Summaries of Telephone Conversations

CO SUMMARY Washington, D. C. July 7, 1945 3:25 PM TOM CORCORAN to D. WORTH CLARK. JAMES BRENNAN also took part in the conversation. CLARK: I've got some ideas. I've been talking to OLMSTEAD (LT. COL. RALPH W. OLMSTEAD formerly of the War Food Administration) at some length and also having read to me these committee hearings in which CLINTON ANDERSON was a witness, incidentially, not as a member of the committee but as a witness. CORCORAN: Why don't you come over and talk. CLARK: No, I want to talk right here because I CORCORAN: Just one minute, will ya, just one minute. CLARK: Okay. CLARK: Now there's a personal element in this unquestionably. CORCORAN: Now wait a minute. JIM's on the phone with me. First of all, JIM, tell us what happened. Did you get that delivered? BRENNAN: Yeah! CORCORAN: Who did it go to, JIM? BRENNAN: To Mrs. DIAMOND (in Office of Secretary of Agriculture) who is his secretary. He was out on a conference and I stayed down there I guess about half an hour. I hadn't seen him, you know, and I wanted to shake hands with him. So then I went out to lunch with her and with Miss BELMORE (P) and we kinda talked about it. CORCORAN: Now what did they tell you about WOOD and PROCTOR? BRENNAN: Well, BELMORE told me that Mrs. DIAMOND likes him very much. CORCORAN: Likes WOOD or PROCTOR? BRENNAN: Yeah! But BELMORE told me that he'd been down there quite a bit and been very nice to them and they all like him. CLARK: WOOD came in before he even left the Senate. He was the first guy that saw him over at the House. BRENNAN: And he's had lunch with him and dinner with him and he'd bought him presents and so forth. CLARK: And UPSON's (phonetic) is here too now, CHARLIE UPSON. Well, I'll shorten up the whole situation. I've checked those hearings and I've tried, I'm trying to get HARRY R. SHEPPARD (Representative from California). I can't get him, for the committee, you know. He's my one friend I can trust on that committee, HARRY SHEPPARD of California. I've known him and served on committees with him for a long time. But now there's much more to this than meets the eye. Now, in the first place that OLMSTEAD thing was picked out of whole cloth. It was a series of things. I mean there was JASSPON (?) (W. H. JASSPON, Chief of Fats and Oils Branch, War Food Administration) mentioned and the whole thing was a factual recitation of--and the only way that OLMSTEAD's name was in that whole memorandum was that CHESTER DAVIS had appointed him to look into the situation and CLINTON (ANDERSON) jumped at that 'right now'