Northwest History. Alaska. Aviation Crashes & Wreckage Missing Planes.

Eskimos Have Clew. Eskimos Have Clew. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 18. (/P)—Eskimos who for centuries have gathered at remote Barter island on the northern Alaska coast to trade among themselves brought the first clew today to the possible whereabouts of the missing soviet trahspolar flyers. Dropping out...

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Language:English
Published: 1937
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Online Access:http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/90075
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Summary:Eskimos Have Clew. Eskimos Have Clew. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 18. (/P)—Eskimos who for centuries have gathered at remote Barter island on the northern Alaska coast to trade among themselves brought the first clew today to the possible whereabouts of the missing soviet trahspolar flyers. Dropping out of the murky clouds in the artic ocean fastnesses late yesterday, Bob Randall, Canadian airman flying a ship chartered for the search by the soviet embassy in Washington, D. C, learned from a group of parka-clad natives they had heard what might have been a plane's engines "four or five days ago."