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Show I AMERICA INACTION Wire Communications Consolidation Domestic wire communications of the army are being consolidated into a single system to effect co-ordination and conservation of critical materials, ma-terials, wire facilities and manpower, manpow-er, the war department announced recently. The new system is the just-created army command and administrative network, army service forces, and is being set up under supervision of the army communications service of the signal corps, of which Brig. Gen. Frank E. Stoner is chief. Many separate communications now operated by various branches of the army will be eliminated under un-der the change-over which, when completed, will have in operation 25 message centers including army service commands and 15 or more additional points close to important military installations. The plan includes eventual abandonment aban-donment of the army's radio network net-work in the continental United States the present traffic being diverted to the network but radio circuits for overseas communications will be continued. Certain communications systems of the army branches which require specialized traffic handling, such as the army air forces, will be continued, contin-ued, but it is planned to connect the new network with specialized nets of these other branches. Although the consolidated message mes-sage centers are to be operated by the signal corps, independent centers cen-ters at other points will be combined with the branch of the army which has predominant activities operating at that point. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |