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Show LIBERTY LOAN APPEAL MADE Committees to Inaugurate Intensive In-tensive Finish No Subscription Sub-scription to Be Overlooked. WASHINGTON, April 30. An ap heal to all Liberty loan committees to fnaucuratr an intensive 'irish for the Ird Liberty lonn and Lo see that no possible subscription is overlooked was seal out toda by the treasury department. de-partment. The appeal contains twelve Uoggestions of thingB fbat may yet be d0TtP to make the third loan a big success. Tbe suggestions are: Inaugurate B "buy another bond" rampaign to get those who have sub--iTlbed a lit'le to subscribe riore. See tbat the employes of every industrial in-dustrial plant have beo. canvassed. i V creatine if" possible, committees of employes to complete Hie work. Find 0ijt if any plants need re-canvassing. See If all stores and office buildings have been completely canvassed. Call attention publicly to the fact that the desired twenty million subscribers sub-scribers means one bond buyer to cv-Pty cv-Pty rive people or practically one lo a family. Many wealthy men and large institutions insti-tutions are holding off on account of I painc larce income taxes, hoping that their subscriptions will not be needed. Impress upon them that every possible subscription is needed and remind them again that the schedule of government gov-ernment payments on Libertv bond;-oallfi bond;-oallfi for Qo payments in the month of June. Follow up all pledges and see that they all materialize into actual .subscriptions. .sub-scriptions. Check up to see that each individual and community has done its share. Ascertain if those communities where quotas have been reached are alive to the necessity of continuing the battle for large over-subscription and I wide distribution. Take advantage of the fact that May 1 is pay day and a good day for thousands thou-sands to make initi.il payments. Ask for Increased Subscriptions. Bee that individual0 and firms which benefit from war business increase their subscriptions in adequate proportions. pro-portions. Many women whose husbands have m ?. already subscribed, orn buy bonds on their own account. Mke an appeal to them. Appeal to your newspapers to publish pub-lish these suggestions in I be hope that they will serve as reminders of new opportunities for subscription.-. From the Kansas City district whose total subscriptions now are 10 per cent above the district's quota were reported the following state totals: Colorado. $19,000,000: Kansas, $34.-223,000; $34.-223,000; Nebraska. $33,932,000: Oklahoma. Okla-homa. $26,160,0(10, Wyoming $L719.-000; $L719.-000; New Mexico. $1,333,000 CitleG in the district have raised the following percentages of their quotas - Kansas City. Mo. 125; St. Joseph, 119; Kan-. is City, Kan.. 109; Topeka. lift. Omaha, 120; Oklahoma City, 112. The village of Concrete, Colo,, has oversubscribed ov-ersubscribed ejht times, Antioch. Neb., seven times, and Badwater, Wyo.. six times. The Atlanta district, which has stood lowest in the percentage list, showed a sudden increase of $20,000,-000 $20,000,-000 in subscriptions. Other districts recorded unusual gains yesterda . The Cleveland district reported a gain of $26,000,000. Bond Sales Reported. The Chicago district which leads all others in the number of individual subscribers, sub-scribers, reports the following number num-ber of bond sties by states: Illinois. 635,000 1 Indiana. 28L000. Iowa. 510.000; Michigan, 330.000, Wisconsin. Wis-consin. 230.000. Chicago has subscribed 71 per cent of it.- allotment; Indianapolis 91 per cent; Des Moines 141; Detroit 148, fc Milwaukee 126. and Sioux City 150. New England cities have the following follow-ing standing- Portland, Me., 113 per cent; .Providence, .Provi-dence, 75; New Haven, 71; Boston. 58; Worcester, 106; Springfield. 104. Many Honor Communities. The Philadelphia district committee reports 344 honor communities of which Pennsylvania has 255; New Jersey Jer-sey 61 and Delaware 18. In the Dallas district the leading cities cit-ies standing is reported as follows San Antonio, 100 per cent; Galveston, Galves-ton, 101: Houston. 89; Fort Worth. 107; Austin,. 75; Shreveport, 98. Arizona is 1 per cent past its goal and Louisiana stands a little above 100 per cent Texas has subscribed 80 per cent of its quota. British Columbia, a number of departments depart-ments have been transferred from Denver to this city. The departments include markets, complaints, cl.n'K-and cl.n'K-and time serv ice. T. J. Foster, former manager of tLe Idaho Falls office, has been plact d In charge of the claims department, and i H. J. Doyle, of 1 enver. will take harse of the market and time service department Furniture for the departments was nistalled on the fifth floor of the Trib-i Trib-i une-Western Union building yesterday. The transfer of the departments to this city means the bringing of five families to Salt Lake. |