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Show I T Li la t ll American Navy Subscribes Sub-scribes $140,000,000, and the Army Abroad Over Two Million. Treasury Receives Many Stories of Self-sacrifice by Individuals and by Business Interests. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. After reading a number of late reports on the outcome of the fourth Laberty loan campaign, which closed Saturday, treasury officials declared tonight there is little certainty at this time either of the total volume of subscriptions or the number of subscribers. sub-scribers. They still felt no doubt that the loan had been oversubscribed, but explained that ''many earlier 'messages appeared ap-peared too optimistic in th(e light of actual figures now being compiled by every bank and local committee of the country. Some cities which at first. reported they' were heavily oversubscribed now discover discov-er that they barely went over their marks. There was good ground, however, for the estimate that 22,000,000 or more Individuals In-dividuals had subscribed to the greatest war loan ever floated by any government. The fact that many of these represented lump subscriptions by corporations which later would resell bonds to their employees em-ployees led to the belief that the number of actual bondholders would be considerably consid-erably higher. FINAL FIGURES IN TWO WEEKS' TIME. Owing to the present uncertainty, the treasury expects to make no further announcement an-nouncement concerning the results of the loan until definite and official figures are received from each, federal reserve bank. The first of these reports is hardly looked for before next Monday, and the final compilations may be delayed for two weeks. A digest of reports so far received indicates in-dicates clearly, officials say, that the house canvassing method, or the system of having citizens call voluntarily at polling poll-ing places, should be used much more extensively ex-tensively in the fifth Liberty loan campaign, cam-paign, set for next spring. Stories of self-sacrifice by individuals and business interests, of fine records of loan workers, of unceasing effort throughout the three weeks' period, of clever methods and efficient salesmanship, salesman-ship, of enthusiastic determination which stopped at neither moral discouragement nor physical handicaps rrom influenza illness ill-ness are reaching the treasury In every mall. THANKS PALTRY IN FACE OF DEEDS. "Words of thanks seem paltry in the face of the deeds now being reported," said one official. The navy subscribed more than 5140.-OOO.OdO. 5140.-OOO.OdO. said an announcement today by Rear Admiral Cowie, navy Liberty loan officer, and this figure will be raised by later reports. The army also made a fine record, but the figures are yet Incomplete. Incom-plete. Goneral Pershing cabled that up to October 14. members of the American expeditionary force bad subscribed $1,207.-000 $1,207.-000 and that this probably would run to two million or more. Officials and employees of ninety-seven shipyards subscribed $rt;3&6,on. the shipping ship-ping board announced. If the other 106 yards maintain the same ratio, the grand total for the industry Will he about $7.".-onO.000, $7.".-onO.000, an average of more than SlOper man. Plants reporting big subscriptions were: Air.cri' an Shipbuilding cnhipany. Clove- land, $:,900.000; Cramp Shipbuilding company. com-pany. Philadelphia, $3,100,000; Hog Is-la.-id. 53.o-0,0t'O: Skinner & Kddy. Seattle, $2.rKV),00O; Submarine Boat r-irporatiijij. New York, $'..400,000; Fore River phint. Bethlehem Shipbuilding co'-roration. $l;0OO,O0O; Union plant. Reihlehem i-orp..- ( Con tinned on Pa ee Two.) REPORTS TELL OP : ; THE 10! C1PM (Continued from Pase One.) ration. $1,791,500: New York Shipbuilding ; corporation, Camden. N". J.. $1,500,000. Shipping board employees subscribed . : more than $1,000,000. while Emergency 1 ; Fleet corporation employees in Philadelphia Philadel-phia bought more than $1,500,000. Chicago District's Effort. CHICAGO, Oct 21. An oversubscription oversubscrip-tion of nearly $3?, 000, 000 is indicated In the state divisions of the seventh federal reserve district, according to reports re-ill re-ill cqived today by the different state chalr-;j chalr-;j men of the Liberty loah organizations Every state had an oversubscription and when all the returns are in and' checked it is believed the total will be considerably higher. I To Get Final Figures. BAM FRANCISCO. Oct. n.-The banks of the Twelfth federal reserve district Be :een given until tomorrow to get their final Liberty loan figures into the federal reserve bank, George K. Weeks general campaign manager for the district, dis-trict, announced here today. Every state in the district attained its quota, but definite figures will not be given out until checked by the reserve bank, Weeks said. Long Island Leads. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. Every one of the eight subdistrlcts of the New York federal fed-eral reserve district went "over the top" in. the fourth Liberty loan with oversubscriptions oversub-scriptions ranging from 5 to 50 per cent, it was announced tonight, following re- ceipt of reports from aubdistrlct chairmen. chair-men. The district comprising Iong Island, outside of New York City, was In the lead, with subscriptions estimated at from 14o to 150 per cent of Its quota. Newcomli Carlton, president of the Western Telegraph company, announced that 3130 employees out of a total of 371s, or 97.6 per cent, subscribed to the loan, the total subscription being In excess or $500,000. |