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 PROCLAMATIONS-MAR. 22, 28, 1944 Proclamation of April 6,1944 as Army Day. NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Thursday, April 6, 1944, as Army Day, and do invite the Governors of the various States to issue proclamations calling for the appropriate observance of that day. And I urge the civilians of the Nation to reconsecrate themselves on that day to the task of producing in fullest measure and with the greatest possible speed the weapons and ammunition and the materials and supplies required to equip our Army and to sustain it unto final victory. 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 22nd day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and [SEAL] of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State. CANCER CONTROL MONTH-1944 March 28, 1944 INo. 26111 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS in time of war as in time of peace it continues to be our high responsibility to maintain proper standards of health and human welfare; WHEREAS in the midst of the necessities of war and the pre- vailing shortages of physicians and surgeons we may be tempted to neglect the constant watchfulness and the programs of popular education which are at present our one hope of preventing those tens of thousands of deaths from cancer which result each year from lack of early attention; and 3 U.S. C. 150. WHEREAS by Public Resolution 82, 75th Congress, approved March 28, 1938 (52 Stat. 148), the President is authorized and re- quested to issue annually a proclamation setting apart the month of April of each year as Cancer Control Month: 194 as Cancer con- NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- trol Month. dent of the United States of America, do hereby set apart the month of April 1944 as Cancer Control Month and invite similar action on the part of the Governors of the several States, Territories, and posses- sions of the United States. I call upon the medical profession and upon all agencies, organizations, and individuals in a position to claim public attention, to disseminate knowledge of the early symp- toms of cancer and to effect wide-spread publication of the facts about clinics and other health facilities for the control of cancer. 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 28th day of March, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-eighth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: CORDELL HULL Secretary of State 1132 [58 STAT.

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