Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY September 11, 1945 10:01 AM CORCORAN to Major MATT CORREA, Navy, 3115. CORCORAN explained about the GEORGE PARLIN problem, dead son, etc. CORREA had not heard of the matter. They discuss the circumstances whereby MRS. DOROTHY PARLIN may speak to her husband. CORREA will check on it. 10:05 AM CORCORAN to CHARLES MURCHISON at Carlton Hotel. The following is their conversation: TC - CHARLIE, I know you wonder what I've been doing. CM - Yeah. TC - I've been working like hell to get a resignation accepted. CM - Well, I hope you got some success. TC - Now, I had a promise out of the people across the way that they would get the resignation out this week and their boy is coming in from out on the coast this week and they hope to run the name through at the same time. CM - They want him to go through- TC - Well, I told you that he was their candidate. Now, on the other wing that I'm watching, three people are converging on Mr. V (VANDENBERG ?) this morning. What I'm wondering is if you knew any more about Mr. V. CM - No. Except I just had everything confirmed almost verbatim the way I passed it on to you the other day--that the only one really he intimated he would be behind was this other man-I mean the man you were interested in who then had said that he didn't know whether he wanted it or not. TC - Oh, no. Well, he's gone down this morning to tell them that he does want it. CM - Oh, I see. All right. Well, then that will be interesting to see what he reports back then. TC - Yeah. CM - Now then, if he does say that and he wants support and you want it, you'd better let me know. TC - Yeah. CM - I'm going out to P.C.A. (Pennsylvania Central Airlines) in just a few minutes. TC - Yeah. Now, the other thing is--do you know who that Colonel is? CM - Well, no. He said he--he was so indifferent--he said it was JACOBSON or JACOBS, or something. He said he didn't know the name. That was the way it was quoted to me the other night and quoted to me again yesterday; that he hadn't even made a notation of the name but that it wasn't this other fellow. TC - That's right. I get it. O.K. CM - And so he eliminated him and the other is a Colonel JACOBS or JACOBSON, or something like that. TC - Yeah. Now I sat down again last night and read through the petition and I think you're lawfully smart the way you slug your two tough arguments in first. CM - The two that give them--save face. TC - Now, the rest, of course, is the kind of stuff that you have to go into the closet about, but the two emotional moving ones are very smartly put first--I mean, the face saving ones--and then you argue