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Show i PRESIDENT SIGNS NEW DRAFT BILL ! NAM EC SEPTEMBER 12 A8 DATE FOft MEN BETWEEN 18 AND 45 TO REGISTER. Estimated That at Leaet 12,773,785 Men Will Be Enrolled, of Whom 2,300,000 Will Be Called for Military Service. Washington. All men from IS to 45 yeats old in the continental United States, except those in the army or navy or already registered, were summoned sum-moned by President Wilson on August 81 to register for military service on Thursday, September 12. Machinery of the provost-niarshal-general'g office was set in motion to carry out the second great enrollment under a presidential proclamation is sued soon after the president had signed the new man-power act extending extend-ing the draft ages. The bill, completed In congress Friday, had been sent to the White House for the president's elgnature Saturday soon after the house and senate convened. It is estimated that at least 12,778,-T58 12,778,-T58 men will enroll, compared with nearly ten million at the first registration registra-tion June f, 1917. Of those it is estimated esti-mated that 2,300,000 will be called for general military service, probably two-thirds two-thirds of the number coming from the 3,500,000 or more between the ages of IS and 21. General March has said all registrants regis-trants called into the army will be in France before next June 30, swelling the American expeditionary force to more than the four million men expected ex-pected to win the war in 1919. The last to be called will be the youths in their eighteenth year, but those of that ago who desire and who have the necessary nec-essary qualifications may be inducted into service on October 1, for special technical or vocational training. Registration will be conducted by the loca draft obards. All federal, state, county and municipal officers are called upon to aid the boards in their work, to preserve order and to round up slackers. All registrants will bt classified as quickly as possible undei the questionnaire system, and a drawing draw-ing will be held at the capitol to fix the order of registrants in their respective re-spective classes. The provost-marshal-general's estimate esti-mate places the number of men under 21 now in the army at about 245,000, and the number of those from 32 to 45 at 105,000. Although the "work or fight" clause, which would have affected striking workmen, Was taken out of the bill before be-fore passage, Provost Marshal General Crowder has planned to apply vigorously vigor-ously existing regulations relating to idle men or those engaged in non-essential employment to the newly registered regis-tered men. |