Show PEARY IV TRIES TO DISCREDIT GOOK COOK DECLARES THAT HIS RIVALS RIVAL'S STORY SHOULD NOT BETAKEN BE BETAKEN BETAKEN TAKEN TOO SERIOUSLY LY a 1 w Dr Cook Stands by His First Statements State StateS merits ments and Declares He Will Send Senda a Ship to Greenland for His Eskimo Companions New York Commander Commander Robert B. B Peary on Wednesday sent a message In which he challenged d the veracity of Frederick 11 A. A Cook Coole and further complicates a situation which the whole world Is discussing Peary discredits discredits dis credits Cooks Cook's claims with the intimation inti inti- mation oration that he Peary and and he alone planted the flag at the north pole pale on April C 6 G 1909 and that Dr Cook who asserts that he unfurled the flag at atthe atthe atthe the pole on April 21 1908 must sub his claim At Co Copenhagen en la Dr Cook shown his rivals rival's s statement stood by his guns declined to enter Into a debate and calmly asserted that his records would sustain him To prove his Is right of discovery before the entire world beyond a shadow of a doubt he announced an that he will dispatch a ship to Greenland and bring bring to America Americ his Eskimo companions ns T Then en with their testimony and his data he declares declares de de- clares Glares that he will stand ready to face all detractors Dr Cook Coole l If hI his plans do not miscarry miscarry mis carry will sail for the United States on ori Sunday next and will arrive here hereby hereby hereby by September 21 By that time Commander Commander Com Com- mander Peary will wm have reached home but no one has as yet suggested suggest suggest- ed the possibility of a dramatic dramatic meet meeting Ing ng of the two face to face ace Peary's dispatch to the Assoc Associated Press reads I have nailed t the e stars and ind stripes to the North p pr pole le This Is s authoritative and correct Cooks Cook's story should should not be taken too seri serf Y e i 4 ill 1 JOHN R. R BRADLEY Man Who Financed Cooks Cook's Success Successful ful Exploration Expedition The two Eskimos who accompanied accompanied him say he went no Distance distance north and not out of sight of land Other members of the tho tribe corroborate rate ate their story |