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Show RIO LOAN DRIVE OPENS TOMORROW Bonds to Be Turned Off Presses at Rale of 500,-000 500,-000 Daily. WASHINGTON, April 5 Final preparations pre-parations were being rushed today for the optntng tomorrow of the sale campaign cam-paign of thf third Liberty loan Directors of the drive announced that 40,tj00 of the bonds already had been turned out by the bureau of en graving and printing and I' wa- -tlmated that K)0,ooh would be ready bj tomorrow Thereafter tbe bonds will leave the presses at the rate of r.i'i 000 dally lo supply demands for cash ISlec and immediate deliver.1. I cfrislation necessary for floating the loan was completed yesterday when the hou-e accepted minor senate amendments to the bill authorizing the issuance of additional bonds and President Pres-ident Wilson approved the measure. Announcement of th complete plan for the new loan was made earlier in the day b the treaeurj department Here is the essentials of the new issue Amount 3,000,000,00 and all subscriptions sub-scriptions above that amount, interest inter-est rate 4' per cent; campaign period per-iod April b to May 1 date (Jf bonds Mai 9. 1B18; maturity ten years or St ptomrv.T 15, 1925$; payments due r, per t ent of subscript icn. 2i n r cent Mi' 28. 35 per cent July 18 40 per cent August I"., interest payable semiannually semi-annually September 1" and March IS. bonds of the firsi and second Liberty loans may be converted into third Libert) Lib-ert) loan bonds but bonds ol th- third loan are not convertible into Future 1 issues |