The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-12

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 sidered, and last year turned out
 more coal than ever before pro-
 duced in a single year in this
 country. But even more is
 needed.
 NOTE-Senator Kilgore of West Virginia has complained to the
 War Department that where as we have screened German min CTS from the German army in order to work in the coal mines, the War Department has not been able to get any accurate list of coal miners in the U. s. Army.
 CAPITOL CHAFF
 Rep. Albert Thomas of Texas strolled into the House restaurant last week, studied the menu closely, then remarked to his com paniop: 'Will you look at this! Here Clinton Anderson is Secre- tary of Agriculture for "A hours, already, and still there's no meat on this menu" .. Poultry deal- CTS are chuckling about the per- sonal-study vacation plan of Dewey Ter1nohlen of the War Food Administration. who has claimed there is no serious poultry problem on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Termohlen has now driven to Bethany Beach, Del, or the Eastern Shore, for his vacation = and also for an ad- ditional two weeks at government expense Investigating the poul- try situation along the Eastern Shore. He has been issued special gasoline for the trip =. Milton Eisenhower, brother of General Ike, has agreed to stay at the Department of Agriculture as adviser to Secretary Anderson for only nine weeks. He then returns to his post as President of Kansas State Agricultural College [. ;. The War Food staff has been holding meetings nearly every morning since Anderson took office. They decided to meet in Eiserhower's office last Thursday, but were quickly stunted out when they found Eisenhower in shirtsleeves surrounded by large charts show ing how War Food set-up is to be reorganized. Too many off, cials would have seen whether their heads were going to fall, so they weren't permitted to stay .. During the House debate on FEPC, two Major Douglases sat in the gallery following the pro- ceedings with particular interest. They were Marine Major Paul Douglas, famed Chicago educator, and Army Major Melvyn Douglas, top flight movie star. They watched the procedures with es- pecia1 interest because their wives both are members of Congress. Major Paul Douglas, husband of Illinois Representative E Emily Taft Douglas, was carrying his arm in a heavy bandage. having nearly lost his hand during the fighting at Two Jima. Major Melvyn Douglas, husband of Rep resentative Helen Gahagan Doug las, of California, looked in good hearth, despite nearly three years of duty in India. Both enlisted as privates Members of the Senate Military Affairs Commit tee are still chuckling over the appearance of Virginia's red faced Senator Harry. Byrd dur ing the testimony of Barney Baruch before their committee recently. Byrd strolled in osten- tatiously just before the hearing started, went to the Senators table and shook hands with the chairman, waited for several photographers to snap him and walked out. Newspaper pictures published next day gave the public the impression that Byrd dominated the entire hearing.
 U. S. AMBASSADORS
 One thing President Truman will keep weather eye on dur ing his European trip is the American diplomatic service. Not long before he sailed, he got an earful from his old colleagues on the former Truman Committee"
 Six senators, just back from Europe, came to the White House to report to him personally. Tru- man seemed intensely interested