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Show UBEfflT LOAN SICK SUAE Secretary McAdoo Believes Early Reports Justify Optimistic View. By Universal Service. WASHINGTON. Sept. All reports coming into the treasury department on the fourth Liberty bond sales indicate that the new loan will be an even greater success than the earlier ones. Few estimates on the tales of Saturday have been received In addition to the messages from the list of smaller cities wni'-h had planned quick action and which subscribed their lull quotas in i lie , early hours of Saturday. New York City is an exception. Its committee wired Washington that the I metropolis had subscribed ?"'". 'K". or j one-ninth of the district's quota, on Saturday. Sat-urday. The entire count ry, even t he remote rural districts, will be at full sp--eu in the bond selling tomorrow. Atlama. w.e'e the sales on the third loan lac-d somewhat some-what early, is pared to hi:? production. "Several counties have lioue over th"1 top already." Its committee wired. "We are better organized this time." A number of cities in the San Fra t'-r.'eo district claimed honor Hass after the first hour's sales. Ah'Ssa. wnose entire ouota was subscribed bv t he A la ska Packers" association, is wiring its intent to double lis allotment. Worcester, Mas., which mt its quota of ?15.00P"'i.l yesterday, despite the fact that Its original sa' plan h.d to be abandoned because of the Spanish Influenza, Influ-enza, today wired that k was coins: richt ahead in its campaign. Throughout New En eland thev are call my t ho loa n t iie "Fiaht imar Fourth" and are enlist Imr solidly under its banner. Scores of their Htnaiier cities already are claiming honor flags. From Wheeling. W. Va.. crimes the word that every employee except one of the lO'iO on the rolls of the Uiehiand Coal company p.lready is a subscriber to th.e ' loan. Great Falls, Mont., is" over the top. There a great procession of residents who desired to buy bonds ' filed past ballot boxes and telling clerks, registering their subscriptions, while movinu-picture machines ma-chines filmed them and bands played. Everyone wanted to be in the picture. Other committees officially over the top are: Port Huron. Mich.; Canton, Mass.: Kern countv, California: Rockdale county, Georcla. and historic Bourbon oun'y. Kentucky, which hits its record despite the imminence of prohibition. Seeretarv McAdoo feels that,thc early reports justify his optimist ic view that the" big issue would be well oversub-sc oversub-sc ribed. |