Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesman Stimson's official position of not recognizing Moscow, appealed personally, unofficially to the Soviet Government for help for U. S. Flyer Carl Ben Eielson, lost along the coast of Siberia, spurred Alaska's acting Governor Karl Theile to send frantic appeals to two Soviet ships in Siberian waters. Russians were aware that already blunt Senator Borah had cabled for aid directly to Soviet Acting Foreign Minister Litvinov...
...effectively blocked Bering Strait, between Alaska and Siberia, to flyers last week. Nor could boats cross under the wall, for clumps of ice, like polar lizards, skittered through from the Arctic Ocean southward. Yet it was becoming increasingly urgent that men get from the American to the Siberian side. Carl Ben Eielson was lost somewhere over there, with his mechanic Earl Borland. They had been missing since a flight Nov. 9. If living, their provisions, doled sparingly to each other, would have lasted two months...
There are Eskimo and Tchuktchis Indian villages about every 15 miles along the north Siberian coast where Eielson and Borland presumably floundered. They may be squatting sheltered in a native's snow-drifted skin-&-driftwood house. If so, they did not see or were unable to signal a searching plane which flew from Teller, base of relief operations, to the Nanuk. The plane is still at the ship, held down by dismaying weather, scant fuel...
Last week also Arctic Explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Eielson's close friend, asked Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, "the man I know best in the Cabinet," somehow to ask the Soviets to put their Siberian representatives on the hunt, particularly those at the Wrangel Island meteorological station and on the ships Lipke and Stavropol. It was a ticklish request, for the U. S. and Russia have no diplomatic relations. Secretary Wilbur immediately asked the Soviet Government for aid, through its Washington information bureau. He also sent telegrams to Territorial Governor George Alexander Parks at Juneau, urging...
...intercede. He cabled to Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs at Moscow. At once the Russians, eager to repeat their glory of rescuing the wrecked Italia crew, ordered out three planes stationed within flying distance of Eielson's disappearance. They also telegraphed and radioed Siberian outposts to send out sledge parties...