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sary to move ahead one place eve

sary to move ahead one place every
serial number after Order No. TAI.
What happened to the two missing
numbers no one knew.
Aside from the three errors, the
drawing of the 1000 numbers con-
tinued through the night with clock
like precision.
The master order lists which fix
the sequence in which an eStimat-
ed 100000 men may be called to
serve their country, on the front
lines or in industries, were to speed
by air mail late today to local Sc
lective service boards from Puerto
Rico to Hawaii.
The drawing reached its maxi
mum speed around 3 am. when
a high OF 600 numbers an hour was
noted. Gen. Hershey was on the
stage to cheer his workers, but in
the audience were less than a dozen
people.
Spectators Doze.
As the voice of the announcer
droned on, repeating each number,
several spectators dozed on the
comfortable leather seats. One man
slept on his wifes shoulder while
another slept so soundly that even
the photographers flash bulb failed
to wake him.
Alert and interested in the &C
tivities before her was the wife OF
4 building guard who had come
down to spend the evening with
him. She explained the drawing
didn't affect my men" because her
only two sons are already in the
Army, one with the expeditionary
force in Iceland.
Girl employees Of selective serv-
ice worked in two-hour shifts. The
stenographers who kept a record
for the press as we'll as for double
checking purposes took of their
shoes and typed wearily on.
At the top OF the master lists
rushed through the Government
Printing ONCE today is No. 3485,
which does not apply to a single
registrant in the District Of nearby
Maryland and Virginia. 1t was
drawn by Secretary of War Slim
son to start the lottery shortly
after pm. yesterday.
No District board had enough new
registrants to be affected by the
second number drawn, No. 1850,
which Secretary Of Navy Knox
pulled from the bowl. but five
boards in the nearby area were
large enough.
Fourth Involves Boards.
It was the fourth number drawn
that decided which Is District men
who registered February l6 would
head their local board order lists Of
new registrants. This number,
which also affected the remaining
nearby boards, was AL, drawn by
Representative Wadsworth, Repub-
lican, of New York, a co-author OF
the Selective Service Act.
When District local boards receive
their master order lists tomorrow or
the next day, they will merely
scratch of the serial numbers above
the top number in their boards and
proceed to the business of setting up
their local board order lists.
Long before the last of the 1000
| bright-green capsules bearing num-
bers was drawn, some sheets OF
numbers we're on their way to the
Government Printing Office to be
photographed and rushed back fol
a final check.
Questionnaires to Go Out.
From the Government Printing
Office, when every number was
checked against a film made during
the drawing, were to 60 $500 master
order lists. AS soon as individual
boards draw up their own order
lists, they will start sending out
questionnaires in the order in which
the new registrants' numbers were
drawn in the lottery.
By early June, the first Of the new
registrants will be called. The pos
sibility that some of these men may
find themselves building airplanes
i TduleI CIldIl 1y1lS lAlCu1 "oo 'SASSS
by Brig. Gen. Hershey in his 80.
second address Immediately before
the drawing began.
Pointing out that modern war de-
mands a great variety of tasks from
the citizens of a nation, Gen. Her
shey declared:
Men are selected to fly airplanes;
they may be selected to build air.
planes. Men should be selected to
man ships: they should be selected
to build ships. Men have been Sc
lected to drive tanks-to gain VIC
tory on the battlefields Men have
been selected to drive tractors-to
produce food in the grain fields"
Production Must Go On.
While he said nothing must him
der the systematic and orderly pro-
curement and training Of our armed
forces, he went on to assert that
nothing, not even the procure
ment Of our armed forces. must in
terfere with the time table Of pro-