Today’s military news for Nemaha County highlights the need for three more residents to report for service. It is important to remember that this takes place in April 1941, several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor in December of that year.
County Quota for April Is Three
Dick Moore, Seneca, To Army Tuesday
Nemaha county is to furnish a draft quota of three men for the month of April, it was announced at Topeka Monday by Adjutant-General Milton R. McLean, who listed a break-down by counties to fill a state quota of 302 men.
The Nemaha draftees will report to Fort Leavenworth on April 29.
The call will be filled by three volunteers: Edward Alvin Schmits of Seneca, Vernon Allen Groff, Seneca and Nelson Garner Beard, Centralia. They are at present all the volunteers left.
Volunteer who went to Fort Leavenworth Tuesday as a replacement for an earlier Nemaha county man is Richard Moore, who had be1en working for V. E. Williams in the National Farm Loan office, Seneca.
Belford “Deke” Duryea, A&P employee, Seneca, is constantly left on a limb. He holds the next regular number for draft call. Volunteers keep coming in, hold back the regular numbers. Should any of the three volunteers for the April 29 quota be rejected, Duryea might be next. By the time a call for replacement could be made, however, there might be more volunteers.
- Courier Tribune (Seneca, Kansas) 10 April 1941, page 1 ↩︎