Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1944 — Page 14

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phone bussed, and Capt. Ellis J.

McFadzen, road traffic branch head

for a large section of England, an-

fused voice of a soldier: “Captain, sir, this is Cpl Willie Lightning, driving a cargo truck. Captain, where am I at?” “Well, corporal, where are you “I don't know, sir.” “Well, ‘where are you coming from?” ’ :

" “I don't know that, either.”

“Well, what unit are you from?” — 41 can’t tell you that over the pions, sir; it's against regulations

|All I want to know sir, is where A wm 1 wp

out drivers hope- — bewildered by Britain's roads which are often unmarked and sometimes blanketed by fog is just one of the many tasks of this RTO headquarters, commanded by Lt. Col. W. Eugene Smith, of Guthrie, Mo. “We're on the job 24 hours a day,”

NEA Service ; LONDON, March 30—The tele-

swered it. Faintly came the con-| I!

gi Ly Speci Untangle Great Britain s Knotty Traffic Problems

handles road traffic, and who is re-

sponsible for all army convoys, cargo or personnel which enter, cross, or leave his slice of England. Before it can travel the roads of his area, every unit must get permission, and must be scheduled through his office. The system of centralizing road control is about a year old.- Previously almost every driver 'was on his own. -The resultant situation was ‘a series of tangles. Trucks disappeared. Convoys went haywire, split up

says - Capt. McFadzen, who and got lost. They got hung up

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voys to pass. They got stuck hopelessly at narrow or sharp turns ins But all that is changed, now that

have taken charge. When they first] started, they handled two or three| = convoys a week, The weekly total] 5 now is well over 350.

When a unit wants to move a , convoy of vehicles, Capt. McFad- intact. But it's being Sestica every

zen’s office is notified, with a lst : day, Sinnlks to the help of road of the number and types of vehicles.|8 Worried driver, who announced: trafic

Then the road control gang gets! “I'm in the center of Bishop's Stort- ¥ ; . to work. A check is made’ with| oq with a crane and half the DENY EXECUTION OF other RTOs and with the British > 5 authorities to find out whether] ‘clephone lines in town are wrapped other convoys plan to use the roads,| around it. What do I do now?” or to cross the route chosen. It took 12 hours to get the crane From special maps also are/and the traffic untangled, but that|denied checked - the capacity of every|corner is by-passed by high ve-|{Emanuele ¢ bridge along the way, the cl ce|hicles now, and it won't happen mier of Italy, had been executed by of every underpass, the towns that|again. must be entered. The road control team sets the!Rome. There still are no maps that|starting time for the convoy, frac- : show road widths, sharp corners in|tional times for each lap, deter-|quoted Orlando as saying: villages, or other danger spots, but| mines the speed and the route, the crew is making up its own arranges for M. P. motorcycle es- done with the gramtest delicacy 108

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