The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-07-25
DENNAN and COCKTAILS
ARE NOW OUT OF
SHIPPING BOARD
Edward N. Hurley Will Become
Chairman of Board.
w. l.. CAPPs TO BE MANAGER
Bainbridge Colby to Succeed White
on Board.

on Board.
Washington, July 24.-President
Wilson today asked Chairman Den
man, of the shipping board, to resign
and accepted the resignation of Maj.
Gen. Goethals as general manager of
the emergency fleet corporation.
Edward N. Hurley, Chicago bust
ness man and former chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission, will be-
come chairman of the shipping board.
Washington l.. Capps, chief construc-
tor of the navy, will succeed Gen.
Goethals as general manager of the
emergency feet corporation. Balm
bridge Colby, Of New York, will be-
come member of the shipping board
in place of Captain John B. White,
whose resignation the president ac-
cepted today.
Official announcement of the accept
ance of the resignation of Goethals
and White was made with publication
of letter from President Wilson to
Chairman Denman asking for his res
ignation, and giving the Presidents
opinion that the only way. to end the
row which has delayed the shipbiuld-
ing program was for both Goethals
and Denman to be removed from the
situation.
In asking for Mr.. Denman's resig-
nation, President Wilson suggested
that he would be glad to have Mr..
Denman take "the same disinterrest-
ed and selfforgetting course that Gen,
Goethals has taken"
"When you have done as he has
done," the President wrote Mr.. Den
man, II am sure that you hay count
with the utmost confidence upon the
intimate verdict of the people of the
country with regard to your mag
namious and unselfish view of public
duty and upon winning in the respect
the same admiration and confidence
that I have learned to feel for you"
Action Causes Surprise.
President Wilson's action came as
a surprise. Officials generally had
thought he would make another effort
to patch up differences and divide
specially between Chairman Denman
and Gen. Goethals powers conferred
on him by the shipping act.
Denman Resigns.
Chairman Denman received the
Presidents request for his resigna-
tion at noon and rendered it imme-
diately.
81 want to help the Pres dent in
every way possible" he said, "and
never have questioned che wisdom of
the decisions"
Letter to Denman.
The Presidents letter to Mr.. Den
man follows:
81 hope and believe that ! am in
terprcting your best judgment as well
as my own when l say that our duty
concerning the debate and misunder-
standings that have arisen in connec-
tion with the shipbiuldmg program
ought to be settled without regard to
our personal preferences or our per-
sonal feelings altogether, and with the
single purpose of doing what will be
best to serve the public interest.
"No decision we can now arrive at
could eliminate the elements of con-
troversy that have crcpt into almost
every question connected with the pro-
gram; and | am convinced that the
only wise course is to begin afresh-
not upon the program, for that is al
ready in large part in process of ex-
ecution, but upon the further cxccu-
tionf of it.
~ have found both you and Gen.
Goethals ready to serve the public at
a personal sacrifice. Realizing that
the only manncr in which the way can
be completely cleared for harmonious
and effective action is to carry our
shipbuilding plans forward from this
point through new agencies Gen.
Goethals has put his resignation in my
hands; and have accepted it in the
same spirit in which it was tendered-
not as deciding between two men