Echoes of 1949

Four men who made Washington headlines in 1949 turned up again in the news:

> Vice Admiral Gerald F. Bogan, whose angry, confidential letter about low morale in the Navy set off the armed services' row over unification, decided to retire (at 55) rather than accept a transfer from command of the First Task Fleet in the Pacific to a shore job as commander of Fleet Air at Jacksonville, Fla., a rear admiral's billet.

> New Dealer Leland D. Olds, overwhelmingly rejected by the Senate as too radical for a third term on the Federal Power Commission, went back on the Government payroll in a job that requires no Senate approval: President Truman appointed him as a member of a new temporary federal Water Resources Policy Commission.

> John Maragon, the wily Washington five-percenter, an ex-Kansas City bootblack who traded on gall and his friendship with Presidential Aide Harry Vaughan, was indicted for perjury by a Washington grand jury on charges of lying to a Senate subcommittee last July when he said he had never done business with the government for commissions.

> 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.

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