Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 30 hours train-ride west of Chicago, close to the South Dakota-Wyoming boundary line, stretches a mountain range known to the Indians as the Paha Sapa (Black Hills). Once they formed part of the Sioux Indian Reservation but when, in 1874, gold deposits were discovered, the red men were quickly served with notices to depart. Later the hills gave sanctuary to horse-thieves, cattle-rustlers and all manner of "wanted" men with blood on their hands and prices on their heads. Now the hills are subdued and subdivided, and populous with tourists. The gasoline station has supplanted...
Loss of Life. According to official Red Cross figures, 114 lives have been lost in the flood. Deaths by states: Arkansas, 59; Mississippi, 42; Louisiana, 9; Tennessee, 2; Illinois, 2. This list includes only positively verified deaths. Unofficial figures have put the death total at from 350 to 500. Arkansas and Mississippi were not flooded so extensively as Louisiana, but were stricken before organized relief work could get under...
Refugees. Red Cross relief has been given to some...
...radio speech at New Orleans last week Mr. Hoover estimated that the flood "has left in its track over 700,000 flooded, and of them over 600,000 dependent upon assistance." The discrepancy (Hoover 700,000; Red Cross 560,000) was accounted for by the fact that the figures for Louisiana are still incomplete. Observers agreed that Louisiana refugees probably numbered 200,000 and that from 75,00 to 100,0000 more Louisiana refugees would be added before the flood ended...
...Hovey, apparently, proves the rule by his exception to it. A man of property, in a hurried moment, he may have swallowed the bait of "red" alarmists, those people who see in the lectures of a courageous leader of thought or in the ebb of the New York market the fires of a great and devasting uprising, lead by the "reds". Who the "reds" are has yet to be decided. Perhaps Mr. Hovey will find that when he discovers why "socialists" are per se wicked...