Serial Numbers
Courier Tribune
List Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft
24 Oct 1940
List Nemaha Serial Numbers for the Draft
Over 1600 names are in the County Roll
A Master List Will Be Chosen in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday to Determine Order in Which Local
Numbers Will Be Called
The Courier-Tribune prints today a list of names and numbers important to almost every home in Nemaha county. It is the list of men between ages of 21 and 36 who enrolled on Wednesday, October 16th, for possible service to their country, and with each man’s name, the county serial number which has been drawn for him by the local draft board.
The arrangement is by number rather than by names because numbers will be the important thing next Tuesday, October 29th, when a master list is to be drawn at Washington, D.C. to determine the order in which local numbers will be called. President Roosevelt will draw the first number.
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The local drawing and listing was completed Tuesday except perhaps for a few straggling cards. The board officially posted the list yesterday and sent a copy to state headquarters. The Sabetha Herald and Courier-Tribune joined in setting the large amoung of type necessary and the list is printed in the two papers. TO avoid runing the type to still greater length, a key system is sued to abbreviate names of towns. Where two letters make the name of the town clear, only two are used. Seneca becomes Se; Sabetha Sa; Corning Co; Centralia Ce; Goff GO; Wetmore We; and Baileyville, Bern, Kelly, Havensville, Soldier, Pawnee, Axtell and other points are similarly abbreviated. Oneida and ONaga addresses required the use of Onei and Ona. The Nemaha County list follows:
51 Virgil Clive Followell Se
52 Ormand LeRoy Comer Sa
53 Otis Kenneth Kooser Sa
54 Russell Winfried Perry Go
55 William James H. Gilbert Sa
56 Forrest Edward Kessler We
57 Archie LeRoy Swogger Be
58 Harry Alvin Strahm Be
59 Amzi Gordon Mosteller Be
60 John Samuel Eby Ce
61 William Homer Avers Go
62 Paul John Altenhofen Se
63 Dallas Wayne Wade We
64 Clayton George Whistler We
65 William James Hopper Ce
66 Marvin Dwight Johnson We
67 Louis LeRoy Dannevik Ce
68 Anthony Philip Ketter Go
69 William Francis Proctor On
70 Fredolin Bernard Niehus Go
71 Eugene Frederick Brown Sa
72 Carl Wendell Evans Sa
73 Melvin Edward Thieman Pa-N
74 Ben Paul Kreutzman Ba
75 Lee Richard Cashman Ce
76 Carl Bernard Holthaus Se
77 Francis John Block Se
78 Floyd Iven Baumgartner On
79 William Kenneth Rucker We
80 Clarence Pratt Wohlford Ce
81 Maurice Earl Hoskins Ce
82 George Arthur Sausser Se
83 Wilbur Louis Roeder Ba
84 Aloysius Henry Dalinghaus Ba
85 Francis Petr Stallbaumer Ke
86 LeRoy Hunzeker Be
87 Paul Earl Noble Ce
88 Raymond Henry Wessel Ce
89 Aloysius John Broxterman Ba
90 Kenneth Joseph Dick Ba
91 Frederick Thomas Bauer Ona
92 Hugh Harold Mize We
93 Lawrence Henry Heiman Ba
94 Norbert Earl Hoffman Ce
95 Floyd Melvin Moore Sa
96 Ignatius F. Rottinghaus Ba
97 Leonard Sylvester Becker Ona
98 Orville Kenneth Burget Go
99 Gale William King Sa
100 Wilbur Gale Baskett Sa
To be Continued