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Show A BILLION NEEDED fourth Liberty Loan on Home Stretch, With $1,750,000,000 Still to Be Subscribed in U. S. Slav J By AuMlatid rVsss. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. j The fourth Liberty loan . in"ared the home atrptch of the campaign with $4.2."0.0O0.00O aul-ecribcd aul-ecribcd and $l,7:0.000,qOQ to be niMd In two dsys remsinlng. - Desptta this tremendous unsubscribed unsub-scribed balsnce, campsntners throughout through-out the country reportsd they would be satisfied with nothing less than evtrwuhecrlpt Ion. . It was apparent .from the flood of early inornin- telegraphic reports to, headquarters that a new aplrlt pervaded per-vaded loan committeea everywhere to go far above the individual marks set' tor them. j Scores of messages today told of j plans for suipendlng buslnens In communities com-munities tomorrow to minimise interference inter-ference with tha last day's roundup. Several hundred thouaand men and women, who heretofore have taken J only a passive Interest. In the loan ; arive. have been enrolled aa solicitors j far the last day. j Mir.HIGAN OVER TOP. Michigan reported todsy it had sub-' sub-' scribed Its IM8.OOU.000 quota. In the eU. lunula ritxlrict Kentucky is only 4 per cent below her goal and expected to go over today. Mississippi has Ki per cent; Arksnsas, 83 per cent, and " the city of Ht. Ixiuis, (1 per cent. The Cleveland diatrict before the opening of business- today reported official sales of SS.1I2.000. The To-lede To-lede area, including twenty counties, with a quota of $41,491.00, snd tha Lexington, Ky, ares, with fifty-six irounties and a quote of S19.OO0.0O0, iave panned the 100 per cent mark. A total of Sll.t-'i 000 reported by the Kansss. City district is distributed as follows: J Colorado. 122.000 000: Kanaaa. J.-- J.-- 000.000: Missouri. SI.0H000: Ne-braeka. Ne-braeka. 140.000.000: New Mexico, I2.0h0.0e0; Oklahoma. tZZ.OOV.'XM). Wyoming. fS.S03.000. SAN DIEGO HONORED. Han iJiego.i CaL. has won an honor flag with an oversubscription. Northern Indiana, In he Chicago district, lacks only tS.OOa.OAO of Its quota and Houthern Indiana Is already over. The state department wHved word today from Havana that the Cuban quota of iH.000.000 for the fourth Lib- ; erty loan had been very largely over-aubscribed. over-aubscribed. The New York federal reserve district dis-trict advanced the Liberty loan subscriptions sub-scriptions overnight by only $92,207.-450. $92,207.-450. according to figures giving total tabulations at 10 a. m. today. These amounted to 11.041,000.000 and In order or-der to reach the quota of fl.800.0O0 000 before midnight Saturday subscriptions will have to come In at tha rata of f20.000.000 an hour. j Chicago Is Far I , Short of Quota ! my United Press. CHICAGO. Oct- U Hixty-five mil-! lion dollar short of Its quota of $22.- ( Ao6 oX. Chicago today entered Into the i sf;nal forty hours of its Liberty loan F campaign. The Pleven th federal re- j i Serve district. Including Chicago, had i s (Continued oo page MORE THAN BILLION NEEDED TO FILL LOAN QUOTA i Tr,ontlnuer from pae I yet tn raise $K4,400.(rOO of Ita $ST0,-I $ST0,-I OOO.OOtt quota. County of Lot -Angeles Lagging I By United Prase, 1 hOt AN'OKLFS, Oct HI. All counties coun-ties of southern California excepting Loa Angeles count- went over the top on the Liberty loan today, tha loan committee announcad. Dayton Exceeds Quota Assigned By United Pee as. DAYTON, O.. Oct. II Dayton went over t-ho top today with an oversubscription oversub-scription of $72tS6. Tha quota waa $7,269,200. Columbus District Tops Its Quota By United Prase. COLt-MBy". - 1 Tha Co- lumbua area nf eleven central Ohio cotintiea today topped its fourth Llb- aid of a $3,000,000 ovarsuhacrlptlon la Kranklln county (Columbus;. t Connecticut Goes - j Over IU Quota r j By Unltsd Preee. BOSTON, Mass., Oct. II. Conner- ' ttcut want over tha top In tha Liberty losn today with a grand total of $71,-, $71,-, 42I.OOO. which to several thou sand Sol- i lar a over her quota. Subscriptions In Now England for today totaled $34, 170.00a. Tha grand total la $4)0.4M.t0. which la $$,M.. 000 short of tha required quota of U00.000.000. BUY A BOND |
