| Summary: | Russian Lindy Is On His Way To Fairbanks. IS ON HIS WAY 10 FAIRBANKS SEATTLE, Aug. 13. C/P)—After long silence, A. Vartanian, Russian flight representative, said at 12:12 p. m. (P. S. T.) that he expected Russia's third transpolar plane to, land at the Fairbanks airport within the hour. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 13. (AP)—Fairbanks residents kept their eyes peeled toward the north pole today, awaiting arrival of two old friends, Pilot Sigismund Levanevsky and Navigator Victor Levtchenko and their four aides, to refuel here on Russia's third transpolar flight of the year. The tall, blond, unsmiling "Lindbergh of Russia" and his short, swarthy and equally unsmiling navigator were here a year ago. Fights Winds. SEATTLE, Aug. 13. UP)—Army signal corps officers here reported at 8:39 a. m. (P. S. T.) that the Russian transpolar plane was bucking terrific headwinds in its flight toward Fairbanks, Alaska, and that it would not reach that refueling point before 4 p. m. (P. S. T.).
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