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Show SECOND FLOOD NOW FEARED New Crests Sweep Down Great River; Districts Again Menaced NEW OKLEAXS, La., Juno 7 (V 1') New .flood tri'sts aYe ivjorL'd swot jiini; down tin- Mississippi ri it. and it is fcarod today will ntusv considerable difficulty in some of the already flood-svept dMriiis. In Arkansas some o the fields washed away several weeks iiuo huvo been replanted. In the vicinity vicin-ity of the St. Francis river in Louisiana Lou-isiana many farmers had new crops in. These crops have been overflowed over-flowed now, according to the report uere. In the lower Louisiana district little additional damage can be done. Only a few or the refugees have returned to their homes, utid many of the fields .still are under water. Helief workers Monday called upon Secretary Herbert Hoover for aid. They declared that between 15.000 and 20.000 persons were made homeless by the new flood crest. The new crest can do little more than, hold the present, level stationary station-ary in the Tensas basin district of Louisiana, Dr. L M. (.'line, meterol-ogist, meterol-ogist, announced. |