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1150 PROCLAMATIONS- Aug. 25, 1944 Sept. 17,1944 [58 Stat . 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 25th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of [seal ] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President Cordell Hull Secretary of State. September 17, 1944 [No. 2620] 50 U. S. C. app. §§ 301-318; Supp. Ill, §§ 302-315. Ante, pp. 720,798. Regist ration in the Virgi n Isl ands of Male Persons Other Than Citi zens of the Unite d State s 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: “Sec . 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be 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 here- under.” “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; mid- shipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admit- tance (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).” ******* 58 Stat .] PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 17, 1944 1151 “Sec . 10 (a) The President is authorized— “(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 Act of 1941, approved February 19, 1941 (55 Stat. 9), provides, in part, as follows: “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 registrations, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments, of male citizens of the United States, and of male persons residing within the continental United States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and in Puerto Rico, have hereto- fore taken place pursuant to proclamations issued by me on September 16, 1940, October 1, 1940, October 8, 1940, November 12, 1940, May 26, 1941, January 5, 1942, March 19, 1942, May 22, 1942, and No- vember 17, 1942; WHEREAS registrations, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments, of male citizens only who were out- side the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and had not been registered, have heretofore taken place pursuant to the proclamation issued by me on October 26, 1943 ; WHEREAS section 15 (b) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended by the act of July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 720), provides that the term “United States”, when used in the said Act in a geographical sense, shall include the Virgin Islands; and WHEREAS it is advisable to accomplish expeditiously the registra- tion of every male person other than a citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years who is residing in the Virgin Islands and is now subject to registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended: NOW, 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 Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, do proclaim the following: 1. The registration of all male aliens and persons other than citizens of the United States residing in the Virgin Islands of the United States who have not been registered and who on October 31, 1944, shall have attained or thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth, and who on October 31, 1944, shall not have at- tained the forty-fifth anniversary of the day of their birth, shall take place between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. on the days hereinafter designated for their registration as follows: 14 U. S. C., Supp. Ill, § 308. 54 Stat. 2739, 2745, 2747, 2760; 55 Stat. 1644; 56 Stat. 1929, 1937, 1959, 1982. 57 Stat. 755. 54 Stat. 885. 50 IT. S. C. app. §§ 301-318; Supp. Ill, §§ 302-315. Ante, pp. 720,798. Registration of des- ignated persons; time. 1152 PROCLAMATIONS—SEPT. 17, 1944 [58 Stat . 54 Stat. 887. 50 U. S. C., Supp. Ill, app. § 305 (a). 55 Stat. 12. 14 U. S. C., Supp. Ill, § 308. Late registration. Registration under prior proclamations. 54 Stat. 885. 50 U. S. C. app. §§ 301-318; Supp. Ill, §§ 302-315. Ante, pp. 720,798. Observance of regu- lations. Services of officials. Cooperation of em- ployers and Govern- ment agencies. (a) Those who were born after October 31“, 1899, but before Novem- ber 1, 1926, shall be registered on any day during the period beginning Monday, October 23, 1944, and ending Tuesday, October 31, 1944. (b) Those who were born on or after November 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 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 alien and every male person other than a citizen of the United States residing in the Virgin Islands of the United States 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 before a duly designated registration official or any member or clerical assist- ant of the Selective Service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which he resides or in which he may happen to be during that time or on that day. (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 registra- tion immediately upon its becoming possible for him to do so. (c) The duty of any person to present himself for and submit to registration in accordance with any previous proclamation issued under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, shall not be affected by this proclamation. 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 such regulations and to comply therewith. 4. I call upon the Secretary of the Interior, the Governor of the Virgin Islands, all officers and agents of the United States, and all per- sons appointed under the provisions of the Selective Training and Serv- ice Act of 1940, as amended, or the Selective Service Regulations prescribed thereunder, to do and perform all acts and services neces- sary to accomplish effective and complete registration. 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 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 of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 17th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of [seal ] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: Cordell Hull Secretary of State