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Show M Many Interesting Features Develop In Draft Lottery Selective service inductees who earned their stripes as "non-coms" "non-coms" drew most of the numbers in the second national selective service lottery last Thursday evening eve-ning in Washington. There were 50 of these noncommissioned non-commissioned officers, older bro-there bro-there in point of age and service of the 21-year-old men who registered reg-istered July 1, participated in the drawing. Seven were from colored color-ed regiments. They were brought to Washington from six nearby army posts and were entertained while in the national capital by local patriotic and civic organiza-t organiza-t i o n s . According to arrangements arrange-ments for the lottery as announced announc-ed by national selective service headquarters, the inductees drew all the remaining numbers after the first ones had been drawn by cabinet officers, members of congress, con-gress, war and navy department war veterans' organizations. The contingents of inductees came to Washington from the following fol-lowing army posts: Fort Mead, Md.; Langley Field, Va.; Fort Belvoir, Va.; Camp Lee, Va.; Fort Story, Va., and Fort Dix, X. J. The historic bowl, used in the World war draft lotteries and in the first selective service lottery last October, was employed. The bowl, which is on permanent exhibition ex-hibition in Independence hall, was presented to an American legion escort, by Mayor R. E. Lamber-ton Lamber-ton of Philadelphia. Convoyed by (Continued on last page) Draft Features (Continued from first page) a detail of United States special police the bowl was conveyed by automobile to national selective service headepjarters and turned over to General HerBhey. It was kept under armed guard at selective selec-tive service headquarters until ot was removed to departmental auditorium for the lottery. Borrowing from mining practice to ensure thorough mixing of the capsules drawn in the second national na-tional selective service lottery, officials of-ficials in charge of the drawing subjected them to vigorous tumbling tum-bling in a tarpaulin before they were deposited in a treasury department de-partment vault. The 800 capsules, each containing the serial number of a man who registered on July 1, remained under nrmed guard at the treasury building until they were removed in an armored cir to departmental auditorium Thursday. The shaking in a tarpaulin is the mixing process used by axsay-ers axsay-ers with samples of ore. Metallurgists Metal-lurgists and mining engineers say it is the most effective method of mixing, and mining claims worth millions of dollars have leen bought and sold according to assays as-says based on it. The capsules were placed in the center of a tarpaulin. Corners of the tarpaulin then were raised alternately, al-ternately, rolling the capsules from one corner to another and finally into u heap in the center. Then they were poured from the tarpaulin into the container in which they remained until they were deposited into the large bowl at departmental auditorium. The capsules were opaque, so that the numbers they contained remained invisible until drawn from the bowl. Also they were of a non-inflanuible substance and fitted with metal screw caps which could not become detached while they weTe being stirred or when they were being drawn from the bowl. M |