| Summary: | Hunt For Flyers Lead To Arctic. HUNT FOR FLYERS LEADS TO ARCTIC FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17. UP)—Aviators of three nations were poised today on the rim of the arctic for an intensive search of bleak polar wastes in quest of the vanished soviet flyer and his transpolar plane companions. In Fairbanks, Jimmy Mattern, noted American pilot, finished equipping his aluminum-colored plane with deicers as he awaited better weather to search for the man who rescued him in Siberia in 1933—Sigismund Levaneffsky, "soviet Lindbergh." At Aklavik, Northwest Territory, 1750 miles northwest of Edmonton, Alta., a Canadian pilot, Bob Randall, was ready to scour the arctic in a plane chartered by .he Russian embassy in Washington, D. C. Accepts Plane Offer. TORONTO, Aug. 17. (Canadian Press)—Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, Canadian flyer, said here today he had accepted an offer of an airplane from Sir Hubert Wilkins, famed polar explorer, and would begin a search in the arctic for the six Russian airmen missing on a transpolar flight from Moscow.
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