Evening star., 1941-08-08
Service Extension Text
Senate Vote Limits SeIectees'
Extra Service to 18 Months
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Here Is the tert OF the Senate
approved resolution permitting
President Roosevelt to ertend the
eTisting SerUice periods of selec-
tees, National GudrdSmen, Re-
serpiStS and enlisted men for an
additional 18 months:
Joint resolution to extend the pc
RODS of service of persons in the
military service, and for other pur-
poses.
Resolved, by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America IN Con-
gress assembled, that Congress, act
ing in accordance with the pro-
visions of section 3 (B) of the Sc
lective Training and Service Act OF
1910. hereby declares that the ma
tional interest is imperiled.
Limited Extension.
Section 2. The President is here
by authorized to extend, for such
periods of time as may be neces-
sary in the interests of national
defense, the periods of service,
training and service, enlistment, ap-
pointment. or commission of any or
all persons inducted for training and
service under said act, members and
units of the Reserve components OF
the Army of the United States (in-
eluding the National Guard OF the
United States, retired personnel
and enlisted men of the Regular
Army. and any other members OF the
Army. who are now, or who may
hereafter be, in or subject to active
military service, or training ana
service:
Provided. that the extension OF the
period of active military service, or
training and service, in the case OF
sny person subject to the provisions
of this section, shall not, without
his consent, exceed Is months; ex-
cept that whenever the Congress de-
clares that it is in the interests of
national defense to further extend
such periods of active military serv-
Ice anu anu SCl WIG. oOSit
periods may be further extended by
the President. in the case Of any
such persons, for such time as may
be necessary in the interests OF ma
tional defense: Provided further,
that the authority conferred by this
section shall not be exercised after
a date specified in a concurrent
resolution hereafter passed by the
Congress.
Permits Release Applications.
Section g. The Secretary of War
may, when not in conflict with the
interests of national defense, release
from active military service those
persons who apply therefor through
the regular military channels and
state their reasons for such release,
and who, in the Judgment of the
Secretary of War, would suffer un-
due hardship if retained on active
military service: Provided, that
any person so released under this
section who, in the Judgment of
those in authority over him, has
served satisfactorily shall be en-
titled to a certificate to that effect,
which shall be in the same form
and have the same force and effect
as a certificate issued under the
provisions of section 8 of the Selec-
tive Training and Service Act OF
1910.
Provided further: That any per-
son discharged or released from
active training and service under
section (B) of such act shall
be transferred to a reserve COM
ponent of the land forces for the
same period and with the same
rights, duties and liabilities as any
other person transferred to a re-
serve component of the land forces
under the provisions of section 3
Co of such act, regardless of his
period of training and service.
Entitled to Re-empIoyment.
Section 4. The President is hereby
authorized to order retired person.
mel of the Regular Army to active
duty and to employ them as he
shall deem necessary in the in
tereSts of national defense.
Section 5. Any person, who sub
sequent to May /, 1910, and prior
to the termination of the authority
conferred by section 2 of this
joint resolution, shall have en-
tered upon active military or naval
service in the land or naval forces
of the United States shall be en-
n oil nj or1t
benefits of section 5 of the Selective
Training and Service Act of 1910
to the same extent as in the case
of persons inducted under said act:
Provided, that the provisions of
section (B) (A) of said act shall
be applicable to any such person
without regard to whether the posi-
ton which he held shall have been
covered into the classified civil
service during the period of his
military or naval service.
Section g. During the existence Of
the authority conferred by section
2 of this joint resolution and for
six months thereafter, the limita-
ton on the number of men who
may be in active training and serv-
we at any one time under section
3 CB) of the Selective Training and
Service Act of 1910 is hereby sus-
pended: Provided, that the Sec
setary of War shall report to the
Congress each month the number
Af men in active training and serV-
ice in the land forces under Sec
ton 8 (B) of said act.
Extra Pay for Excess.
Section 7. During the existence of
the authority conferred by section
2 of this Joint resolution, enlist
ments in the Army of the United
States, without regard to COM
ponent, are hereby authorized in
the manner provided by the con-
eluding paragraph of section 127A
of the National Defense Act, as
amended.
Section 8. Any person inducted
into the land or naval forces of the