| Summary: | Randall Dares Skies' Threats: Hops From Aklavik To Seek Russ Flyers -- Other Pilots Wait. RANDALL DARES SKIES' THREATS Hops From Aklavik to Seek Russ Flyers—Other Pilots Wait. BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 17. (JP) —Wireless messages received here said Bob Randall, Canadian pilot, braved doubtful weather and took off in a Russian chartered plane from Aklavik, N. W. T., to search for the lost soviet transpolar plane. Randall, the messages said, swept along the arctic coast in his hunt for Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and five companions, missing since Friday, and landed at Demarcation point on the Alaska-Canadian boundary and at Herschel island to the eastward. The pilot said he intended to question natives as to whether they had seen or heard a plane in the vicinity last Friday night. WEATHER IS BAD. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 17. (IP)—Forbidding skies along the rim of the Arctic ocean today threatened indefinite delay to an aerial search by American and Canadian aviators for the lost soviet transpolar plane. From Nome, Alaska, on the west to Aklavik, N. W. T., on the east, clouds hung low and fog and rain added to danger rescue flyers would take in trying to find Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five comrades. Jimmy Mattern, Joe Crosson and other famous airmen chafed at the delay here and scanned the gloomy sky in the hope of a break in the weather which would enable them to take off. United States signal corps officers at Seattle reported all their northern stations had listened unsuccessfully for signals on a 55-meter frequency. Reenforcements for searching parties based on the North American side of the Arctic ocean were being rushed north. Mattern's refueling plane left Sacramento for Fairbanks. He will use it to refuel in the air and save landings with his great ship on the airport here, which he considered "somewhat limited." Herbert Hollick-Kenyon, Canadian flyer, said at Toronto he had accepted an offer of an airplane from Sir Hubert Wilkins, famous polar explorer, for use in the hunt; for the Russian airmen who vanished in the region of the north pole Friday.
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