THOUSANDS DESTITUTE
HOOVER MAKES APPEAL
BANGER OF PESTILENCE
(United Press Association —Copyright.) (Eeeeived 30th May, 8 a.m.) NEW ORLEANS, 29th May. Mr. Hebert Hoover, the President \, T?ood Relief Commissiorer in a plea to the nation for an additional two million dollars, declared that the culmination of tho floods will see upwards of 700,000 destitute, the majority of which are now dependent on Bed Cross and other relief organisations. „, . . The vast work of reconstruction is now beginning with the flood's crest in sight in the Gulf of Mexico region. The relief committees apporated include a negro group selected to minister to the wants of stricken negroes. It is emphasised that victims are in the greate,3t danger of pestilence wheh once started, would sweep south. ' Mr. Hoover noted that Morgan City which to-day is partially iaundated' would probably be the last village to bo effected, and has indicated tf-at the
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 9
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148THOUSANDS DESTITUTE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 124, 30 May 1927, Page 9
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