The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-03

more or less regularly as . Senator, saying what he pleased without any body caring. But the first of these sessions he attended AS v. P. be. came Q news event and few of the stories rubbed the wrong way. Here. after, the Vice President may not be SO free and easy In his ways.
 STRANGE BEDFELLOWS
 National Service legLslation, other- wise known as the woIk-or.else bill, has made some strange partners in the lineup of supporters and oppo- nents. National Association of Manufacturers and nearly all labor unions have been violently opposed. But National Steel Industry Advis- ory Committee, made up of people like Eugene Grace, and the heads of the extreme left wing unions Ike Harry Bridges, favor 1t.
 Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish Is going to be master of ceremonies ct all the State Departments new series of Saturday night radio shows, though other actors on the seven weeks series will change from week to week, depending on program. Ma tional Broadcasting hired Selden Menefee, Washington free lance writer and public relations counsel, to prepare the original script.
 Manefec took Q stenographer and asked questions of State Department top men cast for roles in the series. Then Menefee wove the answers in- to dialog. MacLelsh, who refuses to let anyone ghost for him, is re. writing much of Menefee's script. Tentatively, this seven week State Department Saturday night soap opera is to be followed bsy seven weeks of Senate Foreign Relations Committee discourses, seven weeks House Foreign Affairs Committee debates, and Q seven weeks windup by leading societies interested in international peace and security. Big Idea is to bring the Department and foreign affairs closer to the public. MacLeiSh was chosen to m. c. the show because of his position as head of public and cultural ye- lations, also because he is most ex. perienced radio performer in the Department.
 WAR BITES DOG
 Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Vir- ginia lives in Washington ct the swank Shoreham Hotel and there keps a magnificent Great Dane. After its evening walk with the Sen- ator, the dog goes into the hotel drug store lunch counter, where . soda jerker feeds the big animal . couple anemic, wartime weenies, for which the Senator later pays. "It helps a little." he says.
 Congressmen are being swamped by pleas from parents of service men, asking that their soldier boys who have been overseas for 6 couple of years or more be given leaves to come home. There isn't anything the Congressman can do about these requests as the soldiers are chosen by their overseas commanders. but the volume of this and other c. l. ASAk Ok kNikAAtO AAk1tA AA0o AO4SCa oOAAS CongreSsmen to put on an extra sec- retary to handle veterans affairs exclusively.
 On his trip to Russia and China last year, Henry Wallace thought he was so healthy that he wouldn't have to wear an oxygen. mask on hops over the higher mountains, as required by Army Air Transport Command regulations. Twice the then-Vice President refused pilots orders to don his mask. The third time the pilot came back to give his order he had better luck, for the Vice President had all but passed out and was powerleSs to resist the pilot who slipped the mask in place and gave him good whiff. Aftel that, Wallace wore the mask with. out protest.