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PROCLAMATIONS- -Aug.29 1941 Sept. 3, 1941 RETAILERS-FOR-DEFENSE WEEK To AID IN THE SALE OF DEFENSE SAVINGS STAMPS BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Ante, p. 7. Designation of week of Sept. 15 to 20,1941. September 3, 1941 [No. 2608] Ante, p. 610 . Route for pipe line system. WHEREAS the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the authority of the Public Debt Act of 1941, is offering Defense Savings Stamps, in small denominations, for sale to the people of the United States; and WHEREAS national trade associations of our country representing more than one million retail stores have pledged the whole-hearted support of their members in assisting the Treasury Department to sell Defense Savings Stamps, and have agreed to observe the week of September 15 to 20, 1941, as Retailers-for-Defense Week to Aid in the Sale of Defense Savings Stamps, and to make an intensive effort during that time to acquaint the American shopping public with the advan- tages of buying Defense Savings Stamps: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week of September 15 to 20, 1941, as Retailers-for-Defense Week to Aid in the Sale of Defense Savings Stamps, and do call upon the people of the United States to cooperate in making that week a period of outstand- ing achievement in the sale of Defense Savings Stamps. 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 2 9 th day of August in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-one and of the [SEAL] Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-sixth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary oj State. NATIONAL DEFENSE PIPE LINE-SOUTHEASTERN PIPE LINE SYSTEM BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the act of Congress entitled "An act to facilitate the construction, extension, or completion of interstate petroleum pipe lines related to national defense, and to promote interstate commerce", approved July 30, 1941 (Public Law 197-77th Congress), vests in the President certain powers relating to the construction, extension, com- pletion, operation, and maintenance of interstate pipe lines related to national defense: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 2 and 3 of said act of July 30, 1941, do hereby find and proclaim (1) that it is necessary for national defense purposes that there be constructed and completed a pipe line system for the transportation and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products moving in interstate commerce, the route for which is generally indicated on a map which is on file in the Office of the Petroleum August 29, 1941 [No. 2507] 1672 [55 STAT.