Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY August 2, 1945 4:25 PM ARTHUR POWLEN at New York to CORCORAN, who told him that he went over and saw the record and it was tremendous the other way and that they should let the administration sift out a little and there might be a change. POWLEN said there was difficulty with GOLENSKY, who was going to sue the War Shipping Administration for discriminating against him in favor of the Fruit Company. (Here CORCORAN puts WORTH CLARK on the telephone also). CORCORAN said the matter went back to the old row between "that Republican financier GOLENSKY up in Nebraska" and his relationship to Senator (KENNETH S. ?) WHERRY of Nebraska, and GALENSKY's attempt to raise hell through WHERRY because W.S.A. won't give GALENSKY permission to force United Fruit to give him extra transportation etc. on their boats for his bananas. POWLEN said W.S.A. had allocated a ship called the DENNIS to haul bananas for GALENSKY and they required an estimate as to the quantities he would have. Hence if he estimated, say, 200 tons, they made him pay freight for 200 tons, though he might in fact ship only 100. So he is suing W.S.A. for discriminating against him. POWLEN said he wanted to see Senator O'MAHONEY or WHERRY and tell him the truth about this thing. TOM and WORTH agreed to try to arrange for a meeting for him with WHERRY on Monday, when POWLEN will have returned from Boston. O.K. 4:36 PM OPPENHEIMER to CORCORAN. CORCORAN asks him if he discussed with KIEHN (ARNOLD KIEHN) the possibility of holding up the 27,000 until they asked him some questions through Federal Reserve in New York. OPPENHEIMER said he talked to MOSCOWITZ 'at the Treasury and he said a letter had gone to New York. CORCORAN tells him to get a copy of the letter from MOSCOWITZ. O.K. 4:40 PM EDDIE LOCKETT (Time Magazine ?) to CORCORAN, who says he tried to reach (EDWARD) PRICHARD through LOCKETT. LOCKETT tells him the Proclamation is out and not a word is mentioned in it about Japan or the Far East. CORCORAN says he thinks he got the MORAN boy a job. CORCORAN says he wants to talk to PRICHARD about his own situation and "that's why I asked you to call him privately. But he's going to call me in a few minutes so it is all right. LOCKETT said he heard PRICHARD would be heading home in October but CORCORAN discounted this rumor. LOCKETT said the boys were getting a little jittery about (JOHN) SNYDER (OMWR). He will tell TOM about it tomorrow, when he will give him a ring in the morning. 5:08 PM CORCORAN to Secretary ICKES that WORTH CLARK asked him to tell ICKES that (Senators) HATCH And HAYDEN and a group of Western Senators will call on TRUMAN and ask him to allow ICKES to stay with the cabinet. ICKES thanks TOM. 5:10 PM JOSH LEE to CORCORAN. JOSH said that the report that they were interested in he sent a man to check on it and he said that the man had called. CORCORAN said that was the big fellow. JOSH said the man they saw down town had nothing new as he had called him and the other man is out of town and won't be home until Saturday. CORCORAN asked if everything was going all right. JOSH said that it was.