Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-09
Changes Announced by Sec
rotary Daniels Following
Recent Investigation.
TO BECOME EFFECTIVE
SEPT. 20, 1T IS STATED
Assignment of New Department
Heads Will Be Left to Rear Ad-
miral Fullam's Successor.

A general shake-up at the Naval
Academy at Annapolis has been or
dered by Secretary Daniels of the Navy
Department. following the recent in
vestigation of charges of "cribbing"
and hazing at the academy. A general
reorganization of the force of in
strustors has been made.
The heads of nearly all the depart
ments have been changed, to take eff
feet September 20. Most of the Off
GERS relieved from duty at the acad-
envy have been assigned to ships in
commission.
I'VE have changed most of the heads
of departments who have been on duty
at the Naval Academy for two years
or more" said Secretary Daniels.
Those officers who have been there
less than two years have not been
changed, except in the case of Com
mander F. A. Traut, who takes COM
mand of the battleship Wisconsin"
Secretary Daniels declined to answer
any questions as to the cause of this
reorganization.
The changes are planned to take eff
feet when Capt. Eberle. now COM
mandant of the navy yard at Wash
ington, succeeds to the superintend-
ency of the Academy on the goth in
lam. recently transferred to the COM
mand of the Pacific reserve fleet. These
are the changes in the shake-up:
Changes in the Shake-Up.
Commander L. L. Mutton, in charge
OF the department of ordnance, will
become commandant of midshipmen
when Capt. Lloyd H. Chandler. now
acting superintendent of the academy,
is detached. Commander c. F. Pres
ton. English department, is ordered to
command the battleship Missouri;
Commander F. A. Traut, language de-
partment, to command the battleship
wisconsin. Commander H. B. Price
engineering department. to command
the destroyer tender Melville, about to
go into commission at Camden, n j.:
Commander j. P. Tompkins, electrical
engineering department, to command
the battleship Ohio: Lieut. Commander
q. Shackford, senior aid to the COM
lnandant. to the battleship Wyoming:
Lieut. NJ. Z. Manley, aid to the super-
intendent. to the staff of the com
nander-in- chief of the Pacific reserve
fleet
Besides these, Commanders Hilary
Williams and Roger Williams, both on
cruise, are detached, the former to be-
come executive officer of the battleshfp
Rhode Island and the latter to be nav
fgator of the battleship New Jersey.
nc" department neadS at the
academy announced, their assignments
being left to the new superintendent.
are:
New Department Heads.
Commander H. H. Hough, gunboat
Wilmington on the Asiatic station.
Commander Ralph Earle, executive Of
hcer of battleship Arkansas; Command
er W. T. Cluverius. gunboat Paducah:
Commander G. F. Lincoln, sunboat
Dolphin; Commander H. H. Christy.
battleship Kearsarge, who will be sta,
TONED on the station ship Reina Mer-
cedes at Annapolis; Commander John
Hailigan. feet engineer of the Atlantic
meet. who Is to become head of the
postgraduate department of the acad-
envy, and Lieut.. Commander T. r
kurtz. now assistant director of target
practice.
Other officers ordered to the academy
are Lieut.. Commander John Downes.
now on the battleship Florida; Lieuts. -
e Metz, S. S. Brown. c. E. Van Hook.
G A. Lucas, c. c. Davis, R. p Cutler
G. B. Hoey, Solomon Endel and w. G.
Wickham.
Lieut.. G. Z. Baker is detached from
the Academy for duty on the battIe-
snip Georgia. and Lieut.. j. H. Schel-
ing Tor duty on the battIeship Utah.