If the atmosphere around the Labor Temple that morning was confused and hysterical, it was nothing compared to the panic and confusion that welled up in the newspapers. The Chronicle reported that "While the rest of the city may go hungry, suffering privation and cold, every family of every man on strike in San Francisco will be provided with food, clothing, gasoline, and other necessities of life." It printed a one-sentence denial by "John F. Schelly" (actually Shelley, later head of the Labor Council and State Federation and San Francisco's congressman and mayor). Not until Monday did the Chronicle print (on an inside page) Vandeleur's and Kidwell's full-scale denial. To their denial, however, the Chronicle added it "DOES NOT" retract its original story. The Chronicle also reported that martial law would be invoked "within an hour after a general strike goes into effect." The Ninth Army Corps at the Presidio promptly denied it but the Chronicle insisted that "those claiming to know the facts" asserted plans were ready. Clarence S. Morrill, chief of the State Bureau of Identification, put a message on statewide teletype that "radical strikers and Communists were preparing to throw kerosene bombs on trucks carrying food." It was the Chronicle, too, that warned of a "communist army marching on San Francisco from the northwest." The "army" planned to destroy railroads and highways, paralyze transportation and communication. The invaders were reported near the state's northern border. In fact, neither martial law and bombs nor the army materialized.