Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. July 3, 1945 9:40 AM WRIGHT to Miss MEDLEY of the House Judiciary Committee asking if she has a transcript of the Tidelands Hearings. She does. WRIGHT will be over this morning to review the transcript. Okay. 10:07 AM YOUNGMAN to TAUBE of the National Resources Commission asking if he has handled the Union Carbide matter. TAUBE says, "No, but he will. If 10:12 AM CORCORAN to RE 7500, Extension 72927, for Mr. SWORS or SWORTH (phonetic) asking if the latter had checked concerning the Legion of Merit for DWIGHT. SWORS said he still had some checking to do with "the man in charge of this division" and with J. A. KRUG, WPB. SWORS will check and the two men will talk later about it. Okay. 10:30 AM D. WORTH CLARK to CORCORAN. The latter said he had talked with LEO (CROWLEY) and he is anxious to help. CLARK said he too had talked to him and "he was fine about it." CORCORAN said we must move on this "LEVER BROTHERS thing" (manufacturers of P and G Soap) or we will lose it. CLARK said he had an appointment with CLINT ANDERSON for THURSDAY and believed it could wait until then. They discuss handling it before that time and definitely having a ruling made favorable to LEVER BROTHERS. They discuss holding companies and the work CLARK is doing on them. 11:00 AM BENNETT CLARK to D. WORTH CLARK who was out. The former talked with CORCORAN asking him what he found out. CORCORAN said he had not found out much of anything but we have really made a start. BENNETT said he was staying at the MAYFLOWER HOTEL, had some people coming over and as soon as possible, right after lunch today, he would get in touch with WORTH and TOM. BENNETT will be "around for a day or so." 11:05 AM Mr. ROOF (phonetic) in Cleveland attempted unsuccessfully to contact either MAC WRIGHT or CORCORAN. Mrs. BEHAN told him that Mr. CORCORAN was out of town and would not be back until the latter part of the week. 11:15 AM Unidentified MAN (believed to be BARRETT PRETTYMAN, Washington Lawyer) to CORCORAN asking for his comments on a rough draft of some sort of a brief MAN has prepared (re LT. ANDREW ROTH in JAFFE case?) and submitted to CORCORAN for his comments. CORCORAN says: "I'd let it end on the burden of proof that you haven't proved that he's done anything wrong. I'd let it end on that, for that reason, 'with some boldness we assert that the NAVY cannot, because it will not, damn an officer when it neither has or claims to have facts which inescapably dictate that damnation. 1 And I'd end on that note with this last paragraph: 'We respectfully request that the order be not approved. I think that the last two-- you've made such a hell of a good case that there isn't any proof that there is anything wrong. And I think that the admission that maybe he acted foolishly is an admission of some kind of guilt that you don't need in those last two paragraphs. I think you've made out too good a