The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

respond with the highly critical report of General LuteS.
 One criticism was that the much-advertised Red Ball High way" under Maj. Gen. Frank Ross was not sufficient to carry wal goods from the Channel ports t' the front. Meanwhile, insufficient railroad troops and equipment were brought to France to repair the battered French railroads. SUPPLIES GET MIXED
 Another criticism was that sup ply officers had mixed up the bills of lading, so that some ships had to sit for days while a com- plete inventory of cargo was re- taken. Also, supplies got 50 mixed that a front-line comman- der needing 105 nm. shells would get carloads of 155 m. m., while an outfit wanting c rations would get mountain of K. rations.
 As . result, fr0nt-line com-
 manders complained that they couldn't start an offensive for
 fear their supply lines would fail to keep up with them. This situation is believed partly re- spOnsible for General Bradley's inability to launch a full-
 strength general offensive sic
 multaneOusly along the Wes- tern Front last fall.
 Gen. Somervell himself made a personal inspection of the situ- ation and assigned Maj. Gen Thomas B. Larkin to prop up Lee and Lord. Meanwhile, the Pentagon building has been wor- ried over rumors that the Mead Committee might check into the whole supply situation, especially ware houses of supplies stockpiled in England for the invasion, which never will be used.
 Some day the Mead Commit too may dig out the real facts as to whether the supply break down was actually the fault of the home e-frOnt-as main. 6tained by the War Department last fall. If so it will make i'm teresting reading.
 NIGHT-WALKER RIDDLE
 A young man with radio in his car drove up to an apart ment house in Washington Courts not far from the Dumbarton Oaks. He parked his car. went into the apartment where he lived, undressed, and went to bed.
 Maybe he was drunk, maybe he was deaf. Anyway, he left his radio on and loud. There # sat. blaring away into the night.
 The house next to the Dunbar ton Courts is the residence of the United States, Francis Bid- dle. The Attorney General wa: in bed-asleep. But he was awak- ened pronto. So were other members of his family. Nobody will testify as to what MT. Bid- dle said, but the chances are it was unprintable.
 But what he did was much more effective. He put on . robe over his pajamaS, walked out on the street, reached into the offending car, and switched off the offending radio.
 As he crawled back into bed, the Attorney General of the United States was heard to say, There ought to be law against things like that!"
 MINERS STRIKE VOTE
 On the day the strike vote was taken among the bituminous coal miners, the National Labor Rela- tions Board paid $35 day to student of the University of West Virginia, both men and co-eds. to stand at the mouth of the mines and take the vote in the Morgantown area. The government also furnished transportation.
 The college students worked
 12-h0ur day; but even so, some of them felt they were Overpaid.
 The ballot they asked the min- CTS to sign as they came out of the mines read: "Do you wish to permit an interruption of war pro- ductiOn in wartime as a result of this dispute?"
 The rnountaineerS around Nor. gantown voted 'Yes". 6 to 1. Ac- tually, many of them didn't want