Show Nation's Young Men Follow Draft Lottery With Great Interest Large Crowds Scan Serial Number Lists as Order Numbers Are Announced The nation's first peace-time lottery which will summon to active duty within the next year some young men was carefully followed with keen interest by the men between the ages of 21 and 35 throughout the entire country The same interest was shown Large groups gathered around radios during the announcement of tho first few numbers called in D. C. where the lottery took place and it is estimated that in the past four clays some young men have scanned through the Duchesne county board list of registrants on file in this office fo serial The lottery began at noon E. S. T. or 10 m. here Tuesday when President Roosevelt addressed a few reassuring words to registrants telling them that only 10 per cent of the young men registered would be called for army service and of this number half would As cameras clicked and lights burned Secretary of War with a blindfold over his eyes delved into the fish bowl nd pulled out the first blue which was handed to the clerk and then to President Roosevelt who announced the number as Other members of the cabinet and government officials picked pellets from he fish the first five of were announced by Roosevelt When the ceremonies were the staff got down to the monotonous job ol and calling the numbers contained in the fish It vas estimated this task would from 12 to 14 Step In Process The next step in the process of calling up young men for military jervice is classification will done by But there is some checking to will take approximately two for clerks of Utah's 38 local boards to clear the way for nailing of Arnold acting state said local boards must wait their official master lottery Major Rich cautions boards not to act on newspaper or radio With completion of official lists at D. printed copies will be forwarded to slate Methods Major Rich in turn will forward the lists to each of the state's 38 local Clerks will then place the order numbers on each registrant's cards will be alphabetized and lists for the state public and press will be showing order in which registrants will be called up for classification and a prospective year of military Questionnaires will next be mailed out at the rate of approximately 50 per day per Volunteers who wish to be called ahead of their order number may so specify to their local Variance in tho size of the task facing the local boards is indicated by Daggett county's total of 79 compared with registrants in one of the Of the approximately men registered in Utah only 64 will be called to active duty in |