Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY October 2, 1945 4:25 PM MR. PANUCH asked TOM CORCORAN if "their project has gone overboard." He said he didn't want to embarrass CORCORAN or SONNETT but if he doesn't get MAURICE COLTON placed somewhere he won't be able to ask "the other guy" for any more favors and there isn't any other person who will do the favors for him because "this guy" has an incredible network of captains and majors and ATO (phonetic). CORCORAN said we'll just have to put the guy in that's all. He said he will be talking to TOM CLARK at 5 o'clock today and will speak to him about it. PANUCH said a good place for COLTON would be in the Narcotics Division in New York. He said he doesn't want to saddle a "slob" like him on a nice guy like SONNETT. 4:50 PM Unidentified man told TOM CORCORAN about a survey which was made in 1941 in 20 pages and now has been reprinted with interpolations for 1945. He asked CORCORAN whether they should send a copy to every member of Congress and whether the copies should be signed by their president, JOHN MOODY. CORCORAN said he should send the copies to Congressmen and they should be signed by MOODY. He also will send CORCORAN a copy. 11:00 PM BILL YEAGER, New York City, to TOM CORCORAN. Latter said that he is interested in meeting VERNON TAYLOR because he has a group interested in putting money into Maryland Casualty. YEAGER will arrange for him to meet TAYLOR. CORCORAN will be in New York City Thursday and Friday in connection with the AL SMITH dinner. He also told YEAGER that he has found the man to handle the Investor Syndicate deal and will tell him his name Thursday in New York. October 3, 1945 8:04 AM TOM CORCORAN to BOB HINKLEY, Mayflower 476. He asked him if he had talked to PORTER or LARRY FLY (phonetic). BOB said he had just greeted PORTER last night but hadn't talked with anyone. CORCORAN said he wanted to know before he "went in there." BOB said that GLASSMAN reports DEMPSEY and KOPLEVITZ (phonetic) were very optimistic. CORCORAN said they ought to be. 8:15 AM CHARLIE MURCHISON (from Indianapolis) told CORCORAN that he had lunch yesterday with FRANKLIN KELL (phonetic), who used to be public counsel and is DELTA's man. KELL told him that he heard from Washington yesterday that POGUE was resigning within the next 48 hours and LEE was going to be made Chairman. KELL asked MURCHISON if he was backing him for that job. MURCHISON said he didn't even know POGUE was getting off. He said the alternative suggested by KELL was the former chairman who is on the Board who comes from Atlanta. KELL said he was to take it up yesterday with representatives of the other big airlines there. He said the people from Eastern Airlines spent their time button-holing everybody and trying to promote the other man and to prevent the resignation of POGUE if they could. MURCHISON described the hearing there as being on the Great Lakes area case. He said he is trying to get through with the major airlines phase of it and will not wait for the feeder line hearings before returning to Washington. CORCORAN said