Show ARMY SCANDALS IN PHILIPPINES Secretary ary Root noot Asks Gen Gee MacAr MacArthur thur for Information CASE OASE OF MAJOR G B DAVIS DAYIS Credited on V Co 0 11 lInd I II I Washington April Root today cabled den Oen MacArthur asking for additional Information the time of or frauds In III Manila It U lii I that a it reilly will be receIved recel VIII Willie hl have not been given lea Gen MacArthur heretofore to make a 1 searching and lule Investigation It Is understood thai t a the requests for Information were of ot u a 1 character to Imply that the he du do expected such ouch an un Investigation lion tion would bo ho male made Nothing hu hot hous m received from tram Germ Gen about the flue alleged frauds although ret lef Nerice has hus made mado to the Investigation gation 1 in cablegrams received d The lunt tJ st dispatch on all the subject Cram mama Oen MacArthur said 1 that there thero been beH In lii the press reports but the th persistence with which the ic me I ports have been reiterated and the II dispatches todo today giving names and amm specific amounts indicated to limo Iho department that Sen Uell MacArthur wan waa not 1101 advised fully Cull when hell he made mude lila his first report It U tan calm be stated that the tIme Intends to 10 have all 1111 the time Information possible on the Ilia th subject and Gen ion will be bo col oh Woodruff loss has made allusions to the arrest t iC C tie nn sergeant In t I ta 0 Gen W Weston but noth month nothing nothIng ing Ilk it 1 report t port has haH been made hy lIy him AIT IliAD UI AD Manila of ot th time the c scandals a 1 prominent army said 1111 to tIme the representative of or the tIme Associated Press that he Ime hail had every reason to believe that Col Wood Woodruff Woodruff ruff head of the subsistence d depart part ment at nt Manila win was I not mint Implicated lie lI Maid that Cal Col Woodruff was one olle of ot the t noon men l en In It time tho service and und that his hili honesty was unquestioned He lie averted ert d that Col Cal Woodruff vvan Willi Ignorant of or the tha fact that Harold A Antt Pitt manager er of lit if Evans army urmy contractors was leasing him the Ih house housa housaIn In itt which he lic livid hived for far much less hess rental than Pitt paid upon dlA this Col Cot Woodruff Im him Immediately immediately mediately vacated tho houie hou e lItt H is allayed alleged to have sold saId that Capt Cot Head of ot the thc deceived Col Cal Woodruff who vho thought C Capt Calt pt Head to bo bu thoroughly honest The Thu Irregularities III In nr matters omero attributed to rapt capt Heads with work cork Col Woodruff was reluctant to tn believe bellevo that frauds were iero helm being perpetrated hut but the facts disclosed IM do caused him hIm to give gite Capt Head Hend a n most m 1 severe reprimand and nn to begin be ln an nn then which may Involve according to the prominent army previously referred to the Ihl thi examination of or apt alit who wan laN time Ihl depot Milot commissary before Capt Head but lut who vho was sent cent home on sick leave heave expected cx c el to push the time trials and make mako a n complete report of any and all wrung wrong wrongdoings doings George Ceorge 11 n Davis whose name In hi l mentioned In tIme till dispatch from Manila asi as being credited upon Ulon the books of oC Evans vans Co eo a OH liS having received 1000 U Is In Washington To Tn an Associated he lie would say oy nothing when asked If IC h hi 11 desired to 10 reply reI to 10 th i assertion He lie was called upon by bythe b the war department however for an explanation and amid to Co one of time the Mid nothing about the time matter lie waa closely and said lie he never had any money on I from corn time the firm of contractors mentioned had not bar bor hordO dowed dO ed and could not nol explain how there could ho hI any made Although he lie U Is 1 In this cannily on sick leave hJ bc will to Manila and It If the mat matter ter ler l is III not cleared clearl up Ul when h lie he arrives there he will demand u a court of Inquiry Mr livans bvans vans of ot the tilt firm of ot Co o 0 Is 11 known to some ROme army In Washington ians 1 wan s ma In this coun country country try n im hn t time lito antI and u may now be te teIn beIn bein In N 4 w v York If It ho Iu h lAM has not returned to 10 Manila It Is not whether he Is III Isan Isan an nn tin n American or a II Canadian He lie SaC al n from fromn Niagara though from roam h side Id ot of the river riser Is i inot not known At th commissary ary ar department nt Gen ion Weston of oC his subordinate Col Woodruff In itt the thi th highest terms torms Ho lie said Col Cal Woodruff always has borne the highest reputation In the army tin ems tina a K splendid and IIII thoroughly hon homm honest est man There might be bo opportunities for or small mall frond In n A peat depot such ns liB that nt lit Manila but Lut there would have hays to b 1 be cOllusion lon among the and In If tf frauds were car carried ar ried on to any un grat pat extent It 11 de do depends I ponds largely ly upon the thc honesty of o time tho ary In charge to prevent any nn wrong doing and nd he ic would be very Ir likely to know If there thore was anything crooked going on In a large way WilY Whew Where no 10 much business s Is done dono It U is al iii moat mint ml t Impossible to make an Inventory of ct it goods gootIs on en hand such an nn In Inventor Inventor venter Is completed halt half of oC the tho goods may have hll been taken away awa The usual method methOl III ii for tor the torn cOrn mantling general genera and the tho commissary In charge char to K go through the warehouse to 10 Inspect stores and make a R statement as to time the stores store on hand han handt hanat At t a given time It Is that thaI such noli ii 11 busy man aman as ten Gen MacArthur would not be b able ablo to make any Inspection lion tion and If I he did he hoe would have hae to take time tho word vord of or the for tor nearly everything KO so o no ilK a tJ matter of ot fact act Cal the chief has hall almost exclusive control and Is II the time man Inan hold held responsible It Is for tor this reason that thata a man of or experience and amid rank Is se selected ledell to he be chief commissary of or an Important point p l int like Manila which li II lithe I Ithe I the distributing point for tor rocoo troops troop |