War News

As Published in the Seneca, Kansas Newspapers

ENROLL ‘TWENTY-ONES’

Board to Shuffle Their Cards for Serial Numbers July 9

SIGN WITH UNCLE SAM

The “Twenty-Ones,” young men who have reached their majority since the first selective service registration October 16, were signing yesterday with Uncle Sam. The local board registered 87 men, several of these from points outside the county, whose cards will be transferred.

All the “Twenty-Ones” registered on what the service regulations call “melon” cards. The regulation said this attempt was the colored cards orange or salmon or pink. They are merely termed “melon.”

The men who registered last October 16 did so on white cards. There are a few cases of in-between. Such is the man in the national guard at the time and whose enlistment expired since. Such a case was that of Douglas P. Dunn, Sabetha. He registered yesterday for the first time. Since he is not a “Twenty-One,” he was given the official card, white. He will be numbered with the first registration group, with a serial number following the last man on the October list. His order number will fall according to the first national drawing.

It is technical but it serves to clear the record for the “Twenty-Ones,” those who registered on the melon cards.

The local board is directed to meet Sub-district 8 next Wednesday to shuffle the melon cards. Numbering will start with 1, but each number will be prefixed by an “M” further to indicate the second registration.

The local board does not yet know when information on these men will be inducted into service. There may be a new national drawing. The morning papers state that all men who reached their 28th birthday are automatically placed in deferred classification.

“Twenty-Ones” registered yesterday, with their addresses, are as follows:

Seneca address – Lambert J. Haug, Milburn Coe, Robert Shaw, Charles E. Matthew, Thomas Levick, Orville Meeker, John J. Adam, Lawrence Winterscheidt, Norbert Burdick, Bill Sauser, George A. Steinmeier, Leo Schmelzle, Jacob Streith, Jr., Frank McGehee, Dale Goetsch, George W[isd]er.

Sabetha – Daniel Edelman, Gerald Keim, Cecil Stalcup, Robert LeRoy Ewing, Joe Menold, LeRoy A. Strahm, Raymond Baskett, Glenn N. Cramer, Jr., Ross L. Frey, Art Trumble, Jr., Ivan Arick, Zillman P. (Jack) Sheldon, Leonard Aeschliman, Eldon Harter, Charles Garber, Harold O. Scoby, Lawrence Howard, James Kyle, Marvin Edward Brunner, H.J. Ze[u]ller, Jared Kehler, Alvin Dickinson, Joseph [D] Rokey, Jr. Hugh Boring, Charles W. Aeschliman, Donald Close.

Centralia – Marion R. Morrison, Ivan M. Long, Lloyd E. Smith.

Oneida – Eugene Brunner, Eugene Milne, Donald Lehmkuhl, V.J. Koehler, Wilbur Heininger, Tom Gudenkauf.

Wetmore – Norman Levick, Elmer McDaniel, Raymond McDaniel, Raymond D. Battin, Lewis J. Barrett.

Axtell – Robert Shoots, Bernard Runnebaum.

Goff – Edward Pfrang, Harold Schweitzer, Virgil McClain, Albert Kohake, Wilbur Hill, V.G. Altenhofen.

Kelly – Edwin Niehues.

Baileyville – Raymond A.J. Koch, Elmer Niekamp, Vernuss Oenbring, Frank Kruetzman, Joseph Lierz, Donald Hall, Robert Skoch, Vincent Tangeman, Leander L. Sextro, Leonard Oenbring, Marion J. Larkin.

Bern – Edward Lee Streit.

Corning – Hiram A. Sweet, Arthur Cottrell, Clarence Huffles, Raymond D. Randel.

Other addresses – Alvin J. Leuthold, Circleville; John Wm. Devitt, Farmersburg, Indiana; Ross Clay, Onaga; Deloss Weston Puckett, Harper, Kansas; Delwin C. Newman, Marysville CCC.