Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-16
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS TO
FLY For LIBERTY BONDS
Expects to Dispose OF Million Dol.
lars Worth In Flight to
New York
SEEKS ONE LARGE BUYER s
Still Another $3,ooO.O00,OOO Must
he Raised Before Campaign Comes
TO Close on Saiurday-Will Ask
Hanks to Help.

WASHINGTON. October l5.-pouc
ias Fairbanks will ny from Washing
ION 70 New York Tomorrow 10 rniso
Si'ooe,ooO for the Liberty loan. He
, siready has bought q big bunch of
the bon is, and has helped sell them NJ
man! meetings over the country. but
tomorrow he will ny 10. them.
i've been UP in the air a I,,t of
times. and in ali sorts OF ways" ne
said here tonight. but I've never
h3wii from the diplomatic capital OF
the world to The financial capital OF
the world
Since Bernard Nj. Baruch bought 81.
e9e,eeo worth of bonds from Secretary
Ton Liberty loan committee has been
challenging the district for some one
TO- meet H. No one has stepped for
to New York and get some one 10
match the million.
Arrangements have been made for
him hints to be passenger on the, daily mail
II o'clock and arriving at Belmont
Park at l. The committee expects
thousands Of people there TO meet him.
Fairbanks will sell bonds to this crowd
before he goes out TO find his $1,000
900 buyer.
II don't know who I'll land, bu; there
arc a LOT Of people in New York with
another million 10 put in the loan, and
I'll land one or them," said the movie
star Tonight.
The total subscription reported to
the Treasury Department. with initial
payments made to the banks, was less
than s3.0o0,ooO. and With hu. four days
OF the campaign remaining. the country
faces .hc necessity of raising another
$4,000, 900, 900. The amount reported in
basis but little over sGoo,ooo,oO would
be raised in the remaining time.
The banks have been kept Well out
OF the loan SO far, in order to keep
but it has become apparent that they
will have to be called In 10 take up
part of the, ioan. II is apparent that
600 of il. and unless the response iivens,
possibly nearly double that amount.
Cheering news came from Mexico.
merct;' wired tnat 1t had oversubscribct
its quota OF $1,000. 900 and challenged
the Americans Ut home 10 do equally
well.
Douglas Fairbanks brought with MIN
Subscription of 10000 from .\bietta,
chief OF the, Pueblo tribe of Ind!ans,
II II the the sale of Wool by iha. entire
tribe. The interest OF this subscription
was donated by the tribe to the Red
The The navy today ensilenged tho
country 10 match it's going. It has
'o,aled s3i.oOo.oOo and is going. saiier
rs arc buying 500 each o: the bonds
or bmttleships. They must pay 10:
these ou: o. their scGnt salaries.
Match the navy and il wi.l match
you back" is the cry.
The st. louis and Minneapolis Fed
eraI Reserve districts alone are within
striking. distance OF their quotas. with
So and 80 per cent. respectively. From
these figures the percentages run down
10 Philadelphia with :S.S.
Subscriptions by districts stand:
7 f,nis I50. Minpe;inolic
3l5p. .IdS.6c6: Boston s2sS.5s0.0Gu: Dal-
las. s12IJ1.I50: San Frrncisco, s2:S,s43,-
0ah: Chicago. s4T+,G6S.lo0; Richn.ond,
.t2S 3a.uQ0: Kansas city. Sl20.at915t:
Cieteland S27I..o3..50: New York, sTl3.-
sss.000: Atlanta. S7t,i?53n6: Philadel-
plia. s191,51U,loo.