Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-07-07
MENTION OF SURGEONS
NAME EXPLAINED TODAY
DR.. Ralph Mcdowell Witness Before
Naval Court of Inquiry.
Mr.. MOSS ALSO ON STAND.
Lawyer Assists in Clearing Up Certain
References Made in Testimony by
Admiral Fullam.

The nava. court of inquiry gathered
/ this morning another mass of evidence
bearing upon gouging and other irreg
ulariues in examinations at the Naval
Academy, all of which. however was
| practically along the same line as pre-
vious evidence in the record.
Among the witnesses heard today
was Surgeon Ralph W Mcdowell of
the Navy, Who appeared virtually on
his own initiative, and be cleared up "a
matter with which his name had been
connected. Admiral Fullam. superin-
tendent Of the Naval Academy,who was
the first witness to be examined at the
! beginning of the investigation made
mention of the name of DR. Mcdowell
and his supposed intimacy with Mid
shipman Moss. to whom advance ex-
animation papers were sent through
the mail.
Chiefly by way of intimation, Ad-
miral Fullam told the court of consul
tations he had with Mr.. Robert Moss,
father of q defendant midshipman, and
remark made by the latter that DR.
Mcdowell would look out" for Mr
Moss's son.
But il now appears as a result of the
positive. testimony OF Dr. Mcdowell
that this remark had reference TO an
occasion when Midshipman Moss was
confined to the naval hospital
Mr. Moss, Sr, who is one of counsel
for the defendant midshipmen, also
took the witness stand, and gave testi
mony bearing upon the matter
Mr.. Moss also testified concerning
other matters mentioned in his several
consultations with Admiral Fullam re
garding the scandal to which mention
was made by the Superintendent in his
evidence before the court. Mr.. Moss
denied emphatically that he ever APP
preached the Superintendent on the
proposition of permitting his son to
resign during the time that the mess
was being stirred up.
Admiral Fullam has also testified
that Mr.. Moss remarked that he could
tell of other important matters. but
about which Mr. Moss, to use the Su-
perintendent's cwn expression, che APP
peared 70 be hazy." As to this MI. Moss
told the court that the meaning of this
remark was that he could tell the Su-
perintendent a good deal about hazing
that has been fiourishing at the Acad-
emy in recent years.
Further questioning witnesses with
the purpose of establishing, if possi-
bic, the origin Of the examination pa
pers in modern languages which were
sent through the mail in advance to
Midshipman Moss, together with wheth-
CT ii had been the custom of instruct
ors in the languages department to
give out information prior to the ex-
animation, outside of the section room,
either in verbal or written form, is oc-
cupying the major part of the time of
the court.
A number of midshipmen and grad
uate ensigns, including the entire 26
who are defendants to the proceedings,
were interrOgated along this line yes
terday, when they were called to verify
the testimony previously given by them
Judge Advocate Watts failed to devel-
cp anything new except in the evi-
dence of Graduate Midshipman Kri-
hci' "ho Sdiu tIidt ne, WIN Graduate
Midshipman OveTesch, went to the
home of Professor Cus0chs on the day
preceding the examination and were
advised by the instructor to pay par
ticular attention to the first forty pages
of their book. as they covered the most
important part of the work in modern
| languages
He added that when the different in
structors gave out in the section rooms
confiicted. as to what the general char
acter of the examinations would be.and
that Professor Cusachs knew as re-
sult of conference with Commander
Traut, head of the Department of Mod
ern Languages.