The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-16
LOAN IS PASSING .
INITIAL BILLION
INTODAY'SPUSH
$500, 6,465,25O Reported From
Eleven Districts Yesterday.
Big Minneapolis District Has
Not Reported Yet.
MANY SMALL TOWNS ARE OVER
Chicago To Have a Holiday
Next Saturday.
Number of Individual Subscrib-
ers Very Large.
Big Minneapolis District Has
Not Reported Yet.
MANY SMALL TOWNS ARE OVER
chicago To Have a Holiday
Next Saturday.

Washington. April 16.-Liberty
loan subscriptions are passing the
first billion dollars today.
Figures from eleven of the twelve
federal reserve districts showed a
total of ss06, 6,465,250 up to the close
OF business yesterday. No official re-
ports have yet been received from the
big Minneapolis district where the
campaign opened yesterday. Unoffi-
cial reports from there, together with
to1ay's work, however, will carry the
rol! of liberty dollars we'll over a bill
lion, it is believed
The st. Louis reserve district team
stlI' had the pennant honors with
about IA per cent subscription of its
quota. Individual contributions have
swelled the fund there and the banks
and corporations have for the most
part 1eld back on their subscriptions
for the finish.
Northwest Subscribing. Heavily.
Actual subscriptions reports of the
New York district totaled S252451,-
200, indicating that the vast reserve
flnaclal strength there is only scratch
ed thus far
Tne Minneapolis district, just open
ing its sellinfi, reported that everybody
was roofing hard
The great northwest is doing itself
proud Tacoma, Wash, boasts that
one in every five people there already
nave bought bonds. The rural dis
trlc;s, according to a Dallas report,
are absorbing heavily.
Many Small Subscribers.
reports from local committees
continue to- tell of a large number
OF SUBSCRIPTIONS from persons of small
means and of the Withholding of the
plgger subscriptions by banks until
later IN the campaign. The number
OF small towns which have exceeded
the'r quotas f;s now SO great that the
treasury has given up efforts TO keen
complete roll
me Kansas City district reports
honor flags have been won by S3 coun-
teS and 141 towns and that many
communities are now asking for honor
nag stars, indicating the doubling OF
their allotment.
3S Per Cent Over
Oklahoma in the late returns Jump.
ed from $3,O00,000 to s10,00O.0o0 ir
a single day.
Iowa reports its quota 3S per cent
over subscribed with 81 counties run
ming over 200 per cent of their quotas
and with only five of the states 8!
counties under their allotments.
In Chicago a holiday has been de
clared in most industries and com.
mercial houses for Saturday when g
big liberty loan parade will be held
The Cleveland district today wresteC
from the San Francisco district the
honor of having the most communitie.
oversu bscribed. Its record is now 234
as compared with San F'rancisco's 206
A feature of the report from the
Dallas district was that the number
of individual subscribers was increas
ing far beyond the expectation of cam
paign managers.
*. c. Campaign to End.
Kansas City, April 16.-The cam
/ paign for the third liberty loan will
celebration at convention hall. Majol
| General Wood, in command at CamI
Funston, Kansas, will be the principa
| speakers. The city passed the $15,
! 900, 900 mark several days ago.