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Show PRESIDENT IS LEADER IF TIE LATEST DRIVE Goes to Theater and Offers to Buy Another Bond of $50 on the Installment Install-ment Plan. i EVERY PLEDGE IS DECLARED NEEDED Four Minute Men Notified That an Avalanche of Dollars Dol-lars Must Be Forthcoming. Forth-coming. WASHINGTON, May 1. The "buy another an-other bond" movement developed by Liberty Lib-erty loan headquarters as a boom feature of the final days of the campaign, grew Into a national "match the president" contest President Wilson agreed to take another $50 bond on the installment plan, and appealed for a million others to do likewise. Tonight when the president went to a theater and formally offered his "buy another" subscription to a four-minute speaker, nearly every theater in the land was the scene of a "match the president" presi-dent" celebration, with four-minute men seeking to harvest a multitude of new pledges or resubscriptions for ?50 or any multiple of that sum. In 20,000 meeting places during: the remainder of the week "buy another bond" will be a campaign cry to drive the third loan along toward the goal of 20,000,000 subscribers and a big oversubscription of the ?3, 000, 000, 000 minimum. Every Pledge Needed. Indications tonight were that every pledge would be needed to send the loan to four or five billion dollars, for today's reports showed an addition of only $122,-000, $122,-000, COO, barely enough as a daily rate to put the loan across the three-billion line. The total reported was $2,579,079,100. Four-minute men and other Liberty loan speakers were notified of the exact situation regarding the third loan and were told that an avalanche of dollars was absolutely necessary in the next few days. Telegrams pouring ' into headquarters tonight told of immediate response to the "buy another" call. In a Philadelphia restaurant seventy-one diners matched the president. In the Boston district the executive committee set the example when each member ordered another $50 bond. District Records. Results of the drive are expected to show on tomorrow's reports from all districts. dis-tricts. Tabulations made by the treasury tonight, not including today's business, gave the following district records: Minneapolis Quola $105,000,000 Subscription 133,670,450 Percentage 127 St. Louis Quota 130,000,000 Subscription 156,326,350 Percentage 120 Kansas City Quota 130,000.000 Subscription 143,409,350 Percentage 114 Chicago Quota 425.000,000 Subscription 406,947,000 Percentage 95 San Francisco Quota 210.000.000 Subscription 194,938.900 Percentage 92 Dallas-Quota Dallas-Quota S0.000.0O0 Subscription 72,597,300 Percentage 90 Boston-Quota Boston-Quota 250,000,000 Subscription 221,971,150 Percentage 88 Cleveland Quota 300,000.000 Subscription 247,329,150 Percentage S2 Philadelphia-Quota Philadelphia-Quota - 250,000.000 Subscription 207.805,000 Percentage 80 Richmond Quota 130.000.0il0 Subscription 98186,250 Percentage 75 New York Quota 90O.iioe,o00 Subscription 633.956,800 rorcentage 70 Atlanta Quota 90,000.000 Subscription 57.toi.700 Percentage 63 Reports to the treasury Indicated that (he claim of the Minneapolis district that every county in every state had passed over ita quota was well founded and Die St. Louis district was pressing hard to PRESIDENT LEADER OF LATEST DRIVE (Continued from Page One.) wrest the honor from Minneapolis, with all. but fifteen counties oversubscribed. Official Reports. Official reports I'roin eight of the twelve federal reserve districts in the country showed honor communities as follows: Chicago, 3630: Minneapolis, 2468; Cleveland, Cleve-land, 1301: San Francisco, 991; Boston, 952; New York. 799; Philadelphia, 424; St. Louis, 149. No reports were received from the Atlanta. Richmond, Dallas or Kansas' City districts. The entire state of New Jersey was reported unofficially to be over the top tonight. New York state now has subscribed 6S per cent of its quota, and New York City 64 per cent Reports of subscriptions by other units show: Kansas City, Mo., district Missouri, $25,196,800; Colorado, $19,443,450: Kansas, $35,198,100; Nebraska, $35,665,450; Oklahoma, Okla-homa, $2G, 632,000; Wyoming, $4,878,350; New Mexico, $1,395,200. Although the San Francisco district had an official percentage of only 92, it was unofficially declared that the district had gone over its quota of $210,000,000 by at least $15,000,000. The number of subscribers sub-scribers in the district was said to be at least 50 per cent greater than tho total in the second loan. "Feel certain that the Atlanta district will subscribe .its quota and that the individual in-dividual subscriptions In this loan will eclipse those of other loans," said a telegram tele-gram from the Atlanta committee. Tenth District Over. KANSAS CITY, May 1. The tenth federal fed-eral reserve district, according to figures officially announced tonight, lias oversubscribed over-subscribed its quota of the third Liberty Lib-erty loan 16V4 per cent. The total announced an-nounced was $151,562,850. Of the twelve largest cities in the district only three yet have not gone over the top, according to the loan committee. They are Denver, Den-ver, Colo.; Wichita, Kan., and Muskogee, Ok la. By states, the total subscriptions aa announced an-nounced tonight, follow: Missouri (nineteen counties), $25, GOO, -150; Colorado. $19,968,400; Kansas, $35,-S94 $35,-S94 S50; Nebraska, $36,910,050: Oklahoma (ninety-four counties), $26,S99,60O; Wyoming, Wyo-ming, $4,924,600: New Mexico, $1,396,200. The subscriptions of the larger cities In the district include: Kansas Citv, Mo.. $14,262,250. or 126.3 per cent; Kansas City, Kan., $1,046,400, or H5 per cent; St. Joseph, Mo., $2,599,950, or 151.9 per cent; Denver, $5,347,650 or 61.5 per cent; Pueblo. $1,383,750; Wichita. Kan.. $1,492,400 or 76.3 per cent; Omaha, $6,555,450, or 129.6 per cent: Lincoln. Neb., $1,187,900 or 108.3 per cent. Dallas Is Behind. DALLAS. Texas. May 1. At noon today subscriptions to the third Liberty loan In the eleventh federal reserve district totalled to-talled $75,300,200. The minimum for the district is $S0, 000.000. Dallas must raise $2,300,150 in the three remaining days of the campaign to subscribe its minimum quota of $7,500,000. Actual subscriptions up to noon today give: Texafi $60,138,300: Arizona. $2,.)C1,360 nnd New Mexico $2.5OS,200. Porto Rico Buys Bonds. SAN JUAN. P. R., May 1. Subscriptions Subscrip-tions to the Liberty loan thus far amount to more than $1,500,000. About half of this was taken by the sugar interests. |