The provisions of this act shall be applicable to any owner or principal owner, his heirs or assigns, of any newspaper during his services in the Armed Forces of the United States of America in the war between the United States and Germany, Italy and Japan, and for six (6) months after the termination of hostilities between the United States of America and the enemy countries mentioned herein, or during a state of national emergency as declared by the President of the United States.
Laws 1943, p. 86, § 6; Laws 1951, p. 65, § 3.