Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 October 1940 — Page 11

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List 17 Million for Army; Bowl! 6 Short, So Second Drawing Is Held.

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the first trainee contingent in the new national Army. The remaining thousands are a backlog for next year and the year after as training progresses. The draft bowl came up six numbers short of the 9000 that were supposed to be in it. The last number drawn was 8994, Serial No. 2114. In searching for the six.missing nums« bers lottery officials came up with two more presumably missing from one list. So a separate “little lottery” was held. The eight presumably missing numbers were placed in a brown feit hat and the final drawing took place in the presence of lottery officials and a few newspaper reporters. iB : The reporters pulled the numbers. 3 Bn « 08 [ge $50 | Buea 1547 | They were read by Brig. Gen. Lewis $e HE 1 8468 B. Hershey. Here is the way the felt tere 850 oe on 2201 418 | 8469 ..... : hat draw. came out: ow 7 -. 8678 his 200 an 8471 .. 8950 a” 129 Order N Serial. N +44 8 . 8189 : : 472 © 43 1 [iil 8199 rder No. erial No. dn 3... 3 8098... aye 6542 B96 iiiihrviide i anise 1103 8097 Hv vets herve, 71685 Nerv avis asses wens erase 1033 nr aasnaremsinsa none S108 Seiya cists ne eeisnen STTL eSesasneivinssitleresas 1835 Ca eviarirsderanirasis vs 1539

Later numbers 1033 and 6771 were thund. With those numbers eliminated the felt hat drawing was cor= rected to run as follows:

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Capt. Francis V. Keesling Jr., re serve officer, provided the brown felt hat for the second draw which: was in considerable contrast to that of yesterday noon when President Roosevelt stood by and attendants were guarding historical relics used in the World War draft, Capt. Keesling is a San Francisco attorney in private life.

~ Will Hat Become Famous?

wssdes qoa4 : 91 . The hat that replaced the gold seven 8478 852s : : fish bowl is size 72. About one year ; 1 34 old and from the shelves of Bullock & Jones, San Francisco. Keesling did not know whether it would be necessary to file his hat in the na= tional archives building or even transport it to Independence Hall to rest beside the gold fish bowl. He thought, however, ‘that he would just put it back on his head and wear it,

Spectators Come and Go

Presidefit Roosevelt - promised there would he no fanfare nor beating of drums in this draft. There was none. Hour by hour the draw continued after the brief burst of drama at the start. The auditorium was crowded then and many possessors of coveted white -admis~ sion cards were turned away because there was no room.

Mr. Roosevelt spoke briefly. Seéretary of War Henry L. Stimson stepped forward to be blindfolded. He lifted a blue capsule from the fish bowl. Mr. Roosevelt slowly read the first number: :

158—A woman screamed. That was her son’s number and that moment was tense throughout the land as the nation took another step in the traditional process of the American muster.

Spectators became bored and left. But new ones came. Lottery crews tired and were relieved.

Numbers Faster and Faster

Platoons of youhg women were marshalled from the platform to emergency basement dormitories, where they could get a couple of hours of rest before resuming the hard grind. Voices wearied. Tabulators sagged: But the ‘draft went on. Faster and faster the numbers came,

; All night’ the draw continued, Number, pause; number, pause, number, pause—so on for hour after hour.

Midnight and the late supper crowds were dropping in, dinner clothes and evening dresses dise tinguishing them. But mostly the crowd was ‘made up of young men and pretty girls—wives or sweet hearts, : The early morning hours ticked by and the crowd ebbed. At 5:10 a. m. there were three spectators, two men and a girl—5:39 and the lottery was on its last 100 numbers —5:45 and there were only 25 to go.

Out Comes Final Number

Brig. Gen. Hershey stepped up be side the fish bowl and still the numbers came. Hershey has spent the past four years preparing for today because it has been the Army's opinion thatthe world was getting itself into such shupe that only a selective service army would meet the emergency high ranking officers believed was dangerously likely. Cameramen came to life and. there was ‘a stir among spectators who numbered at the windup something under 100. Mr. Hershey put his hand in the bowl and Mr. Dykstra read the final number. ‘2114. : That is number 8994, he announced. And the lottery was over, As the nation’s fittest age group of men turned out today a great many hundreds of thousands of them were heading directly toward a new kind of life than they ever had known before with guns and bugles and uniforms very much a part of it. “This nation has clearly demonstrated its willingness,” Mr. Dykstra said, “to meet any challenge of aggression by preparedness.” “Today,” he continued, “we have witnessed an unprecedented event in our peacetime history—the development of an orderly routine for |the calling out of a vast peacetime

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