T. 25 S., R. 22 E., secs. 24, 25, 35 and 36 CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD (unsurveyed).

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 of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation of the Secretary of Agriculture.

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 15" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have here- [SEAL] unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.

DONE at the City of Washington this seventh day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirtynine, and of the Independence of the United States of America [SEAL] the one hundred and sixtythird.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

CORDELL HULL

Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2323

ARMY DAY-1939

WHEREAS Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, 75th Congress, 1st session (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 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."

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

SUMNER WELLES

Acting Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2324

CANCER CONTROL MONTH-1939 WHEREAS Public Resolution No. 82, 75th Congress, approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), authorizes and requests the President to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month, and to invite similar action on the part of the Governors of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States; and

WHEREAS such Public Resolution requests that such proclamations invite the medical profession, the press, 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 the month of April in a public dedication to such program and in a concerted effort to impress upon the people of the Nation the necessity for such a program; and

WHEREAS through the National Cancer Institute of the United States Public Health Service, the Federal government is leading the way in advanc

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, pursuant to the afore-ing research, in promoting effective said concurrent resolution, do hereby declare April 6, 1939, as Army Day, and I hereby invite the Governors of the several States to issue Army Day proclamations; and, acting under the authority vested in me as Commander in Chief, I hereby order military units throughout the United States, its Territories and possessions, to assist civic bodies in the appropriate observance of that day.

treatment methods and in advocating the provision of adequate facilities for cancer patients, as are the several States which have adopted programs for the control of cancer, as well as voluntary groups led by the Women's Field Army which are engaged in a nation-wide educational campaign; and

WHEREAS medical authorities have assured the American people of the cur

1918 (40 Stat. 755, 16, U. S. C., 704), I, H. A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, do hereby designate as closed area in or on which pursuing, hunting, taking, capturing, or killing, or attempting to take, capture, or kill, migratory birds is not permitted, all areas of land and water adjacent to the Big Lake Migratory Bird Refuge, in Mississippi County, Arkansas, not now owned or controlled by the United States within the following-described exterior boundary:

ability of many cases of cancer, a dis-
ease that now ranks second among the
causes of death in the United States:
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT, President of the United
States of America, do hereby set apart
the month of April, 1939, as Cancer Con-
trol Month, and invite similar action on
the part of the Governors of the several
States, Territories, and possessions of the
United States; and, in order that the
American people may become better in-
formed concerning the prevalence of
cancer and the effective steps which can
be taken to control it, I invite the medi-
cal profession, scientific groups, all or-
gans of opinion, including the press,
radio, and the motion picture industry,
and all agencies and individuals inter-
ested in a national program for the con-
trol of the disease of cancer, to unite
during the month of April, 1939, in a
concerted effort to impress upon the
people of the Nation the necessity for
this program and the importance of con-
stant vigilance in this fight for human-ary in sec. 27,
ity.

DONE at the City of Washington this 17" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty nine, and of the Independence of the [SEAL] United States of America the one hundred and sixty third. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President:

SUMNER WELLES

Acting Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2325

Beginning at the corner common to secs. 21 and 22, T. 16 N., R. 9 E., Fifth Principal Meridian, in the line common to the States

of Arkansas and Missouri.

Thence with the line common to the States of Arkansas and Missouri,

Easterly to the northwest corner of lot 1, sec. 22, T. 16 N., R. 9 E.;

Thence in sec. 22, Southerly to the one-quarter corner common to secs. 22 and 27;

Thence between secs. 22 and 27,

of improvement No. 28 of Drainage District Easterly to the east right-of-way boundary No. 17;

Thence with said east right-of-way bound

Southwesterly to the line common to secs. 27 and 34;

Thence between secs. 27 and 34,
Westerly to the northwest corner of the
NE NW of sec. 34;

Thence in sec. 34,

Southerly with the west one-sixteenth line of improvement No. 28; to a point in the west right-of-way boundary

Southwesterly with said west right-of-way boundary to a point in the line common to sec. 3, T. 15 N., R. 9 E., and sec. 34, T. 16 N., R. 9 E.;

Thence with said west right-of-way boundary in T. 15 N., R. 9 E.,

Southerly through sec. 3;

Southeasterly through sec. 10, to the line common to secs. 10 and 11;

Thence between secs. 10 and 11,

Southerly to the corner common to secs.

CLOSED AREA UNDER THE MIGRATORY BIRD 10, 11, 14, and 15;

Southwesterly in sec. 10 to the center west Little River, to the east-west center line; one-sixteenth corner;

Thence with the west one-sixteenth line, Southerly to the southerly right-of-way boundary of improvement No. 28;

Thence with said southerly right-of-way boundary,

Southwesterly to the line common to secs. 9 and 10;

Thence between secs. 9 and 10,

Northerly to the theoretical one-quarter corner of said secs.;

Westerly to the meander corner on the east pears that the foregoing regulation will shore of Little River;

the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Migratory Bird Treaty Act of July 3, 1918, do hereby approve and proclaim the foregoing regulation of the Secretary of Agriculture.

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 March in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and thirty-nine, and of the Independence of [SEAL] the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-third. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

By the President,
SUMNER WELLES,

Acting Secretary of State.

PROCLAMATION 2326

CZECHOSLOVAKIA TERMINATION OF PROC-
LAMATIONS OF TRADE AGREEMENT AND
PROTOCOL OF AMENDMENT THEREOF
WHEREAS it is provided in the Tariff
Act of 1930 of the Congress of the United
States of America, as amended by the
Act of June 12, 1934, entitled "AN ACT
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930" (48
Stat. 943), which amending Act was ex-
tended by Joint Resolution of Congress,
approved March 1, 1937 (50 Stat. 24), as
follows:

"(1) To enter into foreign trade agreements ties thereof; and with foreign governments or instrumentali

"(2) To proclaim such modifications of existing duties and other important restrictions, or such additional import restrictions, or such continuance, and for such minimum periods, of existing customs or excise treatment of any article covered by foreign trade agreements, as are required or appropriate to carry out any foreign trade agreement that the President has entered into hereunder. No proclamation shall be made increasing or decreasing by more than 50 per centum any existing rate of duty or transferring any article between the dutiable and free lists. The proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall apply to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of all foreign countries, whether imported directly, or indirectly: Provided, That the President may suspend the application to articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of any country because of its discriminatory treatment of American commerce or because of other acts or policies which in his opinion tend to defeat the purposes set forth in this section; and the proclaimed duties and other import restrictions shall be in effect from and after such time as is specified in the proclamation. The President may at any time terminate any such proclamation in whole or in part."

WHEREAS, pursuant to the said Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, I entered into a foreign Trade Agreement on March 7, 1938, with the President of the Czechoslovak Republic, which Agreement was amended by a Protocol of Amendment signed on April 15, 1938;

WHEREAS, by my Proclamations of March 15, 1938, and April 15, 1938, I did make public the said Trade Agreement, as amended by the said Protocol of Amendment, in order that the said Agreement as amended should be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States of America and the citizens thereof on and after April 16, 1938;

"SEC. 350. (a) For the purpose of expanding foreign markets for the products of the United States (as a means of assisting in the present emergency in restoring the American standard of living, in overcoming domestic unemployment and the present economic depression, in increasing the purchasing power of the American public, and in establishing and maintaining a better relationship among various branches of American agriculture, inWHEREAS the occupation of the dustry, mining, and commerce) by regulating Czechoslovak Provinces of Bohemia, the admission of foreign goods into the United States in accordance with the char- Moravia and Slovakia by armed forces acteristics and needs of various branches of of Germany, and of the Province of American production so that foreign markets Ruthenia by armed forces of Hungary will be made available to those branches of American production which require and are and the assumption of de facto adminiscapable of developing such outlets by afford-trative control over these Provinces by ing corresponding market opportunities for foreign products in the United States, the Germany and Hungary renders imposPresident, whenever he finds as a fact that sible the present fulfillment by the any existing duties or other import restric- Czechoslovak Republic of its obligations tions of the United States or any foreign under the said Agreement; country are unduly burdening and restricting the foreign trade of the United States and that the purpose above declared will be promoted by the means hereinafter specified, is authorized from time to time

WHEREAS this condition will obtain so long as such occupation and administration continue;