DR COOK

Evening Star, Issue 20440, 22 March 1930, Page 14

DR COOK

APPOINTMENT IN CHICAGO STILL MAINTAINS HE DISCOVERED POLE Pros* A««opiat:on—By Twit-graph—Copyright. VANCOUVER, March 21. (Received March 22, at 11 a.rn.) Dr Cook, who was recently released from gaol, has been appointed permanent physical director of the Boys’ Brotherhood, Chicago. He was cheered by 900 boys when he accepted the appointment. He told them that he defied the world to prove that he did not discover the North Pole. [Dr Frederick Cook was sentenced to fourteen years’ imprisonment in December, 1922, for defrauding the publicin connection with the sale Vof oil stocks. In September, 1909, Cook had claimed to be the discoverer of the North Pole. On that occasion: he was welcomed as a conquering hero by half of Europe and all America, He was received as a great man by the scientists and the Royal Family of Denmark. His fellow-countrymen entertained him on that lavish scale which, of all cities in the world, is found peculiarly in New York. A representative of the London ‘ Daily Chronicle,’ after an interview with . Cook, said_ his claim was false. Then came Captain Peary’s dramatic message out of Greenland; “ I have him nailed,” and the applause, the shouting, the enthusiasm all died away. Nevertheless such authorities as Captain E. B. Baldwin, leader of the Baldwin-Zeigler . Polar expedition of 1901-02, and Admiral Schley, of the United States Navy, admitted his .claims, as did the late Captain Amundsen, Cook was a medical man. He had a good practice at one time in Brooklyn. He was surgeon with the Peary expedition in the early ’nineties and the Belgian expedition of 1897. ' He knew the north. He had friends among the Eskimos, and could speak Innuit. He was the type explorers are made of. He had considerable scientific knowledge, as his data proved. And he could write with some literary distinction.]