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Show &H1D of LOAN REPORTED Subscriptions, According to Treasury Report, Total Over $1,500,000,000. WASHINGTON'. May 2. With only stu-n working days loft, more thun two- : thirds of tins Victory Liberty loan remains re-mains to bo subscribed. Treasury de- ; partment f.gmvs tonight showed $1,407,- ; S-lT.tfOO, les than one-third of the loan tjuota. pledged. ,:; Individual subscriptions in nearly ev-cry ev-cry reserve district were said to be run- i ning far short of those in previous loans, ev itppurontly indicating that the public was not awake to the necessity of raising the -, full $4,500,000,000 asked for in order to bring the men back irom overseas, com- v pleto demobilisation and care for those v t, woundcii in the service. Finns inimedi-utely inimedi-utely were laid and telegrams sent to o cry state organization m the country to make the laM seven working days ot the campaign productive of sufticient in- TV- dividual subscript. ons to put the loan c "over the top." without calling on the financial institutions and tying up credit. The St. Louis federal reserve district t-; leads tlte country in having subscribed V' St . per cent of its quota, and two other western districts, Chicago and Min- y ' neapohs. rank second and third, respect-s? respect-s? ively. The southwest, or Pallas district, was at thi bottom when the latest tabulation tab-ulation of subscriptions was made. The amounts subscribed by the federal reserve districts, together with the per-eeruage per-eeruage of quota attained by each dis- J trict. as officially reported to the treas-ury treas-ury tonight, were as follows: District. Subscriptions. P. ct. St. Louis $llti,SS5,050 5.6 : Chicago 320.501,700 49.1 Minneapolis 75,070.050 47.6 Boston 15S.202.H00 42.1 Kansas Ckv 6?.S0.P00 36.8 Richmond 70.337.050 S3. 4 f Cleveland 134.343,000 29. S -: Philadelphia 97,484.900 25.9 New York 332.900,000 24.5 Atlanta 34.650.500 24.0 San Francisco 69.257.300 23.9 I : Dallas 1S.324.S50 19.3 ' SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. Victory loan subscriptions in the Twelfth federal reserve district up to noon today reached I a total of 5S3.23tJ.750, Liberty loan head-quarters head-quarters reported. Major divisions re- ? ported the following amounts actually in banks: Northern California, $20,553,550; - Washington, $15,794,700; Oregon, $15,021.- 950; San Francisco, $11,054,350; southern California, 510.474.400; Utah. $4,248,600; :- Idaho, 53.223.250; Hawaii, S2.660,dOO; Arl- J zona, SdST.700; Nevada. $461,600. , |