Show third lottery to be held on march the third national selective service lottery will be held in washington march when order num bers for the registrants who enrolled this month to swell this nations vast pool of potential manpower will be determined national headquarters selective service system announced today in all probability approximately eight or nine thousand capsules will be drawn in this first wartime lottery since 1918 and the third since enactment of the selective training and service act of 1940 under present plans the order numbers of the registrants who enrolled as of february 16 will not be integrated in the old master lists as were the order numbers of the men who regi registered hered on july 1 1941 in the second selective service registration tra tion consequently it is not expected that any of the february registrants will be inducted in the immediate future it is contemplated that registrants in the third registration will not be called until they have answered their questionnaires question aires and have been classified which probably will not be before may according to expectations of national headquarters prior to may all war department quotas necessarily must be filled from men 21 to 35 inclusive who regis registered in 1940 and 1941 |