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Show DEFENSE Transportation DEFENSE TRANSPORTATION- This is invasion year, the Director. Dir-ector. sltie Office of.. Defense Transportation, emphasized today in pointing to the vital necessity of having the transportation facilities fac-ilities of the nation clear of any unnecessary travel. "Let us make the facts clear," Colonel Johnson said in urging all unessential travel' be eliminated. "We don't know when or where the invasion will be, but we do know that our men will be assault ing the strongest defenses that German military ability can devise. de-vise. When the landing barges nose onto the shores of Europe, and our men fight through enemy defenses, de-fenses, the casualties must be immediately evacuated and dispatched dis-patched to America. There will be no room or safety for the disabled dis-abled on the strife-torn beach heads. When the wounded arrive in hospital ships, and replacements and reinforcements are being rushed to our ports, every facility facili-ty of the nation must and will be immediately available. The transportation system must be free to respond to any demand that the occasion may make upon it. Any unessential traveler who gets caught in the invasion trafic will have only himself to blame if he is indefinitely stranled, or finds his Pullman reservations summarily summar-ily cancelled, or finds passenger schedules temporarily disrupted and intercity buses completely swamped. If all the people who are planning plan-ning to travel this year were actually ac-tually to go, it would impossible to handle the rush even with the present facilities. Colonel Johnson said. "With invasion in the offing it may be stated categorically that any substantial in crease in travel simply can't be handled. When the battle traffic is flowing with both those beariner the wound ed of battle and those hurrying to fill their places, there will Dc no sympathy for the stranaed pleasure traveler. Prospects are that intercity buses will be still more crowded and a . growing number of ticket holders will be unable to get aboard. A |
