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Show "NEW ORLEANS NOW MENACED BLASTING LEVEE PROPOSED A3 ' SAFETY MEASURE. BRINGS UP OBJECTIONS Arkansas Still Feels Brunt, Two Large Rivers Are Flooding a New Area New Orleans Governor O. H. Simpson Simp-son issued a proclamation declaring that a public emgergency exists and ordering the creation of nn artificial break in tho levee of the Mississippi river near Poydras. Memphis, Tenn. Desperate measures meas-ures to protect New Oreleans from the force of the floods that daily are laying waste new areas in Arkansas and Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, were agreed by the federal government, subject to the approval of the army engineers and. the Missis-I Missis-I sippl river commission, j The plan to remove the menace from the south's largest city, put forward by Governor Simpson of Louisiana and Mayor O'Keefe of New Orleans, is for the blasting of a wide breach in the east levee of the Mississippi ten miles below the city. This brought an immediate protest from the inhabitants of the thirty square miles that thus would be flooded, flood-ed, as well as from the business interests in-terests of Natchez who demanded a cut at Morganza so as to protect that city as well as New Orleans. To that Baton Rouge objected on the ground that it would flood 3000 square miles of rich country, including Louisianna's sugar cane growing Bection. |