the ages of twenty-one and thirty-six, 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, 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). "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 (Public Law 8, 77th Cong.), 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 the first registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 took place in the continental United States on October 16, 1940, in the Territory of Hawaii, on October 26, 1940, in Puerto Rico, on November 20, 1940, and in the Territory of Alaska on January 22, 1941, pursuant to proclamations issued by me on September 16, 1940, October 1, 1940, October 8, 1940, and November 12, 1940, respectively; and WHEREAS a second registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 is required in the interest of national defense: 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 do proclaim the following: 1. The second registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 shall take place in the United States, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Territory of Alaska on Tuesday, the first day of July, 1941, between the hours of 7 A.M. and 9 PM. 2. (a) Every male citizen of the United States, and every male alien residing in the continental United States or in the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Territory of Alaska (other than persons excepted by section 5(a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 or by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941) is required to and shall on July 1, 1941, present himself for and submit to registration before a duly-designated registration official or selective service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which he has his permanent home or in which he may happen to be on that day if— (1) Such person on or before July 1, 1941, and subsequent to October 16, 1940, has attained the twenty-first anniversary of the day of his birth, and has not heretofore been registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. (2) Such person on October 16, 1940, had attained the twenty-first anniversary of the day of his birth and had not attained the thirty-sixth anniversary of the day of his birth, and has not heretofore been registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940: Pro vided, that 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. (b) A person subject to registration may register after the day fixed for registration in case he is prevented from registering on that day by circumstances beyond his control or because he is not present in the United States, the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Territory of Alaska on that day. If he is not in the United States or the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Territory of Alaska on the day fixed for registration but subsequently enters any of such places, he shall within five days after such entrance present himself for and submit to registration before a duly designated registration official or selective service local board. If he is in the United States or in the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, or the Territory of Alaska on the day fixed for registration but because of circumstances beyond his control is unable to present himself for and submit to registration on that day, he shall do so as soon as possible after the cause for such inability ceases to exist. 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 Governors of the several States and the Territory of Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Territory of Alaska, and the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia, and all officers and agents of the United States and all officers and agents of the several States, territories, and the District of Columbia, and political subdivisions thereof, and all local boards and agents thereof appointed under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, or the Selective Service 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 the Selective Training and Serv ice Act of 1940, I urge all employers and Government agencies of all kinds-Federal, State, territorial, and local-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 May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-one and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2487 PROCLAIMING THAT AN UNLIMITED NATIONAL EMERGENCY CONFRONTS THIS COUNTRY, WHICH REQUIRES THAT ITS MILITARY, NAVAL, AIR AND CIVILIAN DEFENSES BE PUT ON THE BASIS OF READINESS TO REPEL ANY AND ALL ACTS OR THREATS OF AGGRESSION DIRECTED TOWARD ANY PART OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE WHEREAS on September 8, 1939 because of the outbreak of war in Europe a proclamation' was issued declaring a limited national emergency and directing measures "for the purpose of strengthening our national defense within the limits of peacetime authorizations", WHEREAS a succession of events makes plain that the objectives of the Axis belligerents in such war are not confined to those avowed at its commencement, but include overthrow throughout the world of existing democratic order, and a worldwide domination of peoples and economies through the destruction of all resistance on land and sea and in the air, AND WHEREAS indifference on the part of the United States to the increasing menace would be perilous, and common prudence requires that for the security of this nation and of this hemisphere 13 CFR, 1939 Supp., p. 59. we should pass from peacetime authorizations of military strength to such a basis as will enable us to cope instantly and decisively with any attempt at hostile encirclement of this hemisphere, or the establishment of any base for aggression against it, as well as to repel the threat of predatory incursion by foreign agents into our territory and society, NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do proclaim that an unlimited national emergency confronts this country, which requires that its military, naval, air and civilian defenses be put on the basis of readiness to repel any and all acts or threats of aggression directed toward any part of the Western Hemisphere. I call upon all the loyal citizens engaged in production for defense to give precedence to the needs of the nation to the end that a system of government that makes private enterprise possible may survive. I call upon all our loyal workmen as well as employers to merge their lesser differences in the larger effort to insure the survival of the only kind of government which recognizes the rights of labor or of capital. I call upon loyal state and local leaders and officials to cooperate with the civilian defense agencies of the United States to assure our internal security against foreign directed subversion and to put every community in order for maximum productive effort and minimum of waste and unnecessary frictions. I call upon all loyal citizens to place the nation's needs first in mind and in action to the end that we may mobilize and have ready for instant defensive use all of the physical powers, all of the moral strength and all of the material resources of this nation. 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 twenty-seventh day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one, and of the Inderendence of the United States [SEAL] of America the one hundred and sixtyfifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2488 ADMINISTRATION OF SECTION 6 OF THE ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO EXPEDITE THE STRENGTHENING OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE" APPROVED JULY 2, 1940 WHEREAS section 6 of the act of Congress entitled "AN ACT To expedite the strengthening of the national defense", approved July 2, 1940, provides as follows: "SEC. 6. Whenever the President determines that it is necessary in the interest of national defense to prohibit or curtail the exportation of any military equipment or munitions, or component parts thereof, or machinery, tools, or material or supplies necessary for the manufacture, servicing or operation thereof, he may by proclamation prohibit or curtail such exportation, except under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. Any such proclamation shall describe the articles or materials included in the prohibition or curtailment contained therein. In case of the violation of any provision of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued hereunder, such violator or violators, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment for not more than two years or by both such fine and imprisonment. The authority granted in this Act shall terminate June 30, 1942, unless the Congress shall otherwise provide." AND WHEREAS the joint resolution of Congress approved May 28, 1941 provides as follows: "That the provisions of section 6 of the Act of Congress entitled 'An Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense', approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714), shall be applicable to all Territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, and the several courts of first instance of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall have jurisdiction of offenses committed in the Philippine Islands in violation of the provisions of that section or of any proclamation, or of any rule or any regulation, issued thereunder." 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 said act of Congress and the said joint resolution, do hereby proclaim that upon the recommendation of the Administrator of Export Control I have determined that it is necessary in the interests of the national defense that on and after this date the articles and materials described in the proclamations heretofore issued pursuant to the said section 6 shall not be exported from the Territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, except when authorized in each case by license. For all Territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, licenses shall be issued in accordance with Proclamations 24131 of July 2, 1940 and 2465 of March 4, 1941, and the rules and regulations prescribed by Executive Orders 8712' and 8713' of March 15, 1941, as they may be from time to time amended. 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 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty[SEAL] one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL PROCLAMATION 2489 IMPOSING QUOTAS ON IMPORTS OF WHEAT AND WHEAT FLOUR WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 773), as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 1148, 1152), as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937 (50 Stat. 246), and as further 13 CFR, 1940 Supp., p. 46. 2 See p. 59 this Supplement. See p. 188 this Supplement. See p. 190 this Supplement. amended by the act of January 25, 1940 (54 Stat. 17), I caused the United States Tariff Commission to make an investigation to determine whether wheat or wheat products are being or are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to render or tend to render ineffective or materially interfere with the program undertaken with respect to wheat under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, or to reduce substantially the amount of any product processed in the United States from wheat; and WHEREAS, in the course of the investigation, after due notice, hearings were held, at which parties interested were given opportunity to be present, to produce evidence, and to be heard, and, in addition to the hearings, the Commission made such investigation as it deemed necessary for a full disclosure and presentation of the facts; and WHEREAS the Commission has made findings of fact and has transmitted to me a report of such findings and its recommendations based thereon, together with a transcript of the evidence submitted at the hearings, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the Secretary of Agriculture: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby find, on the basis of such investigation and report, that wheat and wheat flour are practically certain to be imported into the United States under such conditions and in sufficient quantities as to tend to render ineffective and materially interfere with the program undertaken with respect to wheat under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, and to reduce substantially the amount of flour processed in the United States from wheat produced in the United States. Accordingly, I hereby proclaim that the total quantities of wheat and wheat flour originating in any of the countries named in the following table which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in any period of 12 months, commencing May 29, shall not exceed the quantities shown opposite each of said countries, which quantities I hereby find and declare shown by the investigation to be necessary to prescribe flour originating in any other foreign country shall be permitted to be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the effectiveness of this proclamation. As used in this proclamation, "wheat flour" includes semolina, crushed or cracked wheat, and similar wheat products. Except as used in the first paragraph, "wheat" and "wheat flour" do not include wheat or wheat flour unfit for human consumption. This proclamation shall become effective on the 29th day of May 1941. 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 28th day of May, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fortyone, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. [SEAL] FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL I find and declare that the total quantity of wheat or wheat flour which may be entered hereunder with respect to each of the countries named herein is not less than 50 per centum of the average annual quantity of wheat or wheat flour, respectively, which was imported from each of such countries during the period from January 1, 1929, to December 31, 1933, both dates inclusive, and that during the period named no wheat or wheat flour originating in any foreign countries other than those enumerated in the foregoing table was imported into the United States No wheat or wheat Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2490 WENATCHEE NATIONAL FOREST- WHEREAS it appears that the hereinafter-described lands are chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes, and that it would be in the public interest to add such lands to the Wenatchee National Forest, in the State of Washington: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the power vested in me by the act of Congress entitled "An Act for the inclusion of certain lands in the Wenatchee National Forest, the Olympic National Forest, and the Snoqualmie National Forest, all in the State of Washington, and for other purposes", approved September 22, 1922 (42 Stat. 1036), do proclaim that the following-described public lands in the State of Washington are hereby added to the aforesaid Wenatchee National Forest: |