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Show RIVER FLOOD VICTIMS GAME BANKRUPT, ROUTED, BUT NOT BEAT EM, THEY ARE READY TO BEGIN OVER AGAIN Hoover Returning to the Mississippi Area and Reconstruction Work Washington Secretary Hoover will leave Washington to return to the Mississippi Mis-sissippi flood area, going via St. Louis to Little Rock, Ark. Previous to his departure he will ut-tend ut-tend a conference at, the headquarters of the United States Chamber cf Commerce, which has undertaken the task of raising about $1,750,000 in additional ad-ditional capital for emergency loans to farmers most severely stricken by the iisaster. Baton Rouge, La. Courageous in their fight to hold the levees and save their crops and homes from devastation devasta-tion by the flood waters of the Mississippi Missis-sippi river, the farmers of Louisiana's alluvial lands face the problems of reconstruction re-construction with the same courage. Routed, but not defeated, they are now trekking back by tens and twenties twen-ties to the land they quitted In hundreds, hun-dreds, for as fast as the mud of the field shows above the floods they begin be-gin planting crops and rebuilding homes. Louisiana has faced reconstruction several times, but this time even the destruction of 1S.S2 has been exceeded, fromer Governor John M. Parker, flood relief director, said. The problem of reconstruction is a bis one and the government can help, he declared. |