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Show GOETHALS TO LEAVE GOVERNMENT SERVICE WASHINGTON". July 12. President Wilson today agreed to accept the resignation resig-nation of Major General George W. Goethals as governor of the Panama canal zone at an early dale to be fixed by the general. General Goethals called at the White house and again urged his desire to resign the governorship and retire re-tire from the active list of the army, now that his work of building the canal had been finished. Colonel Chester Harding, now engineer of maintenance In the canal zone, probably prob-ably will be appointed governor. |