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 Sept 9, 2023
1351 Halsey McLaughlin Ce
1352 Russell F. Allen Ce
1353 Leonard Andrew Adams We
1354 George Lee Miller Sa
1355 Raymond N. Buser We
1356 Raymond V. Savage Co
1357 Gerard B. Houlton Ba
1358 Raphael P. Broxterman Ba
1359 Philip Andrew Smith Se
1360 Otis Rex Nutter Se
1361 Richard F. Moorhead Sa
1362 Frederick Henry Keehn Go
1363 August J. Glissman Se
1364 Japheth D. Walden Jr Onei
1365 Clyde Henry Meacham We
1366 Joseph B. Mohlman Se
1367 Joseph B. McCourt Sa
1368 Virgil Elmer Brockman Co
1369 Ernest Shumaker We
1370 Clarence Leo Thieme We
1371 Charles Arthur Frye Ce
1372 Marion Ross Moser Sa
1373 Vernon Nance Kistner Sa
1374 Roy Bunce Palmer sa
1375 Homer LeRoy Turner Onei
1376 James Ray Heiniger Onei
1377 Leonard Ralph Wade We
1379 Paul B. Breitweiser Sa
1380 LeRoy Art Van Dalsen Sa
1381 Urie Berton Smirl Se
1382 Maurice C. Taylor Se
1383 Marvin E. Jellison Sa
1384 Orville Franklin Yarger Sa
1385 John Jerome Mulroy Go
1386 Alfred B. Hasenkamp Ba
1387 Homer K Burnes Ce
1388 Alvie LeRoy Loveall We
1389 Clarence E. Gerber Onei
1390 Peter Alvin Dick Ba
1391 Ottie Lynval Humphrey Go
1392 Roland Reed Cordon Go
1393 Virgil Bernhard Haug Ve
1394 Henry B. Wichman Jr Se
1395 Leonard Ralph Rockwell Sa
1396 Joseph Hundley Sa
1397 Edward Andrew Moser Be
1398 Gerald Edwin Wiggins Go
1399 Joseph Olberding Jr Se
1400 Albert Joseph Wichman Se
to be continued