By proclamation that day, and on October 1, 8, and November 12, the President established registration days in the United States proper, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and Alaska.[161] A second registration day was proclaimed in May 1941, and a third on January 5, 1942.[162] The Conscription Act was continued in effect for the duration of the war. A post-war, or “cold war”, conscription program was set up in June 1948.[163] The new statute provided for the registration of male citizens and alien residents between the ages of 18 and 26, and made those between 19 and 26 subject to induction into the armed forces at the discretion of the President.[164] He was empowered to induct a sufficient number of persons to maintain the personnel strengths of the armed forces at three million men.[165] The maximum term of service was two years, and the Act’s duration was set at two years. A September 1950 amendment to the Act allowed the President to require special registration of medical, dental, and allied specialties, drafting persons below the age of 50 from the lists to fill requisitions submitted by the Department of Defense and approved by the President.[166] An eleventh hour enactment of June 23, 1950 deferred expiration of the Selective Service Act for fifteen days,[167] and seven days later July 9, 1951 was substituted for the July 9, 1950 expiration date.[168] The next year saw systematic amendment of the 1948 statute, including a change of title to the Universal Military Training and Service Act.[169] The maximum of two years’ service was continued, and the minimum age for both registration and induction set at 18-1/2 years. A 1953 amendment to the Act provided for the special registration, classification, and induction of medical, dental, and allied specialist personnel.[170] A method for gaining release from military service, anachronistic in the age of universal military service and the citizen army, was removed when in July 1953 Congress repealed provisions of 1890 and 1893 statutes which permitted enlisted men to purchase discharge from the armed services.[171] A series of non-coercive statutes from 1939 on were designed to augment the armed services. In June 1939 Congress established a Coast Guard Reserve, composed of owners of motorboats and yachts.[172] In March 1941 the President was empowered to appoint within the Navy 100 acting assistant surgeons above previous quotas, and the Secretary of the Navy given power in time of war or national emergency declared by the President to appoint for temporary service, such acting assistant surgeons as the exigencies of the service required.[173]