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http://www.watersedgefinancial.comSecurities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPCMany children and grandchildren of World War II veterans likely now have photos like this – men in uniform, perhaps in a foreign
land, smiling at a chance or planned gathering – most without identification. This photo, from the “Barry County Veterans of the
World War II Era” book created by the Barry County Historical Society, identifies the “Barry County men in World War II” as (from
left) Archie Vaughn, Bob Faulkner, Bill Dibble, Bob Roush and Herman Bessmer. Only Bessmer’s name is on the first draft from
the fall of 1940.Compulsory draft, world news
foretold impending war, part II
Kathy Maurer
Copy Editor
By Decoration Day in late May 1941,
some draftees nationwide had been called to
serve for a year. Eyes were on Europe, and
people debated privately and publicly whether
the U.S. should get involved in overseas
conflicts, whether any other nation or empire
was worth a drop of American blood.
Headlines in the May 31, 1941, Detroit
Evening Times reported on an air raid in
Dublin that killed 40 people and injured 100
others, an eyewitness’ account of the sinking
of the Bismarck, an appeal from Great Britain
for Americans to have one meatless and
milkless meal each week to allow more
canned food to reach beleaguered Brits,
bombing of Fascist garrisons in the Aegean
Sea, a photo feature on “The Cadet Corps:
Detroit’s Schoolboy Soldiers” and more.
That issue also included reader responses
to a previous editorial by publisher William
Randolph Hearst.
“Don’t sacrifice the United States in order
to insure British victory,” Harold Powys of
San Francisco wrote. “She is fighting
Germany not because of any German political
or military philosophy but because Germany
stands in the way of her world dominion. In a
generation or so, some other country may be
the target of her holy crusade ....”
Mrs. Pauline Gude of Los Angeles shared
her view, but it was more of a plea.
“I am writing to thank you with all my
heart for your stand against war.
“I am a widow with an only son 18 years
old. Please, Mr. Hearst, use your vast influence
to mould public opinion against the colossal
injustice of lowering the draft age.
“I am encouraging others to turn to your
newspapers since you so courageously
champion our cause.
“You have my undying gratitude.”
By June 1942, the draft age for the fifth
registration would be lowered to include men
as young as 20. Mrs. Pauline Gude’s son,
Donald – 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighing 193
pounds, with brown hair, brown eyes and light
skin – signed up. He was 20 years old and
working at the Vega Aircraft plant in L.A.
Like Mrs. Pauline Gude, perhaps the
families of the 2,287 Barry County men
whose names were on the first local draft list
initially felt America should stay put and stay
far from fighting in Europe or elsewhere.
Many would change their minds.
The first 499 names from the original list
in the Oct. 31, 1941, Banner were reprinted
last week. The list continues below:
- Richard Roscoe Engle
- Howard Allen Wilson
- Robert Peter Schriver
- Lawrence Everett Barcroft
- Edward Albert Kemski
- Barry William Schultz
- Leonard James Walters
- Robert James Wilcox
- Laurence Evart Garrison
- Edward Russell Fisher
- Don Herbert Curtis
- Ivan J. Payne
- Robert F. Newton
- William Addison McConnell
- Fred R. Kunde
- Harold Loran Johnson
- Ernest LeRoy Hooper
- Andrew Arthur Hansen
- Harry Paul Firestone
- Charles F. LeTourneau
- Howard Dale Aspinall
- Raymond Hugh Clinton
- Donald Dean Kimmey
- Merrill Dale VanVleet
- Curtis A. Bowman
- Lewis Whitaker
- Bernard Wayne Hammond
- Cletus C. Valentine
- Bernard Paul Woodman
- James Harold Slocum
- Roy Erway Jr.
- Keith Jackson Schnurr
- Edwin J. Baum
- Richard LeRoy Gilbert
- Elmer C. Laubaugh
- Gerald Lavern Lawrence
- Alpheous E. Dunn
- Howard Milton Main
- Melvin Rex Bird
- Roman Bert Karpinski
- Russell Demond
- Ernest Clarence LeDuc
- Herman Dale Smith
- Clinton John Brill
- J. Robert Alldredge
- Harold Lawrence Doxey
- Carl Raymond Willcutt
- Earl Frank Travis
- Roy Eugene Walters
- Evart William Ardis
- Chester Raymond Geukes
- Elwood Raymond Hawkins
- Frank Raymond Boniface
- Edward John Storkan
- Max Miller
- Roger Williams
- Earl Wesley Ripley
- Arthur Edgerton Kenyon
- Dale Harrison Schoonard
- Walter Ammon Eaton
- Ralph Sterling Kenyon
- Eugene Harvey Ball
- Robert Owen Bowman
- Forrest Luther Stamm
- Frederick Winifred Roberts
- Arthur Samuel Valentine
- David Vincent Barry
- Ruben Louis Sprague
- Oliver Steiner Clapper
- Ira Meryl Peake
- Virgil James Monica
- Allen Harry Bishop
- Gerald James Anders
- Hobart Edward Hinkson
- Burdett Mason Cline
- Melvin Beachen Hornsby
- Marshall C. Belson
- Merle Marion Swift
- Carl George Van Loo
- Walton Dale Grove Bunnell
- David McKeown
- William Harrison Hart
- Hubert Lyle McCallum
- Frederick Lynn Houvener
- Cecil Glenn Harris
- Thomas Hartzelle Cobb
- Elmer J. Willison
- George Adelbert James
- Rhierson Louden
- Ward Willard Jordan
- Robert Winston Blocker
- John Edward LePine
- Oral Duane Miller
- Merritt Joseph Pike
- Russel Spencer Bass
- Howard Althouse
- Earl Alonso Smith
- Joseph Stutz
- Ernest Franklin Wilkins
- Richard Frank Slocum
- Ralph Harold Cave
- Allen Edward Houghton
- Gerald Leslie Reynolds
- Paul Darwin McArthur
- Burdette James Willson
- Ray Edward Zimmerman
- Keith Leonard McMillen
- Peter Otis Hermenitt
- Leo Edwin Hoyt
- Valentine Joseph Kurr
- Robert Frank Vrooman
- John Griffith Davies
- Richard Bertram Waite
- Joseph Brozak
- Lee Jay Burgess
- Claud John Rosenberg Jr.
- Ira Eber Scudder
- Delbert Whitmore
- Ralph Stinson McCann
- Carroll Cecil Newton
- James Francis Thomas
- Gerald George Fineis
- William Albert Woodruff
- Leonard Homer Pebbles
- Buryle George Lancaster
- James Richard Guy
- Guy Forest Coykendall
- Gordon Erwin Crothers
- Arthur William Smith
- Omar Dale Barnum
- Herbert Loren Cutler
- Edward Herman Moeller
- George Herbert Schaibly
- Richard Leon Covey
- Glenn Newton Campbell
- Frank Wilson Thompson
- Raymond William Dalton
- Robert Havens Otis
- Henry J. Layton
- Clayton LeRoy Johnson
- Forest Sylvester Hynes
- Nelson Glen Bird
- Donald Enzian Reynolds
- Chester Keith Eaton
- John Harrison Long
- Merle Edward Count
See DRAFT, page 9