Virginia, November 20 to December 4. Mourning or turtle dove.-The open seasons on mourning or turtle dove shall be as follows, both dates inclusive:

Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, November 20 to December 19.

Arizona, California, Colorado, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, September 1 to October 12.

Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, and Virginia, September 16 to October 15.

Florida, December 1 to December 30.

Idaho, September 1 to September 10. Illinois, and Missouri, September 1 to September 30.

North Carolina, November 25 to December 24.

Oregon, September 1 to September 15. Texas, in Kinney, Uvalde, Medina, Bexar, Comal, Hays, Travis, Williamson, Bell, Falls, McLennan, Hill, Navarro, Kaufman, Hunt, Hopkins, Delta, and Lamar Counties, and all counties north and west thereof, September 1 to October 12 in remainder of State, November 20 to December 19.

White-winged dove.-The open seasons on white-winged dove shall be as follows, both dates inclusive:

Arizona, September 1 to September 15. Texas, September 13 to September 19. Band-tailed pigeon.-The open seasons on band-tailed pigeon shall be as follows, both dates inclusive:

Arizona, New Mexico, and Washington, September 16 to October 15.

California, December 1 to December 30. Oregon, September 1 to September 30. Regulation 5—Daily Bag and Possession Limits on Certain Migratory Game Birds

The subtitles "Sora," "Coot" and "Mourning or turtle dove and whitewinged dove" of Regulation 5 amended to read as follows:

are

Sora and Coot.-Twenty-five in the aggregate of both kinds, and any person at any one time may possess not more than 25 in the aggregate of both kinds. Mourning or turtle dove and whitewinged dove.-Ten in the aggregate of

both kinds, and any person at any one time may possess not more than 10 mourning doves or more than 20 whitewinged doves.

Regulation 6-Shipment, Transportation, and Possession of Certain Migratory Game Birds

Regulation 6 is amended by striking out the numerals "30" wherever they occur in the said regulation and by inserting in lieu thereof the numerals "45", and the second paragraph of the said regulation is amended to read as follows:

Not more than the number of such birds permitted by regulation 5 of these regulations to be taken by one person in one day, or in 2 days in the case of white-winged doves, woodcock and ducks (except wood ducks), nor more than 6 geese, including brant, in the aggregate of all kinds of which not more than 4 in any combination may be species other than blue geese, shall be transported by any one person in 1 calendar week out of Alaska, Puerto Rico, or the State where taken or from Canada or Mexico into the United States.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this fifteenth day of July, 1943. [SEAL]

OSCAR L. CHAPMAN,

Acting Secretary of the Interior. AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing amendments will effectuate the purposes 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 to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this 16th day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty[SEAL] three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2590

THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE Recognizing the fact that in carrying the war into enemy territory, we shall need greater amounts of money than any nation has ever asked from its citizens in all history, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do officially proclaim that on Thursday, the ninth of September, 1943, the Third War Loan shall be launched.

As Commander-in-Chief, I hereby invoke every citizen to give all possible aid and support to this Third War Loan drive, not only so that our financial goal may be reached, but to encourage and inspire those of our husbands and fathers and sons who are under fire on a dozen fronts all over the world. It is my earnest hope that every American will realize that in buying War Bonds in this Third War Loan he has an opportunity to express voluntarily and under the guidance of his conscience, the extent to which he will "back the attack."

The American people supported well the first and second War Loan drives and in fact did even more than was asked of them. Our need for money now is greater than ever, and will continue to grow until the very day that Victory is won; so we must ask far more sacrifice, far more cooperation than ever before.

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 July, in the year of our Lord

nineteen hundred and forty[SEAL] three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL,
Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2591

ENLARGING THE HURON, MANISTEE, OTTAWA, MARQUETTE, AND HIAWATHA NATIONAL FORESTS, MICHIGAN

WHEREAS certain lands which have been acquired or hereafter may be acquired by the United States through ex

changes with the State of Michigan under authority of Title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (U.S.C., title 7, secs. 1010, 1012, 50 Stat. 522, 525), are situated within the exterior boundaries of the Huron National Forest, the Manistee National Forest, the Ottawa National Forest, the Marquette National Forest, or the Hiawatha National Forest; and

WHEREAS it appears that such lands are suitable for national-forest purposes and that it would be in the public interest to reserve such lands as parts of the national forest within which they are situated:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 24 of the act of March 3, 1891, 26 Stat. 1095, 1103, as amended (U. S. C., title 16, sec. 471), and Title III of the said Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, and as President of the United States, do proclaim that all lands within the exterior boundaries of the Huron, Manistee, Ottawa, Marquette, and Hiawatha National Forests, in the State of Michigan, which have been acquired or hereafter may be acquired by the United States through exchanges with the State of Michigan, under authority of Title III of the said Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, are hereby reserved, or immediately upon acceptance of title by the Secretary of Agriculture shall be reserved, as parts of the respective national forests within which they are situated, and shall be subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable to national forest lands acquired under the provisions of the act approved March 1, 1911 (36 Stat. 961, U.S.C., title 16, secs. 480, 500, 501, 516, 519-521), and acts amendatory or supplementary thereto.

IN WITNESS 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 29th day of July, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty[SEAL] three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2592

FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1943

This Nation's war program is menaced by an alarming increase in preventable fire losses. Since Pearl Harbor the destruction caused by fire in the United States has been comparable to the damage caused by all enemy bombing over England during the first two years of the war. The loss to this Nation is just as real as if the destruction had been wrought by enemy bombers over America, or by saboteurs.

These preventable fires are being measured in thousands of workers killed and disabled; vast destruction of critical raw materials, food, and other vital supplies for our armed forces and civilian population; the ruin of war plants, factories, homes, and machinery-in many cases for the duration of the war. Fires are bringing costly delays in the production and transportation of airplanes, ships, tanks, and guns-delays that mean a postponement of victory and the lives of many of our men on the fighting fronts.

Today it is vitally necessary that we prevent destructive fire. Every State in the Union shares this responsibility. Every community must make an extra and thorough effort to detect and eliminate fire hazards. Only by this united endeavor can America guard her productive power against fire and eliminate a major hazard that threatens seriously to reduce supplies of war materials, food, clothing, and other essentials required by our fighting men overseas and by our civilians at home. The cause was never so clear; the need was never so great.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 3, 1943, as Fire Prevention Week. I earnestly request the people of the country to take unusually active measures during that week, and throughout the year, to conserve our human and material resources from destruction by fire. I call upon State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Fire Waste Council, upon all business and labor organizations, the pulpit, educators, civic groups, the press, the radio, and the motion-picture industry to initiate programs that will vividly bring home to all our people the dangers of fire and the methods of controlling it.

Further, I direct the Office of Civilian Defense, the Department of Agriculture, the War Production Board, the protective services of the War and Navy Departments, and other appropriate Federal agencies to lend their active support and assistance to the attainment of these objectives.

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 August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and [SEAL] forty-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtyeighth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2593

CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD TREATY ACT; MICHIGAN

WHEREAS the Secretary of the Interior has submitted to me for approval the following regulation adopted by him on September 17, 1943, under authority of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, of July 3, 1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16 U. S. C. 704): REGULATION DESIGNATING CERTAIN PARTS OF ANCHOR BAY, LAKE ST. CLAIR, AS THE ST. CLAIR MIGRATORY WATERFOWL CLOSED AREA, MICHIGAN 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), and Reorganization Plan No. 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 flight of the migratory birds 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, do hereby designate as closed area in or on which pursuing, hunting, taking,

Tabulated in Title 50, Part 8, infra.

capturing, or killing of migratory birds, or attempting to take, capture, or kill migratory birds is not permitted all that area of land and water of Anchor Bay, Lake St. Clair, St. Clair County, Michigan, within the following-described boundary:

Unit A (approximately 600 acres including and surrounding the Sand Islands lying about 3 miles south of Anchorville), beginning at a point on the north side of the North Channel approximately 6,300 feet due north of the northeast corner of Lot 320 of the Chenal a Bout Rond (Snibora Channel) section of the St. Clair Flats Survey made under the provisions of the Public Acts of Michigan, 1899, Act No. 175, said lot being situated on the north end of the Mud Hen Highway; thence due north approximately 5,500 feet to the 6-foot contour as shown on the U. S. Lake Survey Chart of Lake St. Clair, 1933; thence S. 80° W., 4,700 feet along said contour line; thence S. 25° W., 5,200 feet along the same contour; thence due south 2,800 feet to the north side of the North Channel; thence N. 53° E., along the north side of the North Channel 5,300 feet; thence S. 84° E., 2,800 feet along the North Channel to the point of beginning. The Baltimore Channel, which passes through the area, shall be marked by buoys and designated as a boat lane.

Unit B (approximately 3,600 acres), beginning at the southeast corner of Lot 29 of the Chenal a Bout Rond (Snibora Channel) section of the St. Clair Flats Survey made under the provisions of the Public Acts of Michigan, 1899, Act No. 175; thence west along the south boundaries of Lots 29 to 24, inclusive, to the southeast corner of Lot 23; thence north along the east side of Lot 23 to the south side of the Snibora Channel; thence southwesterly and southerly along the south side of the Snibora Channel to the southwest corner of Lot 1; thence due south 1,600 feet; thence N. 83° W., 7,000 feet (toward the Clinton River Inner Light); thence S. 10° E., 15,600 feet to a line running between Port Huron Gas Buoy and Station 84 of the Middle Channel section of the St. Clair Flats Survey; thence N. 68° E., 10,500 feet to said Station 84; thence N. 1° W., 10,200 feet to Hawkins Point; thence N. 6° W., 4,900 feet to the point of beginning.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused

the seal of the Department of the Interior to be affixed, this 17th day of September, 1943.

HAROLD L. ICKES,

Secretary of the Interior.

AND WHEREAS upon consideration it appears that the foregoing regulation will tend to effectuate the purposes of the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation of the Secretary of the Interior:

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-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtveighth.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:
CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2594

CAPTURE OF PRIZES

WHEREAS the act of August 18, 1942, 56 Stat. 746, 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 Canada, 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 Canada and to the taking or appropriation of such prizes within the territorial waters of Canada 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 Canada 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.

WHEREAS we who are determined to seek and to find highways to a new world of peace and cooperation may take inspiration from the faith and courage of Christopher Columbus, who sailed across an uncharted sea and found a western continent and a new world; and

WHEREAS at this time, when the Italian people are striving to win back for themselves an honorable place in the family of nations, it is especially fitting that we honor the vision and achievement of a great Italian; 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 Tuesday, October 12, 1943, 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.