of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, 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 25th day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2620

REGISTRATION IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS OF MALE PERSONS OTHER THAN CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES

WHEREAS the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 885), as amended by the act of December 20, 1941 (55 Stat. 844), contains, in part, the following provisions:

SEC. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, it shall be the duty of every male citizen of the United States, and of every other male person residing in the United States, who, on the day or days fixed for the first or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five, to present himself for and submit to registration at such time or times and place or places, and in such manner and in such age group or groups, as shall be determined by rules and regulations prescribed hereunder.

SEC. 5. (a) Commissioned officers, warrant officers, pay clerks, and enlisted men of the Regular Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Public Health Service, the federally recognized active National Guard, the Officers' Reserve Corps, the Regular Army Reserve, the Enlisted Reserve Corps, the Naval Reserve, and the Marine Corps Reserve; cadets, United States Military Academy; midshipmen, United States Naval Academy; cadets, United States Coast Guard Academy; men who have been accepted for admittance (commencing with the academic year next

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succeeding such acceptance) to the United States Military Academy as cadets, to the United States Naval Academy as midshipmen, or to the United States Coast Guard Academy as cadets, but only during the continuance of such acceptance; cadets of the advanced course, senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps or Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps; and diplomatic representatives, technical attaches of foreign embassies and legations, consuls general, consuls, vice consuls, and consular agents of foreign countries, and persons in other categories to be specified by the President, residing in the United States, who are not citizens of the United States, and who have not declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, shall not be required to be registered under section 2 and shall be relieved from liability for training and service under section 3 (b).

SEC. 10. (a) The President is authorized(1) to prescribe the necessary rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Act;

(4) to utilize the services of any or all departments and any and all officers or agents of the United States and to accept the services of all officers and agents of the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia and subdivisions thereof in the execution of this

Act;

SEC. 14. (a) Every person shall be deemed to have notice of the requirements of this Act upon publication by the President of a proclamation or other public notice fixing a time for any registration under section 2.

WHEREAS section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, approved February 19, 1941 (55 Stat. 9), provides, in part, as follows:

Members of the [Coast Guard] Reserve, other than temporary members as provided for in section 207 hereof, shall receive the same exemption from registration and liability for training and service as members of the Naval Reserve

WHEREAS registrations, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments, of male citizens of the United States, and of male persons residing within the continental United States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii, and in Puerto Rico, have heretofore taken place pursuant to proclamations issued by me on September 16, 1940, October 1, 1940, October 8, 1940, November 12, 1940, May 26, 1941, January 5, 1942, March 19, 1942, May 22, 1942, and November 17, 1942;

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WHEREAS registrations, under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 and its amendments, of male citizens only who were outside the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico and had not been registered, have heretofore taken place pursuant to the proclamation issued by me on October 26, 1943;

WHEREAS section 15 (b) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended by the act of July 1, 1944 (58 Stat. 720), provides that the term "United States", when used in the said Act in a geographical sense, shall include the Virgin Islands; and

WHEREAS it is advisable to accomplish expeditiously the registration of every male person other than a citizen of the United States between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years who is residing in the Virgin Islands and is now subject to registration under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended:

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 Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, do proclaim the following:

1. The registration of all male aliens and persons other than citizens of the United States residing in the Virgin Islands of the United States who have not been registered and who on October 31, 1944, shall have attained or thereafter shall attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth, and who on October 31, 1944, shall not have attained the forty-fifth anniversary of the day of their birth, shall take place between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. on the days hereinafter designated for their registration as follows:

(a) Those who were born after October 31, 1899, but before November 1, 1926, shall be registered on any day during the period beginning Monday, October 23, 1944, and ending Tuesday, October 31, 1944.

(b) Those who were born on or after November 1, 1926, shall be registered on the day they attain the eighteenth anniversary of the day of their birth; provided that if such anniversary falls on a Sunday or a legal holiday their registration may take place on the day fol

lowing which is not a Sunday or a legal holiday.

2. (a) Unless he is a person excepted by section 5 (a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, or by section 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Reserve Act of 1941, every male alien and every male person other than a citizen of the United States residing in the Virgin Islands of the United States who has not been registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and the regulations prescribed thereunder, is required to and shall on the day or days fixed herein for his registration present himself for and submit to registration under this proclamation before a duly designated registration official or any member or clerical assistant of the Selective Service local board having jurisdiction in the area in which he resides or in which he may happen to be during that time or on that day.

(b) Any person subject to registration who, because of circumstances over which he has no control, is prevented from presenting himself for and submitting to registration at the time and in the manner required by this proclamation, shall present himself for and submit to registration immediately upon its becoming possible for him to do so.

(c) The duty of any person to present himself for and submit to registration in accordance with any previous proclamation issued under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, shall not be affected by this proclamation.

3. The registration under this proclamation shall be in accordance with the Selective Service Regulations governing registration. Every person subject to registration is required to familiarize himself with such regulations and to comply therewith.

4. I call upon the Secretary of the Interior, the Governor of the Virgin Islands, all officers and agents of the United States, and all persons appointed under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, or the Selective Service Regulations prescribed thereunder, to do and perform all acts and services necessary to accomplish effective and complete registration.

5. In order that there may be full cooperation in carrying into effect the pur

poses of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, I request and urge all employers and Government agencies of all kinds to give those under their charge sufficient time in which to fulfill the obligations of registration incumbent upon them under the said Act and this proclamation.

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 17th day of September in the year of

our Lord nineteen hundred [SEAL] and forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. which dispute has not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threatens substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the State of Tennessee to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of three persons not pecuni

arily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the aforementioned dispute and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date.

The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75.) for every day actually employed with or upon account of travels and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including necesary transportation expenses, and in conformity with Public No. 373-78th Congress, approved June 28, 1944, not to exceed six dollars ($6.00) per diem in lieu of subsistence while so employed.

All expenditures of the Board shall be allowed and paid for out of the appropriation "Arbitration and Emergency Boards, National Mediation Board, 1945" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the chairman of the board hereby created.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL] hundred and forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2622

EMERGENCY BOARD, CHICAGO, NORTH SHORE AND MILWAUKEE RAILROAD COMPANY AND CHICAGO, AURORA & ELGIN RAILROAD COMPANY-EMPLOYEES

WHEREAS, the President, having been duly notified by the National Mediation Board that disputes between the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad Company, the Chicago, Aurora & Elgin Railroad Company, carriers, and certain of their employees represented by the following labor organizations:

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen.

Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.

which disputes have not heretofore been adjusted under the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, amended, now threaten substantially to interrupt interstate commerce within the States of Illinois and Wisconsin to a degree such as to deprive that section of the country of essential transportation service;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, and by virtue of and under the authority in me vested by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, amended, do hereby create a board to be composed of three persons not pecuniarily or otherwise interested in any organization of railway employees or any carrier, to investigate the aforementioned disputes and report its findings to me within thirty days from this date.

The members of this board shall be compensated for and on account of such duties in the sum of seventy-five dollars ($75) for every day actually employed with or upon account of travels and duties incident to such board. The members will be reimbursed for and they are hereby authorized to make expenditures for expenses for themselves and of the board, including necessary transportation expenses, and in conformity with Public No. 373-78th Congress, approved June 28, 1944, not to exceed six dollars ($6) per diem in lieu of subsistence while so employed.

All expenditures of the board shall be allowed and paid for out of appropriation "Arbitration and Emergency Boards, National Mediation Board, 1945" on the presentation of itemized vouchers properly approved by the chairman of the board hereby created.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington this nineteenth day of September in the

year of our Lord one thousand [SEAL] nine hundred and forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2623

COLUMBUS DAY, 1944

WHEREAS the discoveries of Christopher Columbus and the long line of explorers who followed him have served to bring the continents and peoples of the world into an ever-narrowing circle of geographic relationship; and

WHEREAS we, the heirs to the discoveries of Columbus, have now come to realize that civilized peoples can live safely and develop fully in such an interrelated world only through association for peace and the common good; and

WHEREAS we, in our great task of achieving world peace by victory and of maintaining that peace by association with others, should take thought on the superb faith and resolution of the discoverer of America; and

WHEREAS Public Resolution 21, Seventy-third Congress, approved April 30, 1934, provides:

That the President of the United States. is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation designating October 12 of each year as Columbus Day and calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on said date and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies expressive of the public sentiment befitting the anniversary of the discovery of America;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, October 12, 1944, as Columbus Day; I direct that on that day the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings; and I invite the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate ceremonies in schools and churches or other suitable places.

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 September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States

of America the one hundred and sixtyninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2624

GENERAL PULASKI'S MEMORIAL DAY

WHEREAS it is especially fitting at this time, when the vandals of the western world have been pushed back to their own frontiers, that we pay homage to the indomitable spirit of the Poles who were the first to take up arms against the aggression of our common foe; and

WHEREAS that spirit is typified by Count Casimir Pulaski, a Polish patriot who came from overseas to fight for the freedom of America and gallantly gave his life on October 11, 1779 as a result of wounds received at the siege of Savannah; and

WHEREAS, by a joint resolution approved September 7, 1944 (Public Law 422, 78th Congress), the Congress has authorized me "to issue a proclamation calling upon officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all governmental buildings on October 11, 1944, and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies in commemoration of the death of General Casimir Pulaski".

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim October 11, 1944, the one hundred and sixty-fifth anniversary of the death of General Pulaski, as General Pulaski's Memorial Day; I call upon officials of the Government to have the American flag displayed on all governmental buildings on that day; and I invite the people of the United States to observe the day with appropriate commemorative ceremonies in schools and churches, or other suitable places.

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 September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and

[SEAL] forty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyninth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2625

AMENDMENTS TO REGULATIONS RELATING TO MIGRATORY BIRDS

WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has adopted and submitted to me the following amendments of the regulations approved by Proclamation No. 2616 of July 27, 1944, permitting and governing the hunting, taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, purchase, shipment, transportation, carriage, exportation, and importation of migratory birds and parts, nests and eggs thereof, 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:

AMENDMENT OF MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR 1

Under authority and direction of section 3 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755), as amended by the act of June 20, 1936 (49 Stat. 1555), the administration of which said act as amended was transferred to the Secretary of the Interior on July 1, 1939 by Reorganization Plan II (53 Stat. 1431), I, HAROLD L. ICKES, 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 com

1 Affects Title 50, Part 1, infra.