Draft Boards Will Assign New Serial Numbers Today

Draft boards through the country will meet today to assign serial numbers to men who registered on February 15 and 16. The more than 400 University students who registered in Memorial Hall and Brooks House can learn their serial numbers from their local draft boards before the end of the week.

On March 17, when the national lottery is held in Washington, they can get an approximate idea of the order in which they will be called. Under present regulation, the new order numbers obtained as a result of the lottery will be placed at the bottom of the list or previous registrants. The local draft boards have not as yet received instructions as to how to call the new registrants for possible military service.

Induction orders will be issued by the local boards in the ratio of new registrants to old, Secretary Stimson said recently.