| Show BELIEVES IN COOK danish eskimo explorer has seen enough evidence of americans success to believe in him toledo ohio that the statement of knud is a valuable aid ald to tho the establishment of proof of his discovery of the north pole was dr b cederick A cooks conin want here on thursday Rasmus sens statement which has just been made public was that dr cooks claim Is fully borne out by the information which the danish explorer secured among the eskimos Rasmuss cn has seen and talked with eskimos who were with dr cook on life bla north polo journey and declares that he be la Is convinced that dr cook succeeded in reaching the north pole that lie regards the explorer as one of the most daring explorers of all the ages and that there can be no question as to the truthfulness of his report of his journey to the frozen north dr cook read the statement when he stopped slopped in toledo between betwee strains trains on his way from ann arbor to canton lie ile said Rasmus sens statement la Is valuable because he la Is halt half eskimo 11 himself and speaks eskimo andun a and nd un der stands the people tho the statement Is from a man who had no occasion to defend me said dr cook ile he Is not particularly a friend of mine and he be had no rela tion to our expedition I 1 first met him at north star in 1907 lie he gathered hla his information from the eskimos before he heard from me that I 1 had discovered the north polo pole I 1 saw hirn him at early in august last tor for a few minutes when abet I 1 first told him of the discovery although he ha mav have heard beard of it previously front from the danes |
