Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. June 20, 1945 1:00pm ANNETTA to JUDGE VINSON'S office at the White House, Ext. 183. She said that CORCORAN wanted to see the JUDGE this P.M. JUDGE's secretary said he was out but would call ANNETTA and tell her the time. O.K. 2:30pm BEHAN contacted Miss LIEBEL in JUDGE VINSON'S office in the White House to make an appointment for CORCORAN to see the JUDGE today at 4:30 P.M. 3:01pm Secretary ICKES returned CORCORAN'S call but the latter was talking long distance. CORCORAN will call ICKES back. 3:35pm CORCORAN contacted WORTH CLARK (NAtional 4882) to ask if CLARK had seen BENNETT. CLARK answered, "No." CLARK thinks that "perhaps BENNETT CLARK is drinking up your $5000.0 CORCORAN stated, "It was probably a bad investment. CLARK stated that he has forgotten about BENNETT CLARK already. CLARK told TOM to take down this name: FRANK B. ROBINSON, Moscow, Idaho. He is the richest man in Idaho. The SEC has issued a subpoena for him which he has ignored. He is a religious fanatic and a faker, owns a radio station but is public spirited and a good citizen in many ways. The better business bureau is after him. ROBINSON wants CORCORAN'S firm to represent him. It is a tax case. ROBINSON wants to know why the SEC is after him. He thinks that the BBB sicked the SEC on him. CLARK asked if there is anyone over there at SEC who could look up the file over there and then report. TOM answered that he knows someone at SEC who will do it but he does not want to injure the CORCORAN firm's position there. TOM will find out today or tomorrow. 3:40pm CORCORAN contacted Secretary ICKES: C--I just want to report to you, sir, that LISTER HILL called me and he said that he and BOB LaFOLLETTE, after you talked to BOB this morning, got going on this thing. And they found out uh they talked uh the committee is McCARRAN, EASTLAND, WHERRY and CHANDLER and SMITH. They talked to EASTLAND and SMITH. One is a Republican and the other a Democrat. Both of them confessed that neither one of them knew anything about the thing; that McCARRAN had sort of roped them into it; that they had gone to one meeting; but they had no idea what was going on and that both of them would insist that they would not do a God- damned thing until they had to and had thoroughly heard about this thing from the Navy and Interior Department. I--Yeah.