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Show DGDEiM WILL ABSORB MM LIBERTY BONDS Meeting of Clearing House Association Today Will Arrange Subscriptions. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN", May 27. Plans for an immediate imme-diate campaign to subscribe Ogden's proportion pro-portion of the 56,500,000 worth of liberty loan wax bonds allotted to Utah will be announced tomorrow afternoon at a second sec-ond meeting of the Ogden Clearing House association, composed of representatives cf the seven local hanks. M. S. Browning, president of the association and representative represen-tative of the First National bank. Is out of the city at present, but may return in time to preside at Monday's meeting, which will be held in the Weber club at 4 o'clock. As worked out by members of the. association as-sociation at the first meeting, held last Friday afternoon, the proportion of war bonds which Ogden and Weber county r. should subscribe is about $1,000,000. Bankers here believe that such an amount will be subscribed without difficulty. The proposed plan will be to procure as many individual subscriptions as possible, after which the banks and individual capitalists capital-ists will subscribe the bulk of the Ogden proportion and balance needed. While the banks and bankers will not generally make known the amount of their purchases of war bonds until June IS, or near that time, it was learned today to-day that a definite decision has been reached by several local institutions to subscribe for blocks of not less than J50,-0X J50,-0X worth of the bonds. No single subscription sub-scription for more than that amount has ben reported here. Included in the subscriptions sub-scriptions already received is an application appli-cation from Ogden lodge No. 719, B. P. O. Elks, for a bond of $1000. The Ogden Clearing House association is composed of the First National bank. Utah National bank. Commercial National Nation-al bank, Pingree National bank, Ogden State bank. Security State bank and the Ogden Savings bank. At the meeting last Friday each representative of a bank was made the chairman of a sub-committee on the Liberty loan campaign in . this city. He was authorized to select two citizens as members of his committee. commit-tee. According to a representative of the association, as-sociation, additional committees will be appointed at tomorrow's meetings and definite plans will be worked out for features of the proposed campaign. Among other things, the banks will send out thousands of postal cards and other literature lit-erature to depositors urging them to subscribe sub-scribe for war bonds. Special deposit certificates for $10 and smaller amounts will be provided by the banks for those desiring to pay installments on bonds of the $30 or $100 denomination. Serious Charge Made. Special to The Tribune.. OGDEN, May 27. Charges of pandering pander-ing are made by the police in the arrest of Mrs. T. V. Moore, proprietor of a rooming house at 218 Twenty-fourth street, who is accused of forcing money Chy threats from Mrs. Catherine Bennett, a woman living at her rooming house. The complaint was prepared on information informa-tion obtained from the Bennett woman by Sergeant T. H. Blackburn and Detective Detec-tive J. L. Hobson. Sergeant Blackburn arrested Mrs. Moore on a warrant. l |