Ask All Veteran Organizations Aid In Registration
The Selective Service Law provides that on Wednesday October 16, every male resident of the United States who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years and has not reached thirty-six years of age shall register for possible military duty.This will affect between 375,000 and 400,000 young men in Iowa.
No one will be exempt except members of the regular armed forces of the United States and the Federally recognized active National Guard, and officers and enlisted men of the army, navy, and marine corps reserves.
Any one who is uncertain about his status should register, knowing it will be settled by his local registration board afterward.
Penalty for failure of one eligible to register may be severe for the law provides imprisonment of not more than five years or a fine of not more than $10,000 or both. Moreover, any one who aids or abets another to evade registration or service or any of the requirements of the law may be subject to the same punishment.
Registration will be done at the regular voting places in the precincts in which registrants reside. The county auditor will be in charge of all places in his county and a chief registrar at each place.
Since registration will be such a big job the state Selective Service headquarters asks all members of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans and all other patriotic organizations and all members of religious and civic groups to offer their service to county auditors to help on October 16.
An Iowan who should register and is out of the state on that day should go to a registration place where he is and register, and his card will be sent from there to his own local board.
For college students, arrangements are being made with all of the colleges in the state to assist them in registering.
A person who is ill at home or in a hospital should get word to his county auditor who will give him full information as to how he may be registered.
When a man registers he will be given a registration certificate which he should guard carefully and keep with him at all times. If he should lose it or it should be stolen, he should get at once to his local board which will give him another certificate.
A board to classify registrants will be set up in each county, and in counties with more than 30,000 population there will be more than one board. Board members will serve without pay.
State Selective Service headquarters is at East First and Des Moines Streets, Des Moines, Iowa.
Any inquiry by mail, telegraph, telephone, or in person there will be welcomed.
The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 10 October 1940, pg 12
40 Grundy Co. Men Volunteer For The Army
Large Group Has Enlisted With National Guard; To Leave For Company Hdq. Next MondayAn army of 40 volunteers from Grundy county have been accepted for military service. Every man in the group has passed his physical examination satisfactorily. A second physical examination will be given them during the time they are stationed in quarters in the towns in which they enlisted.
The volunteers will leave next Monday to be quartered in the National Guard companies where they enlisted. They will be stationed there until the 24th of this month when they all expect to be sent to Camp Claibourne in Louisiana for military training. Grundy enlistments were with national Guard units at Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Marshalltown and Boone.
The volunteers range in ages from 18 to as high as rules of enlistment permit.
George Henze, the first registered man from the county to be accepted by the Grundy local board for military service but who was rejected by the medical examiner at Fort Des Moines, applied for admission into the National Guard and he was accepted. This young man has tried harder than any other in the county to get into the army and everyone hopes that he makes it this time.
19 From Grundy Center In the Group
Among the large group of Grundy volunteers, 19 are from Grundy Center. As many as three from one family are included in the list. The three from one family group are the Billmans from Dike.
When Grundy county is given credit for its large army of volunteers, not many more men for the first six months quota from Grundy county will be needed. Grundy's quota up to July 1st has been tentatively set at 97.
There will be a reception given on Thursday evening of this week at the Legion Hall in Grundy Center for the large group of volunteers and for others who have been called to fill the county's next quota. All Legion Posts in the county are co-operating in the reception-that will be given this evening.
Below is a list of the National Guard volunteers and the name of the National Guard Company in which they have been accepted:
Co. B, Waterloo
George Werkman, Holland
Raymond Sonkensen, Reinbeck
Edward Schaa, Grundy Center
Edward Kopsa, Grundy Center
George Henze, Holland
Wilbur Grimmius, Grundy Center
Robert Albright, Grundy Center
Paul Thoren, Grundy Center
John Rayburn, Grundy Center
Burdette Rabenberg, Grundy Ctr
Bruce Newton, Grundy Center
Joe Murphy, Dike
Lee Minnich, Grundy Center
Naaman Haren, Grundy Center
Herbert Billman, Dike
Charles Billman, Dike
Harlan Billman, Dike
Melvin Ash, Grundy Center
Amos Albright, Grundy Center
Donald Stumberg, Grundy Center
Co. D, Waterloo
Harold Thoren, Grundy Center
Marin C. Sweerin, Reinbeck
Wendell Storjohann, Reinbeck
Keith Carstedt, Reinbeck
Henry Mennenga, Reinbeck
George Linder, Reinbeck
Co. H, Marshalltown
Ralph Hovden, Conrad
Wayne Axtell, Conrad
Richard Ballard, Conrad
Grant Butler, Conrad
Robert Grosbeck, Beaman
Donald Stull, Grundy Center
Boone
Donald Gravenstein, Grundy Ctr
Thomas Hoekstra, Wellsburg
Lester Huisman, Wellsburg
Lawrence Ackerman, Wellsburg
Rex Shirk, Grundy Center
Dale Nichols, Wellsburg
Headquarters Co., Cedar Falls
Dick Bailey, Grundy Center, Second Lieut.
Robert Sprague, Grundy Center
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 6 February 1941
Grundy County Gets Call For Six Men For Army
Men Must Report For Duty On 18th Of Month; 10 More Men Called For Examination Feb. 7th.For Army Service
Orville John Harberts __ Park'burg
Casjen Boelman ___________Ackley
John A. Boekhoff _______ Wellsburg
Oldig H. Bunger ________ Wellsburg
Ernest Oltman ________ Parkersburg
Harvey Louis George ___ Grundy Ctr
Grundy county has receive another call for men to serve a year in the United States Army. The men were selected from the list of those who registered in the county last October. List of the men who have been called is given above. They have passed a satisfactory medical examination and they will report to army headquarters at Des Moines on the 18th of this month. This is the largest group of drafted men to leave at one time for military service since the present selective service program was adopted last October.
10 More Men Called for Physical Examination
Ten more men have been called from the county for physical examination to keep up the list of eligibles that will be needed for the county's quota on future calls.
The ten men will be examined at Grundy Center on Friday, February 7th.
List of men called to be examined is given below:
Clayton Clarence Hinson, Hudson
John L. Medberry, Conrad
Eldon R. Wilhelm, Hudson
Jerrald R. Hall, Reinbeck
Hiriam H. Dieken, Grundy Center
Allen T. Brandt, Reinbeck
Louis E. Morrison, Reinbeck
Edwin D. Harberts, Grundy Center
Carleton Whitney, Parkersburg
George H. Heronimus, Holland
--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 6 February 1941
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