The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
they BUY BONDS
sEVEN IN MEXICO
& AND THE ORIENT
4 mericans Over i'm Shanghai
s-4 Take $6O6,95O Worth.
Ind Those in Mexico City
Ks. Subscribe S35O,O0O.
$1,000, 1000 SUBSCRIBERS NOW
"Buys Another Bond"
Us on Tnstallment Plan.
Total Reported Today Stands
$2,5O9,S14,6OO.
Bfericans Over i'm Shanghai
n Take $6O6,95O Worth.
Those in Mexico City
Subscribe S35O,000.
1000, 1000 SUBSCRIBERS NOW

4 Washington. May 1.-The extent to
which Americans abroad are subscribe
i,fg to the liberty loan was indicated
Today in a dispatch to the state depart
hent which said in Shanghai they had
aiken $606,95O and in Mexico City
fS5O.00O.
IAN records for number of subscrib-
e-s to liberty loans were broken today
when treasury tabulations showed that
approximately 100000 persons have
|bought bonds of the third issue. Total
were sent above 81, $780,
geo 900 by early reports
~ With four days remaining, the num-
Der OF subscribers is 2.oOo.OOo more
|fhau the 100000 of the second loan
and nearly three times the 100000
lei the first loan. Under the stimulus
|Sf the active canvass of the next few
|&ays. and the buy another bond
|1aovement. the treasury hopes to raise
|the subscription roll to the 2O.OOO,OOO
bought by Secretary McAdoo. and total
Subscriptions to a billion or two be-
|Sond the 100000. 900 minimum.
IN Wilson Bought Another.
H The Buy another bond" appeal
|fEached President Wilson today and
|aitho he already had subscribed for
Nearly $4,000 of third liberty bonds.
ms agreed to buy a $50 bond on the
plan. in accordance with
tine standard suggestion of the Buy
|nnother" solicitors.
n Since this appeal is sounded par
'ticularly by four minute speakers at
|theaters. the president said he would
|erfter mis- subscription formally some
Evening this week, when he attends
ID theater. He added that he hoped
Ia million or more other Americans
'would ''huy another bond
Loan headquarters Immediately
al + 81 mis-
word of the presidents
TO four-minute men.
'theater managers, newspapers and
'iOan workers, in an effort to round
'hp a million to follow his example.
of any size will be well
nc get persons of moderate means to
buy $50 baby bonds.'
This buy another phase will not
HE allowed to interfere with the in
|tehsive round up of men and women
who have yet to subscribe for their
first bond of this loan, and of big
Business interests whose purchases
|erea needed to boost the total to the
high over-subscription mark.
II Total Over S2.5OO,OOO, 900.
II The total subscriptions as announc-
led by the treasury, were $2,509.S14.-
800. official returns show that every
|state in the Minneapolis district has
Exceeded it's quota and unofficially dis
|trict, managers claim every county has
|nna de,the same record.
. The field has been combed for al
Except the banks. who so largely float
ed the first and second loans. Only
5extra effort and further sacrifice by
Etndivid uals will prevent turning tc
banks for most of the balance now.
This loan. with its vast subscription
Hist, is leaving the country in splen-
Ibid financial condition. according tc
oofficers of the federal reserve board.
A Liberty Bond Race.
New York, May 1.-The eighth an
.nual Evening Mail marathon race Il
Ire held on May 4. the closing day Of
.the liberty loan campaign will be g
liberty marathon. 1t was announced
today that fifteen of General Perish
.ing's returned veterans and fifteeI
French blue devils" also here from
THE trenches will precede the run
neVs over the 12I5 mile course from
1.-The Bronx to the city hall. and will
the aid of scores of bond sellers. viii
.urge the thousands of spectators t.
.SubScribe,