WCHS Articles about War 1940

REPUBLICAN & NEW AGE NEWSPAPER - 1940

Articles About the Proposed War

Compiled by Gina Evans, Wyoming County Historical Society

October 10, 1940
WASHINGTON NEWS: From Congressman - Albert G. Rutherford.
NATIONAL DEFENSE - John T. Flynn has written a very interesting article on the subject of preparedness. He says there is no serious argument in Congress as to whether we should provide National Defense. That the whole argument turns on whether the Government should rush pell-mell in a terror and, changing its plans almost daily, hurl the nation into an orgy of militarism. He points out the fallacy of the argument that we can turn this Nation from its democrat traditions and its settle economic methods to a military economy “without doing any harm.” He expressed his view that “the terror being spread that Hitler is coming is a preposterous fiction” and continues, “but if we should plunge the Nation into the present plans (1) to saddle it with militarism, (2) to add another 15 billion or more to the debt, (3) to break down the restraints on the power of the Executive inching toward dictatorship, (4) and, by all these devices to put our whole economic system on a Government-supported armament industry, then nothing, no power on earth, whether Hitler come here or not, can save this Nation from dropping swiftly into a Fascist economic system or some American pattern with all that implies.” This seems good food for thought.

October 31, 1940
SLOCUM WAS FIRST
Factoryville Young Man Held first Number in Draft Lottery.
Albert Slocum, son of Mrs. Loretta Greene Slocum, of Factoryville, was the first Wyoming County draftee to be drawn in the lottery at Washington on Tuesday. He held number 158, the first capsule drawn from the famous fish bowl. The drawing was completed early yesterday morning, but time and space allow only the names applying to Wyoming County out of the first 100 names drawn.

Of this first hundred, thirty-eight Wyoming County draftees were included, viz.:
158 Albert G. Slocum, Factoryville
192 Michael E. Hudock, Tunkhannock
105 Chester R. Cook, Tunkhannock
188 Edward T. Evans, Tunkhannock
120 Lloyd M. Kunkle, Tunkhannock, R.D. 5
846 Wm. D. Dierks, Factoryville
161 Arthur B. Davenport, Tunkhannock
14 Thomas J. Gowing, Jr., Nicholson
57 Wm. Lester Dearie, Nicholson
153 Otis E. Howard, Tunkhannock, R.D. 2
19 Carlton W. Salsman, Laceyville
766 Charles Percy Harvey, Tunkhannock
172 Raymond Leroy Wood, Tunkhannock
126 Kenneth W. Sickler, Meshoppen
187 Albert J. Austin, Lake Winola
1854 Clinton W. Benjamin, Noxen
167 Wm. J. Noreika, Factoryville
1369 Guerdon Babcock, Tunkhannock
162 Russell A. Patton, Noxen
147 Irvin Edward Weaver Falls
1300 Henry K. Love, Mehoopany
1355 Constantine M. Vosskevitch, Tunkhannock R.D. 3
689 Milton W. Petty, Dalton, R.D. 2
1295 Kenneth D. Gunton, Falls
1234 Robert M. Baird, Meshoppen
31 Frank W. Schooley, Tunkhannock
156 Paul E. Turner, Noxen
676 Elwood J. Pliescott, Laceyville
112 Frank S. Murack, Tunkhannock
1362 Henry W. June, Mehoopany
108 Charles A. March, Tunkhannock
386 Erwin P. Stark, Tunkhannock
109 Davis S. Shinkman, Falls
1443 Charles R. DeWolf, Tunkhannock
184 Roy W. Coolbaugh, Falls
116 Frank M. Martz, Meshoppen
174 Alex J. Kochan, Alderson