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REGISTER

FEDERAL
VOLUME 6

1934

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NUMBER 175

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Washington, Tuesday, September 9, 1941 , The President F i r e P r e v e n t i o n W e e k 1941
BY THE PRESIDENT OP THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS the serious problems of national defense now confronting this country demand the utmost attention to the conservation of our human and physical resources; and WHEREAS the lives of thousands of persons were lost and property damage of more than a quarter of a billion dol lars occurred during the year 1940 as a result of avoidable fires in the United States; and WHEREAS individual responsibility for protecting human life and safeguard ing homes, industries, and public build ings against this grave menace should be impressed upon the entire citizenry;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the week beginning October 5, 1941, as Fire Prevention Week, and I urge public authorities, civic bodies, educators, the press, and the radio to emphasize the dangers attendant upon fires in the pres ent national emergency, and I recom mend to all our citizens their active cooperation in the elimination of fire hazards and their prompt action in every situation threatening loss of life or prop erty by fire.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 3rd day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and seal forty-one, and of the Inde pendence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixtysixth.
By the President:
F ranklin D R oosevelt C ordell H ull ,
Secretary of State.
No. 2509
F. R. Doc. 41-6709; Filed, September 6, 1941;
10:11 a. m.

EXECUTIVE ORDER
E stablishing the D ivision of C ontract D istribution in the O ffice of P roduc tion M anagement and D efining I ts F unctions and D uties
CONTENTS
THE PRESIDENT
Proclamation:
Fire Prevention Week, 1941----Executive Orders:
Arizona, public lands withdrawn for use of War DepartmentDivision of Contract Distribu tion established-------------Office of Defense Health and Welfare Services estab lished_________________
RULES, REGULATIONS, ORDERS

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, and in order to define further the functions and duties of the Office of Production Management with respect to the unlimited national emergency as declared by the President on May 27, 1941,1 and to provide for the more effective utilization of existing plant facilities for defense purposes; the conversion into defense production of T itle 7A griculture :
Agricultural Adjustment Ad civilian industries affected by priorities ministration:
and raw material shortages; the allevia Wheat, marketing quota regu tion of unemployment caused by the lations, 1941__________
effects of such priorities and shortages;
the local pooling of facilities and equip T itle 16C ommercial P ractices :
Federal Trade Commission:
ment; subcontracting; and the wider dif Cease and desist orders:
fusion of defense contracts among the Acme Steel Co---------------smaller business enterprises in every part Gerrard Co., Inc________
of the nation, it is hereby ordered as Inlaid Optical Corp_______
follows:
Monarch P r i n t e r s and 1.
There shall be within the Office of Binders_____________
Production Management a Division of Rockdale Monument Co Contract Distribution at the head of Schneck-Wayne Co., Inc., which shall be a Director appointed by et al_______________
the Office of Production Management Signode Steel Strapping with the approval of the President. The Co________________
Director shall discharge and perform the Soap Lake Products Corp following responsibilities and duties Spangler Candy Co---------under the direction and supervision of Thorsons Soap Lake Prod the Director General acting in associa ucts Co-------------------tion with the Associate Director General: T itle 30M ineral R esources :
Bituminous Coal Division:
a. Formulate and promote specific pro Minimum price schedules, re grams for the purchase of supplies for lief granted, petitions of:
the Army and Navy in smaller units but District Board 11________
among a greater number of firms and in District Board 15__
as many different localities as possible.
District Board 16 2 docu b. Formulate and promote modifica ments _____________
tions in federal procurement practices and procedures relating to negotiating T itle 32N ational D efe n se :
Office of Price Administration:
contracts, bidding practice, performance Scrap and secondary materi and bid bonds, and other practices and als containing n i c k e l , procedures, to the end that there shall price schedule amendedbe a wider distribution of defense con Office of Production Manage tracts and purchases.
ment:
c. Develop programs for the conver Silk waste, silk noils, etc., sion of plants and industries from civil preference order amend ian to defense production, with the ed___________________
16 F.R. 2617.

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