Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. June 21, 1945 5:05pm MRS. BEHAN to D. WORTH CLARK stating thats has a wire from GAEFUSS (Phon.) which reads as follows: "It has been rumored here that there is a sale pending of Washington Water Power interests. Some of their holdings are located in our state. I wish you would find out for me personally if there is any truth in this rumor. I am asking for this information so that I may determine how it might affect the welfare and future development of the state." CLARK said he too had received the same wire and that CORCORAN could keep that one there at his office. O.K. 5:10pm JUDGE THURMAN ARNOLD to CORCORAN saying that ED LEVY is going to the University of CHICAGO unless he gets something in Wash- ington. He has worked hard and deserves some recognition after all these years. ARNOLD told CORCORAN he felt that if LEVY was offered the Assistant Solicitor Generalship, he'd stay in Wash- ington. He has done good work and is entitled to some recognition. TOM agreed to that. ARNOLD said he talked with TOM CLARK and the latter is agreeable. CORCORAN asked about HUGH (FULTON?) and ARNOLD said that HUGH wanted the Solicitor General job. ARNOLD asked that CORCORAN speak to LINDEN JOHNSON about it and CORCORAN said he would get to work on it right away. 5:55pm ASSISTANT SECRETARY MIKE STRAUS (Phon.) of Interior Department to CORCORAN, who asked what the A.P. dispatch was. STRAUS has only the Star and U. P. dispatches, but he had not seen the A.P. dispatch. STRAUS read the Star and U.P. dispatches which quoted TRUMAN as stating today that the rumors of his replacing ICKES in the Interior Department were the first he had heard of it and that he did not contemplate such a change. STRAUS and CORCORAN comment that that is interesting. They thought ICKES' interview with the press today was "swell. "He did a good job.' 9:15pm VIRGINIA DARE (Phon.) to PEGGY (personal chatter), then to THOMAS CORCORAN, saying, "PM called me up a few minutes ago and told me that ABE FORTAS (Phon. is being fired from the Interior Department because he got a Negro elevator girl fired. I called ABE and he seemed sort of defenseless. You see, these Southern guys have no political support." C--I don't believe it. IS PM running this story? That ICKES is firing him because of the elevator girl? D--I don't know. I got the story that ICKES is staying on at Interior on condition he fire ABE -- C--I don't believe it.