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 August 26, 2023
1251 Floyd Nels Hanson Sa
1252 Alex Cyril Baumgartner Sa
1253 Louis Ferdinand Jerome Co
1254 Gehling John Huber Se
1255 Arnold James Miller Ce
1256 Raymond Lyle Levick Se
1257 Dale Dewitt Ridgway Se
1258 Robert L. Jenkins Ce
1259 Andrew Jackson Crane Se
1260 Jesse Clyde Giesel Be
1261 Robert Sidney Doak Se
1262 Cecil Augusts Nations Se
1263 Celestine F. B. Gudenkauf Se
1264 Gordon Alvis, Jr. se
1265 Rudolph Walter Huerter Se
1266 Vincent Monroe Abrams Ha
1267 Jack Eberly Noble Sa
1268 Vernie Campbell ` Sa
1269 Cletus John Bergman Ba
1270 Anthony M. Schmidt Ce
1271 Charles Richard Haug Ona
1272 Vernice L. Ronnebaum Se
1273 Thomas Mathias T[r]einen Sa
1274 Alvin Streit Se
1275 William Kenneth Most Se
1276 Harry Lyle Hittle Go
1277 Paul Ivan Wurzbacher Sa
1278 Glen Winfield Mitchell Ce
1279 Merle Edward Marti Be
1280 John Otho Nebgen Be
1281 George Stephen Moore Onei
1282 Gale Melvin Jordan Sa
1283 Orville Campbell Sa
1284 Ralph William Herrmann Sa
1285 Firman Joseph Koch Ve
1286 Robert Brunner Elliott We
1287 Callistus Jacob Kramer Go
1288 Richard Harold Potter Se
1289 Herbert M. Fuller Jr Se
1290 Lawrence L. Lindeen Se
1291 James Eugene Severn Ax
1292 Joseph William Wardlow Se
1293 Lloyd B. Nightingale Co
1294 George William Guffy We
1295 Lee Cochran Ce
1296 Albert J. Kreutzman Ba
1297 LeRoy Erwin George Se
1298 Jonas Elmer Smith Ce
1299 Jake Auron Lehman Sa
1300 Arthur Louis Becker Se
To be continued