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Show LIBERTY LOAN $2,1138,350 Committees Throughout the Country Are Dissatisfied With National Showing Thus Far. WASHINGTON, April 27. Partial) reports on Liberty day sales in the third Liberty loan campaign today, raised the subscription total for the country to ?2. 113. 998. 350. This represented an audition of $7S.- i utiU.ijO'i and on I . ,.n ial reports from yesterday's intensive canvass. "Committees throughout the coun- try dissatisfied with the national showing thus far." said the headquar ters report today, "settled down to the hard grind of the last seven days campaign. cam-paign. Hope was expressed that as many subscriptions may be taken within the next seven days as have been taken in the last twenty -one. If such a result is not achieved, little more than the $3.000, OtiO.OoO minimum sought b Secretary McAdoo will be subscribed and the result of the cam- J paign will be a great disappointment."! Additions to Honor-Roll Kansas. New Mexico, Mississippi. Idaho and southern California were I added today to the honor roll of tsates land districts which have exceeded 1 their quotas. San Francisco reached the 100 per cent mark. The celebration in Cincinnati yesterday resolved itself it-self into a great jollification over the city becoming the second in the L'nit-ed L'nit-ed States of more than 250,000 to win the honor flag. The first was Detroit. In the NfiW York district Liberty, day celebrations gave such an 1m- I petus to the campaign that the district managers awarded forty -nine honor flags. A Boy Scouts' army of about -120.000 took the field throughout the country today to glean pledges in the final days of the campaign period Hawaii has subsc ribed l.fai , . x- ceedlng Its quota by 17 per cent NEW YORK, April 27. A $2,000.-000 $2,000.-000 subscription to the third Liberty loan announced today by the Southern South-ern Pacific company was said to be th- first that any one of the railroad recently taken over by the government govern-ment has made as a corporation .although .al-though there have been numerous in stances where employes of roads bave purchased bonds jointly. The Southern Pacific's subscription will bt distributed, $700,000 being filled In the New York district. 00 |