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Show ROWS ASSURE LOAN'SUCCESS Subscriptions Larger and More Numerous Than Ever Before. Treasury Officials Believe 'Totals Will Be in During Dur-ing Today. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Subscriptions to the fourth Liberty loan have been more numerous and larger than at this stage of any previous loan campaign. This was indicated today in telegrams received from all sections of the country. Actual totals in the campaign to raise $. 000, 000,000 in three weeks were not available, but treasury officials believed that a report could be obtained from every district by tomorrow night. "From the reports now at hand," said a statement issued at loan headquarters tonight, 'it can safely be asserted that sales are moving much faster in the early days of this campaign than they did dur- : ing the third Liberty loan drive." Coast Sells $50,000,000. ' The Pacific coast had sold $50,000,000 of , bonds at the close of business last night, j reports from San Francisco said. Women in San Francisco and Sacramento sold $205,000 and $650,000, respectively, in the first two days. Subscriptions in Hawaii on the opening day were $3,461,000. Reports received today said the state of Oregon was near its quota. The treasury was officially informed that the state of Iowa had oversubscribed its quota by more than a million dollars, Kansas City, Mo., was the largest city reporting an oversubscription today. The twenty-four war exhibit trains moving through the country are given much of the credit for the enthusiasm of the first days. Thousands of people daily are passing through these- trains, reports said, and, staying after the trains have gone to hear speeches and enter their subscriptions. From many districts today came reports that' the throngs were so great they could not pass through the cars during the stay of the train. In Nebraska, Kansas Kan-sas and Oklahoma persons passed through the exhibit cars at the rate of fifty a minute. min-ute. Reports Optimistic. Subscriptions in New England for the first two days was $67,i"00,oliO, of which $45,000,000 came from Massachusetts. The St. Louis district committee was so busy selling bonds today It made no report. From Dallas tonight came this word: "Depression, due to bad business conditions, con-ditions, is giving way before a tidal wave of patriotism and drought -stricken districts dis-tricts are sending In very encouraging report re-port b." The message added that the words "carry on" have been adopted by the district as a campaign-slogan. The Richmond and Atlanta districts report more subscriptions than could be tabulated. tabu-lated. Negroes throughout the south are reported to be subscribing generously. Admiral Cowie, in charge of the navy's campaign, said tonight that approximately $"0,500,000 had been subscribed by officers and men. One battleship in European waters has furnished $115,000 in subscriptions subscrip-tions and another $101, 000, Admiral Sims today cabled. The Mare Island California) navy yard sent in an initial subscription of 5T4S.OOO. |