Evening star., 1937-03-01
Air Bureau Shake-Up Re-
Iieves Both Assistant Di.
reCtorS of Duty.
MAI. SCHROEDER TAKES
CONSOLIDATED OFFICE
Retiring Director to Continue in
Advisory Capacity for Present,
Roper Announces.
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON.

Fred D. Fagg, jr., World War pilot,
and founder Of the Air Law Institute,
today was named director Of the
Bureau of Air Commerce in a thorough
shake-up resulting from the resigna-
ton of Eugene L. Vidal
Both assistant directors were relieved
from office and their posts CONSOLE
dated under Maj Rudolph w.
Schroeder, chief of the Air Line In
spection Service. Maj. Schroeder will
have the title of assistant director.
Change for Rex Martin.
Rex Martin. assistant director in
charge of navigation, has been as
signed to a study of commercial avia-
ton in Latin America.
Col. j. Carroll Cone, assistant di-
rector in charge of regulation, has been
given similar mission to Europe
Vioals resignation which was con-
sistently rumored during congressional
investigation Of the bureau, was an
nounced Unexpectedly late yesterday
afternoon.
Vidal will continue in an advisory
capacity for the present. Secretary
Roper announced in making public
the reorganization plan.
The new director has been engaged
for more than a year in codifying
and revising the air commerce regu-
lations. working under direction and
guidance of Secretary Roper.
Although Fagg is not an acting
pilot and has had no recent connect
tion with active aviation affairs, he
has broad legal and economic back
ground and is widely known in the
aviation world. Secretary Roper ex-
planned.
Native Of Brooklyn.
He is particularly we'll known in the
field of international aviation law. He
is native Of Brooklyn, N Y. and was
educated in California schools and at
Harvard and Northwestern Universi-
ties. During the World War he COM
pleted his aviation training in Cali
fornia and Texas, and was one Of q
group Of American officers assigned to
British night bombardment squad
ron. with headquarters at Suffex,
England.
After his discharge, December, 1918,
he resumed an interrupted law career,
specializing in aviation work As
professor in Northwestern University
founded the Air Law Institute, an
international organization.
Fagg has been a member of the
Illinois Aeronautics Commission since
it was organized in 1881; secretary of
the National Association of State Avia-
ton officials since 1882; a member of
the American Section of the Inter-
national Technical Committee of
Aerial Legal Experts, now meeting in
Berne. Switzerland, and a member of
the American Bar Associations Com
mittee on Aeronautical Law.
Maj. Schroeder had a DISTINGUISHED
career in the Army as an engineer
and test pilot following the World
War. before he resigned to enter civil
aviation. He was associated with
Henry Ford in the early development
of the Ford aviation interests. As an
Army pilot, Schroeder established sew
eral world altitude records. In con-
nection with experimental work at the
Air Corps Development Center, at
Wright Field, Ohio.
Schroeder has been in charge OF
the enforcement of all air line regu-
lations, under which the domestic air
transport industry has taken a posi-
tion Of world leadership. He is re-
garded as one of the most capable
(See VIDAL, Page A-2.)