Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1935 — Page 20

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COOK, FIGURE IN POLE FIGHT, TURNS AUTHOR Freed From Prison, Man Who Claims He Beat Peary. Writing Memoirs. P'l r <u>\ Prr„ CHICAGO April 26—Dr Frrdrrirk A. Cook, who faded from glory to th** oltecurity of a prison crll. was found today in a dingy office writing his memoirs for a world that once called him the discoverer of the North Pole. . Just 27 years ago this week, the middle-aged Brooklyn doctor mushed into the Arctic, over bleak fields of uncharted ice. and out of his venture came one of the wildest disputes in the history of man's conquests. Lieut. Robert E Peary, following him out of the North, branded his one-time fellow-adventurer as a notorious fake. Lieut. Peary said it was he w’ho “nailed the Stars and Stripes to the North Pole.” It was the question of the hour. Families argued angrily over the dinner table. Men came to blows on street corners and prayer meetings broke up in feuds. Caught in Oil Fraud One was either “Cook" or "Peary.” It was like William Jennings Bryan and 16 to one, or Teddy Roosevelt and the Bull Moose split. There wasn't any middle ground. Now the world has forgotten the squint-eyed doctor. Fivp years in Leavenworth Penitentiary for a Texas oil fraud and the scofflngs of scientific men who gave his short-lived glory to Lieut. Prary have stripped Dr. Cook of his adventurous flair. His friends of the old days j wouldn’t recognize him now. His fierce black mustache is gone, his j hair is gray and thinning and his! broad shoulders are bent. He will be 70 in June. .Sometimes he lunches at the Ex- ; plorers’ Club. Many of the membrrs—taking off in an armchair on a noon hour exploration of Antarctica or the African veldt.—are ignorant of his real identity. Insists He Was First He still insists he discovered the Pole. “But what, does it matter?” he added. “No man ever can prove to the w f orld at large that he discovered it. You can't drive a stake on the spot and unfurl a flag. You can’t come that close.” He doesn’t dispute Lieut. Peary’s claims of discovery “because Lieut. Peary probably did reach the Poleafter me.” Most of the day he can be found at a desk in a grimy, paper-strewn officp high in an old loop building. On the glazed glass of the door leading off the hall are the words, “Thn Hobo Collegp of Culture.” D Ron L. Reitman, Bohemian “King of Hoboes,” has the other desk. DILEMMA FACES BOARD ON COLLEGE-AV POOL Fishermen Want It for Casting. Children for Wading. Park commissioners today were working in three shifts trying to decide whether to turn the pool on Fall Creek-pkwv cast of College-av into a wading pool, or to allow’ it to remain a casting pool for fishermen. At their meeting yesterday the commissioners were told that fishermen wanted it as a casting pool and children wanted it for wading. A decision is expected soon.

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BY JOHN THOMPSON Harold woodbury parsons. European adviser for the William Rockhill Nelson galleries in Kansas City, will speak at the John Herron Museum next Wednesday on “Masterpieces of European Art in American Collections.” Mr. Nelson, who founded the galleries in Kansas City, formerly lived in Indianapolis. He was born in Ft. Wayne and graduated from the University of Notre Dame. The first paintings were bought for the Nelson gallery in 1930, three years before the completion of the building. An average of a million dollars a year has been spent since in the buying of art. Under Mr. Parsons' guidance more than 150 important European paintings have been bought. Mr. Nelson once said that when he came to Kansas City it was “incredibly ugly and commonplace. I decided if I were to live here the town would have to be made over.” So he established a trust fund of $12,000,000, and gave his home, Oak Hill, to form the central por-

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LEGION CALLS FOR AID Mother Members of Auxiliary Urged to Help at Convention. The American Legion State Convention Committee today issued a call for mother members of the Legion Auxiliary’ living in Marion County for service during the convention Aug. 24 to 27. The women will be asked to care for children of visiting Legionnaires

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