PROCLAMATIONS-MAR . 12, 18 , 1940 [54 STAT. ARMY DAY-1940 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Preamble. April 6, 1940, desig- nated as Army Day. 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 re- quested, as Commander in Chief, to order military units through- out the United States to assist civic bodies in appropriate cele- bration 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 recog- nized as Army Day." NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, pursuant to the aforesaid con- current resolution, do hereby declare April 6, 1940, 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. 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 12" day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fourth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. CANCER CONTROL MONTH-1940 March 18, 1940 [No. 23896 Preamble. 36 U. . C., Supp. V, 150. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the President is authorized and requested by Public Resolution No. 82, 75th Congress, approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month, and to invite the Gover- nors of the several States, Territories, and possessions of the United States to issue proclamations for like purposes; and WHEREAS t is also requested in the said Public Resolution No. 82 that the proclamations issued invite the medical profession, the press, and al agencies and individuals interested in the control of cancer through a national program of education and other cooperative means to unite in dedication to such a purpose and by concerted effort to impress its necessity upon the people of the Nation; and 2688 March 12, 1940 [No. 23881
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