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Show G TASK AHEAD III 101 DRIVE irly Billion and Quarter )ollars Must Be Raised Today. Louis First District to fficially Go Over the Top in Campaign. ' , Washington". May 5. Nearly 51,200,- '00 remains to be subscribed to the nry Liberty loan in the single reeling re-eling day of the campaign. Sales ..'iated tonight by the treasury showed 'i4.S70.000 already subscribed, or 73.66 !-ent of the total required. (e total of subscriptions announced to-"t to-"t by the treasury really represents "baigri results of lit least twenty-four s earlier, and subscriptions actually n today together with the first 10 r:ent clinching payment, will not show :e official totals until tomorrow night, hat time, when the campaign closes, ,hcr half billion dollars, representing V's work, is expected by treasury of-lls. of-lls. This would raise the total to ap-inmtely ap-inmtely $3,;00,v00,000, and leave the Linder of the $4,500,000,000 loan ' to : frum the final day's pales, e increase today was $496,309,000, the :st of any day in the campaign, e flood of subscriptions today for the v,J time carried the percentage of quota fie Victory loan ahead of the record ie fourth Liberty loan for the corre-dlng corre-dlng day. On the next to the last of the fourth Liberty loan only 6o.9 ent of the country's quota had been ' cribed. Louis Again Honored. the third time in as many consecu-I consecu-I campaigns, the St. Louis dis-achieved dis-achieved the honor of being the first ict to obtain its quota for the entire Itry. Latest reports from St. Louis $?ht show the district with a per-k-'-SQ of 100.1, and it is said to be going ug for a big oversubscription. The f leapolis district, which threatened "irday to give St. Louis a brush for honors, had 82 per cent of its quota 'cribed on the basis of today's reports when loan headquarters closed to-t to-t the announcement of the governor ie Minneapolis district that the dis-had dis-had reached its quota, reported in dispatches, had not been received, lorado and Wisconsin obtained their as today and the city of Richmond, went over its allotment by 10 per bscriptions by districts and percent-j percent-j of quotas raised were announced by .treasury as follows: tstrict. Subscriptions. . P.C. 'ouis ? 195,221,000 100.1 York 1,204.000,000 89. 1 yeapolls 130,361,000 82.1 3as City 150,481,000 77.1 Jon 281.81S.000 75.1 idelpbia 269,600,000 71. S ago , ...... 4o7,467,000 70.1 mond 137,124,000 65'. 3 .eland 242,190,000 63.8 nta 74.557,000 51 .7 i, Francisco 136,029,000 45.1 "is 3t;. 008, 000 3S.1 resident Wilson today issued, through etary Glass an appeal to the Amer-!- people to make the Victory Liberty - "a great popular thanks offering." e president's cablegram to Secretary 's said: ..'hrough you I appeal to my fellow ens, on the eve of the consummation I victorious peace, to sustain the honor credit of our country to pay tribute ie valor and sacrifices of our fighting by making this last Liberty loan only a financial success, for that t be, but a great popular thanks of- wg, in which every American will e according to his ability." jineapolis is Second. :NNEAP0LIS, May 9. The Ninth ral reserve district has gone "over the top" in the Victory loan campaign, A. K. Rogers, district chairman, announced an-nounced tonight. A telegram, stating that the district had passed Its quota of 5157,500,000, was sent to Ihe treasury department at Washington Wash-ington late today, Mr. Rogers said. New York Near Goal. NEW YORK, May 9. Official subscriptions subscrip-tions today of $234,231, $50 made it virtually virtu-ally certain that the Xew York federal reserve district would go "over the top" with flying colors before the Victory loan campaign ends tomorrow night. The total to-tal now is Si, 204, 375,200, or S9. 2 per cent of the quota. In the Twelfth District. SAN FT;ANi;iSCO, May 9. Victory loan subscriptions for the twelfth federal district'' dis-trict'' reported today totaled 5159,356,300. Thu major districts reported: Northern California outside of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, $39,243,100: Washing-ton, ?25.601,IUO; Oregon, $23,703,600: southern California, $23,2S7,200; Utah, J9,28U,6r0; Idaho. 950; Hawaii, $4,365,000: Arizona, ?l,-i0S,700, and Nevada, Sl.542,650. |