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Show MANY HOMELESS IN MISSISSIPPI Relief Work is Being Done by American Amer-ican Red Cross Society New Orleans. Approximately 70,000 men, women and children are homeless home-less in Mississippi and Louisiana as the result of the Mississipp flood, and of this number 40,000 are being fed, sheltered and clothed by the Red Cross and other organizations, it was officially stated Monday by various relief bodies. No provisions have been made to aid the 30,000 persons who have not reached the refugee camps, the statement said. Rations are now being issued to 1S.564 individuals, who were driven from their homes in Louisiana. In Mississippi the committee plans to feed 20,000 persons in the Yazoo valley. The committee at a mass meeting Sunday declared its funds were "pitifully "piti-fully inadequate" and decided to ask President Harding to issue a nationwide nation-wide call for contributions. Refugee camps established in Louisiana Loui-siana and Mississippi are taxed to capacity ca-pacity and additional refugees are arriving ar-riving daily as the flood waters continue con-tinue to reach out into new territory. |