N.Y' Firm Enjoined
From Sales of
‘Alaska’ Stock
NEW YORK, OP) — An injunc
tion against sale of stock in a cor
poration organized to “participate
in the industrial growth” of the
new state of Alaska was an
nounctd Thursday by New York
State Attorney General Louis
Lefkowitz.
The order names the Alaska
Building Supply & Equipment
Rental Corp. of Brooklyn, and
bars the corporation from engag
ing in the securities, business in
New York state.
Myron Margulies, organizer
and president of the corporation
and owner of a Brooklyn lunch- |
eonette, consented to issuance of
the injunction against the cor
poration.
An affidavit filed in court by
Lefkowitz’s office said Margulies
circulated a prospectus offering
stock in the corporation last De
cember.
“The corporation,” the affida
vit states, “was represented in the
circular as ‘dealing in business
supplies and rental of equipment,
primarily to do business in
Alaska.’
“The complete lack of experi
ence and background for so sub
stantial an undertaking would im
peril any money invested in this
insubstantial enterprise.”
The affidavit said the president
of the corporation testified that it
had a total of $34 in its bank
account.
No company comment was im
mediately available.
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FORT NELSON, B. C., UR—'The
Detroit 59ers have had their share
of troubles at this northern Brit
ish Columbia town of 200 persons.
But they learned that help is on
the way.
The caravan’s 1934 moving van
fell apart Wednesday. It had been
overloaded from the start, March
5, when the Alaska-bound caravan
left Detroit.
Curtis Potter of Royal Oak,
Mich., had given the van to the
pioneers. Now he has agreed to
pay the tab for a national moving
company to pick up the van’s load.
The new truck is expected to
catch the group by Friday.
“I started something and I guess
I have to see it through,” said
Potter 'back in Michigan.
Recalling they could use money,
Harry Tacina of Detroit, who
plans to make the journey to
Alaska in June, has sent them
$300.
The group had hoped to reach
their new homesteads by the end
of this week, but they are several
days behind schedule.
One of the pioneers, Leroy Mac
Donald, traveled ahead of the car
avan to take his two sons to a hos
pital in Whitehorse. The children,
with ‘frostbitten feet, were de
scribed by hospital attendants as
in good condition.
Temperatures in the Whitehorse
area were around 40 degrees be
low zero.
Other troubles faced by the
group are these: Their leader, Ron
Jacobowitz, left the group to seek
a hospital for his ailing wife;
camping is an ordeal in the sub
zero weather; foodstuffs have
frozen, bursting their glass con
tainers; vehicles fail to start be
cause of the bitter cold, and the
combined difficulties are adding
to the tension among the 59ers.
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WASHINGTON, on — Hawaii
has taken Alaska’s place as the
youngest of states but the drive
that brought the 50th star to the
flag had little of the drama—and
none of the suspense—surround
ing the addition of No. 49.
Final approval of the Hawaii
bill on successive days by the
Senate and^ the House probably
set a legislative speed record for
admission acts. It was only one
of the contrasts with the action
on Alaska.
Admission of the island terri
tory had nothing to match Alas
ka’s protracted wait before the
House Rules Committee and its
eventual precedent-setting man
euver by-passing that powerful
group.
Neither did it have the frustra
tions of the long repititious
speeches thrown at Alaska in the
Senate and the frequent quorum
calls of House foes, or the agon
izing points of order and amend
ments devised by an experienced
opposition.
And lastly, the Hawaii action
had nothing to compare with the
drama and suspense of that event
ful 24 hours in which the House
voted tentatively to kill the Alas
ka bill and then, in a hushed
Chamber, voted the next day to
rescind its action.
* m m
Rep. Leo O’Brien, the New
York Democrat who piloted the
Alaska and Hawaii bills through
the House, says he plans now “to
sit back in the corner and knit.”
Passage of the two statehood
bills leaves O’Brien’s once busy
Territories subcommittee with
jurisdiction only over bills deal
ing with Guam, Virgin Islands
and the Pacific trust territory.
His counterpart on the other
side of the capitol, Sen. Henry
Jackson (D-Wash), is in the same
shape.
• • *
Bartlett, a guest on the tele
vision show of Rep. Thomas Pelly,
gave his endorsement to the Se
attle Congressman’s efforts to dis
perse Navy fleet units along the
entire West Coast including Alas
ka rather than have them concen
trated in Southern California
waters.
“We must work on that,” Bart
lett said, “because from the de
fense standpoint alone concen
tration, as we know, is most in
advisable. And if the economy > f
Seattle for example, is to be aided
by such a dispersal, that’s fine.
And if the economy of Kodiak,
headquarters of the 17th Naval
District, would be aided by such
a dispersal, that’s fine, too. But it
ought to be done. I think Kodiak’s
got a rowboat for its fleet now.”
• * •
Rep. Ralph Rivers recently pre
sented majority leader John Mc
Cormack (D-Mass) with a fossil
ivory letter opener as a belated
token of appreciation for the ve
eran lawmaker’s work in Alas
ka’s statehood bid. The opener
was made fom a mastadon tusk
uncovered in operations of the
United States Smelting, refining
and Mining Co., near Fairbanks.
• • •
Sen. Bob Bartlett went along
'with his colleagues on the Sen
ate Armed Services Committee
in voting for a four-year exten
sion to the military draft, but not
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before telling the Senate he has
doubts whether our present man
power policies are giving this
country true security in the mis
sile age—or the illusion of secur
ity only.”
He said'he felt some extension
of the program should be pro
vided but said he would prefer a
two-year prolongment to point
up the need for an “honest-to
goodness, down-to-earth study”
of manpower needs and utiliza
tion.
Noting the changes which
scientific advances j^ve made in
the military situation, Bartlett
asked:
“Can it be sensible to assume
that in the midst of so vast a re
doing, manpower procurement
policies alone must remain static,
unimproved, even unquestioned?”
Plumbers’ Union
Fights for Hiring
Of Alaska Members
JUNEAU, UFl — Officials of the
plumbers’ union in Alaska and
Seattle were in sharp disagree
ment yesterday over the awarding
of jurisdiction over jobs in • cer
tain areas of Alaska . to Seattle
Local 32 by the union’s interna
tional.
The Alaska Employment Se
curity Commission touched off an
exchange by sending a protest to
Peter Shoemann, general presi
dent of the union, against award*
ing jurisdiction to the Seattle
local.
The commission said 110 mem
bers of the Fairbanks local and*
28 members of the Anchorage lo
cal were unemployed because the
Seattle local had jurisiction over
work at Sitka and in the Aleu
tians.
Grant A. Woods, business man
ager of Local 32, said one reason
for the action was that there were
not nearly enough plumbers in
Alaska to man the projects. He
said Local 32 also has about 206
unemployed members.
Tom Canafax of Fairbanks, a
member of the employment com
mission and also of the plumbers’
union, said Alaska locals had no
trouble manning such major jobs
as the DEW Line and the White
Alice communications projects.
Canafax said the Alaska locals
have 800 members'while the Se
attle local has 3,000, thus a much
smaller percentage of unemploy
ment.
“We are not interested in how
many are unemployed in Seattle,”
said Henry Hedberg, legislative
representative of the Alaska Labor
Council. “We are interested in
how many are unemployed in
Alaska.” . .'
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