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 PROCLAMATIONS-AUG. 6, 14, 1947 Patent Office, which have been subject to renewal on or after Sep- tember 3, 1939, there has existed during several years since that date, because of conditions growing out of World War II, such disruption or suspension of facilities essential to compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of such registra- tions by section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, as to bring such registrations within the terms of the afore- said act of July 17, 1946; that the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland accords substantially equal treatment in this respect to trade-mark proprietors who are citizens of the United States, and that accordingly the time within which compliance with conditions and formalities prescribed with respect to renewal of regis- trations under section 12 of the aforesaid act of February 20, 1905, as amended, may take place is hereby extended with respect to such registrations which expired after September 3, 1939, and before June 30, 1947, until and including July 17, 1948. 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 6 t h day of August, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-seven and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-second. By the President: G C MARSHALL Secretary of State HARRY S TRUMAN FIRE PREVENTION WEEK, 1947 BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS each year preventable fires claim the lives of thousands of our citizens, both young and old, and cause permanent disability or painful injury to countless others; and WHEREAS the destruction by fire of our natural and created resources has almost doubled during the past decade, and cost this nation more than five hundred and sixty million dollars in the year 1946; and WHEREAS this ravage, if unabated, threatens an even more calamitous loss of life and waste of material wealth; and WHEREAS the program promulgated at the President's Conference on Fire Prevention held at Washington in May 1947 is designed to assist in stemming the tide of death and destruction from fires: NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 5, 1947, as Fire Prevention Week. I earnestly request every citizen to eliminate all possible causes of destructive fire in his home and in his place of business, and I urge that vigilance against fire be extended beyond Fire Prevention Week and zealously continued throughout the year. I invite State and local governments, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, the National Fire Waste Council, the American National Red Cross, business and labor organizations, churches and schools, civic groups, and agencies of the press, the radio, and the motion- picture industry to cooperate fully in the observance of Fire Prevention August 14, 1947 [No. 27421 Designation of week beginning Oct. 5,1947, as Fire Prevention Week. 61 STAT.] 1083 33 Stat. 727. 15U.9.C.§92.

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