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...Captain Erick Rios Bridoux, Bolivian airman, was accused by the Civil Aeronautics Administration of flying in a "careless and reckless manner" and blamed for the Nov. 1 air collision which killed 55 passengers of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 at Washington National Airport. The CAA, however, has no power to fix final responsibility; that is the job of the Civil Aeronautics Board...
...Navy's Captain John G. Crommelin was apparently unaware that the game was over; he was still shouting his defiance at the empty stands. Replying to the public reprimand administered to him by Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Forrest Sherman, Airman Crommelin was as truculent as ever. He wanted the reprimand expunged from his record, or a court-martial where he would have a chance to explain why he had released confidential Navy correspondence to the press, thereby setting off last month's revolt of the admirals...
...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
...Airman Sherman called in Crommelin and announced his verdict. Crommelin was to get a stiff letter of reprimand, and would be transferred away forthwith from the pitfalls of Washington to San Francisco to serve as aviation officer on the staff of Vice Admiral George D. Murray, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier. That was all. But in the letter of reprimand, Crommelin was sternly told that his defiance of his superiors had "brought into question your fitness to exercise command or to occupy a position of trust and confidence...
That statement in Crommelin's personnel file made it almost certain that he would not be promoted to rear admiral (he was the second ranking airman in line) by the selection board which meets this week. It also greatly diminished his chances of ever attaining flag rank...