| Summary: | Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue At Fairbanks. Apprehension Grows Hourly; Plane Long Overdue at Fairbanks FAIRBANKS. Alaska.—(U.R)—Soviet Russia's third trans-polar plane was overdue and unreported at noon Alaskan time (2 p. m. P. S. T.) today on a 4666-mile flight from Moscow. The plane had been expected to land between 9 and 11 a. m. Alaskan time. Fear for safety of the six flyers a.board increased hourly. FAIRBANKS, Alaska.—(HE)—Silence today enveloped a four-motored Russian monoplane and its crew of six men known to be past the north pole and headed for a refueling stop on a flight to San Francisco or Oakland. For more than six hours the weather reports sent to them. In Seattle, A. Vartanian, soviet engineer in charge of sending weather reports to the plane, said he did not think the flyers had been forced down or crashed, however. REPORTS HOURLY. "The routine weather reports given out hourly by the army signal army corps have not been acknowledged by the flyers," Vartanian said. "We feel no apprehension over the lack of reports from the plane. It is quite possible that on the flight south from the pole they have been flying in a magnetic storm, which would blanket their radio reception and broadcasting. "During the second flight there were longer periods than six hours when we heard no word from the plane. "I don't thinkg -- and hope they haven't -- been forced down or crashed on the Arctic tundra."
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