Courier Tribune
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.
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 amount of type necessary and the list is printed in the two papers. TO avoid ruining 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:
continued from July 8, 2023
901 Rollen Aaron Nichols Co
902 Elvin Edward Watkins Go
903 Cecil Elden Foley Sa
904 Cyril John Stallbaumer Se
905 James Arthur Barker Se
906 Clyde Clinton Rucker We
907 Edwin Marcellus Haug Se
908 Welby Floyd Kerr Be
909 Leroy E. Gutknecht Se
910 Francis A. Kokenge Ba
911 Bernard Henry Buessing Ba
912 Albert John Lierz Se
913 Clarence B Hammes Ba
914 Willard Mack Thiemann Pa
915 Oswald Emil Thieme, Jr Go
916 Herman Mast, Jr Go
917 Revere Donald Funk Onei
918 Sylvester John Koch Ba
919 Walter Joseph Meyer Se
920 Eugene C. Reinhardt Sa
921 James Calvin Newlin Sa
922 Albert Jon Schmelzle Se
923 Thomas B. Wichman Se
924 Willis Carl A. Bredemeier Se
925 Oliver Vernon Robinson Sa
926 Wilbur W. Wurzbacher Sa
927 Von William Ha[nm] Go
928 Walter Albert Wichman Se
929 Paul Galen Phillips S[e]
930 Clyde Melvin [F]lott Sa
931 Lester Melvin Mishler Sa
932 Leslie Charles Little Ce
933 Francis LeRoy Zelfer Onei
934 Harold Wilson Baskett Sa
935 Vern Bernard Melcher Se
936 Alton Milford Bell Onei
937 Robt. L. Rawlins Se
938 Vernon Ernest Schneider Se
939 Raymond Jos. Olberding Se
940 Paul Peter Koch Ba
941 Charles R. Jerome Jr Go
942 Lawrence W Savage Go
943 Emery Chester Grove Sa
944 Joseph Daniel Rettele Ax
945 Albert Vincent Becker Ce
946 Clarence John Werner Ba
947 Victor H. Stallbaumer Ba
948 Wilbert Celestine Haug Ve
949 Wilbert Jacob Leuthold So
950 Ralph B. Rosengarten Se