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796 October 17, 1942 (S. 2275] [Public Law 749] National Service Life Insurance Act, amendment. 54 Stat. 1009; 55 Stat. 846. 38U. .C., Supp.I, 1802 (d). Ante, p. 657. Flying cadets and aviation students. 55 Stat. 239, 241. 10 U. S .C., Supp. I, f§ 308a, 298a-1. Ante, p. 650 . PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 614 , 615 , 617-OCT. 17, 20, 1942 [56 STAT. [CHAPTER 614] AN ACT To amend section 10 of Public, Numbered 360, Seventy-seventh Congress, to grant National Service Life Insurance in the cases of certain Navy or Army flying cadets and aviation students who died as the result of aviation accident in line of duty between October 8, 1940, and June 3, 1941. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 602 (d) of the National Service Life Insurance Act, as amended by section 10 of Public, Numbered 360, Seventy-seventh Congress, approved Decem- ber 20, 1941, be, and the same is hereby, amended by substituting a colon for the period at the end of (d) (2) thereof and adding the following: "Provided, That if such person serving as a flying cadet or aviation student, Navy or Army, between October 8, 1940, and June 3, 1941, the date of approval of Public Law Numbered 97 and Public Law Numbered 99, Seventy-seventh Congress, and died as the result of an aviation accident incurred in line of duty while in such active service, such person shall be deemed to have applied for and to have been granted an aggregate amount of insurance of not less than $10,000. Any additional insurance granted by virtue of this proviso shall be payable in the manner provided by this section." Approved, October 17, 1942. [CHAPTER 615] October 17, 1942 [S. 2442] [Public Law 750] Service flag. Design. Service lapel button Design. Publication on ap- proval. License for manu- facture and sale. Rules and regula- tions. October 20, 1942 [8. 2775] [Public Law 7511 Ouayule and other rubber-beringplants. Ate, p. 127. AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of War to approve a standard design for a service flag and a service lapel button. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to approve a design for a service flag, which flag may be displayed in a window of the place of residence of persons who are members of the immediate family of a person serving in the armed forces of the United States during the current war. SEC. 2. The Secretary of War is also authorized and directed to approve a design for a service lapel button, which button may be worn by menbers of the imnmediate family of a person serving in the armed forces of the United States during the curlent war. SEC. 3. Upon the approval by the Secretary of War of the design for such service flag and service lapel button, he shall cause notice thereof, together with a description of the approved flag and button, to be published in the Federal Register. Thereafter any person may apply to the Secretary of War for a license to manufacture and sell the approved service flag, or the approved service lapel button, or both. Any person, firm, or corporation who manufactures any such service flag or service lapel button without having first obtained such a license, or otherwise violates this Act, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $1,000. SEC. 4. The Secretary of War is authorized to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act. Approved, October 17, 1942. [CHAPTER 617] AN ACT To amend the Act of March 5, 1942, relating to the planting of guayule and other rubber-bearing plants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph (2) of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the