Former Nomeite
Elected Head Of
Sourdoughs
VANCOUVER, B. C. UP), White
haired W. H. (Bill) Brown of Los
Angeles, who “struck it rich” in
the Nome stampede of the Alaska
gold rush, was elected president
of the International Sourdough
Association Friday.
Brown, who was 22 when he
made his strike, first went over
the Chilkoot Pass and panned for
gold in the Dawson area. When
word of riches at Nome hit Daw
son, he headed out.
“We got in before those on the
Outside,” he said, “by making a
1,600-mile trek which took us 58
days.”
Brown was elected to head the
Sourdoughs at their 17th annual
reunion here.
Other officers named included
Robert W. Service, “Bard of the '
Yukon,” and Arthur Buel, Fres
no, Calif., both named honorary
vice presidents. Service traveled
more than 7,000 miles from Monte
Carlo to attend his first Sour
Moscow Charges
Naval Attache Is
Espionage Agent
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His tour of duty in Moscow began
in November, 1947. Before that
he was naval representative in
Odessa for more than a year.
Pravda said Dreher, dressed in
civilian clothes, met a Russian
customs official—whom it term
ed a Soviet agent of American j
naval intelligence identified only
as “E”—in the Moscow customs
office to receive “secret military
information.”
Soviet security officers, the
newspaper said, had watched the
customs official because he gath-!
ered “secret information” and |
made occasional trips to Moscow.
While the two.men were exchang
ing written information, Soviet
security agents entered the room
and caught them, Pravda said.
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dough reunion since 1942.
Delegates chose Los Angeles as
next year’s convention city.
TOURISTS ENJOY KOTZEBUE
NOME EXCURSION
Yesterday there were 22 round
trip tourists in on the Fairbanks
Kotzebue-Nome Arctic Alaska
Travel Service tour with Wien
Alaska Airlines which flies reg
ularly on the route.
At Kotzebue, the little Eskimo
village on the Arctic Ocean, the
group enjoyed the many varied
normal life activities of the na- j
tives; the hunting, fishing and
handicraft that has made them a
livelihood for the past genera
tions. Chuck West of Fairbanks,
who makes these tours possible,
says that the regular trips at
least one a week all this year,
have proven must successful.
At Nome yesterday the tour
ists were treated to a sight only
possible at this northwestern
Alaska metropolis. The King Is
land natives, who visit Nome each
summer, work at their carving,
beneath their overturned skin
boats. Tourists can bargain with
the Eskimo for some of the finest
carved ivory pieces in the Terri
tory.
Mr. West explains that the
tourist business is beyond his ex
pectations.
Coast Guard Has
Busy Week-End
SEATTLE. (/P)—District Coast
Guard headquarters reported yes
terday a pilot and passenger were
uninjured when a light civilian
plane plunged into the water just
off Lizt Island, near Bellinghom.
The fishing vessel Opal towed
the plane ashore.
The coast guard also reported
the cutter Bittersweet has receiv
ed a message from a trawler
moored at Port Moller, Alaska,
that it has a seriously injured |
man aboard. The message was
transmitted to search and rescue
headquarters.
At Cape Ugat, a coast' guard
plane has picked up an ailing
cannery worker and transported.
him to a hospital at Kodiak, 90
miles away. He is Oscar B. Nel
son 54.
During a busy week-end, the
coast guard hauled two trollers—
the M. J. C. and the Silver C.—
off the rocks at Quillayute River,;
Wash., and towed the disabled'
purse seiner Resolute into War
renton, Ore. The Resolute mes
saged for assistance off Cape
Lookout, Ore.
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NEW YORK, (JP)—Mrs. Oksana
Stepanovna Kosenkina, the 52
year-old Russian school teacher
who leaped from a third-floor
window of the Soviet consulate
where she said she was being held
a prisoner, was reported still in
critical condition today at Robse
velt hbspital.
A bulletin released from the
hospital this morning said Mrs. ^
Kosenkina’s general condit i o n
was unchanged although she was
improving slightly. She remained
on the critical list. Additional x
rays of her injuries will be made
today.
A strong police guard continued
to guard her.
In addition, Mrs. Kosenkina
has been technically under the
protection of the U. S. govern
ment since she accepted a sub
poena Saturday to testify before
the House committee on un-Amer
ican activities in its probe of al
leged Communist spying in this
country.
It may be three months before 4
she can appear before the com
mittee. She suffered multiple
fractures and internal and ,back
injuries in her leap Thursday af
ternoon.
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Meets First and
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each month
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Court House Is Opposite Us
Phone Main 40
IRA D. ORTON
Attorney At Law
Room 1—Nerada Building 1
Nome. Alaska
Seattle Office:
Ml Lowman Building
Telephone EL. 8398