The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1950, Page 7

. { WEDELIVER MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1950 HOUSE MEMBER OF INVESTIGATING COM. QUERIES VOUCHER Another angle on the $5,600 vou- _cher paid to McCutcheon and Nes- bit for legal fees in connection with work done of the Alaska Aeronau- tics Commission is presented by Marcus Jensen, member of the House of Representatives Special Investigating Committee. provided for by appointment oanuary 24, 1949. . As a member of the Special In- yestigating Committee, Jensen said today that “I feel it my duty to bring certain matters to the atten- tion of the people of Alaska.” “I am advising the chairman of L our committee which was given “ “ull authority to exercise ‘its full power and authority to assist in the investigation of any other ad- ministrative branch of Territorial Government’ in addition to the Veteran’s Administration around which the resolution was written. 4In fairness to the firm of Nes- bit and McCutcheon, I believe -an issue such as this should be fully ] GERALD : r%fl({(flv Bourbon OLD STYLE SOUR KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BONDED ;100 PROOF """ Distributed througncut Alaska ' by ODOM COMFANY ! aired, ' “The question arising in the minds of the taxpayers are such as these: With the Territory having an atdorney general and an assist- ant attorney general, why should such fees be paid out for addition- al legal talent; is this a fair bill iur an exhorbitant price for such service; also, whether it is ethical ‘in the law profession to receive Territorial fees directly resuiting {irom Territorial bills sponsored in (the house by oneself. “These are some of the questions I think the Special‘ Investigating Committee should look into. “If this action has been accord- ing to law, then there are laws (Lhat would be changed at the next legislature.” With Territorial Treasurer Hemy Roden and Attorney General Ger- ald Williams, Jensen left for An- chorage today to check on the matter of the voucher. Roden and Williams will attend the Territorial Bankers nifeting April 25 in Anchorage. $200 10 LIBRARY PLEDGED BY MRS. LOTTIE SPICKETT The Juneau Memorial Library drive, after taking Sunday off, got away to a rousing start this week with a $200 rledge arriving at the home of B. D. Stewart, acting drive chairman, from Mrs. Lottie Spick- ett, owner of the Spickett Apart- ments. 3 This generous donation brings the needed amount for erection of the get out from that amount and into the easy hund- reds. the building, which will be match- General Services set up to aid community projects such as this. Dr. James C. Ryan, commission- the library board with Stewart, was Board of Education in Ketchikna. He was tied up in confererces when called upon, but rumor ha:c A-88 | it that he might have announce- . SUITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY,48IC., Loaisville, Ky. ————————— ment of another donation receivec just as he returned. $553 received by the board. To- 1 There is no substitute for GOOD Plastering For expert, distinctive plastering . . . with the plaster that INSULATES . .. call 15 yrs.‘ experiencé “Y ml:E Phone Douglas 21 . HILDRE SAND & GRAVEL Formerly R. J. Sommers Construction Co. Lemon Creek Plant ; & “Washed Lemon Creek Aggregate and Sand Plaster and Moriar Sand EXCAVATION OF ALL KINDS Juneau Office Phone 129; Residence Phone Blue 540 P. 0. Box 2837 NORTHBOUND S.S. Denali ...... April 25 Bitks Beward S.S. Baranof ........ May 2 Valdes Seward . — REDUCED WINTER FARES AND LOW AUTO BAGGAGE RATES SOUTHBOUND Ketchikan S. S. Baranof ...._May 7 ‘Wrangell Beattle Ketchikan FREIGHTER SAILINGS FROM SEATTLE FLEMISH KNOT — April 21 H. E. GREEN, Agent—Juneau—Phones 2 and 4 Primary Election — April 251950 { B.D.STEWART | 5 Candidate for ¢ House of Representatives on " the Democratic Ticket Resident of Southeastern Alaska grE 2 fot forty years ; Territorial Commissioner of Mines for thirty years (Paid Adv.) structure down to $1,312.19—closer and closer to where the fund will “four figure” A total of $70,000 is sought for ed by federal funds through the Administration, er of education and a member of back in his office this morning after a week's meeting with the Last week’s total amounted to | 3 | RADIO L0G 4 _— i KEINY Alaska Hroadcasting Co. C.B.B. 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All programs sub)ect to change due to conditions beyond our con- trol. | day’s $200 gives promise that this week might do even better, Stew- art believed, John Argetsinger, in charge of the federal agency which will con- | tribute the other $70,000 needed, is expected back from Washington soon, and will be able to give in- formation on plans and any chan- ges in them brought about by the projected buying of a portion of the lot owned by the.library board by. the city for erection of a new city hall. CANDIDATES T0 | SPEAK TONIGHT; | PUBLIC INVITED People of ,Juneau are reminded| of the open meeting to be held to- aight at 8 o'clock, sponsored by the | Juneau League of Women Voters, | n the grade school auditorium at which candidates for the Senate and House in the forthcoming pri- mary election have been invited to| speak. The meeting is opén to the gen- | eral public and each candidate has been aHoted three minutes in whica to state his aims and platform, or if he cannot appear, to send in a written statement to be read. Fol- lowing the talks by candidates, the meeting will be thrown open into an open forum in which members of the audience will be invited to ask questions of candidates with a general discussion of various topics to follow. The League of Women Voters urges all persons interested to at- tend to hear the candidates who will be up for nomination in to- morrow’s primary. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., April 24 —P—Charles J. Schuh, a floor Representatives for the forces of teader in the 1949 Florida House of Gov. Fuller Warren, was shot and killed here today and a 71-year-old St. Petersburg man confessed to the murder. Detective Chief John 8. Siers said that Charles Gifford, a meat cutter, said he killed Schuh be- cause of “rotten politics.” “I will sign a confession. I want to go before a judge and plead guilty—no trial, no anything,” Siers quoted Gifford as saying. Siers said the assailant was iden- titied as Gifford from police files aftér he had earlier given his name as Charles Ross of Bay City, Texas. Schuh, shot five times, died in his office before help could reach him. For Republican cars to Poll to- morrow. Call 671 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA THOSE ARE LIVE WIRES, POP ---YOU'D BETTER SHUT OFF Tl MAIN SWITCH 'WHILE YOU FIX THAT SOCKET HUM-THIS DON'T LOOK LIKE HE’S DON' MUCH BUSINESS- IT'S TEN O/CLOCK AN' HES NOT AT HIS OFFICE YET-~- LL WAIT-- HEARD ME-DON'T ARGLE WITH ME--1 WANT YOU TO GO INTO PARTNERSHIP WITH MR. COMENGO-HES A MARVELOUS BLUSINESS MAN 7 'm from the State Hotel Commission. You must have Two fnore | | only hope theyr: i e a license from us. The cost fellows, XA customers, Corky. Juke box, the Clty license is MOM--- POP 1S MAKING ELECTRICAL REPAIRS WITHOUT THROWING _OFF THE SWITCH EVERYTHING 15 GOIN'! 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