LOAN GOES OVER HERE Thousands Frolic on Avenue to Celebrate Passing of Quota. COMMITTEE CHECKING SALES Flood of Subscriptions Yesterday Assured District's Triumph. Drive Will Be Continued Today and Tomorrow, Directors Announce, to Keep Up This City's Record in Four Previous Campaigns-Fire­works and Decorations Add to Gayety of Pageant. Today's Loan Demonstrations Daily victory air rides contest. Claimants must submit their claims at liberty loan headquar­ters at 5 p. m. Mass meeting: at Fourteenth street and Park road, 8 p. m. Victory loan rally at Eight­eenth street and Columbia road, S p. m. Broofcland Citizens' Associa­tion rally, Masonic Temple, 8 p. m. "With an avalanche of subscriptions, received by salesmen until midnight, Washington went "over the top" yes­terday with its quota of the victory loan, and last night thousands as­sembled on Pennsylvania avenue and celebrated the event with one of the most spectacular and frolicsome fes­tivals ever witnessed here. It was impossible to accurately tab­ulate subscriptions last night, but the central liberty loan committee felt certain the quota .of $20,307,000 had been passed. The drive will be con­tinued today and tomorrow, the com­mittee announces, since Washington will not be satisfied to merely win its quota, in view of the wonderful rec­ords made in previous campaigns. All Celebrations Eclipsed. The celegration last night eclipsed | all loan demonstrations ever staged in the National Capital, and was an appropriate climax to the five great war loan drives here. Long before the signal for the carnival to start was given, Pennsylvania avenue was thronged with thousands of pedes­trians and automobiles all the way from peace monument to the Treas- ury. Promptly at 9 o'clock a fire truck, commanded by Capt. Sullivan, of Truck Company No. 3, screamed the signal with its deafening siren, and the frolic began. Powerful search­lights alternately flooded the street, the buildings and the skies with bril­liant light, rockets and bombs burst hundreds of feet in the air, torches of red fire flared on both sides of the street, automobiles honked and tooted their horns, a dozen bands burst forth and thousands of men, women and children joined in the din with noise- making devices. Gayly decorated automobiles, filled with girls and men in masquerade cos­tumes, passed in a long procession through the crowds, which overflowed from the sidewalks, while ponderous tanks, streaked with camouflage, rum­bled along. Bond Salesmen Busy. Several score of members of the speakers' committee of the central liberty loan organization took advan­tage of the opportunity to make ap­peals for loan subscriptions from trucks and automobiles stationed along both sides of the Avenue, while an army of salesmen did a brisk busi­ness selling victory bonds. The official victory loan sales truck contributed much toward the fun. The truck was brilliantly lighted. On the inside were musicians and bond sales­men, while a half dozen gayly attired clowns danced on the roof. There was keen competition for the prizes which were awarded for the most unique costume advertising the victory loan, the prettiest automo­bile load of girls, and the best deco­rated car. From 10 o'clock until 11 the competitors passed before the judges who were stationed at Twelfth street- and Pennsylvania avenue. HANSON STIRS THRONG Fighting Mayor of Seattle Boosts Loan on Ellipse. WOULD HANG SOME OF I. W. W. Wins Cheers as He Tells Crowd of | 10,000 That One White Cross in Belgium Means More Than All of the Americans at Home Can Do in Buying Liberty Notes, | "Buy bonds, buy bonds don't break : the faith, bring the boys home," ; pleaded Ole Hanson, the fighting- mayor of Seattle, to a crowd of 10,- j 000 citizens at the "over-the-top" j celebration on the Ellipse last eve- | ning. "Don't talk about what you have j done in the Red Cross drive, in the ' previous liberty loan campaigns," he said. "One white cross, shining in the moonlight in Belgium tonight means more than' all that you or I have done. And there are 69,000 American boys who lie buried 'over there.' " ' Rouses Huge Throng. Mayor Hanson, who won fame for the manner in which he fought the I- W. W. and other "red" elements in his home city when they sought to bring about a revolution there, roused the huge crowd to enthusiasm when he denounced those elements. "Eenine and Trotzky know that their flag cannot exist on the same planet with the Stars and Stripes," j said the mayor pointing to the flag! which hung beside him, bathed in the light of one of the giant army searchlights. "Milit?ry defeat and famine," he continued, "have been the causes of bolshevism. It has spread in many parts of Europe and its propaganda has reached the United States." Mayor Hanson called the I. W. W. the "cootie scum" of Europe. Those j I. W. W.'s who are American citizens, j he said, should be jailed. "After due trial," he said, "I say hang, them if it is warranted." Those who are foreign citizens, he said, should be deported. A questionnaire should be handed ev­ery immigrant in the future before he starts for this country, and if he can­not answer the questions rightly, then he should not be allowed to come^ Tells of His Parents. Mayor Hanson told of the coming of his own parents to this country from Scandinavia. "They didn't come here with a red flag in a satchel to upset this government and to tell Americans how to run their country," he said. The mayor was cheered by the great crowd as he walked to the stand through a roped-in lane across the Ellipse. Commissioner Brownlow in­troduced him as a "man who stands for America." ^ The Marine Band played and the Hampton Roads Naval Glee Club sang. The great concourse of people joined in singing "The Star-Spangled Ban­ner" just as an aerial flag was hurled high in the air and lighted up by the army searchlights. It was a dramatic close to the meeting.