| Summary: | Soviet Icebreaker Hunts Polar Flyers. Soviet Icebreaker Hunts Polar Flyers POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 30 (/P)—The famous Soviet icebreaker Krassin broke through Arctic ice and adverse winds to reach here Saturday and be, ome the pivot in a search for the six lost transpolar aviators. Four planes, to be used in sweeping ice fields to the north and east for Pilot Sigismund Levaneffsky and his five companions, were aboard, the Krassin. Gasoline and oil for search planes basing at Barrow were landed. As far as could be learned here, Soviet Pilot Zadkoff was still between Barter Island and Demarcation Point to the eastward, Canadian Pilot Bob Randall at Aklavik, N. W. T., and Sir George Hubert Wilkins at Coppermine, N. W. T.
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