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McCutcheon Asks That Sen. Butler
Be Cited For Contempt For Refusal
To Give Deposition In Libel Suit
JUNEAU, UP)— Stanley J. Mc
Cutcheon charged Friday thatU.S.
Sen. Hugh Butler’s claim of sena
torial immunity in refusing to give
out-of-court testimony in a libel
suit was “a deliberate scheme to
avoid disclosing relevent informa
tion.”
McCutcheon, Anchorage attor
ney who resigned recently as
Democratic national committee
man, filed a motion in U.S. district
court asking that the Nebraska
Republican senator be cited for
contempt for refusing to give a
deposition at Anchorage in Mc
Cutcheon’s $175,000 libel suit
against Territorial Sen. Marcus
Jensen (D-Douglas).
McCutcheon filed the suit
against Jensen early this year. He
alleged Jensen had a “design to
bring about disgrace and damage
to plaintiff, his wife and children.”
He originally accused Jensen of
having “wilfully and maliciously
published and gave to Sen. Butler,
congressional leader against state
hood for Alaska, defamatory un
truths about plaintiff resulting in
utterly false charges . . . being
made by said senator Butler on
the floor of the U.S. Senate.”
McCutcheon’s role as an attor
ney in the controversial Palmer
Airport case is one of the issues
involved.
An affidavit by McCutcheon
with the motion stated he notified
Jensen’s attorney, H. L. Faulkner,
in Juneau of his intention to sub
poena Butler and William Strand,
the Interior Department’s director
of territories, for testimony by
deposition Aug. 24 in Anchorage.
The affidavit states that Strand,
former editor of the Fairbanks
News-Miner, received information
unfavorable to McCutcheon and
that he affirms it was supplied by
Jensen.
Strand was served with a sum
mons in Juneau, while he, Butler,
and other senators were there for
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statehood hearings the week be
fore last. The affidavit said Mc
Cutcheon’s Juneau attorney was
unable to serve the summons on
Butler, but that a detctive agency
did so on his arrival in Anchorage.
Butler appeared in answer to
the summons there but declined
to give testimony by deposition,
contending he had senatorial im
munity to answering such inquir
ies.
The affidavit states that Butler
then offered to make available
“anything I might have in my
Washington files.”
McCutcheon said he twice wrote
to Butler, asking for letters on
which Butler based his Senate
references to McCutcheon. He
stated that within the last 60 days
he went to Washington, after as
certaining Butler’s presence by
telephone, in an effort to get a
deposition from the senator, but
that Butler’s office reported he
had “left for places unknown on
an extended vacation.”
The affidavit alleges that Butler
“lobbied other members of the
U.S. Senate in an effort to block
statehood, using as his argument
purported facts about this affiant”
(McCutcheon).
The affidavit alleges that But
ler’s refusal to testify “is part of
a deliberate scheme on the part
of he and the defendant, in this
actic • Marcus Jensen.”
It ^.Jded that McCutcheon, if
allowed to examine Senator But
ler, would inquire about “rela
tionship with members of the
canned salmon industry and oth
ers that now oppose statehood for
Alaska, for the true purpose of
determining whether or not this
relationship in any way may af
fect the lawsuit now pending.
When electric power is made
available, engineers say the Afri
can Gold Coast can produce 210,
000 tons of aluminum a year.
VISITORS TO NOME
One visitor to Nome last week
brought news of much interest to
early - day pioneers, especially
those who worked alongside the
three white men who discovered
gold on Anvil Creek and then
formed the Pioneer Mining Co.
This visitor was Professor E.
Gustav Johnson, professor of Eng
lish, North Park College, Chicago.
He related that while touring
Sweden two' years ago, he visited
John Brynteson, who, with his
partners Jafet Lindeberg and Eric
Lindbloom, started Nome’s first
great stampede.
Professor Johnson states that
Mr. Brynteson is hale and hearty
at 82 years, but longs to make just
one more trip to Nome and look
down cm the old gold camp from
Anvil Mountain and relive a mem
ory parade of those early, exciting
golden days. Mr. Brynteson lives
on a most beautiful estate in Pro
vince Varnland, Sweden. Because
of meeting him, Professor Johnson
developed a yen to visit and see
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the place that Mr. Brynteson told
of in interesting stories about his
exploits in the Council and Nome
gold camps. *
As he tread up and down our
Front Street after reaching Nome
via Alaska Airlines from Anchor
age, Professor Johnson found
many items which he believed
would be of interest to his friend
Brynteson.
The professor departed Nome
Saturday via Pan American Clip
per.
All SE Alaska Fish Traps Closed
Saturday 6 Days Ahead Schedule
JUNEAU, UP) — All seines and
traps closed down in Southeast
ern Alaska at 6 p.m. Saturday
night. It rang down the curtain
on what fishermen call the poor
est show of pink salmon in half
a century.
The scheduled Sept.' 2 closing
was advanced to allow the few
fish that did appear to have safe
escapement to spawning streams.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Mostly cloudy tonight. Partly
cloudy Tuesday. Gentle northerly
winds. Lowest temperature expec
ted tonight 32, high Tuesday 53.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
53, low 33. Max. wind 19 mph
from the north. Sunrise at 4:43
a.m., sunset at 7:25 p.m.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 29 Snow
Kotzebue 43 Cloudy
Wales 37 Cloudy
Nome 37 Cloudy
Unalakleet 43 Cloudy
Bethel 44 Rain
McGrath 47 Drizzle
Anchorage 51 Rain
Fairbanks 49 Cloudy
Whitehorse 52 Part cloudy
Edmonton 58 Cloudy
Juneau 52 Rain
Ketchikan 55 Cloudy
San Francisco 63 Cloudy
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