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Show LOAN GOES ABOVE wwm Cities and Towns Complete Quotas Before Moon With j a Rush. j UTAH OVER THE TOP Banks Have Two Days to Count Up Last Hour Flood of Reports. WASHINGTON. Oct. 10. Hundreds of cities and towns before noon today reported the quotas allotted to them ! in the fourth Liberty loan and sub. & scriptions went forward during the V afternoon with a rush. i Federal reserve bank managers thi3 afternoon telegraphed headquarter j that so many towns had reported about the 100 per cent mark that clerical .. help was not available to compile Iist3 f and forward them to Washington. , By noon the mana'gers estimated that total subscriptions had gone above . $5,000,000,000 although they had few , definite oflicial reports. Banks have two days m which lo count up this last hour-flood of subscriptions, sub-scriptions, togelhcr with initial payments, pay-ments, and report to federal roserve-banks. roserve-banks. Federal reserve banks will begin be-gin next Tuesday to figure up their district totals and it probably will be ten days before the success of tho loan is finally known. I ' I At the opening of business today j Utah and Oregon had 9S per cent of their entire quota and enough other ' subscriptions not yet reported to put them both across. oo |