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Show Home Front Volunteers To Put Over Third War Loan Campaign For Worlds Greatest Financing Drive With the Slogan "Back the Attack With War Bonds, " Every American Citizen Is Asked to Buy at Least One Additional $100 Bond in September WASHINGTON, D. C, September 9.-America's Third Army marched forth today, to capture the most important immediate objective on the home front. As 2,000,000 volunteers swung into lin,? to put over the Third War Loan campaign, they were met with helping hands from millions of workers in the home front production battle, and cheers of encouragement from men on the fighting fight-ing fronts to whom the success of the Third War Loan is literally a matter of life and death. To oacK the attacK witn warS Bonds" every American who can do so will be asked to buy at least an extra $100 War Bond. The quota for those who are able to invest more from income or accumulated ac-cumulated funds will be much higher. Speaking of the great drive to raise $15 billion a major portion to come from individuals Secretary Secre-tary of the Treasury Henry Mor-genthau, Mor-genthau, Jr., said: "The United Nations are on the march. The first rumblings of '' the big offensive are being heard i in all the Axis nations. Thousands of our men have stormed Sicily. Tons upon tons of bombs are drop- ping on Germany. We are attack- . ing Jap-held territory as never before. This is a great day for us. But it means 'that the time has come for us to really tighten our belts here on the home front. We have come to a most crucial period in the war, and the success suc-cess that we will have on the fighting fronts, will depend to a considerable extent upon the degree de-gree to which we here at home I are willing to, work and sacrifice i - . for ultimate victory. s "It's going to be a costly victory. vic-tory. We have said that before, but we must repeat it again and again. The real war has only now begun. Billions of dollars more must be spent to keep the material of war going to our men at the fronts. Your Government must call upon you, the American Ameri-can people, for that money. "Remember! It is up to all of us here at home to 'Back the Attack' At-tack' and to do it more enthusiastically, enthusi-astically, more thoroughly arid with greater sacrifice than any attack has ever been backed by' any home front in all history. Everything Ev-erything is at stake. Everyone must help to the very limit of his ability." The drive, continuing throughout through-out September, .will offer to investors in-vestors in addition to Series E, F and G United States Savings Bonds the following securities: Treasury Treas-ury Savings Notes, Series C; 2 percent Treasury Bonds of 1964-69; 1964-69; 2 percent Treasury Bonds of 1951-53;. percent Certificates Certifi-cates of Indebtedness. |
