Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY August 31, 1945 4:20 PM CORCORAN told MR. SAM HUSBANDS (R.F.C.) that he has a client, the Rayaveck Company, a battery company, which wants to buy machinery that is part their's and part surplus property. CORCORAN said that SYMINGTON said CORCORAN could call HUSBANDS and under certain circum- stances the purchase could be made at once. HUSBANDS said, "That is right, all that is necessary is that there be plenty of the same type material for sale in the Chicago territory." HUSBANDS said that he authorized Chicago by wire to handle just such a case. CORCORAN wants a copy of that wire and will send for it at once. O.K. 4:45 PM Mr. JOSH LEE to CORCORAN, who said that SHER has been over to see EDWARD PRICHARD and that PRICHARD says it isn't too good to have an advisory committee set up to consider the case (of ARNOLD KIEHN). He said that PRICHARD and HARRY WHITE took it into (FRED) VINSON and when VINSON saw that KIEHN had sold oil to the Japs before Pearl Harbor, he said: "He is a SOB and I won't help him." PRICHARD thinks JOSH LEE should see VINSON. SHER then gave LEE the same information. CORCORAN and JOSH LEE agree to meet at 8:30 tomorrow morning to go over the matter and LEE then will call VINSON at the Wardman Park and try to ride down with VINSON so they can have a private talk. CORCORAN told LEE that the Advisory Committee is out because VINSON said he didn't think he would accept their decision if it favored "him" (KIEHN) and that the committee would be scared and decide as VINSON wanted them to. 7:28 PM BILL (SMATHERS), 5 South Osborn Avenue, Margate, New Jersey, to CORCORAN, who said that he just wanted to make sure. He said he was checking the other night and found that "these guys are in hotter water than they told us. Now they actually have had an indictment about two weeks ago and are trying now to get a soft sentence and among other things. So, I think you can just take the pants off them. Have you seen them? B - Yeah, they saw me in Newark today and I told them I wanted $5,000 now and $15,000 in January. They said they would come and bring it down and come down on Monday. C - Well, that's all right then. (Laughs) B - Yeah, I figured if I could get 5 now and 15 in January -- I told them I was going to give you 10 of it in January. C - Yeah. B - And they told me that they found out they'd been indicted about two weeks ago. I saw the other two people, GEORGE ROBINSON and BOWLES. I first had lunch with JOHNNY and looked at that thing from the inside and it don't look so bad and the report is shaping up nicely. C - Yeah, were they pleased? B - Yeah, very pleased, and I think I made a nice impression on them and they both made a good impression on me. And I told them that I thought the report was going into Washington*within the next 30 days and that it would indicate that maybe they had jumped on them too soon and that they were going into this research business now and if they made up some contracts with some doctors and started some commitments for research it would help the situation when it got to Washington and that's what they are going to do.