Northwest History. Alaska. Eskimos.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Eskimos; lost Russian plane; North Pole; Fairbanks; Alaska; Barter island; the northern Alaska coast; the arctic ocean; Bob Randall; Canadian airman; Washington; D. C.; natives; Sigismund Levaneffsky; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Pacific; Parka; Randall; Barrow; Barter Island; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/91066

Eskimos Report Lost Russian Plane. Eskimos Report Lost Russian Plane: 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 brougnt 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, iJob Ranttall, Canadian airman Hying 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 d'ajs 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 trahspolar plane, piloted by the "Rusian Lindbergn Sigisnnnid Levaneffsky, and carrying five passengers, was last heard from last Friday after he had crossed the north pole on its dash to Fairbanks, where refusing was planned.