RESCUE OF MATTERN
SOVIET AIRMAN’S RISKY FLIGHT.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Moscow, July 20. The airman Levanesky reached Anadyr, from where he conveys James Mattern, the American aviator, to Nome (Alaska), after a perilous flight from Khabarovsk over the sea to Okhotsk. He once flew so low owing to storms and fogs that spray touched the machine. The Chief of the Soviet Northern Aviation Service says: “If Levanesky had not been ordered to the rescue of Mattern at all costs I would have ordered his arrest for risking his own and the crew’s lives. As it is I can only admire them.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22073, 21 July 1933, Page 7
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