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Show THREE DAYS LEFT OF WAR WOPvK DRIVE NT'jW YORK. Xov. IT. With nnlv three days left to work, the Tniled War Work campaign committee faced tonight the necessity ne-cessity of raising $124,!&!).0."iu to provide the seven war relief organizations with the S25O.O0O.OOO they need to keep the I A mericau army and navv happy until demobilization. Official subscriptions tonight totalled J1 25,000,'J."0, or approximately "I per cent of the original $170.r(HWiiio " -asked, but nothing short of a r-0 p-r t-ent over-subscription will satisfy t he officials, they declare. On the basis of the original sum asked, twenty-six states have reported themselves them-selves "over the top," a few of these having passed the 50 per cent over-subscription mark asked of all slates. The eastern states continued to lag, however. Total subscriptions to the' various army departments were reported as follows: Eastern, ?42,5It0, (02 ; northeastern, St:j -7.11.045; central. $47,417.4::$; southeastern, ?,U:.0;o; southern, $0,542,408; western, 6,575,541'. |