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...Austin, Minn., Miss Reika Schwanke turned up as the only woman who had succeeded in registering for the draft. Registrant Schwanke explained that she misunderstood a radio broadcast, went to her local registration place and persuaded a woman registrar to sign her up. Said Reika Schwanke: "There ought to be some place for a woman in the Army...
...Sergeant Alvin C. York, 52, World War I's famed hero, now chairman of his draft board at Jamestown, Tenn., was so successful in urging registrants to volunteer before they were drafted, that he overtaxed the Army's local recruiting facilities. "They are rarin' to go," said...
...Draft Arithmetic. At first sight, it looked as if only the mathematically strong could understand the draft's complications. After last week's drawing, each registrant had two numbers.* One was his serial number (which he was allotted after he registered on Oct. 16). Serial numbers allotted up to Lottery Day ran from 1 through 7,836 (only one man in each local draft district had the same serial number). These were the numbers which were in the blue capsules for the drawing in Washington. The order in which they were drawn became the serial-number holders...
...high order number necessarily guarantee that its holders would not be called soon. Many factors (age, dependents, occupation, health, etc.) determined each registrant's chances. Most vital factor (and least clear to registrants last week) was the composite make-up of the registered group in each local draft district. For example: The Army intends to call up 800,000 one-year trainees by next June 15 (the first 30,000 are to be called Nov. 18). Last week Selective Service headquarters first allotted gross quotas to each State, then deducted from these totals the number of men from each...
Only group that will actually count in the draft for many months is Class 1-A (single, physically fit, not at work in "necessary" industries). The board may have to send out several sets of questionnaires to get enough Class 1-A registrants for its quotas. In a factory area, for instance, many holders of low order numbers on the national list may be classified in "necessary" occupations and thus deferred. Result: in such an area a registrant with an order number above 1,000 may find himself called ahead of his neighbor, with No. 20. Last week registrants could...