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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 4

1934

NUMBER 211

Washington, Wednesday, November 1, 1939
The President
Universe for the strength which He has vouchsafed us to carry on our daily labors and for the hope that lives within us of T hanksgiving D ay 1939
the coming of a day when peace and the BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES productive activities of peace shall reign on every continent.
OF AMERICA
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here A PROCLAMATION
unto set my hand and caused the seal of I, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, Presithe United States of America to be dent of the United States of America, affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this do hereby designate Thursday, the twenty-third of November 1939, as a day 31st day of October, in thfe year of our Lord nineteen hundred and of general thanksgiving.
More than three centuries ago, at the seal thirty-nine,, and of the Inde pendence of the United States season of the gathering in of the har vest, the Pilgrims humbly paAised in of America the one hundred and sixtytheir work and gave thanks to God for fourth.
F ranklin D R oosevelt the preservation of their community and for the abundant yield of the soil. A
By the President:
century and a half later, after the new C ordell H ull Nation had been formed, and the char Secretary of State.
ter of government, the Constitution of No. 2373
the Republic, had received the assent of the States, President Washington and P. U. Doc. 39-4027; Filed, October 31, 1939;
his successors invited the people of the 12:26 p. m.
Nation to lay down their tasks one day in the year and give thanks for the blessings that had been granted them the B lack C anyon op the by Divine Providence. It is fitting that E nlarging G unnison N ational M onument, C olo we should continue this hallowed cus rado tom and select a day in 1939 to be dedi cated to reverent thoughts of thanks by the president op the united states giving.
OP AMERICA
Our Nation has gone steadily forward A PROCLAMATION
in the application of democratic processes WHEREAS it appears that certain to economic and social problems. We have faced the specters of business de lands adjoining the Black Canyon of the pression, of unemployment, and of wide Gunnison National Monument in Colo spread agricultural distress, and our posi rado are required for the proper care, tive efforts to alleviate these conditions protection and management of the ob have met with heartening results. We jects of scientific interest situated on have also been permitted to see the frui lands within the said monument; and WHEREAS it appears that it would be tion of measures which we have under taken in the realms of health, social wel in the public interest to reserve the afore fare, and the conservation of resources. said lands as a partof the said As a Nation we are deeply grateful that monument:
in a world of turmoil we are at peace with NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
all countries, and we especially rejoice in ROOSEVELT, President of the United the strengthened bonds of our friend States of America, under and by virtue of ship with the other peoples of the West the authority vested in me by the act of ern Hemisphere.
June 8, 1906 ch. 3060, 34 Stat. 225;
Let us, on the day set aside for this U.S.C., title 16, sec. 431, do proclaim purpose, give thanks to the Ruler of the that, subject to all valid existing rights,
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamations:
Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Monument, Colo.,
enlargement_____________
Thanksgiving Day1939______
Executive Orders:
Alaska, public land and water withdrawal for naval pur poses.:__________________
Director of Bureau of Minés > iesig n a ted to act as Secre tary of the Interior, or as Under Secretary, etc., No vember 1-30,1939____
Indian lands, extension of trust X periods expiring during cal endar year 1940__________
Oklahoma, land jurisdiction u y transfer from Secretary of Agriculture to Secretary of War_____ _______________

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RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS
T itle 19C ustoms D uties ;

Bureau of Customs:
Customs regulations amendedT itle 24H ousing C redit :
Home Owners Loan Corpora tion:
gal, settlement of claims under redemption bonds in Missouri______ ______
T itle 31M oney and F inance :

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T reasury:

Accounts and DepositsBookkeeping and Warrants:
Duplicate checks, issuance ofPublic Debt Service:
/Offering of Reconstruction
Finance Corporation 1%
notes of Series S, due July 1, 1942_______ ____

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T itle 50 W ildlife :

Bureau of Biological Survey:
y R .leutian Islands Reservation, Alaska, administration Continued on nest page
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