Evening star., 1937-12-09
MASS SATURDAY
FOR PRIEST KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
Archbishop CurIey Will Off,
cIate at Rites for DR..
R. F. Butin.
MT. 0lIVET CEMETERY
TO BE SCENE OF BURIAL
Victim Was Well Known as Ori.
entail Languages Professor
at Catholic U.

The Most Rev Michael J. Curley,
Archbishop Of Baltimore, will cele-
brate the pontifical requiem mass
here Saturday morning for the Rev.
DR.. Romanus Francois Butin, 66, wide
ly known professor of Oriental lang
uages at Catholic University, who was
killed late yesterday when the auto
mobile in which he was riding over
turned near Hyattsville, Md.
The services will be held at the
Shrine of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, where the divine office of the
dead will start at $50 am. and the
mass at 10 am, Saturday. Burial
will follow in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
The fatal accident occurred on Uni
versity drive. near Colesville road.
DR.. Butin and the Rev. Charles A.
Dubray, an instructor in philosophy
at Marist College here, were return
ing to Washington after q visit to
friends in Baltimore.
Car Overturns Three Times.
Father Dubray, who was drivins
the automobile in which DR.. Butir
was the only passenger, said he
swerved to avoid hitting a passing car
which did not stop. He lost control OF
his machine, which crashed into :
culvert abutnent and overturned three
times. Father Dubray was not in
jured.
After an investigation, Maryland
State police at Hyattsville charged
Father Dubray with reckless drivins
and ordered him to appear for a hear
ing Tuesday night.
The last rites of the church were
administered to DR.. Butin as he lay
on the roadside by the Rev. Edelharc
Schneider, passer-by Father Dr
bray, recovering from the first shoe
OF the accident. had administered con-
ditional absolution to his friend.
Assistants at Mass.
At the pontifical requiem mass Sat-
urday, Archbishop Curley will be as
| sisted by the Rev. DR.. Adolph A. Vas
chalde, deacon, and the Rev. William
j. Lonergan. subdeacon The assistant
priest will be the Rev. DR.. Nichola7
A. Weber and the master of cere-
monies, the Rev. DR.. Edward A. Roel.
ker. The Right Rev Msgr. Joseph M
Corrigan, rector of Catholic University.
will preach.
teacher at Catholic University for
Is years, DR.. Butin had lived at Marist
Seminary. He joined the Maris.
Society in 1893, three years after he
came to this country He was borr
near Lyons, France, on December 3,
1871, and became naturalized Amer.
lean citizen 18 years after coming tt
this country.
DR.. Butin was ordained after study.
ing philosophy at Marist College her!
for seven years. He was awarded th4
degree of bachelor of sacred theology
doctor of sacred theology and docto,
of philosophy by Catholic University
Full Professor in 1923.
Joining the faculty of the university
in 1912 as an instructor in Semitic
languages and literature, DR.. Buti1
was made an associate professor in
1916 and full professor in 1923. Hs
also was curator of the university
museum
An internationally known authority
in his field. DR.. Butin had contributed
to scholarly magazines in French
German and Hebrew, as well as ir
English. He was director of tht
American School for Oriental Re.
search in Jerusalem in 1926-27, anc
on several occasions had been sent Il
Jerusalem to take part in the archeo'
logical work of the Harvard-Y expe.
dition, once heading similar expedi.
, ton for Catholic University
He was president of the American
Committee of Corpus Scriptorun
Christianorum Orientalium, and {
member of the American Orienta
Society, the Society of Biblical Litera
, tlue and Exegesis, the Linguisti,
:, Society Of America. and the Catholi,
Education Association.
In another Maryland accident lat,
yesterday, Abram Buckingham, SO
retired District policeman, was injured
seriously when his automobile wa
: struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad
passenger train at the Ardwick cross
ing in Prince Georges County. H
, drove into the path of the passenge
( train after waiting for freight trail
. to pass on another track. He wa
! treated at Casualty Hospital for al
l injured back and head cuts.
Marian Gayle, 13, of 1852 w stree
Sc suffered bruised hip and shocl
J when struck by an automobile a
Nichols avenue and v street Sc. Sh
went home after treatment by q pri
| yate physician