Show THREE MILLION IN ARMY BY kugust I 1 SUCH IS STATEMENT MADE BY GENERAL CROWDER TO SENATE COMMITTEE extension of aoe age limit in the draft will be necessary by January Januar I 1 if the present rate of calls C continues ontI washington three million americans will be under arins by next august 1 the senate military committee was toll told on june 15 by provost mar chril general crowder Crow dor extension of the age limits in the army draft will be necessary general crowder said if the present nae rute of draft calls Is continued he estlina estimated that the men lit in class I 1 would bo be exhausted soon after next january 1 general crowder said that TW of the men placed in class 1 already have been called to the colors ile he estimated that some additional men for the first class will be secured from froin tile the men who registered june 5 and that another will be added by the reclassification of men in the reexamination examination re of the que questionnaires tionna ires now ow being made requisitions troit the alie draft t to 0 complete ise the total by august g I 1 general crowder said have been made of these will be draft registrants and the others volunteers and national guardsmen guardsman guards men everybody thinks there T will vill be heavy calls during the fist six months of 1010 was a significant statement made by general crowder general crowder approved the general principle of the bill introduced by senator fr france 11 nee of maryland extending the registration ages to from 18 to 45 thereby providing additional men for military and industrial service ile he did not however approve the age limits fixed in the bill |