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Show COUNTY LOAN olf SEI IT S11.O31.3O0 Estimate Reached at Meeting Meet-ing of Committee at the Commercial Club. MORE GO "OVER TOP" Additional Business Houses Report 100 Per Cent Subscriptions. Pershing's Brother to Address Women at Commercial Club JAMES F. PERSHING-, brother of General John J. Pershing, com-rnander-inrdh.ief of the American' expeditionary ex-peditionary forces in France, arrived in Salt Lake last night for the purpose pur-pose of addressing the women's liberty lib-erty loan committee at a luncheon to be given at the Commercial club rooms at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow. Mr. Pershing, whose home is in Chicago, is a business man, and is making a transcontinental tour for the double purpose of attending to some private affairs and of delivering deliver-ing a scries of addresses- under the direction of the national council of defense. From Salt Lake he goes to Butte, Mont, where he is scheduled to speak before the Commercial club, after which he will proceed to Seattle, Spokane, San Francisco and Los Angeles before returning east. A i a. meeting of the Liberty loan committee com-mittee at the Commercial club last nig"ht, it was estimated that the quota for Salt "Lake county will be $11. 051, 300 for the fourth Liberty loan. Tins is ba3ed on .a Probable $5,000,000,000 to be raised throughout the United States, and on an estimated quota of S1S.570.S00 for the state or Utah. Further convincing proof that "Volunteer "Volun-teer day" will be a huge success aod that the majority of business houses and industrial in-dustrial concerns will be represented in the "March to Victory" pageant Monday night with the subscription record of their employees 100 per cent slrong came yesterday, yes-terday, when Lester D. Pureed, manager of the Salt Lake City Liberty loan commit com-mit toe received reports from six more business houses that their quotas were complete. Chairman Freed Pleased. 'Jf the present loyal spirit is maintained," main-tained," said Mr. Freed, "I have no doubt titat every participant in the 'March to Victory' Monday night will be a liberty loan subscriber, with the possible excep-i excep-i ion or" the school children. There is a nlerwiid desire on the part of business houses and their employees to be able on 'Volunteer day,' next Saturday, to report a j 00 per cent subscription at the banks." The unofficial announcement that Utah's ouota would be SIS. 700.000 has formed a tentative basis on which the Liberty loan orf-'ani stations throughout the state can make their plana, while this figure may be. changed, u is believed that the increase in-crease or decrease wiil not be considerate, considera-te, and. consequently. J. David Larson, Mate campaign manager, is proceeding rapidly with the apportionment of the t-i;m among the various couniie.-:. 100,000 Subscribers. The number of subscribers expected in this siate. however, has been definitely rixed aJ 100.000. and the various Liberty loan organizations have ben instructed to exert every effort to secure this number. Gratifying results obtained in Salt Liike through the st imuhjs of Volunteer day and the Match to Victory parade are calculated cal-culated io help tremendously in securing fourth Liberty loan investors. Tomorrow's big event on the schedule of the J .liberty loan campaign is the hinchon to lo eiven under the auspices of i he woman's Liberty Joan committees in ilie Commercial club, at whi'-ii the brother of General Pershing will d'-h'ver an address. ad-dress. There in to be muni'- and general d:?cus:on of the women's share in the drive for the fourth I liberty lo;i n. It is req'je-ted that ail applications for places a this hiiK-hon be made before noon today, because the capacity of the Com :neu ial club d ining-room is limited, and accommodations for all probably cannot ire furnished. Tickets may be obtained at t he door. Meserva t ions are received by telephone at the Commercial club. Bands to Participate. VJiht bands, composed of more than ..".a musicians, have already been teoured for the morsf-r March to Victory pa-geaiu to be he'd Morula y night In connection v.i'h fe opening of the Liberty Ion n drive a ivl the .state fair, and mo more are bfing sought, fra.:t."-n1! y every land rnu.xu-ian in Suit Lake has been secured, and now the i.:ommin?f ts turning its attention at-tention lo out'srde ixdnts. Correspondence looking to the securing of Ihe popular Mountain K'ho band front Kphraim is under way. n rid word is expected any hour thfl f t;;e gir3 are comin?. Th" organizations already secured a.e the K'dera I Ion of Muuiarjn, 1 i ir " k f-tate Fair band. National Guard band, Tniver-s Tniver-s : v Tra intng 7 e La fitment bu ivl, .Street "n r M en's band, letter Carriers' baud. Po- H'-outf? band pikI Worlhn m'-; Alamo 'iowh tarnival Ivimi. coming here: for trie, stale fair. In addition, the committee ;v set-Uinir lite Fervift of the Marine .' nut..' Iaiul, arid its appearance is prac-CcaMy prac-CcaMy assured. McAdoo Sends Ruling. f-'f-rting at rfrst any do';M h'c h may cx;t In the miiKl. of p'-ryon: in the ser-v ser-v '( c fif the war loan organisations and Liberty loan commit t as to whether if not icv should 'lairn deferred clasnili- ! aiion under I'm- x-lM-t ive torvha n'ila- 1 t qua, li''i'j if-c of the fact that they may in- tff f.y.wjvv lo thf KwrrcHH of Ihe Lib-nrtv Lib-nrtv 'i,it:, W . G, M-Adoo, wn-; t ;i ry of the lrt--,iy . has n-ni out a f-imifcir let-cr let-cr !n wiii )i hf y.t.VH that the claim for deferred '-lati b-a t inn by a ir"m In 1 be ysr:Ur; of flnv IJl":rlv loan com rnl t lee will involve no lack of pa 1 riot i-nn. The -Mm, hf: y.Tiyy, Hnould be made hy f'erv perron in an ec'i' Ive po-dtion with Liberty loan ,u trvltir-t; vlio vr-1 h-i "-fi f. f (m pirrfol m-itt' m-itt' U iif:"ful ?'-rvlf In which iL may r lo lb-. adv:tirta;;e of the InltwJ HUto that be ),'-. relairi'-. |