| Summary: | Glacier Priest's Life Saved By Timely Arrival Of Boat. Glacier Priest's Life Saved By Timely Arrival of Boat JUNEAU, Alaska, July 13 (AP)—A chance arrival of a motorboat fishing party, led by Mary Joyce, famed dog-team musher, Father Bernard Hubbard said today, aided in saving the "glacier priest" life as he was marooned on a rock in the Roaring Twin Glacier river rapids last week. Miss Joyce, who mushed 1000 miles last mid-winter from Taku, B. C, to Fairbanks, and her party had driven their motorboat down the river to view the rapids. "She was horrified, she told me later, to see a man and a wrecked boat in the raging waters," Father Hubbard said. "She ran the boat ashore and found George Gatty, a member of our expedition. Miracle Leap Made "He jumped in and piloted it downstream. I leaped into it as it swirled past and we soon were safe below the rapids." Father Hubbard, describing the wrecking of a river boat from which he and Ken Chisholm, Santa Clara ,ex-football player, had leaped by almost a miracle" onto the rock, said it was the first serious mishan in his ten years of Alaskan exploration. He gave great praise to Chisholm. His specially built light-weight steel boat and much valuable equipment were lost. "With the high water aiding us, we had gone through the rapids both' ways several times and all but the last load of our tons of equipment were safe,at our island base camp," Father Hubbard said. Loaded Boat Turns Over "The last trip, our propeller | sheared a rock. Our heavily loaded boat hit and turned over. We managed to unsnap the chains of Mageik and Magook, our sled dogs, and jumped." Ice floes were swirling down the rapids and their position appeared precarious. Chisholm volunteered to try to swim the rapids. Taking off his boots and shirt, he received the priest's blessing, and plunged in. "He went under twice, but, chilled and numb, made shore and ran through the forest to camp."
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