The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1949, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1949 VOL. LXXIIL, NO. 11,092 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e Memorial Asks Nullification of Exira Session SENATORS QUIZZING ACHESON Nominee for Secrefary of! State Testifies . at Com. Hearing WASH"NGT(;}T “Jan. Dean Acheson told senators today that there must be something more 13.—P— i | HOOVER ASKING MORE AUTHORITY FOR PRESIDENT Wants Truman o Be Given Full Power, Reshuffling Govt. Machinery WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—®— Former President Hoover asked Congress today to give President Truman authority to overhaul the government. Hoover declared that present dis- order in governmental machinery TAXONRAW HALIBUT I§ UP, HEARING tJensen Explains Aims of Proposal — Witnesses Aqgainst Bill Talk By JAMES HUTCHESON | JUNEAU, Alaska, Jan. 13.—(P— Fishermen and industry spokesmen BRITISH VIEWS ABOUT PALESTINE GIVEN PRESIDENT Truman, Ambassador Con- fer Half Hour at White House Over Situation WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Presi- dent Truman received today from Sir Oliver Franks, the British am- “hassadm', an outline of Britain's tviews on the Palestine situation. mman and the ambassador | Mr conferred for nearly a half hour at OVER OCEAN, TINY PLANE Hops Off from Hawaii- Bound Nonstop for Air- | port Near N. Y. City BULLETIN, SAN FRANCIS- €O, Jan. 13—®— Bill Odom, who is seeking a mew light- SPEAKER, CHAMBER 'MEETING THURSDAY ODOMFLYING Peace Demands Are Handed fo MEASURE 1S Chinese Govi. by (ommunisls INTRODUCED ADMIRAL ZEUSLER “To provide Alaska with the best freight and passenger servica pos- sible at rates that will encourage a Territorial growth and prosperity is the mission of the Alaska Steam- (By The Associated Press) Chinese Communists were report- | ed today to have set up conditions | for peace talks amounting virtually | to absolute control of the country.! Their conquering armies sent de- | tails into the great northern cities | of Peiping and Tientsin, whittled | down the survivors of trapped gov- | ernment armies north of Nanking | and increased by the hour the! threat to that Chinese capital. The overnment’s position w most | critical, | INSENATE Senators Jones and Munz Charge Session Was lllegally Called By Bofi E;I;RMOI!D The Congress of the United States is requested, in a Senate [the White House. Franks said afterwards that he submitted “the views of my gov- ernment on the Palestine situation.” He told reporters these were the is costing the nation heavily. The former Republican chief executive is chairman of a com- mission on government reorganiza- | Memerial introduced this morning, to disapprove “all purported laws” |2nacted at the speclal session of !the Nineteenth Legislature and to than even “disinterested malevo- lence” behind suggestions that he is an appeaser. Foreign relations committeemen plane distance record from Honolulu to Teterboro, N. J., was reported swinging south to pass over the San Francisce ship Company,” stated Admiral F. A Peiping source said the Com- A. Zeusler, Executive Assistant to munists demanded the removal of the President of the company, who | President Chiang Kai-shek and was guest speaker at the Chamber Vice President Li Tsung-jén. They opposed at an Alaska legislative committee hearing today the pro- posed four per cent raw fish tax {on halibut. n tion. | skirted gingerly the question of re- lations with Russia as Acheson tes- tified in a hearing on his nomi- nation to be Secretary of State. But in answer to a general ques- tion by Senator Vandenberg (R- Mich.), ranking Republican and for- mer chairman of the committee, Acheson said. “The things I read about myself as an appeaser are so increditle that it is difficult for me to believe that even disinterested male volence He urged that Mr. Truman |be granted an even greater re- | shuffling authority than that which Congress gave the late President Roosevelt—reluctlantly—in 1939, The old reorganization act ex- !pired last March 31. Under it, Ccngress kept the changes proposed by the President. [And almost twenty agencies were labeled “do not touch.” But, said Hoover in a report to- }day: “The power of the President right to veto| to prepare and transmit plans of | | The'r testimony that any tax on halitut would result in additicnal |diversion of fish to Prince Rupert, {B. C, led Rep. Marcus Jensen, {Dcuglas Democrat and author of the |bill, to propose reducing the sug- .gested tax to two per cent. Nc action was taken, however, at the brief house fisheries i(ce hearing prior to the territorial ihouse sess'on this morning. JENSEN EXPLAINS PLAN Jensen said he had every desire commit- same he had expressed yesterday at the State Department to Undersee- retary Lovett. Lovett disclosed to a news con- ference yesterday that the United States had expressed concern to the British government over troop |movements in the Palestine area. Lovett emphasized at the same ltime that American policy is di- rected toward putting across an leffective armistice in the Jewish- Arab fighting. area this afternoon. The Civil Aeronautics Auth- ority radio station here said that instead of flying over Se- attle, he is making a “fix” on San Francisco. He was about 300 miles off the coast at noon. The CAA said the change in course was made to take advan- tage of prevailing winds. Od- om's new course will take him over Elko, Nev, later in the of Commerce meeting today. Admiral Zeusler in outlining the history of the Company, pointed out that since 1897, the year the Com- pany was organized, 65 other com- panies have started Alaskan op- erations and have withdrawn after a period of time giving such rea- sons- as insufficient business for all competing companies, excessive op- lerating costs, and lack of interest n the part of Alaskans. The Alaska Steamship Company s a component part of the structure also demanded punishment of war criminals, and Chiang heads their list. hey called for scrapping of | the constitution and a coalition | government of five Communists, | three Kuomingtang and four poli- ticians of all Chinese political par- ties. It would be e for the Communists to rig such a’setup ! with their own puppets among the ! Kuomintang and independent mem- | bers. The terms called also for a! mutual cease fire with both sides, holding their present place ‘thereby give evidence to the peo- ple of Alaska of Congress' adher- ence to American principles and standards of government.” The Memorial is authored by Senators Charles D. Jones and William Munz, both of Nome. The session was called, the Mem- orial states, not at the request of the President of the United States and without any public danger or necessity requiring it. It states further that the ma- 3 {Jjority of the members of both the The Peiping informant said that House and Senate are illegally seat- Chiang will issue another state-|ed because their terms of office could think them up.” He did not mention Russia in that | Presumably, Franks' visit was a follow-up to this earlier exchange afternoon. to work out a plan whith will pro- lof Alaska and Admiral Zeusler tect storage plants and other in- pledged his company’s support to reorganization to Congress should be restricted by limitations or ex- connection. Neither did Vanden-| berg. ¥ Acheson said he and Alger Hiss| are friends “and we remain friends.”, Hiss is under perjury indictment, in connection with his denial of| testimony before the House Un- American Activities Committee that | he gave out State Department sec- rets to a Soviet agent. | emption: T R BAPTIST MINISTER 1S ACCUSED OF AFFAIRS WITH PARISHIONERS GLENDALE, Calif., Jan. 13.—(®— (vestments in Alaska. However, he (said some plan should be devised {under which the halibut industry {pays some share in needed taxes. Witnesses against the bill in- cluded Wallis George of Juneau 1Cold Storage Company; Walter | Pihlman of Ketchikan, Alaska fish- |ermen's union; and H. J. Lannen, iof Cordova, secretary of the fish- \ermen’s union. | George warned the proposal was with the British government. The ambassador told reporters he idelivered no note but “quite literal- lly talked with the President.” In London, Anthony Eden, Con- servative spokesman in Britain, ex- {United States over Palestine. He isaid Foreien Secretary Bevin, who {succeed him, had handled the sit- juation in a confused manner. He flamed equally the U. S. State De- pressed fear of a break with the: HONOLULU, Jan. 13.—(®— Will- | tiam P. (Bil) Odom, jocular and ! {coniident at the outset, flew his| lsingle-englne “Waikiki Beach” east- | jward today in quest of a 5285-mile | flight record for small planes. Powered by a 185-horsepower en- ‘gine, the gleaming silver Beech- {erait Bonanza lifted smoothly from ithe Honolulu Airport last night at 16:32 p. m. (8:32 p. m. PST) into ! the Hawailan moonlight. { i \ the future development of Alaska. LEGISLATIVE REPORT Presenting a report on House B! No. 1, which would provide for ¢ general property tax in the Terri- tory, the Legislative committee pro- posed that an exemption be granted for all bank deposits and insurance funds held by residents in the Ter- ritory. The committee stated that if this exemption were not granted bank ment, possibly tomorrow, resigning. ' The United States was reported | consulting Britain and France on a Chinese government move to open ; the door for a mediation of the war | by outside powers. Nanking dis-! patches have reported Russia nl.so) has been felt out. The Chinese ap- parently want the Big Three or Big Four to volunteer their good offices to bring peace. S will not commence until Januery 24, 1949, and that the Senators and Representatives whose term does net expire until the fourth Mon- day of this month were not called to attend the special session. The Memorial was referred to | the Judiciary Committee, which has [three Republican members, Sena- tors Collins, chairman; Jones and Garnick, together with Senator Rivers, Democrat. | i {deposits would te withdrawn from Alaskan banks and placed in banks {in the States and also that it would work an unnecessary hardship on people who are living on accumu- lated earnings. The proposal accepted by the Chamber. The Legislative committee stated |that they do not plan to take stands of “greatest importance” to every At the request of Senator Lyng, the Memorial will then go to the | Committee on Elections, which has three Democrats in its membership,» <. {Senators McCutcheon, Lyng and | Barr, with Senator Dawes, Repub- tlican, as chairman. “No Comment” Governor Ernest Gruening's re- sponse to the memorial was: “No comment.” 1 “Completely false,” a Baptist min- y ster and father of four chlldren;so}‘;heast’ Ala§kaxto\wn, b it {brands court charges that he had ', - f:;“ l"‘(’“g ‘Sm" Seis B0, Ln affairs with 40 women parishion- [° S2id, adding that any tax at a by ,would affect the situation Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, Jr., | 46, pastor of Glendale First Bap-! 'tist Church for 21 years and son: A later hearing was suggested to GUAM, Jan. 13.—(P—Three Negro of a minister, yesterday blamed allow all representatives of the in- U. S. Air Force men were charged |“disgruntled” members of his parish dustry to express themselves, and |partment for failure to declare a{ The small, 1500-pound plane firm policy or take a firm line. iclimber steadily and banked to the isouth to clear Diamond Head. | “My destinatien is Teterboro Air- | & {port just outside New York,” Odom | SELATIONS NUE. STOAINND :said before squeezing his lanky | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 —@—!frame into the tiny compunmem: Pres'dent Truman today denied that [of the heavily-laden plane. He was | British-American relations are!wearing a freshly pressed Scolchi strained as a result of the Palestine plaid “good luck” suit. Rape Mystery Is Cleared U STRIKE THREAT, i LATER HEARING SUGGESTED was unanimously members of the today with raping pretty Ruth for accusations made in a suit filed committee chairman, Andrew Hope, Farnsworth, former Wac, and leav- ing her unconscious in the jungle to die. . A lie detector and a rscovered! smock broke the month-old mys-, tery. in Los Angeles Superior Court. The action was brought by Mrs. Sadie Willlams and Fletcher Ed- gar Maxwell, who said they were suing for other members of the |Sitka Democrat, said there would be ample opportunity for evidence 0 be su-mitted. Committee members indicate there was slight chance for any fin- ]church. They demanded a church |8l action on the bill at the special| The American governor of Guam'hearing and membership election 'Session now under way. The regular sed as: identified the acce: Pyt. Cal- vin Dennis, 26, Frederick, Md.; Pvt., Herman Dennis, 20, Belton, Tex.;| Staff Sgt. Robert W. Burns, 32, of) on the charges or a court trial by jury. The suit alleged that “in condem- nation and rejection of ssion will follow. Pihlman | particularly |8e | serious for the Ket- church ‘ch:knn area which “is only a Ieva 2824 North Lacey Street, Spokane,iviews and christianity, J. Whitcomb 'Dours” from Prince Rupert. He said Wash. Calvin and Herman are brothers.; of the women members of the con | Brougher, Jr., has debauched many !Alaskfl merchants are bound to suf- er because boats run to Prince The three are accused of kid"flp'lgregation_ He has caused disrup- |RuPert while crews spend the time ping, rape and murder. i tion in the marital relations of !\\'orkln': gear. Lannen suggested Miss Farnsworth, 27, of Saninumerous families. He has openly (MOt gf the tax would fall on small Francisco, was seized last Dec. 11 poasted of having meretricious | VeSS€lS- in a jade shop where she was Work-{ (yulgar) relations with over 40| ing part time so she could buy a; trousseau for her marriage next April to a marine. She was knocked unconscious, carried out to a jun- gle and raped. A searching partr of soldiers and marines found her there 12 hours later. She died Dec. 13 without recovering conscious- ness. { — oo ] FROM KETCHIKAN Frank R. Clayton of Ketchikan is at the Baranof Hotel. The Washington Merry-@- Round Bv DREW PEARSON (Copyright, 1948, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ASHINGTON— Dean Acheson, son of the late Episcopal Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut, has follow- ed with reasonable consistency an unadvertised but earnest desire to help his country. He has also cher- ished a desire, ever since he was a young lawyer in Washington, to clean up the horse-and-buggy di- plomacy of the State Department. That ambition probably started 20 years ago when Acheson was the attorney for a progressive non- career diplomat, Prentiss Gilbert, who tangled with the striped-pants career boys and was nearly given the gate. Never in his fondest dreams, however, did Dean Ache- son in those days, think that he might become Secretary of State. His real ambition was to sit on the Supreme Court. The fact that he now finds him- self Secretary of State is probably due not only to ability—of which he has plenty—but to an act of (Continued on Page Four) women.” HAWAII WILL HAVE FLOAT IN PARADE, INAUGURATION DAY WASHINGTON, Jan. 13—(®— Hawaii will remind the nation on inauguration day of the Territory’s desire for statehood. Hawaii’'s float in the inaugural parade will be preceded by a 49- star flag and a sign: “Hawaii, the 49th State.” Plans for Hawalii's participation in the January 20 celebration were announced by George McLane, ex- ecutive director of the Hawaii state- hood commission. The Territory’s float will be dec- orated with leaves, palm frond, birds of paradise, red ginger and other flowers flown from Hawaii. On it will be a king and six war- riors in ancieint Hawaiian costume. PERATROVICH SAID IT, NOT ENGEBRETH A story in the Empire yesterday erroneously quoted “Senate Presi- dent” Engebreth as Governor Gruening’s message to the special session “covered tax proposals and I'm for them.” The comment should have been at- tributed to Senate President Pera- trovich. — - STEAMSHIP OFFICIAL HERE Admiral F. A. Zeusler, Executive Assistant to the President of the the Baranof Hotel. plan a ten day stay in Juneau, having said | the | - SPECIAL COUNCIL ' MEETING FRIDAY Planning well ahead, so that new water mains can be placed Ltefore of the Seatter Tract with represen- tatives of the Juneau Water Com- pany, t6 attend a special meeting { tomorrow night. Residents of that district have requested service from the Water ‘Company. which, as a public utility, has agreed to serve the entire city. It is expected that Minard Mill, superintendent, will represent the Juneau Water Company. As the existing Seatter water supply lines are privately lowned, there will be discussion of their disposition if the® Juneau Water Company is to supply the entire district. COASTAL PLANES TAKE 10 T0 SITKA' Ten passengers got off to Sitka ivesterday by Alaska Coastal Air- lines. ACA planes brought eight persons tack to Juneau, six from Sitka and two from Funter Bay. Passengers were: From Sitka: G. Baldwin, Regina Mendel, Ray Avrit, R. T. Roberts, Roy Downing, Dr. Max Van Sandt. From Funter Bay: Bill Hixson, Rado Pekovich. Evans, said the proposal was! ON SEATTER WATER| |aaditional paving is begun, the Ju-, neau City Council asks residents Trnct' 1crisis. | The denial was in response to Iout on the half-hour conference he . Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks. Mr. Truman would not discuss his talk with the British envoy. A reporter askedq whether rela- ticns between the United States and ritain over the Palestine question |could be called “strained.” Mr. Truman replied that they are not. -, Capitol Busy Spot; Both Houses Meet, Also (qmminees (By The Associated Press) The Capitol is a busy place to- day. Both houses scheduled ses- sions after being in recess for several days, and a number of committees are meeting also. Two Senate committees, the F! nance and Labor groups, will hold clesed sessions to organize. Democratic Senator Claude Pep- per says he and two colleagues are seeking President Truman’s 8o ahead on a vast new public health iprogram. They want administra- ‘tion backing on a single piece of legislation whieh would wrap up Mr. Truman's national health 'in- surance plan with a half dozen cther related proposals The United States is reported to be consulting with Britain and France on a Chinese government move aimed at opening the way to mediation by outside powers in Chi- na's war. The House will hold a routine session, with no business schedul- {ed. During the morning the House ! Democratic and Republican leaders met separately on i signments. [ i i i e [ STOCK QUOTATI ONS NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—(®—Clos- ing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 88';, Anaconda 34%, Curtiss- Wright 8%, International Harvest- ler 267, Kennecott 56, New York |Central 12%, Northern Pacific 16%, |Alaska Steamship Company, and| From sitka: Helen Amos, Robert|U. S. Steel 71%, Pound $4.03%. Mrs. Zeusler arrived on the Den-!Shapley, Russ Conlon, Lou Taylor,| Sal ali from Seattle and are staying yes Cease, Karl Aho, Ervin Hill, E.| The Zeuslers C. Wieber, H. Lewis and Leonard industrials today were 700,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: 180.17, rails 52.96, util- ities 34.35. committee as-;® Flight Messages (At Seattle, Coast Guard head- | i | {being heard. He said he was av- {and expected to be over Seattle ;around 3 p. m. today. Weather ! ‘reports indicated he would have | smooth flying the rest of the way into the Pacific Coast. | (The Coast Guard reported these i fragments of conversation: | (“Won't ever leave the bed when |I arrive. Feared heavy wing tanks |would strain wings. Survived rough i weathering. Aiming Seattle.” (“Have a few notches in stom- jach. Anyone who flies over this iwater with one engine bound to |feel squeamish. Feel fine. Slight: ily tired.”) i Riding Tailwind | | An escorting Navy PBY radioed that Odom was riding a favor- able tail wind at 124 knots an bour. At 3:10 a. m. Honolulu time (5:10 am. EST) his position was .glven as 861 miles from Oahu h_f jland. H If he makes it, he will more than | double the nonstop record for small | iplanes. The record is 2,061 miles, | set Sept. 23, 1937, by two Russians. . ‘e . WEATHER REPORT '! 1 (U. 8. WEATHER BUREAU o This data is for 24-hour per- OI iod ending 6:3° am. PST. e In Juneau— Maximum, 39; e minimum, 35. At Airport— Maximum, 38; minimum, 33. FORECAST (Juneau and Vieinity) Mostly cloudy with occa- sional showers of snow and rain. Lowest temperature tonight near 33 degrees. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 hours ending 7:30 a.m. today In Juneau 155 inches; since Jan. 1, 11.76 inche: since July 1, 87.32 inches. At Airport — .76 since Jan. 1, 4.96 since July 1, 54.10 inches. . e - b o | i® i i® . . ]o © 00000000 [LEGION EXEC. (OM 10 MEET TONIGHT | Members of the American Legion Executive Committee will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in the home of Post Commander Chester Zenger All members are urged to attend. | Tourist on any specific method of taxat'on that is proposed in the Legislature jquestions at a news conference. Re-quarters reported that Odom'’s mes- |as they feel that it is only the con- giporters had sought to draw himlsages to the escorting PBY Were cern of the Legislators. The com- mittee will, however, point out any had earlier in the day with Britisheraging about 155 miles an hour weaknesses they find within the Lills that are introduced. Curtis Shattuck is chairman of the Leg!s- lative committee. MEMBERSHIP DUES RAISED The Chamber accepted the pro- posal of the Executive Board that the minimum fee of the Chamber be raised from $10 to $15. The an- nual membership drive is planned for this month. Harry Sperling, chairman of the committee, proposed that the Chamber take a bcoth at the eattle Times Sportsmen's Show, hich will be held in Eeattle dur- the week of March 11, The mber unanimously accepted the plan and it was decided to con- tact other Alaskan Chambers to; ask if they would like to partici- | Chan Cram:er of Commerce has already allotteq $200 for the purpose. Members of the Territorial Legis- lature will be invited as guests of the Chamber to attend a luncheon. It was decided to tender the invi-| tation to members of one division | each week. “UNUSUAL" WEATHER At the suggestion of Bob Drux- man, the Chamber decided to dis- patch the following telegram to| the Los Angeles Chamber of Com- merce, “According to recent news items your city suffering unusually | hard winter weather. Juneau ol-l fers condolences and suggests your! Chamber make annual Alaska pil-| grimage now instead of summer be- | cause Juneau temperatures ten deg higher than Los Angeles ! during past week.’ ! “Totem Lan an outstanding | film taken in Tongass National For- est, was shown to the Chamber members this noon by Eckley Guer- in. Harry Sperling wrote the sce- nario fer the film and Joe Yolo, former Juneau resident, was pho-| tographer. | Guests at today's meeting were: | E. F. Wann of Fairbanks, Mrs.| Amelia Gundersen, Ketchikan; Mrs. | Doris Barnes of Wrangell, Walter E. Huntle Anderson, CORDOVA FAMILIES HERE Two Cordova families arrived here on the Denali from Seattle | and are staying at the Baranof.| They are Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Flem- ing and children Tommy and Jerri, | N.Y.CITY! NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—(P—Ne-! gotiations seeking to avert a crip- pling harbor strike were broken on. early today by an AFL union after; it had extended its walkout dead-| line until midnight ton'ght. Joseph E. O'Grady, director of the city’s labor relations division, sa the Union, representing 3500 h: crewmen, declared “negotiations; terminated” in order to comply with a Taft-Hartley law provision that| no strike can start during negotia-| tions. Postpcnement of the deadline came within a half hour after| Mayor William O'Dwyer told em- ployer representatives that the city! would go into the fuel business to avert a crisis if a -trike was called | because of their refusal to meet| overt.me. pay demands i A strike by the harbor craft ipate in the plan. The Ketchlkan[“")fkers would cripple ocean and coastal shipping in the world's greatest port. - o BOMB EXPLOSION | IN CAIRO SOUARE By MOHAMED WAGDI CAIRO, Egypt, Jan. 13.—(P—One or two persons were killed and at least 16 were injured by the ex- plosion of a bomb in a Cairo square | today. A cigarette seller the blast Fifteen persons were treated at the Government Hospital in the| Kasr El Aini district. Hospital at- tendants said five of these were wounded seriously (Egyptian unrest over the strug- gle in Palestine has been a factor} in several recent incidents in Cairo.) >e Taft dpposes Tw Measures on Labor 13— | was killed in ] WASHINGTON, Jan Senator Robert Taft of Ohio does not think much of the plan for two labor measures. He favors one bill, and he predicts that the ma- | jor parts of the Taft-Hartley law will remain in force. Taft says it is “idiotic” to handle labor legislation in two parts. Un- ien lead favor this method, but and Mr, and Mrs. C, W. Schmidt and baby, Taft points to ate rules and claims that won't work, Attorney General Ralph Rivers, the administration spokesman on the legal phase of the session, de- clared when informed of the mem- orial: “There is NO question about the special session being valid. This jmemorial is the work of two ob= structionists.” Rivers re-emphasized his previous legal position that the new legis- lators’ terms started from the time their elections were certified. That was done by the canvassing board in December. He sald the Senators who were clected in 1944 were certified De- cember 31 that year and House members elected in 1946 to two- year terms were certilied Decem- ber 17 of that year. He said they therefore had completed their legal four-year and two-year terms, re- spectively, last month. Cites Decisions Rivers cited court decisions in half a dozen states on the issue of when elective officers start their terms. He said his position was taken on those cases and other similar legal interpretations, He cited from American Law Re- ports, Annotated: “The general presumption is that the term dates from legal ascer- tainmeng of the result of an elee- tion, and the officer may assume the duties of oifice as soon there- after as he can qualify and receive his commission.” He said there is a difference in term and tenure. He said a term of office begins when an election is certified, while actual tenure of office begins when the oath is ad- ministered and the duties of office assumed. Referring to the legislative situa- ticn, he added: “Because there has necessity, the tenure in the past didn’t start when the term did.” Business Tax Bill Senate Bill No. 2, entitled “An Act to provide for the levy and collection of a General License Tax upon business performed in Al- aska,” was introduced this morn- ing by Senator Engebreth by re- quest. ‘This bill, which has the approv- al of Third Division Republican organizations, provides that “for the privilege of engaging in any business activity in the Territory” a tax shall be levied on each per- m so engaged.” All persons exempt from Federal income tax under Section 101 of the Internal Revenue Code would been no ( Cux)txxxfit';l on";l’uge Elg;ll)