Show r t PASS 1 1 J l i T TOTAL TAL NEAR NA 5 BILLIONs BILLION NI N I s N NEVI kf fJ JI U I I Ii IiiI GOAL A l iI j t 1 Flood of Eleventh H Hour Houi u f J Jr Subscriptions Sweeps Sweep 1 Country With Big Sales in All Districts By fly United Press d WASHiNGTON May 4 VV vv ta 1 t Having crossed crossed- the tip It I- I at t the he t lea ica's s third Liberty load was WM l' l early toda J SAt v S' S At Atthe th the close o of business last last- in incomplete t returns showed that the tIte loan Loa that s ver lt d 1 that h r v by and nd Vast s Us more mor morY t 4 expected to b be rep reported today todar TH et t w was s strong hope that the final figures fig Ii- ures ares will show an over an-over J subscription of 60 per cent 1 Between and people eople have made individual 1 1 T Ions ri v Reports from every section of ot the i. i Jk country told of or great greal numbers of or sub sul- sub sub-L flooding in at the tho eleventh hour our Never ever before has such a I Icam cam carn I been beert waged as tha that 1 went t ton r ron on on through the Jand land today 1 jT i Last minute rumors that the j L Lof of r the might bo extended I-Hf I t t were said by loan officials to savo savo A f 1 of ot f enemy propaganda seeking to d j 1 stroy the psychological effect o af hard ard finish race Selling will i promptly at midnight it t was officially j announced ti San Francisco r District District Fifth Fifth i By Dy eSl j lD WASHINGTON May 4 Tie The third I Liberty loan has been oversubscribed i. i by the treasury reported fl today Later figures are expected to 0 raise the total far Zar above bove t i I c Although this insures that the tha maxi mum asked by Secretary McAdoo has been pledged much work remained t to tobe be done today to bring the total to the M. M t or mark 1 which the treasury hoped to get r The San Francisco district has eon eons cons firmed with official figures Its claim jj- jj of ot being the fifth firth district to 6 its quota The rho San and jJ Dallas districts official reports confirmed con- con f firmed finned claims of ot having passed their I quotas 4 Telegrams told of ot great eat numbers of o t Jt small subscribers today fre ury O of said they expected tho the numbe iI of ot subscribers to exceed t T 1 District Reports 17 1 S Swell we II T Total ota I By International News Service t tW W WASHINGTON May 4 From From every m district reports showed exceedingly largo large numbers of ot Individual dual subscriptions subscriptions r Indicating that the total for the r third loan will greatly exceed the combined com com- totals of ot both the first and se see see- V f fond t c ond loans ls I Baltimore Baltimore- was added to the list o of j k I r the v th honor cities clUes In the first class th others being St. St Louis Cleveland Cincinnati The state of ot Ohio is J r J Jf porting brilliant success on the final k t day of ot the drive Toledo Ch t 1 l f Cincinnati and Columbus all hav v j and the states state's tota total tot J has reached nearly T r part of ot Pennsylvania Pitts Pitts' V l j burg was lacking by 10 0 per pel cent cento o at f its quota according to lat latent latet t reports s v The Cleveland districts reported Ut 1 honor flags awarded to date dated S 1 St. St Louis louls sent word that not j had bad every state in the tho district gone sons sons' v f over but all but two counties have hava t t entered the honor list i 1 The Chicago district is leading the 9 i country in its Ita total of or individual sub subA A r a scribers Reported by states they are l' l Illinois VV Iowa J- J 5 Indiana k Michigan N I Wisconsin t INDIANA GOES GOE OVER I I Jn Indianapolis has ha exceeded its quota Continued on page 3 ft J TOTAL NEAR I. I C Continued from page 1 r by 2 per per cent bringing Indiana into the list of states having reached quotas S. S Th The r rural Of e jh state went over the line Une everal several da days s 's ago Des Moines l s la Ia ll has S subscribed per cent of ot its allotment Sioux City reports per cent cent- Detroit Milwaukee 1 and Chicago 89 per cent Despite the fact that the Kansas City district has been over its quota for a week reports still come from tram the thEl rural sections telling of large over over- subscriptions The part of Missouri l in the Kansas City district has exceeded exceeded ex ex- its quota by Colerado Colorado Colorado Colo Cole rado has kept working after Its quota was filled and reports sub sub- sUb sUb-I scribed Kansas has subscribed more than and Nebraska is still I working for Oklahoma homa has I more than Wyoming more than and New Mexico 1 These states have all reached their quotas and are still piling up tip p their |