about the location and function of clinics and other health facilities engaged in the warfare on cancer. 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 22d day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolution of May 18, 1928 (45 Stat. 617), has authorized and requested the President of the United States to issue annually a proclamation setting apart May 1 as Child Health Day: March 25, 1943 [No. 2580] 36 U. S. C. § 143. Designation of May 1, 1943 as Child Health NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, in recognition of the vital Day. importance of the health of children to the strength of the Nation, do hereby designate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Dav. And I call upon the people in each of our communities to renew their efforts to promote the health of children in wartime and to take special measures in behalf of those boys and girls of high school age who are combining school with part-time jobs, working during vacation, or entering full-time employment, in order that their safety, health, and normal growth may be fully assured. 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 25th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. WHEREAS Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, 75th Congress, 1st Session, which was agreed to by the House of Representatives on March 16, 1937 (50 Stat. 1108), provides: "That April 6 of each year be recognized by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America as Army March 26, 1943 [No. 2581] Designation of April 6, 1943 as Army Day. Apr. 1, 1943 Day, and that the President of the United States be requested, as Commander in Chief, to order military units throughout the United States to assist civic bodies in appropriate celebration to such extent as he may deem advisable; to issue a proclamation each year declaring April 6 as Army Day, and in such proclamations to invite the Governors of the various States to issue Army Day proclamations: Provided, That in the event April 6 falls on Sunday, the following Monday shall be recognized as Army Day"; WHEREAS the men of the United States Army have carried the flag of the United States and the ideals which it represents to every part of the earth, and with their brothers-in-arms from the nations united with us are offering their lives for the future of America and of the world; WHEREAS our soldiers on the firing lines and in posts of danger depend for their very lives on the constant flow of ammunition, weapons and supplies from their brothers at home; and on the fidelity of their countrymen to maintain the ideals which they bravely defend: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Tuesday, April 6, 1943, as Army Day; and I invite the Governors of the States to issue proclamations appropriate to that day; and I request that on Army Day, while intensifying the war effort in factories, fields, mines, transportation lines and ports, the American people reflect upon the soldiers whose very lives they hold in trust and upon ways and means of increasing the flow of supplies to them and of maintaining in this nation a country worthy of their sacrifice and fit for their return. 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 26th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT April 1, 1943 [No 2582] 56 Stat. 746. 50 U. S. C., Supp. II, app. §§ 821-828. CAPTURE OF PRIZES BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the Act of August 18, 1942, Public Law 704, 77th Congress, contains in part the following provisions: "Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all prizes captured during the present war on the high seas if said capture was made by authority of the United States or was adopted and ratified by the President of the United States and the prize was brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent or was taken or appropriated for the use of the United States on the high seas or in such territorial waters, including jurisdiction of all proceedings for the condemnation of such property taken as prize. * "SEC. 3. The jurisdiction of prizes brought into the territorial waters of a cobelligerent shall not be exercised under authority of this Act, nor shall prizes be taken or appropriated within such territorial waters for the use of the United States, unless the government having jurisdiction over such territorial waters consents to the exercise of such jurisdiction or to such taking or appropriation. * "SEC. 7. A cobelligerent of the United States which consents to the exercise of the jurisdiction herein conferred with respect to prizes of the United States brought into its territorial waters and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within its territorial waters for the use of the United States shall be accorded, upon proclamation by the President of the United States, like privileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of such cobelligerent and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of such cobelligerent. Reciprocal recognition and full faith and credit shall be given to the jurisdiction acquired by courts of a cobelligerent hereunder and to all proceedings had or judgments rendered in exercise of such jurisdiction." WHEREAS the Government of New Zealand, a cobelligerent, has consented to the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by the said Act with respect to prizes of the United States brought into the territorial waters of the Dominion of New Zealand and its dependencies and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within the territorial waters of the Dominion of New Zealand and its dependencies for the use of the United States: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the said Act of August 18, 1942, do proclaim that the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand shall be accorded like privileges with respect to prizes captured under authority of the said Government and brought into the territorial waters of the United States or taken or appropriated in the territorial waters of the United States for the use of the said Government. 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 1st day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. By the President: CORDELL HULL FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Secretary of State. NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1943 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the sailing of the steamship The Savannah on May 22, 1819, from Savannah, Georgia, on the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion made a significant contribution to the advancement of transportation by sea; and April 24, 1943 [No. 2583] 36 U. S. C. § 145. Observance of May 22, 1943 as National Maritime Day. April 29, 1943 [No. 2584] 7 U. S. C. § 624. 55 Stat. 1649. 56 Stat. 1950. Findings. 55 Stat. 1649. WHEREAS in commemoration of this achievement the Congress by joint resolution approved May 20, 1933 (48 Stat. 73) designated May 22 of each year as "National Maritime Day" and requested the President to issue annually a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe that day; and WHEREAS the support of our overseas forces and the rendering of aid to our allies depend upon the steady movement of cargo along the ocean tracks a movement now maintained by the courageous seamen of our merchant marine in resolute defiance of the enemy above, beneath and on the surface of the seas: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe May 22, 1943 as National Maritime Day by displaying the flag at their homes or other suitable places, and I direct that the flag be displayed on all Government buildings on that day. 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 24th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT SUSPENDING QUOTAS ON CERTAIN IMPORTS OF WHEAT AND WHEAT FLOUR BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as amended by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 750, 773), as amended by section 5 of the act of February 29, 1936 (49 Stat. 1148, 1152), as reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937 (50 Stat. 246), and as further amended by the act of January 25, 1940 (54 Stat. 17), I issued a proclamation on May 28, 1941 (No. 2489), limiting the quantities of wheat and wheat flour which may be entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, which proclamation was in part suspended by my proclamation of April 13, 1942 (No. 2550); and WHEREAS the United States Tariff Commission has made a supplemental investigation pursuant to said section 22 with respect to wheat and wheat flour and has made findings of fact with respect thereto; and WHEREAS the Tariff Commission has transmitted to me a report of such findings and its recommendations based thereon, and has also transmitted a copy of such report to the War Food Administrator: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby find and declare, on the basis of such supplemental investigation and report, that no circumstances exist requiring the provisions of my proclamation of May 28, 1941, with respect to wheat and wheat flour purchased by the War Food Administrator or any agency or person designated by him. Suspension of certain provisions of prior Accordingly, pursuant to the aforesaid section 22, I hereby proclaim IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and By the President: CORDELL HULL FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT Secretary of State. MOTHER'S DAY, 1943 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS millions of American mothers, and particularly the mothers of men in service and the younger mothers whose husbands are overseas, are bearing so nobly the sorrow of separation and the hardships of wartime dislocations; and WHEREAS the mothers of our country are patriotically cooperating, with ration books and victory gardens and war bonds, to ensure the success of the civilian phases of our all-out war effort, and are responding loyally to the call for participation in war production and civilian defense activities; and April 30, 1943 [No. 2585] 38 Stat. 770. WHEREAS, in the words of Public Resolution 25, 63d Congress, approved by President Wilson on May 8, 1914, "the service rendered the United States by the American mother is the greatest source of 142. the country's strength and inspiration"; and WHEREAS the second Sunday in May is designated as Mother's Day by the said joint resolution, which also provides that it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to request the observance of that day; Observance of Mother's Day, May NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby direct the officials of the 9, 1943. Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on Mother's Day, May 9, 1943, and I call upon the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places on that day as a public expression of our love and esteem for the mothers of our country, and I urge all to make the day the occasion for renewed private expressions of love for our mothers. 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 30th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-three, and [SEAL of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-seventh. By the President: CORDELL HULL FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT |