PROCLAMATION 2742 FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1947 WHEREAS each year preventable fires claim the lives of thousands of our citizens, both young and old, and cause permanent disability or painful injury to countless others; and WHEREAS the destruction by fire of our natural and created resources has almost doubled during the past decade, and cost this nation more than five hundred and sixty million dollars in the year 1946; and WHEREAS this ravage, if unabated, threatens an even more calamitous loss of life and waste of material wealth; and WHEREAS the program promulgated at the President's Conference on Fire Prevention held at Washington in May 1947 is designed to assist in stemming the tide of death and destruction from fires: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 5, 1947, as Fire Prevention Week. I earnestly request every citizen to eliminate all possible causes of destructive fire in his home and in his place of business, and I urge that vigilance against fire be extended beyond Fire Prevention Week and zealously continued throughout the year. I invite State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Fire Waste Council, the American National Red Cross, business and labor organizations, churches and schools, civic groups, and agencies of the press, the radio, and the motion-picture industry to cooperate fully in the observance of Fire Prevention Week with the objective of initiating a fire prevention campaign continuing throughout the year. I also direct the appropriate agencies of the Federal Government to assist in every feasible way in arousing the public to the seriousness of the fire problem. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this fourteenth day of August in the year of NATIONAL GUARD DAY, 1947 WHEREAS the National Guard of the United States has been a bulwark of our military forces in struggles against foreign aggressors and the support of our people in times of domestic disaster; and WHEREAS the security of our Nation demands that the National Guard be fully manned, equipped and trained as a force immediately available in time of national danger; and WHEREAS September 16, 1947, marks the seventh anniversary of the entrance of the National Guard into the Nation's service during the emergency immediately preceding World War II: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, in order that we may give special recognition to the men of the National Guard of the United States who have given their services and their lives to their country and to those who are continuing to give their services for the security of their country, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, September 16, 1947, as National Guard Day, and invite the Governors of the several States to issue proclamations for the observance of that Day; and I also direct that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings on that Day. I also remind our citizens that a responsibility rests upon them for the support of the National Guard of the United States, and I therefore urge that all our citizens give their earnest attention to the units of the National Guard in their communities and assist in the organization, recruiting and development of those units in every way possible. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. AMENDMENT OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS WHEREAS the Acting Secretary of the Interior has adopted and has submitted to me for approval the following amendment of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947, relating to migratory birds and game mammals included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain game mammals concluded February 7, 1936: AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and having determined, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (Pub. Law No. 404-79th Congress), that the amendment adopted herein is corrective and that further notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable and unnecessary, I, Oscar L. Chapman, Acting Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have deter mined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947,1 by deleting from Regulation 4 thereof that portion establishing an open season on mourning, or turtle, dove in the State of Florida and in lieu of such deleted portion, do hereby adopt the following: "Florida in Broward, Dade, and Monroe Counties, October 1 to October 31; in remainder of State, December 3 to January 31." a In view of the fact that the portion of Regulation 4 deleted hereby was adopted by me under a mistake of fact, and in view of the further fact that the present amendment is corrective of regulations which are effective August 31, 1947, it has been determined that this amendment shall become effective August 31, 1947. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 7th day of August 1947. Acting Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing amendment will effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the said Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendment. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 21st day of August in the year of our 1 Supra. 2 Codified in § 1.4 of Title 50, infra. NATIONAL EMPLOY THE PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED WEEK, 1947 WHEREAS this Nation has an unused reservoir of skills and strength in those of our fellow citizens who by reason of physical handicaps are denied opportunities for employment, and WHEREAS the people of this Nation are profoundly conscious of the limitless debt they owe to their fellow citizens who count the costs of wars in terms of physical handicaps; and WHEREAS each year the toll of industrial and other accidents increases the number of handicapped persons seeking work, and WHEREAS thousands of handicapped workers have demonstrated that physical handicaps are no insurmountable bar to efficient and productive labor, and WHEREAS this Nation needs the full measure of faith and participation in our democratic life which can only come in full measure to the handicapped when they become self-supporting and independent citizens, and WHEREAS the employers of this Nation have a unique opportunity to assist in this national effort to rehabilitate otherwise qualified but physically handicapped workers by employing their services; and WHEREAS the Congress, by a joint resolution approved August 11, 1945 (59 Stat. 530) has designated the first week in October of each year as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, during which appropriate ceremonies are to be held throughout the Nation, and has requested that the President issue each year a suitable proclamation: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week of October 5-11, 1947, as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week. I also call upon the governors of states, mayors of cities, and heads of other agencies of government and other public officials, as well as leaders of industry, labor, and civic groups to make every effort to enlist public support for a sustained program aimed at the employment and full use of the capacities of physically handicapped workers. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 27th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond. WHEREAS section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the act of July 24, 1897, c. 13, 30 Stat. 214 (U. S. C., title 46, sec. 141), provides, in part, as follows: Upon satisfactory proof being given to the President, by the government of any foreign nation, that no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of such nation upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in the same from the United States or from any foreign country, the President may issue his proclamation, declaring that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and impost within the United States are suspended and discontinued, so far as respects the vessels of such foreign nation, and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported into the United States from such foreign nation, or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels, belonging to citizens of the United States, and their cargoes, shall be continued, and no longer ...; AND WHEREAS satisfactory proof was received by me from the Government of Palestine on August 6, 1947, that 1 Noted in § 4.22 of Title 19, infra. no discriminating duties of tonnage or imposts are imposed or levied in the ports of Palestine upon vessels wholly belonging to citizens of the United States, or upon the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in such vessels, from the United States, or from any foreign country: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare and proclaim that the foreign discriminating duties of tonnage and imposts within the United States are suspended and discontinued so far as respects the vessels of Palestine and the produce, manufactures, or merchandise imported in said vessels into the United States from Palestine or from any other foreign country; the suspension to take effect from August 6, 1947, and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes shall be continued, and no longer. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 20th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond. By the President: HARRY S. TRUMAN ROBERT A. LOVETT, Acting Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2747 AMENDMENTS OF REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS AND GAME MAMMALS WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and has submitted to me for approval the following amendments of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947, relating to migratory birds and game mammals included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and certain game mammals concluded February 7, AMENDMENTS OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY By virtue of and pursuant to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), and Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), and having determined, in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (Public Law No. 404-79th Congress), that the amendments adopted herein are corrective and that further notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable and unnecessary, I, J. A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of migratory flight of migratory birds included in the terms of the Convention between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and the Convention between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, have determined when, to what extent, and by what means it is compatible with the terms of the said Act and conventions to allow the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of such birds and parts thereof and their nests and eggs, and in accordance with such determinations, do hereby amend the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2739 of July 31, 1947,1 by deleting from Regulation 4 thereof, under the headings specified herein, those portions establishing open seasons on waterfowl, coot, rails, and gallinules in the State of Wisconsin and that portion establishing the open season on waterfowl and coot in the State of Oklahoma, and in lieu of such deleted portions do hereby adopt the following: Waterfowl and coot. "Wisconsin, October 7 to November 5." "Oklahoma, October 21 to November 3 and December 16 to December 29." Rails and gallinules. "Wisconsin, October 7 to November These amendments are in accordance with the revised recommendations of the respective State Conservation Departments and in view of the fact that in respect to hunting in Wisconsin they advance the opening dates heretofore specified from October 21 to October 7 and in respect to hunting in Oklahoma the opening date heretofore specified is postponed from October 7 to October 21 and in view of the further fact that the present amendments are corrective of general regulations already in effect, it has been determined that these amendments shall become effective immediately upon publication thereof in the FEDERAL REGISTER. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 25th day of September, 1947. Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that approval of the foregoing amendments will effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the said Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing amendments. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the City of Washington this 27th day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventysecond. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President, PROCLAMATION 2748 CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT, ILLINOIS WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him, after notice and public procedure pursuant to section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S. C. 704), and Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431): REGULATION DESIGNATING AS CLOSED AREA CERTAIN LANDS AND WATERS IN ALEXANDER COUNTY, ILLINOIS 1 By virtue of and pursuant to the authority contained in section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S. C. 704), Reorganization Plan No. II (53 Stat. 1431), and in accordance with the provisions of section 4 of the Administrative Procedure Act of June 11, 1946 (60 Stat. 238), I, J. A. Krug, Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the zones of temperature and to the distribution, abundance, economic value, breeding habits, and times and lines of flight of the migratory birds herein referred to and included in the terms of the conventions between the United States and Great Britain for the protection of migratory birds, concluded August 16, 1916, and between the United States and the United Mexican States for the protection of migratory birds and game mammals, concluded February 7, 1936, and in consideration of the obligation imposed by said treaties of insuring the preservation of said migratory birds, do hereby designate as closed area, effective November 3, 1947, in or on which pursuing, hunting, taking, capturing, or killing of all species of wild geese, or attempting to take, capture, or kill such wild geese is not permitted, all that area of land and water situate in Alexander County, Illinois, within the following described exterior boundary: Third Principal Meridian Beginning at the intersection of the center line of Sand Ridge Road with the center line of the main track of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, said point being approximately in the center of section 28. T. 15 S., R. 2 W.; Thence southwesterly and westerly, with the center line of the main track of said Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad, through Olive Branch, and T. 15 S., R. 2 W., sections 28, 29, 32 and 31, and through T. 15 S., R. 3 W., sections 36 and 35, approximately 5.1 miles to the intersection of the center line of the main track of the aforesaid railroad with the center line of a road leading south 1 Tabulated in § 8.1 of Title 50, infra. |