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Show BliG 48 Brief Messages From Governors Will Provide Pro-vide Provost Marshal General's Office With Summarization of Registration Reg-istration Throughout the United States. TERRITORIES TO REGISTER LATER Officials Declare There Is No Indication of An' Concerted Anti - Conscription Con-scription Movement; Agitation in Various Sections Said to Be Purely Local. WASHINGTON, June 4. Iu striking contrast to the thrill and stir of activity ac-tivity in every city, county or hamlet throughout the country tonight, officials offi-cials of the provost marshal general 's office, the center of the vast and complex com-plex machinery of war registration, awaited the dawn of registration day in quiet confidence that their work has been well done. The absolute maximum of decentralization has been attained. It became known only today that Provost Marshal Crowder has determined deter-mined to call out 625,000 men in the first draft, instead of the 500,000 previously pre-viously announced. General Crowder himself told the senate military affairs committee this at a hearing today. The additional 125,000 are required, he said, as a reserve to fill vacancies left by men withdrawn through sickness or death. Estimates Disagree. General Crowder estimated that ou of the 10,200,000 to be registered tomorrow tomor-row only about 1,500,000 could be obtained ob-tained for the army. Other army offi cials placed the estimate higher, expressing ex-pressing the opinion that 2,500,000 could be raised if necessary. Last touches were given today, and the result, by a process of summarization summariza-tion that will account for every man of the 10,000,000 who march to the registration regis-tration places tomorrow, will reach Washington in forty-eight brief messages, mes-sages, each representing tbe completo results of a state. Until those reports arrive federal officials of-ficials will have nothing to do except to punish under federal laws (hose who may seek to interfere. When the governors' gov-ernors' reports are at hand the addition addi-tion of a few columns, each containing forty-eight sums, will give the net result re-sult of the great undertaking so far as continental United States is concerned. What Totals Show. The additions wiil give grand totals of the number of white and of negro citizens who have registered, of the indicated in-dicated number oi; exemptions for various vari-ous reasons, of the number ot aliens and also of all alien enemies in the country between the apes of 21 and 31. It may be days before the roil of states is complete. No partial returns will be transmitted, instructions have gone out to all officials to make public only figures for units which are complete, com-plete, precincts, counties or Btates, as the case may be. Officials believed it would only confute con-fute the situation for frngmentary returns re-turns to be handled. They have nrg-ed the press of the country to make no comparisons com-parisons of the results as between town and town or state and state unless the full report from each locality is available. To this end reports from the precinct registrars will be compiled Immediately (Continued on Page Tbrce.) WOIT1 CALMLY AWAITING RESULTS (Continued from Page One.) on the close of registration Rt 9 p. m. The cards will be examined and the summarization tabled and transmitted by wire to the county or city officials, which will give all detailed Information that is needed. In turn, when all precincts have reported, the sheriffs or the city boards will transmit to the governors an abstract ab-stract of these detailed reports, dealing in totals only. Then, when the last county or city has reported, the governors gover-nors will make up the final synopsis for the provost marshal general. Will Register Territories. Officials here said tonight that there -was no objection to the publication of any completed precinct, county, city or state report , but that the furnishing of partial returns had been forbidden. Preparations are now in progress for registration in Alaska and Hawaii. The governors of the territories are mapping out their plans and when they are ready the president will fix a registration day for each territory. Officials who have watched closely all reports of agitation declared tonight there was absolutely no indication of any concerted movement to Interfere with registration. They believe lhat reports re-ports of the few scattered cases which have developed have greatly exaggerated the situation and that the country as a whole Is in complete accord with the objects of the law. In working out details of registration j plans government officials have found state, city or county governments eager to take their part. As to the success of the project, huge as it is, officials have no doubt. The whole nation is at work on the job. It is the people's business, the business of the individual citizens, to carry it through, and they are doing it. Youth Should Rejoice. Secretary Eaker. in a statement tonight, said tiie country's young men should rejoice re-joice for the opportunity coming- to them tomorrow to register for a war in defense de-fense of democracy. "The opportunity which is offered on registration day to the young men of America is unparalleled in our history," said the secretary. "We are in this war to save the early fundamentals of political po-litical and personal liberty, not only for ourselves, but for future generations. Until a complete victory is won for these principles there can be no holding back and no turning tack. "We shall need all the. ener- mvl all the resources at our command, to be exerted ex-erted not against the German people, nor with intolerance of a personal racial character, but with resolute determination determina-tion to devote to the success of t he unselfish un-selfish cause which we are defending all that we have to offer. For these young men the day should be one of rejoicing for the chance which comes to them, aiid( one of serious responsibility, because in' the issue is involved the very future of democracy." |