| Summary: | Father Hubbard Solves Mystery: Explains Age-Old Indian Monster Fable -- Many Bears Made Tracks. FATHER HUBBARD SOLVES MYSTERY Explains Age-Old Indian Monster Fable—Many Bears Made Tracks. JUNEAU, Alaska, Sept. 12. (AP)—Father Bernard Hubbard, "the Glacier Priest" of Santa Clara, Cal., today exploded the age-old Indian tradition of a fabled monster—"The Father of All Bears"—living in northern British Columbia. Here en route back to Seattle, Father Hubbard told how he and his party, guided by an old Taku Indian, climbed into an unmapped and mountainous region, until thev found the giant bear's fossilized tracks. They found 45 footprint's, he Raid, and each was 17 inches long, nine inches wide and four inches deep. "They were what I expected them to be," said the priestly explorer. "They were tracks made in the hard ground of a mountain pass by generations of grizzly bears stepping in tfie same place year after year. "Covered by snow the greater part of the time, they could easily have been preserved for centuries. I have found many similar instances of fossil tracks on the Alaska peninsula." Father Hubbard said the Indian guide became panicky when he stooped to measure the tracks and cried, "No touch—no touch, or bad The glacier priest retorted he had had all his bad luck—a companion, Edgar Levin, had fallen 50 feet into a crevasse and been injured: John Dimond, 16, son of Alaska's congressional delegate, had been stricken by influenza, and the party lost three boats and much valuable scientific paraphernalia.
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