| Summary: | Arctic Camps Planned For Aerial Search: 2 Bases To Be Established For Flyers Hunting Lost Soviets; Sir Hubert En Route North. ARCTIC CAMPS PLANNED FOR AERIAL SEARCH 2 Bases to Be Established for Flyers Hunting Lost Soviets; Sir Hubert En Route North FAIRBANKS, Aug. 18.—(AP)— Moving of the bases for the search for the lost Russian transpolar flyers to the Arctic Coast neared today as rain and low-hanging cloud banks still held searchers grounded at this interior Alaska city. James (Jimmy) Mattern, who was held to the ground here two days ago while Bob Randall, a Canadian airman, scoured the coastline from Aklavik, N. W. T., westward to Barrow, disclosed plans to set up two base camps, one on the ice pack off shore. PLANS 2 CAMPS Mattern said one camp would be set up on a sand pit on the coast, in the vicinity of Heald and Anxiety Points. His other camp would be due north towards the. pole, on the ice cap. Several hundred miles to the east, the big flying boat being flown North from New York by Sir Hubert Wilkins and four companions, will base at the. mouth of the Coppermine River, on the Northern Canadian coast. Wilkins Lands in Toronto; Piloting 17-ton Craft New York Aug. 19.—(/P)—a seventeen-ton flying boat, bearing Sir Hubert Wilkins, veteran Arctic explorer, headed into the Northwest today on the first leg of an expedition to search for six Russian transpolar flyers who have been missing since Friday. Sir Hubert alighted at Toronto Harbor at 2:30 p. m. Port Arthur, Ont., was the next scheduled stop before the long flight into the Arctic wastes.
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