DAV GOES TO SUPREME COURT IN FUND FIGHT

DAV Goes To Supreme Court In Fund Fight Move to Start Court Rattle for Release of Convention Cash The Disabled American Veterans Convention Corp. of Green Bay will go to the state supreme court at...

...of Green Bay will go to the state supreme court at 9 a. m., May 10 in an effort to force Sta'.e Treasurer John M. Smith to release $4,000 of the $10,000 appropriated to it by the 1939 legislature...
...William T. Evjue...
...The 1939 legislature passed two bills, appropriating $50,000 to the American Legion Convention Corp...
...Papers were served on Smith last week ordering him to appear before the state supreme court May 10 to show cause why the DAV corporation should not be granted permission to start an action to compel Smith to release the funds...
...Lampert nad been laid off with 19 others in an economy reorganization of the commission...
...Bentley Construction Co., Milwaukee, $72,945...
...99,436...
...She maintained that the year he worked without taking an examination should not be counted and in that event she had precedence in the job...
...South Chase ave., While Consolidate...
...of Racine, $221,217...
...0.819 miles grading and gravel surfacing, same project, Isaac Ofstie of Menomonie, $10,783...
...Heil himself gave the Legion a certified check for $27,050 to underwrite the convention if it came to Milwaukee...
...The projects and successful bidders follow: Milwaukee county—3 94 miles grade, drain and concrete surfacing on Lay-ton ave...
...0.239 miles sheet asphalt surfacing...
...Action by Chadek...
...is the first to be taken by that organization to get release of hs funds...
...Beatrice Lamport, member of the city personnel board and former city attorney, told the state board of personnel at the capitol Monday that the state public service commission had not observed seniority rules in laying her off Feb...
...Chicago, $12,846...
...674,550 In State Road Contracts Let The Highway commission announced today it had awarded contracts totalling $674,556 for 10 projects upon which the first bids of the 1940 construction season were opened earlier this week...
...According to Mrs...
...521.249...
...Claims Seniority Rule Was Violated Mrs...
...Mrs...
...She was a law examiner...
...Mrs...
...71,048...
...Lampert told the board that she had worked for the commission longer than Claude Jasper...
...College ave., grade separation, Highway "ZZ...
...of Milwaukee to aid in bringing the national cenviention of that organization to that city, and $10,000 to the DAV to aid in bringing the national convention of that organization to Green Bay...
...Cornelisen and Denirsen, Green Bay attorneys fcr the DAV...
...Monroe county—3.256 miles grade, drain and concrete surfacing on U. S. Highway 16, L. G. Arnold, Inc., Eau Claire...
...overhead and culvert...
...Rork county—2.674 miles grade, drain and concrete surfacing on U. S. Highway 51, A. E. Bounsall, Kenosha...
...Smith was out of town today but will appoint counsel to represent him upon his return...
...editor of The Capital Times, holding that these legislative bills were unconstitutional, warned both Zimmerman and Smith he would hold them accountable on their bonds if they released any of the funds...
...J. R. Griffith Co...
...Outagam'e county—3.319 miles grade, drain and concrete surfacing on U. S. 41, J. Rasmussen & Sons, Oshkosh, $75,637...
...Madison, who has been retained as law examiner...
...Waukesha county—2.462 miles grade, drain and concrete surfacing on U. S. 16...
...James Cape & Sons, Racine, $72,200...
...The Legion has dropped its attempt to get the funds from the state since Gov...
...Lampert, Jasper started work for the state in 1933 without taking a civil service examination and worked for a year before he too!: an examination...
...Chippewa county—Bridge on County Trunk "B...
...Sauk county—Bridge and gravel surfaced approaches on county trunk "PF," Edward Kraemer & Sans, Plain, $17,195...
...Wsusau Construction Co., of Wausau...
...The attorney general's office, which ordinarily would represent Smith, will be unable to do so because the attorney general has already ruled that the bill appropriating the money to the DAV is constitutional...
...While Zimmerman approved vouchers of $27,050 for the Legion and $4,000 for the DAV, Smith has refused to release any of these funds, because of Evjue's threat of legal action...
...Secretary of Sta'.e Fred R. Zimmerman has already approved vouchers for the amount but Smith has refused to honor these vouchers until he has been ordered to do so by the courts...

Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19


 
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