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Show Selective Service The third Selective Service lottery lot-tery will be held in Washington March 17 when order numbers for the registrants who enrolled this month to swell this Nation's vast pool of potential manpower will be determined, National Headquarters, Head-quarters, Selective Service System announced today. In all probabilities approximately approxi-mately eight or nine thousand capsules cap-sules 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 number num-ber of the registrants who enroll as of February 16, will not be integrated in the old master lists as were the order numbers of the men registered on July, 1, 1941, in the second Selective Service Registration. Consequently it is not xpected that any of the February Feb-ruary registrants will be inducted in the immediate future. It is contemplated that registrants regis-trants in the third registration will not be called until they aave answered their questionnaires and have been classified, which, probably prob-ably will not be before May according ac-cording to expections of National Headquarters. Prior to May, all War Department quotas necess-sarily necess-sarily must be filled from men 21 to 35, inclusive, who registered in 1940 and 1941. If, while the February registrants regis-trants are being classified, the War Department requests men ill the age group from 21 to 35 years, the quotas will come from the 1940 and 1941 registrants. If the request is for men of the (Continued on page 5) SELECIVE SERVICE (Continued from page 1) third registration,- the calls will be filled by the February 1942, registrants. Serial numbers issued to the new registrants by local boards in the manner described by Selective Sel-ective Service Regulatons, will be marked T-l, T-2, and so on, to designate the Third Registration enrollees, and the numbers in the capsules drawn in the third lottery lot-tery on March 17 will begin with the number 10,001. According to current plans, the first number will be drawn by high officials of the National Government, Govern-ment, amid solemn ceremonies in keeping with the times. Representatives Repres-entatives of the armed forces and members of Congress are certain also, to participate in the drawing. draw-ing. The program in general, Brig. General Lewis B. Hershey, Director Dir-ector of Selective Service, has announced, an-nounced, will duplicate, for the most part, that which was carried through the two proceeding lotteries. lot-teries. The ceremonies will be open to the pubUc, according to the General, Gen-eral, and publication of numbers drawn nd registrants affected will be permitted in communities where the registrants reside. In the first two Selective Service Ser-vice Lotteries, capsules were drawn from the historic goldfish bowl that was used in the first lottery of the World War in 1917 and it is planned to bring this same container to Washington from Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, where it is kept, for use in the March 17 lottery. |