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Show PRESIDENT SURE OF FIVE OUT OF SEVEN Admiral Walker and Four Others Accept Positions on the Panama Canal Board. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. President Boonovelt has rocoivod definite acceptances accept-ances from flvo of hi.- nppolnlecu on tho new Isthmian Canal commlflalon. They aro: Roar-Admiral John G. Walker. United States navy, rotlrod. Gen. Georgo W. Davis, United States army, rotlrcd. Col. Frank Heckcr of Detroit, director of transportation during tho Spanish-American Spanish-American war. William Barclay Parsons, cnginoer of the New York subway. William II. Burr, professor of engineering engineer-ing at Columbia university. New York, and at one time a member of the Walker Isthmian Canal commission. It is quite likely, although It has not been determined absolutely, that the other two members of the commission will be Benjamin M. Harrod of New Orleans, Or-leans, an engineer of the Mississippi River commission, and C. Ewald Grunsky of San Francisco, a distinguished hydraulic hy-draulic engineer. It Is believed that Mr. Grunsky will accept. It was hoped by the President that Alfred Noble, engineer of the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania railroad, would accept one of the appointments, but It is understood tonight that he has declined definitely. Tho President expects to complete the personnel of the commlttco soon, perhaps tomorrow. Ho will send tho appointments to tho Senate at once. |