The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-20
FROZEN NORTH
GIVES SECRETS
TO MILAN
Famed Explorer Is Back in
Home Port, After 18th
Arctic Voyage.
SCHOOL FOR ESKIMoS
Missionary Volunteers as
Teacher; Science Aided
by Journey.
BY ALBERT NAMES
United Press staff Correspondent

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NEWAGEN, Me, Sept. 20.-After
three months of hazardous explora-
ton beyond the Arctic's circle the
schooner Bowdoin bore Lieutenant
Commander Donald B. Macmillan
into port here Thursday.
The Bowdoin's return marked the
end Of MacMillan'S twelfth expedi-
ton to the polar regions in the in
terests of science.
The explorer and his nine com~
panions characterized their trip as
successful from scientific view
point. One of MacNIillan's major
accomplishments in the far north
was the founding of an Eskimo
SchoolhouSe at Main, which will
serve to educate more than forty
Eskimo children.
Discussing this venture in polar
pedagogy, Macmillan said: I'VE
built the schoolhouse with the UNI
Outstanding that the English Ian
guage would be taught. German
Moravian missionaries there believe
the Eskimo will be better protected
from the white race if he can not
speak their language"
Caught in Ice Pack
After we left Main and headed
northWard, we encountered huge
ice pack off Lacks land. We pene-
trated the center of the pack" Mac
MILAN said, and when the heavy
fog lifted we found that the Bow
doin had been carried more than
thirty miles south"
I'VE were carried close to the
shore of Halls island on the ebb
tide and the Bowdoin was lifted
completely out of the water and lay
on her side with badly damaged
rudder.
I'VE were whirled out by an eddy.
We started the engine and for three
hours tried to break through to open
water, only 100 yards ahead"
The explorer said that big ice
berg missed the Bowdoin by inches
as it emerged from the pack. He
said the vessel was guided through
wide path made by the berg and
passed with considerable ease
through the rest Of the ice jam.
Missionary Is Teacher
Miss Katherine Hettasch, daugh-
ter of the Rev. Paul H. Hettasch,
who has been missionary ct Main
for thirty-six years, was losen as
the first teacher at the Eskimo
school, Macmillan said.
Next year we are going to take
up an American college girl to
serve as Miss Hettasch's assistant"
the noted explorer stated.
Leavfn Main the expedition went
to its scientific station at head of
Anetalak bay, where it stopped for
several weeks to gather scientific
data. Double walls and windows, as
we'll as triple floors, guarded the
party from the extreme cold of that
region
Macmillan said he was able to
keep in constant touch with the out
side world with modern radio set.
The party enjoyed broadcasts from
many of the high-powered stations
of America and Europe during the
long winter nights, the explorer
said
IceTn0bile Is Used
An icemobile-a continuance per-
fected for the recent expedition
proved valuable in travelling, the ex-
plorer stated. This innovation.
many times faster than dog-sled
travelling, aided members OF the
party in traversing more than 200
miles.
Macmillan reported a huge ice
cap, which at one time was believed
to have covered an area of 10000
miles, as receding In size rapidly. He
said the present area of the cap is
approximately TOO square miles.
Much Of the scientific work was
carried on among the Eskimo ma
tives. DR.. Reginald Fernald Of Har-
ward dental school. a member Of the
party, brought impressions taken OF
the Eskimos' jaws, which he will
use to determine the effects of the