OCR Text |
Show LOITER! FIXES ORDER OF UILITf FOR WAR SERVICE Conscript Army is Selected by Chance, Ceremony Taking Place in Committee Room of Senate Office Building, Secretary Baker Drawing the First Number. Over a Million Men to be Called Out Wa:. bin-Ion - S:.,.clive ronsrri pi ion was pal inlo rl'lVrl July 20. when a nali'iii;'! lottery lied the order of mil-iiary mil-iiary liability for Ihe I -1 i million young Americans registered for service in the wn r wilh Germany. To accomplish this ri.mH, 10.5IKI numbers bail to be drawn, one at a time, a tusk w hich consu ned 10 hours llllil 3.", Illillllles. The lirsl number drawn was 258, anil the lasl number Hiken from the box was 3217. The first number was draun by Secretary Baker, while General Gen-eral Crowder drew the last number. The great lottery won! off without mishap except for Ihe drawing of one blank, which III s that one serial number among the 10,500 assigned to regis! rards was not drawn. The blank was given No. 10,500 in the liability for service list, ami when a recbecking reveals re-veals Ihe missing serial number it will be given that place. The lottery was held in the public hearing room of the senate office building, with war department officials offi-cials in charge of Ihe acrual drawing and ivilh members of Ihe senate and house military cominillee as witnesses. Through the day there was a small crowd of spectators, but altogether probably less than a thousand people saw any part of Ihe process. Definite Place Fixed. As a result of Ihe drawing every registered reg-istered man is given a definite place in 111.- liability for service list. Al-rea' Al-rea' y 087,000 have been ordered to the colors to lill to war strength the regular army anil national guard and tc constitute the first Increment of Ihe tmtioual army. To secure that total, 1 374,000 men will be called for examination exam-ination wilbin a few weeks, officials estimating that two registrants must be called for every soldier aceeplod. These 1,374,000 will be taken from the bead of the liability list, every local district furnishing a fixed quota. The drawing was conducted with ceremonies as democratic as the ideal of citizenship it embodied. Baker Draws First Number. It was shortly before 10 o'clock when Secretary Baker, intrusted by the president with the carrying out of the draft law, rapped for order. The congressional committees were in their seats, and on a small table stood the great lottery jar, settled with brown pallet- and showing through its transparent transpar-ent walls the heap of number-tilled capsules that must be taken out one by one. In front of Ihe table a row officers waited with the official tally sheets before them. Down one side of the room ran another taiile, where J wo score press representatives waited to send out ihe numbers as they wore read. Secretary Baker briefly explained the purpose of the drawing, then stepped forward to lie blindfolded and draw the lirst number. Major General l'uval broke the seal and with a long wooden spoon, bearing a ribbon of the national colors, vigorously stirred the vnpsulcs. The secretary reached into the jar. Hacked up a capsule and handed it to iin announcer. It was number 25S. Then in quick succession oilier num- icrs were drawn while cameras and motion picture machines recorded the scene. The only interruption was the frequent fre-quent changes of tired announcers and tabulators and the removal for cleaning clean-ing of ihe blackboards, where the result re-sult was publicly displayed as each number came out. When a group of fi'.Kl numbers had been written, the first section of the board was taken out to be photographed to establish an abvu-lutc abvu-lutc record, while Ihe second seetiu.i, was substituted. By the laws of chance, the serial number one was drawn from the jar as 'o. 420! in the liability list, while No. 10.500. the top number among the capsules, cap-sules, came out No. 23S. The serial 13. fabled bearer of ill-luck, was drawn in the 7800ih place. Registrants will receive no official word of their order of liability until their local boards summon ihein for examination, after official records of the drawing have been transmitted to them by mail. Preparation of those records began on Saturday. It is claimed by military officers that more than 50 per cent of those who registered will be exempt from military duty, largely because of physical phy-sical defects, and the opinion is expressed ex-pressed by some that taking the couu- Iry at large nearly the entire registration registra-tion will lie exhausted in selecting t lie first increment of the new army. Following Fol-lowing official announcement from Washington to the various boards of exemption, (lie latter will notify each of the participants in the drawing that he has been selected for the draft army, and each will be directed to appear before the draft board for physical examinat ion. The work of examination will be covered in thirds. One-third will be notified to appear on the fifth day following Ihe mailing of the notification; notifica-tion; the second third will be advised to appear on the sixth day and the final third on the seventh day. Those temporarily out ot the jurisdiction of Ihe draft board will be given until the tenth day to appear for examination, examina-tion, and those who fail to appear al all will be declared fit for service. Utah's Quota Is 2370. Salt Lake City. Tiie first four meu drawn in the selective draft in Salt Lake City for Uncle Sam's new nation- . al army were Lester M. Reniy, Curtice Wright Allen, Carl Nyinaii and Frederick Fred-erick Oscar Smith. The net quota for Utah for the new army is 2370 men and to insure this number after elimination of those who will be declared exempt from various causes, twice this number were drawn. It is estimated tlqit at least. 50 per cent will he declared exempt. The fact that Ogdeil's net quota ot men for the first conscription is only thirty-four detracted somewhat from the interest in the army draft, for those who seem reasonably certain of making mak-ing up this number knew their fate within the first hour of the drawing at Washington. It is estimated that the city quota will be obtained from the first sixty men on the list as drawn, and that in the case of Weber county, where the quota is sixty men, not more than 120 candidates will be needed. Troops now at Fort Douglas probably proba-bly will be on their way to France by the latter part of September or 1 first of October, according to information infor-mation received from Washington, . C. Boise Exempt Under First Drawing. Boise. Idaho. Ada county's quota under the draft for the first 070.000 contingent of the new army is seventy-two men. Boise is exempt under the first drawing, having furnished more than its credits to the national guard and regular army. Pocatollo was hard hit by the draft, and, judging from indications, will have to furnish more than its proportionate propor-tionate share of those selected under the conscriptive draft from Bannock county. There was much interest manifested throughout the state oil the day of the draft, the streets in the different towns being crowded by people interested inter-ested in learning who had been selected select-ed to go to the front. |