The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-05-14
FIFTEEN MILLIONS
BOUGHT *'v" BONDS
Estimates Received From the Federal
Reserve Banhs
MORE TO BE TABULATED
Total Compiled Still Stands at $685..
100000, But Loan Heavily
Oversubscribed.

Washington, May 11.--Fifteen mil
lion Americans bought victory liberty
notes in the campaign which closed
last night, according to estimates re-
celved today by the trcacurv f"o,n
federal reserve banks. This compar s
with about 21,000,000 purchasers in
the fourth loan, 100000 in the
thlrd, 9,400,0 900 in the second and
100000 in the first.
a few additional reports of SUB
scriptions came in today, but no a.
tempt was made to tabuiate them and
the treasury announced that the off,
cial total probably would not he
known before May 26. The total rs
compiled stood at $3,849, 900, 900 b It
late reports emphasized the earlier ir-
dlcations that the loan had been hear-
lily over-subscribed. BANKS will have
until May 20 to report their subscri,,-
tons to federal reserve banks, and th :,
federal reserve banks will report 10
the treasury by May %.
Reports from all districts indjcata q
that in practically the entire country
the quota was taken without matters, |
assistance from the banks" said 4
treasury announcement.
From Ship Yards.
Victory loan subscriptions reports
from forty-eight ship yards of the
country RECEIVED today by the shipp-
ing board, showed total of S15 BIS
goo raised by employees. The Amer
lcan Shipbui ldmg Company of Phla-
delphla, and Che Submarine Boat
Building Corporation of Newark, N.
D., subscribed more than $4,000 900
each, while two others-Skinner-E1.
dN. OF Seattle, and the Cramps Ship-
building Company, PHILADELPHIA. rais-
ed more than $1,000,00O each.
Subscribers by Districts.
Federal reserve district committees
estimated the number of subscribers
IN their territories as follows:
Minneapolis 100000, Chicago l.
100000, Cleveland 1,56o,O Boston
100000, Philadelphia 1900 900. San
Francisco 100000, Kansas City, 9O6.-
600. The other districts could not cs-
innate accurately their subscribers
bat based on the reduced totals as
compared with the fourth loan, the
remaining five districts should pro-
duce enough additional individual sub
scriDers to bring the total up to 49,
ooO:OOO, the treasury announced.
The Chicago and New York districts
oihclally over-subscribed
Unofficial advices from the Atlanta.
san IanclScO ana Dallas districts all
OF which had Jagged, indicated that
although there were no large over
subscriptions, all probably reached
their quotas.
! In New England.
! In New England 9O4 cities and
towns had achieved their quotas be-
fore the closing hour. The Chicago
district estimated it's total at more
than $745,000,000 of which the city
of Chicago subscribed about $24O, 600
GOO without the aid of its banks.
The latest figures from the Cleve-
land district gave total of $47O, ,OOO,-
600, about $20,000000 in excess of the
quota.
The Kansas City district reported
total Of $155, ,48O,15O.
Atlanta estimated that every State
IN that district would reach it's quota
Florida, Mississippi and Tennessee
were all safely over and that DELAYED
reports would put Alabama and
Georgia safely over. Tennessee led
the States of that district in over-sub-
scriptiOn.