Show HALF MILLION FROM FIRST DRAFT AT LEAST registered ON JUNE 5 WILL DE CALLED INTO IMMEDIATE SERVICE to secure this number it probably will be kec necessary essary to draft at least because of expected exemptions plans of the war do dc to draft from to ii 15 0 i ao 00 men of tile who it s estimated were cia registered june B IS or r the alio now new army have been disclosed by provost marshal general crowder to the senate military affairs commit t tec exemptions lie said probable ay would result lit in reducing ng the number r men inen for immediate ser ace vice i while IV lillo tho the war nr department hild had originally planned to list first select men general crowder told tile corn com W atee plaus huo have been revised and it Is now proposed to require to secure this number lie said it t probably will all be rec necessary essary to 0 draft at least ond and possibly li because of expected exemptions general crowder toll told tho the committee the additional will mill bo be need rd cd to fill up vacancies in the army jand nd to keep training camps lit in continuous tint ious operation when the original plans for service of men were made lie he sald said the department lind lad not planned to solid send american forces abroad so BO soon casualties from foreign service lie believed be leed sickness etc make necessary necess iry ft a reserve of luf men lit in addition to the men on duty at training camps general crowder told the committee lie favored of men inen registering rather than postponement of the draft for several weeks after registration lie ile regards it desirable that men dratted may know and enn can leaie alae a few weeks ecks to make theli their per pei bouhl arrangements before being called to the colors details of making exe exemptions also were explained jo to the committee by bi tho the provost prost marshal gen general ernI ile said paid the government does not contemplate tiny class exemptions but that till all will be personal farmers factory operatives and other oiher special classes would not be exempted as such nor territorially but all exemptions will ile be made individually the men drafted probably wi wah bo be til III training camps by september 1 general crowder said and added that he favored beginning selections ft liln two weeks mecks after regi registration ration so that exemption work may bo be expedit edund and of final selections may inay be made as aa soon thereafter as possible |