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...Secretary Stimson gingerly put his left hand in the jar, took the first capsule he touched, handed it to Mr. Roosevelt. The President, old stager that he was, glanced at the newsreel and radio men, got their nod before he intoned: "The first number is one-five-eight." Registration serial number 158, held by some 6.175 registrants throughout the U. S.. thus became Draft Order...
Messrs. Roosevelt & Stimson made way for other dignitaries, who drew the next 18 registration serial numbers (192, 8,239, 6,620, 6,685, 4,779, 8,848, 6,262, 8,130, 5,892, 5,837, 5,485, 6,604, 8,946, 5,375, 7,674, 4,880, 4,928, 105). Then Brigadier General Hershey's crew took over, finished the job. It took them until 5:48 a.m. next day. Out over the U. S., by radio and news ticker, the numbers flowed, establishing the "national master list," which along with personal and local circumstances would determine the order...
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...
...order numbers thus became more important to the 17,000,000 registrants than their serial numbers. But the fact that a registrant had a low order number by no means insured him an early call to the Army; neither did a 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...
...There should have been 9,000. Six which were mysteriously missing were replaced and drawn in a later lottery. *In theory. Actually, several hundred thousand registrants had not received their serial numbers by Lottery Day. Additional lotteries will be held for them. †The net quotas up to June 30, 1941: Alabama, 13,711; Arizona, 3,098; Arkansas, 8,946; California, 38,017; Colorado, 3,837; Connecticut, 8,421; Delaware, 1,329; District of Columbia, 3,982; Florida, 10,370; Georgia, 12,792; Idaho, 1,954; Illinois, 62,223; Indiana, 21,087; Iowa, 11,738; Kansas, 8,388; Kentucky...