Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY August 10, 1945 9:55 AM CHARLES MURCHISON at Carlton Hotel to CORCORAN. The following is their conversation: C / Now what I want to tell you is this. This thing is still in the same deadlock. M - Yeah. C - And I think that in the deadlock we can keep it in the deadlock and the deadlock may be a device, as I've always suspected, by which the other guy was going to save his face. But I carefully arranged yesterday to have an appointment asked for at the big house for Monday when your boy friend (Senator CLAUDE PEPPER ?) comes back, and to have him go to town on this up there. M - Yeah. C - Now, I want to suggest several things to you. I don't know whether you're going to see him before he leaves. He's going to be here on Sunday afternoon SO he's going to leave pretty soon. There are two things that I think are important: (1) He's putting up out of his own pocket a couple of thousand dollars for this trip. He may never take the trip now because the Congress may be summoned right away, but if he takes the trip, I think that ought to be covered. M - I think so too. C - And I think he ought to know it's going to be covered before he goes away, and if I know from you that it will be covered I will see that the mechanics of covering-- I'll advance the mechanics of covering right up here. M - Yeah. C - If you'll let me know in time. Now, the second thing: He joined in a request to have that Pan-American Airlines' petition for rehearing granted, which has upset the boys up here no end. M - What about my petition? C - Well, now that's what I'm beginning to talk about. I'm wondering, if you do get in touch with him, if you say you heard from me that he did join in the petition for the Pan-Am hearing, and that that has scared the boys up here. What I'm afraid of is his going away. If he could prepare a letter in which he said, before he went, that if this thing came out he was going to insist on a petition for a rehearing on the order of the Pan-Am thing, and that he wanted the matter of the rehearing held until he could get back here to argue it. If he could get some kind of a piece of paper prepared and left in escrow with (L.) WELCH (POGUE, Chairman CAA Board) just simply saying, "I'm going away. I hereby serve notice that if this thing is granted to Eastern I am petitioning for a rehearing now pro tune, and I want this matter held until I can argue the rehearing myself because I cannot consent to a monopolization of the access to my state by one line." MURCHISON then told CORCORAN that he just got in town this morning and as soon as he has a shave he'll come over to CORCORAN's office. O.K. 10:07 AM CORCORAN to General JULIUS HOLMES, State Department, advising HOLMES that CORCORAN as had calls from (SAMUEL) RAYBURN in Texas and from Senator (CLAUDE) PEPPER re (ARNOLD) KIEHN's passport, and they are afraid the war will be over and they will not get credit for getting the passport. CORCORAN said he wanted HOLMES to know they had called.