Summaries of Telephone Conversations

Washington, D. C. CO SUMMARY September 20, 1945 1:25 PM TOM CORCORAN in New York to Mrs. BEHAN. Asked for BILL YOUNGMAN. At lunch. TOM left this message on the KIEHN matter: "I don't want you to disclose that you know anything about this matter. But I wish that you would call PRICH (EDWARD PRICHARD) at District 2626, and solely as a relay between myself and PRICH, tell him that everything he suggested be done was done in that matter, and it is desperately important for J. B. LEE, that if the thing is going to move, he be able to call KIEHN out of town tomorrow. Don't use KIEHN's name. Identify him only as the person whom PRICH and I were talking about. Better say, that I merely asked you to relay to PRICH--Strike that out--Better identify him merely as someone to whom I have referred in my conversations with you as JOSH LEE's friend, PRICH knows about. TOM then said that he was leaving on the 2:30 train and would be in at 6:30. TOM will stop at the office, Mrs. CORCORAN will go right home. TOM told Mrs. BEHAN to call MOLLY at his home and relay that-in that Mrs. CORCORAN had an appointment for 3:00 that MOLLY would cancel. TOM said that he couldn't find MURCHISON. Also asked Mrs. BEHAN to ascertain where he could contact JIM CLEMENTS of Senator PEPPER's office about 7:30 P.M. CORCORAN also instructed Mrs. BEHAN to find out where he could reach MURCHISON tonight. 9:43 PM CORCORAN to LEO CROWLEY, Mayflower. CORCORAN asked what about the Russians coming in for six million. CROWLEY said that it was just talk. CORCORAN asked CROWLEY for an appointment for tomorrow. CROWLEY said to come in at 11:00 A.M. because he had to go to Cabinet in the afternoon. 11:45 PM TOM CORCORAN to WORTH CLARK, asking if CLARK received the message CORCORAN sent him about JIMMY DOOLITTLE. CLARK said he did and had transmitted it. CLARK said he was out at RALPH OLMSTEAD's (W.F.A. ?). CORCORAN said he got in about 6:30 or 7:00. CORCORAN asked if he could have until tomorrow on the "Robinson Foundation thing." CLARK said O.K., but that 3:30 this National Shoemaker's outfit is coming in and "it may be very profitable." CORCORAN asks, "How are we going to do it, we've got more than we can get done now." CLARK says, "We'll just have to try and cover it up some way; they're coming in tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 from New York and I've got to meet them. CLARK continues, "Now HI WASHINGTON (phonetic) was in this morning and I'm afraid I offended BILL YOUNGMAN just a little bit, because I brought him in all of a sudden with HARRY, and maybe I didn't offend him, I just don't know. CORCORAN: "Oh no, BILL was very pleased about it tonight; he said you gave him the works--about YANGSTE (phonetic). WC - Oh, hell, (unintelligible) went over to see TRUMAN today I think, today or tomorrow; now we're going to work this thing out on labor; I spent about an hour with BENNETT CLARK, and gave him the tip; he was very grateful, "he" said he was getting married immediately; he's leaving for New York tomorrow afternoon, I assume to get married. I didn't press him on the exact date, but it's within the next few days, and it's just a question of decision whether or not you want to go with him.