Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-13
LIBERTY LOAN GOES
TO S1,646,0OO,0OO
This Was Total Reported at II
O'Clock by New York
Committee.
STILL COMING IN STRONG

Ry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 13.-Liberty loan
subscriptions aggregated S1,646,OoO,OOo at
IL o'clock today. according to the total
tabulated subscriptions as recorded in the
Treasury Department at Washington. 1t
was announced by the liberty loan COM
mittee here today. This total 1t was
stated. included all the federal reserve
districts with the exception of Dallas.
Tex, and San Francisco. Cal.
1t also was announced that the total
subscriptions in the New York federal
reserve district have reached $14S,-
100000. 1t was said that the amount
given as the total for the country rep
resents actual subscriptions. but owing
to the enormous task of receiving and
tabulating figures from throughout the
country. the Treasury Department is
more than twcnty-four hours behind
in its work.
One Bank Takes Hundred Million.
The First National Bank of New York
has made applications for SUBSCRIPTIONS
to the liberty loan now aggreSating
800. 900. 600 for itself and customers.
it was announced today. This is the
largest subscription from one source
yet recorded.
was coming to close with momen-
tum that was pleasing to every official
who has had anything to do with 1t.
Subscriptions yesterday continued to
means were backing the loan in large
numbers. The Corn Exchange Bank re-
ported nearly twenty thousand sep
arate subscriptions for total OF ap-
proximately s10,o00,o00. OF these near
" 5000 bought fifty-dollar bonds. The
First National Bank reported that
nearly 100000 in ten-dollar bond GER
tificates had been sold since last Sat-
urday.
Reports received here at the national
headquarters of the Boy Scouts of
America today from seventy-seven
cities and towns of the 1000 commu-
mites in which scouts are soliciting for
the loan showed results of $2,ol6,O5O.
subscribed by 5000 individuals. AS the
first two days of the four-day cam
paien were to be devoted largely to
handing out applications and the last
two to collecting, the scouts are expect
than $4,000. 900 Some of the zones
have not been heard from at all.
Boston Starts Rally.
BOSTON. June IA grand rally was
started today to obtain s146.900.000 be-
fore noon Friday to complete New Eng
lands quota of s300.000,000 of liberty
loan subscriptions. Aided by the ring
ing of bells and the blowing of whistles
to arouse citizens to their patriotic
duty officials and business men in cities
and towns which have not subscribed
their allotment began an eleventh.
hour campaign to reach the maximum.
In an appeal to the people to buy lib
erty bonds. Alfred l.. Aiken, governor
Of the federal reserve bank of Boston,
said that should New England fail to
do Its share lit would be the first time
that it has fallen short Of what the
country expected OF it in time of a
great national crisis"
Cleveland Ahead Of Quota,
CLEVELAND. June 1s.-cleveland
reached the s50.o00.0o0 mark for lib
erty loan bonds today. 100000 more
than it's quota of $4,000. 900 The orig
inal quota for Cleveland was sac, 900, =
900. II is estimated by campaign man
ayers that the city's subscriptions will
total between $4,000, GOD and $50, 900, 900
when the books close Friday noon.
The fourth federal reserve bank lib
erty loan is over s200,000.0oO for the
district The original quota for the
district was sls0,oo0.00o, but officials
expect to reach it.
DENVER, Col, June l3.-Denver has
subscribed 100000 more to the lib
erty loan than the amount of bonds
allotted to this city. according to an
announcement today. Ten million
dollars was the amount the govern
ment expected to be sold here.
LEWISTON. Idaho. June I3.-Every
man in Company. Idaho National
Guard, from Lewiston, has Subscribed
for $50 liberty bond, according to a
letter received today from the captain
Of the company on duty Somewhere
in the United States" The letter stat
ed the guardsmen will pay for the
bonds in inStallmeuts of SIn rpnptb