Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-05-06
Probably 100000 Per-
sons Subscribed, Increase
of 100000 Over Second
and 12,500,000 on First.
RESOURCES OF BANKS
LITTLE DRAWN UPON
Save Your BondSi Do Not Sell
Them Says Secretary Nc
Adoo in Statement Thanking
Public for Its Subscriptions,
}.r MORNING 5oo.s,l sr.e., .s..so ~.s,

tsY SoRnlHe joushAL SPECIAL Lgases wtsst
! Washington May 5.-An analysis of
| Liberty Loan reports today showed
that probably 100000 persons
bought bonds in the campaign which
closed last midnight, 900. 900 more
| than in the second loan and l2,500,-
600 more than In the first.
! Latest tabulations showed S3,3t6,-
62S,250, reported subscriptions, but
| the treasury now believes the actual
| total, which may run to $4,OOO.000.-
GOO will not be definitely known until
May IS.
Whatever the money total" said a
ltreasury statement tonight. "the loan
| just closed probably is the most suc-
cessful over floated by any ration.
Tho marvellous distribution of the
ThirG Liberty Loan indicates that ore
out of every six persons In the United
States may have participated in this
loan"
Banks Little Affected.
! Banks resources, IL was pointed out
have been drawn on comparatively
| little and the prospects FOR future
loans are brighter as a consequence.
| An added reason for publication Is the
| indication that the government bond
! buying habit Is becoming stronger
among the American people OF small
| means.
Tho table of subscribers is as fol-
| lows:
New York, 100000; Chicago.
| 2.49S 900; Cleveland, i,5Gi,g79; fhil-
ladelphia. 100000; Boston, l2so.0oe;
San Francisco. 100000 atlanta,
900, 900; Minneapolis, 1000, 300;
Kansas City 9O0000 Richmond. 100.
600: St Louis, s66.342 Dallas S50.-
600.
McAdoc Issues Statement.
Secretary McAdoo gave out this
! statement,
The people OF the United States
may well felicitate themselves upon
| the triumphant success of the Third
Liberty Loan. 1t is most heartenine.
manifestation Of their patriotism and 4
Of their inflexibe determination tG :
support our gallant army and navy !
Until victorious decision for America
is achieved :
"I should like to thank the thous-a
ands of men and women throughout
the countrv every class of our citizen
shin, for their effective assistance and
corporation in this great victory be-
hind the lines, without which a victory
on the front can not be achieved.
Keen Your Hberty Bond.
"I earnestly hone that every tne
who has bought Liberty Bonds Will try
to keep them for the period OF the
war at least. The slogan now should
bo keep your Liberty Bonds. No ono
dcos his share fully if he merely buys
a bond and then sells 1t Immediately
! below par on the market.
"If each and every purchaser eeps
his Liberty Bond he helps 20 protect
the credit of the government by main
tanning the market for the bonds at
par, which is very helpful thing IN
war times"
New York VIII Load State.
! Partial returns today showed that
! New York will lead all states in num-
ber OF individual subscribers with four
million and the state also leads IN
| actual money totals. Pennsylvania
probably will be second In number OF
subscribers though the states figures
are not in. and Illinois third with
nearly 1.250.000.
| Far west states report subscribers
as follows:
California. 524462: Washington,
i150,312: oregon, 95,6s5: Idaho. 5e.-
| 500: Utah. $500 Arizona, 19,09s;
| Nevada. 12371.
| Managers of the campaign in the
| San Francisco district wired that sub
scriptions there would exceed $780,
| 600, 900 ard that every state district
and virtually every county had reach-
ed it's quota.
| The Atlanta district, which has
been at the bottom of the percent
age during most of the campaign
made the most sensational finish of
! any district and'the managers predict
/ that the district may eventually snow
an oversuhscription of SO per cent.
! Many Districts Oversubscribed.
! The st. Louis district reported that
iaIl 362 counties in the district exceed
cd their quotas. The grand total for
| the district at p M. Saturday was
$t76.617,600 and the quota percent
Lage was 1875.
I From Kansas City came the report
! that the districts showed an official
total OF suhscrSntiors ion Saturday
Afternoon Of si70,221.2 which
/ amounted to 131 per cent OF the dis
trict'b quota Sales by states fol-
| lows:
! Northwest Missouri. s27.010.000:
Colorado, s24,2S0,O00: Kansas. sto.-
$4,000: Nebraska, st1.416.000; Ok
| lahoma, s2s.679, 200; Wyoming. So
$50 500: part of New Mexico. s1.622.-
| 900. Three hundred and twenty-four
counties out of $50 in the district were
! over subscribed this afternoon.
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