| Summary: | Father Hubbard Plans Study Of Indians And Eskimos In Alaska. Father Hubbard Plans Study Of Indians And Eskimos In Alaska New York, March 7.—(/P)—When the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard leaves in May on his next trip to Alaska, he will drop the role of "glacier priest" and devote his time to a study of the natives of America's largest territory. Ten years of explorations interspersed with lectures in America has done much to "popularize" the geology and geographical features of a land which Father Bernard still terms a mystery to millions in the mother But of the natives—the Indians and eskimos—of Alaska the priest said, America knows even less than it does about the land, and expressed the hope that he might add some knowledge to a subject already explored by an earlier Jesuit. He was the Rev. Julius Jette, whose study of the language of the Tenahs disclosed that they spoke fundamentally the same tongue as the Navajos of New Mexico, thus lending strength to the theory that the American In dians migrated from Asia via the Bering sea and Alaska. On King's island in the Bering sea, where live what Father Hubbard terms the most "unspoiled" tribe of the eskimos, the priest will spend at least a year studying the racial habits and language of the inhabitants. A grammar of their language already has been compiled by the Jesuit missionary on that island just below the Bering Strait. Equipment of his next trip is already assembled, Father Hubbard said, among it a two-way short wave radio The radio will add an apprentice to the party which othewtse has been the same for seven years. Bernard Standley, Santa Clara student, is going as radio operator, and Ed Levin, the 220-pound ex-football star and boxer, and Ken Chisholm, both Californians, will again be in the expedition. Levin has explored with Father Hubbard for eight years; Chisholm for seven.
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