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Show MANY HOMELESS' IN MISSISSIPPI Rillef Work Is Being Done by American Amer-ican Red Cross Society New Orleans. Approximately 70,000 sen, women and children aro homo-lets homo-lets Id Mississippi and Louisiana as tie result of tho MIsslBSlpp flood, and if this number 40,000 aro being fed, inhered and clothed by the Hod Ctom nnd other organizations, It was oEcially stated Monday by various relief liodlcs. No provisions have boon Mde to uld the .10,000 persons who Ure not reached the refugee camps, IM tatomtnt said. , Buttons aro now being Issuod to !8,5(H Individuals, who were driven from their homes In Louisiana. jn Mississippi tho committee plans l feed 20,000 porsons fh the Yuzoo titley. The committee at a muss meeting today declnred its funds wero "pltl-fully "pltl-fully Inadequate" nnd decided to nsk President Harding to issuo a nation-Ue nation-Ue call for contributions. Refugee camps oatabllshod In Loul-"lua Loul-"lua nnd Mississippi arc taxed to cu-wclty cu-wclty and additional refugees nro or-rtvlnK or-rtvlnK dally iib tho flool waters con-tae con-tae to reucli out into now territory. 1 i |