Source: Titonka Topic, October 29, 1942

SELECTIVE DRAFT TAKES MORE MEN

ALGONA—The second contingent of selectees left Algona Tuesday morning for induction into the Army at Camp Dodge.  They included the following men:

Whittemore—Leslie A. Higley, Walter W. Fuoss, Walter H. Taake, Russell J. Byers, Melvin E. Heinrich, Stanley E. Brogran;
Buffalo Center—Ben Ubbe Miller, Johann H. Tapper;
Swea City—Hubert LeRoy Brones, Theodore P. Haisman, Kenneth H. Bolie;
Fenton—Arnold J. Kuecker, Ronald W. Christenson, John Henry Struecker;
Bancroft—Herman Hammond, Charlie F. Kramer, Alphonse C. Elsbecker, John Karels Jr., Gordon C. McDonald, Paul R. Mescher, George E. Frost;
Lakota—Harry Boekelman, Joe Rippentrop, William A. Bauman, Lloyd R. Eichenberger, Arthur N. Bassell;
Luverne—Arthur Null, Gerald H. Garman, Willard Wayne Sanford;
Wesley—Francis A. Hanig, Otto F. Wolf, Julius J. Matern, Raymond A. Carlson;
Algona—Melving Christensen, Donald G. Detz, August Brown, Francis L. McMahon, Clem M. Reilly, Verne M. Rutledge, James M. Cooper, Elmer E. Hauenstein, Ernest T. Moe;
Burt—Charles H. Lappe;
Armstrong—Ray H. Kracht, William H. Magarell;
Corwith—J. Fred Schlensig;
Grinnell—Lynn Decou Hull;
Ledyard—Bernard J. Karels;
Elmore—Percy T. McDowell;
Titonka—Henry Ites.

Robert E. Budlong, Titonka, enlisted in the Army Air Corps; Leo M. Zalaznik was transferred to Kootenai County, Idaho; Allan T. Erickson, Armstrong, enlisted in the Navy; Lyle R. Anderson, Algona, enlisted in the Army Air Corps; Glenn Avery Johnson, was transferred from Storm Lake.

Source:  Titonka Topic, October 29, 1942