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Show Liberty loan Billion Dollar Mark in Sight Tremendous Week's Activities Ac-tivities Expected. SFORTS REDOUBLED Encouraging Dispatches Received Re-ceived From All Sections 'Many Solicitors in Field. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Treasury officials declared today that "unless all signs fail" the liberty loan will have reached Its first $1,000,000,000 In subscriptions sub-scriptions by tonight With the billion dollar mark in sight for today, treasury officials were inclined in-clined to believe that the remainder of the campaign would witness a tremen-dqus tremen-dqus acceleration In activities and that two billion dollars might be reached by the end of the week. Dispatches from every section told of redoubled efforts to quicken the campaign. Minneapolis, where talcing of actual subscriptions hatf not begun until yesterday, reported that 60,000 solicitors had taken the field and that the district was alive with enthusiasm. Among reports sent to the treasury department was ono from Hawaii where a total of $1,516,000 has been subscribed. Subscriptions to the second Liberty loan will have to come In at the rate of $420,000,000 a day from now until October 27, when the big drive ends, if the $5,000,000,000 hoped for by the government Is obtained. Official estimates esti-mates put the total subscriptions thus far at $800,000,000, with only ten more working davs of the campaign to run. This leaves $-1,200,000,000 still to be raised. BIG N. Y. SUBSCRIPTION. NEW YORK, Oct 16. Ono ,$20,000,-000 ,$20,000,-000 subscription and others of small amount brought second liberty loan purchases up to $372,007,000 in the New York federal reserve district today. to-day. The $20,000,000 was subscribed by the Guaranty Trust company, making mak-ing $31,000,000 from this source. The overnight gain in this dlatriot which embraces New York stite and parts of New Jersey and western Connecticut was about $43,000,000. Rockefeller Offers Advice. John D. Rockefeller issued a statement state-ment today advising the purchase of bonds as tho best investment. "It happens quite often," ho said, "that a ma nhas not the time and opportunity to study the different kinds of bonds offered in this country. For a man in this position the bonds of the United States govornment are the safest investment" in-vestment" Banks Subscribe Heavily. Important subscriptions today in- Metals National Bank; $3,500,000 by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western West-ern Coal company; $1,500,000 by the Midvale Steel and Ordnance company, and $1,000,000 each by the New York Produce Exchange, Phelps-Dodge corporation, cor-poration, August Belmont and company com-pany and tho Amorican Can company. "Although there Is not a man in the world more opposed to war than myself, I feel that we must support our government to the limit in this war because our prcsldont Is pledged to abolish future wars as far as possible," pos-sible," said Ford in bis statement It has been known for somo time that enemies of the government havo been attempting to spread propaganda among workmen in Detroit and else-whore, else-whore, to the effect that Ford was opposed op-posed to tho United States declaring war on Germany. Ford's statement and his latest war contributions are expected to effectively crush these activities. |