MISSING POLAR FLIERS
May Have Landed on Ice-Bed WEAK SIGNALS HEARD (Received 17, 1.40 p.m.) NEW YOR, Aug. 16. RepOrts reecived at midnight from Alaska strengthen the belief that the missing Soviet plane engaged on a nonstop flight over the North Pole to Alaska descended on an ice bed in the vicinity of the Pole. Tlie Pan-Ameri-oan representatives at Fairbanks sent a radio message stating that a seaplane and two landplanes searched without result over 2000 miles extending halfway to the Pole. The planes landed at a number of settlements and qu'estioned Esquimaux. The Russjan organisers of tlie rescue flights^ to the Pole believe that the search'may occupy a weelc or longer. No further signals have been picked up. Tho cabled reports of weak signaTs being received at Moscow are the only clue on which the flyers at Fairbanks are working.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 180, 17 August 1937, Page 7
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