Men stand in line to enroll in the army. Men sit at tables and fill out forms. CU of Winifred Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., walking into a building to enroll. Men dressed as cowboys register. Warren Pershing, son of Army General John Pershing, registers. Various shots of Chinese men registering in China Town. Various shots of African American men registering in Harlem. Exterior shot of The White House. President Franklin D. Roosevelt makes a public anouncement regarding the U.S. Military training program. In the next newsreel, Japanese army men collect scrap iron onto a ship before the enactment of F.D.R.'s Export Control Act, which cuts off scrap iron into Japan.
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