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Show Standard Certificates as Defense Mote Asked. WASHINGTON. The federal government gov-ernment has proposed that all the states take immediate steps to issue a new, uniform type of "delayed birth certificates" which would help make millions of native born Americans Amer-icans eligible for defense jobs. The war, navy and commerce departments de-partments joined in the move, noting not-ing that by the census estimates, about 60,000,000 persons born in this country were without documentary proof of citizenship. In a letter to the vital statistics departments of every state, officials of the three departments urged adoption of a plan developed by the, census bureau by which certificates would be issued on the basis of such prescribed evidence as hospital records, rec-ords, the family Bible and insurance policies. These certificates would have the same force as those now issued at birth by many states. A manual setting up uniform standards was submitted along with the request One likely effect foreseen from adoption of the plan was lifting of an increasingly heavy burden on the census bureiu. Requests are being received at the rate of more than 16,000 a week for proof of United States birth from the census records. rec-ords. The census bureau said that many states did not provide certificates certif-icates at the time most of today's adults were born, and in other instances in-stances attending physicians neglected neglect-ed to make the required reports to state officials. The joint letter to the state vital statistics departments said that "admission "ad-mission to the armed forces depends on citizenship as does employment in most government positions. Furthermore, Fur-thermore, several statutes provide that on certain types of restricted defense work citizenship is a prerequisite pre-requisite to employment." |