Show Army Jams Rails o D Chief Says Official Offida Avers R Roads Cant Can't Handle Hundle Vo ume Demanded by WASHINGTON July 23 UP P Col J. J Monroe Johnson director director tor of defense transportation tion said Monday the army's redeployment ment meat program cannot be met by the American railroads if vital var war freight is to move He told the senate war investigating committee that the army anny drafted a month 10 program without consulting him and s since nce has stepped up the return of troops from Europe without notifying 0 O D T. T Saying the effect of redeployment redeployment redeployment ment has not yet fully hit the western railroads Johnson added With the railroads now congested congested con- con rested and with additional war production to move tally ally it will be Impossible for or th the western vestern railroads to the troops and move the freight loads Further Curbs Curb On Saturday 0 D T announced the he latest in a series of ot curbs on civilian travel by rail tail and forbade sale ale of tickets or train space to travel ravel agencies Dispatches from tram abroad this week end Indicated the army is Js recasting Its program and will send end more men dir directly from Europe Surope to the Pacific than originally nally contemplated Johnson said he is endeavoring to o bring buses and airplanes into troop roop transport in this country to ease ase the strain on the railroads Johnson said he was first given information May 2 on prospective return return of t troops oops from Europe and was told at that time that the number umber would not net exceed a a. month Exceed dl Es Estimates Actual arrivals In June exceeded exceed- exceed ed d the estimate by OOOO and In July uly by he said aid adding that hat he was told would return return re- re turn urn in n June Junc but that more more than were returned SIt It was a mistake which has not yet been corrected Johnson continued con- con for the army to bring the number of men which have arrived irregularly and subject to violent fluctuations actuations in numbers into the country and to thus Increase its demands for transportation already already al- al ready eady overburdened without advising advising ad- ad ising and consulting with the office of- of fice ice responsible for tor the coordination coordination coordination tion and direction of ot traffic Johnson said that if the army had ad given him better information as to its plans he would have have- issued much earlier his recent order order or- or der er halting use of ot Pullman sleep sleep- ers era rs on trips under miles He said men were landed In n one port on one day without advance notice to him that they were coming Johnson testified he had been trying for three or four tour w weeks eks to get jet more motive power for tor western estern railroads |