The Clinton chronicle. (Clinton, S.C.) 1901-current, September 25, 1919, Image 2
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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
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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
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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.
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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. Nelson, of Sinton, a prom
inent attorney who has been working
with other searchers on North Nueces
ever since the storm subsided, said his
experiences had convinced, him that
the total death Hat for Corpus Christi
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