Two years ago the Coast Guard cutter Ttasca was cruising the semitropical seas between Honolulu and the Howland Islands, searching for Amelia Earhart, Today the trim, 2,000-ton cutter is in Alaskan waters with the Bering Sea patrol, where ice floes are as Seas. common as palm trees in the South
When the Itasca, captained by Lieut.-Commander Roger C. Helmer, embarked from Seattle it carried 20 tons of supplies and the exploration party and equipment of the Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, the "Glacier Priest." Father Hubbard, student of Arctic life, will explore the Noatak and Kobuck rivers north of the Arctic Circle, Among other things, he hopes to produce a scientific treatise on Eskimo music.
The Itasca's supplies included provisions for the crew and for Indian villages along the Bering Sea coastline—United Press.
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