EXTRA REGISTRATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 885), as amended by the Act of December 20, 1941 (55 Stat. 844), contains, in part, the following provisions: October 26, 1943 [No. 2597] 50 U. S. C., app. 301-318; Supp. II, 302-315. Ante, pp. 164, 391, "SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be 596. the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every other male person residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five, to present himself for and submit to registration at such time or times and place or places, and in such manner and in such age group or groups, as shall be determined by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder." "SEC. 5. (a) Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Public Health Service, the federally recognized active National Guard, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Regular Army Reserve, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Naval Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve; cadets, United States Military Academy; midshipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admittance (commencing with the academic year next succeeding such acceptance) to the United States Military Academy as cadets, to the United States Naval Academy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Academy as cadets, but only during the continuance of such acceptance; cadets of the advanced course, senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps or Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of foreign countries, and persons in other categories to be specified by the President, residing in the United States, who are not citizens of the United States, and who have not declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, shall not be required to be registered under section 2 and shall be relieved from liability for training and service under section 3 (b)." (1) to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act;" * * * * (4) to utilize the services of any or all departments and any and all officers or agents of the United States and to accept the services of all officers and agents of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia and subdivisions thereof in the execution of this Act;" "SEC. 14. (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under section 2.' WHEREAS section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve 14 U. 8. C., Supp. Act of 1941, approved February 19, 1941 (55 Stat. 9), provides, in part, as follows: II, § 308. "Members of the [Coast Guard] Reserve, other than temporary members as provided for in section 207 hereof, shall receive the same exemption from registration and liability for training and service as members of the Naval Reserve * * *""; WHEREAS pursuant to the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and to the rules and regulations prescribed thereunder, I issued and caused to be published proclamations on various dates during the period commencing September 16, 1940 and ending November 17, 1942, wherein I fixed the times and places for the registration under the said Act of every male citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five years regardless of his whereabouts other than persons excepted by section 5 (a) of that Act and by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941; WHEREAS under the Selective Service Regulations every male citizen of the United States subject to registration who was not within one of the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico during the time or on the registration date fixed in the proclamations previously issued by me is required to present himself for and submit to registration after his return to or for the first time he enters any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico; and WHEREAS it is necessary in the national interest and for the most effective prosecution of the war to accomplish expeditiously the registration of every male citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, who has not been registered under the several proclamations issued by me because he has not returned to or entered the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, or Puerto Rico: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, the President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, do proclaim the following: 1. The registration of all male citizens of the United States outside the continental United States, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, who have not been registered and who on December 31, 1943, shall have attained or who thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth and who on December 31, 1943, shall not have attained the forty-fifth anniversary of the day of their birth, shall take place on the days hereinafter designated for their registration, as follows: (a) Those who were born after December 31, 1898, but before January 1, 1926, shall be registered on any day during the period commencing Tuesday, November 16, 1943, and ending Friday, December 31, 1943. (b) Those who were born on or after January 1, 1926, shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth: Provided, That if such anniversary falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday their registration may take place on the day following that which is not a Sunday or a legal holiday. 2. (a) Unless he is a person excepted by section 5 (a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, or by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, every male citizen of the United States residing or being outside the continental United States, or the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, or Puerto Rico who has not been registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and the regulations prescribed thereunder, is required to and shall on the day or days fixed herein for his registration present himself for and submit to registration under this proclamation (1) before a registrar in the Virgin Islands of the United States if he is a resident of such Islands, and (2) before a member or clerical assistant of District of Columbia Local Board No. 1 if he is not a resident of such Islands: Provided, however, that in lieu of presenting himself for and submitting to registration before a registrar in the Virgin Islands of the United States or a member or clerical assistant of District of Columbia Local Board No. 1, he may on the day or days fixed herein for his registration present himself for and submit to registration before: (1) any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States who is a citizen of the United States, (2) any duly appointed registration official, or (3) any member or clerical assistant of a Selective Service Local Board. (b) Any person subject to registration who, because of circumstances over which he has no control, is prevented from presenting himself for and submitting to registration at the time and in the manner required by this proclamation, shall present himself for and submit to registration immediately upon its becoming possible for him to do so. Previously pre scribed (c) The duty of any person to present himself for and submit to registration in accordance with any previous proclamation issued fected duties not af under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, shall not be affected by this proclamation. 54 Stat. 885. 50 U. S. C., app. §§ 301-318; Supp. II, §§ 302-315. Ante, pp. 164, 391, 596. Observance of regu 3. The registration under this proclamation shall be in accordance with the Selective Service Regulations governing registration. Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with lations. such regulations and to comply therewith. 4. I call upon all officers and agents of the United States, and all persons appointed under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, or the Selective Service Regulations prescribed thereunder, to do and perform all acts and services necessary to accomplish effective and complete registration. Services of officials. Cooperation of employers and Govern 5. In order that there may be full cooperation in carrying into effect the purposes of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as ment agencies. amended, I request and urge all employers and Government agencies of all kinds to give those under their charge sufficient time in which to fulfill the obligations of registration incumbent upon them under the said Act and this proclamation. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 26th day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. By the President: E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. Acting Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT 81077-44 PT. II October 29, 1943 [No. 2598] Observance of Nov. 11, 1943 as Armistice Day. November 4, 1943 [No. 2599] ARMISTICE Day, 1943 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS November 11, 1943, is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the signing of the Armistice with Germany which terminated hostilities at the close of the first World War; and WHEREAS Senate Concurrent Resolution 18 of the Sixty-ninth Congress, passed June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of November 11 as Armistice Day; and WHEREAS we can best observe that day by rededicating ourselves, with the faith and loyalty of the men who fought and died for our cause during the first World War, to those tasks which are directed toward achieving victory in the present struggle: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe November 11, 1943, by devoting themselves whole-heartedly and with renewed fervor to every task that will contribute to the winning of the war; and I direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings on that day. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 29th day of October, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. By the President: E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. Acting Secretary of State FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT MERCHANDISE IN GENERAL-ORDER AND BONDED WAREHOUSES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS section 491 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (46 Stat. 726; 52 Stat. 1083; 19 U. S. C. 1491) provides in part as follows: "Any entered or unentered merchandise (except merchandise entered under section 557 of this Act, but including merchandise entered for transportation in bond or for exportation) which shall remain in customs custody for one year from the date of importation thereof, without all estimated duties and storage or other charges thereon having been paid, shall be considered unclaimed and abandoned to the Government and shall be appraised by the appraiser of merchandise and sold by the collector at public auction under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe . . ."; WHEREAS section 557 of the said act, as amended (46 Stat. 744; 52 Stat. 1087 and 1088; 19 U. S. C. 1557), provides in part as follows: "(a) Any merchandise subject to duty, with the exception of perishable articles and explosive substances other than firecrack ers, may be entered for warehousing and be deposited in a bonded warehouse at the expense and risk of the owner, importer, or consignee. Such merchandise may be withdrawn, at any time within three years from the date of importation, for consumption upon payment of the duties and charges accruing thereon at the rate of duty imposed by law upon such merchandise at the date of withdrawal; or may be withdrawn for exportation or for transportation and exportation to a foreign country, . . . without the payment of duties thereon, or for transportation and rewarehousing at another port or elsewhere, or for transfer to another bonded warehouse at the same port: Provided, That the total period of time for which such merchandise may remain in bonded warehouse shall not exceed three years from the date of importation..."; WHEREAS section 559 of the said act, as amended (46 Stat. 744; 52 Stat. 1088; 19 U. S. C. 1559), provides in part as follows: "Merchandise upon which any duties or charges are unpaid, remaining in bonded warehouse beyond three years from the date of importation, shall be regarded as abandoned to the Government and shall be sold under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, . . ."; WHEREAS section 318 of the said act (46 Stat. 696; 19 U. S. C. 1318) provides in part as follows: "Whenever the President shall by proclamation declare an emergency to exist by reason of a state of war, or otherwise, he may authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to extend during the continuance of such emergency the time herein prescribed for the performance of any act . . ."; AND WHEREAS, by my Proclamation No. 2487 (55 Stat. 1647) I did, on May 27, 1941, declare an unlimited national emergency to exist; NÓW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the foregoing provision of section 318 of the Tariff Act of 1930, do hereby authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, until the termination of the emergency proclaimed on May 27, 1941 or until it shall be determined by the President and declared by his proclamation that such action is no longer necessary, whichever is earlier; 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app., note prec. § 1. Extension of period (1) To extend the one-year period prescribed in section 491, supra, for customs custody. as amended, for not more than one year from and after the expiration of such one-year period in any case in which said period has already expired or shall hereafter expire during the continuance of said emergency and in which the Foreign Economic Administration certifies to the Commissioner of Customs that such extension will not impede the war effort; and (2) To extend the three-year period prescribed in sections 557 and 559, supra, as amended, for not more than one year from and after the expiration of such three-year period in any case in which said period has already expired or shall hereafter expire during the continuance of said emergency and in which the Foreign Economic Administration certifies to the Commissioner of Customs that such extension will not impede the war effort; and (3) To extend further the one-year period prescribed in section 491, supra, as amended, and the three-year period prescribed in sections 557 and 559, supra, as amended, for additional periods of not more. than one year each from and after the expiration of the immediately Extension of warehousing period. Further extensions. |