The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-08-14
REV. HUBBARD !. IS TO STUDY
 TW0CLAC|ERS
Is on Tour to Westward But Returns Here Lat
 CT This Month

Tt Is not extraordinary that 1t rained in Juneau while Will Rog- CTS was here. He is all wet any, how, and must have felt right at home" commented Father Bern ard R. Hubbard, "The Glacier Priest who passed through Juneau last night aboard the Yukon. "It is as tactful," he added, ito talk about rain in Alaska as about earthquakes in Los Angeles"
 Father Hubbard. accompanied by his assistants, Edgar Levin and Ken Chisholm, geologists and for mer students of his, who have been associated with him for nine years, is in Alaska to begin scientific investigation of glacier conditions in the Taku and Mendenhall areas At present he is. in charge of a Father Hubbard Tour Party of 86 people, round -trippers on the Yu- kon and bound for an investiga- ton of the Matanuska Valley col- onization project. He expects to return to Juneau August l9, and will plunge immediately into ac- tivities.
 To Determine Ice Cap
 "A statement has been made that the ice cap in Greenland as well as in the Arctic is 10000 feet thick" said Father Hubbard. This can't be true. It is against all the laws of physics. Technical explana- tions are confusing, but in ordinary terms one might say that the pres sure of the ice would make freez- ing at any great depth impossible. Pressure generates heat and heat melts ice. Our present expedition is for the purpose of studying the compressibility of ice and the ratio sof temperature and pressure as exhibited in the phenomenon of ice hardness"
 Ideal for Examination
 It :. is Father Hubbard's opinion, based on explorations eight years ago, that the Taku and Mendenhall glaciers offer ideal conditions for the examination of crevasses. He expects to establish 8 camp on the top of the ice cap in the Taku section. The expedition is equipped with special suits of Grenfel cloth, a light but exceedingly warm fab- ric of English manufacture, popu- larized in the Mt. Everest ex- petition. The suits are described by Father Hubbard as "a com bination of parka and an avia- ton suit" Tents have been con- structed of the same material.
 Has Special Boat
 Father Hubbard plans to explore the glaciers by air with Bob Ellis, PAA pilot at Ketchikan, who is an old friend. He will also travel by boat to the source of the Taku River. For this purpose an 18-foot p h.p. gasboat has been specially constructed by Melin Davit and Boat Company, manufacturers of lifeboats for transatlantic steam ship lines. This boat, The Libby, at present aboard the Yukon, is made of Allegheny metal, similar to the stainless steel of commerce, and is the first boat so to be con- structed. It is built on lifeboat lines, with square stern for the use of an ouboard motor, and a solid keel of Allegheny metal A by 2A inches. The foreward part is decked over and enclosed by a bulkhead, ming an air-tight compartment in which 1000 pounds of equipment. including scientific instruments, will be carried.
 Has Dog Team
 Four sledge dogs are included in the present expedition. Mageik and Wolf, old campaigners with Faith CT Hubbard in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, will give Ma gook and Margot, half-grown pups, a course of instructions in scentific motive power. Mageik is the father of Magook and Margot. Their mother, Margie, and Katmai, two of the dogs used by Father Hub bard on his Yukon trip seven years ago, are vacationing in Cali fornia.
 Father Hubbard expects to re- main in the glacier regions until the last of September. T expect good weather during the entire ex- petition" he said. T have hit
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