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PROCLAMATIONS-SEPT. 12, 14, 1940 Ante, p. 2712 . By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT GOLD STAR MOTHER'S DAY September 14, 1940 [No. 24241 Preamble. 36 U. 8. C., Supp. V, 147, 148. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the preamble to Public Resolution 123, 74th Congress, approved June 23, 1936 (49 Stat. 1895), recites: "Whereas the service rendered the United States by the Amer- ican mother is the greatest source of the country's strength and inspiration; and Proclamation No. 2413 of July 2, 1940, entitled "Administration of section 6 of the act entitled 'An Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense' approved July 2, 1940," and in the regulations issued pursuant thereto: 1. Equipment (excluding minor component parts) which can be used, or adapted to use, for the production of aviation motor fuel from petroleum, petroleum products, hydrocarbons, or hydrocarbon mixtures, by processes involving chemical change; and any plans, specifications, or other documents containing descriptive or technical information of any kind (other than that appearing in any form available to the general public) useful in the design, construction, or opera- tion of any such equipment, or in connection with any such processes. Aviation motor fuel shall mean such fuel as is defined in the regulations issued pursuant to Proclamation No. 2417 of July 26, 1940, as may from time to time be amended. 2. Equipment (excluding minor component parts) which can be used, or adapted to use, for the production of tetraethyl lead; and any plans, specifications, or other documents con- taining descriptive or technical information of any kind (other than that appearing in any form available to the general public) useful in the design, construction, or opera- tion of any such equipment, or in connection with any such processes. Tetraethyl lead shall mean such tetraethyl lead as is defined in the regulations issued pursuant to Proclamation No. 2417 of July 26, 1940, as may from time to time be amended. 3. Plans, specifications, and other documents containing descrip- tive or technical information of any kind (other than that appearing in any form available to the general public) setting forth the design or construction of aircraft or air- craft engines. 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 1 2

h day of September in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-fifth. 2738 [54 STAT.