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Show New Orleans Puts Hopes In Levee New Orleans This picturesque city of half a million people turned hopefully hope-fully for salvation from the floods which already have laid waste more than 11.000 square miles of the richest areas in the three lower Mississippi valley states. Thia hope was staked on the breaking of the levee at Poy-dras, Poy-dras, twelve miles south, aa a means of lowering the level of the raging torrent which already at places lashod at the very summit of the protecting dykes along the famous crescent bend where the water everywhere tops the city itself. Dramatically, Louisiana state officials pointed out to Secretary i Hoover the exact spot where dynamlto charges are to be set off to make tho first artificial crevasse in the hundrods of miles of levoes ever found necessary neces-sary in all the history of Mississippi Bood3. I I |