| Summary: | Two Russian Fliers Are Forced Back By Bering Strait Fogs: Pair Return To Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia./Weather Interrupts Flight For Third Time. TWO RUSSIAN FLIERS ARE FORGED BACK BY BERMAITFOGS Pair Return to Teller After Taking Off From Nome For Siberia WEATHER INTERRUPTS FLIGHT FOR THIRD TIME NOME, Alaska, Aug. 15-(AP)-Two famous Russian fliers, pioneering an airplane trade route, learned first hand today about Bering strait fogs that sometimes rise 15,000 feet and send airmen to their deaths. Taking off in fair weather near, Nome to cross the strait to Siberia, the Soviet pilots. Sigismund Levanesky and Victor Levchenko, plunged into blinding fog over the water and sent their pontoon-equipped monoplane back-tracking to Alaska yesterday. They landed at Teller, 60 miles north of here, the place from which Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland flew in threatening weather November 9, 1929, on a trip to the ice-bound fur ship Nanuk and died in the wreck of their plane on the Siberian coast near North Cape. Levanevsky and for the fog to clear their next objective to their Uelen (also known as Whalen), Siberia. It was the third interruption by weather the Russians encountered since starting a 10,000-mile flight from San Diego, Calif., to Moscow in quest of scientific data about flying conditions in the high North and of a possible new airplane trade route. They had to wait out a fog at Safety bay yesterday after a motor boat got their plane off a sandbar i upon which it ran in an attempted take-off Thursday. On the way from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, bad weather, forced them down at Bella Bella, B. C, and kept them there several days. During the search of nearly three months before Pilot Joe Crosson of Fairbanks, Alaska, found Eielson and Borland's plane, Russian and American aviators swept s: '.es of the strait, encountering den fogs that drove them to the nearest landing. The late pilot, Frank Dorbandt, who flew in the search, came to report he had climbed to 15,000 feet in milky fog in a futile hunt for clear sky. Ice-strewn waters of contacting warmer air, were blamed for the prevailing fogs in the winter of 1929-30.
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