Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1938, Page A-17, Image 17

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Catholic U. Priest Returns
From Arctic Expedition
'* Father Dutilly Tells
Of Being Marooned
In Ice Fields
“Again we say ‘Thank you, Father
Shulte.’ ”
This message was broadcast at
night over the bleak Arctic country
, around the Fox Basin and Hudson
Bay sections of Canada last Au
gust 26.
It was the voice of the broad
casting priest and botanist of the
Arctic, the Rev. Artheme A. Dutilly
of Catholic University. It 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
lic University in the Arctic, the
flying priest, the Rev. Paul Schulte,
whose hydroplane takes him thou
sands of miles over the ice and snow
of the Northland every year.
Though Father Shulte flies through
the air and Father Dutilly sails in
and out of the ice floes aboard the
Therese. they meet often in the
frozen North.
t
marooned t ourth Day.
Father Dutilly, who is gray haired,
short of stature, 42 years old and
speaks in a distinctly French ac
cent. is back in Washington for the
winter. Yesterday in an interview
at Immaculate Conception Rectory,
1315 Eighth street N.W., he told how
Father Shulte 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 Basin's dangerous
Ice. And it was another of the days
on which Father Shulte 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 Shulte,
ashore after a day’s missionary
work, listens in and often receives
the thanks of his colleague.
Digging into the log of his nightly
radio broadcasts, Father Dutilly
real this account:
"At 4 p.m. Father Shulte s jjane
appeared. It circled several times,
trying to find a place to land. It
was getting dark, but the father
made a beautiful landing amidst
the floating ice.
"I have seen circus men dive into
ahallow tanks of ice water, but this
was the first time I have ever seen
It, done by an airplane. Father
Shulte taxied around a few ice floes
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 Shulte to go.
Again he taxied 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 “we got three
polar bears at 3 p.m.” and "an
chored to the ice at 1 p.m. (the next
day) to take on drinking water”
scooped from the concavity of an
Ice floe.
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 Oblate 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 8,000 miles
In 83 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
r nally consigned to the Oblate mis
sion house at Iglulik, far North of
Cape Penrhyn. Father Bazin, the
bearded priest of Iglulik, will have
t£> use dog teams to obtain his 6
or 7 tons of coal, a ton of food and
other supplies left for him at Re-,
pulse.
Accompanying Father Dutilly was
Father Maximilian 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.
FATHER DUTILLY.
—Star Staff Photo.
Seal Reaffirms Ruling
Home Loan Bank's
Realty Taxable
Contends Exemption
Specified in Act
Does Not Apply
For the second time this year
Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal
ruled yesterday that the Federal
Home Loan Bank Board was subject
to District real estate taxation on
the office building of the board
here.
In a lengthy opinion placed be
fore the District Commissioners, Mr.
Seal reaffirmed a position he took
on the issue last March, rejecting
the contention of spokesmen for
the Federal agency that the District
is not a “local taxing authority"
under the meaning of the act ex
empting the H. O. L. C. from taxa
tion in specified particulars. The
Commissioners at a board meeting
today put their approval on Mr.
Seal's stand.
The corporation has been ex
empted from taxation on its fran
chise. capital, reserves and surplus,
its loans and incomes, but the act
states that any real property of the
corporation “shall be subject to tax
ation to the same extent, according
to its value, as other real property
is taxed.”
The H. O. L. C., however, argues
that the exemption clause was never
intended to subject non-proprietary
property, such as the office build
ing of the board, “a wholly-owned
governmental instrumentality per
forming functions solely govern
mental,” to Federal taxation in the
District.
The corporation counsel answered
that if the board was to be relieved
of the real estate levy it could he
obtained from Congress in the form
of an amendment specifically ex
empting the H. O. L. C. office build
ing. He declared collection of the
tax would not impede the Federal
agency in performance of its duties
and insisted that the District had
full authority to collect the tax.
The assessment made by the Dis
trict on the office building of the
bank board. First street and Indiana
avenue N.W., amounts to $935,552,
which at the current tax rate of
$1.75 per $100 would produce a tax of
$16,372. This assessment does not
include two lots adjoining the bank j
building, which may or may not be
included in the levy if Mr. Seal's
ruling is upheld.
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