continuing duties, and in order that the hardship of their separation from home and loved ones may be alleviated in every possible way. I know that our people will always remember the soldiers who have suffered that we might remain free, and the families of those who have sacrificed their lives for our cause. 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 20th day of March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2683 CANCER CONTROL MONTH, 1946 WHEREAS cancer is the second highest cause of death in the United States, and was responsible last year for more than 170,000 deaths; and WHEREAS the number of deaths from cancer in the United States during the period of hostilities in World War II exceeded the number of war casualties of the United States armed forces; and WHEREAS the control of this disease requires that the individual shall be on the alert to discover early signs of the disease and seek mediçal diagnosis; that the medical profession shall be prepared to render adequate preventive, diagnostic, and treatment services; that adequate diagnostic and treatment facilities shall be available to all citizens; and that research shall be carried on to increase our knowledge of the disease and thereby improve our present methods of treatment and discover new methods; and WHEREAS the National Cancer Institute in the United States Public Health Service, State health departments and cancer control commissions, medical associations, and many other public and private organizations have for many years been actively leading the fight against this disease; and WHEREAS it is known that a large percentage of deaths from cancer can be prevented if the disease is discovered and treated in its early stages; and WHEREAS by Public Resolution 82, 75th Congress, approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), the President is authorized and requested to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1946 as Cancer Control Month, and do invite the Governors of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations for like purposes. I also invite the medical profession, the press, the radio, the moving picture industry and all agencies and individuals interested in a national program for the control of the disease of cancer by education and other cooperative means to unite during this month in a public dedication to such a program and in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the necessity of that program. 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 [SEAL] forty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. By the President: DEAN ACHESON, HARRY S. TRUMAN Acting Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2684 PAN AMERICAN WEEK WHEREAS the date of April 14 marks the anniversary of the founding of the Pan American Union in 1890 and has come to be observed annually as a commemorative symbol of the bonds of friendship and common interest among the nations of the Western Hemisphere; and WHEREAS the exigencies of war have brought to the nations of the world new realization of their interdependence and new determination to join together to achieve a just and lasting peace and to promote and maintain the welfare, security and prosperity of all peoples everywhere; and WHEREAS it is accordingly appropriate that this anniversary of Pan American unity be again observed in order that the people of the United States may publicly testify to the mutual confidence and good will existing between them and the peoples of the other American republics and to the mutual advantages to be gained through development of closer international cultural, trade and political relations; NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby order that the week beginning April 14, 1946, be designated and known as "Pan-American Week" and that the flag of the United States be displayed on all public buildings during that week. I also invite the Governors of the several States, Territories and possessions of the United States and the appropriate officials of the various municipalities and other political subdivisions to take similar action with respect to either the entire week or any designated day or days thereof. I further call upon the churches, educational institutions, civic associations, clubs, business establishments and other organizations, and the people of the United States generally, to observe this PanAmerican Week with fitting commemorative ceremonies, displays, exhibits or other activities. 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 28th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: PROCLAMATION 2685 REMOVAL OF ALIEN ENEMIES WHEREAS sections 4067 and 4068 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (50 U.S.C. 21 and 22) make provision relative to the restraint and removal from the United States of alien enemies in the interest of the public safety; and WHEREAS the Congress by joint resolutions approved by the President on December 8 and 11, 1941, and June 5, 1942, declared the existence of a state of war between the United States on the one hand and Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania on the other hand; and WHEREAS in accordance with Resolution XVII of the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Rio de Janeiro adopted on January 28, 1942, and subsequently by undertakings based upon Resolution XX of the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense adopted at Montevideo on May 21, 1943, there has been assumed by the Government of the United States responsibility for the restraint and repatriation of certain dangerous alien enemies brought to the United States from other of the American republics in the interest of the security of the Western Hemisphere; and WHEREAS by Resolution VII of the Inter-American Conference on Problems of War and Peace adopted at Mexico City on March 8, 1945, the American republics recommended the adoption of measures to prevent any person whose deportation should be deemed necessary for reasons of security of the continent from further residing in this hemisphere, if such residence would be prejudicial to the future security or welfare of the Americas; and WHEREAS I find it necessary in the light of the commitments of the Government and in the interest of national defense and public safety to prescribe regulations additional and supplemental to all other regulations affecting the restraint and removal of alien enemies: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution of the United States and the aforesaid sections of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the following regulations, additional and supplemental to all other regulations affecting the restraint and removal of alien enemies: 1. All alien enemies within the continental limits of the United States brought here from other American republics after December 7, 1941, who are within the territory of the United States without admission under the immigration laws, shall, if their continued residence in the Western Hemisphere is deemed by the Secretary of State to be prejudicial to the future security or welfare of the Americas, be subject upon the order of the Secretary of State to removal from the United States and may be required to depart therefrom in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe. 2. In all cases in which the Secretary of State shall have ordered the removal of an alien enemy under the authority of this proclamation or in which the Attorney General shall have ordered the removal of an alien enemy under the authority of Proclamation No. 2655 of July 14, 1945,1 thirty days shall be considered, and is hereby declared to be, a reasonable time for such alien enemy to effect the recovery, disposal, and removal of his goods and effects, and for his departure. 3. This proclamation supersedes Proclamation No. 2662 of September 8, 1945,1 entitled "Removal of Alien Enemies." 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 10th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2686 CHILD HEALTH DAY, 1946 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: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, in recognition that the health of American children, like their education, should be accepted as a definite public responsibility, do hereby des 13 CFR 1945 Supp. ignate the first day of May of this year as Child Health Day. And I call upon the people in each of our communities to pledge themselves today to review their community health and medical care services to see how well these services meet the needs of all our children in the light of the goals of the national health program, and to organize a definite plan to achieve within the coming year at least one improvement in community health services which will contribute to the better health of children. 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 13th day of April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. By the President: JAMES F. BYRNES, HARRY S. TRUMAN Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2687 NATIONAL MARITIME DAY, 1946 WHEREAS improvements in modes of ocean transportation during the last one hundred and fifty years have opened possibilities, new in history, of mutually profitable intercourse and closer relations between peoples; and WHEREAS a signal event in this technical progress was the first successful ocean passage by a steam-propelled vessel, the Savannah, which departed from Savannah, Georgia, May 22, 1819; and WHEREAS in World War II the seamen of the United States Merchant Marine displayed splendid heroism, under stress and under hazard in the waters of every ocean, in meeting the demands on them in the colossal task of supply which was so essential to our victory; and WHEREAS in peace no less than in war the Merchant Marine makes a vital contribution to the welfare of the Nation; and WHEREAS the Congress by a 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: 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 May 22, 1946 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 13th day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-six, [SEAL] and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: JAMES F. BYRNES, Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2688 DEATH OF HARLAN FISKE STONE To the People of the United States: WHEREAS Almighty God in His everlasting wisdom has brought to an end the mortal life of Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States; and WHEREAS by this death the people of the United States have lost a distinguished lawyer and jurist who has for almost a quarter of a century contributed generously to public life as Attorney General of the United States and as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of the United States; and WHEREAS the death of this public servant will be mourned throughout the Nation, and his life and achievement will be celebrated forever in the history of the development of our rich heritage of legal tradition: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby officially announce the death of Harlan Fiske Stone, stricken in the public performance of his duties in the highest Court of this Nation in the City of Washington on the twentysecond day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, at six forty-five o'clock in the evening. 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 23rd day of April, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-six and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2689 MOTHER'S DAY 1946 WHEREAS it has become customary on one day of each year to unite our hearts in public celebration of the common bond of humanity which we share in the memory and enjoyment of a mother's love, a mother's training, and a mother's care; and WHEREAS it is especially appropriate this year after the achievement of victory on a thousand momentous fields of battle that we express the debt of gratitude which each of us owes to his own mother and which we all owe to the mothers of America; and WHEREAS by Public Resolution 25, 63d Congress, approved May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 770), the second Sunday in May is designated as Mother's Day, and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling for the observance of that day: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby request that Sunday, May 12, 1946, be observed as Mother's Day with public and private expressions of honor, reverence, and love; and I call upon the officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on that day and the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes or other suitable places as a public expression of honor for the mothers of this country. NATIONAL FARM SAFETY WEEK, 1946 WHEREAS an increased supply of food is vitally needed to promote peace and happiness in the postwar world; and WHEREAS farm accidents rob the nation of thousands of lives and millions of dollars worth of food and other property each year; and WHEREAS experience in previous observances of National Farm Safety Week has clearly shown the necessity and benefits of a coordinated and constant educational farm-safety program: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the Nation to observe the week commencing July 21, 1946, as National Farm Safety Week. And I request all persons and organizations concerned with agriculture and farm life to do everything in their power to discover and publish the facts about farm accidents, and to develop practical safety programs which farm people everywhere can translate into direct action against hazards which daily threaten their lives and happiness. As a start, I specifically suggest that the farm people of the country observe National Farm Safety Week by resolving to eliminate at least one hazard a day until their farms are as safe as they can possibly make them. 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 April in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventieth. HARRY S. TRUMAN By the President: DEAN ACHESON, Acting Secretary of State. PROCLAMATION 2691 DISCONTINUING THE HAWAIIAN, CRISTOBAL, GULF OF PANAMA, SAN FRANCISCO, CoLUMBIA RIVER, PUGET SOUND, SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND, KODIAK, UNALASKA, LOS ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO MARITIME CONTROL AREAS 1 WHEREAS the continuance of the maritime control areas hereinafter designated is no longer necessary in the interest of national defense: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, and as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, do hereby discontinue the followingdesignated maritime control areas: 1. Hawaiian Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2532 of December 27, 1941.2 2. Cristobal Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2536 of January 13, 1942.2 3. Gulf of Panama Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2536 of January 13, 1942. 4. San Francisco Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2543 of March 25, 1942.2 5. Columbia River Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2543 of March 25, 1942. 6. Puget Sound Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2543 of March 25, 1942. 7. Southeastern Alaska Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2543 of March 25, 1942. 8. Prince William Sound Maritime Control Area, established by Proclamation No. 2543 of March 25, 1942. 1 Tabulated in § 9.4 of Title 34. 3 CFR Cum. Supp. |