Proclamation 2972—Extra Registration

Whereas TITLE I OF THE Universal Military Training and Service Act (62 Stat. 604), as amended, contains, in part, the following provisions:

SEC. 3. Except as otherwise provided in this title, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person now or hereafter 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 twenty-six, to present himself for and submit to registration at such time or times and place or places, and in such manner, as shall be determined by proclamation of the President and by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder.

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SEC. 6. (a) Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, enlisted men, and aviation cadets of the Regular Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Public Health Service; cadets, United States Military Academy; midshipmen, United States Navy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; midshipmen, Merchant Marine Reserve, United States Naval Reserves; students enrolled in an officer procurement program at military colleges the curriculum of which is approved by the Secretary of Defense; members of the reserve components of the Armed Forces, the Coast Guard, and the Public Health Service, while on active duty * * * shall not be required to be registered under section 3 and shall be relieved from liability for training and service under section 4 * * *.

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(k) No exception from registration, or exemption or deferment from training and service, under this title, shall continue after the cause therefore ceases to exist.

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(b) The President is authorized -

(1) to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this title;

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(5) 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 possessions, and subdivisions thereof, and the District of Columbia, and of private welfare organizations, in the execution of this title;

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SEC. 15. (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this title upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under section 3.

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Whereas under authority vested in me by title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948 I provided by Proclamation No. 2799 of July 20, 1948, for the registration in the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of male citizens of the United States and other male persons residing in the United States subject to registration under section 3 of the said title;

Whereas the 1951 Amendments to the Universal Military Training and Service Act, Public Law 51, Eighty-second Congress, approved June 19, 1951, amended section 1(a) of title I of the Selective Service Act of 1948, as amended, to read as follows:

SECTION 1. (a) This Act may be cited as "Universal Military Training and Service Act".

Whereas under authority vested in me by title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, I provided by Proclamation No. 2938 of August 16, 1951, for the registration in Guam of male citizens of the United States and other male persons in Guam, and by Proclamation No. 2937 of August 16, 1951, for the registration in the Canal Zone of male citizens of the United States in the Canal Zone, subject to registration under section 3 of the said title;

Whereas 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, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Canal Zone on the day or any of the days fixed for registration in the said proclamations previously issued by me is required to present himself for and submit to registration after he for the first time enters any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Canal Zone; and

Whereas it is necessary in the national interest to accomplish expeditiously the registration of every male citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six years who is subject to registration under section 3 of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, and who has not been registered under the said proclamations issued by me because he has not entered any State of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, or the Canal Zone:

Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, do proclaim the following:

1. The registration of all male citizens of the United States outside the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Canal Zone who have not been registered and who on July 31, 1952, shall have attained or who thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth and who on July 31, 1952, shall have not attained the twenty-sixth anniversary of the day of their birth shall take place on the day or days hereinafter designated for their registration, as follows:

(a) Those who were born on or after August 1, 1926, but not after July 31, 1934, shall be registered on any day during the period commencing Tuesday, July 1, 1952, and ending Thursday, July 31, 1952.

(b) Those who were born after July 31, 1934, shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth, or within five days thereafter.

2. (a) Unless he is a person excepted by section 6(a) of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, every male citizen of the United States residing or being outside the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Territory of Alaska, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Canal Zone, who has not been registered pursuant to the said Proclamation No. 2799 of July 20, 1948, or pursuant to the said Proclamation No. 2937 of August 16, 1951, or pursuant to the said Proclamation No. 2938 of August 16, 1951, and who on July 31, 1952, shall have attained or who thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of his birth and who on July 31, 1952, shall have not attained the twenty-sixth anniversary of the day of his birth is required to and shall on the day or any of the days fixed herein for his registration present himself for and submit to registration under this proclamation before (1) any diplomatic or consular officer of the United States who is a citizen of the United States, or (2) any duly appointed registration official.

(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 on the day or any of the days fixed for registration by this proclamation, shall present himself for and submit to registration 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 said Act shall not be affected by this proclamation.

3. Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with the rules and regulations governing registration and to comply therewith.

4. I call upon all officers and agents of the United States, and all persons appointed under the provisions of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, or the regulations prescribed thereunder, to do and perform all acts and services necessary to accomplish effective and complete registration.

5. In order that there may be full cooperation in carrying into effect the purposes of title I of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, I 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 April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-sixth.

HARRY S. TRUMAN

By the President:

DEAN ACHESON,

Secretary of State.