The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-24
PRESIDENT ACCEPTS RESIGNA.
TlON OF GENERAL AND ASKS
DENMAN TO GET OUT.
SUCCESSORS NAMED
Il. ii. Hurley, Chicago Business Man.
VIII BE Chairman of Shipping Board,
and Naval Constructor Capps Sue
ceeds to Goethals Job.

Washington, July "a President VIII
son today asked Chairman Denman
of the shipping board to resign and ac-
cepted the resignation Of Major Gen.
eral Goethals as general manager of
the emergency fleet corporation.
Official announcement of the accent
ance of the designations Of Goethals
and Denman was made with publication
of letter from President Wilson 10
Chairman Denman asking for his resig.
nation and giving the presidents opin.
ion that the only way to end the row
which was delaying the ship building
program was for both Goethals and
Denman to be removed from the situa-
tion.
Hurley Succeeds Denman.
Edward n. Hurley, "a Chicago bust
ness man and former chairman Of the
federal trade commission, will become
chairman of the shipping board. Wash
ington L. Capps, chief constructor Of
the navy. will succeed General Goethals
as general manager of the emergency
fleet corporation.
cambridge Colby of New York will
become a member of the shipping board
in place of Captain John Il. White,
whose resignation the president accept.
ed today Whites resignation had
nothing TO do with the Goethals- Der.
man row, It is said.
In asking for Mr.. Denman's resie.
nation, President Wilson suggested that
he would be glad to take the same
disinterested and self-forgetting course
that General Goethals has taken"
Bouquet for Denman.
when you have done as he has
done" the president wrote Mr.. Den.
man, 81 am sure that you may count
with the utmost confidence upon the
ultimate verdict of the people OF the
country with regard to your magnan..
nous and unsetish view of public duty
and upon winning in the retrospect
the same admiration and confidence that
l have learned to feel for you"
President Wilson's action came as a
surprise. Officials generally had thought
he would make a further effort TO patch
up differences and divide specifically
between Chairman Denman and General
Goethals powers conferred on him by
the shipping act.
Chairman Denman received the pres
ident's request for his resignation a:
noon and rendered It Immediately.
81 want to help the president in every
way possible" he said, "and never have
questioned the wisdom OF his decisions"
Letter 20 Denman.
The presidents letter TO Mr.. Denman
reads In part:
Il hope and believe that | am inter.
preting your best judgment as well as
my own when | say that our duty con.
cerning the trouble and misunderstood.
ings that have arisen In connection
with the ship building program ought
to be settled without regard to our per.
sonal preferences or our personal feel.
ings altogether, and with the single pur.
pose Of doing what will be best to serve
the public interest.
mo decision we can now arrive at
could eliminate the elements OF contro.
versy that have crept into almost every
question connected with the program:
and | am convinced that the only wise
couse is to begin afresh-not on the
program. for that is already in large
part in process Of execution. but upon
the further execution OF H."