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Show y BEING CARED FOR 1-FLOODED 1-FLOODED AREA Nation Wide Appeal for Funds Sent Out as Suffering Grows ! N'KW i IRLEAJS'S, La.. May S. (By the Associated Prss) Approximate!) 70.000 moi, women anil children are homeJess In Mlsslstfippl and Louisiana a the result ot the Mississippi Oood iiTitJ offici.ils number 40.000 are beins ted, sheltered and clothed by the Red Croa aid other organ iz.-.t ions, it was officially announced today by various reliel 1'ij.lii'.--. No provisions ha' I "n matie to the more than tfuOO persons per-sons who have not yet reached the ref-ugpi ref-ugpi camps, the statement .-aid. Rations are now being Issued to 18.-564 18.-564 Individuals, who were driven from tln-lr home in Louisiana In Mlsslseippi the committee plans to feed 2000 persons in the Y;uoo valley. val-ley. The committee at a mass meeting Sunday declared its funds were "pitifully "piti-fully inadequate'' and asked President Harding to issue a nation-wide call to ontrlbutlonsi X refugee camp ei tablliihed mLouisSana and Mississippi j are full to capacity and addition H ref- n-f. are arriving dally as the flood waters continue i0 reach, out into new territorv. |