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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\n10:21 AM\nSenator SMATHERS, from Atlantic City, to CORCORAN. They discuss the\nnews of the possible end of the war and CORCORAN said it probably won't\nbe over for a few days in order to give the Russians a chance to \"kick\nthat Kwantung crowd around. \" CORCORAN told SMATHERS that \"your boy is\nsafely over in the Department of Justice.\" SMATHERS said he wrote a\nletter to MAC WRIGHT about the Madison Hotel in Atlantic City and\nwondered if he had the answer yet. No. SMATHERS invited CORCORAN and\nhis wife to spend a weekend with the SMATHERS in Atlantic City, and\nCORCORAN said he didn't know when he could get away; that the war is\nnot over for him because \"we are Chinese and we're going to have a civil\none now. 11\n10:27 AM\nED FOLEY to CORCORAN. CORCORAN asks FOLEY to see HARRY and find out if\nKIEHN's money can be released by the Treasury now if KIEHN gets his\npassport today. CORCORAN said that JOSH LEE is worried that all of his\nwork for the past six months will have been all for naught and that he\n(LEE) will get no credit back in Oklahoma because KIEHN's money will not\nhave been released by LEE but by the atom bomb, i.e., the end of the war.\nCORCORAN asked FOLEY how long the Treasury can hold the money (approximately\n$125,000, according to CORCORAN) after the technical end of the Japanese\nwar. FOLEY said a reasonable time, perhaps six months. FOLEY says he\nwill see HARRY but he doesn't know how HARRY feels about it. CORCORAN\nand FOLEY will see each other at lunch.\n10:45 AM\nEDDIE HIGGINS, in Senator GREEN'S office (Rhode Island), to CORCORAN.\nHIGGINS said that a Miss RAMSEY, KRUG's secretary at W.P.B., \"a hell of\na good friend of mine, has looked through the files for him and can't\nfind anything filed in January, but she did say an application by\nRaycrest Mills was filed in June and that an appeal was filed on August\n2d and will be decided by Monday. HIGGINS says she has done everything\nto put it over and that she will call HIGGINS Monday.\n11:00 AM\nJAMES McGRANERY, Justice Department, to CORCORAN. The following is their\nconversation:\nC - I just wanted to ask you if you'd heard anything.\nM- No not a word.\nC - And the other thing I wanted to tell you was that your friend BILL\nSMITH and LEVIS (phonetic) came in and everything was very satisfactory\nand I worked it out exactly as you told me to.\nM - Good. And he's coming back here today with some dope for you, I think.\nC - Yeah. And then I can start working.\nM - Yeah. He told me that. They were very much pleased too, TOM.\nC - Who was?\nM - They were.\nC - Oh. Did they report to you afterwards?\nM - Oh, yes. Sure. Don't you know they'd do that?\nC - Yeah. Well, I'm glad they were pleased.\nM - Yeah, very much pleased. He told me he was going up to Philadelphia\nand get some dope and bring it back to you and then you'd go to\nwork on it.\nC - Thanks, JIM, very, very much.\nM - Right. You didn't hear anything, did you?\nC - No. I was going to go to work and try to hear something."
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