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Show I VICTORY LOAN IS jj NOW UNDER WAY WASHINGTON, April 21 Uncounted Uncount-ed millions in subscriptions to victory liberty notes poured into banks and soliciting committees throughout the United States today, but no official reports re-ports had reached national headquarters headquar-ters here tonight to give any compre hensive idea of the harvest on the opening day of the three weeks campaign. More than 2.000,000 volunteers were ' ( at work today In the big concerted . I movement to "finish t he job." but re-J, ports Indicated that the opening was , marked by less excitement than those L of previous loan campaigns when ! i fighting was in progress in France Long before closing hours tonight j, telegrams arriving at the treasury' told , the story of enthusiastic communities which had subsclrbed their full quotas the first day "Early indications," said a treasury review of the loan campaign, "were j ' that the victory notes were receiving : ' general distribution and not being bought up largely by banking instil tutions Several telegrams from dif- ' ferent sections of the country called j particular uttention to this feature of the campaign and showed great pride in the fact that such was the ease." The 13. s. hi. Marblehead. one of the three destroyers which will icll the1 story of the victory liberty loan to the- entire country by a voyage from, San Francisco to New York, pulled out i of the Golden Gate this afternoon to begin a four and one-half billion dollar dol-lar journey, The opeed of her engines will be determined by the nation i daily subscription to the victory loan.' For every S57.142 subscribed, the vie - tory ship will travel one mile The entire cruising distance from Sam Francisco to New York, the harbor, of victory . Is 5250 miles If the nation keeps pace with the regnlred dally' ! subscripl ion, the victor- ship will make an average of 262 1-2 miles per day representing the required daily' H!l subscription of S225,000.0f0 |