Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-20

1 IIllinO1S --...- --....---..- Io,Uuo,oou %. l Indiana --....-- 10,4S5,350 115.
 Kentucky .............. 14,163,000 S9. l Mississippi ---.:.:..-- 6,5l6,|0O 9z. Missouri - --....---- 16,19I, ,lO0 oo.
 Tennesse ......... - 5,9&,15o 62. St. Louis and St.
 l Louis Co. ,-..-.--.--. 1I ,S4o,2oO 4o.
 Eighth District -$1O2, ,122,S0O 7o.
 St. Louis, Mo-, April 19.-Subscrip-
 tions tothe Third Liberty bend issue
 in the Eighth Federal Reserve Dis
 trict have climbed to $102, 122,S0O or seventy five per cent of the quota of
 $130, 100000, reports to the directors
 o fsales show. Returns received
 from the seven states in the district
 on the ninth working day of the drive
 indicate the public has just begun
 to buy bonds. Liberty loaa officials
 believe the district will subscribe mil
 lions beyond it's quota if an intensive
 campaign is kept up unti! May 4.
 And this must be done.
 Arkansas reports the state has
 raised it's quota of $lo,37o ,9oo ana
 the campaign continues. Arkansas
 is the second state in the district to
 20 over the top. Indiana now re-
 ports sales of $10,4S5,00O or fifteen
 per cent over it's quota.
 Mississippi with quota of S7.114,7OO reports sales of S6,316,100
 of ninety-two per cent of the allot-
 ment. The state chairman predicts
 Mississippi will exceed it's quota
 within the next few days. Returns
 show many counties already have
 gone over the top by thousands.
 Kentucky has bought bonds totall- ing S14169,OO0 of it's quota of S15,-
 943.55O or eighty-nine per cent of It's
 allotment. Louisville with a quota
 of $7,S24, 100 reports sales of $5,o4o,
 800 of eightfour per cent of the al l lotnlent. Louisville's share of the
 bond is more than half of that of I the state which is 1o,943 ,5.0. Sales
 reported from Louisville indicate the
 drive is exceeding tn expectations of
 officials. It is predicted Louisville
 will exceed it's quota by many thous-
 ands and perhaps millions.
 "Military" Organization.
 Il A unique plan of organization has
 been put into operation at Louisville
 and has proved successful. The city
 is divided intno thirteen districts command ed by brigadier general. : Each brigadier general has 33 colo nels in his command. Each colonel commands five captains and each } captain five lieutenants. These com maders have organized salesmen and boosters and the campaign is beSln- : ming to gain great momentum.
 The manager of the Tenth Ken lucky district wires $1,024,5 ,500 in lib- erty bonds have been sold. The dis 5 trict quota is $S59,200. At an in I spirational meeting at Bowling Green every man who attended doubled his \ subscription and the session was clos
 ed with prayer for victory.
 Missouri, exclusive of St. Louis anc
 St. Louis county, with quota of $2O, / 797, $50 reports sales of 16,797, 100 ol l eighty per cent of it's allotment Twenty five counties out of 94 have !. exceeded their quotas, returns to the state chairman show.
 Johnson county with quota o1 y $345, $50 has subscribed for $644, ,95O 2 almost doubling it's allotment. Nine 3 teen hundred and seventy two persons V in the county hove purchased bonds. 1 St. Louis Wants $75,OOO,O00 f St. Louis with a quota of S39,OOO, EQ0O, has bought bonds worth $17 ,S43,- o 250. This gives St. Louis 45 per cent V of its allotment. Many large sub l of it's allotment. Many large sub- D scriptions are expected to swell St Louis figures within the next few :, days. Pupils, teachers and other em ployes of the Publis schools have sub 2 scribed for $1 ,501 ,S50 in bonds. There d are represented 12,462 subscribers ir y this purchase. St. Louis set it's goa l at $75, ,0O0, ,0O0. Managers of the cam r paign are spurring the workers or n and every effort will be made to raise '- many millions more than the quoto. = The following telegram to the Llb-
 erty Loan organization of the district a has been received from the director !, of war loans at Washington:
 l, Federal Reserve bank at St. Louis 0 advises under date of April IT, total |. subscriptions on hand or in hand of in- h corporated banks and trust companies |. are $92 2,S00,950. This represents V about seventy one per cent of you1
 quota and puts you far in the lead o1 I. other districts on percentage basis f Keep up the good work and make the
 Eighth district first to go over the
 top, and win the first honor for cities |, of 500,000 population for St. Louis. l Southern Illinois sales show the x state is in the fifth place in the dis :, ,, trict. The state has subscribed fol Il $15.000,350 or eighty three per cent | of it's quota of SIS, ,15S,050. Brown :, county's population quota is 779 anc | 1927 persons have bought bonds !, worth S205,350. The county's quota
 is $16S,300. St. Clair county with 8 = population largely of German descent t has population quota of S,990 anc v 722 persons have bought bonds. About Q half of the county's allotment of $3, 9 037, ,150 has been subscribed.
 ]. Tennessee with quota of $9,62O,