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 PROCLAMATIONS-JAN. 13,19, 1945 T.10N., R.13E., sec. 34, lot 2. T.12N., R.18E., sec. 5, lot 4; sec. 6, lots 9, 10, and .11, and NEYSWY4. The areas described aggregate 1,323.31 acres. Executive Orders No. 4203 of April 14, 1925, and No. 6910 of No- vember 26, 1934, as amended, withdrawing certain public lands for classification, are hereby revoked so far as they affect any of the above-described lands. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this 13 th day of January, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-five, and of fSEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixty-ninth. FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: E. R. STETTINIUS, Jr. Secretary of State RED CROSS MONTH, 1945 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, under the provisions of its Congressional charter, the American National Red Cross, in this fourth year of the war, is ful- filling its obligations to comfort our wounded, to cheer and help our servicemen on every fighting front, and to provide an essential link between these men and their families at home, thereby relieving anxiety and restoring hope to all those who are suffering and in need of aid; and WHEREAS this organization is helping the people at home to stand firmly behind our fighting men through its collection of blood for our wounded, its shipment of food parcels, medical supplies, and comfort items to our prisoners of war in enemy hands, its production of surgical dressings, and its recruitment of nurses for our Army and Navy; and WHEREAS the American National Red Cross is also carrying on its peacetime activities by assisting the civilian victims of tornado, flood, and other disaster, and by training the people of our Nation to combat sickness and accident and thus to prevent suffering and death; and WHEREAS, by the very nature of its services and the principles for which it stands, the American National Red Cross is helping to build a world of unity and peace and brotherhood, recognizing no barriers of creed or race; and WHEREAS this organization, which represents a tangible expres- sion of the desire of the people to reach out to the Nation's fighting men, now far removed from them, and which is entirely dependent on voluntary contributions to carry out its purposes, is issuing to every citizen of this country its 1945 appeal for a minimum War Fund of $200,000,000: NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presi- dent of the United States of America, and President of the American National Red Cross, do hereby designate the month of March 1945 Partial revocation of designated Execu- tive orders. January 19, 1945 [No. 2637 Designation of March 194S a Red Oros Month. 855 59 STAT.]

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