The Nome nugget., 1940-12-13
Alaska Draft Registration Is
 Outlined In Presi. Proclamation

atiOn announcing and making ar engagements for the registration of Alaskans on January g for sel ectiVe service is as follows:
 Whereas the Congress- of the United States has enacted and l have on the sixteenth day of Sep tember 1940, approved the Selec- tive Service Training and Ser vice Act of 1940 which declares that it is imperative to increase and train the personnel of the armed forces of the United Stat es and that in free socisty the obligations and privileges of mil itary training and service should be shared geneally in accordance with a fair and just system of selective compulsory military training and service.
 Whereas the said Act 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 male ali-n residing in the Unit ed States who on the day or days fixed for the first or any subSe- quent registration is between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-siX to present himself for and sub init to registration at such tima or times and place or places and in such manner and in such age group or groups as shall be deter mined by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder
 Sec. 5. (a) Commissioned of ficers, 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 f.deraliy recognized active Ma tional Guard, the Officers Re serve 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 admittan- ce Commencing with the ac- adsmic year next succeeding such acceptance to the United States Military Academy as cad cts to the United States Naval Ac ademy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Acad emy as cadets, but only during the continuance of such accept ance; cadets of the advanced course. senior division, Reserve Officers Training Corps or Ma val Reserve Officers Training Corps; and diplomatic represent atives, technical attaches of for eign embassies and legations, con suls general, consulS, vice con su's, and consular agents of for eign countries, residing in the United States and who have not declared their intention to be- come citizens of the United Stat es shall not be required to be reg istered under Section 2 and shall be relieved from liability for training and service under sec ton 3 (b)."
 Sec. 10 (a) The President is autnOrlZed-
 CD to pr scribe 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 ex- ecution of this Act"
 Sec. IA (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon publication by the President of proclamation or other public notice fixing time for any reg stration under Section g.
 Whereas on the sixteenth day of September, 1940, I issued a proclamation calling upon all per