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.*» * ' *-• \ PRESIDENT GETS. RDM WELCOME President Plunged Into Shantung ^^l7i;ii^e5non5~trnd-TITTttSlr Stt Votes with a Clarity that Quickly Restored Quiet and Kespect. Hos tility in Atmosphere. En Route With President Wilson to San Diego, Calif., Sept. 20.— Crowds are always difficult to ana lyze; their applause is not always conclusive, their demonstrations are not always spontaneous and the ele ment of contagion and suggestion en ters into the psychology of the mo ment, but more distinctive than any have been the three which Prrsident Wilson addressed at San Francisco. Their respective responses were dif ferent, their demeanor also different. Fully 20,000 people were packed in every conceivable space—aisles, raft- erSj stairways and balconies. A more uncomfortable mass t5f humahit) t have never seen. People could neither get in or out, they were fas tened as~ if in a vise. They gave Mr. Wilson a thunderous welcome. And the demonstration lasted fully fifteen minutes during which time even the president seemed to enjoy the waving of flags and the expressions of enthus iasm, but as the great majority who had come to listen, heeded the up raised hand of the mayor, a minority who had come to disturb, kept up a perpetual clampr. At first it seemed as if it was mere discomfort and anxiety to get nearer the front, but gradually the president's face hard ened as he salw that a small group had placed itself in the hall presum ably to interfere with the making of the speech itself. People on the platform, niany of them Republicans, plainly showed their embarrassment, as they did not want a few people to give the impres sion that San Francisco had so far forgotten its democracy as to refuse to hear both sides of any public ques tion. Again and again, the organ played in order to secure quiet and finally the president started speaking amidst an audible turbulence on the outskirts of the crowd. His audience didn't respond to frequently made points. Some started to applaud, hut evidently feared It would give the dis turbers the opportunity they sought to prevent Mr. Wilson from making an extended speech. but something in the hostility of the atmosphere aroused Mr. Wilson and he did what he had hitherto never^one—he start ed to flgh} the noise. Usually, in big auditoriums, he had not strained his voice or attempted to do more than extend his greetings, but. on this oc casion, he struck forth in his argu ment and handled the Shantung and Irish questions, and the matter of Great Britain’s six votes with a clari ty thkl quickly restored quiet and re spect. By the time he had finished he may not have converted those who came with preconceived hostility, but he tamed the disturbers and Mr. Wil son may well consider it a triumph. 400 KNOWN TO B£ DEAD * AT CORPUS CHRISTI VILLA TELLS HOW POWERFUL HE IS Estimated that Later Death List May l»e Twice as Large. Many Under Wreckage. Corpus Christi, Texas, Sept. 19.— Recovery pf ninety-eight additional bodies today along the north shore of Neucen Bay brought the known dead as a result of Sunday's storm to nearly four hundred ana 'caused fears thaT the total death roll might reach double that number. The rising estimate of dead is based largel v on conditions alor g the Neuces shot ^ line, where there are much wreckage that has not been penetrat ed and under which it is believed there are many bodies of storm victims. Compilation of figures at head quarters here showed an exact total of 2SC dead, with only a small per- Letter From Villa Headquarters Says He is Well Supplied with Men aad Money. Denies that his Men Shot Across Border. Washington, Sept. 19.—The first di rect word from Francisco Villa since he was driven from Juarez by United States troops reached Washington to- lettee •written on- September centa.-'c of identifications. All but other aydience on the whole •i ourne y < possibly fifteen of these victims are Nine More Camps to he Eliminated. Washington. Sept. 19.—Demobiliza tion machinery used to return Ameri ca’s great army to civil life was be gun today when the war department announced the elimination of nine camp centers at which soldiers are being discharged. After September 25, no more officers or enlisted men will be sent for dis- discharge to Camps Grant, Devens, Lee, Shelby, Taylor, Travis, Lewis or Forts Bliss andTD. A. Russell. Longshoreman Strike Branded. New Orleans, Sept. 19.—H. H. Mer rick. of Chicago, president of the Mississippi Valley Association, de nounced strikes in his address here late today before the meeting of Zone Number 1, and referred to the present threat of a strike by local longshore men as “tyranny on the part of a few longshoremen who want shorter hours and more pav.” He referred to labor leaders as be ing “drunk with power” and said when they fought a town, they cut their own throats.” "They call themselves American Federation of Labor,” he said, In speaking „of participants » In some strikes, “but I want to know if it te possible for 2,500,000 to stop 100,000,- 000 people from moving the wheels of machinery in this country?*’ ~ believed to have been residents of Corpus Christi. The list gave recov : erics, followed by immediate burials, as follows; - — Sixty-nine bodies, recovered and buried at Corpus Christi; 194 at White JPoiflU ^75_ J aJL...FocU»n4L. JLL At. Slnton. and Odem; 8 at Rockport; 5 at Port Aransas; 2 at Aransas Pass, and 22 at other points. - The figures for Rockport, Port Aransas and Aransas Pass are believ ed to represent victims from those places. Marked progress was made today in the work of clearing away the debris from the downtown streets, large army trucks carrying it away as rap-’ idly as scores of workmen could load them. The usual disinfectant precau tions were taken, and the officers in charge of sanitation said there was virtually no danger of disease. A number of streets, along several blcks piled full with wreckage after the storm, had been returned to vir tually normal appearance tonight, aK though damaged bulldlngs'dinlng them attest to the severity of the hurricane and tidal wave. Chairmen of various relief commit tees, working in co-operation with military, reported progress at their regular daily session today. Electric lights, which escaped material dam age from the storm, probably will be restored within two weeks; gas may be turned on tomorrow; water Is being made available for ice manufacture and there is an ample number of la borers. The problem of laundry made to day by the destruction of the etty 4 ® only laundry establishment will be solved tomorrow when Mexican and negrQ women will be put to work at wash tubs under the slogan. “No wash, no eats.” Extension of military regulations to bar sighteseers from the stricken zone is expected to stop an anticipated rysh of Sunday visitors from* Inland cities and this rule will apply equally to residents of Corpus Christie. There wlll be no diminution of work of res toration and relief Sunday. Before any person can leave the city, a permit must be obtained. This is required to insure wvo interruption In the relief work. For storm suf ferers unable to pay the cost of trans portation from the city in cases where permits to leave are available, an ar- rangemenr has - been made with the United States Railroad Administration ✓ where free transportation is provided. Une .of the bodies recovered and buried near White Point, across Nue ces Bay, was definitely identified as that of Mrs. Egeland, wife of Captain Egeland, commander of Company I, 37th infantry, stationed at the rest camp here, who also lost his life. The body will be disinterred and shipped to Mrs. Egeland’* home in Webster, South Dakota. . . Without confusion the military Ju risdiction here was transferred at noon today from the Federal to the state authorities in accordance with customary procedure, and Colonel W. D. Cope, acting adjutant general, as sumed control. Major General Dickman, command er of the Southern department, spent the da£ here conferring in connection with the withdrawal of Federal forces. Censorship of news and private telegraphic dispatches from Corpus Christi, put into ^ffect today with the placing of the city officially under martial law, will not affecWthe Asso ciated Press, which since Monday night has operated the only leased wjre out of here. The censors, a civ ilian and an army officer, declared It was not their intention to criticise 6, from Villa’s headquarters in north ern Durango. The letter has been placed at the disposal of official of the state department. In the letter Villa said he has large quanities of ammunition and twice as many men under arms as at any time since 1915. The ammunition has been acumulated from caches in the state of Durango, the letter added, several wagon loads from Juarez, two carloads from Parral and Lerdo, a town which he captured recently. Villa also says he has plenty .of money, having captured more '‘than 1,000,000 pesos in gold and silver gov ernment coin and bullion from a train between Chihuahua and Durango re cently. . meet General Banuelos, the leading revolutionary chieftain of the state of Zacatec^, who was marching north wijth 2,000 mounted men well equipped and witK abundance of am munition and gold and silver bullion. Since leaving Juares, Villa said dele gations from General Gutierrez, who controls the state of Coahuila, and fregn Lueyo Leon and Tamaulipas had formally agreed to recognize him as general In-chief of "the revolution. He' ENGLAND’S MILLS , SHOBT OF COTTON also said a committee of government, who will be intrusted with the civil administration of all territory occu pied by the revolutionary forces, will soon be named. . The revolutionary leader called General Gonzales, a Carranza officer; a “most arrant coward,'* and said Gonzales would have surrendered to the revolutionists at Juarez within fifteen minutes if the United States troops had not crossed the border. He declared he had carefully rehears ed his troops. in the attack and had explained carefully the danger of shooting across the border and that not a bullet from his guns entered El Paso, but, he added, when General Gonzales saw he had lost the city he American Trade Commissioner Says None Has More than Three Weeks? Supply^ Washington, Sept. 19. — Present stocks of raw cotton In the hands of British spinners are very small, prob ably no mill having a supply for the American agricultral trade commis- •Stonerat Lumluu oirth oootton. BitiiflT tion in ’the United Kingdom. Labor conditions and the high price of cotton, together with the uncertain ty of exchange and foreign markets and the difficulty of obtaining bottoms for deliveries of manufactured pfo- Miss Annie E. Hatton left last week for Columbia College. NOTICE Time f o r paying Town Taxes expires October 15th. A pen- aliy after that' time. Miss Dorcas Mason, Cleric and Treas. Eight hundred deserters from the sent_an urgent appeal tft-the A ducts, have made the spinners cau tious. Few or none of them have large supplies at their mills. 'Where spinners have bought ahead they have been content, on account of transporta tion and other difficulties, to leave their stocks in the large public and private warehouses. It is inevitable that the general la bor unrest, apparent in all industrial lines, should have its effect on the cotton workers. An investigation in dicates that at present the relations Notice Opeiilng Wooks ofNnbsciipfion. Pursuant to a commission Issued by Hpn. W. Banks Dove, Secretary of State, the undersigned as Board of Corporators, wflli open books of sub scription to the capital stock of Clin ton Mercantile Company, on Friday, Sept. 2«th, 1919, at 10 o’clock A. M., at the store of McCrary & Abercrom bie, Clinton, S. C. The authorized capital stock is Ten Thousand Dol lars $10,000, divided into five hun dred (500) shares ^ o f the par value of Twenty Dollars ($^0.00) each.’ All stock shall be paid for cash. The company proposes to engage in Carranzatists ^forces recen ed his forces, Villa wrote, bringing all their equipment and horses, and add ed that he had Just sent General Fiiipe Angeles fifty miles south to and vicinity would reach one thousand. “Many of these bodies never will be recovered,” Mr. Nelson said. “Unques tionably some bodies, probably many, have been swept away down the bay, probabl yinto the gulf, or as the wa ters of Nueces river recede further, the sinking of wreckage will press many bodies into the sands beyond hope of recovery.” /The number of persons here willing toXpredict the total dead will not ex- ceecT five hundred has become neg ligible and stunned by the rapidly In creasing number of known dead, esti mates such as that of Mr. Nelson do not sound extravagant to them. . can commander begging him- to inter vene. Fearing Tils appeal would not be heeded. Villa said^ Gonzales order ed his men deliberately to fire into El Paso to bring about intervention of American troops. Villa said he did not fear a conflict with the American troops at Juarez, but retired because he knew this sec tion did not represent the real senti ment of the people of the United States. In view of the refusal of the United States, he said, to permit Car ranza to send troops through Texas to attack him at Juarez he had stead fastly continued his policy of pro tecting all Americans and other for eigners within his lines. He protested vigorously in this let ter about being called a bandit and of describing every actual bandit in Mexico as a subordinate of hia. j -the -master ^ spinner aad his tfip-business of ^geoeral merchamffe" employes are in better shape than in other industries. In Manchester there is a desire to get the industries on a satisfactory footing. The recent cotton strike, which was settled by an agreement between the parties, was settled with a view to a permanent working relation between employer and employe, and resulted in 'a permanent and satisfactory arrange ment more than covering the coming cotton year. No furher labor trouble In the cotton industry is looked for. There is no reason to fetfr any dimini- tion of production for . lack of order. While the cotton Industry is at peace with itself, It is still dependent on the coal industry. Coal production is low and therefore a coal famine, which would result in the‘stoppage of the Manchester industries, is feared. ing. R. J. MCCRARY, F. C. PINSON, W. C. ABERCROMBIE, T. R. HOLLAND, Board of Corporators. Abbeville—Greenwood Mutual Insurance Association Protects against loosers by Wind and Lightning as well as Fire. Loosers paid promptly. Only one assessment Annually Oct. 1st. Policies written now, not assessed until Oct. 1920. Has never cost over $8.00 per $1000. This year it is only $5.00 per $1000. J. D. AUSTIN, Clinton. G. W. BAILEY. Clinton. Joe. R. ADAIR, Renno. ggiaafaaaBfaigfgiiifgEfarafafaa^^ Commercial Potato Crop Is Short. Washington, Sept. T9.—Condition of the late commercial potato crop on September 1, indicated a yield of 123,- 618 carloads, a decrease of more than . 22,000 car loads from the estimate on the same date last year, according to a report today by the department of agriculture. Practical! f every state, the report said, will qliow a decreased commer cial crop. the Associated Press dispatches which they described as having been unsual- ly accurate. The men searching for bodies along North Neuces Bay tonight expressed the belief that scores of additional bodies are under unexplored wreckage along the shore, or burigd in the sand shifted by the tidal wave! Miller C. 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