is because some 5000 numbers drawn in the first lottery and 300 in the second It decided therfore by Ma tona Headquarters to numbers from l0,00l up to between 18 000 and 19,000 in the third lottery
 Capsules. containing the numbers drawn in the lot tery of March IT will be green-he color as the registration cards used in the third registration The drawing will be made in the lnterdepartmental Audi torum, Washington, D. C.. a Government building and the of the two previous Selective Service drawings
 When the March IF drawing is completed the Mas List for this Third SeectiVe Service Lottery will be forwarded to State Directors of SelectVe Service and by them to local boards so that local boards may set up their individual order lists
 According to current plans, the first numbers will be drawn by high officials of the National Government amid solemn ceremonies in keeping with the gravity of the times. Representatives of the armed forces and members of Congress are certain, also to participate in the drawing. The program in general Grlg. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey Director of Selective Service, has announced will duplicate, for the most part, that which carried through the two preceding lotteries.
 The ceremonies will be open to the public accord ing to the General and publication of numbers drawn and regstrants affected will be permitted in commun- ities where the regStrants reside
 General Hershey pointed out that qualification of order numbers even names, In communities, IS au- thorized, such publication will not reveal exactly the total number of regstrans enrolled throughout the Nation in the February regstration-information which is still restricted by the War Department"
 The number of capsules used for the drawing will be determined by the highest number of regStrants reported by any local board that iS for example, if board reports 5000 rgeistrans it will be nec essary to draw at least that many numbers. However only local board will have this highest number of regisrants in all probability, and many local boards will have only few hundred, lottery statistics could not convey any helpful information to enemy nations the General said.
 In the first two Selectve Service lotteries capsules drawn from the historic goldfish bowl that wasl used in the first lottery of the World War in 1917 andl it is planned to bring this conainer to WashngI ton from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where it is kept for in the March IT lottery