Show SUDDEN MOVE BY GENERAL PUZZLING PUlLING HIS ARMY FRIENDS Cancels All Engagements and Rushes Back to Washington NO ORDER ISSUED Yonder Wonder If Speech Made ra e ein in San Diego Is Cause General Summerall Is believed to be bo on the he Overland O Limited train which blell reaches Ogden at o'clock this t RENO Nev Oct 13 By By The As As- Associated Associated Press Major General Charles P. P Summerall army chief ot of staff whose became a cause for lor concern among his fellow officers when he suddenly abandoned an inspection tour in California with the announcement that he had been summoned to Washington was located aboard the eastbound Overland Limited here today He could not be reached for an interview CANCELS ENGAGEMENTS ENG SAN FRANCISCO Oct 13 By By ByThe The Associated Press The Press The quick exit of Major General Charles P. P Summerall chief of staff of the army out of California yesterday after cancelling his inspection en engagements en- en engagements engagements with the announcement that he had been summoned back to Washington caused much comment among his friends and fellow of officers of- of officers officers here The general said he had received the Washington summons while in inspecting In- In Inspecting inspecting the Presidio of Monterey He immediately cancelled all engagements In the west and started north by au automobile au- au supposedly for San Fran Fran- Francisco cisco He failed to meet Lieutenant Colonel W. W II 11 Johnson his special aide during his stay in the Ninth corps area at Port Costa where he had ordered the aide to wait walt for him The automobile In which General Summerall left Monterey returned ear ear- early early early ly today to Fort Scott here herci The driver said he had orders to keep mum rif about lU the general until he had th ral talked with his colonel O ANOTHER PHASE Another extraordinary phase of the case developed when news dispatches from Washington stated that as far as could be determined General Sum- Sum Summerall's Summerall's merall's Itinerary was unchanged and that the war department knew noth noth- nothing nothIng ing log about the order calling him back to the capital Officers in the Ninth corps area ares speculated d on whether e he the tr generals general's g published comments c on n the e housing f conditions for the United States army might have had anything to do with the summons Dispatches from San Diego last Monday quoted the chief of staff slat as saying that these conditions were deplorable a disgrace to ta any civilized nation and hardly better than the victorious American troops troop would have encountered in German prison camps The speech from which the remarks were quoted was made at a luncheon given Iven in his honor SIMILAR SI CRITICISM COLUMBUS 0 O. Oct 13 By By The Associated Press Secretary of War Dwight F. F Davis here to In Inspect In- In Inspect inspect Fort Hayes today said he had issued no order directing Major Gen Gen- General General General eral Summerall chief of staff sUI to return to Washington and that he did not know whether the general beneral was returning As to General Summerall's Summer criticism clam cism of army housing conditions in his San Sart Diego DI o speech the secretary said he had made similar criticism himself |