Evening star., 1938-11-18
Catholic u. Priest Returns
From Arctic Expedition
: Father Duti|Iy Tells
!. Of Being Morooned
In Ice Fields

ASdul VIC Sdy LINK you, FdCIleI
Shuttle"
This message was broadcast at
night over the bleak Arctic country
around the Fox Basin and Hudson
Bay sections of Canada last Au-
gust g.
1t was the voice Of the broad
casting priest and botanist of the
Arctic, the Rev. Artheme A. Dutilly
OF Catholic University. 1t came
from his station aboard the motor
ship Therese, marooned in the
mountainous ice fields of Fox Basin
near Cape Penrhyn while laden with
supplies for an Arctic mission.
The message was directed to an
other famous missionary of Catho-
lie University in the Arctic, the
flying priest, the Rev. Paul Schultz,
whose hydroplane takes him thou
sands of miles over the ice and snow
OF the Northland every year.
Though Father Shuttle flies through
the air and Father Dutilly sails in
and out of the ice foes aboard the
Therese, they meet often in the
frozen North.
MarOoned Fourth Day.
Father Dutilly, who is gray haired,
short of stature, AZ years old and
speaks in a distinctly French &C
cent. is back in Washington for the
winter. Yesterday in an interview
at Immaculate Conception Rectory,
1915 Eighth street NV, he told how
Father Shuttle often dropped down
out of the sky to visit him on the
water.
Last August 26 was the fourth day
out of 13 that the Therese had been
marooned in Fox Basins dangerous
ice. And it was another of the days
on which Father Shuttle came in his
hydroplane to report to Father Du-
tilly on the conditions of the nearby
ice fields. Father Dutilly broad
casts from his boat every night when
he is at sea, and Father Shuttle,
ashore after a days missionary
work, listens in and often receives
the thapks of his colleague.
Digging into the log of his nightly
radio broadcasts, Father Dutilly
real this account:
"At 4 pm. Father Shultes Hane
appeared. 1t circled several times,
trying to find place to land. 1t
was getting dark, but the father
made beautiful landing amidst
the floating ice.
II have seen circus men dive into
shallow tanks of ice water, but this
was the first time have ever seen
1t done by an airplane. Father
Shuttle TAXED around few ice foes
and then drew alongside to inform
us of conditions in the ice field.
AS nightfall came the mountain of
Ice began to close around US. It
was time for Father Shuttle to go.
Again he TAXED around, finding a
stretch of clear water, and then
he opened her up and shot upward,
clearing the ice only by a matter
Of inches. it seemed"
Other excerpts from the broad
casting log told how I'VE got three
polar bears at 3 pm" and "an-
chored to the ice at pm. Cthe next
day. to take on drinking water"
scooped from the concavity of an
ice foe.
Father Dutilly, research assistant
In botany, is back from his sixth
trip to the Arctic. He left Quebec
early in July on the Therese with
supplies for the Ohlate missions.
Meanwhile he carried on extensive
research activities in botanical,
archaeological and other fields. He
returned to Quebec early in Octo-
ber after having covered 5000 miles
in 80 days.
Supplies Put Ashore.
Because the Therese had to re-
turn to its base at Repulse Bay after
freeing itself from the ice at Cape
Penrhyn, it was necessary to put
ashore at the base supplies origi-
. nally consigned to the Oblate mis-
sion house at Iglulik, far North of
Cape Penrhyn. Father Bazin, the
bearded priest Of Iglulik, will have
to use dog teams to obtain his 6
or tons of coal, ton of food and
other supplies left for him at Re-
pulse.
Accompanying Father Dutilly was
Father Macmillan Duman, o. S.
B., a graduate student at c. u, the
first member of the Benedictine Or
der to penetrate the Arctic. He
made the journey to get specimens
to support his thesis in botany,
which he will submit for the doctor
of philosophy degree at the uni
versity.