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Show oo DRAFT EXTENSION AND ITSRESULTS General Crowder's Office Preparing Pre-paring Statistics Showing What May Occur Under New Law. WASHINGTON, June 19. Officials in the office of Provost Marshal Gen-eral Gen-eral Crowder immediately have begun preparation of statistics showing results re-sults which may be expected if the dr. tit is extended to arious ages between be-tween 18 and 45 years, the limits fixed in a bill by Senator France of Mar -land, Republican. It is expected that, this information will he presented soon to the senate military committee commit-tee which Is considcrating the Prance bill. Early reports on the results o: the re-classification of men by local boards indicate that more than 250,000 men will be added to class l by this means as against the original estimate esti-mate of 200,000. General Crowder's work or fight regulations become effective next July 1 also is expected to add to the total in the first class Each district is expected ex-pected to have near ihe nation 1 average aver-age of 28 7 per cent, of its total registration regis-tration in class one when the re -class ification has been completed. These c. tiraates were pointed to today to-day by some officials as bearing- out their cont ntion that there is no immediate im-mediate necessity for changin g the age limits. General Crowder, however, howev-er, does not share this view, and recently re-cently told the senate military com mittee that extension of the bge lim its was necessary because at the planned plan-ned rate of calls class one would be exhausted early next yc-ir. |