| Summary: | Down Somewhere In Region Between Pole And Fairbanks. Down Somewhere In Region Between Pole And Fairbanks. FAIRBANKS, Alaska (/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 flyers. Dropping out of the murky clouds in the arctic ocean fastnesses late yesterday, Bon Randall, Canadian airman flying a ship chartered for the search by the soviet embassy in Washington, D. C., learned from a group or parka-clad natives they had heard what might have been a plane's engines "four or five days ago." Arriving later at Barrow, on Alaska's northernmost tip, Randall said, "there is a possibility this might have been the Russian plane." The soviet transpolar plane, piloted by the "Russian Lindbergh"Sigismund Levaneffsky, and carrying five passengers, was last heard from last Friday after it had crossed the north pole on its dash to Fairbanks, where refueling was planned.
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